War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 853 A cameo role as a hero to save the beauty?
In the hot and narrow darkroom, the shirtless Wei Ran was busy printing out large-scale photos and hanging them on the drying line.

After repeating the work over and over again, when all the photo paper in the tin cabinet containing consumables was exhausted, Wei Ran, who had been so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes, finally stopped.

Looking at the nearly two hundred photos hanging on the iron wire that was drying the photos vigorously, Wei Ran heaved a sigh of satisfaction.

These photos are not only selected from the films found in the cave before, but also mixed with some group photos he selected from the negatives in the metal book.

In the perspectives he took, those unbearable tragedies, those corpses eaten by insects and ants with only bones left, all formed a sharp contrast with the peaceful pictures whitewashed by the original owner of that camera, that ghost reporter contrast.

It's a pity that even if these photos were not shown to the aborigines of this land, Wei Ran clearly knew that in this country still in civil war, probably not many people were willing to distinguish or believe the truth of that period of history.

Taking off his rubber gloves and mask, Wei Ran turned on the faucet and washed his face, then put on his shirt again, fixed the pistol Zhong Zhen gave him, and re-wrapped the base cage hanging on the doorknob.

When he opened the tattered wooden door nailed with car inner tire rubber, Zhong Zhen was lying on the rocking chair snoring with a gun in one hand and a mobile phone in the other.And the girl covered in bells was sitting on a bamboo chair not far away, letting the former rest her feet on her lap, concentrating on playing a stand-alone tower defense game.

Seeing Wei Ran coming out of the darkroom, the girl's face immediately showed a look of surprise, but before she stopped the game in her hand to wake up Zhong Zhen, Wei Ran made a silent gesture , gently moved an electric fan that looked very old to the door of the darkroom, and adjusted the angle to those photos that were still not dried.

Turning on the lowest wind speed, Wei Ran turned around and picked up the Marlboro and lighter on the other chair beside Zhong Zhen, lit one and walked out of the stuffy room.

At this time, the night outside the door was still dark, and even the street under the corridor was extremely quiet. In contrast, the temple in the distance had already lit up the lights, and even vaguely, people in line could be seen.

Yawning, he took out his phone and looked at the time. It was only around [-]:[-] in the morning, which is supposed to be the time of day when he should be sleeping soundly.After all, he had been with Master Sehao in Savage Mountain before, so he naturally knew that this was the time when the monks who were free of electricity started to eat their first meal hungry.

To say that although the electricity-free monk can eat meat, he is not comfortable. If nothing else, the first meal of the day is arranged at four o'clock in the morning, which will undoubtedly affect the quality of sleep.

Unfortunately, the second meal was scheduled for ten o'clock in the morning.As for the third meal, go hungry, you won't be able to eat until four o'clock in the morning the next day.

In such a hungry whole afternoon plus one night, Wei Ran would not believe it if these monks who were free of electricity did not suffer from stomach problems, gallbladder stones and sleep disorders.

While he was here looking at the temple in the distance and thinking wildly, Zhong Zhen also yawned and came out covered in sweat.

"Did it wake you up?" Wei Ran took a puff of cigarette and asked.

"I didn't sleep too much at first." Zhong Zhen also lit a cigarette, and asked, "Is it finished?"

"Basically done"

Wei Ran raised his chin in the direction of the darkroom, "I have to wait a little longer, it will probably take half an hour to an hour to dry, this damn place is too damp."

"Since this is the case, don't wait anymore." Zhong Zhen waved away the smoke in front of his eyes, "I'll take you to find a place to rest. I'll arrange someone to watch over here, and send the photos to us after they dry."

"Alright, I'll pack up the negatives first."

Wei Ran flicked the cigarette butt while speaking, stepped into the stuffy room, and put the negatives that were still in the darkroom into a paper bag.

In such a short time, two strong men who had never seen before appeared in the room outside the darkroom.

Unobtrusively glanced at the weapon at the opponent's waist covered by the base cage, Wei Ran put the paper bag containing the negatives into his bag.

"Leave it to them here"

Zhong Zhen put his arms around the girl covered in bells and said, "After the photo is dry, they will put it away and send it to us. Brother Wei Ran, if you have any extra instructions, just tell them, they can both listen." understand Chinese."

