War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 52 Escape from the Taiga Forest

With the second gunshot, Ji Ma stood up and held the gun, greeted Wei Ran and ran into the depths of the coniferous forest behind him.On the other hand, Akim and others, after being shot by the reindeer, they immediately realized the danger, and they lay down on the snow without daring to stand up.

Outside of these two sides, the bearded old man who was first sent by Akim was hiding behind a small slope at this time, using the scope to calmly stare at the fleeing man hundreds of meters away. two people.

Unexpectedly, after the old man put the front sight of the scope on the back of Ji Ma's heart several times, he finally turned his gun and pulled the trigger decisively at his companion Akim!

Amid the crisp gunshots, Akim, who was urging him to the stage, was shot in the head immediately, and the entire back of his head exploded, staining the surrounding snow red.

The other three were stunned, and hurriedly got up and ran into the building behind them, but even the one closest to the door was tens of meters away from the door when it fell down.

After getting rid of his companion, the bearded old man didn't rush to kill Wei Ran and Jima. Instead, he walked to Akim's side and took out a suit from the backpack he always carried. Canning jar full of gold dust.

"Thank you for helping me pan for gold, I will avenge you."

After the old man put on a show, he calmly stuffed the canned jar full of Jinsha into his bag, and then, carrying a gun, followed the footprints left by Wei Ran and Jima, and chased after him calmly. up.

On the other side, after hearing the first gunshot from behind, Ji Ma frowned immediately, and took Wei Ran to hide behind a waist-thick pine tree.

"Something's wrong." Jima raised his binoculars before the second shot was fired. "It sounds like an SVD!"

"It seems that an old man used this gun yesterday, right?" Wei Ran immediately matched the gun with the person, "But who is he hitting?"

"I can't see it because of the tree, but no matter who it is, let's change the direction and you go ahead of me." After Jima finished speaking, he pulled out the ax in his waist and chopped off a pine branch from the pine tree, cleaning the two of them while walking. Footprints left behind.

Under the guidance of the former, Wei Ran quickened his pace until they turned over a small hill only ten meters high with panting, and then Ji Ma took off his snowshoes and climbed onto a tall mountain not far away. pine.

"Victor, stay away." Jima's voice came from the dense pine needles.

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately took a few steps back, and then saw a bulging sack thrown from the canopy by the former.

"What is this?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"An anti-tank mine in a beast trap! I designed it myself."

While talking, Ji Ma quickly came down from the tree, and while cutting open the sack with an axe, he explained, "These are the traps I prepared for hunting bears in the summer, and now they can only be given to the people behind us. Use it."

"Why can't you beat people into two quarters at once?"

Wei Ran's eyes widened, watching Ji Ma take out four animal clips that were half the size of a washbasin from the sack, and the closely arranged steel teeth on them were each the size of a matchbox!

What's even more exaggerated is that looking at the joystick that Jima pinned to his belt, if this horrible thing wants to open, I'm afraid it must be done with the help of that joystick like a simple jack!How powerful is this?Is this thing a bear hunt, or is it just for bear paws?

"Get me two"

Jima didn't care so much, he had already stuffed the sacks into his backpack while talking, and even carefully cleaned the snow rubbed up on the tree trunk and the debris scattered around with pine branches, and then Put two animal clips connected by chains on the shoulders.

Wei Ran next to him took a beast clip with both hands. This beast clip looks scary, and the weight is not low. Each one weighs more than ten to twenty kilograms. Even the chains connected to it are as thick as fingers!

Carrying these two heavy things and walking forward for hundreds of meters, Ji Ma held up the binoculars and glanced behind him. Seeing that the other party hadn't caught up for a while, he immediately placed a beast trap in the snow, and then He carefully sprinkled the snow, and after carefully cleaning with pine branches to remove the last traces, he even pulled a metal button from the padded jacket and put it on the snow beside him.

"Let's go!"

After finishing all this work, Ji Ma pointed in a direction to signal Wei Ran to move on, but before he reached 20 meters, he placed a trap again.

This time, he even put aside the pine branches that he had been holding in his hand to clean up the traces, and beckoned to Wei Ran to run in the direction he had chosen in advance.

The snowshoes under their feet left conspicuous marks on the soft snow again, but Ji Ma didn't seem to care, as if he didn't worry that the people behind would catch up.

