War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1101 The Origin of the Photo Album and Another Evil Deed

In the lively box, the two tables were full of people talking happily in different languages ​​while drinking and drinking. However, it was hard for Wei Ran and Kajianka sisters who acted as translators.

So much so that after this meal, Wei Ran, who didn't plan to drink at all, ate less than half of the rice in the bowl, and the Kajianka sisters even failed to get a few pieces of their favorite sweet and sour pork ribs .

Taking advantage of the time when Wei Ran's parents took a group of girls to pack and eat the leftover meals, Wei Ran and Chen Guangling and his son temporarily left the box and walked to the entrance of the restaurant.

This time, Chen Guangling and his son also came to pick up the plane. Apart from seeing Suisui's private jet showing off in the circle of friends, they also received an invitation from Suisui, hoping to come and have a meal together.

Thanks to Sui Sui, who usually asks the tour guide who led the team to Inta to bring some souvenirs such as Maozi souvenirs to the Chen Guangling family at regular intervals, the Chen family father and son who had originally arranged to meet at the hotel naturally took the initiative Went to the airport and waited.

Of course, when Sui Sui asked Chen Guangling to have dinner, in addition to bringing him closer and helping Wei Ran socialize, he also really asked him. I hope this local householder in the capital can help contact some doctors and experts for the little genius Cora Watt looked at his brain.

Because of this, Chen Guangling and his son Chen Luoxiang followed Wei Ran just out of the hotel, and said, "Don't worry about that little girl, I will contact a friend before you come back, and I will wait for you to make a decision." You can go whenever you want.”

"Trouble for Mr. Chen." Wei Ran said politely, and at the same time gave the other party a cigarette from Xia Shushi.

"What's the trouble?" Chen Guangling took the cigarette and waved his hand, "Just let Luo Xiang take you there when the time comes, this kid happens to have nothing to do recently."

"Are you a master?" Wei Ran asked Chen Luoxiang, who declined the cigarettes politely.

"It's far away"

Chen Luoxiang replied with a bit of shyness and dullness, "My master has something to do recently, so he gave me two months' leave."

"This kid's teacher got involved in a lawsuit." Chen Guangling said gloatingly, "The old gentleman was afraid of implicating this kid, so he asked him to come back and avoid it."

"lawsuit?"

"Isn't it just a lawsuit"

Chen Guangling said dumbfoundedly, "There was a master who sold a piece of old wood at a high price to his master. The old man was very satisfied, and decided to build a good piano by himself at that time."

"And then?" Wei Ran subconsciously asked.

"My master opened the ingredients himself, and the police came to the door."

Chen Luoxiang said with a sullen expression, "The piece of old wood that was sold to my master was sawed off by a gang from the beam of the ancestral hall in a village in another place, and these rotten people still said that my master ordered it .”

"That's okay too?"

"Now is the time to quibble"

Chen Luoxiang spread his hands helplessly, "My master has bought wood from them in the past two years, and those rotten people insisted that the money my master bought for wood last time was the deposit for this overturned car, and it may take a while to obtain evidence. As for the time, my master felt that I couldn't help, and I might make a fuss, so he let me come back first."

Hearing this, Wei Ran grinned, he couldn't help with this kind of thing, and seeing Chen Guangling gloating and watching the excitement, he knew that although he, the teacher of a cheap junior, was in trouble, It shouldn't be too much trouble.

Taking advantage of this topic to chat, Wei Ran made an appointment with the father and son, and then said goodbye to each other, and sent the father and son to a taxi.

"Where are you going next?" Wei Ran asked Xia Shushi who had just had a drink.

"Go to the second generation's house"

Xia Shushi snatched his pack of cigarettes back from Wei Ran, lit one on his own and said, "I've been in the capital for the past few days, and for the sake of the [-] dollars, I will start as soon as possible." investigating."

"A foreigner will come over in two days, and he will be an interpreter for me then."

Wei Ran patted the scumbag on the shoulder, lowered his voice and said, "That foreigner might have some clues."

