In the silent night, the crisp sound of metal knocking made Wei Ran, who had just fallen asleep, turn over violently and hurriedly grabbed the pistol beside him. At the same time, a stone the size of a quail egg fell from the rear bumper of the truck.
It fell down and hit the asphalt road with a soft "clack" sound.
Less than twenty meters away from the door of the security room, the front desk lady yawned, put away her slingshot, turned around and got into the lounge.
Wei Ran, who was in the car, was completely sleepy at this time. He took out his mobile phone and looked at it. It was 2:08 in the morning, but this sudden movement was already the fourth time.
"grass!"
Wei anxiously put away his pistol, wrapped himself in the clothes tightly and lay down again. He understood clearly that Culp just didn't want to let himself sleep!
I have survived the 19th Don River position, how can I be afraid of you? Wei Ran made a pale excuse for himself, closed his eyes to calm down, and tried his best to fall asleep.
But just when he started to feel confused, he suddenly felt something stepping on him. When he reached out and touched something furry and moving, his whole heart was lifted into his throat and he was beating.
I got up on my feet and jumped around, only to find that at some point, there were two fat white rabbits in the carriage that were almost dripping with oil!
If this was wild, he could eat the gas lantern hanging above his head! He opened the canvas curtain, and Wei Ran said "Oh my God" and sat on the bumpy floor. He could only see outside the canvas curtain. I don't know when.
A poster that is as big as a door panel has been erected, and what is printed on it is the head of a plump Caucasian dog! The most annoying thing is that this dog head poster is glow-in-the-dark!
Looking at the time again, it was 3:19 in the morning. He had only slept for an hour at most. Wei Ran glanced in the direction of the entrance of the Hongqi Forest Farm with an ugly expression. He lowered the curtain angrily and took off the hat hanging above his head.
He turned off the gas light and put away the leather book, then pulled the suitcase over and buckled it, sat down on it and stared at the canvas curtain. He wanted to see what new tricks the other party would come up with next.
However, the wait lasted until after five o'clock in the morning, but the other party never made any more noise. Wei Ran, who had not slept well all night, leaned against the canvas carport, closing his eyes for longer and longer, and finally fell into a deep sleep.
Started rumbling.
Quietly, the aunt at the front desk tied the drawstring of the canvas curtain into a tight buckle, then walked around to the side near the cab, used a scalpel to gently open a corner of the canvas awning, reached in and stuffed it inside.
A smoke bomb turned and went into the bushes on the roadside.
Thick smoke filled the carriage, and Wei Ran, who was choked awake, almost thought that the entire truck had been set on fire, so he hurriedly opened the curtain and jumped out.
"Which bastard did this?" Wei Ran cursed, and then the smoke made him cough repeatedly.
Without caring about anything else, he held a Mauser bayonet in his left hand and opened the canvas curtain with a forceful wave. While retracting the bayonet, he rolled out of the carriage and jumped out of the carriage. However, when his hands and feet touched the ground,
It was only then that I discovered that the asphalt road behind the carriage had been paved with sticky boards for some time.
With this jump, not only were his hands and feet pressed against the sticky mouse board, but there were even a few big rats still struggling on the boards around him!
Holding back his nausea, Wei Ran tore off the sticky pads on his hands and feet. He squatted on the roadside, picked up the sand and scrubbed the mucus off his hands. At this time, the truck behind him was still surging with strong gunpowder.
red smoke.
After reluctantly cleaning up the stolen goods on his hands, Wei Ran took out his mobile phone and looked at the time. It was 5:47, and there were still three hours left before the nine o'clock meeting.
This time, he really couldn't sleep. Wei Ran, who was already tormented and nervous, looked around vigilantly. When there was no more smoke coming out of the car, he immediately got in, took out the silent sniper rifle and fired it towards his head.
The trigger.
