Chapter 5 (II) Text behind the wooden cabinet
Leaving the huge barn, the three of them scattered to find where the guards lived, but at a glance, there were no buildings other than the factory and the barn, and a railway station. No factory can fully automate operations today, let alone a few decades ago, and who is going to use that charged silver spear?
Tang Shuxing climbed to the top of the train and looked around, the canyon was gray in the distance, and nothing could be seen, besides, it was still late at night, and it was necessary to investigate this matter at night, and the ghost knew what would happen after dawn during the day.
Looking at it, Tang Shuxing couldn't help but look at the location of the livestock shed, looking at the one that was judged by the layers of windows on the outside, there were at least five floors, but in fact it was just a livestock shed like a large factory.
Then he looked at the factory again, and when he looked over, he always felt that something was wrong, and then turned to look at the barn, and immediately jumped down, and ran back to the perimeter of the barn, and after looking around, he finally found a staircase like a fire ladder on the side, and it was very wide, and at least five people could walk side by side, and this iron staircase leaned against the wall with slide rails, and it was divided into five sections, one section on each floor, a total of five sections, up to the roof.
"Xing Er, what did you find?" Ji Kefeng and Gu Huaiyi chased after him.
"Stairs!" Tang Shuxing pointed and smiled, "These guards are very thieves, they build their own place on the upper end of the livestock shed, and they can monitor these monsters below while living, and the monsters have no wings, and they can't jump so high, the stairs next to them slide down, and the monsters can't attack them even if they get rid of the restraints." ”
"And this-" Gu Huaiyi pointed to the wires attached to the iron ladder, "It seems that these monsters are very afraid of electricity." ”
"Go up!" Ji Kefeng climbed up and lowered the iron ladder one by one, allowing the other two to climb up.
The three of them entered the top floor and found that the area above was exactly the same as the one below, and they were all neatly arranged with high and low bunks, the same as Tang Shuxing had speculated before. There are at least 200 guards here to look at the beds, and the ammunition depot and the warehouse for storing cans are also on the side.
There are a lot of Soviet-made weapons in the ammunition depot, and judging by the number on the weapon box, the factory date is 1985. In this way, the time when the factory was established should be around this time period, and it should not be more than a year or two years before and after.
Gu Huaiyi pried open the box and looked at the AK series of rifles neatly placed in it, but because of poor storage, all of them could not be used, and the heavy weapons next to it were RPG rocket launchers and Soviet-made mortars, in addition to the ordinary 60 caliber, there were five 120 large caliber, but the ammunition on one side was basically incendiary bombs, and there were no high-explosive shells with a large killing area.
"Judging by the weapons. The people here are just trying to contain it, and there are no high-explosive bombs, presumably because they are afraid that once something happens, the use of high-explosive bombs will cause a landslide. Gu Huaiyi looked at the box and pointed to the flamethrower. Flamethrowers, in fact, were basically abandoned in the late Cold War, and they didn't play much of a role, carrying a flammable and explosive canister on their backs, and every bullet had to explode when it rubbed its edges, and seven or eight of the surrounding ones had to be buried. ”
"There's also an observation hole here." Ji Kefeng pointed to some small holes in the ground, "It should be used to observe the movement below." These holes can be inserted into the muzzle, and in the event of a disturbance below, the gun can be fired directly from the small holes. ”
"Find out separately if there is any information left, what is recorded in the text." Tang Shuxing got up, rummaged around, and found that the surroundings were unusually clean. Not even a single hair could be found, and a few empty cans were found, all in Russian, but worthless.
"Hey, here's a poster that hasn't been completely torn off yet." Gu Huaiyi looked at the wall and said.
The poster depicted a man who looked like an astronaut. Because of the long period of time, the face has been blurred, above it is a Soviet flag, and below it there is a man with a serious face and a clenched fist. The man is slightly higher than the astronaut in the pictorial, and the background is, of course, the red star, the sickle, and the axe.
"Always ready-" Gu Huaiyi leaned closer to look at the text below, "We are friends, we are creating, and we will send peace into space...... Understood, this cosmonaut must be Gagarin, the space hero of the Soviet Union, but it's weird, the man on it is not Stalin, a bit like Brezhnev, plus those weapon boxes, it looks like a pictorial from around the eighties of the last century, but it is a bit like a patchwork. ”
"Around 1985—" Ji Kefeng recalled in his mind, but couldn't remember anything.
"It's about India, if I'm not mistaken, in 1985 India's Indira. Gandhi came to power and signed a deep cooperation agreement with the former Soviet Union, and in the same year, the then Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev visited India, signed a series of cooperation agreements, and also provided higher low-interest loans. Later, in 1986, Gorbachev also visited India and signed the "Delhi Declaration", which has always defined economic cooperation as the primary policy. Tang Shuxing stared at the pictorial and said, Ji Kefeng knew that historically, none of the three of them had learned Tang Shuxing well, and he was also very interested in this aspect, especially everything that happened during the Cold War.
