War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 787 The Most Valuable Wild Animal

After hanging up the call with Jima, Wei Ran immediately answered the call from Anfeiya.

"Boss, a woman slipped into Jima's room early this morning." As soon as the call was connected, Anfeiya told the most important question.

"To Jima's room?"

Wei Ran frowned. On the day they arrived in Uralsk, they checked into the hotel that Wei Ran stayed in when he was doing the assessment mission. Anfeya also hacked into the hotel's monitoring system because of helping Wei Ran. , so I took over the monitoring of this hotel.

Of course, although everyone has no way of knowing what kind of relationship Jima and Maya are now, it is undeniable that, at least on the night they came to Hasa, Jima lived in a room alone.

But now that Jima is sleeping in a tent in the wilderness, how could a woman slip into his hotel room?
After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran asked, "Did you get caught?"

"No." Anfeiya replied bluntly, "When I noticed that the monitoring was abnormal, the woman had already left. I would like to ask if I need to go to Jima's room to check."

"Need not"

Wei Ran thought for a while, and asked additionally, "Did you see that woman's face clearly? Or do you know where she went?"

"I can't see clearly. She is deliberately avoiding the camera. The way is very professional. Although she walks with a limp, I feel that it is likely to be intentional. Secondly, when she left, she also walked through the back door of the hotel. There is no surveillance there."

"Understood, you pay attention to safety these two days." Wei Ran thought for a while, and added, "Unless you encounter actual danger, don't act rashly."

"Okay." Anfeiya agreed flatly, "Is there anything else?"

"So be it"

After Wei Ran finished speaking, he hung up the phone and dialed Jima again, recounted the situation that Anfeiya just sent, and then asked, "Jima, did you secretly find a woman before?"

"Fart!" Jima said cursingly, "My body and heart belong to Maya, how could I secretly find a woman! Especially in Hasa! What do you think of me!"

"Stallion"

Wei Ran muttered something vaguely in Chinese, then switched back to Russian and asked, "What's in your room?"

"Nothing important." Jima thought for a while, "There are only some changes of clothes that have not been dried after washing, and I put the rest in Maya's room."

"Jima, is there a possibility?"

"I'm being targeted by someone?" Ji Ma said the possibility of guessing one step ahead of Wei Ran before he finished speaking.

"feels like"

After pondering for a moment, Wei Ran said, "It's reasonable for a poaching gang to go to the reserve to poach some wild animals, but don't you think it's too bold to attack the rescue station?"

"But."

"You should pay attention to safety for the time being." Wei Ran looked at the van in the distance and reminded, "Jima, I suddenly realized a problem."

"What's the problem?" Jima asked puzzled.

"The most valuable wild animal in the reserve seems to be a movie star from Russia." Wei Ran said with a smile, "If you can be kidnapped, how much money do you think will be needed to redeem it?"

"Kidnapping me?!" Ji Ma shook his head dumbfounded, "It seems to be true. If you kidnap me, it is indeed worth more than those wild animals."

"When Maya's brother smashed up the gang of poachers before, did you participate?" Wei Ran asked incoherently.

"I did participate." Ji Ma was extremely frank, "I even recommended them to watch me act!"

At the end, Ji Ma popped out a Chinese curse that he had learned from Wei Ran.

"Are you an idiot?" Wei Ran patted his forehead, really not knowing how to evaluate this bastard.

"So Maya's brother was injured because of"

"I don't know, I didn't say anything just now"

Wei Ran immediately picked himself up, "Okay, I'm going to catch the key person I just mentioned, and she might know something by then."

After finishing speaking, Wei Ran hung up Ji Ma's phone and walked towards the van that was intercepted by him.

"What's your name?" Wei Ran opened the door and asked the driver.

"Belik," the driver answered honestly.

"Tell me about that woman. What's her name?"

Wei Ran asked while pushing the little guy named Sherik into the co-pilot position, and made him an extra seat belt with the cut sheepskin, and tied him firmly to the seat superior.

"Jalina" Belik looked at his son worriedly, already extremely regretful in his heart for participating in such a thing.

"Yes, yes, Jialinna." Wei Ran patted his forehead, "What does she usually do?"

"She and her husband have been in the fur business"

Belik replied knowingly, "On the surface, she is responsible for purchasing cashmere and sheepskin, but in fact, she also purchases the skins of various protected animals. There are many poaching herdsmen around here who actually cooperate with her."

"Continue talking," Wei Ran asked with great interest.

