War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1571 I wish you a good harvest

In the darkness of night, two figures jogged along the road beside Lake Kaban, gradually approaching the wall of Wei Ran's villa.

On the high-definition surveillance screen, Wei Ran and everyone around him, including the dog Belia, could clearly see that the two men were wearing night vision goggles on their faces and seemed to be holding something in their hands.

"It's your turn."

Apoli picked up his phone and sent a text message in Russian to a Telegram group.

"receive"

In the group chat interface, Liubov responded with a Russian word. Although this girl has only learned Russian for a few months, she is much more diligent than Lu Xinda.

Although she is still far from being able to communicate without any barriers, at least she has no problem using some commonly used sentences.

Before Apoli turned off the screen of his mobile phone, in the small living room on the second floor of the villa next door, which could be barely seen from outside the courtyard wall, Lyubov had already applied a facial mask as quickly as possible, sat cross-legged on the sofa with her legs on the coffee table and watched TV, and by the way, she also showed the same long black hair as Su Su.

How can one make people recognize at a glance that this is the hostess of this house while covering her face?

This problem is not a difficult one for Wei Ran, the Kajianka sisters or Apoli.

The same long black hair as Su Su was just the most intuitive hint. Almost as soon as the mobile phone screen, which could not be seen from the window, showed that someone was climbing over the wall and peeping inside with a telescope, Lyubov, who was wearing pajamas, stood up and stretched as she had rehearsed in advance. She turned around, tore off the mask on her face and threw it away, then left the living room yawning.

Almost at the same time when the lights in Wei Ran and Sui Sui's room came on, Mrs. Samantha, wearing an apron, walked into the living room. She first turned off the TV that was playing the Chinese palace fighting drama, then carefully picked up the facial mask and snack packaging bags that were casually thrown on the coffee table, and tidied the sofa. Then she pulled the gauze curtains and dimmed the lights.

At the same time, Liubofu had also sneaked into the bathroom in Wei Ran and Sui Sui's bedroom, sat on the toilet and watched the peeping figure on the surveillance screen with interest.

In order to prove that the "hostess" was at home, a large photo of the two of them taken in Inta a few years ago was temporarily hung on the wall facing the window of Wei Ran and Sui Sui's bedroom.

  More importantly, during the day, Hela had tried it herself. Even without a telescope, she could clearly see the huge group photo and the...

And the two pillows on the big round bed that Ji Ma gave her that year.

These hints were enough, but the two figures peeping outside the wall were extremely patient. Seeing this, Lyubov, who was hiding behind the surveillance screen, had no choice but to cooperate with the "performance."

About 40 minutes later, Lyubov took off her pajamas, put on a robe, wiped her hair which had just been wet with a bath towel, and walked to the window to close the last gap in the curtains.

Then she took off her bathrobe and threw it away. The light from the cheap curtains she had specially changed showed her vague outline of herself sitting next to the dressing table, blowing her hair with a hair dryer.

After working like this for more than half an hour, Lyubov, who was only wearing a tight yoga suit, got up, walked to the bed and lay down, turned off the main light in the bedroom, and turned on the bedside lamp.

At this point in the play, the two "eyes" outside should have withdrawn.

But in fact, they had no intention of leaving at all. Instead, they carefully tied the things they brought into the courtyard wall with ropes.

"Can you see what it is?" asked Apoli.

"Remote Control Toy Car"

Before Hela, who was in charge of operating the surveillance screen, finished her words, she had already enlarged the surveillance image.

Thanks to the lights installed at the edge of the yard, they could clearly see that it was a toy car that was only the size of a lunch box and shaped like a monster truck.

On another surveillance screen right next to it, one person can be seen keeping watch while the other is wearing something similar to FPV glasses, fiddling with the remote control in his hand, and driving the car in circles in the yard.

"Boss, do you want to turn on the signal jammer?"

A Hela girl pointed at the increasingly clear car on the surveillance screen and asked, "It seems to have a big bone tied to it. Maybe it's prepared for Belia."

