War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 694 Special Clearance Reward
I don't know what to do this time.
Wei Ran secretly rubbed the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand, and said to everyone around him, "It's dark now, and the snow is so heavy, why don't we start tomorrow?"

"I have no objection." Sui Sui and Maya said in unison.

The two girls had no objections, and sister Katenka, who was the assistant, and Jima, the dog licker, naturally had no objections.Even old Peter, who just took office, was very happy that they were willing to stay for a night.

After all, the old couple just rushed over, and with these young people staying, they can also have a process of adaptation.

In exchange, Old Peter took the initiative to do a detailed inspection of their off-road vehicle, and Wei Ran and Jima also helped Old Peter's wife repair the barbed wire that was cut not long ago.

Speaking of which, Old Peter's wife is also diligent. Not only did she prepare enough dinner for everyone before everything was done, she even drove the crawler tractor and used the bulldozer blade on the front of the car to move The snow in the camp had been pushed and piled up under the barbed wire fence around the edge.

After everything was done, everyone also got into the living cabin of the transport vehicle driven by Old Peter in the dark.

Compared with Ivan's living cabin, the layout here is not much different, except that the solid wood floor has been replaced with a more durable stainless steel pattern plate, the single bunk bed has become a double bunk bed, and the bathroom is also smaller Some and no bathtubs.

Of course, there is also a radio station in this living cabin, but just by looking at the shape and the logo on it, you can tell that it is a civilian repeater radio station produced by Huaxia.

Accompanying the old couple to have a meal together, Wei Ran and the others went back to their respective off-road vehicles.

This night, Jima finally got his wish and lived in his and Maya's off-road vehicle, but the two injured drivers slept in the same car as him, and Maya had already moved to Katenka sisters. in the car.

And in Wei Ran and Sui Sui's off-road vehicle, the former finally found an opportunity to take out the metal notebook while the latter was taking a shower in the bathroom.

However, what he didn't expect was that after flipping the pages of the metal book, it stopped at the page where the three-barrel survival shotgun from the World War II German Army that he got in the desert last time!

What happened next was completely beyond his expectations. Under his helpless gaze, the blue vortex carrying the three shotguns turned faster and smaller, until finally it completely disappeared from the page. Disappeared, only the red swirl with the watch and compass left alone.

Before he could react, the page continued to flip forward and stopped again.Just the same as before, the blue vortex of the sled trailer carrying the half-track motorcycle also turned faster and faster, turned smaller and smaller, and finally disappeared completely!
Seeing that the page stopped on the red and blue swirl of rewarding half-track motorcycles on page 15, Wei Ran's heart also tugged. At this moment, he didn't even have time to think about why this change occurred, but was even more worried. What else is there to lose.

It would be fine if only the survival shotgun and the sled trailer were gone, but if even this half-track motorcycle disappeared, the loss would be too great!
And he clearly remembered that if he continued to turn forward, the next one, and the last one, was the SVT40 semi-automatic rifle in the blue vortex he got for the first time!
Fortunately, this time, the red and blue two-color vortex on page 15 only flashed for a moment, and it didn't spin faster, nor did it shrink and disappear.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the pages of the metal book also began to turn backwards, and finally stopped at the back of the latest page.

The only red vortex here is the bunch of keys that were rewarded last time, but at this time, beside the red vortex, there are two small round ears, one on the left and one on the right. There was an extra blue swirl the size of a quail egg.

Under his gaze, the two blue vortexes gradually merged into it as if they were attracted by the red vortex.

After the two small blue vortexes completely disappeared, the red vortex also returned to calm.

This is the end?
Wei Ran came back to his senses, first glanced at the direction of the shower at the rear of the car, saw that Sui Sui was still in the shower and hadn't come out yet, so he immediately turned a few pages forward.Then he tried to take out the three-barreled survival shotgun.However, both the blue vortex and the shotgun had disappeared.

After trying to take out the newly obtained bunch of keys to no avail, Wei Ran simply put his hand into the red vortex.However, apart from the biting cold inside, he didn't touch anything at all!
Why can't I get a refrigerator for me?

Wei Ran muttered to himself, picked up the half-eaten apple on the table and tried to stuff it into the red swirl.It's a pity and luck that this weird vortex doesn't take this kind of thing at all.

Since it is not a refrigerator and cannot be taken out, is it because the contents are too big?
It's not like he hasn't encountered this kind of situation before. The things in the vortex are bigger than the vortex and can't be taken out, and the things inside are bigger than the space they are in, and they can't be taken out. This is nothing unusual.But what about the two disappearing blue swirls?

And what is that thing that can't be taken out?
Could it be the safe that is bigger than the washing machine?Wei Ran suddenly felt a little bit excited, just the not-so-big food box brought him too much convenience, and the space in the safe could easily hold three or four food boxes. The boxes are all right!
Suppressing the urge to go outside the car and try again, Wei Ran put away the metal book he had been holding in his hand at the same time Sui Sui turned off the shower head.

