War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 488

With the help of Alexei and Akim, Wei Ran, who is known as a historian, took part in the digging party + archaeological work, not only cleared out all the things in the underground shelter, Even the three stinking corpses were rolled up with cut tarpaulins and carefully pulled up to the surface with ropes.

Taking advantage of the time when Akim cut the logs with the motorcycle saw he brought and made a simple coffin, Wei Ran and the professor also gathered around the side of the tarp, carefully counting the things dug out from the shelter.

I have to say that there are quite a lot of things in this shelter, except for the disassembled engine, the two-person chainsaw, and the three corpses waiting to be put into the coffin.

Also on the tarp were a Mauser rifle, an MP40 submachine gun and matching ammunition, two oil drums, two German jugs, one enameled jug with a lid, and two removed from a stone fireplace. steel helmet.

There is also a large box of rusty nails, four lunch boxes, four German gas masks, hand saws, wrenches, axes, pickaxes, shovels, kerosene lamps and metal boxes containing wine bottles, German cans and Mauser bayonets, etc. Miscellaneous things.

"Other things I can understand, what's going on with these gas masks?"

Four gas masks placed, "Why don't I remember that Finland fought a gas war?"

"Maybe it's not used to prevent poison gas"

Wei Ran picked up a gas mask and expressed his guess, "Professor, look, none of these gas masks are equipped with a canister, but an extra circle is tied around the place where the canister is connected, which seems to be made of animal skin or canvas. sort of thing."

"This is."

"I guess it's used as a cold mask"

Wei Ran took the gas mask and made gestures on his face from a distance, "It's probably going to be very cold here in winter, so having such a thing on your face will warm you up, at least you won't be blinded by the wind. "

"If it's true, both you and those three are geniuses."

Professor Alexey gave a rare compliment, and then kicked the engine on the edge with his toe, "Since there is an engine of a half-track motorcycle here, there must be a half-track motorcycle nearby. If we can find that motorcycle , maybe the troop number can be found on the motorcycle."

"Then combined with the combat experience of the unit to which the designation belongs, see if there are any similar records? Especially the loss records of half-track motorcycles?" Wei Ran said as expected.

Professor Alexi spread his hands, "This is the fastest method at present. Of course, the premise is that everything goes well, we can find the motorcycle, and there is a serial number on the motorcycle. But..."

"What?" Wei Ran looked at him puzzled.

Professor Alexey took a few steps back, took out a bottle of wine from his arms, unscrewed it and took a sip, "Alexander spent a lot of money to buy all the things found here and the historical stories behind them, so we must."

"Make up a good story?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

Alexei spread his hands with a bitter face, "Probably not this time, Alexander wants a story as real and grounded as the cabin in the snowstorm, and he plans to use it to make a movie with the studio."

"We can't make something out of nothing," Wei Ran said pointedly.

"In short, try to look carefully."

Professor Alexei said confidently, "Mr. Alexander promised me that if I can find a good story with evidence this time, and when I have the opportunity to make it into a movie in the future, I will also get a part of the share."

"It seems that you get along well?" Wei Ran asked with great interest.

While speaking, Professor Alexei took out a bottle of DEET from the bathtub and sprayed it on his body, and then he pulled out the metal detector and said, "Although if Mr. Alexander was placed in the Stalin era, he would definitely be sent to Siberia to participate in voluntary work." Labor, but he's a really nice boss."

"Are you going to start looking now?"

Wei Ran looked at the professor in surprise, he thought this old guy was using his work to find a quiet place to drink with his old friends, besides, he had never seen him so proactive.

Alexei smiled, "I'll try my luck around first. If you have nothing to do, you can put up the tent first, or help Akim transport the things he found back to the plane first."

"Let me carry things." Wei Ran said as he picked up a shotgun and handed it to the professor, "Be careful, there are brown bears around here."

"Be careful too." Professor Alexey took the shotgun and carried it on his back, then turned on the metal detector, and drew a rather unfamiliar circle around the emptied shelter.

Look at Akim who has already felled a log and is using a chainsaw to cut the boards. After thinking for a while, Wei Ran emptied the tub full of camping equipment, bent down and put the double chainsaw together with some miscellaneous things. He put all his belongings on the bathtub, put the shotgun on his back, and turned back towards the pier where the plane was parked.

