War Photographer's Notebook

In the crevice of the collapsed basement wall, Ruslan dipped his fingers around the wound on his shoulder, and on the collapsed floor covered by the beam of the flashlight, he wrote a question in French that was almost certain, "Is it him?"

"It can only be him"

Captain Karp responded in French, seeing that everyone around him seemed to have temporarily lost their hearing except for Wei Ran, so he could only dip his fingers in the small bloodstain on the floor and write it in French on the reluctant floor .

Seeing that these people had difficulty in communicating, Wei Ran rummaged through his backpack and found the plastic leather book that he planned to ask Captain Karp to write a letter to the future teacher Dalia and their children, and then from the metal book. He took out the pen, wrote a few strokes on it, and handed it to Captain Karp who was at the farthest point.

After taking the familiar plastic leather book, Captain Karp opened it and found that Wei Ran had written on the first page, "Everyone's hearing seems to have been affected by the explosion just now, so use this to communicate before your hearing recovers." , I will burn it after the exchange is over."

After pondering for a while, Karp wrote in Russian, "Unless our communication is monitored, but even if it is monitored, the code words I use indicate that the request for help is impossible to be deciphered so quickly.

So it can only be that the bell ringer betrayed us, only he knew we were here, and he was responsible for arranging the helicopter pick-up for us.This mission was also notified by the bell ringer. "

"Why did he betray us?" After taking the notebook and pen, Ruslan wrote out his doubts, and then returned it to Captain Karp.

"I'm afraid you will only know when you see him and ask him in person."

After writing this sentence, Karp looked around. The space was so narrow that it was impossible to even squat, not to mention standing up, and the wreckage of the collapsed buildings around them was obviously not something they could solve.

"puff!"

Before the white light subsided, he subconsciously began to pant violently. However, as the cold air entered his mouth and nose, he could smell a strong smell of gunpowder smoke and a faint smell of corpses!

"call--"

Touching Leizli next to him, Wei Ran brought the earphones to the other's ear.

After a while, Leva walked over quickly and whispered before Wei Ran opened his mouth, "Victor, we have to leave here, let's go now."

Leizli didn't pick up the notebook, but while muttering, he took off the electric drill hanging from his waist with great difficulty, and then took off the half-meter-long drill bit tied to his thigh and replaced it.

While another black man was speaking, he also pulled a ring from the finger of a corpse, and threw it into the bag without looking at it.

"I hope only Leva and Ivan can get out of here alive"

Wei Ran also gave a loud response, and the other party had a big smile on his face after digging out his ears and eyes, and then passed the things in his hand to the next person.

"Yes! I brought a lot!"

"Aerospace is our eternal career. The gentle mist outside the porthole is the beautiful morning and sunset of the earth."

In the increasingly orderly singing and the increasingly difficult breathing, Sergi also pulled the trigger towards himself.

Unobtrusively stuffing the notebook under his buttocks and putting away the pen, Wei Ran, who had already taken off his gas mask, took a sip of caviar mixed with dust, and took another sip of gin stained with blood.

"It's your turn," Ruslan said, handing the Walkman to Karp.

Passing the wine jug and caviar to Leizili who was beside him, he took out the Walkman from his bag and asked loudly, "Which one of you wants to leave some last words or something? I believe Leva and Ivan and the others will definitely find us, and since we have been betrayed, there seems to be no point in keeping it secret."

"I shouldn't have contacted you!" Captain Karp yelled loudly, "I shouldn't have brought you here!"

"Dang!"

"Thank you!"

Ruslan wrote worriedly, "I'm worried that the bell ringer will also do something to them. If he really betrayed us, I think he will definitely not let anyone go."

"They will surely flee from the battlefield"

As the plastic-covered notebook was passed around among the people, everyone also wrote down their physical conditions and ammunition and supplies.

"Sorry, I shouldn't have contacted you. Sorry, Darya, sorry, Olena."

At the same time, Wei Ran also turned on the flashlight again, took out the painkiller needles from the medical bag, and inserted them for Leizli and Feschenk respectively.

