After waiting for several days in Yakutsk, the target's flight finally landed at the airport as scheduled.
In the parking lot outside the departure hall, Wei Ran was sitting in a van, holding a telescope and staring at the entrance and exit, patiently waiting for the target person.
A full hour after the plane landed, a middle-aged Asian man in a black suit and a particularly delicate-looking woman walked out, surrounded by several thick-haired men.
Seeing this, Wei Ran picked up the photo of the target person spread on the steering wheel and compared it. After confirming that he had found the wrong person, he immediately started the van under his butt.
Under his gaze, the group of people got into two exceptionally clean off-road vehicles and slowly drove out of the parking lot.
"You deserve to die here after washing the car so clean." Wei Ran muttered to himself, released the clutch, and followed him from a distance in the tattered van.
Contrary to his expectations, the two off-road vehicles first headed south after leaving the airport. After arriving in the center of the city, they actually turned east and drove toward the Lena River.
"This grandson must never cross the river."
Wei Ran watched the two cars drive all the way to the dock by the river, and couldn't help but look nervous. It was already mid-June, and even in Yakutsk, known as the "Ice City", the daytime temperature was about the same.
The temperature was 16 degrees. As for the Lena River, although the temperature was slightly lower, it had already thawed. It was impossible for Wei Yan to drive the van across.
Therefore, once the other party crosses the river by boat, he will have no choice but to give up this assessment task. But as the saying goes, you will get what you worry about.
After the two off-road vehicles stopped at the dock, the Japanese man and woman got on a cargo ship without stopping. Then the ship immediately left the dock and headed south along the Lena River.
Drive out in the direction!
"Are you fucking kidding me?" Wei Ran stepped on the brakes and held up a telescope on the shore to watch the cargo ship running further and further away, and finally completely disappeared from sight.
Chase along the river bank?
Wei Ran just had this idea and gave it up immediately. Even though the roads in the city of Yakutsk were pretty good, after leaving the city, there was only one main road several kilometers away from the Lena River.
Apart from being passable, there is no difference between the rest of the roads and the mud pools. Just relying on this Watts minivan, even if you leave the city, you won't be able to get very far, let alone catch up with the boat.
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Unwilling to give up, Wei Ran called up the map on his mobile phone and checked, only to discover that there was a small city called Nizhny Bestyakh on the other side of the upper reaches of the Lena River.
"Did it go here?" Weiran hesitated for a moment and immediately started to inquire about the transportation method from Yakutsk to Nizhnybestakh.
There is indeed a ferry boat between the two places, but the closest one will be tomorrow morning. Obviously, even if you rush there and try to find the pair of Japs before class starts at Hongqi Forest Farm, it will be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
But after returning in vain, Wei Ran didn't give up at all. If he doesn't come, he won't come. Now that he's here, he can't go back empty-handed. Otherwise, when he returns to Hongqi Forest Farm, he will inevitably be beaten by Culp and Dalia again.
The teacher kept teasing me in different ways for at least half a month.
"I don't believe you won't come back."
Wei Ran threw his cell phone aside, and finally raised his binoculars to look at the two off-road vehicles still parked at the dock, as well as the flickering cigarette butts in the windows, and made up his mind to wait here for the other party to come back.
However, not far away from the riverside that he didn't notice, an old man holding a fishing rod looked at the watch on his wrist, and then looked at the van parked not far away by throwing the rod, and finally looked at him with a look on his face.
He mockingly took out a satellite phone from his pocket and dialed.
"Is it done so quickly?" Culp asked in surprise on the other end of the phone, "He won't do it at the airport, right?"
"If he had done it at the airport, maybe I could give him a slightly higher rating."
The old fishing man said sarcastically, "Culp, have you not taught for so long that you have forgotten how to be a qualified teacher?"
It was just a taunt, and Culp immediately guessed, "He failed to cross the river smoothly?"
"To be more precise, I guess he never expected that the target person would go to the east bank of the Lena River. Now your student is still dazed on the bank like a fool."
The poisonous-tongued old man gloated, "If he can wait until the end of July, he might be able to complete the task you gave him."
"Inform him to come back," Culp said and hung up the phone.
The old fishing man once again looked at the van that was still on the shore and dialed the old-fashioned push-button phone in Wei Ran's hand.
On the other end of the phone, Wei Ran just pressed the answer button when he heard the person on the other side say, "The mission failed. The other party returned to Yakutsk again at the end of July. Now go back to the airport and wait in the parking lot.
