The night before he was about to leave for the "Dead City", at this special moment, lying on the hard bed in the barracks and listening to the gusts of wind whistling outside the window, Long Yun was really a little tossing and turning, and it took him a while to completely let go of his heavy thoughts and fall asleep with a vague premonition of fate.

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There was no dream all night, probably because he had too many things to sleep, and Long Yun woke up by himself without waiting for the appointed time.

At 3:40 a.m., the cold wind swept through the Karasak faction military base, the iron door of the garage was slowly pushed open, a huge heavy off-road truck with no lights turned on slowly moved out of the garage, the roar of the engine was almost drowned in the gusts of cold wind howling, Long Yun, who was ready to go, shook hands with Zakharov, who jumped out of the car, raised his hand and grabbed the door handle of the MAZ-543 truck, and climbed up to the tandem cab more than one meter above the ground in two steps.

After taking over the start-up off-road truck from the detective, according to the previous action plan, Long Yun began to drive the big guy with a length of more than ten meters and a chassis weight of more than twenty tons on the road.

Leaving the base in the dark night, because he didn't know how long this mission would take, and what would happen in the "dead city", Viktor Rezenov, although the modified MAZ-543 off-road truck was already loaded with tons of light diesel and fuel for the engine and cutting equipment, Long Yun still felt that he had to be careful with his calculations.

But once he drove the truck out of the base gates and onto the uninhabited road, he couldn't see anything by the dim starlight, and he had to turn on the two modified gas lamps on the front of the car.

MAZ-543 ready for use in an environment without electricity. The headlight combination on the front bumper has been replaced with two methane-consuming gas blowtorches. The opening method is not the same as pressing the button. And the point is like lighting a gas stove; According to the process learned in the secret workshop of the "Rome General Bureau" before, Long Yun first flipped the air supply switch marked "headlight left/right" on the cab panel, waited for two or three seconds and then pulled the other switch to ignite, and the linkage mechanism driven by compressed gas suddenly rubbed the flint at the nozzle where the methane mixture was spewed, and the front of the wide MAZ truck immediately shot out two slightly flickering lights, illuminating the ground within a 100-degree viewing angle in front of him.

The combustion of methane mixture generally appears bright light blue, but this blue light has poor color rendering and is not suitable for lighting. The two gas lamps now mounted on the front of off-road trucks have been specially designed to achieve a glow close to white light.

Compared with ordinary electric headlights, the light intensity of methane blowtorches is not much different, but the energy consumption is very uneconomical, and the beam stability is also a little worse.

But under special circumstances, there is only one option for the time being.

Driving with gas lights on all the way, and the engine also having to devour diesel, the early consumption of fuel reserves is of course not good for the long journey to the "dead city", but fortunately, the meticulous agent Zakharov was prepared, and he and the soldiers escorting Viktor followed in a ZIL-131 covered truck. The car was loaded with some diesel fuel and other supplies, which were used to resupply the comrade general himself before he drove close to the "dead city". Ensure that the MAZ-543 enters the no-man's land with a full load of fuel.

Sitting in the modified version of the MAZ-543 cab with good thermal insulation performance, struggling to step on the clutch and turn the steering wheel to control the off-road monster with roaring engines, a layer of fine sweat beads quickly appeared on Long Yun's head, but he still felt a little cold, he immediately turned on the hot air system to avoid the drastic changes in heat and cold and cold.

Unlike other devices that require precious fuel, MAZ series vehicles originally had a device to use engine waste heat to provide hot air to the cockpit, and this device was of great significance to Long Yun when he went to the "dead city" in such a cold weather, otherwise he would not dare to spend the night alone in an abandoned base where the temperature was below minus 20 degrees at night, even if he had an insulated sleeping bag.

The so-called "hot air system", this device is actually available in many vehicles, but it may not always be used, if you still use this system to take heat from the engine when the weather is cold and windy, it will make the engine thermal cycle problematic, and the strict zhòng will also stall.

However, this is not a problem for the MAZ-543, which has a powerful tank engine.

The wind was roaring, the engines roared, and they quietly set off from the Kalsac faction base, driving mostly northwest along the route of the previous operation, and the wide tires of the MAZ off-road truck ran through the gravel and panted all the way on the slightly rough ground.

