War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 153 Basketball ([-]-in-[-] update)

In an unremarkable dilapidated hotel on the edge of Ulyanovsk city, a young girl who was incompatible with her surroundings in both appearance and clothes woke up from the bed in a daze, and then realized that her limbs were firmly locked. It was fixed at the four corners of the wooden bed under him, and even his mouth was stuffed with things.

Unsurprisingly, no matter how hard she struggled, she couldn't get rid of the cloth strips on her wrists and ankles, let alone spit out what was stuffed in her mouth.

Upstairs in this small room, Wei Ran and Ji Ma in disguise were staring at the monitoring screen on the tablet computer, which had been displayed for more than ten hours in one corner.

"Jima, are you sure you can really find that cavalry Gorman through this girl?" Wei Ran asked looking at the girl struggling on the bed in the picture.

"Do not worry"

Ji Ma, who was taking a break in rotation, even opened his eyes lazily when answering the question, "This kind of beautiful girl is a high-quality customer of those dealers. Gorman's people will at least know where Gorman is."

"Why are you so familiar with this set?" Wei Ran asked with a strange expression.

Ji Ma, who still had his eyes closed, rolled up his sleeves, showing off the ring-shaped tattoo of thorns on his wrist, "I was not sensible before, and I lived in prison for a short period of time."

"What do you mean by this tattoo?"

Wei Ran, who was inquisitive, finally made Jima give up his plan to sleep for a while, sat up helplessly and said, "The thorns represent never repenting, but no sharp thorns can compare to Mr. Nicholas' whip on the buttocks, so I He's a good man now. So Comrade Victor, do you have any questions?"

"You weren't put in jail for being a hooligan, were you?" Wei Ran joked happily.

"Fart! Fart your Stalin!" Jima didn't know when he learned Professor Alexei's mantra, and even the first two words were cursed in fairly authentic Chinese.

"Is it because of drug trafficking?"

"theft"

Jima lay on the bed again, yawned and said, "I got drunk once, accidentally drove a bus away, and drove it into the Volga River, are you satisfied?"

"That"

Without waiting for Wei Ran to say the second word, Jima threw a pillow over, "Victor! I wasn't as talkative as you when I was in charge of staring at the girl downstairs! Can't you let me sleep for a while?"

"When you stared at this girl, you must have been busy working as an air defense soldier all night. How can you have time to chat with me?" Wei Ran's teasing voice made Jima throw the second pillow over.

To say that Ji Ma is absolutely wicked, even though he didn't touch the girl last night, he took away her shoes, pants and the only curtain in the small room, leaving only one for her. Apart from a mobile phone and a card with the address and room number of this small hotel, he didn't even leave the key to the room downstairs.

While the two of them were waiting, the girl downstairs became more and more irritable after struggling several times to no avail. Even through the camera, she could see tears streaming from the corners of each other's eyes.

As time passed, the sun outside the window gradually slanted westward, and the girl who had been tied up for a day struggled more and more violently.

"Looks like it's almost there"

Ji Mami, who barely fell asleep, stared at the screen in bewilderment, woke up in an instant, ran to the window and pulled a nylon thread fixed on the radiator.

With the pulling of the nylon thread, in the downstairs room, the cloth loose button that originally imprisoned the girl's hand was pulled away. Almost at the same time that she broke free from her hand, Ji Ma also released the nylon thread in her hand. Burn it off with a cigarette butt, and throw the part that connects downstairs out of the window.

At the same time, the girl downstairs who was addicted to reading didn't even bother to untie the rope on the other hand. After quickly pulling out the glove that had been stuffed in her mouth for a whole day, she grabbed the mobile phone on the bedside table and dialed out.

Listening to the out-of-key conversation on the tablet and the sound of flushing the toilet, Jima proudly raised his chin, "You lost, she called first, so you owe me [-] rubles from now on."

"No Promise..." Wei Ran glanced at the disappointing girl on the screen, angrily took out a few banknotes from his bag and handed them to Ji Ma.

"Do you want to gamble again?"

Jima counted the banknotes one by one, and at the same time said with unusual affirmation, "At best, she just went downstairs to check and confirm the location, and she will never leave here until the reading gets into her veins."

