War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 549 Leon's Choice
The second night in the desert was still bitterly cold, but Leon, who was walking in the front, was already sweating profusely from exhaustion.

"Morris, do we have to climb up this sand beam?" Leon asked while dragging the chair with hands and feet while climbing to the top of the sand beam that stretched to the end of the field of vision.

"It saves a lot of time, and it saves you a lot of walking." While Morris, who was lying on the chair, responded, his finger was still on the trigger of the submachine gun.

"You can't trust Felix either, can you?"

Leon asked in a low voice while tugging vigorously, "Morris, you have a gun in your hand, you can completely solve Felix's, so that the remaining water and cans are enough for the two of us to eat." .I swear, I"

"Even if you invite General Rommel to testify, I won't believe you."

The navigator Morris refused without waiting for the other party to finish, "So shut up, otherwise I don't mind letting Mr. Felix talk to you."

"Hope you're pointing in the right direction"

Leon decisively changed the subject, but continued to complain, "It's been a whole day, and I only ate a third of the canned food, and you're still so heavy, I'm almost out of strength."

"If you really can't drag it, just say it in time"

Morris responded indifferently, "If you lose value, there will be one less person who needs to eat. In this way, maybe Felix and I can persist for a few more days."

"Why don't you want to believe me?" Leon's tone became more and more irritated, "The two of us can leave this desert as well."

"Felix?" Morris yelled in a moderate voice, quite a bit like opening the door to let the dog go, or the posture of the dog taking advantage of others.

"forget it"

Leon seemed to be full of stamina in an instant, and he dragged the long chair to the top of the not-so-high sand beam in two or three strokes, "Shall we continue to move forward?"

"Go ahead," Morris immediately responded, letting Leon ride on the upside-down chair and slide down together.

But on the other side of the sand beam that the two of them had just turned over, Felix stopped, took out a bright silver pocket watch from his pocket, and glanced at the jumping hands in the center of the dial.Immediately afterwards, he immediately put away his pocket watch, tightened the rope and began to climb over the sand beam.

Less than a hundred meters away, Wei Ran also put away the binoculars, took out the heavy compass from his pocket and placed it on the sand in front of him. When the air bubbles in the dial reached the center, the pointer also hovered down.

"Still heading north."

Wei Ran looked up at the clean night sky, unhurriedly took out the oil drum filled with cold beer from the metal notebook, and took out the preserved coconut shell from the net bag, carefully picked up a glass of beer and put it in his stomach Count as a refreshment.

Glancing at the time on the watch, Wei Ran put away the coconut shell that served as a wine glass, and followed while counting his steps.

It was another night of seldom-stopped driving, and when the sky turned gray again, the three of Felix stopped their tired footsteps near a Gobi desert densely covered with weathered gravel.

"Felix, shouldn't we have something to eat?" Leon asked feebly, "I'm so hungry that my eyes are blurred."

"Bring here your glass"

While Felix was speaking, he had already taken out a tin can from the long chair behind him.

Hearing this, Leon immediately untied the kettle hanging from his waist, took off the matching cup and handed it over, licking his lips and waiting for the food that was about to be distributed.

At the same time, behind a sand dune less than 200 meters away, Wei Ran also opened the last can in the net bag, and ate it slowly with the beer poured into the coconut shell. From time to time, he would also raise the telescope, Take a look in the direction of Felix et al.

Compared with yesterday, this time, Felix did not borrow Leon's telescope to observe the surrounding situation, apparently dispelling his guard against the possibility of someone following him.This is of course good news for Wei Ran, and even drank an extra bowl of beer extravagantly.

After filling his stomach, Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, put the tin can into the net pocket, and carefully approached Felix and the others under the cover of the surrounding terrain. After all, it is meaningless to always follow all the way so far, at least , he has to figure out who is Edward's grandfather.

When the distance between the two parties was reduced to less than 20 meters, there was only a badly weathered stone between him and Felix and the others. At such a short distance, he could even faintly hear three conversation between people.

At this moment, the three of them had finished the strictly distributed food. Felix was busy changing the wound on the face of the navigator Morris, while Leon raised his hands high, facing away from the muzzle of the submachine gun in Morris's hand, Standing obediently against a piece of gravel.

Seeing that none of the three were looking at him, Wei Ran carefully raised the binoculars in his hand. Although he could only see Morris' side face full of wounds from this angle, he could at least be sure that the man and Mr. Edward provided, The photo of his grandfather is definitely not the same person.

So, Felix, who was facing away from him at this time, was Edward's grandfather, and he replaced the identity of the man named Laws when he was captured?

In his guess, Felix also helped Morris re-wrap the wound on his face, and Leon was able to put down his raised hands and walk back.

"Felix, I'm out of water."

Leon picked up his water bottle and shook it, "You said when you helped you carry the gold, this pot of water is for me for two days, can you help me fill the water bottle in advance? So when I wake up There is water to drink."

Felix glanced at Leon, nodded almost indifferently, "Yes."

"Here's the water bottle." Leon gently threw the empty water bottle in his hand the moment the other party agreed.

However, at the moment Felix subconsciously prepared to catch the kettle, Leon suddenly panicked and shouted hoarsely, pointing at the side of the former, "Get out of the way! There are poisonous snakes there!"

This voice not only turned Felix's action of receiving the kettle into a sideways attack in the opposite direction of Leon, Morris, who had been pointing his submachine gun at Leon, also subconsciously turned his gaze in the direction of the poisonous snake.

