On September 10, 1991, the former Soviet Union joined the Aral Sea region of Uzbekistan (hereinafter referred to as Ukraine).
In the evening of September, there was no trace of sunshine near the Aral Sea. The originally blue sky gradually turned into a dark blue. The alternation of day and night made countless twinkling stars in the dark blue sky, and the salty sky under the starry sky
On the shore of the sea lake, a batch of large machinery had just started, digging a huge ditch, directing the water of the Aral Sea Lake to the Kalam Desert located in Turkmenistan.
This is a huge project that has not been completed in nearly a hundred years. However, in the past 10 years, the Soviet government suddenly quietly entered a large number of engineering troops, desperately digging the canals, trying to completely drain the lake water in the Aral Sea.
A middle-aged man wearing a simple desert protective suit stood beside the ditch, first looking at the Aral Sea, then looking at the other side of the ditch, where there were all kinds of excavation machinery and people, some of which he had never seen before.
, but he knew that if he continued like this, he would definitely lead to unimaginable and irrescue results.
"Comrade Sergey!" The middle-aged man saw a jeep slowly passing by. He saw that the person driving was Sergey Merosky Karridgev, the commander-in-chief of the operation, and immediately trotted on.
Stop before.
Sergei was driving with a frown and looked at the middle-aged man covered in dust. He didn't like the so-called environmental expert Yuri Konstantin Feldorf, this heaven at Moscow University.
The proud son was sent to Europe and the United States by the country to further study and got back several geniuses with doctoral degrees. Because he thought too much, he said too much, and he didn't know his position in this team, and it seemed to be for everyone.
I like to reveal the secrets.
If it weren't for the orders above, I'd probably have someone thrown him into the desert and burned to death.
"Dr. Yuri, have you not rested yet? Shouldn't you close your eyes after it's dark?" Sergei sarcastically said. What he, the director of the 15th KGB bureau, disliked the most were these people who always liked to be quainted with words.
Guy.
Yuri took out a map from his clothes. It was spread flat on the hood, but because of the wind, the map could not be expanded at all. He had to lean over and pick up a few stones. He pressed the map with the stones.
and then pointed to the location of the Aral Sea on the map and said, "Comrade Commander, this is our location."
Sergei nodded, took out the wine pot and took a sip. Of course he knew this, and he would not even know the map.
Yuri swallowed and said, "Since decades ago, we have directed the waters of the Amu River and Sir River entering the Aral Sea to the desert to plant crops. Although the crop yield has indeed increased greatly,
The amount of water in the Aral Sea is greatly reduced. It destroys the ecological balance here... Do you know about the ecological balance?"
Sergei nodded. Dr. Yuri had said this thousands of times. He had never come here. Yuri muttered. He used to be excited because Yuri thought this action was to save him.
The Aral Sea came. But after coming, I realized that it was actually directing the water of the Aral Sea into the desert, so I was even more slapping.
"The Aral Sea lives in the inland area." Yuri said, drawing an arc on the map with his hands, "It is located in the desert zone of the tropic line. It originally has little precipitation and has a long sunshine time. It has a large evaporation. If you add it, it will be added with a lot of water.
A large amount of water diversion and irrigation will cause the surrounding desert area to expand rather than decrease. We are not doing this right, absolutely not right!”
"Dr. Yuri!" Sergei turned his back to the map. He leaned against the front of the car and looked into the distance. "Just a few days ago, on August 31, Uzbikstan and Kyrgyzstan announced independence and announced their separation from the Soviet Union,
Before that, many republics declared independence, and soon the greatest alliance on earth will no longer exist."
Yuri looked at Sergei in amazement, but then he wanted to point to the map.
Sergei turned Yuri around, looked into the distance, and pointed at his feet: "Yuri, look around, look at your feet, this place is no longer the land of the Soviet Union, do you understand? The nearby Kazakhstan
Sooner or later, Stan will be independent and leave the Soviet Union. Now they promise to give us some assistance due to some things, but Ukraine is different. If we cannot get what we want within seven days, then the efforts we have made over the years
All in vain.”
Yuri's mind was in chaos. He was not interested in any independence or politics. What he knew was that if this continued, this inland lake would definitely be over, and the surrounding areas would completely turn into a desert of hell.
"Remember! No one knows what happened outside except you and me, if they know." Sergei turned around and looked at the workers on the other side of the ditch. The so-called workers were actually soldiers, all of them were capable.
The engineers are also powerful troops.
These middle-aged and older people participated in the Afghan War and were later recalled to the army because of their rich experience, and this operation called "Archaeology" does not require rookies.
