War Photographer's Notebook

On the night when Carlos and others came to visit, Sui Sui, who had become good friends with Kou Kou, also arranged for a large table to be delivered from the Chinese restaurant where they often ordered with the help of sisters Katenka and Lola. Chinese cuisine.

This meal was naturally a feast for the guests and the host, and after the meal, the three of Carlos, who had drunk too much, also settled down logically.

In the early morning of the next day, Sui Sui directly put down her work, greeted Katenka sisters, and personally accompanied the little rich woman Koko who came to visit, and Ms. Horta, the legal consultant who followed her, and went to Kazan. various attractions.

At Kazan Airport, Wei Ran also moved the pile of luggage full of various gifts out of the carriage.

"Do you really want to stay here for a few more days?" Wei Ran tried to persuade him to stay.

"no need"

Lawyer Carlos took the suitcase and said, "I am now nominally Mr. Dominique Love's legal counsel, and that Ms. Horta is Mr. Dominique's personal butler for Koko. Just to show them the way."

"So you fell out of favor?" Wei Ran asked jokingly. "of course not"

Lawyer Carlos spread his hands, lowered his voice slightly and said, "I can't disclose the specific personnel arrangements to you, but your decision yesterday was very wise. Victor, protect Miss Koko's interests, and you can get more Interests.

Well, that's all for my reminders.Goodbye, I'm going back to report to Mr. Love now, and frankly, Mr. Dominique's decision to sell his private jet was a terrible one. "

"Maybe Miss Kou Kou will be able to buy a new private jet soon." Wei Ran also responded to the other party's joke with a joke.

"I look forward to that day"

Lawyer Carlos waved his hand towards Wei Ran as he walked towards the boarding gate, "Okay, Miss Koonong's safety is up to you these days. Goodbye, Victor." "Goodbye."

Wei Ran watched the other party go through the security checkpoint and finally disappeared from sight, then he breathed a sigh of relief, turned and left the airport hall.

Driving the armored pickup truck to leave the airport, Wei Ran was not in a hurry to go home. Instead, he found a forest outside the city and drove to the depths of the forest along the lush logging road.

He didn't drive the car off the roadbed until the surrounding area was surrounded by sprouting birch forests, and the fake plastic water bladder hung on the birch trees to collect the birch sap unique to this season was no longer visible. Rolling over the rotting fallen leaves and the already lush bushes, it stopped in a forest glade.

After parking the car with the engine turned off and waiting for a while, Wei Ran opened the door and got out of the car, then got into the rear compartment and found the cello case behind the seat.

In the past few days, big and small things happened one after another. First, someone rushed to improve his education, and then he interviewed and visited Carlos and Miss Koonion who was going to be tied with him.

Now the little rich woman Koko is still staying at home as a guest, and she has obviously become good friends with Sui Sui, but the big business that lawyer Carlos wanted to introduce has been ruined.

In addition, the tureen teacup filled with water that he put in the flower pot was about to dry out, so he should help that Mrs. Margot investigate where her son who had been missing for so long had gone.

Re-opening the cello box, Wei Ran stroked the sniper rifle and closed his eyes to reminisce, until he confirmed that all the preparations had been made, and all the props in the metal book had been maintained, even the The boots inside were all re-polished, and then slowly opened his eyes.

In 1994, the four elite outside the law, this time it might be a brother-in-law sniper field...

Wei Ran muttered to himself, but he didn't take it seriously. Although this time there was a dangerous smell of murder, but no matter how dangerous it was, could it be compared to Stalingrad and yesterday's murder? The Vietnam War that was rejected?
With this in mind, he stopped wasting time and took a deep breath and took out the metal book.

Amidst the clattering sound of pages turning, the metal notebook, which has become much more beautiful since the last promotion, was slowly opened, and the metal quill pen was also brushed.
Swipe to draw a pattern.

In this finely-drawn scene, a French M49/56 bayonet passes through a hand that appears to be bleeding, nailing it firmly to a brick wall.

While Wei Ran was waiting with raised eyebrows, the metal feather brush wrote down lines of words.

Character identity: Scout Victor

Return mission: Take at least two group photos, kill at least 10 enemy soldiers, cover the escape of the sniper Leva and the wounded Yakov from Grozny, and successfully detonate the underground gas pipeline.

"Grozny?!"

