War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1456 The Right Way

In the simple operating room, Wei Ran was busy operating on the wounded on the table. At the same time, he was also asking curiously, "So you let the beautiful woman who captured Zach and me... Is it just a test for the lady to come to me to help change the dressing?”

Across the table, the man who had put on a white coat was busy transfusing blood to the wounded. The person providing blood was a girl who looked about 20 years old. Next to her, there was another girl who was already masturbating. He pulled up his sleeves and waited anxiously.

"They really don't know there are doctors here, and I didn't intend to ask you to help us at first. In other words, I didn't think you were willing to help us. In addition, I have to admit that you are very fast, better than the doctors I have seen. It has to be fast.”

Just as Wei Ran was starting to sew, the man across the table replied unhurriedly.

"If you can allow me to sew a little rougher, I can do it faster." As Wei Ran spoke, he had already completed some needlework that wasn't pretty but was definitely useful.

"You should be a doctor," the man standing opposite said again.

"Forget it, I'm bleeding."

Wei Ran made a nonsense that no one believed, and at the same time changed the subject and said, "What should I call you? Since you recognize my medical skills, you should at least tell me your name, right?"

"Charlie"

The man opposite replied nonchalantly, "Don't you always call us that? So just call me Charlie."

"Where is your more difficult name?" Wei Ran asked unwillingly.

"The more difficult name?"

The man who called himself "Charlie" smiled and said, "I'm not a difficult person."

"Aren't you the more difficult person?"

Wei Ran cut off the suture at the end of the suture needle and handed the bandaging work to the other party. After looking at it carefully, he guessed, "Then you are from China? No, no, from Jian simple village or Laowo?"

"Laow" Charlie replied while bandaging, "my lair's name is Monlong."

"I'd better call you Charlie"

Wei Ran had already taken off his rubber gloves as he spoke, and then picked up the half-frame camera hanging on the load-bearing column, "Can I take a photo of you?"

"Of course" Charlie, who was busy bandaging, responded nonchalantly and let Wei Ran press the shutter towards him.

Soon, new wounded people were sent over one after another. Wei Ran also put down his camera, and left the task of sterilizing the instruments to a girl assigned by Charlie who was waiting for a blood supply with peace of mind. He then started to help the second wounded person lying on the table to peel off the shrapnel embedded in his body.

With the cooperation of him and Charlie, the wounded were carried up and down one by one, and the medicines in the three medical bags brought by Wei Ran were visibly consumed.

Finally, the morphine was used up first, but the next person who was carried to the table was a little boy who looked to be no more than sixteen or seventeen years old. A piece of flesh was cut off by shrapnel near his shoulder.

"Wait a mininute"

Wei Ran did not shy away from Charlie at all. He walked to the table and picked up the Yue 65 water bottle, unscrewed the lid and poured out the pills inside, and found out the last two morphine hidden inside.

"I kept it privately"

Wei Ran said as he cut off the condom wrapped around one of the morphine tubes.

"I can help you testify" Charlie said with a smile.

Applying morphine near the wound, Wei Ran once again began the debridement and suturing that he was already familiar with. At the same time, he couldn't help but recall the scenes during the previous surgeries without anesthesia.

Where did that come from?

The clinic next to the Maoqi Bridge, or the Chinese medicine shop in Teng County?

In Wei Ran's thoughts, the young man on the table was carried away after his wounds were sutured and Wei Ran took pictures.

After he put down the blood-stained camera, the last injured person who could receive anesthesia benefits was carried up. This was a girl who looked about the same age as Ruan Qingcha. One of her arms was only connected to a little flesh and skin near the wrist. After being penetrated by bullets many times, her palms had turned into a ball of rotten flesh with a slightly burnt smell.

After looking at Charlie, Wei Ran took the last shot of morphine and cleaned the girl's wound as quickly as possible.

Soon, two more wounded people were lifted up, and not long after, ear-piercing wails of pain came from the wooden house.

