War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1465 The answer is blowing in the wind

When the white light in his vision faded again, Wei Ran found himself sitting on the edge of a fairly busy street.

Just by looking at the skin color and clothing of the people passing by, and just listening to the language in their conversations, he could tell that this was getting harder and harder.

I bent down and picked up a newspaper that had been stepped on countless times. The date on it was October 1977, 10, and there was news on it that the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier had entered service.

Throwing away the torn newspaper full of footprints, Wei Ran first looked down at his own clothes, and then looked around.

He was wearing a set of black clothes, black pants and tire slippers, and a bamboo hat on his head. In front of him was a small stall filled with various handicrafts.

On these stalls there are ashtrays, pipes and other items made of shell shells, as well as bronze statues or aluminum table spoons, etc. Turn around and look behind you, you will see the gate of a post office.

Just at this moment, a man dressed almost the same squatted in front of the stall and casually picked up a gilt-engraved copper bowl the size of a melon.

"how much is this?"

The person opposite the stall asked in Yuehan dialect without raising his head, but he didn't notice at all that the "stall owner" who was separated from him by a stall less than one meter wide had already recognized his identity.

Of course Wei Ran could recognize it. Even if the other person didn't raise his head, he could see the tattoos on the other person's right arm holding the copper bowl, Kabbah 1217, and the wild boar with tusks on his face.

It's George the Boar!

Wei Ran subconsciously wanted to take out the weapons in the metal book. However, after trying again and again, he found that the things in the metal book could not be taken out at all!

"Here's $50 for you"

Just when he subconsciously stared at the 30 cm long magic pestle placed on the stall, George also put a few dollars and a note in the copper bowl and handed it over.

"I like this copper bowl very much"

George pointed to the post office behind Wei Ran, "How about sending it to my home for me, and then I'll give you $50?"

Hearing this, Wei Ran, who had already realized something, suppressed the murderous intention in his heart, reached out to take the copper bowl handed by the other party, and reached out to pick up the piece of paper with the address written in English.

The address above ultimately pointed to Allentown in the United States, but the recipient was "Zach Kidd"!

"Oh it's you!"

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he picked up the magic pestle he had just spotted and stabbed it into the opponent's neck. George opposite also had a look of astonishment on his face.

However, it was extremely regrettable that before the demon-conquering pestle in his hand could penetrate the opponent's body, everything in his field of vision was once again lost in the strong white light.

fuck.

Wei Ran cursed regretfully and decisively gave up his futile efforts.

After a moment of waiting, when the white light dissipated, he finally returned to the world he was familiar with.

Looking at everything around him, Wei Ran couldn't hide his tired sigh. The historical fragment he entered this time didn't take long in total. Although there was no talking tree that he thought he would encounter, what he experienced was Everything made him feel extremely tired.

Especially, the truth of the last scene he saw made him have the urge to immediately find Wild Boar George and beat him to death.

Rubbing his face vigorously, Wei Ran leaned forward and looked at the metal quill that was writing on the pale yellow page.

The answer is blowing in the wind

Saigon Press Corps reporter Zach Kidd was murdered by Team T in January 1968 because he refused to hand over film evidence of the crime. He survived a helicopter attack and crashed and was later captured. Later that month, he was sent to a prisoner of war camp. .

In August 1969, he accidentally met his former colleague Troyer (Lai Yau Fook) in a prisoner of war camp, and decided to accept his help in escaping from the prisoner of war camp and return to the United States to expose the war crimes of Team T.

At the end of that month, with the help of front-line reporters Nguyen Thanh Thug (Lei Huu Phuc), Meng Long (Charlie), news postman Nguyen Thanh Cha and others, he secretly returned to Hue, and secretly returned to the United States through the Playboy Club channel, waiting to receive the films, and at the same time supporting Le Hui Phuc's mother.

Since 1971, Zach has publicly funded the VN15 anti-war organization, and in the winter of 1973 he publicly joined the Communist Party of the United States.

In the autumn of 1976, Zach received a camera and other items from Lai Youfu in the mail, and decided to restart the disclosure of the T-Team's crimes.

Later, it failed because George, the former captain of the T-team, shot a key witness and faked the shooting of a drug addict, as well as never receiving the key film.

