War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1663 Making friends out of nowhere
While the recent news on the Internet was in chaos due to the invisible Hela and the crazy Morpheus, and the involvement was getting wider and wider to the point of causing waves in reality, a bulk carrier successfully docked near the Niigata Port.

Not long after, a minivan truck drove into a remote warehouse near the port in the dark.

This warehouse is stockpiled with a lot of Niigata's local specialties, ranging from Koshihikari rice to kerosene heating stoves, from various canned fish and meat to Guizi liquor and even locally produced clothing, shoes and boots.

Normally, these goods will be sold to various places in Zhaohe and even neighboring countries by cargo ships.

In general, although the sales volume is not very good compared with local peers, it can always help the local small businesses that rent this warehouse survive in this economic downturn.

Of course, this is only on the surface. In secret, this inconspicuous warehouse is also a safe house used by Hela and Succubus Company for emergency transfers.

Even the company that rented this warehouse was established by the Succubus Company with the help of the puppet mistress it controlled back then, who supported a local girl who once lived on the streets and could only occasionally spend the night in an Internet cafe.

Today, both the puppet mistress and the wandering girl of this company have all been persuaded by the favorable living conditions to "convert" to the succubus. They even forgot that they had rented such a remote warehouse.

The goods that were usually sold to various places for trade were basically all taken away from the warehouse next door. In other words, this warehouse was almost never used.

When the car stopped, the young female driver turned off the engine without any pause, hesitation or curiosity, then opened the car door and left the warehouse.

Almost at the same time when the iron door of the warehouse was closed from the outside, the tailgate of the cargo box was opened from the inside, and the Kajianka sisters and Wei Ran, wearing masks, baseball caps and gloves, also jumped out.

After looking around, Anfisa opened the passenger door and took out a complete set of clothes, shoes and hats, a sealed file bag, a syringe, a small box of Vaseline lip balm and a cotton swab.

This file bag only contains a business card of the general manager of Koi Trading Company, a company brochure, and a key to a clothing locker located in a hot spring hotel in Wakayama Prefecture (Chapter 862). There is also a Koi-shaped keychain on the key, which also has a set of locker numbers marked on it.

When she returned to the rear of the car, Wei Ran had already helped the naked Ms. Nale out of the coffin with the help of Anfia.

As early as when they boarded the cargo ship bound for Niigata, Wei Ran had already helped Ms. Naraku reconnect the joints of her limbs and jaw, and carefully massaged her to relieve the pain in her joints.

In addition, in the rich diet provided to her, each meal was mixed with some sleeping pills that could be bought locally to ensure that she slept soundly enough.

After taking the things handed to him by Anfisa, Wei Ran waited patiently for the Kajianka sisters to help Ms. Naile change into the clothes they had brought over, and helped her put on some light makeup and a wig.

Then, the three of them covered the mini van with a thick sun-proof car cover.

Finally, the three of them carefully checked the warehouse to make sure there were no surveillance devices and no holes that could allow people to peek, and then they walked to the side of the drowsy Ms. Nale.

First, he took Naraku's hand and left a lot of fingerprints on the two business cards, and left some ink from the business cards on his fingers.

Anfisa hid the two business cards under Naile's feet, put on her socks, and put on a pair of boots with a little mud and fishy smell on the soles.

At the same time, Wei Ran also tore off half of the cover page of the Koi Trading Company's brochure, crumpled it into a ball and stuffed it into her sleeve.

"You guys go guard outside," Wei Ran said.

Hearing this, the Kajianka sisters simply got up and left the warehouse, closed the iron door from the outside, and walked a few dozen meters away.

After waiting for a while until Ms. Nale was completely motionless, Wei Ran took out the food box, took out the page with the most words from the biological research data file, looked at it carefully, then folded it carefully and hid it in Ms. Nale's underwear.

Finally, after helping her tidy up her clothes, Wei Ran held down Naile, who was already unable to resist, and used a syringe for infants to poke deep into her ear hole into the flesh, and pushed in most of the tube of a mixture of high-concentration dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and weak alkaline water for preventing and treating fish diseases.

Finally, he dipped a cotton swab in some Vaseline and poked it into the ear to block the needle hole and rubbed it for a while. Then he pulled out the cotton swab and the syringe together.

