War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1577 The Queen's Letter of Allegiance

"whats the matter?"

In the bedroom, Wei Ran asked as he looked at Sui Sui who was holding the door with her back.

"Did those psycho girls really catch those killers?"

When Sui Sui said this, her tone and attitude were unusually serious. "I know you must be hiding a lot of things from me, but this time I ask you, you'd better tell me the truth."

Hearing this, Wei Ran simply confessed, "Those spirited girls are just put on display for people to see."

"You... you killed someone?" Sui Sui asked, suppressing her panic.

"What are you thinking about?"

Wei Ran shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "Let's not talk about how I, who is so weak as to not be able to kill anyone, don't you think about what we were busy doing when those assassins sneaked in?"

Hearing this, Sui Sui blushed and calmed down. She asked unhappily, "So who did it? Don't tell me, let me guess first!"

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't rush to speak. He just took her to the floor-to-ceiling window, sat on the sofa, and waited with a smile.

"Snapped!"

Sui Sui snapped her fingers. "Uncle Ivan! It's him! No, no, no, not enough. Gleva! Gleva's gang thugs! How many of them are here? Is anyone injured?"

"I guessed half right, less than half. Of course, no one was hurt."

Wei Ran explained with a smile, "Uncle Ivan is our security manager. He does have a hand in this matter, but it has little to do with the thugs under Greeva."

"Where is the other half?" asked Sui Sui.

"I'll take you to meet them later," Wei Ran said gently, "Is there anything else you want to know?"

"Also, where does Uncle Ivan next door come from?"

"The soldiers of the Soviet era, the kind with strong combat effectiveness."

Wei Ran answered honestly. He was indeed honest enough. Apoli was indeed a Soviet soldier, a very powerful Soviet soldier.

Hearing this, Sui Sui finally breathed a sigh of relief and asked with a hint of dissatisfaction, "Next question, why did you hide this from me?"

"I don't know much more than you do." Wei Ran spread his hands. "I didn't tell you because I was worried that you would be scared."

"Is it related to He Ge and the last time you almost died in the plane crash?" Sui Sui leaned close to Wei Ran's ear and continued to ask in Chinese, almost right next to his ear.

Wei Ran didn't say anything this time, but just nodded slightly. He knew that what Sui Sui really wanted to ask was whether it had anything to do with Gorman's fake death.

"Then I won't ask."

Sui Sui took a deep breath and said, "Come on! Take me to see which immortal did it."

"Let's go!"

Wei Ran stood up and was the first to walk out of the room. He took Sui Sui out of the villa and walked next door.

"It seems that Sister Aurora has realized something." In the hall on the first floor of the villa, Anfia whispered in Italian while holding the coffee brought by Lola.

"She realized it a long time ago," Anfisa replied confidently.

"Are we going to help explain it?"

"Need not"

Anfisa answered without thinking, "From a security perspective, we may be the last line of defense. There is no need to expose ourselves, otherwise she will inevitably think too much. And objectively speaking, Sister Aurora's psychological quality is actually far inferior to that of the boss."

"That's true. I hope the boss can explain it clearly." Anfia said with a bit of gloating.

While the two sisters were joking, Wei Ran had already taken Sui Sui to find Apoli, who was chatting with Kalp in the library.

Just by looking at Sui Sui, who was following Wei Ran with a souvenir in her hand, Apoli realized something. He stood up and said with a smile, "Come with me."

"Uncle Kalp, this is a gift for you. We brought it back from Austria."

Sui Sui handed the paper bag in her hand to Karp who she met by chance, "I'll bring Uncle Ivan's portion later."

"Good boy, I'll ask Liubov to get it later."

Apoli said as he led them out of the library and around to the downstairs of the office that once belonged to Greva. He led the two of them upstairs and said, "I guessed that you would definitely come to see them, so I asked them to wait in advance."

"They are"

"They are all children of miners near the town of Tula. Their parents died in the mines due to various accidents."

Apoli, who was walking in the front, explained, "This is a rare opportunity for them, an opportunity to go out of the Arctic Circle and come to a big city. These children cherish it very much."

"Children from a polar town?"

"certainly"

Apoli explained, "Ever since Victor was attacked by the nuclear recruits for the first time, Karp has asked me to help find some children. After these girls were selected, they have been trained for a long time in Karp's school."

At this point, Apoli stopped and explained apologetically, "I'm sorry, we kept it a secret from you and Victor, mainly because we were worried about scaring you, after all."

"It's okay, it's okay," Sui Sui waved her hands repeatedly.

"Then meet everyone," Apoli said, finally reaching out and knocking gently on the door.

As the door opened, Sui Sui and Wei Ran who followed behind her also saw the scene in the office.

As far as the eye can see, there are seven bunk beds lined up against the wall. The most conspicuous piece of furniture in the room is a gun cabinet, which contains some civilian weapons such as shotguns.

