Mine Spy 1952

In 1952, the First Five-Year Plan was launched, and the lifeblood of industry hung on the line. Uranium ore, the "stone" that is enough to forge nuclear weapons, has become the most fatal weakness of New China. Deep in the Gobi, a 27-member geological team code-named "Dragon Vein" secretly headed to the northwest to search for super uranium deposits. Captain Chen Tieshan, the former commander of the Fourth Field Reconnaissance Battalion, knew nothing about compasses, but the first order he received was to collect the body of the former captain. The corpse held half of the burnt drawing in its hand, and there were fragments of gold-rimmed glasses embedded between its fingernails. The place of death was only three kilometers away from the Soviet expert camp. This is not exploration, but a murder that has already been revealed. Chen Tieshan doesn't understand rock structure, but he understands people's hearts. On the battlefield, he can determine the impact point of a cannonball in three seconds; in the team, he must find the traitor's face among twenty-seven faces. Everyone in the exploration team has secrets: Returning master Shen Zhiqiu is the only person in the country who can decipher the "Dragon Vein Map", but his daughter is held hostage across the strait; Wenya team doctor Bai Yang keeps candy in his pocket all day long, but translates German toxicology notes late at night; surveyor Lin Xiaoman can hand-draw ten Kilometers of terrain, the "pen" on his waist is actually a miniature pistol; a veteran cook who has sharpened his sheep-butchering knife for twenty years, with the blade cutting inwards to cut meat and outwards to kill people; an engineer who surrendered, Zhou Wenyuan, was very popular and always kept a suicide note to his wife and children in his pocket... Death has followed them since the day they were assembled: heads were shot with geological hammers, compasses were adjusted, blueprints were leaked, and three skulls with bullet holes suddenly appeared on the edge of the salt lake. The radiation exceeded the standard by a hundred times. Chen Tieshan set up a life-and-death situation in the deserted beach: forging fake pictures to lure the enemy, collecting real guns to stage "internal strife", and using those who most closely resembled the mole as bait.