50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 866 Special Agent Potion
At 2 p.m., Sun Zhiwei followed the usual tourist route and passed by Lubyanka Square No. 11.

While waiting for the red light, he activated his spatial ability and successfully located the cold storage room in the basement of the KGB building.

The cold storage, spanning over 100 square meters, contains tens of thousands of various medicines, with labels clearly indicating the type, name, and efficacy of each medicine.

Some commonly used medicines are stored in large metal containers and can be temporarily filled into smaller vials when needed. There are dedicated rooms in the cold storage facility for filling medicines.

Of these medicines, poisons were the most numerous, and all kinds of poisons were included.

They are categorized as either for individuals or groups; acute or chronic; and their modes of action are also differentiated as ingestion-induced, olfactory-induced, injection-induced, and skin-contact-induced.

Most poisons have a significant lethal effect, but their external symptoms are also very obvious, such as bleeding from the seven orifices, green face, internal bleeding, and gastrointestinal cramps, which are all signs of death from poisoning.

There are also some rare poisons whose fatal symptoms are very similar to those of certain diseases, and cannot be detected by post-mortem testing.

For example, symptoms that resemble a heart attack, or symptoms that lead to a cerebral infarction or hemorrhage, or symptoms that look like a fever, etc.

When Sun Zhiwei saw the latter, he had a sense of déjà vu.

Some of the effects of those potions seem somewhat similar to the effects of my spatial sword.

Of course, the work of secret agents is not just about killing, so they also need many other drugs.

For example, incapacitating agents commonly used to capture people or repel enemies.

These drugs include relaxants, incapacitators, sedatives, anesthetics, capsaicin, and so on.

There are also hallucinogens, addictive substances, stimulants, and sedatives used during interrogations.

The entire cold storage room was filled with these various kinds of medicines.

He also noticed that KGB agents on missions would frequently come to the cold storage to collect the drugs.

Along with the medicine, various sophisticated special delivery devices were also distributed, including poison umbrellas, poison needle watches, and commemorative coin sprayers.

Many of these spy gadgets have been exposed in real history.

For example, Alexander Belov, who defected in 1976, died after being shot in the neck with a poisoned needle.

In 1978, Bulgarian novelist George Markov was struck in the leg by a steel ball containing ricin, fired from a poison umbrella, and died three days later from poisoning.

Similar assassinations have occurred frequently over the past few decades; some have been reported by the media, while others have not.

But they all share similar characteristics: the deceased were struck by various strange devices and then poisoned to death.

When Sun Zhiwei got through the green light and circled around to the back of the KGB building, he discovered another secret behind the KGB building.

Behind this building, there is an area with a KGB building that looks like a prison or a hospital.

Finally, he confirmed that this was actually a laboratory used to produce drugs, the same drug laboratory that the KGB inherited from the Security Bureau.

As for what those prisoners were used for, you can figure that out for yourselves.

What's rather unusual is that he also saw some agents inside actively participating in the injection of the drug.

They didn't seem to be forced to participate in drug trials, as they weren't restricted in their freedom and could move around the building at will. After a moment's thought, he guessed that these KGB agents might be conducting drug tolerance training here, which was probably part of their training program.

I've heard that agents who have undergone this kind of training are less likely to leak secrets after being captured.

After all, the Russians weren't the only ones researching various drugs; America also had a similar facility at Fort Detrick, a base in the suburbs of Washington.

To prevent KGB agents from being countered by America's drugs, it is necessary to add a drug adaptation training for the agents.

During this brief drive, Sun Zhiwei had gained a clear understanding of the KGB's special agent drugs. He had already driven away from the KGB building and was heading to the next tourist attraction.

After visiting several other attractions over the next two hours, he started driving back to the hotel and passed by the KGB building for the second time.

This time, based on his prior plan, he took some of each of the incapacitating and interrogation drugs from the cold storage.

The poisons used were only a few commonly used by the KGB, including cyanide and ricin, among others.

The incapacitating and interrogation drugs might be used by him during future missions; as for the poison, it could be used to confuse and mislead the enemy.

As for those special delivery tools, they are completely unnecessary for him. He has space, and it's an instantaneous thing to deliver anything, so there's no need for any equipment.

Therefore, he only took one of each of these special equipment items, leaving them in his space as a memento.

With that, the task of obtaining the potion was completed, and Sun Zhiwei lost all interest in sightseeing. He stayed in his hotel room to rest the next day.

On the morning of the third day, he arrived in Gorky by regional flight.

Gorky, formerly known as Nizhny Novgorod, is an ancient city founded in 1221 and has been an important industrial center since the 16th century.

This place now mainly produces heavy industrial products such as automobiles, ships, and aircraft. Among them, the Red Solmovo Shipyard is the only inland nuclear submarine manufacturing plant in the Russian country.

The Type 945 attack nuclear submarine (Sierra-class) that Sun Zhiwei was looking for was manufactured here.

Although Gorky is a large city, it has never experienced war because it is located inland. Even during World War II, it was part of the rear area.

The long period of peace gave this city a tranquil atmosphere that was not found in other Soviet cities.

After arriving in Gorky, Sun Zhiwei changed into worker's clothes at the airport and went straight to the shipyard by the river to gather information.

The Red Solmovo Shipyard is the largest shipyard in Gorky, and it is very famous here. The shipyard occupies a large area of ​​the riverbank and is very easy to find.

To Sun Zhiwei's disappointment, he did not see the Costroma, which should have been completed, at the shipyard.

There is only one new submarine in the shipyard dry dock, which is less than 1/5 complete. It should be the third Sierra-class attack nuclear submarine, the Pskov, which started construction last February.

Sun Zhiwei realized he was too late; the Costa Roman should have already been outfitted and started its sea trials.

How are we supposed to find it? You know, the waterways in Gorky are connected to the canal network of the "Five Seas Navigation" project.

That is a deep-water waterway network consisting of the Volga River and various canals, with a total length of over 6600 kilometers.

The Costroma could have been tested anywhere on the river, and if it had gone out to sea, it would have been even more impossible to find.

(End of this chapter)