War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 974 Guessing and Rooting Out

In the depths of the Sugar Maple Farm, Wei Ran and others took advantage of the time when Tatanka and his daughter drove back to carry fruits and vegetables, and they also took a look around this small two-story log cabin.

In addition to the photos hanging on the walls, the girls Sui Sui and Kou Kou also found a lot of very old things in the attic.

"What's this? A punching bag?"

At the same time as Kou Kou asked, she didn't forget to hit the white canvas tube hanging in the center of the attic, which was half a person's height, but was hung on the beam and kept at eye level with everyone. punch.

It's just that, with this fist, the little rich woman immediately showed a slightly funny look of pain on her face, and there was a muffled "dong" sound from the white canvas tube.

Seeing Kou Kou who was frantically shaking his hands with sore eyes, Wei Ran grinned and explained, "This is a sailor bag. If there is no accident, it should contain a canvas hammock and two blankets plus some sundries. It is a large bag from World War II. Most commonly seen on most naval ships."

"Are your hands okay?"

Sui Sui first asked Kou Kou, and waited for the other party to shake his head to show that it was okay, then reached out to support the sailor bag that was shaken back and forth by Kou Kou's punch just now, while pressing back and forth with his fingers to feel The outline of the hard thing inside asked rather emotionally, "Do you want to open it and have a look?"

Seeing Wei Ran looking at her, Kou Kou, who was also standing in the attic with her neck shrunk, shook her numb paws, and said with great interest, "Then open it and have a look!"

When the landlord speaks, Wei Ran and Suisui naturally have no objections.But even so, when the sailor bag made of canvas was taken off, its weight was beyond Wei Ran's expectation.

"Send it to the first floor"

Wei Ran laboriously dragged the sailor bag to the stairs. Speaking of which, this log house is not that big. There are only living room, kitchen and a bathroom on the first floor, and there are only two bathrooms on the second floor. room.

In such a cramped space, if you want to sleep five girls including Tan Tu and a gentleman like Wei Ran, you really need to plan carefully.

As for the low and narrow attic, in addition to the sailor bag shaped like a sandbag just now, there are also a lot of messy things, especially near the wall, there are two wooden shelves supporting the A set of American sailor uniforms from World War II with no obvious history, and a set of outfits that seem to be traditional Indian clothing.

Only these two clothes racks plus sailor bags take up half of the space, and the remaining half of the space is also an ax rack, on which there are at least fifty or sixty Indian axes neatly arranged.

It is obviously impossible to live in this attic, so if the hammock is still usable, I just found a place on the first floor to experience the sleep quality of seafarers back then.

Amidst these wild thoughts, everyone worked together to bring the heavy sailor bag from the attic to the first floor.

He untied several knots commonly used by sailors one after another. When Wei Ran took out the first item, he shook his head. It was an American steel helmet with all the paint on it wiped off. There are rust marks, and clear traces left by hard objects can also be seen.

Continue to take it out, and there are also thick masks and hoods, which were standard equipment for ships and sailors back then. In addition to preventing sunburn on the sea, they can also provide more or less protection in the event of a fire.Among these two things, there is also a pair of rimless goggles commonly used by the U.S. Navy on deck during World War II. General Rommel also had the same style of goggles, but his one was captured from the British.

Putting these things one by one on the log table in the living room, Wei Ran reached out and took out a pair of green gloves, a pack of green mosquito nets, a green canvas fishing kit that could be rolled up, a jungle machete and a Large pocket knife.

However, looking at the things he took out this time, he frowned.

"What's the matter?" Seeing that Wei Ran's expression was wrong, Sui Sui immediately asked curiously.

Kou Kou, on the other hand, directly took over Wei Ran's work. First, he took out a World War II US military lunch box and a slightly shriveled American kettle from his bag, and after putting them aside, he turned out a palm-sized one from inside. Iron box.

The iron box only contains a metal tube that seems to be made of aluminum and a thing of the same material and shaped like a seal.Not only are the two things connected by a metal chain, but they seem to be able to be snapped together.

When seeing these few things, Wei Ran suddenly realized "Oh!"

"You are talking," Sui Sui urged from the side.

