War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 663 The News Four Days Ago
On December 1991th, 12, all the materials and equipment were loaded into the cargo compartment, and Wei Ran, under the guidance of Pavel, steered the transport vehicle to move on.As for the official driver of this transport vehicle, Apolly, he is currently repairing the small fuel generator that suddenly went on strike in the living cabin.

After continuing to advance for about 5 kilometers, Dr. Pavel checked the map in his hand, and then signaled Wei Ran to stop the transport vehicle at the edge of a river that seemed to be less than 10 meters wide.

"Just stop here!"

Pavel said with satisfaction, "We will continue to take samples along this seasonal river channel to the northwest, so we may have to move frequently along the river channel."

"no problem"

Wei Ran responded happily, this kind of thing is nothing more than what the other party says and how he should do it, and he doesn't have to use his own brain at all.

Pushing the heavy skylight above the head, Wei Ran stretched out the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger firmly.

Amidst the crisp gunshots, the tinkling sound of the splashed bullet casings hitting the roof of the car was particularly pleasant in this quiet winter night.

After emptying a magazine in just a few seconds, Wei Ran drew back his rifle and closed the sunroof, and got out of the car to help Agwan and others remove various materials and equipment from the cargo hold.

It's just that, because Apoli hasn't repaired the generator yet, the work of core drilling and sampling wants to continue, and the transport vehicle has to be kept in the starting state.

Taking this opportunity, Wei Ran simply cleaned the cab of the transport truck carefully.

Both expected and unexpected, when Wei Ran reached into the back of the instrument behind the steering wheel, he pulled out a Makarov PB micro-sound pistol that should never be used by the driver of the transport vehicle. !

Carefully pulled out the magazine and looked at it, and then unscrewed the silencer to look at it. After restoring the pistol to its original shape, Wei Ran inserted it back into the steel holster hidden in the various circuits on the back of the dashboard.

Although he couldn't see the shape of the holster because of the angle, Wei Ran knew it just by touching the outline.It was a round tube type bayonet that was just enough to wrap around the silencer, and there was a clip at the end that could hold the muzzle of the gun.

And the reason why he knew so well was because he had seen this thing in his Hongqi forest farm back then.The only advantage of this non-standard "holster" is that it can be installed in any position with screws, and it is very convenient to use. The only disadvantage is that it is more troublesome to put the gun back. .

If you give a more detailed example, such a holster is installed under the desks of teachers Karp and Daria, but the Makarov micro-sound pistol is not fixed on the holster, and the two teachers even I also like to use the lightweight PSS micro-sound pistol.

Having basically confirmed Apoli's identity, Wei Ran felt more at ease. What he needs to do now is to patiently wait for the follow-up development of the matter.

After carefully cleaning up all kinds of rubbish accumulated in the cab, he slowly lowered the back of the seat and began to think about the context of the entire team.

In general, Dr. Murat and Dr. Pavel brought their students to this frigid Siberia to do breeding work on bacteria, just for some bacterial space colonization.

Undoubtedly, at least in Agwan's mouth, this almost whimsical project has not received much attention. It is estimated that for the Academy of Sciences at this time, it is at most just a side effect.

But it is such an under-appreciated scientific research project, which hides a 99.99% possible KGB like Apoli, which makes people wonder whether the so-called psychrophilic anaerobic bacteria have any other value .

Or, every scientific research project going on in this wilderness is secretly followed or even protected by KGB members?

But if there are all. No, no, if Apoli is really a member of the KGB, how could this exploration team disappear?

Did they encounter a danger that even the KGB couldn't dispel?If so, how did those documents appear after 30 years?
If not, did Apollo kill them?If so, why did Apolly kill them?Is it really because of those bacteria?Isn't this project underappreciated?

After thinking about it, although Wei Ran sorted out the context, he also had new doubts.And the focus of this doubt is all on whether those bacteria have any other unknown functions.

Wei Ran even doubted that there might be some answers he wanted to know in the safe in the living cabin.

Resisting the urge to pry the safe to find out, Wei Ran became more cautious.

At present, he only guessed about Apoli's evil actions and force majeure factors, but he also did not forget that there was a grenade hidden in Gennady's personal belongings box.

He didn't forget that, together with those certificates, the birthday present that Agwan prepared for his teacher, Dr. Pavel, was reappeared in later generations-a Nagan revolver with a mammoth ivory handle patch.

After such a calculation, three people in the team of seven people in total were suspected, and this was only the answer he got after cleaning once.But don't forget, this is only the seventh day of December, and there are still more than 7 days to wait.

