War Photographer's Notebook

"I'm good at playing..."

Wei Ran, who was successfully amused, turned off the tweeter, pulled out a bandage from his waist and tied it tightly around Butch's wound, barely helped the other party stop the bleeding, and then said slowly, "The first The second option, I will help you heal the wound, but it may require you to stay here for a period of time.”

"Yes! Yes!" Butch agreed hastily. At this time, he had no choice at all.

At this moment, Anfisa also drove over from the castle in a car.Seeing this, Wei Ran lightly kicked away Beria, who was obviously over excited, and pushed the man named Butch into the car.

When Anfisa roughly completed the U-turn and started to drive back, the fake girl also said in Russian, "The one on the city wall was not seriously injured and was shot through the sole of his foot by a bullet, and the one hanging on the bell tower was also rescued." Come down, he's not hurt."

"Is Aurora awake?" Wei Ran asked looking out the window.

"No," Anfisa said with a smile, "she slept soundly, and my sister put earplugs on her."

"Forehead…"

Wei Ran grinned, "Wait for the two of you to make a hard trip and take the uninjured one to catch Lily back."

Speaking of this, Wei Ran switched to German and asked Butch who was sitting next to him with a knife on his neck, "Both of your companions know Lily's location, right?"

"I know, I know." The pale Butch replied hastily.

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't ask any further questions. After the car drove into the castle, he immediately dragged the man named Butch into an empty storage room at the corner of the castle.

A moment later, Anfeiya also brought in another man who was injured in the sole of his foot, but was wrapped into a rice dumpling by paracord and parachute, and brought in with a small cargo cart.

"According to the uninjured captive, Lily is at the foot of the mountain downstream of the stream."

As Anfeya said, she kicked the prisoner on the cart to the floor.

"Are you sure?" While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already pulled over a chair and let Butch sit on it.

"certainly"

Anfeiya gave the answer confidently, even with an unconcealable excitement in her tone.

"Then go ahead and invite Ms. Lily to sit in the castle." Wei Ran said while tying Butch back to the chair, "Be careful."

Anfeiya nodded quietly, turned and left the empty storage room.

When the girl helped close the heavy door from the outside, Wei Ran cut off two umbrella cloths and covered the eyes of the two captives, then took out the medical kit from the metal book, and healed Butch for the gunshot wound on his arm. The wound was debrided and sutured, and the torture work began.

At the same time, the Katenka sisters also pushed and fucked the only prisoner who was not injured but was tied into a dumpling into the car, and then each put on the captured civilian night vision goggles and squatted at the gate of the city wall. Under the watchful eye of Leah and the two big-eared foxes, the black lamp drove away from the castle in a daze.

Under the guidance of the submissive captive in the carriage, the two sisters drove along the winding mountain road for less than 20 minutes before they noticed an infrared beam facing the night sky in the night vision device.

"Sit still"

Anfisa, who was in charge of driving, had already stepped on the accelerator to the bottom while reminding her sister.

Without any hesitation at all, Anfeiya in the back seat immediately hooked the prisoner's neck and pressed him to the floor of the carriage, stepped on the back of his head with one foot, and stepped on his back with the other. At the same time, her hands supported him The front seat backs.

Almost at the same time that she was ready to collide, Anfisa, who had already raised the speed to the highest speed, was about to hit the off-road vehicle that hadn't started at all, and pulled up the handbrake while slamming the steering wheel.

In the friction between the wheels and the gravel road, the car borrowed from Leiya flicked as it wished, and slammed a big mouth with amazing kinetic energy on the front of the off-road vehicle!
"boom!"

Amidst the dull crashing sound, the front of this champagne-colored off-road vehicle instantly rotated at an angle of nearly 45 degrees.

However, before the shaking of the car body stopped, Anfisa had already put the reverse gear on and stepped on the gas pedal, and violently pushed the rear of the car against the body of the off-road vehicle and started to back up.

