After having a sumptuous dinner with a group of middle-aged people, Wei Ran, who was drunk, woke up again and was already lying in the shabby little hotel in Chita.
He took out his cell phone and checked the time. At this time, there were less than 20 hours left before returning to Hongqi Forest Farm for class, but he hadn't even had time to buy a plane ticket.
Shaking his dizzy head, Wei Ran pulled up the phone screen. Before he woke up, Culp called him, Teacher Dalia also called him, and even Ji Ma also called him.
I called myself. In addition, a completely unfamiliar phone number called me twice.
"Isn't it because the course is advanced?"
Wei Ran immediately woke up and quickly called Culp. Unexpectedly, the other party turned off his phone. When he tried to call Teacher Dalia again, the other party also turned off his phone!
Finally, he called Jima. Fortunately, the phone was not turned off this time, but he waited for half a minute before the other party answered the call.
"What happened?" Wei Ran asked in a huff without waiting for the other party to say anything.
"What...what happened?" Jima Mi on the other end of the phone asked in confusion. He didn't know whether he was still asleep or had drunk too much.
"I am Victor" Wei Ran reminded helplessly.
"Oh! Thank God, you finally called me back."
Jima finally realized who was calling him, and immediately said happily, "Teacher Dalia asked me to tell you that the class will be postponed for half a month."
"Delayed for half a month? Why?" Wei Ran asked puzzledly.
"They said they were going on a business trip, but they didn't say anything else." Ji Ma burped and continued, "In addition, Teacher Dalia reminded us not to waste time. We will conduct an assessment after they come back."
"So you drank too much?" Wei Ran asked, dumbfounded.
"I'm just celebrating. Besides, didn't you drink too much? And it was Teacher Dalia who told me that you drank too much."
Jima's tone was full of regret, "Summer is here, and Yinta's camp can no longer receive tourists. We are finally free, so of course we have to celebrate."
"Are you still in Inta?"
"Kazan, I'm in Kazan. By the way, Teacher Dalia asked me to tell you to call Principal Nikolai when you sober up."
"Is there anything else?"
"No." Before Ji Ma could finish his words, Wei Ran hung up the phone and quickly sat up and dialed Mr. Nicholas.
"Are you sober?" As soon as the call was connected, Nicholas on the other end asked with a smile.
"Those people are so good at drinking." Wei Ran shivered subconsciously. His memory was still stuck in the nightmare of being drunk in the cafeteria of that power station by those idiots using various excuses and toasts.
"Even Culp can't drink those bastards, but you have the guts to drink with them."
Nicholas didn't give Wei Ran a chance to speak and continued, "Now that you're awake, if you have nothing else to do, come back."
"I'll check the ticket and rush back as quickly as possible." Wei Ran said quickly.
"No rush, we'll talk about the rest when you come back."
When a busy signal came from the receiver, Wei Ran lay on the bed again. While wondering whether Culp and Teacher Dalia's sudden business trip had anything to do with the metal box he brought back from Vienna, he swiped the screen of his phone and bought a second one.
Fly to Volgograd early in the morning.
As for the unfamiliar phone number that he missed, he selectively ignored it. Anyway, his social circle was so large. If the other party was really in an emergency, he would have to call him sooner or later.
After packing a small amount of luggage, Wei Ran left the shabby little hotel and found a shopping mall to buy a new set of clothes and a new mobile phone. Then he filled his stomach and then changed to a high-end hotel to get a room.
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After soaking in the bathtub comfortably and getting rid of the last bit of drunkenness, Wei Ran slowly changed into the new clothes he had just bought. At the same time, he changed the phone card from the old phone that was "dirty" in his mind to the one he just bought.
On the new phone, he finally threw the old phone that had been restored to factory settings into the food box in the metal book, and then he lay down on the soft big bed and fell asleep again.
Early the next morning, after a nine-hour long flight and transfer, Wei Ran finally made it back to his studio before the sun set. Before he could open the locked rolling shutter door, yesterday
The unfamiliar phone number called again.
"Hello, I'm looking for Mr. Victor, and I found Mr. Victor, the historian who displayed the first Soviet flag on the Reichstag."
When the man on the other end of the phone finished speaking in German, Wei Ran also pushed the rolling shutter door over his head with a clang, and then replied in German as well, "Hello, I am the Victor you are looking for, what can I do?
?"
"My name is Herbert, and I am a friend of Mr. Noah." The man paused and continued, "Mr. Victor, I would like to ask you to investigate an oil drum."
"Oil barrel?"
