ON THE EVENING OF THE SEVENTH DAY AFTER LEAVING THE TOWN OF BOGDAL, HONG TAO FINALLY ARRIVED SAFELY AT THE BACKUP BASE, LOCATED 7 KILOMETERS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF ALSK CITY. It was a border post, built on a hillside on the east side of the border, with only a few stone bungalows on the ground, not even a courtyard wall.

But the underground structure is much grander, with regular tunnels going deeper into the mountain than 20 meters and stretching for more than 3 kilometers along the mountain. Along the way, there are not only concealed gun emplacements, firing points, but also radar stations disguised as rocks.

Looking at the appearance, it can be concluded that these buildings are not short in age, and they should belong to the masterpieces of the tense Sino-Soviet relations. It's just that the continued investment was stopped later, and most of the facilities have basically lost their function due to disrepair. However, a small number of them still have military uses, such as small hiding holes and military warehouses.

When Hong Tao found here, the zombies in the outpost had not been cleaned up, and if it weren't for the zombie activity at the entrance of the underground fortifications, he probably wouldn't have found it.

After a cursory tour of the tunnel building, he decided to use it as a backup base. Once Sailimhu can't stay, he can fight and retreat to the north, no matter how miserable and embarrassed the defeat is, as long as he can return here alive, he can immediately get weapons, ammunition and logistical supplies.

If you can't hold it here, choose more. To the east, you can enter the territory of Kazakhstan, where there are also two small strongholds, the farthest of which has penetrated nearly 200 kilometers into a foreign country.

To the north, there are two small bases in Tacheng and Kanas Lake areas, and one station relay can cross the Sino-Russian border to reach the vicinity of Juma's hometown. Or go east to Wushi or Fukang, and then cross the Gobi Desert along the Mongolian border, bypassing the heavy troops gathered around Hami and returning to the interior.

In the eight years in Xinjiang Province, in addition to being a hero from time to time, he spent most of his time leading horses to every corner of northern Xinjiang, like a hamster constantly running these small nests, and he was never tired of it, and it was indeed not in vain, this was not used.

In 2031, it has quietly left, since the East Asian Alliance delegations have been evacuated one after another, and the Redeemer base has returned to its usual appearance. Although the windy open-top sports car with the bald Commander Sabine was no longer visible, and there was no more gloomy President Wacker to take the adjudicators around, life went on.

The adjudicators are still dressed in gray robes, the nuns are still living in seclusion, the ascetics are equally religious, and the outcasts are still struggling with hunger, as if nothing had changed.

But since the Spring Festival, the gold diggers who often walk around the country still found some abnormalities. There were always groups of heavily armed Redeemer soldiers marching south along the road from the north, often accompanied by several wagons.

I couldn't see what goods were transported, and they were all tightly covered with tarpaulin. But even if the things dragged behind the car were covered, they couldn't hide from anyone, cannons, cannons of all kinds.

There's going to be a war in the south! Soon there were rumors in the outcasts that the Redeemers were going to attack the rebels. But it's just a casual chat after dinner, whether it's a war or not, who loses and who wins after the fight, what will happen if you lose, and what will happen if you win, no one knows, let alone care.

Lake Serim is still exactly the same as before, a few shells, dozens of mines, tens of thousands of bullets are a drizzle to nature, and with the blessing of time magic, all traces will be erased after days, weeks, and months.

As the sun hangs in the sky for longer and longer, the temperature gradually rises, the ice begins to melt, the leaves slowly turn green, and swans, mallards and unnamed migratory birds return.

As for the loss of a hundred and ten sheep, a few horses, a few dogs, and three or two people, the plants will not care, and the animals, the birds, and especially the fish in the lake, will only applaud and not be nostalgic at all.

In addition to the dense fog in the early morning, the woods are unusually quiet, even if the pace of spring is getting closer and closer, but for this highland lake at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, February is still a bit early, and it will be at least March to wake up completely.

"Click...... Fluttering ...... Whoosh......" Suddenly a crunch broke the silence of the forest, and two grouses jumped up from the ground, turned 180 degrees in the air, flapped their wings and glided awkwardly down the hillside.