The moment Wei Ran saw this place name, he broke out in cold sweat, followed by a gust of cold air, which jumped up from the tailbone to the back of his head and almost knocked over his head!
"Why is it Grozny? How could it be Grozny?!" Wei Ran only felt that his eyes turned black. Compared to Grozny, he might as well go to the more difficult Green Hell!
Before he could react, a strong white light hit his face, and then he saw something that could be used this time.

I don’t know whether to cry or laugh. The number of things that can be used this time is beyond his expectation. Not only is the Mauser bayonet the most photographed, but also titanium alloy pistols, 1911 pistols, even Nagant revolvers and anti-tank guns. gun!
In addition, among the props displayed like a revolving lantern in front of you, there are also binoculars obtained from the Finnish battlefield, a portable jug obtained from the North African battlefield, and a compass and flyback watch fixed together with a leather buckle. The obtained pen, as well as the flashlight and engineer shovel from the recruiting battlefield, plus the British P44 water bottle from Savage Mountain and the latest wire cutters!
This... can this frankly survive...

Wei Ran swallowed with great difficulty, and then felt the temperature around him getting lower and lower. Immediately afterwards, he heard a person greet in hoarse Russian, "Victor! Don't be dazed, press the Press the shutter, we are going!"

"Now! Look at me!" Wei Ran responded with the same volume of Russian, but also blinked hard.

When he saw the surrounding environment clearly, he found that there were 11 soldiers wearing 82 technical condition uniforms (Afghan card), masks with only eyes exposed, arms of various weapons, and most of them were holding cigarettes in front of him. Stand in two rows.

And behind them, there is a BMP-131 infantry tank with the logo of the 1st brigade with a big square and a small square!
Although it has been a long time, he can clearly remember that this familiar group photo scene was seen in his darkroom when he was learning photography skills with the one-armed veteran Leva in Kirov!

"Victor, are you ready?" a soldier with a PKM machine gun in his arms urged, "I'm still waiting to pee!"

"Immediately!" Wei Ran glanced at the small and pitiful Kyiv 30 camera in his hand, pointed at these people and pressed the shutter, "Okay! It's done!"

"boarding!"

One of them, Wei Ran, looked at the soldier who always looked very familiar, tore off the mask covering half of his face and waved his hand, and everyone immediately got into the infantry vehicle behind him.

When Wei Ran got in with his camera, before he could sit down, the soldier who had just given the order handed over a brand new set of tiger-stripe camouflage.

While taking the camouflage jacket, Wei Ran glanced at the other person's appearance without a trace, and then suppressed his shock and sat next to the person who got in before.

At that moment, he has already confirmed that the soldier is [-]% or [-]% similar to Mr. Karp from Hongqi Forest Farm!

Could he be the young Karp?No no no, absolutely impossible!
Wei Ran shook his head secretly. He was almost certain that although the soldier looked similar to Karp, he was definitely not Karp. Much more handsome than that soldier just now!

While he was in a daze, the infantry vehicle had already started, and the hatch at the rear of the vehicle was closed. Immediately afterwards, the soldier who looked somewhat similar to Karp issued a new order, "Attention all, 5 minutes
Time to wear camouflage jackets, from now on, we belong to the soldiers of the 131st Brigade. Mission briefing begins in 5 minutes. "

"Yes!"

All the soldiers in the carriage responded with a bang, and then under the light of Zeng Huang, they began to disarm their bodies as quickly as possible, and then put the early-type green tiger-stripe camouflage that had just been distributed on their bodies. clothes outside.

Taking advantage of putting on this thin layer of camouflage jacket, Wei Ran also got acquainted with the weapons on his body.

In addition to the Kyiv 30 camera, an unidentifiable walkie-talkie, and a slightly bulky night vision device, his main weapon is a dark brown fiberglass plastic handguard and steel folding stock. AKS-74 assault rifle, on the muzzle of this rifle, there is also a cardboard tube originally used to protect the signal flares to prevent foreign objects from entering the muzzle.But in addition to this weapon, in his backpack, in a tan canvas bag, there is also a disassembled VSS micro-sound sniper rifle and several matching 20-round spare magazines.

Like the assault rifle, the butt and barrel of this silent weapon are also wrapped with camouflage cloth strips for camouflage, and even the spare magazines are painted with mottled camouflage.

This is not over yet, on the chest of his body armor, there is still a PSS micro-sound pistol that should never be equipped for ordinary troops.And on his thigh, there is also a strange-looking fighting dagger that Wei Ran is very familiar with.

