Five days after the train left Moscow, the beautiful velvet curtains were opened, and the primeval forest was uncovered by towering trees on either side of the tracks, as if to briefly isolate the snow and cold of Siberian winter.

The train travels southeasterly along the Trans-Siberian Railway, over the Ural Mountains, known as the "Gate of Eurasia", and is now running on the vast land known as "Siberia".

During this time, Lu Mingfei either looked at the beautiful scenery outside the window or read books - the books were biographies of famous national leaders or generals (hardcover Chinese edition).

The book was prepared by Bunin according to the requirements, although their trip was rushed, but they would still stop when passing through some city stations, and he would inform them to prepare the corresponding materials (mostly ingredients) in advance before arriving at the station, and load the materials when the train entered the station and stopped.

Their food on the train was quite good, and Bunin didn't know where to find the authentic Chinese cook, although the dishes they ate at each meal were not noble dishes, but the dishes such as mapo tofu and braised mutton braised yellow croaker were also unique to eat with the snowy scenery outside the window.

Fingal and Chu Tianjiao couldn't be as pure and lacking as Lu Mingfei, so they were so idle that they asked Bunin for a deck of playing cards, and pulled Zero together to fight the landlord or play Texas, and then Chu Tianjiao was impressed by Fingal's superb card skills, and suddenly asked him with a black face if he had taught Chu Zihang to play cards at the Kassel Academy......

Lu Mingfei looked at Chu Tianjiao's appearance of pinching Fingal's neck and playing with it, and suddenly felt that this was very good.

He didn't tell Chu Tianjiao about Chu Zihang's disappearance, lest the other party worry about the child and ask to get off halfway. From the time Eva sent a message to herself to yesterday's train entering the Siberian no-man's land, Chu Zihang had been missing for seventy-two hours and forty-seven minutes, and now he didn't know anything about the situation in Chicago because the signal reception was almost interrupted.

Lu Mingfei can only trust—and must trust Chu Zihang to be able to handle this kind of incident alone,He can't immediately turn around and rush back because he's worried about his brother's safety—even if he rushes back, so what? Now that they are separated by at most half a planet, will it be possible to cross half a star region, half a star field, or even half a galaxy to find brothers to fight side by side in the future?

He took a deep breath and stopped worrying about it.

"Gentlemen, the warm journey is over, and now we have to change to another mode of transportation to our destination."

After a blank "royal flush" to win 100 meals each for Chu Tianjiao and Fingal (they used "please eat" as a chip in their game), Alexander. Bunin politely knocked on the door of their box.

In fact, they had a change yesterday, and their carriage was disconnected from the train that ended in Vladivostok, and they were connected to a new train and headed for the Arctic Ocean towards the Siberian no-man's land.

Pushing open the carriage door, the white and cold wind and snow rushed in his face, and in the howling blizzard, Lu Mingfei heard the sound of the helicopter propeller.

A giant Mi-26 helicopter approached the rails from the side and lowered the rope ladder to allow Lu Mingfei to board the plane.

"In the past, when the auction was held, it was these big guys from the Soviet era who hoisted the carriage with distinguished guests to another railway, and then to City 023, and the Russian Federal Security Service tried to follow us and pounced on us," Bunin said, "I'm sorry, for the sake of safety, it's safer to take a helicopter than to be hoisted in mid-air; And I don't have a lot of resources at my disposal, so I can't guarantee that my 'betrayal' will be able to hide from the real boss behind me. ”

"But at least...... You can choose any weapon you want. ”

The huge Mi-26 cabin is equipped with neat weapon boxes, all of which are polished and polished brand-new finished guns, ranging from RPG bazookas to pistols, which can fully arm an all-round special squad equipped with heavy firepower.

