War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 952 Vigilance
"Tick! Tick!"

In the dark and narrow underground passage, the dilapidated sewage pipes have been almost blocked by silted garbage, only at the end of the gray-black icicles at the bottom of the pipe mouth, some drops of water of the same color are dropped from time to time.

After falling freely for a short period of time, these drops of water finally joined their former companions and flowed together into the sewage ditch not far away.

On the opposite side of this relatively clean sewer, Wei Ran was holding wire cutters in both hands, and forcefully cut the chains wrapped around the iron gate.

Accompanied by a sour creaking noise, Wei Ran opened the steel fence door with a lot of dirt hanging from the inside out.

Seeing everyone's eyes and the only flashlight beam that provided light looking at him, the young boy Alyosha said quickly, "From here is the school cafeteria, we have to go up when we pass the second manhole cover, which happens to be Outside the back door of the cafeteria, after going up from there, we're going to"

"Let's talk later." Karp stopped Alyosha's introduction, and gestured towards Wei Ran and Feishanke.

After receiving the signal, the two of them immediately hurried to the right under the manhole cover designated by Alyosha. After walking in the last Rezli, after re-circling the iron gate with chains, they arranged additional ones hidden in various places along the way. American directional mines.

Wei Ran, who was walking in the front, also didn't waste any time. Almost at the same time that Feshenke carefully pushed the manhole cover and probed out, he also climbed up the steel handrail that was wrapped around the inner tube of the bicycle.

With the help of the night vision goggles, everything around can barely be seen clearly, but as far as the eyes can see, there are all kinds of ruins in the green field of vision, the four-story building less than 50 meters away, It was also clearly damaged beyond repair.

After some inspection and bandaging, Wei Ran, Lezli and Captain Karp looked at each other, and then Alyosha and the girl named Ganna said in French that they probably couldn't understand, "The condition of the soldiers I'm in charge of is not good. That's great, two broken ribs, all missing teeth, and signs of a concussion, he's not fit to move anymore, unless you lift him, it's easy to cause secondary injuries."

Without waiting for the people behind to come out, Wei Ran and Feshenke immediately headed towards the direction pointed by each other, stooping through some bombed sports equipment, schoolbags and textbooks scattered all over the floor, even without knowing their identities in life civilian bodies—and more bullet casings than any of the former.

In the basement, the three people who were still searching remained silent, while the young Alyosha was looking for as many fig leafs as possible to cover up the corpses he knew or didn't know, while muttering to himself He muttered, "They are all Chechens, why kill them, aren't they innocent?"

In the end, when Leizli, who was walking at the end, also came out of the well, Wei Ran and Feishanke had already walked into the shadow of the wreckage of the four-story building, and aimed their guns at the surroundings again.

Ignoring Alyosha's pleading eyes, Wei Ran handed over the revolver and weapons to the guard Feshank, turned around, and began to inspect the wounds of the three wounded with Lezli and Captain Karp.

After looking at the left and right door hinges, Wei Ran tried to hook one of them with wire cutters and began to increase the force.

Hearing this, Karp immediately raised his eyebrows, and followed Ruslan up the stairs to the first floor.

When Alyosha lifted the dusty carpet on the floor, Wei Ran who was following behind also immediately saw a locked thick wooden door on the floor.

Even the places near the wall are filled with shelves one by one. In addition to the dusty gas masks on these shelves, there are also all kinds of teaching aids accumulated over the years after the shelves themselves were used for other purposes.

"So are the soldiers I'm in charge of"

Alyosha didn't wait for Wei Ran or Leizli to stop him, and walked down familiarly with a flashlight, "I heard from my father that because this is a civil defense facility, it is under the management of the fire department. In addition, because it doesn't look like It's too safe, so teachers and students in the school are forbidden to go down. Of course, it just doesn't look safe, but it's actually very strong here."

Almost before and after, Karp and others also walked down with a man in camouflage uniform.

About ten seconds later, Captain Karp also got out. Soon, the two captives and wounded were pushed out by the people below, and the amputated Lamin also came out, and pointed out the way forward in time.

