In the warm tent, Wei Ran weighed the phone that he had hung up. After thinking for a moment, he took out his engineer shovel and dug a hole in the ground. He put the gasoline stove in, blocked the fire with the surrounding soil, and then lay down again on the soft and warm tent.
On a bearskin blanket.
Going out to look for poachers at this time is obviously not a wise plan. In this case, taking a good rest and replenishing your energy is the wisest choice.
I used my mobile phone to set an alarm for 3:30 a.m. local time, and Weiran fell asleep as quickly as I closed the door.
At the same time, Ji Ma, who is located at the other end of the reserve, is still busy, looking for various clues left after the explosion. By the way, he remotely commands the Inta hunters guarding the rescue station to be more vigilant and carefully investigate possible existences.
danger.
That night, Wei Ran slept extremely soundly, and Ji Ma was extremely busy. However, those who caused the explosion did not appear again all night.
At 3:30 in the morning, the vibration of the mobile phone woke Wei Ran from his sleep. He lifted up the thick reindeer skin blanket and listened for a while. Except for the gasoline stove that was still hissing, the wilderness was extremely quiet.
Can't hear any movement.
He put on his clothes lightly and got out of the thick tent. After putting all the things in the metal book one by one, Wei Ran took out the Soviet cloak and winter flying leather hat and put them on again, feeling in the dark and climbed up.
A small dirt bag in the distance.
At four o'clock in the morning, Jima also packed up various things, took a gun and found a place to hide.
In contrast, in the rescue station in the center of the reserve, the helpers who came from Inta, under Jima's deliberate arrangement, except for a few on duty, the rest were still snoring in the warm yurt.
He fell asleep while observing the members of the anti-poaching organization who came to help.
At five o'clock in the morning, although the sun has not yet come out, the sky is already bright, and in the cold desert Gobi, animals that have risen early have already left their nests at the safest time of the day.
The first ones to find food were a few Kosak foxes. After these smart and beautiful little guys dragged their big fluffy tails to search for it, they unexpectedly discovered that the smell of food was wafting not far away.
Following the smell of meat, these foxes twitched their noses and searched vigilantly, and finally found a few fodder bags that made them wary.
There were pieces of mutton hanging around these straw bales, and they even saw a half-grown fox tearing into the frozen pieces of meat on the bales. At the same time, they also saw, not far away,
Next to another hay bale, there was a half-grown sheep in a cage, bleating.
After a brief hesitation, the largest fox walked up vigilantly and quickly bit off a small piece of slightly rotten mutton chop from one of the hay bales.
Seeing that the little fox had no idea of protecting the food, the big fox immediately relaxed and swallowed the food in its mouth. Then it let out a long cry, calling for the other foxes to rush forward.
, and began to eat the pieces of meat hanging on the remaining hay bales.
However, before they could fill their stomachs, the fox that ate the meat first twitched and fell to the ground, followed by the second, third, and fourth, until finally, those few
The smallest fox also fell down one after another.
At this moment, the only ones still alive around these straw bales were the half-sized fox with a thin chain around its neck, which could only move around the bales, and the imprisoned fox in the distance.
Little sheep bleating in an iron cage.
At 5:30 in the morning, a large area of red has appeared on the horizon, and the plants and trees in the field of vision have gradually become clearer. Wei Ran, who had wrapped his body tightly in a blanket, was finally shaken and saw a vague and sudden sight.
A person and a horse burst into view.
After hesitating for a moment, he slowly put away the telescope and replaced it with a huge and heavy anti-tank gun.
Wei Ran will not use this gun to deal with poachers. It is too exaggerated and completely unnecessary. But the high-power sight on the gun can see farther and clearer than a telescope. The only shortcoming is that
It's just that the field of view is much smaller.
He used the scope to trap the man on horseback. After adjusting the scope, Wei Ran finally used the faint light to see a dog following behind the horse the man was riding.
