War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1374 Landing in Antarctica

About two hours after Wei Ran left Ushuaia on a polar transport ship, an ocean-going container transport ship quietly docked at the port where he departed.

After a while, an inconspicuous truck left the dock and rushed towards the edge of the city with familiarity, and finally stopped at the edge of a cemetery.

Soon, a coffin that seemed to be still cold was lifted from the car and sent into the grave that had been dug in advance, and then filled immediately.

On the edge of the tomb, a mottled tombstone is engraved with the words "Fabian Schubert" and the times of his birth and death.

"Welcome home"

At the edge of the tombstone, the woman in leather clothes who had secretly observed placed a bouquet of edelweiss with water drops next to the tombstone, murmured a congratulation, and then turned around and left with great simplicity. The cemetery left here again in a car, quietly disappearing into the vast sea of ​​people.

In the cabin of the polar transport ship, Wei Ran and others were busy making arrangements for landing on the Antarctic continent.

"Follow the script"

Wei Ran shook the tablet in his hand, and the rest of the people sitting together also smiled in unison, "Marta, Cinda, you two will take a transport truck with me. Taxi , you are responsible for driving another car with two girls from the camera crew."

"No problem" everyone agreed in unison.

"Director Anna borrowed a transport vehicle from the Youth Station through her friends. The security team and two other photographers will follow in the borrowed transport vehicle."

Wei Ran continued to make arrangements, and the remaining seniors and the boyfriends of the two seniors also nodded immediately, but did not ask about who would drive the transport truck - the driver of the transport truck. Did not attend this meeting.

"The next step is the filming process. The girls on the film crew don't need me, an amateur, to remind them."

Wei Ran pulled up the screen and said, "Taxi, your job is to constantly ask all kinds of questions that interest you through the intercom."

"Such as the Nascent Bell and the Antarctic base?" Taxi asked excitedly.

"That's right." Wei Ran nodded and replied with a smile, "I'll be responsible for answering."

"So I'm the host?"

"You can think so"

Wei Ran agreed again, Taxi is indeed the best host.

He is almost a representative of ordinary people in Europe. He has a lot of conspiracy theories about Natalia in his mind. With the help of this handsome guy who doesn't look too smart but is photogenic enough, he asks all the questions in casual chat. Then Wei Ran, a historian, answered the question through the intercom, which was much more interesting than talking dryly on his own.

What's more, during this process, the seniors on the film crew will also take pictures of the polar scenery outside, and record the traveling status and dangers encountered by the two vehicles throughout the process.

"Marta, is it okay for you to be responsible for driving?" Weiran turned to look at Marta, who was sitting opposite.

"No problem," Marta replied confidently, "I just went to see it and it's not difficult to drive."

"Hinda"

Wei Ran changed into his native language and said with a smile, "In addition to your duties as a nurse, you are also responsible for serving tea and pouring water. You are also responsible for monitoring whether the cameras inside and outside the car are normal."

"Don't worry, boss!"

Lu Xinda, who was particularly excited, immediately responded. This girl who grew up in the tropics had never thought that one day she would have the opportunity to see snow, let alone the chance to land on the Antarctic continent.

"The last thing that comes next is the most important question right now."

Wei Ran turned off the screen of his tablet and said, "It only takes us two days to cross the westerly belt and reach the Antarctic continent, but to reach Enderby, we still need to sail four days close to the ice area near the Antarctic continent. time."

After a moment's pause, he continued, "It's okay to say that the wind and waves won't have a particularly big impact on us in the next four days. The first two days are the most critical, so everyone must be more vigilant. The walkie-talkies are guaranteed to be with you 24 hours a day. Once you receive the call, Notice, immediately go to the helicopter dock to gather and take the helicopter back to Argentina."

After everyone responded to this last and most important reminder in unison, Wei Ran looked at the senior students and said, "Please take more pictures of the Westerly Belt in the next few days."

"Leave it to us!" the team leader assured confidently.

After everything was arranged, Wei Ran said goodbye to everyone for the time being, took two self-heating hotpots and two bottles of water prepared by Suisui alone, and found Apoli who was familiar with the aircraft in the helicopter dock.

"Can you drive?"

Wei Ran handed one of the self-heating hotpots to Apolly, who was wearing a knitted hat and a black mask, with only his eyes exposed.

"How could I possibly fly a helicopter?"

While speaking in a hoarse voice, Apolly opened the door of the helicopter, greeted Wei Ran and then skillfully tore open the package of the self-heating hotpot and started working while continuing to use hoarse words on his lips. The voice said, "Avolel asks her staff to bring us a lot of delicacies from China every time. I have already learned to use chopsticks."

"She is a girl who likes to share snacks," Wei Ran said, dumbfounded.

"Cherish a girl like this."

Before he finished speaking, Apolly had already added water to the self-heating hot pot. Then he took out a pack of braised beef noodles from the backpack he carried with him, took out the noodles and put them in together.

“So you can still eat it like this”

Wei Ran took the package of instant noodles handed over by the other party and tore it open. Following the other party's example, Wei Ran put the noodles into his own self-heating hot pot and closed the lid.

