War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1129 The Inescapable Prison
On the first floor of the sentry tower, which had been abandoned for a long time, Wei Ran, who had fallen on his back, helped the dog to get up again, but he did not pay attention to the quill that was busy with work. Instead, he raised his head and looked around. , frowning and observing the interior of the sentry tower.

This sentry tower that existed 70 years ago is still exceptionally strong today, but what Wei Ran really cares about is that this time the metal book used this watchtower to return to that period of history, but it is still accurately positioned. Wei Ran wanted to find Mesut, a German prisoner of war, and followed him through the whole journey from escape to death.

So the anchor point for backtracking historical fragments is not only the corresponding historical items, but also me?

Wei Ran muttered secretly, and only then did he have time to look at the metal quill that was busy on the pages of the metal book.

In such a short time, the picture drawn by the metal quill has become a black and white photo.

On the top of the sentry tower in the photo, the dazzling searchlight is still on. Under the sentry tower, Mesut, Ihor and the young guard Panin are standing side by side. The three of them also have faint smiles on their faces. meaning.

Thinking of the ending of these three people, Wei Ran couldn't help sighing, and moved his eyes to the lines written by the metal quill:

inescapable prison
Warehouse guard Panin Yaxin of the State Store, on November 1951, 11, was murdered by the war criminal Ihor and died of hypothermia during the pursuit of escaped prisoners of war. He was posthumously awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.

Prisoner of war Ihor/Toshiro Koyama, on November 1951, 11, escaped from the labor camp together with the war criminal Mesut Gotze.

On the 15th, he suffered a fracture in his right calf due to resisting the pursuit of wolves.

On the 16th, after discussing with Mesut, he pretended to give up the escape and returned to the labor camp, but actually fled alone.On the way, he successfully attacked and killed the warehouse guard Panin. Because of the resistance of the sled dogs, he was disabled by severed fingers.

On the 18th, Burning Wolf Smoke took the initiative to contact the hunting team of the labor camp, falsified the facts, forged the experience of tracking the lost deer and being attacked by wolves, and assisted hunting team member Sergey to find Panin's body with injuries.

On the 19th, he was sent from the labor camp to Tuluhansk Hospital for treatment.

On February 1952, 2, the war criminal Ihor was discharged from the hospital. He was rewarded with a one-month paid vacation and transferred to work as a salesperson in a labor camp store.

1953年4月28日，获得遣返资格，1953年12月1日，搭乘“兴安丸”号遣返归日。

Soon after returning to China, Ihor was living in distress due to his physical disability, so he wrote to try to contact Mesut's family to coax and extort him to survive.

In the winter of 2002, due to a fall on the icy road, the lumbar spine fractured and he was unable to move, and died of freezing in his own hospital.

Mesut Gotze, a prisoner of war, on November 1951, 11, cooperated with the recruitment of nuclear war criminal Ihor to escape from the labor camp.

On the 16th, he abandoned Ihor and decided to escape west alone according to the true plan.

On the 20th, traded animal skins with the Nenets to obtain sufficient supplies.

On the 21st, due to falling into a hunting trap by mistake during a blizzard, he suffered a thigh fracture, a comminuted fracture of his left arm and multiple vascular ruptures, and then fell into shock due to serious injuries.

On December 1951, 12, the surviving sled dogs and Mesut returned to the hunting and trading station by themselves.After being rescued by the Nenets, Mesut regained consciousness for a short time, and felt that there was no hope of escape, so he committed suicide in the cave after leaving a letter.

Sukhaya Tunguska No. 2 Logging Camp, established in 1948, was abolished in May 1953, and all prisoners were repatriated or amnesty.All staff were transferred to various places, and the original logging camps and mines were abandoned due to production and transportation problems.

So the camp was abandoned before the devil Ihor was sent back? 1953. It should be the masterpiece of Corn Kid, right?
Wei Ran muttered something to himself, and continued to look down. The metal quill then listed the detailed serial numbers of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor that Panin had obtained, as well as a set of extremely precise coordinates, plus a location in Narvik, Finland. Hong Kong address, and a Finnish mobile phone number.

Below these key messages, there is a sentence, "The truth has never been dressed up by those who survived, but history should not have been like this."

