War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 956 The Broken Death Knell

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

In the depths of the forest outside Kazan City, in the compartment of a gun-gray armored pickup truck parked in a clearing, Wei Ran, who was sitting in the driver's seat, was blushing completely, but even though he had a mouth, he couldn't utter a word at all. For any sound, he could only use the back of his head to hit the seat cushion in vain, trying to relieve the severe pain in his right arm.

Trembling, he unbuckled his seat belt and pushed open the car door. Wei Ran, who was still suffering from severe pain, fell down from the compartment with a "plop", screaming and rolling all over the floor in pain, but even so, he As if not depriving the vocal cords, apart from the violent panting of "chihhhhhhhh", there is no sound at all.

But in his heart, while rolling all over the ground in pain, he greeted all the eighteen generations of the metal book's ancestors kindly over and over again!

I don't know how much time has passed, his body is already covered with fallen leaves and dead branches, and one of his boots has been kicked off by himself, and even the thick layer of fallen leaves under his body seems to have been arched by a wild boar All kinds of potholes were left behind.

But fortunately, the pain, which was much stronger than ever before, finally disappeared without warning at a certain moment.

In the forest glade, Wei Ran, who was sweating profusely in pain as if he had just delivered a pair of twins, spat out the small stick in his mouth that was almost crushed by him with great difficulty, and lay on his back wheezing. gasping.

After a long time, he finally had the strength to take off the leather jacket on his body, and then carefully rolled up the sleeves.

At this time, less than 10 centimeters below the elbow of his right hand, there was already a circle of black and blue blood, and the entire palm and wrist of his right hand were numb and unable to move at all.

So the so-called escape from Grozny actually disappeared from this battlefield or this war?
On the other hand, the veteran Leva he knew lost his right arm, and the position of the amputation was exactly the same as the position where his own arm was interrupted at that time, so what he experienced at that time was actually what Leva experienced at that time?
At that time in that building, the one who used the anti-tank gun to cover and save Ivan and the others was actually the sniper Leva, and the one who was injured and lost an arm was also Leva?

I don't know when, the safe that was locked well opened again by itself!
Not only the safe, but even the lower bunk on the iron frame bed behind the safe, there is a brand new hay yellow Soviet winter 82 technical condition suit, a sea soul shirt, a Soviet-style boxer briefs, and a pair of seemingly Two-buckle lace-up military boots produced in Czechoslovakia.

Or is it called the Clock Tower because Deathstroke is also stationed there?
What kind of violent organization is Deathstroke?
special operations?Obviously not. Agent?I'm afraid not
In that short space-time segment, those people gave Wei Ran the impression that they were more like a group of people independent of the KGB system, which is synonymous with horror, without a number, but they were responsible for secrets under special circumstances. An armed squad to capture the traitor.

Wei Ran looked down at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth and muttered something to himself, then took out the Walkman, put on the battery and closed the cover of the tape compartment, put on the earphones and pressed the play button.

Of course, he believed that Gorman was equally impressed with the memory of that day.After all, he not only escaped from the abandoned prison, but also captured Gorman and broke the bridge of his nose.

What's more, on the left side of the gun stock, in the small green canvas bag fixed under the cheek rest, there is an additional spare magazine full of bullets.

From the end of 1983 until the disintegration of the Soviet Union, there were hundreds of spies from other countries and dozens of traitors who leaked state secrets!

After a long time, when the sound of the washing machine stopped, he got up, threw the washed clothes into the dryer, and then sat on the sofa chair, carefully inspecting the VSS micro-sound sniper rifle that was still on the table. After a while.

"pat"

In September 2015, he retired from office and settled in Charleston, South Carolina.

Seeing this, Wei Ran frowned.

Could it be that it can be taken out casually in the future?
A look of joy appeared on Wei Ran's pale face, he didn't care about anything else, he quickly patted the fallen leaves on his body, moved to the rear of the car and got into the living cabin.

In August 1997, Bratt Kumenyuk joined the Intelligence Service of the CIA under the pseudonym Adrian Senna after plastic surgery as an Eastern European intelligence analyst.

Deathstroke member Ivan, on January 1995, 1, suspended his death with his teammates, hid in the basement of a private house in Grozny, and escaped from the battlefield with refugees in the early morning of January 10, 1995.After years of tracking down the whereabouts of the bell ringer to no avail, he finally returned to Petrozavodsk to settle under a pseudonym in 1.

Deathstroke member Leva, on January 1995, 1, was shot by a sniper and lost an arm because he was covering his companion. He was betrayed on suspicion of being betrayed. In the early morning, he escaped from the battlefield with the refugees.After years of tracking down the whereabouts of the bell ringer to no avail, he finally returned to Kirov to settle under a pseudonym in 10.

So is this because of the price that must be borne for the promotion of the military rank, or is it because of the extra punishment suffered by trying to leak information from later generations to Captain Karp and the others many times before?
Regardless of the reason, this undoubtedly made Wei Ran more cautious.

