The two parted in front of the theater. Igor got in the car and went home, while Xia Yu walked back to the hotel. While he was washing up, Feng Manxue reported to him about today's interview.
She and Yuan Qiansui have already screened out the first batch of 125 people. If they can screen out this number tomorrow, they will be able to meet Xia Yu's requirements.
"Well done. I met a new friend today. He invited me to visit him tomorrow. I will be back the day after tomorrow to conduct the interview."
Spitting out the mouthwash, Xia Yu looked at the mirror and said.
"Yes, Mr. Xia."
Nothing happened that night. I got up the next day, had breakfast, and signed in to find that another 340 million rubles had been deposited into my account.
I didn't get any special items today, just 10 million experience points, and the experience point column changed by one decimal place.
At 9 o'clock in the morning, Igor sent his car to pick up Xia Yu and headed straight to the outskirts of St. Petersburg.
The car drove about 20 kilometers and they came to a forest. Hidden in the forest was not Igor's manor, but a very ordinary small bungalow. Igor was standing at the door waiting for them.
"Sherlock, my friend, welcome to my secret base."
It seems that Xia Yu is not the only one who likes to mess up the secret base, Igor is also one of them.
"Let me guess, there's an air-raid shelter down there?"
Xia Yu stomped on the floor tiles under his feet and said.
"Yes, a large number of air-raid shelters were built during the Soviet Union era. After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, many of them were abandoned. There are many brave young men on YouTube who like to explore these air-raid shelters. I took a picture of one that is still in good condition. It's here."
"You changed it to Fortress of Doom?"
Secret bases with scientific research functions are mainly official, while personal ones mostly serve as shelters. Xia Yu's hive base has both functions. He guessed that Igor's was a shelter.
"No, no, no, my Fortress of Doom is not here. This is my private museum."
Igor waved his hand and said that there must be a shelter and a museum. He brought Xia Yu to see his collection today.
"Oh? I have a private car museum. What do you have in your museum?"
Xia Yu became interested. He had met someone with the same interests as him.
"Firearms. I loved them when I was in the army. After I was discharged, I started collecting them. Now I have collected more than 1,200 types of firearms. They are all right here at our feet."
When Igor talked about guns, his eyes lit up and you could see his love for them.
The fighting nation is allowed to own guns, but a collection as large as Igor's is really rare.
"I like guns, too, but we are quite cautious about such lethal weapons. The few guns I have in my collection are all on the island."
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's go down and take a look!"
Xia Yu followed Igor into the cabin and took the elevator to the air-raid shelter 15 meters underground.
The depth is a bit shallow and can be penetrated by a ground-penetrating bullet. It is not suitable for use as a shelter, but it is fine if it is only used as a museum.
When I walked out of the elevator, I saw that the entire air-raid shelter had undergone a modern renovation. Dazzling guns were hung all over the walls, and there were various display cabinets in the middle of the hall.
Inside were stored various light and heavy machine guns, large flintlock rifles, and even Ming Dynasty three-barreled guns. Next to them were a lot of Maxim rifles. Xia Yu couldn't help but feel a sense of time and space confusion.
"The Chinese used bamboo to make the earliest firearms, but unfortunately they don't last long in storage. So I started collecting them in the 12th century and kept them up to modern times. Every firearm here is still working."
Igor talked incessantly about his collection. Like Xia Yu, he was a pragmatist. Guns that could not fire had no collection value, and those without matching bullets were purely handmade. These were nothing to support such a large-scale collection.
"My God, how much time this took, how much money this cost."
"Over twenty years, and about $100 million spent?"
In fact, 100 million US dollars is just the cost. Many of the guns here are precious and unique pieces, and their prices have increased tenfold or even a hundredfold. If Igor is willing to auction his collection, Xia Yu estimates that he can get 500 million.
The value of the guns here is more expensive than all his car collections combined, which is equivalent to one-tenth of Igor's net worth.
"Besides guns, I also have a collection of motorcycles. Look over here."
Igor took Xia Yu to another exhibition hall, where there were more than a dozen Sancao vehicles parked, all of which were military models.
"This one's a BMW R75, that one's a Gillet Herstal 720AF from Japan, and that's a Rikuo 97 from Japan. Machine guns can even be mounted on top of a scissor."
Igor introduced and demonstrated at the same time, but Xia Yu preferred tanks to the three-legged warriors. After all, the three-legged warriors in the anti-Japanese war movies were so deeply rooted in people's hearts.
"Are those machine guns?"
Xia Yu pointed to a pile of machine guns in the corner and asked. As a pseudo-military fan, he only knew about the Type 99 rifle, Lao Gan Ma rifle and so on. These strange-shaped machine guns were too difficult for him.
"No, those are aircraft machine guns removed from airplanes. There's the Japanese Type 98 and the American MG81. There's a twin-gun model over there."
This guy is a gun fanatic. He only has one of the same model and collects all the variants. Xia Yu suspects that the so-called 1,200 types actually include 3,600 sub-models.
"Igor, you're at it again. What if people aren't interested in your collection?"
A pleasant female voice sounded from behind him. Xia Yu turned around and saw that it was Victoria, the female lead who played the White Swan yesterday. She looked just as stunning in her ordinary clothes.
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