War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 501 The son of luck and the civet cat for the prince?

At the door of the shelter, with Wei Ran yelling, the four people on the two sleigh cars who had just arrived raised their hands together.

However, as Wei Ran turned on the flashlight that was running out of power, he found that the German soldier sitting on the sleigh cart pulled by the reindeer turned out to be Quentin who had been separated from them for half a month!
"Quentin?!" Gail was the first to call out the other party's name.

"Victor, are you also looking for escaped prisoners of war?"

Quentin lowered his hands and asked solemnly in German. Then he smiled at the person on the other sleigh and said, "It's my own, put your hands down, and park the other sleigh."

Although Kang Tan couldn't understand German, he immediately patted Dorian's shoulder with his hands without any trace based on his rich life experience, and said in French in a low voice, "Quiet".

Wei Ran looked down at the German uniform on his body, and after thinking for a while, he followed the other party's words and said, "I've been looking for it, but there are no clues at all. Quentin, what's going on with these people around you?"

After the two men in charge of driving the sleigh parked the car, Quentin got out of the sleigh with a submachine gun in hand, and explained solemnly, "They are German fur merchants from Bremen, and they were temporarily requisitioned by me. .”

"Fur merchant?"

Wei Ran subconsciously glanced at the tent that was temporarily used as a bathroom not far away, and after thinking for a while, he asked the middle-aged man standing next to the dog sled, "Do you know Erlo? He is also a fur trader from Germany , usually living in Inari, Finland."

As soon as the name was spoken, the face of the middle-aged man changed.And Quentin, who had already walked to Gail with a gun in his hand, said immediately, "You know him? He's Arrow."

"Are you Arrow?"

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, the middle-aged man was about to put his hand into his arms, but unfortunately, before he could take out the things in his arms, Wei Ran grabbed his arm and fell over his shoulder to the ground , and pressed his neck and the other hand with two knees.

At the same time, Gail and Quentin had already pointed their submachine guns at the remaining two people, and Kang Tan even shouted in French in time, "Don't shoot, catch the alive!"

Hearing this, Gail immediately put away his fingers that were already on the trigger, and Quentin and Quentin pointed their guns at the man driving the two sledges, and took the double-barreled shotgun on the sledge.

After easily controlling these three people, Kang Tan immediately asked, "Are there any others?"

"Yes," Quentin immediately responded, "There are four Finnish hunters on the lake outside the forest, and they are camping."

"Go to the shelter first," Kang Tan said, and had already handed the Mauser rifle in his hand to Dorian, "Keep an eye out!"

"Leave it to me!" Dorian took the rifle and went straight to the edge of a pine tree to hide.

Escorting the three people into the shelter, Kang Tan re-lit the kerosene lamp and closed the door, then found a piece of canvas and tore it into long strips, and tied their hands behind their backs.

Until it was confirmed that there was no threat, the three of Wei Ran acted indiscriminately, and found a pistol from each of the three of them.

What's interesting is that the pistols of these three people have not yet been duplicated. The fur merchant named Arrow used a Luger P08 pistol.The remaining two used a P38 pistol and a Radom pistol produced in Poland. Although I don’t know where their weapons came from, they almost perfectly included the three major mainstreams of German equipment during World War II. pistol.

In addition, the three men each hid a sharp Finnish hunting knife in their Lapland boots.

After emptying the weapons of the three prisoners, Gail asked, "Quentin, tell me how you survived these days?"

"It's thanks to these few Germans"

Quentin took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, lit them, took a big puff, and then explained, "It's also my luck. After I separated from you, I led the Germans who were chasing me to wear cigarettes. While passing through a forest, I met some Finnish hunters."

"And then?" Gail also took out a pack of cigarettes and asked.

"I deliberately shot them a few times"

Quentin grinned, tapped his temple and continued, "Those hard-boned Finns immediately returned fire, and then they attracted a large number of firepower. Taking the opportunity, I drove the motorcycle into a valley, and then used a grenade Triggering an avalanche blocked the way back. Gail, you must remember what happened to us in the Alps?"

"You dug a igloo?" Gail asked with wide-eyed eyes.

Quentin nodded, "I drove my motorcycle and hid behind a big rock, and then I used a grenade to trigger an avalanche. Thanks to God's blessing, and thanks to me hiding between the motorcycle and the big rock in advance. Although I was buried under snow, but it wasn't deep, and I could even hear the wind outside."

"And then?" Gail asked.

"I dug a ventilation hole according to the method you taught me, and hid there until the blizzard stopped before re-drilling. Then I dug out the half-track motorcycle and drove it to continue north."

Speaking of this, Quentin pointed to Arrow among the three captives, "Then I met them, thanks to their help, and thanks to the uniforms we snatched at that time. In short, he regarded me as a The German soldiers who were alone in the blizzard wanted to buy me some military weapons, such as grenades, even after rescuing me.

