War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 748

On the second floor of a long-abandoned building in the center of Mine No. 52, which has been shrouded in heavy snow for days, the spacious room is heated by several large kerosene heaters.

Around these heating stoves, the girls headed by Sui Sui wrapped their sleeping bags and slept very comfortably. Only Lola, who was too scared to go to the bathroom by the horror story before going to bed, still had a bitter face. , Looking through the gap in the opening of the sleeping bag, looking at the red light from the heating stove not far away, and Wei Ran and Ji Ma sleeping on both sides of the heating stove at the door.

In another room next to it, the patrol members who came from Inta to help were already snoring and sleeping by the heating stove.

In the cabs of two heavy-duty trucks parked at the entrance downstairs, two Inta hunters in their 40s were holding weapons borrowed from a gas station, and they were also guarding the kerosene heater, watching the situation outside vigilantly.

It's a pity that the snow outside the car window is getting bigger and bigger. Although there is no wind, the visibility in the dark night is still less than 20 meters.

Objectively speaking, if it weren't for Beria lying on his stomach in the warm cab, it would be meaningless to be on duty in such a ghostly weather.

After resting all night and having a hearty breakfast the next morning, Sister Katenka took Lola up to the third floor to help the patrol team sort out the scrap copper and rotten iron that were about to be transported away, and inspected them. detailed boarding.

At the same time, Wei Ran and Sui Sui, Jima and Maya each took their borrowed weapons and walked together to the abandoned building where the nurses' dormitory where the truck was parked.

Standing at the back of the truck again, Wei Ran jumped into the cargo bed, pulled out the small dusty table inside, wiped it with his gloves, and placed it on the floor at the side of the truck.

"Now it's time to talk about gems"

While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already taken off the water bottle hanging from his waist. At the same time, Sui Sui spread a blanket on the table and rolled it up around it.

Accompanied by the soft sound of clattering, uncut gemstones, large or small, fell one after another from the kettle on the spread coat, and finally piled up on it to form an almost thick stone. A hill as big as a steamed bun.

"These gems are really big!" While speaking, Ji Ma reached out and picked up a green stone the size of a peanut at the apex.

"According to the agreement, you can pick one in advance." While speaking, Wei Ran took out the three biggest gems from his pocket and put them on the table casually.

"Just this one, this one is very good."

Ji Ma shook the stone in his hand, but he didn't even look at the three big men Wei Ran just put in.

"How will the next one be distributed?" Wei Ran turned to look at Sui Sui, "And the most important question is, do these gems have Lola's share?"

Hearing this, Sui Sui didn't rush to make a decision, but instead looked at Wei Ran and asked, "If you didn't have what Lola provided, would you be able to find these things?"

Wei Ran thought for a while, then nodded and replied, "It's not a big problem, I already knew about the existence of those three subjects, and I even knew about the pistol hidden in the book, but I never thought there was any valuable story behind it, so It’s just that we didn’t investigate deeply. If we want to investigate this matter, even if Lola doesn’t show up, we can still find that house and find other things in the house.”

"second question"

Sui Sui picked up a stone and looked at it, then threw it back on the table, and she also looked at Jima and Maya, "Without us, would Lola have found this place and found these stones?"

"Unless she can convince Victor to help her," Jima and Maya replied in unison.

"In this case, these stones have nothing to do with her."

Sui Sui grabbed a handful of stones and let them slide down her fingertips, "Of course, after these stones are finished processing, we can give her a set of jewelry, but that's the most. In this matter, We've done enough to help her. Even if their comedians come over, they probably won't be able to say anything."

"I agree with Aurora's decision," Maya said first.

"It has nothing to do with her"

Ji Ma also expressed his attitude, shaking the stone still in his hand and said, "Of course, it has nothing to do with us. How to deal with these things is a matter for the two of you."

"Don't say that, it will have something to do with you soon."

Wei Ran picked up five stones and placed them on the table in front of Ji Ma, "These five stones are for the hard work of Inta's friends."

Ji Ma looked at Wei Ran, and after a little hesitation, he happily put away the five stones.

"Then it's yours." Wei Ran grabbed five stones and pushed them to Jima again.

"I don't want it this time"

Jima waved his hand and refused without thinking, "It is enough to catch a spy when I come to Sarampaul this time. This is more valuable than any gem."

Speaking of this, Ji Ma secretly glanced at Maya, who rolled her eyes in cooperation, and the disgust on her face was not concealed at all.

