War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 786 Two things

In the warm tent, Wei Ran weighed the phone that had been hung up. After thinking for a while, he took out his engineering shovel and dug a hole in the ground, put the gasoline stove in, blocked the fire with the surrounding soil, and lay down on the soft and warm bed again. On a bearskin blanket.

Going out to look for those poachers at this time is obviously not a wise plan. In this case, it is the wisest choice to take a good rest and recharge your spirits.

Using the mobile phone to set an alarm clock at [-]:[-] a.m. local time, Wei Ran closed his eyes and fell asleep as quickly as possible.

At the same time, Jima at the other end of the protected area is still busy, looking for various clues left after the explosion, and remotely commanding the Inta hunters guarding the rescue station to strengthen their vigilance and carefully investigate possible danger.

This night, Wei Ran slept extremely soundly, and Ji Ma was also extremely busy.It's just that those who caused the explosion never showed up again throughout the night.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the vibration of the mobile phone woke up Wei Ran who was sleeping.I lifted the thick reindeer skin blanket and listened for a moment. Except for the gasoline stove that was still chirping, the wilderness was extremely quiet, and there was no movement at all.

Putting on his clothes lightly and getting out of the thick tent, Wei Ran took all the things in the metal book one by one, took out the Soviet army cloak and winter flying leather cap again, put them on, and crawled up the different tents in the dark. A small mound in the distance.

At four o'clock in the morning, Ji Ma also packed up all kinds of things, and took a gun to find a place to hide.

In contrast, in the rescue station in the center of the reserve, under Jima’s deliberate arrangement, except for a few on-duty helpers from Inta, the rest are still in the warm yurt. Fall asleep, and observe the members of the anti-poaching organization who came to help.

At five o'clock in the morning, even though the sun hadn't come out yet, the sky was already getting brighter. In the cold desert Gobi, some early-rising animals had already left their nests at the safest time of the day.

The first to find the food were a few Cossack foxes. After searching for these smart and beautiful little guys with their big furry tails, they unexpectedly found the smell of food wafting not far away.

Following the smell of meat, these foxes poked their noses and searched vigilantly, and finally found a few hay bales that made them vigilant.

Around these hay bales, there are pieces of mutton hanging, and they even saw a half-sized fox tearing and biting the frozen pieces of meat on the hay bales. Beside the other hay bale, there was a half-sized sheep locked in a cage, bleating and bleating.

After a brief hesitation, the biggest fox walked up vigilantly, quickly tore off a small piece of rotten lamb chop from one of the hay bales.

Seeing that the little fox had no intention of protecting the food at all, the big fox immediately relaxed, swallowed the food in its mouth, and then let out a long cry, calling the other foxes to rush up , and began to grab the pieces of meat hanging from the remaining forage bales.

However, before they could fill their stomachs, the fox that ate the meat first convulsed and fell to the ground, followed by the second, third, fourth, and finally, those foxes with the same size The smallest fox also fell down one after another.

At this moment, the only ones alive around these forage bales are the half-sized fox that can only move around the forage bales with a thin chain around its neck, and the imprisoned fox in the distance. Baby sheep bleating in an iron cage.

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the sky has already turned red, and every plant and tree in the field of vision has gradually become clear.Wei Ran, who wrapped his body tightly with a blanket, was finally shaken, and saw a man and a horse that suddenly broke into his field of vision.

After hesitating for a moment, he slowly closed the binoculars and replaced it with a huge and heavy anti-tank gun.

Wei Ran would not use this gun against poachers, it was too exaggerated and unnecessary.However, the high-power scope on this gun can see farther and more clearly than a telescope. The only shortcoming is that the field of view is much smaller.

Using the scope to trap the man on horseback, after adjusting the scope, Wei Ran finally saw a dog behind the horse the man was riding with the help of the faint light.

Gently moving the muzzle of the huge gun to the direction he came from for observation, Wei Ran, who found nothing, moved the muzzle back again, and watched patiently as the man rode his horse into the range of the protection zone, and was finally caught by heaves The ground completely blocked the figure.

People from the protection station?should not be
Wei Ran thought for a moment, then quickly packed up the surrounding things, got on the motorcycle, didn't even dare to turn on the headlights, and followed from a distance.

Because of the existence of that dog, Wei Ran didn't dare to get too close, but after finding the figure of the other party again, he immediately hid it.

However, there happened to be a low mountain ridge between where the other party was staying and the rising sun, so that although he could vaguely see the existence of that horse and that person, he couldn't see what they were doing at all .

That dog is a trouble, Wei Ran muttered to himself, but he didn't rush to inform Jima.

While he waited patiently, the man, horse, and dog left again, but the three beasts didn't go in the direction they came from.

quite cautious
Wei Ran got up slowly, raised his binoculars to look around, then got on his motorcycle and followed him from a distance.

