War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 229 Assessment against Wei Ran
On the second day after arriving at the abandoned airport, Wei Ran, who was hung outside the control tower by two climbing ropes, glanced at the wobbly An-2 plane flying into the sky, and shivered involuntarily.

The experience of learning to fly a plane yesterday was definitely a nightmare. During that whole day, he himself could not remember how many times he took off and landed in that broken plane.

"Don't be distracted!" Karp, who was standing under the tower, raised a telescope in one hand and a tweeter in the other and shouted, "It's the crosswind on the right now!"

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately pulled the pull ring in his hand to complete the corresponding simulation operation.Karp under the tower nodded in satisfaction, and continued to help Wei Ran simulate new situations that might be encountered in the air while facing the horn.

It took only four days to practice in rotation like this. After Wei Ran and Jima could barely control the plane to start, take off, circle and land without the reminder of Teacher Dalia, the two lunatics The teacher played a new trick again.

"Victor, you are here to fly the plane." After closing the hatch, Dalia entered the cockpit with Wei Ran.

Glancing at Teacher Dalia, who was holding a small jug and taking a sip from time to time, Wei Ran took a deep breath, put on the communication headset and fastened the seat belt, started the propeller step by step, and carefully controlled the plane to start taxiing into the air.

"Altitude 3000 meters" teacher Dalia said when the plane left the ground.

Glancing at the altimeter, Wei Ran slightly adjusted the accelerator, and continued to climb with the steering column. When he reached the predetermined height, he immediately asked, "Teacher Dalia? Where are you going next?"

"Go ahead." Teacher Dalia glanced at the GPS, then looked out of the window, answered casually, and then focused all her attention on the electronic map.

At a certain moment, Teacher Dalia raised her hand and pressed a red button installed with flying wires.Before Wei Ran could react, Karp in the cabin behind him opened the door, and the turbulent wind smashed into the cabin, and even the steering column in Wei Ran's hand trembled.And in the radio communication channel, Karp's voice also sounded, "Open the parachute at an altitude of 500 meters, land on the runway, and fold the parachute before the plane lands to qualify."

"Understood!" Ji Ma responded, and simply jumped out along the cabin.Karp, who was in the cabin, also simply closed the cabin door.

"Let's go back too!" Teacher Dalia said immediately.

Wei Ran, who had already guessed how to play, took a deep breath and lowered the altitude little by little while manipulating the plane to circle.Sure enough, when the plane landed, Jima immediately ran into the cabin under the call of Karp, replacing Wei Ran's job.

Soon after, the plane took off again under the driving of Ji Ma, and Wei Ran also jumped out of the cabin after reaching the altitude.

Unlike the round umbrellas used before, the parafoils they use now need to be opened by themselves, not to mention that there are clear requirements for the height of the parachute.

Staring at the altimeter on his arm all the way, when the number jumped to 1500, a long parafoil spread out above Wei Ran's head.

Pulling the control rings on both sides to control the direction, Wei Ran stared at the abandoned runway on the far surface, and gradually narrowed the distance between the two.

It was also from the morning when Wei Ran successfully landed on the runway, the training of the two became one person learning to fly a plane and one person practicing skydiving, and at the frequency of half a day, they challenged Karp and Da Teacher Leah's requirements are getting stricter and stricter.

The two of them rose and fell here again and again, and Professor Alexei, who was far away in Volgograd, also reluctantly followed the enthusiastic Alexander and Ralph as a guide to board the flight to Finland.

Compared to Professor Alexis' pessimism, Alexander is full of confidence.During this week, after several phone calls with the old man Noah in Finland, he has successfully obtained the identity of the investor of the joke-like movie and a role in the movie that has not yet been confirmed.

As for why this shrewd businessman wanted to act in a movie, although Professor Alexey didn't see it for a while, Zhou Shujin, who had also been in the business world for so many years, immediately reacted after hearing about it.

In addition, Professor Alexey, under the instigation of his wife, reluctantly and shamelessly rushed to Finland with his boss, preparing to participate in the amateur actor selection for this movie.

Speaking of Inta, after two weeks of intense and fulfilling study, seeing that the time has entered the end of May, Teacher Dalia also said after Wei Ran and Jima completed the once-a-day psychological test. Out of the final assessment task.

"The test is easy"

Teacher Dalia said with a smile, "Jima is in charge of driving the plane, Victor is in charge of navigation, Karp and I are just passengers, you need to jump over the Ural Mountains to the abandoned military base. After arriving, Victor parachutes to two In the middle of the building.

On the return trip, the jobs of the two of you are reversed, and Jima needs to parachute to the hot spring camp. I believe those tourists will be happy to see your performance.As for Victor, you need to land the plane directly to Intha Airport. "

Before Mrs. Dalia finished speaking, Karp followed up and said, "Skydiving at a height of 2000 meters and opening at a height of 600 meters, is there any problem?"

"No problem!" Wei Ran and Ji Ma responded in unison.

