"How could they let such a young child and woman..."
"if not?"
Wei Ran asked Zac without giving him a chance to finish, "The war has reached this point. For them, the invaders are already massacring their villages, killing the elderly, women and children. They already have enough reasons to take advantage of them."
No weapons."
"It should be photographed"
Zach pointed at the women and children who were in class, and said in a slightly louder voice, "It's time to take pictures of their classes and teaching aids, and let the world know what they are going through."
Before he finished speaking, Wei Ran also noticed that Li Youfu not far away from the window seemed to have heard Zach's voice. After taking a few steps forward, he pressed the shutter towards the child.
"Look, my photographer and I are working very well together." Zach breathed a sigh of relief and lowered his voice slightly.
"Hey! Can you get us some food?" Wei Ran enthusiastically waved to a guerrilla Yu who passed by the window and asked loudly in English.
"Pooh!"
The guerrillas passing by outside were startled by Wei Ran's shouting. They subconsciously picked up the French submachine gun hanging on their shoulders, and then spat at Wei Ran.
Are all the people here born as camels?
Wei Ran cursed secretly, then looked up worriedly at the sky that was filled with the smell of defoliant.
He knows very well that since the spraying helicopter was shot down just now, this place will probably be affected by the war soon. And he believes that the guerrillas in this camp may also know it.
Unable to help but look back at the iron chain imprisoning the shackles, Wei Ran turned his head and asked Zach in a low voice, "Do you still have your ring?"
"certainly"
Zach said, not forgetting to reach out and show the ring still on his finger.
"Lend it to me again," Wei Ran whispered.
"Do you want to run away?" Although Zac asked this, he took off the ring and handed it to Wei Ran without any delay.
"I'm afraid there will be a fight here soon."
Wei Ran took the ring and skillfully straightened it again, constantly reminding him, "Even if we don't run away, we must be able to leave this wooden house at any time.
Not only would we not be able to hide if American aerial bombs or machine guns came over, but you wouldn’t expect anyone to take the risk to come to the cabin to rescue us at that time, would you?”
"That makes sense." Zach couldn't help but nodded.
"Help me keep an eye out," Wei Ran said in a low voice.
Upon hearing this, Zach immediately looked outside the door, while Wei Ran sat down against the wall by the window and tried to use the metal piece in his hand to pry open the padlock on his foot.
However, the gold ring was softer and wider after all, and the padlock was not a handcuff after all. So after all this trouble, he couldn't even push the metal piece in his hand into the keyhole, let alone pry open the padlock.
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After such a delay, the roar of anti-aircraft machine guns, the roar of fighter jets and even aerial bombs could be heard from further away in the jungle outside the window.
At this time, a little boy who looked about eleven or twelve years old brought them food - two bamboo tubes filled with rice, two bamboo tubes filled with water, and two pairs of bamboo chopsticks.
“Is this all we have to eat?”
Zach took his portion and asked, "This bamboo tube is not big, and the rice inside is not full at all. If they were poured out, it would only be half a bowl. The most important thing is that they
The only food available seems to be rice.
When Zach asked the question, the kid who obviously didn't speak English was destined not to give any answer.
“It’s better than not having anything to eat at all”
As Wei Ran spoke, he pulled out the bamboo stopper on the bamboo tube containing water and smelled it. Fortunately, there was no specific problem of defoliant in the water.
"But this is too little." As Zach spoke, he picked out a lump of rice with his fingers and put it into his mouth, frowning and saying, "And it seems stale."
“It’s better than not having anything to eat at all”
Wei Ran repeated as he poured water into the bamboo tube containing the rice, making himself a more filling tube of soup rice.
"What's the way to eat it?" Zach asked Weiran curiously.
“Rice Soup”
Wei Ran made a fool of himself and started pouring it into his mouth casually. Sure enough, as Zach said, the rice was indeed not too fresh, but luckily it didn't have much rancidity, so it was still edible.
After finishing the meal in two or three mouths, the sound of firefighting in the distance outside the window became more and more intense, but it sounded like it was still quite a distance away from them.
Just as Wei Ran was filling the bamboo tube with rice again with water, Li Youfu and a woman in black clothes and black trousers walked out of the door supporting Ruan Qingcha, who had an injured shoulder.
"Doctor Victor, can you change the medicine for her wound?" Li Youfu stood outside the door and asked loudly in English, "We don't have a doctor here."
"sure"
Wei Ran stood by the window, pretending not to notice that the person who asked him questions last night was peeping not far away, and replied loudly in English, "Please come in, but I don't have any medicine here, so you have to take care of it yourself."
Medicines will do.”
