War Photographer's Notebook

第701章 Cr52-4-7-24
In the early morning, before the sun jumps out of the horizon, fine snowflakes are already floating in Kazan on the Volga River.Although the roofs of various colors were not completely covered by snow, they looked much plumper as if they had been covered with a layer of soft light.

On the shore of Kaban Lake, under the urging of his biological clock, Wei Ran got up early as always, bringing his dog Beria, who was able to keep up with his pace gradually, but also needed to wear a muzzle, and Ji Ji, who stayed here last night. Ma, started the morning jog along the trail around the lake together.

And in the warm lobby on the first floor, after Sui Sui failed to stay in bed with the excuse of a hangover, as usual, she was once again dragged out of the warm quilt by the Katenka sisters, doing aerobics sleepily.

On the contrary, Maya and the two little sisters who didn't have time to go home last night were able to lie on the bed with peace of mind.

Of course, there are those who fail to stay in bed, those who succeed in staying in bed, and naturally there are those who are already awake but dare not leave the bedroom.

In a sunny guest room on the third floor, Lola, who was wearing pajamas, glanced at her sister who was still sleeping soundly on the bed, and then poked her head out through the gap in the curtains to look at the yard outside the French windows.

When she retracted her head and lay on the bed again, all that was left in her mind was bewilderment and bewilderment.

At 1:[-] in the morning, Wei Ran, Jima, and Beria, who was wagging their tongues, ran back to the yard slowly. With a time difference of less than [-] minutes, Anfisa, who went out to buy breakfast, also drove back, bringing a special Fried dough sticks, steamed buns and tea eggs from a Chinese restaurant.

Almost at the same time she walked into the door carrying breakfast, Anfeiya also poured hot milk into the cups placed on the long table, and even poured a cup for Wei Ran and Sui Sui from the soybean milk machine. A big bowl of soy milk, and I didn't forget to put a spoonful of sugar in the latter's bowl.

Taking advantage of the time when Wei Ran and the others went to take a bath, the Katenka sisters who had already prepared breakfast also went upstairs, preparing to call Maya and the others to have breakfast.

It's just that it's obvious that Maya is more interested in sleeping late than eating breakfast, and the two little sisters were never woken up at all.

Lola, on the other hand, opened the door the moment Anfisa knocked on the door, and subconsciously looked towards the side of the room. Anfisa was surprised to find that not only the little girl with autism, Korava, was already in Lola Under the care of her, she brushed her teeth and washed her face, and even made the quilt and bed neatly.

After recovering, Anfisa looked at Lola who was wearing her own clothes, and said with a smile, "Let's go downstairs for dinner."

Lola tightened her grip on the bullet necklace hanging around her neck, looked at Anfisa with courage and asked, "Will you sell me and Korava?"

"It's not up to me to decide"

Anfisa, who knew the answer, continued walking downstairs, "Even the right to breathe has to be won by yourself. It is useless to pray and pray. Also, the meal you secretly hid last night It's best to leave the knife in the room. Otherwise, you may not even have a chance to eat breakfast."

Hearing this, Lola couldn't help panicking, but even so, she still didn't take out the table knife hidden in her cuff, but mustered up her courage, and pulled her younger sister Korava to follow behind Anfisa , with the mood of giving himself a funeral, walked downstairs step by step, and under the arrangement of the former, he sat obediently at the long table.

What made her feel a little frustrated and powerless was that besides the food that had never been seen but smelled delicious on the long table, there were also shiny silver knives and forks on the napkin, as if she didn't need her at all. "Bring your own tableware" also seems to imply that her little preparations can't play any role at all.

While she was watching the two big-eared foxes running around the room and thinking wildly, the scum who "runs the largest skin and meat business in Kazan" also walked to the long strip while wiping his wet hair with a towel. at the table.

Looking at Lola with a pale face and frightened eyes with great interest, Jima subconsciously touched the beard that hadn't been shaved for a few days, then looked down at the clothes he was wearing, and looked at him with a hippie smile. Lola, who stood up and pulled her younger sister to try to hide in the corner, asked, "Are you Wu Kelan not as handsome as me? Otherwise, why are you so scared? Do you want me to sign your autograph? To tell you the truth, I am a Somewhat famous."

