War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 769
The next morning, when Wei Ran woke up from a hangover and was woken up by a phone call, the sunlight outside the window was already glaring.Bewildered, he picked up the phone and glanced at it. It was Ruslan from the museum who called.

Rubbing his face vigorously, Wei Ran sat up and pressed the answer button, and then he heard Ruslan on the other end of the phone asking, "Mr. Victor, I got news that someone wants to steal that plane?"

"Mr. Ruslan's news is really well-informed," Wei Ran responded with a yawn.

"Uh, did I interrupt your rest?" Ruslan asked apologetically.

"It's okay." Wei Ran smiled, "There are indeed people who wanted to steal that plane, but they have already been arrested by the police."

"I also received a call from the police"

Ruslan quickly explained the source of the news, and then asked, "Victor, what the museum means is that they want to send that plane back first, so that you won't be caught by those gypsy people and Ukran bastards again." Thinking about it, I don’t know.”

Hearing this, Wei Ran raised his eyebrows, and after a little hesitation, he readily agreed, "No problem, when do you plan to come over?"

"Afternoon, how about the afternoon?" Ruslan breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said, "In addition, we also arranged a TV interview, which is tentatively scheduled for the day after Christmas. Is Professor Kesey's time convenient?"

"Don't mention the matter of someone coming to steal the plane to Professor Alexei." Wei Ran didn't rush to answer Fei's question, but put forward his own request first.

Ruslan on the other end of the phone was stunned for a moment, then quickly realized, and replied with great enthusiasm, "Of course, we just want to send the plane back to do basic repair work as soon as possible, so we might be able to catch up with it in two months. It will be exhibited on Defender of the Fatherland Day afterwards."

Taking the phone away and looking at the time displayed on the screen, Wei Ran thought for a moment and replied, "This is the best, Mr. Ruslan, as for the time of the interview, why don't we have an interview when you arrive in the afternoon? "

"Of course!" Ruslan replied happily, "At three o'clock in the afternoon, I will bring the trailer there."

After exchanging pleasantries, Wei Ran hung up the phone. Wei Ran weighed his cell phone, pulled away his dog who was lying on the slippers and guarded him, pushed the door and left the room.

When he went downstairs, he found that Professor Alexei and Zhou Shujin were busy cleaning.

"You're finally awake." Professor Alexey turned off the vacuum cleaner and said hello. "Would you like another drink to sober up?"

"never mind"

Wei Ran quickly waved his hand, took out a can of hawthorn from the refrigerator, unscrewed it, took a big gulp, and then asked, "Where are Sui Sui and the others? Is Mr. Nicholas still awake?"

"Nikolai and Karp went back to the city in the morning," Professor Alexei replied, "Karp and the others are going to catch the morning flight back to Kazan, and Mr. Nikolai is in a hurry to go back to meet his old friends."

Meet up with old friends?
After thinking about it for a while, Wei Ran knew that this was probably an excuse, and there was no need to guess. Karp and the others came all the way from Kazan, and they definitely did not just spend the holidays with Mr. Nicholas. The topic that others have heard has gone.

"Sui Sui and the others have also gone out to play. They all think that Christmas geese are not tasty, so they plan to buy two more and make an iron pot to stew big geese at night." Zhou Shujin handed the peeled oranges to Wei Ran while speaking, "You Do you want to sleep for a while? I am planning to go back at night, and if you want to go back then, you can go with me. "

"no need"

Wei Ran took the orange and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it three times and swallowed it, then said, "Mr. Ruslan from the museum is going to come and take the plane away in the afternoon."

"Take it away today?" Professor Alexey raised his eyebrows.

"They want to start repairing that plane as soon as possible." Wei Ran simply pulled a chair over and sat down, and briefly recounted what the other party was planning to arrange for an interview.

"So your uncle can also become the honorary consultant of the museum?" Zhou Shujin asked happily.

"The premise is that we can investigate the experience of that plane."

Alexey couldn't sit still when he said this, "No, we have to postpone the interview for a few days, and then investigate the matter of that plane as soon as possible, so that when the interview is over, we can talk about it in person. The story of that plane."

Before he finished speaking, he had already stood up, "Let's go to the town again now, find a way to go there and ask, and see who knows what happened."

"I'll go with you"

Zhou Shujin shook her head helplessly, "You two didn't drink less last night. Although no one on this island will check your drunk driving, I don't want to fish you and your car out of the Volga River."

"I'm not going"

Wei Ran quickly waved his hand and said, "Mr. Ruslan may come sometime, I'd better stay and wait for him."

