The two cars arrived at the entrance of Hoflin Hospital, where a police car was parked and two uniformed police officers stood beside it.
Although one of the approaching vehicles was a police car, the conscientious uniformed policeman still raised his hand and stopped the car.
A uniformed policeman came over, looked into Sokov's car, and after seeing Victoria clearly sitting in the passenger seat, he quickly stood at attention and saluted, and then asked politely: "Major, what can I do for you?"
Victoria asked the uniformed police outside: "Are the rescue efforts in the hospital still in progress?"
"It ended yesterday, Major." The uniformed police officer replied respectfully: "Those involved in the rescue said that there is no one inside anymore and there is no need to continue the search and rescue."
"Can we go in?"
Hearing Victoria's question, the uniformed police officer showed a troubled expression on his face. It was obvious that he had been ordered not to allow anyone to enter the Hoflin Hospital to avoid any further accidents. But what appeared in front of him now
, he is a police officer with a much higher police rank than himself, so it seems inappropriate to prevent him from entering the hospital.
When the uniformed police were in a dilemma, Victoria said: "I got the news that there are still three citizens trapped underground in the hospital, and we are here to rescue. Don't worry, if your superiors blame you, I will
I’ll help you explain.”
Now that Victoria had spoken up to this point, the uniformed police officer realized that it was obviously inappropriate for him to block the other party again, so he quickly took a step back and gestured to Sokov to drive in.
After arriving at the last parking location, Sokov parked the car and turned to Victoria: "Vika, do you know where the rescue channel dug by the police is?"
Fortunately, Victoria had done her homework before coming here, so she was not stumped by Sokov's question: "Don't worry, I know where the rescue channel is. I will take you there when we are ready."
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Victoria opened the door and got out of the car. Sasha and Yarosh in the car behind them got out of the car, walked straight to the back of the car, opened the trunk, and took out the rescue equipment.
Watching Victoria and the other three put on bulletproof vests, Sokov couldn't help but secretly complained: Now we are going down to find people, not rescuing people from terrorists, so why should we wear bulletproof vests?
But the next moment, Victoria came over with a bulletproof vest and said to Sokov: "Put on this bulletproof vest."
Sokov took the bulletproof vest and asked tentatively: "We are just going down to find people, not fighting. Do we need to wear a bulletproof vest?"
"The environment down there is complex, and bumps and bumps are inevitable. Wearing a bulletproof vest can reduce the chance of injury to vital parts."
While putting on the bulletproof vest, Sokov continued to ask: "If you give me the bulletproof vest from the bureau, your superiors won't criticize you if they know about it, right?"
"Where did you get all the nonsense?" Victoria said impatiently, "This is my spare bulletproof vest. If you don't want to wear it, just take it off for me."
As the four of them walked towards the rescue channel with ropes, engineer shovels and other tools, Sokov took a special look at the equipment on Sasha and Yarosh. In the holsters on their waists was a Maca.
Love pistol, this gun uses 9x18 mm Makarov pistol ammunition, with a magazine capacity of 12 rounds. It is not as powerful as the early Tokarev TT-33, but the gun is lighter and more flexible.
It is the most popular sidearm of Russian police.
What the two people carry on their backs is not an assault rifle, but a PPK-20 submachine gun newly equipped with military police. This gun uses 9×19mm caliber ammunition and uses a new telescopic folding stock, handguard and small grip.
Design. The gun has a total length of 70 centimeters and a weight of 3 kilograms with a magazine. It can quickly and flexibly change the direction of the muzzle in small areas such as urban environments.
Soon, the four people came to a one-meter-square shaft. This was the rescue channel dug by the police yesterday. The support set up by the rescue team and the pulleys hung on it had not yet been removed.
"Major," Sasha said to Victoria, "I'll go down and take a look first."
Victoria nodded and told the other party: "The environment down there is complicated, so be more careful."
Sasha put on her gas mask, hung the hook around her waist on the pulley chain, and with Yarosh's help, quickly entered the rescue channel.
A few minutes later, Victoria shouted down: "Sasha, how is the situation down there?"
"Report to Major, everything is normal." Sasha replied from below: "You guys come down."
