War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 492 Brown Bear's Hibernation Room
Struggling to jump out of the car, Wei Ran picked up a ball of snow and placed it on the water tank cover, the piercing water vapor immediately evaporated and blurred the gas mask lenses on his face.

"I didn't notice." Gail said regretfully.

"Put some snow in it and try to start it."

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he looked at the surrounding environment, and then realized that this is not the long and narrow lake where the later generation Akim flew the plane to land!
When he was distracted, Gail had already unscrewed the hot water tank cap, jumped out of the car, picked up a ball of snow and stuffed it in.

However, after he and Wei Ran had been busy for more than ten minutes, although the temperature of the engine had dropped, the half-track was completely stuck and unable to start!
"Blame me, blame me!" Gail became more and more regretful. After losing this half-track, they couldn't go far at all!
"It's okay Gail"

Kang Tan, who had also woken up, glanced at his watch, "We've gone far enough, now let's find a place to set up a tent and survive."

"Go there!"

Eager to make up for his mistake, Gail pointed to the forest not far away, "The terrain there looks higher. Although I don't know what the situation is inside, at least there shouldn't be too much snow."

"then go there"

Kang Tan looked at the two cargo tanks that were not full, hesitated for a moment and said, "Take both of these cargo tanks, there are sleds on them, we should be able to pull them, and take all the cargo tanks that can be carried." Bring everything."

"Would you like some hot water?"

Wei Ran had already lifted the engine hood while speaking, "Maybe it's not very clean, but the snow that was put into the water tank just now should have melted, even if it can't be drunk, at least it can be used as a warm water bag in the kettle. "

“Good offer”

Kang Tan looked worriedly at Dorian who was still in a coma, put his finger into the gap between his gas mask and his forehead, frowned and said, "Dorian has a fever."

"Then let's move quickly, Gail, give me the kettle, and then you pack the bucket." Wei Ran said, he had found the hose connected to the water tank, but then he noticed that the hose was Water leaks out at an extremely fast rate.

No wonder.
Wei Ran muttered to himself, took the kettle handed by Gail and moved it to the side of the hose, and poured the scalding snow water that had just been melted and heated by the high temperature of the engine into the kettle.

It's a pity that he discovered the water leak too late after all, so the leaking hose had already dried up before a pot of water was poured in.

After tightening the lid, Wei Ran stuffed the hot kettle into Dorian's arms.Meanwhile, Kinn and Gale had dumped everything onto a sled trailer, and loaded the unconscious Dorian into the emptied cargo box.

"Kang Tan, are your legs okay?" Wei Ran was already pulling the heaviest one with a rope to take a step while speaking.

"It's okay, I'm fine"

While speaking, Kang Tan limped and helped Gail pull the sled bucket under Dorian forward.

After walking less than two or three meters, they belatedly noticed that under the knee-deep snow, the tires on the front of the car had actually touched the shore of the frozen lake.

After struggling to drag the two sleds ashore, the guilty Gail stepped up and walked in the front, like a yak, opening the way for Wei Ran behind him and Kang Tan who was pushing the sled forward.

Glancing at Dorian who was still unconscious in the cargo compartment in front, and looking at the sled marks behind him, Wei Ran greeted Kang Tan, then stopped, untied the pine branches fixed at the rear of the car, and leaned on the With the skills learned from Hongqi Forest Farm, they carefully cleaned up the traces left on the ground from the shore of the lake to the coniferous forest, and even used the shovel in the trailer to barely bury the semi Caterpillar.

Cleaning all the way and walking forward, Wei Ran's speed is undoubtedly much slower than the three Gails in front.But after all, this place has only been here not long ago, and with the sledge marks that need to be cleaned up, there is no need to worry about getting separated from them.

However, when he hid behind a pine tree and verified that the items that could be taken out of the metal book were exactly the same as those seen in the screens before entering the battlefield, Gail and others Suddenly, there was a clear gunshot from the direction!

"broken!"

Wei Ran immediately put away the last blues harmonica, struggled to get up and ran towards Kang Tan and the others.

However, after running [-] meters, Wei Ran, who didn't hear the second gunshot, stopped. After hesitating for a moment, he turned around and ran back to the sled tow he had left behind, and hid in the place where he had just hidden. Behind the pine tree, he took out the telescope in the metal book and looked in the direction he came from.

5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, half an hour, until Gail trotted over to look for it, Wei Ran put away the telescope.Fortunately, the gunshot just now did not seem to have attracted the attention of the pursuers.

"Why are you still here?" Gail asked out of breath.

"See if the gunshot will attract the Germans." Wei Ran stood up and asked, "What happened just now?"

"Brown Bear!"

Gail pulled off the gas mask on his face, and said with a hint of surprise in his tone, "We found a brown bear! It was hiding in an abandoned house. It woke up as soon as I turned on the flashlight. Fortunately, Kantan immediately Give it a shot!"

Speaking of this, Gail pointed to the remaining blood on the hem of his clothes with lingering fear, "The shot went through its ears and eyes and into its brain, otherwise my legs might be bitten off by it."