However, before he could pull the trigger towards the No.2 black man, another arm suddenly stretched out from under the other corpse, grabbed the second black man by the neck and dragged him over. The dagger sliced ​​across the opponent's throat.

Ruslan coughed a few times with difficulty, and continued in the increasingly choking smoke, "When you hear this last word, if our children are already born, and if it is difficult to live with them, we will leave Send them to that orphanage I took you to, where I grew up, and I'm sure they could grow up there, so be it, and that's all I have to say."

Carefully looking down, fortunately, there were no enemies in sight, but there were a few broken corpses at the bottom, and a metal ladder that was blown off.

Karp cleared his throat, and said calmly in the choking smoke, "The person who betrayed us is most likely our child's godfather.

Then he put the drill bit on the collapsed floor and started the electric drill. Amidst the buzzing sound, the finger-thick drill bit smoothly penetrated the floor amidst the falling dust.

Even if you count the bullets and grenades on the rest of the people, even if you ignore the impact of the explosion's shock wave on everyone, it is almost wishful thinking to explode these things and escape.

Coughing violently, Karp covered his mouth and nose with his clothes, and also covered the Walkman in recording mode.Others also put on their gas masks early.

"Sorry, I can't go back."

"We can't send out radio signals right now"

"How do I know, but it has nothing to do with us."

Serge dug a large spoonful of caviar into his mouth, "It's the last time, why don't you say something happy?"

"Honey, it may take me a long time to go home this time. Our children will be troublesome for you to take care of. I'm sorry, I didn't leave you any property, and I didn't let you live a good life. In the future, your Life may be tough, I'm... I'm sorry.

"We are like wandering wanderers, missing Mother Earth."

But even so, Wei Ran could feel that as more and more thick smoke poured in, the oxygen in this small underground space became thinner and it became more difficult to breathe.In a daze, the Walkman was also sent back to Wei Ran.

Before he could think clearly about this question, footsteps could be heard in the distance, followed by two black men in extrajudicial camouflage walking over.

As the two of them walked, they quickly searched for each corpse, and from time to time, they threw some valuable small items into the canvas bag in their hands.

Carefully squeezed his eyes hard, waited for his vision to recover and looked around, the first thing that caught his eyes was a corpse wearing an extrajudicial camouflage and staring at him with lifeless eyes!
Glancing at the corpse spots on the opponent's cheeks, Wei Ran, who was lying on his back, did not dare to stand up hastily, but turned his head carefully to look around first, and then found that he seemed to be lying on the fifth floor of that shopping mall, with Those extrajudicial corpses slaughtered by him and Feshank were lying together!
So in this scene, he stayed with the sniper Leva?And what about Sniper Leva?Where did he go?

However, when he pulled back the drill bit and moved the flashlight to the hole to look out, he found that the other end of the collapsed floor was only a TV-sized space, and even if he could open it, there was no way to escape. .

There was another crisp sound of bullet casings falling to the ground, and Agnes, who had long since lost his worries, pulled the trigger towards himself the second time.

"Why is this corpse still Wen?"

Now, along with the notebook, there was another box of canned caviar.

"In my dream, I can't hear the roar of the launch site, and I can't see the deep blue sky."

With a hoarse voice, Captain Karp muttered to himself in the increasingly choking smoke, and pulled the trigger towards himself amidst the disappearing singing.

Regarding our child, let him be a normal person.

As the distance drew closer, Lezri could barely hear some voices, and subconsciously sang along.

Obviously, this team that has survived for so long in the man-eating Grozny battlefield, this team that has been lurking in the enemy's lair for so long can escape unharmed, and by the way saved so many people, at this moment and the short-term His future is already doomed because of the betrayal of his own people, and there is no way to leave this small and dark crypt that will never see the light of day.

"Youzi misses Mother Earth, and Mother Earth is also looking forward to Youzi's return."

"The earth outside the porthole, the earth outside the porthole, the earth outside the porthole is within reach."

"Goodbye, goodbye, comrades." Ruslan muttered to himself, and then pulled the trigger towards himself.

