War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 689

"Fire Field Rescue Station?"

Wei Ran muttered to himself, then raised his head and asked Dmitri who was standing at the door of the container, "Do you know where this rescue station is?"

"I might need to call and ask"

Dmitry replied uncertainly, "There are at least hundreds of aid stations in this wasteland. I'm afraid only people who often travel this road know their locations."

"So you don't know?" Wei Ran asked for a second confirmation knowingly.

Dmitry pointed to the top of his head, "I usually fly in the sky, and there are no rescue stations in the stratosphere."

"makes sense"

Wei Ran responded perfunctorily, and squatted halfway beside the iron table, carefully checking the radio that was still playing old songs.

This thing was said to be a radio, but after some inspection, Wei Ran found that it was just a radio with the switch and volume adjustment removed, and finally an old-fashioned radio case was put on the outside as a protection, and by the way, the speaker on it was also used for external use. It's just a single player.It doesn't even have a battery, and it relies entirely on the small wind generator on the top of the container to provide electricity to drive this outdated little machine, playing the only song on the tape tirelessly over and over again.

Wei Ran put the cover of the radio back on the radio and said, "Dmitry, I want to visit this fire rescue station."

"Aren't you going to the forest farm No. 58?" Dmitry asked in surprise.

"No, we might as well ask the person at the rescue station, maybe he can get some clues."

Hearing this, Dmitry nodded cheerfully, "I'll call and ask, and see who knows the exact location of this rescue station."

"sorry to bother you"

Wei Ran thanked absently, but his attention was still lingering in this container. He always felt that this container was made by Apoli, because whether it was the song they sang together in the living cabin of the transport vehicle while holding a wine glass, The old songs that have been played several times, or the meaningful names of the rescue stations, seem to imply something.

Sitting on the long chair in the container and waiting patiently for 6 minutes, Dmitry said after hanging up the second call, "I found it, but the location is a little far away."

"How far?" Wei Ran stood up and walked out of the container, asking while closing the door again.

"I just got the coordinates." Dmitry shook the satellite phone in his hand, "You have to check the exact location to know."

"Send me the coordinates directly." Wei Ran pointed to the off-road vehicle in the river, "We will strive to reach that rescue station tonight."

"Or we can call and ask directly." Dmitry said while chasing Wei Ran, "this way we can save some time."

Wei Ran stopped in his tracks, turned around and said solemnly, "Since we are seeking help from others, we should be polite and take the initiative to visit. This is the most basic etiquette."

"When did you guys become so polite?"

Dmitry muttered secretly, but found that Wei Ran had already got into the warm off-road vehicle.Seeing this, he could only shake his head, and sent the coordinates he just got to Wei Ran.

After entering this string of coordinates into the satellite map, Wei Ran couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he jumped out of the specific location.

The field rescue station, which is about 100 kilometers away from them, is less than 119 kilometers away from the No. 20 mine.

At this time, he was very sure that the field rescue station named Agni must be inextricably linked with Apolly.

"Sui Sui, drive in this direction."

Wei Ran raised his finger and pointed to the fork of the river on the left, "Go straight along this river, and go north after meeting the intersection of three rivers. The whole journey is more than [-] kilometers, and we will try to get there before dark."

"Sit tight!"

The old driver, Sui Sui, stepped on the accelerator before he could say a word, and like a runaway Beria, he violently rushed into the river that Wei Ran was pointing at.

"Victor, aren't we going to No. 58 Forest Farm?" Jima asked puzzled on the radio channel, "We are less than 20 kilometers away from that Forest Farm."

"No hurry, let's go to the Fire Field Rescue Station next to the No. 119 mine."

Wei Ran picked up the walkie-talkie and deliberately explained the next plan in detail on the radio channel, "Since there are rescue station staff on duty there, maybe they can know something, even if there is no gain, we will not go there again when we come back." Night."

"Listen to you." Ji Ma responded boredly and then fell silent.

After waiting for a while, Wei Ran simply turned on the car radio that he had never used, and adjusted the channel to the emergency frequency band of the Agni Field Rescue Station.

Contrary to his expectations, this channel was extremely lively, and from time to time, someone would chat in it, or simply brag about the dangers they encountered on the road, or even an unrealistic affair in a certain tavern.Its joyful atmosphere makes it impossible to see that this channel is for help.

"What channel is this?" Sui Sui, who was in charge of driving, asked curiously.

"The SOS Band of the Fire Field Rescue Station"

"It sounds like the late-night emotional channel," Sui Sui complained, rolling her eyes.

