War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 311 The Reliable Kajianka (the company works overtime, only one update today)
At 54:[-] in the morning, Wei Ran quietly left the room, went into the corridor and easily pried open the electrical box that he had chosen in advance.

Gently flipping the switch cut off the power supply, and the lights in the whole building were instantly extinguished, leaving only the emergency light in the corner glowing green.

Taking advantage of this weak light to go down to the lobby on the first floor, Wei Ran relaxed instead. The power outage just now did not wake up the dozing waitress at the front desk, and naturally failed to lure her away from the bar.

Although the situation was somewhat different from what was expected, but seeing the other party sleeping so dead, he took out a USB flash drive he bought yesterday from his pocket with peace of mind.

Wei Ran has prepared more than a dozen such USB flash drives. According to Ka Jianka, when she needs her help to remotely control other people's computers in the future, all she needs to do is plug in the USB flash drive and turn on a hotspot.

Slipping into the bar counter under the cover of night, Wei Ran squatted down and approached the dozing waitress little by little.Carefully stretching his hand through the gap between the opponent's thigh and the table leg, he inserted the USB flash drive in his hand into the interface on the inside of the computer case.

He felt a little unbelievable for completing the work so easily, but after he belatedly realized that the other party was just an ordinary hotel waiter and not those perverts from Hongqi Forest Farm, he was completely relieved.

Slowly retracting his arms, he quietly exited the front desk. Wei Ran stepped into the corridor, restored all the switches in the electric box to their original state, and immediately returned to his room, took off the rubber gloves on his hands and fell directly on the ground. bed.

A few hours later, Wei Ran, who had freshened his face, came to the first floor in time for breakfast, sat on the sofa not far from the front desk, and fiddled with the mobile phone connected to the authenticator intently, secretly Then he turned on the hotspot of his mobile phone and patiently waited for Kajianka's remote assistance.

Less than 10 minutes before and after, Kajianka sent an email informing him to turn off the hotspot and disconnect the authenticator.

After reading the email, Wei Ran pulled out the authenticator and put it in his pocket. After turning off the hotspot, he went to the edge of the front desk and asked the waiter for a local newspaper before walking back.Before he could return to the room, Katenka sent a second email.

Patiently opening the door, Wei Ran logged into the webmail again, and then saw a screenshot.

In the table in this screenshot, except for the name, most of the other words are in Cyrillic letters, but they are in Kazakh, which Wei Ran cannot understand. On the side, the corresponding Russian meaning is marked with translation software.

To put it simply, in this slender screenshot, there is only one name mentioned in the information provided by Anna.Behind the name, there are three room numbers and a contact number.

But what surprised him even more was that, except for the room number given in the information provided by Teacher Anna, who had checked out as early as noon the day before yesterday, the other two rooms had always been checked in.

After writing down the house numbers of these two rooms, Wei Ran replied an email to Ka Jianka, asking the other party to continue to monitor the status of the two rooms on the computer at the front desk of the hotel, and then unplugged the authenticator, opened the The door went down again.

Since the other party still has two rooms in this hotel, he must find a way to visit those two rooms, but before that, he still needs to purchase some necessary things.

Driving the second-hand off-road vehicle that he rented while buying a flash drive yesterday, Wei Ran walked all the way through the streets and alleys of this ancient city built in the 16th century, purchasing all kinds of miscellaneous things.

It wasn't until the sun set in the afternoon that he drove the car back to the parking lot of the hotel. After turning off the engine, he directly pulled up the blackout curtain that he found a place to install during the day, and then flattened the back of the seat so that the sight of the telescope in his hand passed through the sky above his head. The skylight finally encloses the glass windows of the two rooms that are still in occupancy.

As he waited patiently, time passed by every minute and every second, and the outside sky was getting darker and darker, so that he could see the stars in the night sky just by moving the telescope a little, but one of the two rooms, The light was never turned on from the beginning to the end, but in the other room, the light seemed to be on all the time, but because of the cover of the curtains, it was impossible to see whether there was anyone in it.

Wei Ran did not act rashly, but continued to hold the telescope and moved back and forth on the windows of the two rooms.

After waiting until one o'clock in the night, he put away the binoculars and gently opened the car door.He walked into the hotel lobby with a suitcase that hadn't even taken off the label.

Returning to the room with a normal expression, Wei Ran took out the purchased clothes and cosmetics from the suitcase, changed his face again, and then changed into a set of cheap sportswear, and then opened the door , go upstairs along the stairs.

Standing at the door of the unlit room and listening for a while, he decisively took out the lockpicking tool, easily pried open the door with the Do Not Disturb sign, and walked in softly and slowly.

There was no trace of occupancy in this standard double room at all, but there was an open suitcase on the cracked floor between the two beds.

