Kola Peninsula.

If you look at the North Pole from space, you will find it like a hammer sticking out from the other end of Scandinavia. The peninsula covers an area of 100,000 square kilometers, with steep and deep fjords on the coast of the Arctic Ocean and flat tundra wasteland in the south. The geology of the Kola Peninsula is unlike any other place on Earth, where the ice age carried away layers of soil sediment, revealing an extremely rich mineral rich: apatite, aluminum, iron, nickel, copper, titanium, mica, vermiculite, and a variety of rare metals.

Another snowstorm swept across the peninsula, and a detachment of Soviet Red Army marched from Moscow for two months before reaching this ancient and silent wilderness. Wearing a Budyonny military cap, the engineer Vasily saw a huge whirlpool on the flat ground, like the navel eye of the earth, and like a volcanic crater, leading to a bottomless abyss.

Ten years ago, the demon monk Rasputin had a dream in St. Petersburg that deep underground on the Kola Peninsula was a real hell. Tsar Nicholas II took this dream very seriously, and as soon as gold and diamond deposits were discovered in the area, he ordered scientists to drill them.

The result was the world's deepest mine, the Kola ultra-deep well.

The drilling was in absolute secrecy, only the most authoritative scholars of the Russian Empire could enter, and no one knew how deep the drilling really was? Does hell exist? But during the four-year world war, Rasputin, the initiator of the mine, was assassinated, and the mine in this tundra wasteland has been abandoned.

Now, engineer Vasily has been tasked with restarting the core drilling project on the Kola Peninsula. There are still Allied occupation forces in the nearby port of Murmansk, so be careful not to make a comeback of the White Russians. Vasily brought the latest drill bits and equipment, pitched his tent in the snow, analyzed rock samples, and found that the drilling well was far deeper than expected, reaching an astonishing 12,000 meters!

Vasily found several engineering logs in his abandoned office, recording that on June 28, 1914, the big day of the Sarajevo events, drilling to a depth of 9,500 meters, far breaking the record for human exploration of the underground, the drill bit entered the strata containing gold and diamonds, and the gold content per ton of rock was as high as 80 grams, which meant that a rich mountain of gold was discovered. On that day, a huge monster with three pairs of wings with green fangs flew out of the mouth of the cave, roared like a beast, and killed dozens of drillers with its teeth and claws. It spontaneously combusted in the sun, and in just a few seconds, it burned to the point that only a pile of ashes remained.

Vasily felt a tingling in his vest, is this something that scientists should have recorded? The journal records that when the world war was in full swing and the Russian Empire was defeated, Rasputin had another dream, and the tsar instructed to continue digging, whether to find hell or gold, which was crucial to the victory or defeat of the war.

On December 29, 1916 (Vasily sensed another coincidence, it was the day of Rasputin's assassination in St. Petersburg) drilled to 12,000 meters, and some kind of "indescribable sound" came from the drilling. Taking into account the "accident" that occurred last time, the workers suspended the work. Instead of bringing in scientists from St. Petersburg, they brought in an Orthodox monk from the Gulag Archipelago. After three days and three nights of listening, the monk thought he had heard "the sound of hell."

A terrifying blizzard struck from the North Pole, destroying the entire drilling site. Many were buried dead by the snow, and many more froze to death, including the monk who listened to hell......

Since then, the drilling site has become a cemetery, and the people have forgotten about this hell after a series of civil wars.

Vasily was an engineer, a member of the Bolshevik Party, a staunch atheist. He believed neither in heaven nor in hell. It's all nonsense, presumably some madman is playing a prank on the engineering log.

If the earth is compared to an egg, the progress of human exploration to the center of the earth is less than one-tenth of the eggshell. The scientific community speculates that the Earth is a solid sphere, but there is no evidence so far. When Vasily was a student at the Moscow Royal Academy of Engineering, a professor believed that the Earth was a hollow ball with a small sun inside it that lit up the civilization of the center of the earth – like Jules Verne's science fiction "Journey to the Center of the Earth."