"Little famous scum"

The two Katenka sisters walked over, knocked out Jima's role identity with one voice, and then sat on the left and right of Lola and her sister.

"Why do you two always target me?" Jima picked up a small steamed bun and threw it into his mouth, chewing viciously while asking angrily.

Anfisa waved to Lola, motioning for her and her sister to sit over, and Anfeya also explained, "Sister Misha reminded us that you are a scum, if you don't want to be entangled with you, yes You'd better have a bad attitude."

"My sister was right"

Anfisa nodded affirmatively before Jima spoke, "And Sister Maya also said the same, and she also said that she regretted being so kind to you at that time."

"Me!" Ji Ma gritted his teeth and looked at the two sisters, and in the end he had no choice but to pick up the second steamed bun and threw it into his mouth.

I don't know if it's just the hard steel "big devil" aura of the Katenka sisters that made Lola find the backbone. The little girl also subconsciously moved the chair to Anfeya's side.

She was naturally afraid of being sold to the scum on the other side, but she was also afraid of Anfisa who stunned herself yesterday and made her stand on one leg all day -- even though she had prepared a sumptuous dinner for herself last night.

At this moment, Wei Ran and Sui Sui also came down from upstairs.

Looking at Lola next to Anfeya with a strange expression, Suiu asked with a look of disgust on his waist, "Ji scum, you are finally not interested in Sister Maya, and you are starting to attack children again." ?”

"What is chicken man fried?"

Ji Ma subconsciously repeated the Chinese noun that popped out of Sui Sui's mouth, then rolled his eyes, and explained with a suffocated voice, "This beautiful underage girl has nothing to do with me, it was Victor who took her away yesterday. Under house arrest."

"Is this the stupid thief from yesterday?"

Sui Sui immediately realized that even though she was overwhelmed by the two or three glasses of home-brewed wine last night, she still remembered that a thief was caught at home.

"It's her"

Wei Ran found a place with chopsticks and sat down, picked up the soy milk and took a sip. Seeing that there was sugar in it, he immediately changed it with the bowl next to him, and then said, "Let Anfisa explain Bar."

Hearing this, Sui Sui glanced thoughtfully at the little girl who still had a look of fear in her face, and waved her hands carelessly, "Let's not talk about this, I'm starving to death, everyone, let's eat first!"

Without a trace, Wei Ran and Sui Sui glanced at each other, Wei Ran picked up the deep-fried dough sticks and tore them apart, threw them into the soy milk, and ate his own breakfast slowly.

It could be seen that everyone at the table was waiting intentionally or unconsciously for Lola, who was sitting between the Katenka sisters.

After all, this girl not only has to fill her own stomach, but also takes care of her younger sister, Korava, who can't even use a knife and fork.

It took about an hour to eat an ordinary breakfast, and when Lola and her sister finished their portion, Maya also rubbed her messy hair and went downstairs sleepily.

At the same time, Ji Ma also instantly turned into a licking dog, carrying a breakfast that no one had touched, ran into the kitchen familiarly, and sent it into the microwave to reheat.

It wasn't until Maya managed to eat the reheated breakfast that Anfisa sat next to her boss and recounted what happened yesterday and the content of the inquiry.

"Where's that scumbag of hers?" Sui Sui asked through gritted teeth after hearing the story.

"It's currently in the cargo warehouse at the Kazan railway station"

Jima, who had been playing the role of the Great Demon King invisibly, slumped on the sofa and picked her teeth while explaining, "If you don't need her anymore, she will be sent away tomorrow afternoon. I gave it to Misha last night. She made a phone call, and she promised to keep that bastard aunt in prison for at least ten years."

"Do you have any opinions?" Sui Sui asked Lola as a matter of course.

Hearing this, Lola looked at Sui Sui with a blank expression on her face, and she didn't know how to answer this question, let alone whether she should answer this question.

