War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 265 In jail?

On the morning of the second day after monitoring the veteran Leva, Wei Ran wrote down the daily schedule collected from the overnight monitoring on a piece of paper, clipped it in the protective case of the tablet computer, and sent it to the hospital along with several bottles of fortified drinks.Afterwards, he drove straight to the camera shop and waited quietly.

At [-]:[-] in the afternoon, after Wei Ran posted a picture of the scenery on his social platform, Ji Ma immediately shared a bottle of orange juice with the patients who slept in the same ward.

In less than ten minutes, the patient was snoring drowsily, and Ji Ma also changed his clothes in the night, avoiding the camera that Wei Ran helped him watch in advance, and left the hospital quietly, and then turned to the hospital. After taking out the former’s backpack hidden in the flowers, he changed his clothes again and quickly dressed up, and immediately rode a bicycle that was also prepared for him by Wei Ran and went straight to the direction of the camera shop, which was only one kilometer away. .

At the same time, Wei Ran, who drove to the camera shop, had already "met" the veteran Leva who came out to walk his dog in the park by the river.

"Mr. Leva, we meet again." Wei Ran warmly greeted the other party with the old camera bought in the other's store yesterday hanging around his neck and a fishing tackle bag in his hand.

"Victor, why are you here?" Leva asked curiously, holding a strong Caucasian dog that looked like a pig.

"I live in a nearby hotel. I heard that the salmon in this river are very large. I came here to fish this time."

Wei Ran replied with a smile, he moved to a nearby hotel last night, and even on the roof of that hotel, he could see the door of the camera shop at a glance with the help of binoculars.

Not only that, through yesterday's monitoring, he also knew that the veteran went out again after walking the dog. It was at that time that he changed hotels urgently, and one hour after checking in, he saw In the dark of night, Leva returned with a fishing rod and a bucket.

"The salmon in this river are really big." Leva raised his intact left hand, "I also caught one yesterday, which was as long as an arm."

"Mr. Lieva, would you like to fish together for a while?" Wei Ran patted his fishing tackle bag, "I brought a spare fishing rod."

Leva looked at the pet he was leading, hesitated for a moment, and then politely declined, "Maybe it will take a while, Gemma has a lot of activities every day, if I don't let her move enough, she will tear down my camera store at night." Understand."

"This big guy must eat a lot." Wei Ran looked at Caucasus who was squatting quietly beside Leva, and asked with some expectation, "Can I touch it?"

"You better not be like this"

Leva tightened the leash nervously, "This big man grew up eating raw meat, your hands are no different from dinner in his eyes."

Hearing this, Wei Ran quickly retracted the hand he just stretched out, "He's really not easy to mess with, Mr. Leva, I'm going to go fishing. When you finish your walk, you can find me by the river. If I catch fish, you can take them back, or I'll just throw them back in the river."

"It's not easy to catch fish in this river. I'll come and have a look later." After Leva finished speaking, he took the quiet dog beside him and continued to wander aimlessly in the breezy park .

Wei Ran smiled, walked to the river with his fishing gear bag, set up the seat and put the fishing rod by his feet, then raised his binoculars to glance at the veteran Leva who was walking farther and farther from time to time, and then scanned A glance at Ji Ma's social network platform page on the mobile phone.

While setting up the fishing rod on his side, Ji Ma has also found an electric box near the camera shop according to Wei Ran's guidance.

It was easy to pry open the padlock on the electrical box. After Ji Ma irresponsibly broke the main switch in this area, he immediately re-locked the electrical box and blocked the keyhole with a toothpick.

Without the power supply, the camera shop and the surrounding shops were all plunged into darkness, which undoubtedly facilitated his subsequent manipulation.

Prying open the anti-theft door as quickly as possible, after entering the camera shop, Ji Ma first took away the monitoring equipment left by Wei Ran and put it in a bag, and then under the stairwell leading to the second floor, the Caucasian dog Next to the kennel, I found the cover leading to the basement.

He took out his mobile phone and posted a photo on the social platform that he had taken in advance in the hospital with a few words of complaint. Within ten seconds, he saw Wei Ran's comment.

Reassuredly put away the phone, Ji Ma carefully lifted the cover leading to the basement, and climbed down the dilapidated wooden ladder.

However, when he saw the things in the basement, his eyes widened immediately. In this basement, apart from all kinds of homemade cans in bottles and jars, the only brick wall without a wooden shelf was hung An SVD sniper rifle wrapped in camouflage cloth, and under the sniper rifle hung a set of 1982 technical condition uniforms with dried blood stains, several medals on the chest, and a pair of high-waisted boots.

When he came back to his senses, Ji Ma moved his eyes, casually picked up a bottle of pickles and stuffed them into his bag, and immediately turned and left the cellar.