There are not many things in this suitcase. Apart from two sets of famous brand women's clothing and a laptop computer that does not look cheap, there is also a limited-edition LV lady's handbag. In the handbag, apart from two Half a month later, there was a plane ticket to the Yin Country, a stack of dollars, a stack of euros, and a box of opened elves.

But what puzzled him was that in the information provided by Anna, there were no women among the four poachers, and even the names on the two tickets could not match any of the four poachers. .

After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran took a photo of the two tickets, then took out the authenticator, logged in to the web mailbox with his mobile phone, and had a short communication with Kajianka.

Under the command of the other party, he opened the laptop with a password and inserted a USB drive into it.

After he turned on the hotspot of his mobile phone, within 5 minutes, the computer skipped the password authentication link.

While Wei Ran was waiting, the cursor on the computer screen began to move, one page after another was opened and closed, and some files were also copied from the notebook to the USB flash drive or from the USB flash drive under Ka Jianka’s remote control. copied to a notebook.Even the browser was opened, and web pages jumped out one by one.

After half an hour, Kajianka created a text document on the computer desktop and opened it, and wrote on it in German, "You can unplug the U disk and leave."

Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately pulled out the USB flash drive, and waited for a while until the text documents used for communication on the desktop were also shredded, and the notebook was automatically shut down and the screen was turned off.

After restoring it to its original state and cleaning up the traces left by him, Wei Ran carefully left the room and locked the door again.

Walking to the door of another room in the distance, he listened again for a while, and then used the old trick to pry open the door lock.

As the door was pushed open, the lights inside and the sound of the TV also ran into the corridor through the ever-larger gap in the door.

Wei Ran took a quick look with his head, and seeing that there was no one inside, he immediately dodged in and closed the door behind him.

This room is much larger than the one without lights. There are four single beds in the long strip room, and there are many boxes and bags discarded on the floor.

And on one of the single beds, there was a pile of playing cards and a few bullets that seemed to be used as chips.

Gently picked up a bullet and looked at it. This bullet is the M43 type 7.62mm intermediate power bullet that was commonly used in the former Soviet Union countries. The firearms that use this bullet are not only the rotten street AK, but also commonly used. The SKS semi-automatic rifle used as a shotgun is in line with the identity of a poacher based on this alone.

Putting it back in place, Wei Ran squatted down and carefully observed the packing boxes scattered on the floor.Some of these paper boxes were written in Kazakh, which he couldn't understand, some were written in Russian, and some were even written in Chinese or English.

And what he can understand, or guess from the picture on the box, includes beer, cigarettes, whiskey, syringes, a large number of stocking bags, various sauces, animal traps, bird nets and even some watching Not famous, or things with chemical hazard symbols.

Carefully rummaging through the only trash can in the room, in addition to a few pairs of worn men's socks and underwear, there are also a few used syringes and some finger-sized injection bottles.

After checking the room that was the same as Kajianka's pig's nest, Wei Ran turned and left, locked the door and went downstairs to his own room.

Taking off his rubber gloves, Wei Ran inserted the USB flash drive into a laptop he bought during the day, and after connecting to the hotspot of his mobile phone, he immediately sent an email to Kajianka, instructing the other party to control the laptop, and together with him Analyzing the content that the other party just copied to the USB flash drive.

After all, these files or screenshots were just copied from the other party's computer by Ka Jianka, so she naturally knows what is there better than Wei Ran, who just wants to be lazy and order his female subordinates.

Soon, a document was opened on this laptop, and Kajianka, who was far away in Turin, wrote in this document, "At that time, I restored the browser history that was emptied from that laptop, four days ago , the computer used Google Maps to repeatedly search for driving directions from Uralsk to a small town called Lubenka.

The town is about 200 kilometers southeast of Uralsk. In addition, they also searched for the gas station in Lubianka and took screenshots. "

After writing this passage, Kajianka paused for a moment, guessing that Wei Ran had finished reading it, then opened Google Maps with the remote control computer, marked the town called Lubianka, and by the way, also searched for the other party. Gas stations are marked.

After waiting for a while again, Katenka minimized the page and continued to write on the previous document, "In addition to the key information just now, they also searched for the dosage of veterinary anesthetics and the lives of some wild animals. Habits, among which the key search targets are saiga antelope and golden eagles."

After waiting for a while again, Kajianka reopened a new webpage, and immediately found an account after searching on a social networking site using the contact number he found from the computer at the front desk of the hotel.

The profile picture on the account is a white male in his fifties, and most of the photos he shares on this social platform are photos of hunting various wild animals in various places.

