Xixia dead book

Chapter 78 The Lost 1964 (15)
"Bang!" Han Jiang fired a shot at the big iron lock, but the bullet hit the big iron lock, and after flashing bright sparks, it bounced back. ...Han Jiang shook his head helplessly, and said: "It's very dangerous. If you don't do it well, the bullet will bounce back. And this iron lock is too strong. I've never seen such a heavy lock." Han Jiang noticed this In a tall pipe, the flow of water is obviously much higher than that of the pipe just now, and a narrow sidewalk was specially built beside the pipe for people to walk on. They are standing on this sidewalk at the moment, and the water flows out from under the iron fence door. Flowing forward, but the iron fence gate blocked their way.

Xu Renyu analyzed: "If my judgment is not wrong, these pipelines are old and some have even been abandoned. Few people come here, even workers rarely come to these pipelines, so in order to prevent people from mistakenly The city department of Petersburg repaired this iron fence gate here, and I thought that after passing through this iron fence gate, I might be able to get out soon.”

"But how do we get out now? I tried it just now. The distance between the two iron railings is just enough to trap people. In addition, you can see that the iron railings are thick enough, at least six or seven centimeters in diameter. Although I have practiced some kung fu, but I still can't open such a thick railing." Han Jiang complained.

But Xu Renyu said calmly: "This is where my importance comes to the fore."

"Why, do you have a solution?" Han Jiang asked back.

"Hey! When I was in Ilyukin's 'Peter's Cabin', I complained to you. Ilyukin's people confiscated my pipe and the box of matches. You laughed at me at that time; fortunately, when I escaped from the prison I took my baby back from the table in the living room." Then, Xu Renyu took out the box of matches from his pocket, and said to Han Jiang, "Do you know what's inside?"

"What?" Han Jiang was puzzled.

"My secret weapon. This box is a special matchbox. From the upper layer, it can be seen that there are ordinary matches inside, but the lower layer contains a string made of special materials. As long as I take the string out of the box , as soon as this string comes into contact with the air, it will spontaneously ignite within 30 seconds, and the temperature generated by the spontaneous combustion is enough to cut any metal." Xu Renyu said proudly.

"You mean to tie this thin rope to the iron railing, let it ignite spontaneously, and cut the iron railing." Han Jiang said pleasantly.

"That's right, but I don't know if this thing will work after all this trouble."

"Is there such a thing? It turns out that our Dr. Xu has been tinkering with these gadgets all day long." Han Jiang laughed.

Xu Renyu retorted: "I tinker with a lot of things, ranging from all kinds of firearms to small self-defense gadgets. I can't do anything, even airplanes and tanks. I can also do it, but I have never had this opportunity."

"Okay! Alright! You will have this chance, let's open this door first." Han Jiang urged.

Seeing that Xu Renyu carefully took out the seemingly ordinary string from the matchbox, and tied it to an iron railing, Xu Renyu said: "When I came to Petersburg, I expected that we must be in bad luck." No, jailbreak is useless, this is still useful!"

Han Jiang silently counted the numbers. When Xu Renyu tied the rope, 20 seconds had passed. At the last ten countdowns, at 30 seconds, the thin rope suddenly burst into dazzling flames. In an instant, the iron railing with a diameter of six to seven centimeters , A hole was neatly cut from the middle.

After another ten seconds, when the fire was extinguished, Han Jiang suddenly raised his foot and kicked towards the iron railing. The iron railing bent immediately, and a big opening was exposed in the iron fence door. Han Jiang and Xu Renyu got out of the iron fence door smoothly. The two quickly ran out of this pipeline and entered another pipeline. In this pipeline, sewage was flowing horizontally. When the two were wondering where to look for the ghost, Han Jiang was the first to see a faint light.

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Following the direction of the sewage flow, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu slowly walked to the place where the light was shining. This was the exit of a sewer pipe. They finally walked out. It was not yet bright outside, but there was already some light. Han Jiang paid attention In front of them was a broad river with many icicles and ice floes floating on the river, and the street lamps on the river bank faintly gave off a dim light.

