War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 189 Teacher Dalia is a Madman
On the second floor of the sentry tower, the flickering bonfire patiently licked the bottom of the small stainless steel pot. The melted snow water in the pot gradually formed a pale white mist, and at the same time, this small space that was not too big gradually warmed up. .

Taking advantage of Ji Ma cutting the venison with a not-so-sharp axe, Wei Ran took out some flour, added water, briefly stirred it, and poured it into a small pot, making a big pot of thick pimple soup.

Although the only seasoning they have is some salt, but in this freezing weather, what is there not to be satisfied with having a sip of hot soup and sizzling roast venison?
Sufficient protein and carbohydrates easily filled the stomachs of the two of them. After eating and drinking, Ji Ma directly took down the few animal skins hanging from the ceiling, and picked out the ones that looked usable and spread them on the concrete floor. .

The two each took a piece of parachute cloth and spread it on the rotten animal skin, and then covered their bodies with the canvas tent, and then lay down with their clothes on.

When they woke up again, the sun outside the sentry tower had almost risen to its highest point.I added some fuel to the campfire and got some food, and then picked out some burnt charcoal and ashes from the edge of the campfire, and loaded them into the sleigh cart together with the small stainless steel pot.

After checking to make sure there was nothing missing, Ji Ma climbed up to the top of the building and threw a piece of venison leg with a lot of meat far away. After waiting for more than ten minutes, there was still no movement outside, and then went to the house. Wei Ran, who was waiting on the first floor, shouted, "The door can be opened, there should be no wolves outside."

After receiving the news, Wei Ran moved away from the sleigh cart blocking the way, opened the rusty iron door, and walked out with an AK rifle in his hand.The quarter horses who came down from the upstairs followed closely behind, pulling the reloaded sleigh cart to catch up.

Under the guidance of Ji Ma, shortly after Wei Ran entered the forest, he saw a series of more than a dozen overturned mine carts. Most of these mine carts had been buried under the snow with only a small outline left, but one of them The car just parked under the pine tree can already be seen clearly.

In addition to these mine carts, the most conspicuous thing is the black wooden poles painted with anti-corrosion paint. Under the ravages of the years, most of these poles have been broken or crooked, but the remaining wires on them seem to be the most conspicuous. Like a guidepost, it guided the two of them to find two well-hidden four-story concrete buildings deep in the dense coniferous forest, and a three-story small building a little farther away.

These three buildings are without exception, the first floor is full of more than a dozen concrete load-bearing columns with a square of half a meter, and starting from the second floor, the windows on each floor are pitifully small.However, the area of ​​these three buildings is larger than the other, at least two thousand square meters. If it weren't for the tall pine trees around them, or if it wasn't for the fact that it was too far away from the sentry tower where they lived last night, I am afraid that Wei Ran You can see it at a glance.

Carefully bypassing the three buildings that were almost side by side, Wei Ran and Jima belatedly discovered that behind these three buildings, there were still a large number of buildings that had already collapsed or even been buried by snow. silhouettes of wooden houses.At the other end of the group of wooden houses, in addition to the same four-story building, there is also a very conspicuous huge mine.

"What used to be here?" Jima couldn't help asking curiously, "Could it be another gold mine?"

"Crazy about gold?"

Wei Ran looked up at the roof of the building, "Counting the one with only three floors, there are only four buildings in total here, let's look for them one by one!"

"How about starting with the three-story one?"

Jima said without thinking, obviously, his purpose is not to find the American flag that Dalia hid on the roof in advance, but to see what lure he can get from here.

"Let's go!"

Wei Ran turned around and walked towards the building in the middle. He rushed over from a long distance, and he also wanted to see if there were any valuable treasures left here.

However, to their disappointment, the three-story building was just a thermal power plant, and there was nothing valuable in it except for the outdated small thermal power plant and some remaining coking coal.

But at the same time, they also learned from a slogan posted on the wall that the name of this place is "No. 27 Coking Coal Mine".

After learning that this place was just a coal mine, most of Ji Ma's interest evaporated immediately.Looking around Inta for a radius of [-] kilometers, the largest ones are coal mines and natural gas mines, which I have seen enough for a long time.

Wei Ran, however, was still in high spirits, and even took out the Rollei dual-reverse anti-virus in the metal book, and took a photo of the power generation equipment in the building and the Soviet-era slogan hanging on it.

