On the upper deck at the stern of the Nagatsuka Maru, in the center of the brightly lit crowd, the Japanese first mate easily overturned Valoro, who was a head taller than him, to the ground amid the cheers of many Japanese sailors.
Before Valoro could get up, the proud-looking first mate of the Japanese army arrogantly made an insulting thumbs down gesture, while the Japanese soldiers around him cheered even more enthusiastically.
"let me try"
Before he finished speaking, Karan, who was still a little bruised and swollen, had already jumped into the center of the circle before Wei Ran took a step, stretched out his hand to pick up Valoro, helped him take off his protective gear, and put it on himself without any explanation.
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"I'm afraid he's going to get beaten again," Wei Ran couldn't help but say.
"It doesn't matter"
Hugo, who was also preparing to go on stage just now, said nonchalantly, "Karan, this bastard, is more resistant to beatings."
"Bang!"
Before he could finish this sentence, Karan, who had just joined hands with the first mate, was thrown to the ground by a beautiful shoulder.
"Let me try it first"
Hugo also got ahead of Wei Ran who was about to say something. After entering the venue, he first picked up Karan who was grinning after being thrown, and then took off the opponent's protective gear and put it on himself.
As expected, although Hugo persisted longer than Karan, he was also thrown to the ground within a few rounds.
After overthrowing three opponents who were taller than him in a row, the cheers of the surrounding Japanese were louder, and the first mate became more and more proud. At the same time, its pair of sly little eyes also glanced at the stretched out hand.
Pull up Hugo's health.
"Don't let it catch your arms or waist," Hugo warned in a low voice. "It's very weird. I was thrown out before I even reacted."
"I'll give it a try," Wei Ran said, already taking a step towards the center of the field.
"Victor, you are not wearing protective gear." Hugo reminded.
"No need." Wei Ran waved his hand carelessly, but his smiling eyes were looking at the first mate opposite.
"You will get hurt if you don't wear protective gear," the first mate warned.
"You will get hurt if you fall"
As he spoke, Wei Ran took out a wad of bills from his pocket and shook them, "If you win, it's yours. If you lose, how about you give me the necklace around your neck?"
"You want this?" the first mate asked, picking up the necklace around his neck.
Seeing Wei Ran nod, the first mate refused, "I won't take this as a bet."
"Or tell me where you got it?" Wei Ran shook the money in his hand again, "Of course, you can still win the money."
"Let me win first and then let's talk." The first mate said arrogantly.
Wei Ran smiled casually and handed the banknotes in his hand to Hugo behind him to help hold it. He took another step forward and accepted the other's hypocritical bow with peace of mind.
Seeing that Wei Ran, who was not wearing protective gear, did not return the favor at all, the first mate made up his mind to teach him a lesson.
With this in mind, it found the opportunity, stretched out its hand forward, grabbed Wei Ran who was in a boxing posture, and accurately grasped the latter's shirt collar with his left hand.
However, before it could grab Wei Ran's left arm and prepare to punch him in the face, there was a tingling sensation in the left elbow where it had already grasped Wei Ran's collar.
At the same time, before his left foot, which he had just raised to trip Wei Ran, had time to exert force, Wei Ran kicked him inward with his right foot, making a crisp "pop" sound.
The momentary distraction caused by this small movement had disastrous consequences. Wei Ran's hand that had just squeezed its left elbow was already pushing the numb left elbow from the outside to the right, and with it,
Along with his calf being kicked from the side, his body also involuntarily turned slightly to the right.
Also in this flash of lightning, Wei Ran's right hand, which had not yet been grasped, changed from a fist to a half-grip with a set of joints open, revealing a taut palm and an inwardly clasped thumb.
"Snapped!"
In the second crisp sound, Wei Ran's right palm hit the right side of the first mate's chin in an accurate diagonal line, and in conjunction with the opponent's slight right turn, he unleashed a force far greater than it looked.
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With one blow, the first mate couldn't help but look up at the sky. However, Wei Ran used this hand to grab the upper arm of the elbow pushed by his right hand, and continued to pull hard to the left, forcing the opponent's body to continue to turn until his back was almost facing him.
While holding himself, he raised his right foot again and kicked the knee of the right leg where the first mate's center of gravity was.
"Plop!"
After this kick, the first mate, who had bitten his tongue due to being hit on the jaw, knelt down on one knee uncontrollably, and his arm, which was still numb at the elbow, had been twisted behind its back by Wei Ran
Immediately afterwards, Wei Ran stepped on its left ankle with the same foot that had just kicked its knee socket.
All this sounds slow to say, but it happened in an instant in less than two seconds. At this time, some people who reacted slowly were even cheering, and even those who reacted quickly subconsciously let out an exclamation. And those who were fighting
The sailors who had raised their beer glasses before had not even let their lips leave the glass.
