War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1139
At Brisbane Airport, Wei Ran and his group attracted enough attention when they walked out of the pick-up gate.There is no other reason. The seven girls in this line, including Jia Ya, almost cover the aesthetic needs of most normal people.

As for Wei Ran, Ji Ma, and Brother Yang who came to arrest people, they were treated as security guards without any surprise.

“Fortunately caught up”

Jia Ya glanced at the big screen at the airport, and said in Russian as she walked to the rest area familiarly, "their flight will land in less than half an hour, if you don't want to be caught by me My eldest nephew holds grudges, so he can hide for a while."

"No, we're staying."

Jima, who had already heard Wei Ran's explanation on the way, was the first to gloat, "We are Ms. Jia Ya who I met at the airport. We don't know anything else, but we don't mind to see what happens later."

"Ji Ma is right," Wei Ran, Sui Sui and Maya agreed in unison.

"Then sit down first"

Jia Ya raised her hand to signal everyone to sit down, "After we catch him, we will go back first, so we won't greet you when the time comes, so that the second generation will not blame you."

"I understand very much," Wei Ran said while sitting next to Sui Sui, but like the girls around him, Ji Ma and even Brother Yang, he did not hide the look of anticipation on his face at all.

Seeing this, Jia Ya shook her head helplessly, chose a seat next to Lu Xinda to sit down, and asked with concern how the other party's broken arm was recovering, and whether the dressing was changed in time.

During the extraordinarily long wait, the flight that Qin Ershi and Xia Shushi were on finally landed on the ground. After a short wait, Qin Ershi, who was wearing a floral shirt, beach pants, flip flops and a pair of toad mirrors on his face, also pushed A huge suitcase, and Xia Shushi, who was dressed almost the same, and the Tang translator, walked out of the airport with exhaustion, talking and laughing.

"Here..." Wei Ran beckoned to the three of them from afar.

"Why are you faster than us?" Qin Ershi waved his hands enthusiastically and ran over, but he didn't notice that another good brother Xia Shushi behind him couldn't bear to cover his face.

"Hitching a ride is definitely faster than connecting flights." Wei Ran asked in a friendly tone as a matter of course, "How is it? Are you tired on the road?"

"Hey! Brother, don't mention it. On the way, I can't wait to go to Iraq for a stopover. We left in a hurry, and we only bought the economy. Economy"

Qin Ershi, who was originally happily complaining about his suffering, didn't finish his sentence. His long face was still passable, but his face full of stubble had already appeared panic, despair, want to cry but no tears, and seemed to be bewitched. The complicated look that the good brother sold.

"Okay, come home with me"

While Jia Ya was speaking, she had already pinched Qin Ershi's ear with her hand, and that Brother Yang hooked his neck from the other side, and at the same time did not forget to tease, "The next time you call Find a place where no one is around."

"The cleaning lady?" Qin Ershi found the answer by himself while putting his ear to Jia Ya's hand.

"Not always"

Brother Yang grinned, gave an ambiguous answer, and at the same time grabbed Qin Ershi's suitcase.

Watching his unlucky friend being taken away before leaving the airport, Wei Ran looked at Xia Shushi with great joy.

"What can I do?" Xia Shushi spread his hands, "That little aunt threatened me, I can't offend her."

"Ok, Ok"

Wei Ran, who also betrayed Qin Er Shi, nodded in agreement, "That's right, I was also threatened by my little aunt, and I had no other choice."

"Okay, don't waste your time."

Xia Shushi obviously didn't take the trivial matter of betraying Qin Ershi to heart at all, first he greeted Lola enthusiastically in Russian, and after getting a pair of blank eyes as expected, he finally While greeting everyone to follow Tang Translator to go out, at the same time, he did not forget to say hello to Sui Sui, Ji Ma and others in turn.

When everyone got into a business car that was big enough for everyone to sit under the leadership of Tang Translator, the Tang Translator immediately said, "Mr. Simpson's family's farm is about 80 kilometers away from here. We want to find a Is there a place to have a meal and rest, or rush over now?"

After asking the girls for their opinions, and then Wei Ran and Jima, Xia Shushi, who looked the most tired, made a decision, "Since everyone is not tired, let's go to Mr. Simpson's first." Let's go to the farm."

"I'll have the farm cook prepare dinner ahead of time"

After Tang Translator finished speaking, he then greeted the white driver wearing a cowboy hat to drive away from the airport, and he also changed into vague Australian English, and communicated with the farm chef by phone about the upcoming dinner.

"Now, let's sort out the context of those two albums." Xia Shushi said.

"I'll come first"

Wei Ran glanced at Lu Xinda indiscriminately, "Avoid the important thing and let's not talk about the first photo album. The key character is a young man named Luke, who inherited the photo album from his uncle, Mr. Chris. photo album.

Unfortunately, Luke was killed because of that album, which also leads to a second album held by Mr. Simpson. "

"According to Mr. Simpson"

Xia Shushi took out a pack of tissues and handed them to Lu Xinda, who had red eyes, and continued to speak in Chinese that only a few people could understand, "His father, Mr. Karan, had an elder brother who participated in the Battle of Singapore during World War II and was killed." Prisoner of the Australian 27th Infantry Brigade, also named Hannibal, was brutally murdered by four executioners."

