War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 208
In the empty conference room on the second floor of the abandoned military base, Karp personally put on the trackers for Wei Ran and Jima and said, "The only requirement for you to parachute this time is to land safely, so don't put any pressure on them. .”

Jima muttered, "But we only studied for ten days."

"Ten days is enough"

Karp said flatly, "Young man, be confident. You folded the parachute and stuffed it into your bag. Your friend drove the plane, and Dalia and I will parachute with you with a medical bag. Even if an accident does happen, we at least have a certain probability of keeping you alive."

"It's because the parachute was folded by myself that people are scared." Wei Ran looked at the smiling teacher Dalia and Karp, but he didn't dare to say this sentence after all.

Left and right couldn't escape, Wei Ran and Ji Ma could only resign themselves to their fate in the end, carrying their parachute bags, and followed Dalia and Karp to get into the old plane painted by Hongqi Forest Farm.

To their surprise, Misha, who was busy receiving tourists, also came for their skydiving this time.And her job is just to help close the hatch, and cheer up her friends by the way.

Perhaps because there is a girl by his side, Ji Ma, who was almost scared to death, barely stopped trembling, and Wei Ran, who was also not much better, put on a sand sculpture that I am not afraid, and I am very brave, hypnotized Own.

Alili, who was in charge of flying the plane, looked at his friend with pity, and finally, under the guidance of teacher Dalia, he honestly controlled the An-2 plane to circle and rush into the sky.

"Our current altitude is 3000 meters. We are lucky today. The wind is not too strong. The umbrella bag has been checked by yourself and Karp. Even if the main umbrella cannot be opened, there is a backup umbrella. If the backup umbrella cannot be opened Come on, you are about 20 seconds away from landing on the ground. During this time, I or Karp will try to get close to you and try to help you open the parachute or land safely. So as long as you are calm enough, follow the steps practiced these days. There won't be any security issues!"

Before opening the cabin door, Teacher Dalia gave her final instructions, "Don't panic in case of emergencies, communicate on the radio in time, understand?"

"Understood!" Wei Ran and Jima, who were about to piss in fear, stammered, and then put on their goggles.

Teacher Dalia snapped a photo of a temporarily installed switch on the bulkhead, and as the red LED began to flicker, the four people including Karp each hung the ripcord on the slide rail above their heads, Misha, who was sitting at the cabin door, had already fastened the safety rope around her waist.

As Misha slowly shook the sliding door, the turbulent wind rushed into the cabin in an instant. Before Jima, who was in the front row, could react, he was kicked down by Teacher Dalia in a scream .When she jumped out of the cabin, a round white umbrella had already bloomed above Jima's head.

"It seems that Jima can't die at least"

Wei Ran just breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then he felt a big foot kicked hard on his ass, and when he reacted, he was already like a quarter horse, crying and howling in the air and began to fall at an extremely fast speed.

"It's coming down?"

Wei Ran, who was almost scared to pee, couldn't hear what the rest of the people in the earphones were saying at this time. He only felt that at a certain moment, the body that was falling rapidly seemed to be yanked from behind, and the speed of falling was also fast. Suddenly slowed down.

It wasn't until this time that he heard that Karp was slowly reminding him of the next operation in the earphone.

It's a reminder, but it's actually more like a consolation. Both he and Ji Ma use round umbrellas. On the premise that the only requirement is a safe landing, there are not many operations that need them to operate.

But Dalia and Karp used more flexible parafoils, so from time to time, the two would float back and forth in the distance of Wei Ran and Jima, and by the way, talk to them on the radio Let's chat a few words, lest these two rookies accidentally do something stupid.

Under the watchful eyes of these two seemingly rude but careful teachers, the parachutes of Wei Ran and Ji Ma fluttered in the breeze like two dandelion seeds, and finally they settled down like two big green radishes. Suddenly, it landed in the knee-deep snow on a frozen lake more than ten kilometers away from the abandoned military base.

From being kicked off the plane to the time when his legs poked into the snow plowed the ground, a long gully was formed. The only thing that Wei Ran felt was the impact when he just landed, which was stronger than he imagined, except for the strong wind. bigger.

In less than five minutes, Karp and Teacher Dalia also landed on the lake with parafoils, but compared to Wei Ran and Jima who were in a panic, these two were much more relaxed and elegant.

"How do you feel?" Karp asked the snow-covered two after retracting his parachute.

"Scarier than I imagined, and more exciting than I imagined."

Wei Ran said with some regret that he had been staring up at the parachute above his head just now, for fear that some parachute cord would accidentally break, so he didn't have time to look at the scenery under his feet.

"I should have jumped with my mobile phone." Jima, who had finally put away his parachute, wrote regret directly on his face.

"In the next five days, as long as the weather is suitable, you will have a chance to skydive every morning and afternoon."

Teacher Dalia came over and said with a smile, "Of course, as before, you will be given an assessment task on the fifth day. If you do well, we can consider learning to fly a fixed-wing aircraft in the next month's course." gone."

"Dance every day?"

Ji Ma, who was a little regretful just now, immediately turned pale, and Wei Ran beside him was not much better.This skydiving is similar to riding a roller coaster. Before I got on it, I was so scared to death. After I finished the ride, I was exhilarated, but I definitely didn't want to ride it again.

"Twice a day as long as the weather is suitable." Teacher Dalia asked with a smile, "If you think it's too little, you can add another night blind jump at night."

