Stepan swore that he would never come to this northern land again no matter what.
The stout switchman took out the square hip flask from his pocket and twisted the lid open with his teeth only to find that it was empty. Annoyed, he stuffed the flask back into the pocket of his coat covered with snowflakes, then waved his whip and urged the sled puller.
The dog runs faster.
Behind Stepan, the long queue of sleds stirred up snow and fog, and the heavy "cargo" left deep ravines in the snow.
"I don't like this place." The woman sitting on Stepan's sleigh suddenly said, "How can people live in a place like this where you can't even see the sun for half of the year?"
"There are auroras." Stepan pointed to the sky.
The woman lifted her pocket and looked up at the sky. Her silver hair reflected the aurora and created a riot of colors.
Stepan quietly looked at the woman out of the corner of his eye - corrected, it should be the girl's profile. The feeling of discomfort due to the cold and the fatigue of the journey was slightly weakened. A big boss like Stepan can't
It's rare to have this opportunity to look at the beautiful face of Miss Shenji up close.
If it weren't for the revolution, these girls would always be the ones Stepan needs to look up to, and it would be impossible to talk to each other as equals like just now.
Praise the Bolsheviks!
At this time, the girl withdrew her gaze and covered her gorgeous hair with the hood again.
"It's indeed beautiful, but after looking at it for a long time, I always have a weird feeling." The girl exhaled a breath of white mist, "Maybe the long dark night and cold made me feel weird. If I remember correctly, Si Jie
Comrade Pan, were you born in the Arctic Circle?"
"Yes, Comrade Lena." Stepan initially called her "Comrade Trotsky" like everyone else, but soon after the girl started traveling on Stepan's sleigh, he was on the girl's side.
On the suggestion - or rather the order - the title was changed to "Comrade Lena".
After hearing Stepan's answer, Lena turned her eyes to Stepan: "So, you should be very used to the long nights and the cold?"
"No," Stepan shook his head, "The latitude where I was born and grew up was not as high as it is now. Even in the polar night, you could see the fish-belly white sky for a few hours a day, but you couldn't see the sun.
Comrade Lena, you are right, this kind of northern snowfield is not a place for people to live at all, and no one except Eskimos and Finns will like it."
"I heard that the Eskimos wear short-sleeves in Siberia no matter in winter or summer?"
"Of course, winter in southern Siberia is just like summer to them."
Stepan was extremely grateful to the political commissar of the sled team for entrusting him with the task of carrying Trotsky. If he hadn't chatted with the girl all the time, this journey would have been like hell.
At this time, the leader of the sled team shouted: "There are lights in front! Everyone, we are almost there!"
Stepan squinted his eyes, and sure enough he saw two blurry light spots in the snowy darkness, like the greedy eyes of a giant beast lurking in the darkness.
Soon, the eerie outline of the castle emerged from the ink-like black.
"Feeling...very bad." Lena whispered.
Stepan just swallowed and did not answer.
The sleigh team stopped in front of the gate of the castle. Stepan helped Lena out of the car, whose body was a little stiff when moving. Then, driven by curiosity, he followed Lena to a group of people who were holding weather lanterns to greet the sleigh team.
Conversation between team leader Ivanovic and political commissar Banning behind them.
Stepan only thought that one of the people he greeted looked very familiar. Then he heard the old man's name from Ivanovich's mouth, and he looked like he suddenly realized...
Mendeleev, a leading figure in Russian science.
But obviously, this master is not the owner of this place - Stepan is not a delicate person, but he still understands this level of human sophistication. The owner of this place is the person in front of Mendeleev who is staring at Lena.
A person who smiles maliciously.
His name also reminds me of Stepan. Yes, he is the Professor Wagner who is famous for all kinds of weird experiments - he is an indispensable "drinking dish" for Russians when they drink and brag. Russians always like to talk while talking.
He laughed at the professor's whimsical ideas and poured vodka into his mouth.
