War Photographer's Notebook

"What's the question?"

In the stairwell, Wei Ran followed Karan who was holding a shotgun and asked in a low voice while running downstairs.

"Devil!" Karan's voice trembled with a hint of panic and suppressed anger, "Everyone on this boat is a demon!"

Hearing this, Wei Ran wisely did not continue to ask, and silently followed Karan all the way down, and finally returned to the hatchway of the cabin belonging to the four of them.

"Boom, boom, boom"

Karan carefully knocked on the door, followed by the curtain in the small round window on the cabin door being pulled open, a beam of dazzling light came out, and Wei Ran and Karan also narrowed their eyes subconsciously.

With a soft "click", the cabin door was opened, and the light was also extinguished.

"Come in," Hugo said tremblingly in the cabin.

It was said that Wei Ran walked into the cabin with no lights on at all, and the hatch behind him was also pushed open by Waloro and locked, while Karan stayed outside the hatch.

"Shh!"

Valorola closed the curtain of the cabin door, then blocked it with a piece of corrugated paper, and then turned on the lights.

It wasn't until this time that Wei Ran could see clearly that the only window in this cabin had also been blocked by a paper shell, and the four hammocks had also been taken off and thrown aside casually.

But at the position against the wall, the real first mate of the ship was hanging upside down on the iron rings on the wall that used to be used to fasten hammocks.On his drenched crotch, there were still stinky urine stains dripping down - it had been frightened to urinate.

The source of the horror was that one of its paws was tied to the edge of a chair, and the first knuckles of four fingers had been amputated, and each had been carried out with rope cut from a hammock. Rough bandage to stop the bleeding.

And on the chair, there were chopped fingers and a string of bird-of-paradise beak necklaces.

"Say what you just said again." While speaking, Valoro reached out and tore off the towel stuffed in the first mate's mouth.

The panic-stricken first mate shivered and stammered, "I fought on the Kokoda trail and killed many aborigines. My necklace was snatched from an aborigine. I cut off his limbs, and hung him from a tree."

"anything else"

Hugo, with a gloomy face, held tightly the samurai sword brought back from the captain's cabin and asked coldly.

"Me, I also killed a lot of Australian soldiers."

The first mate paused, and added in a terrified voice, "They also chopped off their limbs, and... and the second child."

"Where are the other sailors?" Hugo continued to ask.

"They're the same, they're the same as me!"

Seeing that Valoro had put the machete in his hand on the only thumb of his right hand, the first officer immediately sped up his speech and said, "Everyone on this ship has participated in the massacre on the battlefield. We Worried about being judged after the war, he became a deserter before the defeat, hid with the squad leader, and immigrated to Brazil after the war.”

"How did you ask?" Wei Ran looked at Valoro and Hugo.

"I found a photo in the room of the first mate and the second mate," Valoro said, and handed a photo frame to Wei Ran, "I asked along the photo."

Wei Ran frowned after receiving the photo frame. Not only did the first officer in the devil's military uniform appear in the photo frame, but he also saw the crew members who had paid special attention to these two days. Without exception, they were all wearing devil uniforms in the photo military uniform.

Behind these beasts with happy smiles in the frame, the background of the shooting is obviously the rainforest, or more accurately, the muddy Kokoda trail!

"Have you all participated in the Battle of the Kokoda Trail?" Wei Ran asked again, squatting in front of the first officer who was hanging upside down like a bat.

"Most of us have participated in battles in Southeast Asia, and some are from the Chinese battlefield."

The first officer, whose face was flushed because of the backflow of blood, replied in horror. The fearful appearance that was almost like a beast's stress was completely different from the rampant appearance when he was fighting on the deck.

"Huaxia?"

Wei Ran just muttered a sentence but continued to ask more questions. He just stood up and looked at Hugo and Valoro, but he still didn't say anything.

"I'm going to kill it," Valoro said, re-gagging the first mate's mouth with a towel.

"I'm going to kill the captain"

While talking, Hugo opened his suitcase, took out the submachine gun inside and assembled it together, saying, "There are no innocent people on this boat, and everyone on this boat does not need to survive."

