War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1667: It’s only a day if it can last a day

On the third day after the wedding, Dima and Maya, as well as Dima's parents, boarded their private plane amid the farewell of many relatives and friends, ready to go to Volgograd to visit old man Nikolai and get his blessings.

"Why don't we follow them?" Wei Ran asked Sui Sui on the tarmac.

"Need not"

Sui Sui, who still smelled a little bit of kumis, yawned and said, "My parents have been busy with their business in Murmansk recently, and I heard that they bought a house there, so we won't be able to see them even if we go to Volgograd."

"So where are we going?" Wei Ran simply gave up thinking, "Back to Kazan or back to China?"

“Let’s go back to Kazan”

Sui Sui said reluctantly, "It's almost the end of the year, and we still have a lot of work to do."

After saying that, Sui Sui called him, the Golden Fleece's friends, as well as Kalp and others to join her and board another An-74 small plane flying to Kazan.

"I have already delivered the things in advance. Remember to help me investigate as soon as you get home."

On the plane about to land in Kazan, Ninel gave Wei Ran an instruction without being polite.

"If I can remember, I'll help you investigate."

Wei Ran agreed nonchalantly, "What about you? Aren't you going to visit me?"

"I don't know how many eyes are around you. I don't want to cause trouble for myself." Ninel said bluntly, "I want to visit Olga's house."

"Remember to carry a lifebuoy and diving equipment with you," Wei Ran joked.

"My dad wouldn't throw him into the lake."

Olga, who was sitting next to Ninel, said unhappily, "Victor, and Aurora, you can come to our house when you have time. I can take you winter fishing."

"We won't take up your and Ninel's precious time," Sui Sui teased back with a smile, "Similarly, you're welcome to visit our home anytime."

"We'll go when we have time," Olga said with a smile, holding Ninel's arm.

As we chatted, the plane landed smoothly at Kazan Airport.

When the group walked out of the airport, the Hela girls who had returned a day earlier were waiting to pick them up.

Under the escort of these girls, Kalp and others were sent back to the studio, while Wei Ran and others, as well as Sui Xin and Chen Luoxiang who came to visit, and the little genius Korava who was returning home were sent back to their home on the shore of Lake Kaban.

As for the rest of the people, including the rich woman Koko, they continued to take the plane to St. Petersburg, or went home from there, or took public flights to France.

During the long or short journey of everyone, Wei Ran and his group were the first to return home.

Not to mention Sui Xin and her husband, or Sui Sui and others who were reminiscing about the past with Korava, Wei Ran had just walked out of the room after changing his clothes when he met Anfisa who seemed to be waiting for him.

"winery"

Before Wei Ran finished his words, the other party immediately got up and left the small living room on the second floor.

After waiting for a while, Wei Ran also walked towards the winery construction site next door, got into an inconspicuous car, and let Anfisa, who was sitting in the driver's seat, pull him out of the winery, circled and stopped at the shore of Lake Kaban which had begun to freeze.

After they pushed the door open and walked a few dozen meters toward the rear of the car, Anfisa, who had wrapped herself tightly in a windbreaker, said, "The Hela base in Blagoveshchensk has been built.

The second batch of online group children have all moved in. Including the 21 new students provided by your friends and the preparatory group we secretly cultivated in advance, there are now a total of 59 children there. Boss, do you want me to give you the list?"

"Just keep it for yourself," Wei Ran waved his hand indifferently.

Seeing this, Anfisa continued, "We have already trained the spokespersons for Cow Urine. Mr. Ninel helped to collect them. There are 50 in total. We will select 7 of them as spokespersons first, and the rest will continue to receive training and brainwashing."

“We need to speed up progress”

Wei Ran said, "I will need them during the New Year. By the way, what are their code names?"

"Seven-Colored Elephant"

Anfisa replied calmly, "We prepared elephant masks for them as you requested. Among these people there is a cultured Kshatriya who named this secret organization funded by the cow urine government the Seven-Colored Elephant."

"Kshatriya?"

Wei Ran raised an eyebrow, "Where was Niniel kidnapped from?"

'Not kidnapping'

Anfisa obviously knew these people well, "He was a student of Nihoru University, but because he fell in love with a low-caste girl, he was expelled from his family, and he also became a low-caste and lost the opportunity to continue his studies.

