Tomorrow is Christmas, and tonight is Christmas Eve.
People usually call this night Christmas Eve.
Although the snow is so thick that even the port gate cannot be opened, Black Swan Harbor is getting warmer and warmer, with the indoor temperature reaching an unprecedented 28 degrees.
Because Christmas was approaching, Dr. Herzog provided an extra two tons of fuel to the boiler room, asking them to make the room as warm as spring so that the girls could put on beautiful dresses and dance.
Except for the Reds, everyone in Black Swan Port is an Orthodox believer. There are lively celebrations every Christmas, with men and women singing and dancing.
Dr. Herzog will also give the children Christmas trees filled with gifts, and each child will get a brand new outfit.
Only around Christmas, the children in Black Swan Harbor can dress up in festive costumes, wear fur hats, and eat popcorn and ice cream like the children living in Moscow described in the book. .
Herzog also announced to everyone through the radio that Major Bondarev from Moscow was trying to help Black Swan Port solve winter supplies, and supplies would soon be no longer a problem.
Since supplies are no longer a problem, there is no need to save. Everyone is going back to Moscow soon, right?
Black Swan Harbor will soon be history!
This is what those who believe the rumors think.
Herzog generously distributed spirits and cigarettes to the officers, perfume and stockings to the nurses, and beef and potatoes were served for dinner every day.
The nurses cut flowers out of colored paper and pasted them on the wall of the passage. They also decorated a huge Christmas tree with colored lights, which stood in the golden hall where the portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov hung. The top is flush with the roof, so children can crawl around under the tree.
The festive atmosphere was getting stronger and stronger, and Renata could already smell the charming sweet cream smell, mixed with the faint smell of rust.
It's the smell of blood.
She was looking forward to her birthday gift.
Amidst the joy, laughter, singing and dancing, an undercurrent surges.
Gu Beili stood outside the door of the underground office, listening to the whispers of the two people inside.
"The death of a swan..."
Bondarev quickly scanned the blueprint: "Awesome! Every supporting steel frame is carefully designed. Once detonated, it will completely collapse and be completely irrecoverable!"
"But it is difficult for us to withdraw quietly. There is an air force base in Verkhoyansk where a squadron of Su-27 heavy fighter jets is stationed. The order they received is to blow up the Black Swan Port if necessary, and no one is allowed. Any escapees."
Herzog circled a location on the map: "I am also a person being monitored here. If it hadn't been for your appearance, I wouldn't have been able to escape."
"Those fighter jets are very troublesome. A squadron of Su-27 fighter jets is a big trouble to the aircraft carrier fleet. The Lenin cannot deal with them." Bondarev frowned.
"That's not all the trouble."
Herzog came to the table, poured himself a glass of vodka, and looked at the blueprint on the table: "The plan of Death of the Swan is to detonate 48 vacuum bombs buried underground in Black Swan Port, which is as powerful as a small nuclear weapon. Giant bombs will spray high explosive dust into the air when they are first detonated. The dust and air are perfectly mixed, and then detonated again. The shock wave of this dust explosion can break the rotor of the halo!"
"Isn't this a trouble? We can evacuate first and then detonate those vacuum bombs." Bondarev said.
"The problem is that as long as the aviation squadron discovers that we are evacuating, they can also detonate those vacuum bombs, and they will hunt us on the sea."
Herzog said: "We must disguise the destruction of Black Swan Port as an accident, a fire. After observing the fire here, the Verkhoyansk air force squadron will take off. When they find that the situation is out of control, they will Detonate a vacuum bomb in the air, and we will quietly evacuate from the ground under cover of bad weather, using dog sleds, so that Black Swan Harbor is completely lost to the world, and there are no survivors.”
"This is a great plan!"
Bondarev looked at the map and asked with a smile: "When will the last batch of supplies be evacuated? You should personally escort the last batch of supplies, as well as those children... Although we have established trust, I think You’re not going to put all the power in my hands.”
"I will personally escort the last batch of supplies, and you have to come with me." Herzog said.
"Do you want to ride a dog sled?"
