War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 729 Return to Mine No. 52

After feeding the prisoner of war, Wei Ran tied it to the pillar again, then got up and left the shack, and walked alone to the No. 5 mine that he had been to before.

Following his memory, Wei Ran took the monkey car all the way, and finally stood by the pool at the mouth of the mine where gemstones and chromite were produced.

Since Mikita took away those prisoners of war living in high-end shacks yesterday, the mining activities in this mine have come to a complete standstill, but the miner's lamp fixed above the head is still brightly lit.

Looking around, Wei Ran bent down and got into the mine, picked up a miner's lamp in his hand, and walked cautiously towards the end of the mine.

Along the way, he could clearly see that many small branches were opened on this mine road, some of which were filled with the smell of feces and urine, and some of which were filled with tables and chairs. There are not only desk lamps on the table, but also a hand-held magnifying glass and some things such as magic stones and small hammers.

Obviously, those precious stones were probably preliminarily processed and screened here.

Turning on the flashlight, Wei Ran searched in this small space similar to a cat's ear hole, and finally found an upside-down enamel bar under a stone pressed by the foot of the table.

A piece of rag was pulled out from the badly chipped vat, and after Wei Ran opened it, he found three small green stones wrapped inside.

Among the three stones, the largest one was about the size of a pigeon's egg, and even the smallest one was larger than a quail egg!

"This trip is not in vain."

After Wei Ran tried to stuff the three stones into the mouth of the kettle to no avail, he directly put them into his pocket, then took out a few pieces of explosives from the canvas bag, and according to the blasting knowledge he learned at Hongqi Forest Farm, put them Distributed throughout the entrance of this gem mine and attached to the pull fuse.

After everything was arranged, he bent down and picked up a board, a pickaxe and a rag.

First tie the picked up ore and the puller fuze together, then thoroughly wet the picked up rags with the water in the puddle outside the mine tunnel, and finally, use the wooden handle of the pickaxe to turn it upside down at the mine tunnel entrance A seesaw is made on the minecart to keep the two ends balanced.

This is not over yet, before leaving, Wei Ran also removed the two miner's lamps together with the power cord and put them on both sides of the seesaw, then Shi Shiran turned and left.

Behind him, while the miner's lamp on the mine cart was shining brightly, it also continued to emit a hot temperature.In addition, the temperature in the mine itself is not low, so it can be expected that it may only take a few hours for the rags soaked with water to be completely dried.

Not only that, but anyone who comes here to take a look can probably imagine that there is no need to wait for the rags to dry completely, because the weight change caused by the evaporation of water will break the level of the seesaw.

At that time, the stone fixed with the trigger lead will fall from the mine cart, easily detonate the arranged explosives, and then completely destroy this exhausted mine.

Shi Shiran left the No. 5 mine, and Wei Ran walked back a few steps before meeting Baolide who was leading the new team members towards the mine.

Including the vice-captain Baolid, each of these newly promoted members of the firing squad escorted a prisoner of war with a sack over his head.

When seeing Wei Ran, the bearded Bao Lide took the initiative to say, "It seems that Vice Captain Victor is already waiting for us."

"Bolide and I will also participate in this competition"

Wei Ran took the prisoner under the control of Baolid without a trace, and said with a normal expression, "If someone exceeds the speed of the two of us, I will buy him a drink tonight."

"Captain Victor, do you want to go back and prepare vodka in advance?" A confident executioner asked loudly.

"Since you're so confident, let's get started."

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he winked at Bao Lide, who immediately took out a note from his pocket and asked the team members to choose the destination to send the prisoners of war. , and asked Wei Ran to draw a note.

"Let's go if there is no problem." After Wei Ran finished speaking, Bao Lide blew his whistle vigorously.

As the whistle sounded, the ten executioners immediately pushed and shoved the prisoners under their control, and ran towards each mine according to the guidance on the note.

"Let's go too." Wei Ran pushed the prisoners towards the No. [-] mine while speaking.

Hearing this, the bearded Bao Lide immediately put away his whistle, followed Wei Ran into the mine, and under the leadership of the prisoner of war, got into the monkey car at the seventh platform.

Sure enough, the No. 586 prisoner of war took them to the second stop in the monkey car, then changed into the monkey car going to the fourth mine road, and sat all the way to the terminal.

I don't know if it's because this place has been abandoned for too long, or because it was easier for the prisoners to hide when they secretly forged weapons. There are only a few lights left in this mine that are still on.

However, when prisoner No. 596 led Wei Ran and Bao Lide to turn two turns in this mine tunnel, he immediately found two wires from the wall and connected them together.Immediately, the mine tunnel ahead was brightly illuminated, and Wei Ran and Bao Lide were able to see everything here clearly.

As far as his eyes could see, there were more than a dozen miner's lamps that were obviously dismantled from various places fixed on the rock wall. Under the bright light, Wei Ran also saw a plaster flag chiseled on the wall, and an incomprehensible lamp next to it. Japanese text.

Under the engraved plaster flag, apart from the stones next to each other, a small hole opened next to it also exudes an obvious smell of corpses.

Seeing Wei Ran looking at him, prisoner No. 586 immediately knelt under the plaster banner, gestured a seppuku movement, then pointed to the mine, and made a gesture of carrying the corpse.

"This seems to be the place where these two-legged animals committed suicide," Baolid, who also understood, said next to him.

