War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 573
On the second day after returning to Kazan, Zhou Shujin and Alexei took the four fellow masons who had experienced jet lag, and took a tour of Kazan in a commercial vehicle with "Inta Athletes" printed on it.

And Sui Sui, after getting acquainted with this big house where he will live in for a long time in the future, patiently bathed the dirty little foxes, and then drove the car that had been placed in the garage for several times. The month-old Zumpuda motorcycle went out to buy insect repellent.

As for Wei Ran, he also drove away from the house at the same time, took two little foxes belonging to teachers Dalia and Anna, and the wooden box that he hadn't had time to open yesterday to the Hongqi Forest Farm.

"Teacher Daria, this is your and Teacher Anna's pet."

While Wei Ran was speaking, he carried two little foxes with big ears with the fragrance of shower gel out of the carriage.

"This little thing is so cute"

Darya kicked away Mr. Gorbachev who was turning around at her feet, and looked at a little fox by its collar, with an increasingly satisfied expression on her face.

"Teacher Dalia, can I go to the equipment room?" Wei Ran asked tentatively, "I also want to borrow the shooting range."

"sure"

Teacher Dalia seemed to be in a good mood, and she took out a bunch of keys with a smile and threw them to Wei Ran.

This so-called equipment room might be more appropriate to call it a "teaching aid storage room", and there are all kinds of things in it.

From some cold weapons fighting knives, to poison samples used by various spies, and even some special weapons can basically be found.

I chatted with Teacher Dalia for a few words, until the other party hugged the two little foxes and chased a silly dog ​​to the second-floor building where the counseling center sign was still hung.Only then did Wei Ran go around to the rear of the armored pickup truck, remove the wooden box from the cargo bed, and pull out a crowbar from the toolbox to open it.

The box contains, of course, the survival shotgun issued to German pilots during World War II.

It’s not that Wei Ran is stingy, this thing really can’t be seen by Professor Alexei, otherwise, maybe the other party will take this set of things back to Volgograd in the name of the father-in-law, and therefore, he wants to try this If you don't have a gun, you can only come to Hongqi Forest Farm.

Carrying the heavy aluminum alloy gun case, Wei Ran walked slowly into the main building of Hongqi Forest Farm, and went to Gorman's office by the way, but unfortunately, the old thing was not there, not even the studio's None of the staff knew where he had gone.

Seeing this, Wei Ran didn't delay any longer. After climbing up to the second floor, he opened the anti-theft door of the equipment room with the key given by Teacher Dalia.

Although the equipment room has been moved from the five-story building that has been lent to Sui Sui to the main building, the layout inside has not changed at all, and because Wei Ran didn't waste much time at all, he moved from row to row I found a Geiger counter from a few years ago on the shelf.

Taking out the battery prepared in advance from his pocket and putting it into the counter, Wei Ran took out the latest compass from the metal book and the compass fixed on the clasp of the compass under the cover of a shoulder bag he carried on his back. That Khan Hart flyback chronograph.

After turning on the Geiger counter, Wei Ran tried it on the shelf and the gun case first, and after confirming that there was no problem with the machine, he stuck it on the watch.

However, to his surprise, the value displayed on the LCD screen of the counter did not seem to have changed much.Try that compass again. Although the value on the screen jumps, it is still within the safe range.

"Is this machine broken?"

Wei Ran muttered, pulled out the battery that had just been installed, turned around and replaced it with an earlier Geiger counter from the shelf.However, after this measurement, the value is still within the safe range.Unbelievable, I changed to the third one, and the value was still not much different from the previous measurement on both sides.

"Kang Dang"

Wei Ran threw the counter with the battery removed back on the shelf, picked up the compass on the table, and finally showed a smile on his face.

Obviously, this watch and the compass fixed together have been replaced with relatively safer fluorescent paint by the metal book.

Let me just say, this broken book will definitely not harm myself!

Wei Ran, who changed his face faster than a dog, muttered to himself, and then satisfactorily took the compass and watch back into the metal book under the cover of the satchel.

Eliminating the small bumps that he had been thinking about all the time, Wei Ran locked the door, carried the shotgun at the door, and walked to the shooting range that was a hundred and ten meters away from the main building.

Although I have been expelled from this school now, there are still many rich girls here who are learning self-defense courses and various etiquette courses that they may never use.

Familiar with the way, he found some 12-gauge shotgun ammunition of different flavors from the small house next to the shooting range and put them into his satchel. Then Wei Ran chose a nearby target position and opened the gun case he had brought.

Wei Ran is also not sure whether this shotgun can be used after more than half a century in the desert, and it is precisely for this reason that this shotgun test took place.

Of course, the danger is not without it, not to mention the quality of the gun itself, the change of the ammunition alone is enough for him to be careful.

