War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 314 Qualified and Officially Opened (Two in One)

Halfway up the stone mountain with howling cold wind, Wei Ran, lying under the camouflage net, tightened the reindeer skin blanket that wrapped his body, carefully took out the wine bottle and took a sip, and continued to look at the camp of the poachers.

Under his patient observation, the man in camouflage who had left on a motorcycle not long ago returned to the camp with a few dogs.And the man who had been on top before also stood up with his SVD sniper rifle.

Immediately afterwards, the man who had just returned, marked as "Camouflage S2" by Wei Ran, opened the helmet box at the rear of the motorcycle.He took out a bunch of things from it and handed it to his companion.

Wei Ran, who was secretly observing, immediately adjusted his binoculars, and then clearly saw that what he took out from the helmet box was actually a golden eagle stuffed into a silk stocking!A golden eagle still alive!
But the next scene made Wei Ran frowned. After the two brought the golden eagle into the cargo compartment of the truck, they didn't put it in the cage directly. ", unexpectedly found a medical bag, and sewed the eyelids of the golden eagle together!
Watching the two of them put the raptor into the cage, just when Wei Ran thought it was over, they took out the second golden eagle from the helmet box of the motorcycle to continue the operation just now!
It's hard to imagine that four golden eagles imprisoned in layers of silk stockings were pulled out from the dilapidated motorcycle helmet box and side boxes on both sides.Without exception, these raptors were all blindfolded and thrown into iron cages in the truck.

Taking pictures of all this scene on his mobile phone, Wei Ran picked up a pencil and recorded everything that happened just now and the time in detail. At the same time, he secretly thought about finding a chance to see how they caught these birds of prey.

While he waited patiently, when the motorcycle was emptied, the "Camouflage S2" who was in charge of bringing back the golden eagle let his companion dig out a new syringe and injection bottle from the cab of the truck. I got a needle myself, then sat down on the folding chair by the campfire and started to giggle in a daze.

"These two are drug addicts. I don't know if the AK man in camouflage driving the two targets is also a drug addict."

Wei Ran muttered to himself, glanced at the photo just taken on the phone screen, and then recorded the time of "Camouflage S2" taking drugs in the notebook again.

Since this person took the drug, there has been no change in their camp. They have been waiting until after ten o'clock in the morning. The two people suddenly got up in no particular order, jumped onto the cab of the truck quickly, and greeted the people around them. The dogs jumped into the cargo box of the truck vigorously and left the camp at lightning speed.

"Is this the prey?"

Wei Ran stood up cautiously and glanced at the Gobi desert at the end of his line of sight, tightened the sheepskin wrapped around his shoes, and then immediately ran to the opponent's camp.

It was also this close observation that he noticed that at a location that he couldn't see, more than [-] meters away from the camp, there was a small cave that was only a meter or so deep into the stone mountain. In addition to the red plastic oil barrels and mineral water barrels next to each other, there are also baskets of various vegetables, drinks, and even some common or uncommon seasonings.

Not far outside the cave, there are animal skins waiting to dry, heads of wild animals, some pieces of meat hanging on wooden shelves, and even a long row of iron cages on wooden frames. The iron cage was filled with wild rabbits side by side.

Looking at the time on the watch, Wei Ran quickly walked to the edge of those tents and looked inside.I have to admit that the luggage brought by these rich people is definitely not small, and the warm tent is full of all kinds of flashy camping supplies.

And in the center of the four tents, on the bonfire that was still smoking, there was a high-end outdoor coffee pot, and on the folding table next to it, there were four wooden coffee cups and a grinder. Grinder for coffee beans.

Turning his head to look at the coffee pot on the bonfire and the cast iron pot on another table not far away, Wei Ran simply turned around and left the opponent's camp and returned to the stone mountain in the distance, wrapping it tightly in a thick reindeer skin blanket body.

Less than 10 minutes later, the truck had returned to the camp, and the first to jump out of the cargo box were still those energetic dogs.

Immediately afterwards, the two men in camouflage uniforms with SVD on their backs lifted the canvas curtain of the cargo bed, and using the rocker arm on the car, hoisted a saiga antelope that had been emptied of its internal organs outside the car, and skillfully began to skin and cut the flesh work.

Under the cooperation of the two, a complete antelope skin was stripped off and supported on a wooden frame, and the dogs who circled around them also got some bones and meat, and each ran to the bonfire with their mouths in their mouths. Lie down on the side and enjoy.