At the same time, Anfeiya in the rear compartment also pushed open the door and jumped down, turned on the strobe function of the strong flashlight, and at the same time hit the rear window of the off-road vehicle hard with the attack head on the head of the flashlight.

Accompanied by a crash, dense spider patterns appeared on the car window, and when it was knocked on the second time, the car window was instantly shattered into scum, and at the same time, a woman's panic-stricken scream came from inside.

Adjust the flashlight from strobe mode to strong light mode, and the car still driven by Anfisa has half of the body on top of it, and the other half is also in an off-road vehicle that just fits a thick-waisted beech tree on the roadside. It was also photographed in every detail.

With just one glance, she saw Lily who fell on her back on the floor of the off-road vehicle due to successive impacts.

At this time, this charming woman looked extremely embarrassed. Not only was there only a glass base left of the red wine glass still in her hand, but even the mask on her face had been stained the color of red wine.

After carefully scanning the driver's seat to make sure there was no one inside, Anfeiya tapped on the Bluetooth headset lightly. After her sister drove the car away, she opened the deformed car door, stroking Lily's hair, He was dragged from the car screaming.

"Ms. Lily"

Anfeiya grabbed Lily's hair with one hand, and tore off the mask on the other party's face with the other. She shined a bright flashlight on the face to confirm, and then carefully pulled the other party's face to make sure it was this person. He continued, "Our boss invites you to sit in the castle."

"Let go of me! Let me go!" Lily, who had her hair pinched, shouted in panic, "You guys are tied..."

"Crack! Crack!"

An Feiya slapped the opponent's face twice in a row, and successfully made the opponent swallow the words he hadn't said yet.

At this moment, Anfisa also pushed the door and walked down.After confirming that it was correct with the flashlight like my sister, I searched Lily and reminded in a flat tone, "Ms. Lily, you'd better keep quiet from now on, otherwise I don't mind giving you an overdose of solitary injection." products and throw you at the police station in Bad Hofgastein."

Clearly, the threat worked better than anything else.Lily, who had swollen cheeks on both sides, immediately shut her mouth, and fearfully let Anfisa take away all kinds of things from her, including the mobile phone and the makeup mirror.

Finally, the woman's hands were tied behind the back with a strap, and the Katenka sisters tacitly carried her into the carriage.

Before leaving, the two inspected the off-road vehicle. Anfeiya roughly tore off the wire connected to the infrared light on the roof, and then disconnected the battery power supply before pulling out the car key and getting into the car. In the coming car.

While the two sisters were pulling the two captives who were stacking Arhats in the carriage back, Wei Ran, who stayed behind in the castle, also sewed up the wounds left by the bullets on the two captives.

When he helped the captive Butch splint his broken calf, he also happened to ask all the questions he wanted to know.

According to Butch, he was just a wingsuit flying enthusiast who dreamed of joining the Red Bull Death Squad.And this once was more than ten years ago.

At that time, Butch was just in his early twenties. Although he had a dream, he had to work part-time as a ski instructor in a ski resort to support his family and maintain his dream.

The turning point of fate happened when Lily went skiing at that ski resort, a woman who was physically unsatisfied and psychologically unable to get the castle she wanted, a young, strong, adventurous, and pretty good looking poor boy.

There is no doubt that when the two people, who are nearly 20 years apart in age, got together, Timov Castle began to be haunted as expected.

Even, under Wei Ran's torture, the soft-fed Butch even confessed that he was responsible not only for the haunted castle, but also for the car accident of Leiya's father.

this Satoshi

A man who is bright but has no bottom line, just on a snow-covered bend on the way down the mountain, put a sheep's head that can suddenly fall through the tree fork on the roadside with a rope, and pour a bucket of water on the turn in advance , and successfully made Leya's father accidentally drive the car off the road and plunge into the frozen waterfall.

In exchange, after Lily took charge of the Elk Foundation, she also kept her promise and bought the ski resort located just north of the castle, and named it White Rose Ski Resort to Dominique.