The intention of the metal book is obvious.Maybe, just maybe, maybe Wei Ran won't die in the real world because of his death in the historical fragment.But he has no doubt that the metal book will definitely let him experience what life is like death!

Among the few negatives, there are group photos taken before they set off, and Wei Ran took them in the car entering the battlefield.

shattered death knell

And those "Soviet people" are used to calling the prison code-named "Fishing Ground No. 33" the Bell Tower!

He is even more certain that this violent institution is likely to be almost dormant after the collapse of the Soviet Union.And that battle was more like waking them up forcibly in order to sell them at a good price.

"Whoa!"

The bell ringer, Major Bratt Kumenyuk, former head of the Death Knell Department, sold information on the Death Knell organization to the U.S. secret intelligence agency on October 1994, 10, and at the end of that year, on the condition that the information on the existence of the Death Knell be erased, Send the main members of the Deathstroke organization to Grozny to join the battle to hunt down the Chechen rebel leader.

On January 1995, 1, when the members of the bell ringer asked for help, they used their authority to dispatch armed helicopters to bomb their hideouts.

Just like the sea soul shirts with various patterns are the symbol of the Maozi elite, at the end of the Soviet Union and the early days of Russia, because of the single-leg lameness of the light industry and other reasons, the "elite" with better conditions generally purchased this double-button system from Czechoslovakia. With military boots.

Sighing again, he walked to the side of the double sofa chair with the silent weapon and was about to sit down, but suddenly froze his body and looked at the big safe diagonally opposite!

After the music with a strong sense of the times, the song "Green Grass by the House", which was used to fight against despair and suffocation, sounded again in the earphones.

Of course, although these elites looked down on the tarpaulin military boots produced by themselves at the time, the foot wraps were retained as always.So not surprisingly, he also saw two pieces of thick and soft white cotton cloth from the pair of black leather boots.

As for why they wanted to bury Karp and his party alive, it made sense - he was afraid that they would retaliate against him alive!

Objectively speaking, such a weapon is of little help to Wei Ran in entering those time-space fragments dominated by World War II.

Looking at the VSS low-sound sniper rifle in his hand, Wei Ran couldn't help being stunned. Although this metal book didn't release the hunting missions of this world like the original recruiting battlefield, it was all clear. Hope he kills the bell ringer!

According to the return mission announced by the metal book at that time, he needed to cover Leva and the others to escape from Grozny.

I really got a good script.
Wei Ran twitched the corner of his mouth, reached out and summoned the metal book, and turned it to the latest page.

For example, the No. 33 fishing ground he once visited!
He clearly remembered that "Fishing Ground No. 33" in Kirov City was where he and Mr. Gorman first met.

This gun still uses the very Soviet-style PSO-1 optical sight. Although the magazine with a capacity of only 20 rounds is not large, it is completely sufficient for such an assassination weapon.

Wanting to understand the cause and effect, Wei Ran continued to read, and at the end of this page, there was only a very short sentence, "There was no winner in that war, but we lost to the person we should have trusted the most. "

However, when he saw the extra items in the safe, he just felt blocked. It was a Sony Walkman, and there was a tape in each of the two open tape compartments.

Now, the sketch at the top of this page has turned into a black and white photo, and he also recognized that the one nailed to the wall with a bayonet in the photo is actually Gala, the first extrajudicial mercenary who planned to escape.

Are they called Deathstroke because it's called the Clock Tower?

He didn't even forget that Gorman's description of the abandoned building next to the lake was like this -

I'm so afraid that I will pee my pants in pain?
Or is it a shame to put on such a replacement set of clothes after watching Lao Tzu pee his pants?

Silently put the Walkman into an easier-to-access food box, and closed the safe.

Wei Ran gently pressed the button on the Walkman, and soon, a familiar voice came from the earphone.

Until this time, he didn't have the heart to think about everything that happened before.

No, no, the bell ringer tried to poison the remaining members of the Deathstroke organization after killing Culp and the others, and seemed to try to take away the American agents who were held there.

The metal book gave details of the bell ringer, which was both expected and unexpected.But what he paid more attention to were some small details mentioned in these texts, such as "Karp" was not a first name but a surname.

But it’s obvious that it’s not a big deal to just go back in pissed pants. He is also a historian who wants to save face. Kou Kou is also there, so it becomes a pervert.

While taking a bath, he used the metal book to teach him massage and bone setting to massage his right arm. After the tingling pain that made him break out in cold sweat subsided, the right hand finally managed to regain control and touch.

Vasly, a member of Death Knell, was maimed by machine gun fire in a street fight in Grozny on December 1994, 12. On January 31, 1995, he collaborated with his teammates and hid in the basement of a private house in Grozny. In the early morning of January 1, 10 , and escaped from the battlefield with the refugees, after years of tracing the whereabouts of the bell ringer to no avail.