"This is Asuma, the captain of this security team," Apoli explained, "and next to her is the deputy captain, Yulia."

"Hello, boss!" The young Hela girls greeted in unison.

"Hello you guys"

Sui Sui breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, these girls were either wearing overalls or jeans, and at least not the irritating pink color.

"Their salaries will be covered by the studio," Apoli said with a smile, "but they will work for you in the future."

"So, I also have a bodyguard?" Sui Sui asked Wei Ran beside her in her native language.

"It seems so." Wei Ran nodded.

"In that case, why not let them move?"

"There are really not many empty rooms in the house," Wei Ran waved his hands quickly.

It was of course a lie that there were no empty rooms. There were enough empty rooms on the first floor, the third floor, and even on the second floor where they lived. It might not be enough for each of the girls to live in one room, but it was definitely more than enough for two to share a room.

"You can't live here, the conditions here are too bad."

As Sui Sui was talking, she had already called for Asuma and the others to follow her downstairs, saying, "I just happened to have an idea, maybe Uncle Karp can help."

"What idea?" Wei Ran asked vigilantly.

"It was Uncle Culp who helped find this house, right?" Sui Sui asked with a smile in her native language.

"Then what?" Wei Ran asked, "Tear it down and build a bigger one?"

"What are you demolishing?"

As Sui Sui walked downstairs, she said, "It seems that the bet we made a week ago was a good one now. To return the favor, we should also spend some money."

"What do you mean?" Wei Ran asked puzzledly.

"What else could it mean? It's just paying protection money, or it can be said that it's just showing an attitude."

Sui Sui explained simply and straightforwardly, "First, we were not locked up, and second, no police came to our door to ask us a single question. This is enough to show the official attitude."

"So what?" Wei Ran asked with interest.

"In return for the favor, we have to spend some money as a token of our loyalty."

Sui Sui explained in a very confident manner, "Luckily I didn't touch the money in your account, otherwise you would have to borrow from my parents and godparents."

"What are you doing?" Wei Ran asked, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

“Buying real estate, of course.”

Sui Sui explained as a matter of course, "There is no more straightforward way than this. We can leave Russia at any time, but we cannot take our real estate with us. This is for the officials to see, so that they will be more determined to continue investing in the Russian Federation."

At this point in the conversation, Sui Sui looked at Wei Ran and said, "So it might cost a lot of money next."

"It doesn't matter if you spend all the flowers."

Wei Ran said indifferently that he really didn't know how much money was in his own account. To be honest, he was now a gigolo, relying on Sui Sui's money to support him.

And even if we take a step back, even if all the money in his account is spent, even if Su Su's business fails, as long as he returns to China, there will be enough start-up capital in the transport truck.

"Then I'm not welcome!"

As Sui Sui spoke, she walked into the library, sat opposite Culp, and said with a smile, "Uncle Culp, I would like to ask you for a small favor?"

"no problem"

Karp readily agreed without asking what the favor was, and after glancing at the girls who followed him in, he jokingly asked, "That bastard Victor betrayed the Queen of Inta, so do you need my help to teach him a lesson?"

"If it's this favor, I'm willing to help." Apoli expressed his attitude with a smile.

"If this happens again, I will definitely ask you for help."

Sui Sui smiled, "But this is not the case this time."

"Tell me about it," Karp said with interest.

"First, I'd like to ask for your help in buying a few cars."

As Sui Sui spoke, she pointed to the armored commercial vehicle parked outside and asked, "Is that ostentatious armored vehicle made in Russia?"

"Right," Karp nodded, "How many more do you want to buy?"

"I do have the plan. Five, no, six, six." Sui Sui gave a number that no one expected, "Five of the kind I often ride in, and one of the large pickup trucks that Victor often drives."

"Why do you need so many armored vehicles?" Wei Ran, who was listening, asked in confusion.

"I'm happy to," Sui Sui replied unhappily. Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately shut up and stopped asking questions.

"No problem, I will get you six civilian armored vehicles." Seeing that Sui Sui was not going to explain, Kalp made the promise.

"We'll pay for these cars ourselves." Sui Sui paused, then continued, "Also, I want to buy the abandoned winery next door."

“The winery next door?”

Karp responded, "That building is barely a historical landmark."

"But it's deserted now isn't it?"

Before Karp could finish, Sui Sui pointed out the core problem, "It lacks maintenance and is not open to the public.

The reason why it is not open to the public is that the complex is not well maintained, so it cannot be opened to the public. In this case, why not sell it to me? You see, a large part of the winery workshop has collapsed, and maybe in a few years there will only be a pile of construction waste. "

"What are you going to do with it?" Karp asked with interest.

“We will carry out necessary renovation and maintenance there, and then open it to the public for free to showcase the long history of the Slavic nation’s winemaking industry!”