Of course he is familiar with this dagger. Not only has he seen this dagger in the hands of Teacher Darya, but also at the last Christmas, Mr. Nicholas gave each of the Katenka sisters a dagger!Even, if he remembers correctly, even that scumbag Jima seems to have one!
But even ignoring this rare fighting dagger, just relying on the two low-sound weapons and the sufficient spare magazines in the ammunition bag made him realize the particularity of his current identity and the arduousness of the next combat mission.

Also taking advantage of this time of changing clothes, Wei Ran finally figured out how he got into this hell.

Speaking of this matter, I was negligent. At the beginning, Jima Mingming reminded himself by taking the opportunity to go camping and pick mushrooms together. Teacher Dalia wanted to ask himself a favor.But although he has been guarding against Kajik who took the initiative to improve his education these days, he never thought that Darya would ask Edward the Englishman to find someone to hire him.

Teacher Dalia deliberately cheated herself?This is hard to say, after all, they don't know the secret of the metal book.In the final analysis of this matter, I am afraid that Teacher Dalia did not want to owe him a favor like Kajik did, so she found an outsider who Wei Ran had never thought of anyway.

It's a pity that Dalia never imagined that her good intentions might kill her good student Wei Ran!

By the time he figured out the cause and effect, he had already put the body armor and other equipment on the camouflage uniform he had already worn.

"Long time no see, comrades, let me talk about this mission."

The soldier who seemed to have some kind of blood relationship with Karp cleared his throat, and while handing out a Casio Cube electronic watch with a plastic case to everyone, he explained, "Our mission is to enter Grozny with the 131st Brigade. After entering the city, Our target is the presidential building in the center of the city."

As he spoke, the soldier sent everyone three photos, stapled together, "Our first target, Dzhokhar Mousayevich Dudayev."

"Captain Karp, are we going to kill a general?" One of the bearded soldiers asked in astonishment as he looked at the photo in his hand.

"He is no longer our general"

The soldier known as Captain Karp sighed, "Comrade Feschenk, the Soviet Union is gone. The Soviet air force major general is now our enemy, the ***."

"I...I see." The soldier named Feshank nodded his head with difficulty, and at the same time let out a deep breath.

"Our second target is Aslan Aliyevich Maskhadov"

Captain Karp paused and continued, "Our third goal is Shamili Barca
Yev, he's a veritable jerk. "

"Are they all in the presidential building in the middle of the city?" one of the team members asked.

"uncertain"

Captain Culp shook his head, "According to the intelligence, that building has a complete underground bunker. We can either kill or hold these three people hostage to end this war of our own people against our own people, or guide the laser-guided bombs to blow them up completely. that building."

"Captain, what can we get after this time?" Another soldier asked, "I am now the captain of our local Omo organization. If we succeed in this battle, can it be said..."

"Yakov, if you can survive, I think you should go back to your gay team and be a policeman. (OMOH——OMOH, conversely, HOMO also means homosexuality, which is the most powerful mockery of OMOH hooligans) "

Leva, a young soldier holding an SVD sniper rifle wrapped in cloth strips in his arms, puffed and joked, completely oblivious to the complicated expression of Wei Ran sitting opposite him.

"At least I'm already a captain, how about you? Leva, what are you doing now?" the soldier named Yakov asked.

"After the disbandment, I returned to Kirov, and now I am a security guard in a factory," said Leva, holding a gun. "If it wasn't for the lack of money, I wouldn't be bothered to come and join the war."

"Captain Karp, if we eliminate the target this time, is there still a chance to restore the previous designation?" The soldier with the PKM machine gun asked.

"Do we have a serial number?" Captain Karp asked calmly, making the bustling compartment instantly quiet.

"We didn't have a number in the Soviet era, and you still expect to get a new number in the Russian era?" Captain Karp continued to ask, "Do we need a number?" "No!"

Another soldier replied subconsciously, followed by everyone except Wei Ran who replied loudly in unison, "We never need a number."

"We have always only needed to sound the death knell for the enemy"

Captain Karp said a word calmly, but it made the eyes of the soldiers in the car who seemed to be about 30 years old wish to shine.

"Captain Karp, on the way to assemble, I heard from Yakov that you are married?" the soldier named Feshank asked. "Last spring, there was a beautiful girl named Daria," Karp said with a smile. She thought of a name, Olena."

"Captain Karp" Wei Ran couldn't help calling the opponent to stop. "What's wrong?" Karp turned to look at Wei Ran.

