War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1553: Infiltrating the Ark

On September 9, 17, at 1982:9 in the morning, Wei Ran, who had threatened to avenge his good brother Hariri, no, it should be said that the Phalange militant Kamil, sadly pulled out the Mauser bayonet from the chest and abdomen of his good brother Hariri.

"Join our team"

The Falangist militiaman who lent the pistol to Wei Ran extended the invitation while taking the Stechkin submachine gun returned to him.

"Do I have a chance to avenge Hariri?" Wei Ran asked without raising his head.

“You’ll have a chance.”

Ayiman answered as a matter of course and with great confidence, "There are enough refugees here. No, there are enough enemies from the 8th Liberation Organization. You can kill them until you run out of bullets."

"In that case, I'll join you."

As Wei Ran spoke, he wiped the remaining blood on the Mauser bayonet with his sleeve, "I will use this knife to take revenge myself."

“Come with us”

As the Falangist militiaman spoke, he stuffed his submachine gun into the hard leather holster on his leg and kept introducing, "I am the captain of this team, Ayiman, the one using the AKM is Keanu, and the one with the gold teeth is Etia."

"My name is Camille, Camille Fazis."

Wei Ran especially repeated his name once more, and then took the initiative to reveal his "team" and the captain's name, and even his good brother Hariri's hometown and his wife's name.

The team leader who called himself Ayiman was also cautious enough. He really pulled out the walkie-talkie that Wei Ran cared so much about, and called "Camille's team leader" seemingly casually, informing him of the death of Hariri and others and what happened to Kamille.

He was not as cautious as Wei Ran had expected. Captain Ayiman simply verified everything on the intercom and then safely assigned Kamil to his team. He did not even let Kamil say hello to his captain through the intercom.

This is a good thing and a bad thing.

On the good side, Wei Ran secretly gave up his plan to kill them with a gun, but on the bad side, Ayiman and the other two were destined to die in an accident because of their little mistake this time.

“Don’t waste time”

Team leader Ayiman stuffed the walkie-talkie back into the bag on his chest and said, "Let's continue to move in the direction of Aka Hospital."

"Let me go ahead!" Wei Ran said, "I want to avenge Hariri! He is my best friend."

Ayiman and the other two naturally had no objection to having a brainless companion walking in the front as a dangerous vanguard, especially since to them, Kamil was just a teammate they picked up at random.

“You have to be safe”

Ayiman just gave a warning, and then he, Keanu and Etia tacitly distanced themselves from Wei Ran.

While walking and chatting, the seemingly brainless Wei Ran also learned a lot of key information indirectly.

These included "clear orders" such as "eliminate the militants in Acre Hospital" and "kill all members of the 8th Liberation Organization who appear to be threatening or are about to be threatening."

"Camille, where did you get the camera?"

As they searched and plundered along the way, Captain Ayiman also asked his doubts directly.

"Snatched in the morning"

Wei Ran, who was pressing the shutter button towards the corpse on the roadside, replied, "I want to take pictures of these. This is the glory of the Falange Party."

"You are right. This is indeed our honor."

Etia, who had a golden front tooth, agreed, "Camille, how about taking a few photos for us later?"

"No problem at all"

As Wei Ran spoke, he had already stopped beside a row of bodies of young and middle-aged men who had been shot, "Why don't we shoot here? How about you guys strike a pose?"

"We didn't kill these people," the militant named Keanu said subconsciously.

“What does it matter?”

As Ayiman spoke, he had already pulled out an American military knife, cut off a few scalps with great familiarity and held them in his hand. He also stepped on the head of a baby and raised the AK rifle in his hand.

Seeing this, Keanu and Etia followed suit and cut off one or two scalps each in preparation.

Wei Ran glanced at the time on the prisoner-of-war watch on his wrist inconspicuously, suppressed the murderous intent in his heart, and pressed the shutter button towards the three people in turn with a smile on his face.

After taking a few photos in succession, Wei Ran seemed to casually move the rifle that was originally on his right shoulder to his left shoulder, then took out a pack of cigarettes, first gave one to the soldier named Keanu, and then gave the second one to Etia.

"boom!"

Almost at the moment when he passed the third cigarette to Captain Ayiman who had just lost his scalp, a crisp, abrupt, but fatal gunshot was heard in the distance!

"Keanu!"

  Etia, who had just lit a cigarette, was stunned for a moment, then let out a heart-wrenching scream, and caught Keanu, who was shot in the stomach, and held him in his arms before he fell!