"Let me leave something. I'm only married. I can't keep my wife waiting for me."

At the same time, Wei Ran, who was almost fainting at any time due to lack of oxygen, finally saw the intense white light that he had been waiting for for a long time before losing consciousness.

Agney took the notebook and wrote, "Otherwise not only will the bell ringer realize that we are still alive and have companions, but it will also attract a second wave of air-to-ground rocket strikes on us."

Gradually, in the slightly choking smoke and jet fuel smell, everyone took off their gas masks one after another, or took a sip of wine with a large spoonful of caviar, or said something loudly, trying to make the surrounding people hear.

In addition to the physical injuries, Leizili's recovery especially made him feel chilly, because before preparing for the helicopter landing site, laying booby traps around, and escaping all the way here from the sewer, the explosives on Leizili's body are now only A few dozen grenades were dropped.

"The shadow of the earth is like a solar eclipse coming. We wait for the light to reappear and dream of returning to our hometown."

Clearing his throat, Feschenk turned off the flashlight after a short thought.Seeing this, the rest of the people also turned off their flashlights. For a while, this small space full of survivors and smoke was also plunged into darkness.

"But."

"Listen to me dear, don't wait for me, if you can hear this recording, it means that I can never return to you.

Agni was the first to reject Wei Ran's proposal, "My Kolyuzhna is dead, and I don't have any family members, so I don't need it."

It's a pity that the sound from this small earphone is too weak to attract attention to these hearing-impaired people who have begun to suffocate due to the thick smoke.

I think, maybe he doesn't need to have very big ideals, as long as he can be an upright person, can grow up healthy, and can take good care of you, I am already very satisfied.

In the dark, Feschenk handed the Walkman to Wei Ran, and Wei Ran directly handed it to Serge.

Pulling off the gas mask on his face, Agnes was the first to dig a large spoonful of caviar into his mouth, then opened the lid of the jug, raised his head and took a small sip, and shouted loudly, "Victor! This wine is good!"

After pondering for a while, Captain Karp continued to write, "But I'm afraid we won't be able to get out now. Let's report to each other, Demoman, do you still have any explosives?"

"I don't need it anymore. I am an orphan. No family needs my will."

I don't know if you will have a chance to hear this last words, but dear Katyusha, don't try revenge, I don't want you and our children to be in danger. Ahem!cough--! "

"Dang!"

When the plastic-covered notebook was passed from Wei Ran's hand to Leizli's hand to Feishanke's hand and back again, he also learned about everyone's situation at the first time.

"Dang!"

Not only that, after such a short period of time, everyone has also noticed the black smoke coming in from the gaps everywhere.

He didn't bother to pull out the bayonet at all. When he opened the corpse, a titanium alloy pistol with a suppressor appeared in his hand.

Seeing the other party getting closer and closer to him, Wei Ran tensed his nerves and held his breath at the same time, so as not to expose himself by the white mist produced by his breathing.

"I don't have to"

"Serge was right!"

After finishing speaking, Rezli didn't stop recording at all, but handed it to Feschenke directly.

After taking a glance at the notebook that was handed over again, Leizili dropped the electric drill in his hand, rummaged through the bag, pulled out a box of canned caviar, opened it with a spoon, and then scribbled on the notebook. Said, "There is really not much time, don't waste it, let's eat something together, this is an extra that Ivan secretly gave me, I was going to take it back to give my wife a taste."

"Although the sky is full of stars here, it is far away from the warmth of the earth." Amidst the singing of more and more people, the painkiller needles re-absorbed with the liquid medicine were also passed on in the hands of everyone.

"Risk is always there, only with courage and music."

With a bullet casing falling to the ground, Rezley, who was finally injured, was the first to use his PSS micro-sound pistol, aiming at his chin and pulling the trigger.

"We are sailing in low-Earth orbit, and meteorites often pass right in front of us."

"Looks like we're running out of time"

When the notebook and pen were passed back to Captain Culp, he sighed and wrote, "It seems we can't get out of here alive."