"India is smart." Gu Huaiyi nodded and said, "It has been circling between the United States and the former Soviet Union, and it is still like this until now, hovering between Shangdu, the United States and the Eurasian forces, not making a clear statement, you must know that India is a big country in South Asia, and its military strength is also very strong, and it is also India, which has divided the territory of Pakistan into two and turned it into Pakistan and Bangladesh, directly forming a country with the largest population density and the poorest on the earth." ”
Tang Shuxing was still looking around, not even letting go of the bed board, but he still didn't find anything, and finally his eyes finally fell on a desk in the corner.
That desk was the only one on the top floor, and the other tables were either split or directly dismantled into pieces, only this one was complete, and many bed boards were also split, if it weren't for the high and low bed frames made of iron, I am afraid they would have been destroyed.
Tang Shuxing came to the table and looked around, but there was nothing in the drawer except a pile of waste paper, he subconsciously moved the table away, looked at the front of the table blocking, but he didn't find anything, and when he turned around again, he saw that there seemed to be some handwriting behind the table in a flash, but he couldn't see it clearly when he got closer.
Gu Huaiyi came over at this time, squatted down and watched. Sniffed it again, nodded and said: "It's an acid-alkali solution with another chemical thing, and the smell will not disappear on the wood all year round, but the handwriting will be hidden because of this." It can be shown by roasting it over fire or with a liquid of melting acid, but we can only roast it over fire. ”
As he spoke, Gu Huaiyi took out a lighter, found a rag wrapped in wood and lit it, leaning against the back of the table, and then Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng got up and made room for Gu Huaiyi, who could read Russian, to look at it carefully, and let him read it first and then repeat it.
In the process of watching, Gu Huaiyi's face changed slightly, and he got up after half an hour and said, "Most of the people here are dead." Along with the monsters, only a few of the guards survived, and as it says, they were all burned to death, by some kind of hellfire. One of the words of religion, to use what we Chinese often say, is karmic fire. ”
"Karmic fire?" Tang Shuxing leaned over and looked at the fonts that were gradually disappearing away from the high temperature of the flames, but he didn't know Russian, and he couldn't read half a word.
"They came here at the beginning of 1985, accompanied by a group of men, women and children who worked 'voluntarily' from all over the Soviet Union, a total of 95 people. Later, 5 more children were born. Gu Huaiyi explained.
"I see." Tang Shuxing nodded, "The objects found on both sides of the track were not dropped when they left, they were forced to throw them out by the guards when they came, and the workers here are also Soviet Russians, and they grabbed their own people to do hard labor here." Is this necessary? For the sake of secrecy? But what's going on with those monsters? ”
"I'm going to get to that next." Gu Huaiyi took a deep breath, "Looking at the textual expression, it should be left by the head of this factory, according to him, most of the people here are found from the former Soviet republics." The so-called voluntary is probably coercion, but many of them came from the Perm region, which is now the Birm Krai of Russia, west of the middle of the Ural Mountains, and also from St. Petersburg, which was called Leningrad at that time. ”
Ji Kefeng didn't understand at all, shook his head and said, "What do you mean?" ”
"Werewolf, you know what?" Gu Huaiyi looked at the small holes under his feet and said, "According to the above meaning, these monsters are all werewolves, and I have also heard the legends of the werewolf family in the Perm region before, which is the place with the most werewolf legends in Russia, once I read similar legends in the St. Petersburg City Library, although there are few records each time, but there are many people who claim to have witnessed them, and besides, it was also written in Russian newspapers that there is a werewolf cemetery in the Perm region, and no one can be buried there except werewolves, But most of the cemetery was empty. ”
Tang Shuxing became interested and immediately asked, "Why?" ”
"Werewolves have a very long lifespan, at least five times the average human lifespan, and this is the relatively uniform conclusion I have come from reading the various accounts." Gu Huaiyi said, "In order to avoid the suspicion of others, some werewolves fake their deaths when it is time for humans to die, and then live in another place. ”
"Here's the problem." Tang Shuxing sat on the bed, "It is rare to live in groups, these hundred or so werewolves, no, how were 95 werewolves found?" ”
Ji Kefeng pondered for a while and said, "Maybe the former Soviet Union also had a unit like the Ministry of Ancient Science to monitor such monsters?" Maybe they're Russian magicians? ”
Tang Shuxing was thinking in his mind, and suddenly the past events that Tang Dingfeng told him surfaced, and he subconsciously said, "United Column!?" ”
"What?" Ji Kefeng looked at him puzzled, "Why can you contact the joint column?" ”
"I guess." Tang Shuxing immediately said, he didn't know whether to tell those things or not, and he was worried that Ji Kefeng would hear and blame him, so he didn't let Tang Dingfeng take him to see his father Ji Minxing.
"Oh-" Ji Kefeng seemed to believe it or not, and subconsciously glanced at Gu Huaiyi, but Gu Huaiyi didn't look interested in the slightest, and continued to tell everything he knew about werewolves.