"It should be here"

Wei Ran nodded. In addition to the things he saw just now, there were many other things such as pickaxes and hammers in this mine, and there was even a handful of semi-finished products that had not been polished on a head.

Walking to the edge of the rock wall engraved with plaster flags, Wei Ran bent down to pick up a stone with a patina.Sure enough, several columns of Japanese characters were engraved on the stone.

"Cloth tomb?"

Wei Ran weighed the stone in his hand, threw it back to the place indifferently, turned around and walked in front of prisoner 586.

"Baolide, go outside and watch." Wei Ran whispered.

"it is good!"

At the same time that the bearded Baolid agreed, he had already pulled out the revolver from the wolfskin holster on his waist, pressed down the hammer and walked out of this long-abandoned mine.

In the blink of an eye, only myself and Wei Ran were left in the mine tunnel, and a trace of panic appeared on the face of prisoner No. 586.

Smiling gently at the other party, Wei Ran stretched out his hand to tear off the glove, squeezed the other party's chin and stuffed it into its mouth, and took advantage of the opportunity to pinch its chin and tug it hard.

After successfully dislocating its jaw, Wei Ran didn't stop, and directly kicked prisoner 586 lightly on the knee socket, causing him to kneel down on the ground, kicking him over, stepping on his back, and kicking his Both hands were dislocated one by one from the wrist joint to the elbow joint to the shoulder joint, and finally even the knuckle joints were not spared.

Ignoring prisoner 586's choked-up wailing and flushed face with pain, the expressionless Wei Ran dismantled the main joints of his two legs into a dislocated state.

"Patiently wait here to die"

As Wei Ran said, he kicked aside the rotten meat that was still alive but could only scream, took out a lunch box containing gems from his pocket and put it in a corner, and then took out a lunch box containing gems The lunch box, and even the three gemstones discovered in the gemstone tunnel of No. 5 mine not long ago, buried them all in the stones full of words.

Taking a last look at the prisoner who couldn't move, Wei Ran took out pieces of explosives from his canvas bag and placed them at the corner of the mine tunnel, using a horseshoe provided by the bearded Baolid The table is equipped with a delayed detonation device.

After finishing all the arrangements, Wei Ran turned around and walked out, beckoning Bao Lide to leave the mine, and returned to the surface as quickly as possible.

"Captain Victor, this is the number of that mine tunnel." While talking, Baolid handed a piece of paper the size of a playing card to Wei Ran.

"52-4-7-24"

Wei Ran took the note and glanced at it. After thinking for a while, he took out the pen under the cover of his pocket, and added two letters at the front of the serial number—Cr
Almost at the moment when he stopped writing, a strong white light hit his face.Before his vision recovered, he felt a little bump from under his buttocks.When the field of vision returned to normal, the first thing Wei Ran saw was the middle-aged man sitting opposite and snoring!

Mikita here?Wei Ran took a closer look at the other party, but found that he must be at least 40 years old at this time.

Not in a hurry to wake up the other party, he looked around and found that he and Mikita were in the cargo compartment of a truck at this time. The curtains were tightly tied with ropes.

At the corner of the cargo bucket near the cab, a thick iron wire was used to fix an oil drum emitting heat.

He leaned over and took a look into the oil drum, but inside was a stove welded to the cargo floor.On the grate inside the oil drum, there were still a few potatoes and two pieces of bread that didn't seem to be baked yet.In addition, on the iron hooks welded inside the iron barrel that acts as a protective cover, there are still several kettles and several military lunch boxes hanging firmly.

Looking down at himself, he was wearing a mink coat that looked warm, and on his head was a Shapka cotton cap issued by the Soviet Army.

Inside the mink fur coat, Wei Ran found that there was still a Rocket brand polar pocket watch already covered with padding in his coat pocket.There is even a furry wolfskin holster fixed at the waist, you don't even need to open it, just look at the small handle that is exposed, you can tell that there is a Nagant revolver in the holster.

Finally, he touched the hand warmer in the pocket of the mink fur coat, and he was sure that these things were the ones he had used before the white light came on.

In addition, there are many wooden boxes in this fairly warm cargo box, some of which have not been opened, and you can still see things like carrots, onions, potatoes and even cabbage inside. Of course, In any case, vodka is definitely indispensable for the Slavic people.

Just as he was in a daze, Mikita, who was sleeping soundly across from him, also woke up because of the bump of the truck a distance away.

"what happened?"

Mikita, who seemed to be at least 40 years old, asked vigilantly. While speaking, he pulled out the Nagant revolver from his waist and aimed it at the rear of the car.

"It's okay." Wei Ran waved his hand, and let go of the handle of the gun subconsciously as usual.

Seeing this, Mikita also relaxed, yawned and asked, "Where are we?"

"I don't know." Wei Ran spread his hands, "I just woke up too."

Hearing this, Mikita took out his pocket watch and took a look, then knocked on the cab with the handle of his pistol.

With the bang bang sound, the truck also stopped.At the same time, Mikita also opened the tight canvas curtain, allowing the cold wind outside to take away the remaining warmth in the compartment.

Following Mikita and jumping off the cargo bed, Wei Ran looked around, and then looked in the direction of the front of the car. As a result, he saw a concrete bridge on the frozen river at a glance. There is a barbed wire fence with a brand new sign hanging on it, which reads a warning of "the front is a military restricted zone, please turn around immediately".

(End of this chapter)