However, before Wei Ran could finish suturing the wounds of the wounded without anesthesia, the roar of Phantom fighter jets, the loud noises of aircraft cannon fire and even the explosion of aircraft bombs could be heard in the sky outside the window.

Immediately afterwards, he also heard the roar of a helicopter flying low!

Bang! "

Amidst the muffled sound that made him realize something was wrong and the sound of rapid fire outside the window, a ground-marking smoke grenade filled with red smoke exploded in the open space in the center of the camp, and a Pony reconnaissance helicopter almost grazed the treetops. It passed by extremely quickly and flew out of sight in an instant.

"We've been discovered!"

Wei Ran shouted as he roughly sutured the wound with three or two stitches. He took out a condom from the medical bag and put it on the wound, "Hurry up and organize the transfer!"

Without any need for him to greet him, the children and women in the surrounding wooden houses immediately took action, carried the wounded on stretchers prepared in advance, and ran into the jungle.

Not only the wounded, but also Wei Ran, whose feet were shackled, were pushed by Charlie and laid down in a hammock made of wooden sticks and canvas, allowing two young men to lift him up easily.

"Charlie! My companion Zach!" Wei Ran shouted as he took the camera, water bottle and medical kit that Charlie had stuffed into his arms.

But Charlie just waved his hand and ran quickly into the thatched house where Zach was. Not long after, he ran out with Zach, who was also shackled.

"Da da da!"

Almost at the same time that his vision was obscured by the jungle, he also heard the roar of the armed helicopters as they fired near the marker bombs, and the screams that were almost masked by the roar of the propellers and the noise of the cannons!

"Boom boom boom!"

Amidst the dense explosions of rockets from the approaching armed helicopter, the two young men who were originally carrying Wei Ran first let out a cry of surprise, and then threw Wei Ran away in unison, and then acted like a fool. Just run!

Why don't you give me a shot and then run away!

Wei Ran, who happened to be thrown onto a stubble of a branch, grinned as he covered the pain in his lower back.

Amid the cursing, he did not delay at all, nor did he have time to wonder whether Zack, Li Youfu, or even the new acquaintance Charlie were still alive. He tore off the dark green canvas that served as a hammock and draped it over himself to cover up the conspicuous color of the prison uniform. Then he ran away holding the shackles in one hand and the water bottle and camera in the other.

Amidst the continuous explosions behind them, those thatched houses were ignited with flames that reached the sky, and black smoke columns were also evaporated.

But now Wei Ran was in trouble. He didn't know which direction to escape. What's more, before the shackles on his feet were taken off, he couldn't run far even if he wanted to!

But the increasingly dense roar of fighter jets and helicopter propellers in the sky reminded him that the United States might soon occupy this area!

Such shitty fighting power!

Wei Ran cursed and complained about those "good brothers", walked a few steps quickly, found a moss-covered tree stump, sat down, and then took out the Ithaca shotgun from the metal book.

Two "click, click, click" sounds ejected the two shotshells from the magazine, and he then stuffed two more single-head bullets into it.

Pushing the first single-headed bullet into the chamber, he pressed the end of the iron chain of the shackle with the muzzle of the gun. After thinking about it, he took off the canvas he was wearing and carefully wrapped it around his ankle. Then he pointed the muzzle at the shackle again. The chain on the stump pulled the trigger.

"Oh!"

Amidst the dull gunshots, Wei Ran felt his ankles tingle from the shock, but fortunately, one end of the shackle chain had been successfully broken by the single-headed bullet.

After taking off the canvas and touching his ankle, Wei Ran looked up at the top of his head, wrapped the ankle and chain of the other foot as quickly as possible, then loaded the bullet again and pulled the trigger.

"Oh!"

After the second gunshot, the other end of the iron chain was also successfully broken. Apart from the pair of tire slippers, there were only two heavy iron hoops left on Wei Ran's feet.

After taking off his gray-red prison uniform, he put on the canvas with holes in it, and quickly tore off the sleeves of the prison uniform and put them around his ankles, wrapping them around the iron hoop.