A gust of cold wind blew, and the two of them got too much moisture in the sewer pipe. The two of them couldn't help shivering when they were blown by the cold wind. Han Jiang asked Xu Renyu trembling slightly: "Where is this?"

Xu Renyu looked at the surrounding environment. There was fog on the river, and he couldn't see the situation on the other side of the river clearly. However, when he looked back, he saw the tall golden spire of Peter and Paul Cathedral. Xu Renyu couldn't help but said in surprise: "We Walked in the sewer all night, and came here?"

"Where is this?"

"Peter and Paul Fortress! Have you ever heard such a saying? 'First there was Peter and Paul Fortress, and then there was St. The Swedes made a comeback and built this Peter and Paul Fortress at the confluence of the Neva and the Lesser Neva..."

"Okay, it's useless if you tell me so much, where should we go next?" Han Jiang interrupted Xu Renyu.

"It's not far from St. Petersburg University, so let's hurry to find Tang Feng."

Han Jiang nodded, but as soon as they turned around, Xu Renyu suddenly found that Han Jiang was staring at a stone bridge above his head, and Xu Renyu asked Han Jiang in confusion: "What's wrong with you?"

Han Jiang didn't answer, but suddenly ran towards the stone bridge. Xu Renyu didn't understand what he meant, so he shook his head and followed Han Jiang out of breath.Han Jiang ran up the bridge, and at the end of the bridge was a green gate. Han Jiang quickened his pace and ran towards the green gate, but when the heavy fog cleared and he came to the green gate, there was nothing!

Han Jiang pushed the huge green door hard, but the heavy green door remained motionless. Han Jiang looked up at the sculpture on the door, panted and asked Xu Renyu, "What's inside this door?"

"Don't push, this door is the Peter and Paul Fortress."

"The Peter and Paul Fortress?"

"Yes! Peter and Paul Fortress. What did you see just now?"

"I saw that ghost again. He's on this bridge!"

"No! Impossible, why didn't I see it? You must have misread it, or you have hallucinations!"

Hallucination?Han Jiang calmed down and thought about it carefully. He hadn't eaten or rested all day and night, escaped from Ilyukin's cell, and walked for so long in this dark, damp and terrifying underground pipeline. Hallucination?No!impossible! "That white ghost just disappeared here, did he go in?" Han Jiang shouted at Xu Renyu again.

Xu Renyu looked at the green gate, and when he heard Han Jiang's words, he kept shaking his head and said, "Impossible! Impossible! It's not yet dawn, and it's not yet the opening time for the Peter and Paul Fortress. How could that ghost go in?" ?”

"So it's a ghost, there is nothing a ghost can't do!" Han Jiang also became superstitious.

Hearing this, Xu Renyu stared straight at the green door in front of him, thoughtful, and after a long time, he murmured to himself: "Is it really a ghost?"

Seeing Xu Renyu's appearance, Han Jiang asked with concern, "What's wrong with you?"

Xu Renyu calmed down a little, and asked Han Jiang: "Do you know what the Peter and Paul Fortress is for?"

"It's a fortress! It's for military defense!" Han Jiang said.

"You only know one thing, but you don't know the other. Later, when Russia became stronger, Sweden did not pose a threat to Russia at all, so the military role of the fortress was greatly reduced. After Peter the Great, this fortress became the most important state prison in Russia. Many important people were imprisoned inside. During the Tsarist Russia era, as long as one entered this gate, it would be difficult to get out again, so some people often jokingly call this gate the 'Gate of Death'!
"The door of death?" Han Jiang took a step back, took a breath, and looked at the green door in front of him again.

