War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 717 The Second Job of the Executioner

In the open space surrounded by ditches, Mikita, the captain of the firing squad, waited patiently for Wei Ran to copy down the serial number on the chest of the last corpse with a pen. Temperature stamp.

At the same time, Wei Ran also wrote the reason for killing in Russian at the end of the last group of numbers in his own plastic leather book - "Prison Break".

"You like these seals?"

After completing the recording work, Wei Ran put the pen back into the metal book through the cover of his jacket pocket, and then asked while pressing the bullet into the revolver.

"You said this?"

Mikita weighed the seals he had just found, put them in his pocket nonchalantly, and explained, "The materials of these things look pretty good, and I can use them to practice carving techniques. I told you, My dad used to be a jeweler, and I want to be like that."

Wei Ran put away his pistol, smiled and complimented, "I saw the pendant you gave to Dr. Goosen yesterday, and the engraved cursive characters are very beautiful."

"Even if you say so, I won't give you the pendant."

Mikita made a joke with a smile on his face, picked up a boiled potato from the basket next to him and took a bite, then threw the half potato with tooth marks on a prisoner's dinner plate, and then put Spit in the palm of his mouth, and threw it into the miso soup of the other prisoner, "Today's potatoes are not boiled until soft, those breeders are really getting lazy, maybe one day they will directly produce potatoes."

"Captain, I heard that this is also Dr. Goosen's suggestion."

The bearded soldier standing behind him and Wei Ran explained in a low voice, "It is said that this can save a lot of coal, and also make the work of the breeder a lot easier."

"So potatoes will really be distributed in the future?" Mikita asked nonchalantly.

"It is said to start tomorrow"

The bearded soldier pointed to a few people who were approaching in the distance, "In addition, the head nurse will lead people to check the sanitation of the shack once a week, all of which require the cooperation of our firing squad."

"Why didn't I know about this?" Mikita asked dissatisfied.

"I told you yesterday that you were in a hurry to find Dr. Goosen for a drink." The bearded soldier replied innocently.

"It seems that there is such a thing"

Mikita helped the Shapka cotton cap on his head, "In this case, let everyone come over and divide into two groups to cooperate with the head nurse to check hygiene, and shoot if necessary."

"Yes!" The bearded soldier responded loudly, and then blew the whistle in his hand.

Soon, several firing squad soldiers who had been standing on the edge of the trench ran over following the sound of the whistle and formed a line.

The number of members of this firing squad is not too many. Even counting Wei Ran, Mikita, and the bearded soldier, there are only 12 people in total, but looking around, they are all Slavs. People of Asian descent with Mongolian ancestry.

Not only that, in addition to the revolver and flashlight pinned to their waists, these soldiers also generally wore a brown-red horsewhip more than one meter long on their outer belts. The bearded man who always followed Wei Ran and Mikita Around his waist, there is even a bundle of coiled long whips.

These soldiers had just assembled, and those people in the distance also crossed the concrete bridge and walked to everyone.

The leader of these people was a middle-aged woman who looked about 50 years old, but always had a sullen face, tightly pursed thin lips and squinted her eyes.

Just from the appearance, Wei Ran can label the other party as serious, mean, cruel, etc., and at the same time secretly guessing that this head nurse may be a difficult person to deal with.

Compared with the old woman in the lead, the ten girls following behind are much more eye-catching.These girls wear the iconic woolen coats of the Soviet army, and also wear Shapka hats on their heads, and the white nurse uniforms worn inside can be seen at the neckline.

Each of these girls carried a tin bucket filled with lime and a small shovel poked at it, and the girls walking at the end of the line had an extra kerosene lamp that was kept at the lowest brightness.

At the head of the two teams of girls, besides Zhuo Ya who had had a drink yesterday, there was also a girl with red hair and big breasts who was biting her teeth with red eyes and swollen eyes.

Just by seeing her glance into the trench from time to time, Wei Ran already roughly guessed her identity.

"I heard from Zoya that vice-captain Victor praised me as an angel sent by Comrade Stalin?"

When Wei Ran was looking at the girls, the old woman in charge asked in an unhurried tone.

"Is not it?"

Wei Ran spread his hands, and said in an extremely sincere tone, "I insist that it is because of the serious attitude of Comrade Head Nurse that those prisoners of war can live so healthy to this day."

"I didn't think you were lying"

The head nurse with a mean face rolled his eyes, and said another person, "Captain Mikita, I will trouble you this time."

"nothing"

Mikita had already pulled Zhuoya aside while speaking, and responded nonchalantly, "Pontiac head nurse, let Vice Captain Victor and Bao Lide each take half of the people to protect the girls. Be safe, I'm going to ask Nurse Zhuoya for some Japanese lessons."

"Yes!" The bearded soldier who had been following Mikita immediately stood at attention and responded loudly.

"Why don't Vice Captain Victor come with us?"

