War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 713 Respective Discoveries

On the second floor of the abandoned hospital in Mine No. 52, Wei Ran returned to the room where the mummy was located after carefully searching all the remaining rooms in the building.

Although the corpse can no longer tell Wei Ran what happened here at that time, but the corpse cannot, but it does not mean that the TT33 pistol he held tightly in his hand until death cannot, not to mention that there is an SKS abandoned outside the corridor. Semi-automatic rifle.

Even though Wei Ran didn't make a good decision on whether to use these things to find the truth, it didn't affect him at all to send the TT33 pistol, the semi-automatic rifle in the corridor, and the two big boxes of TNT to the driver of the transport vehicle. room.

Looking up at the sky, Wei Ran didn't dare to delay at all, and steered the transport vehicle to the downstairs of the last building.

This time, before he even had time to jump out of the cab, he found a dusty GAZ truck parked in the lobby on the first floor of the building.

First he walked around the car, and then stepped on the tires to get to the edge of the driver's window and took a look in. Seeing that there was nothing unusual inside, he slowly opened the door.

The driver's cab, which was also covered in dust, was filled with the stale smell of mold. A wooden box was fixed with ropes to the co-pilot's position. In addition to a kettle, there were two kerosene lamps and an aluminum oil lamp in the box. A pot, and something similar to an incense burner, a metal bowl made of copper, plus a metal rod like a garlic pestle, also made of copper.

Apart from these things, the rest of the box is filled with bundles of incense sticks.

How do these things look better every day?
Wei Ran couldn't help muttering, left the cab and went around to the rear of the car, and gently lifted the tattered canvas curtain.

What he didn't expect was that in the truck's roof, apart from two oil drums with car inner tubes and a few kerosene lamps hanging on the metal rack of the truck, there was actually a piece of paper that didn't A large wooden low table.

Although he doesn't know much about ghost culture, the blanket around the low table, especially the wooden samurai sword on the side of the low table leaning against the back of the cargo box, says a lot.

Beside the low table, there were two unlocked metal boxes.

Wei Ran leaned forward and carefully opened one of them, only to find that one of them contained stacks of booklets bound with string, as well as stationery such as pencils, erasers, and rulers.

Randomly picked up a booklet and opened it, the writing method from top to bottom, right to left, and the words on each page that started with "Kwantung Army", similar to the number, made his face even more gloomy.

Throwing the booklet in his hand back into the box, Wei Ran reached out and opened another metal box. In addition to a Minolta brand rangefinder camera, there was also a set of simple equipment for developing film and bottles of medicine. Of course, There are also several large boxes of used or unused film, as well as two large bundles of kraft envelopes and a large stack of letter paper.

Picking up the two bundles of kraft envelopes and looking at them, Wei Ran found that one of the bundles of envelopes was completely unused.The other bundle was sealed, but nothing was written on the envelope.

Without even thinking about it, Wei Ran tore it open, and found that besides half a sheet of letter paper that also started with "Kwantung Army" and the content was not too much, there was also a half sheet of letter paper wrapped in a washed letter paper. negatives.

Looking at the bright light of the mobile phone screen, the photo on this film is an irregularly shaped stone, and a string of Japanese mixed with Chinese characters seems to be engraved on this stone.Although he couldn't understand it, he could at least be sure that the content engraved on the stone was the content written on the half piece of letter paper in the envelope.

Throwing the envelope aside, Wei Ran tore open the second envelope.Sure enough, there is still only a wrapped negative and half a piece of letter paper written in Japanese, and what is photographed in the negative is still only a stone that seems to be engraved with words.

"This is interesting"

Wei Ran threw the envelopes back into the box, closed the lid again, but had no intention of taking them away.He doesn't need these things, and they can be stored here for decades, and he doesn't have to worry about losing them at all. At worst, he just needs to remember to take them with him or destroy them when he leaves.

Leaving the long-abandoned truck, Wei Ran took Beria to inspect the building in great detail.

What he didn't expect was that in the last building, besides a lot of animal feces and bones, there were also a lot of old-fashioned Soviet landmines piled up in a room in the corner of the first floor!

