At the Hamburg Airport in Germany, when a tired-looking Wei Ran slowly walked out with his bag, he immediately saw a strong man wearing a suit and leather shoes, but with a full beard, holding up a receipt with his name on it.
Standing at the airport pick-up gate, I looked left and right.
Seeing Wei Ran walking towards him, the strong man immediately threw the pick-up sign on the chair behind him and enthusiastically extended his hand to Wei Ran, "Are you Mr. Victor, the historian from Volgograd?"
"It should be me, what should I call you?"
Wei Ran shook hands with the other party. The bearded man's hand was unexpectedly strong, and there was an obvious callus on his palm.
"Sauron, just call me Sauron." This strong man was particularly enthusiastic. After briefly introducing himself, he took Weiran outside the airport. As for the basement, he didn't even mention it.
One sentence.
Under the leadership of this strong man named Soren, the two first took a car from the airport to the train station, and then took a two-hour train ride before arriving in Kiel.
This wasn't over yet. After leaving the train station, Solan took Weiran and got into an old-looking Mercedes-Benz sedan and left the city straight away. He drove northwest for more than an hour and finally stopped at
In front of an old house in the suburbs next to the coastline.
"The scenery here is so beautiful," Wei Ran admired as he looked at the beach in the distance.
“It will be more beautiful in summer”
Soren pointed to Kiel Bay in the distance and said, "Especially in June, there will be sailing competitions and lively carnivals here. Of course, the most important thing is that there will be many beautiful girls wearing bikinis on the beach.
"
"Sounds like a man's paradise?" Wei Ran asked jokingly.
"Of course!" Sauron tugged at his long beard, "No man can refuse Kiel City in the summer!"
"The scenery in winter is also very beautiful." Wei Ran retracted his gaze and looked at the house not far away again, "The basement is in that house?"
"right"
While speaking, Sauron actually took out a shiny silver cross from his collar and kissed it. Then he crossed himself devoutly on his chest, "That basement is too scary. You must have someone there when you go in."
Mentally prepare.”
Looking at Sauron with a strange look on his face, Wei Ran nodded but did not rush in. Instead, he walked around the house which was only two or three hundred meters away from the seaside.
Overall, the location of this house is quite good. First of all, the terrain is much higher. Standing in front of the door, you can clearly see not only the beach in the distance, but also the pier and seafood market in the distance.
It has an unobstructed view, and behind the house, in addition to a large lawn, there is a lake further away.
In addition to its good location, the building itself is also exceptionally beautiful. There is an old-looking cast iron mailbox on the left arm in front of the door. On the lawn a little further to the right, there is an anchor as tall as a person.
Look at the faint green rust stains on the anchor. It turns out that the anchor is made of copper.
Just this anchor reminds Weiran of the German civilian ships smuggling pure copper from the United States during World War II.
Taking out his cell phone and taking a photo of the anchor, Wei Ran focused on the building itself. This long house facing the beach was at least over 40 meters long, although it only had three floors and one floor.
The stone foundation stones below are almost one meter high. There are many carvings of marine elements on this circle of foundation stones, from anchors to sea fish to sailboats, and even sea monsters with big mouths and various hollows.
European mythology pattern out.
On the roof of the building, in addition to several towering chimneys, there is a gryphon-shaped weathervane swaying in the wind on top of the chimney on the far left.
In addition to these objects that appear to be of the same style, there is also a new-looking sign fixed on the roof of the second floor.
Soren came up and explained, "This place has been abandoned for at least forty or fifty years. It was not until some time ago that I planned to use this place to run a diving, surfing and sailing club, and I accidentally discovered the basement."
Wei Ran nodded silently, "Let's go in and take a look."
Hearing this, Soran immediately took out a bunch of keys from his pocket, first opened the roller blinds that were obviously newly installed on all the windows on the first floor, letting the sunlight shine into the room, and then finally opened the locked door.
Stepping into the spacious hall on the first floor, Wei Ran looked at the wooden floor under his feet that seemed to have been recently laid, and then looked at Sauron with a questioning look, "Tell me about the changes you plan to make after reactivating this place."
“Not much has changed actually”
Soran spread his hands, "I only repaired the leaky roof and rotten wooden floor, and added the roller shutters and the sign you just saw. The rest basically remains the same."
Wei Ran looked at the wooden bar facing the door and the wooden wine rack behind the bar, then looked up at the crystal chandelier hanging above his head, and then turned his attention to the one on the right with a remaining curtain and an old-fashioned microphone in the center.
There is a small stage, as well as dining tables covered with velvet tablecloths and matching chairs around the stage. Looking to the left of the bar, there are only four pool tables and old-fashioned record players on the tables against the wall.
