War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1096 It's all about tropical fruits and details in the photo album

From Lu Xinda's description, Wei Ran finally got a rough idea of ​​the whole story.

The lucky Luke sold the relics including the photo album mainly to save money to install water purification equipment, solar energy and hydroelectric power generation equipment in Samantha's tribe, and build a land that is clean enough, has electricity, and most importantly It's just a tribal camp with a clinic.

Of course, all of the above are the ideas of Luke and his partner, Samantha's son.It's just that these two young people didn't expect that their idea would eventually lead to their own death.

The reason for this is that the aborigines in the tribe can have a better living environment, and they don’t have to always rely on Samantha to use the wizard’s divination and herbal medicine to cure diseases. Second, Luke wants to bring some tourists to Samantha. I want to be a guest in Sha's tribe, so that I and the aboriginal people in the tribe can make money, and let the children in the tribe get out of the jungle.

Even for this reason, Lu Xinda deliberately applied for nursing school after graduating from middle school three years ago, just to help the aborigines in the tribe.

And the reason why they have such a deep relationship seems to be related to the father of the old sailor Chris who adopted Iger and Lu Xinda and others.

In Lu Xinda's translation, the tribal witch named Samantha also briefly explained, to the effect that during World War II, their tribe had rescued Chris' father, and since then, the two sides have been on good terms. became friends.

The location of Samantha and their tribe is in the jungle along the Kokoda Trail, which has become a hiking route today.

But this brings up a new problem. Since the father of the old sailor Chris participated in the Kokoda Trail Battle in 1942, then the photo album that records the evil deeds of nuclear silk suction in the Sandakan Death March How did it come about again?

It's a pity that neither Lu Xinda nor Samantha can explain this question. According to Lu Xinda, in her memory, she had never seen this photo album before the death of the old sailor Chris.

Except for the temporary explanation of this incident, the girl explained clearly what happened a few days ago.

According to her description, not long after Luke and his partner had an accident, Iger bought a ticket to Kazan. Samantha and her husband, who were suffering from the loss of their son, also brought Lu Xinda and two other The child hid on a fishing boat at a small pier not far from Lae City.

But even so, someone still found them. In order to protect the three children, Samantha's husband was killed.They were also in the process of being hunted down and lost because they jumped into the river at night.

In Lu Xinda's sobbing description, Samantha only saved her in the end, and the other two younger siblings are still missing.

Hearing this, Wei Ran couldn't help but secretly sighed, Jia Ya must have known that the two children were dead, but she left the difficult job of notifying the news of the death to Wei Ran.

Temporarily suppressing the news of the two children's death, Wei Ran also shifted the topic to where the two of them hid and how they were found.

In Lu Xinda's explanation, the two of them have been fleeing deep into the jungle since they climbed out of the river.It was also on the way that she accidentally broke her arm.

Samantha also knew that her wizard's healing skills were unreliable. In order to save Lu Xinda, she had to send the girl to another tribe she knew to hide, and she took the money and wrote Lu Xinda on the cloth. He returned to Lai City to seek help from one of Lu Xinda's teachers.

The rest of the matter was simple. The Melanesian tribal witch had just found Lu Xinda's teacher when she was caught by someone sent by Jia Ya's men to look for clues.

Luckily, with Lucinda's teacher as guarantee, and worrying about her injuries, the witch happily explained the location of her hiding place, and then returned to her hiding place in a helicopter that she had never seen before. The tribe picked up the injured Lu Xinda.

What made Wei Ran even more dumbfounded was that after the girl was taken back, she completed the work of setting the bone on her front foot, and her back foot was sent to the Philippine monkey country by a transport plane, and then she and Samantha boarded the Il-76 transport plane to catch up with her. Came to Kazan.

Calculated in this way, Wei Ran, who also co-authored and returned by transport plane, was only one day earlier than the two of them.

At this point in the topic, Anfeiya, who had just landed in France, also made a video call. At the same time, a gangster also drove into the yard in a van and brought two young ladies to deliver a sumptuous meal.

Taking advantage of the help of the gangsters and young ladies to serve the meals, Wei Ran and An Feiya communicated to stop the original plan to let Earhart organize to buy the photo album, and at the same time reminded the other party of the danger and There is no release, so you must pay attention to safety after meeting with Sui Sui.

Then he asked Anfeya to buy Iger a plane ticket to fly back to Kazan alone, and then gave Iger and Lu Xinda the opportunity to make a video call.

Although he couldn't understand what the brothers and sisters were talking about in the tribal dialect, Wei Ran still greeted the gangsters who helped to buy food and left the room.

