War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 957 You play me and I play you
After waiting patiently in the transport vehicle for more than an hour, Wei Ran took off his 82 technical suit, folded it carefully, and put it in the iron cabinet on the upper floor of the safe.

Putting on his clothes again, he put away the VSS low-sound sniper rifle that had been on the table. After he walked out of the living cabin, he waved his hand to put away the transport vehicle while thinking about his plan to go to Chechnya. Everywhere, there was a sharp pain like a needle prick at that moment, as if stepping on a switch, and he fell straight to the ground.

After the unbearable pain passed, Wei Ran, who was lying on the ground, shivered uncontrollably, and then got up with lingering fear.

"What the hell, I thought it wouldn't hurt to take it out in the future."

Wei Ran, who was placed together by the metal book again, muttered cursingly, but he could only get into the compartment of the armored pickup truck while clutching his uncontrollable right arm.

After driving the car back and forth several times on the track marks left by the transporter, he turned around and left the forest, heading straight for Kazan City.

Now there is only one week left until June, although this trip to Grozny by mistake is regarded as a trick, but since he came back alive, since Teacher Dalia and others don't want to owe him this favor, they simply pretended to be If the deaf and dumb check it out, there will be an explanation.

As for whether to kill the bell ringer, it would be too late to make a decision after finding those Death Knell members who were buried alive in Grozny.

When he made up his mind, the car also drove to the door of the house.

Although he clearly remembered that before he sent Carlos to the airport, sisters Sui Sui and Katenka had already taken the little rich woman Koko who was passing by to go shopping, but this was just a trip to the airport and took a bath on the way While doing laundry, these four girls of similar age had already returned, and they were gesturing at the various clothes they just bought as if they were setting up a stall.

What made him frown was that this heavy sealed bag contained small sealed bags, and each sealed bag was actually filled with white powder, and even at the opening of the sealed bag, Also staring at a label with numbers and letters written on it with a stapler.

"What's the matter?" As soon as the phone was connected, Karp on the other end asked simply.

"As always, whoever tells the truth is a dog."

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately put on his boots, and at the same time, the car stopped at an intersection.

"Go! Where are you going?!"

Wei Ran didn't know whether to laugh or cry and dragged the last cardboard box in, "Come with me?"

"Mr. Karp, I need your help." Wei Ran said with a hint of helplessness.

And in front of the French windows not far away, Lola's talented younger sister Korava, under the patient guidance of Sui Xin, was also carefully fiddled with the strings on a guqin.

"Bang!"

"Forget it, I'm not going."

He turned his head and looked at Anfisa who was holding a tablet with a floral skirt in one hand, and quickly swipe on the screen with the other hand. The latter said without waiting for him to speak, "The ticket has been bought, Fly tomorrow morning."

"Need my help?"

After climbing over the iron fence with ease, Wei Ran, who was wearing a mask on his face, looked around, and then stuffed the sealed bag in his hand into an outdoor oven built with red bricks outside the room.

In less than 10 minutes, there was also a knock on the door, but when he opened the cover of the cat's eye, he found that there was no one outside.

"I wish I could go and see it live"

Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't bother to make a detour, "I need to dig up the courtyard of a seemingly uninhabited house in downtown Grozny. According to my investigation, the house under that house should be the old school site before the first street battle in Grozny. But I don't have a valid reason."

"Are you sure no one lives in it?" Karp asked again.

"Good"

Based on visual inspection alone, the courtyard that looks particularly beautiful is probably not even 300 meters away from the school next to it.

In less than a minute, he heard a muffled "bang" when the car door closed, and he sat down on the seat uncontrollably.

"no problem"

Wei Ran inadvertently paused, and seeing that Karp on the other end of the phone didn't respond, he continued, "Now I basically found out that his son was lost in the first Grozny street battle."

"We're going to start filming in less than a week," Karp replied with a smile on his face. "Would you like to come and guide me then?"

Then the question arises, how could the new school deviate so far from the original site?How could the original site of the school, especially the original teaching building, become a private residence with a large area?
Putting away the portable jug in his hand, Wei Ran looked at the children in the playground who were swaying their youth wantonly, but a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"No, it's investigating Widow Liu."

Sui Sui's eyes lit up immediately, and then she curled her lips regretfully, "If I had known earlier, I would have put out the big bowl in the kitchen."