In the blink of an eye the next morning, before the temperatureless sun jumped out of the horizon, Old Peter drove an artillery tractor and left the camp of the Fire Field Rescue Station with a majestic Caucasus because of the call from the rescue channel. on his first rescue mission.

Wei Ran and others, who were awakened by the engine, saw that the blizzard that had been raging all night had stopped, so they simply got up and bid farewell to Old Peter's wife.According to the plan discussed at dinner yesterday, the three off-road vehicles were driven by the girls and walked in the front.Wei Ran and Ji Ma each drove a truck loaded with flour and walked behind, leaving the camp at a distance of tens of meters.

At the front of the convoy, in the car driven by Maya, the driver with an injured finger was sitting in the co-pilot's seat to help point the way. At the dining table behind Maya, Anfisa was sitting on the sofa chair, holding a tablet computer seriously. Learning Chinese and Chinese characters, and on the back of the table in front of her, there is a Makarov pistol fixed with tape.

After Old Ivan returned the pistol to Wei Ran before he left, the latter gave it to Anfisa.Even, it was Wei Ran's arrangement that she came to Maya's car to help "take care" of the two injured drivers while on the road.

As for the reason, the heart of defense is indispensable.

After all, this is the Siberian wilderness far away from Europe. In this ghostly place where no living people can be seen for tens of kilometers, the law can almost be equated with farting, and the cost of crime is infinitely close to zero.

Although this does not mean that everyone you meet is a jerk, but to be on the safe side, even if God comes, you have to carry an AK. At least this can prevent those good people who could be friends from being tempted to do something crooked thought.

With the driver who injured his finger guiding the way, the road ahead went very smoothly.

But even so, it took four full days for everyone to successfully deliver the two drivers and their trucks to their respective families.

Then it took another four days to rush back to the Wild Fire Rescue Station following a freight truck that came across by chance.

It took just over a week, and now the camp of the rescue station has been cleaned up, and even the containers have been rearranged, and logs and waste tires have been padded underneath.Even the container used as a kennel was wrapped with an extra layer of thick felt to resist the low temperature.

"I don't know if old Ivan has a wife"

Jima, who was driving in the front, didn't stop, but continued to tease on the radio channel, "If he had a wife, maybe the rescue station would have become so clean and tidy long ago."

"When you get back to the small town of Tula, you can ask him in person." Wei Ran, who was sitting in the co-pilot in the second off-road vehicle that followed him, responded boredly.

It's a pity to say that after such a long time, he has never found a suitable opportunity to take a look at the contents of the red swirl in the metal book, and he didn't even have the opportunity to take out the half-track motorcycle to see what has changed.

This is something that can't be helped. After all, these days, everyone is basically moving around in their off-road vehicles. Even if they stop for a rest, the doors are all connected end to end, and there is no chance to be alone.

In the chatting with each other, a group of three off-road vehicles left the Raging Fire Field Rescue Station far behind. After entering the lower Tunguska River from a tributary, they bid farewell to the freight truck drivers who were traveling together and turned around. The car headed west towards the small town of Tula.

That night, three cars parked in the parking lot in front of the Aurora Tavern in the dark.In less than ten days, there is now a white DT-30 transport vehicle with a beautiful flame pattern on the open space on the side of the tavern.

There is even a waist-high wooden fence around the transport vehicle.And the originally spacious parking lot was actually full of all kinds of trucks!

Pushing the door and walking into the lobby on the first floor of the tavern, Wei Ran and others heard lively conversations, poker players, clinking glasses and the retro singing of the Soviet Gem Band before the air-conditioning rushing in with them cleared up.

After the air-conditioning cleared and the sight resumed, the first thing everyone saw was the Soviet national emblem the size of a car tire hanging in the middle of the wine rack behind the bar counter facing the door.

And old Ivan, now wearing a tuxedo he got from no one knows where, was sitting on the high stool behind the bar and fiddled with the laptop that Wei Ran had seen in the living cabin of the transport vehicle.

Looking around again, those large solid wood tables are already full of men and women holding wine glasses and talking and laughing wantonly.

No need to ask, just look at the car keys on the plate at the corner of each table, and the trucks crowded in the parking lot outside, you know that these people are truck drivers running on the ice.Even Wei Ran and others can guess that they must have come to join in the show through the news they got through the Agni Rescue Channel.

I don't know if it was a coincidence, or if they got the news in advance, Karp, Gorman, and Kajik just happened to walk down the stairs next to the bar with their suitcases.

"You're back just in time"

Karp handed the suitcase in his hand to Wei Ran, "Take us to the airport, we are ready to go back."

"Aren't you waiting for us?" Jima asked dissatisfied, "We just came back."