When he sent away the little gangster who helped out with a hard fee, Greva just drove back.Seeing this, Wei Ran waited for the other party's car to stop, and then got in directly.

"That woman also came in our transport plane just now?" Wei Ran asked after he sat down firmly.

"of course not"

Greva gave an answer that surprised Wei Ran, "I heard from Dmitry that the little girl and the old woman were sent to the transport plane in cargo boxes before they took off, and they said it was your arrangement. The two of them enter the country in the form of goods and then deliver them to your home.

As for the lady just now, she was met at the door when I was driving that girl and the old woman here. She said she was your friend and wanted to meet you, and that she arranged to send the little girl in the car. Come, and I think the little girl does seem to know her. "

Having said that, Greva grinned, "Victor, did I get into trouble?"

"No." Wei Ran waved his hand gently, "She is indeed my friend."

After finishing speaking, he changed the subject directly and asked, "I heard from Anfeiya that Iger has red and black thorns tattooed on his wrist?"

"Yes." Greva grinned silly and happy, "I swear by my mother, Iger joined us voluntarily."

"What is he doing to join your gang?" Wei Ran asked puzzled, "Also, why don't I remember who of you can speak English?"

"I have recently acquired a few highly educated subordinates"

Greva said proudly, "They are all college students. Although they don't speak English well, at least they can communicate."

"they?"

"I was wrong, it was them," Greva denied blankly.

"Okay, it's them. So what does Iger do with your gang?"

Wei Ran helplessly rubbed his temples, if he can urinate in the same jug as that bastard Jima, don't expect him to be able to control his own three ways.

“Of course for those tropical fruits”

Greva gestured confidently with both hands, "Not to mention the things I've never seen before, he said that the bananas there are all this big!"

"For what? For tropical fruits?" Wei Ran looked at Greva in astonishment.

"The tropical fruits that were airlifted to Kazan before were all sold by me with people."

Greva became more and more proud, "All the large supermarkets in Kazan, including several passenger trains, have purchased our tropical fruits.

Moreover, after I consulted Her Majesty Queen Aurora, I also opened the business of ordering tropical fruits online and by phone.

I have so many younger brothers under my command, I can't let them waste their energy on women and the gym, and those vans, and they can't just take them."

"Stop, stop for a moment."

Wei Ran stopped the chattering Greva, "So what does this have to do with Iger?"

"Immediately there will be a relationship"

At this time, Greva, who was full of spring, subconsciously raised his voice, "We have never been to their country, but Iger is familiar enough with it, and he guarantees that he can get enough cheap and good quality fruit, And said he had plenty of very strict-mouthed and totally trustworthy helpers.

Such a young man, of course I let him join us, so that our polar thorns in the future can also be said to be a transnational gang organization. "

"Polar thorns? What kind of bad name is this?"

Wei Ran grinned secretly, "Who gave the name of this extremely polar thorn? Didn't you call it Inta Athlete before?"

"Of course I started it"

Greva patted his chest more and more proudly, "Inta athletes are what we call internally, and of course we need a more famous name externally."

"So your famous multinational gang organization sells fruit?"

"Your Honor."

"Don't add those titles"

Wei Ran just felt more and more headaches, and even the bastard in front of him gradually began to overlap with that idiot Jima.

"In short, Aurora said, there is no shame in making money."

Greva grinned honestly, "Although in big cities like Kazan, tropical fruits are very common, but in the countryside and Siberia, these fruits are more useful than rubles. The reindeer we recently transported to the Philippine monkey country by plane, A considerable part of it was exchanged with fruit."

"So you plan to continue this business?"

Wei Ran asked subconsciously, he really couldn't bear to tell the other party that the round-trip flight between Kazan and the Monkey Country in the Philippines would be suspended after only a few more flights.

After all, he had already returned, so the temporary flight route would be worthless, and it would not be profitable to just transport fruit in the future. He didn't think those teachers at Hongqi Forest Farm would ruin that military transport plane like this.

"Of course, this matter is supported by Mr. Culp and Aunt Anna."

Greva once again gave an answer that surprised Wei Ran, "Although there will only be one flight to and from Papua New Guinea every week in the future, it is enough."

"How could they agree to such a thing?" Wei Ran muttered subconsciously.

"at a price"

Grieva grinned, "Every time we have to take out some rare tropical fruits and distribute them to children in polar or rural schools."

"Oh, these living Soviets."

Wei Ran murmured to himself, but he no longer had any doubts.