Finally, he looked in the direction of the camp that was still under attack. He put the prison uniform that had been torn into a vest back on, and ran out in a direction away from the fighting.

Fortunately, the two young men who had just carried him away had chosen a good direction. At least the Cobra helicopter gunship overhead did not notice his direction.

Do you want to go find Zach?

Wei Ran, who was hiding under the trunk of a big tree, hesitated. There was no doubt that finding Zach would undoubtedly increase his chances of survival. After all, that rich reporter survived until the war.

But at the same time, he also knew that he might be able to survive by finding Zach and following Zach, but before finding Zach...

Just as he thought of this, a Pony helicopter responsible for reconnaissance also flew over the treetops at low altitude, searching for hidden enemies unscrupulously.

Just when he subconsciously raised the shotgun in his hand and was about to pull the trigger, the intensive gunshots of AK rifles suddenly came from the distance beside him. At the same time, he also clearly saw the gunfire flying overhead. The side of the passing helicopter was heavily hit by bullets!

This almost provocative attack immediately caused the helicopter to change its course and start to climb. Wei Yan could even foresee that the opponent would soon drop a marked smoke bomb that would attract the Cobra gunship!

However, almost as soon as the small helicopter turned its nose and climbed and flew over, a high-explosive grenade suddenly exploded directly in front of it!

"boom!"

After the explosion that hit close to the face, the helicopter's flight attitude suddenly began to change, then it spun around and crashed into the jungle.

Looking up at the top of his head, Wei Ran was about to run, but found that Li Youfu ran out from a short distance away. In his hand, he was still holding the grenade launcher that belonged to Angus!

"Troye!"

Wei Ran shouted, and the latter looked over subconsciously.

"Mr. Victor!"

Li Youfu immediately let out a surprised cheer, "Are you okay?"

"Fortunately!"

Wei Ran caught up with him as he spoke, and asked in unison with the other party, "Have you seen Zach?"

"What should we do now?" Wei Ran took the initiative to change the topic.

"Miss Ruan is over there"

Li Youfu, who was running wildly, pointed to the direction where the gunshots had just sounded. "She said that if I can bring down the helicopter, I will add a smoke grenade to it."

Before Li Youfu finished speaking, Ruan Qingcha also ran over carrying an AK rifle while pointing in one direction and shouting something.

Hearing this, Li Youfu ignored the translation, picked up the grenade launcher, and fired a smoke grenade at a 45-degree angle toward the dense forest not far away.

"Let's go!" Li Youfu stood up before he finished speaking, beckoning Wei Ran to follow Ruan Qingcha and run away.

"When did you leave the camp?" Wei Ran asked as he ran.

"After you bandage her wound"

Li Youfu replied as he ran, "We were assigned to guard near the camp, and then we saw the smoke bombs dropped by the helicopter. Do you know what the situation was like in that camp?"

"unclear"

Wei Ran replied loudly, "After the smoke bomb was dropped, everyone began to disperse and flee. Zach was with the doctor who spoke English, but I don't know what their situation is now."

"Do you know in which direction he ran?" Li Youfu asked after communicating with Ruan Qingcha.

"do not know"

Wei Ran shook his head. He was being carried away. Who knows where Zach was taken.

Hearing this, Li Youfu and Ruan Qingcha exchanged a few words briefly, but the latter stopped and said something.

At the same time, Li Youfu also stopped, and Wei Ran had to stop as well.

After some communication, Li Youfu raised his finger and pointed in the direction and said, "Victor, Miss Ruan said, if you want to escape, just escape in that direction. When you encounter a river, just go downstream along the river." American camps can be found.”

"What about you?" Wei Ran asked, "I mean, you two."

"I am going to go with her to help our compatriots," Li Youfu replied very calmly, "In addition, I will also find Mr. Zak."

"Then let's come together." Wei Ran spread his hands, "I'm sure I can help you."

Li Youfu was startled, and then looked at Ruan Qingcha. The two quickly exchanged a few words again, and the girl named Ruan Qingcha immediately turned around and ran towards the camp.

"Thank you," Li Youfu, who also turned around and started running, said loudly.