Gently moving the huge muzzle of the gun and pointing it in the direction he came from, Wei Ran, who found nothing, moved the muzzle of the gun back again, and patiently watched the man riding a horse into the protected area, and was finally caught by the ups and downs.
The ground completely blocked his figure.
Someone from the protection station? Probably not...
Wei Ran thought for a moment, quickly packed up the things around him, got on his motorcycle, and followed from a distance without even daring to turn on the lights.
Because of the existence of the dog, Wei Ran did not dare to get too close, but immediately hid after finding the other person's figure again.
However, there was a low mountain ridge between where the other party was staying and the rising sun. So although he could vaguely see the existence of the horse and the man, he couldn't see clearly what they were doing.
.
That dog is a problem... Wei Ran muttered to himself, but did not rush to inform Jima.
While he waited patiently, the man, horse and dog left again, but these three beasts did not go in the direction they came.
Quite cautious...
Wei Ran stood up slowly, raised his telescope and looked at the surroundings, then got on his motorcycle and followed him from a distance again.
He frowned as he passed by the place where the man had just stayed. There were about a dozen hay bales that were only the size of a big-ass TV set scattered around. Some of the hay bales had fist-sized pieces of meat hanging on them.
There were several pieces of corpses, and there were also skinned foxes around them, which were firmly nailed to the tree trunks with rusty irons. Around these corpses, there were also several glass injection bottles the size of index fingers scattered around.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Beside one of the hay bales, there was a little sheep in a cage bleating, without any awareness of its behavior.
Instead, it became bait.
Observing the surrounding situation clearly, Wei Ran took out a pair of rubber gloves that he carried with him and put them on. He carefully picked up an injection bottle and looked at it. Unfortunately, except for an unknown Cyrillic letter symbol on the bottle, there was no other meaning at all.
There are no labels.
After thinking for a moment, he threw away the injection bottle in his hand, then took off his gloves and stuffed it into a sealed bag and put it away. Then he dialed Ji Ma's phone number and informed the other party of his recent discovery and his next plan.
Then he sent the specific coordinates of this place.
After putting away the phone, Wei Ran got back on the motorcycle and followed the man from a distance, keeping a sufficient distance and almost moving hand in hand.
As time went by, the fiery red sunlight emerged from the horizon little by little. Wei Ran also followed the person he was following out of the protected area, and saw with his own eyes that the person he was following was throwing a bag of something on a dirt road.
Got into a passing gray van.
"Gene Era"
During this short handover, neither the car nor the horse, nor even the dog running behind the horse, stopped. After completing the task, the man on horseback immediately took the dog to change direction, and the van also did not lower its height.
The meaning of speed.
After thinking for a while, Wei Ran turned the accelerator to speed up, and turned onto the dirt road a long way away. Then he slowed down slightly, put on the leather hat that had been tied to the handlebar, took out the mask and put it on.
Finally, I put away the GPS and chased the man who was riding away.
"Hey! Friend!" Wei Ran shouted in Russian from a distance.
The man on the horse turned back to look at Wei Ran and asked slowly in Russian, "What's wrong?"
"I want to go to Bazar Tobe. Is this the direction?"
While Wei Ran asked, he had already raised the Nagant revolver he had taken out from the metal book in advance, glanced at the dog with a smile, turned around and asked, "How about you come down and help me show the way?
"
The man's brows twitched. After a moment of hesitation, he dismounted and held the horse's reins with his hands. At the same time, Wei Ran also stopped the car and turned off the engine, taking out the key.
"What did you do in the reserve just now?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"I just picked up a little fox," the man said, unzipping his cotton coat and revealing the head of a little fox.
"Very good." Wei Ran shook his pistol, "Tie your dog to the tree on the side of the road. I don't want to shoot it."
Hearing this, the man honestly took off a rope from his horse, called the dog over, and followed Wei Ran's instructions and tied it to the crooked-neck tree on the roadside.
"Lie down, face to the ground, hands and feet apart." Wei Ran continued to order.