"We brought medicine"
Li Youfu said, and together with the woman in black clothes and black trousers, he helped Ruan Qingcha up the steps to the door. He waited for the woman in black clothes and black trousers to open the ajar door, and then walked in with Ruan Qingcha.
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"I need to wash my hands first"
Wei Ran raised his hands and said, "It's best to have a piece of soap, otherwise by the time I finish changing the medicine, her wound may become infected soon."
Hearing this, Ruan Qingcha, who looked slightly pale, weakly said something to the woman in a more difficult language that Wei Ran and Zach couldn't understand. The latter nodded immediately, and first looked at her cautiously, deliberately keeping her distance.
Smiling, Wei Ran and Zach turned around and walked out of the cabin.
"Troye..."
"I will let you survive"
Li Youfu made a promise in a low voice before Zac finished speaking, then picked up the enamel kettle in the corner and walked out of the wooden house. At the same time, Ruan Qingcha also pulled out the 1911 pistol that belonged to Wei Ran and pointed it at them vigilantly.
Two people.
After a while, Li Youfu brought back the enamel kettle filled with water and placed it in the corner, while winking at Wei Ran and Zach.
Almost immediately, the woman in black clothes and trousers also walked in carrying a tub of water. There was a towel on the edge of the tub. In her hand, she also held an extra bamboo tube filled with soap.
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At the same time, Li Youfu also took out a US military individual first aid box, two rolls of sealed gauze and a penicillin injection from his pocket.
After washing his hands carefully, Wei Ran carefully untied the gauze on Ruan Qingcha's head and shoulders, helped her change the medicine and new dressing for the wound in a meticulous manner, and then gave her an injection.
She had just finished dealing with it, and the woman in black clothes and black trousers who followed him in also stared at him and said something.
Seeing Wei Ran looking at him, Li Youfu helped translate and said, "She asked you if you could help deal with him... our wounded."
"sure"
Wei Ran raised his head and glanced at the man who walked in from outside and interrogated him yesterday, and kept saying, "But I want to make it clear first that I am not capable of treating any wounds. In other words, some people I may
It's possible to save some people, but there are some people who I probably won't be able to save at all.
If I save you, you don’t need to thank me. Likewise, if I don’t save you, I hope you will be blamed on me.”
"Are there any other conditions?" the man who cross-examined him last night asked.
"certainly"
Wei Ran spread his hands and said, "I need enough medical equipment and medicine, at least the medical kit can be returned to me."
“And a camera”
Zach next to him reminded, "Sir, if you can, can you return our cameras to us?"
"I will think about it carefully"
The man responded noncommittally, then turned around and left the place. At the same time, he also said something.
Before he could go far, Li Youfu and the woman in black clothes and black trousers also helped Ruan Qingcha, who had just changed the dressing, and left. They also took away the dressing, gauze and the bamboo tube they had just filled with rice.
things.
The two people in the wooden house looked at each other. Wei Ran picked up the rough porcelain kettle by the wall and opened the lid to look at it. Then he picked up a broken bowl and poured a bowl of water into it.
"Wow"
With a small banging sound, two black hairpins ran out from the spout of the pot and fell into the coarse porcelain bowl.
After looking at each other with Zach, Wei Ran immediately picked up the two hairpins from the bowl. Zach also immediately dragged the shackles and chains, and went to the window to look out.
He separated one of the hairpins and tried to insert it into the keyhole. Wei Ran's face immediately smiled. He was now absolutely sure to pry open the padlock on the shackles!
"Victor" At this moment, Zach suddenly shouted softly.
After getting the signal, Wei Ran looked around, then immediately restored the hairpin in his hand to its original shape and stuffed it back into the spout.
Almost at the same time that he picked up the porcelain bowl, two guerrillas also walked into the wooden house. One of them was standing guard at the door with a gun in his hand, while the other took out the key and opened the link to the chain on the guard shackles.
padlock.
"Where are you taking me?"
Wei Ran pretended to be panicked and knocked over the porcelain bowl with his foot, and asked in a panic.
However, the two guerrillas didn't seem to understand English at all. They just took him out of the cabin and pointed their guns at Zach, who was about to do something. They looked serious and would shoot him immediately if he was dishonest.
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After asking questions all the way, Wei Ran was also taken to another larger wooden house on stilts across the open space in the middle.
The environment here is not much better than the previous wooden house, except that there are two more bamboo tables in the middle that were obviously put together just now.
On this table, there was a soldier with a club lying all over his body.
"He needs to be amputated."
The man who had questioned Wei Ran last night came in from behind, "And we need him alive."
Hearing this, Wei Ran once again glanced at the soldier with a stick who was almost tied to the table. His mouth was tightly blocked with rags, and the uniform on his body had been whipped with marks, especially on the fingers and hands of his hands.