Having said that, Hugo has loaded the magazine for the submachine gun, and hung the seven-pack magazine bag around his neck, "Victor, Valoro and I are going to kill everyone on this boat , do you want to help?"

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't say anything, just opened the metal cabinet, took out the Ithaca 37 shotgun from inside and carried it on his shoulder, and then took out the two magazine bags and fixed it on his belt.

Before it was over, he used the cover of the cabinet door and the sailor bag to take out the anti-Japanese sword, and at the same time said, "The captain has been tied up by me, we can deal with those sailors first."

"We need to deal with the third officer on duty in the command room first." Hugo picked up the command knife while speaking, "We have to deal with the third officer quietly first."

"Let's go together." Wei Ran opened the hatch while speaking, and was the first to go out.

"Valoro, gather in the crew dormitory cabin later." Hugo said, walked through the cabin door, patted Karan on the shoulder and said, "Come with us."

Hearing this, Karan put a bullet on the shotgun in his hand with a "click!", and then took another shotgun from his pocket and pushed it into the magazine.

"Don't shoot unless you have to," Hugo reminded in a low voice, and helped Valoro, who was still in the cabin, close the hatch from the outside.

"Come behind us, with the muzzle pointing up." Wei Ran also reminded Karan, who was holding a gun in his left hand, and walked to the command room with Hugo stepping on the stairs one after the other.

"Karan, you will be responsible for guarding the command room later, and no one is allowed to enter. You can shoot when necessary. Will you be afraid?"

"I've killed someone before I got on the ship, and the captain killed my brother." Karan said in a low voice, but his voice was unavoidably trembling.

Wei Ran couldn't tell whether the trembling was from fear, nervousness or excitement, but no matter what kind of emotion it was, this young man obviously had murderous intentions.

Soon, the three touched the door of the command room with lights on.

The third officer, who also drank a lot at the dinner, was sitting in the command room where the captain often took. On the chart table in front of him was a bottle of sake, a large plate of whale meat, and some what seemed to be marinated meat. Vegetables and other side dishes.

And on another table not far from him, there was a radio, which was playing the late-night program of Radio Brisbane.

Looking at each other, Wei Ran walked into the command room first, and at the same time hid the anti-Japanese sword behind him.

His undisguised footsteps naturally attracted the attention of the third officer, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at Wei Ran, who was smiling and had a camera hanging on his chest.

"Victor, are you here to have a drink with me, or are you going to take a photo of me?" the drunk third mate asked.

"Can't we do both of these things?" Wei Ran smiled and asked in Japanese, "What are you stealing?"

The third officer of "Rice Bran Pickles" picked up a palm-sized fish and asked enthusiastically, "Do you want to try it?"

"How about pouring me a glass of wine first?" Wei Ran asked with a smile, "I have prepared a little surprise for you."

"surprise?"

The three pairs subconsciously glanced at Wei Ran's hand hidden behind his back, put the fish in his hand back on the plate, bent down and took out a small wine cup from the compartment under the chart table, picked up the wine bottle and poured it Jiu asked, "What surprise? Did you also secretly take a photo of me?"

"Look at me"

Wei Ran greeted him abruptly, and the third officer, who had just filled the wine and put down the bottle, also subconsciously turned his head and looked over.

"puff!"

"laugh!"

Accompanied by a stream of blood splashing on the chart table and the operating table not far away, the head of the third officer also hit the chart table with a "bang", and finally stopped on the plate of whale meat, with his eyes wide open. He also quietly watched Wei Ran, who was spattered all over with blood, holding down the headless corpse that was still sitting on the captain's chair.

After shaking off the blood on the knife, Wei Ran slowly put the corpse down on the floor, then used the tip of the knife to lift up the hem of his jacket, exposing its belt, and then cut off the leather buckle with ease. Accidentally cut open the abdominal cavity of the third officer.

Bending down to pick up the leather buckle, Wei Ran took a look at the small copper piece from it, then put it in his pocket, turned around and walked step by step to the floor where the sailors' dormitories are located.