After deliberately pausing for a second, Wei Ran pulled up the first mate. However, almost when the other person stood firm, he grabbed the hand he was holding with his backhand and prepared to exert force.
But Wei Ran, who had already guessed that a baby was about to come out, took advantage of the situation and rushed forward, raised his knee and gave it a hard blow on its belly.
Knocking the first mate who was preparing for a sneak attack to the ground again, Wei Ran ignored the severe pain in the opponent's abdomen and stretched out his hand towards the opponent in an upright manner, holding his stomach in pain and twitching, and it looked like he was about to vomit.
The deputy was dragged to his feet.
"Do you want to continue?" Wei Ran took a step back, took the cash from Hugo and casually put it into his pocket and asked.
"You violated the law," the first mate said unconvincingly, holding his stomach.
"We didn't agree on any rules." Wei Ran spread his hands innocently, "And there shouldn't be a sneak attack in your rules, right?"
Hearing this, the first mate snorted, pinched the necklace around his neck and said, "I bought the necklace from a native."
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"Why are you so curious about this?" the first mate asked a little warily.
"That's the beak of a bird of paradise," Wei Ran explained in a natural manner, "It's hard to buy this kind of bird now."
"How do you know this is a bird of paradise?" the first mate asked curiously.
"Can you show me?" Wei Ran stretched out his hand towards the other party.
After hesitating for a moment, the first mate finally took off the necklace and handed it to Wei Ran.
"Valoro, block the light and stand behind me." Wei Ran said deliberately while taking the necklace.
Taking the hint, Valoro also stood beside Wei Ran, getting closer to the necklace in his hand without leaving a trace.
"I'm an Australian sailor, and all birds of paradise in the world are native to Papua, so of course I know them."
While observing the necklace, Wei Ran babbled in a matter-of-fact tone, "Yes, it is indeed a bird of paradise. This blue-white beak is as valuable as their gorgeous feathers.
But it’s really rare to find a necklace like yours. It seems to be in the style of an indigenous tribe. You must have spent a lot of money to buy it, right? It’s really enviable.”
As expected, Wei Ran's last little compliment immediately made the first officer's face show a proud look, and he reached out and took away the necklace from Wei Ran's hand.
Seeing this, Wei Ran secretly grasped Valoro's tense wrist and said in a deliberately envious tone, "Keep it well. It is said that the beak of the Bird of Paradise can bring good luck, especially this blue bird of paradise."
Bird’s beak.”
“It definitely brought me a lot of good luck.”
After being complimented again, the first mate touched the necklace that was hung around his neck again, changed the subject and asked, "Victor, how did you do that just now? I haven't been knocked down for a long time."
"We often fight with others on the street, so we always need some means to save our lives."
Wei Ran pointed at the wound on Karan's face pretending to be proud, "To tell you the truth, we had a fight with someone before we got on the boat."
Using this topic, the two parties chatted for a while before they separated. The four of them, Wei Ran, walked to the edge of the deck again.
"Do you see clearly?" Wei Ran lowered his voice and asked.
Valoro nodded, "That is the necklace of the bravest hunter of our tribe. I can't mistake it. Hugo, I even know whose necklace it is. We all saw it on the Kokoda Trail."
His dismembered body."
"Calm down first." Hugo glanced at the crowd still gathering in the distance, "Let's go back and think of a solution first."
"Let's go." As Wei Ran spoke, he pushed Valoro's shoulders and followed Hugo and young Karan to the cabin in the distance.
On this extraordinarily long night, the cabin of the four Weiran people rarely heard the snoring that had been heard before. The three Hugo people lying in the hammocks all tossed and turned, thinking of ways, and finally decided to wait until the ship docked.
, just try to trick the first mate off the ship.
This was obviously not a good strategy, but Wei Ran did not join the discussion because he knew that the necklace might be returned to Valoro soon.
However, to his disappointment, the sailors on the deck outside the cabin did not celebrate for long before they returned to the cabin. The whaling ship that started its return gradually became quiet, and Hugo did not go there either.
Send the drunk captain to the meeting room - Captain Fernando on the other end is not even drunk.
The next day passed in a blink of an eye. Wei Ran and the other three were called to help in the kitchen early, while Hugo was called to help guard the radar. After dinner, the four of them followed the Japanese sailors and started to get rid of the enemy.
It can be said that there is no idle time at all during the whole day of rust-painting work.
At dusk on the third day, when we were about to dock in Brisbane in five or six hours, the loudspeaker that had been silent for two days suddenly heard the Japanese shouts of the sailors on duty in the watchtower again!
