War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 367 Information
After resting at Frank's house all night, Wei Ran just arrived at the tavern early the next morning when he was held down by two drunken chain dogs.In less than half an hour, the middle-aged man who had been to the tavern yesterday also came as scheduled, and invited Wei Ran to sit at a table with his broken pistol.

Fortunately, because the confession was checked with Frank in advance, there were no problems in this cross-examination.And the middle-aged man in casual clothes also asked the postman Frank to inquire, and then simply led him away from the Kraken Tavern.

"Let's go now?" Arthur murmured in disbelief.

"I hope you really leave." Wei Ranhun said indifferently, but he raised his vigilance in his heart. This person's attitude today is really too straightforward.

"I hope so," Artur muttered worriedly, obviously not letting down his vigilance either.

The disappearance of Adam the chain dog was over, and then the Siren Tavern resumed its usual bustle.

Every afternoon, Mia would take the girls on stage to sing until the time of blackout.Frank also collects the letters sent home by the soldiers in the mail box at the door every day at noon, and delivers the letters sent to the Kraken Tavern directly to the front desk at night, and has a glass of free wine by the way.

As time went by day by day, it seemed that everything had returned to the calm of the past. The guests in the Kraken Tavern came and went. Adam, the chain dog, seemed to have been completely forgotten by everyone.

But for Wei Ran, the uneasiness in his heart is getting heavier and heavier, because this is already the sixth night since he killed Adam and dumped the body, but he has not been able to find an opportunity to complete the return task. This is an illusion that I will be left here in a metal book for the rest of my life and there is no way to go back.

In the basement illuminated by kerosene lamps, Wei Ran helped the middle-aged man code-named Romeo check the wound and said in a low voice, "The healing is not bad so far, but it may take a long time to fully recover. "

"At least his life was saved, and his legs were saved." Arthur, who was sitting next to him, heaved a sigh of relief, "Victor, thanks to your help."

"It's nothing." Wei Ranqiang responded with a smile, and quickly completed the work of changing the dressing and bandaging the wound.

"Juliet, have you gained anything these days?" Arthur asked as usual.

"no"

Juliet, who had been listening by the radio station, shook her head almost indifferently, as if all her thoughts were focused on the dots or short lines that represented the Morse code recorded on the manuscript paper.

Arthur sighed and waved to Wei Ran, "Let's go up."

Hearing this, Wei Ran nodded and followed the former out of the basement silently.

Outside the fireplace, singer Mia waited for the two of them to come out, and immediately covered the hole, and then carefully cleaned the charcoal dust and the floor for the two of them with a brush.

"go to bed early"

After Arthur finished speaking, he picked up the washbasin and poured the water into the tin bucket originally used to hold the charcoal fire, let Wei Ran carry it, and followed him out of Mia's room.

Watching Artur go upstairs alone, Wei Ran took the tin bucket in his hand to the kitchen, found a table at random and sat down, looked at the rain outside the window, and continued to think about his own tasks.

Over the past few days, the time he had the opportunity to contact Juliet and Romeo every day was only a few minutes when the tavern was closed late at night, and those alcoholics went to the basement to help change their dressings after they fell asleep.

In such a short amount of time, he had no chance to talk to Juliet who had been busy cracking the encryption method, not to mention the man code-named Romeo. No exchange of more than half a word.Even the information that I need to assist the other party to convey, there is no shadow at all after so many days.

"Forget it, go back to sleep." Wei Ran yawned and stopped thinking about it, got up and went upstairs, and got into his own room.

In the blink of an eye, it was the next afternoon, and the dozen or so submariners who had been staying here for the past few days also left the tavern under the torrential rain that had not stopped since yesterday, and ran to the military pier not far away together.

Seeing that more than half of the drinkers were gone, the Kraken Tavern seemed a lot quieter. Correspondingly, Wei Ran's increasingly proficient job as a bartender became much easier.

After absent-mindedly finishing the day's work, he poured himself a glass of liqueur and was about to take a rest, but Mia hurried to find him and Artur.

"Artur, Victor, can you do me a favor in the room? The window in my room is leaking." Mia suppressed her excitement, and asked the two of them with her normal expression.

"This dilapidated house needs to be repaired." Artur pretended to respond, "Victor, go in and have a look first, I'll go to the basement to find some tools."

"Remember to count overtime pay for me," Wei Ran responded.

"What is overtime pay?"

As Arthur walked towards the room behind the bar, he responded in a contemptuous tone, "If you don't steal a few bottles of wine from me, maybe there will be some overtime pay."

"Stingy boss" Wei Ran muttered, and followed Mia into her room.

Before Wei Ran could close the door, Mia had already rushed to the side of the window that had been deliberately opened, and was watching the situation outside vigilantly while wiping off the rainwater that flowed in with a rag.

"What's wrong?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.

Mia looked outside again, but did not rush to explain, but waited until Artur came in with tools, and then whispered in the sound of rain, "There are two messages, the first is Petra just heard it from a pilot. After the rain stops, the pilot will fly a bomber to bomb the port of Liverpool in England."

"Wait, something is wrong." Before Mia finished speaking, Wei Ran, who had been tense in his heart for the past few days, was the first to frown.

"What's wrong?" Mia and Artur looked at Wei Ran in unison.

"This is the Port of Kiel!"

Wei Ran reminded, "Take off from here to bomb Liverpool in the UK? Don't you think it seems a bit far away? Moreover, even if this information is true, how could a pilot know his mission before departure? How could he Say it easily?"

"Mia, who did Petra get the news from?" Arthur asked in a low voice.