"You should express your gratitude in a more difficult way," Wei Ran reminded with a smile, "You are a more difficult person now, no, you are a Charlie now."

Li Youfu was stunned for a moment, then switched to Yue Neng language and said loudly, "Gamu'en! Victor! Gamu'en!"

"What do you mean?" Wei Ran asked loudly as well.

"Thank you, I mean thank you." As Li Youfu answered, his steps became more brisk.

"I learned"

Before Wei Ran could finish his words, his feet softened. With a "plop", he fell hard to the ground in the posture of a dog chewing shit. At the same time, he was unprepared to feel the familiar and uncomfortable feeling in his brain. A sense of downtime.

Your uncle.

Wei Ran, whose chin was poked by a dead branch, was throbbing in pain. At the same time, he heard the girl named Ruan Qingcha running and asking, "What's wrong with him?"

Can I understand the more difficult language again?

Wei Ran immediately realized what module the wicked metal notebook had loaded into him. He immediately ignored his bleeding chin and quickly got up and ran, catching up with Li Youfu who was about to stop in a few steps.

"Are you okay?" Li Youfu asked loudly in English. "It's okay," Wei Ran responded, covering his chin with one hand, "I accidentally tripped."

"Are your American friends really going to follow us?"

Ruan Qingcha reminded him in Yue Nan dialect as he ran, "Since he has saved many wounded people, now is his last chance to escape. I will not let them go again and again."

"They are all upright people," Li Youfu, who was also running wildly, replied loudly in Yue Nan dialect.

"Boom boom boom!"

A sudden explosion not far away interrupted the conversation between Charlie and Charlie in front. At the moment of the explosion, Wei Ran skillfully pulled one to a stop and forced them to stick to a lush tree. The big tree trunks hid.

Almost before and after, with the strong wind brought by the propeller, the Cobra helicopter also waved its cannon and the rockets it carried while clearing possible enemies in the jungle while flying towards the crashed reconnaissance helicopter. direction.

"Run!"

Wei Ran stepped forward and reminded in English, "If you don't have follow-up reinforcements, American rescue will arrive soon."

Before Li Youfu could finish his translation, Ruan Qingcha, who had an injured shoulder, ran past Wei Ran and towards the camp where the flames were blazing into the sky.

In just a few minutes, the camp had become a mess. Broken corpses and fragments of incendiary huts could be seen almost everywhere.

But only, there are no wounded here, or in other words, there are no survivors here. All those who did not have time to escape were easily killed by the armed helicopter.

"Zach! Zach Kidd! Charlie! Where are you!"

Wei Ran shouted loudly a few times, and at the same time raised his half-frame camera, pressing the shutter again and again towards the camp where he thought he would live for a while.

Glancing at the hut where he and Zach had stayed for one night, but now it had been set on fire and the roof collapsed, Wei Ran glanced at Ruan Qingcha, who was anxiously looking for survivors, and bent down to pick up a stick. After trying to load the blood-stained Type 56 semi-automatic rifle, he turned to Li Youfu and reminded him, "Troye, it's time for us to leave here, and we must hurry up."

"I I know."

Li Youfu, whose legs and feet were also not very agile, nodded, put the grenade launcher on his back, then grabbed one of Ruan Qingcha's hands and forced her away from the dangerous camp.

"In which direction is Da Nang?" Wei Ran asked abruptly.

"Da Nang?"

Li Youfu was stunned for a moment, then asked Ruan Qingcha the same question in more difficult language.

"That direction"

Ruan Qingcha, with red eyes, raised his finger and pointed in the direction, "Let your American friends run away."

"Take her and let's go find Zach."

Wei Ran took a step forward without waiting for Li Youfu to translate, "He must have run towards Da Nang."

Hearing this, Li Youfu's eyes lit up, he tightened his grip on Ruan Qingcha's slender wrist and followed him.

Amidst the roar of helicopters flying overhead from time to time, the three of them walked faster and faster. After Wei Ran crossed a stream less than two meters wide, he found a gray-red cloth strip on the branches of a shrub.