"Driving in this damn place, it's nice to have a chat channel."

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he heard someone shouting on this channel, "Ivan, old Ivan, call the old Ivan of the Agni Rescue Station."

After this call, the entire channel immediately fell silent, followed by a full of air, but extremely hoarse voice responded, "I am Ivan from the Fire Rescue Station."

"Container 8"

The person who just called said hurriedly, "My truck rolled over about 8 kilometers west of container No. 22 and needs help."

"Is anyone injured?" asked the old Ivan from the Fire Rescue Station.

"My son has a five-centimeter wound on his forehead. We have moved to the shore now, but please come quickly. My car has medicines for the herdsmen to survive the winter, as well as school textbooks. Now the rear of the car is stuck in the ice. inside."

"If anyone is in container 8 please go and help"

Old Ivan from the aid station said calmly, "It will take me two hours to get there. You should find a way to bandage your son's wound first."

"Old Ivan, where is container number 8?"

Wei Ran picked up the microphone of the car radio and asked, the other party's voice was too hoarse, it didn't sound like Apoli at all.

So the best way at present may be to meet with the other party.That being the case, nothing makes a better impression than "doing what's right."

"New here?" Old Ivan asked unhurriedly.

"Passing by" Wei Ran gave an answer that implied chance in a flat tone.

"I'll report the coordinates to you. If you have a satellite map, you can write it down."

"Report here." Wei Ran let go of the microphone, picked up the tablet and was ready to enter the coordinates.

After a while, a set of precise coordinates was reported on the channel. After Wei Ran entered them into the satellite map, he found that they were only more than [-] kilometers away.

"How far away are you, young man?" asked a voice that had just been bragging about the story the tavern waitress had to tell.

"50 kilometers." Wei Ran glanced at Sui Sui next to him, "It can be reached in an hour."

"Is there any closer?"

Ivan from the rescue station followed up and asked. After waiting for a while and seeing no one responding, he immediately said again, "Young people passing by, go and have a look if it's convenient for you. At least let their father and son stay warm in your car."

"We'll get there as fast as we can"

While responding, Wei Ran pushed the tablet to Suisui.The latter immediately stepped on the accelerator, picked up the walkie-talkie and briefly described the situation.

In the off-road vehicle driven by Maya, Jima said seriously, "Maya, let me drive."

Maya glanced at the quarter horse who had been clinging to her in the co-pilot, finally nodded, stepped on the brakes and changed places with the other party.

Holding the steering wheel, Jima opened the car window to a small gap, then lighted a cigarette without haste and took a big gulp, and said, "Put on your seat belt and let Victor take care of you." Send me the coordinates."

Hearing this, Maya put on her seat belt obediently, even grabbed the handle on the post with her hand, and then picked up the walkie-talkie.

Until this time, Ji Ma stepped on the accelerator hard.Immediately, amidst the roar of the engine, the off-road vehicle that was running again, after continuous acceleration, even raised the speed to the highest speed on the ice covered with snow.

In the violent bumps and even jumps, the car driven by Jima caught up with Dmitry in a blink of an eye, passed the Katenka sisters who had been following Sui Sui all the time, and finally surpassed the one who ran in the front Sui Sui ran ahead without slowing down at all.

"Is his car drugged?" Sui Sui asked dully while holding the shaking steering wheel.

"Perhaps Ji Ma took drugs."

Wei Ran said dumbfoundedly, and couldn't help but recall the frightening scene when Daria pointed a gun at Ji Ma and stepped on the gas pedal when they were in class together at the Hongqi Forest Farm.

It took only forty minutes before and after. When the three of them were still chasing along the ruts left by Jima, the latter had already parked the car at the front of a rollover GAZ 66 truck. .

"vomit--"

As soon as the car stopped, Maya opened the window, poked her head out, and vomited out all the food she ate before departure.

"Sorry" Ji Ma, who originally wanted to push the car door, immediately unscrewed a bottle of water and handed it over.

Maya waved her hand and pointed at the father and son standing on the shore while vomiting.

Seeing this, Ji Ma took out a few extra tissues and stuffed them into the opponent's hand, then put the mineral water aside, pulled out the Makorov pistol that had been stuck in his boots before and loaded it, and then opened the car door .

"Did you call for help on the radio channel just now?" Jima asked cautiously standing on the side of the car door.

"Yes, it's us, it's us!" The man standing on the shore, who wrapped his son in his coat from the beginning to the end, said gratefully.

