War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 736 Chapter 736
It was night, and snowflakes fluttered once again on the top of the abandoned No. 52 mine. The snowflakes not only covered up the ruts extending from the pier all the way to the nurses' dormitory building, but also covered up the murderous aura emanating from the building where the abandoned hospital was located. .

In the end, on this snowy night suitable for killing and slaughtering animals, there were only a few whispers when the snowflakes fell to the ground.

On the second floor of the nurses' dormitory, the three adjacent rooms are all brightly lit by kerosene lamps, and the chimney extending from the corner of the window also emits wisps of smoke and even a little spark.

Inside the warm room, more than a dozen middle-aged people with Asian faces sat around two warm tables converted from iron canopy beds. On the heads of their dogs, which were no longer young, each wore a menstrual flag white headband.

As the leader raised his cup and said something, the people kneeling around the kotatsu table responded loudly, and they all picked up their cups and drank them all in one gulp.

Compared to the excitement in this room, beside the truck in the lobby on the first floor, there are two middle-aged men guarding a tin barrel with a bonfire, chatting and putting the wine in the cup into their mouths .On their sides, two SKS semi-automatic rifles with bayonets on top were leaning side by side on the tires of the truck.

Obviously, vodka is a bit too strong for them compared to the bland sake—even though these "people" have lived here for more than [-] years.

Perhaps it was also because of the slight drunkenness brought about by the vodka that was put into their stomachs, the two people who were in charge of guarding did not notice at all. Anti-theft windows with barbed wire to guard against animals.

The next thing was much simpler, as long as the wooden strip used to fix the glass was pried off with the tip of a knife, the entire glass window was removed intact.

He opened the triple-glazed windows in the same way, and Wei Ran, Mikita and Baolid exchanged glances, then took off the mink coat and cotton cap on his body, bent over and got into the window.

At the same time, Mikita and Baolid covered the newly opened window with Wei Ran's mink fur coat, so as not to let the cold wind blow in and alert the people inside.

Inside the building, after Wei Ran took off his gloves, he did not pull out the TT33 pistol on his waist or the Nagant revolver that was almost a status symbol. Instead, he just walked out of the room empty-handed.

At the same time, Baolid and Mikita outside the window also used the pine poles they brought to firmly withstand the wolf skin blocking the window, and then walked around to the building at the fastest speed, leaning against the base of the wall. at the main entrance.

In the dark corridor of the hall on the first floor, Wei Ran carefully leaned against the wall to the edge of the hall.

However, at this time, all he could see was a GAZ 51 truck, with a little flame coming through from the other side of the truck.

He quietly listened to the conversation from the other end. Although he couldn't understand the babbling Japanese, he could tell that there were only two people talking.

After carefully observing the situation at the stairs, Wei Ran took off his boots, only wearing thick wool socks, and carefully touched the edge of the truck.

Squatting down softly, Wei Ran could clearly see through the gap in the chassis of the truck that on the other side of the truck, there were two people sitting on chairs, facing the direction of the gate on the first floor, guarding a brazier What are you talking about.

Standing up on tiptoe, he looked inside the cab and saw that there was no third person inside, so he carefully walked around to the rear of the car and took a look into the cargo bed.

However, although there were no devils in the cargo bucket, Wei Ran still frowned, because there were only two long benches leaning on the pallets, and there were no such things as later generations saw!
Suppressing the doubts in his heart, Wei Ran quickly ran to the other side of the car, hugged the head of one of the devils with both hands and twisted it violently.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of "Kaba", the devil who had lived for more than [-] years went limp in an instant, and the cup in his hand slipped quietly.

At the same time, the devil on the other end opened his mouth to shout after a short period of sluggishness, and at the same time hurriedly tried to grab the semi-automatic rifle leaning on the tire beside him.

However, before its paws touched the body of the gun, an anti-Japanese sword suddenly appeared in Wei Ran's hand, which made him inexplicably feel as if he had seen it somewhere before!

