War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 546 Loyal and Brave Felix?
Over the desert where the temperature dropped sharply, the cold moonlight provided the only illumination. In the shadow of a sand dune, Wei Ran huddled in the sand with residual heat, and carefully looked at Fei, a hundred meters away, with the help of a telescope. Lex and the survivor Leon who acts as a coolie.

Although Wei Ran was terribly cold because of his thin clothes, he chose a good position. At this moment, the waning moon was in the night sky behind him, so there was no need to worry about the telescope reflecting any light.

At the same time, his hiding place happened to be shrouded in the shadow of a sand dune, so as long as he didn't destroy the outline of the sand dune's waistline, he didn't have to worry about being discovered.

In the field of view enlarged by the telescope, Felix, who had been walking behind with a gun in his hand from the beginning to the end, also called Leon to stop at the foot of a stone hill that was only ten meters high.

Perhaps because of the perennial wind and sand erosion, this small stone mountain looks like a stunted mushroom, with a slender waist and a huge head. It seems that as long as there is another strong wind, it will fall. Like a brain.

However, at the foot of this hill, there is still a circle of sparse desert shrubs growing, so that even Wei Ran, who is a hundred meters away, can't help but associate the image of this hill with some kind of stuff that is passed on from generation to generation Together.

Under the peeping of Wei Ran and the force of Felix's weapon, Leon reluctantly dragged the gold on the long chair to the foot of the mountain, and dug out the gold with his bare hands on the soft sand. A ditch barely enough to bury the gold box.

"Felix, we can cooperate." Leon tried to persuade Felix while pushing the box full of gold bricks into the dug trench, "We just need to ask from the mouth of the navigator"

"The gold belongs to General Rommel"

Felix corrected without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, "No one has the right to possess them privately. They will be shipped back to China to help us win the war."

Leon, who turned his back to Felix, curled his lips and secretly grabbed a handful of fine sand several times, but in the end, because of his timidity, he honestly completed the work of burying the golden box.

"I remember there is a Belgian in your team?" Felix asked Leon as he walked back, "Is it the one stuck in the quicksand?"

"No"

Leon reluctantly replied, "The one who fell into the quicksand seems to be a German too. The surveyor from Belgium you mentioned is dead, and he killed the two soldiers under your command."

"What's his name?" Felix continued to ask, completely unaware that "the man who had fallen into the quicksand" was hiding in a shadow less than ten meters away from them.

"Which one?"

Leon asked back, "The man who fell into the quicksand seems to be called Victor. He is also a surveyor and was only sent to work in the camp more than a month ago."

"What about the other one?" Felix asked as if chatting, "What's the name of the Belgian who killed two of my soldiers?"

"Rouse"

Leon asked with a trace of sarcasm, "What? Are you going to judge his family? I'm afraid you will be disappointed. His family may have been arrested by you long ago."

"Is that so?" Felix responded in a flat tone, as if he didn't hear the former's ridicule.

"Captain Felix, can I ask you a few questions?" Leon asked boldly.

"What question?" Felix waved his hand gently, "If it's not an important question, I'll answer it for you."

Hearing this, Leon hesitated for a moment, then simply stopped, "We have been working in that camp for at least half a year, are you here to pick us up this time, are you going to kill us?"

"If you want to kill you, there is no need to waste the precious capacity of the transport plane."

While Felix was speaking, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and gave one to Leon, "We need your help to build a transit airport in the middle of the desert."

"Build a transit airport?" Leon took the cigarette and lighter, "Don't we have an airport?"

"But I heard from the crew that there are always sandstorms near the camp because of the terrain, isn't it?"

Felix simply sat on the upside-down chair, motioned for Leon to sit down as well, and then continued, "Moreover, several transport planes have crashed in the past six months. After the airport is built, it will be possible in the future The transportation between the camp and the airport is connected by car, which not only improves the safety a lot, but also allows you to get more timely supplies."

"I hope I can live until then." Leon shook his head helplessly, obviously not having much hope for this.

"You will live until then"

Felix patted Leon's shoulder with rare affection, "Although our plane crashed, as long as we bring back the location of these goods, as long as your performance satisfies me, maybe you will get a Medal."

Leon was more courageous at this time, and he spoke more recklessly, "I want a gold brick more."

"Those gold bricks don't belong to any of us," Felix emphasized seriously.

"You really deserve the trust of General Rommel."

"It's time for us to go"

Felix reached out and ripped the cigarette out of Leon's mouth, then stood up and picked up the P38 pistol in his hand again.

Leon pouted, picked up the paracord again, pulled the long chair and walked back.When the two walked away, Wei Ran also sat up from the yellow sand where he was hiding.

The brief exchange between the two just now revealed a lot of key information, a camp that seems to produce gold, and a transit airport specially built for this camp.Reminiscent of the heavy curtains and blindfolds that covered the portholes on the plane, all this made him more curious about what kind of secrets Felix still had hidden in his heart.

Following the footsteps when he came back to the vicinity of the plane that was forced to land, Leon had already fixed all the remaining five boxes of gold on the chair.

