On the first floor of the long-abandoned sentry tower, Wei Ran, who fell on his back and helped his dog to get up again, did not focus on the quill he was working on. Instead, he raised his head and looked around, using the light of the flashlight.
, frowning and observing the interior of the sentry tower.
This sentry tower that existed seventy years ago is still extremely strong today, but what really worries Wei Ran is that this time the metal notebook used this sentry tower to return to that period of history, but it still accurately positioned it.
He arrived at Mesut, the German prisoner of war whom Wei Ran was looking for, and followed him through the entire journey from escape to death.
So the anchor point for looking back at historical fragments is not only the corresponding historical objects, but also me as a person?
Wei Ran muttered secretly, and then had time to look at the metal quill that was busy working on the pages of the metal book.
After a while, the picture drawn with the metal quill pen turned into a black and white photo.
In the photo, the top of the sentry tower still had a dazzling searchlight on. Under the sentry tower, Mesut, Ihor and the young guard Panin stood straight side by side, with faint smiles on their faces.
meaning.
Thinking of the outcome of these three people, Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh, and moved his eyes to look at the lines of writing written by the metal quill:
Panin Yashin, a guard at the state-owned store warehouse, was murdered by the war criminal Ihor and died of hypothermia while chasing escaped prisoners of war on November 16, 1951. He was later awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor posthumously.
Prisoner of war Ihor/Toshiro Koyama escaped from the labor camp in collaboration with the war criminal Mesut Gotze on November 11, 1951.
On the 15th, he suffered a fracture in his right calf while resisting an attack by a pack of wolves.
On the 16th, after discussing with Mesut, he pretended to give up the escape and returned to the labor camp, but actually escaped alone. On the way, he successfully attacked and killed Panin, the warehouse guard, but due to the resistance of the sled dog, he suffered severe injuries to his hands.
On the 18th, Ran Langyan took the initiative to contact the hunting team of the labor camp, falsified the facts, fabricated his experience of tracking lost deer and being attacked by wolves, and assisted Sergey, a member of the hunting team, to find Panin's body despite being injured.
On the 19th, he was sent from the labor camp to Turukhansk Hospital for treatment.
On February 4, 1952, the war criminal Ihor was discharged from the hospital, was awarded one month of paid leave, and was transferred to work as a salesperson in a labor camp store.
On April 28, 1953, he was qualified for repatriation. On December 1, 1953, he was repatriated to Japan on the "Xing'an Maru".
Shortly after returning to the country, Ihor was living in embarrassment due to his physical disability, so he wrote letters to try to contact Mesut's family to coax and extort money to survive.
In the winter of 2002, he fell due to icy road conditions and fractured his lumbar spine, unable to move. He froze to death in his own hospital.
Prisoner of war Mesut Gotze escaped from the labor camp on November 11, 1951, in collaboration with the recruited nuclear war criminal Ihor.
On the 16th, he gave up Ihor and decided to escape westward alone according to his true plan.
On the 20th, we traded animal skins with the Nenets to obtain sufficient supplies.
On the 21st, he accidentally fell into a hunting trap during a snowstorm, resulting in a fractured thigh, a comminuted fracture of his left arm and multiple ruptured blood vessels. He later fell into shock due to serious injuries.
On December 25, 1951, the surviving sled dogs and Mesut returned to the hunting and trading station on their own. After being rescued by the Nenets, Mesut briefly regained consciousness and realized that there was no hope of escape. He left a message and committed suicide in the cave.
Suhayatunguska No. 2 logging camp was established in 1948. The organization was abolished in May 1953, and all prisoners were repatriated or granted amnesty. All staff were transferred to various places, and the original logging camp and mines were abandoned due to production and transportation problems.
So this labor camp was abandoned before the Japanese soldier Ihor was deported? In 1953. It must be the masterpiece of Cornboy, right?
Wei Ran muttered to himself and continued reading. The metal quill next listed the detailed number of the Red Banner of Labor medal that Panin received, as well as a set of extremely precise coordinates, plus a location in Narvik, Finland.
Hong Kong address, and a Finnish mobile phone number.
Below these key messages, there is a sentence, "The truth has always been arbitrarily disguised by the survivors, but history should not be like this."
Gently turning the page to the back, under the slowly rotating red vortex, there is also written a sigh that seems to be a last word, "It's a pity that I couldn't conquer the Ural Mountains myself. Maybe it is the wall of this cold prison, but
I don’t know if there is the freedom and family I long for on the other side.”