"Why are you still carrying a camera? Don't you think it's too heavy?" Jima said disgustedly.

"It's just a camera, and you don't need to carry it on your back." While speaking, Wei Ran took the camera back into the metal book by putting it in the backpack as a cover.

"Which one do you want to go to next?" Ji Ma stood on the steps at the door and pointed to the left and right, "Choose one of the two and see how lucky you are."

"The one on the left!" Wei Ran said casually.

Jima naturally had no objection, and the two walked towards the building on the left with their rifles in their hands. However, before they stepped on the steps leading to the second floor, Wei Ran and Jima stopped in unison, wrinkled Brows looking at the intricate footprints on the steps.

"It's a wolf!" Ji Ma made a positive judgment.

"Have you brought the grenade?" Wei Ran had already opened the safety of the rifle while speaking.

"Take it," Jima replied, reaching out and taking out a grenade from his chest pocket, and weighing it, "Now I just hope that there are not too many wolves in this building."

"Let's go." Wei Ran took another step, and was the first to walk up the steps.

When they walked up to the platform on the second floor, they immediately saw a large number of animal bones and piles of feces scattered on the snow that was almost flattened by paw prints.

What made them somewhat relieved was that the iron doors of this building were still tightly locked, and most of the glass on the windows on both sides of the door were intact, even if there were cracks on a few pieces of glass, they were old Honestly stay in the original position.

Under Wei Ran's signal, Ji Ma pulled out the ax pinned to his waist, and easily broke open the padlock on the iron door, which was the size of a cigarette case.

Walking into the door carefully, except for the snow and ice accumulated next to the crack of the door, there are a large number of heads of Comrade Stalin and various Soviet-style propaganda slogans hanging in the dark corridor.

Even on the concrete floor, there are a large number of magazines, newspapers, books, and even worn-out military uniforms, boots, and even rusty bullets!

Wei Ran gently pushed open a wooden door, and there were more than a dozen iron canopy beds in this room. The green iron cabinet near the door had been knocked down, and some worthless sundries were scattered all over the floor.The two looked at each other, and tacitly agreed that they were responsible for one side of the corridor and began to search for interesting things from room to room.

However, to their disappointment, they all climbed to the roof from the first floor to the top floor and finally, except that on the side facing the wooden houses on the third floor, they found that the windows of many rooms had been transformed into shooting holes, and the floor Except for the large number of heavy machine gun bullet casings scattered on the ground, there is no valuable harvest at all.

Looking meaningfully at the collapsed wooden houses downstairs, Wei Ran took the initiative to say, "Go to the building next to it and have a look!"

Ji Ma, who was also looking forward to discovering something, would naturally not refuse. He was the first to turn around and go downstairs, and went straight to the second building that was only a few tens of meters away.

It is almost the same as the previous building. Although there is no damage on the outside and the door of the building is locked tightly, the inside is still a mess. Even on the third floor, the windows of several rooms are replaced by shooting holes, and the floor The thick layer of heavy machine gun bullet casings is also enough to prove that there was a long-lasting shooting activity here.

"There is no American flag on the roof of this building either"

Jima stepped on the steel ladder on the wall and climbed down, "It seems that we have to go through the wooden houses to find the innermost building."

"Jima, who do you think those people who shot on the third floor of these two buildings were targeting?"

Faced with Wei Ran's question knowingly asked, Ji Ma blurted out without thinking, "Who else can it be? It can't be a pack of wolves, right?"

The topic came to an abrupt end here, and the two silently pulled the sleigh through the huge ruins of wooden houses, and carefully walked up to the second floor of the building next to the entrance of the mine with their guns in hand. platform.

To their surprise, the padlock used on the door of this building looks extraordinarily young, and even Wei Ran can tell from the familiar nameplate on the lock that the lock should be made in China.

Anyway, after studying at Hongqi Forest Farm for so long, this slight difference immediately caught the attention of the two of them.Ji Ma raised his finger and pointed behind him, Wei Ran immediately leaned his back against the wall on the side of the gate, raised his gun and observed the surrounding situation vigilantly.The former raised the ax again, and slammed the lock open.

As the rusty iron door was opened, a clear and crisp sound of heavy objects falling to the ground came from inside at the same time, and then the two of them heard a deafening bang, and the half-open door flashed The strong light also instantly blinded them.

"Fuck!"

Sitting on the snow at the door, Wei Ran felt nothing but white flowers in front of his eyes, and a buzzing in his ears.

