War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 730 15 years later
“Here it is again”

Wei Ran shook his head dumbfounded. Before he entered this period of history, he had been here before. The only difference between this place and the later generations is that the barbed wire and the paint on the warning signs are still there.

"Yeah, here we are again."

Mikita then said with emotion, "Time flies so fast. I haven't been here for more than ten years since I left here in the winter of 1951."

"Are you worried that you won't find those things?" Wei Ran asked vaguely.

"It's not my turn to worry about this kind of thing. Didn't you and Bao Lide hide those gems back then?"

Before Mikita finished speaking, the cab door of the semi-new GAZ 63 truck was pushed open, and a middle-aged man with a bushy beard jumped out of the cab.

It wasn't over yet, and then, the door on the co-pilot's side was pushed open, and a young man who looked about sixteen or seventeen jumped out of it.

At the same time, Mikita untied his belt on the snow-covered roadside, and drew an amber parabola with 37-degree hot water amidst the sound of whistles.

"Uncle, how long will it take for us to arrive?" The young man stood side by side with Mikita, and asked expectantly while urinating.

"very soon"

Mikita raised his finger and pointed to a snow-covered mountain in the distance, "We will arrive at the foot of that mountain when we drive the car."

"Captain Mikita, are you sure that military base has been abandoned?" Baolid also stood on the side of the road and untied his belt while he was asking.

"Of course sure"

Mikita said while shaking the bird, "shortly after Brezhnev came to power the year before last, the main force of that military base was transferred to Sarampaul. Before winter this year, Pontiac gave me It was said in the letter that the last person on duty has also been transferred, and now the place is completely deserted."

Since Brezhnev came to power the year before last?
So it's the winter of 1966?

Wei Ran muttered to himself, and also found a place to listen to their conversation while urinating, while also looking at the young man named Uncle Mikita.

Just judging from his appearance and age, he can roughly guess that this young man who is trying to urinate farther is probably the son of Dr. Goosen, that is, Lola's grandfather Selsey.

But, why did he follow here?

When Wei Ran was wondering secretly, he heard Bao Lide ask, "Captain Mikita, how is the head nurse of Pontiac doing now?"

"Pontiac Nurse Retires This Year"

Mikita put on her belt and explained while lighting a cigarette, "She said in her letter that her grandson was born this fall, and her son invited her to live with her in Chita, so I think she should be busy now Let's take care of the baby."

"Where's Commissar Kretch?" Baolid asked, "I remember that he took the initiative to stay to guard the mining equipment of Mine No. 52. He wouldn't stay there, would he?"

Mikita's expression changed when he heard the words, and he finally explained with a sigh, "He's dead."

"He's dead?" Baolid's eyes widened, "How did he die?"

"do not know"

Mikita sighed, "This was six or seven years ago. According to Pontiac's letter, they heard the sound of machine guns firing from the direction of Mine No. 52 in a certain polar night, but wait When they rushed over, Commissar Krech had already died in the guard tower where he lived."

"Killed?" Wei Ran, who had been listening just now, frowned.

"It is said that he was shot in the head by someone. At that time, people at the military base conducted a large-scale search of the vicinity but failed to find the murderer. In the end, they had no choice but to bury Commissar Kreich at the foot of the statue of Comrade Stalin. "

When Mikita said this, he couldn't help showing a look of regret on his face, "Even his funeral was attended by only a few people."

"why?"

Finally, the young man who put on his belt asked puzzledly, "Uncle, didn't you often tell me that Commissar Krech is a very respectable person? Why did only a few people attend his funeral?"

"You'll find out when you get to that military base"

Mikita made a fool of himself, "Okay, let's set off quickly. The weather is likely to snow. We'd better get to Mine No. 52 before then."

"Get in the car"

Bao Lide also lit a cigarette, "Selsey, you go to the cargo box, Captain Victor, how about you as the co-pilot?"