"Sniper! Hide! Hide quickly!"

Wei Ran also "reacted very quickly" and threw away the cigarette box in his hand. He grabbed Ayiman's belt and dragged him into the doorway on the side of the road.

"boom!"

  The second gunshot that followed had not yet dissipated when a cloud of blood mist burst out from the chest of Etia, who had just hugged Keanu!

"Pfft!"

Keanu and Etia fell to the ground almost at the same time, and either became motionless or looked in the direction of Wei Ran and the others pleadingly.

"I found him!"

  Before Captain Ayiman could react, Wei Ran had already bravely jumped out of his hiding place, half-knelt on the ground, raised the AKM rifle in his hand (the butt of which had not yet been folded), aimed at the top-floor window of a three-story building in the distance, and pulled the trigger!

Amid the sound of gunfire, Wei Ran also shouted, "Ayiman! Hurry and drag them both back!"

Captain Ayiman shuddered, gritted his teeth, and after a moment's hesitation, he leaned out half of his body, raised his AK rifle, pulled the trigger in the direction where Wei Ran was firing, and shouted, "I'll suppress the sniper! You pull them back!"

"it is good!"

Wei Ran, no, Camille, Camille was like a brainless reckless man. While putting away his gun, he grabbed Keanu's collar with one hand and Atia's body with the other hand, and dragged them desperately to hide back in the doorway on the side of the road.

"boom!"

With another crisp gunshot, the edge of the doorway where Aiman ​​was hiding was hit by a bullet, exploding into a ball of brick debris. The militia squad leader Aiman ​​let out a panicked cry, then sat down in the doorway, gasping with a pale face.

Seeing this, Wei Ran secretly curled his lips. Not to mention him, a K-series dropout who had been trained by his living ancestor for a long time, even the hot air balloon that had just cooperated with him and retired from the lawless army could easily beat these Jidu militiamen.

The only reason why these Jidu militiamen were able to defeat refugees whose numbers were several times theirs was that they had weapons while the refugees did not.

Don’t say anything like “relying on numbers to block the loophole can scare them”, the last person who had this idea was Lord Buddha.

Apart from anything else, the Maxim Death Harvest that made a name for itself in the Somme Hell is enough to explain many problems.

When the gap between weapon generations is large enough, bravery and numbers are really just side stories of tragedy. For example, the gap between being unarmed and using firearms is large enough.

The same logic applies in reverse. After eliminating the difference in weapons, when an outlaw retired sniper and a K-series dropout who has survived hundreds of battles join forces.

The gap between Ayiman, the squad leader who came from a religious militia and had only fought a few years of civil wars among weaklings, and the two of them was far beyond the gap in weapons.

  What's more - where does he get the advantage in weapons?

"Captain! Etia is dead!"

Wei Ran, whose acting skills were actually on par with that bastard Ji Ma, desperately covered Keanu's stomach wound with his hands, squeezing out more blood, and shouted in Arabic in panic, "Keanu's injury is also very serious, we need to find a doctor immediately to help him stop the bleeding!"

"We were ambushed by snipers!" Ayiman hurriedly pulled out the walkie-talkie and screamed, "We were ambushed by snipers on the way to Aka Hospital! We need support, our people are injured!"

After the other party shouted this sentence, Wei Ran seemed to casually move the rifle that had accidentally slipped off from his left shoulder to his right shoulder.

A few hundred meters away, a smile appeared on the corner of the hot air balloon's mouth hiding in a residential building.

Changing weapons from shoulder to shoulder was the signal for opening fire and retreating that they had agreed upon in advance, and distributing cigarettes was the agreed order of killing.

At present, he has helped Wei Ran create a new identity that is solid enough, and has also used the threat of "sniper" to temporarily block the enemy here.

In addition, thanks to Wei Ran's deliberate guidance when "suppressing the sniper", the position where Ayiman was hiding was actually still within his shooting range.

In other words, he only needed to wait patiently for a moment to complete the last shot, and then he could go to other sniper positions to concentrate on protecting the hospital and his friends there.

"There happened to be an armored vehicle nearby"

Aiman, who was hiding in a doorway on the roadside, heaved a sigh of relief and explained, "They will come to support us soon."

"Are you familiar with them?" Wei Ran asked worriedly, "I mean the people in the armored vehicle, will they abandon us?"

"Will not"

Aiman ​​said confidently, "Although I am not familiar with the armored convoy, unless our enemies have RPGs, they will not abandon us."