“No need”

Wei Ran answered nonchalantly, "Let them see clearly. They will probably take action in the second half of the night."

"Notify Liubov that it's time to rest."

Before Apoli finished speaking, a girl from Hellas immediately sent a Russian phrase "Good night" in the telegram group.

After receiving the news, Lyubov reached out to turn off the bedside lamp, then rolled over to the other side of the bed, carefully left the large bed covered with a layer of dustproof cloth, crawled out of the bedroom, and let the Hela girls outside the door help her close the bedroom door.

"Come with me"

A girl named Hela who usually worked for Susu took Liubov's hand, went up to the third floor with the help of the night vision goggles on her head, and took her back to her room.

"Don't turn on the lights, don't make any noise, and don't come out."

After saying this, the Hela girl, who was wearing a bulletproof helmet with night vision goggles and a bulletproof vest over her black sportswear, turned around and left under Liubov's envious gaze and returned to her seat.

In the large yard outside the door, the remote-controlled car drove around and then returned to a patch of ginger that had not yet been harvested at the corner of the wall. The two men outside the wall finally left and ran in the direction they came from.

“Boss, the people arranged by Greva asked whether to stop or follow them.” asked Hela, who was in charge of watching the telegram group.

"No, they will definitely come again. It is only reasonable for us to deal with them in the yard."

Wei Ran smiled and waved his hands. Although the main force in catching mice this time were the fledgling Hela girls, the Inta athletes also contributed. These hooligans who seemed unreliable at ordinary times had secretly guarded all the intersections around the library and even the parking lot on the other side of the lake.

When necessary, the cars parked on the roadside can block all the roads here at any time, and the gangsters hiding in the cars can also display the Baba Yaga Security Company's credentials at the first time and suppress them with absolute numbers and firepower advantages.

"Leave it to these girls," Apoli said with confidence, "They won't mess it up."

“Then leave it to the girls.”

Wei Ran smiled and called the dog Belia to jump onto the sofa. He fumbled with the dog's head while waiting for the prey to jump into the trap.

On the second floor of the villa, Mrs. Samantha, who had also returned to her room, closed the door and performed a divination alone.

"We will catch enough prey this time. It will be a fruitful night."

Mrs. Samantha looked at the divination results and muttered something in the tribal dialect. An expression of relief appeared on her face.

On the same night, Sui Sui, who was once again drunk by her friends, was once again sent back by the Kajianka sisters to the cabin where she and teacher Anna lived.

However, unlike last night, this time, after helping her change into pajamas, the Kajianka sisters took a few photos of her drunken and delicate face with their mobile phones.

At 47: a.m. Kazan time, three vans, which can be seen everywhere in the Russian Federation, drove to the shore of Lake Kaban with their lights off, coming from different directions, at different intersections, and under the secret watch of thugs hiding in different locations.

At the same time, an inconspicuous SUV indeed drove into the parking lot opposite Lake Caban.

However, after the car was turned off, no one got out. Instead, the trunk lid was pushed open from the inside and lifted to the maximum angle.

"click click"

Amidst the noises, a total of 28 young Hela girls loaded their guns and prepared themselves almost at the same time, whether in the basement of the library, on the first floor and attic of the villa, or in the van parked outside the yard on the lakeside road.

On the surveillance screen in the basement, the three vans without lights on stopped by the roadside against the courtyard wall almost at the same time.

As the car doors opened, two people in each car carried out an aluminum ladder and placed it on the flower wall covered with climbing plants. Immediately afterwards, one after another, armed figures climbed up the ladders over the flower wall and cooperated with each other quite skillfully to enter this beautiful courtyard.

However, almost as the team walked into the shadow of one of the oak trees in the center of the yard, Wei Ran in the library basement gave the order personally.

Suddenly, the camouflaged lights on the roof of the villa and on the outer walls of the library were turned on. For a moment, the yard was as bright as day. Even the roots and crowns of the two oak trees were lit up with dazzling lights.