"Shock bomb! It must be that lunatic Dalia!" Jima cursed at the top of his voice.It's just a pity that Wei Ran not only couldn't hear, he couldn't even see the shape of his mouth for the time being, he just focused on digging his ears.

The two waited for a long time, and then their sight gradually recovered. Wei Ran cursed at the top of his voice. Seeing Jima next to him with a blank expression on his face, he stretched out his hand and wrote Teacher Dalia's name on the snow.

Ji Ma nodded viciously, stood up staggeringly, stomped the name that Wei Ran had just written, and then spit thick phlegm in confusion.

When Wei Ranye got up, Ji Ma learned a lot this time. He carefully poked his head into the half-open iron door, then took a step back as if startled, and then poked his head in again. Carefully untied a smoke bomb.

"It seems that the American flag we are looking for should be in this building." Wei Ran waited for Jima to completely open the door before shouting loudly.

"But that lunatic Dalia obviously doesn't want us to get that flag so easily." Jima also responded with a loud voice.

The two communicated hoarsely like old men with poor ears, and greeted Dalia's family by the way, before walking into the gate cautiously.

The scene in this building is not much different from the previous two buildings. The only thing that is more is the two particularly incongruous roll-up banners in the lobby on the first floor.

The photos on these two roll-ups are exactly the high-definition photos taken by Wei Ran and Jima when they were cheated in Ulyanovsk.In the middle of the two roll-up banners was a wire, on which was hung a piece of A4 paper with several room numbers briefly written on it, as well as a sentence "Use blasting to open the door of the above room, and shoot Download the before and after photos of the explosion. Detonating the smoke bomb is equivalent to a mission failure."

"Fortunately, there are only four rooms in total." Jima said happily, "One room per floor, it doesn't seem too difficult."

"Don't talk too soon"

Wei Ran walked to the edge of the stairs leading to the second floor, pointed to the remaining ring of the grenade on it and said, "The shock bomb just now should be hung here, fortunately the distance is relatively far, and fortunately we have not gone in, otherwise this It may be difficult to stand up at the time."

Cold sweat broke out on Ji Ma's forehead, "You don't mean that."

Wei Ran removed the metal wire connected to the pull ring and asked, "Do you think Dalia dares to play us with a shock bomb, would she mind setting up a few more small traps?"

Ji Ma opened his mouth and asked in a low voice, "Why don't we just blow up here?"

"Follow the rules of the game." Wei Ran thought for a while and said, "Go and pull the sleigh in."

Hearing this, Ji Ma immediately ran out of the hall and dragged in the sleigh cart full of supplies.

"First of all, it's room 109 on the first floor." Wei Ran looked around, then walked cautiously to the corridor on the left.

With the reminder of the shock bomb before, he walked extra cautiously, and when he encountered a pile of old clothes, he would avoid it vigilantly and remind the quarter horse behind him to pay attention.

And his carefulness soon paid off. At the door of Room 109 on the first floor, Wei Ran found a tight fishing line under a dusty woolen blanket.

Searching along this fishing line, he finally found a can of high-pressure anti-wolf spray and a cannonball wrapped around the anti-wolf spray with tape randomly in the gap between a collapsed cabinet and the wall.

The cannon was almost as big as the anti-wolf spray, and several matches were fixed at the twist of the cannon. As for the fishing line, it was connected to the friction plate tightly wrapped around the match head.

There is no doubt that as long as one accidentally steps on that unremarkable fishing line, this scary cannon will be ignited in an instant, and the power of its explosion is enough to blow up the can of high-pressure anti-wolf spray.

Just imagining the consequences of the explosion of the can of anti-wolf spray, Wei Ran and Ji Ma couldn't help shivering.

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran unbuttoned his belt without saying a word, and urinated on the cannonball of the big gun battle, easily solving this potential spicy danger in a hot-eyed way.

"Victor, what do you think is under that wool blanket?" Jima asked curiously, "Could it be a can of anti-wolf spray and a big firecracker?"

Wei Ran buckled up his belt, went to the wool blanket and squatted down. After hesitating for a while, he finally did not lift it up. "No matter what's underneath, go and configure the explosives. It's just a wooden door. It doesn't need to be too powerful."

"I'll come!" Ji Ma accepted the errand without hesitation.

Naturally, Wei Ran would not fight with Ji Ma for this kind of thing. The two walked back to the hall on the first floor. The newspapers picked up at random made a square explosive package.

