War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 626

When the white light dissipated, Wei Ran looked at the surrounding layout, and then turned his attention to the metal book again.

Under his gaze, the metal book turned a page, and then, the metal quill pen wrote the follow-up story on the back where the vortex should have appeared:
Military doctor Howard, who was repatriated to the United States after the war, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and expelled from the military for the crime of "collaborating with the enemy" because of his student Bruno's report on his performance during the capture.

In June 1963, Howard was released from prison. He was assassinated and killed in the month of his release because he tried to expose the slander of the Changcheng POW camp and the POW Olympics in Bruno's memoirs.

Drew, an auto soldier, was repatriated to the United States after the war and ran an underground boxing ring. In July 1956, he was shot and killed by his friend Jim because of his cheating on his friend's wife.

Engineer Jack, who was repatriated to the United States after the war, worked as a luggage porter for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team after returning home.

In 1963, he joined the black civil rights movement and was assassinated in April 1968.

Black, the engineer, was repatriated to the United States after the war and became a gold medalist in the underground boxing ring run by his friend Drew. After Drew died, he joined the local gang.

In 1963, at the invitation of Jack, he joined the black civil rights movement.After Jack's death, he rejoined the gang and was sentenced to 1971 years in prison for robbery in 115. In 1975, he died in a prison fight.

Dentist Claure, who was repatriated to the United States after the war, was sentenced to 5 years in prison for "collaborating with the enemy" because of Bruno's report on his performance during the captivity.

After being released from prison in 1958, he returned to his hometown to run a dental clinic.After Howard's death, he joined the black civil rights movement.After Jack's death, he immigrated to the UK to run a dental practice, and died of a stroke in 1995.

Brendon, an engineer, refused to be repatriated after the war. He went to China to live and study with his friend Morgan.

In July 1963, at the invitation of his friend Claure, he decided to return to the United States to join the black civil rights movement. After returning home, he was expelled from the military.

After Jack died in 1968, Brendon returned to his hometown and devoted himself to the cause of folk culture exchanges between China and the United States. In December 1982, before planning to go to China, he died of a heart attack.

Morgan, the auto soldier, refused to be repatriated after the war. He went to China to live and study with his friend Brendon.

In July 1963, at the invitation of his friend Claure, he decided to return to the United States to join the civil rights movement, but was dismissed from the military upon his return.

After Jack's death in 1968, Morgan joined the NAACP and at the same time devoted himself to the cause of Sino-American folk cultural exchanges. In June 2009, he passed away at home.

After writing here, the metal quill changed to a new page and continued to write like no one else:
For some, the war is over.

For some, the war is far from over.

For some, war brings peace and justice.

For some, war has robbed them of the meaning of life.

For some, if it happened again, they might immediately surrender.

For some, if it happened again, they would still take up arms.

Who are those people?

Seeing this, Wei Ran couldn't help but think of those lovely people, and then those embarrassing scum.

But the metal quill did not stop, but started a new line and wrote in the center:
终幕
Objective: Assassinate Bruno

Assassinate Bruno?The Bruno who sent Howard and Crower to prison?
Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, watching helplessly as the metal quill listed a set of detailed coordinates, and then listed a 100-day countdown!
Looking at the number of seconds that was continuously beating and decreasing at the end of the countdown, Wei Ran waited for a moment in a daze until he was sure that the white light would not appear, then realized belatedly that the assassination mission seemed to be in this Native world complete!
How can it be like this?Wei Ran grinned and fell into a daze for a while.

Calculated carefully, how long has it been since he was expelled from Hongqi Forest Farm?Originally, he thought that after graduating from the forest farm or being expelled, he would no longer be forced to perform any disgusting assessment tasks, but he didn't expect that this stinking book would learn this stinky problem in a decent way!

So is this a special case, or will it happen more often in the future?
Wei Ran frowned and fell into hesitation for a moment.Compared with Hongqi Forest Farm, he doesn't mind completing the "assessment" of this metal book. After all, he and this broken book are in a symbiotic relationship, and the mouth of this book is undoubtedly stricter than those teachers at Hongqi Forest Farm. many.

But why?
For a while, Wei Ran still couldn't figure out what exactly that Bruno did to make the metal book feel murderous.

On the other hand, although the metal quill just listed the ending of Drew and others, there was no red swirl.In other words, the fourth act, fifth act, and sixth act experienced before did not have any rewards at all.

What about this finale?
Wei Ran looked at the countdown countdown constantly beating on the page with a strange expression, secretly wondering whether this broken book would make his work for nothing.And if the task of the final scene is not completed, what kind of consequences will be waiting for him.

Turning the page forward two pages, the cap badge pattern drawn by the metal quill has become a black and white photo.At the same time, there was a bulging paper bag next to it.

Taking out the many scary negatives inside, and carefully looking at them one by one in the sunlight outside the window, Wei Ran couldn't help showing a trace of a smile on his face.

Most of these photos were taken by myself, including Liu Yijiao and his truck, Chen Qi and Zhao Shengli, Squad Leader Sun, Squad Leader Lin, and scouts Da Li and Xiao Gao.

There was also the moment when Shen Shen, the squad leader of the assault squad, and Xia Chuan, the trumpeter, were lying on the snow - even though Wei Ran didn't come in time at that time, let alone take pictures of them.

Of course, these negatives also include those taken in the prisoner-of-war camp, during the sports meeting, and the moments recorded in the shadow of the poplar trees in the township health center ten years after the end of the war.

In addition, it actually included a lot of photos of black Jack and another black Nick who hit the children with cans in the truck together.

It's just that, in these negatives, the two old blacks have no clothes, and at the same time, they always have a few girls in weird national costumes or no clothes at all in their arms.

After reviewing the negatives one by one, Wei Ran stuffed them back into the paper bag next to the cap badge photo, and then wrote down the last set of coordinates provided in the metal book before putting it away.

After searching according to the coordinates, Wei Ran threw the phone aside and walked into the spacious bathroom with tired steps.

"For the sake of your generosity to provide so many photo negatives"

Wei Ran stared at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand and muttered to himself, then turned on the faucet of the bathtub, and lay down in it slowly.

As the cold bath water gradually flooded his body, he couldn't help but think of the biting chill when he crossed the icy river with bugleman Xia Chuan and others.But the ceiling with spotlights above his head and the clean layout around him brought him back to reality.

Perhaps, as written in the metal book, for some people, the war is far from over.

But at least for him, the cap badge war is over.

At the same time, those lovely people are always engraved into the softest corner of my heart, looking forward to meeting again in reality or in dreams one day.

(End of this chapter)