Hearing this, the man once again obeyed the instructions honestly, without any resistance at all, and allowed Wei Ran to tie his hands and feet with the rope on the horse's back.
However, what Wei Ran didn't expect was that even though he searched the other party carefully, not only did he not find the poisoning tool, but he didn't even find a knife, let alone a gun.
"If you are not a robber, can you let me go?" the man asked Wei Ran with a mocking look on his face.
"sure"
While Wei Ran was talking, he took a rope from his motorcycle, tied it with a loop around the man's neck, and tied the other end to the saddle.
"What are you going to do! Don't do this! What are you going to do!" The man panicked instantly, "Are you going to kill me?!"
"I just want to know the answers to a few questions."
Wei Ran deliberately replied in a crazy tone, shaking the whip originally inserted on the horse's back, "By the way, I'm also curious, if I whip it hard, will you just suffocate, or will you be worn away?"
Half of my face hurts to death."
"What do you want to know?" the man struggled to ask, his tone no longer calm and sarcastic.
"First of all, who organized your attack on the aid station?"
"What did you say?"
The man's eyes widened, "Attack the rescue station? Why do we attack the rescue station?"
"You?" Wei Ran squatted down with a riding whip, "Who else is there?"
"And a few of my friends," the man replied reluctantly.
"What did you do?"
"We just want to get some animal skins in exchange for some money," the man replied in horror.
"Who set the explosives yesterday?"
"Explosives?" The man was stunned, "What explosives?"
"Pa!" Wei Ran stood up, picked up the whip and hit the horse's butt gently, and the horse immediately took a step forward, pulling the man forward.
"Hurry up... cough cough! Make him stop! I will die... cough cough! I will die!"
After slowly following the horse for a distance of six or seven meters, Wei Ran grabbed the reins and stopped the horse and asked again, "So who set the explosives?"
"We just want to get some animal skins in exchange for some money."
The man's entire face was suffocated at this time, and he was breathing hard as he replied, "Even if we are caught and imprisoned, we are already prepared, but we don't want to kill anyone, how could we get explosives! We are
If you want animal skins, you don’t want to catch fish in the Ural River!”
"So you didn't set up the explosives?" Wei Ran asked again, unwilling to give up.
"We don't know anything about explosives at all!" the man replied in a broken voice.
"Where is that van?" Wei Ran asked while untying the rope around the other person's neck, "Who is driving the car?"
"It's the person who buys the skins!" The man replied quickly, "We just need to call him and he will come and buy fresh skins."
After thinking for a moment, Wei Ran tied the man to a tree on the side of the road. He got on his motorcycle and ran in the opposite direction, chasing the van with all his might.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Hurrying slowly and taking shortcuts, it took almost twenty minutes before the van finally appeared directly ahead.
Upon seeing this, Wei Ran immediately increased the accelerator and continued to close the distance between the two parties. When he was about to overtake the other party, he waved vigorously to the people in the cab.
"What's wrong?"
The driver slowed down slightly and looked at Wei Ran warily and asked in Kazakh that Wei Ran couldn't understand but could guess.
"Hey friend!"
Wei Ran pointed at the rear of the car again and said loudly in Russian, "The bumper on the back of your car is going to fall off."
Hearing this, the driver slowed down again, stuck his head out of the car window and looked back. Wei Ran, who had been secretly observing the situation in the other car, immediately reminded, "On the other side! Friend, you have to
Look in the mirror on the other side."
Hearing this, the driver who had just stuck his head out immediately looked at the rearview mirror in the direction of the passenger.
Taking this opportunity, Wei Ran jumped off the slow-moving motorcycle, took two quick steps, put his hand through the window, opened the door of the van, and pulled out the driver who was turning his body back.
The cab!
"Peng!"
Wei Ran punched the driver behind the ear and knocked him to the ground. He reached out and touched the driver's body. When he saw that there was no weapon, he immediately grabbed one of his feet and kicked him away.