At the same time, Felix also removed another chair, supported the navigator to lie on it, and put all the submachine gun ammunition he had found into a bag and placed it behind the navigator.

"Should I follow this time?" Morris, the navigator with a submachine gun in his hand, asked puzzled.

"certainly"

While Felix was speaking, he had already found the body of Laws under the guidance of Leon. He dug out a document and a group photo from his pocket, put them in his pocket with a natural expression, and then continued, "You also need to know where the gold is hidden, and I think, as the navigator, you must be able to locate the specific location of the gold more accurately than Leon and me, which can provide important help for recovering the gold in the future. "

While talking, Felix rummaged through the corpses around him, took away some things that might be useful, and then ordered, "Leon, come here and do me a favor, send all their corpses back The cabin."

Leon, who was pointed at by the navigator with a gun from the beginning to the end, put down his hands with a sad face, and together with Felix, sent the corpses that were lifted during the day back to the cabin one by one, and even Felix closed the slightly deformed cabin. Door.

In the end, he stuffed a small amount of fresh water and cans into an empty suitcase and tied them on a chair. Felix threw a water bottle left in advance to Leon, "Drink less, this is your next two daily water intake."

"Are we not coming back?" Leon asked belatedly.

"While we still have strength, we can walk more, and it is always more comfortable at night than during the day."

Felix put the paracord on his shoulder in a flat tone, and blatantly reminded, "Morris, you stare at Leon. Leon, you go ahead."

Hearing this, Leon, who had just unscrewed the kettle and took a sip, quickly tightened the lid, and finally asked, "Felex, can I find some warm clothes?"

"I'll give you two minutes." While speaking, Felix had already drawn out his pistol again.

Seeing this, Leon immediately trotted to the side of the pile of suitcases at the door of the cabin. Under the supervision of Felix, he dug out a wooden suitcase wrapped in leather and took out a set of thick suitcases from it. change of clothes.

"This is your box?" While speaking, Felix had already picked up a Zeiss telescope from the box.

"right"

Leon hesitated for a moment, pointed to the telescope in the opponent's hand and asked, "Can you return it to me? It was left to me by my father. He once participated in World War I and was an artillery commander."

Hearing this, Felix happily handed over the telescope in his hand, then bent down and picked up a small mirror the size of a palm, "Can you give this to me?"

"Of course." Leon quickly took the telescope and hung it around his neck, "The mirror is yours now."

"Find a piece of cloth to wrap the lens." Felix picked up a towel, wrapped the mirror in his hand and put it in his arms, and reminded, "The wind and sand in the desert will scratch the lens."

Leon was stunned for a moment, and immediately took out a pair of socks, and put them on the two lens barrels respectively.

"Morris, is the radio on the plane still working?"

While Felix was asking questions, he also dug out a few blankets and pants from the rest of the suitcases or bags and handed them to Morris, who was paralyzed.

"No way to use it"

Morris shook his head. "The radio is broken. It and the pilot and co-pilot are buried in the cockpit now, but before the forced landing, I have sent out a distress signal."

"In this case, let's go. Leon, you pull the gold and walk in front of me."

As Felix said, he even set the pile of luggage at the door of the cabin on fire!

"What are you doing!" Leon asked with rounded eyes.

"Nothing, let's go quickly, you walk in front of me." Felix put away the lighter without haste, but did not give a detailed explanation.

Seeing this, Leon picked up the paracord angrily, and took the remaining five boxes of gold with a chair and walked with difficulty.

Felix took out his cigarette case, lit two cigarettes, and stuffed one of them into the mouth of the navigator Morris.

"What are you worried about?" the navigator Morris asked after taking a cigarette and taking a sip.

"You'll find out later"

While responding in a low voice, Felix had already bent down to pick up the parachute rope connected to the chair and carried it on his shoulders, dragging the paralyzed navigator Morris and all the supplies of the three people behind Leon.

Watching the group of three go away, Wei Ran, who had been suppressing the chill and lying on the top of the sand dune, did not move, but still held up his binoculars to watch the direction in which they disappeared.

A moment later, a black figure turned over the sand dune from another direction, and approached cautiously.

"I knew you were fishing"

Wei Ran murmured to himself that since Felix lit those luggage, he has already raised his vigilance.Looking at it now, it was the right choice for him not to rush over to pick up clothes to keep out the cold!

At the same time, Felix's overly cautious attitude also made him postpone the idea of ​​meeting and negotiating with the other party and working together to escape from this desert.

Next to the wreckage of the transport plane, Felix turned on the flashlight and carefully inspected the sand around the campfire. Seeing that there were no footprints, he resolutely shone the flashlight beam around until he couldn't find anything. Toward the direction of Leon and Morris.

Waiting patiently for nearly half an hour, until the three of them had completely disappeared from the field of vision of the telescope, Wei Ran, who was almost frozen to death, stood up immediately, and ran all the way without caring about shaking off the already cold sand on his body rushed to the wreckage of the transport plane.

(End of this chapter)