Hearing this, Xia Shushi's eyes lit up immediately, "Understood! I'm here anytime!"

He sent away this scumbag friend, and Sui Sui also packed the rest of the meal, and got into the bus with many girls and the main force Ji Ma who had just replaced Wei Ran in drinking and drinking Xia Shushi.

"Just know that your kid is alive and kicking."

Old Comrade Wei who was standing at the bus door patted Comrade Xiao Wei on the shoulder, "Go back to grandma's house by yourself, we have to go back to the company and go back at night."

"Do you want me to invest some money in your small company?" Wei Ran asked with a playful smile.

"Why do you still plan to be our shareholder, you brat?"

Wei Ran's mother took a look at her own son angrily, "If you have the money, you can keep it for yourself. If Suisui didn't need customers, we would have planned to retire a long time ago."

"Shall I buy you a car?" Wei Ran continued to ask with a playful smile.

"Waiting for you to change the car for me?"

Comrade Wei shook the car key in his hand triumphantly, "See if these four circles are round? Hey! There are two circles here, but the girl Sui Sui bought them for me, all right, get in the car Bar."

After finishing speaking, the old comrade took Wei Ran's mother proudly to a black car not far away, and deliberately kicked the accelerator to drive out of the parking lot first.

"When did you change the car for them?" Wei Ran took the leash from Sui Sui's hand and asked curiously.

"That's too early"

Sui Sui, who had successfully offered a handful of hospitality, said proudly, "It must have been a few months. At that time, we were still eating moose offal hot pot on Kou Kou's farm. By the way, what are we going to eat tonight?"

As soon as this topic started, and after the translation by Sister Katenka, the bus immediately became lively, and everyone happily discussed what to have for dinner.

Seeing this, Wei Ran shook his head helplessly, led the dog Beria in one hand, and carried the two big-eared foxes still in the flight case in the other hand, and walked to the black Mattway van that he bought last year.

Next, Suisui and the others will take the bus to the high-speed rail station, and take the high-speed rail to Baiyangdian's grandma's house, but Wei Ran can only drive back because it is too troublesome for the three pets to take the high-speed rail.

However, after watching the bus leave, he drove in the direction of the airport, and soon after, turned on another road leading to the suburbs.

It took nearly two hours to arrive at the peach blossom forest in the mountain that Qin Ershi gave him as a favor. After Wei Ran opened the locked barbed wire gate, he drove the car along the gravel overgrown with weeds. Turned around in a circle, and then parked the car at the door again, locked the door and let Beria out.

Letting the big man have fun alone, he also walked into the big yard with the color steel tile roof.

Closing the gatehouse and taking a big step forward, Wei Ran carefully inspected the yard, and then focused on inspecting the fake camera that he personally installed when he came here last time. Seeing that nothing had changed, he did this He took out the engineering shovel and carefully dug up the gravel on the ground where the entrance was.

Soon, the ampoules that he had personally sealed were dug up one by one, roughly counted, ten ampoules filled with dog blood and ten ampoules filled with fluorescent paint were quite a few, and they were additionally illuminated with a purple light. There is no special light reaction in this pit.

Seeing this, he breathed a sigh of relief, and believed that no one had sneaked here to peep, let alone entered this big courtyard for such a long time.

After re-burying these ampoules and covering them with gravel, Wei Ran pulled the switch and turned on the fluorescent tubes on the roof.

Under the pale light, Wei Ran silently took out the Soviet cloak from the metal book and spread it on the ground, then lay down on the whole person, took out the bearskin gloves and bit himself, then tensed his muscles and nerves, clenched his fists and closed his eyes, With a low growl and a moment of torture like a needle prick, the transport vehicle was taken out.

"call--"

Taking a deep breath, Wei Ran put away his gloves and cloak, patted his buttocks to get up, and walked into the living cabin at the rear of the transport vehicle.

Opening the safe that was not locked at all, he then took out the food box, put the golden statue of Mazu inside and a memory card that he got from the bell ringer, and put them all into the safe. He took out a lock box full of diamonds and put it in the food box.