"You took her shoes and trousers away, what a fart she left!" Wei Ran gave the former a middle finger back, "Don't say it's useless, should I go downstairs to watch or you go downstairs to watch? "

"Let me go. In case the delivery person comes by car, I'm worried that you will be lost."

Before Jima finished speaking, he picked up the car keys on the table, put the sound-cancelling Makarov with the keys, and a temporary walkie-talkie into his pocket, put on a mask and hat and left the room .

Not long after, Jima's voice came from another intercom in the room, "I've started the car."

"The takeaway hasn't arrived yet." Wei Ran responded, and at the same time put all his attention on the screen of the tablet.

After waiting for less than 20 minutes, the door of the downstairs room was knocked, and the girl who was walking around anxiously with only a bath towel wrapped around her lower body immediately ran over and opened the door.

With the help of the camera hidden outside the window, Wei Ran clearly saw the tall, blond woman outside the door handing a glasses case and a bulging paper bag to the girl they snatched last night.

"Delivery staff, blond hair, female, white down jacket." Wei Ran said while pinching the walkie-talkie.

"Received" on the other end of the walkie-talkie, after Jima responded, he immediately focused on the only entrance and exit of the hotel.

Almost at the same time as the woman who gave away the medicine walked out of the gate, Wei Ran also saw the girl take out the syringe from the glasses case with his own eyes, suck out the medicine from a small bottle skillfully, and then pushed it into the arm. in the veins.

"here we go"

Wei Ran pinched the hand table and sent out the pre-agreed signal, then gently opened the window, pulled the rope and data cable, and pulled up the old-fashioned computer camera that was originally taped outside the downstairs window.

When he finished packing up all the small items left behind, he put on a mask and a baseball cap and walked out of the room.Ji Ma had already chased after the car of the Jinfa waiter and disappeared.

Quietly leaving the hotel, Wei Ran walked a hundred meters along the street, and then got into an off-road vehicle that he rented with the driver's license of the drugged girl during the day.

"Where is it?" Wei Ran asked while starting the car.

"Go west along the road in front of the hotel, and the other party hasn't stopped yet." Jima paused and continued, "Hurry up and wait for me at the intersection ahead."

"Received" Wei Ran put down his hands on the platform, stepped on the accelerator and drove the car towards the direction directed by Ji Ma.

It can be seen that the Jinfa waiter is very busy. During this night, Wei Ran and Jima followed her from a distance and visited almost half of the bars and underground entertainment venues in Ulyanovsk. .By the way, I also found an opportunity to tie a mobile phone for positioning to the bottom of their car while the other person in charge of the car went to buy cigarettes.

However, even with a mobile phone to help locate, Wei Ran and Ji Ma had to follow the whole journey from a distance in order to avoid someone replenishing the "delivery staff" on the car halfway, observing the car's location through binoculars. Happening.

From the evening until [-]:[-] in the morning, the red car driven by the other party unscrupulously drove along the road to the northernmost tip of the city.

"Jima, where does this road lead to?" Wei Ran asked very quickly on the radio channel.

"Let me see." Jima, who was a street away in front of him, quickly opened the map on his mobile phone, "If you go all the way north, you should be able to go to the President Bridge on the other side of the Volga River."

"You go to that bridge and wait now." Wei Ran said without thinking, and then slowed down the speed of the traffic light, allowing the red car behind him that had been following him all night to overtake him and pass the signal light that was about to turn red.

Ten minutes later, Ji Ma's voice sounded again on the radio, "They are on the bridge. A black SUV with spotlights on the roof is parked in the opposite lane in the middle of the bridge. They exchanged some things, which should be money and unique products. .”

"You'll be back soon, I'll follow that SUV." Wei Ran, who just got on the bridge, turned the car around after finishing speaking, slightly reduced the speed of the car, and drove forward slowly.

After waiting for less than 5 minutes, the dazzling headlights came on behind him, and the off-road vehicle that Jima just mentioned passed Wei Ran and drove straight towards the urban area of ​​Ulyanovsk.

Followed by Wei Ran from a distance, the black SUV finally drove into the underground parking lot of a high-end apartment.