After finishing their work, the two men in camouflage uniforms drank a glass of wine each, and after a short rest, they put a pot on the campfire and made lunch with fresh antelope meat.

The two off-road vehicles that drove out in the morning also came back one after another, and the middle-aged man in a cowboy hat even found a secluded location and set up a camera to shoot the video.

Taking advantage of the sky at this time, Wei Ran stuck his mobile phone on the eyepiece of the telescope, took pictures of these people again, and recorded their activity time and track by the way.

Although he has already figured out a way to create an accident for the other party, but Teacher Anna asked him to monitor them for a week first, so now he can only wait and see them continue to harm those wild animals, and take pictures by the way. Take photos of them killing animals.

After lunch, these people set off again in their off-road vehicles. While Wei Ran was waiting tediously, the sun sank below the horizon a little bit, and the two off-road vehicles came back again, and they began to celebrate the harvest around the bonfire just like yesterday.

Seeing this, Wei Ran quietly climbed down the stone mountain, put away the animal skin blanket, and just tied the camouflage net around his body as a cloak, and followed his deep memory towards yesterday's daytime. The position where the opponent killed the wild wolf.

After searching for a while, he finally saw clearly what these people did with this pickling wolf corpse with the light of the phone screen.

Around the wolf's body, a wooden stick with a height of just over one meter but as thick as an arm was buried. On each wooden stick, two beasts with sharp blades were tied with iron chains. folder.

That's not to mention, on top of the four wooden sticks, there is a bird-catching net similar to fishing line, which just covers the wolf carcass below, and beside the carcass, there is a A hare with a wire around its neck.

Even without the experience of hunting with quarter horses, Wei Ran can tell at a glance that such a sinister trap can not only capture those carnivorous animals, but also attract raptors from the sky.As long as they rushed down towards the hare, they would easily be caught by the tough bird net.

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran didn't touch the opponent's trap, but took out his cell phone to take a photo, and then turned around and returned to his hiding place.

A week passed quickly, and Wei Ran, who was already very familiar with this group of poachers, also roughly figured out their affiliation.

To put it simply, the middle-aged man in the cowboy hat is more like a middleman, and the four men in camouflage uniforms are his subordinates. Apart from driving off-road vehicles, they are also responsible for all the rough work in the camp.

The remaining three target persons are more like customers of middle-aged men in cowboy hats.Obviously, they enjoy the fun of hunting, and even more enjoy the excitement and freshness of killing and eating those wild animals.

The only exception is the blonde girl. Apart from being the lover of the middle-aged man in the cowboy hat, she also seems to have an unclear underground relationship with a man in camouflage with an AK rifle.

Speaking of which, the four men in camouflage uniforms are also interesting. Those two men with SVDs on their backs took drugs, drank alcohol, peeked at the blonde girl changing clothes, and even stole cigarettes, alcohol, and even cash from those tents. They almost perfectly explained what scum is. .

On the contrary, those two men in camouflage uniforms with AKs on their backs turned out to be decent people who didn't smoke, drink, or poison. Unfortunately, one of them seemed to have hooked up with their proprietress, the blonde girl.

After watching the play for a full week, Wei Ran also made preparations for a full week.

He has not been idle during this period. In addition to looking for an opportunity to pick up a used syringe in the other party's camp a few days ago, he also extracted a lot from the wild animal carcasses or animal viscera that the other party used to set traps. Less intestinal fluid and even cerebrospinal fluid and the like.

Put these disgusting things into the same injection bottle as if raising a small piece of carrion, and finally wrapped them tightly in gloves and covered them for a full four or five days. Now this thing Even Wei Ran himself didn't know what the consequences would be if he ate it.

On the last day of the monitoring mission, Wei Ran took the last photo of the other party's camp with a sense of ritual. After the two drug addicts drove away again, they immediately ran into the other party's camp and dipped a small piece of gauze into the other party's camp. The dilution of the unknown liquid in the injection bottle quickly smeared all the wine glasses, coffee cups, wine bottles, kettles, coffee pots, and even toothbrushes that can be seen at a glance in the opponent's camp.

In the end, he used the syringe he picked up earlier to inject all the remaining liquid into a bucket of mineral water that was only half used, and Wei Ran ran out of the opponent's camp.