"Can I just stroll around and take some photos?" Wei Ran asked Sauron who was standing at the door.
"Of course," Sauron responded happily.
Hearing this, Wei Ran took out his mobile phone and took photos of the retro layout of the lobby on the first floor of the house, and then walked around each room carefully.
On the right hand side of the bar, next to the small stage, the room still maintains the appearance of a kitchen and supporting warehouse. There is also a small door passage in the warehouse and a separate wooden room outside.
In addition to the very old heating stove, you can also see the remaining cinders on the ground and a rusty kerosene lamp hanging overhead.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Return to the lobby on the first floor and get into the small door on the side of the bar. This small windowless house has a circle of shelves lined up against the wall, and there are even shelves on it.
There are some dusty wine bottles.
As for the left side of the bar, there is a large fireplace built on the wall next to the billiard tables. Through the wooden door beside the fireplace, there is also a slightly smaller fireplace in this house, which seems to be the same as the large fireplace outside.
It's just separated by a wall.
In comparison, this house is much warmer. Not only does it have a large enough double bed, there is also a writing desk by the window, and there are even flower pots of different shapes on the windowsill.
Returning to the lobby on the first floor, Wei Ran walked along the wooden stairs on the side of the bar to the second floor. He looked at each room along the corridor. The rooms were all arranged in the same way. Basically, each room had a double bed. Add an old-fashioned dressing table as well as a wooden wardrobe and a set of radiators.
Climb up the stairs at the end of the corridor to the third floor. This place is slightly better than the second floor. Next to the stairs is a room similar to a living room. The furnishings inside look much more modern. At least you can see a TV, a refrigerator and other items. Already.
Next to this huge living room, in addition to the normal kitchen, two bathrooms and even a storage room, there are five or six bedrooms and two studies that are farthest from the living room.
After visiting the house carefully, Wei Ran asked Sauron, who was following behind him, "Would you like to take me to the basement now?"
"Let's go to the first floor. This house has two basements."
"Two basements?"
"Let's look at the first one first. At least it looks normal." After Soran returned to the lobby on the first floor, he took Wei Ran into the room behind the bar, pressed the old-fashioned power switch, and waited for the light bulb above his head to light up. After the dim light, an iron hook hanging on the wall was removed, and a piece of wood about one meter square was lifted up, revealing a hole with an aluminum alloy ladder.
"It turns out there is a wooden ladder here, but I stepped on it and almost broke my waist." While speaking, Solan picked up a flashlight from the shelf and turned it on. He climbed the ladder and walked down while reminding him. , "There are no lights down here, be careful when you come down."
Following Sauron, Wei Ran stepped on the creaking aluminum alloy ladder and entered the basement. Then he saw that the not-so-large basement was filled with sundries, from some expired cans to various fishing gear. It can be said that there is everything, and even on one wall, there are several sets of wetsuits that have been opened, as well as two deformed surfboards and several spear guns. At the same time, in a box in the corner, there are also many rusty ones. Gas bottles and an air compressor.
I bent down to pick up a rusty gas bottle wrench and knocked on the surrounding walls made of stone and concrete as well as the stone floor under my feet. The sound of porcelain knocking proved that there was no hole on the other side. This was a bit too strong. Just the basement.
"Where's the other basement?" Wei Ran asked as he put the wrench back in place.
"In the room with the fireplace," Sauron said while climbing up the ladder.
"Can't you just take me to that basement..."
Wei Ran muttered to himself, and patiently followed the other person out of the basement, and got into the particularly cozy room on the left side of the bar.
To Wei Ran's surprise, this time Sauron actually lifted a metal plate less than one meter square and covered with rust from the fireplace. Under the metal plate, a dark hole could be seen. A metal handrail next to one.
"How did you discover this place?" Wei Ran asked curiously.
"Accident"
Soren put the metal plate aside and explained while patting the dust on his hands, "When I was re-laying the floor, I was going to clean the fireplace, and then I discovered the metal plate buried in the charcoal ash.
, you can definitely guess what happened next. After I opened the metal plate, I found the hole below, please wait a moment."
Before he finished speaking, Sauron had already crawled in with difficulty along the entrance of the cave. Soon after, a bright light lit up at the entrance of the cave, and then Wei Ran heard the former calling him to go down and have a look.
Drilling through the hole, when his feet touched the floor, his eyes widened in surprise. The area of this basement was slightly smaller than what he saw in the photo, but even so it was about twenty square meters.
, even the height is more than two meters. And the metal handrail he stepped on just now is fixed on a red brick chimney.
