War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1126 Unprepared End of Escape
After bidding farewell to the Nenets couple, Wei Ran found an opportunity to secretly take a photo of the Nenets couple waving goodbye in front of the stone house, and then drove a sleigh with Mesut to the main road. north direction.

What is different from before is that the ones pulling Mesut's sleigh cart have changed from two pregnant doe to nine dogs with bright red tongues sticking out, and his sleigh cart has also become the same as these dogs. Comes with a small sleigh.

These smart sled dogs are only half of the sled dogs raised by the Nenets couple, but even so, this dog sled is far faster than the reindeer sled that Wei Ran yelled at.

Two sleighs of different breeds ran with a distance of less than 50 meters from each other. When the stone house and the forest behind them were completely invisible, Mesut skillfully yelled at the dogs to stop , After Wei Ran behind him drove the reindeer to catch up, he said, "The couple just said that today is December 12th, and we are less than 20 kilometers away from the Ural Mountains."

"What are your plans?" Wei Ran asked after the two reindeer stopped.

"According to our current speed, we may be able to reach the foot of the Ural Mountains before Christmas."

Mesut paused, "Remember our agreement? If any of us is in danger."

"Remember." Wei Ran nodded, "You don't need to save me, and I won't save you either."

"Let's go," Mesut said, shaking the rope, and yelled at the dogs to turn west and start running again.

Behind him, Wei Ran took out the Kiev 30 camera with few negatives left, and pressed the shutter towards Mesut's back.

Thanks to this transaction, the speed of the two was much faster. After all, a lot of food was traded, which saved the two of them the most time-consuming hunting time.

Secondly, with these dogs around, they don't even have to take turns to be on duty at night to guard against the wolves. Even the fox meat they hunted before is not wasted, and all of them have become food for these dogs.

However, the good times didn't last long, and on the second day after they completed the deal, another blizzard blew up on this tundra!
It's just that this time, the luck of the two of them was really bad. They were still hundreds of kilometers away from the Ob River.Not only were there only two kerosene lamps used for lighting until late at night, but most importantly, two sled dogs pulling the cart also stepped on a beast trap set by someone who didn't know who was running wildly.

This sudden situation not only caused the dogs to fall into a ball, but the sleigh cart they were dragging turned over several times, throwing out the supplies on the cart together with Mesut!
Wei Ran, who had been drowsy on the sleigh, woke up immediately after hearing Mesut's screams, and hurriedly yelled at the reindeer to stop, and ran towards Mesut with a kerosene lamp.

However, when he yelled at the dogs and turned the light of the kerosene lamp on the screaming Mesut lying on the ground, he frowned. A beast clip that can be the size of a washbasin!The huge and rusty blade of the beast trap has bitten his elbow fiercely!

When he came back to his senses, Wei Ran quickly put the kerosene lamp aside, and after some research, he opened the locking device of the animal trap first, and in the midst of Mesut's screams, he broke off the rusty blades and put him The broken hand was freed.

Before he could help Mesut to sit up, the cuffs of his buckskin robe were already stained dark red with blood, and this arm was loosely twisted into an angle that normal people could not do.

Helping him to lie flat, Wei Ran's heart sank after an inspection. Mesut's injury was far more than that arm, and his face had a large number of bruises, but most importantly, he One of his legs was also twisted from the middle of his thigh to an angle that normal people can't do, and it was twisted together with the sled dog's rein!
"Victor"

Mesut grabbed Wei Ran's cuff with his other intact hand, "Listen to me, Victor."

Seeing Wei Ran looking at him, Mesut reached into his pocket in a panic, took out a folded piece of paper and handed it to Wei Ran.

"This is my home address"

Mesut paused, "There is also Ihor's address. If, if you can escape, at least write a letter to my wife and Ihor's father."

"You should write this letter yourself"

While Wei Ran was speaking, he put away the folded paper, then got up and walked towards the reindeer sleigh a few meters away under Mesut's desperate gaze.

Fortunately, Wei Ran did not leave here as they agreed at the beginning, instead he brought the sleigh cart over, and carefully pulled Mesut up to lie down.

Looking around, Wei Ran found a nearby tree, set up the tent as quickly as possible, then pushed the sleigh into the tent, and then sent the dogs that were still alive into the tent and tied them to the tree , by the way, the two dogs who survived the injury but obviously couldn't survive were repaired each, which ended their suffering.

The corners of the tent were compacted with snow and the dog's dead body, and a few pitons made by Mesut himself were hard-pressed. He didn't go in until he was sure that the tent would not be blown into a flag by the snowstorm. After hesitating, he simply used the cover of the box to take out the kerosene lamp in the metal book and light it, and hung it on the tree trunk with a rock nail.

