When Wei Ran and Mesut were woken up by Ihor, the simple stove in the tent was still burning red, and it was still dark outside the tent. In the distance, they could still hear the howling wind above their heads.

They took off the thermal cover of the warm iron bucket and placed it next to the stove. The three of them each ate a roasted boiled potato and drank a large cup of pine needle tea, which was not very tasty, and then packed up the tent.

and sleighs, after once again covering up the traces of setting up camp, shouting at the reindeer who had eaten, drank, and rested enough, and continued on their way under the leadership of Mesut.

As the mountains were left behind them little by little, the two reindeer sleighs were once again enveloped by the violent storm and snow.

Walking in the sleigh behind, Wei Ran sat on a wooden box covered with fox skin. Between his legs, there was an iron bucket that slowly released heat. The outside was even wrapped in tents.

Half piece of windproof and waterproof canvas.

Thanks to these things, he is warm enough now, but in such weather, relying solely on the faint light provided by the kerosene lamp hanging on the shaft of the sleigh in front of him to travel is really unavoidable and frightening.

I don’t know where I will be dragged to by those reindeer whose night vision capabilities far exceed those of humans in the next second.

Compared with his intuitive fear of the unknown road ahead, the fluorescent pointer on the north compass dial that appeared from time to time in his hand always pointed firmly in the north-south direction.

After walking slowly through the dense forest for two or three hours, the sky finally became brighter, but the raging wind and snow did not stop. Instead, it became more intense and seemed to be more manic.

However, the good news is that in the dense forest directly in front of them, there is a frozen river that is only more than 20 meters wide and leads to an unknown place.

This is undoubtedly a discovery with both risks and rewards. Along this river, they can undoubtedly speed up, but if there is a labor camp or a gathering area directly in front of this river, they may be caught at any time.

Mesut, who was leading the way, just opened his notebook and looked at it, then decisively ordered the sleigh to leave the forest and set foot on the frozen river where the wind was raging.

The moment they left the forest, the intensity of the wind and snow suddenly increased to a higher level, but the three of them could clearly feel that the speed of the two sleds had also increased a lot.

After the initial nervousness, Mesut and Wei Ran also gradually relaxed. After running along this winding and narrow frozen river for an hour, not only did they not find any ruts along the way, both sides of the coast,

There are no man-made artifacts at all.

At the moment they were holding on, but the reindeer pulling the cart had no strength. So even though they were anxious, they could only temporarily leave the river and return to the forest where they could get some shelter from the cold wind. They found two pine trees next to each other.

The tent was set up again.

After the firewood ignited the firewood in the iron barrel, Ihor, who was awakened, also got enough pine needles for the reindeer to fill their bellies.

After hastily feeding each reindeer some concentrated feed and a large bucket of warm water, Ihor tied the salt bricks to the trunk and asked excitedly, "Are we not considered to have escaped now?"

"doesn't count"

Mesut and Wei Ran gave an answer in unison. The former even said while busy unloading his luggage, "This is just the beginning, we are far from being completely safe."

"Which direction should we escape next?" Ihor asked seemingly casually.

"Let's leave this forest alive first and then think about this matter." Mesut answered the other party's question noncommittally, and Ihor wisely did not ask any more questions.

While he was resting, Mesut cooked a large pot of fish soup that was not very tasty using a piece of frozen fish and scraps from the salt bricks. At the same time, he also refilled the iron bucket used for heating by the three of them.

After getting on the boiling water, Weiyan and Ihor took on the task of waxing the skateboards of the two sleds.

"Will anyone catch up?" In the warm tent, Ihor held a bowl of fish soup and asked what everyone was worried about.

"definitely will"

Mesut said while chewing the fish bone, "But this snowstorm that has not stopped yet will erase most of our traces. As long as we don't attract attention, the people sent by the camp will not find us so easily.

of."

"Who do you think the camp will send to find us?" Ihor continued to ask.

"Hunting team," Mesut replied with almost certainty, "Maybe there are Sergei and Panin, who knows? No matter who they are, as long as they are caught, we will all be dead."

"boom!"

Just when Ihor was about to continue saying something, there was a faint gunshot outside the tent!

Almost subconsciously, Ihor threw away the enamel stick filled with fish soup in his hand and picked up the dragoon rifle. Mesut, who also threw away the food, also took out a plate of bullets and handed it to the other party.

Before Ihor could press the bullet into the magazine, a series of rapid gunshots came from outside the tent again!

"Five shots in total"

Wei Ran put down the enamel rod and said, "This rate of fire is not like that of a bolt-action rifle. It is a little faster, but it is not a weapon like Sergei's or Panin's. It has a slower rate of fire than that gun."

Yihor looked at Wei Ran in surprise, and then looked at Mesut, who hesitated for a moment and said, "It doesn't sound like they are coming for us. Pack your things and let's go over and take a look."

Upon hearing this, Ihor immediately turned off the safety of his rifle, and he and Mesut picked up the fish meat that had just been scattered and stuffed it into their respective mouths.