Wei Ran secretly sighed, and with mixed feelings in his heart, Wei Ran turned the page back to the previous page, and took out a few negatives from the paper bag next to the photo.
Fortunately, there are many negatives of the photos he secretly took along the way, including the group photos he took in the labor camp.
However, what was slightly different from what he experienced was that these films were not the 16mm films used in the Kiev 30 spy camera, but relatively normal 35mm films.
After thinking about it, he understood that these cameras were probably taken by the Kiev Type 2 camera used by the woman in the shop in the labor camp.
After all, Ihor even stole the woman's watch, so there was really no reason not to steal the relatively more valuable camera.
It's a shame that it has been kept alive for so long.
Wei Ran muttered secretly, put away the fastened metal book, and took out the contents of the latest red vortex.
However, he frowned when a sleigh nearly two meters long and less than 80 centimeters wide appeared on the floor of the first floor of the abandoned sentry tower.
He was certain that this sleigh was indeed the one made by Mesut himself, but there were some extra things and some missing things on this sleigh.
Let’s talk about the missing items first. Maybe it’s because he knew Weiran wouldn’t find reindeer to pull the cart, or maybe Weiran knew he was incompetent and couldn’t provide reindeer to pull the cart.
Therefore, the three originally existing shafts of this sleigh, which were fully 3 meters long after being pulled out from the bottom of the vehicle, were reduced to only two short shafts that were only 1.5 meters long at most, but could be screwed together like screws.
Fortunately, they can also be stored under the sled.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In addition, the box at the rear of the car, as well as the pair of skis and snowball fights also made by Mesut in the box are gone, but there are symbolic leftovers for him.
I got off a pair of oval-shaped snowshoes that were fairly solid and tied them to the railing at the rear of the sled with a leather buckle.
If there are few, there will naturally be many. At this time, the sled is still covered with a white rubber canvas.
When he opened the canvas, the first thing he saw was the white polar bear skin spread on the sleigh, the reindeer blanket rolled up in the corner, and the tent.
Without opening them, he recognized at a glance that these three items were originally placed on the half-track motorcycle, and later briefly appeared on the half-track motorcycle's tow truck.
Later, after it was given to the ill-fated crawler transport vehicle, the tow bucket disappeared, and these three items returned to the back seat of the half-track motorcycle.
Now that we have a sleigh, why are these things moved here again? Wei Ran glanced at the tattoo on the tiger's mouth suspiciously.
Strictly speaking, whether these three items or the half-track motorcycle, they are all rewards for completing the ten levels of his inventory, so this reward can actually be placed anywhere?
Without moving these three things, he looked at the wooden box covered with fox fur that served as a seat on the sleigh.
The box was 50 centimeters high, 60 centimeters wide, and 70 centimeters long. The reason why he knew it so clearly was naturally because Mesut, a rigorous German prisoner of war, said it during a chat on the way to escape.
According to Mesut at the time, this size was not only just right to put in a sleigh and serve as a stool, but it could also be used as a ruler.
He really didn't care whether the box could be used as a ruler or not. In fact, he valued the storage space provided by the box more. After all, the food box was too small after all.
However, when he opened it, he was inevitably a little disappointed - the box was already full.
On the top of this box is a white deerskin robe called "Mariza" by the Nenets people.
Not only were the elbows, cuffs and shoulders of this robe reinforced with thick canvas, but it also had a waist-cinching belt to prevent wind. He remembered clearly that this was a birthday gift given to him by Sergey.
Under this deerskin robe, there is also a folded white sheet, and further down, there are glass cans next to each other, each with a capacity of two liters.
Some of these cans contain solidified white animal fat, while others contain homemade canned red meat, canned fruits, and canned vegetables including pickles.
Even the two cans of the same size at the far side are filled with flour and full-grained oats respectively.
"It would have been nice if I had something like this in the box when my eyes turned blue from hunger in Leningrad." Wei Ran murmured to himself as he picked up a bottle of canned red meat and looked at it.
After restoring the box and the contents to their original state, Wei Ran took out the half-track motorcycle without giving up and looked at it. Sure enough, the half-track motorcycle no longer had the tent and the two animal skin blankets.
Unwilling to give up, he also took out the rest of the things and checked them, and he really made a new discovery.