At this moment, Jima also put down the phone, and said to Lola in a very serious tone, "Of course, even if you want to kill her yourself, there is no problem, and I can guarantee that no one will trouble you for killing her. "

Just after he finished speaking, Sui Sui frowned, but after seeing Wei Ran beside him shaking his head slightly, he immediately swallowed what he wanted to say.

Being the center of everyone's attention, Lola looked helplessly at her sister Korava who was sitting next to Maya, and after hesitating for a long time, she whispered, "Let her go to prison."

"You don't want to kill her?"

However, Ji Ma asked unwillingly, "I can even clean up the corpse for you."

"I don't want to," Lola responded in a low voice, and then repeated with a louder voice, "I don't want to."

"Don't want to or don't dare?" Ji Ma asked sullenly.

Lola, who was almost scared to cry, bit her lips tightly, trying not to let herself cry, and responded again, "I don't want to!".

"Congratulations on not going astray and saving your own life."

Ji Ma, who looked like an ancestral hooligan last moment, immediately sent out a congratulation with a smile on his face, completely ignoring the dull-faced Lola, and proudly gave Wei Ran a high-five.

"Neuropathy"

Maya, who was eating breakfast while observing Korava, rolled her eyes and muttered, but there was less distaste in that tone, and more smiles instead.

"Since you let your aunt go, let's let you go too."

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he got up and walked into the darkroom not far away.He can naturally see the intention of Ji Ma's temptation just now.

Of course, no matter who killed the aunt who was enough to be called a scumbag, she would not be wronged.But there is really no need to ruin the life of a little girl who is only a few months away from becoming an adult because of her crime.

After all, if you really want to kill that woman, you just need to put on a set of professional outdoor gear for this season and throw her into the forest around Inta.

Those wolves who are already hungry will never mind helping to kill a damned person, and the local TV station in Inta will definitely not mind spending half a minute on the news program to report that an American tourist, because he did not comply The local travel regulations and precautions formulated under the leadership of Aurora were unfortunately attacked by wolves in the wild and killed.

Once again secretly praised Ji Ma, this scumbag is really a good scumbag, Wei Ran also carried the wooden box that was brought down from the upstairs after getting up in the morning to the long table outside.

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be your grandfather's personal belongings left in the Yudino library."

When Wei Ran spoke, he lifted the lid of the wooden box. At the same time, Sui Sui and others, including Lola, also surrounded him. Only Maya was still eating breakfast while taking care of the little girl who seemed to only know how to laugh. girl.

Naturally, those three scary research projects will not appear in this box, so Wei Ran just glanced at Lola, who was still a little flustered and dazed, and simply took out the "Soviet Medical Encyclopedia" and opened it. The pistol and bullets inside were displayed one by one.

"I haven't touched it since I got it"

Wei Ran held down the revolver first, looked at Lola and asked, "But I remember that there are bullets in it, so for the safety of all of us, how about I take out the bullets in it first?"

Hearing this, Lola nodded cautiously, stood obediently on the edge of the table, let Wei Ran withdraw the bullets in the revolver one by one, and watched him put the bullets in the revolver. The pistol was dismantled into parts.

"How about you come and find it yourself?" Sui Sui asked with a smile.

Lola nodded vigorously, reached out to remove a hairpin from her hair, then picked up a bullet, poked the bullet with the end of the hairpin, saw that there was no cross flower groove on it, and immediately picked up the second one.

Unexpectedly, soon, the two bullets with cross-shaped grooves on the bullet heads were picked out.

"You need a screwdriver to unscrew it," Lola said cautiously.

Without calling at all, Anfisa walked to the storage room, took out a small toolbox that hadn't even been unpacked, found a screwdriver and handed it to Lola.

Looking at the people around, Lola gritted her teeth, took the screwdriver as if resigned to her fate, and unscrewed the bullet head of a bullet that was picked out, and then picked out a small ball of cotton from it.

Gently knocking on the table, two small green stones, at most the size of soybeans, rolled out of the shell.

Contrary to Lola's expectations, these people around did not touch the two small stones that were so important to her.Not only that, but Wei Ran picked up the bullet and observed it carefully.