Sui Sui spread her hands and said, "Of course, we may have to use part of it as office space and staff dormitory."

"I want to hear your real purpose," Kalp said bluntly.

“My security team needs a base that is spacious enough and close enough to me.”

Sui Sui pointed at the girls who were sitting casually not far away and explained very bluntly, "Also, I need to invest in real estate to prove our determination to invest in Russia for a long time and pay taxes legally. Of course, it's also for our safety."

“Kidnap the safety of tourists visiting the winery?”

"Who would commit murder next to a tourist attraction that's packed with tourists?" Sui Sui asked back with a smile, indirectly acknowledging the other party's guess.

"What about safety at night?" Apoli asked a new question.

"Don't I already have a security team?" Sui Sui asked back, "Uncle Ivan, you are the security manager, I should be the one asking you this kind of question."

"Okay, that's enough reasons. I'll ask for you."

Karp stood up and said with satisfaction, "And I will give you news soon."

"We are willing to pay a price that is sincere enough." Sui Sui also stood up and shook hands with Kalp across the table.

After watching Kalp and Apoli leave the library with their gifts, Susu breathed a sigh of relief.

"You're so bold that you actually want to buy the winery next door."

Wei Ran shook his head, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. The area of ​​the winery was almost larger than the library yard and the yard next door combined.

What's more, he remembered that the winery was a "century-old building" that had existed since the late 18th century.

  “When the Soviet Union collapsed, even nuclear bombs could be traded, so what’s a shabby winery?

The dilapidated winery next door is not only unprofitable but also requires maintenance every year. It is completely useless to the local officials. Who knows how many people want to demolish it and sell the land.”

At this point, Sui Sui poked her heart with her finger and said, "And don't forget, I am a Russian who has no faults in the legal sense.

Maybe no one has the guts to sell the winery to you, a foreigner, but why can't I sell it to a Russian like me for reasonable development?"

At this point, Sui Sui took the coffee that Apoli had just brought and took a sip, "For the Kazan government, this is not only a huge sum of money, but also saves the annual maintenance costs.

The most important thing is, if I manage it well, maybe it can improve the city's image, so they won't lose out anyway."

"But why let Mr. Culp do this?" Wei Ran continued to ask.

“It’s a credit to him too.”

Sui Sui spread her hands. "Although I don't know what channels he has, I guess this is at least not a problem for him."

"You are so smart"

Wei Ran smiled, raised his chin towards the girls who were secretly looking over here from a distance and asked, "What about them? What are you going to do?"

“Let them squeeze in with us first.”

Sui Sui said as a matter of course, "After I take over the winery next door, I will let them all move there."

"all?"

Wei Ran immediately became excited. If all the girls except Sui Sui could move out, it seemed like it would not be a big deal to spend some money to buy a broken winery.

"They and my international student employees, I heard they are still renting houses near the school." Sui Sui thought for a moment and added, "And those spirited girls, all moved there."

"Where are the other girls?"

Wei Ran looked at Sui Sui eagerly. He really wished that the other girls would move there as well so that they could have a chance to live in the legendary world of two people.

"It would be so lonely living in such a big house with only two of us"

Sui Sui found an excuse that Wei Ran couldn't refute, and without waiting for him to say anything else, she walked towards the Hela girls, calling them and the seven pink spirited girls who had just arrived to go next door to have some fun in the evening.

Of course, this is not the end of the story.

Because in the basement of the library, Mr. Messer's mobile phone was still connected to a computer, and he communicated with Mr. Edward, who had also lost his freedom, and the mysterious president of the mutual aid society from time to time.

Just like he was still hiding well and not discovered.

As for Mehill himself, he was still in the basement of the studio, looking tired and answering questions that he had been asked countless times over and over again.

Is this old guy useful?

Of course it works!

If the soap factory really dared to do something to him, he wouldn't mind stripping the old guy naked and making him stand under the spotlight for a public interview.

He believed that the soap factory probably had the same concerns, which was why they had seemed to have forgotten about the existence of Hamas and ignored him in recent times.

The other party is "not in a hurry", and Wei Ran is even less anxious, and he still has another trump card in his hand that can increase the value of Mesir.

Watching Sui Sui excitedly leading the security girls to move, Wei Ran slipped into the basement alone, locked the heavy explosion-proof door, and turned around to go into his own studio.

A few days ago in Inta, ever since he spread the evidence of his crimes, his palms did flash, but due to the conditions not allowing it, he never checked it.

He took out the metal book and flipped through it. The countdown for the anti-Japanese broadsword and other items had ended, but there were many things to do at the moment, and he had just escaped alive from Beirut, so the mystery behind the saber could only be put aside for the time being.

I continued to flip through the metal book, but there was no obvious change. In this case, this change could only come from the newly acquired ambulance.

