War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1412 Great Prophecy

On the second day after returning to Kazan, the girls immediately got into busy work, especially Marta. After breakfast, she immediately drove Lucinda and Lola to the forest farm outside the city to study. Basic acting courses.

Wei Ran was not idle either. In addition to adding another two kilometers to his morning jogging, he also tied several additional sets of sandbags on his legs and waist.

Also after breakfast, he didn't take off the sandbag at all, so he wielded the crowbar and dug up the floor tiles in the alley leading out of the courtyard's main entrance.

"What are you doing?"

April, who came to visit, asked curiously while teasing Beria the dog.

"Tear up the floor tiles here"

Wei Ran explained while busy, "Everyone usually drives their car to the library yard next door when they come in. There are very few cars leaving here, so I am going to plant some flowers here."

"For those bees?" April asked as he sat down against the door and lit a cigarette.

"Yes." Wei Ran nodded, "This will become a small garden in the future."

"What are you going to plant?"

"Jerusalem, and sunflowers."

Wei Ran thought for a while and added, "Maybe I'll plant some jasmine flowers too. I still have a lot of jasmine seeds."

"You already have a lot of Jerusalem artichokes growing in your yard."

Apolly pointed to the yard behind him and reminded, "Do you like eating this kind of thing?"

The fact is exactly as what Apolly said in the first half of the sentence. Ever since Wei Ran planted the devil's ginger in the corner of the yard against the wall a few years ago, more and more new shoots have sprouted up every year.

If Mrs. Samantha, the housekeeper who lives here, hadn't helped take care of it, the devil gingers that had grown densely along the courtyard wall might have taken over the entire courtyard.

"I didn't expect so many of the few I planted randomly before."

Wei Ran continued working while casually changing his mind, "Then just plant sunflowers and jasmine."

“I have a dwarf apple tree in the cab of my transporter at home.”

As he spoke, Apolly flicked away the cigarette butt that he had only taken two puffs on, "Victor, do you mind if I plant the apple tree here?"

"You're going to plant it here?"

Wei Ran stopped what he was doing in surprise, and immediately said after reacting, "I don't mind, of course I don't mind!"

“Just plant it here.”

As he spoke, Apolly had already picked up a shovel from the cart, and while working on a piece of work, he said, "I have changed to a warm and comfortable environment, and it is time to change that poor apple tree to a comfortable and warm environment. Maybe the fruit it produces this fall will be sweeter.”

"It will definitely become sweeter," Wei Ran said with a smile, while easily lifting up a floor tile.

It would obviously take a long time for the two of them to clean out all the floor tiles in this alley, which is fifty or sixty meters long and is long enough for cars to turn around.

Fortunately, as the saying goes, as long as the desire is strong enough, there will always be fools who come to help. So before Wei Ran could think about what to eat for lunch, Ji Ma drove his armored pickup truck to the yard of the library next door. After sending Maya to Suisui's office on the second floor of the library, she somehow passed through the electromagnetic door between the two courtyards and found Wei Ran who was resting.

"Victor, long time no see"

“You came just in time”

It was April who interrupted Ji Ma's speech. The old man said unceremoniously, "Young man, hurry up and find some young gangsters who have too much energy and no place to vent."

"Um, what are you doing?" Realizing that something was wrong, Ji Ma looked warily at the messy alley caused by these two people.

"Victor is going to change the road outside the yard into a garden. Find some people quickly. We need help." Apolly directed Jima very skillfully.

“I came at the right time”

Ji Ma twitched the corner of his mouth, but he happily took out his mobile phone and made a call. Anyway, as long as he didn't need to do this work, why not find someone to help him?

It wasn't until the free laborer who came to his door hung up the phone that Wei Ran, who had been pretending to be deaf and dumb just now, greeted him warmly as if he had just woken up, "Hey! Ji Ma! My good brother, why are you here? Aren’t you busy filming a labor camp movie in the Arctic Circle?”

"You are really sharp, you noticed me coming so quickly."

Ji Ma pointed angrily at Wei Ran with a middle finger wearing a couple's ring, and then explained, "We have finished shooting the summer scenes for the film about the labor camps, and we won't start shooting the remaining parts until September. "

"So you finally have a day off?"

Wei Ran bumped fists with the other party and asked with a smile. If you really count, Ji Ma has been far busier than himself since he became a movie star.

“Only a week off”

Dima, who was sitting on the floor, gave Apoli a cigarette and continued to explain, "In a week, Maya and I are going to Murmansk to audition for the Partisans movie, and Professor Alexey will also go there.

After finishing my work in Murmansk, I will go to Radio Free to meet your friends to prepare for the movie they plan to shoot. So even if everything goes well, I still have to wait until the end of August to come back. "

"So why did you come to me?" Wei Ran asked as he took the cigarette from the other party.

"Can't I come here if there's nothing serious?"

Ji Ma lit up his cigarette angrily, "The shooting range in the forest behind our village has been built, and I'm here to invite you to play.