"No need to wait." Gorman pushed his box to Jima, "You will also go back to class with me."

"Maya, you can stay and go back with Victor and Aurora." Kajik said with a smile, "Victor, can you send us to the airport? This way you don't have to bother Mr. Ivan."

"Happy to serve"

Wei Ran handed Sui Sui his suitcase, and said apologetically, "You go upstairs first, I'll grab it back soon."

Hearing this, Sui Sui handed the car keys to Wei Ran, then bent down and picked up the dog that was circling at the former's feet, yawned and said, "Be careful on the road."

"Do not worry"

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he gave Sister Kajianka a sneaky look, then pulled Karp's suitcase, turned around and walked out of the Aurora Tavern.

"Jima, you drive."

After Karp finished speaking, he actually sat in the co-pilot's seat, while Kajik sat behind the driver's seat.

Seeing that Gorman raised his chin towards him, Wei Ran obediently handed over the car keys to Ji Ma, who was also obedient, and followed Gorman silently into the rest cabin with bunk beds.After Kajik, who was sitting outside, helped close the sliding door, Gorman signaled Wei Ran to sit down at the end farthest from the hatch.

"In November, the young mothers and their children brought back from Africa will be sent here."

"That Italian girl will also be sent here?" Wei Ran asked with a frown.

"How is it possible, she and the young man named Tasi will return to Italy by then."

Gorman sat opposite Wei Ran, lit a cigarette and said slowly, "Speaking of those young mothers, old Ivan will take care of them in the next ten years or so.

Under normal circumstances, the profit of this tavern is enough to feed all of them, but when they occasionally need some extra expenses, you need to bear these, of course, don't worry, it won't be too much. "

"Can I refuse?" Wei Ran asked cautiously.

"sure"

Gorman nodded happily, "Just send those diamonds back to the forest farm, and then those young mothers and their children will be sent back to the orphanage on the border of Rwanda."

"Forget it, when I didn't say it."

Wei Ran shook his head helplessly, he believed that Gorman and others would definitely do such a thing, and he believed that the other party did not force him with such an excuse, he just told the truth.

"In the future, you can ask your girlfriend to bring some tourists here frequently," Gorman continued, "Old Ivan will help you arrange those tourists."

Wei Ran spread his hands, "I can't promise you this kind of thing for Aurora."

"I know I know."

Gorman waved his hand nonchalantly, "There is a third thing. From the end of this month, the Hongqi Women's Safety Training School will be permanently closed."

"What did you say?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in surprise and asked.

"I said, the Hongqi Women's Safety Training School closed down," Gorman spread his hands, "Time Film Studio acquired all the fixed assets under the name of the school."

"Why?" Wei Ran asked puzzled, he didn't care whether the school of Hongqi Forest Farm would continue to operate, but he had to consider the meaning behind it.

"There is no need for her to continue to exist anymore," Gorman explained vaguely, "Maybe it will be renamed Time Forest Farm in the future."

"Gorman, what are you going to do?" Wei Ran frowned and asked the long-standing doubts in his heart.

"I just want to put all my energy into making movies"

Gorman patted Wei Ran's shoulder with a smile, "On the night of American Christmas Eve, the North African story we filmed before will be released. Remember to go to the cinema to see it then."

Seeing that the other party made it clear that he didn't want to say more, Wei Ran wisely didn't ask further questions, and almost stared at the three teachers and Jima who obviously didn't want to leave to the airport.

It was not until the four of them boarded the plane with the chatterer Dmitri and took off successfully that Wei Ran left the airport in an off-road vehicle, chose a snowy road in the forest at random, and drove in after reaching the end. Coniferous forest covered with snow.

After turning off the lights and waiting patiently for a while, Wei Ran opened the door, waved his hand and took out the half-track motorcycle from the metal book.

Fortunately, the half-track motorcycle was still there, but on the rear seat, as before, a roll of tent, a polar bear skin and a furry reindeer skin blanket were tied.

Trying to take out the sled drag bucket obtained later was fruitless, Wei Ran gritted his teeth, and took out the things stored in the newly obtained red vortex.

However, before he could see clearly what he had taken out, he felt like he had been stripped naked and thrown into a world of ice and snow in winter, and he felt a sharp pain all over his body, like being pricked by needles.

Before he could scream out, the severe pain disappeared instantly.But immediately after, he felt that familiar, indescribable sense of brain shutdown.

Sitting on the soft snow with a "plop", Wei Ran was stunned for a while, and then began to pant quickly as if he had regained the right to breathe, and at the same time his whole body shivered.

It wasn't until this time that he realized what he got this time!
Less than three meters away from the front, on the thick snow, a DT-30 transport vehicle that looked like a giant beast was quietly parked.

The white transport vehicle that was "restored to factory settings" by the metal book is still scattered with blue flame patterns all over the body, and there are even soft and warm lights in the living cabin.

