War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 263 New Curriculum, New Assessment
Since returning to Hongqi Forest Farm, the courses of Wei Ran and Ji Ma have changed significantly.Most obviously, since the assessment was completed, the medical courses and fighting courses have been clearly informed by Teacher Dalia to completely suspend classes.In her words, both of these have fulfilled the teaching objectives, and there is no need to waste time on them.

Although some time was spared due to the lack of two classes, the amount of daily exercise has increased to the point where the two of them are almost driven crazy. In addition, there are some weird learning content.

Ignoring the relatively simplest lockpicking course, which is a test of patience, they have to sneak into a randomly selected office building with makeup almost every one to two days.

During this period, they not only have to learn how to avoid or simply paralyze all monitoring equipment, but also steal some worthless gadgets from a company selected by Teacher Dalia.Or follow the leader of a certain company, find evidence of his cheating, and secretly stuff the evidence that was photographed into his wife's bag or car.And after returning to Hongqi Forest Farm, it is necessary to review the whole process to find their own mistakes and omissions.

That's not counting, for the rest of the time, Wei Ran and Jima are learning how to create an alibi for themselves, eliminate traces and how to create favorable witnesses.

And the most troublesome course here is how to forge false clues that are enough to confuse the real ones, how to respond to police interrogation, and plant the target pointed to by the false clues during the interrogation process.

For this reason, before going to bed every night, teacher Dalia and a mysterious man wearing a hood and a motorcycle helmet will conduct a two-hour cross-examination of them.

During this process, as long as one of them is caught by any of them, what awaits both parties is a whole night interrogation.Often, when the interrogation was prolonged, Wei Ran and Jima would enjoy suppers such as blinding bright lights, sleep deprivation and even beatings.

But what broke them the most was that on the second day after the all-night interrogation, they still had to take physical exercise and follow-up corresponding courses.

In this intensive course that perfectly explained the combination of theory and practice, Wei Ran and Jima were tortured almost to the point of madness, and at the same time, the new knowledge they learned was deposited at the fastest speed.

In the blink of an eye, half a month passed by. In the early morning sunshine, Wei Ran and Ji Ma chased the silly dog ​​around the Hongqi Forest Farm for seven full laps, and immediately ran into the five-story building out of breath. The third floor of the building.

The moment they entered a classroom, an electronic watch hanging on the wall started timing, and the two of them also grabbed a bunch of lockpicking tools on the table, put on rubber gloves, and gasped for breath. They each faced a wall, trying hard to crack the locks of different shapes on the iron shelf against the wall.

On this iron shelf are not only the most common padlocks, but also car door locks, anti-theft door locks, home locks and even safe doors with electronic alarms and electronic locks.

However, the positions of these locks are neither high nor low, belonging to the level of standing too short and squatting too high, so that they can only maintain an awkward posture similar to squatting.

Therefore, as time passed by every minute and every second, the locks were opened one after another. Although the two had calmed down from the strenuous exercise, the sweat on their foreheads became more and more, and even their hands trembled more and more. sharp.

Finally, when the electronic watch on the wall counted down to zero, an ugly bell sounded like a reminder.The two stopped their work at the same time, each took out cleaning tools from their bags, carefully cleaned up the traces left by them, and trotted out of the classroom.

Teacher Dalia, who was already waiting at the door, said with a smile, "Go to the meeting room and prepare a plan of action."

"Which family are we breaking up this time?"

Jima slowed down and asked, in the past half month, the bosses of the large and small companies that Dalia took them to "visit" are now facing family breakdown because of cheating. The title of male scumbag and female terminator.

"This time is for your assessment"

Teacher Daria said to Jima with a smile, "If you pass the examination, you will be working on your movie in the next half month. If you fail the examination, you will stand guard at the gate for Mr. Gorbachev in the next half month."

Hearing this, Ji Ma immediately looked at the gloating Wei Ran with a bitter face.

The two followed Teacher Dalia to a conference room on the fourth floor, and immediately saw the architectural drawings of a house and a stack of photos on the long table.

"Jima, the target of your mission this time is a Soviet veteran." Teacher Dalia said flatly.

"Soviet veteran?" Jima looked at Teacher Darya's mouth in doubt, but he didn't speak nonsense as usual.

Teacher Daria nodded and introduced in detail, "His name is Leva, he lives in Kirov City, and he runs a camera shop on the bank of the Vyatka River. Here is his detailed address."

After Jima took the note with the address on it, Teacher Daria continued, "You need to steal a jar of pickles and a bottle of vodka from the other party's basement without his knowledge, and give it to him by the way. 50 rubles in cash were left in the drawer of the camera shop."