Hiding behind the stone mountain again, Wei Ran pressed the syringe he picked up under a stone, then took off the rubber gloves on his hands and the sheepskin wrapped around his feet and stuffed them into his backpack, then lay down again and waited patiently Watch the fun.

As expected, almost that night, the poachers in the Shan'ao camp all had diarrhea, and judging from their trends, we could tell that Wei Ran's stuff was full of energy.

By the early morning of the next day, no matter the four targets or the other four men in camouflage uniforms, they all looked sluggish, and the blonde girl never left the tent from the beginning to the end.

Obviously, in the current situation of suspected collective food poisoning, even if they want to drive away to find a doctor, it is not an easy task.In desperation, the man in camouflage who seemed to be having an affair with the blonde asked his boss for a satellite phone and dialed it.

Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately took out the satellite phone that teacher Anna had given him at the beginning, and dialed the number of the anti-poaching organization.

After reporting his position and situation to the other party, Wei Ran immediately left the stone mountain carefully, cleaned up the traces of his existence, and ran to the opposite side of the Gobi Desert in broad daylight.

Back in his off-road vehicle, Wei Ran turned the key to start the engine, and then drove the car to the side of the unknown river not far away. After digging through the barely frozen river surface, he turned around and took out a fish from the car. He tied a bottle of vodka to the end of his fishing line and sank into the cold river.

After a long time, two trucks produced in the Soviet era passed by Wei Ran, and the smoke and dust that swelled even made Wei Ran and his rented car lose their outlines.

But soon, the truck walking behind stopped, and two men with SKS semi-automatic rifles came down from it.

The leader walked to Wei Ran's side, said something in Kazakh, which he could not understand, and pointed to the river not far away.

Seeing Wei Ran's blank face, the man changed to Russian and said, "We are an anti-poaching patrol team. There are rare local fish species in this river. Fishing is prohibited, please show it."

After that, the man couldn't continue, because after Wei Ran raised the fishing rod, there was a bottle of vodka tied to the other end of the fishing line.

"I'm just tired from walking and want to take a rest here and drink a glass of iced vodka by the way."

Wei Ran deliberately suppressed his voice and pointed to the off-road vehicle behind him, "If you don't believe me, take a look, there is only such a fishing rod without a hook in my car, of course, I don't think the anti-poaching organization will investigate Drunk driving, right?"

While talking, Wei Ran directly dropped the fishing rod, then unscrewed the vodka bottle, raised his neck and took a sip of the cold wine, and then handed it to the man opposite, "Take a sip, my friend, this is I brought it from Uralsk."

The man hesitated for a moment, and winked at his companion, who immediately opened the trunk of the off-road vehicle next to Wei Ran and began to check, while he took a sip from the cold wine bottle in Wei Ran's hand.

Soon, the man who checked Wei Ran's car closed the trunk, then shook his head at his companion, and said something in Kazakh, which Wei Ran could not understand.

After these words, the attitude of the man who was still holding the bottle in his hand improved a lot, and he enthusiastically praised the vodka in his hand in Russian.

"Keep drinking if you like it"

Wei Ran said generously, "How about thanking you for protecting those lovely wild animals?"

As he said that, he opened the trunk of the off-road vehicle behind him again, took out two extra bottles and stuffed them to the other party, "I still have a lot, of course, I may have to freeze another bottle later."

"Then we're welcome"

The man stretched out his hand towards Wei Ran, "Biran, my name is Biran, friend, thank you for the wine."

"Anton" Wei Ran shook hands with the other party politely, "Just wait a while and don't arrest me because I want to drink some cold drink."

"No, of course not!"

After sending off the member of the anti-poaching organization and their truck with a smile on his face, Wei Ran tied a bottle of vodka to the fishing line and threw it into the river, waiting patiently to continue watching the excitement.

More than half an hour later, a van that was also produced in the Soviet era and still had a red cross on its body also drove past Wei Ran.

Almost as soon as this van drove past, less than 10 minutes later, the truck that passed by more than half an hour ago came back with billows of smoke and dust, and even when passing by Wei Ran's car, the driver rolled down the window and held Not long ago the guards sent their vodka bottles to say hello.

It was also through this opportunity that Wei Ran also saw the poachers tied in the cargo compartment of the truck, and the two off-road vehicles and Ural trucks that originally belonged to the poachers followed.

Before they were far away, Wei Ran raised his mobile phone and took a photo, then immediately got into the off-road vehicle, and sent the photos taken these days to Teacher Anna in chronological order.