Hanging the explosive package on the doorknob of Room 109, Ji Ma waited for Wei Ran to take a photo and hide, then immediately aimed at the paper package and pulled the trigger.

The clear gunshot was followed by a dull explosion and a lot of smoke and dust. Even the wool blanket at the door was lifted by the shock wave, revealing a mousetrap the size of a bowl.

The two covered their mouths and noses with their sleeves, and when they walked to the door of Room 109 again, the wooden door produced in the Soviet era had been shattered by the explosion just now, revealing the neatly arranged tables and chairs inside.

What surprised the two of them was that behind the desk farthest from the door, there was a bottle of whiskey and two large strong flashlights on the solid wooden bookshelf.And on the side of these three things, there is also a conspicuous handwritten card with only one simple word "prize" on it.

"Fortunately, I just controlled the dosage," said Ji Ma proudly, "If I add more ingredients, the bottle of wine might be gone."

"Be careful before you go in." Wei Ran pulled Jima, pointed to the dusty room, "Maybe there is a smoke bomb hidden inside."

Hearing this, Ji Magan hurriedly took back the feet he had just raised, lay on the ground with his buttocks pouted, held up his headlamp to observe carefully, and then said with lingering fear, "It really is, it's just behind the desk and it. There seems to be a thin thread in the middle of the chair. Victor, how about letting me come this time?"

"Be careful," Wei Ran instructed in a low voice.

Ji Ma also didn't get up, and almost knelt and walked to the edge of the work, cautiously probed in, waited for some observations, carefully opened a drawer of the desk, and took out a smoke bomb and a Big bottle of kerosene.

Eliminating this little danger, Ji Ma slowly got up, took the two strong flashlights from the bookshelf, then picked up the bottle of whiskey that didn't look cheap, unscrewed the cap on it After taking a sip, he walked back and asked, "Victor, do you want to have a sip?"

"Drink or wait a while"

Wei Ran took the flashlight handed over by the other party, "We'll find a place to have a good drink after we finish finishing the other rooms."

"Then let me have one last sip!"

Ji Ma couldn't help but raise the wine bottle again, took a big gulp, and then tightened the bottle cap reluctantly, "Let's wait for the rest of the meal, now let's see how the upstairs room will be. What a reward!"

"Let's go!" Wei Ran picked up the large bottle of kerosene on the table and followed Jima out of the room.

The two carefully climbed up the stairs to the second floor. After some searching, they finally found the target room at the end of the corridor. At the same time, they also harvested two smoke bombs hidden in various garbage and a MON50 anti-infantry directional thunder!

This astonishingly powerful directional mine is placed in a drawer of a small cabinet in the corridor, but its hair-stirring wire is at the corner of the corridor and the stairwell, and even the height of this hair-stirring wire is less than five feet from the floor. only centimeters.

However, after Wei Ran and Ji Ma worked together to eliminate the deadly anti-infantry directional mine, they found that although the directional mine that scared them into cold sweat had a detonator, its weight was as light as it was in Hongqi Forest Farm. Touched a lot worse.

Carefully prying open the back cover, they discovered that there was no explosives inside at all, and instead there was a pack of spicy sticks and a pack of chicken feet with pickled peppers. There is no need to guess, it must be that crazy woman Dalia who came to the guard in advance. Borrowed from the burning bag.

"There is wine and appetizers. Teacher Dalia is such an angel!"

While Ji Ma was speaking, he quickly picked up the two packs of precious snacks and stuffed them into his pocket, "I'll eat it after I'm done with work. It's a waste to eat now."

"It would be nice if it was a real directional mine"

With some regret, Wei Ran removed the detonator from the directional mine, and then threw the plastic case aside. This type of directional mine is filled with a full 700 grams of high explosives. As long as it is used properly, it is enough to give The building under my feet was blasted last time.

"I'd rather it be a fake"

Ji Ma stood up and looked at the door next to him, lowered his voice and urged, "Room 216, this is it, should we go in and see what prizes there are before blasting?"

"Do you think Teacher Dalia will forget to guard against us?" Wei Ran said angrily, "Don't waste time, do it quickly!"

Hearing this, Ji Ma immediately took out a paper bag from his bag, hung it on the doorknob again, waited for Wei Ran to take the photo, then immediately hid in the stairwell, aimed at the paper bag and pulled the trigger again.