At the same time, he was also thinking about various details carefully. Although he was as sure as the professor that the three corpses he found were probably prisoners of war brought by the Germans from the south to build roads, there were too many unexplainable things. too much.

Among other things, the number of tools they have is abnormal. If they are prisoners of war, how did they obtain those things?How did the Germans let them get those things so easily?

And don't forget that Finland hadn't cooperated with the Soviet Union at that time, and they were still friends of the Germans after all.In this context, the difficulty for the three of them to collect so many things and escape is no different from blowing up the Eiffel Tower before the French raised their hands.

"Most importantly, how did those three people die?"

Wei Ran turned his head and glanced behind him. At this time, no matter whether it was Akim or Professor Alexei, they were all blocked by the tree trunk, and only the sound of the chain saw cutting wood could be faintly heard.

"It's a good place to escape the flames of war." Wei Ran muttered to himself, and quickened his pace towards the distant pier.

Passing through the coniferous forest, which is not considered dense, when Wei Ran arrived at the pier, he found that the plane that brought them was already full of unknown waterfowl, and even a few of them were poking their buttocks, giving Raw bio-abrasive paste is squeezed on the windshield.

After dispersing these water birds with his hand, Wei Ran opened the cabin door and moved all the things in the bathtub into it.

Squatting at the cabin door and looking at the situation outside, except for the weeds and bushes that have begun to sprout and even bloom, there are small animals hidden in it, and even the sound of the chainsaw cutting wood has been completely blocked by the woods.

"Summer is beautiful, but I don't know what it will be like in winter." Wei Ran looked back at the objects in the cabin, hesitated for a moment, and closed the cabin door from inside.

Sitting down on the seat, Wei Ran looked at the chain saw on the floor again, and had already made a decision in his heart.

Just like what he has always thought, the Finnish battlefield has indeed left him a lot of good impressions, so he does not reject the past to experience the stories that happened on this land in person, and at the same time holds good expectations , counting on the metal book to give him a generous reward in return.

Thinking of this, Wei Ran finally thought about the things he had prepared for the North African battlefield, and then took a deep breath and summoned the metal book.

In the quiet and slightly shaking cabin, the metal book that suddenly appeared in Wei Ran's hand quietly turned to the blank page 20, and the metal quill began to draw on the paper as usual.

With the friction between the pen tip and the paper, a half-track motorcycle quietly appeared, and the two-person chainsaw was fixed on the hood between the driver's seat and the rear seat of the motorcycle.

But what is quite strange is that behind this half-track motorcycle, there are actually two small cargo boxes with sleds in it.What surprised Wei Ran even more was that when the whole picture was drawn, there were actually four people on it!

One is driving a motorcycle, and two are sitting side by side behind the motorcycle. In the first cargo box towed, there is also a man holding a submachine gun in his hand. His legs are outside the cargo box, but the muzzle is aimed at direction of the rear.Immediately afterwards, as the metal quill fell on the page, lines of text appeared below the picture.

Character Identity: Prisoner of War Victor
Return conditions: assist in the construction of the shelter, take a hot bath at least once, and secretly take at least one group photo.

Language task: Before the blizzard comes, assist Kang Tan and others to snatch the half-track motorcycle.

Taking a hot bath is also a task?What happened to the candid photoshoot?And there are language tasks?The Finnish battlefield is indeed a lot of benefits!

Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, and his line of sight was occupied by intense white light. However, unlike before, this time after the white light appeared, there were flashing pictures one after another!

In these flashing pictures, there are Mauser bayonets and titanium alloy sabers in the metal book, binoculars, the Rollei SLR camera, food boxes, three oil drums, portable wine jugs and Soviet cloaks As well as German leather boots and foot wraps, and even a blues harmonica obtained on the Guam battlefield!

Could it be that these are things that can be used this time?
Wei Ran frowned, this is a new function that has not been used before, so how did this function come about?It can't be because of the nickname of the veterinarian before, right?
Before he could figure out the cause and effect, the white light reappeared and then disappeared. At the same time, the roar of the car engine and the sound of sniffling could be heard in his ears, and he also felt bumps under his buttocks. What was ignored was the biting chill!
Gradually, the surrounding voices became clearer and clearer, among them were conversations that he couldn't understand, weak coughs, and even more sniffling and crying murmurs.

At the same time, in his field of vision, a green brilliance appeared indistinctly. Wei Ran knew that it was the aurora, a natural phenomenon that can only be seen at high latitudes.

(End of this chapter)