"no problem"

Wei Ran nodded cheerfully, and without waiting for the young man to say anything, he quickly walked around to the co-pilot's seat, opened the car door and got in.

Almost front and rear, Bao Lide also got into the cab, and at the same time as there was a knocking sound from behind, he stepped on the accelerator, drove straight down the river, and easily bypassed the barbed wire at the bridge head.

"Captain Victor, where have you been all these years?"

Bao Lide asked curiously while stepping on the gas pedal, "I wrote letters to everyone in the firing squad to keep in touch, but you have no news, and even returned the letter."

This book is quite delicate
While Wei Ran muttered to himself, he glanced at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth without a trace, and then said with a smile, "I'm still working as an executioner, but I just changed my work address. What about you? How have you been these years?" Sample?"

"After the fall of Comrade Stalin in 1953, I took advantage of the complete shutdown of the No. 52 mine and chose to retire to Kharkov."

Bao Lide said with a smile, "I got a job raising sheep there, and I also met a girl who is a veterinarian. Now her daughter and I are 12 years old."

Halkov?

Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, reached out his hand to touch his bosom, took out the pen in the metal book under the cover of his clothes, and then took out a ruble from his pocket and said, "It seems that you are also doing the previous work , used to graze two-legged animals, now four-legged animals."

"That's true," Baolid said with a loud laugh, "but the animals I graze now are much more stupid than those two-legged animals back then."

"Smart animals like that are hard to come by now"

Wei Ran took off the cap of the pen while speaking, "Baolide, how about giving me your address? I will write to you when the time comes."

"You have to keep your word"

After finishing speaking, Bao Lide slowed down a little, and said his detailed address. At the same time, Wei Ran also wrote this address on the banknote, patted his chest and made a promise that he would give it to him immediately when he returned. Write a letter and so on.

But in fact, he was thinking about another thing. The address that Baolid gave just now was exactly the address of Lola, the stupid thief who broke into his home in later generations, and her grandfather Sercy!

Cersey wouldn't end up marrying Paulid's daughter, would she?

Wei Ran glanced suspiciously at Baolid, then turned his head to look at the cargo compartment in the rearview mirror, and finally put these insignificant matters to the bottom of his heart for the time being.

While chatting with Bao Lide, a parking lot next to the road appeared right in front of him, but this parking lot was not full of vehicles including tanks as in later generations, but empty. Nothing at all.

Along the road in the parking lot, Baolid carefully drove the truck into the deserted military base.

Perhaps it was because the time of abandonment was relatively recent. At this time, except for a few single-storey buildings whose doors and windows were buried by snow, most of the other buildings remained ready to move in at any time.

Before they could fully see the layout of the surrounding buildings, there was another clear knocking sound behind them. Bao Lide, who was in charge of driving, also stepped on the brakes immediately, pushed the door of the car with Wei Ran and jumped out of the car. room.

"We're looking for this building." Mikita, who came from the rear of the car, took out a black and white photo and showed it to Wei Ran and Bao Lide.

In this photo, a gray-haired woman stands calmly in front of a four-story Khrushchev building.In her hand was a cigarette, and the rank of major on her shoulder was even more clearly visible.

"Is this the Pontiac head nurse?" Paulid asked in surprise, "Is she already a major?"

"She was already a major six years ago," Mikita said here, but sighed. "At that time, she went to Kazan to attend Zoya's funeral."

Zhuoya's funeral?Wei Ran's heart trembled, but he wisely didn't ask what happened.

"Uncle, now you can always talk about why only a few people attended the funeral of Commissar Kretch, right?"

Sercy changed the topic in a timely manner, and also diverted Mikita's attention.

"Look at that statue"

Mikita rubbed his face and pointed to the three-meter-high statue of Khrushchev not far away, "It's only as tall as a floor, but next to the grave of Commissar Kreich, the statue of Comrade Stalin is It's more than two stories high."

"That potato politician must not allow Comrade Stalin's statue to be taller than his!" Young Selsey said without thinking.