There was a crunching sound, and the severe pain caused by the dislocated joint made the driver wake up instantly, but then, Wei Ran gave him a gentle kick on the ribs on the side of the liver.
Under the second severe pain, the driver immediately wailed and curled up into a shrimp shape.
At the same time, the uncontrolled van also swerved off the roadbed and continued to move forward slowly and without hesitation.
After running all the way to catch up with the van, Wei Ran opened the door and jumped into the cab. He first took a look at the car behind him, and then immediately stepped on the brakes.
Without waiting for the people in the car behind him to fall to the ground due to the inertia, he turned off the engine and took out the car key. Then he rolled out of the cab as if there was a bullet in his butt. At the same time, he held the
There is also an additional Nagant revolver.
"Peng Peng Peng!"
Wei Ran slammed the car door with the pistol grip, then hid in the front of the car and shouted, "Open the car door! Get out of the car with your hands raised and lie on the ground! Otherwise I will not only burn the car, but also burn the car."
Those who were just dragged down will be burned to death together!"
This threat was indeed more effective than anything else. Within twenty seconds, the door of the van was opened from the inside.
Immediately afterwards, a little boy who looked to be about ten years old and wearing a blood-stained down jacket jumped out of the car and fell to the ground with a look of horror on his face. At the same time, he shouted in Russian, begging Wei Ran not to let him go.
Burn him and his father to death, let alone their car.
However, Weiran did not relax his vigilance at all. Instead, he walked around the Soviet-era car vigilantly and opened the door from the other side for a cursory inspection.
Although he could see clearly at a glance, he still frowned. In this carriage filled with the strong smell of blood, in addition to sheets of sheepskins, there were also many bloodshot fox skins in the middle.
After a general inspection to make sure that no one else was hiding in the compartment of the car, Wei Ran walked around behind the little boy, lightly stepped on one of his arms, searched his body, and took it away.
He picked up a greasy knife on his waist.
He randomly found a piece of sheepskin and cut it into long strips with the other party's knife. Wei Ran tied the child's hands and feet tightly without mercy, then took out a piece of sheepskin from the carriage and gently covered the child's hands.
face.
After finishing all this, he drove back to the roadside, lifted and pulled the chin of the man who was lame, then massaged his wrists, and then kicked him into the car.
Inside, he closed the car door and pulled him next to the child who dared not move.
He pinched the man's wrist in an unclear way, and after the man let out a scream, Wei Ran opened the car door, walked over to the little boy whose face was covered, and sat down on a table.
He asked on the sheepskin he took casually, "Little guy, what's your name?"
"Sherik," the little boy replied in panic, "you...what did you do to my dad? Is he screaming?"
"It's really him"
Wei Ran pressed the sheepskin on the other person's face and said, "Sherick, answer my question honestly. There won't be any problems with your father, you, and your car. Otherwise, I will take care of you."
If the whole family stays here, even if you won't freeze to death, you will be eaten by wolves."
"What do you want to know?" Sherrick asked with a cry.
"What did the man on horseback throw into your car just now?" Wei Ran asked the first question while turning on the recording function of his mobile phone.
Sherrick was silent for a moment, and finally replied in a panic, "Fox...fox fur."
"Very good. What a good boy. Now comes the second question."
Wei Rankang generously gave a meaningless compliment, and then asked, "Who is that horseman?"
"I don't know him," Sherrick replied quickly.
"It doesn't matter." Wei Ran deliberately paused for a moment, and then asked, "Where are you going next?"
"Go home," Sherrick replied in a panic, "We have to go home and deal with those fox skins."
"What happens after it's taken care of?" Wei Ran asked in a calm tone.
"No... don't know"
"Sherick, I wouldn't be so gentle when I asked your father the same question."
Wei Ran slightly increased the strength of his hand, "Every time I ask a question, your father will probably scream."
"I really...really don't know!"
