War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 231 Kajianka

Following this flamboyant girl through a locked wooden door at the end of the stairs, Wei Ran was surprised to find that the layout of the second floor was almost the same as that of the first floor, even the wooden counter and the furnishings on the counter were exactly the same.The difference between upstairs and downstairs is that there are no customers reading books here, and there is an extra wine rack behind the counter.

"Sit anywhere"

The pretty girl who looked younger than herself warmly beckoned Wei Ran to sit down on the sofa facing the counter, then walked into the counter and asked, "What would you like to drink?"

"I don't need anything." Wei Ran replied unhurriedly, he did not forget the reminder from Nicholas half a month ago.

The girl didn't say anything after hearing the words, and after walking into the counter, she turned on a small fluorescent light above her head.

Under Wei Ran's gaze, she searched on the dusty wine rack, took out a wine bottle, opened it, poured out a glass of clear liquid, and soaked the card in it.

In just a few seconds, when she took out the card again, there was already a strange shield symbol on one side of the card.

Seeing this, the girl immediately turned around, took out a second bottle of wine from the wine rack, poured out a glass, and continued to soak the card in it.This time, groups of numbers the size of mung beans also appeared on the card.

"An ancient and outdated method of communication," the girl muttered in a moderate voice, but the contempt and fear in her tone perfectly explained what it means to be cowardly and steely.

"If you want to leave here alive, you'd better not come here before I call you." Hearing this, Wei Ran, who just stood up to watch the fun, immediately sat back down, waiting patiently for the other party's call.

Seeing Wei Ran sitting down again, the girl at the counter breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time she didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, honestly compared the groups of numbers on the card with the confession, and put the hidden information The translation was written on a piece of paper.

A moment later, the girl panicked and took out a zippo lighter from the pocket of her denim shorts, and burned the white paper with words on it to ashes.

Under Wei Ran's watchful eyes, the girl hesitated at the counter for a long time, and finally walked to sit opposite Wei Ran as if she had made up her mind.

"Are you looking for Katenka?" The flamboyant girl looked at Wei Ran seriously and asked in Russian.

Wei Ran also nodded seriously, "Yes, I'm looking for Kajianka."

"Unlucky," the girl muttered, and said reluctantly, "I am Katenka."

"You are Katenka?" Wei Ran looked at the girl sitting opposite in surprise, "As far as I know, Katenka seems to be a man's name."

"But I am Katenka," the girl said reluctantly, "I don't want to be Katenka, but at present and for a long time to come, I am indeed Katenka."

Seeing that Wei Ran still looked suspicious, the girl stood up helplessly, "Follow me to the third floor and take a look and you'll understand."

"What can I understand?" Wei Ran muttered to himself, got up and followed the girl who called herself Katenka up the wooden stairs behind the counter again.

When the two of them passed through a thick wooden door at the end of the stairs one by one, what came into view finally turned into a living room with a breath of life.

It's just that the environment here is really not clean and tidy. There are piles of ladies' clothes scattered on the sofa, and there are not only several pizza boxes stacked on the dining table not far away, but also some things such as silk stockings and Or odds and ends like underwear.And on the floor under the feet, there are all kinds of women's shoes, socks, snack packaging bags, bags and hats, and some cosmetic bottles scattered.

While Wei Ran was amazed at the environment like a pig's nest, the girl acted as if she had taken it for granted. After kicking away a tin can with corn kernels left at her feet, she led Wei Ran to the door of a bedroom.

Accompanied by a soft "squeak", the wooden door of this bedroom was gently pushed open by the girl, and then Wei Ran saw an exceptionally neat and clean room.At the same time, he also saw an old woman lying on a rocking chair beside the bed.

"She's the Katenka you're looking for," said the girl, leaning against the doorframe, "but you're late, and I don't even know her since two years ago."

"Amnesia?" Wei Ran, who was standing at the door, asked.

"Alzheimer's Disease"

The girl gently closed the door, walked back to the second floor with Wei Ran and said in a low voice, "So I am Kajianka, the Kajianka you are looking for, do you have any other doubts?"

"No more," Wei Ran replied in a low voice.

The girl breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the words, reached out and grabbed a necklace with a key from her fair neck, then pointed to the stairs leading to the first floor, "Wait for me on the stairs, I didn't tell you not to come in."

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran stepped down the stairs, and then heard the sound of the door closing and locking behind him.

After locking the door, the girl named Katenka put on the necklace again, walked lightly to the counter, fished out a conch for landscaping from the fish tank with two small fish, Take out a hard plastic key.

Holding the key and walking to a row of bookshelves, she lifted the dirty carpet and then a wooden floor, and carefully opened the safe hidden under the floor with the plastic key.

