War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 276 Gold That Doesn't Exist?
On the night of September 9th, Wei Ran with a tired face waited until his flight landed at Volgograd Airport before turning on his mobile phone and scrolling through the accumulated unread messages and missed calls one by one.

According to Dalia's new regulations, regardless of whether he or Jima, the mobile phone will be confiscated during the Hongqi Forest Farm. As for the reason, when will that crazy woman Dalia explain to them?It was just a dream.

"Why did Herbert send so many messages?"

Wei Ran roughly flipped through the messages sent by the other party and dozens of missed calls, and called the other party while waiting for his luggage.

"Thank God, you are finally willing to turn it on!"

Herbert on the other end of the phone was extremely excited, "Victor, if you call back half an hour late, we will be about to board the plane and leave Volgograd."

“Before I was busy”

Wei Ran casually said something perfunctory, looked around and said, "I just landed in Volgograd, and I'm at the airport now, if there's time, we can meet and chat."

"Please wait a moment, don't hang up the phone."

After Herbert finished speaking, he covered the microphone with his hand, turned his head and asked the woman sitting next to him, "Mrs. Amanda, Victor has appeared at this airport. Would you like to see him now?"

Amanda hesitated for a moment, looked up at the flight information on the big screen, finally sighed and said, "Let him come here to find me, Herbert, I hope you didn't lie to me, if he is not like what you said If I can investigate what I want to know, there will be no need for us to cooperate in the future."

"He sure can!"

After Herbert finished speaking, he immediately let go of the microphone that he had been covering all the time, switched back to German and said to Wei Ran, "My friend, come to the waiting room quickly, and do me another favor, there is a rich lady by my side, He wants to investigate something, please agree to come down."

"Investigate what?" Wei Ran picked up the luggage on the turntable and asked while walking towards the waiting room.

"Same as last time, it's still a treasure." Herbert speeded up his explanation, "but what we're looking for this time is not the treasure itself, but the expedition that went to find the treasure in the 80s and never came back." team."

"Herbert, where did you get so many treasure clues?" Wei Ran asked doubts in his heart as he walked.

"I'm not interested in treasures"

Not surprisingly, this is already the second cooperation, and Herbert is also quite frank, "But there are always people who are obsessed with treasures, aren't they?"

"Like Mr. Charlotte?"

"certainly"

Herbert took a few steps away, and said blatantly, "All I need to do is select rich people like Mr. Charlotte from those who are obsessed with treasures, and convince them to pay me some commission to help them Looking for the so-called treasure. As for whether the treasure can be found, I am not interested, as long as they are willing to pay the commission."

"So what happened this time?"

Speaking of this, Wei Ran, even a fool, would know that this Herbert is probably an archaeologist who specializes in bluffing among the rich.

"My client has funded me to find his treasure for two years"

Herbert said bluntly, "But she has lost patience recently, so I plan to make a last profit. Victor, if you think you can help her find the treasure, you can try it next. I talked about the investigation fee 12 euros, if you can get the money in the end, you only need to give me 3 euros in the end, how about it? Can you make a deal?"

"The share ratio is very fair." Wei Ran paused, and continued, "As for whether you can make a deal, let's see what your customers need to investigate first."

"No problem. I'll meet you in the waiting room. I'll wait for you at the gate." After Herbert finished speaking, he hung up the phone.

When Wei Ran arrived at the gate of the waiting room, Herbert gave some extra instructions in German, and then dragged him in, and introduced Wei Ran to the man who seemed to be difficult to deal with. Mrs. Amanda.

"Victor, this is Mrs. Amanda. She wants to ask you for help." Herbert and other two people who did not understand the language shook hands politely, and then started the translation work with peace of mind.

"Victor, my plane still has half an hour to take off. I hope that within this half hour, we can reach an employment relationship that satisfies both parties."

Wei Ran glanced at Herbert, and responded with a smile, "This is the result I hope to see, Mrs. Amanda, please tell me in detail what you want me to do."

Mrs. Amanda waited for Herbert to finish the translation, and explained in a straightforward manner, "This incident can be traced back to the 80s of the last century. My brother Leo is a gold mine prospector, and he is also a second-rate explorer who is keen on finding treasures." Family."

The charming old lady waited patiently for Herbert to finish translating before continuing, "As for the treasure, it started in 1988. I remember very clearly that in the autumn of that year, a German came to me Brother, hired him to go to Norway to find gold veins.

But I remember very clearly that my brother told me before setting off that what they were looking for was not a gold mine, but a treasure. "

Having said that, Amanda opened the small bag she was carrying, took out a palm-sized photo frame from it, and handed it to Wei Ran, "This photo was left by my brother before he left."

After receiving the photo frame, Wei Ran frowned after just looking at it. This black-and-white photo was taken of a Mercedes-Benz truck produced in Germany during World War II. Throw it into the rear of the carriage, a mine cart already piled with a lot of metal ingots.

However, in the direction where the not-so-big mine cart extended, it pointed to a mine that went deep into the ground obliquely.As for the area around the entrance of the mine, there is a dense coniferous forest.

It is a pity that this photo itself is not clear, and it is black and white, so there is no way to tell whether the metal ingots thrown into the mine cart are iron or gold.

Seeing that Wei Ran raised his head, Mrs. Amanda immediately continued to speak. At the same time, Herbert, who was sitting on the side, continued to translate after receiving the photo in Wei Ran's hand.

"My brother told me before leaving that the metal ingot in this photo was gold looted by Germany from the Soviet Union during World War II. The person who hired him to find this gold was the one who took this picture the son of the man who took the picture."

Amanda sighed and continued, "Unfortunately, neither my brother nor the person who hired my brother came back. So Victor, I hope you can help me find clues to these golden treasures."

"I thought you were looking for your brother."

Wei Ran waited for Herbert to finish the translation, muttered to himself, and said after thinking for a moment, "With all due respect to Mrs. Amanda, the metal ingots in the photo don't look like gold. It can’t hold so much, and its tires have not been flattened, which shows that these metal ingots are at least far less than the weight of gold of the same volume.”

(End of this chapter)