"Yarosh, you stay up there." After Victoria told Yarosh, she said to Sokov: "Misha, follow me down."
As Sokov went down the well, he secretly calculated the length of the passage. When he fell to the basement below, he calculated that the length of the passage was no less than 20 meters. At such a deep distance, without the help of the rescue team, those trapped
People underground really have no chance of escaping.
After getting his feet on the ground, Sokov observed the surrounding environment. Except for the light coming from the passage, which illuminated a small area, the rest of the place was pitch black. He quickly took out a strong flashlight, turned it on and shined it in all directions.
Even when you buy a strong flashlight in the market, the light of the flashlight can illuminate the street. But in the dark underground, the light of the flashlight is swallowed up by the surrounding darkness. Except for the area illuminated by the light beam, you can see clearly.
The rest of the place is still in darkness.
"Misha," Victoria's voice sounded next to her: "Are you afraid?"
Sokov didn't speak, just shook his head. But the next moment, he remembered that the visibility here was extremely low, Victoria might not be able to see him and shook his head, so he quickly added: "Not afraid!"
"It's good if you're not afraid." Victoria continued: "Then look around to see if there are any passages blocked by construction debris and dirt."
Sokov agreed, holding a flashlight in one hand and an engineering shovel in the other, and walked forward one step at a time.
When he came to a wall, with the help of the light of the flashlight, he first looked carefully, then poked with the engineer shovel in his hand. After discovering that there was a hard cement wall under the soil, he changed the direction again.
Keep searching.
The entire basement covers an area of about fifty square meters. Sokov, Victoria and Sasha spent more than half an hour but still could not find any way out of the basement.
Victoria was extremely puzzled by this result: 'Strange, the people who were rescued were found here. Now there are no passages around the basement, how did they get here?'
"Yeah, it's really weird." Sasha agreed.
"Misha, what do you think?" Victoria asked.
Although Sokov did not find any passage in the search just now, he was not discouraged. Instead, he tried hard to think about whether he had missed any important clues. At this moment, when he heard Victoria ask himself, what if he had something to say?
He thought thoughtfully: "Is there something wrong with our search method?"
"There is a problem with the search method?" Victoria asked in confusion: "What do you mean?"
Sokov waved his bright flashlight up and down and asked, "How high do you think the ceiling of this basement is?"
"About four or five meters."
"I thought about it carefully. We used the engineering shovel to explore the location of the passage. It was basically at the waist, which means it was more than one meter high..."
Before Sokov could finish speaking, Sasha said impatiently: "I'm talking about Misha, what do you want to express?"
"Sasha, don't interrupt." After Victoria stopped Sasha, she tentatively asked Sokov: "Misha, if I understand correctly, you are saying that there may be something wrong with the height of our exploration. We entered this basement.
The location of the passage should be higher than we thought?"
"Yes, that's what I meant." Sokov nodded and said, "I suspect that those people rolled down from somewhere above, and then the passage was blocked by collapsed rocks and soil. If we want
Once you find the passage, you can try a higher position."
"Well, that makes sense." Victoria agreed with Sokov's statement and told Sasha: "Sasha, follow Misha's instructions and raise the search height to chest level to see if you can find the buried passage."
"Yes, Major." Sasha replied decisively.
After only a few minutes of this search, Sokov discovered that when the engineer shovel pushed down, he no longer encountered a hard cement wall, but soft soil. He quickly shoveled it twice with the engineer shovel, except for some gravel.
Outside, it's basically dirt.
Having made the discovery, Sokov quickly turned to the busy Victoria on the other side and shouted: "Vika, I think I have discovered something."
Hearing Sokov's shout, Victoria walked over quickly and asked tentatively: "Did you find the passage?"
"It seems so." Sokov waited for Victoria to come to her and continued to say to her: "Please give me a light, shoveling the soil with one hand is too strenuous."
After Victoria shined the light of the flashlight on the excavation location, Sokov held the engineer shovel with both hands and shoveled down the soil one shovel after another. Soon, a hole the size of a washbasin appeared at that location.
Seeing this situation, Victoria also realized that maybe this was the buried passage, and quickly shouted to the side: "Sasha, come here and help."