The space in this safe is not too big, but there is a piece of TNT the size of a cigarette case in the center, and around this piece of TNT, each one is only a circle bigger than the palm of your hand, and no more than two inches thick. Refers to the square metal box.

On the upward edge of these boxes, numbers are written in Russian letters mixed with numbers and a small red light is constantly flashing. At the same time, two toothpick-thick wires are connected to the edge of the safe from one corner of each box. .

Following the translated number to find the corresponding box, Katenka carefully disconnected the wires on the metal box until the small red light on the metal box went out before taking it out.

After confirming that the number on the edge of the box was correct with the number contained in the message she had just translated, she locked the safe, covered the floor and the carpet, and then hid the key inside the landscaping conch in the fish tank.

After wiping off the water stains on his hands, Kajianka opened the door, pointed his head and greeted Wei Ran who was still waiting at the stairs, "Come in!"

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately turned around and walked up to the second floor again, and sat on the sofa while Katenka locked the door again.

Katenka put the metal box he had just taken out on the table, pressed it with one hand and said, "The storage fee and information update fee total [-] euros. Of course, if you are willing to give more, I will not refuse. This dilapidated bookstore has not been profitable for a long time, and there is not much deposit in the account."

Hearing this, Wei Ran, who had been prepared for a long time, unhurriedly took out two wads of cash from his pocket and put them on the table.Katenka, who was sitting opposite him, also happily raised his hand to let go of the metal box, picked up the two thick stacks of cash, and happily stuffed them into the wide belly pocket of the overalls.

"Looks like I have a generous new boss, so I don't mind giving you an extra word of warning"

Kajianka, who had collected the cash, picked up the metal box first, pointed to the metal nine-square button on one side and said, "About ten years ago, Kajianka made a hardware update to it. The main improvement after the update is in the box. The capacity of TNT has been increased to 30 grams. However, the password and usage method have not changed. After connecting the standard power supply, the password must be entered within 20 seconds, and the self-destruct program inside will be activated immediately if two consecutive input errors are made. If you understand , just repeat."

"Connect the standard power supply, complete the password input within 20 seconds, and self-destruct after two mistakes." Wei Ran said concisely.

Katenka nodded in satisfaction, then pushed the metal box to Wei Ran, stood up and walked towards the counter while saying, "According to the usual practice, I should give you a gift, so please wait a moment."

Wei Ran, who was about to get up, sat down again after hearing the words, put the extra heavy metal box into his pocket, and waited patiently.

About 5 minutes later, Katenka walked over with a wooden box the size of a microwave oven, put it on the table in the middle of the sofa with a bang, then opened the lid, and randomly took out a stainless steel metal box the size of a pencil case , Pushing it to Wei Ran without looking at it, "That's it! Finally, thank you for waking up Kajianka, although this is not what I want to see."

Wake up Kajenka?
Wei Ran secretly slandered the key word that the other party just popped up, while thinking about the hidden information, he took the long stainless steel metal box with a normal expression.

Seeing that Wei Ran had accepted the gift, Kajianka also heaved a sigh of relief, quickly closed the lid of the wooden box and sent it back to the counter, and then walked down the stairs to the second floor without saying hello.

Wei Ran, who was still sitting on the sofa, opened the small stainless steel box in his hand, and inside the box were 12 metal tubes that were as long and short as the index finger and thick and thin.And on the lid of the metal box, the 12 metal tubes are divided into two categories with diagrams, and the method of use is explained by the way.

According to the German marking on the cover, the six packs on the left are all ricin, while the six packs on the right contain highly toxic things such as metal thallium and potassium cyanide.

Gently picked up a metal tube and looked at it, and saw a slightly raised button at one end, and a small hole at the other end, in which a long and thin needle could be vaguely seen.According to the calligraphy on the metal cover, such a small needle tube can only be used close to the body, but once it is pierced, the poison in the metal tube will be injected into the target's body in an instant, and the needle will be retracted into the metal tube after the injection is completed .

Carefully put back the metal tube that he picked up just now, Wei Ran closed the metal box in a panic, he never thought that the beautiful girl named Kajianka would give this thing to himself as a gift.He had never seen this thing in Hongqi Forest Farm!
After putting away the metal box full of poisonous needles, Wei Ran didn't dare to delay any longer. He didn't even take the briefcase that was used as a cover. He stood up and walked down the second floor, passing by the girl who had put on the earphones again. He quietly left this seemingly ordinary bookstore.

Pressing the two metal boxes in the pocket of the windbreaker, Wei Ran walked aimlessly along the street for a long time, then raised his hand and stopped a taxi, and reported to a taxi that he had just checked on the map on his mobile phone. Arrived at the address and walked away.

(End of this chapter)