“Not much to ask”

While Wei Ran was speaking, he took out two pairs of satin gloves from his bag and handed them to the two strong men, "I wear gloves when I store the photos, the quality of those photo papers is not very good, and it is easy to leave fingerprints when you hold them directly. Plus, every two photos are placed back-to-back in the same paper bag."

"No problem." One of the strong men patted his chest to reassure, and at the same time took the gloves handed over by Wei Ran.

"I'll leave it to you here, call me when you're done."

While Zhong Zhen was speaking, he took out a stack of banknotes from his pocket and handed it to another strong man. He took the strong flashlight handed over by him, and left the room with Wei Ran and the girl covered in bells. Towards the outside of the slums.

Wei Ran also noticed that Zhong Zhen had secretly arranged a lot of people in the direction of this road. Some of these people were riding motorcycles and stopped at the intersection, and there were already littered cigarette butts around. The room facing the street enjoys the service of the girl, and some are at the entrance of the street, helping to watch the cars parked not far away.

Along the way, he distributed some cash to these people like a boy who spread money. Zhong Zhen yawned and got into the back of the car, and said something in Burmese to the girl covered in bells. Immediately, he got into the driver's seat, and after Wei Ran sat down, he turned around and left here.

"You don't look like a teacher, but a gang member." Wei Ran said half jokingly and half seriously.

"Gang?"

Zhong Zhen smiled strangely, "Those are all my brother's people. I can only count him in his favor. Compared with gangs and the like, how can I be a university teacher? Especially a teacher in a medical university. "

"How do you say that?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"What else can I say"

Zhong Zhen pointed to the girl who was driving, and explained in a logical manner, "Of course it's because there are many young and beautiful girls. Those who can be admitted to medical school are good girls with relatively good grades. It's not as good as getting along with such girls day and night. What kind of gang is ten thousand times stronger?"

"Get along day and night?"

Wei Ran smiled, and didn't say much except scolding a scumbag. Although what the other party said was natural, and his temperament was indeed similar to Ji Ma, Wei Ran could tell that the reason the other party just said was very serious. Eighty-nine are false.

Zhong Zhen grinned, and didn't think that scumbag was a bad description at all. Instead, he took out his phone and opened the photo album with great interest, showing off his beautiful students to Wei Ran.

Just when Wei Ran dealt with Zhong Zhen in the same way he dealt with Ji Ma and the effect was remarkable, the little bell who was in charge of driving said something.

Hearing this, Zhong Zhen looked in the direction of the front of the car, and Wei Ran also raised his head. Under the beam of the high beam, they could clearly see a car parked at an alley on the side of the road. The dilapidated van, and right in front of the van, where the headlights were shrouded, several men were waving sticks in their hands and beating two people curled up in a ball, as if trying to snatch something from each other's arms .

Meanwhile, several men were pulling the two struggling girls and trying to pack them into the van.

"Robber," Zhong Zhen said with a normal expression, "He will rob people when he is done well. There is a bar opposite that alley, and there are usually many tourists here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the two girls were framed up by the men with sticks and stuffed into the van, while the two who were still being beaten tried to stand up and resist.

But at this moment, one of the gangsters pulled out a slender dagger, stabbed the thighs of the two men who were beaten, and then called the rest of the men to get in the car, closed the door and walked away .

At this moment, Zhong Zhen just lowered the window of the car, and the three people in the car almost simultaneously heard the cries of the two girls who were stuffed into the car, and the desperate cry of one of the men who had been stabbed. Help"!
"Stop!" Zhong Zhen shouted without thinking, and the girl covered in bells also stepped on the brake without thinking.

Before the car came to a complete stop, Zhong Zhen had already opened the car door and jumped out, followed by the girl covered in bells, and swiftly took out a medical kit with a red cross printed on it from the trunk and ran to the car. The two men who were stabbed.

"Chase them! Chase them!" One of the men who was stabbed anxiously shouted, "My girlfriend was taken away by them!"

"Don't move around, you hurt an artery."

While shouting, Zhong Zhen took the tourniquet from the girl covered in bells, and the latter immediately took out his phone and turned on the flashlight function.

Looking at the two injured people and the van that was about to disappear, Wei Ran didn't hesitate at all, so he opened the driver's door and sat in. Under Zhong's shocked gaze, he stepped on the accelerator and chased go up.