Bending down, he picked up six shiny bullet casings from the floor full of shoe prints and weighed them in his hand. Agni put them into his pocket and said with almost certainty, "I only found six bullet casings for 357 Magnum bullets. It looks like it should be a revolver."

After walking not far, a tent made of transparent plastic appeared in this underground air-raid bunker, which could be said to be in a rough state. Around this tent, there were chemical barrels one by one. Inside the tent, the only two tables are also filled with various chemical experiment equipment and two industrial desk lamps.

Before he finished speaking, Wei Ran took the copper key he just took out from his pocket, and together with Feshank and the two captains, they took their weapons and walked into the almost bombed-out building.

"Comrade Lamin still has a fever." Rezley put away the disposable syringe in his hand, "He needs to receive follow-up treatment as soon as possible."

This time, without Wei Ran's urging, the young man took out a key from his shoe and opened the padlock in the recess on the door.

The only advantage here is that it is dry enough. In other words, there is enough dust under the feet. It can almost be said that every step out can achieve the visual effect of internal strength and external release.

Alyosha took the camouflage coat handed by Wei Ran, and while covering the corpse that looked as big as him, he said, "She is the daughter of Mrs. Kiashko and Headmaster Vladimir, too. He's also my classmate."

Fei Shenke let Wei Ran take the trophy from him, and while kicking the tightly bound prisoner to the ground, he explained, "It seems to be an observer, without a partner."

"Are you the only ones here who know?" Agni, who was in charge of security, asked curiously.

Rezli cleared his throat, swallowed what he wanted to say, changed the subject and said again, "Alyosha, where are we going next?"

As the lever was pressed down, although the door shaft was not cut open, a hole was easily torn open at the position where the door frame was welded to the hinge.

Seeing this, Wei Ran didn't bother wasting effort on the door hinge, so he simply cut off a set of hinges fixed to the door hinge along the gap, and then stuffed the wire cutters into it as a crowbar to force it apart. A corner of the iron door was lifted, and the lock between the two doors was naturally broken.

"Sit wherever you want"

Even, along the way, he, Agni and Rezli saw several women's corpses that had been stripped naked and tied to shelves.

"What did you ask?" Captain Karp turned his head and asked in French.Ruslan also switched to French, "It's a high-value target, a high-value target worth taking back."

"Caught an American mercenary on the roof"

Although I didn't have time to see the structure on the ground of this building, the structure of this basement floor is similar to most civilian air-raid shelters in the Soviet era that Wei Ran knew.

Gently patted Wei Ran on the shoulder, Karp pointed to the stairs facing the hall on the first floor, and then covered each other with the other two, aiming their guns in different directions.Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately walked around to the back of the stairs stepping on the broken bricks, rubble and all kinds of rubbish all over the floor.

Returning the key to Alyosha, the three of Wei Ran held their guns to cover each other and walked in front. Alyosha walked behind them with a distance, and entered the basement of the teaching building cautiously.

Looking around, Wei Ran sent a safety signal to the people in the well. After a while, the machine gunner Serge climbed out first, lay down beside the wellhead and set up the machine gun, and took control of the well with Wei Ran and Fessenke 360 field of vision around the wellhead.

Alyosha wiped away his tears, held up the flashlight and led the two of them to speed up, and walked to the position where the basement was diagonal to the entrance.

At this point in the topic, Wei Ran and Leizli also walked in and saw the surrounding situation. There is almost no big difference between this floor and the upper floor, but it is obvious that the construction quality is too bad.

As the wooden door, which was level with the floor, opened inward, a concrete step immediately appeared in the area covered by the flashlight beam.

Carefully poked the key into the keyhole, but it was just as expected. The keyhole here is also like the padlock I met in the sewer just now. It was owed by someone who didn't know, and it was tightly blocked with a matchstick. Reality.

Although it's just the beam of the flashlight hastily swept across, it can also be seen that these female corpses that have been frozen in the basement are generally young and have been violated during their lifetime. The most important thing is that their foreheads and brows are all A charred bullet hole.

After wandering around roughly to make sure there were no enemies, the three of Wei Ran also put away their weapons, and followed Alyosha into the transparent tent with the bed.