"You see, the Winter Palace is opposite the Peter and Paul Fortress. When I was studying abroad in Petersburg, I heard that some people claimed to have seen ghosts or ghosts in the area around the Peter and Paul Fortress and the Winter Palace at night. Some people said that It’s the ghost of the Tsar, and some say it’s the ghost of a prisoner who died.” Xu Renyu pointed to the Winter Palace on the other side of the Neva River, shining in the morning light.

"We just arrived in Petersburg, and we bumped into the legendary 'ghost'. Our luck is so damn good!" Han Jiang complained.

"Come on, running into this damned ghost was purely accidental. It's almost dawn, and we still have our own business. Ilyukin is probably looking for both of us all over the city!"

Han Jiang nodded, and walked down the bridge with Xu Renyu, but he still didn't forget to look back at the green gate.

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The fog gradually dissipated, the sky was bright, and there were not many pedestrians on the street. Han Jiang watched everyone passing by vigilantly. He and Xu Renyu left the Peter and Paul Fortress, not daring to walk on the main road, and detoured into a remote Street, Xu Renyu pointed to the front, and whispered to Han Jiang: "Walk across this street, and you can go back to our dormitory soon. But we can't just go back to school like this, in case there are people from Ilyukin there , they can recognize us at a glance."

"Then what do you mean?"

"I wish I had a car now!" Xu Renyu exclaimed.

A smile appeared on Han Jiang's face, and he said, "It's just a car, it's easy!"

"What can you do?"

"Let's borrow one first."

"Borrow?" Xu Renyu was puzzled.

Han Jiang didn't explain, and walked straight to an old Lada car on the street. Xu Renyu seemed to understand what Han Jiang meant, and saw Han Jiang walking to the Lada car, and he didn't know what he used. The Lada car fiddled twice, and the door of the Lada car opened. Seeing this scene, Xu Renyu stood still in a daze. Han Jiang winked at him vigorously. into the Lada.

"Is this what you call 'borrowing'?" Xu Renyu asked Han Jiang back.

"Isn't this a special situation? I'll definitely put him back in place when I'm done using it." Han Jiang started the Lada as he spoke.

"Since it's such an excuse, why don't you get a better car, such an old broken car, I saw several 'Mercedes' and 'BMWs' parked on the street just now!" Xu Renyu complained instead.

"Come on, didn't you just get a 'Volga'? Do you think 'Benz' and 'BMW' are so easy to get?"

"Alas! It seems that the only way for us to drive classic cars like 'Volga' and 'Lada' in Petersburg!"

"Hmph, you don't understand now, only rich people drive classic cars now." Han Jiang joked.

Xu Renyu didn't answer any more, because they were already very close to the dormitory building where Tang Feng lived. The two kept looking out of the car, observing every pedestrian on the road.

Han Jiang originally wanted to park his car by a flower bed not far from the dormitory building, where the gate of the dormitory building could be seen, but he stopped the car suddenly when he was more than ten meters away from the flower bed, because He saw a few strong men in leather trench coats coming out of the dormitory building, no need to ask, they were all Ilyukin's plainclothes.

Xu Renyu also saw it, and he screamed in the car: "It's broken, Tang Feng must have been discovered by them."

Han Jiang didn't speak. He stared at the strong men. Suddenly, he saw Ivanov coming out of the building with two plainclothes, and walking towards their car.

Han Jiang gave Xu Renyu a wink, and the two of them held their breath and lay down under the seat. Han Jiang held the gun tightly in his hand, and he was prepared for the worst.

However, Ivanov did not notice Han Jiang and Xu Renyu. He walked directly past the Lada car in plain clothes. After about 10 minutes, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu got up from under the seat. Looking at the door of the dormitory, there was a "Peugeot" car with two plainclothes people sitting in it. "Why didn't you see Tang Feng?" Han Jiang muttered to himself after observing for more than ten minutes.

"Tang Feng may have been captured by them." Xu Renyu guessed.

Han Jiang shook his head and said, "Tang Feng didn't see us coming back until dark yesterday. With his intelligence, he must have noticed something. If he used a false identity to deal with Ilyukin, Ilyukin wouldn't do anything to him!"