Objectively speaking, whether it is the old man Nicholas who lives in seclusion in Volgograd, Karp and others who are hiding in the Red Flag Forest Farm, or Dalia on the shore of Lake Ladoga, or even the old Ivan, the strange man who sinks the lake, even lives in the polar town of Tula Another Ivan, are they short of money?
They don't seem to be particularly short of money. Looking at what they have done in the past few years, it seems that none of them are really for the purpose of making money.Including taking classes at Hongqi Forest Farm back then, didn't the tuition fees be refunded to me in the end?
Wiping away the thoughts in his mind, Wei Ran asked with a smile, "So Iger will become your tropical fruit buyer from now on?"

"It would be the best if we can cooperate, of course, the premise is that you can let him go back."

Greva scratched the back of his head honestly, "I have never done business, so I don't know if it will work, but Aurora has already agreed to help, so I guess there should be no major problem, and the lady was also in the car just now. I said, maybe we will rent our transport plane in the future.”

"I guess there shouldn't be any problem." Wei Ran patted the other person on the shoulder, "Stay here for a meal?"

"Forget it today." Grieva grinned, "I asked my girlfriend to watch a movie at night."

"You already have girlfriends?" Wei Ran was slightly surprised.

"Today's Limited Girlfriend"

"When I didn't ask." Wei Ran pushed open the car door dumbfounded, and didn't delay the other party's time.

Greva was sent away, and when he returned to the room, Lu Xinda had already hung up the call with her brother Iger.

However, neither she nor the wizard named Samantha touched the food on the table at this time.

"Eat whatever you want, you're welcome." Wei Ran said as gently as possible, "I'll wash my hands, you just eat first."

Hearing this, Lu Xinda glanced at Samantha beside her, and then at Wei Ran who walked into the bathroom. After hesitating for a few seconds, she still used her uninjured hand to pick up a piece of hot bread and handed it to Samantha next to her, followed closely, and she herself picked up another piece of bread, brought it to her mouth, and took a big bite.

By the time Wei Ran got to the dining table, there was only a piece of bread in the hands of the two women, the size of a palm, and the red cabbage soup in front of them had bottomed out.

"I don't know if it suits your taste." Wei Ran said while serving a large bowl of red cabbage soup and potato goulash to the two of them.

"Very, very delicious." Lu Xinda, who obviously didn't want to choke, said with difficulty, and then subconsciously picked up the red cabbage soup and took a big sip.

"Eat slowly, there is plenty of food."

Wei Ran tried his best to appear gentler, and while passing a tissue, he asked, "I remember you said you were about to graduate from nursing school?"

At any rate, with the communication before the meal and the video call with Iger just now, the girl finally became less restrained, took the tissue and wiped the corners of her mouth while replying, "Yes, I'm only one year away from graduating from an internship , and I studied in a nursing school run by Chinese."

"How's the result?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"It's not bad." Lu Xinda had the habitual modesty of the Chinese.

"What are your plans next?" Wei Ran asked following the topic.

"I don't know." Lu Xinda hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "Sister Jiaya said, let us listen to your arrangement."

Hearing this, Wei Ran secretly sighed, "Let's talk about it after Iger comes back."

"En." Lu Xinda nodded, but her expression was full of bewilderment.

After finishing the late lunch with the two girls, Wei Ran arranged for them to live in two rooms next to each other on the third floor, and then returned to the fireplace, laying on the recliner and thinking about the information he got that day .

The information obtained by Jia Ya and Lu Xinda is nothing special. One of them doesn't need to lie to himself, and the other dare not lie to himself and can't lie to himself.

But what Greva said is interesting. Although this guy is the boss of a gang now, based on Wei Ran's understanding of him, he would never think of importing tropical fruits. There must be someone behind it. Give him a plan.

As for who is behind this.
After going through the sieve in his mind, Wei Ran was the first to rule out the teachers of Hongqi Forest Farm and Suisui who fell into Qian's eyes.

Needless to say the former, those teachers will not waste this time at all.As for Sui Sui, if she is really in charge of this matter, she won't stop until she squeezes the oil out of those tropical fruits.

Since it wasn't these people, could it be Jima or Maya?
Wei Ran quickly ruled out these two people, and with Ji Ma's mouth, if he could have thought of such a way to make money, he would have called himself overnight to show off.

After pondering over and over again, Wei Ran's final target of suspicion fell on Sister Katenka.

Of course, he had reason to suspect the two sisters. Among other things, the weekly tropical fruit flight from Kazan to Papua New Guinea was the Hella organization that the two of them were in charge of.

You know, as far as the customs and airport in Papua New Guinea are concerned, the only difference from the sieve is that the eyes are bigger.

