War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 317 Wei Ran's Gains and Losses

Following Charlotte back to the urban area of ​​Turin and staying in the hotel arranged in advance by the other party, Wei Ran visited the closed Gubijing pasta restaurant again after dressing up late at night.

"Why are you here again?" Kajianka, who was wearing a cartoon pajamas and a mask on his face, immediately put away his pistol after realizing that it was Wei Ran who knocked on the door.

"I have something to tell you." Wei Ran pointed behind Kajianka, "Go in and talk?"

Katenka looked at the deserted street behind Wei Ran, then nodded, and closed the shutter door again.

Following Katenka up to the bar on the second floor, Wei Ran pondered for a moment, and then told Taxi's request.

"Brain problem"

Katenka rolled his eyes, tore off the mask on his face and threw it away. After thinking about it, he reluctantly said, "Okay, I will try my best to make my room clean. But if possible, We'd better buy a house alone, after all, this place is rented, just in case"

"If you have something fancy, buy it, if you don't have enough money, send me an email."

Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking, and readily agreed. It was an expedient measure to let Katenka move to Italy. Now that the girl is already his employee, he can't let the other party buy another house for work, right? ?
Hearing this, Katenka secretly breathed a sigh of relief, "I will tell you if the money is not enough, is there anything else?"

"They may send some items to the bar for permanent display in the near future, and you will protect them for them then." Seeing the other party nodding happily, Wei Ran changed the subject and asked, "That Japanese smuggler How is the investigation going?"

"You're finally getting down to business"

Katenka rolled his eyes, got up and went inside, took out a mobile hard drive and threw it to Wei Ran, "It's all here, and what we have found so far is enough to send the main members of this smuggling organization to prison. But at the same time, I also Found some strange things."

"What's the matter?" Wei Ran took the mobile hard drive and asked curiously.

"At the beginning of this year, this smuggling organization encountered a very strange extortion."

Katenka's tone was puzzled, "According to my investigation, at that time, some people kidnapped several main leaders of this human smuggling organization and their families, and exchanged these people for the Russian girl who was under house arrest. But after the two parties completed the transaction, the person who blackmailed them killed the hostages directly, even the children."

"When did this happen?" Wei Ran frowned and asked.

"early year"

Katenka took out a mobile phone from the pocket of his pajamas, opened the memo and flipped through it and said, "From their internal emails I found. These things happened in early March this year. After that, the organization's The person in power changed to a woman.

But in the summer, several of the woman's cronies were sent to Russia and Ukraine, and all of them were killed. According to their internal emails, it seems that the bodies of those killed in Russia were not even found intact, while those sent to Ukraine were all killed. Together with the local smugglers who were going to cooperate with them in trafficking women, they were tied to a truck and burned alive. "

"Summer? When exactly?" Wei Ran asked.

Katenka glanced at Wei Ran, then looked down at the contents of the phone, and then said, "Two things happened in June and July this year."

So, didn't the two in Russia kill them with anti-tank guns?After that incident, Mr. Karp and Daria seemed to have taken half a month's leave, so they did what happened in Ukraine?

Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, and motioned for Kajianka to continue talking.

"After these two incidents, it seems that this people smuggling organization has completely given up the business from Eastern Europe to the Russian Far East, and has put its focus on some Central American countries."

Speaking of this, Katenka raised his head, "This is probably the case, because the other party's emails are communicated in Japanese, and I can only use translation software to translate, so there may be discrepancies in some details, but overall it should be the same. Not much difference."

"How far can the things inside be made?" Wei Ran asked as he shook the mobile hard drive he was still holding in his hand.

Kajianka put away his mobile phone and said affirmatively, "At least a large sum of money can be extorted from this organization. Of course, if the operation is not good, it will also attract the other party's pursuit. But if they are all published, that organization will It will soon perish."

Wei Ran thought for a while, put away the mobile hard drive and said, "Okay, let's suspend the investigation on this matter as well."

Katenka nodded as expected, "Is there anything else?"

"there is none left"

Wei Ran glanced at the time on his watch, "I'm sorry to disturb you so late, I will stay in Italy for another day or two, so if there is anything I need to do, you can contact me at any time."

"Remember to lock the shutter door for me." After finishing speaking, Katenka stood up with a yawn, then turned around and said, "By the way, I have something for you."

"Send me something?" Wei Ran looked at him curiously.

"Wait a moment," Katenka said and ran back to the room, and came back shortly after with a hard horse leather briefcase.

