War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1658 Here I come

"Do you need to make any arrangements in advance?"

Seeing that Wei Ran had made a decision, Ji Ma whispered, "Before dark, Uncle Chabu can find an excuse to visit the target person, and he can help us do what he can."

"Maybe I really need his help with something. Wait a moment." As he said that, Wei Ran took out his cell phone and sent a message to Anfia.

Less than five minutes later, Anfia came back with her laptop, sat next to Wei Ran and asked bluntly, "What do you need me to do?"

After briefly describing the current situation, Wei Ran asked, "Can your network technology help me with anything?"

"If possible, I need the Uncle Chabu you mentioned to prepare a fully charged mobile phone to accept my remote control and connect to the wireless network of the nursing home."

Anfia thought for a moment and added, "If the nursing home has monitoring equipment and is connected to the Internet, then I will be able to control the monitoring equipment. But if it is not connected to the Internet or uses a dedicated route, then there is no way."

"If there is no internet connection, we can just kill everyone and take the hard drive away." Jima offered another solution, "If there is a dedicated route, should we?"

"Boss, can my sister and I join the operation?" Anfia asked, "This way, even if there are any emergencies on the network, we can handle it."

"Who is responsible for Aurora's safety?" Wei Ran asked back.

"Those international students are enough to protect her safety," Anfia answered seriously.

"And there are Maya, Maya's brother, and Teacher Anna." Jima said on the side.

After a slight hesitation, Wei Ran finally nodded. Whether it was Maya, Teacher Anna or Teacher Kalp, they were all people he could trust enough.

"So we can follow?" Anfia asked with increasing anticipation.

"Go get ready"

Wei Ran said as he looked at Ji Ma, who immediately said, “I’ll contact Uncle Chabu and ask him to prepare a new phone.”

"You guys get ready first, I'm going to take a shower." With that, Wei Ran stood up and walked to the second floor.

When he came down after taking a shower and changing into clean clothes, Sui Sui and Maya were already sitting on the sofa on the first floor, chatting about something.

"You finally came down"

Without waiting for Wei Ran to speak, Sui Sui said, "I'm going to Maya's house this afternoon. Do you want to come with me?"

“I’m not going.”

Wei Ran waved his hand. "I have an appointment with Mr. Holler in Austria. Maybe I will have to go back to China to meet him tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. By the way, when will you come back? Who are you going to take with you?"

"Kamei and the bodyguards prepared for me will also stay to temporarily replace the foreign students' work."

Sui Sui said, "Marta, Xinda, and Lola will go with my international students and employees. Aunt Anna will also go with us as a guest."

"Did something big happen?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.

"Do you want to say it or should I say it for you?" Sui Sui asked Maya.

"Jima and I are getting married"

Maya gave an answer that Wei Ran had not expected, "I am going back this time to discuss it with my parents. Maybe we will organize a wedding in Hasa, so I need Aurora to help me."

"Why didn't you say a single letter just now?" Wei Ran looked at Ji Ma with dissatisfaction. He really didn't say this just now.

"I've got a surprise for you," Jima said proudly.

"We will give you a decent wedding gift when the time comes."

Wei Ran made a sincere promise and also made up his mind that after Sui Sui and the others left, he would definitely ask whether this was true or just an excuse for this action.

If it is the former, of course we should congratulate them. If it is the latter, then this favor is really a big one.

"Anyway, the two of us are barely considered movie stars now."

Maya explained with a smile, "So we plan to get married in secret, and you will be on the list of the few relatives and friends invited. If I really couldn't make up my mind and Jima couldn't think of any decent suggestions, we really planned to keep it a secret."

"Is this also the reason why you don't plan to take Ji Ma back?" Sui Sui asked with great joy.

"Let him reflect on his stupid ideas."

Maya glared at Dima and said as if to warn him, "When I come back, you'd better wait for me in Kazan obediently, otherwise I will ask Kajianka to help publish all your scandals on the Internet!"

"We are happy to help," the Kajianka sisters said in unison.

"You sisters are really kind-hearted." Ji Ma's slightly helpless attitude immediately made everyone burst into laughter.

"Aurora, why don't we leave now?" Maya asked impatiently, "I just want to go back as soon as possible."

"In that case, let's go now!" Sui Sui stood up while speaking, "Let's pick up Aunt Anna on the way!"

"She's going too?" Wei Ran asked pretending to be confused.

