War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1299 The Trouble Brought By Fame

In the darkness, two cars were driving one behind the other a hundred meters apart on the muddy road that ran through the farmland.Above the two vehicles, there was a small drone quietly following them.

However, just as Marta's van passed a fork in the road and was about to turn onto the dilapidated road heading towards Donetsk, there was a gunshot that could not be detected in the car. However, the side tire exploded violently, and the front of the van tilted. It lost control and plunged into the wheat field that had just begun to sprout sprouts on the side of the road, and rolled over.

Upon seeing this, Wei Ran, who realized something was wrong, immediately stepped on the brakes and turned on the car's high beams and the row of dazzling lights on the roof rack.

It was through this light that cut through the dark night that he clearly saw someone emerging from the roadbed drainage ditch on the other side of the road and fired at him. Then, the car that had been stopped by him also followed suit. It trembled and sank forward to the right with a "bang" sound.

He knew that the front right tire of his car must have been blown out, and judging from the fact that he had not heard any gunshots from beginning to end, he had even roughly guessed the weapon used by the other party.

He quickly glanced at the rearview mirror. At this time, two people with weapons climbed up from the ditch on the side of the road towards the rear of the car and walked towards him.

Glancing again at the three people who were covering each other walking towards Marta's car and the other person walking towards him, Wei Ran took out the VSS silent sniper rifle and OTS38 silent sniper rifle from the metal book as quickly as possible. For the revolver, one loaded the bullet and the other depressed the hammer. Then he put them back into the metal book, and by the way, he pulled the magic scarf that Marta gave him before setting off to cover his face.

As soon as he finished his work, the two people who were attacking him came to his car, shined their flashlights into the window, and shouted his name in Russian to ask him to open the door.On the contrary, the one directly in front was blinded by the dazzling car lights, so he subconsciously covered it with his hand.

At the same time, Wei Ran also saw a small drone landing slowly above his head, and a soldier holding a remote control came out of the ditch on the roadside directly in front, stretching out his hand to catch the drone. A drone.

"Crack!"

Wei Ran unlocked all the car doors, and the enemies on both sides followed suit and grabbed the handle outside the car door with one hand. But at this moment, Wei Ran, who had already turned his body around and tried to get out of the car, failed. He pointed the small, silent revolver at an angle against the sunscreen-covered car window and pulled the trigger at the "doorman" outside the driver's seat!

"clatter!"

Amidst the sound of gunfire that was masked by the sound of the propeller of the drone not far away, Wei Ran didn't wait for the enemy who was separated from him by a car door to fall to the ground. The pistol he held in his left hand had already passed through the armpit of his right arm and pointed towards his back. The enemy who also opened the car door fired two bullets in a row!
After a quick look back, Wei Ran, whose upper body had already emerged from the car, pushed the body outside the door with the action of pushing open the door. The small pistol in his hand also fired a red laser.

"despair!"

Under the guidance of this beam of red light, Wei Ran pulled the trigger again and fired the last two bullets in the revolver directly in front of the car. The enemy whose eyes were dazzled by the car lights covered his eyes. On the backs of hands and neck.

After defeating the three enemies in the blink of an eye, the soldier who was taking back the drone finally noticed his fallen companions on both sides of the Weifan vehicle.

However, before he could change the remote control into a weapon, or before he could shout and jump off the roadbed, the revolver in Wei Ran's hand had been replaced by the VSS silent sniper rifle.

"clatter!"

Still under the cover of the noise of the drone's propeller, a steel rod silently penetrated the pilot's neck, spinning and tearing open the blood vessels and breaking the cervical vertebrae.

"Pfft!"

It was only then that the enemy in the direction of the car fell to the ground, but his movements were perfectly covered up by the noise of the drone.

Reaching out to turn off the car lights, Wei Ran first shot the enemy corpses on both sides of the car and in front of him. Then he jumped off the roadbed with his gun in hand, and ran quickly toward Mal in the muddy drainage ditch. Tower van direction.

At this time, the three masked men guarding the car had just smashed open the windshield of the van and were trying to pull Marta out, who seemed to be injured, but they did not even notice that they were just with them. Wei Ran, who was across the road, didn't even notice why the drone was still hovering two meters above the ground.

What Wei Ran couldn't understand even more was that no one showed up from where the enemy who recovered the drone was hiding, and there wasn't even any other ambush behind them.

This quality is also extraordinary.
Wei Ran muttered something in particular disgust, aimed his gun at the three people who had just pulled Marta out, pulled the trigger on the backs of two of them, and then subconsciously stretched out his hand towards the remaining person. A bullet was fired into the arm on the chest, and then another bullet was fired into the arm on the other side.