But at the same time when he realized that he was being deceived, Leon had already rushed behind him with a stride, and at the same time grasped the barrel of the submachine gun, and smashed the telescope held in the other hand hard on Mo Mo. On the back of Reese's hand holding the handle of the gun!

Along with Morris screaming in pain, the empty kettle also slammed on the soft yellow sand.

"Get down!"

Leon held the submachine gun he had taken down against the back of Morris's head, and shouted madly, "Felix! Throw all your weapons out!"

This sudden change caught Felix and Morris by surprise, but it also made Wei Ran subconsciously take out the Rollei SLR from the metal notebook, and after completing the shooting preparations as quickly as possible, he took the risk of seeing the camera align The three people not far away.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Felix stood up and asked with a sneer.

"I didn't intend to kill you"

While Leon was talking, he had already pulled the trigger, and a series of "da da da" bursts also splashed a cloud of dust on the sand between Felix and Morris.

"What do you want to do?" Morris asked, clutching the back of his injured hand.

"Give me a bucket of water and five cans!"

Leon took a few steps back, hung the telescope that had made great achievements around his neck and said, "I only want half of the water and canned food! I won't kill you, and then we will go our separate ways!"

"Do you want to follow us?" Morris, who had his back to Leon, asked mockingly.

"To shut up!"

Leon fired another burst of bursts, "I just want to survive! Morris, don't you? Didn't you guard Felix? That bastard parachuted out before the plane crashed! He should be our common enemy."

"I can give you all the water and canned food you want"

As he said that, Felix took a step to the side, pointed to the chair beside him to drag supplies and asked, "Are you going to get it yourself or should I get it for you?"

"I'll take it myself!"

Leon raised his gun and shouted excitedly, "A bucket of water, five cans! And that broken chair is mine!"

"no problem"

Felix turned around very happily, turned his back to Leon and began to untie the rest of the things from the chair, then pointed to the chair with only one bucket and five cans left, and said, "Now they are yours."

"Back! Back!" The madness on Leon's face became more intense at this time.

Felix simply stepped back a few steps to the side. After exchanging positions with Leon in the stalemate, he still bent down and pulled the chair legs under Morris back a few meters together.

Seeing this, Leon licked his lips, and picked up the paracord tied to the chair that already belonged to him.

However, with just such a bending action, Felix slammed to the side without any warning!
Almost subconsciously, Leon, who was deceived by the same routine, subconsciously straightened up and raised his submachine gun to fire at Felix.

Just in this flash, Morris has already touched a P38 pistol that Felix just put there from behind, aimed at Leon and pulled the trigger again and again!

One gunshot after another broke the silence in the desert hinterland, and Leon also fell on the bucket of water and cans that belonged to him with a plop.

"Then you have to drag me away." While speaking, Morris turned the pistol around and handed it to Felix beside him.

Felix did not take the pistol, but said regretfully as he got up, "He could have survived."

"You are such a good man." Morris couldn't help but said, "I really don't understand how a soldier like you would be sent here."

"It's good for both of us that he's alive"

Felix walked to Leon's side, bent down to pick up the submachine gun in the latter's hand, and then turned Leon over again. At this time, the dark red blood gushing from the corner of his mouth had already stained the bottle filled with fresh water. The iron bucket, and even the binoculars hanging around his neck, had their lenses smashed by hitting the chair legs.

Felix gently took off the telescope on the other party's neck, looked around with the only remaining lens tube, saw that it was still usable, hung it around his neck, and said leisurely, "Unfortunately, he always Thought we'd kill him."

"What's next?" Morris asked.

"You decide"

Felix pushed Leon's body aside with some disappointment, and re-attached the other weapons that had just been untied from the chair to the chair. By the way, he also threw the submachine gun magazines full of bullets into Leon's body. around.

"I decide?" Morris looked at the former in confusion.

"Of course you decide"

After finishing his work, Felix even took off his watch this time, and handed it to Morris together with the blood-stained submachine gun, "It's up to you which direction to go, when to start and when to rest. to decide."

Without waiting for the other party to speak, Felix continued with extra seriousness, "Morris, I just want to leave this desert alive as soon as possible, and send you and the news of the gold back to exchange for a military medal or two. Responsibility and mission are also the reason why I was sent here to follow your plane."

This time, Morris still didn't express his attitude clearly, but just said, "Let's take a rest in another position."

Hearing this, Felix nodded, dragged the former and transferred him to a chair containing living supplies, and then threw away all unnecessary things on his body, like a tireless draft horse, pulled The chair moved to another shadow in the distance.

Behind the two of them, Wei Ran aimed at their backs and pressed the shutter again.What happened just now was both expected and unexpected. No matter what Felix said, Leon knew that he would be abandoned sooner or later, but he wanted to leave alive The desert, but it has to rely on the navigator Morris.

Therefore, it is almost the smartest choice to grab some of your own supplies early and follow from afar.In this way, there is no need to act as a coolie who may be abandoned at any time, and it also ensures that there is a chance to leave alive.

As for killing Felix, Wei Ran believes that Leon must have thought about it, but once he kills Felix, not only will he continue to serve as Morris' traction, but he will even be responsible for the supplies.

It's a pity that Leon was still too impatient. It was only two nights. Neither Felix nor Morris, who had been threatened by him, could put down his guard so quickly.

Not only did his impulsiveness fail to achieve the desired result, but on the contrary, Morris, who had limited mobility, fell into a passive position and had to tie himself with Felix.

"The next one who will suffer is Morris."

Wei Ran leaned against the sun-warmed stone and muttered to himself, but he still didn't show up to talk to Felix.

(End of this chapter)