In the following years, due to receiving a series of anonymous gifts from Yuexian, Zak worried that Li Youfu and others were threatened, so he went to Yuexian many times to find friends, but to no avail.

In 2009, Zach's only daughter was murdered by someone sent by George and framed for drug driving. Zach fell into a public controversy.

In 2010, Zach's former photography assistant Max was murdered by someone sent by George, and the drowning scene was faked.

In 2014, Zach's wife was murdered by someone sent by George, and the scene was faked to make it appear that she had been robbed and shot to death by a homeless man.

In November 2019, Zach Kidd died of organ failure.

In January 1968, Troye (Lei Huu Phuc), a journalist assistant of the Saigon Press Corps, was attempted to be murdered by Team T because he refused to hand over the film evidence of the crime. He survived a helicopter attack and crashed and was later captured.

In the same month, Le Huu Phuc decided to join the Viet Cong guerrillas and participated in the Battle of Hue and the Battle of Khe Sanh.

In March of that year, Le Huu Phuc was appointed as a frontline war correspondent for the Viet Cong in the name of Nguyen Thanh Cha's cousin "Nguyen Thanh Thuy", and invited Nguyen Thanh Cha and guerrilla member Meng Lu to set up a news team and go to the front line.

In August 1969, he accidentally met his former colleague Zach Kidd in a prisoner of war camp and helped him escape from the prisoner of war camp.

In 1971, Le Huu Phuc's eldest son was born. The son was born with congenital deformities due to Nguyen Thanh Cha's poisoning from Agent Orange. In 1973, their second son was born, with normal body and intelligence.

In July 1976, Le Huu Phuc and his wife Nguyen Thanh Cha were unfortunately killed one after another by shelling while conducting frontline interviews during the Vietnam Unification War.

In accordance with the couple's last will and testament, Meng Long took his wife and buried them together in the Banyan Tree Camp, and took their two young sons back to Laos to stay away from the battlefield.

The internationalist war doctor Mengyu, in January 1968, accepted the task of interrogating and guarding prisoner of war Zach Kidd.

After the interrogation, he was formally interviewed by Zach Kidd. Later, he was attacked by a US air strike and managed to escape with the help of Zach. After learning the true identity of the other party and "Ruan Chengzhu", he still decided to let him go.

In March of the same year, he joined the news team at the invitation of "Ruan Chengzhu".

In August 1969, he accidentally met Zach Kidd in a prisoner of war camp and helped him escape from the prisoner of war camp.

In July 1976, after burying his friends "the Nguyen brothers and sisters", he returned to his hometown with his second wife and Le Youfu's youngest son.

In 1978, Meng Long and his wife went to Jianpu Village to help the local guerrillas resist the invasion of Yue Di.

In 1984, due to physical reasons, the couple returned to their hometown and opened a war orphanage that year, where they have adopted orphans disabled by war and Agent Orange to this day.

Medic Angus, after being transferred to Team T, accidentally discovered that his former medic had hidden evidence about Team T's crimes against humanity, and that the other party was planning to expose the plan to reporter Zach Kidd.

In January 1968, he was intentionally injured on the front line. He secretly assisted reporter Zach Kidd and his assistant Troyer in escaping to Da Nang. He killed his T team teammates on the way to rescue Zach and the two, and killed them before the helicopter crashed. Key evidence is given to Zach.

In the summer of the same year, after recovering, he was transferred back to the T Troop to hibernate. In 1970, he was abandoned by the T Troop captain on the front line and became disabled and captured. After being repatriated to China in 1973, with the help of Zach, he started a new life and formed the anti-war band Gold Teeth.

In November 1976, he was murdered by someone sent by George.

George, the former captain of the T-team at the bullpen camp, enlisted in the army in 1966. He "seduced" his superiors during recruit training and used this to blackmail him for promotion.

During the difficult period of garrison, he tortured innocent children and prisoners of war several times for pleasure. After being reported, he set up a situation to make his "companion" bear the crime and faked his death in the front line. He then repeated his same tactics and killed the reporter.

In 1968, the plan to murder CBS frontline reporters Zach Kidd and Troyer failed, and accidentally killed his partner, Platoon Sergeant Brad. Later, he fabricated Zach Kidd's false news report on the T-Team to gain attention and public opinion advantage. , and thereby earned a promotion to take charge of the bullpen camp.

