Chapter 52: The Heart of Gustav

No matter what kind of danger you are in, you can always find someone who is not afraid of death.

The reason why only ten people were chosen was because the warden did not want mass casualties, and although he believed that there was no danger in the cave at this time, he still could not be completely reassured. Second, the Gulag is not a military factory, it does not have so many weapons and equipment, and having enough weapons is undoubtedly the most important link and guarantee in the search operation.

At the beginning of the term, the warden insisted that he should also enter the cave, but after some fierce arguments, everyone did not hesitate to stop the warden's presumptuous behavior. The warden then decided to let Frank Miir take command of the operation, and as the leader of the ten-man team, he would be in full charge of the operation.

In this way, in the group of ten, there were Kafka and Yulia, neither of whom originally wanted to go to the cave. But because of Frankimir, they all had no choice but to join the group of ten.

Kafka thought that Frankimir could not be trusted at all, and he did not trust Frankimir at all in commanding the mission, and he felt that this was exactly what Frankimir wanted. Yulia was completely different from Kafka, she saw Kafka's hostility towards Frankimir, and was very worried about Frankimir, so she wanted to go together, hoping that there would be no trouble between the two of them.

Letting the woman go, this is too much of a joke about the danger, no one agrees to let Yulia go, but everyone knows that Yulia is a stubborn person, and once she decides something, the nine cows can't pull it back. Under her slogan of equality between men and women and the supremacy of women's rights, everyone had no choice but to agree with her decision.

Kafka wanted to be the head of the team of ten, which was opposed from the beginning by the warden and made Kafka extremely dissatisfied. The warden insisted on the original decision to make Frank Mire the person in charge. The warden insisted that he had intervened Frankimir in the matter, and that Frankimir had proven that he was up to the task. The warden believed that Kafka's fears were unnecessary, and that they should be united rather than suspicious of each other. Frankimir would never harm anyone, and there was no need to do so, so there was no need to worry about it.

In less than an hour, the warden had selected each member of the ten-member team. In addition to Frank Mire, Kafka, and Yulia, there are five prison guards who volunteered and two spies who had fought in World War II, one named Raul and the other named Fraser.

Raul was a double agent and he was Austrian. During World War II, he sold intelligence to the Allies and gathered intelligence for the Axis powers. During an assassination attempt against a Soviet officer, Raul was unidentified and eventually arrested due to the failure of the operation. Considering his vast connections in Eastern Europe, the Politburo decided to imprison him in the Far East, to which he had never been. Now he is over half a hundred years old, but his body is stronger than many young people, which is the main reason why the warden chose him.

Fraser, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, was an MI6 agent in Britain and a Cold War fanatic who advocated that NATO should launch an all-out strike against the Soviet Union with nuclear weapons. After the fifties, he was sent to Turkey to carry out intelligence work, serving the British in the sabotage of Soviet power in the Middle East, in order to hinder Soviet penetration into the Middle East. During a mission to Egypt, he falls in love with the Soviet agent Kinskaya, who is so overwhelmed by love that he reveals his identity. He was a typical Darwinian, and as soon as he heard that there were biochemical soldiers in the Gulag, he immediately agreed without hesitation to join the ten-man search team, without thinking about the seriousness of the situation or his own danger.

After choosing a good person, weapons and equipment are even more indispensable. The "Andraas Saw" was the key to Frankmir's victory over the monsters, so the Warden equipped every member of the team of ten with a chainsaw. In addition, each person is equipped with a 13-round M900 Soviet-made special extended pistol around their waist and under their armpits, six loose ball grenades on their armed belts, and an AK47 rifle, and they carry as many magazines as possible, and each person is also equipped with at least nine loaded magazines, depending on their own weight capacity, of course.

The Warden originally planned to let Frank Mire pilot the "Frost Mech", but Kafka was strongly opposed, and Kafka ended up becoming the pilot of the "Frost Mech".

Before leaving, the warden asked Yulia to help him bring a beautifully carved wooden box from the warden's office. The box is about twenty inches long and more than fifteen inches wide. The warden took the wooden box from Yulia's hand and carefully slid open the lid of the beautifully carved box, revealing a brass musket with an intricate structure and three barrels.

"Have you ever seen this?" The warden asked Frankie Mill.

"What is this, what looks like a modern musket?" Frank Mire asked rhetorically.

"Yes, this is a musket, or a musket of any kind." A smile appeared on the warden's serious face.

"IMHO, this thing looks more like a craft." Frankimir didn't think that this thing could be used in battle.

"You'd be wrong. It looks really beautiful, but it's not just an ornament. There was a hint of smugness on the warden's face.

"I guess it's still buckshot, it's really an antique?"

"No, you're wrong again. The bullet it uses is mercury. ”

"What? Mercury for bullets? ”

"Yes, that's right, it's mercury. You've probably heard of the 'Gustav Heart', the first weapon invented by mankind to be able to think programmatically. It may be everywhere now, but a hundred years ago, it was a fantasy. I dare say that to this day, although it is already an antique, it has not been able to surpass its existence. The warden nodded heavily.

"Heart of Gustavus!" Frankimir was a little incredulous of what he had heard, he had long spoken about the legend of the heart of Gustavus.

"Heart of Gustavus! Someone always associated it with vampires or werewolves. Yulia said as she scrambled to the side, her face also full of incredulity.

"That's right, that's what people often call 'vampire busters.'" The so-called 'vampires', in my opinion, are nothing more than ancient biochemical soldiers, but that speaks volumes about the power of Gustav's heart. It is said that in the face of the anti-French coalition with the Biochemical Legion, Napoleon once thought of copying Gustav's Heart to defeat Wellington's Biochemical Legion. Unfortunately, he was not able to succeed at that time, because the spies from Austria took advantage of his unpreparedness to steal Gustav's heart. They had no way of knowing the internal structure of the heart of Gustavus, which ultimately led to Napoleon's defeat. ”

"It's a story that almost everyone knows." Frankimir nodded.

"So it's the treasure of my life, and for me it's just as precious as my daughter. Now, Franky Mir, I'll give it to you. You can use it to deal with the biochemical soldiers that may appear in the caves, if those monsters are really biochemical soldiers. I look forward to hearing from you and hope that you will live up to my expectations. This is for me, for yourself, for our great vision, for our great motherland. ”

After the warden finished speaking, he cautiously felt that from the wooden box, he took out a brass musket with exquisite carving and ingenuity, and under the incandescent light of the infirmary, the brass gunfire emitted a golden light.

The Warden stared at the musket in his hand for a long time, which seemed to evoke infinite memories of the past years. Through the golden light, the warden saw his past, and saw the years when he was once in high spirits.