However, these people were very tough. When they saw that Li Du and his men were strong, they did not back down. Instead, they raised their shotguns and confronted them.
Li Du was wrong. These people had not only shotguns, but also rifles, which looked like the famous AK-47.
The AK-47 and the M16 were once the most widely produced firearms in the two empires. However, Big Ivan was not holding an M16. Instead, he was holding an M4A1, which had been improved many times. Compared to the M16, the M4A1 was more lethal and powerful.
There were six people running over, covered with mud and grass, as if they had just come out of the ground.
Several people pointed at Li Du and his men and kept shouting. Li Du did not understand Russian, so he called Ah Meow and the other four little ones back. The other side had guns, so he could not let the four little ones do as they pleased.
The four little ones were very clever. They also found the guns and knew how terrible they were. As soon as Li Du shouted, they ran back quickly, for fear of being shot.
Big Ivan, Madman, and Firecracker also raised their guns. They looked indifferent and did not care what the other side was shouting about. They just kept moving their guns to aim at everyone.
The bullied Caucasian dogs also limped back when they saw their owners. In just a few fights, they already had several wounds on their bodies.
The only one who was not hurt was the greyhound that had met Ali. Although it had no wounds, half of its head was swollen, so swollen that its eyes could not be seen.
The people on the other side were still shouting. Li Du stepped forward and asked, "Do you speak English?"
One of the six people, a blond young man, said in English, "Where the hell are you from? Get out of our territory! "
Li Du pointed to the ground and said, "This is your territory?"
The blond young man waved his hand and shouted, "Of course, this is our territory. What's the matter? Do you have a problem with that?"
The roar of a car engine was heard, and several heavy SUVs roared over, like steel beasts appearing on the taiga.
When the car arrived, Brother Wolf and his men jumped out.
Seeing that the other side was armed to the teeth, the faces of the six people changed and quickly became gloomy.
There were two more people in the convoy behind them. Originally, the two of them were chatting and laughing as they watched the commotion. However, when the heavy-duty off-road vehicle drove over, the two of them were shocked and quickly drove over with guns to provide support.
However, at this time, Li Du's side had the upper hand in terms of momentum and strength. Their two pickup trucks were as weak as children's toys in front of the heavy SUVs.
The golden-haired young man's attitude changed. He said with a stiff face, "Ha, what are you guys doing here? You guys are also corpse diggers? Then you have to understand the rules, right? There's always a first come, first served rule, right? "
Li Du looked at the blonde youth in surprise and asked, "You guys are diggers?"
The golden-haired youth nodded and said, "Yes, aren't you? Then what are you doing here? "
There were many strange professions in the vast Siberian tundra, and being a corpse digger was one of them.
As the name suggested, gravediggers were people who dug up corpses from the ground. However, they were not grave robbers. Grave robbing was illegal in every country. Gravediggers did not dig up the graves of ordinary people. What they looked for were unclaimed graves.
Throughout history, there had been many wars in the Siberian region. For example, during World War II, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The two sides waged a cruel war on Russian soil, and the casualties were very high.
There were also dynastic wars between Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union in modern history. The Soviet Union later fought to quell rebellions in various countries, and there were many wars between tribes and ethnic groups in the tundra region.
In short, there were many places where wars had taken place, and the bodies of soldiers or civilians who had died in the war were buried in the ground.
Gravediggers dug in such places. They were most interested in the battlefield of World War II and often went to find the burial places of Soviet soldiers.
Because the battlefield was often cleaned in a hurry, many soldiers still had good things on them, such as old-fashioned guns, watches, gold teeth, various military supplies, and if they were lucky, some soldiers had family heirlooms.
Gravediggers made a profit by digging up these things. The industry was controversial in society, but because gravediggers also looked for the bodies of the Red Army, and when they found them, they would organize and protect them, so the government left them alone and acquiesced to the legal existence of the industry.
However, they could not dig private graves and could only look for war cemeteries.
In order to protect the normal existence of the industry, there were indeed rules in the industry. If a group of gravediggers arrived in a certain area, they would have the priority to dig in that area.
So Li Du said, "That's a misunderstanding. We are not gravediggers. We are ivory hunters. We are temporarily staying here …"
As he spoke, a big man opposite him said something to the blond young man.
Li Du asked, "What did this guy say?"
The blond young man said, "Nothing, he asked what you guys were doing. I was just about to explain to him."
Big Ivan whispered, "He lied. This son of a b * tch asked the young man to drive us away and told him to be tough."
Hearing this, Li Du frowned. He looked at the excavated land around the car in the distance, thought about it, and released the little bug.
The blond young man came forward and said with a smile, "Hey, guys, where are you from? Judging from your accent, you are not Russian? "
Li Du said, "We are from the United States. We are here to look for mammoth ivory."
The blond young man nodded. "Oh, I see. We have also dug mammoth ivory, but it is too difficult. There are no traces to find. We can only rely on luck. It is better to be a gravedigger."
Li Du smiled and said, "Being a gravedigger also requires luck. Otherwise, we can only dig out a pile of rotten bones. What can we earn then?"
The blond young man said solemnly, "We are gravediggers not only to make money, but also to appease the dead. More importantly, we can find those ancestors who died in battle for the dignity of our country, collect their bones, and find another place to rest."
Li Du also showed a solemn expression. "Then you are really amazing."
The blond young man laughed again and said, "Of course, we also need to make money from it. The Germans' things are quite valuable. Look, we dug up some good things this time …"
He took out some rusty lighters, belt buckles, spurs, silver crosses, and the like from his pocket. Looking at the decoration style, it was indeed German.
However, Li Du did not think they had just dug it up, because it was too clean.
The little bug had flown to the hole dug next to the car. It went in to take a look. Li Du changed his view and breathed a sigh of relief.
His intuition was right. These people were not looking for relics of the German Army or the Soviet Red Army. There were some coffins in the hole they had dug.
On the battlefield, the two sides did not have time to put the bodies of their opponents or comrades into coffins to bury. Generally, they buried the bodies on the spot. At most, the bodies of their comrades were buried neatly and the opponents' bodies were thrown in randomly.
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