War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 232 Heading to Yakutsk
With the help of gallery employee Mark, Wei Ran returned to Munich smoothly and boarded a direct flight to Volgograd that night.As for the two metal boxes he got from Shudong Bookstore, he had already put them into the food box.

All the way back to the studio, Wei Ran took out the two boxes and immediately knocked on the door of Nicholas' house.

"Have you got it back?" Nicholas asked with a smile after pushing open the door.

"retrieved"

Wei Ran followed the other party into the room, and put two boxes on the table, "The long stainless steel box is a gift from the other party, and the square one seems to be what you want."

Before the other party picked up the box, Wei Ran reminded him extra, "The other party said that a technical update was made to it about ten years ago. The main improvement is that the TNT capacity in the box has increased to 30 grams, but the password and how to use it Nothing has changed. After connecting to the standard power supply, the password must be entered within 20 seconds, and if the password is entered incorrectly twice in a row, the self-destruct program inside will be activated.”

Nicholas didn't care about the square metal box with buttons, but picked up the stainless steel metal box containing the poisonous needle, opened it, looked it up carefully, and asked strangely, "How did you bring this thing back?" ?”

Before Wei Ran could answer, Nicholas waved his hand and said indifferently, "Forget it, don't think of excuses, how is Katenka's body?"

"Old Katenka has Alzheimer's disease, and no one remembers it anymore."

Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "The new Katenka is a beautiful girl in her early 20s who runs a bookstore called Shudong."

"Alzheimer's disease?" Nicholas raised his eyebrows and asked in surprise, "When did it happen?"

"It is said that I don't remember anything from two years ago." Wei Ran simply recounted all the details of what he saw and what happened.

"The bastard's lucky"

Nicholas muttered something, and without guarding against Wei Ran, he slowly picked up an old-looking power cord and plugged it into the power strip, and then connected the other end to the square metal box. .

When the red light on the box started to flash, Nicholas skillfully pressed a string of passwords.With a soft "di--", the red light on the box went out, and a small green light turned on.

Just when Wei Ran thought he could open the box, Nicholas started to press the metal keyboard on the box again, and continued to input the password.

It wasn't until the password was entered this time that the small green light went out, and a gap opened on the edge of the box, and a small CD popped out.

"Don't touch its power cord"

Nicholas reminded him, then got up slowly, and walked into the bedroom with the palm-sized disc.

After a long time, Nicholas came out of the room and put the CD back into the metal box.

After the red light on the box came on again, he disconnected the power cord, and then pushed the metal box over before Wei Ran could react.

"If you have time, help me make another trip and send this box back." After finishing speaking, Nicholas took out a bank card and two wads of cash from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran, "In addition, give this card to Wei Ran. To the new Kajenka, those two wads of cash are yours."

Wei Ran nodded silently, and put the metal box, bank card and cash into his pocket.

"You can take these poisonous needles too." Nicholas pushed the long box over, "This is a gift from the other party."

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran also put the long box into his pocket.

"Tell me about your recent study progress." Nicholas changed the subject with a smile.

"Last month and this month, I learned how to parachute and fly the An-2 plane." After hesitating for a while, Wei Ran spoke out the assessment task Karp gave him without reservation.

"It's really time for the assessment"

After Nicholas muttered a sentence, he didn't give any suggestion, but directly shifted the topic to Jima.

After having a hearty lunch with Nicholas, Wei Ran returned to the studio, put the two metal boxes and the bank card back into the food box, and then began to ponder whether to complete the assessment task released by Karp.

After much deliberation, he finally picked up his mobile phone and bought a ticket to Chita the next morning.

Perhaps, as Teacher Dalia said, Wei Ran can completely refuse this assessment task, but this is actually a multiple-choice question of whether they can trust each other.

Wei Ran went to complete the task, which undoubtedly showed that he believed that Karp would not harm himself, let alone threaten himself with this matter.On the contrary, it is clear that he is wary of Hongqi Forest Farm and even Nicholas.

But he had to think about how to prevent Karp from getting evidence of his murder once he really completed the assessment task.He doesn't mind being friends with a group of outdated KGBs, but he absolutely doesn't want to be a puppet manipulated by them at will.

After a night of anxiety and entanglement, Wei Ran rushed to the airport early the next morning and took a flight to Chita.

After landing, Wei Ran got into the toilet at the airport, changed his face more and more skillfully, then took out the mobile phone Karp gave him at that time, turned it on and dialed it.

As soon as the call was connected, before he could speak, the person on the other side said in a hoarse voice, "Go to the luggage storage at the airport and show the other party your mobile phone."