Unfortunately, the girl he fell in love with fell and died while riding a train to see him. "

"This is enough to make a Bollywood movie," Wei Ran joked without comment.

"And I can definitely do the cow urine dance for two hours."

After making a joke, Anfisa continued to introduce, "This former Kshatriya is patriotic and fanatical enough, and the death of his lover makes him more eager to promote changes in the Cow Urine Kingdom.

Most importantly, he firmly believed that we really found him on behalf of the Ministry of National Defense, and he even claimed that he was a natural warrior and intelligence worker. "

“He is also a rare talent.”

Wei Ran asked with interest, "Where are the others?"

"The others were recruited by this former Kshatriya," Anfisa continued. "He was passionate about this matter. No, I should say passionate."

"Control this natural warrior and his soldiers"

Wei Ran reminded, "Cow urine people are like flies. If they are not controlled well, they will soon attract more and more flies to gather together. By then, they may really get out of control."

"They are currently in Darwin, Australia."

Anfisa was well prepared for this and said, “After the training and assessment, they will be dispersed and transferred to other port cities in Australia to lie in wait for being activated or to help us take risks.

Those selected as spokespersons will go to Canada and France respectively, and live completely in the Truman world that Hela has created for them. "

"That's good"

Wei Ran nodded in satisfaction, "Has Mr. Holler started yet?"

"here we go"

Anfisa answered simply, "The people we need and the people who promised to help them with training are all in place. The supplies provided by the middleman Mr. Zhong have also been transferred, and they have already started to attack the target. Boss, when do we start?"

"Not urgent"

Wei Ran waved his hands patiently, "There are still too few forces taking action against them now, and the water is not muddy enough, so let's wait a little longer. When the forces hunting them get a taste of the sweetness, it will be completely in time for us to take action."

"Okay," Anfisa nodded decisively.

"That's it," Wei Ran said as he walked towards the car, "When necessary, secretly provide some intelligence support to the forces that took action."

"Already working on it," Anfisa followed and replied.

"Where is the thing that Ninel sent?" Wei Ran asked, changing the subject.

"On the table outside your workroom in the basement of the library."

“I can just walk back by myself.”

Wei Ran waved his hand and walked alone along the lakeside road towards the library.

Anfisa secretly breathed a sigh of relief, opened the car door and got in, turned around on the spot and drove back to the winery site in a circle.

Wei Ran slowly returned to the library, went into the basement alone, and found a suitcase that was not very big.

Carrying the suitcase into the studio, Wei Ran opened the box, took out the things inside one by one and placed them on the table.

Just as Ninel mentioned at the beginning, there was an APB Stechkin submachine gun in a hard cowhide case, as well as a matching silencer and steel buttstock.

After inspecting the gun, Wei Ran took out a Rubik's Cube-sized watch box, a family photo in a frame, and a file bag from the buffer sponge in the box.

Even through the glass of the photo frame, Wei Ran could still clearly see that the edge of this color photo had a lot of signs of wear and tear, and there seemed to be a bloody fingerprint remaining in the lower right corner.

In this photo, there is a man in a pilot's uniform and a woman in a white floral dress. In the pilot's arms, there is a little girl who looks no more than five or six years old.

Even though he was blocked by the family, he still recognized at a glance that the background of this photo was the Victory Monument standing on Victory Square in Minsk.

After a moment's hesitation, he opened the drawer, took out a pair of gloves and put them on, then carefully opened the cover on the back of the photo frame.

On the back of this photo, there is also a blurry, oxidized and blackened blood fingerprint.

Carefully restoring the photo frame to its original state, Wei Ran put it aside and opened the watch box.

In addition to a Soviet Arrow watch, the watch box also contains a gold ring.

After a careful inspection under a magnifying glass, I found a date engraved on the inside of the gold ring: November 1980, 11, which is the anniversary of the October Revolution and the Soviet Union's National Day. I think it is also the wedding anniversary of the couple in the photo.

After restoring these things to their original state, he finally picked up the file bag and took out the paper documents inside.

This document details how Ruslan Petrov, a co-pilot of an armed helicopter belonging to the Soviet 40th Army, encountered a helicopter trap during a mission to rescue a crashed pilot on January 1988, 1, and how the entire crew was captured and disappeared.