As the order was given, the signal jammer on the roof of the villa and the signal jammer in a car in the parking lot across the lake were also turned on.

Before the figures who had subconsciously formed a defensive formation could react, the silent bullets fired from the library had already hit them.

At the same time, the door of the van outside the courtyard wall was pushed open, and several beautiful girls wearing black Adidas three-stripe sports suits and bulletproof vests and holding silent weapons jumped down one after another, aimed at the three vehicles and pulled the trigger.

Across Lake Kaban, the commander who was remotely observing the battlefield with the help of a telescope had just realized that something was wrong when the doors of the two cars next to them were pulled open from the inside with a loud bang. Window breakers hit the windows, and before the broken glass even hit the ground, a series of silent weapons were thrust in and aimed at them.

While the Hela girls were busy catching mice, the Inta athletes were not idle either. They turned on the glaring lights in the yard and started their cars, blocking all the surrounding intersections. By the way, they also activated the flashing red thorn logo on the car body - at night, this logo was more useful than the police light.

Not only them, but also on Lake Kaban, there were two small boats that came from nowhere and slowly floated over.

The thugs on the two small boats did not carry any weapons, but each boat had a starter generator and two wires fixed on bamboo poles.

Apparently, if someone dared to jump into the lake to escape, then they would definitely not mind putting two electric wires in the water that would produce sparks when they touched each other to shock some fish and save them as ingredients for the celebration banquet.

In a historian's courtyard, under the bright lights, before those people had time to escape to the villa, the girls on the three floors and even in the attic of the villa opened fire and knocked the invaders to the ground one by one.

Just by looking at the injured parts of their companions, the rest of the people felt a chill in their hearts. Those bullets with terrifying accuracy and silence were shot at the weapons in their hands. At most, they would be unlucky and only lose one or two fingers.

But those who were unlucky, the bullets hit their crotches!

"Surrender! We surrender!"

The leader decisively threw away the silenced Makarov pistol purchased through the dark web, raised his hands and shouted in English.

"Snapped!"

  Almost as soon as his pistol fell to the ground and hit the edge of the fountain, he felt a chill in his crotch, followed by a sharp pain that made his eyes widen. It was not until he knelt on the ground with his hands covering his crotch and rolled back and forth in pain that he had time to consider a common sense question - how many people in Russia can understand English?

From the time the first bullet was fired to the end of the battle, and then to the time when the Hela girls covered each other and approached to remove the weapons and communication tools of the intruders, and tied up the captives like dumplings and sent them to the basement of the library, the whole process took less than five minutes.

With deliberate planning and the advantage in weapons and numbers, this result is not exaggerated.

By the time the countdown on one of the special timing displays entered the fifth minute, the girls had already connected all the confiscated mobile phones to several computers that had been prepared in advance.

After all the captives had their mouths gagged with rags prepared in advance, their belts tightened, and they were put on thick canvas hoods printed with the Baba Yaga logo and tightened around their necks, Wei Ran also walked out of his studio.

While the Hela girls were cracking the communication tools, he slowly put on his gloves and disassembled the ankles and wrists of the captives amidst the indistinct screams and teeth-grinding sounds of joints being dislocated.

Behind him, several Hela girls, also wearing rubber gloves, were expressionlessly helping the injured captives to stop the bleeding.

Their method of stopping bleeding is simple and efficient. In short, each person has several bandages and they just tie them tightly wherever the wounded are injured.

This job doesn't require much medical background or even much strength.

Of course, although the method was simple, the insult and blow to these circumcised captives was real - especially those unlucky ones who were shot in the crotch.

Behind the hemostasis team, several girls wearing rubber gloves were holding captured weapons and firing secondary shots at the prisoners' wounds to destroy their ballistic characteristics.

  It will certainly hurt, but death will definitely not happen so soon. As for whether you will be left with a disability, who cares!

Almost immediately after Wei Ran finished his work and returned to the studio, a van stopped at the entrance of the basement. The girl named Asma and her companions also brought in the other three people they had caught in the parking lot opposite the lake. Although they were also hooded, they were lucky enough not to be injured.