He frowned when he passed by the place where the man had just stopped. There were a dozen or so fodder bales the size of TV sets with big asses scattered around here, some of which were hung with fist-sized meat Surrounded by skinless foxes, they were firmly nailed to the tree trunk with rusty iron rods. Around these corpses, there were also several glass injection bottles the size of index fingers scattered around.

And beside one of the hay bales, there was a little sheep in a cage bleating and bleating, not realizing that its behavior made it a bait instead.

Observing the surrounding situation clearly, Wei Ran pulled out a pair of rubber gloves that he carried with him and put them on, carefully picked up an injection bottle and looked at it. Unfortunately, except for a Cyrillic symbol with an unknown meaning, there was no trace of it on the bottle. There are no tags.

After thinking for a moment, he threw away the injection bottle in his hand, then took off his gloves and stuffed it into a sealed bag to keep it away. Then he called Jima and told him what he had just discovered and his next plan. Then he sent the specific coordinates here.

Putting away the phone, Wei Ran got on the motorcycle again, and followed the person at a distance, keeping a sufficient distance, and hung far away in a way that was almost at the same pace.

As time passed, the fiery red sun came out of the horizon little by little, and Wei Ran followed the person he was tracking far away from the protected area, and saw with his own eyes that the other person threw a package of something on a dirt road into a passing gray van.

During this brief handover, neither the car nor the horse, nor even the dog running behind the horse, did not stop. After the man on horseback completed the task, he immediately turned around with the dog, and the van also did not lower. speed means.

After thinking for a while, Wei Ran twisted the accelerator to speed up, turned a long distance away onto the dirt road, then slowed down slightly, put on the leather hat that had been tied to the handlebars, and took out the mask to put it on. Finally put away the GPS and went straight to the man who was leaving on horseback.

"Hey! Friend!" Wei Ran yelled in Russian from afar.

The man on the horse looked back at Wei Ran, and asked slowly in Russian, "What's wrong?"

"I want to go to Bazar Tobe, is this the direction?"

While Wei Ran was asking, he had already raised the Nagant revolver that he took out from the metal book in advance, glanced at the dog with a smile, and turned around and asked, "So how about coming down and showing me the way? "

The man's eyebrows twitched, and after hesitating for a while, he got off the horse with his legs crossed. At the same time, he held the rein of the horse with his hand. At the same time, Wei Ran also stopped and turned off the engine, and pulled out the key by the way.

"What did you do in the reserve just now?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"I just picked up a little fox," the man said as he unzipped the coat, revealing the head of a little fox.

"Very good." Wei Ran shook his pistol, "Tie your dog to the tree by the roadside, I don't want to shoot and kill it."

Hearing this, the man obediently took a rope from the horse's back, beckoned the dog to come over, and tied it to the crooked-neck tree by the roadside according to Wei Ran's instructions.

"Get down, put your face on the ground, and separate your hands and feet." Wei Ran continued to order.

Hearing this, the man obediently obeyed again, without any resistance at all, and let Wei Ran tie his hands and feet with the rope on the horse's back.

However, what Wei Ran didn't expect was that even though he searched the opponent carefully, not only did he not find a tool to poison him, but he didn't even have a knife, let alone a gun.

"If you are not a robber, can you let me go?" The man asked Chao Weiran with a mocking face.

"sure"

While speaking, Wei Ran took a rope from his motorcycle, tied it around the man's neck, and tied the other end to the saddle.

"What are you going to do! Don't do this! What are you going to do!" The man panicked instantly, "Are you going to kill me?!"

"I just want to know the answers to a few questions"

Wei Ran deliberately replied in a crazy tone, shaking the whip that was originally inserted on the horse's back, "By the way, I am also curious, if I whip it hard, will you just suffocate, or will you be worn out? Half of my face hurts to death."

"What do you want to know?" the man struggled to ask, the calmness and sarcasm in his tone had long since disappeared.

"First of all, who organized your attack on the aid station?"

"What did you say?"

The man's eyes widened, "Assault on the rescue station? Why did we attack the rescue station?"

"You?" Wei Ran squatted down with his whip in his hands, "Who else?"

"And a few friends of mine," the man replied reluctantly.

"What did you do?"

"We just want to get some animal skins for some money," the man replied in horror.

"Who set the explosives yesterday?"

"Explosives?" The man was stunned, "What explosives?"

"Crack!" Wei Ran stood up, swiped his whip on the horse's buttocks, and the horse immediately started to move forward, pulling the man forward.

"Cough cough! Let him stop! I'm going to die cough cough! I'm going to die!"

After slowly following the horse for a distance of six or seven meters, Wei Ran grabbed the rein and stopped the horse and asked again, "So who set up the explosives?"