After exchanging a glance with Li Youfu, the three of them quickened their pace again. Wei Ran, who was walking in the front, also used the tracking skills he had learned at Hongqi Forest Farm and from Ji Ma, looking for any clues as he walked.

Soon, he found a few drops of red blood on a leaf, and then found a piece of blood-stained gauze and the outer packaging of an American first aid kit not far away.

"Let's run faster"

Wei Ran shouted while running wildly, "They must be in front of us, Zach! Zach Kidd! Charlie! Where are you?"

"Menglong! Comrade Menglong!" Ruan Qingcha, who was being held tightly by Li Youfu and wouldn't let go, also shouted loudly in Yuejun dialect.

"Victor! Is that you?!"

As soon as these words were spoken, a surprise response came from the distance.

"It's us! Zach, is it you?" Wei Ran shouted and asked, while also running over quickly.

"It's me! It's me!" Zach's tone of surprise almost sounded like crying.

When he was carrying Wei Ran, who was 56 and a half, around some big trees, he immediately saw Zach.

But at this moment, not only was this guy's feet still shackled, but one of his feet was also covered with a noose, and he was hanging upside down from the branch of a tree.

Not far from him, lying with blood on his face, Dr. Charlie seemed to have fallen into a coma.

"You guys go save Zach"

After Wei Ran clicked the shutter twice towards Zach who was hanging upside down in mid-air, he then said to Li Youfu and Li Youfu who came a step behind.

Without waiting for the other party to respond, he had put away the camera and walked to Charlie's side.

After some observation, fortunately, Charlie had no skin injuries except for a wound on his cheek that was randomly wrapped with gauze.

The reason why he was unconscious was probably due to the concussion caused by the shock wave from the explosion.

"He should be fine"

Seeing that Zach had been rescued, Wei Ran immediately said, "But now I don't have the conditions to suture his wounds. By the way, where is his medical kit? I remember him."

"Abandoned by me"

Zach shook the shackles on his feet, "These things are already troublesome enough, and I have to carry him on my back, so I have to leave those things behind."

"boom!"

At this moment, another violent explosion came from the direction behind him.

"Are they on drugs?"

Zach, who subconsciously shrank his neck, muttered in confusion, "Could it be that bastard George who wants to kill us and silence us?"

"He is not the president of the United States and does not have that much power."

As Wei Ran spoke, he had already lifted up the unconscious Charlie and let him lean against the tree trunk, "Troyer, ask Miss Ruan, where are we going now?"

"Aren't you going to run away?" Ruan Qingcha asked subconsciously in Yuenan dialect.

Hearing this, Li Youfu was stunned and made his decision directly in Yue Nan language, "The two of them may escape, but I don't plan to leave. I want to join you."

Hearing this, Ruan Qingcha took a deep breath, took out three press credentials from his pocket and handed them to Li Youfu. As he walked away, he said, "I'll give you two minutes to say goodbye to your American friends. Next time If we meet again, you may be enemies."

Hearing this, Li Youfu was startled, turned to look at Wei Ran and Zach who were trying to open the shackles, and handed over the press credentials of the three of them, "Victor, you and Zach run away, this is your last chance." Given the chance, I.I want to stay.”

Hearing this, Zac was stunned for a moment, then stood up with a smile, took the three people's press passes, patted Li Youfu on the shoulder and said, "My friend, you have chosen the right path."

"you"

"We will definitely meet again"

Zach said firmly, "There are also those films. No matter whether I can go back alive or not, you must keep those films."

"Okay" Li Youfu nodded vigorously, "If I have the chance, I will retrieve those films, including those buried in the cowshed camp!"

“Looking forward to hearing your good news”

Zach patted the grenade launcher hanging on Li Youfu's shoulder, "I know it's weird to say this, but I'm really looking forward to the good news about your bullpen camp.

Troyer, when the time comes, you must load this grenade launcher with a red smoke grenade, then insert it into George the Boar's ass and give him a shot. "

"Remember to take a photo when the time comes," Wei Ran reminded the two of them as he pressed the shutter button.