The female head nurse called Pontiac unexpectedly did not express any objection, and even pointedly said, "Zoya is really a smart and lucky girl, she will definitely live a very happy life. "

Before the words were finished, the rest of the girls subconsciously glanced at the female nurse with red and swollen eyes.

Pontiac followed up and said, "I repeat, everyone must wear a mask and gloves before entering the shack, and when they encounter unsanitary conditions, they will sprinkle lime as a mark."

"Yes!" The female nurses immediately responded in unison.

"You guys, come here." Baolid waved to the few remaining prisoners of war who were cooking, and casually pointed to the bodies that had already become cold.

The selected prisoners of war immediately put their dinner plates on the ground, ran over as fast as they could, swarmed up and took off the clothes from the corpses and put them on themselves, and then in groups of two, stripped the naked corpses. After throwing them into the ditch, they ran back to their respective dinner plates as fast as possible, picked them up and ran towards their respective shacks.

Seeing the members of the firing squad and even the head nurse of Pontiac looking at him, Wei Ran cleared his throat, and said solemnly, "If you encounter resistance, shoot and kill, and by the way, check whether there are any Possession of weapons or any prohibited items. Now that a gang of miners has been discovered today, it must prove that there are other gangs of miners."

"Yes!" The members of the firing squad responded imposingly, and then took out a bullet from their pockets and stuffed it into the magazine in a uniform manner, and pulled the hammer, and pulled out the flashlight at their waist .

"Irene, you're on my team"

The Pontiac head nurse reached out and grabbed the female nurse with red and swollen eyes, "Vice-captain Victor, where should we go first?"

"Let's listen to your arrangements." Wei Ran said with a smile, "This time we are just the guards of the angels."

"You can really talk"

A stiff expression appeared on Pontiac's face, and he seemed to randomly point to a shack not too far away. Accompanied by Wei Ran and the other five execution team members, he led a team of nurses behind him. walked in.

Just looking at the struggling look on the face of the big-breasted nurse, Wei Ran knew that the Pontiac head nurse probably chose that shack on purpose.

Before opening the shack door made of weeds and dead branches, the Pontiac head nurse carefully took out two masks and handed one of them to Wei Ran, and the nurse doors behind her also He took out the extra mask and handed it to the members of the firing squad who followed.

After thanking him, Wei Ran took the mask and waved his hand at the same time, signaling to the three team members behind him to take the kerosene lamp in the nurse's hand, and after turning up the brightness, they walked in first.

When Wei Ran went in with the Pontiac head nurse, three kerosene lamps had already been hung on the low roof, fully showing the details inside.

It was also through the light that Wei Ran was able to see clearly that in this shack, a large enough fireplace was built with slag gravel at the position facing the entrance, and there were two other two meters on both sides of the end of the passage. There are two fireplaces, and beside these fireplaces that provide both warmth and light, there are also a lot of firewood piled up.

In all fairness, although the temperature outside at this time was at least forty or fifty degrees below zero, thanks to these three fireplaces, the shack was so warm that you couldn't even breathe.

Of course, this place is not a paradise. Although it is warm, the air is extremely turbid, with the smell of sweat, feet, and even the unique smell of urine.

On both sides of the spacious passage, the high and low bunks made of wooden boards with residual bark are densely arranged in groups of two or two.The bed was covered with pine needles and weeds, and the bedding made of cloth was unthinkable. Even the pillows were stones of various shapes.

At this time, those prisoners of war were also in groups of four, crouching on the aisle less than one meter wide between the bunks with their heads in their arms, waiting obediently for inspection.

"Did Vice Captain Victor discover anything?" Seeing that Wei Ran stopped by the side of a bunk, the Pontiac head nurse couldn't help asking curiously.

"nothing"

Although Wei Ran responded in this way, he picked up a stone and looked at it. Then, he pulled out the flashlight attached to his waist and turned it on, shining the beam on the stone.

Sure enough, the side of the stone that smelled of pulp and sweat was engraved with Japanese characters next to each other.

Although Wei Ran can only roughly recognize the part of the characters engraved on these stones that is most similar to Chinese characters, he has already recognized that this is the envelope that was in the cargo bed of the truck before entering the historical fragment The film negatives found in the main character were shot.

And the text engraved on this stone is also very likely to contain detailed information such as name, military registration, and household registration.

Throwing the patinaed stone back on the bed, Wei Ran thought for a while, and ordered loudly, "Drive all these animals to the left of the entrance first, then carefully check the right side, and rotate after the inspection."

"Yes!"

The five executioners responded immediately, pulling out their horsewhips one after another, and persuaded all the prisoners on the right side to the left side in a way that was not gentle or polite at all.

"Pontiac Head Nurse, I'll have to work hard for you next," Wei Ran said with a smile.

