War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 550
In the scorching desert hinterland, Felix lay down in the shadow provided by a boulder and slept very soundly.Morris, who was less than five meters away from him, also changed himself into a pair of clean pants with difficulty, and buried the pants stained with feces and urine in the sand that was about to become hot at the edge of the shadow.

For him, a paralyzed navigator, the matter of whether he can escape from the desert alive may not be as much trouble as the incontinence.

Turning around with difficulty and looking in the direction of Leon's body, Morris sighed silently. Of course he wanted to leave here alive, but he was still hesitating whether to trust Felix.

Maybe try him?
Morris glanced at the two wrist watches and the two compass hands fixed on his wrists, and he had already made a secret decision in his heart.

"We must get those magazines." A hundred meters away, Wei Ran, who had been hiding behind the boulder, also made up his mind at the same time.

Since Leon's death, Felix has discarded most of the submachine gun magazines collected from the plane beside Leon's body. For Wei Ran, those magazines are certainly not necessary, but if Having the opportunity to add some ammunition to one's own pistol will undoubtedly add a bargaining chip to save one's life.

After making up his mind, Wei Ran raised his binoculars and glanced at the navigator Morris, who was still busy using sand to clean up his personal hygiene a hundred meters away. Then, while cleaning up his footprints, he retreated several hundred meters to the due west. meter distance.

Finding a place that was sufficiently concealed and cool enough, Wei Ran took off his one-piece flight suit as usual and lay down on it as a cushion.

Maybe it was too close to each other, or the lure of those magazines.In short, Wei Ran didn't sleep well this time.Every now and then, he would wake up, glance at the watch he put in the tin can, and then close his eyes again.

Little by little, the time wore on until it was approaching dusk, Wei Ran immediately put on the warm one-piece flight suit, put on the watch again and put away the tin can.Only then did he climb up to a high ground unhurriedly, and looked at the two of Felix with the help of a telescope.

Under his silent gaze, Felix almost threw away all the unused things on his body and the chair, and then put the umbrella rope connected to the chair on his shoulders, and pulled Morris who was sitting on it. He started to head north.

Glancing at the compass in front of him, Wei Ran raised his binoculars again, and waited until the back of Felix dragging Morris was completely covered by the sand dunes they turned over, then immediately put away the binoculars and the compass. Needle, trotted towards Leon's body.

During the day, the high temperature had caused Leon to emit a bit of an unpleasant smell, but in this desert that seemed to be a restricted area for life, not even a fly could be seen.

Without daring to waste time, Wei Ran picked up two submachine gun magazines full of bullets and stuffed them into his trouser pockets, and then began to rummage through Leon's body.

Fortunately, he did find some small items, including a half box of R6 cigarettes, an Austrian passport, and inside the passport, there were two photos and a photo-sized, about two millimeters thick gold plate!

"Where did you get all this gold?"

Wei Ran muttered to himself, and conveniently put the heavy gold plate into his pocket. Although this gold plate cannot bring back the era that belongs to him, it must not be left here to be ruined.

After putting away the gold plate, Wei Ran looked at the photo in his passport.The first photo is a group photo of Leon wearing a suit and an old man wearing glasses. On the blackboard behind them, there are some pictures similar to the distribution of rivers.

This photo is nothing, but the second one is interesting. This photo is a group photo.In this black-and-white photo, 12 shirtless men are standing on the endless desert. They are all wearing shorts, showing strong muscles, and holding either shovels or large wrenches in their hands.

A group photo with almost the same content, he had also seen the scanned copy in the problematic USB flash drive provided by Edward, but the upper right corner of the group photo was burned off a large part.

However, it was also in the upper right corner of the same group photo that Wei Ran not only saw the smile on Leon's face with a telescope in his hand, but also saw the young man who shared cigarettes with him on the plane, and the real The face of a man named Rolls!