A few words and a few words solved the problem of the gemstones, Wei Ran put the leftover stones back into the kettle, and handed the three stones that couldn't fit in to Suisui for safekeeping.

If there is no accident, after returning to Kazan, these stones will be further sorted, and then a batch of relatively low value will be handed over to the cheap mentor Kajik to help them realize the cash.

"What about the stuff in this car?"

Sui Sui pointed to the truck next to him and asked, they had already visited it when they arrived last night, and even the Japanese saber in the car became Jima's trophy.

Wei Ranhun waved his hand nonchalantly, "Take it away together! Anyway, there aren't many things, so it just saves someone from worrying about it."

As the captain of the transportation team, Ji Ma naturally had no objection, and directly pulled off the walkie-talkie fixed on his shoulder to arrange it.At the same time, Maya also got two demantoids from Sui Sui as gifts.

After finishing the spoils in a simple and direct way, the four of them talked and laughed and went back to the building where the avatar moved.Helped to pack all kinds of things worth taking away from the third floor, and even all kinds of sundries in the truck, into the cargo compartment of the two large trucks.

Now that what should be taken is taken, what should be found is found, and everyone naturally has no need to stay.Especially after seeing those rusty landmines, even Sui Sui gave up the idea of ​​bringing people here for a stroll and slaughtering a sheep.

Finally, a can of hot braised beef and cabbage soup, plus a bottle of vodka were placed in front of Mikita's body and Krech's tombstone respectively. The two heavy trucks did not stop The snowflakes fell on the frozen river again, and they drove slowly along the way they came to Sarampaul.

In contrast, Wei Ran is the first time to come to this remote industrial and mining city located on the east side of the Ural Mountains.

Watching the two heavy trucks being driven away by Inta's helpers, Ji Ma also took Wei Ran and others into the hotel prepared in advance.

"We can leave when the snow stops. Alili has been waiting at the airport."

Jima said while distributing the room keys to everyone, "The downstairs next door is the restaurant I mentioned earlier. We bought the crock pot beef stew we ate in the mine from them."

"Where is that company located?" Wei Ran asked while handing over the key to Sui Sui.

"It's not too far from here, do you want to have a look?" Jima, who was about to go to his room, turned his head and asked.

"Do you want to go together?" Wei Ran asked the yawning Sui Sui.

"I won't go." Sui Sui waved her hand, "I want to sleep well."

"Then the two of us go." Wei Ran winked at the Katenka sisters after finishing speaking, and then followed Jima to the direction of the stairs.

"You want to have fun?" Jima asked in a low voice until the two of them reached the first floor.

"That's right"

Wei Ran nodded, and said with empty teeth as he walked out, "I asked Anfeya to check the spy named Vajim through the Internet."

"What did you find?" Ji Ma asked subconsciously.

"It's an address in Sarampaul. Let's go and see what's there." After Wei Ran finished speaking, he took out a small note from his pocket and handed it to Jima.

After taking a glance at the note, Jima raised his finger and pointed in the direction, "We are two streets away, walk over?"

"Yes" Wei Ran nodded, followed behind Ji Ma, stepping on the creaking snow to the address recorded in the metal book.

Walking through the streets and alleys, the two finally stopped at the door of a single two-story wooden house not far from the forest and the river in the dark.

“There it is”

Jima lit a cigarette, pointed to the second-floor house that was still lit not far away, and said, "In the past few days, Alili and I have visited Sarampaul carefully, and the address you are going to is that house Can't go wrong."

"Are you carrying a gun?" Wei Ran turned his head and asked.

"certainly"

Jima grinned, unzipped his clothes, and pulled out a Makarov pistol with a suppressor screwed in from the holster under his arm, "I brought this from Inta."

"Let's go, go and have a look." Wei Ran put on his cold mask while speaking, and then took out a pair of shoe covers from his pocket and put them on his feet.

Seeing this, Ji Ma smiled, put the pistol in his pocket, put on the mask and shoe covers as well.

Without attracting anyone's attention at all, the two touched the shadows on the first floor of the house.After leaning his ear against the wooden wall and listening for a moment, Wei Ran shook his head lightly, and pointed in the direction of the gate.

Seeing this, Ji Ma immediately took out a bunch of unlocking tools from his pocket, and at the same time handed the silencer pistol in his hand to Wei Ran.

Under his cover, Ji Ma easily pried open the locked door without much effort.I have to admit that apart from Ji Ma's talent in filming, this door-picking skill was also one of the few subjects that Ji Ma scored better than Wei Ran when the two brothers were in class at Hongqi Forest Farm. up.

