War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1655: Trouble Like a Dog-Skin Plaster
After a slight hesitation, Wei Ran raised his hands happily, squinted his eyes and asked in German, "You want to kidnap me?"

"Mr. Victor, you'd better cooperate."

Before he finished speaking, a burly man walked up to Wei Ran, searched his body to make sure he had no weapons, then tied his wrists behind his back with a black cable tie that was at least one centimeter wide, and then took away his cell phone and car keys.

"Who is your boss?" Wei Ran asked the second question.

"Go forward, go to your car." The burly man said as he pushed Wei Ran's back, forcing him to walk towards the armored pickup truck.

"Are you alone?" A man holding a flashlight walked over and asked Wei Ran in German.

"Of course, who are you?" Wei Ran asked again calmly.

"Go check the forest in the direction he came from."

The man holding the flashlight pressed the microphone to his mouth and gave instructions in German, and then asked Wei Ran directly, "Mr. Victor, we don't intend to kill you, but we have obtained the right to kill you, so I hope you can cooperate with my next request."

"Tell me, how can I cooperate with you?"

Wei Ran asked with a smile, and at the same time, he glanced through the reflection of the car window glass at the burly man behind him who had just pressed the car key and was about to open the car door.

"Where is Messer?" the man asked the first question directly.

"Is the chair cracked? Is the wart a hindrance to people?"

“You don’t have the right to ask questions”

The man holding the flashlight walked up to Wei Ran and pointed the bright light into his eyes, warning him, "This is the last time I'm warning you, otherwise I can only..."

"Crack!"

Before the man could finish his words, Wei Ran suddenly raised his leg and kicked him hard on the right knee with the front of his foot!
The huge force from the kick, with the help of the hiking boots, easily broke the opponent's patella and even caused his leg to bend in the opposite direction!

Although the Metal Book did not mention the phrase "As soon as I see the butt move, the poking kick will be successful" when teaching Wei Ran how to use the poking kick, he still learned all the leg techniques.

Because of this, before the man holding the flashlight in front of him could even scream, Wei Ran had already kicked the crotch of the sturdy man behind him in a definitely not beautiful kicking motion.

With a faint cracking sound, Wei Ran took a quick step forward and kicked out a third time at the other leg of the man in front of him who was subconsciously bending over due to a broken leg.

"Crack!"

After the clearly audible sound of bone fracture, Wei Ran fell directly to the ground, turned over and kicked the chin of the strong man behind him who was already kneeling on the ground with his hands covering his crotch.

"Crack!"

There was another crisp sound of bone breaking, and the strong man's jaw was broken and his neck was broken.

At the same time, Wei Ran had already rushed under the armored pickup truck like a lazy donkey rolling around and crawling like a bug.

Taking advantage of the shadow of the car's chassis, he quickly took out the paratrooper's gravity knife and cut the straps on his wrists.

However, he did not rush to climb out. Instead, he calmly took out a pair of rubber gloves and put them on. Then he pulled the man whose legs were broken and whose knees were broken and who was screaming in pain over and knocked him out.

After picking up the flashlight and turning it off, Wei Ran picked up the Makarov pistol with a silencer that the other person had just dropped due to severe pain, and pulled out a walkie-talkie with headphones from him and put it on. Finally, he took out his car keys and mobile phone from the corpse next to him and called Anfisa.

"I'm at the campground. Someone is trying to kidnap me. Protect Aurora and notify Greva to have their people on high alert."

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he immediately left the armored pickup truck in a hurry, and like a crocodile, he crawled to the lake which was only three or four meters away at the fastest speed, kicked open the thin layer of ice on the lake surface and jumped in.

Of course he wouldn't hide in the car. Although the car's armor could indeed block a considerable number of bullets, he didn't dare to bet whether those people had pried open the car door and placed some explosives inside during the 12 hours he was away.

Without waiting for the newly frozen lake water to take away his body temperature, he also donned a set of professional military diving equipment and dived deep into the lake.

Wei Ran swam in the dark from the bottom of the lake to the other side. When he broke through the thin layer of ice and climbed up again, his diving suit had disappeared.

Hiding in the forest as quickly as possible, he took off his wet clothes, leisurely took out his suitcase and changed into the casual clothes that he had ordered at a high price that year. Then he put on the Soviet cloak he had taken out as a camouflage and a towel to wipe his hair, and took out the mobile phone from the lunch box and called Anfisa again.

'Safe at home'

The moment Anfisa answered the phone, she said in Italian, "Everything is normal in Volgograd. Greva has notified his people to rush over for support."