It's just that, although the ski resort that was also managed by the Elk Foundation flattered Dominique in name, in fact, only in the winter of the second year, Lily's lover Butch became the real power holder of the ski resort. .

And tonight, the two accomplices who flew over with him, as well as the electrician Lyme, are the confidantes that Butch and Lily have cultivated over the years.

"Next question"

Wei Ran, who put away the medical kit, also tore off the umbrella cloth from Butch's face while speaking, "What is Lily's purpose?"

"She wants to piss Mr. Dominique off"

Butch looked at the hemostat that Wei Ran was still holding in his hand in horror, and replied hastily, trembling, "She said Mr. Dominique still has a lot of secrets, and she wants to hurry up before he tells all the secrets to his heir." Shut him up forever."

"So Mr. Dominique's property is not limited to those operated by the Elk Foundation?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"I do not know"

Butch shook his head, "But Lily has always wanted this castle in her dreams, and she has always wanted this castle all these years."

"Where is Lily?" Wei Ran looked at his watch and asked.

"She's waiting to pick us up at the foot of the mountain," Butch quickly replied, "I'm afraid your people have taken her back now."

"Tell me about the situation of that ski resort, how many people are there now."

"Now the ski resort has been closed, and it will not reopen for paragliding business until June."

Butch turned his head to look at the wound wrapped in gauze, then at the calf that was splinted, and kept explaining, "So there's no one there now."

"Where are you usually?" Wei Ran asked, glancing at the phone with the recording function turned on all the time.

"I'll go wherever Lily goes," Butch said anxiously, "I can leave Lily right away, sir, please... please let Mr. Dominique let me go, I..."

"I have no obligation to help you pass the message"

Wei Ran said, turned off the recording function, then bent down to pick up the umbrella cloth that was originally used to blindfold, and stuffed it roughly into Butch's mouth.

In the end, Wei Ran took a close-up of each of the two wounded captives. After Wei Ran turned off the lights in the storage room and went out, he locked the heavy door with ease with the unlocking tool in his hand, and then walked into Sui lightly. Spike's room.

Fortunately, thanks to the few glasses of wine at dinner and the earplugs that Anfeiya helped her put on, the girl was lying on the big soft bed and sleeping soundly at this moment.

Quietly closing the door, Wei Ran walked up the city wall again. After thinking for a while, he did not rush to inform Dominique or Carlos lawyers, but patiently waited for sister Katenka to bring Lily and another After the captives were brought back, Lily was brought to the watchtower of the castle.

Through the glass on the door, Wei Ran glanced at the resting pigeons and crows on the top of the sentry tower, and then at Lily, who was tied to the shelf by the Katenka sisters. After a little hesitation, he said politely , "Ms. Lily, we meet again."

"Let go of me." Lily, who had a handprint left on each of her swollen cheeks, said coldly, "Otherwise I..."

"You better not threaten me"

Without waiting for the other party to finish speaking, Wei Ran pointed to the pigeon coop outside the door and reminded, "I don't mind locking you up with those damned pigeons and crows, so if you don't want to sleep in bird droppings for the next few days Here, it’s best for you to answer whatever I ask.”

"Notify Dominic." Lily closed her eyes resignedly, "I don't want to communicate with you."

"It's up to you"

Wei Ran smiled, "And it's not worth notifying Mr. Dominic about such a trivial matter, I can help him decide your fate."

"You?" Lily snorted disdainfully, her contempt not being concealed at all.

"I can lock you up in this castle until Mr. Dominique dies."

Wei Ran pretended to be frivolous and lightly lifted Lily's blond hair, and asked slowly, "Lily, have you read Rapunzel in the Grimm's fairy tale?"

"What are you going to do?" Lily asked after trying to headbutt Wei Ran to no avail.

"Rapunzel was imprisoned in a tower by a witch"

Wei Ran let go of the other party's hair, took a step back and said with a smile, "I've decided, Anfisa, help me go to the town tomorrow to buy a chain that even Beria can't break free, and get Ms. Lily tied to it. In this watchtower."