Going around the side of the chimney, there is a fireplace still piled with firewood. Looking around, the layout here is exactly what he saw in the photo. The surrounding walls, the floor under his feet, and even the ceiling above his head are all made of wooden boards.
After wrapping, a coffin was quietly placed on two chairs against the wall in the distance.
Not far from the coffin, there is a single bed and a dresser, as well as a wardrobe that seems to be too large. There is even a toilet and a bathroom with a bathtub on the other side of the fireplace. Give it a try.
I turned on the faucet in the bathroom and there was water flowing out!
Returning to the fireplace, Wei Ran walked to a solid wood table with a lamp and looked carefully. On this table were stacks of blank manuscript paper, various outdated calculation tools, and two bottles of ink and ink of different colors.
Several pens.
On the shelves against the wall behind it, there were two radio stations with unknown dates and models, as well as wooden boxes filled with blank manuscripts.
But what surprised him was that these two sets of radio stations seemed to be only used for receiving, and he did not find matching transmitting equipment.
Looking up at the two wires extending from the fireplace chimney to the ceiling and finally connected to the radio station antenna, Wei Ran tried to open the drawer of the table.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In these only three large drawers, classified paper boxes contain various vulnerable parts that may be used by radio stations. In addition to this
In addition, there were two iron boxes filled with pistol bullets and a pistol that looked like a hybrid.
After glancing at Solan who was standing aside, Wei Ran took out a pair of rubber gloves from his bag and put them on, then picked up a bullet from one of the boxes and looked at it.
There is no doubt that this bullet is a 9X19 mm pistol bullet. Not only can it be used on the sidearm he put in the metal book, but during World War II, there were so many weapons using this bullet that they could even be lined up from Berlin to the Kremlin.
come out.
Putting the bullet back into the tin box, he picked up a bullet from another box. This bullet was also a common commodity at that time. Not to mention, when Mustache committed suicide with his pistol, he used the same bullet.
Bullets.
Putting down the bullet again, he picked up the pistol, which glowed blue under the light.
Carefully remove the magazine, then gently pull the slide, and with a crisp clang, a 9mm pistol bullet bounces and hits the dusty table.
"I didn't notice there were bullets in it last time," Soren said in fear.
"You're lucky." Wei Ran picked up the magazine full of bullets and looked at it, then focused on the weapon held in his other hand.
Although this pistol looks like a hybrid, I have to admit that the manufacturing quality is quite good. With the help of the inscriptions and brands on it, Weiran quickly determined its identity. It turned out to be a Polish pistol.
An early Radom pistol produced before the German invasion.
Could it be that the person hiding here was a Pole? If not, how could such a pistol appear here?
Wei Ran suddenly felt that this basement was full of malice. If it was as he suspected, the danger here would be too great. The Poles, those were the Poles! He would rather be sent back to Stalingrad than
Hiding in the same basement as the Poles.
"Victor, what's wrong?" Seeing that Wei Ran's face looked a little strange, Sauron immediately asked nervously.
"Nothing." Wei Ran turned the handle of the pistol and handed it to the other party, "Take it, this is a good gun."
Soran took the pistol without knowing why and threw it on the table. "I'm not interested in such old antiques. Victor, do you want to see the body?"
"Don't worry yet." Wei Ran shook his head, "Let's take a look at other things first."
Hearing this, Sauron bent over and picked up a plastic storage box indifferently and put it on the catchment. He opened the lid and pointed at the things inside and said, "These are what I found when I first discovered this place. Basically, they all come from here."
A table or the drawers of that dresser far away.”
I randomly picked up an ID card and looked at it. There was a young woman who looked very elegant. I picked up another ID card and there was a gentle man inside.
Flipping through one book after another, the photos in these various documents are basically the photos of the two people changing back and forth in various costumes. Of course, along with the changes, there are also names that he can understand or cannot understand.
, and various information including age.
After rummaging through the thick pile of documents, there were only five or six gold bars left without any markings and even slightly strange weights in this small plastic box, as well as some German marks and Soviet rubles from the Second World War.
, even pounds and dollars.
This is a standard spy reserve...
Wei Ran muttered to himself, put all the documents in his hand back into the plastic box, and carefully observed the items stored on other shelves placed against the wall.
There is nothing special here. In addition to a set of German chain dog uniforms and an MP40 submachine gun widely equipped by Germany, there are also several barrels of well-preserved kerosene, a medical kit, and various tin cans and food without wrapping paper.
wine.
At the back of the shelves, there seemed to be several vents diagonally upwards. However, most of these vents, which were as thick as buckets, were completely nailed shut by wooden boards wrapped with iron sheets. Only one could be opened.