From elephants in Africa to tigers that seem to be shot in Southeast Asian countries, and even some animals that Wei Ran can't recognize at all, all at the cost of their lives, and this old man with an M21 semi-automatic sniper rifle with a wooden butt in his hand The photoshoot is done.

And under these bloody photos, there are dozens of comments at least, and hundreds or thousands of comments at most, but these comments, after Katenka's translation, are basically not envious of the old guy with accurate marksmanship. , Just scolding that old guy for being cruel.

"Follow the account number and try to see if you can find the current location of those four people."

Wei Ran tapped on the keyboard and wrote, although he can still complete these tasks by himself, but since there are beautiful employees doing it for him, the most important thing now is to take a good rest.

"Ok"

Katenka, who was far away in Turin, Italy, soaked in the bathtub and yawned, and responded on the computer screen without haste, and then remotely deleted the document on the desktop of the laptop in Wei Ran's hand. Broken the link between the two.

While his female subordinate was struggling to work overtime with sleepiness, the unscrupulous boss Wei Ran was already lying on the big soft bed and closed his eyes.

When he was woken up by the ringtone of his mobile phone, the sky outside the window was already bright, and the laptop on the table had already shut down because it was not charging.

Dazedly, he picked up his phone and glanced at the familiar spam message. Wei Ran picked up the authenticator on the bedside table, and after logging into the webmail, he immediately saw a photo with the Gobi hills as the background.

The hunter in this photo has been covered with thick mosaics. In his arms, he seems to be holding the head of an animal with horns on its head. However, most of the animal's body has also been covered with thick mosaics. All that can be seen are two weird nostrils plugged with the fingers of the wicked hunter.

In addition to these subjects, rolling hills can be seen in the background of this photo, as well as a tall tower that appears to be burning.In the gap between the looming tower and the hunter's shoulder, there is also a faint reflection that seems to be the same as a river.

Outside the photo frame, "what's it?" was written in English, and behind this phrase, Katenka marked the phrase "Saiga tatarica" ​​in English.

"Bully your boss can't speak English, right?"

Wei Ran, who was getting angry, was not in a hurry to continue reading. He switched pages and used a translation software to look up the meaning of this phrase, only then did he know that it was the foreign name of the high-nosed antelope.

Switching back to the mailbox on the page, Wei Ran continued to look down. Fortunately, Kajianka finally switched back to his familiar German, and said concisely and accurately at the bottom, "The photo was uploaded by that account this morning, and the location is in Kazakhstan. The small town of Lubianka in Sasa.

After comparison of the terrain, it can be basically confirmed that the shooting location is located in a hilly area about 15 kilometers east of Lubianka, where there is an oil field, and the torch in the photo is the burning and venting tower of the oil field. "

After Katenka’s text, Wei Ran also provided Wei Ran with a set of coordinates and a detailed screenshot of a satellite map, which even marked the driving route, duration, road conditions and Gas stations along the way.

This Kajianka is much more reliable than that bastard Jima
Wei Ran muttered to himself, disconnected the authenticator and sent it back to the food box, and immediately left the hotel with all his luggage.

Although the road conditions in Kazakhstan are not much better than those in Russia, thanks to the early winter at this time, the ground has already been frozen, and Katenka provided a detailed road book, so we drove more than [-] kilometers on this road. It's extraordinarily easy.

Just before noon, the small town of Lubianka was included in the range visible to the naked eye, but Wei Ran turned the steering wheel and went around far away. He continued to go southeast along the unknown river, and finally found the Surrounded by hills, there is still an oil field with Soviet-era slogans on the walls.

After comparing the photos sent by Kajianka, Wei Ran finally fixed his eyes on a mound less than two kilometers away from him after repeated angle adjustments.

Wei Ran, who was sitting in the car, carefully observed the surrounding environment with the help of the binoculars, and did not rush to drive there. He did not step on the accelerator until he was sure that there was no one on the sand dune, and there were no other cars around. He drove the rented off-road vehicle straight to the edge of the sandy hill that was only five or six meters above the ground.

In addition to the weeds that can be seen everywhere, there are still a lot of messy tire marks and the footprints of at least five or six kinds of shoes.

Following the footprints, he carefully climbed up the hill. From a long distance, he saw a dry bloodstain, and not far from the bloodstain, he also discarded a large pile of still fresh animal offal and five drinks. beer cans.

Gently rubbing the red stain on one of the cans, the slightly greasy texture and the clear lip marks on it can be easily distinguished. This is left by a woman, which happens to be the same as the lady found in the hotel room yesterday. Corresponding to the handbag.

Squatting on the edge of the hilltop, Wei Ran looked at the direction of the three nearly parallel tire tracks extending far away on the ground, and a smile as warm as the noon sun appeared on his face.

(End of this chapter)