Walking along the unfamiliar street, he randomly found a shopping mall and bought a Huaxia mobile phone with cash. Wei Ran took out a mobile phone card that Anfeiya had prepared for him in advance from his pocket and put it on. He took out a note from his pocket and entered a set of coordinates provided in the metal book.

Through the slightly rusted black iron fence gate, he could easily see that the ground in this old-looking yard had been hardened by cement, and there was a rusty car parked less than five meters from the gate. In the middle of the yard is a beautiful house with only two floors, but each floor has floor-to-ceiling windows.He can even see the floor-to-ceiling windows, the various furniture in the room, and the sprinkler system that is working in the middle of the lawn next to the house.

At the same time, just as an Omo soldier dug out the sealed plastic tape that was enough to sentence the death penalty from the oven, another group of people also rushed directly into the house that had no lights on at all.

The reason why he was so careful was that he was guarding against Teacher Dalia and others. If they or that "Mrs. Marge" followed him to Chechnya secretly, he had to pretend to be a little bit better.

"I don't need your help with this kind of thing"

With a loud bang, the iron fence gate of the yard was pulled down by an explosion-proof vehicle with a hook, and then a group of Omo soldiers wearing masks and fully armed rushed in and pointed their guns at the man who was also wearing a mask. of Wei Ran.

Karp responded very simply, and then hung up the phone without waiting for Wei Ran to say anything more.

Finally, he took a look at the Chechen beauties who were symbolically wearing turbans on the side of the road, talking and laughing as they walked and chatted. Wei Ran took a deep breath, and walked into the lobby on the first floor of the hotel with his suitcase.

Before she finished speaking, Wei Ran also received a text message to remind her.

The other party kept walking, so Wei Ran was not in a hurry, and simply continued to ask along the topic, "I heard from Jima that you plan to co-produce a movie about the Chinese Expeditionary Army with my friend?"

Wei Ran looked at all kinds of clothes with plastic bags with Chinese characters on the floor, and then at the broken cardboard box not far away, which was one meter square, "So many?"

Fortunately, after wandering around in circles all the way, the back of the buttocks is extraordinarily clean.And Wei Ran was also wandering around, passing by a yard that was about the same size as his home by Lake Kaban.

Karp agreed very simply, "Tell me your address later, and someone will meet you."

Seeing these young girls who are obviously not bad on average once again yelled and joined the game of opening boxes and grabbing clothes, Wei Ran and Sui Xin, who was watching a joke in the distance, looked at each other, wisely Go upstairs alone and give up the space on the first floor.

"Thank me? Thank me for what?" Wei Ran's tone was just rightly dazed, but at the same time he was silently mouthing, "Fake it! You pretend it for me!"

Sui Sui threw the skirt in her hand on the sofa to cover the big-eared fox who had just crawled out of another skirt, pointed to the armored commercial vehicle outside and said, "This is only so much, a cardboard box of the same size. There are three more inside, all bought by us! A total of [-] kilograms, now waiting for you to come back and help carry them in."

Just when Wei Ran was thinking whether to resist or not, a soldier had already put a thick black cloth bag on his head, and then he felt himself being lifted up.

"All of this?"

Wei Ran made a decision in his heart. He knew what secret was buried underground. He knew that the secret might be the bad news that Teacher Dalia had been pursuing for more than 20 years, but such a result made a It would be too cruel for a woman to bear it first.

Carefully opened the door, but there was only a dark blue travel bag at the door.

Wei Ran thought about it and said, "According to the information I found, there is an unregistered Soviet civil defense system there. I suspect that there may be some clues there."

"how is this possible"

"I'll take your leg."

Staying up like this until 42:[-] in the evening, as the hotel lost its power supply without warning, Wei Ran, who had changed his clothes, went downstairs quietly, left the hotel in the dark, and went straight to the day under the cover of the building's shadow. The yard I've been to.

In the blink of an eye the next morning, Sui Sui took sisters Katenka and the little rich woman Koko and boarded the flight to Moscow one step earlier than Wei Ran. Instead, it was Wei Ran who was acting as the driver. The flight was delayed by more than an hour.

"You promised Kajik to continue to improve his academic qualifications. This is something that is beneficial to both of us." Karp's tone was equally sincere. "Your social status and popularity are higher, and it will be more convenient for us to do things."

"It's my turn to thank you," Karp said abruptly.

Putting on the earphones, following the guidance of the navigation software that comes with the phone, he walked slowly towards the final destination while carefully observing the surrounding environment.