Wei Ran secretly flirted with Sui Sui, who was hugging Lu Xinda, and then added, "Mr. Chris, who has never met before, his father, Mr. Hugo, is also a soldier of the 27th Infantry Brigade, but he returned to Australia on a rotation leave. Married, who happened to escape the Battle of Singapore, who later fought at the Battle of the Kokoda Trail and became a sailor after the war."

"Then in 1957, after the war ended, Mr. Simpson's father, Mr. Callan, also became an adult, and also became a sailor, and was fired because of a fight on board. Mr. Hugo, who was on the same boat, resigned together. People changed it to a Japanese whaling ship, which we now know is called the Nagatsuka Maru.”

Breathing a sigh of relief, Xia Shushi continued, "According to the clues I investigated, of course, you also found out that the most wanted list at that time was only 28 recruited sailors, and there were no Mr. Hugo and Mr. Karan."

Looking up at Translator Tang who was sitting in the co-pilot, Wei Ran said, "Translator Tang, please play a song louder so that everyone will not fall asleep."

"Good Mr. Wei"

Translator Tang, who had been eavesdropping on the conversation just now, responded cleanly and reached out to turn on the music player of the commercial vehicle.

“The sound is too small”

Although Jima couldn't understand Chinese, his ability to perceive words and expressions was not bad. While muttering in Russian, he got up himself, leaned his upper body between the driver's and co-pilot's seats, and turned up the volume with his hand.

After bumping fists with Ji Ma, Wei Ran waved at Xia Shushi, and when the other party put his ear to his ear, he whispered next to his ear, "I have found the whereabouts of several executioners through some channels. , and also found the key physical evidence of the murder that happened on the whaling ship."

"What did you say?!" Xia Shushi couldn't help but exclaimed.

Glancing at Xia Shushi to signal the other party to pay attention to the situation, Wei Ran opened the briefcase that was always at hand, and handed over the photos and the case report found in Kobe, as well as the two bullet casings still in the vacuum plastic bag, to Xia Shushi one by one. over him.

Waiting silently for Xia Shushi to finish reading these three things, Wei Ran immediately put them back in his briefcase, motioned for the other party to come over again, and whispered into his ear, "According to the information provided by one of my friends, those four The executioners and their descendants are basically all dead."

Seeing Xia Shushi looking at him in amazement, Wei Ran had no choice but to motion for the other person to come over again, and leaned into his ear and said, "You must know that in Australia, the son was killed by a killer, and the grandson of a politician committed suicide by taking poison in prison. He also committed suicide by taking poison in the hospital."

"What about the rest?" Xia Shushi asked in a low voice.

"The dismembered captain has no heirs left"

Wei Ran continued to whisper into each other's ears, "The children of the other two executioners got married and started a family, but they all seemed to have died not long ago. According to the news, the female one seemed to have died of a heart attack. The male one seemed to have died of a heart attack. It seemed to be a suicide.

But the male one raised a mistress and gave birth to a son, and it is said that he inherited a lot of inheritance.The eldest son who was born in the first line also inherited a lot of money, but it seemed that he died of an accident not long after. "

"Oh—! I remembered!"

Xia Shushi patted his thigh, and leaned into Wei Ran's ear and said, "I've read the news, and I saw Lawyer Carlos on it, just your friend."

"Yeah"

Wei Ran nodded hurriedly, "I got the news through the friend introduced by that lawyer friend. The three things I showed you just now were also found by that friend from the inheritance inherited by that mistress."

"So that's what happened." Xia Shushi thought for a while and then said, "This is not right, what we are looking for is not."

"What we're looking for is indeed the negatives." Wei Ran gestured cryptically in the direction of the co-pilot, "but Mr. Simpson is not necessarily."

"How to say?"

"Mr. Simpson was scared to death"

Wei Ran whispered, "Is what he wants negatives? What he wants is a safe environment where no one is always thinking about cutting his neck. Think about it, you just need to prove that the executioners are all dead. Wouldn't it be more useful than finding negatives?"

"Yup!"

Xia Shushi slapped his thigh again, but immediately asked in a low voice without thinking, "But how do you prove it. Oh——! Got it! I got it! The gun and the bullet casing, right? As long as the two bullet casings are indeed the same If the gun is fired, it will prove it."

"Yes!" Wei Ran nodded without waiting for the other party to finish, "So you know what to do next?"

"Got it, got it!" Xia Shushi hurriedly agreed.

"You found this matter, including the discovery of these two bullet casings and those photos. You found it, and you just asked me to help bring it over, understand?" Wei Ran finally reminded.

"I understand, I understand too much."

Xia Shushi responded again and again, there is nothing he doesn't understand. Giving him all the showy things is equivalent to giving him Mr. Simpson's friendship. If he doesn't know how to do it, he is really stupid up.

"But what about those burnt photo negatives?" Xia Shushi asked, "Didn't you let your friend look through the devil's belongings?"