These diamonds will be sent to Parade Jewelry Shop through the Succubus to be cashed in. The money realized will not only be used as Hela's bonus, but also used as Succubus' activity funds.And these are the promises Wei Ran made to An Feiya not long ago.

Nowadays, all kinds of seasonings are left to occupy the upper layer of the food box all the year round.And the ones occupying the lower level, except for the box of Soviet poisonous needles that Katenka gave him as a meeting gift.There are also P22 pistols and silencers belonging to Chiba Genan, two PSS micro-sound pistols and two spare magazines for the Katenka sisters.

In addition to these weapons, in the remaining space on this floor, there is also a stack of passports from various countries that Chiba Genan lent himself for free, some spare cash, and some small gold bars with a single weight of only 10 grams, plus a A spare satellite phone and a smartphone without a SIM card.

Putting away the full food box, Wei Ran finally took a look at the "stolen goods" in the safe, and then closed the safe door with satisfaction, got up and left the living cabin.

In another burst of fatal short-term pain, the huge transport cart that could only be used as a safe was put away, and Wei Ran, whose forehead was covered with sweat, left the impenetrable courtyard with a pendulum and locked it again. After closing the gate, he walked to the side of the car with three steps and three shakes, grinning.

"Belia! Beria——!"

Wei Ran shouted in a long voice, and soon after, Beria ran over from the wild grass in the distance, but what he didn't expect was that there was still a big man in his mouth. A very fat hare.

"It can really get me into trouble"

Wei Ran took the fat, dead hare from Beria's mouth, who was staring at him, and looked at it, and finally had no choice but to throw it into the carriage.

Driving all the way back to grandma's house at lightning speed, Wei Ran, who arrived two hours later than the expected time, worried the two elderly people, but did not attract the attention of those drunks who were too drunk and fell asleep with jet lag.

However, before he released the two big-eared foxes from the flight case, a phone call came.

After glancing at the unfamiliar number and the place where he belonged, Wei Ran put a muzzle on Beria first, and then pressed the answer button.

"Hello, is this Mr. Wei?" On the other end of the phone, a man with a strange tone asked in substandard Chinese.

"it's me"

Wei Ran patted Beria's dog's head, followed the two old people into the shared living room and responded briefly.

"Hi Mr. Wei"

The man on the other end of the phone paused, and said straight to the point, "I have another photo album in my hand, and I want to meet you."

"What's the name?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

After a short pause, the man on the opposite side replied, "That's right, the person who really wants to meet you is Mr. Hannibal Simpson. I'm just a Chinese translator hired by him. My surname is Tang."

Tang translation?Hannibal?Who gave such a vigorous and appetizing name?
Secretly slandering, Wei Ran said with a normal expression, "Mr. Tang, please tell Mr. Simpson that I have been in the capital of China for the past week. I welcome and look forward to meeting him."

"In fact, Mr. Simpson has already bought the ticket for the last flight this afternoon." Translator Tang on the other end of the phone said, "The flight we took will land in about 16 hours. You meet."

"Send the flight information later." Wei Ran paused, "I will pick you up when the time comes."

"Then I will trouble you." Translator Tang said politely before hanging up the phone.

What's in the second half of the album?While Wei Ran muttered to himself, the other party also sent the flight information.

After forwarding this message to Xia Shushi, Wei Ran dialed it directly, and made an appointment to pick him up at the airport tomorrow, and asked the other party to help arrange accommodation.

After hanging up the phone, Wei Ran had time to release the two big-eared foxes that were still locked in the air box, and introduced the three pets to the crooked pug that seemed to have been kept at grandma's house.

"I heard your kid was attacked?"

Wei Ran's grandfather asked tentatively, and the other three old people in the same living room also subconsciously looked over.

"There is indeed such a thing, but I pretended it in the news."