However, after the first dull explosion, there was another deafening bang in room 216!

Wei Ran and Empress Ji Ma, who had blocked their ears with their fingers in advance, looked at each other in fear. There is no doubt that what just exploded was another shock bomb!

"That fat woman is crazy!" Ji Ma stood up cursing, and was the first to walk into the room covered in smoke.

When they walked into the room, they immediately found that it was empty, except for a grenade ring still hanging on the window handle with a wire and a blown-out TV near the door.

"Let's go up to the third floor." Wei Ran turned around decisively and returned to the stairwell, and with the help of a bright flashlight, he climbed up to the third floor carefully.

Unlike the previous two floors, the windows at both ends of the corridor on the third floor were all sealed tightly, and the 20 or so rooms on both sides of the corridor were all locked. In the location of the room, there was a piece of A4 paper posted on it, which clearly stated that they were required to use explosions to open the doors of all rooms, and then they could get the reward of room 301.

Wei Ran shook his head, "Don't think about it, prepare for a dust explosion!"

"Use it all?" asked Ji Ma, who was following behind.

"Use it all, pass me the axe, and you fetch the flour."

Hearing this, Ji Ma immediately turned around and went downstairs, while Wei Ran picked up his ax and smashed a hole the size of a bowl on the corridor window that was sealed by wooden boards.

Stepping to the other end of the corridor, he swung the ax again and removed all the wooden boards that sealed the windows.

After a simple test of the wind direction, when he was sure that the wind was indeed blowing from the other end, he immediately went downstairs to move some wooden tables and chairs, poured some kerosene obtained on the first floor, and tapped it on the window next to the downwind vent. There was a bonfire.

Before he could finish his work, Ji Ma had already brought up all the flour.

"Go upstairs first." Wei Ran stopped Ji Ma who was about to tear open the flour bag, "Let's see if there are any requests upstairs."

Ji Ma naturally had no objection, and happily put down the flour bag, and followed Wei Ran to the fourth floor.The windows on this floor were not blocked, and there was even a large hall facing the stairs, and the rooms on both sides were getting bigger and bigger.But without exception, these rooms all use iron doors, and the corridors are also cleaned exceptionally clean like the third floor, with only a layer of dust.

"Room 5, this is it."

Jima walked to the door of the room farthest from the stairwell, and lightly knocked on the dusty wooden door with the muzzle of a gun, "It looks like a utility room."

"Never mind what it is, blow it up!" Wei Ran urged, "After blowing up this, let's go to the third floor to have a look."

Ji Ma nodded, took out a paper bag from the bag and hung it on the doorknob.

However, this explosion far exceeded their expectations. Just after the explosive package made by Jima was detonated, although the door of that room was blown open, a blast shot out of it and sprayed directly on the opposite wall. Fire Serpents!
Jima poked out half of his head from the stairwell and said dully, "Emperor testifies, I didn't put much fertilizer in that paper bag."

"It has nothing to do with you, go downstairs quickly! We must blow up this building before the fire starts!" Wei Ran was the first to recover, and Sa Yazi ran downstairs.

Where is this place? This place is deep in the primeval forest close to the Arctic Circle, and there is a coal mine nearby. Although the probability is not necessarily high, if the fire really spreads from the building to the outside, the two of them will be killed, let alone shot. It's not enough to pay for it being broken!And the most important thing is, look at the explosion in the utility room that has almost never been broken, how many flammable and explosive things are still in it!
"The American flag, we still have to take that flag back!" Jima followed behind and reminded.

"Give me the grenade, you go to the roof to get that flag!"

"it is good!"

Hearing this, Jima immediately took out the grenade he had been carrying in his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran, then with the help of the former, he grabbed the ladder on the wall of the stairwell leading to the top of the building, and quickly climbed up.

Seeing that Jima had entered the roof, Wei Ran immediately ran to the third floor. After confirming that the bonfire at one end of the corridor was still burning, he hurriedly took a photo with the camera, and immediately blocked the other end with a pair of pants he picked up. The hole that had just been dug in the upper wind window, finally tore off the flour bag and quickly sprinkled it on the corridor.

“Hopefully it will explode”

Wei Ran, who hid back in the stairwell, muttered to himself, pulled out the ring of the grenade, and threw it in the direction of the upwind vent with all his strength.Then before the grenade exploded, he scrambled and ran down the stairwell to the second floor.

　later, sorry

　　
　
(End of this chapter)