The flanged countersunk bullets used in this Nagant revolver have only three types of bullets. The most common ones are the flat bullets with the best stopping effect, the relatively rare round bullets, and the bare lead sports bullets. .

At this time, the one he was pinching in his hand was a relatively rare round-head bullet. The tip of this bullet was artificially cut with cross-shaped grooves, and the stamping point used to fix it in the bullet case Downward, a circle of spiral grooves is engraved, and it is precisely because of the existence of this circle of grooves that the bullet can be unscrewed like a screw.

Picking up the bullet casing and looking at it, there is still a small ball of cotton in the deepest part near the primer.

"Bring a pair of tweezers," Wei Ran said without raising his head.

Hearing this, Anfisa immediately got up and walked to the desk not far away, opened the drawer and took out the medicine box, found a pair of pointed tweezers and handed it to Wei Ran.

Carefully pulling out the cotton ball inside, Wei Ran turned on the flashlight function of the phone and looked inside, but unfortunately, there was nothing else inside.

Putting the bullet casing on the table, Wei Ran turned to look at Lola, and asked after thinking for a moment, "Can you take apart your bullet casing necklace and show me?"

Lola thought for a while, reached out and took off the bullet necklace from her neck, pulled out the leather cord, and carefully pushed it to Wei Ran.

After taking a look at the bullet engraved with Stalin's famous quotes, Wei Ran noticed that the position of the hole on the bullet happened to be the stamping point used to fix the bullet head in the shell.

Try to unscrew the bullet with a screwdriver, there is also a cotton ball inside, but judging by the color of the cotton ball, it is obviously new.

Under Lola's gaze, Wei Ran pulled out the cotton ball with tweezers, and at the same time brought out a piece of translucent green glass slag.

Putting the glass slag aside with tweezers, Wei Ran continued to dig out, and pulled out a roll of paper sealed from the front and back with yellowed scotch tape.

This roll of paper is less than a centimeter wide and less than five centimeters long, and on it, as Lola said last night, spelled out in tiny Russian letters is the first sentence I leave you. fortune.

After taking the rubber gloves from Anfisa and putting them on, Wei Ran carefully rewound the note and stuffed it into the bullet casing, and poked it to the bottom layer next to the primer with tweezers.

Immediately afterwards, under Lola's dull gaze, he put in the two small green stones that were just taken out of another bullet not long ago, and filled the remaining space with the cotton balls he just took out. space.

Finally screwed on the bullet and put on the leather rope, Wei Ran pushed it to Lola who was standing opposite the table.

"You give them to me?" Lola looked at Wei Ran in disbelief and asked.

"You can give it to me if you don't want it"

Wei Ran responded nonchalantly, and at the same time, he picked up the green glass stubble that he had just taken out, like flicking a piece of disgusting booger, and accurately sent it into the trash can not far away.

Holding the necklace, Lola stared blankly at the trash can in the corner, only to feel that her mood also relaxed a little for no reason.

"Do you want to open the other one?" Wei Ran asked, and at the same time, he handed the screwdriver in his hand to the little girl opposite.

After recovering, Lola hurriedly put the bullet necklace on her neck, took the screwdriver with one hand, and picked up the last tampered bullet on the table with the other.

This time, the silly girl seemed to trust Wei Ran completely. After removing the bullet, she handed the bullet casing to Wei Ran without even looking at what was inside.

Seeing this, Wei Ran first put the bullet casing on the table, then rolled up the cuffs of the sweater, then picked up the tweezers again, and carefully pulled out a small ball of cotton from the bullet casing.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, when he turned the bullet case upside down and tapped it lightly on the table, nothing fell out.

Turning around and looking inside, Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, picked up the tweezers again, and carefully pulled out a piece of gray silk cloth and two pieces of black plastic from the bullet case.

"Wait a minute, these seem to be two negatives." While speaking, Wei Ran used tweezers to clean off the cloth, and took out the negatives wrapped inside.