After a while, Hugo followed up alone with the samurai sword, while Karan stood guard at the door of the command room with the trench gun given to him by his brother.

There was no exchange and communication at all. After Wei Ran and Hugo went downstairs, they met the same blood-stained Valoro, who also had a few blood-red indigenous battle patterns on his face. They each held a knife and went straight. Quarters for sailors.

At this time, it was only about 20 minutes before the end of the dinner, but some cabins were already snoring like thunder, and in the bathroom next to it, there were also the sound of splashing water and wanton conversations in Japanese.

Looking at each other, the three of them walked into the bathroom in a row. Wei Ran, who was at the front, glanced at the curtain, then raised four fingers, and then pointed in different directions.

Seeing this, Hugo and Valoro nodded respectively, exchanged positions with Wei Ran for observation, and rushed into the bathroom together.

"bass!"

With a soft sound, the sharp anti-Japanese sword easily cut off the two arms that were rubbing the foam on the head, and then cut off half of the neck like a bamboo.

"Pfft!"

Almost when the corpse fell into the water curtain sprayed by the shower, Wei Ran also held the knife in both hands, and stabbed the wide and thick blade into the side. Shout out to the belly of the bare ass sailor.

"puff!"

Wei Ran slammed back and pulled out the Anti-Japanese Broadsword, and at the same time took away a finger subconsciously covering the abdominal wound, and then swung the knife again, cutting off the opponent's head.

Just when the head fell to the ground, dyed the bath water accumulated on the ground red, spun around and finally hit the corner of the wall, Hugo also stabbed a sailor in the back with the samurai sword in his hand, and Valoro Like Wei Ran, he chopped off the head of the last sailor who was taking a bath with his machete, which had traces of heavy use but was still sharp.

Shaking the blood on the blade, Wei Ran turned his head and walked out, only to find a sailor sitting on a chair and taking off his pants.

"Hi! Vic Poof!"

The sailor, who subconsciously wanted to say hello to Wei Ran, had already slit his neck open with a knife before he could finish his sentence.

"Pfft!" After the second cut, the sailor's head also rolled under the chair.

With a blank expression, he took off the small copper piece from the opponent's waist and put it in his pocket, and then randomly took off the copper pieces from the two belts and put it in his pocket.

As if inspired by Wei Ran, Hugo and Valoro each took off a small copper piece and put it in their pockets.

The three of them left the bathroom, and then went into the only bathroom on this floor to check. Seeing that there were no sailors, they immediately retreated to the corridor, each chose a cabin and went in.

In Wei Ran's cabin, there are two iron canopy beds fixed to the wall, a snoring sailor is lying on one of the beds, and there is a naked man beside the only table on the side of the entrance. An overarmed sailor is sitting on a chair and is writing something with a pen.

Seeing Wei Ran coming in, the sailor raised his head subconsciously, and couldn't help but froze when he saw the big knife in Wei Ran's hand.

Wei Ran wouldn't be in a daze, and didn't even give the opponent a chance to stand up, so he swung his knife and slashed at the opponent's neck.

Although this hasty knife killed the sailor, it did not cut off the neck, but stuck the blade between the bones.

Seeing this, Wei Ran simply let go of the blood-soaked knife handle, and rushed to the side of the devil sailor who was still snoring.

Seeing that the other party seemed to be sleeping soundly, Wei Ran looked around, and reached out to pull out the belt hanging on the trousers at the end of the bed.

Wrapped around the sailor's neck, then tightened it suddenly, in a back-to-back position, strung it behind his back with a belt, then got up, strangled its neck, and took two steps towards the center of the room .

In less than two seconds, the sailor, who was sleeping with the strength of alcohol, woke up with a start because of suffocation, struggled, scratched and clung around, and then tried to grab the tough belt around his neck.

But soon, his resistance became weak, and then he began to twitch uncontrollably, and finally became completely silent.