, there was also a large amount of soil accumulated inside, even the carcasses of rats and eggshells left by unknown animals.
After looking at almost all the inventory, Wei Ran walked over to the single bed, opened the closet and took a look. To his surprise, there was nothing in this closet that was big enough to fit four or five people without any problem.
thing.
On the dressing table next to it, most of the expired cosmetics looked like they had never been used.
After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran quickly walked to the bathroom on the other side, picked up a rusty teacher's razor from the edge of the sink and looked at it.
Putting it back in place, he silently walked to the side of the coffin and carefully opened the coffin lid.
However, when he saw the corpse in the coffin for the first time, his inner doubts doubled again. The corpse was covered with a white dress, but under the skirt, there were clean strands.
Not normal bones. Most of these bones are intact, but there is only a bullet hole the size of a peanut in the skull between the eyebrows.
After Sauron nodded in agreement, Wei Ran gently picked up the skull and observed it carefully, and then saw some remaining soil between the teeth.
Putting down the skull in his hand, Wei Ran carefully inspected the pelvis of the corpse. Based on the trivial knowledge he learned at the Hongqi Forest Farm, he was barely sure that this was indeed the remains of a woman, and according to the teeth he saw,
From the degree of wear and tear, we can roughly tell that she was not very old when she died.
It is obvious that this corpse was once buried directly in the soil, and was later dug out, cleaned, put into a coffin, and placed in this secret basement.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Victor, can you find anything?" Sauron asked expectantly.
Wei Ran covered the body with the white dress again, then closed the coffin lid and asked, "I have a question."
"What's the problem?" Sauron asked.
"Why do you want to know what's going on here?"
Hearing this, Sauron was stunned and replied matter-of-factly, "There are so many weird things and even a corpse in the basement of my house. Isn't this reason enough?"
"makes sense"
Wei Ran said as he walked towards the fireplace, "Soren, how far do you want to check? This is related to the level of charges."
"My father can provide up to 300,000 euros." Solon simply gave a standard that is easy for both parties to understand. "The rest depends on whether the results you can find are worth the price."
"The willful rich man..."
Wei Ran muttered to himself, reached out and grabbed the steel handrail on the fireplace chimney, and said while climbing up, "Let's go to the roof first and take a look."
"Go to the roof?" Sauron was stunned, and quickly followed Wei Ran out of the basement.
With the help of the other party, Wei Ran climbed up to the roof and went to the griffin-shaped weather vane for a careful inspection. Then he discovered that the weather vane was indeed a well-disguised radio antenna as he had guessed.
Without rushing down, Wei Ran used the cover of his backpack to take out a telescope from a metal book and pointed it at Kiel Bay in the distance.
Just like what he thought when he first saw this house, the view here is excellent due to the terrain, and the entire Kiel Bay is easily included in his field of view through the telescope. Even without a telescope, as long as he stands on the second
From the balcony of the upstairs room, you can easily see every merchant ship entering Kiel Port.
During World War II, this would have been an excellent observation point. Any warship or even submarine docked at Kiel Port would probably not be able to escape prying eyes here. Even the two radio stations of unknown model in the basement,
Perhaps they could easily monitor the ship's radio communications at that time, but whether the monitored communications could be deciphered is another matter.
After putting away the telescope and Wei Ran coming down from the roof, Sauron, who had been looking up at his neck just now, immediately asked again, "Any clues?"
"There are clues, but not many."
After all, he and Suisui learned some knife skills for slaughtering fat sheep. Wei Ran asked in a difficult manner, "Mr. Solon, it takes time to investigate the things in the basement. Do you have a deadline?"
“Better to have it done before May”
Soren pointed to the billboard on the roof, "My club will be open for business in mid-May. I hope I can tell a good story to my customers by then."
"I've probably got enough time, do you have any other requirements?" Wei Ran asked while writing down the time on the memo.
"Confidentiality"
Soren said simply, "This is Germany, and everything related to Nazism is illegal, so I don't want any words, pictures, or anything like this to leak out before the results of the investigation come out."
Before Wei Ran could speak, Soran crossed himself on his chest and said, "My father was originally going to entrust this matter to a French archaeologist. It is said that that gentleman has a very good reputation, but before we contacted him, it turned out that
That man, he was imprisoned.
It was also because of this matter that we hesitated for a long time, and finally found you through the introduction of Mr. Hans. So Mr. Victor, please be sure to keep this matter confidential."
"Well... don't worry, I have a good reputation and I will definitely keep this matter a secret."
Wei Ran glanced at Sauron, who seemed to be somewhat devout, with a strange expression. He had roughly guessed who the other party initially wanted to contact to investigate the basement.