Although the perforations on both sides of these two bent plastic sheets were cut off, Wei Ran could tell by their size alone that they were all negatives developed from 135 film.

"Look at what's photographed here?" Jima moved closer curiously.

"don't touch"

Wei Ran pulled Jima's paws away, "These two negatives have become brittle after being placed in the bullet casing for so long."

"Can it be washed out?" Sui Sui asked a crucial question, and then asked Lola, "Do you need to wash it out for you?"

"Can you?" Lola asked cautiously.

"Ask you?" Sui Sui turned to look at Wei Ran.

"let me try"

Wei Ran thought for a while, stood up and took the two negatives and took two steps into the darkroom, then stopped and said, "Sui Sui, bring Lola in to watch the fun together, and, bring Those remaining bullets."

"Okay!" Sui Sui agreed, grabbed the remaining bullets on the table and stuffed them into Lola's pocket, straddled the little girl Lola's arm and followed excitedly.

"I'll go in and have a look too." Before Anfisa finished speaking, she also got up and chased after her, holding Lola's other arm from the other side.

Until Wei Ran took the three girls into the dark room and locked the door behind him, Ji Ma followed suit, "It's the same as the Wu Ke rotten person in my impression."

"Where is it the same?" Anfeiya asked puzzled.

"First, as long as you give them some small favors, you will be foolish enough to trust others"

Jima lit a cigarette on his own, and deliberately sprayed second-hand smoke on Anfeya, and waited for the latter to wave his palms to disperse the smoke, while pointing his middle finger at him, then lowered his voice slightly and continued, " Second, they are too easy to believe other people's incitement, you see, I have almost digested the breakfast I ate, and she didn't even suspect whether the content of my interrogation of her aunt was fake."

"She's just a 17-year-old girl who's freaked out by you," reminds Maya, who has finished her breakfast, "although I can't be this stupid when I'm 17."

"Dont look at me"

Anfeya spread her hands, "When I was 15 years old, I was able to hack into the official website of Vienna's Golden Hall to get free concert tickets."

"Just you?" Jima questioned Anfeiya recklessly, "I don't believe in such things."

"up to you"

Anfeiya picked up a little fox and sat on the sofa, and reminded nonchalantly, "We can drive home faster than you, or should I take those pornographic video pictures from your computer hard drive It’s faster to delete them all.”

"When did you hack my computer?" Ji Ma asked with an embarrassing face.

"Never"

While playing with the big ears of the little fox in her hand, Anfeiya replied with a smile, "I guess."

"Go back and teach me how to do it"

Maya picked up another little fox, handed it to the quiet little girl who seemed to only know how to laugh, and gently led her to sit beside Anfeiya.

"that."

Ji Ma cleared his throat in embarrassment, and asked with a shy face, "Is her condition serious?"

"I'm not a medical student, how do I know?" Maya spread her hands, "This is a physical disease, not a mental disease."

"That's right." Jima grinned, hating why he didn't go to the darkroom to see the excitement just now, and hating that he had nothing to do to provoke Anfeiya.

Just as he was racking his brains to figure out how to win back his face in front of Maya, his right hand Greva also sent the armored pickup truck over.

Almost at the front and back, the two little girls who had been sleeping late also held their mobile phones, ran down the stairs, yawned, grabbed two steamed buns from the long table, and hurriedly talked to Jima After waiting for someone to say hello, he ran out like a smoke.

But even so, these two little sisters who seemed to have their heads stuck in the dyeing vat were driven by Greva, who knocked on the forehead with his fingers.

"You gang boss is not as prestigious as Greva," Anfeya couldn't help muttering.

"This may be the only place he has done relatively successfully." Maya commented with a smile, but did not explain in detail.

Anfeya naturally didn't have any interest in the topic of Jima, so she simply took out a lollipop from her pocket, tore it open, stuffed it into the mouth of the autistic girl Kolava, and passed it from her smoothly. Got a sweet smile.

While they were waiting, about half an hour later, the hinted door was opened by Anfeya from the inside.

Seeing this, Ji Ma and the others immediately got in, and Anfisa, who came out first, also took advantage of no one's attention, and threw a shiny silver table knife on the long table that hadn't had time to clean it up.