"Her husband's sister married a rabbit rider"

Bellik continued, "As far as I know, those processed wild animal products are all smuggled out by that rabbit rider."

"You are the one who helped him tan the animal fur?" Wei Ran looked up at the other party and asked.

Bellik hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded with difficulty.

"Do you know where they are usually?"

"I don't know," Belik replied, but he gestured to Wei Ran with his eyes, and then looked outside.

"In this case, let's go outside and talk."

As Wei Ran spoke, he picked up a small piece of sheepskin and stuffed the little guy Sherick's mouth first, then pulled Bellick, who had dislocated his wrists and one knee, out of the carriage and walked a few steps away.

"I don't know where Jialinna and her husband are, but I do know where they store the wildlife products."

Bellik lowered his voice and said, "I can take you there, but you have to let me and my son go."

"Are you negotiating terms with me?"

Wei Ran shook the revolver in his hand and asked, "If you don't tell me, I can ask your child, he will definitely lead me to your home, and I believe your family will definitely help me Find who I want to find."

"Will you let us go?" Bellick asked with a look of despair.

"As long as your performance satisfies me," Wei Ran put away his gun and replied.

"Okay"

Belik nodded with difficulty, "I'll take you to find her warehouse, but I can't guarantee if she's there."

"Endure the pain, I will help you heal your hands and feet."

Wei Ran said, and sent a roll of sheepskin to Bellik's mouth.The latter hesitated for a moment, opened his mouth and bit the sheepskin.

Amidst the three teeth-stinging sounds and the screams that Bellick had endured with all his might, Wei Ran easily helped the opponent recover his limb joints, then pointed to his own motorcycle and said, "You are riding a motorcycle. Lead the way ahead, go to your house first, and then go to Jialinna's warehouse."

"We can go straight."

"Go directly to your house and wait?"

Wei Ran asked with a smile, without leaving any retreat for the other party, "If you don't want to invite me to your house as a guest, then you can only ask your son to help guide the way."

Belik sighed helplessly, resisting the sore joints in his hands and feet, abandoned the starter motorcycle, and drove straight to his house.

Under his leadership, Wei Ran drove the van for more than [-] kilometers along the bumpy dirt road, and finally stopped near a pasture next to the frozen river.

Outside the car window, Belik, whose face was flushed from the cold, pointed to the yurt in the distance and said, "That is my home, can you let Sherick go home first?"

"Let him come with us"

As Wei Ran said, he took out his mobile phone and took a photo of the yurt outside the car window, and sent it to Jima along with the coordinates here, and then picked up the mobile phone he found from the other party and handed it to Jima. The other party said, "You can call your wife's family to find an excuse that you can't come back tonight."

Speaking of this, Wei Ran deliberately paused, and when the other party took the phone, he continued, "Of course, you can tip off the news, but I'm not those idiots of the anti-poaching organization, so if you let my If the mission fails, I can only kill you and your son, and of course, everything that can breathe in that yurt."

Belik opened his mouth, and finally he could only accept his fate, took the phone and dialed it out. After a few words with the person on the other end of the phone, he hung up the phone, then returned the phone to Wei Ran, and turned the front of the motorcycle. After driving far away through the frozen river, on the vast Gobi where the cold wind is howling, continue to move towards the northwest.

I have to admit that driving in this kind of desolate Gobi, besides being careful of the tires being scratched by sharp gravel, is indeed a kind of enjoyment. At least the desolate scenery around is worth a special visit.

Enjoying the scenery along the way, when Belik stopped the car behind an earthen beam, it was almost noon.

"It's right behind this earth beam." Belik pointed to the highest point of this earth beam, "you can see it as long as you climb up."

Hearing this, Wei Ran opened the door and got out of the car, tied Beria's hands to the bumper of the van with the thick wire found in the car, and covered his mouth with sheepskin, and then climbed up the car alone. An earth beam, first observed the surroundings, then crawled close to the other side of the earth beam, and slowly raised the telescope.

Just at the foot of this earth beam, at a straight-line distance of no more than 200 meters, you can see two yurts, a six-wheel oil tanker and a container truck.

In addition, between the two yurts, there was an off-road vehicle parked at the chimney of the yurt, and a faint white smoke was also coming out.

Moving the telescope to observe the surrounding environment, Wei Ran also took a photo and sent it to Jima along with the coordinates.

After waiting for about three hours, Ji Ma drove over in a KAMAZ without a license plate. As the door opened, Ji Ma and three familiar Inta hunters jumped out of the cab.

(End of this chapter)