Carefully looking in all directions of the three roads and above his head, Wei Ran fired another shot at the hovering drone, then put away his weapon and quickly ran to the other side of the road, kicking down the person who was deliberately left alive. land.

"Who revealed that there is a historian in this village?"

While Wei Ran asked, he also picked up Marta, whose head was covered with blood and seemed to have been shot in the thigh, and quickly checked her injuries.

The news is mixed. The injury on the comatose girl's head seems to have been caused by a collision with the door frame or steering wheel after the car suddenly overturned. Although it looked like there was a lot of blood, it was not serious.

But the bad news was that in addition to a penetrating wound on her thigh from a bullet, she also had a bleeding scratch on her right arm, and one of her ribs seemed to be broken.

Holding the girl temporarily into the shadow beside the overturned car, Wei Ran first tied up the wounds on her thighs and arms to stop the bleeding, and then carefully reset her fractured ribs, and removed her from the side of the rolled car. She dug out the medical kit in the car and found gauze to temporarily wrap the wound on her head.

After placing the girl who was injured because of her kind reminder, he walked to the only survivor, took out the Mauser bayonet under the cover of his clothes, inserted the tip of the knife into the seam of his ribs and turned it slowly, " Let me ask you for the last time, who revealed that there is a historian here?"

"what!"

The man let out a scream, "I said, I said! Stop it!"

"Who is it?" Wei Ran continued to turn the bayonet, scraping one of the opponent's ribs with the blade and asked unmoved.

"Vitaly! It's Vitaly from the village! He's the one we bribed! He called us." The man said while wailing and screaming.

"How did he know?" Wei Ran asked as he continued to turn his bayonet.

"His son told him!"

The man continued, "He said that his son was playing football at the entrance of the village, and then told him what he heard! Stop it! God! Stop it!"

"How do you prove that what you said is true?" Wei Ran asked unhurriedly as he continued to turn his bayonet.

"Mobile phone, the mobile phone of the person operating the drone! There must be a message from him on it! Stop it."

"puff!"

The bayonet in Wei Ran's hand penetrated the opponent's liver against the rib seam, and when he pulled it out, he made a horizontal slash against the rib seam, eliminating the characteristics of the murder weapon.

After killing the last enemy, searching for the cell phone pointed out by the other party, and finding the message, he took out the spare cell phone and called Rikalp.

"What's wrong?" Culp asked casually as soon as the call was connected.

"It caused some trouble," Wei Ran said cryptically, "Maybe some garbage needs to be cleaned up."

"I knew it"

Culp on the other end of the phone said in a tone that I had expected, "Just wait for the call."

"Thank you." Before Wei Ran could finish his words, the other party hung up the phone again.

This time, he only had to wait for less than a minute before a number called. After he answered the call, the person on the other end of the phone said enthusiastically, "Hey! Little guy, give me your coordinates." I."

Just from this sentence, Wei Ran immediately recognized that this was the big-eared Uncle Chabu who once sent a plane to them!

Sighing secretly, Wei Ran informed the other party of his coordinates and mentioned that an ambulance might be needed.

"Don't worry, it will be here soon."

The big-eared Uncle Chubu on the other end of the phone didn't seem to be in a hurry to hang up, but he asked bluntly, "Is there anything else you need me to do?"

"Keep it secret?" Wei Ran asked tentatively.

"No problem! Remember to cover your face." After Uncle Chubu said that, he hung up the phone without warning.

Putting away the phone, Wei Ran checked Marta's injuries again, and then as quickly as possible, he dug out the warheads of the silent bullets he fired from the corpses he shot and picked up the shells. , and used the silent Makarov obtained before to fire again to destroy the previous bullet marks.

After finishing these tasks, he smashed the drone, the mobile phone that controlled it, and all the electronic devices found on the corpse and stuffed them into the food box.

It was through the effort of destroying traces that he also noticed that these people were all equipped with modernized and improved VSSM rifles based on the VSS silent sniper rifle, and the PSS silent pistol also inherited from the Soviet Union. .

It would be nice if the one in the metal book could also be upgraded.
Wei Ran muttered rather covetously, and when he carefully wiped away his footprints and fingerprints on the weapons he touched, and packed some of Marta's personal belongings into his bag, A civilian-painted Mi-8 helicopter, also escorted by a Mi-24, flew from a distance at low altitude to the intersection and landed.

As the cabin door opened, two people came down with a stretcher. After giving Marta a preliminary check, they sent her to the cabin and brought the gas engine up with them.