"A lot!"

Wei Ran and Jima replied in unison, after all, they have been with these two teachers for so long, they can naturally see that if either of them shows a little bit of fear, the number of skydives they will complete in the next few days At least double it.

Both teachers and students agreed on the arrangements for the next few days in a pleasant atmosphere, and Alili also controlled the flashy An-2 plane to land nearby smoothly.

A group of people returned to the abandoned military base, Wei Ran and Jima did not get any rest time at all, and then devoted themselves to various courses related to parachuting.

For the next four days, every morning and before dusk in the afternoon, Alili would fly the plane and take them up into the sky for a skydiving practice, and the thick snow on the lake where they repeatedly landed was also covered by this The two big green radishes smashed out snow pits of various shapes and trenches of various lengths.

At the same time, I have to say that Maozi's extensive education is really ambitious. When the two skydived the next morning, Karp jumped down with him anyway.

But in the afternoon of that day, the only thing this old thing did was to kick the two of them on the buttocks when they got out of the cabin, and then closed the cabin door with peace of mind, and even Alili's plane didn't land. Instead, they radioed them to run back by themselves.

On the third day, even the work of "seeing off" was handed over to Misha, the girl from Inta who had been watching the excitement.Wei Ran and Ji Ma also had to play their own initiative, hanging a pair of skis around their waists while skydiving.

Fortunately, with the experience of the previous three times, the two brothers and sisters have also adapted to the process of skydiving. Except for Ji Ma who was unlucky and was blown to a pine tree by the wind for more than half an hour, he never appeared again. any accidents.

Seeing that there was still the last day of study time for this month, Teacher Dalia summoned the two who had just driven back from the landing field on skis to the plane again when the sun was about to set in the afternoon of the first day.

"The assessment task is at dusk today"

Teacher Dalia walked into the cockpit while speaking, "You two need to parachute over the abandoned correctional camp that you visited last time. Go to the top of the search, kill all the dummies sprayed with fluorescent paint, and finally blast the entire building, is there a problem?"

"No!" Wei Ran and Jima replied without thinking.

"In the cabin, there are parachutes that you folded yourself yesterday, and weapons and explosives are also prepared. I will give you half an hour to check, and we will take off in half an hour." While speaking, Teacher Dalia personally gave the two shoulders. Each has an action camera installed.

Wei Ran and Jima didn't dare to delay, and carefully inspected the parachute and the AK rifle that was obviously dug out of the abandoned military base by the dim light in the cabin. As for the plastic explosives, detonators and remote control that were filled with plastic lunch boxes As for the detonator, we can only wait until the scene to see the actual effect.

Soon, after half an hour, when Karp got into the cabin, the An-2 plane immediately flew into the sky violently under the control of Mr. Dalia.

After a short flight, Karp opened the cabin door silently. Wei Ran and Jima looked at each other, then got up and hung up the ripcord. cabin.

This is their 10th time to skydive. Compared with the first time, the original tension and fear have been replaced by excitement and excitement. Although the next landing process is slightly blurred because the sun has been blocked by the Ural Mountains, but because There is a lot of snow on the surface, and the arrival is as smooth as ever.

Above the heads of these two people, in the An-2 plane hovering slowly, Karp glanced at the two slowly moving cursors on the tablet, and asked in the communication channel with a smile, "Dalia, what did you give them?" Is the task too easy?"

"maybe"

Dalia responded with a smile, "It is necessary to build up some confidence for them, so that Victor's fragile little heart will not have psychological problems again. We all know that skydiving is a good way to increase self-confidence, isn't it?"

Karp smiled noncommittally, put the tablet aside, and let Dalia control the plane to continue circling above the abandoned correctional camp.

On the surface, after Wei Ran retracted the parachute skillfully, he immediately stepped on the thick snow and rushed to the abandoned correctional camp which was only one kilometer away.

Almost on foot with Ji Ma, the two of them didn't talk nonsense after they arrived, so they each randomly selected an abandoned building, rushed in with guns in hand, and began to search room by room.

The sound of intermittent bursts of shooting started to spread upwards from the first floor, and soon after gunshots rang out on the top floor, Wei Ran and Ji Ma ran to the load-bearing columns on the first floor, took out the electric drills in their bags, and began to drill holes to arrange blasting points.

"Jima, are you ready?" Wei Ran asked with the help of the handstand while running outside after finishing his work.

"Ready," Ji Ma responded with a wheezing voice.

"Then let's start!" Before Wei Ran finished speaking, the two pressed the buttons on the remote control.

Accompanied by a series of rumbling bangs, the two long-forgotten buildings also fell towards each other, and finally turned into a grave bag piled up from the ruins of the building under the violent impact.

"Victor, isn't this month's course assessment too easy?" Jima asked a little uncomfortable.

Wei Ran looked up at the plane that was already lowering its altitude, and walked towards the river outside the forest while replying, "Maybe it will be difficult next month, those two perverts on the head can take half a month for us to learn to skydive , How many days do you think it will take to fly the plane?"

"It's not difficult for me." Jima was extremely confident this time, "It's not that I haven't touched Alili's plane before, it's just that I can't take off and land."

"I hope you will still be so confident when the time comes!" Wei Ran is not as optimistic as Jima, but at this moment, his mind is no longer here.

(End of this chapter)