This is even more troublesome than the little devil's secret room murder case
Wei Ran muttered to himself, seeing that Apoli and others in the rearview mirror had already lifted the small fuel-fired generator over, and immediately pushed open the heavy car door, enthusiastically and proactively went up to help out.

After a busy moment, the generator that was re-fixed in the cargo hold started roaring again.This transport vehicle with amazing fuel consumption can finally be turned off.

He took out the cast-iron stove behind the driver's seat and lit it again. When Wei Ran was about to find a few baked potatoes in the cargo hold to satisfy his hunger, Apoli got in first.

"Aren't you going hunting today?" Wei Ran asked with a normal expression.

"not going"

Apoli pointed out the car window, "There are coniferous forests on both sides of the river. If we don't keep an eye on some of them, maybe someone will be taken away by wolves."

Speaking of this, Apoli pointed to Agwan and Gennady who were busy in the front of the car, and said while pushing the skylight above the head, "And the two of them are the best bait, aren't they? Those hungry wolves The group will definitely be tempted by them."

"It's true." Wei Ran nodded in agreement, and also pushed open the sunroof above his head, and put the AK rifle with bullets on the top of the car in advance.

"Did you clean the cab just now?" Apolly asked as if he just noticed.

"It was too dirty, so I cleaned it up briefly."

After Wei Ran sat down again, he pretended to be disgusted and reminded, "Also, can you not put the worn socks, uneaten bread, and half-drunk vodka in the same glove box in the future?"

"I'll pay attention if I remember"

Apolly laughed and responded, then patted his forehead and said, "Victor, can you do me a favor and go get some food and drink in the cargo hold?"

"No problem." Wei Ran simply put on his clothes and left the cab without any hesitation at all.

Watching Wei Ran in the rearview mirror get into the cargo compartment, Apoli reached out to the back of the instrument panel. When he accurately grasped the handle of the Makarov pistol, the last trace of doubt on his face , and then slowly dissipated.

In the next few days, Wei Ran almost completely took over the work of chef and cleaning, and Apoli never left again, and even slept in the warm cab even for rest.

Of course, even so, he still had a lot of hunting. After a few days, there were already more than a dozen wolf skins accumulated on the roof of the car.

This is because Wei Ran has made the braised wolf meat several times in a row and needs to eat it with the skin.Otherwise, it might not be a problem to collect twenty pieces of frozen hard wolf skins on the roof.

Of course, the price is not without cost.Among other things, Agwan, with his big bald head, was almost gnawed off half of his face by a lone wolf who was ambushing under the car one time when he went to shit in the tent at the cabin door.

Although he survived unscathed in the end, and successfully killed Voldemort with his revolver, Agwan himself sat on the last thing he should not sit on in a mess.

Disgusting is naturally disgusting, but everyone is extremely thankful. This is a critical moment of life and death. Let alone sitting on the cold outside and hot inside, even if it is, it is finally alive.

In the blink of an eye, it was the 12th day of December. When the short daylight came out of the window, the transport vehicle had already moved a total distance of almost 12 kilometers along the river. According to the original plan, they also arrived at the camp for resupply. when.

However, during the period before departure, Wei Ran, who was already familiar with everyone by virtue of his cooking skills which were very different from those of the Slavic people, also took a group photo for everyone in the warm living cabin.

"Why don't we go outside and take a picture?"

Agwan was the first to stand up and suggested, "It's rare that today is a fine weather with no wind or snow, let's go outside and take a group photo!"

"That's a good proposal!" Taras was the first to agree.

"Let me take a picture for you this time"

Apolly continued, "Victor has taken a lot of photos for us these days, but he doesn't have many photos of himself, so let him appear in the group photo at least once!"

"Apolly is right"

Dr. Murat urged, "Victor, hand over your precious camera to Apolly and we'll go outside and take some pictures."

Hearing this, Wei Ran smiled, took off the camera hanging around his neck and handed it to Apoli who came up to him.

Led by the two young men, Agwan and Taras, who got up first, everyone left the warm living cabin one after another, and marked the living cabin with the words "Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR" and the eye-catching Soviet national emblem. As the background, Apoli helped to take a group photo that Wei Ran had seen before.

"Do you want to take a picture on the roof?" Wei Ran asked after taking the camera from Apoli.

"Go to the roof to shoot?"

"certainly"

Wei Ran pointed to the cab of the transport vehicle, "It's no problem that four people can stand on the roof, and three people can stand on the front of the car."

"Since the photographer said it, let's do what the photographer said!" Dr. Pavel, who had been slapped by Wei Ran, agreed without thinking.