"The devil's family is fat, and he hasn't finished the search yet."

Wei Ran said truthfully, that the Sakurada Taoli who was killed by him did have a lot of properties that have not been recovered. Among other things, it is said that there is an old house on the Ryukyu side that has not been recovered. People help guard it.

However, Wei Ran did not rashly go to Ryukyu to look for negatives. The unknown death of Tori Sakurada's eldest son is enough to make people vigilant.Secondly, if you can find it, it's okay, but if you can't find it, it will be embarrassing.

That being the case, he doesn't mind letting the photo negatives that may exist in the old Ryukyu house temporarily be in the middle of Schrödinger's cat, and wait until he has a conclusion on his side before talking about other things.

Amidst the loud music, Wei Ran and Xia Shushi, who were sitting in the back of the business car, chatted for over an hour.The fully loaded commercial vehicle arrived at the gate of a flat pasture surrounded by surrounding mountains shortly after the two chatted.

"This Valley"

After Tang Translator turned off the music, he pointed out the car window and introduced, "Bounded by the mountains in three directions in the distance and the road we just left, all the land we can see in front of us is the farm of Mr. Simpson's family. .

"So big?" Sui Sui muttered dully.

"The land is about 10 square kilometers"

Translator Tang pointed to the other side after finishing speaking, "On the other side of the mountain in the distance, there is a land of about 4 square kilometers, which is also a piece of land originally owned by Mr. Simpson's family, and that is where we will go later. "

After a short pause, Translator Tang continued, "Soybeans, wheat and rapeseed are mainly grown here, and cattle and sheep are also raised here. A large part of the farm's output is exported to all over the world every year."

In his introduction, the commercial vehicle drove along the road on the edge of the farm to another large fenced farm that he had just directed.

As they got closer, the people in the car also found that the east, west, north, and north sides of the farm were almost entirely surrounded by a circle of nearly circular mountains, and only in the south was a flat land full of crops.

Drive along the road among the various crops to the foot of the mountain, and there is a large open space and wooden buildings in front of it - there is also a shooting range next to the foot of the mountain.

"Mr. Simpson has ordered us to get the house out in advance"

Translator Tang pushed open the car door, and while helping everyone move down the suitcases, he pointed to a two-story building next to him and said, "This is where Mr. Simpson's father, Mr. Karan, lived, and all his belongings are also in the Here."

"Is that shotgun also there?" Xia Shushi asked under Wei Ran's hint.

"Yes" Translator Tang nodded immediately, took out a key from his pocket, and opened the locked door of the wooden house.

As the door was pushed open, Wei Ran, Xia Shushi and Ji Ma who were walking in front were stunned.

The walls on the first floor of this room are covered with head specimens of various prey, including large prey such as wild boars and cattle, as well as small prey such as rabbits.

They even found two kangaroo books with bared teeth by the wall. In the pouches of the two kangaroos, there was a small kangaroo that seemed to be carved from wood.

"Mr. Simpson has said many times that taxidermy is an ancestral craft in the Simpson family."

Tang Translator and the cowboy driver introduced while helping the girls carry the suitcases, "Including now, Mr. Simpson's biggest hobby is making animal taxidermy."

"Is that the gun we are looking for?" Wei Ran asked, pointing to the shotgun held by a pair of horns on the wall.

"Yes, that's the one." Translator Tang responded immediately.

Hearing this, Xia Shushi asked as he walked over, "Can I take it off?"

"Of course." Translator Tang quickly said, "You can flip and use everything here as you like."

Hearing this, Xia Shushi immediately took down the Ithaca 37 trench gun and looked it over carefully.However, when he looked at Wei Ran, he found that his attention was on the table next to the wall under the gun rack.

On this log-style table, there is an old-fashioned hard leather suitcase. In the middle of the suitcase, there is also a sea anchor logo as big as the bottom of the washbasin. In the lower right corner of the logo, And the name "Karan Simpson" stamped on it.

"I've seen such a suitcase before," Lu Xinda said abruptly, who was quiet along the way.

"Have you seen it?" Wei Ran and Xia Shushi looked at Lu Xinda in surprise.

"seen"

Lu Xinda nodded, "Chris' father, who adopted me and Iger, has such a suitcase at home. Except for the different names, the rest are exactly the same, and there is a gun in it."

"A gun?"

"submachine gun"

Lu Xinda explained, "Brother Iger secretly took it out to play with before, and was almost broken by Chris' father, and then the box was put away."

"What kind of submachine gun?" Xia Shushi hadn't finished speaking, but Wei Ran had already reached out and pressed the buckle of the old-fashioned suitcase in front of him.

With a light "click", the suitcase was gently opened by Wei Ran, and then, an Irving submachine gun that was disassembled and fixed by a belt to the bottom of the suitcase, and five unpressurized guns were revealed. In addition to the bullet magazine, there are actually two American-style canvas ammunition pouches inside. Each ammunition pouch contains a full 12 rounds of American-made M19 copper-cased shotguns!

Almost subconsciously, Xia Shushi and Ji Ma looked at the briefcase that Wei Ran had been carrying!

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