As the door opened, the person who had just urged Wei Ran to change his shoes also pushed him into another van that was waiting in advance.

Wei Ran angrily dragged the second cardboard box into the room, raised his useless right hand and pointed to the teacup in the flowerpot by the French window as normal as possible, and put the teacup that Mrs. Margot visited a week ago The incident was described, but at the same time, the relationship between this incident and the teachers of Hongqi Forest Farm was concealed.

After patiently checking in and sending his small luggage into the room, he immediately took out an action camera from his bag, hid it in the crack of the cabinet facing the door, and turned on his mobile phone at the same time. The timing function and the screen are always on, placing it in a position where the action camera can just capture it.

"Anyway, there is no need to spend tuition fees." Wei Ran muttered pretending to be relaxed, "I will send you the address of me and that house later."

Sighing secretly, Wei Ran took a step forward, continued to walk along the street, wandered aimlessly until the pre-set time, and then took a taxi back to the hotel.

Immediately afterwards, the black cloth bag on his head was ripped off at the same time as the car under his buttocks started to run, and the handcuffs holding his hands behind him were also removed.

But thanks to the comparison of the historical map with the latest version of the satellite map the night before he came, he clearly knew that at the end of 1994, the yard he just passed was the original site of the former school teaching building!

"You just set up a stall to sell clothes"

Wei Ran twitched his lips. In Russia, if you mention Chechnya without mentioning the Black Widow, it seems to be disrespectful to the world. Therefore, even if a Sino-Russian joint venture such as Sui Sui is exported to domestic sales, it is also unavoidable.

However, before he could leave, beams of dazzling headlights and flashlights enveloped him outside!

"To the point, what do you need me to do for you?" Karp asked again without waiting for Wei Ran to finish speaking.

"Well, I'm helping a client investigate her missing son"

Karp had already walked into the bathroom while he was speaking, and said in a low voice while lighting a cigarette, "Okay, tell me, what trouble are you in?"

"Forget it, a conspiracy is not as good as a conspiracy! It's better to let Teacher Dalia have a headache. No, no, maybe it's better to inform Karp first."

Twitching the corners of his mouth, Wei Ran turned around obediently, opened the concealed trunk door of the armored commercial vehicle, picked up a cardboard box that might weigh a hundred catties with his left hand, and dragged it into the room with difficulty.

Using the cover of his clothes pocket, he took out the portable flagon in the metal book and took a symbolic sip. At the same time, he also raised his neck and glanced at the yard he just passed by without any trace.

When he returned to the room, he carefully checked the time that was always beating on the mobile phone interface captured by the hidden sports camera, until he was sure that no one had entered his room in the past three hours. relieved.

He reached out to carry the travel bag into the room, and when he closed the door, he carefully put on rubber gloves and opened the zipper of the travel bag, only to find that there were not only a set of Chechen Omo army uniforms but also a set of ordinary-looking clothes inside. , and there is an additional piece of paper with the address written on it, and a transparent sealed bag.

Pausing again for almost breathing, Karp continued as if he was making up a story, "According to the account of the arrested drug dealers, they hid an additional 20 kilograms of drugs in that unoccupied house. That's it. , which is enough to dig there."

"There is indeed such a thing"

Sui Sui rolled her eyes, and said triumphantly, "We went to a flea market in the morning. These clothes are said to be smuggled goods that have been backlogged for an unknown number of years, and as long as 500 rubles per kilogram, we can simply cover them all." Bought it."

"Why did you come back at this time?"

Without any stop at all, Wei Ran continued to walk forward like an aimless passerby, and finally stopped outside the playground of a school not far away.

"Thank you," Wei Ran replied very sincerely.

Sui Sui raised her chin towards Kou Kou, and while gesturing on her body with the washed and whitened low-rise skinny jeans in her hand, she said nonsense, "It's the first time for Sister Kou to be a guest at home, so I have to treat her well." .And when I just came back, I promised to take her to Moscow for fun. But you, don’t bring back a black widow from Chechnya who helped her with a bomb.”

Wei Ran pulled away Beria, who was full of braids, and asked jokingly, "What are you planning to do? Go out and set up a stall to sell clothes?"

No matter how cruel and sad you have experienced in the historical fragments, when you return to reality, this slightly noisy peaceful day can always be more soothing than Naqu Guangling San.

Glancing at the time displayed on the watch, he immediately locked the door and went downstairs through the safe passage to leave the hotel. He also put on a peaked cap, mask and sunglasses by the way.

