War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 953 Dark Red French Written on the Wall
On the second basement floor, Malikov settled down with his friend Lamin and then moved to the side of Wei Ran and Leizli, declined the cigarettes offered by Wei Ran and said, "I'm going to the school cafeteria, where Maybe we can find something to eat."

"We can get out of here soon," Rezley replied, crushing out his cigarette butts, "let's not go out yet."

"If it was that easy to escape, we would have left long ago."

Malikov sighed, but he didn't continue to insist. He just took out a PSS micro-sound pistol from his pocket and returned it to Lezley.

"There is no way to leave the city through the underground passage?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"There are people guarding the key roads"

Alyosha rushed to answer this question, "Whether it is underground or on the ground, whether it is civilians or soldiers or foreigners who come to fight, anyone who leaves without permission will be shot to death."

Seeing Wei Ran looking at him, Leizili spread his hands and said confidently, "Take a rest first, if you are hungry, I still have some food here, but we will leave here soon."

"I hope so"

Malikov put his hands on his son's shoulders, and muttered as he walked towards the plastic tent in the distance, "Anyway, you may not be able to find food in the cafeteria."

"It is true"

A concrete load-bearing column the size of a refrigerator collapsed from the entrance stairs on the second floor of the basement. Everyone's expressions changed suddenly, but immediately after, a series of explosions followed, and the wreckage of large and small buildings also sprang from the only It smashed down the entrance and exit, broke the steps that had accumulated a lot of dust, and a lot of smoke and dust rose!

Before the others could say anything more, another more violent explosion came from above his head. This time, even Wei Ran was extremely sure that it must be the Mi-24 helicopter that was attacking them—because he was right after the explosion. , have already faintly heard the roar of the propeller!

While Captain Culp was speaking, he took out a strange-looking canvas bag from his backpack, which seemed to be holding a telephone receiver and a satellite pan the size of a plate, and said while walking towards the stairs leading to the top of the building, "Build defenses. positions and helicopter landing pads."

Crossing Rezli, he crawled to Feschenk's side again, checked the scratch on the corner of Feschenk's eye, and seeing that the eyeball and vision were not damaged, he immediately snapped his thumb back while the other party was not paying attention. The angle that should have been maintained.

When the cigarettes in everyone's hands were burnt out, Captain Caruslan also came down from the basement floor upstairs, "The blaster will take care of the prisoners, and the rest will come up."

"Captain. Captain Karp"

Amidst the dense explosions, Wei Ran, who had just had time to rush to the corner, watched the ceiling in the center of the basement collapse with a loud "crash!" before squatting down!
Broken roofs, large and small concrete floors, even broken corpses and drowsiness all over the sky, all of these were smashed down with all kinds of outdated materials on the first floor, and they were smashed down in an instant. Bury the transparent tent where three wounded, one Soviet and two underage children are lying!
"Bang!"

In the rising smoke, Captain Garp roared with a trembling voice, and at the same time used the beam of the flashlight to designate the corner of the wall farthest from the almost blocked entrance.

Agni, the ammunition soldier, came up to Wei Ran to share a cigarette, "I haven't seen any city's Cold War air-raid shelters used—of course, except for Grozny."

"Yes!"

Malikov staggered and fell to the ground, shouting in panic, while trying his best to push the two underage children under the bed.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

He tried to snap his fingers next to his ear, and then plucked his ears and eyes.Wei Ran looked at the dark red blood stains on his fingers, and simply pointed the flashlight at Lezri and gestured.Seeing this, the latter immediately pointed to his right thigh, and then waved his hand.

Looking in the direction of the other's fingers, he couldn't help frowning.

Malikov wiped the oil from his hands on his pants, "Brezhnev died when that bastard headmaster was arrested, and if he was sentenced to a forced labor camp, he would just be able to disintegrate in the Soviet Union But in fact, it is said that he did not serve his sentence at all, but used the embezzled money to open a special shop in Moscow."

Wei Ran, who had already put on a gas mask, shouted loudly, but got no response.

"After the helicopter picks them up, we will meet them immediately."

"Lean against the wall! Squat against the wall!"

"What about Leva and Ivan?" Agni, the ammunition soldier, asked immediately.