"World War II German standard 20-liter oil drum." The man who called himself Herbert stopped and asked, "Can we meet if it's convenient? I'm in Volgograd."
"How about I get back to you later?"
"Of course," Herbert said and simply hung up the phone.
After saving the other party's number in his mobile phone, Wei Ran immediately called Ralph and asked about the situation of Herbert. In the other party's introduction, the Herbert who just spoke fluent German turned out to be a Frenchman, and he was a Frenchman.
A well-known archaeologist.
Not only that, for a long time, Herbert also paid to help Mr. Noah investigate the mystery of his father Yannick’s disappearance. Although his investigation found nothing, because he liked to collect oil paintings, he ended up with Mr. Noah.
became friends.
After finding out that there was no problem with Herbert's origin, Wei Ran once again asked him to go to Vienna with the help of Mark, an employee of the gallery, in a few days, and then hung up the phone.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! After taking a short break, Wei Ran re-locked the rolling shutter door of the studio and strolled to find Mr. Nicholas who was watching the news at home.
After Weiran helped make a pot of coffee, and an old man and a young man sat down on the sofa covered with bamboo mats, Nikolay said with a smile, "Karp told me that you would complete the assessment in Yakutsk
The mistake during the mission, and the sudden disappearance of you afterwards. Of course, I also arranged for someone to take a look around the lake.
Victor, now I want to hear your own account of the entire process of this assessment mission. This includes the early preparations, the choice of methods to kill the target person, and your subsequent judgment on this matter."
Wei Ran was silent for a moment, took a sip of coffee, and recounted in as much detail as possible the preparations, arrangements, and plans for each day after he landed in Yakutsk. In addition to briefly mentioning the method of killing the smugglers, he also mentioned the method of hiding the metal.
Apart from Benzi's help to him, he has nothing to hide.
"So you've been on guard against Culp's tracking of you?" Nicholas asked bluntly after Wei Ran finished speaking.
Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded.
"In this regard, it's a good job." Nicholas thought for a moment and changed the topic to the smuggler. "Let's talk about the impact of killing the target person on the local area."
"Even if you succeed in killing the smuggler, nothing will change at all."
Wei Ran said truthfully, "A smuggling organization capable of smuggling animal products and mammoth tusks from the Far East of Russia and even organizing human trafficking is definitely not a small player. In this case, the man I killed needs to go to Yakuts in person.
If he can't accept the goods, it only means that he is not an important person."
"Is this why you deliberately made the scene so bloody?" Although Nicholas is old, his mind is running very fast. "Do you want that smuggling organization to wipe your ass?"
"They can't find me anyway, right?"
Wei Ran said indifferently, "It's okay to smuggle mammoth ivory and animal products. There are a lot of people in the Far East and border areas doing this kind of business, so it doesn't matter even if we talk about it.
But human trafficking is different. Once this kind of business breaks out, I will definitely not be the first to suffer. Maybe the emperor in Moscow will thank me for giving him such an excuse to intervene in the gangs and corruption issues in the Far East.
In this case, if the scene of killing the target person is made more bloody, the only thing that will be afraid of is the smuggling organization and the people involved with the smuggling organization. They will definitely suppress this matter, as I just said
, after all, the person who died was just an insignificant little character, right?"
"Your assessment task is only to kill the target person. When did you think clearly about what you just said?" Nicholas asked in hot pursuit, but the expression on his face with age spots became more and more serious.
of satisfaction.
"Before taking action," Wei Ranyi replied pointedly, "I don't want to be a tool that only needs hands and does not use brains."
Nikolai obviously understood Wei Ran's hint and promised with a smile, "Don't worry, young man, the Soviet Union is gone long ago. We are just friends, and you are just a historian. What you are worried about will not happen.
, will never happen.”
"Thank you for your assurance." Wei Ran picked up the coffee cup and touched it lightly to the other party's cup.
Taking a symbolic sip of coffee, Nicholas changed the subject again and asked, "I heard that you used Chinese Kung Fu to defeat those idiots who got you drunk?"
"It's just a fluke," Wei Ran responded with a smile, making it clear that he didn't want to explain in detail.
"It seems that Culp can only get two years' tuition from you at most."
After speaking, Nicholas stood up slowly and said, "Okay, go back and rest. If you are not busy these days, remember to go to Vienna for me."
"Don't worry, I have already made arrangements and will send the things over soon."
After saying goodbye to Nicholas who had already walked into the bedroom, Wei Ran closed the door for him, looked up at the sky dyed red by the sunset, then walked towards the studio, took out his cell phone and called Herb
