War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 55 Expensive Tuition

When Wei Ran was awakened by the occasional gunshots, there was already a dense birch forest outside the car window, and directly in front of the car was a reinforced concrete building with a huge area, and the left side of the road was full of rust. The words "Red Flag Forest Farm" and "Red Flag Women's Safety Training School" are also written in Russian on the huge billboard.

And on a billboard of the same size on the right side, there is also a rusty bird's-eye view. From this bird's-eye view, it can be clearly seen that the overall outline of the building directly in front of it looks the same as The sickle on the Soviet flag was quite similar.

But just based on visual inspection, the horizontal length of this seven-story "sickle" is at least 150 meters, and with the addition of several ancillary buildings that can be seen around it, it is really hard to understand who would build such a "scythe" in the forest leisurely. a thing.

Before he could ask, Ji Ma had already driven the car through the open gate, and stopped in front of a small two-story building next to the "Sickle Handle" with the sign of "Consultation Center".

"It's here." Jima pushed the car door open, "I'll go to the classroom to guide the girls who are studying, you go to the counseling center to register your identity and weapons, and call me when you're done."

Before he finished speaking, Jima had already rushed to the main entrance of the sickle building, looking at the impatient look, it was obvious that he wanted to visit his paradise sooner.

Without getting out of the car in a hurry, Wei Ran rubbed his face vigorously to fully wake himself up, then took out his mobile phone, and dialed the mobile phone number on the card that Nicholas gave him.

"I'm Karp, the principal of Hongqi Women's Safety Training School." As soon as the call was connected, a calm and gentle voice came from the microphone.

Wei Ran hesitated for a few seconds, then replied calmly, "It was Nicholas who asked me to come to you."

"Nicola? Which Nikola?" The person on the other end of the phone asked suspiciously.

"I still have a KGB badge he gave me," Wei Ran said again.

"Where are you?" The other party's tone immediately became extremely serious.

Wei Ran looked out the window, opened the car door and said, "At the door of the counseling center, there is a gun-gray van, and I'm right there."

"Wait for me for 5 minutes"

After the other party finished speaking, he hung up the phone. Not long after, a golf cart drove over from a distance and stopped firmly at a distance of four or five meters from Wei Ran.

The one who got out of the car was a middle-aged man in a suit and leather shoes with the same hairstyle as Stalin. I have to admit that this old man with excellent figure can definitely be regarded as a standard old handsome man, at least he can compare Alec It is no problem for Professor Sai to throw it as far as two Volga rivers.

"I'm Karp, where's the badge?" The old man stood beside the golf cart and asked Wei Ran from a distance, and one of his hands was intentionally or unintentionally put into the pocket of his suit.

"in my jacket pocket"

Wei Ran didn't want to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, he waited until the other party nodded, and then slowly took out the badge that was placed with the small bottle filled with gold dust.

Glancing at the badge in Wei Ran's hand, Karp hesitated for a moment and then sighed, "Get in the car, let's find a quiet place to talk."

Hearing this, Wei Ran quickly closed the door of the van, got on the golf cart, and let the other party drive him to the gate of the sickle-shaped building.

Under Karp's leadership, the two entered the lobby on the first floor, and then began to walk up the stairs facing the gate.

To Wei Ran's surprise, compared to the cleanliness and tidiness of the first floor and the young girls who come out from every corner from time to time, the second floor not only has a security door installed at the stairway, but even the corridor behind the security door is already full of thick paper. A layer of dust, scattered with all kinds of old-looking garbage and old tables and chairs.

Karp, who led the way, did not stop. The same messy and outdated scene also spread from the second floor to the top floor of the seventh floor.

It wasn't until the former took out the key to open an office at the end of the top floor that the place was barely clean, but looking at the cracked sofa and the upturned wooden floor under his feet, he knew that usually no one would come here.

Karp locked the door, then took out a PSS micro-sound pistol of the same model as Nikolai from his trouser pocket and put it on the table, "Tell me, how did you get that badge?"

"I just did Mr. Nicholas a little favor."

Wei Ran took out the badge again and placed it on the other side of the table. He stepped back and leaned against the dirty window sill. The tank gun started, and briefly recounted the cause and effect and the matter of Quinta.

"No wonder" Karp muttered in a low voice, and then directly changed the subject, "In this case, what do you want to learn?"

"I want to be a war photographer, so..."

"Don't make excuses, just say what you want to learn." Karp interrupted Wei Ran, stretched out his hand to open the drawer, took out a pencil and some blank papers and asked.

"I want to know how to survive on the battlefield"

"Is there any more?" Karp asked after writing a few strokes on the paper.

"Fighting and shooting?" Wei Ran thought for a while and asked tentatively, "Can medical self-help be taught?"

"Yes, is there any more?"

"German Bar" Wei Ran made the last request, "That's all for now."

"no problem"

Karp wrote and drew on the paper, "If you reach the passing line I set, it will take at least two to three years. Of course, you can terminate the course at any time according to your needs. In addition, look at Comrade Nicholas In order to save face, I will give you a 900% discount on the tuition fee, as long as [-] million rubles, and you can also pay in US dollars or Huaxia's renminbi."

"Tuition fee?!" Wei Ran's eyes widened.

"Why don't you need it?" Karp looked at Wei Ran like a fool, "Don't you think it's free?"

"Is not it?"

Wei Ran looked dull, 900 million rubles, almost 900,000 in RMB!This is probably enough for me to study abroad in Russia several times and help a few beautiful female students who are living in difficulties!

"You can choose not to study"

Karp simply put the white paper and pencil in the drawer, then picked up the gun on the table and put it in his pocket, "If it weren't for this badge, I wouldn't be interested in teaching you even if you gave me 900 million dollars. "

"I'll think about it," Wei Ran grinned and said, it's not that he can't get the money out, among other things, at least the gold dust in his pocket can be sold to the boss for a fortune.

"You may consider"

Karp picked up the badge on the table, opened the door and said, "Tell me the answer before you walk out of this door, if you refuse this time, next time unless you can get another one like this from Nicholas." A badge, or stop wasting my time here."

Before the words fell, Karp, who had already walked outside, closed the heavy wooden door with a bang.

(End of this chapter)