Wei Ran, on the other hand, slowly finished the last piece of fish and drank the last mouthful of fish soup. Then he got up, dismantled the tent, and hitched the reindeer to the sleigh that had not yet been loaded with supplies.

"Ihor, you are here to guard a sleigh and all our supplies." Mesut said before setting off, "We cannot take risks with two vehicles."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Take the weapon" Ihor handed over the rifle in his hand.

"Need not"

Mesut first rejected the opponent's weapon, then pointed to the direction of the river not far away, "If there are enemies, we will lead them from that direction, and then you can just shoot. If they come back from other directions,

, it proves that he is not an enemy."

"I see"

As Ihor said, he had already hid on the side of the sleigh, placed his rifle on the sled, and aimed in the direction of the river.

Seeing this, Mesut got on the sleigh controlled by Weifan and rushed towards the direction where the gunshots had just been fired.

With nearly half of their load reduced and having just rested, the two reindeer pulling the cart worked extra hard, so the speed was naturally much faster.

After running less than two hundred meters in this direction, they had already reached the edge of the forest. Directly in front of them was a forest clearing that was probably two hundred meters wide.

At this time, on a piece of snow not far from them, four wolves were frantically biting two reindeer pulling a sleigh, as well as a hunter who was still waving a shotgun in resistance! There were several more wolves around them

Wolf carcass!

"Save him," Mesut said without thinking.

Upon hearing this, Wei Ran immediately shouted to the restless reindeer to turn around and go back, and took the rifle from Ihor's hand as quickly as possible.

After they rushed back to the edge of the clearing, Mesut waited for Weiran to stop the sleigh, and immediately aimed at a wolf in the distance that had knocked down the hunter and pulled the trigger!

"boom!"

After the clear gunshot, the wolf was shot in the shoulder blade, and fell on the hunter's body with its four legs stretched.

“Good marksmanship”

Wei Ran admired. Although the distance between the two sides was less than 100 meters at this time, still having the confidence to shoot at the wolf that knocked down the man on such a windy day requires absolute confidence in his marksmanship.

Just fine.

"boom!"

Although Mesut did not respond to Wei Ran's compliment, he immediately fired a second shot after loading the gun, knocking down another wolf that was biting the hunter to the ground.

After the two shots were fired, the two remaining wolves gave up on the reindeer whose throats had been bitten through, and bared their teeth and rushed towards the two of them.

"Calm down the reindeer!"

While Mesut was speaking, he had already jumped off the moving sled, and at the same time he loaded the gun and fired the third bullet.

"Bang!" After the gunshot, another wolf stopped with a cloud of blood mist exploding from its head.

It was only then that the remaining wolf seemed to realize that something was wrong, and turned around and ran towards the forest on the other side of the clearing.

"Bang!" As the fourth bullet was fired, the wolf also fell to the snow.

When Mesut sat back on the sleigh, Wei Ran immediately shook the reins and rushed towards the hunter who seemed to be unable to get up.

However, when they arrived, they found a large amount of blood on his neck and the flesh on his face had been bitten open.

Before the sleigh could stop, Mesut jumped down and knelt beside the wounded man, leaned over and put his ear to his mouth, and at the same time covered the bite wound on his neck with his hands.

But soon, he straightened up and shook his head towards Wei Ran, "He is already dead. We are too late."

Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded silently, then bent down and picked up a M1895 lever-action rifle produced by Winchester that was buried in the snow.

Although this long-obsolete weapon is an American product, it is not too much to appear on the soil of the Soviet Union. You must know that as early as the Tsarist Russia period before the Soviet Union, the Tsarist Russian army ordered a full 300,000 such rifles for use

To equip the army.

For this reason, in order to sell unsalable weapons, Winchester happily changed the caliber of this rifle to 7.62x54r required by Tsarist Russia, and it can also be loaded with the same magazine as the Mosin-Nagant rifle.

bomb.

Nowadays, not to mention that Tsarist Russia is long gone, even World War II has ended so many years ago, so it is reasonable for this outdated weapon to end up in remote Siberia.

While he picked up the weapon, Mesut also groped around on the old man's body and successfully found a bag of Mohe cigarettes and a dozen scattered bullets. In addition, he also found a device

A glass jug full of vodka and an old-fashioned copper key.

The two looked at each other and walked towards the two killed reindeer in the distance and the sleigh behind them.

In addition to a pair of skis, there were two wolf skins that seemed to have been peeled off not long ago and a box of animal traps of various sizes on the sled.

The two looked at each other, and Mesut burned all the bullets he had just found to Wei and said, "You are going to pick up Ihor and bring back the other car and all the reindeer."

"What do you want to do?" Wei Ran, who had already guessed the answer, took the bullet and asked.

Mesut pointed to the remaining ruts on the snow, "Let's see if we can follow the ruts to find this old hunter's home, send him back, and see what we can find along the way."

Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded and shouted to the reindeer to turn around and go back.

While the reindeer was walking back, Wei Ran's attention was focused on the lever-action rifle he had just picked up.
To be continued...