After waiting for a while and seeing that Ms. Nale was completely motionless, Wei Ran took out the ambulance he had obtained before and carried Ms. Nale in to try.

Unfortunately, when a fresh body was added to the vehicle, the ambulance could not be put away.

Shaking his head helplessly, he took the corpse out again and placed it on the coffin. Then he gritted his teeth and took out the DT30 transport vehicle while enduring the excruciating pain all over his body.

After taking a breath, Wei Ran put the corpse, the injection and the cotton swab into the cargo hold of the transport truck.

Fortunately, after another round of severe pain, the behemoth was successfully recovered into the metal book.

After lying on the coffin for a while, Wei Ran got up, tore off the cover of the cargo box, stuffed the box and the file bag into the coffin, and then stuffed the light coffin into the cargo box by himself.

After carefully cleaning up the traces on the cement floor and deliberately tinkering with the pile of goods, Wei Ran opened the door of the warehouse a crack and called the Kajianka sisters in.

"Remind our people that after they leave, this warehouse should not be opened again until next summer. Then my friend will take the body away."

Wei Ran jumped onto the cargo box and whispered, "Okay, contact us to take us away immediately."

Hearing this, the Kajianka sisters didn't even look deeper into the warehouse. They jumped onto the cargo compartment, typed a text message on their cell phones and sent it out. Then they threw the phone out and closed the hatch.

In less than 10 minutes, the female driver who had left earlier returned to the warehouse, picked up her cell phone and put it in her pocket, drove out of the warehouse, and carefully locked the door of the warehouse.

In less than an hour, the van drove onto a cargo ship that was about to leave the port and skillfully emptied into a container in the cabin.

Three days later, Wei Ran and the other two returned to Vladivostok to pick up the luggage and documents that Asma had sent from Kazan. At the same time, the coffin was transported to the airport by truck, ready to be flown to Papua New Guinea on a fruit transport plane.

Almost non-stop, Wei Ran also took a public flight from Vladivostok and brought the Kajianka sisters back to China and back to the small Western-style building in Tianjin.

After checking upstairs and downstairs as usual, Wei Ran brought the Kajianka sisters to the basement.

"Now we can talk about Hela," Wei Ran said.

"We actually had our eyes on a city in the Far East a long time ago, and it's also the most suitable city for Hella."

Anfisa was the first to speak, "But we need a prerequisite."

"What are the prerequisites?" Wei Ran slowly took out the cigarette box, took out a cigarette, put it on the golden cigarette holder and lit it up and asked.

"If there is trouble from Russia in the future, will China be willing to take in Hela?"

"Let me guess."

Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, then asked in the same low voice, "Blagoveshchensk?"

"Is it okay?" Anfisa asked.

"How long have you been preparing?"

Wei Ran asked back, but did not answer the question about the prerequisites.

Whether it is people or the Hela organization, everything is valuable.

If Hella can create enough value in the future, if Hella gets into enough trouble in the future, the answer to whether to take it in or not will be different.

“Since we took over Tula across the river from the town of Tula, we have been looking for a location that is best suited for Hela.”

Anfisa said, "We used different identities to buy a Soviet-era hotel and surrounding buildings in Blagoveshchensk, and used Succubus's channels to open several Internet cafes and some shops nearby."

“If you agree to let Hela’s network team move there, that hotel will be their base.”

Anfia continued, "The children in the network team will not leave the current farm. They will only provide network intelligence support for all legal businesses and gradually break away from their relationship with Morpheus."

"A new network group will gradually be formed in Blagoveshchensk."

Anfisa took over the topic and continued, "The newly formed network team will also set up a network branch in Hanbang and Zhaohe respectively. In the future, they will fully cooperate with the Morpheus operation."

"Are you having any difficulties with funding?" Wei Ran asked finally.

“No difficulties”

The Kajianka sisters confidently gave the same answer, "Both Hela and Succubus are profitable enough to support a new group."

"Go ahead and do it," Wei Ran gave his support straightforwardly.

Hearing this, the Kajianka sisters smiled at each other and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At present, the only thing the Hela organization can show off is the increasingly efficient network intelligence support and the incitement ability formed by the joint efforts of Morpheus.