"I don't know." Cold sweat broke out on Mia's forehead, who had realized something was wrong, "I'll find a chance to ask later?"

"No need to ask." Artur waved his hand, "Let the girls be careful, it seems that someone has already sent a trap to the tavern."

"Chain dog?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice with an affirmative tone.

"At present, it can only be them." Arthur thought for a while, and continued, "Mia, heat up the fireplace these two days, and make sure they are safe."

"no problem"

Singer Mia nodded quickly and continued, "In addition, you must have noticed that many submarine soldiers left the tavern today. According to the information obtained by the girls, they will take a submarine to leave Kiel Harbor tonight. After statistics , These soldiers are all from the Seventh Submarine Formation, and besides that, the content of their chats these days has been around the English Channel and British merchant ships."

"This message is more credible"

Artur looked at the rain outside the window and said, "Regardless of whether the first piece of information is true or not, we must at least find a way to send out the second piece of information."

"But Romeo is injured." Mia reminded in a low voice, "We don't have any suitable candidates to send the information. We can't let Frank go, he has to maintain it."

"Victor, go outside and stare." Before Artur could finish his sentence, he had already closed the window, and drew the heavy curtains smoothly.

Hearing this, Wei Ran was stunned, turned around and quickly left the room, sat at a dining table next to the window in the hall, staring at the pouring rain outside the window, secretly thinking about the current situation.

If the first piece of information was false, then the tavern has undoubtedly been targeted by now.Under such a background, if they want to spread the second piece of information, they will undoubtedly face extremely high risks.And if the first piece of information is also true, they have to send out the information before the rain stops, which also takes great risks.

Just as he was analyzing the situation in front of him, the uncomfortable feeling of brain shutdown swept over him without warning, causing him a splitting headache, and at the same time, his eyes turned black, and then he lay down uncontrollably. on the table.

After a long time, Wei Ran struggled to sit up straight, breathed heavily as if he lacked oxygen, and adapted to the extra things in his mind in the indescribable uncomfortable feeling as if time and space were disordered.

What did you learn this time?

Wei Ran almost stupidly glanced at the rain curtain outside the window, seeing that there was nothing unusual, he calmed down a little.This belated "skill awakening" not only made him wonder for a while what new skills he had learned, but also reminded him from the side that it has been enough since he killed the chain dog Adam and threw his body into the pond. for a full week.

Before he could fully recover from the uncomfortable feeling, Artur had already walked out of Mia's room, beckoning him into the kitchen together.

"Are you okay?" Arthur asked a little worried when he saw Wei Ran walking staggeringly.

"It's okay." Wei Ran waved his hand, "Let's get down to business."

Artur gently pushed open the kitchen window, and Arthur whispered into Wei Ran's ear amidst the sound of the torrential rain, "Victor, I need to set off now to send out the information."

Wei Ran was startled, and asked, "What do I need to do?"

Artur hesitated for a moment, and said in a low voice, "If something happens to me, the Germans will probably come to the tavern soon. What you have to do is to keep the basement."

"Will it be too risky?"

The more uneasy Wei Ran frowned and reminded, after getting along these days, he can already see that people like Artur actually don't know how to do intelligence work, and it can even be said that they are a group of people who are inferior to him amateur players.And their current decision also violated the taboo of impulsiveness.

"It's okay, Romeo promised me that there will be no danger." Artur assured me confidently.

Romeo promised you?Wei Ran was startled, and asked abruptly, "Is he not just a professor?"

"how do you"

Artur stopped abruptly in the middle of speaking, hesitated for a moment and then said ambiguously, "He is an Englishman."

"Artur, have you ever thought of a possibility?"

"What's possible?" Artur turned to look at Wei Ran who was standing beside him.

But Wei Ran looked at the rain curtain outside the window, and asked almost to himself, "Have you ever thought that someone is taking advantage of your revenge?"

"You mean Romeo?"

Artur instantly understood the hint in Wei Ran's words, but then he smiled freely, with a trace of idealist passion and stubbornness on his face, "So what if we use it? At least we still It is worth being used, as long as this war can be ended as soon as possible, as long as it can cause trouble for the Germans. Even if it is used, what does it matter?"

At least you should choose a reliable partner, Wei Ran muttered to himself, but he didn't say it out after all.

"Okay, I'm leaving now." Arthur said, he had already closed the window, and he was about to leave through the back door of the kitchen.

"wait first"

Wei Ran grabbed Artur, hesitated for a moment and said, "Artur, if you trust me, sleep in Mia's room tonight, and I will deliver the information."

"you?"

Artur frowned and was about to say something, Wei Ran continued, "At least I'm younger than you, and I run faster, and if the Germans come to your door, you also know how to deal with them."

Seeing that the other party did not speak, Wei Ran urged again, "Don't hesitate, we don't have much time."

"All right"

Artur took a deep breath, leaned into Wei Ran's ear and said, "You need to go to Ferm Village, which is 7 kilometers away, just follow the road outside and go northwest. In addition, in In the oak wood north of the tavern, there's a mare you can ride on."

"What about after arriving in that village?" Wei Ran asked, "Who am I looking for?"

"There is a forest to the south of the village, and there is a cemetery in it."

Artur continued, "Go to the gravekeeper there and tell him the information. If the chain dog finds you, then kill the gravekeeper."

Hearing this, Wei Ran was stunned, took a deep breath and nodded, "I remember."

"Come back before dawn. If there is a chain dog in the tavern, go directly to Frank's house." Arthur reminded again, "He will help you. If necessary, you can leave Kiel Harbor together."

　There is only one more today, so I'm going home late.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)