Kora's ultra-deep drilling has the potential to prove the "hollow earth theory" and even the "geocentric civilization".

Vasily dropped a heat-resistant microphone into the well - 12,000 meters below the earth, he heard the noise of a violent wind and rain, and his heart involuntarily contracted. Gradually turn up the volume of the speaker, and distinguish between crying and screaming...... Human voices? A cry for help when you are in great pain?

He took off his headphones like a drowning man, and the sound disappeared again, which was not hysteria or hallucinations. He forced himself to listen to it many times, and these voices were from men and women, from old people to children, and thousands of voices were gathered. Not Russian, not other European languages, not even less the Sámi language indigenous to the Kola Peninsula......

Another voice came from the headphones.

It's a person, a young man, to be exact, very clear, as in the ear. First it was a language that Vasily didn't understand, then it seemed to be English, but that English was so bad that he couldn't understand it either. Finally, he heard a German word—

“Hilfe.”

Vasily learned German at engineering school, and the word means "help"!

One after another in German "Help! Please save my life! "It keeps coming from the depths of the well at 12,000 meters down. It's not a dream, is it? Is there really someone inside the Earth? Or a German? Or the devil in hell?

After much hesitation, Vasily climbed to the mouth of the deep well, looked at the bottom of the hellish well, and decided to pull out the cork of King Solomon's bottle.

He put a miner's lift down the platform, which took a long time to walk 12,000 meters, and he waited anxiously by his headphones until he heard a German "thank you".

Two hours later, a black hand emerged from the ground, followed by a man covered in mud and dust. He knelt on the pit and gasped, and then rolled and fell to the ground in the snow, not daring to open his eyes for fear of being blinded by the natural light.

The miners were shocked that not only a man but also a big dog had climbed up from the depths of the shaft.

This crimson-maned and white-coated creature was also blackened by the sludge, but with its glass-colored gaze, it watched everyone and did everything in its power to protect its owner.

Vasily tried to communicate in German. The voice of the "Visitor from the Center of the Earth" was very young, and his face and hair were all dirt, and his face was completely unclear. His hair was long, down below his shoulders, like a dirty mop. There is also a hilt decorated with a ring on the back.

Slowly opening his eyelids, revealing dark eyes, he saw Vasily, the soldiers with red stars on their hats, the barren fields and snow of the Kola Peninsula, and the deepest mine on earth.

The "big dog" found a tailings pit next to the drilling, burying countless heavy metal residues. It excitedly broke through the encirclement and jumped into the pit to devour the debris. The workers looked at each other and decided that it was a mad dog and was about to die. Tailings are highly toxic, not to mention eating in the stomach, even smelling the smell will lose life.

"Nine colors!"

The survivors inside the earth shouted loudly, and the people around them couldn't understand what language it was?

Finally, the nine colors came back in a hurry. It had eaten almost half of the tailings, and the corners of its mouth, chest and abdomen were full of heavy metal dregs, and its stomach was heavy with deadly toxins. Vasily squatted down to look at the dog carefully, but there was no sign of poisoning at all.

The man from the ground was carried to the tent, and he was given hot water to bathe, a new set of cadre clothes. Vasily peeked through the gap and found that he had rubbed dirt and dirt from a wooden bucket, and there were two red antler-shaped birthmarks on the back of his neck, like the Arctic reindeer common on the Kola Peninsula. When he washed it white and came out, his long black hair was not the German he imagined, but a young Oriental face.

Vasily asked in German, who was not fluent: "Who are you?" ”

He replied in German: "I am Qin Beiyang." ”

"Where are you from?"

"China."

"Where are you going?"

"China."

After Qin Beiyang answered the questions raised by the three goshawks, he asked in a polite manner: "Where is this?" ”

"Soviet Russia."

"What year is it?"

"1919."

Vasily was shocked, could it be that the other party was a time traveler from the future or ancient times?

Qin Beiyang let out a sigh: "What month and day?" ”

The Bolsheviks could not mistake this big day: "November 7 in the Gregorian calendar, October Revolution Day." ”