Ignoring Zhong Zhen waving wildly in the rearview mirror, Wei Ran increased the speed of the car, closing the distance between him and the van amidst the roar of the engine.

Although he didn't practice driving like Ji Ma did, but at least he was familiar with right-hand drive cars at Hongqi Forest Farm. In addition, there were no cars on the road in the dead of night, and the performance of Zhong Zhen's car was pretty good, so it was just After only three or four intersections, he kept parallel with the van.

However, what he didn't expect was that the van stopped after honking its horn, and then stopped on the side of the road with its lights on.

After a while, the driver's door of the van was pushed open, and the person sitting in the co-pilot came over, grabbed the door with extreme arrogance, and said something to Wei Ran in Burmese.

"Can you speak Chinese?" Wei Ran opened the door and got out of the car while speaking.

"Huaxia people? It's not your turn to meddle in your own business here."

The man with a fierce face grabbed Wei Ran's neck and warned with a look of contempt.

At the same time, the door of the van behind him also opened, and shortly after, four or five shirtless men with sticks in their hands surrounded him.

Looking at his companion behind him, the man who grabbed Wei Ran's neck winked.Immediately after that, two people opened the door of the car that Wei Ran drove over, obviously looking for something valuable.

"Do you know who I am?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"I care about you."

"I am your father"

While Wei Ran was speaking, a slender Mauser bayonet appeared in his hand, and the sharpened blade slashed open the man's arm!

Stimulated by the severe pain, he subconsciously let go of Wei Ran's collar, but before he could scream, Wei Ran had already slammed his knee against his crotch.

He easily let the man kneel down with his hands covering his crotch with his eyes wide open. Wei Ran didn't even wait for the rest of the people to surround him, he tore off the cage around his waist, and pulled out the pistol that Zhong Zhen had given him.Immediately afterwards, using the cover of his body, he put his left hand behind his back, and took out the titanium alloy pistol with the silencer screwed in the metal book.

"Snapped!"

In the dead of night on the street, even after suppressed by the silencer, the sound of the gunshots was still a bit harsh.

Fortunately, right after, a man who had just pulled out his revolver before he had time to aim it let out a scream that could cover up the gunshot just now.

Accompanied by this scream, the revolver and a thumb also spun around and landed on the asphalt road due to the impact of the bullet that Wei Ran fired just now.

"Except for you, everyone else should lie on their stomachs in front of the headlights, with their hands spread apart and pressed against the ground."

While Wei Ran was speaking, he put away the Glock pistol in his right hand, hung up the phone call from Zhong Zhen again and turned on the flashlight function, walked to the side of the man who was injured by himself, and grabbed the other hand. He pinched his wrist hard, and the other party uttered another scream because his wrist was dislocated.

"Go and open the car door." Wei Ran kicked the opponent and said, at the same time, he grabbed the man who was let go by him the first time, strangled his neck with one hand and held it with one hand, and at the same time hid his whole body behind him .

Hearing this, the man who was still howling immediately got up with difficulty, stumbled to the side of the van, and opened the door of the van with the remaining four fingers of his undislocated right hand.

Under the light of the flashlight, what Wei Ran saw were four girls with their hands and feet tied and black hoods on their faces.In addition to the girl, there were several backpacks or satchels of different styles in the carriage, as well as several obviously turned over wallets scattered on the floor.

Turning off the light of the flashlight, Wei Ran let go of the human body armor that was still screaming with his legs intertwined, and took advantage of the opponent's cover to put the titanium alloy pistol back into the metal book.

Slowly taking out a pair of rubber gloves from his pocket and putting them on, Wei Ran dragged the man whose hand he had lost while walking back and asked, "What are you arresting these girls for?"

"sell it"

The man pressed his armpit against the bleeding wound and replied with difficulty, "I plead guilty, I am willing to go to jail, please send me to the hospital, my hand is bleeding, and I will die."

"Sell it to whom? What do you sell it for?"

Wei Ran asked the other party in a slow manner, bent down and picked up the bullet case that had just dropped and put it into his pocket, then pulled out the Glock pistol, pulled the slide and pulled out a bullet and stuffed it into his pocket as well.

Only then did he bend down to pick up the knocked down revolver and the dusty thumb, as well as the pistols left behind by the others, and at the same time he urged, "You better Answer me quickly?"

"Someone accepts them, and they are responsible for asking for ransom, or...or organizing them to swindle and...and sell silver."

