War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 297 Heading to Moscow

In the studio with the shutter door locked, Wei Ran filled the gasoline stove with fuel, cleaned the matching stainless steel pot, put it back in the metal book, and then focused all his attention on the white painted car. mounted on a half-track motorcycle.

The advantages of this kind of antique are as clear as its disadvantages. Those who want to praise it will say that it has both the high passability of a tracked vehicle and the high speed and simplicity of a wheeled vehicle.Those who want to belittle it will conversely say that it is neither as fast as a purely wheeled vehicle, nor as good as a purely tracked vehicle for off-road passing.

But I have to admit that, apart from the track structure that was enough to drive German mechanical engineers crazy during World War II, this "motorcycle" with a self-weight of more than one ton is indeed more powerful than the three-wheeled motorcycle or the Italian one that was driven in the North African desert. Agricultural tricycles are much stronger.

At least where it can go, the previous two may not be able to go, and this little thing with a fuel consumption of about 20 liters per [-] kilometers can be called a perverted dragging ability, which is enough to pull a light artillery over mountains and mountains.But what made Wei Ran even more happy was that it was the first means of transportation he got besides the platoon boat.

"Whenever we can get a plane in the future, we will have all the sea, land and air."

While thinking about good things, Wei Ran dug out the gasoline left over from the storage room when he tested the gun in the desert before, and filled up the fuel tanks on the left and right sides of the half-track driver's seat.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, the capacity of these two fuel tanks is 21 liters, which is just enough to hold a German standard oil barrel of gasoline and leave a little space.

After filling up the fuel, Wei Ran spread the thick and heavy polar bear skin on the long table. This polar bear skin that Leo once treasured was about 1.5 meters long and 30 meters wide. , the weight is more than [-] catties.

Today, such a big card is not a question of how much it is worth, but a question of how long it will be sentenced.

Carefully rolled up the bear skin and fixed it on the back seat of the half-track motorcycle, Wei Ran opened the canvas tent and deerskin blanket attached to it and checked them one by one.

The reindeer skin blanket with thick fur was nothing special, but inside the canvas tent were three steel pipes with a length of one meter, with buckles and threads at both ends, and steel pipes as thick as wrists.

Twist these three steel pipes together and try to prop up the tent in the studio, Wei Ran is more and more satisfied.This pyramid-shaped tent is exactly the same as the one Leo prepared for them back then, with a layer of waterproof canvas on the outside and a thin layer of reindeer skin inside. Not only is it thick enough, but the space inside is also large enough.

Seeing enough freshness, he also rerolled the tent and blanket and fixed them on the back seat of the half-track motorcycle. Wei Ran looked at the reward in front of him and began to ponder the cause and effect of this time.

Although he has figured out what happened on Bear Island back then, he also has many other doubts.

First of all, who is the person who left four headless corpses and a half-track motorcycle in the cave on the highest peak of Bear Island? Has he ever gone back, and what is the purpose of going back or planning to return to Bear Island.

Secondly, who would end up with the mountaineering bag full of films that Professor Jonas took away, if those films sank to the bottom of the sea with them.Today, decades later, what is that Mrs. Amanda investigating?Why did she conduct investigations under the guise of Leo?Or, she has always insisted that Leo took those films?And what she wanted to find were those films?
With a rough guess in his heart, Wei Ran looked at the perpetual calendar hanging on the wall, hesitated for a moment, put away the half-track motorcycle in front of him, then got up and went upstairs, took down the glasses case containing Eric's watch, It was delivered directly to the counter of the travel agency next door.

After explaining to the little girl at the front desk that someone will come here to pick up these things within a day or two, Wei Ran greeted his aunt Zhou Shujin and Nicholas who happened to be at the travel agency for dinner, and told them to call his satellite phone if they had something to do in the future. Only then did he lock the shutter door of the studio and leave Volgograd in an off-road vehicle.

There is still about a week before returning to Hongqi Forest Farm for class, but it is just used to deal with the problem of that French liar Herbert.

Without going far at all, Wei Ran drove across the bridge across the Volga River, and after arriving at the satellite city of Volgasky where Alexander is located, he randomly found a hotel that looked good and stayed, and sent a message to Herbert to let him know After taking out the glasses box and being at the travel agency next door, I simply turned off the phone and put it in the bag, then took out the satellite phone I bought before, turned it on, entered the URL to connect to the authenticator, and started communicating with Kajianka in Italy with the help of webmail .

As for the core content of the communication, there were only three. The first thing to do was to send Herbert, a sticky spirit with malicious intentions, to prison in a week.

The second is to investigate that Mrs. Amanda in depth, to find out what she is looking for and the ins and outs of it.

As for the last one, it is to ask Katenka to investigate the smuggler in the little devil country within the time limit of Christmas at the end of the year, so as to obtain the other party's criminal evidence.

As for transferring the assessment tasks given to him by Karp and Daria to his own assessment of Katenka, Wei Ran has no psychological burden at all.