"Yes, we must be the last to evacuate. If others in the port find out that we are missing, then there will be no way to achieve destruction without survivors."
"You mean no one can survive except you, me and the baby?"
Bondarev's expression became serious.
"Are you feeling sympathy, Comrade Bondarev?"
Herzog turned around, and his eyes, which had always been elegant and gentle in front of Bondarev, were cold enough to have no warmth.
"You have to know that the person who knows our secrets is hiding in Black Swan Port. Can we let him leave here alive? The research is nearing the end. The researchers have lost their value to us. I can complete the final work independently. The next step is to insert dragon genes into human genes to create hybrids, and we will soon have great power. The person who holds this power is like a king, and a king will not share his power with others!"
Bondarev sniffed, as if he could smell the strong smell of blood.
"Understood! We need to have the courage to make sacrifices!" Bondarev raised his glass, "For our cause!"
"For our cause!"
"Last question," Bondarev said, "can a dog sled take away all the children?"
"We only take away the most valuable children, and most of them have little value anymore."
Herzog said calmly: "We can't open orphanages in new places, and it's not like we can't find children with perfect genes. We have basically studied these children thoroughly."
Bondarev took a deep breath: "You are as decisive as a king, or in other words, a tyrant."
"If we know that cruelty can build achievements, then everyone will become cruel," the doctor said coldly, "The kindness of a coward is just cowardice. If I were not such a person, I would not dare to cooperate with your family. "
There were sparse sounds in the room, and then the door opened with a bang.
Gu Bei reacted extremely quickly, jumped up, and stuck to the roof in a gesture that was extremely contrary to physics.
Herzog rushed out of the room and looked around.
Bondarev followed him out of the office: "What's wrong?"
Herzog frowned: "I always feel like I'm being watched by something lately."
Hearing this, Bondarev also looked serious: "Is that the intruder?"
"Not sure."
Herzog locked the office door with his backhand: "There are not many ways to leave Black Swan Port. He is probably still in the port, hiding in a place where we cannot see."
"Then what we just talked about..."
"It doesn't matter. Once you know it, you know it. He can't change anything."
The two walked side by side along the corridor. Gu Bei was hanging on the ceiling and could still hear the exchange between the two in the distance.
"Where is No. 0? Do you want to take it away?"
"No, he was injected with too many hallucinogens and his spirit was on the verge of collapse. It's a sample that has been used up."
"When to act?"
"Let me think about it... tomorrow is Christmas..."
"OK."
"..."
The sound of footsteps gradually faded away. Gu Bei turned over and fell to the ground. He glanced at the direction the two left and then looked at the locked door of the room.
Without a trace, he ducked into the office.
Just kidding, I have been waiting for so many days for such an opportunity. Today I have to see if the entrance to the underground passage is in this office!
The decoration of the underground office is very simple, there is nothing fancy, but the style is revealed everywhere.
The fireplace in the corner burned quietly, and black smoke penetrated the regular chimney, all the way up and out of Black Swan Harbor.
Gu Bei glanced at the blueprint on the table and didn't pay much attention to it.
For him, only by trying not to change the original story in the dream can he get the greatest benefit, because he can know the truth of the year through this dream and investigate who brought Eri to Tokyo.
Therefore, for Gu Bei, the biggest role of this dream is to collect enough intelligence.
As for the help to Zero and the birthday wish of the little girl Renata, it was just a little effort. Gu Bei couldn't think of a little girl whose bloodline has not yet awakened and a girl who has lost 99.9% of her power. What kind of waves will the King of Nine cause in this story?
Gu Bei walked around the office twice, but could not find the entrance to the passage.
It's strange. Logically speaking, the inside of the passage should be where the keel is. Even if the breath of the keel itself can be ignored, Herzog and Bondarev will inevitably carry all the things they carry with them when they go in and out of the passage. The smell reaches the entrance.
but none.
Gu Bei looked through every corner of the room, but could not find the entrance.
Could it be that I guessed wrong? The entrance isn't here at all?
No, think about it again.