Because of this, they must hide this most important trump card, and it must be hidden in a place that the boss feels is within reach.

Blagoveshchensk is undoubtedly the best choice.

This place is far enough from Europe to not attract European attention, but it is close enough to the boss, so close that he can be transferred to China at any time and can be killed at any time.

The topic of the secret base came to an abrupt end because both the two sisters and Wei Ran knew it clearly.

None of the three of them would ever take a look at the secret base of Hela's core power in their lifetime.

"I have to meet some friends tomorrow, so you guys stay and help out."

Wei Ran changed the subject and said, "When you are done, go to Hasa immediately. I will be there before Jima and Maya's wedding.

Also, when you leave tomorrow, remember to go to the capital to pick up Sui Xin and Lola's sister Korava, and take them to attend Maya and Jima's wedding. Aurora has already invited them in advance for Maya."

Wei Ran said this, and after the two sisters agreed, he immediately changed the subject and asked curiously, "How is the situation on the Internet now?"

The Kajianka sisters looked at each other, and Anfia replied, "We have basically found the families of the donors in the parts business, and have incited them to form a protest group to demand answers from the Ukrainian authorities.

Although this is no longer news in Wukelan, it still caused a lot of waves in Wukelan.

In addition, Hella, led by Monica, has called for the search for receptors for these evil businesses.”

After a pause, Anfia continued, "On the other hand, there have been unexpected developments in the guidance of public opinion on NGOs."

"What's going on?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"Recently, a hacker team leaked a large number of NGO lists and lists of funders as well as the purposes of these NGOs."

Anfia said strangely, "Basically they are all targeting Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, and specifically China."

"It wasn't you who did it?" Wei Ran also showed a strange look on his face.

"No"

Anfia shook her head. "Because of the language cost, we haven't gotten involved in the Chinese language network too much. But in general, it seems that they have the same purpose as us."

"Is there anything we can do?" Wei Ran asked with interest.

"How about helping them spread the word?" Anfisa suggested, "We can dig deeper into those organizations that have been exposed."

"No"

Wei Ran thought for a moment and shook his head to reject his proposal, "Although we don't know who is doing these things, we don't interact with them.

Monica's Hela, the Hela you control, and Morpheus continue to fight on their own. Let's light the fire first and then talk about other things."

"What is our ultimate goal?" Anfisa asked.

"Purpose?"

Wei Ran smiled brightly, "We don't have any purpose at the moment, we just need to keep these topics hot.

When this matter escalates, the stakeholders will definitely react. You just need to secretly mark those who can't help but jump out.

It is enough to note what they do and sort out their relationship to each other and their purpose.

Wait a few months, and when Ms. Naile shows up, take them along and expose their purpose and plan."

Hearing this, the Kajianka sisters' eyes lit up and they immediately understood Wei Ran's plan.

"Go and rest"

Wei Ran said as he extinguished his cigarette in the ashtray, put away the cigarette holder and walked towards the stairs. "Also, we may need a spokesperson for the online world. Go find someone who is clean enough and has a good sense of the camera to do this."

"Which country do you need?" Anfisa stood up and asked. Hearing this, Wei Ran stopped and said with a smile, "Indian, in the name of the Indian hacker group, go find an Indian with a strong enough accent and who is patriotic enough. Remember to make him a long-nosed elephant headgear."

"no problem"

The Kajianka sisters agreed in unison while holding back their laughter, and at the same time followed Wei Ran out of the warm and dry basement.

After talking about business, Wei Ran and the Kajianka sisters, who had not had a good rest for several days, found their own rooms in this small western-style building and had a good night's rest.

The next day, Wei Ran didn't even have time to eat breakfast, and drove the Iveco borrowed from the travel agency to the airport early. After waiting for more than half an hour, he picked up Mr. Holler, who had arrived in China a few days ago, as well as his family and friends.

"Feel sorry"

Wei Ran, Mr. Holler, old friends with familiar code names, and even the fat man Yashar who came from Rabbit Rider shook hands and hugged one by one, saying apologetically, "After I invited you to China, I encountered some minor business problems and just came back from Russia yesterday. Gentlemen, how was your time in China these days?"