At the same time, April took out a palm-sized notebook and asked curiously while writing in it, "Speaking of this, why are there more girls around you than when I last saw you? "

"There seem to be rats on the boat watching us"

After looking at the Russian written by the other party in his notebook, Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, and then he pretended to be proud and said, "Who doesn't like beautiful girls?"

"A man's best quality is loyalty, whether in career or love."

Apolly continued to write as he spoke, "You should learn from your good friend Jima. He is very loyal to his girlfriend."

Wei Ran glanced at the writing on the notebook again, "Watch your things and tell those young people to keep their mouths shut."

"I will seriously consider your suggestion"

Wei Ran replied nonchalantly, but at the same time he nodded seriously. Then, he said, "What about you? Old guy, aren't you going to start a family?"

"Stop mentioning such stupid things again."

While Apolly was speaking, he had already opened the pair of pitiful short chopsticks, and while skillfully scratching the burrs on them, he said, "Are you here to find me just to introduce me to my girlfriend?"

"Of course not," Wei Ran said with a smile, "What kind of car can we borrow from the Youth Station?"

"A DT10 transport vehicle"

Apolly replied, "Most of our supplies will also be packed in that transport vehicle. With those supplies there, it will be enough for us people to last on the Antarctic continent for a month without any problem. But for you, is one month enough?" "

"enough"

Wei Ran said confidently, "The destination is not far from the coastline. It won't take us long to find the body."

Hearing this, Apolly did not continue the topic and instead talked about the various Chinese snacks Wei Ran had brought.

After finishing the self-heating hot pot instant noodles with this tough-hearted old guy, Wei Ran left the hangar and returned to his room, carrying their food waste.

In the next two days, as the sea conditions became worse and worse, Wei Ran seemed to be imitating the president of a certain country. He posted a message on his private account on the social platform almost every once in a while, complaining in various ways. How scary the Zephyrus was and how much he regretted coming here.

In contrast, the social account of his Time Studio has turned on the live broadcast mode, live broadcasting the thicker and thicker frost on the deck of the transport truck, and the warm but constantly shaking cabin. Every now and then, a video will be uploaded. Marta held up a camera to take a picture of a historian who was holding a bucket and retching constantly, and even almost fell off the hammock.

Compared to Ushuaia, which is getting farther and farther away from them, Suisui, who stayed here, suppressed her worries. Accompanied by Teacher Anna and Anfisa, she took Koko, Matthew and Aini. Ya and Lola, plus covert and covert bodyguards, wandered the streets of various local attractions, and even went to see the penguins living in the local area.

In the hotel they booked, Anfiya and Monica, who were hiding in the room on the pretext of being acclimatized, were extremely busy. They spent almost all their time on the Internet, hyping up the news about "a certain historian and Nazism". Crisp Treasure" topic.

Two days flew by in a blink of an eye for Suisui and others, but seemed extremely long to Wei Ran and others. Finally, the transport ship gradually stopped shaking, and they could finally vaguely see the Antarctic ice shelf outside the porthole through the aurora.

However, the ship did not stop. Instead, it continued to move forward close to the ice floes on the coastline, gradually shortening the distance between them and Enderby Land.

In the last four days of the voyage, everyone who was originally seasick and unable to stand up gradually recovered. Weiran's social account also seemed to be infected with a virus, and they would share something almost every hour.

When the last four days passed, as the transport ship slowly came to a stop squeezing the thick ice, Wei Yan simply turned off his phone after sending the photo he had just taken at the hatch of the ship.

"The adventure is about to begin"

Wei Ran deliberately did not look at the senior sister who was pointing the camera at him and took pictures. He held up a loudspeaker and said loudly in Russian, "Find the body and unlock the secrets hidden by history! Let's go!"

"set off!"

The crowd, also shrouded in the camera, responded to Weiran's shouts in various languages ​​in unison, and then got into the two Swedish-made crawler transport vehicles in accordance with the advance grouping.

In the warm car, Wei Ran, who was sitting in the passenger seat, adjusted the cameras everywhere in the car, then looked at each other with Marta, who was in charge of driving, and asked in his native language, "What's the angle like?"

"No problem!" Lu Xinda, who was sitting in the back row, responded crisply.

"Marta, let's go!" Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Marta, who was in charge of driving, started the transport vehicle and the dazzling searchlights on the roof.

Although it was her first time driving, Marta drove very steadily because the speed was not very fast.

Behind their car, Taxi also opened a distance of about fifty meters between them and started the car and searchlight.

"Victor, where is our first stop?"

Before driving a hundred meters, Taxi held the microphone of the radio and asked excitedly, "I looked at the map and it seems that the straight-line distance is only about two hundred kilometers. We might as well just drive there today."

"Listen to me Tassie"

In the car leading the way, Wei Ran also held the microphone and said, "There was a military strategist in history who had the same idea as you. He always felt that the straight-line distance was only two hundred kilometers, so just drive directly there. But you have to know, That's on the map. Look around us. The surface is undulating. If we want to cover the two hundred kilometers, we might have to walk double the distance."