The toes of both feet were flattened and scabbed by something unknown, and the blood loss was only prevented by the wires tied around the wrists.
Picking up the "horse armband" of the White Horse Division that was fixed on the opponent's left arm near his shoulder and taking a look at it, Wei Ran straightened up and asked, "Where to cut it?"
“below the elbow”
The man who asked the question last night raised his finger and pointed at the right arm of the angry soldier holding a stick on the table and said, "Let's amputate this hand today."
"This seems to be more than just torture," Wei Ran said pointedly.
"He abused my daughter."
The man standing at the door said calmly, "After venting her animalistic desires, she forced her to drink a lot of gasoline, poured gasoline on her body, lit it, and forced her to run into the withered elephant grass."
"Is what he said true?"
Wei Ran put on his cudgel and asked the soldier who was tied to the table, "You abused a child, forced her to drink gasoline and set her on fire?"
Perhaps because he heard the familiar accent, the white-horse soldier immediately began to struggle, and tears mixed with blood shed from the corners of his eyes.
"Is what he said true?"
Wei Ran asked again, "Answer me honestly and I will consider helping you."
Hearing this, the white-horse soldier gradually stopped struggling, and then nodded regretfully.
"When should I start?" Wei Ran turned around and asked, "Also, what should I call you?"
“You can start now”
After a short pause, the man did not introduce himself, but continued to speak in English, "After you perform the operation on him, you must ensure that he survives. This is a condition for you to receive preferential treatment."
"Where is my companion?" Wei Ran pointed out the window, across from the open space to the thatched house where Zach was, "He..."
"Unless he is also a doctor," replied the man who was unwilling to introduce himself, "a doctor who is willing to help us."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "He may be willing to help you, but he is not a doctor." Wei Ran retreated and asked for the next best thing, "How about at least ensuring that we have enough food?"
“In fact, we can’t even ensure that we have enough to eat every meal.”
"Isn't this your rear area?" Wei Ran asked in astonishment.
"Who told you?" The man across the table from Wei Ran smiled, "This is the front line, the most dangerous front line."
Before he finished speaking, a guerrilla had already delivered a brown medicine box made of hard cowhide and placed it on the corner of the table.
"How about I make one last condition?" Wei Ran put his hand on the medicine box and said.
"Untie your shackles?" The man across the table thought he had guessed Wei Ran's needs.
“Give me back my camera.”
Wei Ran thought for a while and continued, "In addition, provide me with four matching films. Of course, no matter what I shoot, the final films will be given to you, and it is up to you to decide whether to develop them and return them to me, or destroy them directly.
"
After a slight hesitation, the man across the table raised his hand and said, "Let's start the operation. Today I want his right hand and I need him alive."
"You're in luck"
A weird smile appeared on Wei Ran's face, "Your request is what I'm best at."
"Why do you know how to be a bodyguard?"
"I always needed a job, and Mr. Zack made an offer I couldn't refuse."
Wei Ran said, having already opened the medicine box, but then he frowned.
There is a chrome-plated steaming tray for disinfection in this medicine box, and there are also things such as scalpels, hemostats, suture needles, etc. But not to mention anesthetics, even the gauze and dressings in the medicine box seem to be old!
"I said, we are on the front line here, and the supplies here are not that sufficient." The man took the initiative to explain when Wei Ran looked up at him.
"Why not send those children and women away?"
Wei Ran asked as he took out the contents of the medicine box. Fortunately, there was at least a large bottle of iodine in it.
"I'm going to ask you now." The man across the table said in a very serious tone, "Let's get started."
"Call a few people to hold him down for me."
As Wei Ran spoke, he reached out and pinched the right elbow of the prisoner holding the stick on the table, and with a skillful squeeze, his elbow was easily dislocated.
As he screamed in his throat and struggled to be restrained by the rope, Wei Ran picked up the scalpel and hemostatic forceps, expressionlessly cut open the other person's skin, and began an operation without anesthesia.
When the imprisoned soldier with a stick in his arms fainted and woke up from pain again and again, and even suffered from urinary incontinence, Wei Ran carefully peeled off the part below his elbow and completed several sticks.
Suturing of major blood vessels and skin and flesh.
"He's still alive"
As he spoke, Wei Ran threw the surgical scissors aside, picked up a roll of old gauze and prepared to bandage it.
"From a doctor's perspective, isn't this cruel?" Across the table, the man who had just helped hold the patient asked as he wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"I'm not a doctor"
Wei Ran said while sorting out the used surgical instruments, "So don't talk to me about professional ethics. If you need it, I can kill him right now."
"This is what we encountered," the man opposite said abruptly.