"very good!"

The fat man Yashar said enthusiastically, "I took them to Ganzi again to meet Mr. Jiang. We are very satisfied with the food, accommodation and entertainment you arranged along the way!"

"We also went to see the giant pandas, and I even took a photo with the baby panda in my arms." Hanward, who inherited the code name "Sewing Machine", said excitedly, holding a panda doll in his arms.

"I hope you don't blame me for making everyone wait for so long," Wei Ran apologized again.

"Of course not. We even hope to spend a few more days in China."

Kurt Holler laughed and said, "We got too much attention the last time we came to meet Yashar, and we didn't have a chance to take a good look at this mysterious country."

"If you have time, you can stay a few more days."

Wei Ran said this and took them out of the airport and got into the Iveco in the parking lot.

Speaking of which, after the friends he invited arrived, they were all handed over to Sui Xin's parents who had taken over the travel agency, and they were asked to help entertain them according to the highest standards.

Of course, there were more than just them who were invited to China by a historian, but he didn't have to accept the additional invitations.

After chatting all the way back to the small western-style building, Wei Ran parked his Iveco directly in front of the gate, blocking it tightly.

"This is my home, everyone, please get off the car." Wei Ran greeted politely.

"Are all your girlfriends here?"

Aladdin, who inherited the code name Fly, asked with interest, when Wei Ran went to Austria as a guest, this old man was the one who gossiped.

"They went to help their friend organize a wedding." Wei Ran, too lazy to explain, simply followed the topic.

"I told you that those pretty girls were his girlfriends! You should admit defeat and pay me now!"

Aladdin stopped talking and took the red tickets from the old friends who were about to get off the bus like a bus conductor.

Shaking his head helplessly, Wei Ran was too lazy to argue with these old guys. He opened the car door and got in first.

After everyone in the car got out and walked into the yard, Wei Ran immediately closed the gate and invited them to walk into the first-floor lobby.

"Have they arrived?" Wei Ran asked the Kajianka sisters who were making coffee and cutting fruit.

“Already here”

Anfisa responded, "They're in the basement."

"Come with me"

Wei Ran pretended not to notice those old guys making faces and led them into the basement.

At this time, there were already three people sitting in the basement, Zhong Zhen, with whom he almost never contacted, as well as Charlie Cha Xifeng and his son Cha Ming.

"Everyone please sit wherever you want"

Wei Ran greeted, "My three friends don't have much time, so how about we talk about business first?"

"no problem"

Mr. Holler answered for him, "Victor, are you in trouble? I read the news recently."

“It has little to do with things on the Internet.”

Wei Ran helped the Kajianka sisters distribute coffee, fruit and some local pastries to everyone while saying, "But it is indeed related to the Wartie people. Not long ago, I was kidnapped by the Wartie people, so I decided to take revenge."

"You were kidnapped again?" Zhong Zhen, an equally unreliable scumbag, asked with a gloating look on his face, "When did it happen?"

"About a week ago," Wei Ran replied, "Aurora didn't know about this."

"Wei Ran, how do you plan to retaliate?" Cha Xifeng asked second, "What do you need me to do?"

"Don't worry, let me introduce you to each other first."

Wei Ran smiled, patted Zhong Zhen on the shoulder and said, "This is one of my best friends. He runs a medical training school and a drone operation training school in Mian Dian. What are you going to call it this time?"

"Zhong Zhen"

Zhong Zhen honestly revealed his real name, "Since you invited me here, we are friends who trust each other. There is no need to hide anything."

After Anfia helped translate, Wei Ran introduced Cha Xifeng, "This is Mr. Charlie, the general manager of Dongfeng Mine Clearance Company. He has a mine-clearing business on the blue line."

"We have met before"

Holler shook hands with Charlie enthusiastically and said in English, "We met when the Beirut port exploded, and we received your help."

"I have an impression, Mr. Holler." Cha Xifeng said politely.

"This is Cha Ming, Mr. Charlie's son." Wei Ran finally introduced, "He runs a mine clearance school in Yuenan."

After shaking hands again, Wei Ran introduced Holler and others and what they had done.