"But I'm worried about that false identity. That false identity can only be bluffed for a while. Once Ilyukin gets over it, Tang Feng will still be doomed." Xu Renyu said worriedly.

Han Jiang was also anxious in his heart, but on the surface he was still calm. After thinking about it, Han Jiang finally said to Xu Renyu: "Anyway, we won't see Tang Feng now. We can only see him next!"

"Then we don't care about him?"

"It's not that we don't care, it's that we can't protect ourselves. If we want to find out Tang Feng's whereabouts, it's useless to rely on the two of us now. We still have to go to Yelena. I believe in Tang Feng's ability, and he should be able to persevere." After finishing speaking, Han Jiang restarted the Lada and drove towards Yelena's residence.

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Han Jiang didn't dare to go directly to Yelena's residence. He drove the old Lada around the streets and alleys of Petersburg a few times, and then parked the car quietly under Yelena's apartment.He still didn't dare to get out of the car and knock on Yelena's door, he still had to observe, he had to make sure that there was no tail behind him, and he had to make sure that Yelena was still safe here!
In this way, Han Jiang and Xu Renyu endured hunger and sat in the Lada car for most of the day. They watched everyone who appeared near the apartment, analyzed and judged everyone's identity, until the evening, Xu Renyu couldn't bear it. Can't help it: "Let's just keep consuming like this?"

Han Jiang looked at the gate of the apartment building and muttered to himself, "It's strange, why haven't I seen Yelena come out all day today, isn't she here?"

"It's not normal for people to be in a bad mood and stay at home all day."

"She has to go to the hospital to see Makarov at this time every day." After Han Jiang finished speaking, he looked at the fourth floor of the apartment. The windows of Yelena's apartment hadn't been lit yet. Xu Renyu said impatiently, "Why don't we go up?" Let's see!"

"I didn't see her come out? There is no light in the room? Could it be..." Han Jiang didn't dare to think about it anymore, he waved his hand at Xu Renyu, and whispered: "Wait a little longer! Then..."

Han Jiang suddenly fell silent, because he found that the lights in Yelena's apartment were turned on, and a stone in his heart finally fell to the ground, "But why didn't she go to the hospital today? Didn't you see her car?" Han Jiang muttered again. muttered.

"Come on, we've been observing here all day, and we haven't found anyone suspicious. Now that the lights in her apartment are on, what are we waiting for?" Xu Renyu urged.

Han Jiang didn't want to wait any longer, he got out of the car with Xu Renyu, and walked carefully to the fourth floor. Han Jiang made a gesture of silence to Xu Renyu, and he stood quietly outside the door, listening to the movement inside the house. Quiet, there was no sound, Han Jiang asked Xu Renyu to hide outside the door first, pulled out his pistol, opened the safety, and then gently rang the doorbell.

There was a sound of footsteps in the house, but Han Jiang still didn't recognize whose footsteps it was. He hid in the shadows outside the door, prepared for the worst, the door opened, and the lights in the house shone on the corridor outside Above, Han Jiang didn't move, he was still hiding in the shadows, the people inside the room sensed something, they also pulled out their guns, held the guns in both hands, and slowly moved out of the door, Han Jiang was shocked when he saw the shadow cast on the ground , he knew that there would be another fierce fight next.

Han Jiang suddenly jumped out of the shadows and pointed his gun at the man. The man reacted quickly and pointed his gun at Han Jiang. The two stood in a stalemate for two seconds before Han Jiang realized that he was holding a gun. The person in question was Yelena. He let out a long beard and put down the gun in his hand. Yelena also recognized Han Jiang, put away the gun, and said angrily, "Han Jiang, do we have to do this every time we meet?"

"This is not my territory, I have to guard against it! By the way, aren't you suspended? Where did you get the gun?" Han Jiang suddenly remembered.

"Then where did your gun come from?" Yelena stared at Han Jiang and asked back.

(End of this chapter)