"Have we walked all the way to Inta?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice, "Continuing in this direction seems to only lead us farther and farther away from Inta."

"Your sense of direction is pretty good," Jima said in surprise, "I thought you'd lost your way a long time ago."

Wei Ran pointed to the dim sunlight above his head, "At least the sun is still there, can you admit it? Besides, you haven't answered my question yet."

Jima simply stopped, opened a beast clip and placed it on the snow, then signaled Wei Ran not to let go of the latches on both sides, while he stepped on the firing disc directly, leaving a conspicuous footprint, and then He replaced Wei Ran and signaled him to step on the animal trap in a normal gait, and then unhurriedly pulled out the tenon and explained, "There is a hunter's cabin at most four kilometers in front of us, let's go there Hide and wait for someone to pick us up."

"Do you want to call the police?" Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he noticed the mocking expression on the other party's face.

"Call the police? The police in this ghost place are not as reliable as the gang members. Maybe if you hang up the call to the police, they will be found by the other party."

Jima snorted coldly, and carefully covered the redundant footprints of the two with snow, then took out a tape measure and measured it. At the position on the left side of the footprints that had not been stepped on, he dug out a large enough hole horizontally from the side, and carefully After stuffing the last animal trap in and cleaning up the traces extra carefully, he borrowed Wei Ran's scarf and scratched lightly on the other side of the footprints a few times.

"Okay, let's go." Ji Ma returned the scarf to Wei Ran, quickened his pace and continued to move towards the so-called hunter's hut.

And behind them, the old man with a gray beard had just climbed up to the small high ground where Ji Ma once hid the beast trap.

After observing the faintly visible traces on the snow, the old man let out a cold snort in disdain, then raised his gun to observe the distant scene, until he was sure that there were no shadows of Wei Ran and Ji Ma in the field of vision of the scope. Only then resentfully put away the gun, and continued to chase after the traces left by the two of them.

However, after a hundred meters, the old man suddenly took back the steps he had already taken, bent over and carefully looked at the buttons lying on the snow, then he picked up the snow and formed a snowball, and moved towards the front of him. Throw it out.

"Snapped!"

With a series of crackling sounds of sparks and green smoke, the old man frowned and looked at the beast trap that almost jumped up, and subconsciously took a step back.

After hesitating for a moment, he stretched out his hand to pick up the beast clamp and made gestures on his leg, then took out four magazines for the SVD sniper rifle from his bag, and after ejecting the bullets one by one, he used two He rolled the gauze cloth and fixed it on his two legs together with the pine sticks cut around him. Finally, he picked up the animal trap again for comparison, and then he cut a stick from the surrounding pine trees as a detective. Lu Bang, continue to chase the traces left by the opponent.

When he saw the pine branch discarded by Ji Ma, he didn't even try to remove the animal trap, and turned to the side for a distance of five or six meters to avoid it.From then on, the traces left on the snow became more and more obvious, and the old man also quickened his pace, while staring at the clues left in the snow more intently.

However, this time, his good luck was gone. When he walked around a footprint that had obviously been processed, he glanced at the slight traces of cleaning on the right side of the footprint, and subconsciously took a step to the left, preparing to use his hands He had figured out how Ji Ma arranged the traps, and with the weight of the traps, the two of them probably couldn't carry a few.

However, when he took the step to the left and stuffed it into the snow, with a crisp "click", the last animal trap that Ji Ma dug out from the side and buried in the snow was activated, slamming Bite the old man's left leg!

There was a crisp sound of "Pa!", and the piercing pain immediately made the old man let out a cry of pain, and then fell down in the thick snow.

He struggled to break off the animal trap, but without the joystick that Ji Ma had always pinned to his backpack, the huge bite force would not even allow a bear to open it, let alone a human being.

And even though he had made preparations before, this unexpectedly huge force not only caused the two empty magazines to be pierced by the steel teeth, but even the wooden stick on the inner side was broken into two sections.Even the edge of the facing bone was oozing blood!

Trying to get up and dragging the animal trap that could not be removed, he walked forward two cloths. The pain and weight on his calf made his gait crooked, but fortunately, at least the moment just now did not Break the calf.