虽然用的都是12号猎枪弹，弹在上个世纪的40 years代，德国使用的12号猎枪弹长度只有65毫米，而如今主流的12号猎弹长度则是70毫米。

Although the shotgun that fires shotguns has a high degree of compatibility with the length of the bullets, Wei Ran doesn't want to lose half an arm or an eye because of the short five millimeter gap.

A slug and a buckshot were loaded into the left and right barrels respectively, and the handguard of the gun body was wrapped with specially brought gloves, and it was fixed on a simple On the vise, he just took out the rope he had prepared in advance and tied it to the front trigger.

Looking around to make sure there was no one there, Wei Ran hid behind the concrete pillar and pulled the rope in his hand.

"boom!"

Accompanied by a dull gunshot, the 12-gauge buckshot in the barrel on the right flew out of the barrel smoothly under the propelled gunpowder, and hit the sand tens of meters away fiercely, causing a cloud of smoke and dust.

Going forward to check that there is no visible damage, Wei Ran put the rope on the trigger at the back, and then pushed the selector on the left side of the gun body forward until a notch-like trigger was erected on the front body. After looking at the door, he hid behind the concrete pillar again and pulled the rope in his hand.

"boom!"

After another dull gunshot, the slug in the barrel on the left also flew out of the barrel smoothly and landed in a similar position as before.

After checking the gun body again, Wei Ran carefully repeated the gun test procedure twice until it was confirmed that there was no damage. Then he took the shotgun out of the vise and began to test shoot with his hands.

In the sound of gunshots one after another, various log targets ranging from ten meters to 50 meters also exploded countless sawdust in the impact of various bullets.

"It's a pity that the forest farm does not have large hunting ammunition"

Wei Ran shook his head regretfully after pulling out two shell casings. This gun has three barrels, but the 9.3 mm caliber hunting ammunition used in the bottom barrel is not in stock at Hongqi Forest Farm. On the way here, I tried two shops selling bullets but couldn't find them.

Although it's a bit regrettable, it's not a big deal. Anyway, even if you can buy it, you can take one or two shots at most to enjoy yourself.

In the future, apart from being a cosmetic collectible most of the time, this gun will at most play the role of a double-barreled shotgun.Even if Mr. Gorbachev gnawed out the stuffing in his brain, he would not think about hunting with the kind of bullets that can hunt elephants.

Just as he disassembled the shotgun into two sections and put it back into the aluminum alloy gun case, the satellite phone in his pocket rang.

Taking it out and taking a look, Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, the caller was from a completely unfamiliar Russian number.

After hesitating for a moment, Wei Ran buckled the buckle of the gun case, carried it in the direction of the armored truck, and pressed the answer button.

"It's me." As soon as the phone was connected, a pleasant voice came from the opposite side.

"Kajianka?" Wei Ran asked in surprise, this was the first time the other party contacted him by phone.

Kajianka on the other end of the phone neither affirmed nor denied, but just said straightforwardly, "Boss, I want to meet with you alone."

"No problem, when and where will we meet?" Wei Ran asked cheerfully.

"I'll be waiting for you by her cemetery," Katenka replied flatly, "I'll be here until you come."

"I'm in Kazan now, it will take some time to get there."

"It's okay, I'll wait for you." Before the words finished, Kajianka simply hung up the phone.

"Is this girl really coming to Russia?" Wei Ran muttered secretly, opened the door and sent the gun box into the rear compartment of the armored vehicle.

After thinking for a moment, he first dialed Sui Sui's phone number, using the excuse that a client needed to see him urgently, and rejected his plan to go to the Volga River for a boat trip together at night, and then he and Sui Sui who were on the first floor of the consultation center Dalia, the teacher who trained the little foxes in the lobby, said hello, and then hurriedly drove to the airport not too far away.

There is no doubt that Katenka, who kept saying that he did not want to go to any of the former Soviet Union countries, made a sudden visit because he was tempted by the conditions offered by Sui Sui.

After thinking about it, Wei Ran did not tell Mr. Nicholas about it.When she learned that Sui Sui was going to recruit the "Sister Ka" whom she had taken a fancy to, she had contacted Mr. Nicholas.

It's just that the old man's attitude seems to be getting rid of a burden at last, and the only condition he offered is that Wei Ran or Sui Sui should pay Kajianka's salary by himself and take back the money that Wei Ran sent with his help. It's just a bank card, other than that, there are no other requirements or restrictions.

All the way, thinking about the reason for Katenka's sudden visit and asking for a meeting, and what might happen after the meeting, Wei Ran also bought a plane ticket to Tyumen at the fastest time while waiting for the traffic lights.

(End of this chapter)