"I'll buy it at dawn"

Anfisa, who was leaning on the door frame, responded very seriously, "Go to Salzburg to buy it, I can find someone to help process a metal collar with a lock."

"Good proposal." Wei Ran snapped his fingers in satisfaction, and Lily also shivered subconsciously.

"Don't worry, I won't let you starve to death"

Wei Ran pointed to the corner of the wall, "There is a faucet there, and there are enough pigeons and pigeon eggs outside the door, Anfisa, remember to give Lily... ah no, remember to leave enough length for the pigeon girl's chain, so that she You can go to the top of the sentry tower to catch pigeons, or you can go downstairs to drink water."

"I will pay attention to this matter"

Anfisa once again earnestly agreed, and at the same time did not forget to remind seriously, "Boss, eating raw meat for a long time will lead to parasite infection."

"It's ok"

Wei Ran waved his hand indifferently, "When you go to buy chains, buy some insect repellent for her to prepare in advance."

After finishing speaking, Wei Ran picked up a towel stained with bird droppings and walked towards the pale Lily, "I'm curious how long you can live in this tower, and I'm even more curious if your hair will look like Rapunzel in the fairy tale The same, the long one can hang down to the bottom of the tower and be used as a rope ladder. I promise, if you can last until the routine maintenance in the fall, I will let you go."

"You...you are a devil!"

Lily screamed in panic, she is not stupid, she can even be said to be a smart woman, but the smarter she is, the more she can see from Wei Ran's eyes that this young man who is probably not half her age is absolutely serious of!

"certainly"

Wei Ran pretended to be crazy, and while carefully and gently wiping the tears overflowing from the corners of Lily's eyes with a towel stained with bird droppings, he asked in a very calm and serious manner, "Otherwise, why do you think Mr. Dominique entrusted the Elk Foundation to What about me?"

"You...what do you want to know?" Lily, who didn't dare to hide, asked with tears streaming down her face, her trembling tone already had an undisguised plea.

"Give you three chances"

Wei Ran threw away the towel in his hand, took a step back and said nonchalantly, "Three chances, you can say whatever you want, chips, secrets, deals are fine, as long as you can impress me once, I can consider letting you go, if you say Interesting enough, I wouldn't even mind working with you to make the Elk Foundation our property."

Just now——Zli's face immediately showed a look of excitement. As soon as she said this, a look of childishness appeared in Lili's response.After a moment of silence, the nearly fifty-year-old, but well-maintained woman opened her mouth and said, "Dominic left me the farm in Ontario, if you are willing to help me inform Dominic of the haunted castle and the news and let it go Me, that farm is you..."

"You still have two more chances," Wei Ran reminded with a smile.

"Plus the White Rose Ski Resort to the north of the castle!"

Lily immediately increased her chips, "And he has already given me 500 million US dollars, all of which can be given to you!"

"Last Chance" Wei Ran timely revealed a look of greed on his face.

"You're too greedy," Lily reminded, frowning.

"It seems that you can't come up with a bargaining chip that I am satisfied with." Wei Ran walked downstairs after finishing speaking, "Girl Pigeon, I wish you a happy stay here, I will remember to come and see it in autumn..."

"Wait!"

Lily yelled in panic, seeing that Wei Ran had brought the twins downstairs without stopping at all, she immediately yelled, "There are good things hidden in the church in this castle! If you are willing to help me, I can share the contents with you equally!"

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't stop at all, but just waved his hand and said, "Stop her mouth, don't let her wake up Aurora."

"OK"

Anfisa stopped on her own initiative, turned around and walked into the room that smelled of bird droppings.After a while, Lily's shouting also stopped abruptly.

"Boss, shall we go to the church?" An Feiya, who was still following Wei Ran, asked.

