War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 274 A Half-Year Assessment Task
In the days before returning to Hongqi Forest Farm to attend classes, Wei Ran once again shut himself in the studio. Apart from spending most of the day picking up English that had been abandoned for a long time, or dying at a young age, the other half of the day was all Placed on top of the design company logo.

After being rejected countless times by the picky teacher Dalia and wasting countless sheets of A4 paper, Wei Ran finally worked out a logo that he thought was the most satisfying.

This logo is a reel of movie film that is not wrapped with film, but a roll of blood-stained bandages, and in the center is a silhouette of a soldier with only one leg.

The soldier was also leaning on a cane in each of his hands, but according to Wei Ran's label next to it, the two canes were a Mauser rifle and a Mosin Nagant rifle respectively.

However, such a disabled soldier and the two rifle crutches in his hand happen to form an anti-war symbol with the film reel.

Reported the brainstorming idea to Teacher Dalia, who finally agreed with Wei Ran's design after discussing with Nicholas.

In a blink of an eye, on August 8th, Wei Ran and Jima returned to the Hongqi Forest Farm together with Teacher Dalia who had been staying in Volgograd.

"Teacher Dalia, did you hang up the sign so quickly?"

Before Wei Ran and Ji Ma got out of the car, they saw a large and conspicuous sign on the gate of the five-story building in Hongqi Forest Farm, which also said "Time Film Production" in Russian. "Factory" is a name that seems to have a sense of time.

"Go in and have a look"

Dalia pushed the car door open, led Wei Ran and Jima into the lobby on the first floor, and then found that there was a huge LOGO illuminated by a row of spotlights hanging on the wall facing the gate.

Compared with Wei Ran's rough idea that was purely hand-painted and stitched together from elements cut from printed pictures, this obviously professionally designed logo looks much more beautiful.

"Now let's look at the designed title animation"

Dalia took Wei Ran and Jima to the bar and stopped, picked up the remote control on the table, and turned on the projector hanging from the ceiling.

After waiting for a while, an animation of only a dozen seconds was projected on the wall on the side of the bar.Against the black background, a film reel wrapped in gauze rolls from one side and stops in the center of the picture.

Amidst the knocking sound, a silhouette of a disabled soldier with a rifle and a cane in both hands came out slowly from the middle of the disc, leaning on a cane.At the same time, his image gradually became clear, revealing his broken military uniform with no nationality, a helmet with bullet holes, and eyes wrapped in blood-stained gauze.

The soldier whose appearance disappeared in a flash became more and more blurred in the white light behind him, leaving only a silhouette who seemed to be saluting and greeting.

In a trance, Wei Ran felt dizzy for a moment. He seemed to see the shadows of many familiar friends from the wounded. Among those shadows were the young snipers Oleg and Lieutenant Lev who had been together on the Stalingrad battlefield. The Aleutian company commander in the 19th position on the Don River includes those friends in Finland, and the squad leader Li Hexian who is sticking to Teng County, etc., and so on.

When the brief screen jumped to the Russian language of "Time Film Studio", teacher Daria pressed the remote control, "How do you feel?"

"Better than I expected," Wei Ran replied without thinking.

Teacher Dalia nodded noncommittally. After throwing down the remote control, she led the two of them into a meeting room on the first floor.

"Little guy, we meet again."

In the smoky meeting room, Gorman, who had a mentoring relationship with Kirov, raised his hand with a smile, and greeted Wei Ran. Beside him, sitting and disappearing for a long time Mr Culp.

"Gorman, why are you here?" Wei Ran took a small step back subconsciously, and he assured that it was really just a small step.

"It seems that you don't welcome me?"

Gorman stretched his wrinkled suit, "But now I'm the director of Time Film Studio, so of course I want to be here."

"Are you the factory manager?"

Wei Ran glanced at the smiling Dalia, then turned his attention to Gorman again, "Where's your mental hospital?"

"Of course it's someone else's responsibility," Gorman replied as he stubbed out his cigarette.

"Okay, I'll have time to chat later." Daria opened the window while speaking, "Now it's time to talk about business. Gorman, you will be in charge of this young man's acting lessons for the next half month. Jima, follow along Goleman go to class."

"no problem"

Gorman stood up happily, patted Wei Ran on the shoulder, hugged a laptop that was playing a TV series, and beckoned to Jima, who was bewildered, to walk out of the conference room where cigarette butts and cans were thrown all over the floor. .

"I hope you enjoy studying."

Wei Ran looked pitifully at Ji Ma, who had some anticipation on his face, then shook his head to shake off the wild thoughts in his heart, and sat obediently opposite Teacher Dalia, waiting for the other party to speak.

"In the future, the affairs of the film company have nothing to do with you"

Teacher Dalia said straight to the point, while Mr. Karp on the other side had already taken out a bag of documents from his bag and opened them, and placed the A4 papers inside one by one on the table between the three, and signaled Wei Ran moved closer.

"Now let's talk about the postponed assessment." Karp said with a smile,

"The assessment that was postponed? What assessment?" Wei Ran looked at the other party puzzled, "Didn't I successfully kill the smuggler?"

"That was after you agreed to postpone the assessment"

Karp spread his hands like a rascal, "So no matter what you did at that time, the assessment has been postponed, hasn't it?"

"I can't find anything wrong with it," Wei Ran muttered with an ugly face.

"Since you can't find a problem, come and have a look."

Teacher Dalia pointed to the photo on the first paper and said, "The target of this assessment is a woman, and she is also the main beneficiary behind the smuggling organization. She has lived in Daisen City, Akita County, Japan for a long time.

What you need to do in this assessment is not to kill people, but to find evidence of her crime of smuggling and human trafficking.Of course, it doesn't matter if you kill this woman.

In addition, the time limit for this assessment is before Christmas.So you have plenty of time to plan. "

Culp took the topic and reminded, "correspondingly, if you make any low-level mistakes again, you will stay there forever and never come back."

"I, I know." Wei Ran grinned awkwardly, and reluctantly accepted the deferred assessment like a shame.

(End of this chapter)