"Did the delivered goods actually include a completely healthy goddess? Well, it seems that the bloodline is not bad, very good, very good." As he said that, Professor Wagner reached out and wanted to touch Lena Trotsky.
, but the girl quickly dodged it.
"I am only responsible for providing escort for this sled team." Lena said coldly.
Professor Wagner shrugged and said: "Okay, it doesn't matter. Then, Comrade Ivanovich... let us take a look at the goods."
So the captain of the sled team made a gesture behind him, and two big boys with red cloth strips wrapped around their arms and rifles on their backs carried a large "thing" wrapped in thick cloth to Professor Wagner.
.
Professor Wagner took the weather lantern from the entourage, approached the mass, and opened a corner of the stained thick cloth.
He immediately covered his nose.
"Gentlemen, no, comrades, you should change this lady's diaper more frequently. Now we have to clean her and then diagnose whether she has suffered from some disease that will affect the experiment due to storage problems."
Professor Wagner frowned, seeming to be really unhappy about this.
Unhappy as he was, he still put the lamp in his hand close to the "goods" face, and then his expression became cheerful.
"Haha, the chief goddess of the Russian Far East! The real daughter of the Grand Duke of the Caucasus! What she sent was such a high-end product, not bad, really good. I think her name is Sasha? Or Shana? Forget it, it doesn't matter.
.Good, very good, very good.”
As he spoke, Wagner put the opened cloth back, waved his hand to the two young men to move her away, and then he craned his neck to look at the sled team behind Ivanovich.
"How many such goddesses are there in total?"
"All the goddesses who did not choose to surrender after the Vladivostok Uprising are here. We once sent them to China. We thought we had lost them. Unexpectedly, the Chinese only took some blood samples.
I ordered an experiment and sent them all back."
"So, what I got is a second-hand product that has been used by the Chinese. This is not good, Comrade Ivanovich..."
The leader of the convoy said nothing.
Finally, Professor Wagner shrugged and gestured to the person behind him.
"Anything is better than nothing. Transport them all in. Immediately organize people to clean these young ladies and start physical examinations immediately. Then we will arrange food and lodging for these first...comrades who have come from afar, and let the technicians help them repair their sleds and feed them
To feed their dogs." After saying this, Wagner paused and added, "Comrades, there are some amazing and magical things in this castle. If you are curious, I allow you to take a tour."
The Soviet representatives, including Stepan, looked at each other in confusion. After a long time, Ivanovich reluctantly nodded.
After that, Stepan's entire worldview was overturned.
He saw a dog. This dog looked no different from other dogs, but it only needed a wall to "close" it, because it could only walk forward. It is said that this was because Professor Wagner had removed its brain.
Something about the ministry….
He also saw a table with legs. Four people's legs were supporting the table board and walking very fast in the laboratory. According to the professor's introduction, the four legs were cut off from death row prisoners and relied on external life support.
System support, while using electric shock to stimulate nerves to achieve artificial control.
The most bizarre thing is that Stepan also saw a talking head. The head was placed on a machine full of tubes and dashboards. As soon as he saw Lena, he exclaimed: "Oh my God, that devil finally came to life."
Have you extended your evil hand to Shen Ji? Noble lady, please, please leave this place immediately, immediately, immediately!"
This round of roaring combined with the weird scene made Stepan's hair stand on end. Even though it was such a cold weather, his vest was sticky with cold sweat.
A long time ago, there was a movement to destroy machines where Stepan worked. The instigator was an Orthodox priest. He claimed that machines and science were gifts from the devil and must be completely eliminated from the earth. At the time, Stepan thought this was nonsense, but
Now he felt that the old priest seemed to be right.
During the entire visit, Stepan couldn't help but want to cross himself, but he didn't do it because the political commissar was nearby.
Stepan didn't sleep well at all that night. As soon as he fell asleep, he would dream that he was made into a talking head by Professor Wagner and hung on the wall of the castle.
Early the next morning, Stepan found that everyone in the sled team looked tired, including the captain, political commissar, and Miss Lena. They fled this far north as if they were fleeing.