He even recalled that Gorman joked that he was the only "non-Soviet" who had the potential to leave the prison alive, and the only "non-Soviet" who had received anti-torture training there.

In addition, there is also a pair of headphones connected to the Walkman in the insurance, and two AA batteries wrapped in transparent plastic!
"thanks."

Wei Ran pressed the button on the Walkman again, then took off the earphones and took out the two batteries in the machine.

Although he failed in the last step, he revealed too many intriguing clues, and at the same time easily overturned Wei Ran's previous guess.On the contrary, it seems that this incident is more like a petition for the main purpose of rescuing the detained secret agents after the bell ringer transferred the tiger away from the mountain!

But obviously, they just hid in the basement at that time, and did not really leave the city of Grozny.

On the next day, the internal staff members of Deathstroke were poisoned in No. 33 fishing ground, and the attempt to rescue the detained American agent failed. On February 2, he successfully fled to Zhaohe and completed a secret contact with the US Central Intelligence Agency.

Looking at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth on his left hand, Wei Ran, who was bare buttocks, shook his head helplessly, took out a bath towel, wiped his body clean, changed into the clothes obviously prepared for himself, and then carefully opened the safe.

Throwing all the clothes and pants into the washing machine, he took a shower while washing the clothes, and then simply sat in the wooden bucket and filled it with hot water.

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

And under this black and white photo, there are already lines of text recording the follow-up story:

Wei Ran stood up from the tub, stepped out of the bathroom, took back the metal book and took out the contents in the red vortex.

It seems that it still hurts twice.
Wei Ran gritted his teeth, got up with difficulty and looked around, seeing no one around, he immediately gritted his teeth and took out the DT30 transport vehicle that he had almost no chance to use from the metal notebook.

That prison was established at the end of 1982 with the support and advice of Comrade Androbov.

On July 2006, 7, Vasly swallowed a gun and committed suicide after broadcasting the news of the death of Shamil Basayev on the Deathstroke radio channel.That month, the body was secretly buried in No. 9 Fishing Ground.

Wei Ran lay on his back on the inflexible hard board bed, while kneading his still bruised right hand expressionlessly, while closing his eyes, secretly thinking about the next plan.

Death Knell members Stepan (Stepan Karp), Ruslan, Feschenk, Sergi, Agni, Rezli, who were betrayed by the bell ringer, were killed by helicopter on January 1995, 1 Bombed, buried alive in an underground air-raid shelter.Later, due to the attack and crash of the helicopter, the fuel leaked and deflagrated, and he died of suffocation.

"pat"

Carefully poking his numb and unconscious right hand with the fingers of his left hand, the severe pain that his right hand fed back to his brain made him grin again.

However, when he opened his eyes cautiously and saw this white transport vehicle with cyan flame patterns steadily appearing in the open space in the forest, he was stunned. Just now, he did not feel the slightest the pain!

After calming down, he couldn't help but worry secretly. Obviously, whether it was the doubled pain or the uncontrollable incontinence due to the pain, it all showed that the metal book's punishment for being injured in the historical fragment had become higher invisibly.

But compared to these, what made him even more helpless was that just now, because of the severe pain, he even peed his pants uncontrollably.And this has never happened before.

Deathstroke member Yakov, on December 1994, 12, was shot by a machine gun in the Grozny street and his legs were disabled. On January 31, 1995, he collaborated with his teammates and hid in the basement of a private house in Grozny. In the early morning of the 1th, he escaped from the battlefield with the refugees, and was sent to Kirov City Mental Hospital for long-term recuperation due to insanity.

I turned the page with great difficulty with my still weak right hand, and under the slowly rotating red swirl on the back, there was a sentence that made Wei Ran's heart skip a beat—"Comrade, please ring the buried death knell again, this time To clean up the shameful traitors!"

But for the world he lives in, this quiet weapon is far more practical than that scary anti-tank weapon that is heavy and dynamic-if he intends to kill someone, such as that A defected bell ringer!
But do you really want to do this?
After only hesitating for a moment, he put away the weapon in his hand, took out the metal book again, and took out the negatives of the photos he took before from the paper bag next to the latest black and white photo.

Deathstroke member Opuya was killed by machine gun fire in a street battle in Grozny on December 1994, 12. After the war, his body was secretly buried in Fishing Ground No. 31.

But compared to these, what made him most gratified was the group photo he hurriedly took of the rescued soldiers of the 131st Brigade in the armored vehicle before parting.

The one facing the camera in this group photo is the young soldier wearing a tank cap with a grateful and nervous face. It is the soldier who asked for a hand grenade like Wei Ran when he was rescued. It is the soldier named Kelelo Soldiers of Yarmolenko!

"call--"

Wei Ran let out a long breath after repacking the negatives into the paper bag. He knew that at least he could sleep peacefully tonight without leaving too many regrets.

As for tomorrow, it seems that it is time to go to Grozny for a visit.
(End of this chapter)