"We just want to get some hides for some money"

At this moment, the man's entire face was suffocated, and while panting hard, he replied, "Even if we were caught and imprisoned, we were prepared, but we didn't intend to kill people. How could we make explosives! We are You want animal skins, not to catch fish in the Ural River!"

"So you didn't set up the explosives?" Wei Ran asked again unwillingly.

"We don't know anything about explosives at all!" The man replied in a broken voice.

"Where is that van?" Wei Ran asked while untying the rope around the other party's neck, "Who is driving?"

"It's the person who buys animal skins!" The man quickly replied, "We just need to call him, and he will come to buy fresh animal skins."

After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran tied the man to the tree by the road.He rode his motorcycle and ran in the opposite direction, desperately chasing the van.

Hurrying and taking shortcuts, it took almost 10 minutes, and the van finally appeared right in front.

Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately stepped up the accelerator and continued to narrow the distance between the two sides.And when he was about to overtake the opponent, he waved vigorously to the people in the cab.

"what happened?"

The driver who was driving slowed down the speed of the car a little, looked at Wei Ran vigilantly and asked in a Kazakh language that Wei Ran could not understand but could guess.

"Hey friend!"

Wei Ran pointed to the rear of the car again, and said loudly in Russian, "The bumper behind your car's buttocks is about to fall off."

Hearing that, the driver slowed down again, poked his head out of the car window and looked back, Wei Ran, who had been secretly observing the situation in the other car just now, immediately reminded, "The other side! Friends, you want to Look in the mirror on the other side."

Hearing this, the driver who just stuck his head out immediately looked at the rearview mirror in the direction of the co-pilot.

Taking this opportunity, Wei Ran jumped off the slow-moving motorcycle, ran two steps quickly, stretched his hand into the window and opened the van door, and dragged the driver who was turning his body back out out of the cab!
"Oh!"

Wei Ran punched the driver behind the ear and knocked him to the ground. He stretched out his hand to touch the driver's body. Seeing that there was no weapon, he immediately grabbed one of his feet and gave a farewell.

With a crackling sound, the severe pain caused by the joint dislocation made the driver wake up in an instant, but then, Wei Ran repaired the ribs on the side of his liver in a moderate way.Under the second severe pain, the driver immediately wailed and curled up into a shrimp shape.

At the same time, the unmanned van also twisted and drove off the roadbed, and continued to move forward slowly without hesitation.

Trotting all the way to catch up with the van, Wei Ran grabbed the door and jumped into the driver's cab, took a look at the compartment behind him, and then immediately slammed on the brakes.

Before the people in the car behind him fell to the ground due to inertia, he turned off the engine and pulled out the car key. Then he rolled out of the cab as if a spring had been attached to his buttocks. Added a Nagant revolver.

"Bang bang bang!"

Wei Ran slammed the car door with a pistol grip, and then hid in the front of the car and shouted loudly, "Open the car door! Get out of the car with your hands up and lie on the ground! Otherwise, I will not only burn the car, but also burn the car." Those who have just been dragged down will be burned to death together!"

This threat really worked better than anything else. In less than twenty seconds, the door of the van was opened from the inside.

Immediately afterwards, a little boy who looked to be about ten years old and wearing a blood-stained down jacket jumped out of the carriage, lying on the ground with a terrified expression, while shouting in Russian, begging Wei Ran not to Burn him and his father, let alone their car.

However, Wei Ran did not relax his vigilance at all. Instead, he turned vigilantly around the car produced in the Soviet era, and opened the door from the other side for a rough inspection.

Although he could see clearly just now with a quick glance, he still frowned.In this carriage filled with a strong smell of blood, apart from sheets of sheepskins, there were also many bloodshot fox skins in the middle.

After a general inspection to make sure there was no one else hiding in the compartment of the car, Wei Ran went around behind the little boy, stepped on one of his arms lightly, searched him, and took him away. A greasy knife pinned to his waist.

Randomly found a piece of sheepskin and cut it into long strips with the opponent's knife, Wei Ran bound the child's hands and feet without mercy, then took out a piece of sheepskin from the carriage and gently covered the child's body. face.

After finishing all this work, he drove back to the side of the road, grabbed and pulled the chin of the man who was crippled, and then massaged his wrists before kicking him into the car , closed the car door and pulled to the side of the child who dared not move.

Unclearly squeezed the man's wrist. After the man let out a scream, Wei Ran opened the car door, walked over to the little boy whose face was covered, and sat down on a sheet of paper. Asked on the sheepskin that he took at hand, "Little guy, what's your name?"

"Sherick" the little boy replied in panic, "What did you do to my father? Is he calling?"

"It is indeed him"

Wei Ran pressed the sheepskin on the other person's face, "Sherick, answer my question honestly, your father, you, and your car will not have any problems. Otherwise, I will put you If the whole family stays here, even if you won't be frozen to death, you will be eaten by wolves."