It's a pity that the background chosen for this group photo is too monotonous, not only can't see any special terrain, but even the desert is so flat that he can't tell where it was taken.

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran put the two photos back into the passport and stuffed them into Leon's trouser pocket together with the half pack of cigarettes.

Taking out the Rollei SLR camera to take a posthumous photo of Leon, Wei Ran turned and walked a hundred meters away, where the two of Felix used to rest.

There were also some things abandoned here, among them, apart from a blanket that smelled like shit, there was Felix's paratrooper helmet and an RZ-1 parachute with only scraps left.

Nothing else matters, but this piece of cut silk parachute is a good thing.

Without any hesitation at all, Wei Ran immediately picked up a canned skin, cut off a piece of white silk cloth with a square meter and a half with a sharp edge, and used it as a scarf to wrap the entire face tightly.

Finally, putting on the leather flight cap and goggles, Wei Ran tried to take a deep breath, and seeing that there was no obstruction at all, he found a rock and sat down in satisfaction.

First take out the bullets from the two submachine gun magazines you picked up, then take out the titanium alloy sidearm in the metal book, and fill its magazine with bullets.Wei Ran put all the remaining dozens of bullets into his pants pocket, then took the shotgun, and followed the footprints left by Felix to catch up.

Although the gun is full of bullets now, he doesn't want to throw this shotgun away. After all, his pistol's firepower is not as dense as that of a submachine gun after all, but this shotgun uses large hunting bullets, and its range is far beyond The submachine gun in Felix's hand.

Undoubtedly, this would allow him to easily disarm Felix by virtue of his range advantage when he decides to meet him.

Hurrying all the way, when he narrowed the distance between the two sides to less than 200 meters and kept pace, a hazy halo appeared around the crescent moon above his head.

Compared to the beautiful night sky, Wei Ran stared at the compass in his hand and frowned. At this time, although Felix's direction was still heading north, it had shifted to the west by at least 20 degrees!
This is Morris making a decision?

Wei Ran secretly clenched the shotgun in his hand, and followed silently, waiting for Felix's response.

However, to his surprise, after a whole night, Felix did not respond at all except for a period of rest at noon. From the beginning to the end, he was like a diligent old scalper, pulling Morris forward with all his strength. .

"Could it be that he is really a good man?" Wei Ran fell into almost the same confusion as Morris, but he finally resisted the impulse and decided to continue to follow them and continue to observe for a few more days.

Before the sun rose, under the guidance of Morris, Felix gradually adjusted his direction back to the true north.And after the sun had fully risen, it stopped in the shadow of a sand dune.

As usual, Wei Ran hid in the shadow of a sand dune 100 meters away from the two of them, and quietly looked at them with the help of a telescope.

However, there was nothing unusual about Felix. After strictly distributing food and drinking water, he lay directly on the soft sand and handed over the guard duty to Morris with confidence.

Seeing this, Wei Ran stopped paying attention to them, hid back to his hiding place, leisurely poured a large bowl of beer out of a coconut shell, and then took out a Snickers bar wrapped in tin foil and took a bite .

After filling his stomach indiscriminately and drinking two extra bowls of fresh water, Wei Ran took off the watch on the wrist of the one-piece flight suit and put it in a tin can and put it in the distance, then took off the flight suit and put it under his body eyes.

However, before he got enough sleep, he was awakened by the yellow sand flying all over the sky.When he subconsciously looked towards the windward side, what caught his eyes was the wind mast that was at least ten kilometers wide in the northeast direction, wrapped in a lot of wind and sand, and was getting closer!

"Fuck! Is this a sandstorm?!"

Wei Ran's drowsiness was immediately blown away by the scene in front of him. Without thinking about it, he put on the thick one-piece flight suit as quickly as possible, then put on his watch, and put the tin can into the net pocket Fastened to the belt.

When he hastily arranged the silk scarf on his head and fixed it with the flight hat and goggles, the surrounding visibility was also extremely reduced, and even the scorching sun above his head was like a light bulb with insufficient power. of.