"These things"

Wei Ran said, putting together the gloves he had just taken out, the green mosquito net, the jungle machete and the large folding knife, and the aluminum metal tube that Kou Kou had just dug out, "These things, The stuff of American pilots. More precisely, they're the stuff of U.S. Naval Airmen who fought in the Pacific War."

"How do you know?" Kou Kou asked curiously after Anfisa finished translating Wei Ran's words, "Also, what is this metal tube for? It looks a bit like a cigarette lighter."

"That's a portable flare gun, including it and the few things I picked out, which were actually in the US military's M592 survival kit during World War II."

As Wei Ran spoke, he snapped his fingers at Anfeiya who was also watching.Seeing this, the girl picked up the tablet quite spiritually, and soon found the pictures and videos of the survival bag that Wei Ran mentioned.

This is not over yet, Wei Ran picked up the green canvas fishing tool bag that can be rolled up, and said with certainty, "This tool bag was originally packed in a tin can and put in a life raft. It was also used during World War II. Something that can be found on a US Navy warship. But it is unlikely to appear at the same time as the pile of things just now."

While speaking, he also opened the fishing tool bag, pointed to the incomplete storage bag inside and the rusty fishhook attached to it and said, "Look, whether it's the fishhook or this canvas bag, It itself has traces of being used and corroded by seawater."

"Does this mean that someone fell into the water?" Sui Sui answered quickly.

"And deployed the life raft"

Wei Ran paused, and continued to speculate, "Since the life raft was used, there is reason to suspect that the warship he was serving at that time sank during a certain battle."

"There's still something in the bag, let's see what else we can deduce." Sui Sui said, and she worked with Kou Kou to take out the last few items in the sailor bag.

It naturally included an extra-thick canvas hammock and two green blankets, but both the canvas hammock and the blanket had a large black stain on them.

With just one glance, Wei Ran can be sure that the stain is definitely not ink, but formed by the oxidation of blood.

In addition to the canvas hammock and blankets, they also found the culprit that made Kou Kou's hands and claws hurt just now. It was an extra thick and heavy body armor. The fist of the little rich woman just hit the bulletproof body of the body armor. board.

"There's something else here," Kou Kou said, taking out the last item from the sailor bag, "What is this?"

"Gas Mask Pack"

Wei Ran only glanced at it and replied affirmatively, "M2A2 gas mask bag, there may not be a mask inside. This kind of satchel was often used by American soldiers as a multi-functional bag during World War II. It may contain various things."

Hearing this, Kou Kou immediately opened the backpack, and as expected, there was no gas mask inside, but a string of bone necklaces instead!
Amidst the crackling sounds, Koko, a little rich woman who was once a butcher, took out a string of necklaces from the bag that was suspected to be worn by Monk Sha Congliang without any psychological barriers.

"I'm afraid this bag doesn't belong to Monk Sha?" Sui Sui muttered subconsciously in Chinese, but happened to think of it with Wei Ran.

Looking at the girl with a smile, Wei Ran took the necklace and looked at it. The necklace was obviously worn with shoelaces, but judging from the material, it was not on American military boots.In addition, the bones that make up this string of necklaces are naturally impossible to be shrunken human heads, but bird skulls and skulls that cannot be distinguished from snakes or Neptune.

Roughly counting, there are only 11 animal skulls worn on this necklace.

He picked up the gas mask bag and looked at it. To his surprise, there was actually something inside. It was a black wrist watch.

What is quite special is that the leather strap of this watch is almost as long as it can be used as a belt for Sui Sui.At this time, the watch was fixed to a webbing buckle on the inside of the satchel by the overly long strap, so it was not poured out along with the string of necklaces.

However, when Wei Ran picked up the watch, he frowned again.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Sui Sui tiptoed and brought her head closer, and then she discovered that not only was a small sea anchor engraved on the case on the back of the watch, but also there was " Airmen" are two words!

"Devil's"

Wei Ran put down his watch and said with almost certainty, "It's the pilot's aviation watch. Look at the length of the strap, it is fixed on the thigh, so it is convenient to look at the watch when flying a fighter."

After a short pause, before Sui Sui could speak, Wei Ran pointed to the bulletproof vest that Kou Kou, a rich woman, had already worn on her body to take a selfie, and said, "That is the standard protective equipment for US deck soldiers in World War II. It is mainly used to resist Fragmentation damage from aerial bombs.