Wei Ran secretly sighed in his heart, and had to explain again by raising his arms, kicking his legs, lifting his clothes and lifting his trouser legs, which dispelled the worries of the elders - even though they had heard it from the mouth of Sui Sui who came back first Same explanation over and over again.

"This little devil is not a special thing." Sui Sui's grandfather slapped the table and cursed, "If you do all the evil things, they will be punished sooner or later!"

"No!"

The two old ladies echoed, and the next topic, not surprisingly, began to recall the painful memories of so-and-so's parents, brothers and sisters being killed by devils in some nearby village.

Accompanied by the four old people chatting until the sunset, seeing that the four pets in the yard have become familiar with each other, Wei Ran also explained clearly why Sui Sui, who had drunk too much, The others finally climbed up one after another.

Taking advantage of the busy dinner together, everyone also discussed the arrangements for the next few days.

It was both expected and unexpected, this time Jima and Maya planned to go to the south of Huaxia by themselves, and rejected Sui Sui's false proposal of arranging an interpreter for them with one voice.

They tacitly did not help these two friends who wanted to hide their secrets to expose the last layer of window paper, and the rest of the people also politely declined the two people's hypocritical invitation to form a group.

Jima and Maya were missing from the room, and after some discussion among the rest of the girls, Lu Xinda, a little girl who could speak Chinese but had never been to Huaxia before, unexpectedly became the most sought-after candidate for the group.

However, Sui Xin, who can also speak Chinese and even grew up in this country, took the initiative to undertake an important job.

She is responsible for taking Lola and Lola's younger sister Korawa to see a doctor. By the way, the girl also plans to ask Chen Guangling for advice on piano skills.

At this point, the rest of the girls don't plan to continue splitting up. Apart from deciding to take a day off tomorrow, taking advantage of dinner time, the next few days are so full that Maya is almost tempted to abandon Jima and return. organization embrace.

That's right, these girls are now planning to set up a women's group organization to make money and start a business together because of Ji Ma's emotion.

It's just that it's been a week, and the only name they negotiated, which barely satisfies most of the girls but only Sui Sui finds it embarrassing, is the Chinese pronunciation of "bigger and stronger".

Regardless of the name of this small group, the family dinner on the first day back was extraordinarily lively.

Of course, how many single old bachelors in this small village are whispering to each other to make them envious, but in fact they have really polluted the innocent scum nephew Wei Ran by them. I am afraid that even the village chief can't count them.

In the blink of an eye, the next morning, Wei Ran returned to the capital by the first high-speed train in the morning, met Xia Shushi who was waiting for him at the high-speed train station, and drove to the airport.

"Whose car is this?" Wei Ran, who was sitting in the co-pilot, refused the cigarette handed over by the other party and asked.

"Who else could it be?" Xia Shushi patted the steering wheel, "It's a beast, what's wrong? It's broken?"

“It's a bit broken”

Wei Ran nodded truthfully, this is indeed a broken car, a Lu Xun 80 off-road vehicle that looks very old and has been heavily modified a long time ago.Fortunately, the car was extremely clean inside and out.

"This car is a beast's baby"

Xia Shushi patted the steering wheel, "Except for me, only his little aunt and his sister can touch this car, let alone drive it, he can rush into the garage where this car is stored."

"Then why don't you drive another car?" Wei Ran asked helplessly.

"There's only one car in his garage." Xia Shushi said naturally, "I can't keep the ready-made car and rent another one, right?"

"When I didn't say it." Wei Ran paused, and couldn't help asking curiously, "What's going on with his family?"

"Hey, don't ask, it's a mess. Let me tell you about the origin of the person I'm going to pick up today?"

Xia Shushi, who obviously didn't want to discuss this topic in depth, stepped on the accelerator while changing the topic, and the car also increased its speed amidst the roar of the engine.

"The plane is at ten o'clock, and the name is Hannibal Simpson." Wei Ran spread his hands, "I don't know anything else."

"Hannibal?" Xia Shushi was stunned, "The Huaiyang cuisine I arranged for noon? Where can I give him the meat?"