“It doesn't sound too difficult”

Wei Ran picked up the photos on the table and said, the person in this stack of photos is an old man who looks 60 years old, not tall but very strong.What is particularly striking is that this old man has only one left hand, and his right hand is gone from the elbow down.Objectively speaking, facing such a disabled person, the difficulty of Ji Ma's assessment has been significantly reduced.

“Sounds really easy”

Dahlia said with a smile, "But you better be careful, this old guy has already thrown at least ten bastards into the river who wanted to rob his camera shop. And I won't follow you this time, an accident really happened , I can only blame you for being unlucky."

"Daria, should I go too?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.

"Your job is to save Jima when he has an accident." Darya said with a smile, "Of course, don't hurt that poor veteran, or you will get into trouble."

"I see," Wei Ran replied honestly.

"So be it"

Teacher Dalia looked at her watch, "It's 10:25 in the morning. You must leave before 12:[-] and complete the assessment within four days. Later, I would like to remind you that the old guy raised a Caucasian that grew up eating raw meat. "

"Teacher Dalia, where's the money?" Seeing that Teacher Dalia had already walked out of the meeting room, Jima immediately asked after him.

"Let Victor pay the money." Teacher Dalia said to Chao Weiran who didn't care. "This money will be deducted from your next semester's tuition."

Watching her leave the conference room, Wei Ran and Jima looked at each other, and then they all turned their eyes to the drawings on the table.

"It doesn't look easy," Jima said with a bitter face. "The basement is just downstairs from the camera shop. I can't wait for him to fall asleep, can I?"

"Isn't there a Caucasus?" Wei Ran reminded, "He will always go for a walk with the dog, maybe that's our chance."

"Let's talk about this when we get to the local area and see the actual situation."

As the subject of the assessment, Ji Ma made a decisive decision, "Now let's discuss the retreat plan."

"Obviously, we need a boat." Wei Ran pointed to the river on the map, "Besides that, we also need to get a local car."

"Shouldn't there be no alibi for this kind of thing?" Jima asked hesitantly.

"It's best not to think so." Wei Ran shook his head cautiously, "Unless you are willing to take over the husky's janitorial work."

Hearing this, Ji Ma scratched his head, picked up the tablet on the table, and together with Wei Ran began to search for information on the Internet.

At the same time, Dalia, who had already returned to the consultation center, also sat behind the bar counter facing the door, and slowly took out a mobile phone from the drawer and dialed it.

"Started?" As soon as the phone was connected, a hoarse voice came from the other end.

"If there is no accident, they will be able to arrive at Kirov tonight." Dalia said briskly, "I will trouble you about the kidnapping of Victor."

"I'll take good care of him." The person on the other end of the phone asked after a pause, "Do you need me to ask him something?"

"No, just kidnapping is enough, no torture."

Dalia replied bluntly, "Well, just find a place to imprison him and see if he can escape. Also, pay attention to his psychological changes and don't drive him crazy. I just want to see how he is under pressure. ability."

"How about the clock tower?" The smoky voice asked without hesitation.

"You're such a complete bastard" Dahlia cursed with a smile, and then hung up the phone simply.

At this time, Wei Ran, who didn't know what he was about to face, pointed to the information on the tablet screen and said, "Look at this, how about going to this hospital? It's not far from that camera store, and it's next to the road."

"seems to be ok"

Jima poked his head and wrote down the name of the hospital, and asked after some searching, "What excuse do I need to stay in?"

"How about diarrhea?" Wei Ran thought of the worst excuse, "All I need is a little expired diet pill from Teacher Dalia."

"As bad as the excuses for the collapse of the Soviet Union"

Jima muttered, then changed the subject and said, "How about talking on the other roads? Let's start first, so we can save some time."

"Anyway, it's your assessment." Wei Ran replied indifferently, and got up to help the other party tidy up the materials on the table.

Riding on the new Mercedes-Benz SUV bought by Ji Ma not long ago, the two of them didn't even have time to eat lunch. They took some necessary luggage and drove straight to Kirov City, which is just north of Kazan.

"I only have one wish now," Ji Ma, who was in charge of driving, said abruptly after the Hongqi Forest Farm behind him was completely blocked by the birch forest.

"What wish?" Wei Ran, who was sitting in the back row, raised his head curiously.

"I just hope I don't make those stupid mistakes like last time in Ulyanovsk," Jima said worriedly, "I don't want to be turned into a publicity photo by that bastard Karp like last time." The Red Flag Forest Farm is full."

"Brother, you are planting a flag for yourself, do you know?" Wei Ran muttered to himself, and he couldn't help becoming a little nervous in his heart, for fear of being caught by Jima's crow mouth.

(End of this chapter)