If that body armor was the equipment of Tatanka's father, then he is most likely a deck soldier of the US Army in World War II.In addition, considering his identity as an Indian, I think it is very likely that he is an auxiliary unit responsible for physical labor such as ammunition transportation. "

After a short pause, he continued, "Imagine that in a naval battle, the warship he served on was very likely to be sunk, and he was lucky enough to be assigned to a lifeboat. Judging from the string of bones, he probably I have been floating in the sea for a long time. And it is very likely that I encountered a devil pilot, um, it is possible that it is alive or dead."

"But how do you explain this?" Kou Kou asked, pointing to the pile of things belonging to the US Navy Air Corps.

"Also, this is Canada, he is a Canadian Indian, why did he go to work for the idiot beauty?" Sui Sui immediately asked her doubts.

"I'm not Tatanka's father, how do I know?"

Wei Ran spread his hands without any pressure, "Compared to the experience of the American soldier in the photo, I think we should think about how to allocate rooms tonight."

"Sister Kou and I sleep in a room"

Sui Sui said without thinking, "Sister Katenka is in one room. The eldest sister named Tantu will probably go to the dormitory next to the sugar factory to rest, so you can sleep in a hammock on the first floor."

knew it would be like this
Wei Ran muttered something, and pulled all the things on the table into the sailor bag, and then tied the hammock between the two load-bearing posts.

"How many days shall we stay here?" Wei Ran asked while trying to sit on the hammock.

"Stay a few more days, sister Kou and I are going to use this farm to make money!"

Before Sui Sui finished speaking, she had already pushed Wei Ran aside who was about to try lying on the hammock, and instead she lay down on the hammock first.

"What tricks are you planning to do?" Wei Ran asked curiously.

"I told you that you don't understand, but you will know when the time comes."

Sui Sui carefully shook the hammock under her body, stretched her waist and waved her hands in a pretentious manner, and said in Chinese, "Okay, I have nothing to do with you here, go clean up the ducks, try some beer ducks tonight .”

"After cleaning up the ducks, I will clean up you"

Wei Ran, who bullied the others who didn't understand Chinese, blatantly teased her until Sui Sui's face turned red, and then she walked out of the room, ready to take care of the two plump wild ducks.

While he was busy boiling water and removing hair, thousands of kilometers away in Charleston, a man in a black suit also walked out of the hospital with a pale, frightened little fat man.

"Father, grandpa." The little fat man who looked at most less than 10 years old asked tremblingly in English.

"He's dead." The man in the black suit sighed, "I'll take you to the airport first, and you fly back to Virginia by yourself first, and I'll let my mother pick you up."

Hearing this, the little fat man nodded, looked behind him with nostalgia, and then followed his father into the car.

The man in the suit pinched his brows wearily, started the car and drove straight to the airport.

However, just as he picked up the speed, a van drove in front of him, and the brake lights came on shortly after!
Seeing this, the man immediately stepped on the brakes. However, what he didn't expect was that the brakes of this car failed at this critical moment!
"Oh!"

Accompanied by the violent impact, before he could react, most of the car's body had already got under the truck!
After a while, some enthusiastic white or black drivers ran out of the cars that happened to pass by, and two astonished men, one black and one white, jumped out of the cab of the truck that was innocently hit.

While these people were trying hard to get out of the car and the people inside, an enthusiastic middle-aged white man, under the cover of several people around him, skillfully poured a tube of liquid medicine down the car. The blood vessel in the man's arm with only a heartbeat was pushed in, and then he put the syringe into a sealable plastic tube, and by the way, put a few individually packaged wet wipes in the man's coat pocket.

Soon, thick smoke came out of the car, and the driver who was stuck in the driver's seat, the little fat man whose neck was broken, and even the rear of the truck, all died in a very short time. Completely swallowed by thick smoke.

"call!"

At a certain moment, the car was on fire, and at the same time, the enthusiastic middle-aged white man passed the plastic tube while exchanging fire extinguishers with other drivers around him.

While the scene of the car accident was still busy putting out the fire, a disposable syringe wrapped in wet wipes and containing some drugs and DNA remained in the trash can of a men's toilet in the hospital not far away.

(End of this chapter)