"Yeah, be sure to take a picture of him with red smoke coming out of his asshole," Zach said with a grin.

"I will send the photos to CBS at that time," Li Youfu promised seriously.

"Then it's settled"

After Zach finished speaking, he picked up the rope tied to the shackles, beckoned Wei Ran and asked as he ran, "Victor, how did you get rid of the shackles?"

“Just good luck”

Wei Ran smiled, and then found Ruan Qingcha running towards him, holding a Type 54 pistol in her hand.

"It's yours," Ruan Qingcha said in Yue Nan dialect.

"Gamuen!"

Wei Ran didn't need Li Youfu to translate at all. When he reached out to take the pistol, he also said a thank you in a more difficult language.

Without waiting for the other party to respond, and it seemed that the other party was not ready to respond, the two parties were in this chaotic jungle, blocked by the still dense vegetation.

"We need to find a place to hide first," Zach said as he ran. "I need to remove the shackles first, as they will affect our speed."

"I will help you untie it now"

Wei Ran stopped as he spoke, and after beckoning Zach to lie down, he pressed the 56 and a half barrel of the gun he picked up against an iron ring in the chain in the middle of the shackles.

"boom!"

In the crisp sound of gunfire, the bullet smoothly passed through the gap in the middle of the paperclip-shaped iron ring, and as expected, expanded it a bit.

"do not move"

Wei Ran said hello, held the gun again and pulled the trigger again.

"boom!"

After the second gunshot, a gap finally appeared in the already stretched iron ring. Zack immediately separated it from the middle, regardless of whether it was hot to his hands, and then took off his prison uniform and tore it open as a The leggings tied the broken chains to both legs.

Without the restraints of the shackles, the two of them were much faster, and the sound of firefights behind them was getting farther and farther away from them.

When the sky gradually darkened, not only could the sound of firefights and the roar of helicopter propellers be no longer heard, but even the surrounding vegetation had lost all its leaves.

"Are we almost out of the jungle?"

In the shadow of a dead tree, Zach asked happily in a low voice while polishing the rivets on his shackles with the stones he picked up.

“Unless it’s Da Nang outside”

Wei Ranke, who was busy dismantling the rifle bayonet, was far more sober than the other party. "Not only will it become more difficult for people to shoot at us, Americans will also kill us. I just saw it with my own eyes. The same thing happened on the reconnaissance helicopter." There is a sign for the Cowshed Camp.”

"Do you have anything to eat on you?" Zach asked, stopping his polishing work.

"No, I performed several surgeries for them without getting anything to eat."

Before he finished speaking, Wei Ran had already removed the three-edged bayonet of his rifle, "Lend me your stone, and also, stretch out your feet."

"What do you want to do?" Zach handed the stone over as he spoke, and also stretched out one foot.

"Don't move"

As Wei Ran spoke, he pressed the shoulder of the bayonet-shaped screwdriver against the rivet on the opponent's iron hoop, and repeatedly hit the tail of the bayonet with a stone.

Fortunately, the material of the rivet was not too hard. With his persistent tapping, the tip of the bayonet was quickly cut into it.

Seeing that this method was effective, Wei Ran immediately sped up his movements. After more than half an hour of work, the cap of the first rivet was cut off, and with the hammering of the guard, the rivet was also pushed out by the tip of the bayonet.

There was no need for him to do anything next. Zach, a strong humanoid animal, used only his hands to break open the iron hoop and free one of his legs.

"The other leg." Before Wei Ran finished speaking, the other party immediately switched the second leg.

That night, with the sound of knocking, the rivets were smashed one after another, and the legs and feet of the two men were restored to freedom one after another.

But they didn't know that on the same night, the interview notes that belonged to Zach were finally found by members of the T team in the bullpen camp and sent to Da Nang by helicopter.

Also on this night, thanks to the intelligence provided by Zach and Wei Ran, a large number of guerrillas were already preparing to capture the camps of the two countries. Zach also didn't know about this.