"Although it's a secret wedding, we still hope to record it."

Maya explained, "So I'm going to ask Aunt Anna to tag along to discuss filming the wedding."

"Even if you ask so many questions, I can't take you with me this time." Sui Sui patted Wei Ran's shoulder and said proudly, "Lola, notify everyone to pick up their luggage, we'll set off now!"

"Already prepared!"

Before Lola finished speaking, she had already opened the door of the storage room on the first floor and pushed out the suitcases that had been prepared in advance and were ready for business trips at any time according to the names marked on them.

Although I don't plan to go with them, it is still necessary to send them to the airport.

With Wei Ran and Jima driving themselves, and escorted by the little girls who were in the form of Baba Yaga, the girls, led by Maya and Sui Sui, first rushed to the studio to pick up teacher Anna who came with nothing in her hands. Then, with Kalp's blessings to Maya and Jima, they left the studio and rushed to the airport, where they boarded the An-74 small plane piloted by Alili himself.

Only after watching the plane successfully take off did Wei Ran turn his head and ask Ji Ma dissatisfiedly, "So you really plan to get married? Why didn't you tell me before?"

"I'm worried that you'll refuse revenge."

Jima responded as he walked out, "Besides, Maya has no idea what we are going to do. She just thought I was going to prepare a surprise for her."

"This matter actually has nothing to do with you," Wei Ran said.

"If this time has nothing to do with me, then the next time something that has something to do with me will have nothing to do with you."

Jima smiled particularly brightly, "Victor, we are friends. What's more, those bastards are targeting Maya, and this is enough."

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't say anything else. He motioned for the other party to go into the parking lot together. They each drove back to Lake Caban, and at Anfisa's invitation, they went straight to the basement of the Time Library.

At this time, real-time monitoring images have been projected onto the LCD displays on the walls on both sides of the basement.

Not only that, with Asuma and Yulia serving as captain and vice-captain respectively, a total of 14 Hela girls have gathered around the table to analyze the intelligence data that has been obtained.

“Good luck”

Anfia, who was sitting in front of the computer, saw Wei Ran and others come in and immediately said, "Uncle Chabu's people provided the monitoring background and network backdoor of the building where the target person is located. He has been monitoring these people."

"We Chinese have an old saying"

"The one who eats the food is Jack?" Ji Ma said almost subconsciously in out-of-tune Chinese.

"Jack the fuck"

It took Wei Ran a while to realize that the fart the other party had said was "A man of insight is a hero", and he said with a smile, "That's not it. What I meant was that colleagues are enemies. I guess Uncle Chabu might have wanted to take action against him a long time ago."

"In that case, if we successfully eliminate the target person, Uncle Chabu might even thank us." Jima smiled foolishly and thought about the good things.

"I'll be satisfied if he doesn't kill us."

Wei Ran muttered to himself, pretending that he didn't hear what Ji Ma said, and asked Anfia directly, "Tell me about the current situation."

"Yulia, you speak." Anfia gave the chance to speak to the deputy captain of Hela team.

"According to the surveillance footage, there are a total of 20 security personnel around the target building, 16 of which are located around the building and the other four are in the garage."

Seeing that Wei Ran and Jima were not going to say anything, Yulia paused and continued to introduce, "Finally, it is the sanatorium itself. The sanatorium covers an area of ​​about 10 hectares. It is almost next to the airport of the Kharkov Aircraft Manufacturing Company, and the drive is no more than two kilometers away."

"Next to the airport?"

Ji Ma looked up in surprise. Apparently, he had no idea about this before. "Won't you be fired so much that you can't sleep?"

"Intelligence shows that it is indeed next to the airport. The sanatorium seems to have been built for workers at the aircraft manufacturing plant during the Soviet era."

Yulia continued, “But the sanatorium is completely surrounded by forests, and there is no sign of fences or defense facilities along the border.

All we could see from the satellite map were the gardens and tennis courts, the car park and the main building itself.

The main buildings are two large villas not far from each other. There are no surveillance devices installed inside, so the specific situation is unclear. "

"Uncle Chabu has no information to provide?" Wei Ran asked.

"No," Anfia finally answered in person. "His people said that the buildings and facilities cover an area larger than two football fields, but in fact, at least 20 hectares of land around it belong to the sanatorium."

"Do you have any plans?" Wei Ran asked again.