In the darkroom with the lights on, everyone including Wei Ran, Sui Sui, and Lola looked up at the two still-dried photos on the drying line.

In the first photo, just a map was taken.But what is special is that although this map is drawn in exceptional detail, all the markings on it are combinations of letters and numbers that seem to be irregular.

Looking at the second photo, the content inside is simpler. It is just a piece of white paper held by two hands, and there is only a group of handwritten numbers starting with a letter on the paper—"Cr52-4 -7-24".

"What does it mean?"

Jima raised his neck and asked, "There doesn't seem to be such a string of codes on the map in the first photo."

"What did you think of the abbreviation Cr?" Wei Ran rubbed his neck and asked.

"Chat roulette?"

Jima replied subconsciously, "I often meet some friends on it. Greva told me, yes, that's what he said. He told me that I often meet some interesting friends on it."

Maya rolled her eyes at Jima first, and then said her guess, "Could it be the abbreviation of Chaos Regulation?"

"What's that?" Suho asked blankly.

Maya spread her hands, "Intermittent anxiety is a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder."

"I thought it was an acronym for created"

Sui Sui grinned and said her opinion stupidly, and then asked Lola with great interest, "What about you? What do you think it means?"

Lola, who didn't expect to have a chance to speak at all, thought about it, and said without thinking, "I often use this abbreviation after I play the game Mission Destroyer."

"Carriage return?" Anfeya asked subconsciously, and Lola immediately nodded upon hearing that.

"It could also be diphenoxazepine"

After Anfisa finished speaking, seeing everyone looking at him blankly, she spread her hands helplessly and explained, "A chemical poison used by Americans."

"How do you think of this thing?" Maya couldn't help asking.

"I'm more interested in chemistry," Anfisa naturally gave an impeccable explanation.

"I prefer to believe it represents the core router"

It was rare for Anfeiya to not maintain a consistent view with her sister, and at the same time, she subconsciously explained what she thought was reasonable from the field she knew.

"Victor, what about you?" Jima put his hand on Wei Ran's shoulder and asked.

"Have you ever thought about something"

Wei Ran spread his hands helplessly, "In the era when Lola's grandfather was the librarian of Utino, he didn't seem to need any core routers at all, and he didn't have the opportunity to play online games, let alone get to know each other on some chat roulette. Interesting friends.

Of course, I don't think he's going to suffer from intermittent anxiety, or have any chance of being exposed to American chemical agents.And most importantly, why did the Soviets at that time use English abbreviations? "

"Forehead"

Everyone present grinned in embarrassment, but the little girl Lola laughed abruptly, followed by everyone except Wei Ran, who seemed to be able to swipe the screen to squeeze them out It's the same as the mindless speech record just now.

"So what do you think it means?" Sui Suo put her hands and even her chin on Anfisa's shoulders and asked.

"I'm guessing it's probably chromium"

Wei Ran shook the query content displayed on the phone screen, and said ambiguously, "Although I have no interest in chemistry, fortunately, it is recorded in the history books that the Russian scientist Mr. Mendeleev invented the periodic table of elements. So even the Soviet Union era, and I guess people back then didn’t mind chrome being called that.”

"Aren't you more interested in chemistry?" Suho asked happily in Anfisa's ear.

Anfisa spread his hands and dumped the blame to the former boss without any trace, "The boss asked about the abbreviation, not the chemical symbol. He deliberately led us to guess wrong."

"But what about the numbers behind?" Sui Sui pointed to the string of letters and numbers on the photo and guessed in Chinese, "Cr52-4-7-24, 52 chromium weeks, 4 seasons a year, 7 days a week God, 24 hours a day?"

"Maozi doesn't know this kind of homonym"

While speaking, Wei Ran picked up the two negatives in a paper bag and handed them to Lola, and said in Russian, "If you want to know what they represent, you have to find a way to find out what is drawn on the map in the other photo. Only then can we know the answer. But before that, Lola, what are you going to do next?"

(End of this chapter)