After both parties got to know each other, Wei Ran said directly, "Gentlemen, let's get back to the original topic. I was kidnapped and murdered by the Wart Tai people.

As part of my retaliation, Mr. Holler, I intend to provide you with some medical supplies and cheap Russian drones for a long time. I will let you know what they are when the time comes.”

Before Holler and the others, who were looking surprised and grateful, could say anything, Wei Ran said, "In addition, Zhong Zhen, check it out. I also plan to send a group of 8 Lestans to your school for training.

How many places can you give me for battlefield medical training, drone training, and mine-laying training?"

"Short-term training?" Zhong Zhen asked bluntly.

"The semester is only three to six months." Wei Ran answered just as straightforwardly.

"50 places," Zhong Zhen answered without thinking, "free of charge."

"We can also provide 50 places," Cha Ming replied, "also free."

"Is that enough?" Wei Ran looked at Holler who looked stunned.

"Enough! That's enough!"

Aladdin was the first to react, and excitedly pressed Wei Ran's shoulder, "Are you really willing to help us so much?"

"Mutual benefit"

Wei Ran smiled and said, "Gentlemen, I will not be involved in this matter. Anyway, I am really not good at fighting and killing.

So if nothing unexpected happens, this may be the last time we meet. Future.”

At this point, Wei Ran looked at Zhong Zhen, who was almost rolling his eyes because of his nonsense, and asked, "Can you find someone to coordinate?"

"no problem"

Zhong Zhen said nonchalantly and bluntly, "Cha Ming'er, bring those 8 Lestan students back through your channels."

"No problem," he said after finding out, he immediately agreed.

"He will find someone to connect with you in the future."

Wei Ran pointed at Zhong Zhen and said, "Also, Mr. Holler, you'd better find an unrelated person to coordinate and organize this matter as well."

"No problem! No problem!" Holler replied quickly, "We can always find someone willing to do this!"

“There’s a third thing”

Wei Ran said with a smile, "In the future, please have your people film more situations on the front line. As you know, I am a shareholder of a film studio. We might as well join forces to let the world see the situation in Gaza."

"it's useless"

Hanward shook his head. "We have tried these things before, but not many people paid attention to them when we posted them on the Internet."

“That’s because you didn’t use the right method.”

After listening to Anfia's translation, Zhong Zhen pointed at Wei Ran and said in London-accented English, "Trust him. At least you can give it a try."

"We'll shoot more," Aladdin agreed.

"Someone will instruct you on how to shoot and what to shoot."

Wei Ran said this and glanced at Anfisa who was helping to translate German into English. The latter immediately nodded, agreed to the task and started translating as usual.

Without waiting for the people in the basement to say anything, Wei Ran spoke again, "There is one last thing. I want to give a gift to the people on the front line."

"Gift? There are more gifts?" Yashar, who was stunned by what he heard just now, asked in surprise.

"certainly"

Wei Ran nodded and waved to Anfia, who immediately took out a USB flash drive and several thick file bags and handed them to Wei Ran.

"Mr. Aladdin, do you still remember our conversation at Mr. Holler's farm about how the Chinese took 14 years and cost 3500 million people to drive out the invaders?"

"I remember," Aladdin replied as he took the file bag, "What is this?"

On the Protracted War

Wei Ran smiled and replied, "These may be of some help to you. A good friend of mine asked me to give them to you. The one in the file bag is the paper version, and the one in the USB drive is the electronic version."

This so-called friend naturally did not exist. He took the time to translate the Arabic version of the protracted war himself and typed it out on his mobile phone while on his way to and from the recruitment office. He even replaced the word "recruitment office" with "yi se lia" to make it easier to understand.

"Mr. Jiang once gave us the same gift."

Aladdin said something that Wei Ran had never expected, "He even spent two days explaining the contents and related history to us in detail with the help of a translator."

"We have even bought a few copies and are planning to give them to everyone when we get back."

Hanward followed up, pointing his finger above his head, "It's in our suitcase."

"I believe this book will definitely help you," Wei Ran said seriously.

"We will always remember the help you, your friends and compatriots have provided us," Aladdin responded seriously, clutching the file bag given to him by Wei Ran.

(End of this chapter)