Gently turning the page to the back, under the slowly rotating red vortex, there is a sentence of emotion that seems to be a last word, "It's a pity that I didn't conquer the Ural Mountains myself. It may be the wall of this cold prison, but I don't know if there is the freedom and family I crave on the other side of it."

Sighing secretly, Wei Ran, with mixed feelings in his heart, turned the page back to the previous page, and took out a few negatives from the paper bag next to the photo.

Fortunately, there were quite a few negatives of the photos he secretly took along the way, even the few group photos he took in the labor camp.

It’s just that there is a slight difference from what he experienced. These negatives are not the 30mm negatives used in the Kiev 16 spy camera, but the relatively more normal 35mm negatives.

After thinking about it, he also understood that these cameras were probably taken by the Kiev 2 camera used by the woman in the labor camp store.

After all, Ihor even stole the woman's watch, there is really no reason not to steal the relatively more valuable camera.

Hate it lasted so long
Wei Ran muttered to himself, put away the fastened metal book, and took out the latest thing in the red vortex.

However, when a sleigh cart nearly two meters long and less than 80 centimeters wide appeared on the first floor of the abandoned sentry tower, he frowned.

He was sure that the sleigh was indeed the one Mesut had made himself, but there was something more and something missing from it.

Let me talk about the few things first, maybe I know that Wei Ran will not find reindeer to pull this car, or that poor book knows that he can't do it, so he can't provide reindeer to pull the car.

Therefore, the three shafts that existed in this sleigh car, which are 3 meters long after being pulled out from the bottom of the car, have been reduced to only two short shafts that are at most 1.5 meters in length, but can be screwed together like screws. , fortunately, they can also be received under the sleigh cart.

In addition, the box at the rear of the car, as well as the pair of skis and snowball fights also made by Mesut in the box were gone, but he was left with a pair of oval snowshoes with a fairly solid workmanship as a symbol. It was fastened to the rail at the tail of the sled with a leather buckle.

If there are few, there will naturally be many. At this moment, the sleigh is still covered with a piece of white glued canvas.

When he opened the canvas, the first thing he saw was the white polar bear skin on the sled, the reindeer blanket rolled into a roll and placed in the corner, and the tent.

He didn't even need to open it, he immediately recognized these three items, they were originally placed on the half-track motorcycle, and later appeared on the trailer of the half-track motorcycle for a short time.

Later, after giving it to the difficult-to-deliver crawler, the trailer was gone, and these three things returned to the back seat of the half-track motorcycle again.

Now that you have a sleigh, why are these things moved here again?Wei Ran glanced suspiciously at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth.

Strictly speaking, regardless of whether these three items or the half-track motorcycle, they are all customs clearance rewards for his ten inventories, so this reward can actually be placed anywhere?

Without moving these three things, he looked at the wooden box on the sleigh cart covered with fox fur as a seat.

The box is 50 centimeters high, 60 centimeters wide and 70 centimeters long.The reason why he was so clear was naturally that Mesut, the rigorous German prisoner of war, said it while chatting on the way to escape.

According to Mesut at the time, this size was just right enough to be used as a stool in a sleigh cart, and it could also be used as a ruler.

Wei Ran really doesn't care if the box can be used as a ruler, he actually values ​​the storage space provided by the box more.After all, the food box was too small after all.

However, when he opened it, he was inevitably a little disappointed - the box was already full.

On the top of the box is a white buckskin robe called "Mariza" by the Nenets.

Not only are the elbows, cuffs, and shoulders of this robe reinforced with thick canvas, but there is also a belt around the waist that tightens the waist and prevents wind.He remembered clearly that this was Sergey's birthday present to him.

Under the buckskin robe, there was a folded white sheet, and it continued to go down, but it was next to each other, each of which could hold two liters of glass jars.

The canning jars ranged from solidified white tallow to homemade canned red meat, fruit and vegetables including pickles.

Even, the two cans of the same size at the farthest position were filled with flour and full-grained oats respectively.

"When my hungry eyes turned blue in Leningrad, I wish I had something in this box." Wei Ran picked up a can of red meat and muttered to himself while looking at it.

Restoring the box and the contents inside, Wei Ran took out the half-track motorcycle and looked at it without giving up. Sure enough, the tent and the two animal skin blankets were no longer on the half-track motorcycle.

Reluctantly speaking, he also took out the rest of the things and checked them, which really made him discover something new.