Hearing the busy tone from the mobile phone, Wei Ran cursed inwardly for being crazy, and found the luggage storage without haste, and showed the middle-aged aunt at the service desk the teacher's mobile phone in her hand.

"The storage fee is 1500 rubles," the aunt said blankly.

Honestly took out his wallet and paid the corresponding amount, the other party turned around and took out a women's handbag from the shelf and pushed it to Wei Ran.

He took the bag and found a place to sit down. After Wei Ran opened it, he found that in addition to a hotel business card, there was also a key that could almost be called an antique. There was a round key on the key. Numbered metal plates.

He continued to rummage through, and seeing that there was nothing else in the bag, he left the airport, took a bus to the city, and found a dilapidated small hotel following the address on the card.

The conditions of this small hotel are definitely not good. In the garbage dump at the door, you can even see some syringes used by drug addicts and colorful rubber products to complete their missions.

Entering the hotel, Wei Ran followed the number on the key to find the corresponding room. After opening the old door, he immediately saw a huge backpack on the single bed that was narrower than a knife blade.

In this backpack is a disassembled VSS micro-sound sniper rifle, two loaded magazines, a thick camouflage uniform, and several Buryat passports.And on the small table next to the bed, there are also a car key and a charger for an old-fashioned mobile phone.

Taking out the sniper rifle in the bag and inspecting it carefully, Wei Ran took out the snow camouflage cold-proof suit and spread it on the dirty bed, then lay on it and waited patiently.

Waiting until that night, the phone that was charging rang an electronic polyphonic ringtone, and when he pressed the answer button, the person on the other end of the phone just said "Go downstairs, black van" and hung up the phone.

Taking the backpack, the car keys and the charger on the bedside table, Wei Ran went downstairs and immediately saw a black van with the sliding door on the side opened.

Silently got into the car, the driver waited for Wei Ran to close the door, then immediately stepped on the accelerator, and drove the dilapidated van straight to the direction of the airport.

The ghost knows what this van has to do with it, and it drove directly to the tarmac unimpeded, and parked next to a cargo-type An-26 aircraft.

"Go up"

The middle-aged driver didn't turn off the engine, lit a cigarette and said, "This plane will eventually land in Yakutsk, and someone will take you out of the airport after getting off the plane."

Wei Ran nodded when he heard the words, walked into the cargo plane with his backpack in his hand, sat down on a canvas chair, and waited patiently for take-off.

Less than an hour before and after, the door at the tail of the plane was slowly closed, and the cabin full of cargo was lit up with dim lights.

In the cargo hold shrouded in increasingly violent noise, Wei Ran quickly took out the camouflage uniform in his bag and put it on his body.

During the long flight and waiting, Wei Ran was also planning the action plan for this assessment mission bit by bit.For him, more important than how to kill the target person is how to avoid being followed.

There is no need to guess at all, among the things provided by the other party, there may be a positioning device hidden in one of them.

After more than three hours, with a violent tremor, the fully loaded cargo plane finally landed. Wei Ran, whose feet were numb from the cold, immediately ran out with his bag after the cargo hatch was lifted.

In the airport shrouded in darkness, a dilapidated van stopped at the door of the cargo compartment with the sound of sharp brakes. The strong man driving the car rolled down the window and waved to Wei Ran who had just walked out.

Carrying the bag and getting into the compartment, the strong man stepped on the gas pedal impatiently before the door closed, and drove out in a hurry.

After leaving the airport smoothly, the strong man braked again and stopped on the side of the road, pointing to a Vaz minivan on the opposite side and said, "That car is yours."

"Thank you"

Wei Ran expressed his thanks in a low voice, got out of the car door and looked around, then slowly walked to the opposite side of the road, opened the driver's door with the car key, and cautiously looked into the dark car, Then he climbed into the car, sat down and started the engine.

Driving this car aimlessly in Yakutsk for more than two hours, until he was familiar with all the main streets of the city, he satisfactorily parked the car in a place that was still lit. The entrance of the small hotel with lights.

This kind of shitty place, especially this kind of remote small hotel, doesn't have any registration process at all. Correspondingly, there is no extravagant expectation of good sanitary conditions in this kind of environment.

Sleeping until it was bright, Wei Ran, who didn't even take off his clothes, opened his eyes, opened the curtains and looked outside, then immediately got up and went downstairs, and continued to drive the car to familiarize himself with the various streets and intersections in the city and the roads leading to the outside of the city. The main road, doing various preparations for the next assessment task.

(End of this chapter)