After he finished sending the last photo, Teacher Anna also called, "The overall job is good, you can come back."

"Are you sure?" Wei Ran asked anxiously, he always felt that this assessment seemed too simple, but considering the important role played by Kajianka and the identity of the target person this time, it was so simple to complete There seems to be nothing unreasonable in the assessment.

"Of course sure"

Teacher Anna said cheerfully, "Also, have you found out the identities of these four targets?"

really!

Wei Ran, who had expected it for a long time, started the car, and while driving slowly towards Uralsk, he said, "I've checked."

"Tell me what you have found?" Teacher Anna asked with great interest.

After briefly describing the relationship between the personnel observed in the camp, Wei Ran paused, and directly took the results of Kajianka's hard work these days as his own and said, "In addition, according to my investigation, this poaching The organizer of the event is an American, who usually makes money mainly by shooting hunting videos. Among the other three people, two are his fans and members of a hunting association in the United States. The last target person is the only one in the photo who is wearing a suit , who is the backer behind an extremist animal protection group in Sweden."

"Where's the blond woman?" Anna continued to ask.

"is the lover of the first person"

Wei Ran paused, and repeated a sentence in Kajianka's email with uncertainty, "But the things she can find are very clean, and the clean ones are not normal. Of course, her personal relationship is very messy. This is Another matter."

"not bad"

Anna's tone became more and more satisfied, and she explained happily, "That woman is a wanted criminal, and you didn't find out about that."

"Wanted criminal?" Wei Ran frowned, Kajianka really didn't find out about this.

"It's normal that you didn't find out"

Anna explained with a smile, "According to Gorman and I's assumptions and your assessment, this time you may use force to control these ordinary people by the way. But the results are not bad so far. It's pretty good to find so many without close contact."

After patiently listening to Teacher Anna's compliments and comments, Wei Ran asked quickly, "So, the man in camouflage who is a bit ambiguous with her is the man I just mentioned, code-named "Camouflage AK1" in the photo. Are you also an accomplice of the wanted woman?"

"If you are interested, you can continue to investigate along this clue."

Teacher Anna paused, "After all, there is still nearly a week before the end of this month's class, isn't it?"

"If I don't plan to investigate further, how will I arrange for the remaining few days?" Wei Ran asked cautiously.

"Of course I go back to the forest farm to attend classes"

Teacher Anna said as a matter of course, "Gorman is looking forward to you using the torture skills you learned from him this time, but obviously, you have let him down, so he very much hopes that you will go back to the forest farm to make up for this ring." , and even he has prepared the clues of those drug dealers mentioned before.”

Hearing this, Wei Ran said without thinking, "Forget it, I choose to continue the local investigation."

"Remember to be faster, the faster the speed, the higher the reward."

"There are rewards?"

"I'm not a miser like Culp, of course there are rewards for doing well."

"Don't worry, I will be able to find out the identity of the other party soon."

After finishing speaking, Wei Ran immediately hung up the phone, and then dialed the anti-poaching organization he had contacted not long ago without thinking.

What's the fastest way to find out the identity of the man in camouflage?Of course, with the help of the official power!Check it out by yourself?An idiot would do that!

He simply informed the members of the anti-poaching organization of the identity of the blond woman who was a wanted fugitive. By the way, he gave the two men in camouflage uniforms with AK assault rifles all the names of suspected accomplices. Wei Ran simply hung up Telephone.

Less than 5 minutes before and after, Anna, who was still a guest at Nikolai's house, received another call. After a few simple exchanges between the two parties, she hung up the phone and put away the phone in front of Gorman and Nikolai. Banknotes on display.

"That bastard called the police?" Gorman asked angrily.

"Didn't call the police, but pretty much the same result, he called anti-poaching probably as soon as he hung up on me, so I won."

After finishing speaking, Anna piled up all the banknotes on the table and stuffed them into her bag with peace of mind.

"It seems that the lesson Gorman gave to that little guy last time was very effective." Mr. Nicholas, who also lost money, was extremely happy, "In a year and a half, he has almost reached the passing line. It was uncommon at the time.”

“really uncommon”

Gorman nodded with emotion, "Although he didn't have much contact, that young man is cautious and smart enough, and it's obvious that he doesn't like to cause trouble."

"It's a good collaborator." Nicholas raised his glass with a smile, "Then, it seems that we can officially celebrate the opening of Time Film Studio."

(End of this chapter)