But Wei Ran, who was sitting down on the ground, couldn't be happy at all. The thing stuffed into his mind just out of thin air can be said to be an instruction manual, but it can also be said to be a warning.

To put it simply, although the transport vehicle rewarded this time is not small and has enough space inside, it cannot be "smuggled" like a food box at all.

Even the materials in the cargo hold, except for water and fuel, are in one-way synchronization with the transport truck parked next to the tavern by old Ivan.And even if the fuel and water are freely replenished, they can only be used for the consumption of the transport vehicle itself.

On the contrary, it is the safe in the living cabin, which is Wei Ran's last piece of private land.However, although it can be used to store some important things, it belongs to "wherever you put it in, you can only take it out from there."

If you want to get stuck with a bug, put something from Huaxia, and then take it out from the devil country and blow it up, that is really a dream.

"It's such a big loss."

Wei Ran cursed secretly, although the rewards he got this time seem to be bigger than the previous ones, but the practicality is really not high.

Even, it was because of its large size that it erased the survival shotgun and the sled trailer that could be matched with the half-track motorcycle.Even from this point of view, he felt a blood loss.

After all, no matter what, the three-barreled shotgun had a chance to be used in the historical fragments of World War II, but the transporter shook his head tiredly. This thing might not even be able to catch up with the Chechen War.

Not to mention, with such a huge monster, every time you want to take it out, you not only have to find a place that is sufficiently concealed and spacious enough, but you also have to endure the torture of the whole body by Rong Nuo.

Stumbling to his feet and walking towards the cab, Wei Ran opened the door of the driver's seat full of expectations, but unfortunately, the AK rifle he was expecting did not exist.On the contrary, a small tree full of apples was planted in the box between the driver's seat and the co-pilot's seat.

"Not even a goldfish"

Wei Ran glanced at the lawn under the apple tree, and tried to find a pistol from the inside of the instrument panel but failed, then pulled out the car key, closed the car door resentfully, turned around and opened the door of the cargo compartment.

It's really no different from Ivan's transport vehicle, and even the materials inside are in the same state.

I have to find a way to buy old Ivan's transport truck in the future!Wei Ran secretly made up his mind, closed the cargo door, and walked towards the living cabin at the rear.

Pulling out the metal ladder at the bottom of the cabin door, Wei Ran got into the living cabin and took a rough turn. Except for the laptop and spy radio station that old Ivan had put on the table, there were everything from the wooden barrel bathtub to the pots and pans. Pots, and even the R142 radio system can be described as everything.

Even, on the side of the small door directly below the air conditioner, there is a World War II German three-barreled shotgun and a bullet belt full of bullets.

That's not to mention, besides a brown bear skin on the single bed, there was also a sleeping bag issued by the German polar troops in World War II. These were all the blue vortex rewards he got from experiencing the historical fragment as a French prisoner last time.

So, although the two blue vortexes disappeared, the things inside didn't completely disappear?

After Wei Ran picked up the three-barreled shotgun and gestured for a while, he hung it on the hook by the door again.

After some groping, he climbed up the handrail on the wall on the side of the air conditioner to open the skylight, only to find that in addition to the solar panels on the roof, there was also a circle of radio antennas on the roof.

Returning to the warm living cabin, Wei Ran took a deep breath and carefully opened the safe according to the password.

"This is."

There was nothing in the safe, but on the innermost bulkhead, there was an upward arrow pasted on conspicuous red paper.

Subconsciously bent down to look at the ceiling inside the safe, Wei Ran couldn't help but widen his eyes.

There is a metal pull ring the size of a beer bottle cap on it. Rotate the pull ring 90 degrees according to the arc-shaped arrow pasted on the surrounding red paper, and the velvet panel on the top is instantly loosened and removed.

Resisting the excitement in his heart, Wei Ran put the black velvet panel aside, fumbled and took out a large roll of movie film from it!On the side of this film roll, the word "Tinder" is written in red Russian!
Carefully finding the beginning of the film, he put it under the old-fashioned desk lamp by the table, and he looked at it bit by bit by the light.

In this long roll of film, all the detailed information about the tinder bacteria were shot one by one!

Wei Ran, who didn't dare to read all the information on such a large roll of film, and became short of breath, hurriedly restored it to its original shape and stuck it in the dark compartment of the safe.

After reinstalling the velvet panel and locking the safe, Wei Ran ran out of the living cabin in a hurry, gritted his teeth in the sharp pain of the needle, and put away the transport vehicle that shouldn't have appeared at all!

Lying on the cold snow and panting for a long time, Wei Ran turned over and got up, driving the off-road vehicle over and over again on the track marks until he could no longer see any traces from the track of the transport vehicle, and immediately Turned the car around and drove in the direction of the small town of Tula!

(End of this chapter)