"The whole fart of human flesh"

Wei Ran deliberately vaccinated the other party in advance, "You can translate what I say later, and don't translate blindly like last time."

"Just watch it." Xia Shushi made an ambiguous promise, obviously out of the kindness of his friend, and worried that he would be outspoken again.

In the gag chat, the two arrived at the airport smoothly before the flight landed and stood outside the pick-up gate.

However, after waiting for a while, the two of them froze when they received Hannibal Simpson and his translator Tang.

This Mr. Hannibal, who probably does not eat human flesh, is much younger than Wei Ran imagined. He looks at most 60 years old, with gray stubble all over his face, and a plaid that obviously crosses from the tropics and subtropics. Underneath the shirt was a gray tight-fitting shirt, with a pair of sunglasses stuck in a brown denim hat, and a pair of jeans and a pair of high-waisted desert boots on the lower body.

What didn't match such a neat attire was that his neck was wrapped with gauze, and his left hand was also wrapped with gauze, and it seemed that he was missing a little finger and a ring finger.

Looking at the Tang translator again, he was an Asian boy who looked to be in his early 20s and dressed as a student.

"Hello, Mr. Wei." Hannibal Simpson shook Wei Ran's hand actively, and at the same time greeted him in Chinese that he had only learned.

"Welcome to Huaxia, Mr. Simpson." Wei Ran shook hands with the other party, and the Tang translator immediately translated his greeting into English.

After some greetings and introductions, Wei Ran and Xia Shushi led Simpson and the two out of the airport and got into the car.

Contrary to Wei Ran's expectations, this Mr. Simpson was very satisfied with this tattered off-road vehicle, and bluntly said that he himself owns one and drove it across Australia a few years ago.

With the help of the topic of the car and the help of Xia Shushi and Tang Translator, after some communication between the two sides, Wei Ran got a general understanding of this Simpson.

According to his own statement, this Mr. Simpson is a native Australian. He owns a farm with an area of ​​more than 1000 hectares in Queensland, South Australia. The Tang translator is just a Malay student working on his farm. That's all.

When asked about the photo album, the simple and honest farmer said without hesitation that it was his father, Mr. Karan, and the father of the late sailor Chris, Mr. Hugo, in the 50s. At the end, snatched after murdering a captain.

When asked about the reason for murdering the other party, the old gentleman said an English word "revenge" from his mouth in a very straightforward manner.

Next, without urging at all, the old man explained that his father once had an older brother who was a comrade in arms fighting side by side with Sailor Chris' father, Mr. Hugo.

After all, the name Hannibal was inherited from his uncle.

Both Hugo and Hannibal were soldiers of the 27th Australian Infantry Brigade at the time.

The only difference is that the old Uncle Hannibal, whom Mr. Simpson had never met, participated in the Battle of Singapore in 1941, and was eventually implicated by the brigade commander’s desertion in line with the British tradition, and became a prisoner of the nuclear devils since then. I do not know whereabouts.

However, Mr. Hugo, the father of sailor Chris, was lucky enough to escape the disaster because he returned to Australia for a rest and held a wedding.

In 1942, Chris' father, Mr. Hugo, participated in the Battle of the Kokoda Trail, and his wife was also sent to Queensland, which is relatively safer, to live on the Simpson family's farm.

After World War II ended, Mr. Hugo, who took off his military uniform, became a sailor on an ocean-going fishing vessel. Simpson's father, Mr. Callan, also became a sailor under Hugo's bewitching after he became an adult.Hugo's wife and Chris, who is already born, continue to live and work on the Simpson family's farm.

What happened later was full of drama. In 1957, the young sailor Karan was fired because of a fight on board. Mr. Hugo, who was also on the same boat, also quit his job as the first mate and decided to take his younger brother with him. I can have my ten-year-old brother, Karan, work in a different boat.

Soon, the two of them found a new job——a recruited whaling ship, and they urgently needed a first mate and a good boatswain.