"Discuss with him, let's postpone the interview until January 15th!" Professor Alexey said while putting on his coat, "More than a week may be enough for us to find out something."

Before Wei Ran could speak, the old guy has already opened the door impatiently, and ran to the business van parked at the door.

"There's breakfast in the refrigerator, you can warm it up yourself." Before Zhou Shujin finished speaking, she also took her coat and chased him out.

"I"

Wei Ran opened his mouth, but in the end he could only helplessly watch the two people drive the car and run away without a trace.

After regaining his senses, he patted the dog's head approaching him, and Wei Ran turned his attention to the two Ural trucks parked at the garage door.

These two cars were borrowed by Karp and others from the gang of thieves yesterday, but now the owner probably won't be able to get out, and even if he gets out, he will be sent back immediately to find his mother Each suffers from each other.

Because of this, there is no need to return this car—anyway, Karp and the others will never take the two trucks that came back to Kazan.

After a short pause, Wei Ran climbed into a truck, started the engine, and drove it far to the edge of the forest, put it together with the walking tractor full of all kinds of garbage, and then drove the second truck The truck drove by too.

Gently pushing open the iron door of the garage, Wei Ran turned on the lights and locked the garage door.Stepping to the side of the wreckage of the plane, he stared at the plane lying quietly on the floor and fell into a brief hesitation.

Since he got the metal notebook, the first battlefield he went to was the Battle of Stalingrad, and the memory left by that short historical fragment can be regarded as unforgettable.

So that from time to time, he would think of the little girl in the blue blanket, the pair of old people playing the piano in the ruins, the improvised team member, and the regrets left behind at that time. .

Do you want to go again?
Wei Ran gently stroked the wreckage of the plane and fell into hesitation.However, this question has already been answered a long time ago.

Perhaps his concern was simply that he was assigned to the position of the German army.At the same time, I was also worried about whether I would have the opportunity to meet the people I met before.

On the other hand, he originally hoped that when he found more clues, he would try to find an object belonging to the Soviet army as a medium to return to that period of history.But the plane will soon be taken away, and this may be his last chance.

Not only that, even though Professor Alexey didn't say anything, no matter he, his aunt or Sui Sui, he could tell that this old guy very much hoped to become the honorary advisor of the museum on Mamayev's hill .

It can even be said that he has always wanted to work in a museum, otherwise he would not have agreed to Mr. Alexander's invitation so easily, and quit his job as a university professor without even thinking about it—even for him, Going to a private museum was a second-best option compared to his dream.

Of course, for him, being an honorary consultant of this museum is a matter of only advantages and no disadvantages, especially on the premise that he has already agreed to the other party, and the other party has also arranged an interview. Unreasonable.

"Isn't this driving ducks to the battlefield? Forget it, just treat it as a hand to the old man." Wei Ran gritted his teeth and found a high-sounding reason for himself, and carefully placed the items he found before him one by one .

The ME109 fighter jet with broken wings and tail, rusty TT33 pistols and P38 pistols, two German front-line flight badges, and a German Air Force gravity knife. Finally, there is a set of big red nesting dolls.

After reading these obsolete things one by one, Wei Ran took a deep breath, waved his hand and took out the metal book.

With the sound of flipping pages, the metal quill also floated up, and finally began to draw on the latest page.

Gradually, Wei Ran saw a picture, it was a ME109 fighter jet steaming with thick smoke, but it was not in the sky, but lying in a quagmire, and its wings had been broken, the position of the cockpit, The fighter pilot appeared to be struggling and was about to climb out of the burning cockpit.

In the sky in the upper left corner of this picture, a parachute falling down can be vaguely seen, as well as the streamer that seems to be sprinkled by tracer bullets piercing the sky.After a while, lines of text also appeared directly below the pattern.

Character Identity: Fighter Pilot Victor
Return conditions: Destroy at least one enemy plane, survive to the parachute landing site, and take at least five photos.

Skill task: successfully take off and climb to 1500 meters.

"Sure enough, it's a pilot!" Wei Ran clenched his fists secretly, and at the same time, he was secretly wary of the so-called "survive until successful parachuting"!

Almost at the same time as he finished reading the request this time, a strong white light swept over him, and then he also saw the props that could be used this time.

Unfortunately, until the white light appeared again, all he saw were the hip flask, the Rollei camera, and the latest Nagant revolver.

"Fortunately, the jug has been filled with wine in advance"

Wei Ran muttered something like self-deprecating, followed by an increasingly clear roar and a strong smell of fuel.

(End of this chapter)