"It has been confirmed that there are 13 people in total," one of the Hela girls reminded.

"How many did you capture?" Asuma asked as he kicked the prisoners who were pushed in to the ground.

"There are 7 in the yard and 3 outside the yard, a total of 10, no more, no less." said the girl Hela who usually hangs out with Sui Sui.

"That's enough."

Before Asma finished speaking, Wei Ran came out again and used the same trick to break the hand and foot joints of the last three prisoners.

"Take them to treatment, and remember to sever the tendons in their left hand and right foot,"

Apoli said with a smile, but he had no intention of interrogating him at all, and there was no need to do so.

Upon hearing this, several girls moved in unison and each pulled out a combat knife with a beautiful pink handle from their waists. The knife had a strange shape but was extremely handy.

Without any hesitation or fear, the girls skillfully severed the tendons of the captives' hands and feet according to Apoli's request.

At the same time, two other Hela girls opened the explosion-proof door of the basement, directed a container truck to drive in backwards and opened the door at the rear of the truck, and used the truck's built-in rocker arm to lift the completely disabled captives in.

Before the container truck left under the escort of the cars driven by the gangsters, several Hela girls wearing rubber gloves had already packed the seized silent Makarov pistols into sealed bags.

At the same time, several other girls had gathered everyone's weapons together, disassembled them into small plastic baskets, and brought them into Anfisa's laboratory, where they were carefully cleaned using the large ultrasonic cleaning machine inside.

They were not the only ones busy. On the surface, the other girls carefully cleaned up their own dropped bullet casings and used a slingshot to send all the shell casings and dug bullet heads into Lake Kaban. Then they lined up and walked into the villa, took a shower in groups of two or three, and changed into a new set of sportswear.

Just as they returned to the basement of the library to find a place to rest and wait for new orders, the 13 confiscated mobile phones had all been implanted with control programs and the screens were projected onto the big screen.

Soon, a photo of Lyubov wearing a nightgown, with her mouth wrapped in tape, huddled in a van with a look of fear on her face was sent to the Telegram group after Anfia changed her face into that of Su Su.

Soon after, another account posted a photo of the Kajianka sisters, also wearing pajamas and with their mouths taped, squeezed into another van.

This is not the end. Immediately afterwards, a third account also posted the same photos of Marta, Lucinda and Lola.

The fourth account posted a message after posting photos of Mrs. Samantha lying in a pool of blood and Beria lying in a pool of blood, "According to our interrogation, these girls all had close relationships with the Chinese historian, so we arrested them all together."

"Well done, go to Sochi, and remember not to let that historian realize that you control his woman."

The account belonging to Meshier then sent another message, "I will transfer the balance to your account."

"Received" in the Telegram group, the rest of the accounts responded according to previous chat habits.

At the same time, in the Russian holiday resort of Sochi, Stepan (Chapter 479), an anti-smuggling policeman who had only met Wei Ran once but had a close relationship with that bastard Ninel, had already used the smuggling number he had obtained from Wei Ran in advance, and together with his police colleagues, he successfully busted a smuggling and illegal immigration organization that traveled back and forth between the two sides of the Black Sea.

Just as Mr. Stepan was standing in front of the armored vehicle, looking at the camera that was almost touching his face, and describing with a righteous look the seven-month-long evidence collection and arrangements they had made in order to take down this organization.

In a private house not far away, a deputy of the human trafficker who was deliberately let go also urgently reported to some of their clients the bad news that their route was no longer safe.

Almost at the same time when this news reached Mr. Meshier's mailbox, Stepan, who had just been interviewed, received the signal from Kazan and immediately surrounded the house with his men. After throwing four or five Russian stun grenades into the house, he successfully arrested the only criminal who was still at large but had been shocked so much that even his own mother could not recognize him.

Almost at the same time, Messer also issued an order in the anonymous telegram group to stop going to Sochi and hide on the spot.