Loosening the belt and throwing it away, the sailor also fell powerlessly to the floor.Putting his upper body upright against the bed, Wei Ran unhurriedly pulled out the anti-Japanese broadsword stuck on the neck of the corpse next to him, first repaired it, and then after some gestures, he chopped it off expressionlessly. For the second head in this cabin, he found two small copper pieces and put them in his pocket.

Before leaving the cabin, Wei Ran conveniently turned off the lights and closed the cabin door.Almost on foot, Hugo and Valoro also came out of their respective cabins with knives in hand.

The three of them looked at each other, each compared a scissors hand representing the number 2, and then walked to the next cabin in silence.

The cabins of these ghost sailors are much better than those of Wei Ran. Not only do they not need to sleep in hammocks, but they are also two-person cabins, but that’s all there is at most. It’s impossible to install air-conditioning like the captain’s cabin.

Because of this, the doors of the second cabins that the three of them walked into were not closed. The only difference was that there was no one in the cabin that Valoro was in charge of.

Seeing this, he immediately walked to the third cabin, but Wei Ran and Hugo had already killed a sailor each.

After cutting off the second head in this room, Wei Ran couldn't help but gasped for breath. This was the eighth head of a sailor he killed, and also the eighth head of a dog he cut off.

Frankly speaking, it was really a physically demanding job, but it was also an activity that he couldn't stop.

Accepting the two small copper pieces again, Wei Ran helped to close the door before walking out, and then walked non-stop to the next cabin.

There is only one sailor in this cabin, wearing only a loincloth at this time, lying on his back on the bed, smoking a small incense stick, and staring intently at the poster of a beautiful woman pasted by the porthole.

"Is there a lot of people in the bathroom?" the sailor asked in Japanese without looking back.

"a lot of"

Wei Ran also responded in Japanese, but at the same time he swung the big knife in his hand.

"You are."

"puff!"

Ignoring the dog's head that was successfully chopped off, Wei Ran found the opponent's pants, and after removing the small copper piece, he became more and more proficient in turning off the lights and closing the door and walked out of the cabin.

Almost front and back, Hugo and Valoro just happened to get into the remaining two cabins on this floor.Soon, the two of them walked out of the cabin one by one.

"Nine, including the third officer," Wei Ran said first.

"Seven, including the first officer, but he should not be dead at this time," Valoro said second.

"Seven, I killed the second officer." Hugo pointed and said behind him.

"Not counting the captain, there are 33 in total, and now we have solved 23." Wei Ran casually wiped the blood on his trousers with a spatula while speaking.

"There are still a few dormitories downstairs, and there must be someone on duty in the engine room."

Hugo is an experienced sailor after all, "there is also the warehouse in the lower cabin. I remember there are guards there."

"Indeed." Wei Ran nodded, "There are two guards on duty, and their dormitory is right there."

"Let's act separately." While speaking, Hugo dropped the samurai sword and took off the Owen submachine gun that he had been carrying.

"I'm going to the engine room." Wei Ran said first, "By the way, deal with the guards in the warehouse."

"Then let's go downstairs." Hugo said decisively, "Victor, use your gun. The guards in the engine room and warehouse must be awake."

"I will use a gun when necessary." Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he ran to the stairwell impatiently.

Hugo and Valoro looked at each other. The latter put his machete back into the scabbard, bent down and picked up the samurai sword in his hand, and the two walked towards the stairwell one after the other.

Walking quickly to the lower cabin, Wei Ran saw from a distance that he was sitting under the corridor lamp between two adjacent warehouses, and there was a guard sitting upside down on a chair and dozing off.

Opposite him was the cabin where he lived with another guard who was on night shift here.

Looking up at the dim corridor lamp, Wei Ran hesitated for a while, but finally replaced the anti-Japanese broadsword in his hand with a Mauser bayonet, then walked over lightly, and stood in front of the guard.

After some observation, Wei Ran stretched out one foot to step on the crossbar in the middle of the chair legs, then stretched out his relatively strong right hand to cover the opponent's mouth, and pressed his head into his arms. , also used the knee of the leg that was stepping on the stool to support its lower back.