Wei Ran looked at each other seriously, "You should go back and stay with your wife, and accompany her to give birth to the child."

"She's still in labor in a few months, enough for us..."

"Even without you, we can finish this battle." Wei Ran said loudly, ignoring the growing pain in the tiger's mouth tattoo.

Karp was stunned, and grabbed a handful of candy with colorful wrapping paper from his pocket and distributed it to everyone, "Try it all, it's made by my family's candy company, and I brought a lot this time."

"Captain Culp..."

"We all have reasons to participate in this war." Captain Karp patted Wei Ran's shoulder gently, and then put a handful of fruit candies in his hand.

Wei Ran was stunned, silently stuffed the hard candy in his hand into his pocket, then took out another one, tore off the wrapping paper and stuffed it into his mouth.

"Captain Garp, so you are now the manager of the candy factory?"

Another Wei Ran asked a familiar soldier, although the face was too young, but he still recognized it at a glance. He was the Ivan who lived all day by fishing in the later generations, and was Captain Karp and Da The adoptive father of Teacher Liya's daughter is the hateful old man who always wants to sink any man who gets close to his daughter into the lake in order to protect the two precious daughters.

But at this time, the medical bag carried by this soldier hinted that he was a medical soldier in the team with only 13 people including Wei Ran.

"The Kaban Lake Candy Company is on the edge of the Kaban Lake in Kazan, next to the old foundry." Captain Karp asked with a smile, "I heard that Leva's sister Yana is married to you?"

"right!"

Ivan grinned and nodded, "We also got married last year, and our child is about to be born."

"Ivan, where do you work now?" asked the soldier named Feshank.

"Border Patrol of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia"

Ivan grinned and said, "My daily job is to drive a patrol boat to catch smugglers in the Gulf of Finland. This is a fat job. I seized 20 kilograms of caviar alone last month."

"It seems that you have the most difficult life among us." The strongest soldier with a machine gun said enviously, "I'm a lumberjack now. If it wasn't for the captain's call, I would die next month." Going to work at the lumberyard in Tomsk."

"Serge, if you want to change jobs, you can find me in Leningrad after you get back."

While speaking, medical soldier Ivan opened a canvas pocket at his feet, took out boxes of 500g caviar cans and distributed them to everyone in the car, "Try it all, this I brought it specially for you.”

"Belia bless, I haven't eaten such a good thing in years!"

A soldier whose name Wei Ran didn't know took the can of caviar in surprise, "It would be great if I could have a glass of vodka or gin at this time."

"Who said there's no alcohol?" Feshank had already taken out a bottle of vodka from his backpack before he finished speaking, and asked with a smile, "Have a drink?"

"It's rare to get together, of course we want to have a drink!" Captain Karp was the first to say.

At the same time Captain Karp agreed to have a drink, Ivan took out two extra boxes of caviar and opened them, and then he took out a few small silver spoons from his canvas bag in preparation.

"This is what we should do now!"

There was no need for organization at all. Ivan and Leva shared a spoon for each of them, and then passed the opened can of caviar. Passed it to and from the hands of everyone, including the members.

Dig a large spoon full of cold and slightly salty caviar into his mouth, the fish eggs with distinct grains exploded one after another in the mouth, and the salty taste even briefly dispelled the fear that the name Grozny brought to Wei Ran, and followed Afterwards, the cold vodka that was passed into the hand and into the mouth further relieved the tense nerves.

As wine bottles and tin cans were passed round and round, a whole kilogram of caviar, which is extravagant in this era, was poured into the stomachs of everyone, and the bottle of cheap vodka was also emptied by you one by one. .

In contrast, Wei Ran deliberately controlled the amount in order to keep his brain awake, so except for the first sip where no water was added, he just blew some air into the bottle to make a show.

Almost at the same time that Karp threw the empty wine bottle down the shooting hole, the driver in front also reminded loudly, "Attention, we are about to enter the city."

"Get ready for battle." At the same time as Garp issued the order, he had already pulled on the dark green balaclava mask that only exposed his eyes.

The rest of the people also put on their masks unanimously after hearing the words, and loaded their weapons with bullets. "coming soon…"

Wei Ran, who also pulled up his mask, gritted his teeth and reloaded the assault rifle in his hand, and took off the paper tube covering the muzzle of the gun.

But compared to these, he was not ready for one or more rockets, and then escaped from the carriage in the face of snipers everywhere!