Lu Mingfei just glanced at it cursoryly, not very interested;

Fingal was gearing up, he didn't have the uncomfortable problem of his own regimental commander who didn't have a shotgun, and he had a phobia of insufficient firepower, so he directly picked a PKP light machine gun; Chu Tianjiao only picked two pistols, and his main way of fighting was to use the "village rain" in his hand; Her Royal Highness unexpectedly picked an AN94 and a Beretta, silently indicating that she also had combat ability.

Even with his weapons ready, Bunin is clearly determined to betray the rulers behind the scenes for his daughter; As for success or not...... Chu Tianjiao and Fingal glanced at each other, and then looked at Lu Mingfei, who was sitting on the side with his eyes closed and contemplative......

Such a strong half-breed also has the supreme will of the emperor, TMD, what else in the world can resist?

It took more than two hours for a city covered in snow and ice to appear outside the porthole of the helicopter - it was hard to imagine such a city in such a snowy place, surrounded by dense pine forests, and its outline could only be seen when flying in a helicopter.

"Welcome to Novosibirsk city 023, my hometown." Bunin said.

"Your ...... Hometown? Zero frowned slightly.

"Yes, I was born and raised in this city, where more than 20,000 people lived at the time, and the workers who were building the steel fortress of the Soviet rear and the scientists who were secretly working on the immortality project," Bunin lit a pipe and looked lonely in his eyes, "Before I left this city, I knew that the world was so big, with only a school, a hospital, a children's playground and a bunch of small shops selling tobacco and alcohol. ”

"My parents weren't great people, they were just skilled workers, but they were very proud of their work, and they always told me that our family was going to live here for a hundred years and build the most prosperous Novosibirsk in the world. We will build spaceships to fly to Mars, and we will build space carriers that can destroy US imperialism. ”

"Until one day I sneaked into the movie theater - the movie theater in the city is not allowed for children to enter, and I was afraid that my children would be curious about the outside world, so I didn't want to stay in city 023. I watched a movie about Moscow in the back corner of the cinema, the beautiful girl in the checkered skirt, and then I realized that the world is actually very big, and even if the helicarrier I built a hundred years later destroyed imperialism, I would be old, and the girl in that movie would be old. Besides, why should I destroy imperialism? I haven't even seen what imperialism is. ”

"Then I secretly got on a train out of town, worked hard outside, met the girl in the flower dress in the movie, married her and gave birth to the lovely Christina, because of my personal identity and business, I had to entrust her to someone else for her safety......" Bunin took a deep puff of cigarette and silently recounted his past.

"Honestly, I can understand you, man." Chu Tianjiao seemed to empathize, patted Bunin on the shoulder and comforted, "I am the same, because of the identity and tasks I carry, I have to leave my lover and children...... As a result, no one remembers my identity except for my son, so I can only come here to work in the dark. ”

"I heard Chu Zihang say that you still have a small golden nest hidden outside." Fingal said in a strange voice.

"I only got that place after that!" Chu Tianjiao's face flushed, "I have such a big task pressure, and I can't relax a little bit with such a big secret?" And as soon as I left, I sold a dozen out-of-print Elvis vinyl records and gave the money to the mother and son! ”

……

Lu Mingfei, as always, only listened to these family relationships and did not care about them, and he habitually observed the general distribution of buildings and road plans in the city while the helicopter was still in the air, just in case.

Family...... Parents...... None of that would be important to him, would it? In the story he reads, Lord Saint Gerles, the genetic protogen, was nearly killed by the ignorant and stupid natives of the time when he landed in Baal, but he still used his wisdom, strength, and charisma to unify the Baal system until His Majesty the Emperor arrived and put him in command of the Ninth Legion......

However, I heard that in addition to the emperor, the genetic prototype of the Ultramarines also has "adoptive parents" in Otrama......

The tremor of the helicopter interrupted Lu Mingfei's thoughts, and the Mi-26 landed on the edge of the city, and could see more clearly the neat residential buildings, the power plant with thick chimneys, and the small shops with a thick layer of frost on the glass.

"Your Majesty, you can stay in the helicopter and wait for us to evacuate, you don't need to risk your life." Bunin said sincerely.