"That's fine, I'm in a hurry."

Wei Ran looked at the armored vehicle that was approaching behind him, and while saying something that Captain Ayiman didn't understand, he once again shifted his weapon from his right shoulder to his left shoulder.

"Sorry, I'm in a hurry."

  A few hundred meters away, the person in the hot air balloon was whispering the same words, but it did not stop him from pulling the trigger!

"boom!"

Amid the sharp sound of gunfire, Aiman ​​was shot in the ear and was thrown into Wei Ran's arms by the impact of the bullet.

"Captain Ayiman!"

Wei Ran held the other person's body, with his back to the armored vehicle that was close at hand, and roared with a smile on his face but a sad tone. At the same time, he did not forget to snatch the walkie-talkie in the other person's hand and stuffed it into his chest bag without any hesitation.

"boom!"

Along with the second gunshot, a cloud of blood mist burst out from the crotch of Keanu, the wounded soldier who was already breathing more than breathing. "Camille", who was originally holding Captain Ayiman, also realized it belatedly but picked up the submachine gun without hesitation and shot towards the roof of another building next to the hot air balloon hiding place, screaming and cursing while pulling the trigger.

"Thumbs up!"

Less than two seconds later, the Lao Gan Ma machine gun on top of the armored vehicle that had stopped behind Wei Ran also covered the second floor of the building, which was already littered with corpses, with a barrage of dense, deadly bullets that failed to kill anyone.

"Are they still alive?!"

As the tailgate of the armored vehicle opened, a Falange militiaman shouted, "Wei Ran asked."

"Dead, they are all dead!"

Wei Ran unceremoniously hid at the rear of the armored vehicle, and glanced at the time on the prisoner-of-war watch on his wrist - 7:11.

"Collect the valuables from them!"

The man in the car said bluntly, "You can exchange those things for a ticket! It's much safer in an armored car!"

"I want to keep the captain's secondary weapon! I want to give it to his wife!" Wei Ran said stubbornly.

"up to you!"

The people in the car responded nonchalantly, "Weapons are not valuable, but we must not leave them to those damn refugees!"

"I know that without you telling me! Give me a few minutes!"

As Wei Ran spoke, he bent over and ran to the side of Captain Ayiman. He first untied the hard leather holster containing the submachine gun on his waist and stuffed it into his arms. Then he took off the rest of the weapons and ammunition, as well as various valuable items hidden on Captain Ayiman and the other two, and handed them to the people in the car.

"You got a ticket!"

An armed militant holding an AKS74U in the car distributed the "ticket money" to the driver and the machine gunner, and said, "Good boy, welcome aboard the Ark, God will bless you!"

"What a great name!"

As Wei Ran was talking, he had already crouched down and got into the car, sitting on a simple seat closest to the rear of the car, and asked, "Where are you going next?"

"Aka Hospital, of course it's Aka Hospital!" the ticket seller replied, "What should I call you? Your name or nickname is fine!"

"Etia!"

Wei Ran answered without thinking, "My nickname is photographer! You can call me whatever you want!"

"Photographer? Do you have a camera?"

The armored vehicle started moving as the conductor asked, "I am the captain of the Ark, nicknamed the conductor."

"Sure, want to take a picture?"

Wei Ran asked back, "I can't use my camera to buy tickets."

"No one is trying to steal your camera, but it would be great if you could take a few pictures for us."

An armed man sitting opposite the ticket seller said this, and the others immediately agreed after hearing it.

"No problem at all!"

Wei Ran readily agreed, "I will use my camera to record your glory and achievements!"

"Then it's settled!"

The conductor said, pulling out a piece of fresh Chat from his pocket and handing it to Wei Ran, "Here's your ticket!"

"I was just feeling bad about the expensive ticket price!"

Wei Ran took the Chat with pretended surprise, not avoiding the smug look of the ticket seller. He lifted the bottom edge of his scarf, put it into his mouth and started chewing.

“Be prepared”

The conductor clapped his hands and said loudly, "Let's go to Aka Hospital to have some fun!"

"I want to find a beautiful female nurse to help me treat my sexually transmitted diseases!" The militant sitting in the machine gun tower laughed and joked.

"boom!"

Along with a gunshot that was barely covered by the engine, the machine gunner who had just uttered the bold words also tilted his body, and a cloud of blood mist burst out from his chest.

"boom!"

Another gunshot rang out, and this "Ark" full of sin lost its helmsman.