Before it could realize where the big knife appeared from, it heard a soft "poof", and then, it was strange to find that there was a jet of blood mist in its sight.

"puff"

Just at this time, the body of the first devil fell to the ground, and the wine glass in its hand also happened to fall into the tin bucket that was burning with the bonfire.

Under Wei Ran's gaze, the devil on the other end covered his painful neck with both hands, trying to open his mouth to shout something, or to recover his breathing.

Without giving it a chance to fall down, Wei Ran stepped on its chest and chopped and pulled the other side of its neck with the big knife in his hand.

"laugh!"

Amidst the stench of burning protein, another stream of blood spurted out as Wei Ran stomped on his chest, pouring it on the tin bucket burning the bonfire, and pouring it on the ground. Wei Ran's face.

Shaking the severed toes stuck to the knife, Wei Ran gently poked the corpse's eyes with the wide tip of the knife until he was sure that it was completely dead, then put away the Anti-Japanese Broadsword and picked up a handful With the semi-automatic rifle, the sword-shaped bayonet was removed and held in his hand, he walked quickly to the door and opened the locked door, beckoning Mikita and Baolid who were hiding not far away to come in quickly.

"Are you injured?" Mikita was startled when he saw the blood on Wei Ran's face, and immediately asked nervously in a low voice, while Baolid, who was behind him, rushed to the front of the car to hide, Aim the muzzle at the stairs.

"not mine"

Wei Ran responded in a low voice, at the same time, he wiped the blood on his face with his sleeve, and after the other party followed in, he immediately closed the door to block the cold outside.

Hearing this, Mikita also relaxed, but when he saw the two corpses, he was startled again. Among them, the one whose neck was twisted at a strange angle was lucky to say that it didn't have any scary wounds.

But the other corpse was extremely bloody. Not only was there a deep bone wound on both sides of the neck, but even the eyes seemed to have been slashed.

Looking at the spear stab that Wei Ran was holding in his hand, Mikita became more and more puzzled, because no matter how hard he tried to scratch his head, he couldn't figure out how to make such a big and deep stab with that kind of iron piece that didn't have a sharp edge at all. Wound.

Wei Ran would not give him time to figure it out. After putting on his shoes as quickly as possible, he immediately took off his AKM assault rifle from Mikita's shoulder, and then pointed to the upstairs .

Seeing this, Mikita nodded, stretched out his hand to make a gesture of 3, followed by Bao Lide also stretched out his hand to make a gesture of scissors, Wei Ran nodded when he heard this, and walked up the line with a gun in his hand. stairs.

However, just as they were about to go up to the second floor, Wei Ran heard the sound of water flowing, and at the same time smelled a foul smell mixed with alcohol.

Raising his fist to signal the two people behind him who were advancing while supporting his shoulders to stop, Wei Ran cautiously peeked his head, and then immediately retracted the exposed half of his face.

After waiting for a while, he poked his head out to take a look again, then handed the weapon in his hand to Baolide behind him, drew out the bayonet attached to his waist, stepped up to the second floor, and then went straight into the next door. The room facing the stairs.

In this room, a dim kerosene lamp was placed on a broken table. Near the window, a figure was standing by the bed with his back facing him, casting a parabola towards a damaged part of the window.

Standing against the wall by the door, Wei Ran patiently waited until the figure with his back facing him began to fasten his belt, and then he rushed forward.

"puff!"

Accompanied by a light sound, Wei Ran accurately stabbed the slender bayonet from the back into the lung cavity of the figure, and at the same time covered his mouth with his other hand.

While turning the bayonet vigorously, he pulled it out, and he stabbed it in again almost the moment the tip of the knife broke away from the flesh.

As the lungs suffered such heavy injuries, blood flowed into the lung cavity along the wound. At this moment, even if Wei Ran let go of his covered mouth, the devil couldn't make any sound at all.

He lightly brought the devil down, but Wei Ran didn't kill it, he just stabbed it at the joints of its hands and feet with a bayonet to prevent it from moving around.

