War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 66 The Flower Shop Boss
“Something is not right”

After waiting for Wei Ran to get into the car, Dr. Hans immediately turned the car and drove towards the farm, and at the same time kept explaining, "K doesn't know the specific list, not only is he not the real person in charge, he even Most of the people who come here for training every week are just ordinary shooting enthusiasts."

"Where's that farm?" Wei Ran asked after him.

"There are only some weapons for training." Hans stepped on the brakes worriedly, and after Hannah with a gun got into the car, he turned the car again and drove towards Bonn.

"So we're going to catch the real person in charge now?"

Wei Ran asked nervously, and at the same time his whole heart sank to the bottom. Originally, he thought that the conditions for returning this time were not difficult, but it was only at this moment that he realized that the matter of assisting Dr. Hans to escape from Bonn might not be too difficult. Not really started!
"I hope I can find it," Dr. Hans replied worriedly, then switched to German and began to communicate with Hannah who was in charge of driving.

More than an hour later, the van stopped near a cemetery on the edge of the city. After Hannah got off the car, she walked into the cemetery alone, and soon after, a black hearse drove out.

He signaled Wei Ran to get into the car with his things. After such a short time, Hannah who was driving had already changed into a black dress.And Dr. Hans familiarly took out a priest's robe from the coffin in the carriage and put it on his body, and threw a black suit to Wei Ran, "Hurry up and put it on, and then you drive."

Hearing this, Wei Ran quickly took off his overalls, put on the slightly larger suit, and then put the spy camera that Hans gave him not long ago into his pocket.When he started running again in the hearse, the clothes he just changed were thrown out of the window.

In just one morning, there were already a lot of policemen and police cars on the streets of Bonn City.Fortunately, these police officers focused on the vehicles leaving the city, and there was no restriction on those entering the city.

Under the guidance of Dr. Hans, Wei Ran drove the hearse through the streets and alleys, and finally stopped at the door of a flower shop.

"The target is the owner of the florist, a woman in her forties."

Before Dr. Hans finished speaking, Hannah, who was wearing a black dress, had already opened the car door, walked to the door of the shop and pushed open the door with wind chimes.Wei Ran hurried to keep up, and chased Hannah into the shop.

The shop is not too big, and the places around it that are visible to the naked eye are filled with bouquets of flowers, and amidst the rich fragrance of flowers, a middle-aged woman who looks like Hannah's age is holding a watering can in one hand, Holding scissors to trim the bouquet in front of her, and beside her stood a little girl holding a doll.

Without needing to know, Wei Ran who followed behind turned over the wooden sign hanging on the inside of the glass door, and then closed the curtain on the inside of the glass door.At the same time, Hannah aimed the gun at the astonished woman.As for the little girl holding the doll, she timidly hid behind the middle-aged woman, only showing half of her head to look at the two remaining customers in the flower shop.

The owner of the flower shop looked down at the little girl hiding behind him, shook his head helplessly, and then asked in proficient Russian, "Are you KGB?"

"It doesn't matter who we are, but you should know why we are looking for you." Hannah replied in Russian with a strange accent.

So you can speak Russian? !Wei Ran looked at Hannah in surprise, he always thought that Hannah could only speak German!

"Let my daughter go, I'll tell you everything you want to know." The female owner of the florist put aside the watering can and scissors in her hand, then bent down and hugged the little girl hiding behind her.

"Where are the Youth League members, and what is your attack plan?" Hannah continued to ask in Russian with a cold face.

"Most of them died in the morning blast"

"Maybe this little girl will tell me the real answer." While speaking, Hannah pointed the gun at the child in the arms of the florist.

"Seven Peaks Mountain"

The florist turned his back to Hannah, protected the child in his arms with his body, and said bluntly, "Just across the Lin River, there is an abandoned castle and an air-raid bunker left over from World War II. The rest are there now, and the rest left for East Germany a week ago."

"Take us there," Hannah said, waving at Wei Ran, "Hanging Pigeon, hug that child."

Wei Ran looked at Hannah strangely, and after hesitating for a moment, he picked up the little girl from the owner of the flower shop, picked up a promotional poster from the bar of the flower shop, and put it in his pocket.

With his child in Wei Ran's hands, and Hannah holding a gun behind him, the flower shop owner obediently followed them out of the flower shop and got into the hearse parked by the roadside.

Handing the little girl in his arms to Dr. Hans, Wei Ran got into the cab, followed the guidance of the flower shop owner, and drove through the city of Bonn, finally stopping at a crossroad less than [-] meters away from the bridge across the Linhe River.

"There are policemen ahead," Wei Ran said nervously.

"You take care of it," Dr. Hans said to the flower shop owner sitting opposite the coffin, while shaking the syringe in his hand, the meaning was self-evident.

The flower shop owner said flatly, "Keep going."

Glancing at Hannah through the rearview mirror, the other party nodded slightly, and then he stepped on the accelerator and continued to move forward with the slow traffic flow.

When the hearse was stopped by the police, the florist opened the car window and showed a black ID before the other party opened his mouth. The policeman immediately stood up straight and let him go.

He crossed the Lin River and left the urban area without any risk, and the terrain on both sides of the road gradually began to rise. Finally, under the guidance of the flower shop owner, he drove onto an abandoned winding mountain road full of weeds.

The flower shop owner took the initiative to explain, "At the end of this mountain road, there is an 18th-century castle ruin, and the air-raid shelter built during World War II is right next to the castle."

"How many people are there?" Doctor Hans asked, frowning.

"Most of them actually went to East Germany a few days ago, and there are less than ten people staying here."

The flower shop owner said bluntly, "But even so, it is very difficult for you to enter there. During World War II, the Americans even used tanks and bombers to win here. Even so, it took them a week."

"I'm sure you have a way of letting us in."

Dr. Hans said with a smile, "Now let's talk about those who have gone to East Germany. What are they going to do?"

"Reoccupy the headquarters of the Youth Army," the flower shop owner said bluntly, "on the same day that your Soviet Union has a new leader."

"Youth Army headquarters?" Dr. Hans frowned, not knowing what the other party was talking about.

Hannah asked without thinking, "Institute of Marxism-Leninism?"

(End of this chapter)