To be honest, thanks to the antique weapons you brought from France, it has only been open for a few days and there are already many locals there to poke target paper. "

"Would you like to go together?" Wei Ran extended an invitation to April.

"I'm not interested in target shooting." April waved his hand, "I'd better stay here and help you keep an eye on the renovation of the garden."

"Just the two of us?" Wei Ran turned to look at Jima again.

"Of course, just the two of us." Jima nodded and replied.

"Wait a minute, I'll go change some clothes."

Knowing that this guy probably had something to tell him, Wei Ran got up happily and walked back with his dog Beria.

"Bring your camping equipment, we might stay there tonight." Jima added an extra reminder.

Hearing this, Wei Ran waved his hand, returned to the room, took a shower and changed into a set of quick-drying clothes.

However, this time he not only brought things for camping, but also the Bayi bar that Zha Xifeng gave to him as a souvenir not long ago.

After asking Beria the dog to get in the car, Wei Ran drove an armored pickup truck and followed Jima's car out of the house. He bought a lot of food and drink along the way, and then drove straight to the direction of Jima's village.

When the two of them drove the car to the abandoned lumberyard hidden in the forest behind the village, they heard gunfire one after another in the distance.

Through the car window, Wei Ran could clearly see a target lane that was converted from a fire isolation belt and was at least two kilometers long.

A mountain of earth to block bullets has been piled up at the far end of the target lane, and a long shed has been erected at the nearest end, with large log tables placed every one and a half meters apart. .

At this time, there were more than a dozen shooters wielding various old and new rifles, happily poking at target paper at different distances amidst the continuous gunfire.

Thanks to the two-hundred-meter-wide width of this fire isolation belt and the fact that it is more than two kilometers away from the village, there is enough space to cause trouble for those players.

Because of this, in the opposite direction of this fire isolation zone, there are many venues used to hold competitive competitions such as IPSC, and the atmosphere seems to be particularly lively.

The most important thing is that the people working here seem to be villagers from Jima's village and some small gangsters who look familiar.

Of course, what is more familiar is the red and black thorns logo that can be seen everywhere. This thing seems to play a better role here than any safety warning slogan.

Although Jima said he invited Wei Ran to come over for shooting, in fact he did not stop the car. Instead, he continued driving deeper into the forest, to an abandoned logging camp that was still one kilometer away from the shooting range. stopped.

Just walking along the way, Wei Ran, who was driving behind, could clearly see that there were many slogans such as "No entry to private land" and the red and black logos of Greva and his fruit company hung on the trunks of the big trees along the way. The thorns sign, and the minefield warning that I don’t know if it’s meant to bluff people.

"Didn't you say you came here for target practice?"

Wei Ran waited until Jima in front stopped the car and opened the door, then he opened the door and asked his doubts.

"Of course, of course we're here for target practice."

As Ji Ma spoke, he had already opened the cargo compartment of the pickup truck and pulled out a long gun box. "Besides, we also encountered some troubles." "Trouble? What trouble?"

Wei Ran asked curiously, "Did Greva's gang finally cause you trouble? Or did you finally make Maya's belly bigger?"

"The latter option is not a trouble at all. If there is such a good thing, I will wake up laughing in my dreams."

Jima opened the gun case angrily, took out his precious MTS-116M sniper rifle and put it on his shoulder. Then he threw his cell phone into the gun case, "Trouble with Greva's gang." It doesn’t matter.”

"So what's the trouble?"

While asking, Wei Ran also opened the gun case, first took out his Bayi rifle and put it on his shoulder, and then also threw the mobile phone in. Then he took Beria, the dog, and followed Ji Ma not far away. walking along the lake shore.

"At the end of September, Mr. Gorman was going to die in a crashed plane."

"I know about this." Wei Ran nodded.

"Mr. Culp and Teacher Anna are already making preparations."

Jima paused for a moment and continued, "To be precise, since April was asked to try to take over the studio, Teachers Culp and Anna have been making alibis for themselves.

At the end of this month, Mr. Culp will rush to Radio Free to meet with your friends to prepare for the filming of the movie. He will stay at Radio Free until maybe your Chinese Spring Festival before he comes back. "

"So that's why she was asked to take over the studio?"

Wei Ran raised his eyebrows in hindsight. It had to be said that the existence of the metal book did have some negative effects on his memory, so that he did not connect the two things together at all.

"Don't tell me you just realized it."

As Jima spoke, he took off his backpack, took out tomatoes one after another, and threw them all into the calm lake like throwing grenades, causing ripples. At the same time, he did not forget to continue, "It's better than throwing grenades." A few days before Mr. Culp, teacher Anna will also rush to Murmansk. She will work with local officials to prepare for the film shooting there, and the work there will not be completed until October.

At that time, even teacher Daria will go to Murmansk to help. During this period, Gorman will be in charge of the filming of the labor camp movie. "

"continue"

As Wei Ran said, he also picked up a tomato and threw it into the lake.

"To be on the safe side, the only helpers who can help Gorman fake his death are me, you and Nineel.