Mikita spread his hands, "Maybe that's why only a few people can attend the funeral of Commissar Kreich."

Withdrawing his gaze, Wei Ran winked at Bao Lide, and the two of them pulled out their pistols and walked away for a distance, until they could no longer hear the conversation between the two men, Wei Ran then asked, "Is Zhuo Ya dead? "

"Dead." Bao Lide sighed, "During the birth of the second child, he died of dystocia, and the child did not survive."

"How could this be?" Wei Ran couldn't help but sighed.

"I'm afraid you don't know that Dr. Goosen is also dead."

Baolid looked around, chose a direction at random, and said as he walked, "He committed suicide more than ten years ago. After leaving a suicide note, he jumped into the Volga River with a stone in his arms."

"Ugh"

Wei Ran sighed again. Although he knew that Dr. Goosen would commit suicide, and even reminded him, it was obvious that he and the metal book did not have the ability to change history.

"Is that the building?" Paulid asked, pointing to a Khrushchev building.

When he came back to his senses, Wei Ran quickly looked at the photo of the Pontiac head nurse, and finally vomited a little and said, "This is it, the slogan on the outer wall is exactly the same as the one in the photo."

"Captain Mikita, we found it!" Baolid shouted loudly.

"Look around it, there must be a truck there!"

While Mikita was speaking, he had already beckoned his little nephew Selsey to get into the cab of the truck they drove, "That car was prepared for us by Pontiac, and there were not only food and drink in it and fuel supplies, and also prepared weapons for us.”

"I found the car you mentioned!"

Wei Ran pointed to the shadow on the side of the building and said, "It's right there, it looks like a GAZ 66."

"This is a new car, and its cab is much more beautiful than our car."

There was undisguised joy in Baolid's tone, and he even stepped a lot faster, "Captain Victor, how about we drive that car away when we go back?"

"I have no objection, as long as you can convince Mikita," Wei Ran said, and ran over at a faster pace.

When the two of them ran to the rear of the truck, Mikita had already torn off the canvas covering the cargo cover with the help of Selsey, and then with the help of a jack, he removed the Wooden sleepers for the chassis.

At the same time, Wei Ran also helped Baolide take out a battery from the car they drove to replace the GAZ 66, and also filled it with fuel and cooling water.

After everything was ready, Baolide opened the door that was not locked at all in a rather hostile manner, started the engine preheating familiarly, and then started the engine smoothly.

However, when he was about to praise the car to Wei Ran and the others, he found that the three of them had already gone around to the rear of the car.

Selsey opened the knotted drawstring on the canvas curtain, and when the thick curtain was lifted, the young man let out a cheer and reached out to remove an AKM assault rifle from the skeleton of the tarpaulin!

"Uncle, I want to use this!" Selsey made her request holding the gun and not letting go.

"Remember what I taught you?"

The second Mikita who climbed up took down two AKM assault rifles and two TT33 pistols and handed them to Wei Ran, then slowly took one gun and put it on his shoulder, and took another Weighed the TT33 and pinned it directly to the belt.

"Remember, you can't point the gun at people. If you feel danger, fire first." Selsey paused, and continued, "Also, pay attention to alternately cover and shoot with your companions around you."

"passing the exam"

Mikita opened a wooden box, and stuffed several magazines full of bullets to Sercy.

While he was distributing ammunition, Wei Ran also distributed the extra long and short guns to Baolide who ran over.

It wasn't until the two of them also received the matching bullets for the rifle and pistol that they had time to look at the situation in the car.

There are a lot of things in the cargo bed of this truck. Except for the four large barrels of fuel, the rest of the space is basically a wooden box next to each other. Each box is also marked in detail. what.In addition to eating and drinking medicines, Wei Ran also saw at least 20 boxes for explosives!
So those two boxes came from here
Wei Ran murmured secretly, and at the same time secretly raised his vigilance, because he knew that soon, they would meet the enemy.

(End of this chapter)