Wei Ran, who was following behind, glanced at the name at the door of the apartment, and radioed Ji Ma together with the license plate number of the SUV, then stepped on the accelerator to increase the speed, and drove past the door of the apartment as if nothing had happened, and finally disappeared At the next intersection.

Less than 15 minutes later, the van driven by Ji Ma stopped opposite the apartment, and a little later, Wei Ran walked into the apartment with his hands in his pockets.

Following the safe passage to the underground parking lot, Wei Ran found the black SUV among the many luxury cars after a search, but what surprised him was that although the appearance of this car remained unchanged, the license plate number had completely changed. up.

Without stopping at all, Wei Ran wandered around the empty underground parking lot, followed the exit of the parking lot and returned to the surface, and then sent the new license plate number to Ji Ma with his mobile phone.

After receiving the news, Ji Ma did not act in a hurry, but waited patiently in the car for a full hour, until the sky was already pale, and then opened the door, as if going back to his own home, Go in along the entrance of the parking lot, find the black SUV, and wrap a mobile phone wrapped in a motorcycle inner tube with tape on the former site.

When he also came out of the underground parking lot, Wei Ran had already got into the van across the road and waited for a long time.

"Do you think that Cavalry Gorman hid the treasure in this apartment?" Ji Ma asked in a low voice after driving.

"I don't think it's possible." Wei Ran said while starting the car, "Wait until dawn to see where the car goes. If it doesn't move at all, we'll go look for it in the apartment tomorrow night."

Jima looked up at the apartment building, "It's on the 20th floor."

Wei Ran smiled, "At least it's not as big as the city of Ulyanovsk, isn't it?"

"That's right!" Jima immediately regained his energy, "Go to sleep for a while, I'll watch over it."

Wei Ran didn't refuse when he heard the words, lowered the back of the seat, reached into the backpack on his lap, and snored not long after.

It's just that before he could finish a complete dream, he was woken up by Ji Ma.At the same time, his hand in the backpack also held a titanium pistol loaded with bullets.

"What's the matter?" Wei Ran looked around, and after making sure it was safe, he asked and put the pistol back into the leather book without anyone noticing.

"The car is leaving," Jima said, writing "leave the apartment at 7:30" on the plastic notebook in his hand.

They took out their mobile phones and turned on the device search function. It didn't take long for them to get the real-time location of the SUV.

However, to their surprise, when they arrived at their destination, they found that it was a high school, and the car was parked downstairs in the school gate!
Wei Ran and Jima looked at each other in surprise, and asked in unison, "Could it be here?!"

"Wait first." Wei Ran waved his hand, "See if he will come out."

"Go on to sleep, I'll watch." Jima took out the binoculars from his bag while talking.

"Let me go around!" Wei Ran said, changed his coat, opened the car door and began to stroll around the school.

The school does not occupy a large area, and the few teaching buildings also carry a little shadow of the Soviet era.But the strange thing is that it is not only surrounded by corrupt buildings, substations, but also a playground, a court and a prison!
If you just look at the surrounding environment, this is probably the least likely place in the whole city to hide unique products, but the black SUV is parked in the school's parking lot at this time.

"Could it be wrong?"

Wei Ran frowned. At four or five o'clock in the morning, there were not many cars on the street, so it was impossible for them to lose track of them.But if he didn't lose track, could it be that the other party really had the audacity to hide the unique product in a school?
While he was thinking about it, Jima's call sounded on the radio channel, "Victor, can you see the playground?"

"I can see, I'm on the side of the road outside the playground, only separated by a barbed wire, I can see clearly."

As Wei Ran spoke, he hid his body under a paulownia tree that had lost all its leaves, and with the other hand, he took out a heavy laptop from his leather notebook under the cover of the backpack on his chest. telescope.

In the clear and sharp field of vision, the black SUV parked steadily at the door of the iron house on the edge of the playground, and then a gentle man walked out of the cab, opened the small door of the iron house, and went straight in. Throw two basketballs into the trunk of the SUV.Then he opened the rear door and threw two seemingly indistinguishable basketballs into the tin house.

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(End of this chapter)