"What do you want to know?" Sherick asked in a tearful tone.

"What did the man on horseback throw into your car just now?" Wei Ran asked the first question while turning on the recording function of his phone.

Sherik was silent for a moment, and finally replied in panic, "Fox. Fox fur."

"Very good, what a good boy, now the second question."

Wei Ran generously gave a non-nutritive compliment, and then asked, "Who is that man on the horse?"

"I don't know," Sherick replied quickly.

"It's okay." Wei Ran deliberately paused for a moment before asking, "Where are you going next?"

"Go home," Sherick replied in a panic, "we're going home to deal with those fox furs."

"What about after it's dealt with?" Wei Ran asked in a flat tone.

"I don't know"

"Sherick, the same question, I will not be so gentle when I ask your father."

Wei Ran slightly increased the strength in his hands, "When the time comes, every time I ask a question, your father may scream."

"I really really don't know!"

When Sherick answered this question, his bound body was also struggling vigorously, trying to break free from the sheepskin that Wei Ran pressed on his face.

"Okay." Wei Ran let go of his hand happily, "I'll ask your father."

"Don't! Don't!" Sherick yelled in panic.

"Is that your son?"

Wei Ran got into the back compartment, casually sat on a bundle of sheepskins and asked the driver, at the same time stretched out his hand and squeezed the dislocated wrist.And the driver also uttered a scream in a different tone to save face.

However, Wei Ran didn't ask any more questions after that, just pinched the driver's wrist every now and then, and at the same time put all his attention on Sherik outside the carriage.

It can be seen that the father-son relationship between the driver and Sherik is very good. He only screamed two or three times, and Sherik cried and replied, "Please, don't torture my father! We really I don't know."

"Or I'll try your son instead?" Wei Ran approached the driver and asked in Russian.

As soon as these words came out of his mouth, the man went limp in an instant, and said weakly, "It's my wife's sister, Jia Jialinna."

"Who gave you those fox furs, and where will Jialinna get these fox furs?"

"I don't know who gave it to me"

The driver caught by Wei Ran shook his head, "I'm just in charge of tanning those fox skins, and I don't know where Jialinna will take them."

"Very good, when will she go to your house to pick up these things?" Wei Ran asked while playing with the pistol, "How many people go each time?"

"I go there once a week, and she's the only one who drives there every time. The next time I pick up these things is three days later."

"What about you? When is the next time you drive over to pick up the goods?"

"I don't know." The driver shook his head, "I only know when and where to collect animal skins when I get a call from her."

"Only animal skins?" Wei Ran looked at the other party suspiciously and asked.

"Only animal skins." The driver nodded and added, "It's usually the morning before the sun rises."

"How long have you been in this business?" Wei Ran asked casually, at the same time fiddling with the mobile phone that was taken out of the other party's pocket, searching for recent call records.

"Two or two years," the driver replied with difficulty.

"Where is your home?"

Wei Ran asked without raising his head, as if he didn't care about the answer given by the other party at all, but the more this happened, the more uncertain the driver was.

"Ushana! My ranch is not far from Ushana."

"How far is it from here?" Wei Ran put away his pistol and asked.

"It's less than 20 kilometers at most!"

"Sherik, is it true what your father said about your home address?"

Wei Ran asked the child outside the car loudly, "You'd better think clearly before answering, if you correct what he said now, neither you nor he will be hurt, otherwise, next time I can't guarantee you will." Shoot someone with a gun."

"Yes, it's true," Sherick replied in a panic, "I don't know how far it is, but my home is indeed near Ushana."

Hearing this, Wei Ran glanced at the time on the phone screen, changed the subject and continued to ask, "Now tell me, why did you attack the people at the aid station?"

"The person who attacked the rescue station?" The driver was stunned. "What is the person who attacked the rescue station?"

Seeing this, Wei Ran frowned. After thinking for a while, he got up and got out of the car, pushed the little guy outside, locked the door and dialed Ji Ma's phone immediately.

“Something is not right”

As soon as the call was connected, Wei Ran said, "I caught a person who poisoned wild animals and a driver responsible for transporting stolen goods. They didn't know about the attack on the rescue station."

"Don't know?" Jima on the other end of the phone immediately frowned.

"I'll give you two addresses later, and you arrange someone you can trust to arrest the person who poisoned animals and his companions I caught and ask them carefully. I will follow this driver to catch a key person. If she If you don’t know.”

Wei Ran thought for a while, and added before Jima was about to say something, "Jima, I think there may be something wrong with this matter, poachers, and revenge on Brother Maya may be two different things, or more accurate To put it bluntly, these may be two batches of enemies."

"Do you need me to support you?" Jima asked decisively.

"Not yet"

Wei Ran said this, but looked at the phone screen, because at this moment, Anfeiya actually called!

(End of this chapter)