"I can take care of myself, you don't have to worry about it." Zero said coldly, carrying his AN94 like a boy scout.

"What could be safer than being around us? Haven't you seen the movie? Usually the lone in the team is often the first to have an accident," Fingal said, and then showed a mouthful of white teeth to Zero, "Don't worry, my brother's tough body can definitely protect you!" ”

"Then please come with me." Bunin walked in front with an AK12 on his back to lead the way, and Lu Mingfei and his party followed closely behind in the wind and snow.

In the center of the town is a huge circular building with a sky-high statue of Lenin in front of which looks like an auditorium or concert hall. Bunin led them through a small, heavy door with factory-like structures, twisting pipes, valves large and small, and Russian signs of "danger" everywhere......

They began to descend all the way down, the road was winding and wet, and judging by the red Arabic numerals written on the walls, they had reached the eighth floor underground, but they were far from the end.

"Claiming to be the bomb shelter of City 023 to the residents, it is actually the research institute of the Eternal Life Project, but I don't know exactly where it is," Bunin said, "Every party and auction is held here, and the auction of the 'Golden Pulp' is transported from the ground one by one, and theoretically it and the factory that produces the Holy Pulp are deeper underground." ”

He led the way with a flashlight, his face a little apprehensive, as if he was not sure if there was any medicine here that could save his daughter's life.

"What if you don't?" Zero asked coldly.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, even if I don't have it, I will fulfill the deal and send you to that coordinate." Bunin had a helpless wry smile on his face.

The entire huge underground space was quiet, only the footsteps of a few of them, and every time they passed through a fork in the road, Chu Tianjiao and Zero would leave corresponding marks just in case, after all, the structure here was as complex as a labyrinth.

Lu Mingfei, who was following behind Bunin, suddenly heard a slightly ethereal voice in his ears:

"Father."

He frowned slightly, and looked at Fingal, who was walking with him, he was not unusual, but he felt a little bored and yawned one after another.

"Father, you're here......"

The voice in his ears became clearer and clearer, as if something was calling to him from underground.

"Is it mental harassment against me?" Lu Mingfei thought to himself, he didn't pay much attention to it, if it was a mental attack, then it would be too light.

The silence lasted for nearly twenty minutes before Bunin whispered, "We may be almost there...... Listen. ”

Dead as an abyssal hell, something else appeared in the depths of the earth, breaking the dead silence around them.

There is a melodious piano music, intermittent, sometimes as if it is behind it, and sometimes it seems to be far away in the sky.

This made some people feel a little creepy, and the formation of the team immediately gathered up and prepared for battle.

"You've never been here before?" Zero questions.

"I used to come out of here." There was a sadness on Bunin's aged face, and before Zero could ask him what he meant, he continued to walk forward on his own accord.

"I knew the old guy was still hiding! How do you say that the head of the regiment, should he be tied up and tortured to extract a confession first? lest he turn us straight into some bomb crater. Fingal said with a vicious look.

"No, keep up." Lu Mingfei shook his head and followed Bunin in front.

The front gradually began to become warm and humid, the walls and floor of the passage were covered with velvety moss, and water droplets were dripping from the top of the passage from time to time, like a light rain.

The deeper you go, the hotter it gets, it's like going from an ice field to a tropical rainforest all at once, Lu Mingfei and the others have taken off their heavy cold-proof clothes and traveled lightly.

At the end of the passage was a metal door completely covered in moss, only the metal wheel used to open the door was shining, and the intermittent melodious sound of the piano came from behind the door.

"What's behind the door?" Lu Mingfei asked lightly, and stepped forward to help Bunin turn the metal wheel on the door.

"I ...... Or rather, the real 'me'. ”

Bunin smiled sadly, although his strength was a little insignificant compared to Lu Mingfei, he still pushed open the heavy steel gate with him, as if he wanted to meet his fate in person.

(End of chapter)