Hearing this, Ji Ma first looked around the overturned truck, then glanced at the tire tens of meters away from the rear of the truck, finally nodded and said enthusiastically, "Get in the car, Come warm up in the car, we have a medical kit here to help your son treat the wound."

"thanks, thanks!"

The man standing on the shore let his son out of the warm coat, and then he also took off the coat in advance, and took the initiative to walk around in front of Ji Ma, and then sent his son to the warm The buggy said proactively, "I'll just wait outside."

"Come on." Ji Ma shook his head, "If you can trust us."

"Thank you." The man quickly got into the car.

"Are you okay?" Jima asked Maya.

"It's okay." Maya waved her hand, "I've already notified Victor and the others, and the remaining cars will arrive within 10 minutes at most."

Hearing this, Ji Ma looked at the little boy who was only eight or nine years old. This little guy was covering the wound on his head with a piece of gauze that he didn't know where, and there was still dried blood on his cheek.But his throat was also covered with gauze, but the bandaging method looked much more professional.

"The wound has stopped bleeding"

Jima scratched the back of his head in distress, "You may have to wait a while, someone more professional than me will come over soon, he is better at dealing with wounds than me."

Naturally, what Ji Ma was talking about was Wei Ran. After all, before making the movie, he had always been in a state of dawdling in the Hongqi Forest Farm. The first aid knowledge of the three-legged cat he learned could not be said to have been almost forgotten, but he had basically forgotten it. He didn't remember much, and at most he dared to use a knife on a wild boar.

The man was visibly relieved, and then looked worriedly at the overturned car outside, "Can you help me pull the car out."

"This car can't pull a GAZ 66"

Jima pointed to the surrounding ice, "Even if we go over now, the biggest possibility is to crush the ice and sink the whole car into the water."

"Let's wait for old Ivan"

The man muttered worriedly, and then, as if he just remembered, he introduced himself and his son.

"Baulia, why do you take your son for transportation in this weather?" Jima, who also introduced himself, asked doubts in his heart.

"I took him to the hospital." Paulia pointed to his Adam's apple, "There is a small thing growing in his throat, and he needs a minor operation."

"What a poor little guy." Jima brought a cup of coffee to the man named Bolia and Maya who had just recovered her breath.

The two waited with the father and son for more than ten minutes, and Wei Ran and others also rushed to the scene of the accident.

"Victor, his wound needs to be treated." Jima whispered, "but I only dare to suture on animals."

"Didn't we save a forest ranger before?" Wei Ran asked while checking the child's wound.

"That's different"

Jima grinned and retorted, "That time we didn't save him, he died. But this time he is a child, I don't want to leave a scar on his face, maybe he will become a star in the future. "

"Did you act in a movie?" Wei Ran said dumbfounded, "Let everyone else go out, and then take out the medical kit."

"I can do this!"

Immediately, Jima cheerfully greeted the onlookers to get off the car, and then pulled out a medical kit from under the bed that he had never been able to lie down.

Perhaps it is because it is too easy to encounter various dangers in this polar environment, and the medical kits in this car are also professionally configured, at least there are two sets of surgical kits.

Asking Ji Ma to help provide lighting, Wei Ran made some preparations, injected a small amount of anesthetic around the wound of this quiet little guy, washed off the gauze sticking to the wound, and used the last The thin suture thread carefully sutured the scar at the same position as a magician.

"How well is this stitched?" Wei Ran secretly praised, and carefully covered the dressing and bandaged it.

When he and Jima came out of the carriage one after another, Dmitry and the man named Paulia were already studying how to pull out the truck that had rolled over because it lost a tire. .Even the other three trucks had their winches attached to the front of that truck.

It's a pity that although the winch is powerful enough, the bottom plate of the off-road vehicle itself is unstable.So they worked hard for a long time, but not only failed to make the car stand up again, but broke a large piece of ice around the car.

Now, everyone didn't dare to do anything anymore, they could only get into the warm car and wait for the old Ivan from the Agni Field Rescue Station to rush over to help.

Taking advantage of this period of time, Wei Ran was also insinuating, and heard something about the Agni Field Rescue Station from this man named Baolia.

According to the other party, he has been transporting supplies for settled nomadic tribes on this river since more than ten years ago.When he first entered the industry, Agni Field Rescue Station already existed.

It's just that the rescue points along the river were all simple shacks built with logs, and the containers that Wei Ran and others had seen appeared in recent years because of the support of the coal field.Even the supplies inside were spontaneously distributed by the drivers who often run this route. After all, no one knows if they will be the next one to be recruited.