“We have taken over surveillance.”

Anfia answered confidently, "There is only one road leading to this sanatorium. As long as we guard the road, the people inside will not be able to escape, or at least it will be difficult to escape by car.

The next step is to ask for help. This time we will bring enough signal jammers to block their possibility of asking for help.

In the end, it’s just a matter of peeling the onion layer by layer. As long as we are quiet enough, we can get rid of all the security personnel.”

"Where's the tunnel?"

Jima suddenly asked, "Is there a tunnel here? At least there must be an air-raid shelter? Most sanatoriums in the Soviet era had air-raid shelters."

“At least it’s not reflected in the architectural drawings.”

Anfisa said, "As to whether there is a secret escape passage or underground air-raid shelter, we can only look carefully after eliminating the people inside."

"Are all the target people here?" Jima also asked the question he was concerned about.

"uncertain"

Anfia replied, "There are no surveillance facilities inside the building. We can only confirm that there are a few televisions and computers connected to the Internet."

"When do we set off?" Wei Ran asked Ji Ma.

"After dark," replied Jima, "we still have plenty of time to prepare."

“No one will be left alive in this operation”

Wei Ran reminded, "Even if it's a four-legged dog or a two-legged bird, remember to shoot again."

"Understood!" In the basement, the girls, including the Kajianka sisters, answered in unison.

"Jima, I need to hold a party tonight." Wei Ran changed the subject.

"Don't worry, everything has been arranged." Jima said preparedly, and then asked as if he had just remembered, "By the way, where is Grewa? Where did he go?"

“He left a long time ago”

It was Anfisa who answered the question, "He left just two minutes before Maya went to the office to find Sister Aurora. It seems that he was going to take a transport plane to the Far East."

"This bastard is busier than me now," Jima teased nonchalantly, but he had no idea how anxious Greva was at the moment.

The following afternoon, Wei Ran, Ji Ma and even the girls found a place to have a good sleep to recharge their energy for the evening's action.

By the time it got dark, as vans drove into the yard and set up barbecue grills, lit bonfires and even turned on speakers, Wei Ran and others had already quietly left the city under the cover of night in a food purchasing vehicle, and then changed to a van in the warehouse of a fruit supermarket run by Greva's gang and quietly headed towards the airport.

In the lighted truck compartment, the Kajianka sisters were taking the girls through the final check and equipment distribution before boarding.

After checking the cell phone and walkie-talkie handed over by the Kajianka sisters, Wei Ran switched them all to Japanese interfaces and put them in his pocket. Then he looked at the girls' equipment with interest.

Just like himself and Ji Ma, they would not carry any identification documents, and naturally would not carry any lethal weapons.

But these girls' backpacks, which were not that big, were filled with either remote-controlled cars, common civilian drones, or simply some equipment that was completely unrecognizable.

Not only that, girls including the Kajianka sisters are clearly trying their best to eliminate their feminine characteristics through methods such as breast binding.

The silicone masks, gloves and cosmetic contact lenses distributed by Anfisa directly gave everyone, including Wei Ran and Jima, a black face and dark skin from the African continent.

"do you remember?"

Ji Ma, who had put on a pair of blood-red contact lenses, put on a black leather mask and joked, "Back then, I made up to look like a yellow person, and you disguised yourself as a white person."

"Why didn't we think of putting on makeup to look black?" Wei Ran, who was also putting a silicone mask on his head, joked with great laughter. Of course he knew the reason.

“It’s because there are fewer black people in Russia than pandas.”

Ji Ma's teasing also made the girls who were also wearing camouflage masks secretly smile.

Of course, at this time no one would ask such a stupid question as "Are there black people in Kharkov?"

It doesn’t matter whether there are black people in Kharkov, but the black people’s talent for stealth at night is unquestionable.

After everyone helped each other adjust the silicone masks on their faces and tried the radio channels and even the real-time monitoring and delivery functions of their mobile phones, the van drove onto the apron unimpeded and drove between the huge Il-76 transport plane and an An-74 small plane that did not belong to Jima or the Golden Fleece.

Under the cover of the increasingly dark night, everyone moved the cargo compartment and got into this small plane that belonged to no one, and closed the cabin door.

Without waiting for everyone to sit down, the small plane began to taxi and then flew lightly into the night sky.

In the silence maintained by everyone, it took only more than an hour for the plane to lower its altitude, glide, and finally stop steadily.