"What else?" Wei Ran asked while stuffing his thumb into the opponent's trouser pocket.

"Sell organs." The man begged, "First, help me stop the bleeding, otherwise"

"Next question, who did you learn Chinese from?"

"I am Chinese," the man wailed and replied, "My grandparents are Chinese."

"And those few too?"

"Some are, some are not."

"Rubbish."

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he squeezed hard on the side of the opponent's neck, easily causing the opponent to fall into a faint.

Following the same pattern, he stunned the few people who were still lying on the road in front of the car, and then carried the four girls in the carriage who seemed to have something in their mouths into the driving car and closed the door, and then he put the backpacks in the carriage Putting away the documents and the like, he answered the call from Zhong Zhen again.

"Where are you?" Zhong Zhen asked angrily as soon as the phone was connected.

"The location where you just parked is about ahead."

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, Zhong Zhen on the other end of the phone said, "I saw my car. The car I'm riding in now is a white pickup truck with double flashing lights. Don't shoot."

Turning his head to look at the direction he came from, Wei Ran hung up the phone directly after seeing the flashing yellow headlights.

In less than ten seconds, a white pickup truck screeched to a stop.Immediately afterwards, the co-pilot's door was pushed open, Zhong Zhen trotted all the way over and asked nervously, "Are you not injured?"

"It's okay." Wei Ran pointed behind him, "But their condition is not very good."

Turning his head to look at the kidnapper who was lying on the ground, Zhong Zhen waved to the pickup truck behind him, followed by you and a man who had just seen it when he left the slum, got out of the car, silently They carried those people into the compartment of the van.

"Did you shoot just now?" Zhong Zhen turned his head and asked.

"opened"

While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already unfastened the quick-draw holster around his waist, and handed it to the other party together with the pistol.

Looking at the rubber gloves on Wei Ran's hands, Zhong Zhen raised his eyebrows, and there was a hint of admiration on his face.

Turning his head and beckoning a strong man to come over and take away the gun in Wei Ran's hand, Zhong Zhen asked, "Where are the two girls?"

"In your car." Wei Ran pointed to the car next to him without any psychological pressure.

"Split? Why are there four? I thought you were a cultural person before." Zhong Zhen opened the door of the car and took a look. Seeing that there was only the driver's seat left, he said helplessly, "You drive and follow me." Behind."

"What about those people?" Wei Ran pointed to the van that had been driven away and asked.

"You'll find out later," Zhong Zhen said, and got into the pickup truck and closed the door.

Seeing this, Wei Ran also got into the cab of the car, stepped on the accelerator and followed.

Although he had expected that they would definitely leave the city, Wei Ran did not expect that when the car stopped, there would be a helicopter with white paint and a lot of dragon boat patterns that Wei Ran was very familiar with parked on the wasteland not far away. .

Soon, the kidnappers were escorted into the cabin of the helicopter by the strong men, and then the helicopter circled into the sky and flew somewhere.

And the van was also driven into a large yard next to the wasteland by one of the people left behind.

Without waiting for him to come out, the pickup truck Zhong Zhen was riding in honked its horn, then turned around and drove back to the direction of the city.

When the car stopped again, there was already a hospital in front of the car.After Zhong Zhen got out of the car, the pickup truck also accelerated and disappeared.

"Put these beauties down," Zhong Zhen said while scratching the car window, "The two people who were stabbed just now are in this hospital."

Hearing this, Wei Ran turned to look at the three girls crowded behind him and asked, "Can you speak Chinese?"

Seeing two of them nodding wildly, Wei Ran continued, "I will put the four of you at the entrance of the hospital later, and I will untie the ropes for the two of you, but you can only put on the headgear when you count to 20." Take it off, and then you have to help the other two untie the rope, take off the headgear, and take them to hide in the hospital. If you understand, just nod."

Hearing this, the two who could understand Chinese nodded immediately.

"We saved you. If you are still grateful, you'd better not call the police." After Zhong Zhen outside the car added, the two girls immediately nodded again.

Seeing this, Wei Ran and the two helped the four of them out of the car, and then untied one of the girls from the rope.

"Let's count down now." Before the words finished, Wei Ran and Zhong Zhen had already run back to the car, stepped on the accelerator and disappeared in a flash.

(End of this chapter)