When Sherrick answered this question, his tied body was also struggling hard, trying to break away from the sheepskin pressed on his face by Wei Ran.
"Okay" Wei Ran let go of his hand happily, "I'll ask your father."
"No! No!" Sherrick shouted in panic.
"That's your son?"
Wei Ran got into the back of the car, casually sat on a bundle of sheepskins and asked the driver. At the same time, he reached out and pinched the driver's dislocated wrist. The driver also let out a distorted scream in order to save face.
.
However, Wei Ran didn't ask any more questions. He just pinched the driver's wrist every now and then, and at the same time, he focused all his attention on Sherrick outside the car.
It was obvious that the father-son relationship between the driver and Sherrick was very good. He only screamed two or three times, and Sherrick cried out and replied, "Please, don't torture my dad! We really
I don’t know.”
"Or should I try it with your son?" Wei Ran leaned into the driver's ear and asked in Russian.
As soon as these words were spoken, the man immediately collapsed and said feebly, "It's... my wife's sister, Jia... Jialina."
"Who gave you those fox skins, and where will Jialina get them?"
"I don't know who gave it to me"
The driver, who was being grabbed by Wei Ran, shook his head, "I'm just responsible for tanning those fox skins. I don't know where Jialina will get them."
"Very good, when will she go to your house to pick up these things?" Wei Ran asked, playing with his pistol, "How many people will go each time?"
"I go there once a week, and every time she drives there by herself. The next time she picks up these things will be three days later."
"What about you? When is the next time you drive over to pick up the goods?"
"I don't know." The driver shook his head. "I won't know when and where to collect the hides until I receive a call from her."
"Only animal skins?" Wei Ran looked at the other party suspiciously and asked.
"Only animal skins," the driver nodded and added, "usually in the morning before the sun rises."
"How long have you been doing this?" Wei Ran asked casually, while he was fiddling with the cell phone he took out of the other party's pocket and looking through recent call records.
"Two...two years" the driver replied with difficulty.
"Where is your home?"
Wei Ran asked without raising his head, as if he didn't care about the answer given by the other party at all. But the more this happened, the more unsure the driver became.
"Ushana! My ranch is not far from Ushana."
"What's the distance from here?" Wei Ran put away his pistol and asked.
“Less than 20 kilometers at most!”
"Sherick, is what your father said about your home address true?"
Wei Ran asked the child in a loud voice outside the car, "You'd better think carefully before answering. If you correct him now, neither you nor him will be harmed. Otherwise, I can't guarantee that you will do it next time."
Who do you hit with your gun?"
"Yes, it's true," Sherrick replied in a panic, "I don't know how far it is from here, but my home is indeed near Ushana."
Hearing this, Wei Ran glanced at the time on the phone screen, changed the topic and continued to ask, "Now tell me why you attacked the people at the rescue station."
"People who attacked the rescue station?" The driver was stunned, "What kind of people attacked the rescue station?"
Seeing this, Wei Ran frowned. After thinking for a moment, he got up and got out of the car, pushed the little guy outside, locked the door and immediately dialed Jima's number.
“Something is not right”
As soon as the call was connected, Wei Ran said, "I caught a person who poisoned wild animals and a driver who was responsible for transporting stolen goods. Neither of them knew about the attack on the rescue station."
"You don't even know?" Ji Ma on the other end of the phone immediately frowned.
"I will give you two addresses later. You can arrange for a trustworthy person to arrest the person who poisoned animals and his companions and question them carefully. I will follow this driver to arrest a key person. If she
If you don’t know..."
Wei Ran thought for a while and added before Jima was about to say something, "Jima, I think there may be a problem with this matter. The poachers and the people seeking revenge on Maya's brother may be two different things, or more accurately.
In other words, these may be two groups of enemies."
"Do you need me to support you?" Ji Ma asked decisively.
“Not needed yet”
Wei Ran said this, but looked at the phone screen, because at this moment, Anfiya actually called!