"Need not"

Wei Ran waved his hand without thinking, took out his mobile phone and searched for lawyer Carlos's phone and said casually, "No matter what is in it, it has nothing to do with us, and if that church is really so easy to get in, I'm afraid Lily will be there sooner." Just went in, and it was not our turn at all.

Most importantly, this is Mr. Dominique's castle and we are just guests here.Since you are a guest, don't mess with the castle owner's things. "

"so we…"

"Tomorrow we'll go to the town at the bottom of the mountain, and if we have nothing to do, we can go back to Kazan or go to Hawaii for a few days!
Okay, you guys go to rest early, and remember to clean up the scene. If Aurora asks tomorrow, she will sleep after waiting for no ghosts to come over in the middle of the night. Before the words finished, Wei Ran had already pressed the dial button.

Seeing this, An Feiya and the sister who was chasing down looked at each other, and the two sisters tacitly speeded up and passed Wei Ran.

While the boss was talking on the phone, the sisters first cleaned up the bullet casings and blood stains scattered in the castle and the city walls, and then sorted out the photos taken in the camera, and replaced the camera with a memory card by the way.

At the same time, Wei Ran picked out what he could say, and briefly described the situation here with lawyer Carlos.And carefully followed the agreement with Dominic, concealing the existence of the castle, and at the same time, as if trying to cover it up, turned the crime scene into the "White Rose Ski Resort" that he had never been to, let alone planned to go.

After hanging up the phone, Wei Ran, who was about to walk to the door of the guest room, also yawned, gently pushed the door open, and lay beside Sui Sui without even taking off his clothes.By the way, he also helped her take off the earplugs in her ears and threw them under the bed.

In the blink of an eye the next morning, before the sun came out of the city wall, Anfisa drove the car with obvious impact marks on the rear and left the castle early to the small town down the mountain.

When she came back, she had already changed to an off-road vehicle, and brought back a hearty breakfast and beef for her three pets.

In the small town at the foot of the mountain, Leia, who was woken up early in the morning, also temporarily restricted the freedom of the electrician Lyme with the help of her gardener husband and some other staff.

"So last night wasn't haunted at all?"

In the small living room on the third floor of the guest building of the castle, Sui Sui asked with a disappointed face while holding a cup of hot milk Anfisa bought from the small town at the foot of the mountain, "How is it possible? You also fell asleep in the middle of the night, right? "

"Shortly after you fell asleep, I also went back to the room." Wei Ran yawned, and said regretfully, "I knew I wouldn't drink last night."

"We fell asleep at 02:30 in the middle of the night"

The Katenka sisters said in unison, and then each of them yawned, "We went to a hot spring before going to sleep, but there was nothing wrong with it, but the crows on the sentry tower were screaming almost all night."

"Yes! Hot spring!"

Sui Sui immediately became interested, drank the milk in the cup in one gulp, wiped the milk stains from the corner of her mouth indiscriminately, and said enthusiastically, "If you didn't come, you didn't come! Maybe I will come tonight, now I want to I'm going to soak in the hot springs, are you going?
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"Go!" Sisters Katenka echoed in unison, and at the same time, like Sui Sui, they reached out and picked up an apple strudel from the plate.

"Don't take too long"

Wei Ran tapped on the mobile phone placed by the table, "At ten o'clock, let's drive to that town for a stroll. I remember yesterday that Leya said that there are several restaurants in that town that taste very good."

"It's time!" Sui Sui said, and she greeted Kajianka sisters and ran back to the room, and Wei Ran also fed the leftover breakfast to the three pets.

In the blink of an eye, it was 10:75 in the morning, and Anfisa drove the off-road vehicle and pulled everyone out of the castle on time.

"Yesterday, I remember that it wasn't this car?" Sui Suo, who was sitting in the car, asked strangely.

"In the morning Leia came and drove her car away"

An Feiya, the co-pilot, explained nonchalantly, "She seems to be doing maintenance on her car, so she changed it for us."