Not surprisingly, the two brothers, Mr. Hugo and Karan, who pretended not to know each other, easily obtained these two crucial positions on the ship, and within a short period of time, they followed the whaling ship Departed for the Coral Sea to start whaling operations.

Perhaps due to luck, this whaling ship quickly reaped the rewards. As the whales were killed, the captain of the recruiting ship decided to return to Hong Kong for supplies that night, and took out his treasured sake to entertain all the sailors. .

However, on that night, when Hugo, the chief mate, was sending the drunk captain back to the cabin, he accidentally discovered that there was an open photo album on the desk in the captain's room.

Driven by curiosity, he picked up the crocodile-skin photo album. Then, he saw not only the captain in military uniform holding a samurai sword in the photo album, but also Karan's brother Hannibal. When I went to other comrades who had fought side by side with me, I saw photos of their beheadings!

That night, the first mate, Hugo, used the samurai sword hanging on the wall of the captain's cabin, and with the help of the boatswain Karan, killed the captain and almost all the recruited sailors on board, and took away the two he found. This photo album and all belongings.

After that, the brothers simply ran to the territory of Papua New Guinea, which was not yet independent, and hid in Samantha's primitive tribe for nearly a year before returning to Australia.

Since then, Hugo took his wife and son Chris back to Darwin Port to start a small business. Karan also completely gave up his job as a sailor and returned to his family's farm to become a cowboy.

Almost at the same time that Mr. Simpson finished talking about his father's experience, Xia Shushi also drove the car to a restaurant that looked quite distinctive.

While waiting for the food to be served, Mr. Simpson pointed to his neck with his gauze-wrapped left hand, and continued, "This is the origin of the photo album. The enemy who killed his brother back then was a chance for revenge given to him by God, so even if it happened a hundred times again, he would kill the executioner without hesitation.

It’s just that my father, Mr. Callan, and Chris’s father, Mr. Hugo, probably didn’t expect that they didn’t kill them all, so when Chris’s nephew Luke decided to sell the photo album, he and those innocent children were troubled. There was a fatal disaster, and it almost took my life. "

"So you were also murdered?" Wei Ran asked in surprise after Xia Shushi translated.

"You must know the killer who posted a video admitting that he was the murderer some time ago?"

Simpson spread his hands and said happily, "Unfortunately, he left my injury. If Don, who was working on my farm, hadn't heard my screams and woke up all the cowboys, I'm afraid My funeral is over."

Speaking of which, Simpson picked up his briefcase with his good hand, and with the help of Tang Translator, he opened the zipper, took out an crocodile skin photo album of the same style from it, and handed it to Wei Ran without reservation. "Look, this is another photo album left by my father. Of course, I won't ask for a hundred thousand dollars."

"It sounds like you are not familiar with that lucky Luke?" After listening to Xia Shushi's translation, Wei Ran asked while taking the photo album.

“really unfamiliar”

Simpson shook his head, "Luke's father is the younger brother of Chris's mother. He was a famous bad gambler. After he died, Luke lived with Chris. Chris and I only interacted with each other during the holidays. contact, and he lives in Port Moresby most of the time, it is not convenient for us to meet."

The co-authorship is the relationship between uncle and nephew?Wei Ran and Xia Shushi, who was in charge of the translation, said something in their hearts at the same time.

Until this time, Wei Ran opened the photo album that Mr. Simpson had just given him.

However, both Wei Ran and Xia Shushi clenched their fists when they saw the black and white photos inside. These photos still recorded massacres, but the background turned into a city full of ruins.

What made the two of them breathe the most was that those who were massacred were basically of Asian appearance, and quite a few of them were wearing long gowns that were quite in the style of Chinese and Republic of China costumes!
"Singapore Massacre"

A heavy word popped out of Simpson's mouth, "Mr. Hugo told my father, and my father told me. They said that these photos were taken during the Singapore massacre, those massacred , are local Chinese and overseas Chinese.”

"Mr. Simpson"

After listening to Xia Shushi's translation, Wei Ran stood up and asked solemnly, "What do you need me to do?"

(End of this chapter)