"Tell them to be careful and focus on looking for cars around the forest."

As he spoke, Wei Ran had already taken out the upgraded VSSM sniper rifle from the metal notebook and loaded it with bullets. He crouched down and walked along the lakeside forest to the rear of the armored pickup truck. A moment later, a German reply came from the headset, "No other people were found."

It's strange to find it.
Wei Ran muttered to himself and continued to wait patiently.

After waiting for less than half a minute, several calls were heard in the headset. However, after several calls went unanswered, the headset became quiet.

Knowing that the other party must have changed the channel, Wei Ran turned off the walkie-talkie and threw it aside, continuing to wait patiently.

Just a few minutes later, a figure walked out of the forest carefully with a gun in hand. After observing the surroundings, he ran towards Wei Ran's armored pickup truck and finally squatted beside the two men, one dead and one injured.

After waiting for a while, another person came running over quickly. He and the first person each carried a companion and ran into the forest.

"I've been waiting for you," Wei Ran muttered to himself, and followed them into the forest from a distance.

Whether in terms of familiarity with the forest or practical experience, Wei Ran basically crushed those people in front of him. The only difference between the two sides was the number of people.

As for firepower
Wei Ran snorted. If he waited any longer, the opponent would probably be at a disadvantage in terms of firepower density.

After following these people for a while in the dim forest, Wei Ran not only figured out their number, but even roughly guessed the direction of their retreat.

After conveying this information to Anfisa through the headset, who had not hung up the phone, he put away his gun and stayed far away, secretly wondering how these people found him.

The number of people who kidnapped me this time was not that large. In total, including those who were kicked to death by me, there were only 7 people.

If he wanted to, he could easily deal with the remaining ones with either the M79 grenade launcher obtained in the more difficult battlefield or the latest grenade launcher from the Japanese.

But compared to the dead, the living were obviously more valuable. And judging from their cautious attitude of retreating immediately after a missed attack, and even taking the bodies with them, it was clear that the origins of these people were probably very sensitive.

After walking in the forest like this for more than half an hour, as the sky was getting darker, these people finally got out of the forest, carried the corpse into a Chinese-made SUV that seemed to have been specially prepared, and drove away.

"Let's do it"

Wei Ran said in a low voice, then hung up the phone, took off the Bluetooth headset and put it in his shirt pocket.

Almost immediately afterwards, several dull gunshots were heard from the end of the old logging road outside the forest. Immediately afterwards, in the direction where the car disappeared, dazzling beams of light appeared, as if a Tamagotchi was about to evolve to the ultimate level.

Soon, several civilian armored vehicles with Baba Yaga patterns drove over from the direction of the lights.

Seeing this, Wei Ran put away the Soviet cloak he was wearing, took out the flashlight and waved it towards them.

"Mr. Victor, are you hurt?"

Before the car stopped, Asma, the leader of the Hela girls, had already opened the door and jumped out, with a pink magic headscarf wrapped around her face.

After taking a look at the magic headscarf on the face of Marta, the private doctor who followed him out of the carriage, Wei Ran smiled and shook his head. While beckoning Marta to get into the carriage, he asked, "I'm fine. How about you? Is anyone injured?"

"No one was injured and the people in the car were captured alive."

As Asma said this, he had already closed the car door and told his companions to turn around and drive back.

"Aurora, don't you know?" Wei Ran asked Marta, who had just taken off her magic headscarf.

"She's still working overtime," Marta replied, "at least she was still working overtime when we set out."

Hearing this, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief. This kind of thing must be kept secret from Su Su if possible, otherwise he might just have to live a life of leisure with no one allowed in or out.

Seems like that's not bad.
While Wei Ran was happily thinking about it, the civilian armored vehicle he was riding in also drove up to the side of the SUV.

Taking a look through the thick bulletproof window, Wei Ran couldn't help but laugh. All four tires of the car were blown out, and the front of the car was riddled with bullets, like a sieve.

Looking at the few thugs with Baba Yaga work badges around, five or six of them were holding large 23mm shotguns. There was no need to ask, it must have been them who stopped the car.

Looking at the captives who were stripped down to their underwear, the body that he had kicked to death, and the more glaring car lights in the distance, Wei Ran waved his hand and said, "Send them to the basement of the winery first. I will ask them in person later.

Also, my car is at the campground, please stay away, there may be explosives in that car."

Hearing this, the Hela girl sitting in the passenger seat immediately opened the door and got out.

"go home"

Wei Ran waved his hands in annoyance. He had to think carefully about how to get rid of this trouble that was like a dog-skin plaster.