This time, Wei Ran, who was taking pictures of Hugo and the others on the bow deck, even clearly saw a huge body leaping out of the sea not far away that was dyed red by the sunset!
Wei Ran and Captain Fernando, who was taking pictures of the sunset not far away, pointed their cameras at the huge figure in the sky and pressed the shutter!
"Wow——!"
When the figure crashed into the sea again, everyone on the bow also heard the clear sound of water splashing.
"It's a fin whale!"
Captain Fernando shouted, but at the same time he had already run to the whaling cannon not far away, personally aimed at the whale that was gradually floating in the center of the water, and pulled the trigger!
At the same time, Weiran also turned the camera lens and pointed it at Fernando, who was controlling the whale cannon. He adjusted the focus as quickly as possible and pressed the shutter again.
"Boom!"
In the dull sound of cannons that sounded almost simultaneously with the sound of the shutter, the javelin carrying a long rope flew out at high speed under the astonished gazes of Wei Ran and others, accurately hitting the whale that had just exposed its back to the water, and followed closely behind it.
An explosion occurred the next moment!
"Bang!"
Amidst the explosion, there was not much water splashing on the sea, but it was dyed blood red in the blink of an eye!
"Captain, if we hunt whales here, we will be watched by Australian patrols!" A sailor who was maintaining equipment on the deck reminded slightly nervously.
"Hurry! Drag it up to the deck!" Captain Fernando ignored it and just gave the order and quickly ran into the cabin.
Soon, the whaling ship reduced its speed, and then, with the cooperation of many sailors, dragged the fin whale that should not have appeared to the upper deck of the stern.
Immediately afterwards, the whaler also reduced its speed, and all the sailors were called to the stern deck.
I personally photographed the moment when the whale jumped out of the sea, hit the prey with a single shot from the whaling cannon, and successfully fished it aboard. All of this made Captain Fernando immersed in excitement and pride.
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Captain Fernando, who had changed into a white uniform, was holding the samurai sword that was originally placed in the command room. He even trimmed his beard carefully during that time.
When the sailors on the deck responded enthusiastically, he added, "I want to keep its complete skeleton and donate it to my alma mater in Kobe. So I must ensure that the bones are intact."
When the sailors responded loudly again, Fernando enthusiastically raised the Nikon camera in his hand towards Wei Ran, who was watching coldly from a distance, "Victor, come here and take some photos for us, use my camera!"
"My pleasure"
Wei Ran responded with a smile, took the other person's camera, and first took a few photos of Fernando, who had one foot on the whale's lips and still held the toothpick-like samurai sword in his hand. Then, the sailors
Under the command of Fernando, we either climbed onto the whale's body, or stood on the left and right, and took a group photo with the captain standing in the middle holding a samurai sword, facing the last ray of the sunset.
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“It turned out there were 33 people in total.”
While Wei Ran muttered to himself, Fernando also said regretfully, "It's a pity that my Taro is not on board."
"Don't worry, captain," the first mate said, "when we get back to Brisbane, maybe it will be waiting for you at the dock."
"I hope so!"
Fernando sighed, then cheered up and shouted loudly, "Everyone, deal with this fin whale as quickly as possible, remember to keep the whale head!"
"Hi!" All the sailors shouted again.
"After we finish the work, we will drink up all the stored wine tonight and sleep until dawn before docking!"
"Too many pieces!"
These Japanese sailors immediately burst into even more excited cheers, each picked up tools specifically for slaughtering whales, and began to work.
This time, Captain Fernando did not leave after taking the camera from Wei Ran. Instead, he stood beside Wei Ran and took a few more photos himself. Then he held the broken knife with both hands with a proud look on his face and squinted.
With his small eyes, he watched the busy sailors carve up the prey he had "caught".
"Mr. Nagatsuka," Wei Ran said in Japanese, "I have a gift for you."
"Gift?"
Fernando turned to look at Wei Ran and asked with interest, "What gift?"
"a photo"
Wei Ran picked up the camera hanging around his neck, "Of course, if you want to get this gift before the evening party, you may need to lend me your darkroom."
Seeing that the other party still looked puzzled, Wei Ran said more bluntly, "I just took a picture of the moment you fired the whale cannon, but I'm not sure if I got the best moment. Frankly speaking, I can't wait now.
I want to see the photos I just took.”
Hearing this, Fernando's face showed a look of surprise, followed by a fleeting suspicion, but soon he couldn't hold back his curiosity and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to the darkroom."
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"Do you need me to help you develop the photos taken together?" Wei Ran asked proactively.
"Let me see your printing skills first," Captain Fernando said in a joking tone.
“You won’t be disappointed”
Wei Ran showed a gentle and confident smile on his face, followed Fernando off the deck and entered the cabin, then climbed up the stairs, and finally got into the locked captain's cabin.