Of course, it was going to die anyway, and in the next few minutes, as the blood poured into the lung cavity, it would suffocate little by little, and finally drowned by its own blood.

Walking out of the room that was used as a toilet, Wei Ran took the assault rifle handed by Mikita, and quickly rushed to the first room.At the same time, Mikita and Baolid also quickened their pace and rushed towards the other two rooms that were brightly lit but also hung with thick cotton curtains.

"Hands up!" the three shouted together in Russian as they raised the curtain.

However, there was no one in the room that Wei Ran was in charge of except for the charcoal-burning stove and the kettle that was still steaming.

There were people in the room Mikita was in charge of, but there were only four children who seemed to be a few years younger than Selsey, and these children were already lying on the bed and falling asleep.

On the contrary, it was the room that Bao Lide was in charge of. The people sitting around the homemade warm table were startled by Bao Lide's appearance and shouting, followed by a few people who didn't know if they had drunk too much. Face frantically grabbed the SKS semi-automatic rifle beside him!
Someone took the lead, and naturally someone responded. All of a sudden, these drunken animals stretched out their hands to the weapons next to them!
Seeing this, Baolide resolutely aimed at the first one to get the weapon and pulled the trigger!
"boom!"

After the crisp gunshot, the devil who had already held the weapon immediately burst out a cloud of blood mist at the temple, and then fell on the homemade warming table with a "plop", knocking over all the various items placed on it. Japanese dishes and a few empty wine bottles.

"Clap! Clap!"

After a few unexpected soft sounds, the devils who pulled the triggers looked blankly at the semi-automatic rifles in their hands.

At the same time, two of them have already pulled out a TT33 pistol and turned to Baolide!

"Da da da! Bang! Bang"

After the almost overlapping gunshots, before the two raised their pistols had time to pull the trigger, a bullet hole appeared between their eyebrows, and at the same time, a burst of blood burst out of their chests because of Baoled's burst!
Seeing that two more devils were shot and fell down, the rest of the devils finally reacted and dropped the tampered weapons in their hands.

Contrary to Mikita and Baolid's expectations, but within Wei Ran's expectations, these people did not intend to give up resistance at all, and one of them even reached out to a pot of hot soup in the center of the table.

"Bang! Bang!"

Another two shots that almost overlapped, Wei Ran accurately hit the devil's temple with the TT33 in his hand, and Mikita hit its arm with the Nagant revolver in his hand.

"Plop" the devil fell on his back into the hot soup, and the rest of the devils also calmed down.

Soon, as the first devil who surrendered raised his hands, the rest of the devils also reluctantly raised their hands.

"Those who make sounds will die, but those who can understand Russian will survive. So those who understand Russian put their hands together above their heads."

After Wei Ran finished speaking with a smile, the devil in this room immediately folded his raised hands above his head, which was considered to have saved his life for the time being.

"There are 13 alive here," Baolid said.

"There are four children in the room I'm in charge of," Mikita said as he withdrew from the corridor, staring outside and said, "Children who are younger than Selsey."

"There are still children?" Wei Ran frowned, which was completely beyond his expectation.

"Three little boys and one little girl." Mikita walked towards the room he was in charge of while speaking, "I'll go and bring them here."

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't say anything more, stretched out his hand and pulled a devil over, and amidst the other's screams, he modified both its elbows into a dislocated state.

Such a cruel method not only changed the expressions of the rest of the devils, but even Bao Lide grinned and put away the cowhide rope he brought.

Amidst the screams like a relay, the 13 devils lost control of their hands one after another. Only then did Wei Ran slowly start searching them, throwing all the weapons, ammunition and even some valuable things he found into the in a wooden box.

Before he could finish his work, there was a miserable cry from the corridor, followed by four children who seemed to be less than ten years old, and were blasted into the room by Mikita with a belt and whip. .

"You are Mikita! You are Mikita the Executioner!"

Suddenly, a devil who was closest to the door asked panickedly in Russian, and before Mikita could respond, the devil changed into Japanese, which Wei Ran and others could not understand.