"Okay, so how far should we go tonight?" Taxi was particularly obedient to the advice.

"Two kilometers"

Wei Ran gave an unexpected answer, "Let's walk two kilometers first, and then find a place to camp and rest to see how our car performs. If we can't withstand the low temperature here, we will go back immediately and wait for the summer." It’s time to come again.”

"You are so cowardly," Tasi taunted.

"I'm afraid of death"

Wei Ran replied without thinking, "I have a good friend named Ji Ma. He is an experienced hunter. Of course, now he is a movie star. When we hunted together in the past, he always told me, okay Hunters need to be very patient.”

At this point, Wei Ran changed the subject, "What? Are you homesick? I miss you."

"No!" Taxi responded hastily without waiting to hear Wei Ran's teasing.

The distance of two kilometers is not that far, so it didn't take long for the two cars to stop side by side.

Instead of getting out of the car in a hurry, Wei Ran looked out the window at the familiar night and aurora, but he quickly took out his satellite phone and called Suisui, killing time by reporting that he was safe.

At the same time, where they disembarked, two DT10 transport trucks with Russian flags also rushed over.

Before the car stopped, boxes of supplies were delivered to the cargo hold. Apoli, who was wearing a mask and a leather hat, was stunned for a moment, then shook hands with the person who came to deliver the car, and got into one of the transport vehicles. In the cab of the car.

Soon, as the sailors were busy, boxes of supplies were loaded onto the vehicle, and the rest of the film crew also got into the warm living cabin.

"Exactly the same as before."

In the cab, April took a deep breath and murmured to himself while holding the steering wheel, "I don't know if there is any fire here."

After a moment of waiting, a girl in charge of filming entered the cab with her boyfriend and set up the camera behind the glass window.

Soon, the transport truck filled with supplies, driven by him, smoothly followed the marks left by Wei Ran and their two vehicles.

Next to the transport ship, another transport vehicle from the Youth Station also slowly moved to the hatch of the transport ship, allowing the sailors to carry boxes after boxes of spirits into their vehicles. , fruits, vegetables and various snacks that have only been tasted in Chinese scientific research stations.

"This winter won't be that long"

While the driver of the transport truck was talking, he had already taken out a five-spice braised egg from the cardboard box, tore it open, and took a vicious bite, "We can have a nice drink tonight."

“We could use a nice drink all winter long!”

Before the other driver who came to deliver the car finished speaking, he already took out a bottle of rum from Argentina from the rental car's supplies, opened it, and took a sip from the boss. Then he pulled out a bunch of bananas, broke off two of them, and gave them to the boss. companion.

Not to mention these "black taxi" drivers who are busy making extra money, after Apoli caught up with Wei Ran and others, he almost subconsciously steered the car across the windward side of the other two cars, blocking it with the car's huge body. Beaten by the biting wind.

Only then did Wei Ran hang up the phone with Suisui.

"Let's get out of the car!"

Wei Ran had already unbuckled his seat belt as he spoke, "You can have a nice drink tonight."

"Can I drink too?" Lu Xinda asked immediately. Although her Russian was still poor, she could already understand "have a drink".

"No" Marta immediately said another phrase that the former could understand.

"All right"

Luxinda responded pitifully with the third Russian word she knew, and then proudly took out a beautiful little wine flask from her arms, unscrewed the lid and took a sip of the cider she brought from home.

"Lucinda was led astray by Sister Aurora." Marta reluctantly unbuckled her seat belt.

“It’s just fruit wine”

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he had already opened the car door. After Marta and Lu Xinda came out, he led them along the gap between the two cars to the living cabin at the rear of the DT10 transport vehicle.

Different from the one in the metal book, no, to be precise, unlike the transport truck in Apolly, this transport truck is not only two sizes smaller in tonnage, but also has the hatch of the living compartment opened on the side.

By the time he and Tassie took the two girls into the living cabin, the two senior sisters and their boyfriends had already begun to heat the food they had brought with them in the microwave.

"Victor, Mr. Driver, why don't you come and eat with us?"

One of the seniors named Olia was asking. At the same time, her boyfriend, the "addict" whom Wei Ran and Ji Ma had met once when they went to "steal" dogs, had already begun to tell everyone Vodka was poured into the glass.

"he"

Wei Ran looked out the window subconsciously and said absently, "He doesn't like the excitement, let him stay by himself for a while."

"In that case, send these to him."

As Senior Sister Olia said, she had already put a piece of beef stew that had been cooked on the ship and had just been heated into an insulated lunch box, and then used two other lunch boxes to put some chopped beef into it. Bahe and steaming red cabbage soup.

Putting these three lunch boxes into a rattan basket, Senior Sister Olia didn't forget to put a bottle of vodka, two cups, and things such as knives, forks, and napkins inside.

Even the food is similar, it will definitely bring back a lot of memories for him.

Wei Ran mumbled something vaguely and happily took over the food delivery job.

(End of this chapter)