In the silver cigarette case obtained in the last battle of Leningrad, there is now an extra elongated cigarette holder made of antlers.

Compared to this little surprise, when Wei Ran was sitting on the sleigh that hadn't been put away yet, when he entered the set of coordinates provided by the metal book into the satellite map, the location point that jumped out was as he expected , on the edge of a tributary about 150 kilometers east of the distant Ob River.

"I ran so far"

Wei Ran couldn't help admiring, but then shook his head again, Mesut was unable to escape after running so far, but Ihor survived by luck, which makes people sigh that God has no eyes.

After a long sigh, he finally put away the doomed useless sleigh, and then Wei Ran took off the flashlight hanging on the animal clip, and took the horse fur notebook with the pocket watch-style compass fixed on it and the horseshoe Knife, together with his dog Beria, left this long-forgotten watchtower and returned to the warm truck against the biting cold wind.

There was nothing to say all night, when Wei Ran and Sui Sui were woken up by the alarm clock, although the sky outside the car window was bright, and the sun could be seen in the distance, but the dim brightness was so dim that even the lights in the refrigerator could not be seen. Not as good.

"Where are we going today?" Sui Sui, who got a good night's sleep from the alcohol, turned over and lay on Wei Ran's body and asked enthusiastically.

"Go to an abandoned cave dozens of kilometers away, and if we find nothing, we will go back."

Wei Ran embraced the former and explained that the abandoned cave was naturally the abandoned gold mine where Ihor pitted himself to death, and it was precisely mentioned in the information provided by Diane, where the horse fur notebook was once found.

"Are you in a hurry?" Sui Sui softly asked in his ear.

How Wei Ran answered this inconspicuous little question is obviously not important, when the sticky, greasy and crooked two of them finally opened the door refreshed from the big truck that started to shake without wind for some reason At that time, the sky outside was getting brighter, and the Kajianka sisters who woke up almost at the same time in another car had already filled their stomachs with instant noodles imported from Huaxia.

Without wasting any more time, everyone packed up the camp and continued along the river. It took another 6 hours before they found the cave on the edge of the river in the dark.

However, when they drove the car to the entrance of the mine, what Wei Ran saw was not the locked wooden door at the beginning, but a scene that had collapsed for a long time and had been filled up by snow and shrub stumps.

"Let's go, let's go back."

Wei Ran made his decision without even getting out of the car. He already knew the answer, so he came here to have a look and had no hope other than acting.

"Aren't you going to look for it?" Sui Sui asked rather unwillingly.

"No need to go"

Wei Ran shook his head, and explained while controlling the car to turn around, "Relying on the four of us, we can't dig here even if our arms are worn out. Since this is the case, there is no need to waste time, go back early, and then go to the devil's side to see See if there are any clues."

"You go by yourself?" Sui Suo asked subconsciously.

"Aren't you going?" Wei Ran asked back while increasing the speed of the car.

“Not very keen to go”

Sui Sui yawned uninterestedly, got up and walked to the bathroom at the rear of the car while explaining, "I prefer the devils who died in Siberia, and I don't like the devils who are alive, it will easily cause physical discomfort."

"Who did you learn these words from?" Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded.

"Your grandfather and my grandfather have already talked about it."

"Don't do devil's business, don't give them a dime." Wei Ran said the same sentence with Sui Sui while reducing the speed of the car.

This is not an ancestral precept, but the only request made by the two old men in Baiyangdian when Suisui's mother was about to pull Wei Ran's parents into a tourism business.

Now, although the business of the two companies is getting more and more prosperous day by day because of Sui Sui's tossing, the rules set by the two old men who provided most of the start-up funds have been kept.

"You know it"

Sui Sui waved her hand, "I won't go, but if you need it, I can find you an interpreter."

"There is no need for an interpreter." Wei Ran slightly increased his voice, "I am on a business trip, so the employer must provide an interpreter."

Hearing this, Sui Sui yawned again in relief, and then got into the bathroom at the rear of the car.

While the girl was going to the bathroom, Wei Ran didn't bother to look at the current time in Kazan or Germany, took out the satellite phone and dialed Diane, the head of the Edelweiss Organization.

After a long wait, Diane on the other end finally got through the phone and asked directly, "Mr. Victor, did you find out anything?"