"It's good luck." Wei Ran couldn't help but shook his head.

"We're really lucky!"

Gail said happily, "Although the house collapsed and only half of the wall remained, at least it was warm enough inside. The brown bear laid a thick layer of pine branches inside."

"And within a short period of time, there is no shortage of food."

Wei Ran said dumbfoundedly, and secretly lamented how lucky these few people were.But maybe it was because of luck, and Quentin who took the initiative to lead the pursuers away, that they were able to escape here and build a shelter.

"You and I think of it together!"

Gail said here but lost again, "It would be great if... if Quentin was here, he will definitely cook a lot of delicious food for us."

"His cooking skills are good?" Wei Ran asked by picking up the rope tied to the sled trailer and carrying it on his shoulder.

Gail put on the gas mask again, helped drag the bucket forward and explained, "Quentin is a chef, he can cook French and German dishes, but unfortunately, he is a Jew."

"What about you?" Wei Ran asked while dragging the trailer forward, "Are you a Jew too?"

"I'm not Jewish, but I'm half-Gypsy, and besides, I'm Quentin's apprentice."

Galton continued, "You know Strasbourg, right? Our restaurant is there. Of course, it was later occupied by the Germans."

"Where's Kang Tan?" Wei Ran asked, "And Dorian."

“Uncle Quentin seems to be from Paris”

After Gail glanced, he continued, "Dorian seems to be from the countryside of Lille, that's all I know. Victor, what about you? Where are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?"

"I was in another car before." Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, and said with a hint of mischief, "I'm from Dunkirk, you know Dunkirk, right?"

"of course I know"

There was an undisguised sarcasm in Gail's tone, "Didn't those Brits escape from somewhere in 40 years? I heard that they escaped so fast that their shoes couldn't even catch up with their owners."

"It's really fast." Wei Ran teased with a smile, "Not only the shoes, but also the underwear."

Gail snorted. "God knows, you can expect a rooster to give a dog a beautiful daughter with big breasts, but never expect a Brit to do what a man should do."

No wonder the British were the pioneers of milk law after World War II
Wei Ran muttered to himself that the long-standing grievances between Britain and France almost started with the international etiquette of raising the middle finger.

But fortunately, perhaps it was precisely because the topic was brought up on the British guy that it made Gail feel a little better, and he finally let go of his worries about Quentin for the time being.

In the midst of inconclusive chatter, the two pulled the sled trailer and finally stopped in the middle of a small glade.

Compared with later generations, there is indeed an abandoned house here, but most of the walls of this house have collapsed and been buried in the snow. What can be seen today is only one side less than one meter high, with a There is a hole in the stone wall, and the big scary brown bear carcass outside the hole.

In addition, not too far from the house, there are two logs crossed together. Although they are also covered with snow, it can still be seen that the thickest one They are almost the size of an oil barrel, even the thin one below is at least as thick as a waist.

"You are finally back." Kang Tan breathed a sigh of relief immediately after seeing Wei Ran, "No one is chasing you?"

"Not yet"

Wei Ran shook his head, turned on the flashlight and looked around the brown bear's body. This big man looked like it weighed at least four to five hundred kilograms, but the thick layer of fur on his body had already been held by a hand Most of Uncle Kantan's Mauser bayonet was peeled off.

"Come in and get warm!"

Kang Tan put his hands into the belly of the brown bear, warmed his hands with the warmth of the remaining body, and at the same time said with a strong voice, "I have to peel off the skin before it is completely frozen. With this bear skin , at least it keeps us warmer, and the bear fat on it is precious."

"I'll help you!"

While Gail was speaking, he had dug out a captured Finnish hunting knife from the sled trailer that had just been pulled over, "I've killed goats in Quentin's restaurant before, so I know how to do it."

"I'm here to help too"

Wei Ran took off the gas mask on his face while speaking, and then took out the Mauser bayonet in the metal book under the cover of the cloak, "I skinned the reindeer."

"I'm glad to have your help, Gail, come and help me. Victor, you'd better go inside to see Dorian first, he's not in a good condition." While speaking, Kang Tan had already taken the He took up the bloody bayonet and continued the unfinished skinning work.

"Then I'll go take a look"

Wei Ran put away his bayonet and got into the hole, and then began to regret why he took off his gas mask just now. The triangular space in this hole is not too big, but it is full of bad feces, and he is still curled up in his sleeping bag Dorian in the movie also occupied the position that originally belonged to the brown bear.

He reached out and touched the hot forehead of the other party. After thinking for a while, Wei Ran drilled out of the hole and dug a handful of snow, put it into the canvas pocket originally used to store the canister of the gas mask, and spread it on Dorian's on the forehead.

Even without the medical knowledge learned at the Hongqi Forest Farm, and just relying on common sense in life, he knew that this young man who looked at most seventeen or eighteen years old undoubtedly had a cold due to low-temperature typhoid fever.In addition, there may be physical exhaustion caused by long-term malnutrition.Obviously, the easiest way now is to find a way to get him some hot food.

(End of this chapter)