Wei Ran nodded, "There is a truck parked in that house, but the truck's tires have been deflated and cracked, and the door lock has also grown a lot of rust."

The school next to it, which looks extraordinarily beautiful, was actually rebuilt with funds from the Russian Federation after the Second Chechen War.As for the location of the school in the years between the two Chechen wars, it is not known.

While muttering to himself, Wei Ran sent the address of the hotel he stayed in and the address of the house.

"Put your boots on," a hoarse voice reminded.

If one day, there is no way to guarantee even private property in the Russian Federation, then for those who try to cover up those secrets, those who he once feared will no longer be afraid.

Wei Ran rolled his eyes, heard the footsteps of leather shoes knocking on the ground opposite him, waited for a while and then simply changed the subject and asked, "Don't talk about me, your film about guerrillas How is it?"

"Ahem..." Wei Ran cleared his throat, "Well, Sui Sui, I plan to go to Chechnya tomorrow."

As soon as he let go, Kou Kou, who is already a rich woman, couldn't wait to pick up the wallpaper knife on the table and cut open the tie on the outside of the box, and then the five girls, including Lola, swarmed the old things inside. All the clothes were taken out and carefully selected.

Karp on the other end of the phone glanced at Dalia who was in the same office as him and Teacher Anna who was sitting opposite Dalia, and asked jokingly as he got up and walked out, "Did you kill someone?"

"I'll forget it"

After making up his mind, Wei Ran dialed Mr. Culp's number with his mobile phone.

"Whoa!"

"confirm"

"A bowl of diamonds?"

The answer is obvious. Some people worried that the secrets under the old teaching building would be discovered, so they simply bought the place, built the yard, and tried to bury the secrets there forever.

But then, he began to worry again, what kind of excuse should he use to dig up the yard reasonably and legally, and even present the covered secret to Teacher Dalia and others in a reasonable and reasonable manner.

After a brief pause, Culp continued, "At 29:[-] a.m., the local Omo force will raid that house for drug dealers."

This is not really a unique product.
Wei Ran grinned and closed the zipper of the travel bag again, but he never dared to take off the rubber gloves on his hands.

"it is good"

I have to admit that this is indeed a simple and effective method. As long as the personal property in the Russian Federation can be guaranteed, no one will move that house.Correspondingly, those things buried underground will never see the light of day again.

Before he could see everything around him clearly, a helmet had already been put on his head, and a pair of boots were also placed in his arms!
When he hugged the boots subconsciously, the cheap coat, sweatpants and even the sneakers on his body were ripped off and thrown aside, revealing the Omo uniform that he wore in advance!

"Send me the address, then buy a bag of flour and hide it in that yard tonight."

Looking at the lively habitat that perforated his eardrums at this moment, Wei Ran couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Sui Sui, who was looking at a pair of jeans with bright eyes, suddenly realized, "Going to Chechnya? Could it be investigating the Black Widow?"

Fortunately, although the takeoff was late, it did not affect the landing on time. However, when he walked out of the airport alone with a small amount of luggage, and took a taxi to the city, he could hardly find and remember all the way. What can overlap in Grozny here.

"You are enough"

While he was dazed looking at the world of singing birds and flowers outside the car window, the taxi also rushed to a hotel that was less than one kilometer away from the address indicated by one of the coordinates in the metal book.

Seeing Wei Ran coming back, Sui Sui greeted Wei Ran immediately, holding up a small retro-style skirt and asked, "Look quickly! How about this one?!"

Even Lola, who doesn't have to go to the next door to sell coffee today, is leaning on the sofa, holding a handful of colorful rubber bands, and happily braiding the dog Beria who is lying next to her. .

"Whoa!"

There was another muffled sound, and as the car door slammed, a relatively rare SR-3M assault rifle was stuffed into Wei Ran's arms, and the van under his butt also violently rushed towards the direction of the house .

"We don't need a living drug dealer," said the hoarse voice in the dark car, "so there is no need to save bullets. Whoever survives will stab him to death with his dick!"

"Yes!" The rest of the soldiers in the carriage who also wore masks responded loudly excitedly!
What a bunch of hooligans!A group of lawless hooligans!
Wei Ran, who was among them, twitched the corners of his mouth. In less than 5 minutes, he had already changed from being arrested as a current drug dealer to an anti-drug policeman. Who would believe this? !

(End of this chapter)