While they were chatting, the last rays of the setting sun were completely blocked by the coniferous forest in the distance, and deafening noises came from a distance.

Before seeing the car behind the row of dazzling headlights, Paulia shouted excitedly, "It's old Ivan! It's old Ivan!"

Soon, the headlights and engine roared from far to near, and a bright red ATS59G tracked artillery tractor with flame patterns also slowly stopped in front of everyone.

Wei Ran is almost 1991% sure that the tractor with a circle of searchlights on the roof is definitely not the one that drove out of the abandoned mine on the New Year's Eve on the last day of [-].

Because it is so new, not only the window glass is not damaged, but also the canvas shed with red paint on the cargo bed is clean.

Not only that, in addition to a small bulldozing blade, a simple ladder-shaped boom about four meters long is propped diagonally on the front of the car, so that the car looks like a big red Like a mechanical unicorn.

There is no need to explain the bulldozing blade, and the boom has no technological content. To put it bluntly, it is just a simple crane.The entire lifting system is completed by the steel wire of the rear winch passing through the fixed pulley on the top of the boom. Although the lifting weight of this transformation will not be too high, it is simple and low in cost. Even if it is broken, it is easy to repair. trouble.

With the engine stalled, the door of the big red tractor was pushed open by the people in the cab.

Immediately afterwards, a man with a cotton cap on his head and a bushy beard jumped down conveniently.

"How's the baby?" The unkempt man asked the first question in a hoarse voice, while pulling a medical box from the cab.

"He's fine. These kind people have already stitched up his wound."

Baolia said gratefully, "Uncle Ivan, the main thing is that I need to get out of my truck quickly. There are children's books and veterinary medicine for the reindeer in it."

"The child is fine"

The man named Ivan glanced at Wei Ran and the others, put the medical kit in his hand back into the cab, silently turned around the overturned truck, and then said, "It can't be righted, otherwise The tires are bound to smash through the ice when righting up."

"Then what should we do?" Paulia asked with a bitter face.

"Drag it to the shore first." Ivan beckoned to Wei Ran and the others, "Drive your car to the shore."

"Do as he says"

Wei Ran winked, turned around and got into the car with Sui Sui.Even though he had only glanced at him briefly just now, even though he had a bushy beard on his face, he still recognized at a glance that the old Ivan was the former Apolly.

No matter what his name is, the four off-road vehicles parked far away on the shore under his command, and he himself drove the artillery tractor to the shore and put down the bulldozing shovel as an auxiliary hoe, and then pulled it out of the winch. Out of the tow hitch, through the obvious hand-cut gap on the bulldozing blade, and finally hung on the tow hitch of the overturned truck.

Amidst the roar of the engine, the winch was slowly retracted, and the overturned truck was easily pulled out of the frozen ice layer, and dragged to the shore little by little.

After closing the winch, Ivan or Apoli drove the tractor again, and carefully straightened the car body with the help of the boom and bulldozing blade.

This is not over yet, under the watchful eyes of Wei Ran and others, he even used the bulldozing shovel as a jack to replace the spare tire on the car.

And for these, the driver named Baolia only needs to pay two bottles of vodka and a mere three thousand rubles for fuel.Not to mention the Siberian wasteland where people can freeze to death, even in the outskirts of a city like Kazan, such charges are no different from free money.

Watching Baolia climb up the slightly deformed truck cab with his son in his arms, he said goodbye to everyone and continued on their way. Wei Ran also stopped "Ivan" before he got into the cab of the tractor .

"What's the matter?" Ivan shook the ruble he just got in his hand, and asked jokingly with a smile, "Young man, do you need me to share some money with you?"

"Need not"

Wei Ran waved his hand, "Mr. Ivan, we have traveled for a long time, can we go to the Raging Fire Rescue Station to rest for one night?"

"of course can!"

The bearded old man had already opened the door of the tractor while speaking, "Follow me, my place is safe enough."

"Can I take your car?" Wei Ran asked with a rather stern face, "It's the first time I've come here, and it's also the first time I've seen such a car."

"Curious little guy." Ivan pointed to the position of the co-pilot, and said tolerantly, "Come on."

"Everyone keep up"

Wei Ran greeted everyone behind him, then walked around to the other side and got into the co-pilot.

As soon as he entered, he couldn't help showing a smile on his face. Although 30 years had passed, although Apoli had not only changed the car but also changed his name, his cab was still lit with a hot stove.

The red coke in the furnace seemed to have never been extinguished from the beginning to the end.

(End of this chapter)