"How could it be so fast"

Wei Ran glanced at Sui Sui, who had returned to the co-pilot, and said slowly, "I found the labor camp yesterday, and now I am at the entrance of the mine where Mr. Sumet found the notebook, but I don't know whether it is natural or man-made. , this place has collapsed."

"Since it is"

"So I'm going to go to Ihor's house in Sapporo to see if I can find any clues."

Wei Ran paused and continued, "So I need to trouble you to contact Mr. Sumet and help me arrange the itinerary."

"When do you plan to leave?" Diane asked without the slightest hesitation.

Looking at Sui Sui again, Wei Ran said, "It's early December, as early as possible."

"I'll notify Mr. Little Mesut right now." After Diane finished speaking, she simply hung up the phone.

Leaving the itinerary to Sumei Suter, who had never met before, it took Wei Ran, Sui Sui and others another whole day to return to Turukhansk, and took the cargo plane back the next day Kazan.

After a few days of tossing back and forth, the video of Wei Ran participating in the Wilderness Survival Invitational was edited by the seniors of Time Film Studio, and Sui Sui personally posted it on the website produced by Anfeya for her business and on various It is available for free viewing on social platforms.

Just when those netizens complained about the historian's various amateur and even deadly performances in the video, a piece of insignificant news was also screenshotted by An Feiya and forwarded to Wei Ran's mobile phone.

On the first floor of Dabieye by the Kaban Lake, Wei Ran, who was busy making candied haws for the girls in the kitchen, took out his phone and looked at it, then frowned.

This news is nothing more than a mention of a Japanese-French man who had a serious car accident on the highway due to alcoholism on the fourth day after inheriting the inheritance.And this Frenchman of Japanese descent is precisely the eldest son of Sakurada Tori who was murdered by Wei Ran!

"Who did it?" Wei Ran put away his phone and asked in a low voice to An Feiya who walked into the kitchen.

"unclear"

Anfeya replied in a low voice, "It's not Charon, it's not Hela, it's not Niel or any official or unofficial force I know, but it's definitely not an accident, and the biggest suspect at the moment is the eldest son's wife. "

"For inheritance?" Wei Ran frowned.

"It's not clear"

Anfeya spread her hands, picked up the stainless steel tray with rock candied gourds and finally said, "When he got into a car accident, the mistress we controlled was on the flight from Hawaii to Dongjing, so she had a perfect alibi .

But the more this happened, the more I felt that the death of the eldest son was a murder, and the person who did it was obviously implying that the people behind the mistress had no malicious intentions. "

Hearing this, Wei Ran frowned, "Let the girls of Succubus and Hella be more careful."

"Are you going to recruit again soon?" An Feiya finally asked.

"Go, of course, he's not my eldest son, it's none of my business whether he dies or not," Wei Ran replied as a matter of course.

Anfeiya didn't ask any more questions after hearing that, she walked out of the kitchen with a few strings of barely successful candied haws on the tray, and distributed them to Sui Sui and other girls who were playing games on the computer.

In the kitchen, Wei Ran picked up a bunch of failed products and took a bite, secretly wondering who did it.

Could it be Jia Ya?

Wei Ran frowned. After thinking about it for a while, apart from the members of the Hongqi Forest Farm and Ninell who are not interested in this kind of thing, the one who is capable of doing it is probably the woman named Jia Ya.

Not to mention the teachers of Hongqi Forest Farm, they are not so kind.Not to mention Ninel, he is a trustworthy friend, and if he asks, he will definitely help.

But if he didn't mention it, he would definitely not take the initiative to kill the eldest son, and even if he did it in his spare time, he would definitely tell himself early.

But that Jia Ya, that dangerous woman, Wei Ran really couldn't see through.

He couldn't see through the hypothesis that Jia Ya killed the eldest son, what benefits would she gain.It is also impossible to see how much energy she has, whether she can let the eldest son die legally.

You know, there is a difference between killing and murder, and legal death.

Especially legal death, such as being killed by Wei Ran, no, such as the ghost Sakurada Tori who committed suicide, it is a legal death.

After such speculation, Wei Ran felt a little shivering down his spine. If the eldest son was indeed legally killed by Jia Ya in a similar way, then who was behind Jia Ya?

He couldn't think of a reason until all the failed candied haws went into his stomach.

(End of this chapter)