"Bang!" Wei Ran pulled out his pistol and pulled the trigger crisply, shooting it in the back of the head.

After the shot, the devil fell to the ground, and the four crying children were frightened and quieted down.

"From now on, you can only speak Russian."

Wei Ran deliberately pointed his gun at the little guys, ignored Mikita's frowning brows and Baolid's flustered and disapproving eyes, and said in a flat tone, "If I hear another Japanese word, I will Will start with these little guys."

"Answer me" Wei Ran urged with a smile after waiting for a while.

"Yes!" The remaining 12 prisoners of war responded in Russian in unison.

"Separate interrogation?" Wei Ran turned to Mikita and Baolid and asked with a smile.

"Victor, you scared me just now." Mikita swallowed, and asked rather reproachfully, "Why did you kill someone in front of a child?"

"I'm just doing what they used to do." Wei Ran's tone was still flat, "And what I did is far worse than what they did back then."

"Okay, okay, let's not discuss that."

Mikita waved his hands helplessly, "Let's interrogate them separately, I'll watch them. Victor, stop killing people, we need more labor."

"Of course, as long as they don't make mistakes, I'm not one to kill people."

Wei Ran responded with a smile, and at the same time silently added a sentence "But I like to kill animals."

Knowing that Mikita would never believe him, Wei Ran didn't bother to waste time on this topic. He stretched out his hand to grab the dislocated arm of a prisoner of war, and led him downstairs to the side of the truck amidst the other party's screams.

"sit"

Wei Ran dragged a chair from the side of the bloody corpse and placed it beside the campfire, and pressed the devil's shoulder to let him sit on the chair.

"I am now a legal citizen of the Soviet Union. The correctional camp has long been cancelled. It is against the law for you to do so now. It is illegal to suck silk... Ah!"

The devil who had been yelling at him since he sat down let out a scream, but Wei Ran was still slowly turning the bayonet that stabbed into the opponent's thigh, "If nothing goes wrong with this knife, it shouldn't hurt your arteries. Of course, if you're struggling like crazy, that's a different story."

Speaking of this, Wei Ran deliberately paused, ignoring the other party's wailing, and said while turning the bayonet pierced into the muscle, "Let's talk about my rules, before I let you speak, every time you say an extra word, I will You will be called for 1 minutes.

Of course, even if you follow the rules, if you give me a different answer from others in the next question, I will cut off a finger or toe of you for every wrong one. At this point, we give full play to the spirit of democracy , you are free to decide which to cut first and which to cut later.

Finally, if your voice is loud enough for others on the second floor to hear, I will pull out your teeth one by one. "

Having said that, Wei Ran finally stopped turning the bayonet in his hand, and said with a smile, "Now repeat what I just said."

After such a short time, the devil, who was already in pain and covered in cold sweat, said tremblingly, "You let me... ah!"

"no no no"

Wei Ran, who turned the bayonet again, showed a crazy smile, "What I said at the beginning was that this knife should not hurt your arteries if there is no accident. Of course, if you are struggling wildly, it will be another matter .Okay, this is my last reminder, and this is your last chance."

After finishing speaking, Wei Ran slowly released the bayonet, sat on another chair, crossed his legs and arched his hands, "Let's start."

"If there are no accidents with this knife." The devil who was already full of fear tremblingly repeated what Wei Ran had said, but even though he was so careful, he still found out many problems by Wei Ran who deliberately picked mistakes. Then he suffered punishment again and again.

It took more than ten minutes to finally satisfy Wei Ran with what he had just repeated, and the prisoner of war also heaved a sigh of relief.

Taking advantage of the moment when the other party was relaxed, Wei Ran lit a cigarette slowly, and asked in a flat tone, "How many people are there in the abandoned military base?"

"Four. Four people"

The prisoner of war subconsciously answered this question. Even though he realized Wei Ran's language trap halfway through, he could only bite the bullet and continue answering.

"How many cars are there?"