Everything that happened next was no different from what Wei Ran and others had predicted. Messer urgently contacted Edward and asked him if he had made an appointment with the "historian".

On the other end of the phone, Edward, who was "bleary-eyed", glanced at the young man sitting on the bed and looking at him, calmed himself, yawned, and said with a sleepy and drunken look, "It's barely an appointment."

"What do you mean by reluctantly?" asked Mehill.

"He is currently attending an official event in China."

Edward explained, "I heard him bragging. It seems that it was organized by China's official diplomatic department, so he really didn't have much time."

Without waiting for Messer to say anything, Edward continued, "He said that if I could get to China, he would be able to meet me and 'my friend' at any time. Or..."

Edward deliberately paused when he said this, and Messer on the other end of the phone also subconsciously focused his attention.

"Or maybe he will just have to wait a few more days. Tomorrow, no, I should say today. This evening, he will go to Ulaanbaatar to visit a friend.

After staying there for about a day, he seemed to be rushing to Paris to organize a press conference.

"What did you say? A press conference?"

  There was a hint of solemnity in Mehiel's tone, and he almost subconsciously thought that the Organization Without Borders was founded in Paris!

So, is that press conference related to that incident? No, no, no, that damn Chinese historian must have found something!

But unfortunately, he was participating in an official Chinese event at the time and there was no way to threaten him.

Unfortunately, the smuggling route he prepared for his helpers was destroyed at this time! At this time, it was impossible for him to arrange a safe enough retreat route!

He even had a premonition that after daybreak, someone would definitely discover that the girls were missing, and would definitely find the fallen body that had just been posted in the Telegram group.

  By the time.

"Mr. Mehill?" Edward began. "Should I continue?"

"Listen Edward"

Mesir came back to his senses, organized his words and said, "The twins you wanted have been caught. I will send you the photos later."

"Oh! That's great!" Edward said in surprise, "Mesir, how can I thank you?"

"How about you make an appointment with that historian in Ulaanbaatar right now?" Messer hit a clear and direct shot, "Help me delay him for an extra day."

"Do you mean that you are planning to go to Ulaanbaatar as well?" Edward asked under the prompt of the earphone in his other ear.

"Yes, I will come over."

Methil replied, "Help me to hold him back for an extra day, and the twins will be yours, and I will also give you some gifts that suit your taste."

"No problem! I'll contact him later!" Edward reminded greedily, "Remember to send me the photo of the twins!"

"I'll send it to you right away."

After saying this, Messer hung up the phone, and shortly afterwards, sent the photo to Edward's mobile phone.

It's a pity that Edward had no chance to see the photo because his phone had locked itself and responded with a message of thanks and sincere praise on his behalf.

As for Messer, who received the thanks and praise, he was not in a very good mood. Originally, he did not want to get involved in this matter, but he did not expect that the historian would be so efficient.

Due to his "racial talent", he didn't even dare to entrust this matter to Edward. He had reason to suspect that although Edward was also a Jew, he would definitely be curious about what secrets the historian had, and there was a great possibility that he would use it to blackmail him!

"In that case, I have no choice but to go there myself and let Mr. Edward take the blame for the kidnapping," Messer muttered as he sent an email to call for help from his cell phone.

"The prey is ready to jump into the trap"

In the basement of the Time Library, Apoli, holding a glass of champagne in his hand, pointed to the email content refreshed on the screen and said with a smile, "Girls, find a way to get to Ulaanbaatar. Mr. Karp will be waiting for you there. I wish you a good harvest."

Upon hearing this, the girls who had just bathed immediately looked at Wei Ran. Apparently, they all still remembered the casual reminder that “he is Hela’s only boss.”

"Go ahead and be safe."

Wei Ran held a bottle of champagne and smiled as he sent his blessings, "I wish you a good harvest."

Hearing this, the girls, still smelling of shower gel, smiled at each other, each took a mobile phone from the box beside the table, then picked up the suitcases marked with their names and left the basement in twos and threes.