The other people who came down packed the corpses and the weapons that Wei Ran had just picked up and piled them up into the off-road vehicle that Wei Ran had driven before, and poured them with the gasoline they brought.

Amidst the flames soaring into the sky, Wei Yan and the unconscious Marta left the farmland at low altitude on the civilian Mi-8 helicopter, which was also painted with sickle grape vines.

Through the porthole, he even saw the Mi-24 using its aircraft cannon to fire a long round of sincere follow-up fire at the flaming off-road vehicle.

More than half an hour later, when the helicopter landed smoothly, Wei Ran realized that he had returned to the large yard where his dog Beria was fostered. The plane landed in the parking lot on the side of the yard.

As the cabin door opened, Marta, who had received a blood transfusion shortly after the helicopter took off, was carried onto a surgical trolley. Wei Ran, who covered his face with a magic scarf and a baseball cap, also quickly ran towards the trolley. In a building on the edge of the parking lot, there is a very professional-looking operating room.

He reminded the doctors emphatically that Marta's ribs had been fractured and had been reset. Wei Ran, who refused to accept medical examination, did not leave. Instead, he stood directly at the door of the operating room, with people on the other side. A transparent glass no bigger than a rice bowl looks at the ongoing operation.

"what happened?"

Just as the operation was starting inside the window, the truck driver who had previously received Wei Ran also ran over and asked in a low voice.

"Was ambushed"

Wei Ran explained while watching the progress of the operation inside, "The other party said it was a betrayal by a man named Vitali in the village I went to."

After speaking, he took out the mobile phone that was used as evidence from his pocket and handed it to the other party, "There is no way to verify the authenticity of the news."

"I will help you verify the news," the truck driver promised apologetically, and at the same time took the mobile phone from Weiran.Ignoring the truck driver who left alone, he lit a cigarette outside the operating room and waited patiently.

About an hour later, after the wound was carefully debrided and sutured, and Marta was put on a chest strap and neck brace, she was finally pushed out.

They walked into a separate ward together, and almost at the same time as the doctors and nurses left, the truck driver came over again.

After covering Marta with a blanket and closing the curtains and lowering the lights, Wei Ran closed the door and followed the truck driver to temporarily enter this small hospital, which was not large in scale but definitely had complete facilities. .

"Already verified"

The truck driver gave Wei Ran a cigarette and said, "It's indeed that person. He has already recruited him. The village was hit by air raids several times before, and he betrayed the news."

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't say anything, he just smoked in silence, secretly thinking about the troubles that would follow.

"There's one more troublesome thing," the truck driver said proactively when Wei Ran didn't speak.

"What's the trouble?" Wei Ran frowned immediately.

"Sir, you'd better get out of here as soon as possible."

The truck driver said, "For foreigners like you who need to continue living in Russia, your presence here will attract a lot of unnecessary attention, especially after arousing the interest of those on the opposite side."

"Okay" Wei Ran sighed, "Yes"

"The injured female doctor had better leave here as soon as possible."

The truck driver continued, “If she doesn’t return to Donetsk, she probably won’t be in any trouble, but if she goes back, she will definitely become the target of a bounty for those bastards on the other side.

They will try their best to catch the female doctor, and maybe even use her to blackmail you into speaking out against Donetsk.

Sir, this kind of thing has happened here more than once, and I believe it will happen again in the future, and there will never be any exception in your case. "

fuck.
Wei Ran cursed secretly. He did not expect that the enemy he faced here would also have such no bottom line. At the same time, he could not help but feel increasingly guilty for the girl he had implicated.

In addition, he also had to consider whether Kudlik's family of three would be similarly implicated.

Seemingly guessing what Wei Ran was worried about, the truck driver took the initiative and said, "Our people are already taking away the old man and his two children you visited. There are other orphans in the village, a few villagers and elderly people who were disabled due to the war."

Hearing this, Wei Ran raised his eyebrows in surprise, "How do you plan to arrange them?"

"My boss asked me to listen to your opinions and ideas first"

The truck driver flicked the cigarette butt away and explained, “If you don’t want to get into this trouble, we will send them to nursing homes and orphanages in Rostov.

Of course, you don’t have to worry, our company will ensure that those children grow up healthily and that the elderly will spend their old age peacefully. "

"I need to make a call first"

Wei Ran hesitated and took out his cell phone from his pocket, and regardless of what time it was, he dialed his employer Alexander directly.

After only ten seconds of waiting, Mr. Alexander answered the phone and asked enthusiastically, "Victor, did you get anything out of calling me at this time?"

"The harvest was unexpectedly great," Wei Ran said apologetically.