"Where did you get the kerosene lamp?" Lying on the sleigh, Mesut, half paralyzed, paused and added, "Why does it look like it was made in Germany?"

"found in that abandoned mine"

Wei Ran used an ax to unload a piece of wood from the sleigh cart while explaining indiscriminately, "I thought it might be useful, so I took it secretly."

Although he didn't return to Mesut's second question, Mesut didn't ask in detail, but murmured to himself after a while of silence, "You can leave me and go on."

"A friend, I won't leave you until the last moment."

Wei Ran said in a joking tone, "When I get to the Ob River, I will let your sled run south to help me attract attention."

Hearing this, Mesut couldn't help showing a bitter smile, even though he could tell that Wei Ran was joking.

After some preparations, he ignited the charcoal fire in the tin bucket. Wei Ran first asked the other party to drink all the vodka at the bottom of their last bottle, and then handed the gloves to Mesut, "I need to tie you up The sled car must ensure that you don't move around, the bone setting process will be very painful, you have to be prepared."

"bring it on"

Mesut, who had just had a drink, gritted his teeth and bit his glove, and let Wei Ran tie him firmly to the sleigh he built himself with a rope.

"What's your wife's name?" Wei Ran asked while tying Mesut's injured thigh with a rope.

"Jordan" Mesut clenched his gloves and replied vaguely, "Jordan Kruger is an Austrian girl."

"This name is suitable for playing basketball," Wei Ran couldn't help muttering.

"basketball?"

Mesut didn't even have time to mutter this, Wei Ran grabbed his leg and started bone setting work, and Mesut also forgot about basketball, and put all his energy into screaming and clenching his gloves on this matter.

It took a lot of effort to help the German guy align the broken bones, Wei Ran changed the subject while fastening the temporary splint and asked, "Do you still remember the Soviets you killed? "

"Remember, why don't you remember?"

Mesut, who lost consciousness several times due to the pain and then regained consciousness due to the pain, was already in a cold sweat, but still explained tremblingly, "I don't regret killing them until now."

"Why?" Wei Ran asked casually.

"Didn't you kill them with me?"

Mesut only thought that Wei Ran was helping him to divert his attention, "Don't you regret it? If we didn't kill those drunks, what kind of torture would Kale's daughter suffer? How old was she at that time? I remember she was only 17 age."

"I have no regrets"

Wei Ran responded indiscriminately, fastened the splint with the cut animal skin, and then moved to the other end of the sleigh cart, while untying the arm that was broken by the animal clamp, he said, "Be patient, you can still bear it!" Going to do it again."

Hearing this, Mesut immediately bit the hand that Wei Ran handed over with one hand, closed his eyes and frowned, waiting for Wei Ran's torment.

However, Wei Ran frowned when he cut open the deerskin sleeve and the inner sleeve with a knife.The force of that animal trap was indeed strong enough, not only did it leave a hideous tooth-shaped wound on the upper and lower arms, but you could feel it with just a light pinch, and the bones inside were all shattered!

Sighing secretly, Wei Ran ignored Mesut's piercing screams and wailed, and tried his best to put together the broken bones he could touch as much as possible.

But at the same time, he also clearly knew that unless an operation was performed on such an injury, even if the metal book taught him the technique of massage and bone setting with one hand, even if the arm could grow well, it would be useless.

However, he did not tell the cruel truth to Mesut who was suffering.

After a lot of hard work, he barely aligned the broken bones of his arm and put a splint on it, but Mesut had completely lost consciousness due to the severe pain.

Covering the unkempt German guy with a wolfskin blanket, Wei Ran sighed secretly while sitting by the tin bucket burning with charcoal fire.

He imagined countless possibilities, even prepared to be framed by the Nenets couple, and even died halfway through the Ural Mountains, but he never imagined that the one who really kept Mesut here forever was actually These are the beast traps left by an unknown polar hunter.

What would the wounded Mesut do before the blizzard, in that fragment of history that had no one of his own, in this wild tundra that was unknown and unnoticed?

Almost subconsciously, he thought of the Nenets couple. It was only a day's journey away from the warm and sturdy stone house. Even if the two sled dogs were missing, he might barely be able to run back.

Lifting up a corner of the tent door to look at the sky outside, and then at the comatose Mesut, Wei Ran sighed secretly, took out the Kiev camera in his pocket, and used one of the three remaining negatives. Looking at everything illuminated by the ice-blue light in the tent, he lightly pressed the shutter.

(End of this chapter)