Soon, the sailor, who was at best slightly drunk, woke up and began to struggle.But soon, he noticed that the hand slowly extending from behind was holding a slender bayonet!

Almost when the point of the bayonet was about to touch his chest, the guard finally remembered that he had a sharp diving knife at his waist.

Thinking of this, he immediately let go of the hand that was trying to pull Wei Ran's arm away, and turned to touch his waist.

However, before he could untie the concealed buckle that fixed the handle, the bayonet in front of him pierced his shirt very slowly, then accurately passed between the two ribs, and finally pierced through it. The right lobe of his lung, and along the rib crevice, began a slow but powerful lateral cut.

Under the stimulation of this excruciating pain, the guard couldn't make a sound at all because the lung lobe was pierced. Those two kicking feet and twisting body were also caused by the person behind stepping on the chair in advance. There was no sound at all.

Gradually, the turbulent blood flowed into the lung along the wound, and gradually filled it, and the guard was finally drowned by his own blood—just like the ordeal suffered by Squad Leader Liang before his death in Savage Mountain .

After a short wait, Wei Ran let go of the limp corpse, let him lie on the back of the chair again, and kept dozing off, then walked into the cabin diagonally opposite.

In this cabin, which is larger than the upper floor, there is only one person sleeping soundly with a rolled up blanket. From the light in the corridor outside, Wei Ran can still see that there are still a few fixed on the wall beside his bed. Whaling Gun - A whaling gun for hunting dolphins.

And on the wall directly opposite the cabin door, there is still a set of skeleton specimens that seem to be dolphins, and various small objects such as keys are hung on those skeletons.

"Dolphin's eyes are delicious, right?"

Wei Ran muttered to himself, picked up a towel and covered the opponent's mouth, and before the opponent woke up, he stabbed the lung lobe with the bayonet in his hand, and then followed the opponent It pierced into one of the eye sockets, and after turning around easily, it moved to the other eye socket and turned around again.

Finally, he stabbed it in the neck and accurately cut the trachea, but Wei Ran didn't kill it, but turned around and walked out of the cabin, closing the hatch smoothly.

"Your copper pieces will come back later."

Wei Ran muttered to himself, then took out two keys from his pocket, and opened the two warehouses that he was responsible for registering, but he was not qualified to enter.

This first warehouse is full of frozen meat, some vegetables and fruits, besides that, there are also some medicines and the like.

Although the second warehouse has no freezing function, it has a much larger area. In addition to various supplies, there are also several large boxes of explosives, propellants and fuzes used in whaling guns.

In addition, there are barrels of spermaceti, which is more precious than whale blubber, and a tin bucket with a lid that can be the size of a small gas tank.

However, what was placed in this bucket were a few large or small irregular shapes that looked like stones but were light and weightless at all.

"Is it ambergris?"

Wei Ran muttered to himself, then closed the lid, and casually used a sack to pack some explosives, propellants, and touch-and-fuse fuses.

Carrying this bag of explosives to the door of the engine room, Wei Ran could vaguely hear the roar of machinery and equipment from a long distance away.

And not far from here, he also saw two engine crew sailors on duty, under a desk lamp, playing Go or backgammon one by one.

And a little closer, a room outside the door of the engine room was also lit at this time, and there were two people arguing in Japanese.

"Da-da-da! Da-da-da!"

Before Wei Ran put down the sack in his hand, the special sound of a submachine gun firing suddenly came from the direction above his head!
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately let go of the sack in his hand, and while retreating into the shadows in the distance, he took off the shotgun he was carrying and raised it to get ready.

Soon, the two sailors who were playing chess also ran out holding a chess piece each.

However, before they figured out why there was an extra sack in the corridor at the door.Wei Ranbian, who was less than three meters away from them, had already pulled the trigger!

"Bang! Bang!"

Two consecutive gunshots sounded, and the two sailors who were shot in the chest sat on the ground directly, and when the second brass shell hit the floor, Wei Ran had already walked to the hatch where someone had spoken before, and aimed at Inside pulled the trigger again!