Someone will take you back to Chita tonight."
Still not waiting for Wei Ran to say anything, a beeping busy tone came from the receiver.
Putting down his mobile phone in vibrating mode, Wei Ran looked around vigilantly, then irritably hammered the steering wheel, started the car and drove towards the airport. Just as he drove the car into the parking lot, Culp's phone call came.
Came over.
After swallowing, Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, and finally resigned and pressed the answer button. Then he heard Culp joking with a smile, "About a week ago, someone told me that he didn't want to become a murderer. I also
I thought it was a joke, but I didn’t expect it to be true.”
The other party just said one word, and even though he was thousands of kilometers away, Wei Ran's face turned red with shame, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
But obviously, Culp, who seemed to be in a good mood, was not ready to let him go so easily, but asked as always, "Tell me about your mistake."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "I didn't expect that the other party would cross the river by boat," Wei Ran replied weakly.
"You should have thought of it"
Karp's tone finally became more serious, "You arrived in Yakutsk about four or five days in advance, and you have enough time to ask the locals about the main origin of mammoth ivory. Even if you are worried about alerting the enemy and don't want to ask, you are completely free.
You can get some useful clues by searching the Internet.
For example, in 2015, a complete skeleton of a steppe mammoth was excavated in Nizhnybestyakh. Even at the beginning of this month, on Children’s Day, a local farmer planted potatoes and cabbages in his backyard.
Ivory tusks have been dug out. These public news can be easily found even in Kazan.
With this public information, combined with the knowledge you learned in the psychology course, it is easy to guess that he is at least likely to go to Bestyak, right? So Victor, have you checked? "
"I don't," Wei Ran replied frankly. "This week, the focus of my investigation is entirely on the urban area of Yakutsk."
"What did you investigate?" Culp asked with a smile.
"Road conditions, escape route"
Wei Ran replied awkwardly that at first he didn't care about killing the target person at all, but focused all his attention on how to avoid people getting the evidence of his murder.
Obviously, Culp had already guessed Wei Ran's concerns, but he had no intention of speaking out. Instead, he changed his direction and praised, "It's not bad. Knowing how to preserve oneself is a basic requirement for a qualified...student."
"
If Culp had made some sarcastic remarks, Wei Ran might have felt better, but the unintentional compliment made him feel as uncomfortable as eating a fly that had just flown out of the bathroom.
"Victor, now you have two choices." Culp said abruptly.
"Which two options?" Wei Ran asked dejectedly.
"The first option is that if you fail this assessment, after the second school year starts in September, in addition to helping Jima pay a year's tuition, you will also have to run around the Hongqi Forest Farm with Sasha in your arms all afternoon.
"
"I choose the second one"
Wei Ran made the choice without thinking. With his current wealth, helping Ji Ma pay a year's tuition was nothing at all, but running around with Sasha was definitely a nightmare. As for who Sasha was, of course it was
That dummy was made of silicone and had rubber bullets all over its body. Even if you think about it with your fingernails, you would know that at least Ji Ma would have filmed the entire process with his mobile phone.
"The second option is to postpone the assessment to August."
Karp said slowly, "In August, the other party will leave Yakutsk and return to Japan. I will give you his detailed location at that time. But I don't need to tell you about the dangers arising from this.
, and when the time comes, there will be no nanny by your side. So Victor, are you sure you want to choose the second way to end this assessment?"
Go to Japan and kill people?
Wei Ran swallowed, and after being silent for a long time, he gritted his teeth and said, "Sure, the second one."
Culp said with some surprise, "Let me remind you again, I can't send a nanny to help you, let alone provide you with tools. If you are caught, no one can help you."
"It doesn't matter, I know all this." Wei Ran took a deep breath and made his decision again.
"The third option is that you can give up this assessment." Culp suddenly popped up another option.
"Just the second one," Wei Ran said pretending to be relaxed.
"Then let's talk in August." Culp hung up the phone before he finished speaking.
Putting down his cell phone, Wei Ran lowered the back of his seat, thinking about the assessment that had been postponed due to his mistake. He was not worried about the weapon to kill the target person. The ones in the metal book were enough for him to choose at will, whether it was a pistol, a rifle or a counterattack.
The tanks and guns are enough to meet the needs. At worst, the poisonous needles obtained not long ago can barely be considered useful.
But just as Culp worried, if someone really kills people in Japan, how to get rid of suspicion and leave smoothly is the most troublesome thing.