After re-fastening the cover, Jima took out a cigarette from his pocket and took two puffs, then stuffed the cigarette butt into the mineral water bottle prepared in advance and tightened the cap, and finally took out a cigarette butt he picked up halfway from his pocket and threw it into the corner.

Trying to press the light switch, seeing that the power supply was still not restored, Ji Ma randomly picked up a medicine box and looked at it, then frowned.

Putting the medicine box back to its original place, he immediately went back to the camera store, put the cash he had prepared in advance into the counter drawer, and after thinking about it, he didn't think it was enough. Put all the cash in there.

After returning everything to the original state, Ji Ma left the camera shop and locked the door again. After complaining about the patient's snoring too loudly on the social platform, he immediately rode his car towards the direction of the hospital.

At the same time, Wei Ran also put away his fishing rod and distributed a cigarette to an old man nearby who was also fishing. Then he left the park with his suitcase and walked to the car in the parking lot of the park.As for the veteran Leva who hadn't come back from walking his dog, there was no need to wait.

However, just as he pressed the car key to unlock the car, a van parked side by side opened the door with a "crash".Immediately afterwards, two strong men wearing masks aimed their submachine guns at Wei Ran who subconsciously turned around.

"Turn your face back and put your hands on the roof of the car." One of the burly men said hoarsely, "We just want to grab some money to buy vodka, don't force us to kill people."

"How can this happen?"

Wei Ran muttered angrily, turned around obediently, and put his hands on the roof of the car according to the other party's request, while secretly thinking about the way to fight back.

Then, almost at the same time that he had just thought of it, another person appeared in the carriage, directly pointed the stun gun in his hand at Wei Ran's back and pulled the trigger!

With a scream that changed its tone, Wei Ran convulsed and fell to the ground.It wasn't until this moment that the person holding the stun gun let go of the trigger.

Roughly pulled out the discharge needle embedded in Wei Ran's flesh, two strong men who jumped out of the carriage handcuffed Wei Ran's hands and feet respectively, and then used a thick blanket to treat him like fried dough sticks in pancakes It was tightly wrapped and tied with several slings, and only then did we work together to throw it into the carriage and drive away.

When Wei Ran woke up again in a drowsy state, he found that he was in a pitch-black space where he could not see his fingers, and the chilly feeling on his body also let him know that his clothes had been stripped off, leaving only A pair of underwear.

The temperature here is not too high, about twenty degrees at most.But the floor where his face was pressed was extremely damp, and at the same time, it was quiet enough to hear his own breathing, as well as the slight sound of air blowing from a certain direction.

Waiting for a moment and trying to calm himself down, Wei Ran gritted his teeth, and with a crisp "click" and a muffled groan, he successfully dislocated his left thumb. backed off.

There was another crisp sound of "click", and amidst Wei Ran's panting, he reset the thumb that had just been dislocated.

In the unspeakable pain, he bared his teeth and slowed down for a long time, while holding his breath and staring, listening to the movement around him.

Until he was sure that there was no sound around him, he immediately took out the food box from the metal book, and took out a whole set of lockpicking tools from the food box.

These small objects were given to them by teacher Dalia at the beginning of this month's study, and he and Jima were forced to carry them with them, but Wei Ran was lazy and put them in the food box directly, but he didn't expect At this time, the accident came in handy.

Using this set of unlocking tools to open the handcuffs on his hands and feet, Wei Ran waited for a while until he was sure that there was still no sound outside, then put away the food box, and carefully checked every corner of the room in the dark,
He wanted to find out if there was any surveillance equipment here.If there is, then he is at least [-]% sure that this is another game arranged by that lunatic Daria.

After some groping, until he was sure that there was nothing that should not appear in this room, he immediately pressed the small flashlight that was fixed on a keychain with the lockpicking tool.

This small flashlight was only the size of a thumb, and although the brightness it provided was not high, it was enough for him to see the surrounding environment clearly.

This is a small room with only five or six square meters, no windows, and the height of the ceiling is only less than 1.5 meters. Both the floor and the surrounding walls are inlaid with light blue tiles.On this tile, a lot of obscenities and various curses on the Soviet Union were written in oxidized and blackened blood.

And on one of the walls, there is an iron fence. Outside the iron fence, there is an iron gate. Not only is there an observation window that can only be opened from the outside, but there is also an observation window near the floor. A small rectangular window that can be opened from the outside.

In addition, he also found the shell casings of two Tokarev pistols in the gap between the iron gate and the fence.It's just that the two shell casings are already covered with rust, and they have obviously been abandoned here for a long time.

"This place is not a prison."

Wei Ran extinguished the flashlight, squatted on the wet floor, while playing with the two bullet casings he had just picked up, while feeling the pain in his back and arms, secretly wondering which bastard sent him here of.

(End of this chapter)