"wait a minute"

Wei Ran stopped the crowd, "Apoli, move the transport vehicle first. Let it straddle the river, and then turn to the left, so that I can see you and the living cabin on the rear of the vehicle when I shoot. The Soviet national emblem was photographed together."

"Victor, you should become a professional photographer." Dr. Murat's ridicule received everyone, including Apolly, nodding in agreement.

"When I have a chance in the future, I will be a photographer." Wei Ran shook the camera in his hand, "Apoli, hurry up and move the transport vehicle!"

"Wait a minute!" Apoli got into the cab quickly while speaking.

After a while, the low roaring sound came to the ears, and Apoli drove the transport vehicle to flexibly change directions across the river bed, and then turned the front of the vehicle to the left as Wei Ran requested, and put the two-section body into a The shape of the pull back mark.

After he turned off the engine, Wei Ran immediately directed the two doctors, as well as their respective "closed disciples" Talas and Agwan, to drill into the cab.

When the four people leaned out from the four skylights above the cab, Apoli and two other students, Shalip and Gennady, also stood in the middle of the "bumper" of the car under Wei Ran's command. superior.

Waiting patiently for Dr. Murat to take out a Soviet flag from his arms and unfurl it, and seven people worked together to stretch the windshield covering most of the cab, and then Wei Ran raised his camera and covered them with the lens.

However, in addition to the small team of seven and the Soviet national emblem on the living cabin at the rear of the car, in his shot, he also intentionally or unintentionally captured the supplies that had just been unloaded from the car and had not had time to be buried in the snowdrift .

After pressing the shutter button twice in a row, Wei Ran put down the camera in satisfaction, "Is there anything else you want to shoot?"

"Of course there is!"

Before Dr. Murat finished speaking, his upper body had retracted into the cab. After a while, everyone followed him to Wei Ran's side.

"Victor, let's take a group photo for the two of us." While speaking, Murat patted Dr. Pavel on the shoulder vigorously.

"How do you plan to shoot?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"Just shoot like this"

While speaking, Murat had already taken off the hat he had just put on, and together with Pavel beside him, he opened up the not-so-big national flag again.

Seeing this, Wei Ran took a few steps back, aimed at the two of them and pressed the shutter.

"Anyone else want to take pictures?" Wei Ran asked again.

"Since there are no more, let's go back to the camp!" Apoli said after waiting for a while, "The sauna and freshly baked bread are waiting for us."

"Although Victor has cleaned the living quarters these days, I really should take a shower." Murat said with a smile, "So Apoli, please drive faster on the way back."

"You should tell Victor about this." Apoli patted Wei Ran's shoulder affectionately, "He will be driving the whole journey back."

"Whoever it is, I can't wait to go back to the camp and take a shower."

Pavel lit a cigarette, and reminded jokingly while puffing, "Victor, remember to be steady, I just made a pot of black tea, if you overturn it, I will throw you into the teapot inside."

"Your requests are contradictory." Wei Ran spread his hands pretending to be helpless, turned around and got into the cab.

Just like what these two doctors said, everyone really urgently needs to take a bath now. Although there is a bathroom in the living cabin, and there is also a shower in the bathroom, but because of the poor conditions, taking a bath is indeed a very troublesome thing for them , Especially when taking a shower, it is extremely difficult to open the drain valve.

Because the drain valve with a thick bowl mouth is an iron pipe that leads directly to the outside, it can be used indeed, but the cold wind pouring in from the inside can't wait to freeze the second child.This is not nonsense, but Wei Ran's own personal experience.

When everyone was ready, the start signal given by Murat also came from the small speaker on the top of the cab.

Glancing at Apoly who was sitting in the co-pilot seat rubbing his feet and smoking a cigarette, Wei Ran slowly stepped on the accelerator, dragged the living cabin behind him, and left the oil drums and wooden boxes half buried in the middle of the river.

Now, in the cargo compartment of this transport vehicle, apart from the core samples collected by Talas and others for a week, there is only one fuel generator, and even the fuel reserve in the fuel tank is only enough to return to the camp amount.

Hoarding more living supplies, this is what I started to prepare for when I left the camp a week ago, but no one knows how much supplies the dozen or so wolf skins on the roof can exchange for. .

In the overly warm cab, Wei Ran manipulated this huge transport vehicle more and more proficiently, turning left and right in the direction of the camp like a short, fat python in the undulating wilderness Smooth progress.

Outside the car window, the gloomy sky didn't last long at all, and then fell into a long darkness. When Wei Ran turned on the row of halogen headlights the size of a sea bowl on the roof, he noticed that the sky had begun to float fine particles. snowflakes.