Sasha came quickly with a sapper shovel and asked Victoria: "Major, what are your instructions?"
Victoria waved the flashlight and said to Sasha: "Have you seen this pit? There should be a passage buried in the soil behind it. Help Misha and dig out the passage as soon as possible."
"Yes!" Sasha agreed loudly, then waved the engineer shovel and worked with Sokov to dig the buried passage.
After half an hour of excavation, the buried passage gradually revealed its original appearance.
Sasha also became excited. He turned to Victoria and said, "Major, it seems that we have indeed found the buried passage."
Victoria nodded, and then said to Sasha: "You may be tired, go up and rest for a while, and let Yarosh come down to take over your work."
"Okay." There was already some lack of oxygen in the basement. Sasha had been digging for so long and felt tired. After hearing what Victoria said, she quickly agreed and then shouted above: "Yarosh, Yarrow
Varied!"
Soon, an echo came from above: "What's going on?"
"Pull me up first." After saying that, Sasha hung the hook at her waist on the pulley chain.
When Sasha began to rise slowly, Sokov, who was digging, was surprised to find that part of the soil shoveled by the engineer shovel no longer fell out, but fell in the opposite direction. Seeing this, Sokov
Cove couldn't help but be overjoyed, and quickly said to Victoria: "Vika, look, some of the soil is falling inside, which means we can dig out the blocked channel soon."
"Yes, if we work harder, we can dig through the tunnel." Victoria asked with concern: "Misha, are you tired? Do you want to rest for a while before continuing to dig?"
"It's okay." Sokov waved his hand: "We will dig it out soon. It's not too late to rest after digging it out."
Besides, after Sasha returned to the ground, Yarosh asked with concern: "Sasha, how is the situation down there? Have you found the passage?"
"Found it." Sasha nodded and said, "We don't know how long the passage has been blocked for the moment, so it's still unknown when it will be dug through."
Seeing Yarosh about to go down the passage, Sasha quickly stopped him: "Yarosh, don't worry, just smoke a cigarette first, otherwise you won't be able to smoke even if you wait downstairs."
Yarosh felt that what Sasha said made sense. Although there was no lack of oxygen underground, it was still quite dangerous to smoke down there. It was not too late to finish smoking on the ground before entering the underground. So he took out his cigarette.
Sitting next to the shaft with Sasha and starting to smoke.
After finishing a cigarette, Yarosh threw the cigarette butt on the ground, crushed it with his toes, hung up the hook around his waist, and said to Sasha: "Okay Sasha, the time is almost up. If you don't go down, Major
It’s time to curse.”
Unexpectedly, soon after Yarosh went down the well, he started yelling from below. Sasha quickly stuck her head in and asked: "Yarosh, what happened?"
"What the hell, Sasha, what the hell." Yarosh said from below: "Both the major and that Misha are gone."
"What, Major and the others are missing?" Sasha asked in an unbelievable tone: "Have you looked carefully?"
"I searched the entire basement, but I didn't even see a shadow."
Sasha thought for a while and then said: "They may have entered the passage. Look around carefully to see where the passage is."
"There are walls on all sides, so there is no passage anywhere."
"Just wait, I'll be down soon."
When Sasha went down to the basement again, he said in a complaining tone: "Yarosh, what's wrong with you? You can't see such a big passage. Is there something wrong with your eyes?"
"I've searched everywhere, and I can't find the passage you mentioned."
Sasha quickly shined his flashlight at the location where he had just dug the soil. He did see that there were mounds of soil on the ground forming a slope, but the passage on the wall had disappeared without a trace. He rushed over with a quick step and used the engineer to
He knocked on the wall with a shovel, and unexpectedly found that it was a hard cement wall. He was dumbfounded: "What the hell, what's going on? The passage just now was clearly here, why did it disappear in the blink of an eye?"
"Sasha," Yarosh asked with a serious expression, "are you sure you remembered the location correctly? The passage you just discovered is here?"
"You can't be wrong." Sasha said with some excitement: "Didn't you see this pile of soil on the ground? I just dug it out of the tunnel."
"But now, not only has the passage disappeared, but the whereabouts of the major and that Misha are also unknown. What is going on?"