In exchange, I conscripted them in the name of needing to find escaped POWs and claim honor for them if found, and I've been searching north with their help these days.what about you?What happened to you after that?How did you find it here? "

"It wasn't like this before"

Gail sighed, and briefly stated what happened after the separation, the process of building their shelter, and their plans afterwards, then pointed to the scrapped engine placed near the fireplace, and said that it was similar to the sled that had already been made , "The half-track was broken by me. After Victor and I removed the engine, we found that there was no way to repair it. I was going to make some skis and then go to you, and then you came to me."

"It seems that we are all lucky."

Quentin picked up a piece of bread from the wooden board by the fireplace and took a bite, "You made it? It's a bit burnt."

"Boss, don't correct my cooking skills at this time." Gail pretended to complain helplessly, and then laughed at the same time as Quentin.

"Boys, it's time for us to think about what to do next." Kang Tan reminded from the side, "How to solve these people, and whether we should change places."

"These people are indeed troublesome." Quentin frowned and said, "Although they are Germans."

"But he's also a murderer," Wei Ran, who had been silent just now, reminded.

"Murderer?" Everyone looked at Wei Ran in unison.

Seeing this, Wei Ran threw the various documents, passports and other things that had just been seized from the three captives on the table and explained, "We found a corpse hiding under the bathtub in this shelter. Uncle Kantan, and Gail, you must remember the words carved in the bathtub."

"Remember" Kang Tan and Gail Qiqi responded, and then they realized it and said in unison, "Is he the fur merchant?"

Wei Ran spread his hands, "Look at his reaction just now, it should be."

"What are you talking about?" Quentin asked puzzled.

"Let me explain!"

Gail grabbed the topic and recounted the corpse and bathtub they found, as well as the inscription that Wei Ran told them back then.

"Compared to these, Victor, how can you speak German?" Quentin asked suspiciously.

"I'm also curious about this," Gail said, "he can speak Finnish, and I made it up because of him."

"I used to be a translator." Wei Ran gave an impeccable excuse, "from Dunkirk."

"Ailuo, have you really burned someone here, and even snatched his wife and daughter?" Quentin frowned and asked in German, apparently not really caring about Wei Ran's identity.

"It's just Finns, who cares?"

The eyes of the middle-aged Erlo showed a look of cruelty, "Did you speak French just now? Who are you? Quentin, let us go, maybe I can let you and your friends leave Finland alive, If you can pay a price that pleases me, I can even send you to the Soviet Union."

"You don't have to bother me with this kind of thing"

After a moment of silence, Quentin sneered and said, "But in other matters, you can do us a little favor."

"What's the matter?" Ai Luo, the fur merchant, asked with narrowed eyes.

Hearing this, Quentin did not answer his question, but switched back to French and said, "Kantan, and Gail, I have an idea, maybe we can exchange identities with them."

"What do you want to do?" Kang Tan asked, frowning.

"Cunning selfish Jew." Wei Ran muttered to himself, already guessing what the other party wanted to do.

“The Germans will always find it here”

In a tone of voice, Quentin shook the various documents that Wei Ran had just found from the captives, and said in a flat tone, "These murderers will always be punished, since that's the case, why don't we let them stay here instead of us.

In exchange, how about we use their identities to temporarily become fur traders until the end of the war?And I know where their stronghold is, the conditions there are at least better than here. "

"But."

"They're always going to die"

Quentin put down his documents and said, "They don't die, we are the ones who die. Of course, if he really burned someone else here and took away his wife and daughter, then maybe he lives Many more people will be burned by him."

"This..." Kang Tan frowned, but fell into hesitation for a moment.

"Gail, how about you help me?" Quentin turned his head and asked.

"I don't have any psychological burden on killing Germans." While speaking, Gail had already picked up the pistol on the table.

"No no no" Quentin waved his hand, "We can't kill them with guns."

"Using a knife?" While speaking, Gail had already picked up the Mauser bayonet on the table.

"Smother them"

Quentin gave a more brutal answer, "And then we sealed the shelter with snow, like they were smothered by snow."

"But." Gail also frowned, "Quentin, isn't this too cruel? Even if he is a murderer"

"cruel?"

Quentin snorted coldly, "Why didn't they think about whether it was cruel when they took my son away? Why didn't they think about whether it was cruel when they took our family and us away? What did my son do wrong? He wouldn’t even hurt a mouse that ran into the kitchen, but where is my son? Isn’t he more innocent?”

Having said that, Quentin looked at the silent Kang Tan, "Uncle Kang Tan, I remember you once said that your wife and..."

"do not talk!"

Before he finished speaking, Kang Tan picked up a piece of leftover bear skin, stepped forward and covered the mouth and nose of the middle-aged man named Eruo!

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