What is quite strange is that the crew was not found until the Soviet Union began to withdraw its troops from Afghan a few months later. Most importantly, the "Afghan officials" at the time actually stated that they did not shoot down the plane.

One can imagine what happened next. With the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the investigation into the missing crew came to an abrupt end and no further information was given.

After carefully searching through the file, he also found a group photo of the four people and a solo photo of Ruslan Petrov.

In this photo of four people, three of them are wearing flight suits and are obviously crew members. In addition, there is a man wearing an Afhanka with a Red Cross armband on his arm. I think he should be a medical staff member who followed the crew to rescue the pilot.

I continued flipping through the pages, and sure enough, on the following pages there were detailed information about three other people who had disappeared.

After a little thought, Wei Ran packed all these things back into the suitcase, got up and left the studio.

Although Niniel was anxious, he didn't have the heart to think about it now. Especially since this was the Afhan battlefield, he could almost imagine how uncomfortable it would be.

In this case, we can only postpone it for as long as possible.

What's more, no matter what, ever since he came back from the last Anti-Japanese Allied Forces copy, he just went out to show up, and all kinds of troubles came to him one after another.

He didn't even have a good rest during Jima's wedding. He was either a best man or busy participating in the sheep-grabbing competition. During that time, he and Ninel were even dragged away by Maya's brothers to do free labor for a few days. His life was really too fulfilling.

Because of this, he now urgently needs to have a good rest and relax.

Coming back to the surface, he stretched in the bright sunshine. Before he had time to go back to the next door, he noticed that there seemed to be too many guests in the library today, so much so that the little girls of Baba Yaga had to help maintain order at the door.

Wei Ran walked over curiously and took a look at the library through the French window. Then he pulled a little girl covered in powder and asked, "Is the library holding any promotion today?"

"It was the two musicians invited by Sister Aurora who were performing an impromptu performance."

The little girl explained, "They seem to know a lot of regular customers, and then those regular customers started calling their friends, and then more and more people came. Boss, no, I mean boss, can I go in and maintain order?"

"You're just outside!"

Before Wei Ran could open his mouth, Baba Yaga's captain Katyusha pulled the screaming little girl aside.

Sui Xin and Chen Luoxiang?

Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, and without paying any attention to the little girls who were staring at him, he walked into the library, which had never been so lively, with curiosity. Amid the harmonious sounds of the guqin and guzheng, he found Sui Sui and others standing in the corner.

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

"Lola wants Sui Xin to come to the library to play a few songs"

Sui Sui held Wei Ran's arm and explained with a smile, "Anyway, although the business of this coffee bar is now handed over to Mrs. Samantha, it was Lola and Sui Xin who built it up after all."

"Then so many people came?" Wei Ran pointed around.

"Can't"

Sui Sui said with a smile, "They both received an invitation from Olga and are planning to visit Aunt Daria's exhibition hall and perform a tour in a few days."

"Are you planning to go?" Wei Ran asked casually.

"decide as things go"

Sui Sui was obviously tempted by the proposal. "If we can finish our work by then, we can go. Olga is planning to take us hunting. Also, my parents are planning to come over to celebrate the New Year with us at the end of December."

"Come here? We don't have to go to Volgograd?"

"no need"

Sui Sui shook her head. "They are too busy with their toy drone business. If my dad hadn't been eager to see the winery I bought, they wouldn't have had the time to come over."

"So old man Nicholas is going to celebrate the New Year alone this year?"

"probably not"

Sui Sui shook her head. "Now he lives in the house my father bought on the island. Usually, the gangsters arranged by Greva take care of him. Uncle Kalp and the others will probably go over during the New Year. I heard Maya say that before. She also said that she and Jima will go over to keep him company then."

Hearing this, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief. No matter what, at least half of the skills he had learned now were thanks to Mr. Nicholas.

But now he is in constant trouble and it is not suitable for him to visit the other person. After all, he is a man in his nineties. Even if he is in good health, he will eventually get old.

If the people who were secretly watching him suddenly had a brain storm and set their target on old man Nicholas, and if those people really succeeded, he couldn't imagine how big a mess it would cause.

(End of this chapter)