Weak gunfire rang out twice in succession. After completing the warning shot, Wei Ran turned around and climbed onto the roof of the cab, holding the gun and staring in the direction of the Hongqi Forest Farm.
In the bushes less than ten meters away from the roadside, the aunt at the front desk showed a satisfied smile on her fat face. Her fat but flexible body retreated silently, walked in circles back to the forest farm, and directly returned to her dormitory in the consultation center.
.
Holding on to his sleepiness until 8:50, Wei Ran ran into the Hongqi Forest Farm with the sniper rifle he had carried all night, regardless of the luggage that was scattered all over the carriage, and stood at nine o'clock sharp as time went by.
The door of the consultation center.
"How did you sleep last night?" Culp, who smelled of alcohol, walked out sleepily and greeted Wei Ran cordially.
"Very good" Wei Ran gritted his teeth and forced out a smile, "The wild animals near Hongqi Forest Farm are very lively and very hospitable!"
"Thank you for the compliment. Come in and have breakfast." Culp said and pointed to the weapon in Wei Ran's hand. "Remember to store your weapon at the front desk. You won't need it here for the time being."
"So my course starts now?" Wei Ran asked as he followed the other person towards the consultation center.
Culp looked at his watch, "It started two minutes ago. By the way, about your time schedule, you can choose to study for a week and rest for a week, or you can choose to study for half a month and then rest for half a month. As long as
Just tell me in advance."
"Press the first method first!"
While Wei Ran was speaking, he handed the silent sniper rifle in his hand and the silent pistol in his pocket to the aunt at the front desk, signed the deposit slip handed to him, chased Culp into a room and
Not a big restaurant.
"You have an hour"
Culp waited for Wei Ran to bring the food, and then he laid a map on the dining table in a leisurely manner, "This is the map of the Hongqi Forest Farm. There are barbed wire fences on the border. At 10 o'clock, you and Jima's
The game starts in this area."
"What game?" Wei Ran, who had just taken a bite of pie, looked up and asked.
"Put this on first"
While Culp was speaking, he handed a watch to Wei Ran, "This is the locator. As long as you run out of the range of the Hongqi Forest Farm, you will receive an alert. In addition, if you are in danger, you can also press and hold the red button.
"
As he spoke, Culp took out a Polaroid photo from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran. He pointed at the electronic equipment in the photo and said, "I hid three blackboards within the Hongqi Forest Farm. This thing is
It is placed with the blackboard, and your task is to find the blackboard, sign your name on it, and then touch your watch to this thing."
"Where's Ji Ma?" Wei Ran put on his watch and asked in confusion.
"He will leave at 10 o'clock sharp"
When Culp said this, Jima, who had changed into a hunter's outfit, honestly picked up the paintball gun on the table and shook it, "The effective range is 40 meters. My job is to catch you."
"Every time he hits you with his paintball gun, it means he has caught you."
The smile on Culp's face became brighter and brighter, "If he catches you 10 times in one day, you will have to pay a ransom of 20,000 rubles."
"Is there any ransom?" Wei Ran's eyes widened.
"Of course, of course there must be a ransom."
Culp tapped the Polaroid photo on the table with his finger, "If you find any of these three blackboards before six o'clock in the afternoon, you can end the game. When you come back, you will not only have dinner, but also a dormitory.
If any two are found, the ransom for the day will be halved; if all three are found, the ransom will be waived."
As if the stakes were not high enough, Culp continued, "If you not only find all three blackboards and leave your name on them, but also Ji Ma catches you less than 10 times before 6 p.m., you can
Come to me and collect the bonus of ten thousand rubles. Jimma, if this happens, you will pay the bonus of ten thousand rubles."
Turning his head, Culp continued to say to Wei Ran, "Of course, if you don't find a single blackboard before six o'clock in the afternoon, you don't have to come back. Tomorrow I will ask Jima to change the color of the bullets in the paintball gun and continue to capture you.
Do you have anything else to ask now?"