Wei Ran stuffed the cigarette he had just lit into the opponent's mouth, "I believe you have memorized my rules, so think about it before answering. We have already verified these most basic questions."

"A car," the prisoner of war replied, smoking a cigarette.

"Look, that's a great start."

Wei Ran pointed to the wound on his leg, "If you satisfy me with the next few questions, I will help you bandage the wound. Don't worry, my workmanship is very good."

After finishing speaking, he didn't care whether the other party believed it or not, he lit another cigarette and asked, "Is Nurse Irene among those four people?"

"Who is Nurse Yilini?" A look of bewilderment appeared on the face of the prisoner of war.

"Second question, is Xishan Dameng among you people?"

"I've never heard the name"

The prisoner of war let out a scream before he finished speaking, because at the same time he finished speaking, Wei Ran had already pressed the lit cigarette to the wound on his leg!
"You'd better think clearly before answering my question." While speaking, Wei Ran had already stuffed the cigarette butt into the wound.

"I haven't heard of it, I really haven't heard of it!" The middle-aged prisoner of war wailed in pain, "Please let me go, I really haven't heard of this name!"

"no problem"

Wei Ran agreed very happily, withdrew his bloody hand and wiped the opponent's face, "Is the sage Quanyang among you people?"

"Here!" The devil replied without thinking, "He and his wife are both here! It's in that abandoned military base."

"What's his wife's name?" Wei Ran lit another cigarette and waved it in front of the other person's eyes, "Next time I will press it on your eye, just the left eye."

Hearing this, the devil ducked back subconsciously, and replied in panic, "His wife's name is Gloria! The Japanese name is Baihui Inuyang."

"Is his wife's breasts big?" Wei Ran asked a question that seemed particularly inappropriate without warning.

The devil was also subconsciously stunned, and nodded awkwardly, "It's quite big."

"How big is it?" Wei Ran asked with a smile, the expression on his face was very similar to that of a veteran who has stepped on a sewing machine for 20 years.

"Probably... About the size of a coconut!"

The prisoner of war tried to move his arms, endured the pain and continued, "I don't know if you have eaten coconuts, but they are indeed as big as peeled coconuts."

Is it really Irene?

Wei Ran muttered to himself, and asked a new question with a smile, "How is the cooking skill of the dog-raised sage?"

"You... you already knew we were coming back?"

The devil's face turned pale in an instant, and before Wei Ran's hand touched the bayonet, he sped up his speech and said, "His cooking skills are very good! But he only shows his cooking skills in front of us."

It's really these two people, but how did they get together?

Wei Ran wrote down the key information calmly, and asked casually, "What are you doing here?"

"Contain the bones," the devil replied, "We want to bury the compatriots who died here and leave a tombstone for them."

"Have you served your sentence here before?" Wei Ran asked the last question.

"No." The devil shook his head, "My last place to serve my sentence is No. 213 lumberyard."

"Who organized you to come here?" Wei Ran continued to ask, while speaking, he took out a first aid kit from his pocket.

The devil's expression brightened, and he quickly replied, "It's Gloria. She and her husband found me the year before last."

"So you come here every year?" Wei Ran had already pulled out his bayonet when he asked this question.

"Well!"

The prisoner of war snorted, and immediately replied, "This is my second year here. We come here every summer to remove landmines, and in winter we go into the mines to look for our compatriots who were buried alive in the mines."

Hearing this, Wei Ran's heart moved, and he calmly changed into a natural tone and said, "Who among you killed the guard of this mine?"

"The dog raises the sage, and it is the guard he killed."

The prisoner of war replied without thinking, "The guard not only blew up the No. 4 mine and buried many people in it, but also buried a lot of mines in the wreckage of those shacks. I also , because I used to be an engineer, so I came here at the request of the sage Inuyang."

"So that's the way it is, so it's all right."

Wei Ran blatantly muttered in Chinese, but his hands, which were busy bandaging the wound, snapped off his chin neatly under the sluggish gaze of the devil and the screams that came at any time.

(End of this chapter)