"What can you tell me?"

After a little organizing, Wei Ran first told the other party what he had discovered in Bryansk, and then said that he was currently in Donetsk and had found the son of political commissar Vinya.

"Where are you? Donetsk? Are you crazy?"

Alexander asked strangely, "How many days has it been? Three days or four days? That's all you found? And you went to Donetsk?"

"In fact, I started investigating it from the moment I saw the 12-star gun barrel."

Wei Ran pretended to be helpless and said, "I really wanted to pretend that it only took three or four days to get the results of the investigation. Not only would this make you feel incredible, but it would also be a blow to the professor who has been a little too proud recently."

"So what's the trouble now?" Alexander asked with a laugh.

"The trouble now is, I want to know what Mr. Alexander plans to do with the resin coffin and whether he plans to show some love."

Wei Ran paused for a moment, and seeing that the other party was silent, he glanced at the truck driver standing beside him and continued, "As I just said, there are not only descendants of the political commissar I just mentioned here who need help. , there are more orphans, elderly people and disabled people who lost their families because of the war and need help.

But I am just a historian, and my ability is really limited, so Mr. Alexander, I wonder if you are willing to help these poor people, otherwise they may have to be sent to nursing homes and orphanages, and then they will have to face being separated from their relatives. Case. "

"of course can!"

Alexander was much happier than he imagined, "Victor, let me think about it. In this way, I will give you ten places."

"Ten places?" Wei Ran didn't realize what the other party wanted to express for a while.

"There are ten quotas for the elderly, ten quotas for the disabled, ten, no, twenty, and twenty orphans."

Alexander said confidently, "I can only help so much. You can select according to this quota and bring them to Volgograd. I will arrange schools for those children and arrange jobs for those with disabilities in my factories or museums." , I will also arrange for those elderly people to live in a place that is far better than a nursing home, and I will let them live together."

"Thank you for your kindness." Wei Ran secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "Please use the cost of this investigation also on these people."

Alexander, however, did not answer Wei Ran's words about not wanting to investigate the cost. Instead, he brought the topic back to the resin coffin, "As for the resin coffin, just bury it in the tomb you found.

Okay, that's it, Victor, I'll wait for you in Volgograd. Remember to send me the specific location of the guerrilla camp you mentioned. "

Weighing the cell phone that had been hung up on, Wei Ran looked at the truck driver and said, "Please wait a moment. I want to wait for the injured female doctor to wake up and discuss it with her again."

"Of course, there's still time."

The truck driver hesitated for a moment and then added, "You and the female doctor had better leave before dawn. The boss has sent his private plane here, and the private plane will take you out of here."

"I see"

Wei Ran nodded and put away his phone, walked into the small hospital again, and returned to Marta's ward.

Less than half an hour later, Marta, who had most of her body immobilized, finally woke up, and then saw Wei Ran sitting beside the hospital bed.

"Where is this place?" Marta asked after trying to turn her neck to no avail. "How long have I been unconscious?"

"Rostov-on-Don, you were injured about three hours ago."

After Wei Ran finished answering the other party's questions, he asked, "Why are you injured so badly?"

“That van didn’t have seat belts.”

Marta said helplessly, "Before I passed out, I only remembered that someone shot me through the car window, and then I lost consciousness."

"How is your situation now?" Wei Ran asked after a moment of silence.

"It's not bad." Marta touched her waist tentatively, "Where's my pistol?"

"It's all there"

As he spoke, Wei Ran took off the backpack he had been carrying and took out some of the personal belongings he found in the car before leaving and placed them beside the bed.

It wasn't until she took the old TT33 pistol in the holster from Wei Ran that the girl finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with an unconcealable smile, "This is my father's pistol."

"Marta, I want to talk to you about other things next." Wei Ran did not answer the other party's words, but started a new topic.

"What's going on?" Marta asked.

"We must leave Rostov before daybreak, and you must leave with me."

"why?"

Marta asked in astonishment. After a moment, the girl looked straight at Wei Ran and asked a question in a desperate tone that the latter did not expect, "Did you buy me?"

"Buy for what? Buy you?"

Wei Ran, who was worried about how to explain what happened, looked at the other party in shock.

"This is nothing new in Donetsk. The female militiamen who are captured will be sold by the devils on the opposite side to Bulgaria or further away. Soon after, the companions of the captured female militiamen will , and will also receive all kinds of horrific videos taken by them.”

At this point, Marta had already pulled out the TT33 pistol, pulled the slide and pressed it against her temple. She asked with a mocking look, "So you plan to do the same? Since when did you start targeting me?" of?"

(End of this chapter)