In 1969, false intelligence was used to trick Hanbang allies into carrying out the mission of exterminating guerrillas. At the same time, informants were used to release information to guide the guerrillas to encircle and kill Hanbang allies, and they carried out indiscriminate attacks to silence them during the air support mission.

In order to eliminate potential threats, an attempt to kill medical soldier Angus on the front line in 1970 failed, leaving him disabled and captured.

In 1972, he retired with the rank of major and returned to the United States. Due to his experience during the Vietnam War, he was elected to the House of Representatives and was re-elected many times.

In the same year, George visited Zach Kidd many times to beg, induce, and threaten him to return the photo negatives, but to no avail.

In 1973, former T-Team members Robert and Clint were hired to assassinate former T-Team members and enemies several times and promised huge profits.

In the winter of the same year, he ordered Robert and Clint to go to jail for robbery to avoid police suspicion.

In 1976, after Robert and Clint were released from prison, they received an invitation from Angus to plead guilty. Upon receiving this news, George once again ordered the two to murder Angus and Zach.

Because Zach temporarily obtained the murder evidence of Robert and Clint and did not attend the meeting, after Robert and Clint shot Angus, George silenced them and faked the scene of the three killing each other after reading it.

In order to find incriminating photos, George secretly investigated Zach and learned that the other party had received a package from Yue Di.

Taking this as a breakthrough, George began in 1977, using false identities all year round to anonymously mail packages to Zach in an attempt to find "Troyer", but failed.

After George joined the National Endowment for Democracy in 1983, he was transferred to the National Democratic Chicken Club and the Congressional People's Boxing Group to take charge of conflicts between Asians and blacks. In 1992, he served as the senior strategic advisor of Lantos Chicken Tendon Association as an "expert on South and Southeast Asian boxing issues".

Since 1998, he has used his position to plant spies into VN15, and in 2009, he successively murdered Zach Kidd's family and colleagues, creating conflicts between VN15 and Vietnamese-Americans.

He retired in 2008 and established a think tank company, continuing to serve Lantos Chicken Tendon Association as a contractor.

In July 2020, another attempt to create a racial conflict between the Asian anti-war organization VN7 and black people by using the traffic accident case failed.

Did you also write me down? Wei Ran couldn't help but feel happy when he saw the last paragraph.

The metal quill was not affected at all. It just started a new line and listed two strings of coordinates, and then listed a detailed address in Laos.

This was not over yet. Immediately afterwards, the quill actually listed another email address and corresponding password.

Until this point, the metal quill finally started another line and wrote a line that Angus once sang on his farm:

How many roads does a person have to travel before he can be called a real person?

How many seas must a white dove fly across before it can rest peacefully on the sand dunes?

How many times must a cannonball pass through the sky before it is forever banned.

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.

With a silent sigh, the page full of words turned to the back, and the metal quill also wrote under the slowly rotating red vortex, "I have a grenade launcher and a red smoke bomb."

Seeing this, Wei Ran couldn't help but smile on his face, and murmured a promise, "I will find an asshole for that red smoke bomb to accommodate it."

After saying that, he reached into the red vortex and took out the contents.

This is indeed an M79 grenade launcher. Both sides of its butt are also inlaid with a piece of copper skin, which is also engraved with beautiful patterns.

In addition, the barrel of this grenade launcher is also wrapped with a Type 56 bullet bag with the straps cut off.

Although the strap of this ammunition belt is missing, the two ends are fixed together with the strap loops of the grenade launcher.

It's a pity that all 10 pockets of this bullet bag are empty, with nothing in them.

Try to dig out the grenade launcher, and sure enough, there is a smoke grenade inside, a red smoke grenade.

He closed the grenade launcher with a "snap" and put it back into the metal book.

It's finally over.

Wei Ran looked at the objects on the table in front of him, and then took out a few photo negatives from the latest page of the metal book.

Unfortunately, these negatives basically captured Angus, Zach, Lai Youfu, Nguyen Thanh Cha and even Charlie who was busy performing surgery. There were no key shots that could nail Team T to death.

Tanshou took off the note that was posted on the table before entering the historical segment, and recalled the things he had written down on it. Then he took out the pen in the metal book and wrote down the latest coordinates, address and email address. I copied down all the passwords.