"Check everything carefully"

The Pontiac head nurse waved her hand, dragged the big-breasted girl named Irene to a bed that didn't even have pine branches and weeds, pointed to the bed and said, "Irene, come here Check here."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the girl to agree or refuse, Pontiac picked up the stone that also had personal information written on it, and simply threw it into the fireplace.

With the head nurse taking the lead, the rest of the girls naturally didn't dare to neglect, not only checked carefully, but also sprinkled some quicklime on the bed boards of each bed for disinfection.

Gradually, the shack became more and more choking, but neither Wei Ran nor Pontiac had the intention of stopping at all. They just called the members of the firing squad to help and drove the gathered prisoners of war from left to right. By the way, Qi also conducted a body search, and then continued to repeat the action just now.

At the same time, at the request of the head nurse, the female nurse named Yilinni translated in Japanese the requirements for sanitation rectification in the shack, and the possible consequences of failing to meet the sanitation standards in the next inspection.

To put it bluntly, this is a repetitive skilled job, so after completing the sanitation inspection of the shack, the Pontiac head nurse entrusted the big-breasted female nurse and the rest of the girls to Wei Ran and him. However, she simply turned around and left, obviously not planning to waste time here.

It can be seen that after sending away the not-so-talkative head nurse, both the nurses and the execution team were relieved, and even two of the team members were still blatantly kissing the nurse who was standing together just now. Take a sip.

"Check everything carefully"

Wei Ran ignored the expression on the face of the big-breasted nurse, repeated his request, and led the group of men and women into the second shack.

Of course, without the presence of the head nurse, Wei Ran actually relaxed a lot, so after hanging up the kerosene lamp, he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and distributed them among the rest of the team members and even the nurses .

"Who gave you these whips?" Wei Ran puffed out the clouds while smoking a cigarette, and started the topic from an unimportant angle.

"Baolid made it for us. Since we were revoked the right to shoot prisoners, we asked Baoled to help weave the horsewhip."

After a single execution team member was forced by Wei Ran to work with a big-breasted nurse, he answered questions more simply and proactively, even with a hint of showing off in his tone.

"Baolide's craftsmanship is really good." Wei Ran responded casually, and threw back the stone he had just picked up by the way.

"He even made us wolf skin holsters"

Another executioner said while checking, "It's a pity that Captain Mikita doesn't allow us to use wolf leather holsters. He said that only white bandits use that kind of good-looking but not practical thing."

"I think it's pretty, and it's very practical." Wei Ran indirectly passed a team member's leather whip, swung it up and whipped it hard on the bed.

Amid the crisp sound, not only the nurses were taken aback, but the prisoners of war also shivered. Obviously, for them, this thing was definitely more than just looking good.

"Where do you all come from?" Wei Ran asked his most curious question while playing with the whip.

"Mongolia or Kazakhstan"

The man standing with the big-breasted nurse Irini rushed to answer, "All of us have herded sheep or cattle before. Captain Mikita said that we were singled out to join the firing squad because we have experience in managing livestock. , knows how to deal with animals, and is not afraid to kill them."

"Captain Mikita is very thoughtful"

Wei Ran nodded approvingly, returned the whip in his hand to its owner, and said perfunctorily as he walked towards the entrance of the shack, "Talk to Baolid if you have time, and let him get a whip for me too."

"Captain Victor, I found something here."

Before Wei Ran could reach the door, a member of the firing squad shouted loudly.At the same time, the prisoners who were driven aside also had a little commotion at the same time!

"boom!"

Without thinking about it, Wei Ran aimed at the top of his head and pulled the trigger, scaring the prisoners who seemed to be about to do something with the sound of gunfire, and remembered their positions and characteristics by the way.

When the shack returned to calm, he immediately signaled the nurses except Irene to leave temporarily, and then signaled two team members to hold guns to warn the prisoners of war, and then he walked towards the fireplace at the end of the passage.

"What did you find?" Wei Ran asked loudly.

"A knife." While speaking, the team member had already pulled out a long strip from the pile of firewood and handed it to Wei Ran, "It seems to be made with a pickaxe."

Just like what he said, this short knife, which is less than half a meter long and has a cloth strip wrapped around its handle, seems to have been struck with half a pickaxe.

Holding it in his hand and trying the weight, Wei Ran put it on the charcoal fire of the fireplace, and said with a smile, "Check it carefully and see if you can find anything else. Also, can Ireni ask this question for me?" Who prepared the knife, and what is it going to be used for?"

"Also, remember to remind them for me"

Wei Ran hurriedly said before the big-breasted girl could speak, "If I don't get a satisfactory answer before we finish the inspection, everyone in this shack will have to strip naked to clean the toilet!"

As soon as the words came out, the big-breasted nurse shivered first, and then began to translate in Japanese.

At the same time, Wei Ran also picked up the opponent's small iron bucket, kicked away the prisoners blocking the way, grabbed a handful of lime, and walked in, leaving a handful of lime on the heads of the prisoners who had just rioted from time to time. powder as a mark.

(End of this chapter)