Driving a Minsk heavy-duty truck with excellent off-road ability, Long Yun basically follows the map route directly, without thinking about any passability: unlike the balancer-axle off-road vehicles that can only pass on bad roads instead of completely roadless places, the MAZ-543 looks stupid and stupid, but has an 8X8 drive form and perfect independent suspension, plus huge tread tires and a 525-horsepower V-12 supercharged diesel engine, in order to have the ability to completely leave the road for off-road maneuveringIn addition to the fact that it is a little difficult in the extremely muddy place, in the gentle and dry terrain environment of Central Asia, it is almost unimpeded to move freely.

Of course, if he really drove all the way, he still paid attention to choosing a relatively gentle terrain to pass guò, otherwise his MAZ would be fine, but the ZIL-131 behind him may not be able to walk on the same flat ground.

Driving a heavy truck in a desert area without a road, although the off-road performance of the vehicle is quite good, the heavy steering wheel and transmission gear still make Long Yun very hard, and the so-called hydraulic power assist will not help much, but if there is no system, it will be difficult for the physical strength of the earthlings to control such a Kongwu monster.

As the night darkened, and the sun rose late in the hinterland of Central Asia in winter, two off-road trucks followed the previously explored route to the west, with maps and compasses jolting through the vast desert.

The vehicles rumbled along, dragging a large cloud of dust across the desert, and when the first rays of atmospheric refraction appeared on the horizon, and the mechanical watch showed that the time was 5:40 in the morning, the convoy of two trucks had only moved forward for more than 40 kilometers - a figure that was already very good for a wheeled off-road vehicle, but then they had to keep their heads buried until they approached the periphery of the "dead city" shrouded in mysterious power, and then carried out the last supply handover.

The sky is bright, the wind is slowing down, and the empty Gobi Desert in the field of vision becomes more and more desolate as we get closer to the destination.

Driving smoothly along the way, looking out from the cab with a good view, in the single-toned desert of Central Asia, except for the occasional dry weeds and scattered fragments of gravel, there is a large area of completely barren land all around; Seeing such a scene, Long Yun remembered that the last time he entered the "Dead City", he also saw a lot of barren grass in the base, in the vast inland north of the Aral Sea, which is arid and rainless, the landform should have been as barren as he saw now, could it be that the situation near the "Dead City" was different from here, because of that mysterious power, there was more precipitation than in other areas?

Of course, it was useless to guess at this time, driving on the endless desolate Gobi, and not worrying about any traffic accidents, Long Yun simply locked the accelerator, put his feet on the pedal easily, took out the map in the bag next to him, and glanced at it from time to time.

According to the current situation, he could reach the outskirts of the "Dead City" in about another hour and a half, and enter the base along the path he had entered last time.

Holding the steering wheel alternately with both hands, Long Yun was distracted from driving, taking care not to let the tires bump into the sharp gravel, and also thinking about the plan of action once he entered the "dead city"; As far as he thinks now, since the main intention this time is to spy on the secrets behind the "Black Wall", then if the time is tight, if he arranges it tightly, maybe he can drive straight into the abandoned base today, set up camp in the city, and try to open the thick airlock of the "Black Wall".

Of course, this is in the case of a qiēshun lì, without any accidents appearing.

Time passed slowly, and the convoy made its way all the way, and the several hours of trek were dull and monotonous, and then finally it was time to part.

Seeing that the sun was about to rise to a high point, and six or seven hours had passed since he set off, Long Yun looked at the unchanging horizon in the distance, and he gradually sensed that inexplicable familiar feeling.

As this feeling gradually intensified, the sound of "zi-la-la" in the walkie-talkie next to his hand also came from nothing, and when the electronic device completely lost its effect and could only make a noise in the earpiece, Long Yun subconsciously stepped on the brakes and scanned the surrounding landscape, he couldn't recognize whether this was the place where he entered the "dead city" a few months ago, and all he could see around was a large expanse of boundless white Gobi.

Well, whether it's here or not, it's close to his destination, and he's going to have to act alone.

"Well, Comrade Zakharov! I'll see you here in a few days. ”

"No problem, Comrade General; Starting today, we will set up an forward base in the back.

- Good luck, our superheroes! ”

After speaking, he stretched out his hand and shook Viktor Rezenov's big hand tightly, Ivan Zakharov said goodbye to Long Yun, and was busy directing the soldiers to pack up the supply equipment on the spot.

After completing the task of escorting the important target, they will next step back about ten kilometers from here and set up a temporary small support base to wait for the warriors who have gone to the "dead city" alone to return safely. (To be continued......)