Putting the broken knife in his hand on the desk, Fernando took out the bunch of keys and opened the darkroom door, "Do you need my help?"
"I have absolute confidence in printing photos," Wei Ran said without any doubt.
Hearing this, Fernando cupped his hands toward the darkroom and said, "I'll wait for you outside. The consumables are all in the cabinet."
"I'll have it printed soon."
As Wei Ran spoke, he walked into the darkroom, turned on the lights himself, closed the door, and placed a thick blackout curtain. The good thing about this era is that there is no need to worry about the cameras that will be everywhere in the future.
First, he quietly went to the safe at the end of the room and observed it carefully. Then he turned off the light and checked again. Until he was sure that there was no light leakage in the room, he put the box in the camera that had not been taken yet.
The finished film was rewound, taken out, and the development work started step by step.
When the film turned into visible film, he did not turn on the light. Instead, he squatted next to the safe in the dark, took out a pair of rubber gloves from his pocket, and then took two more from his belt.
In the past two days, he used the lockpicking tool made from the steel wire found on the boat and quietly started working.
In addition to being grateful for the experience of being blindfolded and limited-time lockpicking at Hongqi Forest Farm, Weiran is also grateful for the outdated design of this safe.
So without wasting much time, he easily pried open the safe in the dark.
However, he did not open the cabinet door. He just took out a lighter, lit it and took a look. Then he immediately locked the safe and restored it to its original state. Then he took off his gloves, turned on the light and observed the developed film, and then
Then he continued the work of developing photos.
Soon, two photos were developed.
One of the photos is the moment he captured the whale jumping out of the sea. The other is when Fernando personally controlled the whale cannon to fire. The flying javelin pulled the rope to bring out a series of slightly blurred shadows, and this
The captain held the whaling cannon with a serious and ruthless expression on his face. Of course, there was also a huge splash on the sea a little further away that had not subsided.
Nodding with satisfaction, Wei Ran clamped the two photos on the drying line, then opened the door and said in Japanese with a smile, "Mr. Nagatsuka, my gift is ready, do you want to come in and take a look?"
"certainly!"
Captain Fernando, who was sitting behind the desk, immediately put a photo album in his hand on the table, stood up and walked quickly to the door of the darkroom. Under the guidance of Wei Ran's raised arm, he walked into the room that he had personally decorated.
Darkroom, and then saw the two photos that had just been fished out of the water.
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Fernando sincerely praised, "The angle of light you chose and the timing are very good, and the focus is also very accurate. Victor, you are completely wasting your life as a sailor, you should be a photographer."
"I always want to live"
Wei Ran pretended to be helpless and picked up the outdated military flag camera on the table, "However, I will definitely become a photographer in the future."
"Yes, you have to live."
Fernando sighed, then walked to the cabinet against the wall. After opening the cabinet door, he took out a Nikon SP camera in a leather case and handed it to Wei Ran. He said very seriously, "Victor
, please accept it, I believe you will become an excellent photographer in the future."
"Is this...given to me?"
Wei Ran looked at the other person in astonishment. He could see that the man in front of him with the pseudonym Fernando was sincerely blessing him and really hoped that he could become a photographer. He could also see that this cruel arrester
The whale ship captain really likes photography.
"certainly"
Fernando forced the camera into Wei Ran's hand, "This is the latest product of Nikon, which is under review. It was a 48th birthday gift from my friend. But I am still used to using this camera now."
The camera, so let me transfer it to you, Mr. Victor, I very much look forward to you taking more excellent photos with it."
Sighing secretly, Wei Ran still accepted the camera. It is true that he has an innate hatred for the Japanese. It is true that he knew that if there were not too many background and historical reasons, Fernando, who liked photography, would at least be good at photography.
, maybe you can have a very good conversation with yourself.
But how can there be so many ifs?
He was a recruiter, and he massacred so many innocent people. These two items alone were enough for Wei Ran to satisfy all the reasons for killing the other party.
“Go out on the deck and try this camera.”
As Fernando spoke, he took out another box of film from the cabinet and handed it to Wei Ran, "I also want to develop the photos I took."
"Then, see you at the party tonight."
Wei Ran said goodbye with a smile on his face, and left the captain's room with the camera he gave in return, left the cabin, and finally returned to the edge of the deck, where he joined Hugo, Valoro, and Karan who were also watching the fun.
Without mentioning what just happened in the captain's cabin, Wei Ran didn't even hang the camera he just got around his neck, but casually put it into his bag.
Because he knew that in a few hours, he and Fernand, no, he and the nuclear photographer, the war criminal Nagatsuka Joeji who had escaped trial, and all the sailors on the ship except Hugo and the three,