War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1136 Clues from Irkutsk
With their respective harvests, Wei Ran and Jima took the car driven by Niniel's men, dressed up in disguise, and quietly returned to the hotel room.

"You really don't want this?" Ji Ma weighed the two gold bars in his hand and asked Wei Ran.

"You keep it"

Wei Ran responded absently, but his attention was all on the brass casings of the two 12-gauge shotgun shells in the vacuum-sealed bag he brought back.

"These two broken shell casings are also made of gold, right?"

Ji Ma first threw the gold bars in his hand on the table, and while joking, he also moved closer, took the sealed bag in Wei Ran's hand and weighed it, "The copper ones are all green and rusty."

"Certainly copper"

Wei Ran prevented the other party from opening the sealed bag, "This is the M19 copper shell shotgun issued by the United States during World War II. This thing is much more waterproof than the paper shell."

"I've reproduced this copper-cased shotgun myself before"

Ji Ma returned the shell casings in the sealed bag to Wei Ran, sat down on the sofa and said, "But it's not much cheaper than plastic casings."

"Plastic shells didn't appear until after the 60s." Wei Ran said while looking at the shells again, "Before that, they were basically copper shells and paper shells."

"So is there anything special about this thing?"

Jima asked curiously. Although he was the first to discover these things, he didn't look at them carefully, and he couldn't understand the English case report. He just glanced at the bloody photos.

"It's related to the murder in the photo." Wei Ran casually explained, "These two bullet casings are probably one of the physical evidence, or the only physical evidence."

"That head was indeed shotgun"

Jima, an experienced hunter, nodded affirmatively, picked out a picture from the pile of photos, and said, "I used shotguns to kill a crazy wild dog from the front, and its skull is also like the one in this picture. Skulls are about the same."

"You didn't find the negative, did you?" Wei Ran finally confirmed.

"No." Ji Ma shook his head.

"When do you plan to go back?" Wei Ran raised his head and asked.

"The day after tomorrow." Jima thought for a while, "We've been here for less than a week, and it's time to go back."

"I'll go back with you when the time comes," Wei Ran raised his head and said.

"no problem"

Ji Ma immediately agreed, he came here to cover Wei Ran this time, besides, he had played what was supposed to be played, and went to the hot spring with Maya as he wished, so naturally he should go back now.

After discussing the time to return, Jima took out his mobile phone and called Maya pretending to be drunk, and hung up the phone after the other party pretended to be angry and complained.

"Would you like to go to the hot spring later?" Ji Ma put away his phone and asked.

"Forget it." Wei Ran waved his hand and was about to say something when Diane called.

Before he could speak, Ji Ma got up, picked up the two gold bars and knocked on each other, and left Wei Ran's room first.

While Jima helped close the door, Diane on the other end of the phone also briefly described the current situation.

As expected by Wei Ran, during the past three or four days, the little Mr. Mesut, who has never shown up, did not find out any valuable clues at all.

Seeing this, Wei Ran took advantage of the situation and said that he was going to take a friend's private jet back to Russia and look through the files again, and then he might go to Finland for a while.

Naturally, Diane would not have any objections. At the same time, she also expressed that she would temporarily stay in Sapporo, where the recruitment was conducted, to help Mr. Mesut handle some matters, so she could not rush back to Kazan with Wei Ran.

Naturally, Wei Ran would not have any objection to this, he even wished that Diane would not have to go back with him.

Right now, all the official business on the surface and the business in the dark are all done, and then naturally I have to have a good time in Kobe with my good friends Jima and Maya who invited me to play.

Of course, before that, both Wei Ran and Ji Ma had to take advantage of last night to pretend to be drunk and rest for half a day.

Near the afternoon, Jima and Maya, who brought Marta back, performed a lively scene of "the girlfriend is angry, and the boyfriend is serious about coaxing for an hour", and then they were watching the lively Marta Under the leadership of the tower, Wei Ran, who was also full of alcohol, went to the nearby Liujia Mountain Observation Deck.Blowing the cold wind for an hour like a fool, just to see the night view of the city.

Before going back to the hotel, I went to a nearby so-called century-old hot spring to soak in a hot spring. The group of four finally ended the day wasted by hangover.

In the blink of an eye, the next morning, when the beautiful translator Marta took the three of them wandering around various scenic spots in Kobe, Wei Ran also received a few photos from Anfeya and some photos from Irkutsk. intelligence.

According to the mailing address provided by Wei Ran, a girl from Hela who had been staying behind took a transport plane from the polar town of Tula to Irkutsk, and successfully found a supermarket with stick products in the urban area.

Although the specific process was not elaborated, the girl from Hela got a lot of key information.In this information, a total of three people were involved.

First of all, Andrei Suharya, the founder of this supermarket containing stick products, is undoubtedly the neglected prisoner of the Second Devils, but he has a Soviet wife, a son and a daughter.

However, his son passed away unexpectedly as early as 1993, leaving no heirs.About a year later, in 1994, the couple emigrated to Irkutsk after the loss of their son.

The second is Andrei's daughter. She did not immigrate to Irkutsk, but had already married and had children in Hanbang country before that. She had her only daughter, who is now the owner of this supermarket.

However, his daughter also did not get a good death. As early as 2010, she divorced her husband and passed away due to illness in 2012.

Finally, there is the current shop owner, the granddaughter of Andrei, a prisoner of the Second Devil. This old girl in her 30s is still unmarried. After her parents divorced and her mother passed away, she came to Irkutsk to join her grandparents. In 2006, after Andre and his Maozi wife passed away one after another, they inherited this small supermarket.

There are two and a half pieces of key information involved here. First, a photo taken by Andrei, a prisoner of the Second Devils, before his death shows that this old guy is exactly the owner of the dilapidated two-story building in Hiroshima— — It’s just that I use the special name of Ihor Yaxin.

Secondly, Wei Ran remembers clearly that Ihor's son also passed away due to an accident early on. This Andre's son also passed away due to an accident as early as 1993. If this is a coincidence, it is inevitably too coincidental.

Suppressing the doubts in my heart and continuing to look down, Andre's son, the uncle of the female supermarket owner, did not leave any heirs.

The last half of key information is that the female shopkeeper in her 30s doesn't even know whether her grandfather has a devil friend, or even that his grandfather was a prisoner of war.

In other words, the clue has actually been broken here, but Wei Ran has a smile on his face.

Now that the clues have been broken, can't you just make up your own?
At the same time, he also probably wore some things about Ihor before his death.

To put it simply, Ihor sold his house by force before his death, extorted a large sum of money from Mesut, and then bought a house in Hiroshima in the name of Andre.

On the other hand, Andre owed Ihor a sum of money. From this incident, it can be seen that the two may have a close relationship.It is even possible that the sons of these two people may have died in the same accident.

I just don't know why the two sons died unexpectedly.
Could it be an accident to find the missing Mesut?

Wei Ran came up with a bold idea like a flash of light, and couldn't help feeling in his heart that the possibility of this guess seemed very high!
If so, this would be very interesting, well, it seems that Mr. Mesut should be found as soon as possible
Wei Ran made a decision while turning off the phone screen, and then, led by the beautiful translator named Marta, followed Jima and Maya, talking and laughing into the ghost city. Chinatown.

(End of this chapter)