Before opening the door, Ji Ma took out a metal tube the size of a finger from his pocket, opened it with the lid, and squeezed all the lubricating fluid inside on the hinge of the door.

After waiting for a while, he quietly opened the door. Before the cold wind could take away the warmth of the holiday, the two squeezed in one after another, closing the door behind them.

Returning the pistol to Jima, Wei Ran picked up a western-style kitchen knife in the kitchen, and pointed to the upstairs with the light on with the tip of the knife.Waiting for Jima to give back, he stepped on the wooden stairs and climbed up to the second floor carefully.

However, to their surprise, although the lights were on on the second floor of the room, there was no one in the room, only the TV facing the fireplace was still playing news from Red Star TV.

Picking up the teacup on the table, Wei Ran scraped the dry coffee inside with his rubber-gloved fingers, and said in a low voice without raising his head, "It's been a while since I left, at least one to two days.'

"The one who lives here is a woman." While speaking, Ji Ma has already pulled out a lipstick from the gap in the sofa."

Wei Ran lifted the cushion at the other end of the loveseat sofa, pointed at the rubber figure placed here and joked, "And it's a lonely woman."

"Could it have run away?" Jima asked worriedly.

"probably not"

Wei Ran pointed out the window, "I've written about this snow for a long time, except for our An 2, I don't think there is any passenger opportunity that is still worth flying in this ghostly weather."

"That's right, otherwise we would have left here long ago." Jima nodded in agreement.

"Let's look separately, maybe we can find something." While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already carefully pushed open the bedroom of a room on the second floor.

"I'm going downstairs." Jima greeted, and ran down the stairs.

At the door of the bedroom on the second floor, Wei Ran grabbed the door frame with one hand but did not enter in a hurry.The layout of this room is extremely simple.

There is a single bed next to the wall and the window, and there are plush toys of various shapes under the bed and at the foot of the bed.Two brown wolf skins were spread on the wooden floor.

In addition, the only dressing table was exceptionally clean, but on the closet next to the dressing table, there were many used double eyelid stickers.

So there is a high probability that the other party has a single eyelid?
Wei Ran murmured to himself, walked cautiously into the room that still smelled of perfume, and opened the closet next to the dressing table little by little.

There are quite a lot of things in this closet, and they are also very neatly stored. On the small wooden baskets containing underwear, underwear, socks, etc., there are labels in Japanese that he can't understand but can guess roughly by category.

Briefly and cautiously rummaged through the closet, the only thing Wei Ran found was a PSM small-caliber pistol hidden in a pocket of a certain suit.

Speaking of which, the last time I saw this weapon was when I went to Wu Kelan with Jima, but I didn't want to see it again with Jima this second time.

However, in comparison, although this palm-sized small pistol did not show any traces of use, after he removed the magazine and pulled the sleeve, he found that not only the magazine was full of bullets, but even the bullets There is a 7N7 pistol bullet in the chamber, which is not so easy to get even in Russia.

Holding the withdrawn bullet in the palm of his hand, Wei Ran reloaded the bullet on the top of the magazine for this small pistol, and then pressed the bullet in his palm into the magazine.

After confiscating this small pistol, which is not very powerful but still capable of killing people, Wei Ran looked carefully in the room, and finally even removed the big and small plush toys under the bed.

Although there are quite a lot of underwear under the bed, such as stockings and panties, with bottle caps of various styles and dozens of waste batteries, Wei Ran still found a stainless steel business card holder and three or four cards in the garbage. Pale pink business card.

"Translator Atasha?"

Wei Ran looked over and over at the business card in his hand, finally put it in his pocket, and continued to search in this room.

It's a pity that he didn't find anything of value in this bedroom except for various models of electric or manual boyfriends in a plastic box the size of a microwave.

After changing to a room with a music stand and a violin, Wei Ran found a small safe from behind a small table against the wall after some groping. However, the lid of the safe was simply hidden Yes, of course there is nothing in it.

Reluctantly, I went to the last room on this floor to have a look, and there were basically all kinds of cheap clothes, shoes and ladies' bags in it.

However, after he rummaged through those bags one by one, and even cut open the liner inside, he found a lot of interesting little things.

The most of them are the change of various denominations that fell into the interlayer between the liner and the outer skin of the bag, as well as some accessories such as rings and necklaces.A few of them are small items like unused elves, lipsticks with traces of use, lipsticks and the like.

