It was already past two o'clock in the afternoon when Wei Ran took Mr. Charlotte, who was almost steaming, back to the big house on the shore of Lake Kaban.
Throughout the morning, in addition to taking Charlotte to a good sauna, he also took her to a Georgian restaurant run by his "student's wife" next to Kazan University for a good meal, and together they drank most of a bottle of ice cream.
of vodka.
There is no doubt that when he drove the car into the yard, Charlotte was already sleeping in the car and snoring loudly.
He asked Taxi, who was staying at home, to help take Mr. Charlotte, who had drunk too much, to the guest room on the third floor. When Wei Ran pushed his suitcase in, he also took away his luggage as agreed in advance.
briefcase.
"Taxi, come with me and do me a few more favors." Wei Ran stopped Taxi and asked him to follow him downstairs.
"What's the rush?"
Tassie asked, he stayed here specially to wait for Mr. Charlotte. As for Monica, Matthew, Coco and others, Suisui took her out to play early in the morning.
"I'll talk to you later"
Wei Ran stood at the stairs on the second floor and said, "I'm going to change my clothes first. You wait for me in the living room."
"No problem" Taxi responded happily.
Seeing this, Wei Ran walked into his and Suisui's bedroom and opened Charlotte's briefcase.
Obviously, this briefcase was prepared for Wei Ran. Apart from the military rank ring in the jewelry box, there was only a stack of photos and a plastic-sealed map.
He rummaged through the briefcase carefully, and after making sure there was no bug or anything like that, he put the things he had just dug out back into the briefcase together with the sword in the safe in the bedroom.
After changing into more loose and comfortable clothes, Wei Ran carried his briefcase to the living room on the second floor and asked directly, "Do you have the watch that Matthew gave you as a gift?"
"Of course I'll bring it with me," Taxi said immediately. "Koko specially reminded me when I came here."
"How about you lend it to me?" Wei Ran asked with a smile, "I'll return it to you before dark."
"No problem, just wait for me."
Before Taxi finished speaking, he had already run upstairs. Not long after, he came down with a watch box and handed it to Wei Ran. At the same time, he did not forget to explain, "I have been using it for half a month since I got it."
It has been renovated and maintained over time.
Apart from being a bit big, its timekeeping is quite accurate, and in addition, this watch is very special.”
"Special? What's so special about it?" Wei Ran asked while opening the box.
"This is a 58mm diameter B-Uhr aviation watch made by Lange before World War II using Cal.45 movement. Turn it over and look at the engravings on the case."
Taxi gave Wei Ran an additional reminder, and then continued, "A total of only 189 pieces of this batch of aviation watches were produced. The last time I saw this watch was in the information introduction in Lange's museum.
Under normal circumstances, the case cover of this watch should have its production serial number, especially for a watch with such a small production quantity, that serial number is particularly important.”
Hearing this, Wei Ran looked at the huge watch in his hand and turned it over.
On the back cover of this watch, there is no production serial number mentioned by Taxi. Instead, it is engraved with the outline of the Antarctic continent cut by longitude and latitude lines, and the Nascent Eagle logo located in the center of the Antarctic continent. Obviously, at least this piece
The case back is custom made.
"Did you find anything else?" Wei Ran raised his head and asked.
"It's just a watch, not Wikipedia." Tassie spread her hands, "What I just said is all I know."
"Mr. Charlotte, please take care of me."
As Wei Ran spoke, he put the large watch in his hand into the briefcase he was carrying. Without waiting for Taxi to say anything, he quickly went downstairs, taking Gou Zibei who was lying at the door to bask in the sun.
Leah walked to the basement of the library next door.
After locking the heavy explosion-proof door, Wei Ran walked around the basement first, then got into his own studio, and handed over the job of guarding the door to Beria who was lying at the door.
After lighting the lamp and checking the room carefully as always, he opened the briefcase again, put on silk gloves and took out the contents one by one, and placed them on the long table covered with velvet tablecloth.
superior.
Without rushing to look at the stack of photos and plastic-wrapped maps, Wei Ran picked up the huge watch again and looked at it.
Thanks to Tassie’s solid watchmaking skills as a “former mystique”, except for the relief of the Antarctic continent on the back of the case, he could no longer see any remaining details on this watch.
Not being disappointed, Wei Ran picked up the gear ring instead, and at the same time opened the desktop magnifying glass with lighting function on the table.
Unfortunately, apart from the name and granting time that he had seen in the photo before, and other details that were no different from the rings he had seen before, there were no additional clues on this ring.
Also throwing them aside, he finally picked up the pile of photos.
Among these photos, the first few are close-ups of various parts of the body.