"Speed ​​up," Apolly said after crushing a cigarette butt in a tin can, "go a little further while the visibility is good enough."

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately increased the speed of the car and drove towards the camp under the guidance of the other party.

In the end, when heavy snow was already falling in the night sky, Wei Ran also drove the transport vehicle into the camp surrounded by snow walls.

However, before the car stopped, everyone realized that something was wrong. When they came last time, although there were many tents in the camp, there were not many people at all.

But it's only been a week, and now there are a total of five DT-30 transport vehicles parked scatteredly in the center of the camp.

It can be said that these behemoths are similar to the one driven by Wei Ran. At first glance, the biggest difference is that the painting is slightly different at most, and the subordinate units on the car body are different.

Among the five vehicles, except for two of which were left behind in the camp, the remaining three belonged to both the energy department and the mining department, and one also belonged to the Siberian Academy of Sciences.

And in the big tent where the fronts of the five transport vehicles were aligned, it was also brightly lit and extremely noisy at this time, and at the same time, no one came to greet them.

"Victor, turn off the lights and stay in the car." Apolly had already taken off the rifle fixed on the gun rack while speaking.

Watching Apoli push the door to get out of the car, Wei Ran turned off all the lights on the transport vehicle, and then reached out to touch the whispering pistol behind the dashboard, but in the end he didn't even dare to turn off the engine, but instead body, took another AK rifle from the co-pilot's position and loaded it with bullets.

Under his patient waiting and watching secretly, Dr. Murat and Dr. Pavel ran towards the big tent with the camera. Dr. Murat even fell down when he was about to enter the tent.

"This is... the news of the establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States has reached here?"

After a little thought, Wei Ran guessed that during this week, Dr. Murat and others, who didn't want to hear bad news, deliberately didn't use the radio, let alone turn on the locked radio station.

But at this time, it is already December 12th, and it has been four days since Russia, Belarus, and Ukran signed the "Commonwealth of Independent States Agreement" and announced the formation of the "Commonwealth of Independent States". No matter how slow the transmission speed of radio waves is, it will still be unable to contain fire after all.

Looking at the noise coming from the big brightly lit tent again, Wei Ran could almost imagine how confused and complicated the people inside were struggling with.

"boom!"

A crisp gunshot accompanied by panicked shouts came from the tent.Immediately afterwards, someone shouted at the door of the tent looking for a doctor.

Not long after, Dr. Murat and Dr. Pavel stumbled out of the chaotic tent, as if their spines had been ripped off, they hunched over and walked towards the rear of the car step by step, and finally disappeared in the Wei Ran paid attention to the rearview mirror.

After a while, Apoli ran to the living cabin of the parking space from a distance.At the same time, a dozen soldiers also rushed over behind a bulldozer. Led by Talas and Agwan, they delivered the full metal drawers in the cargo hold, and at the same time carried out inspections on the cargo hold and fuel tanks. with supplies.

Less than half an hour before and after, the bulldozer led the team of soldiers to a tent in the distance in a nearly coordinated manner. Apoli also appeared almost at the same time and ran from the rear of the car to the front of the car, opened the door and jumped into the cab.

"Victor, leave the camp immediately!" Apoli finished speaking before he had time to close the car door.

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately stepped on the accelerator, steered the transport vehicle that had not been turned off, and drove out of the camp, and once again drove into the wilderness covered by snow.

"Let's eat something." Apoli took out a Soviet lunch box from his arms and handed it to Wei Ran.

Seeing this, Wei Ran unceremoniously took the warm lunch box and opened it. There was only a sliced ​​piece of bread inside, with a few slices of ham as thick as a palm and a few slices of tomato sandwiched in the bread.

Picking up the bread and biting it hard, Wei Ran heard Apoly beside him say leisurely, "Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine have established the Commonwealth of Independent States, and the Soviet Union... can no longer go back. "

"When did it happen?" Wei Ran asked calmly with the bread in one hand and the steering wheel in the other.

"Four days ago" Apoli's tone was full of sarcasm and fear.

"There is still half a bottle of vodka left in the box behind the seat." Wei Ran glanced at Apoli, "If you need it."

"It's not the time"

Apollo rubbed his face vigorously, "Victor, speed up, drive the car into the forest ahead and stop."

"Sit still," Wei Ran took a bite of the bread after he finished speaking, and stepped on the gas pedal to the bottom.

Under the propulsion of the surging power, the speed of this nearly empty transport vehicle suddenly accelerated, splitting through the thicker snow curtain and soft snow, and drove straight to the forest where the headlights could not reach. .

　Two in one
　　
　
(End of this chapter)