In the silver cigarette case obtained during the defense of Leningrad last time, there is now an extended cigarette holder made of deer antler.
Compared to this little surprise, Wei Ran sat on the sled that he had not yet had time to put away. When he entered the set of coordinates provided by the metal book into the satellite map, the positioning point that popped up was just as he expected.
, located on the edge of a tributary about 150 kilometers away on the east bank of the Ob River.
"I ran so far"
Wei Ran couldn't help but admired, and then shook his head. Mesut ran so far and couldn't escape, but Ihor was lucky enough to survive. This made people sigh that God has no eyesight.
After a long sigh, Wei Ran finally put away the sleigh, which was destined to be of little use. Then he took off the flashlight hanging on the animal trap, and took with him the horse fur notepad with the pocket watch-style compass fixed on it and the horseshoe.
Xiaodao, along with his dog Beria, left this long-forgotten sentry tower and braved the biting cold wind to return to the warm car.
After a night of silence, when Wei Ran and Suisui were woken up by the alarm clock, although the sky was bright outside the car window and the sun could barely be seen in the distance, its dim and feeble brightness was so dim that even the lights in the refrigerator were dim.
Not as good as.
"Where are we going today?" Suisui, who had slept well due to the drunkenness, turned over and lay on Wei Ran's body and asked enthusiastically.
"Go to an abandoned cave dozens of kilometers away. If we find nothing, we will go back."
Wei Ran hugged the former and explained that the abandoned cave was naturally the abandoned gold mine cave where Ihor killed him. It was also the location where the horse fur notebook was found accurately mentioned in the information provided by Diane.
"Are you in a hurry?" Suisui asked softly against his ear.
It obviously didn't matter how Wei Ran answered this inconspicuous question. When the two of them, slimy and crooked, finally opened the door of the big bicycle that had started shaking in the wind for no reason, they felt refreshed and came out.
By that time, the sky outside was getting brighter. In another car, the Katenka sisters who woke up at almost the same time had already filled their stomachs with instant noodles imported from China.
Without wasting any more time, everyone packed up the camp and continued along the river. It took them almost 6 hours to find the cave on the edge of the river in the dark.
However, when they drove the car to the entrance of the mine, what Wei Ran saw was not the locked wooden door, but a scene that had collapsed for a long time and had long been filled in by snow and shrub stumps.
"Let's go back."
Wei Ran made the decision without even getting out of the car. He already knew the answer and came here with no hope other than acting.
"Why don't you go down and look for it?" Suisui asked rather unwillingly.
“No need to go”
Wei Ran shook his head, and while controlling the car to turn around, he explained, "With the four of us, we can't even dig out this place even if our arms are worn out. Since this is the case, there is no need to waste time. Go back early and go to see the Japs."
See if there are any clues."
"Are you going by yourself?" Suisui asked subconsciously.
"Aren't you going?" Wei Ran asked as he increased his speed.
“Don’t really want to go”
Suisui yawned uninterested, and while getting up and walking to the bathroom at the back of the car, she explained, "I prefer the Japs who died in Siberia. I don't like the Japs who are alive, as they can easily cause physical discomfort."
"Who did you learn these words from?" Wei Ran shook his head in confusion.
"Your grandpa and my grandpa have already talked about it."
"You are not allowed to do business with the Japanese, and you will not earn a dime from them." Weiran said the same sentence to Suisui in unison while slowing down the car.
This was not an ancestral motto, but it was the only request made by the two old men in Baiyangdian when Suisui's mother was planning to take Wei Ran's parents into the tourism business.
Although the business of the two companies is getting more and more prosperous day by day due to Suisui's hard work, the rules set by the old man who provided most of the start-up capital for the two companies have always been retained.
"As long as you know"
Suisui waved her hand, "I won't go, but if you need it, I can find you a translator."
"There is no need for a translator," Wei Ran said slightly louder, "I am on a business trip, so my employer must provide a translator."
Hearing this, Suisui yawned again with relief, and then got into the bathroom at the back of the car.
While the girl was going to the bathroom, Wei Ran didn't bother to look at the current time in Kazan or Germany. He took out his satellite phone and dialed Diane, the person in charge of the Edelweiss organization.
After a slightly long wait, Diane on the other end finally answered the phone and asked directly, "Mr. Victor, did you find anything?"
"How could it be so fast?"