What is an employee?Aren't employees just helping the boss solve problems?Since Katenka was "forcibly sold" to him by the old Mr. Nikolai, he can't spend time at the Gubijing Pasta Restaurant every day, can he?
Besides, if you have something to do, let your subordinates do it, and if you have nothing to do, find something for your subordinates to do. This is the basic quality of a successful boss.Besides, what Katenka found out, didn't he find it out by himself?In essence, it is still an assessment that is completed by oneself.

It's just that he had just dealt with all the troubles in one go, and the satellite phone that had been turned on for less than an hour was dialed by Teacher Dalia.

"Teacher Dalia, are you going back to Hongqi Forest Farm for class early?" Wei Ran asked after answering the phone.

"It can be seen that you are as hardworking as the Chinese people in my impression."

Teacher Dalia praised Wei Ran with a smile in her tone, and then changed the topic and said, "But I will disappoint you. The class time is originally scheduled to remain the same. I am looking for you for other things."

"What's the matter?" Wei Ran asked quickly while heaving a sigh of relief.

"Do you still remember your identity? Honorary consultant of the Great Patriotic War Museum, Mr. Victor, a historian."

Daria paused, then continued to say with a smile, "Mr. Lu Ren, the deputy curator of the Great Patriotic War Museum, contacted me just now, asking you to help investigate something, so if you have time, why not go to Moscow."

"Go to Moscow? Did the other party say to investigate something?"

"didn't say"

Dalia saw that Wei Ran didn't speak, so she simply continued, "But the other party said, if you can find out before next year's Defender of the Fatherland Day, the word honor will be removed from your title in the Great Patriotic War Museum in the future."

"You want me to investigate this matter?"

Wei Ran frowned and asked, the so-called Defender of the Motherland Day is a festival shared by the big and the young, and the specific time is February 2 every year.

In other words, there is still half a year before now.And such a long investigation time also implies that it may not be easy to find something.Otherwise, such a big museum would never find itself on top of it.

Wait, could it be that Teacher Dalia helped to obtain this investigation?Wei Ran's brows gradually relaxed, if this is the case, maybe it makes sense.

Perhaps realizing what Wei Ran had guessed, teacher Dalia said simply, "Although there are not no foreigners who can serve as historical consultants in the Great Patriotic War Museum, there are definitely not many, and there are even fewer of them who are as young as you. .

So Victor, grab this rare opportunity!The title, while still unpaid, is important to our studio, and it's important to you, isn't it? "

"Are you so sure what I can find out?" Wei Ran asked dumbfounded.

"That's something you should worry about"

Like a scumbag, Dalia pushed all the troubles to Wei Ran, "If anyone can find something by looking through the historical files, the title of historical consultant of the Great Patriotic War Museum is too cheap."

"But I don't seem to have that much time"

Wei Ran deliberately evaded, "I still have an investigation and assessment for smugglers, I also need to learn English, and I still need to"

"Give you 36 hours to get to Moscow's Red Square"

Dalia was too lazy to talk nonsense with Wei Ran, "I heard that bastard Jima said that you have made a lot of money recently, so how about two thousand dollars a minute late?"

Before Wei Ran could open his mouth, Teacher Dalia on the other end of the phone simply hung up the phone, leaving only a monotonous busy tone on his microphone.

"Are you the female version of Stalin reincarnated?"

Wei Ran cursed secretly, reluctantly turned off the TV series that was playing on the tablet, logged on to the website and bought a plane ticket to Moscow as soon as possible.

After resting at the hotel for one night, Wei Ran drove to the airport early the next morning, and honestly boarded the flight to Maozi's capital.

Almost at the same time he landed in Moscow, Herbert, suffocated, rushed to the door of the time studio with its closed door once again.

Compared with the last time he came, the little hairy girl from the travel agency next door doesn't have a good face now. After handing him the glasses case in the file bag, he didn't even let him in the door of the travel agency. The male tour guides who were playing mahjong in the travel agency looked at him maliciously, as if they were ready to act as a robber at any time.

Speaking of which, whether it is the little girl at the front desk or these hairy tour guides, they have a good relationship with Wei Ran. After hearing that Wei Ran said that this French guy who didn't carry a white bed sheet with him is not a good person, he naturally turned to the boss. The "harmony makes money" that I once taught them was thrown into the Arctic Ocean.

Not to mention Herbert who cursed and left, Wei Ran immediately took a taxi to the landmark-like Red Square after the flight landed.

When he was a part-time tour guide in the travel agency run by his aunt, he often brought domestic tourists around here, but correspondingly, he had long since lost his sense of novelty here.

He dialed Daliya's phone number and informed him of his location. After Wei Ran waited for a while in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Mr. Dahlia in formal attire also walked over from the crowd of tourists.

Seeing that Dalia looked at the sentry guards without speaking, Wei Ran also fell silent, and stood obediently by the side waiting patiently.

It wasn't until more than half an hour later that the teacher and the student had watched the changing of the guard ceremony held on the hour. Teacher Dalia, who had been silent all the time, sighed and waved his hand to signal Wei Ran to follow.

(End of this chapter)