Yuri was silent for a long time before nodding. Then Sergei turned around and jumped into the jeep and drove towards the ditches. He wanted to patrol for another round. Because of this sensitive period, they could only work at night and rest during the day.
Because during the day, this engineering brigade, which is almost five or six hundred meters long, can be seen clearly on this endless plain, a few kilometers away.
Sergei knew in his heart that unless a miracle happened, they would not be able to complete their mission. In the face of tension in Moscow, the unsuccessful coup that happened on the 19th of last month was called the 819 incident.
, Sergei, the old kgb, has no choice but to return, and it also has his purpose.
He thought that if things were not good for him, he could enter Kazakhstan, then go to the Caspian Sea to land on the border between Iran and Turkey, and cross the Black Sea to Bulgaria. If it doesn't go well, he can stay in Istanbul, Turkey for the time being, that's a spy
The city is mixed and complicated. In this sensitive period, no one will choose to apply force to solve some things, so he will be safe for the time being.
Sergei stopped the car, took out cigarettes and cans to comfort those who were working on the front line, with a smile on his face, hoping to use this method to hide his inner anxiety, so as not to affect others, and to avoid
Others noticed the problem. He had already ordered the destruction of some documents about the outside world. If these people knew that such a big change occurred in the Soviet Union, the project would definitely not be able to continue, and the things they should look for would definitely not be able to find.
"Comrade Commander, Moscow's phone!" Not long after, another jeep carrying high-frequency communication equipment parked beside Sergei, raising a thick stream of sand and dust.
Sergei waved his hand to dispel the smoke and dust, jumped into the car, signaling the driver to drive the car a little further, then took the microphone from the communications soldier, listened quietly, and then said: "Comrade Chardov, I am very serious."
Answer your question - No, I can't drain all the water from the Aral Sea in just 7 days or half a month, unless you give me the largest stove in the world, I will dig a hole
Come, put it under the Aral Sea and evaporate all the Aral Sea with a stove."
Chardorf on the other end of the phone didn't know what he said, Sergei took a deep breath, lit a cigarette and said, "Even if I smoked all, I found that there was nothing below? What? What did you say?
”
After listening to the other party's words, Sergei waved his hand and asked the communications officer and the driver to go away, then lowered his voice to the microphone and said, "Tell those old guys, you won't do that, I won't do that, I won't do that, I won't do that, I won't do that,
All my subordinates were killed. Ask them if they know how many people I have here? More than 300 people! They actually want us to attack these more than 300 people who have contributed everything to the motherland? Chardolph, now you
You should understand why the Soviet Union became what it is now? It was because of those old miscellaneous people!”
After a long time, Sergei's face changed drastically and he said to the microphone: "What? Tonight is the last airdrop tonight, so let us die for ourselves? Without Moscow's documents, even if we want to leave, we have no choice. This is
In the territory of Ukraine, Kazakhstan is opposite. Now we are at a stake and we only have light weapons."
After a long time, Sergei put down the phone in despair, but turned around and found that Dr. Yuri had appeared behind him at some point. He looked at him with a puzzled look and pointed at the phone again, meaning: What did you mean before
?
"Moscow gave up on us." Sergei sat in the car and smoked hard, "That bunch of old bastards!"
Yuri shook his head: "What's going on with weapons you just mentioned? Why do you need weapons? And what does it mean to start?"
"Doctor, it's been 10 years. We are the last group of people sent here. Only we are the team closest to the truth. In the first few teams, even the commanders didn't know what they were doing. They all thought they were leading the team.
Only I know how to dig the canal and diversion water. Only I know, but I am so unlucky!" Sergei sat there and smiled bitterly, "Moscow said there are ruins under the Aral Sea. What ruins of ancient humans are so ridiculous! In order to make this
The ruins reappeared, and they spent 10 years deciding to slowly lead the water from the Aral Sea to let the ruins be revealed to everyone's eyes."
Dr. Yuri, who had always been stupid, stood there. Listening to everything Sergey said, he had no idea what was going on, but he suddenly understood why the water diversion project was named "Archaeological Operation".
Half an hour later, Sergei, who returned to the camp, brought Yuri into his tent. Perhaps because he had been living in kgb for many years, after entering the house, he signaled Yuri not to speak, and then searched the tent.
After confirming that there was no monitoring equipment, he signaled the doctor to sit down.
"Yuri, I advise you to leave quickly. You have two ways. The first is to return to Moscow. After you go back, you go to find Comrade Chardov, the person you met on Red Square before we left Moscow."
Sergei lowered his voice and said, "There is another way, but that's the worst thing to do, that is to leave this place, go to Europe or the United States, disappear and never show up. Although you don't know much, they won't let it go.
your."
Yuri was stunned and had no idea what he was involved in.