War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 257 For Treasure, For Friendship

"Before that, I was curious how you knew the names of those people in the photos." Wei Ran asked out his inner doubts first.

Charlotte picked up the glass and took a big sip of the whiskey with ice cubes, and said with emotion, "My mother told me the names of these people in the photo. According to what she said before she was alive, my father went to Libya to find them. These people are unexpected."

"Didn't your mother mention the treasure?" Wei Ran couldn't help asking.

Charlotte shook her head, "I asked my mother more than once, but she didn't know, she just said that this group photo was brought back by my father from Libya after the war, together with you, and you The oil barrel I've seen.

And after getting that group photo, my father would go to Libya almost every winter like a maniac, until he had an accident in the desert and never came back. "

Brought back from Libya after the war?

Wei Ran sighed secretly. It seemed that one of Carlo and the others went to the dry well in the desert after they escaped from trouble, and left a group photo.

"Now can you tell me how you got this map?" Charlotte asked.

"It was discovered with the codebook"

Wei Ran gave the exact same answer as before not long ago, and then used the tried-and-true excuse, "But the other party didn't want to reveal his identity, and I only had the opportunity to buy these things after I promised him. And I I have already asked, and these things are just bought from others a few years ago."

The messy study room fell silent for a while. After a long silence, Charlotte drank the whiskey in the glass, looked at Wei Ran and asked seriously, "Victor, are you interested in following the guidance of this map?" Find this treasure?"

"Not interested in"

Wei Ran rejected the other party's proposal without even thinking about it. Libya was full of artillery fire more than [-] years ago. Today, more than [-] years after the end of World War II, Libya is not safe. Although he regrets Harry's experience and that short period of time Friendship, but not going to die in Libya in a flash of the brain.

"Forehead"

Charlotte didn't expect Wei Ran to refuse so simply, and asked after a moment of daze, "Don't you want to unlock the secret of this treasure?"

"I'm not an explorer"

Wei Ran picked up the wine bottle on the table and poured half a glass of whiskey for each of them, and said bluntly, "Besides, Liberia is dangerous, and I don't want to go to that kind of place to die. But I suggest you ask Herbert, Maybe he'd be willing to take the risk to see it."

"Do you have this map?"

"Don't worry Mr Charlotte"

Wei Ran finally understood what the other party was worried about, and simply put his words on the surface, "At least after I got this map, I didn't go to Libya according to the marks on it. And since Mr. Herbert took the oil barrel There is only one week between sending it to my studio and deciding to meet with you. Even if I want to go, I don't have the time and opportunity at all.

The reason why I chose to come to England from faraway Volgograd to meet you after getting enough commission is not because I want to sell it for a good price, but because I want to hand over the map to you so as not to leak the news of the treasure . "

Taking a sip of his wine, Wei Ran continued, "Mr. Charlotte, handing over this map to you personally is the only thing I can do to help you. As for the adventure, let's forget it. I'm just a guy who doesn't even have a gun Ordinary people who haven’t touched it much, museums and historical archives are what I’m interested in.”

"So you don't need extra pay?" Charlotte looked at Wei Ran in surprise.

"No, not even the travel expenses of £[-] a day."

Wei Ran said as a matter of course, "Of course, if possible, I hope to have the opportunity to try my luck on Loch Ness and see if I can capture water monsters with my camera. This is the only thing I'm interested in besides meeting you here. matter."

Charlotte, who was greatly surprised, stared at Wei Ran for a long time, then shook his head with a somewhat disinterested smile and said, "It seems that I am really the only one who cares about this treasure hidden in the desert. But no matter what, Victor, I still want to thank you.

Let's take a rest at the hotel today. I will find someone to take you to Loch Ness by boat tomorrow morning. If you can really find the water monster, maybe that is the treasure you are interested in. "

"If you can find the Loch Ness monster, it is indeed a treasure."

While Wei Ran was speaking, he touched the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand indiscriminately. The flash of hotness just now made him just want to find a quiet place to see what good things he got.

A few words temporarily dispelled Charlotte's doubts, Wei Ran waited for the other party to call Herbert back with a mobile phone, and simply followed the other party into a small hotel next door less than 5 meters away.

"Victor, where is that treasure?" Herbert asked in a low voice in German before Wei Ran closed the door.

"Sorry, I can't say that." Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he closed the door directly, and then quietly put his eyes on the cat's eyes.

Herbert outside the door subconsciously took a step back, frowned and whispered something in French, then turned and entered the room opposite the door.

At this point, Wei Ran locked the door and carefully checked the whole room inside and out.Then, under the guise of opening the window for ventilation, he looked out without a trace.

When he turned around, a disdainful smile appeared on his face.Relying on the "cold knowledge" he learned from Hongqi Forest Farm, he could almost tell at a glance that the window facing him outside was someone sitting in a car, watching his room in a very amateurish way.

There is no need to guess, it is definitely arranged by the old gentleman next door who is looking for treasures and looking for the bewildered Charlotte.Obviously, the other party was still worried that someone would occupy his treasure ahead of time.

How did that fellow Harry give birth to such a good son?Wei Ran muttered to himself, kicked off his shoes and lay down on the bed, then covered himself with a quilt.

With the light of the mobile phone, Wei Ran took out the metal book and watched it turn to the back of the 14th page by itself, showing the extra blue vortex rotating in reverse under the red vortex containing three oil barrels.

Under Wei Ran's gaze, the metal quill wrote under the blue swirl, "Dear friend, I am very happy that you came to my house as promised, please accept this little gift!"

When the metal quill fell on the soft bed, Wei Ran's only slight dissatisfaction with Charlotte disappeared. He reached into the blue vortex and took out a very beautiful silver portable wine from it. pot.

This small wine jug is only the size of a palm, and the whole body is flat. It seems that it can hold a hundred milliliters at most.Although the size is smaller and the overall shape tends to be flatter, the shape is more or less similar to the kettles issued by Germany in World War II.

On one side of the silver pot body, the left half is hollowed out with beautiful patterns, and the hollowed out part can be clearly distinguished as a well in the desert.

Quite ingeniously, the hollow outline of the well is presented by a crystal glass bottle wrapped in silver.Under the light of the mobile phone, the crystal clear crystal glass and the brown-red whiskey in it reflect beautiful light, which makes the group photo carved out of the right half of the jug body a strange brilliance.

The engraved group photo was not taken by Wei Ran at the birthday party, but was taken by the German journalist Pell before he decided to set off to find water. In this photo, Wei Ran was also lucky enough to be alive again. list them.

Turning the wine jug over, I saw that on the other side, there were not many hollow lines that almost occupied the entire area, expressing exactly the hand-drawn map that was found at the bottom of the well to point out their way of life.

In addition to these beautiful hollow patterns, Wei Ran also found the Lydian amber gold coin that he did not give to himself. This piece of gold, which is only the size of a thumb, has a clear lion pattern and is firmly embedded in the jug. cover.

Look at the bottom of the jug again. On a not-too-large area, the same sentence is engraved in three rows in Italian, German, and English that Wei Ran can't understand, "For our friendship, cheers!"

"Cheers to our friendship."

Wei Ran unscrewed the lid of the pot and muttered to himself, brought the crystal glass spout to his mouth, and took a big gulp of whiskey that he was still not used to drinking under the quilt.

(End of this chapter)