"What is this?" Wei Ran curiously opened the briefcase handed over by the other party, and then found a strange-looking laptop inside, "Why did you give me this?"

Katenka sat back on the sofa and said, "In the cooperation with Hasa before, it was much more convenient to communicate by computer than by email, so I prepared this notebook for you, of course, you have to pay to take it away. "

"What's the use of talking about it?" Wei Ran groped to find the power button while talking.

"After the link authenticator is verified, I will receive a message, and then I can directly control this notebook."

While talking, Kajianka pulled out the screen of the laptop, "If you find it inconvenient to carry around, you can use this part as a tablet.

Through it, we can directly conduct voice, video and text communication, and the security is very high. When it needs to be disconnected, just unplug the authenticator. "

"How much?" Wei Ran asked cheerfully.

"Cost price 6000 Euros"

Katenka said bluntly, "You can pay later. Tomorrow, I will find out if there is a house for sale nearby. At that time, you can give me the money to buy the house."

"Then I will give it to you when the time comes"

Wei Ran stood up and let the other party put the computer screen back to its original position, then went downstairs and left Gubijing Pasta Restaurant, and helped the other party lock the shutter door by the way.

In the next two days, Mr. Charlotte and the Matthew family went to Gubijing Pasta Restaurant together with the seriously clean-loving Tacit, and put the things left by their grandparents behind the bar on the second floor By the way, I also enjoyed a meal of pasta on the first floor.

Wei Ran, on the other hand, excused himself from being unwell and didn't go with him. Instead, he honestly slept in the hotel for two days.

After all, not long ago, it was bad luck to be recognized by Taci because of a canine tooth. If Katenka knew that he could speak Italian, it would be even more embarrassing.

Although the others did not go with him, at least from the thank you call from Tassie, we knew that this time Katenka did not disappoint the other party and cleaned up the room at last.For this reason, Taci asked the girl named Monica to deliver a heavy gift to the downstairs of the hotel where Wei Ran stayed.

"What is this?" Wei Ran asked, taking the not-so-big suitcase from Matthew's hand.

"Uncle Tassie gave you a gift." Matthew said solemnly, "He said you would definitely like it."

"Then thank Taci for me"

"I'll help you convey this thank you." After Matthew said goodbye politely, he turned and got into the car driven by Monica.

Watching the other party go away, Wei Ran took the suitcase and returned to his room. After locking the door, he habitually put on a pair of rubber gloves, and first wiped off the residue that he might have left on the suitcase with alcohol wipes. Fingerprint under it, and finally this will open it.

The suitcase itself is not too big, and the contents inside are only a small stainless steel box.

Curiously opening the box, Wei Ran's face showed a trace of surprise first, and then a strange expression of not knowing whether to laugh or cry.There is nothing else in this box, it is all bright and large bullets that can be used as a distorting mirror.

Roughly counting, although there are only 35 rounds in total, it can be seen with the naked eye that their processing is definitely exquisite.And unlike the last time I only ordered bullets, this time they are complete bullets that can be used at any time.

Unfortunately, after Tassie guessed that Nikolai was Victor who came to him this time, it was impossible for him to do anything with these bullets.

But no matter what, these are the good intentions of the other party. After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran happily took out the food box, emptied some things of little value in it, and took the 20mm bullets that Taxi gave him. It's all packed in.

The rewards and sacrifices of this trip to Italy are not small. First of all, Tasi recognized the identity he had pretended to be, and even the bullets he ordered at that time turned into scrap iron, and then the other party gave him some processed ones. But high-precision bullets that are not used at all.

Secondly, Katenka successfully completed the assessment task on Japanese human traffickers on his behalf, and gave himself a laptop by the way.However, at the request of Katenka, he paid a high price of 18 euros, plus some activity funds held by Katenka himself, and bought a set that is next to the pasta restaurant but not facing the street. detached house.

Kajianka, who thought that Wei Ran was going to use the criminal evidence to blackmail the traffickers, didn't think it was a loss-making deal. After all, she didn't have to look at the face of that psychopath in the future, and the value of the criminal evidence was enough to buy a few bigger houses. .

But for Wei Ran, after the criminal evidence was handed over to Mr. Karp or Dalia, he might not even get a ruble.

In the end, Charlotte made a special trip to call herself over to remind her to pay attention to safety. Although she gained a goodwill, she also owed the other party a small favor.

From this point of view, the harvest of this trip to Italy seems to be only the filming authorization authorized by Matthew's father and Taci.

(End of this chapter)