"No...no more," Wei Ran replied with difficulty after swallowing his saliva.
"Well, have a nice meal. You still have 46 minutes to have breakfast. At 10 o'clock, I will let Ji Ma set off to start his hunting." After Culp finished speaking, he picked up the coffee on the table and drank it in one gulp.
He stood up and left the restaurant, which was not that big.
Wei Ran and Ji Ma looked at each other, and the latter had a greedy smile on his face, "It seems that the money I owe you can be paid back today."
"Don't even think about it!" Wei Ran grabbed the pie on the plate and the mineral water before he could unscrew it, and ran out of the restaurant.
"Don't worry! Come back first!"
Ji Ma called to Wei Ran, bent down and picked up a grass-green canvas bag from his feet and handed it to him, "There is a compass, a knife, water, and a pistol for self-defense. Victor, you
Be careful. The most dangerous thing in this forest is not bears, but groups of wild boars. When you encounter them, you must stay away. If you really can't hide, press the rescue button. However, you must look clearly before shooting.
, don’t think of me as a wild boar.”
"Thank you for reminding me, but I won't let you catch me." Wei Ran bumped fists with the other party and ran out of the restaurant with his bag.
Almost less than ten minutes after he set off, Nicholas drove Jima's van to the Hongqi Forest Farm, followed Culp who came out to greet him and got into an office in the corner of the first floor of the consultation center.
Soon after, the luggage that Wei Ran had left on the truck at the door was brought in by the front desk lady and placed on the desk.
Nicholas, who was sitting in the main seat, rummaged through Weiran's luggage, found the medical file and took a look at it, then put it aside, picked up the cigarette case on the table and took out a cigarette.
He went up to the office and asked Culp, who was standing upright opposite the desk, unhurriedly, "How is that young man?"
"Barely able to teach," Culp replied seriously.
"Tell me what you found." Nicholas waved his hand and motioned for the other party to sit down and talk.
Upon seeing this, Culp sat down and replied simply, "He and his teacher ran a studio in Volgograd. A few days ago, the studio was transferred to Victor. His teacher also resigned.
I lost my job as a university teacher and am now working for the businessman I checked before. Today is his first day at work."
"Continue" Nicholas picked up the medical file again and seemed to focus all his attention on it.
"The last time he and Jima went to Yinta, they were kidnapped by a local gold digger, but in the end the gold digger was killed by him and his body was thrown into an abandoned mine on the outskirts of Yinta. The gold sand used to pay for tuition
It's very possible that they were snatched from the other party's hands."
"Where is the body?" Nicholas looked up and asked.
"I have already cleared them up," Culp replied honestly. At that time, he followed the two young men there in person and secretly, so he naturally knew everything that happened.
"Look at this medical file." Nicholas changed the topic directly and handed the document in his hand to Culp.
"This is not..." Culp frowned, he was too familiar with this file.
"I asked that young man to help investigate the matter. Everything in the ampoule room was sent to his studio in Volgograd." Nikolai's tone became deeper, "Tell me, why did he just
I brought this file."
Culp was not in a hurry to answer. He carefully looked through the file that he had read countless times. Finally, he shook his head and said truthfully, "I don't see anything special. This new generation is so fragile."
I don’t know how many people were killed at that time. There was also the insurance company where he worked. According to the information we found, it was wiped out by an explosion in February 1985, but the time when the ampoules disappeared was
In April, even if he did it, it didn't seem to have anything to do with the cause of his death."
Nicholas nodded silently, "Put everything back."
"Captain..." Culp hesitated for a moment and asked tentatively, "Do you really want to teach him?"
"Didn't he pay the tuition?" Nicholas said with a smile on his old face, "Teach seriously, I will do random checks when the time comes, don't let me down."
"Understood!" Culp and the front desk lady standing at the door immediately stood up straight and replied in unison.
"I'm going back first." Nicholas stood up, "I'll leave this to you two."