With this in mind, he checked the room again, moved the tables and chairs in the middle of the room to create enough space, and then took out the ambulance.

He walked around the ambulance and saw that there was no change in its appearance, so he immediately opened the driver's door and got in.

Without even closing the car door, he noticed that in addition to the backpack containing the press releases, interrogation records and films, there were more than twenty sealed tubes of film scattered around on the passenger seat.

  Picking up one at random, Wei Ran immediately recognized it by the handwritten Chinese label on it. These were the negatives he had taken personally in Beirut!

Originally, he regretted that he took so many photos in Beirut, but in the end only those few group photos were preserved.

Now it seems that if I don't expose the blood evidence that Bat and others tried so hard to hide, then I won't get these, right?

On the other hand, Wei Ran could probably understand the logic of the Metal Book - "If you expose the blood evidence, I will give you some trump cards."

As the person who pressed the shutter button himself, he knew very well what was captured on the films, and he also knew how much damage these films would cause to the soap factory.

  But that's it.

Wei Ran weighed the sealed tube in his hand. These things must be released, but not all in, because that would be meaningless.

As the saying goes, a blunt knife cuts meat, throwing out a few or dozens of photos from time to time and keeping the heat going is the most exhausting - especially if these photos were leaked from the "park" of the soap factory itself, then they can only blame themselves for being so careless.

Having made up his mind, he was in no hurry to put away the ambulance. He turned and walked to the workbench, started the bottom scanner, and scanned the photos he had taken personally into a mobile hard drive one by one. He then threw them into a lunch box so that he could use them at any time to repair the soap factory.

The next two days passed in a flash, and the photos and interview records exposed by Wei Ran, as well as the video of Hanward and others meeting Yashar in China and being interviewed, recalling the Beirut massacre that year, began to spread wildly on the Internet at home and abroad.

Also going viral was a cartoon image of Wei Ran that was recreated by some unknown genius.

In this new cartoon character, the lace panties stained with feces and urine in Wei Ran's hand have changed from one pair to two pairs. The one in his left hand has a white background with a blue star pattern, while the one in his right hand has an American Stars and Stripes pattern - the one on the right seems to be stained with more feces and urine.

Although Wei Ran himself was quite satisfied with his new image, he was also aware that someone was helping him to attract hatred - the hatred of Americans.

Fortunately, he didn't have to do anything. Anfia led Hela's network team to easily dig out the culprit.

A 29-year-old woman whose IP address is located in a soap factory and works in the factory's publicity department.

When Hela anonymously exposed the original PS layer in this woman's computer, as well as hundreds of hot photos of her with several different men, she also revealed her position and her intention to help historians attract hatred and divert attention.

More hackers followed suit, happily digging out the identities of the men she had slept with in the photos - almost all of them were her leaders.

When these jokes were snowballing on the Internet again, in response, Wei Ran took the initiative to change his profile picture to a cartoon one designed by the other party. He also returned the favor by adding a thick mosaic to the "American pants" he was holding in his left hand.

Not only that, he also casually released 36 photos of Beirut he took himself and the corresponding negative photos, and said that he had more evidence in his hands.

Although the historians' overt revenge seemed to end here, it was only on the surface.

As a real response and real revenge, Mr. Edward, a Jewish businessman far away in England, had to pay the price with his life.

Somewhere in England, on Mr. Edward's farm in the suburbs, Hela, who was responsible for taking care of Mr. Edward, sat face to face with the two terminally ill boys for the last time.

"Have you really decided to do this?" asked Miss Hela.

“It’s already been decided.”

The older of the two brothers had already taken out the cell phone with explosives tied to it from his pocket while talking, and opened the cigarette box that was taped to the back of the phone.

Naturally, there is no RDX explosive with a power 1.5 times that of TNT. Apart from a metal support plate, the main thing inside is actually a few disposable painkillers.

He casually pulled out a gun and stabbed himself with it. He looked at the scenery outside the window and said, "We don't have much time to live anyway. If we continue to live, we will just continue to endure the pain. Being able to take revenge with your help has already satisfied my greatest wish."

After a brief pause, he threw the used injection away and said, "So is it our turn?"

"Yes," Hela sighed, "You can choose the time yourself. If you regret it, you can come back anytime."

"Let's go now. I like sunny days like this, so how about tomorrow morning?"

"Then early tomorrow morning"

Another young man also threw away the used injection, and after a brief pause, he asked to himself, "Will we go to heaven?"

"will not"

Hela took the initiative to hug the two brothers and said softly, "There is a pervert named Shangdi in heaven. You won't be happy there, so you will go to hell. I promise."

"Then I feel relieved."

The two young men seemed completely relieved. They picked up the car keys on the table and left the holiday villa without looking back.

Sudden update, see who is first.