And they heard it right, it's really not the sound nature should have. The dead branches were crushed by heavy objects, and a living creature of this weight, whether it was an animal or a two-legged monster, was not something they could compete with.

A moment later, a tall man stepped out of the woods, followed by two pale green horses. The horses were carried or hung with several packages of different shapes, which looked quite heavy. The horses' hooves had sunk deep into the soft earth, and they were the ones who had just stepped on the branches.

The man wears a military fur hat on his head, a camouflage winter suit, high-waisted hiking boots, and large snow goggles on his face. The upper lip is cleanly shaved, and there is a short beard on the chin, which is stained with dew.

It is a clearing in the middle of a dense forest, and the main reason why it is not occupied by trees is that there is a large pile of naturally formed rocks, like a large burial bag, and like a bunker.

"Why is it so rude, people don't close the door when they leave?" The man threw away the reins, turned to the east side of the pile of rocks, looked into the gap more than half a meter wide, pouted and shook his head.

Hong Tao is back again! He rested for two and a half months at Alashankou before he could fix his broken ribs, and as soon as his body recovered, he ran across the border and spent seven or eight days catching two horses with saddles, and without a single day of delay, he took his weapons and equipment and went straight to Sailim Lake.

The first stop is the Bear Cave, where Juma and her two children are hiding, and he wants to see how they got out. If they were captured, the weapons and ammunition stored in the bear cave would definitely be taken with them; If it was picked up by someone sent by Zhou Yuan, most of the things would not be taken.

At present, it seems that the entrance to the bear cave is quite flat, and there are not many traces of people stepping on and dragging heavy objects, but the branches that were originally used for shelter have been removed. Then he pulled out a knife with a barbed dagger from his thigh, lay on the ground and carefully searched for it.

It took more than ten minutes, almost every inch of land at the entrance, to make sure that there were no mines or other ambushes, Hong Tao put away the dagger, stood up, patted the dirt on his trouser legs, and drilled into the cave with a flashlight.

This was originally a bear's den, but since he parachuted into the lake, it was not only the wolves who were unlucky, but also this bear, who was blocked at the door of the house and beaten to death, and skinned and made a carpet, which was placed in the bedroom of the airplane cabin.

Don't look at the entrance is just a thin slit, after entering, the space is not only large, but also inside and outside. Turning a right-angled bend is the real inside of the cave, ten square meters small, probably oval-shaped, very dry, with a dozen wooden boxes piled up in the corners, covered with various animal skins, most of them wolf skins.

"Whew...... Or are these guys using it easily...... "Pick up the animal fur and open the box in turn, there are not only clothes, sleeping bags, dry food, first aid kits, but also guns, bullets, grenades, and bazookas, most of which are brand new."

Seeing these things, the stone in Hong Tao's heart was half of it. The Redeemer apparently did not discover the cave, and there is a good chance that Juma and the two children are alive.

"946490" shines around with a flashlight, and a line of numbers is engraved on the wall with a hard object, a code word that only he and Zhou Yuan know. Letting go of the biggest burden, Hong Tao felt that his whole body was relaxed, and the next step was to go back to the airplane cabin and the ranch cabin to have a look.

Although he knew in his heart that the two huts would be gone, even if the Redeemer put out the fire, only an airplane skeleton and a pile of broken wood would remain, and the rest would be burned to ashes by gasoline.

But since he was unwilling to come and not take a look, he still fantasized that he could find the bones of Kerim and Saren, make a more formal cemetery for the two of them, and then have a Nima pile.

But as soon as I climbed the nearest mountain beam on the north side of the lake, I saw an anomaly on the surface of the lake through a telescope. There was a snow-white sailboat cruising on the lake that had just been opened for more than half of the day, and there seemed to be a few figures running around on the boat. After watching it for a while, I realized that those people were fishing with nets.

"Damn, it's too much to deceive people, not only demolishing my house and robbing my boat, but also stealing my fish!"

Originally, he was just going to come back and take a look, and he would not stay with or without the presence of a redeemer, and his revenge plan did not include Lake Selim. But at this time, Hong Tao suddenly changed his plan, and planned to wait until the evening to get closer to see what the redeemer had done here.