"I guess she must have forgotten to take the pistol in the glove box, and she was worried that we would do something bad with her pistol, so she made an excuse to change the car." Anfisa followed the topic and made up an essentially untenable guess.

"I heard that Austria is one of the countries with the most relaxed gun control in Europe"

Anfeiya sang and changed the topic from the car to the issue of the proliferation of guns, but did not mention the fact that the two of them grew up in this country.

Seeing that the topic got farther and farther away, and finally successfully jumped to the question of whether hot springs can really beautify the skin and skin care, the heartless Sui Sui also forgot the initial doubts and happily joined the discussion related to skin care superior.

Not long after their car drove into the town, Leia's husband, gardener Walter, also drove the pickup truck that once belonged to the electrician Lime, left the town with two police cars, and drove straight towards the castle.

There are not only the couple in the pickup truck, but also Sebastian who Wei Ran met once at the Elk Foundation.

Although Wei Ran failed to see this scene, he was notified as early as last night.

Even, if it wasn't for Sui Sui who was a little late to go out, the two police cars would have "departed" an hour ago.

Just as Wei Ran, Suisui and Kajianka sisters were wandering around this quiet resort town together.

In the castle on the top of the mountain, under the witness of Sebastian and Leya, the three birdmen who were shot down by Wei Ran and others last night, and Lily, who was imprisoned on the top of the sentry tower for a night and almost collapsed, were also released. He joined the team and was handcuffed by the police and shoved into a police car.

"Leya, Lawyer Carlos asked me to tell you."

Sebastian said gently, "He will personally send the murderer of your father, Mr. Louis, to prison."

"Including Lily?" a tearful Leia asked, covering her mouth.

"Of course, including Ms. Lily." Sebastian glanced at the woman sitting in the police car, "She is the main criminal, how could she be missing."

Hearing this, Leiya covered her mouth and threw herself into her husband's arms.

"Walter, take Leia to go on vacation wherever you want." Sebastian said with a smile, "The foundation will reimburse you for the next month's vacation expenses."

Walter, the gardener with an honest face, pushed his eyes, "Thank you, but..."

"It's okay to maintain the castle a few days later."

Sebastian smiled and comforted, "This is a paid holiday approved by Mr. Dominique himself. In addition, he also hopes that you can bring a bouquet of flowers to Mr. Louis' grave for him. He said he was sorry, his I am too weak to see my old friend in person."

"Please thank Mr. Dominique for us," Walter said gratefully, hugging his wife.

"I'll bring it, let's go down the mountain first."

Sebastian looked up at the Caucasus that was locked on the city wall, then looked away, and opened the car door for Leia himself.

Meanwhile, in the senior ward of that medical center in Hawaii, Dom

Nick also closed the notebook himself, and said with great satisfaction, "Carlos, you found me a very good young man. He is very smart and has a spirit of contract. Most importantly, he is not as stupid as Lily." Women are so greedy."

"So he passed your interview?" Carlos asked with a smile.

"Of course, of course it passed."

Dominic nodded with a smile, and then sighed regretfully, "Unfortunately, I had great hopes for Lily."

"Sir, is there anything important in that church?"

Carlos couldn't help asking, "Although I don't know the situation of that castle, I still think the safe in the bank is the safest, in case something is stolen there..."

"Need not"

Dominic on the hospital bed waved his hands nonchalantly, and patted the laptop on his lap contentedly, "There is actually nothing in that church, and the wine cellar under the church only stores the wines collected by Timov. Just some old-fashioned weapons."

"So..." Carlos looked at the old man on the hospital bed in astonishment.

"I always want to find a trustworthy gravekeeper for Sophie and Timov..."

Dominic sighed to himself, and then raised his spirits and said, "Carlos, I want to make a new will. By the way, help me revoke the original will for Lily."

"Okay, Mr. Dominique." Carlos had already turned on the laptop he was carrying while speaking.

Not long after, in this quiet ward, along with Dominique's dictation, there was the crackling sound of keyboard tapping.