After Culp and the aunt at the front desk saw him off, Nicholas slowly walked out of the office, left the consultation center, and drove the van out of the Hongqi Forest Farm.
At ten o'clock in the morning, Jima, who was locked in the kitchen of the restaurant, rushed out of the consultation center waving the paintball gun like a wild dog. He started driving around the edge of the forest around the building.
circle.
Not long after, Ji Ma stopped, picked up a branch of a bush, touched the broken tip of one of the branches with the pad of his finger, and then stretched out his tongue to lick the pad of his finger.
The unique bitterness of the juice secreted from the broken branches made Jima's face look like he was winning. He walked along the bushes into the dense birch forest, and soon after, he found half a piece of humus printed on it.
The incomplete footprints on the.
At the same time, in the depths of the birch forest less than 200 meters away from Ji Ma, Wei Ran struggled to pull away the thick branches and wandered aimlessly in the dense forest overgrown with grass, trying to find what Culp said.
blackboard.
But looking around, the field of view is full of white birch trees that have begun to lose their leaves, pine trees and oak trees mixed in. Of course, there are also waist-high shrubs and various small animals that pop up from time to time. I want to find hidden things in this environment.
One can imagine the difficulty of the blackboard.
But on the other hand, last night's experience also let him know that the game organized by Culp was not a joke at all. If he really couldn't find it, he might really have to sleep in this damn place today.
Gritting his teeth, Wei Ran took out the compass from his pocket, looked at it, and continued to move in the set direction while trying not to leave too many traces.
But the further he walked, the uglier his face became. The terrain here didn't look much lower than the surroundings, but when he stepped on it, the humus layer covered with fallen leaves could almost seep out water, and even he,
You can all see the obvious series of footprints behind you.
Seeing that it was impossible to hide his whereabouts, Wei Ran simply quickened his pace and tried to widen the distance between him and Ji Ma as much as possible.
However, less than an hour later, with a soft "pop!", a ball of blue and sticky paint exploded on his butt.
"first!"
Ji Ma, who was wearing hunting clothes, stood up, shook off the fallen leaves covering his body, and said with a smile, "I can hear the sound of you kicking the fallen leaves while walking from 50 meters away."
"How did you know I would go here?" Wei Ran asked helplessly as he touched the dye on his butt.
Ji Ma didn't hide his secrets and said cheerfully, "The trees here are relatively sparse. No matter people or animals, they will subconsciously go to the easier place. This is common sense."
"I really appreciate your common sense." Wei Ran bent down and grabbed a handful of fallen leaves, and wiped the dye on his hands and butt randomly.
"You're welcome"
Ji Ma grinned stupidly, "Okay, I will return to the edge of the forest now, and then I will come back to find you. Before that, think of a way as soon as possible to prevent me from discovering you!"
Watching Ji Ma go further and further until he was completely blocked by trees, Wei Ran randomly chose a direction and ran out for a hundred meters, then walked back backwards in his own footsteps, imitating Ji Ma's example and lying on the ground under a tree.
Behind the birch tree, the fallen leaves around it were covered up.
Half an hour later, there was another soft "pop!" and Wei Ran's thigh was hit by a paintball. The burning pain made him groan.
"It's not too stupid, but there's something wrong with the fallen leaves you chose."
Ji Ma stood far away and reminded, "You have turned out the damp leaves at the bottom. They are different colors from the surrounding fallen leaves. It is too obvious."
Wei Ran rubbed his thighs and sat up, "I thought you would follow the footprints and catch up."
Ji Ma pinched the branches between the two bushes and said, "If you go forward, the branches will get stuck in the direction you are going. Victor, don't make common sense mistakes again. Or should I put some water on you? As
In exchange, how about not having to pay back the money I owe you?"
"You're thinking shit!" Wei Ran raised his middle finger from a distance and watched Jima walk towards the main building of the forest farm again.