Wei Ran glanced at Suisui, who had returned to the co-pilot, and said slowly, "I found the labor camp yesterday, and now I'm at the entrance of the mine where Mr. Sumeite found the notebook, but I don't know if it's natural or man-made.
, this place has collapsed."
"Since then"
"So I plan to go to the house of Ihor, the nuclear-recruited prisoner of war, in Sapporo to see if I can find any clues."
Wei Ran paused and continued, "So I need to trouble you to contact Mr. Sumeite and help me arrange the itinerary."
"When do you plan to leave?" Diane asked without any hesitation.
Looking at Suisui again, Wei Ran said, "Early December, as early as possible."
"I'll notify Mr. Mesut right now," Diane said and simply hung up the phone.
Leaving the itinerary to Xiao Su Mesut, whom he had never met before, Weiyan, Suisui and others spent another whole day before returning to Turukhansk and taking the cargo plane back the next day.
Kazan.
After a few days of back and forth, the video of Wei Ran participating in the Wilderness Survival Invitational Tournament was edited by the seniors at Time Film Studio and Suisui personally posted it on the website Anfiya made for her business and various websites.
A social platform for people to watch for free.
Just when netizens were complaining about the amateurish and even suicidal behavior of this historian in the video, an inconspicuous piece of news was screenshotted by Anfiya and forwarded to Weiran's mobile phone.
On the first floor of Dabieye by the Kaban Lake, Wei Ran, who was busy making candied haws for the girls in the kitchen, took out his cell phone and took a look, then frowned.
This news was nothing else. It just mentioned that a Japanese-French man had a serious car accident on the highway because of alcoholism on the fourth day after inheriting an inheritance. And this Japanese-French man happened to be...
The eldest son of Sakurada Toli who was murdered by Wei Ran!
"Who did it?" Wei Ran put away his cell phone and asked Anfiya in a low voice as he walked into the kitchen.
"Not sure"
Anfiya replied in a low voice, "It's not Charon, it's not Hela, it's not Nineel or any official or unofficial force I know, but it's definitely not an accident. The biggest suspect at the moment is the eldest son's wife.
"
"For inheritance?" Wei Ran frowned.
“That’s not clear.”
Anfiya spread her hands, picked up the stainless steel tray with rock candies and various gourds, and finally said, "When he had a car accident, the mistress we controlled was on the flight from Hawaii to Dongjing. She has a perfect alibi.
.
But the more this happens, the more it makes me feel that the death of the eldest son was a murder, and the person who did it was obviously hinting to the people behind the mistress that they had no ill intentions."
Hearing this, Wei Ran frowned and said, "Let the girls from Succubus and Hela be more careful."
"Are you going to recruit again soon?" Anfiya finally asked.
"Go, of course, he's not my eldest son, it's none of my business whether he dies or not," Wei Ran responded matter-of-factly.
Anfiya didn't ask any more questions after hearing this, and walked out of the kitchen with a few bunches of barely successful candied haws on the tray, and distributed them to Suisui and other girls who were playing games on the computer.
In the kitchen, Wei Ran picked up a bunch of failed products and took a bite, secretly wondering who had done it.
Could it be Jia Ya?
Wei Ran frowned. After thinking about it this time, the only people who had the ability to take action were the Hongqi Forestry Farmers and Nineel who were not interested in such a thing at all. I am afraid that the woman named Jia Ya was the one.
Not to mention the teachers at Hongqi Forest Farm, they are not that kind. Not to mention Niniel, he is a trustworthy friend, and if he asks, he will definitely help.
But if he didn't mention it to himself, he would definitely not take the initiative to kill the eldest son, and even if it hurt him, he would definitely tell himself early.
On the other hand, Wei Ran really couldn't see through that dangerous woman, Jia Ya.
He couldn't see clearly what benefits Jaya could gain from assuming that the eldest son was killed by her. He also couldn't see how much energy she had and whether she could let the eldest son die legally.
You know, there is a difference between killing and murder, and legal death.
Especially legal death, such as being killed by Wei Ran, no, just like the Japanese soldier Sakurada Tori who committed suicide, it is a legal death.
After such speculation, Wei Ran felt a chill down his back. If the eldest son was indeed legally killed by Jia Ya in a similar way, then who was behind Jia Ya?
Until all the failed candied haws went into his stomach, he couldn't figure out the reason.