"He's really a smart guy"

At the same time, following the two weird explosions just now, the top of his head also became quiet. Not only the sound of explosions and rockets disappeared, but even the roar of propellers disappeared. The only thing he could hear was There was almost a continuous buzzing in the ears!
With difficulty, he stood up against the concrete wall that nearly broke his spine. Before he could straighten his knees, his head hit the collapsed floor slab leaning against the wall. Butt sat down again.

"Where are Leva and Ivan?" Feschenk asked.

"I think he's a smart guy"

And beside him, there is not only a single-soldier backpack radio of the same type that Wei Ran had seized in the mall before, but also a Stanley thermos pot, a coffee pot, and a handbag that people subconsciously associate with. An AUG bullpup rifle from countries such as Austria or Australia, and a telescope with a tripod.

"Easy to hold a meeting"

Before they could finish their work, Captain Karp also came down from the top of the building, and said as he continued to work, "I have already contacted the bell ringer. He will arrange for two Mi-24s to come over before dawn to pick up the wounded, civilians and prisoners. .”

"do not worry"

Karp waved his hand indifferently, "Anyway, it's not the first time, as always, we will hide and let Malikov and the others take the prisoners there by themselves."

"Since that's the case, it's decided"

"Ah—" Feishanke let out a faint scream from Wei Ran.

There were two more explosions and tremors in succession, and more building wreckage fell from the top of his head, but even so, Wei Ran could vaguely hear a scream from Lezli.

At this time, the corners of his eyes were bleeding, and the thumb of one hand had been folded to an angle that normal people could not do. Moreover, his left foot was pierced by the steel bars exposed by the collapsed floor and nailed to the floor. !

"I'm afraid I'll have to go back again."

"I have no objection," Serge and Agni said in unison.

While speaking, Malikov pulled out a kerosene heating stove and an oil drum from under the bed, and explained while lighting the heating stove, "This is also the reason why this place failed to become an air defense shelter.

For a moment, the low-quality school air-raid bunker under the basement fell into silence, only the tied up prisoner and the wounded on the bed were left not far away, whimpering consciously or undoubtedly from time to time.

A wooden box full of gas masks fell under the feet of everyone. Seeing this, everyone picked up one without any hesitation, put it on their faces as quickly as possible, and at the same time quickly moved towards their front feet!
"Boom! Boom!"

"Only the one"

Back then, in order to embezzle construction costs, the idiot principal reduced an underground air-raid bunker that was supposed to be as large as the school's floor area into such a double-storey basement. "

"Why are they here?" Sergi, who had been guarding the machine gun just now, asked subconsciously.

Captain Culp, who was waiting here in advance, cleared his throat, and said while observing the situation outside, "The prisoner we caught belongs to the US counterintelligence overseas operations team."

Deputy Captain Ruslan said, "This also means that we need to take some risks."

"Malikov" Wei Ran couldn't help calling the other party to stop.

"Are there other entrances and exits here?" Wei Ran pointed to the surroundings, "I mean this basement, is this the only exit that we just came down from here?"

Captain Karp did not answer Serge's question, and continued after a short pause, "We need to bring him back alive, so I am going to contact support and request to send two helicopters to pick up the prisoner and Malikov and others .”

Hearing this, the three of Wei Ran immediately followed Ruslan back to the first floor, and then went back to the teaching floor through the corpses covered with clothes or blankets, and climbed up the stairs to a dilapidated classroom on the third floor.

"Are you OK?"

Where the warm yellow light beam swept across, the first thing he saw was a little black smoke coming in from the collapse above his head, and he could faintly smell it even through the gas masks produced in the Soviet era. the taste of.

It wasn't just Rezley who was injured, Feschenk who was next to him was also in bad condition,

"After sending those people away, we will meet them, and then find a way to escape back here. They will open up this place as a transfer point."

"It's a rocket!"

"We'll be lost in this war when we go back, and we can start a new life." Karp waved his hand, "Okay, everyone, go back to the basement first, it's better for us to hide before the helicopter arrives. "

Trying to get up again to no avail, Wei Ran pulled off the backpack behind him with difficulty, found the medical kit from it, crawled to Leizili's side, first tied the wound on his leg with gauze, and used a hemostatic Clamps were used for initial hemostasis.