When the flight route is stabilized, by transporting tropical fruits, whether it is girls from Hella or the girls from the Succubus Company, they can use it as a secret transportation transfer point.

Wei Ran knew very well in his heart that the two sisters were not hiding anything from him.He was used to being a hands-off shopkeeper, and the troublesome twins probably didn't expect him to take the initiative to worry about such things.

After he figured it out, he also noticed Lu Xinda who came down the stairs alone, and the photo album Lu Xinda was holding in her arms.

"Just now in the video, Iger told me to give you the photo album." Lu Xinda said, and handed the photo album in her hand to Wei Ran who sat up from the rocking chair.

"How much do I need to pay?" Wei Ran took the photo album and asked with a smile, while pointing to another rocking chair by the fireplace.

"Iger didn't say that." Lu Xinda sat on the rocking chair stiffly, "He just asked me to give you the photo album first, besides."

"What?" Wei Ran smiled and looked at the other party.

"Can you help me find my younger siblings?" Lu Xinda asked carefully, "They."

Hearing this, Wei Ran opened his mouth, but didn't know how to respond to the other party's request.

"Are they, are they dead?" Lu Xinda asked with a trace of panic.

Sighing secretly, Wei Ran nodded imperceptibly, "Sorry, we couldn't save them, they, Luke and his partner were all buried in the yard behind your big house in Lai City .”

"Thank you"

After Lu Xinda finished speaking, she covered her mouth and tried not to cry, and ran upstairs on the stairs.

Shaking his head feebly, Wei Ran finally opened the crocodile skin photo album that was placed on his lap again.

Compared with the remake photos I saw at the beginning, in this loose-leaf photo album, although the photos fixed on the cardboards have a little mildew stains and the overall yellowing, they look extraordinarily clear.

In each of these photos, it is recorded that several nuclear soldiers tortured and killed prisoners of war in various ways.

Moreover, the close distance these photos were taken also implies that the person who took these photos at the beginning is very likely to be the same group as these violent devils.

Flipping through one by one, he also noticed that in these photos, the main character who tortured and killed the prisoners of war seemed to be three nuclear recruits back and forth.

Thanks to the fact that these photos were taken clearly and well preserved, he could easily identify them. Among the three recruiting soldiers, one of them had the rank of Warrant Officer, and the other two had the rank of Chief Cao. and Sergeant.

Among the more than [-] photos, Wei Ran could recognize that the three people had their heads or limbs cut off, or their abdomens were cut open with command knives. Mutilated corpses in tattered British uniforms.

And in one of the close-ups, the three nuke demons stand side by side with their sheathed samurai swords in one hand, and each of them is holding a large number of soldier cards in their other hands.

Standing up to get a magnifying glass, Wei Ran can clearly see that in this black and white photo, although the original colors of the soldier badges held in his hands cannot be seen, they can still be clearly distinguished. There are both octagonal small signs and round small signs.

He knew that it was an identity card issued to soldiers of the British or Australian troops, nicknamed the "dead meat ticket".He even knew that the round little signs were brick red and the octagonal ones were green.

These two small signs, one red and one green, form a group, and each group represents a life that was once alive.

But those three beasts, each holding a large handful of soldier cards, had bright smiles on their faces.As if they were just...gentlemen who just had an enjoyable game of golf.

Continuing to scroll back, the content of the following photos is basically the same, the only difference, I am afraid, is just the cruelty of those evil deeds that are changing.

Turning to the end, there are finally a few color photos in this album.

Just like the content in the remake photos I saw at the beginning, the only few color photos seem to record the life of an Australian soldier after the war.

Among them is the old photo of the wreckage of the plane that the female dog organization named Earhart is eager to get.

Continue to turn back, and the remaining pages of this photo album are blank cardboards, and there are white paper bags the size of zippo lighters fixed one by one. Each of these paper bags contains a negative film.

Touching the center of the page where a paper bag was obviously missing, Wei Ran continued to turn back, but there were no photos or negatives on the next few pages of cardboard.

On the inside of the back cover made of crocodile leather, there is a handwritten signature of "Nagazuka Joji" on the light yellow interlining. Next to the signature is a black and white photo that is only the size of a cigarette pack firmly pasted on the interlining.

In this photo, it is a man wearing a kimono with clogs on his feet, disc glasses on his face, and a rangefinder camera hanging on his chest.

This gentle-looking man is holding a cigarette pipe in one hand, and a wolf green dog squatting at his feet with the other hand. Behind the two brothers, there is a huge pile of hemorrhoids hanging on the wall. flag.

Gently closing this thick photo album, Wei Ran had already made up his mind after thinking about it.

(End of this chapter)