Holding a flashlight, Feschenk wrote in his notebook, "What a pity I brought my Ninel a New Year's present."

"Puff! Puff!"

While speaking, Sergi had already handed the Walkman, which was still recording, to Captain Ruslan.

Feshank also sang along with Leizli's humming, and the Walkman that started playing the song was passed from Wei Ran's hand to Agni's again.

Fumbling to take out the tape on which the last words were recorded, Wei Ran took out the album tape of the Earthman band from his arms and stuffed it in. After connecting the earphones, he adjusted the volume to the maximum.

"Three days have passed since the last time black smoke came out of the security building, and the air strike we called has completed its bombing. There is no need for us to wait here any longer."

When these things were passed into his hands, Wei Ran also took out the portable hip flask and put it on.

Honey, don't be sad for me, it's inevitable, I'm sorry, the promise to take you skiing in Sochi never came true, but I've actually saved enough money to go out and play, just go to the attic to disassemble Open that broken accordion and you'll find that money.In addition, I also left some small surprises for you in there.

"Now we can only hope that Leva and Ivan are smart people"

Almost at the same time as the two corpses fell to the ground one after another, Wei Ran and the sniper Leva sat up in no particular order.

With a choked voice, Feschenk was the fourth to pull the trigger towards himself.

Leizli looked at the hideous wound on his calf, and handed the caviar to Fessenke beside him, then took Wei Ran's Walkman, fiddled with it, and pressed the record button of the Walkman.

"Why are so many people dead here?" The black man closest to him asked his companion in rap English while pulling a ring off the finger of a dead body.

"Don't say that!"

Seeing this, Wei Ran immediately pulled out the bayonet from the chest of the trembling corpse, took the silent sniper rifle hidden under his body, and walked quickly to the stairwell he was in charge of.

Pointing to the stairwell in the distance, Leva held the fighting knife behind his back in one hand, and held up the silent pistol in the other, and walked quickly to another stairwell.

In the days to come, please be strong and optimistic.That's it, we're running out of time, and it's time for me to leave the message to someone else. "

"All I see is the grass by the house. The green grass."

Karp struggled to grab a handful of candies from his bag and distributed them to everyone. At the same time, the caviar and hip flask also passed to Wei Ran.

Ruslan, who was sitting against the wall between them, shouted, "We should talk about something cheerful, Karp, do you still have any candies from your factory? Give me one!"

With a hint of regret on his face, Serge wrote in a hurry, "I originally wanted to go to Ivan after this mission was over, and let him find a way to arrange a regular job for me with the Border Patrol. It's a job to eat caviar."

"I agree with the divorce. If you want to immigrate, go. Cough!"

That's it, I'm very sorry, I can't go back to accompany you, you...you have to take care of yourself. "

Wei Ran stabbed a slender and sharp Mauser bayonet obliquely into the opponent's heart when the opponent touched his jacket pocket, piercing his heart and his lungs at the same time.

With caviar and wine, everything in front of them seems to have returned to the way they were in the infantry chariot when they first entered the battlefield, but obviously, compared to when they came, everyone's mood and state of mind may have changed drastically.

Leva opened a corpse while speaking, took out the backpacks of the two of them and the extrajudicial FR-F2 sniper rifle from the cabinet lying under the corpse, and went to the stairwell he had just observed. As he walked, he said, "Besides, there has been no signal for the past three days. They must have encountered some trouble. It is pointless for us to stay here. Now that someone has touched it, we should leave as soon as possible."

"Where are you going?" Wei Ran took the backpack and asked bluntly, while wisely not mentioning what happened before the white light.

"Go to Ivan and the others as soon as possible. I have a hunch that we may be in danger next time." Before Leva finished speaking, he had already picked up the rappelling rope tied to the handrail of the stairs, and slid down quickly.

"It turned out to be three days later."

Wei Ran glanced out of the broken window, Grozny three days later still echoed with gunshots and tragedies that shouldn't have happened in the world.However, those defenders who had been brutally betrayed and betrayed had already stopped breathing at this time.