"What?" Wei Ran raised his head in surprise.
"I said, this is what we're dealing with."
The man opposite raised his finger and pointed at the patient who had passed out again on the table. Seeing this, Wei Ran picked up a pair of hemostatic forceps and inserted it into the wound that had just been sutured. He gently twisted it. The wounded man who had just passed out also seemed
It was like my whole body was electrified, and I woke up again with a jolt.
"Look, he's not dead."
Wei Ran threw away the hemostatic forceps and said matter-of-factly, "Although I'm not a doctor, amputation is indeed my best job."
"No need to wake him up"
The man standing opposite twitched his lips and continued, "The situation we are facing is not much better than him. Before you were sent here, we did not have decent medicines, let alone a few doctors who could perform operations, and treat all the wounded.
All were performed without anesthesia.”
"so..."
"I have to confirm that you have the courage and ability to perform surgery without anesthesia."
The man standing opposite sighed, "I always need to know whether you are qualified for this job."
"What if I'm not a doctor?" Wei Ran asked abruptly, "Or what if I'm not willing to provide medical help?"
"At least you brought the medical kit, which is good enough news."
"Has the connection with your rear been cut off?"
Wei Ran asked almost subconsciously, "I mean, can't even deliver the medicine?"
"This was originally a frontline hospital. No, we shouldn't say this."
The man opposite knew everything at this time, "About a week ago, we were originally stationed at the banyan tree full of corpses you mentioned last night. Those who were hung on the corpses and burned were very large.
Some of them are our doctors, nurses and surviving children from nearby villages."
"so..."
"The Americans destroyed it"
The man opposite clenched his fists and said, "I fled here with the rest of the children and nurses and set up a new frontline hospital. There are only a few doctors and no decent medicines."
"So my companion and I were sent here not just because we were carrying medical kits?"
Facing Wei Ran's question, the man nodded and replied, "Because the girl who captured you is injured, we can take care of her here.
And I'm the only one around here who can speak English. That's why you were sent here. I need to get the information we need from you.
If you can't provide anything useful, we will have no choice but to kill you."
"What are you going to do next for me and my companions?"
Wei Ran jumped on the subject and asked, "Also, can you give me back my camera?"
"Whether you are willing to provide medical help or not, we need to dig out the information you know. Until then, you can only stay here with me."
The man answered frankly, "The difference is just in treatment."
"Where's my camera?" Wei Ran asked unwillingly.
"If you are willing to provide medical help, I will get your camera back."
The man standing opposite paused, "In addition, I also need specific information about the Americans and the Hambang camp. If you can provide this information, you can get better treatment."
"Will we be sent to a prisoner of war camp?" Wei Ran asked a key question.
"These are not my decisions," the man said, "unless you have a job here."
"no problem"
Wei Ran raised his hands happily, "I officially surrender to you, but if you want to know the information about those two camps, please return my camera to me first."
Hearing this, the man turned around and said something to his companion at the door, who immediately ran away and disappeared.
"It would be unwise to engage in a firefight around here."
Wei Ran, who was speechless, pointed outside. After such a long time, the firefight outside was still continuing.
"As soon as your planes start spraying defoliants, we will move."
The man standing opposite replied, "We will get out of here before the leaves fall off."
When Wei Ran heard this, he wisely shut his mouth. Although he voted, he still had to be more reserved. The price dropped in a hurry.
A moment later, the man who had just been taken away came back. At this time, in addition to the Nikon half-frame camera that belonged to him, he also carried a first aid kit worn by a US military medical soldier, and four
A film in a sealed tube.
"Give me paper and pen, and I will help you draw the layout of the two camps."
After a rough inspection of the camera and film, Wei Ran said, "At the same time, you can also ask my companion Mr. Zach. He will definitely be very happy to exchange information for some preferential treatment."
Watching the other party leave, Wei Ran, who was looking through the medical bag, also frowned, secretly wondering how Zach, who had no medical skills at all, and Ruan Qingcha and Li Youfu, who were shot, survived without their own history.
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Li Youfu and Ruan Qingcha were not considered for the moment, but what about Zach? Did he get the preferential treatment in exchange for the information from those two camps? In that case, how did he get sent to the prisoner of war camp?
If he didn't enter the prisoner of war camp, why would the return mission mention escaping from the prisoner of war camp?
As he had more and more questions, the sound of firefights in the distance gradually stopped. Immediately afterwards, the prisoner with a stick on the table who was used as interview material was carried away. A man who looked definitely less than 20 years old, but had one leg
The young man who was interrupted by the machine gun was carried up.
Before Wei Ran could get ready, the man he had just negotiated with also walked in - he had already changed into a white coat.