After slowly smoking a whole cigarette, Wei Ran walked out of the studio in the basement empty-handed.

After squinting his eyes for a moment and enjoying the dry and hot sunshine outside the basement, Wei Ran waited until his body started to sweat. Then he sent a message to Anfiya, but he turned around and returned to the cool basement.

After a while, Anfiya walked into the basement holding her and Wei Ran's notebooks, and helped Wei Ran bring back a pot of hawthorn leaf tea.

"Wait a moment," Wei Ran took the computer handed to him and said hello.

Hearing this, Anfiya didn't say anything, she just helped Wei Ran pour a cup of hot tea, then sat cross-legged on the soft sofa, opened her own notebook, and clicked on the keyboard.

Looking at Wei Ran, he has already entered the two sets of coordinates he just obtained into the computer.

The location pointed to by this first set of coordinates is not far but not close to Da Nang, and it can be clearly seen through the satellite map that it is located deep in the jungle among the mountains.

Looking at the second set of coordinates, it is further north. It is located on the eastern edge of the Changshan Mountains. The closest place name to here is a place called "Yingshan" to the east.

After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran then entered the detailed address of his lair provided by the metal book.

The location found this time is located in Pakse, a commercial city in Laowo, or to be more precise, a temple in Pakse.

"Amphiya, is there a girl from Laowo in Hela or Succubus Company?" Wei Ran closed his notebook and asked, "It would be best if you could translate it into Laowo for me."

"Have"

Anfiya also closed her notebook, "Are you going to Laowo? The Succubus has a girl from Jian simple village. She can speak Thai, Khmer, Laowo, and French. She is also learning English recently."

"How come she knows so many languages?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.

"Her parents come from Laowo and Jianpu Village respectively."

Anfiya explained in detail, "She lived in Bangkok before we took her away, so she can speak Thai."

"Can people be trusted?"

“I just passed the second inspection two months ago.”

Anfiya opened her laptop and tapped the screen a few times before continuing to answer, "She is currently integrating into a new identity in France."

"I may need her to translate for me when I go to my hometown. Let her go first."

After a moment of hesitation, Wei Ran snapped his fingers and said, "Let her go to Da Nang to prepare first and find a suitable identity."

Wei Ran said, handing a sticky note he had prepared in advance to Anfeiya, "Also, take a look at what's in this mailbox, and be careful not to get caught."

"Whose mailbox is this, and what does it have to do with?" Anfiya took the note and looked at it and asked.

"It is related to the VN15 organization. The user of the email seems to be from an official organization in the United States. Last time I went to the United States to make extra money, I was almost hit by a black female driver with a car. I guess it was the user of this email who planned it."

"I'll be careful"

Anfiya pasted the note on the notebook shell and said, "In addition, since the last time you were in danger in the United States, I have been investigating all the old members of VN15, so if you are not in a hurry, give me some time. , if there is really a relationship between the two, I might be able to find the person who is in contact with this email address.”

"Give me the results before mid-August" Weiran set a clear deadline for the other party.

"It won't take that long," Anfiya replied confidently.

"Be careful this time," Wei Ran reminded, "Don't leave any traces."

Hearing this, Anfiya nodded seriously, "Is there anything else?"

"Have the professor and aunt gotten up?" Wei Ran asked as he stood up.

"wake up"

Anfiya held the notebook in her arms and answered as she walked out, "Sister Aurora has also woken up and is now taking Lucinda and Lola to help pack her luggage."

After looking at the reminder he wrote on the note, Wei Ran handed the notebook to the other party and said, "In this case, I should prepare to send them to the airport. I will leave you with the email and translation."

"boss"

Anfiya hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice with a hint of expectation, "Are we finally ready to cause some trouble for the United States?"

"Trouble them?"

Wei Ran smiled and replied softly as he walked in the direction of the car, "They brought it upon themselves this time. All we need to do is watch the show."

"Watching a show?"

Anfiya thought for a while and finally asked expectantly, "Do I need Ming and Dark Hela to buy a ticket to watch the show?"

“No rush yet”

Wei Ran smiled and waved his hands, and said firmly, "We don't need to end this time. The Americans themselves will start a quarrel. All we have to do is tear off their fig leaf stained with feces and urine."

"It's so disgusting and exciting," Anfiya muttered to herself.