Not daring to easily touch the scrap iron that had been frozen together with the solid ice on the floor, Wei Ran dragged Beria, who stubbornly wanted to urinate on the landmines, and turned around to leave the building, just as the snow was getting worse. Before coming to the big city, I drove the transport vehicle carefully across the concrete bridge that had been erected on the ditch for an unknown period of time, and drove to the mines at the foot of the mountain in the distance while rolling over the thicker and thicker snow.

At the same time, he also analyzed the clues he had found, and tried his best to restore what happened at that time through guesswork.

It is obvious that the owner of the house in Volgask, Mikita Dusov, the former executioner of Mine No. 52, came here in the 60s of the last century, or to be precise, around 1964. His purpose is obviously to prepare Look for demantoids.

It is very likely that at the same time he came here, a devil who was obviously involved in Mine No. 52 also came here.

Thinking of this, Wei Ran took out the seal he found from the executioner Mikita's corpse not long ago from his pocket and glanced at it.

He had reason to suspect that the devil who happened to come here at the same time was most likely the owner of this seal—Sage Inuyang.

When the speculation reached this point, everything else was already obvious. Since the truck and its contents had been kept here, it could only show that the dog raised the idler.

Considering that its seal was in the hands of the executioner Mikita, it is almost certain that when Mikita arrived here, he found the sage Inuyang. After the two clashed, the former went back to his old business and collapsed. The sage, by the way, took its seal.

But Mikita also paid a heavy price. He was obviously seriously injured. Although he tried to take out the bullet in his body, he couldn't leave here alive after all.

"Let's see if we can find the corpse of the devil raised by the dog now." Wei Ran muttered to himself, and parked the transport vehicle in an open space less than 50 meters away from the entrance of the first cave.

Although the snow outside the window was getting bigger and bigger, Wei Ran was able to see clearly because of the closer distance. There were four scattered caves at the foot of the mountain.

I don't know if it was to avoid water accumulation in the mine. The openings of these openings were opened about three or four meters higher than the open space where he parked, and a long enough slope was built from the opening to the open space.

And around Wei Ran, there are some mining equipment that have been discarded for an unknown period of time, the most of which are chains of mine carts.

Of course, what Wei Ran didn't expect was that there were a few familiar wolves squatting near the entrances of the mines above the ground in the distance.

"I'm sorry, everyone." Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he had already pushed the car door, aimed at the top of his head and pulled the trigger repeatedly.

After the crisp gunshots, the wolf king who had compromised several times let out a low growl that seemed to be filled with grievances, and angrily led his little brother and his family members to run towards the abandoned building.

Once again driving away the owner here, Wei Ran didn't dare to get out of the car at all. After getting out of the sunroof, he stepped on the roof of the car and returned to the living cabin.

As always, he reported Sui Sui and Ji Ma’s safety via satellite phone. After hanging up the phone, Wei Ran searched for the ingredients he had prepared in advance. In this snowy wilderness, he arranged for himself a meal of dumplings stuffed with beef and onion. , and two full cups, which were prepared for the seniors in the recruiting battlefield, but regrettably did not use the high-end liquor.

While Wei Ran is enjoying the loneliness in the snowy night with the wilderness, the small town of Tula thousands of kilometers away is another scene.

Since the Aurora Tavern changed to a new owner, the business here has become much more prosperous.

According to those drinkers, not only the taste of the food here is much better now, but the point is that there have been several more young and beautiful people recently, who are still seductive, deliberately covering the upper half of the face, with strong shamanism. Waitress in element style mask.

Of course, the men who come here to eat will never admit that the delicious food is just an excuse for them to look at the girls—even if there are no less than ten people these days, because they intend to moles the waitresses, and the new owner of this tavern is carrying Collars and waistbands thrown out the door.

Of course, the changes in this tavern are not limited to the addition of beautiful waitresses. The guest rooms on the second and third floors are no longer open to the public. Even the stairs leading to the upper floors have been installed with two extra thick anti-theft doors.

But what the diners can't understand the most is that the new owner of the tavern, the old Ivan who used to be the wild fire rescue station, doesn't go upstairs to rest at all after the end of the day, but has been living in the transport truck outside the tavern. in the car.

