Wang Ping didn't care how Gu Laosan got to Yakutsk by plane without a visa, or how he got through customs. Right now, he just wanted this bastard to return his backpack to him so he could change into the cotton coat he had only worn a few times.
As a true desert steppe creature, Wang Ping had to admit that his fur only looked thick, but in terms of keeping warm, it was probably not as good as a jacket. If it weren't for the layer of fat, when Gu Laosan opened the box, he would have seen a hard pile of dead badgers.
Gu Laosan followed Yuan Xiaoxiao's instructions and left the terminal, looking back and forth with his neck hunched. It was already past noon, and the temperature, which had been warming up all day, began to drop again. The snow that had just melted on the roadside began to freeze again, and the pine trees were covered with icicles, which attracted a certain salted fish to take a few more glances.
As a true southerner, he had indeed rarely seen such scenes.
There was a scratching sound from the aviation box in his hand. Before Gu Lang could release the badger, Yuan Xiaoxiao's shout came from across the road. When he looked up, there were a few private cars parked in the parking lot opposite the terminal. A Buick business car in the front was honking. A Russian girl leaned out of the window and shouted twice, then quickly retracted.
Through the front windshield, he could vaguely see a white girl wearing a mask and sunglasses huddled in the passenger seat. Gu Laosan blinked, pointed at himself with a puzzled look, and after getting an affirmative nod from the person in the car, he hesitantly stepped forward.
He knocked on the driver's window and was about to ask who the other party was and whether Yuan Xiaoxiao had sent him to pick him up, when Yuan Xiaoxiao's impatient voice came from behind the lowered window: "What are you wasting time on? Get in the car! The air conditioner is gone!"
"Bang!"
Without waiting for Gu Laosan to react, the aviation box in his hand exploded. Wang Ping, who heard Yuan Xiaoxiao's voice, was sure that they had arrived at the destination, so he could no longer hold back and kicked the frozen aviation box to pieces, and hurriedly jumped in through the car window that had not been closed in time.
There was a scream in the car. The badger's cold little paw stepped on the exposed skin on Yuan Xiaoxiao's neck, then jumped in front of the dashboard with its butt sticking out, and lay comfortably on its furry face on the air-conditioning vent.
Gu Laosan stood outside the door in a daze, then picked up the broken airline box on the ground, threw it into the trash can, and then went around to the back door and sat in.
"Hello, did Yuan Xiaoxiao ask you to pick me up?"
Gu Laosan closed the car door, took off the backpack on his back and moved to the side, while looking at the front of the car and asking. Wang Ping, who was shivering more and more under the hot air from the air conditioner, pricked up his ears and listened to the conversation between the two.
"You're really slow!" Yuan Xiaoxiao's right hand was wrapped in gauze. I don't know if it was frostbitten. Hearing this, he raised his hand to his neck, took out a string of wolf teeth and shook it, rolling his eyes and said, "Can't you recognize my voice?"
"Oh~ It's really you!"
I don't know if Gu Laosan's surprise was fake or not, it seemed extremely exaggerated, and he said with a smile: "If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have dared to recognize it. Tsk tsk, this face looks so real... By the way, where is An An?"
"She... I don't know either!"
Yuan Xiaoxiao was silent for a while, then she sighed and her face darkened.
"You, don't know what that means? What happened to her?!"
Gu Laosan sat up straight, frowned, and leaned over to her by the seat back. Wang Ping on the dashboard also turned his back to the air outlet and looked at Yuan Xiaoxiao with a serious face.
"I was betrayed and hunted last night, and I got separated from her..."
Yuan Xiaoxiao spoke lightly about the matter that frightened both the man and the badger around her, her face remaining gloomy the entire time.
"When I got rid of those people and followed her trail, I only saw a few bodies, but she was gone."
When they heard the word "corpse", Gu Lang and Wang Ping were so nervous that their hearts didn't dare to beat. When they heard that Wang An was not there, they first breathed a sigh of relief, and then their hearts began to rise again. Gu Lao San hurriedly asked, "She was arrested?"
"No."
Yuan Xiaoxiao shook her head confidently and said in confusion, "This is also what I find strange. I have asked around. Except for the few people who escaped, all the people who chased us last night are dead. But she has not appeared again. Judging from the traces, it seems more like she was rescued by someone else."
"other people?"
Gu Lang and a badger looked at each other, one with confusion and the other with uncertainty.
In the middle of the Verkhoyansk Mountains, at the foot of the mountains in the northeastern part of the Kobiarsky District, there are two glacial lakes, each more than 6 kilometers long from east to west, connected by a river. On the west bank of the glacial lake is an abandoned logging site.
Siberia is covered in ice and snow all year round, making transportation difficult. However, the icy lakes and the connected rivers here have become natural "highways". The wood cut down by the logging camps on the west coast is transported out of the mountains through here before being loaded onto trains.
However, with the development outside the mountain, especially the reduction of transportation costs, the human and animal power transportation here could not keep up with the efficiency and was gradually abandoned.
However, at this moment, smoke was rising from the forest farm that had been abandoned for decades, but before it could reach halfway into the sky, it was blown away by the cold wind.
On the hillside to the north of the lake, two figures wearing white jackets and snowboards were walking unsteadily in the pine forest in the wind and snow. Both of them were wearing scarves and windproof glasses, so their faces could not be seen. However, from the occasional voices heard in the cold wind, it could be heard that they were all women.
The figure walking in front was carrying a sniper rifle wrapped in white camouflage tape, and two overly long bayonets were hung on the sides of his legs. He would turn his head from time to time to look at the woman behind him.
"Well, can you still hold on?"
"I'm fine!"
The woman behind was unarmed and was leaning on two branches with her hands. She shook her head and responded with a gasp.
"We're almost there, let's take a break first!"
The woman who spoke first shouted, turned around, and walked to the west where the wind was sheltered. She stopped at a place where the snow was piled up by the wind, took the engineer shovel hanging on her backpack, and dug the snow.
The other person stopped to catch his breath, then followed and quickly dug a snow cave under the snow pile.
The two men jumped in and piled the snow they dug out at the entrance of the cave. In just twenty minutes, a shelter against the wind was dug.
"call!"
The two sat facing each other on the snow. The man with the gun pulled off his scarf and goggles. A strand of golden hair fell from his forehead. It was Anna who was chasing after him. The woman opposite was Wang An who had been separated from Yuan Xiaoxiao.
After discovering Wang An had left London, Anna hurried and finally met up with Wang An in the small town of Betanski. At that moment, she was extremely glad that she had chosen to travel overnight instead of stopping to rest.
"Come, drink some water!"
She took the water bottle from the side of her backpack, shook it, and handed it to Wang An, who was just gasping for breath. After the latter took it, Anna said, "Xiao An, I will go there by myself later, you stay here and wait for me."
Wang An took a sip of water, frowned and looked over when he heard it, and asked in confusion: "Are you going alone?"
Anna smiled, knowing what she was thinking, and shook her head: "I'm just investigating, Interpol will handle the arrest."
At this moment, a gunshot suddenly came from the southern hillside.
"Bang!"