Frowning and looking at the animal trap that was biting him, the old man shook his head helplessly, he could only limped to a pine tree with thick arms not far away, and swung his ax vigorously while chopping down the tree. He greeted the women of Jima's family cursingly.

Of course, Ji Ma didn't care about this, he was urging Wei Ran to speed up his pace, exhausted towards the destination.

"Jima, how far is it?" Wei Ran asked panting, they had been running in the snow for half an hour, but they didn't even see the shadow of the so-called hunter's hut.

"It's not far, it's not far." Ji Ma wiped the sweat from his forehead, "It's just ahead, you can see it when you walk around the hill!"

"go!"

Wei Ran gritted his teeth, and continued to rush towards the small highland not far away, while Ji Ma first looked back with the binoculars and saw that there were no shadows of pursuers, so he quickly caught up with Wei Ran.

After the two exhaustedly climbed up the hill and slid down the gentle slope on the other side, a low wooden house less than 20 square meters finally appeared in the left field of vision of the two.

After cautiously walking around the wooden house, Ji Ma immediately used the key to unlock the padlock of the wooden house, and beckoned Wei Ran to go in.

There are not many things in this wooden house, just a rough wooden bed, a stone fireplace, firewood stuffed under the bed, and pots and pans hanging on the wall.

Ji Ma knelt on the ground with his butt pouted, pulled out a piece of firewood from under the bed, and then pulled out an inconspicuous tin box from inside.

Opening the box, Wei Ran was surprised that besides a car radio, there was actually a small hand-cranked generator inside!

Handing the hand generator to Wei Ran, Ji Ma put the car radio in his arms, then took the gun and said, "Let's go back to the top of the mountain bag, where the signal is the best."

"When did you prepare this?" Wei Ran dropped his backpack and asked while running with Ji Ma with the main generator in his arms.

“Always take responsibility for the safety of my guests”

Jima replied with a smile, "These things have been there since the first time I brought guests here to hunt, and I ask local friends to check them for me almost every month."

"Fine Hair"

Wei Ran muttered, and stepped on Ji Ma's footsteps, and climbed up the small dirt bag that had just slipped down.

"You come to generate electricity"

Ji Ma skillfully connected the power supply to the generator, and when Wei Ran started to shake the handle and the green light on the generator turned on, he turned on the power of the radio, adjusted to a familiar frequency and started calling.

It took less than 1 minutes before and after, and the radio channel actually gave a response!Next, Ji Ma communicated with the other party in slang that Wei Ran could not understand, and then simply turned off the radio.

"Okay, just wait, the other party will arrive in two hours at most."

"In other words, this channel has been listened to?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.

"Remember the grocery store where I rented the car?"

Jima looked straight at Wei Ran, "We hunters who bring guests over to play, each have to pay him [-] rubles a month to listen to the radio station. And let him rescue once, and we have to pay extra Rescue costs of one hundred thousand rubles per person."

"Understood, I will pay the money, right?" Wei Ran asked helplessly.

"Generous and smart Chinese people" Ji Ma didn't know whether he was joking or praised, and before Wei Ran could say anything, he had already slid down the small high ground holding the radio station again.

After the two returned to the hunter's hut and waited for more than an hour, the engine roared from far to near, seven or eight snowmobiles leaped out of the dense forest, and stopped at the door of the hunter's hut with beautiful tail flicks. on the clearing.

It wasn't until the men and women on the motorcycle who were carrying all kinds of rifles and even shotguns got down, that Ji Ma, who had been holding the guns on the window, opened the door.

"A ticket of [-] rubles, cash is required." While the owner of the grocery store who had been waiting at the door spoke, he also stretched out the cotton hat he had taken off in front of Jima and Wei Ran.

Seeing that Ji Ma nodded towards him, Wei Ran put a few big tickets prepared in advance in his hat.

The friendly grocery store owner glanced at the cash in the hat, and directly put the hat on his big bald head by bending over and bowing slightly, "Boys, get in the car, we can reach Inta in about an hour." .”

"By the way, help us arrange a hotel and dinner." Ji sycophantly stepped onto the snowmobile of a huntress, and hugged the waist of the huntress while the other party laughed and scolded.

"No problem, the best hotel in Inta, the best dinner." The grocery store owner finished speaking, and after Wei Ran got on the snowmobile, he immediately turned the accelerator and was the first to rush out.

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