"Since there is no problem, let's set off at night." Teacher Dalia said the final condition with a smile.

"Crazy!" Wei Ran and Ji Ma Qiqi scolded in their hearts, but they tried to maintain a calm face, for fear that they would continue to make things difficult for them after they saw something.

"One Last Thing"

Karp finally said with a smile, "Next month, our courses will be carried out again at Hongqi Forest Farm. However, the courses of skydiving and fixed-wing aircraft piloting for the two of you cannot stop. There will be an assessment in September, etc. Looking forward to you. To be honest, I'm looking forward to the time when any of you fail the test."

Still not giving Wei Ran and Jima a chance to talk, Teacher Dalia pointed to the tent beside the runway, "Now I will give you two hours to rest, and we will set off after dark."

"Victor, come with me." Karp stopped Wei Ran who was about to leave, and Jima seemed to think of something, and immediately quickened his pace.

For some unknown reason, he followed Karp to the dilapidated control tower, and Wei Ran took two A4 papers from the opponent.

"what is this?"

Wei Ran didn't know, so he looked at the A4 paper in his hand. On this paper was a file in Russian. On the upper right corner of the file was a photo. The person in the photo was a serious looking Asian in his forties ethnic faces.

Looking at the introduction next to the photo, this person turned out to be a devil, and his identity turned out to be a smuggler, a smuggler who specialized in smuggling wild animal fur and such things as bear paws, bear bile and mammoth ivory.

Turning to the second page, Wei Ran frowned involuntarily. This man smuggled not only four-legged animals, but also girls with two legs!
"This person is your quarterly review target"

Karp lit a cigarette, looked at the scenery outside through the leaky window, and said, "This person will rush to Yakutsk in nine days to buy furs, mammoth ivory, and bear paws. There are beautiful girls in Yakutsk who dream of going out to study, work or smuggle immigrants."

"What do I need to do?" Wei Ran, who had already guessed the approximate answer, asked knowingly.

"Kill him before he leaves"

Karp turned around and looked at Wei Ran, "The local gang members and the police in Yakutsk have been bribed by him, so if you don't want to be sent to prison, it's best not to be caught."

"I refuse." Wei Ran said without thinking, "I don't want to kill people."

"Don't want to kill?" Karp looked at Wei Ran with great interest, "Don't want to kill, where did the sand you use to pay your tuition come from?"

"Picked up from the Volga"

Wei Ran replied without any psychological barriers, anyway, the corpse had already been blown to pieces when the abandoned correctional camp was blasted before, so there was no need to worry about what would be found.

"Then pick it up again. If you refuse this assessment, you don't have to take the course for the second year." With that said, Karp took out two air tickets and an old-fashioned mobile phone from his pocket and handed them to Wei Ran. Then he walked towards the stairs.

"No need to discuss?" Wei Ran asked standing at the stairs.

"Not negotiable"

Karp made a gesture of making a phone call, "The ticket is to Chita, when you arrive in Chita, use that mobile phone to call the stored number, someone will send you to Yakutsk, as long as you can If you successfully complete the assessment, you still need to call that number, and someone will send you back to Chita safely."

Before he finished speaking, Karp's figure was completely blocked by the spiral staircase.Standing at the stairs, Wei Ran looked at the two air tickets from Volgograd to Chita in his hand, frowned and thought for a moment, then stuffed them together with the old-fashioned mobile phone into the inner pocket of his jacket.

Back in the warm tent, Ji Ma glanced at Wei Ran hesitantly, hesitating for a long time, but he still held back his words.

On the other hand, Wei Ran didn't have much psychological fluctuations, he just killed people.For him, even if the other party is not a smuggler, the reason that he is a little devil is enough.

But this does not mean that he is willing to be forced to kill by Karp, even if he can more or less guess that the other party is likely to take care of his own feelings, so he deliberately chose such a wicked little devil.

Suppressing the trace of disgust in his heart, Wei Ran silently prepared for the assessment after dark.In the cockpit of the plane on the runway, Dalia glanced gloatingly at Karp who got in, "Let me guess, Victor rejected your assessment mission?"

Karp nodded indifferently, "It is true that he refused, but I believe he will definitely complete this assessment."

"Actually, it's not necessary at all," Dalia said with a cigarette in her mouth. "You don't need to be so serious and responsible. In three years, just teach him everything that needs to be taught. As for the future, his life or death."

"Needed"

Karp closed the cabin door and said seriously, "I don't want to teach a rookie who has never seen blood. This is not a good thing for him. In case the captain forgets it, just pretend I didn't say it."

Dalia helplessly stubbed out the cigarette butt, and asked endlessly, "Who will follow this time?"

"How about Galkin?" Karp replied casually, "He is the closest. There was an accident. At least he can bring Victor back alive."

"As long as he doesn't drink too much." Dalia muttered to herself, acquiescing to the former's arrangement.

(End of this chapter)