But in addition, he also found a few Polaroids in a bag that seemed to have not been used in a long time.

Most of these photos are of an Asian woman who looks at most under 40 years old and maintains an excellent figure, and is intimate with an old man who looks like six 70 years old in various backgrounds selfie.

Although it was impossible to tell whether she was the translator Atasha mentioned in the business card she found, but at least from the broken teeth like a crusher in her bright smile, it was obvious that this bitch was probably a devil.

Putting these photos into his pocket as well, Wei Ran tightened the rubber gloves on his hands, turned around and walked down the first floor, and asked Jima who was busy, "Did you find anything?"

"There's a lot burning in the fireplace"

Jima pointed to the fireplace, "And the other party was very cautious, even breaking up the ashes. In addition, I also found these tableware that I have seen in your house."

Looking in the direction where Ji Ma's other finger was pointing, there were indeed several pairs of pointed Japanese chopsticks on the table by the window.

Before Wei Ran could say anything, Jima opened another drawer, grabbed a few 12-gauge shotguns and a few rifle bullets and said, "I found the bullets, but I didn't find the weapon. Besides, I And found this."

While talking, Jima threw the bullet back into the drawer, opened another drawer, and found a spare car key with a transparent protective film from the inside, and threw it on the table.

"Nissan car"

When Wei Ran picked up the car key, Jima said with certainty, "I guess it should be Tule. At the beginning, Teacher Dalia asked me to remember the car keys of various cars, so I can't make a mistake. .”

"What's the use of memorizing this?" Wei Ran put down the car keys and asked in confusion.

Ji Ma spread his hands, grinning silly and said, "Isn't it going to be used now?"

Wei Ran smiled, and took out the things he found one by one and put them on the table.

Before he could speak, Jima pointed to the old man in the photo and said, "This old guy is Vajim. Teacher Daria showed me his photo."

Before he finished speaking, Jima picked up another photo, pointed to the middle-aged man in it and said, "I have seen his photo too, he is Vajim's son, he was also arrested not long ago, let me tell you passed."

"It seems that she got wind and ran away." Wei Ran thought for a while, pointed to the things on the table and said, "Let's inform Teacher Dalia, maybe there is a chance to stop her."

"So I have a chance to catch the second spy?" Jima asked expectantly while taking pictures of things like business cards on the table.

"Unless she didn't leave Saran Paul..." Wei Ran was stunned before he finished speaking, and Jima also subconsciously stopped the work in his hand.

"How often is the flight here?" Wei Ran was the first to ask.

"Passenger flights are twice a week, but cargo flights are very high."

Jima thought for a while and continued, "However, according to Alili, the heavy snow for several days stopped almost most of the passenger and cargo flights. Only Maya and the others came on the day when the weather was better and there were two flights. But this It was impossible for a woman to board those two flights."

"Why?" Wei Ran asked puzzled.

"On the first flight, the people from Alili used the An-2 plane to send Maya and the others from Inta."

While sending the photos, Jima said, "The second flight was the transport plane used by the mine to escort Vajim's son to the nearest Yebao. No matter which of these two flights she boarded, it would be the same as sending her to death. what a difference."

"In that case." Wei Ran looked at Jima with a smile, "That woman is probably still in Saranpaul."

"It's also possible that she drove away from here"

Ji Ma pointed to the spare car key on the table, "That car's off-road ability is very good, and now she may have found a place to hide it."

"It's true." Wei Ran nodded, "Let's go, we should leave here too."

Hearing this, Ji Ma immediately put all the things on the table into the bag, followed Wei Ran to leave the room and helped lock the door.

They chose a random direction and walked for a distance of [-] meters. The two of them took off their shoe covers and put them in their pockets, then changed directions and walked towards the direction of the company that was seized.

However, what neither of them expected was that when they were less than 100 meters away from the seized mining equipment company, a white Nissan Patrol came from outside the city. The two of them flew past, and then stopped in the empty parking space downstairs of the company with a beautiful flick.

"Victor, am I not dreaming?" Jima turned his head dullly and asked, that rather handsome face was already full of ecstasy that had stepped on shit luck.

"Tule, it is indeed Tule." Wei Ran looked Ji Ma up and down strangely, "Why is your luck so good recently?"

"how could I know!"

While speaking, Jima took out the Makorov pistol with the suppressor from his arms again, pulled the bullet on the top of the slide, and said viciously, "But even if Stalin comes back alive today, we have to wait. Wait until I personally catch that familiar and beautiful female spy!"

(End of this chapter)