It could be clearly seen from these photos that the corpse generally maintained its physical integrity, but the equipment on his body hid many details that surprised him.
Spreading out all the photos in his hands on the table, he could clearly see that the body was wearing a KWI/33 one-piece flight suit and a thick thick one-piece flight suit that Germany issued to pilots in the early days of World War II
A fur hat with ear protection.
This one-piece flight suit is different from the common ones. It is not gray-blue or brown, but white to adapt to the polar environment and camouflage needs.
Especially in areas such as the knees, it seems to be additionally reinforced with thick fur material.
Even the watch I just got from Tassie is fixed on the cuff of this jumpsuit. The only difference from now is that this watch is also covered with a thick suede leather case.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Obviously, this corpse was definitely not a pilot when he was alive. Not only was he wearing a pair of mountain boots, but he also wore a mountain soldier's metal goggles on his face, and even more on his neck.
Hanging is a 6X30x telescope.
Even next to his body was a slightly outdated but light enough Mauser Army C-type rifle.
Especially in one of the photos, the jumpsuit he is wearing has been opened, clearly showing the M36 field uniform worn inside, as well as a canvas bag with a sword and an M1935 style hanging on the inner belt.
Map pack.
In the next photo, you can clearly see that there is a very conspicuous and rare mountain expert (guide) badge pinned to the inside of the jumpsuit, close to the chest! Next to this
Instead of a badge, it was a patina-covered hearth placed on the corpse.
This is clearly an elite! Mountain elite!
Then turning back, Wei Ran fell into silence. What this photo captured was the details of the corpse's right hand.
His hands were wearing leather gloves and holding an Audley M1912 semi-automatic pistol.
In the next photo, you can see a bullet hole in the corpse's chin and a rusty bullet casing stuck in the collar - he committed suicide.
The last few photos on the table show a long and narrow ice crack, and it is carefully marked that the width at the bottom of this ice crack is only 1.14 meters, but the height is a full 26 meters!
strangeness...
As Wei Ran put these photos away one by one, he muttered to himself that there were too many key things missing in this photo.
The most conspicuous thing is the lack of any supplies and "transportation equipment."
The clothes on this corpse are warm, but how far can they support him?
What's more, the mountain expert badge would not allow him to make such a basic mistake, nor would it allow him to foolishly enter a crevice in the ice "at the doorstep" and end up committing suicide.
Putting these doubts in his mind, Wei Ran finally looked at the plastic-sealed map.
This is not so much a map as it is more accurately said to be a map fragment - a map fragment that has not been burned cleanly.
On the remaining palm-sized piece of map, there is only a red line less than five centimeters long. I don’t know what is on one end of this line, but on the other end, as Mr. Charlotte said, there is a German word left.
The word "warehouse".
I turned to the back of the plastic-sealed map and looked at it. It was empty, with nothing written on it at all.
Do you want to help me with this?
Wei Ran walked to the sofa not far away and sat down, took out the cigarette case from the metal book, slowly put on the cigarette holder, lit it and took a puff, and once again thought about the question he had been thinking about in the sauna in the morning - in
What dangers will we encounter in Antarctica?
Obviously, low temperature is the biggest trouble, followed by whether there will be a full stomach. As for whether there will be an armed conflict, just looking at the "shotgun" next to the corpse, you know it is unlikely.
In addition to these things to think about, he also had to consider an issue that he couldn't discuss with anyone, whether he should risk his life to help Matthew's parents.
After thinking hard for a long time, he finally put out the cigarette in his hand that he had only taken a puff on, put away the cigarette holder, and took out his bottle of wine and took a big sip.
"For the sake of our friendship"
Wei Ran looked at the wine bottle in his hand and muttered to himself, then put it away, and started to take things out of the metal book one by one, and replenished the consumables inside to the best of his ability.
After a slightly long preparation, Wei Ran took a deep breath, looked at the sword, ring and watch on the table, waved his hand and took out the metal book.
Under his quiet gaze, the metal book automatically opened to a new blank page, and the metal quill drew a group photo on the pale yellow page.
In this group photo, there are only five people in total. Two of them are sitting on chairs, and the other three are standing behind them.
Although the picture was drawn with a metal quill, he could still clearly see that among the two people sitting in the front, the one on the left had a round face and figure. He was wearing a suit and had a round face.
Wearing a pair of glasses and holding a cane in both hands.
The one on the right has a stern face and a lean figure. He is wearing an M36 field suit, on which the mountain expert badge and the sword hanging on his waist can be clearly seen.
Without waiting for him to observe the three people standing in the back row in the picture and the background of the photo, the metal quill pen had already written down this request.