However, the retired teachers Lauritz and his wife who joined the tavern some time ago can freely enter and exit the anti-theft door.Of course, students of these two retired teachers once asked why they appeared here, and the answer given by the other party turned out to be the shareholders of this tavern.

Unsurprisingly, such an answer also attracted more diners to the Aurora Tavern, and those students who originally came to the teacher quickly turned their attention to those who wore half-face masks but still looked like The exceptionally nice waitress above.

However, compared to the part-time jobs downstairs that can be regarded as relaxing, most of the girls are basically studying Russian in the small classrooms converted from guest rooms on the second floor, or with the teachers invited by old Ivan. , or use the Internet to follow a mysterious teacher and their spiritual leader Monica who have never seen before, and study various online courses seriously.

At the same time, Jima and others who had already arrived in Sarampaul were not idle, and it can even be said that they have gained a lot.

On the top floor of one of the best hotels in the area, there were two members of the Inta Air Patrol standing at the door of three adjacent rooms.

Although the two middle-aged men only held a beer bottle in their hands, they each had a Makarov pistol loaded with bullets pinned to their waists.

In the middle room, Jima, who had just entered the room, said excitedly before he had time to sit down, "I asked something interesting from an old miner."

"What's the matter?" Alili asked nonchalantly while fiddling with his phone.

"According to the old miner, when he was a child, he heard from his father that many prisoners of war did not leave after the nearby correctional camps were closed by Khrushchev, but chose to stay here and start a new life."

While Jima was speaking, he had already dug out his tablet computer, opened the map, searched for it, pointed to the screen and said, "Here, according to the old miner, he was born in this town. There are several Japanese prisoners of war left behind."

"When did that happen?" Alili asked, looking up.

"The old miner was born when Khrushchev came to power"

Ji Ma spread his hands, "But when those prisoners of war appeared in their town, he didn't know. He just said that since he can remember, he often heard from his parents that a girl from a family married a prisoner of war, or who gave birth to a prisoner of war. He even had a son. He could even tell how many families in that town were descendants of Japanese prisoners of war.”

"So you're going to take a look?" Alili asked, looking up.

"why are you not going?"

Jima poked at the screen of the tablet, "The straight-line distance from here is less than 20 kilometers from us. Even if we need to drive along the river, it will not exceed 50 kilometers. Let's go and see tomorrow. Ask something out there."

"Quarter Horse, Quarter Horse"

Alili stopped the enthusiastic Jima, "I think you'd better ask Victor first about this kind of thing, he is much more professional than you, a young actor, and this news might help him."

"I reject"

Ji Ma put his feet on the table, lit a cigarette and said confidently, "I want to find out something this time."

"Could it be that Maya said something that caught your attention?"

Aliri asked helplessly, "Jima, are you an idiot? Why don't you compete with Victor in acting? That's what you're good at."

"I'm not trying to compete with Victor"

Ji Mahua, who was said to be in the middle of his mind, pulled the back of his head and explained, "Maya always thinks that I am an uneducated person, so I"

"But he was right"

Aliri asked back, "Do you need me to remind you how you graduated from the university you studied?"

"Alili!" Jima immediately sat up straight, "You must not let Maya know about this!"

"Don't worry, don't worry! Don't let your parents know, I will remember."

Aliri waved his hand indifferently, "Pierre stopped making money by making fake diplomas two years ago, no one will know about your scandal."

"Even if no one knows, I will find out something this time!"

Jima took a big puff of cigarette, "I want to let Maya know that her man is"

"stop!"

Alili waved his hand, "Jima, if you bastard say anything stupid in front of me again, I will tell Maya all your stupid things. In addition, I have to remind you that you still haven't gotten along with me yet. She kissed."

"That's not important!" Ji Ma waved his hand awkwardly, "Anyway, I'll let her know that I'm also a literate person!"

"I hope so," Alili responded perfunctorily, obviously not optimistic about Ji Ma's rhetoric.

　Sorry, the update is late, I haven't gone home yet, let's update it today, forgive me.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)