Before he had time to look in the direction of Felix and the others, Wei Ran emptied the three bullets in the shotgun as quickly as possible, then climbed halfway up the sand dune, and thrust the muzzle of the sock-wrapped gun into the yellow hole under his feet. Shari, and himself, lay curled up on the sand, holding the shotgun as an anchor in a fetal position.At the same time, he pointed his feet in the direction of the wind and sand.

Fortunately, because of the goggles and the hood made of parachute cloth, he can open his eyes unscrupulously in this frightening wind, and be on guard against the stones blowing along with the wind and sand at any time.

At the same time, because it is located at a relatively high position, the relatively large and heavy stones blown by the wind basically rolled over the bottom of the sand dunes, and a few of them could hit the big ones, the largest being the size of a matchbox That's all.

Although these stones also hurt him, thanks to the protection of the one-piece flight suit, they would not hurt him.

In contrast, the two of Felix were much better. Because one of them was awake from the beginning to the end, they also discovered the blowing sandstorm earlier than Wei Ran, so they also had longer preparation time.

Under the busyness of Felix, the long chair that was originally used as a drag board poked two metal legs into the sand at a 45-degree angle. Their weapons also served as anchors, and they were buried deeper In the yellow sand, Felix and Morris curled up in the gap on the leeward side of the bench, holding the chair legs tightly with their hands.

In the howling wind, Wei Ran only felt that the sand dunes where he was hiding were getting shorter at a speed visible to the naked eye, so that he had to endure the severe pain of being hit by stones from time to time, and continued to poke the shotgun deeper into the yellow sand.

On the contrary, the two of Felix, who were a hundred meters away, had to turn over from time to time to avoid being completely buried by the rapidly accumulating yellow sand.

Can't stay in this place!
Wei Ran watched half of the sand dunes being cut off in such a short period of time, gritted his teeth and pulled out his shotgun.In a crawling posture, he was pushed by the wind and crawled towards a rapidly rising sand pile in the distance.

If you don't experience it yourself, it's really hard to understand the horror of the sandstorm. Although Wei Ran is crawling forward along the direction of the wind, he has to stick the barrel of the shotgun into the sand from time to time to prevent himself from being overturned by the strong wind blowing behind him.

But in this way, it is unavoidable to bear the pain of being smashed by the gravel flying in the gust of wind.But in order to survive, in order not to be hit by the wind and hit the rock or even be buried, he had to resist the pain and crawl forward little by little.

The yellow sand wrapped by the strong wind has completely covered the sun above the head at this time, and the surroundings seem to have fast forwarded from noon to dusk. Wherever the eyes can see, there is an orange-yellow and almost red doomsday scene, and even from time to time, There are also some man-made objects blown from nowhere.

At this time, Wei Ran had already ignored any returning tasks, and only wanted to climb to the back of the sand dune that was almost two stories high in less than 10 minutes.

Five meters, ten meters, 20 meters, 50 meters.

Pushed by the wind, Wei Ran easily ran up to the top of the selected sand dune. Before he could stop his footsteps, he fell down with his teeth and claws, rolling down from the other side of the sand dune, and finally stopped at the top of the sand dune. at the foot of the leeward side of the dunes.

What made him dumbfounded was that there was actually a tangled barbed wire here, and on the barbed wire, there were even a few cans of Spam luncheon meat produced by Shalomei tied with thin wire, and several carved cans with noses and eyes. coconut shell!

And the other end of the barbed wire that almost hit his face was buried deep in the sand dune behind him that blocked the strong wind, and he couldn't pull it out.

Although he was almost disfigured by the barbed wire that had wandered hundreds of kilometers in the desert, but fortunately, the sand dunes that were still increasing in size behind him actually blocked the strong wind.

At this time, although there was still a lot of yellow sand around him, at least, even if he stood up, he didn't have to worry about being blown away by the wind.

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