Alyosha, who was walking behind the three of them, stood in front of a corpse, took off his coat to help cover the corpse, and said tremblingly with tears, "This is Teacher Weta, she taught us music lessons, she lives In the school dormitory, her husband was our math teacher."

"It seems that only the cowboys in North America can bring a revolver that uses this kind of bullet to vent wantonly in this kind of place." Rezley made his own judgment while observing the surrounding situation with a flashlight.

"Come with me"

"This is Ulina, she is. Thank you"

Karp sighed, "Concussion, blindness in one eye, comminuted fracture of the mandible, burns on the lower body, and a few fingers were cut off."

"They are all teachers in this school"

"Let me kill him." Alyosha asked loudly with red eyes while trying to break free from Lezri and Agni who were holding his shoulders, "He killed those people upstairs, right?"

"We need a troop carrier"

Sure enough, there really is an unremarkable anti-theft door.

Lezri hesitated for a moment, then continued to speak in French, "Or leave them here, captain, our mission has been completed."

Alyosha greeted the three of them to sit down like a little host, and then took out some canned drinks from the box under the table and distributed them to everyone.

Turning his head and looking at Lamin who was sitting on the bed supported by Malikov, and the two captives and two underage men and women brought back together, Karp winked at Ruslan's deputy captain, who Immediately greeted Feshenke, and walked to the corner of the second floor of the basement with the captured prisoner.

"evil"

Karp sighed, looked at Malikov who was busy not far away, and said after a pause, "But there's not even food here, we should at least take that young man and that little girl away, their lives have just begun .”

Multiple 90-degree corner entrances with explosion-proof buffer function, narrow windows unique to semi-underground structures, and steel shutters that are closed all the year round for explosion-proof and theft-proof.

For a while, the basement filled with the faint smell of corpses became quiet. Alyosha, who was also holding a flashlight, walked to another female corpse, searched left and right, and picked up a dusty lady's windbreaker. Covering the corpse, he introduced to himself, "She is Yulena, our chemistry teacher, and she is the most beautiful female teacher in this school."

Captain Karp calmly reminded Alyosha, and at the same time gave Lezri and Agni a hard look. Seeing this, the latter immediately took the angry Alyosha aside.

Soon, the rest of the people rushed over one after another.This time there was no need to ask, Alyosha said in a low voice, "The only entrance is behind the stairs on the first floor, here is the key!"

"We need to contact Ivan immediately." Ruslan walked over while making a decision for Karp in Russian.

Not to mention the wall skin that has begun to bulge or even fall off, the shelves alone are not seen on this floor at all, and naturally there are no gas masks that should be the most common in Soviet civil defense facilities.

"You better be quiet"

When he put away the wire cutters, Agni and Rezli, the ammunition soldiers, also followed with their silent sniper rifles, and behind them was Alyosha, a young man who was also wearing a night vision goggle.

Ignoring the depressing murmur faintly coming from the darkness in the corner, Wei Ran shook off the magazine of the revolver in his hand, withdrew two bullets from it and distributed them to Lezri and Agni, just holding the bullets to watch After taking a look, the two of them nodded with great certainty.

Glancing at the American-style Colt "Python" revolver that Feshank was holding in his hand, Wei Ran and Leizley looked at each other, and stood silently at Alyosha who had already clenched his fists. in front of you.

"Yes, our mission has been completed."

However, whether it was the two rescued soldiers from the 131st Brigade or the amputated Laming, the condition of the three of them was not good, and even the two soldiers were about to lose consciousness.

"of course not"

Not far from the square transparent tent, there is another transparent plastic tent near the wall. Inside this tent is a bunk bed with iron frames, a table and four chairs.

"It seems that someone will come to pick us up soon"

Rezli happily took out a pack of Marlboro, popped one out and lit it, and then handed the cigarette case and lighter to Wei Ran.

"Can I really leave?"

Wei Ran took the cigarette lighter and looked worriedly at the direction of the stairs where the two captains, Karp and Ruslan, left.If it is really possible to go back, how can the future generations of Teacher Dalia do it?
Shaking his head secretly, Wei Ran was extremely vigilant while lighting his cigarette.

　I wish everyone a happy Year of the Rabbit!All the best!Get something for nothing!Sit back and reap the rewards!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)