But I don’t need to tell you that it is simply unrealistic for Niner to come from the distant United States to help prepare.

I also wanted to attract attention on the surface, and even Mr. Gorman had to behave the same as usual.

So Victor, the only person who can help him prepare and who is trustworthy may be you. Of course, Mr. April might also be considered a helper.

But Mr. Culp asked me to tell you that no one knows Mr. Apple's true identity, so it is best not to get him into trouble, otherwise the trouble will only increase. "

"So the Americans are not the only ones we want to hide?" Wei Ran frowned and asked in a low voice.

"If we just kept it a secret from the Americans, we wouldn't have to go to such trouble."

Ji Ma obviously knew something inside, "We still have to help a few teachers hide it from some of their friends, at least on the surface we can't raise any issues.

This is why only the three of us, no, I should say only you, can do this. "

"What do you need me to do?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.

“Let’s get familiar with the process.”

Jima lowered his voice a little lower, "Do you remember those people who attacked you a long time ago?"

"Of course I remember" Wei Ran nodded.

"I caught three at that time," Ji Ma reminded in a low voice.

"Those three locked up in the basement of the forest farm?"

Wei Ran patted the dog's head, "One of them was frightened out of his mind because Beria kept licking his wounds in the basement of the library."

"It's them"

Jima nodded, "Not long after he caught them, Mr. Gorman used the blood of a white man of his own age to conduct several regular physical examinations and performed many plastic surgeries on him. Their similarity Although it’s not even half a hundred percent, it’s still enough to be fake as long as it’s made up.”

"continue"

"Before his plane crashes, Mr. Victor, a well-known historian, will be publicly invited in the name of the studio to go to the site of the labor camp to participate in an interview on historical topics about the Gulag."

Jima continued, "This matter will be preheated, and the local TV station in Inta will also interview you, because your first stop is Inta."

"So I'm going to get another attack?"

"Before that, someone will issue a reward on the dark web, and issue a reward as a Jew. After all, you have made them lose some dignity in the Antarctic matter. Of course, it is best to let Anfiya handle this matter. "

Jima warned according to the script, "The other unlucky guy who was caught for attacking you will go to Inta to find Alili's people after accepting the reward to find out which plane you will take to the old labor camp site."

"The one driven by Gorman," Wei Ran replied as if he was talking to himself.

"yes"

Jima smiled, "But actually, because the accompanying Aurora is not feeling well, you temporarily decided to stay in Intado for one day.

So only Mr. Gorman flew the plane to the labor camp to meet with Mr. Goetze, the film investor who arrived there in advance, to discuss the upcoming interview. "

"At that time, the plane will carry that lucky guy into the Ural Mountains, and then explode in the air." Weiyan also began to predict.

"All that was left was a small piece of roasted skull."

Jima helpfully added, "If you're lucky, what blew up the plane after all was explosives hidden under the cockpit seats, enough to blow up the entire nose of the plane."

"What a miserable murder," Wei Ran smacked his lips, "Besides, I thought those three unlucky guys were already dead."

"Culp said every life has value."

Jima continued while looking around, "Before the explosion, Gorman would take a transport plane that delivers tropical fruits to the coal mine near Inta and go to Papua New Guinea to hide for a while.

After the explosion, the local police in Inta will conduct an investigation and determine based on the interviews that it was an attack against you. Your attacker will also disappear and become an unsolved case, and the reward on you on the dark web will be withdrawn before things get serious. "

"It's time for our performance next," Wei Ran murmured to himself.

"Yes, this is the whole plan. It needs to be hidden from the pilots trained by Arili, from Misha and her father, and even more from Aurora and Maya. Of course, it also needs to be hidden from the crew members of the transport plane. And Greva, the only one who can help you is probably Anfiya, if you trust her."

At this point, Jima paused, but then made an unexpected arrangement, "No matter where Mr. Gorman and his wife Mrs. Uma go next, only you will know."

"Only me know?"

Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, "Didn't you say that they are going to Novoturukhansk?"

“That’s just one option.”

Ji Ma spread his hands and said, "Mr. Culp asked me to tell you that after the plane crash, they will not have any contact with Gorman anymore. But there will be a tombstone belonging to him in the Time Film Studio, so they will go there in the future." It doesn't matter where he starts his new life.

In addition, from tomorrow until the plane crash begins, we will not see each other again during this period. "

"Why do you always leave the mess to me?"

Wei Ran muttered secretly, but in fact he knew clearly that Gorman looked like a "mess", but at the same time he was also a valuable "talent".

As long as he takes over this "mess", he will be rewarded with a terrifying psychology expert.

"That's all I have to say."

As Jima spoke, he had already placed his precious sniper rifle on the branch of a birch tree, aiming at the floating tomatoes on the lake a few hundred meters away.

"boom!"

Amidst the dull gunfire, a tomato exploded on the lake, successfully dyeing a small area of ​​the lake red, and successfully attracting wild freshwater fish in the lake.