When the hatch opened, an inconspicuous Iveco was already waiting for them outside.

Coming down the gangway, they got into the carriage before they even had time to touch the ground of Belgorod Airport.

With a "whoosh", as the car door was closed by the last girl named Hela who got on the car, the Iveco started immediately and left the airport.

“You will get weapons only after you cross the border”

The driver spoke to himself in Russian, "We will change to another car and someone will take you to your destination. You need to get back to that car before four in the morning.

If the time is exceeded, you will have to find a way to hide on the spot and wait for us to arrange other ways to take you away, but the result will be very dangerous for both you and us. "

Although Wei Ran and the others heard it, no one responded. The driver didn't care and continued, "In addition, on the premise of completing your work, someone hopes that you can open the safe in the office on the top floor and bring back the USB drive that may be inside."

After another pause, the driver continued, "If you can bring back the USB drive, you will get a generous New Year's gift.

Well, that's all I have to say. If you need, you can change into the clothes I prepared for you. These clothes are made of anti-infrared detection fabrics, and the boots are French products that are more difficult to imitate.

If you need helmets and bulletproof plates, they are in the box by the last row of seats."

Upon hearing this, no one moved at all. They neither changed their clothes nor went to the back seat to look. The carriage with heavy curtains drawn fell into silence.

The next part of the journey took even longer than the flight time. Along the way, the car first left the airport, then crossed the city, and even drove into an underground parking lot on the way, allowing people outside to tear off a layer of film that changed the color of the car body and change the license plate for the car.

After leaving the city, the car simply turned off the lights and passed through a bumpy road in the forest before returning to the highway, which was not in very good condition.

Finally, when the car drove into the logging road in the forest again and stopped again, another van of the same model was parked outside the door.

Without any communication or thanks, everyone opened the car door and got into another car.

In the carriage of this car, there is a distinctive VSS sniper rifle and a PSS silent pistol on each seat.

In addition, there are two large boxes full of matching magazines filled with bullets and a box of TNT and matching detonators.

There was no need for any command. Everyone took up two weapons, one long and one short, and several magazines. Then, several Hela girls opened the boxes they brought and gave everyone a set of night vision goggles.

That was not all. Everyone took off their cheap work clothes, revealing the black combat uniforms underneath and the boots that were previously wrapped in leather overshoes.

They threw the rags and the box of night vision goggles into the same van. They then randomly checked the bullets in the magazines and conducted test firings. Only after they were sure that there were no problems with either the gun or the bullets did they close the door.

Amid the roar of the engine, the van, which also had its lights off, was driving slowly in the night.

Inside the carriage, everyone was also using the mobile phones fixed on their arms to check the surveillance content that they had missed during the previous period.

Unfortunately, all they could tell from this was that several cars had entered the sanatorium after dark, but they had no idea how many people were in those cars or who they were. They couldn't even tell whether this was a normal daily situation or an emergency only for tonight.

But even so, they have already arrived here, and giving up halfway is obviously impossible.

Both Wei Ran and Ji Ma knew very well that tonight might be the only "semi-legal, risk-free and officially endorsed revenge opportunity" that Kalp could secure for them.

"I will take you to a location one kilometer away from your destination and wait for you there. I will leave on time at four in the morning."

The driver suddenly said, "It is 32:33 pm now. 34 seconds, 35 seconds, 36 seconds, 37 seconds, 38 seconds, 39 seconds, 40 seconds, seconds, seconds."

As the driver announced the time in monotony, everyone turned on their screens to check the time, and then looked at the time displayed on the cheap electronic watches of the same style on their wrists.

After 15 seconds, the driver announced the last five seconds of the minute, and then he never uttered a single letter.

At 10:30 in the evening, the car left the road and drove into a forest path. It stopped and turned off the engine after the road behind it was completely blocked by trees.

“This road is the edge of the sanatorium”

The driver didn't even turn his head, as if he was reading from a script, "Go about 400 meters along this road, then go into the forest and walk about meters due south to find the sanatorium. That's all I have to say. Remember to come back early."

Hearing this, Wei Ran winked at Asma, who immediately opened the car door and was the first to jump out.

"I'm here to find you, you'd better all be here." Wei Ran muttered secretly and followed the girls out of the carriage.

"Fuck those movie stars," Ji Ma, who was the last one to get out of the carriage, muttered secretly in his heart.