"He's worth a lot"

"I didn't tell them about it"

At this time, Leizri's right calf had been cut open by an unknown sharp weapon enough to reveal bright red muscles, but was covered by the dust all over the sky.

Rezli snorted coldly, "Comrade Lenin can train thieves into selfless Communists, but that bastard Brezhnev can only train Communists into thieves!"

Looking at the other side of myself, Serge's nose was bleeding, Agni's shoulder was covered with a piece of broken glass, Captain Karp who was farther away failed to get up several times, and Ruslan was shot by a Steel bars pierced the shoulder socket and nailed to the wall behind him.

Ruslan shouted affirmatively amidst the earth-shaking dense explosion, "It's the air-to-ground rocket on the Mi-24!"

"What's wrong?" Malikov asked, turning his head.

"I have no objection either." Wei Ran and Fei Shenke said in no particular order.

Malikov shook his head, "Fortunately, Brezhnev died early, otherwise, I'm afraid I would have been sold to the United States as a slave by those thieves."

Hearing this, everyone naturally had no opinion, but Wei Ran's inner anxiety became more and more intense.

Wei Ran paused, hesitated for a long time and couldn't help asking, "Can we really trust the helicopter? Or our communication?"

"It's a pity that our Comrade Andropov is gone too," Agnes muttered vaguely, "otherwise, how could such a thing happen now?"

"He agreed with us to meet Leva and Ivan?" Ruslan asked with raised eyebrows.

"boom!"

Soon, on the playground not far from the wreckage of the building, everyone used the tattered clothes they collected and soaked in fuel to form a Cyrillic letter "Б".Later, Agni replaced Rezli in the basement. Under the arrangement of the other party, directional mines and accompanying mines made of grenades and even submachine guns were buried around the playground and teaching building.

Shaking his head slightly, Wei Ran touched it from head to toe until he was sure that he was not injured, then he quickly took out the flashlight from the metal book and lit it to look around.

At this time, the sky of the city had already turned a little pale, and beside the bed in this classroom, Sergi had already set up his machine gun behind the bunker.

Wei Ran and the others responded in unison, and then started to get busy under the leadership of Ruslan's vice-captain.

Hearing this, Wei Ran opened his mouth, but in the end he could only nod his head, and followed everyone back to the second basement floor, and told the rest of the people the good news that someone would come to pick them up and leave here soon.

While speaking, Karp took out two fruit candies produced by Kaban Lake Candy Company from his pocket and handed them to Wei Ran, "Let's take a rest first, we will be able to go back soon."

"Whoa!"

Knowing that their family was able to leave Grozny and even Chechnya, both the Malikovs and his sons, as well as Lamin and his daughter, were extremely happy. For ordinary people like them who were already struggling at the bottom of society, most of the time, Living itself is a luxurious delusion, and now that this delusion is about to come true, they naturally have no reason to be unhappy.

However, just when they were preparing how to reunite with their teammates, or planning a new life in the Russian Federation in the future, when Wei Ran became more and more anxious, a loud noise came from above their heads. A series of violent explosions!
"what happened?!"

It was a good thing to be able to hear sounds other than buzzing. Wei Ran crawled forward, took advantage of turning the flashlight, took out the wire cutters under the cover of his backpack, and cut off the wire cutter that pierced Feshanke's sole. rebar.

When he turned around, he immediately saw Serge's grinning broken nose straightening, and beside him, Agni also pulled off the glass on his shoulders, and even Karp was already leaning against him. Holding a flashlight, he helped Ruslan check the injury in the socket of his shoulder.

Difficult to change positions with Serge in this small space, and with the help of the other party, he used the machine gun in his arms to support the floor. Wei Ran then used the wire cutters to cut through the Ruth. The steel bar of the blue shoulder socket.

Until everyone's injuries were treated initially, Karp shook everyone's face with a flashlight, and after everyone squinted their eyes to look over, he also dipped his hands in someone's blood, On the slab leaning against the wall barely leaning against the wall, there was a sentence written in dark red French - "We are betrayed".

(End of this chapter)