Gu Bei stood in the middle of the office, looked around, and suddenly found a blind spot.
It's obviously very warm in Black Swan Harbor, so why does Herzog still need a fireplace in his office?
Moreover, Herzog is a high-blooded hybrid. Even if he walks naked on the Siberian ice sheet, it is probably difficult to feel the cold.
This fireplace is just a decoration!
Gu Bei reached into the flames of the fireplace, feeling the burning and groping for a while, and then found a hot metal handle.
This is it!
Gu Bei pulled hard, and a metal trap door was pulled up, revealing a dark entrance.
Ice-cold air flowed out of the entrance, and the air flow blew a loud whistle. Gu Bei tested the temperature of the air flow with his hands, and even he shuddered violently.
"It's like the wind blowing from the deepest part of hell."
Even so, Gu Bei still smiled and jumped into it.
He also closed the door.
The firewood fell back to its original position, still burning quietly.
Below the trap door was a pitch-black tunnel. The four walls of the tunnel were made of hard frozen soil. Gu Bei tried knocking twice, and the frozen soil actually made a "bang bang" sound.
Black Swan Harbor is located on a layer of permafrost. The water in the soil has not melted for millions of years. In the end, this soil is harder than concrete. You can imagine the difficulty of digging this tunnel.
The tunnel leads to the depths of the permafrost. The light in the room falls in, as if it has been swallowed into a bottomless abyss. Only one level of iron ladder can be seen extending downwards.
All the way down the stairs, lights slowly began to light up on the walls on both sides, and the dark passage gradually became brighter.
The tunnel is extremely winding and has countless branching roads, like a forked vine, and the combined length is extremely astonishing.
Gu Bei knew that this was to prevent others from breaking into it.
As Gu Bei gradually went deeper, strange patterns appeared on the four walls of the tunnel.
Those patterns are not carved on them, but are cross-sections of animal bones in the permafrost. There are snakes, lizards, cats, sea lions, and even white bears. Most of them should not appear in this cold place.
These bones were split apart along with the permafrost by diamond drills, exposing them to the eyes of the excavators.
Although they are dead bones, they still have a fresh and ferocious atmosphere. You can easily see the fear of these animals when they are dying, as if a huge disaster has struck in an instant. They have nowhere to escape and can only cry out in pain. Biting each other to vent their anger.
The bones were stacked on top of each other, becoming denser as they went forward. Finally, Gu Bei saw snake bones wrapped around bear bones.
The snake was at least 20 meters long when it was alive, and its bones glowed with ancient dark gold. The bear bones wrapped around it were even more frightening. It branched from the lumbar vertebrae and actually had two thick spines, which showed that the giant snake was The bear has two heads!
Apart from dragon blood creatures, Gu Bei couldn't think of any other possibilities.
There are also some scents in the air that ordinary people cannot detect.
The smell of dragon.
As we got closer, the smell in the air became thicker and thicker. The front was no longer frozen soil, but a hard granite rock wall. At the end of the road, there was an old engineering elevator.
Gu Bei got on the elevator and flipped the switch. The motor hummed and the elevator slowly descended. The steel cable rubbed against the shaft, making a creepy sound.
Close, close!
Gu Bei felt that he was wrapped in this smell, not only the smell, but also a vague coercion descending on him.
Even a dead dragon will suppress other life in terms of evolutionary level, just like few animals will enter a tiger's territory unless the tiger has been dead for a long time.
A tiger will never lose its power even if it dies.
The same goes for dragons, and they definitely last much longer than tigers.
The elevator finally stopped in absolute darkness, and the sound of the folding doors opening echoed in the huge space.
Gu Bei walked out of the elevator, the light in his eyes piercing the darkness and penetrating directly to the bottom of the cave.
He had the illusion of standing thousands of feet high in the sky. The world was empty and empty, leaving only him and the ancient god-like giant in the ice looking at each other silently.
"found it……"
There is a blue skeleton sealed in the ice. Even if you use all the adjectives, it is difficult to describe its majesty, ancientness and solemnity, but you can also use only one word——
"dragon!"
(End of chapter)
