Under the dazzling flashlight beam, the dust stirred up by the explosion formed a sparkling reflection in the line of sight.
Under the dust, in the corner of one end of the triangular space that had been sealed for more than twenty years, sat quietly a withered corpse with his hands tied behind his back with iron wire and a ball of rags stuffed in his mouth until he died.
The corpse was wearing a camouflage uniform that now seemed a little outdated in the American style, and one of his legs was also pressed under the floor.
The moment he saw the corpse, Culp was short of breath, but Wei Ran, who was standing behind him, knew that the corpse was not a member of that team, but the one they caught at that time, who had extremely high
Value, a prisoner who should have been taken back for detailed interrogation!
Based on the location of the corpse, Wei Ran, after determining the location based on his memory, also speculated on the location where the Deathstroke team members were trapped.
Bent down and squatting at the blasted hole, Wei Ran reached out and touched the dust accumulated on the surface, and then looked at the collapsed floor. Fortunately, it was dry enough inside, which was a rare piece of good news.
.
"Shall we dig up this place next?"
Culp, who was standing in the damaged area of the explosion, asked extremely calmly - even though he knew exactly what to do next.
"Wait a minute"
While Wei Ran was talking, he had already walked to a shelf in the distance. Using the remaining boxes on it as cover, he took out the wire cutters from the metal book. With a few clicks, he trimmed the steel bars around the blast hole. He turned around and started again.
He picked up a prepared electric drill from the table and put a bulging canvas bag on his shoulders.
"I have anticipated this situation. There is indeed a space supported by the collapsed floor."
While Wei Ran was speaking, he had already put on a mask, dustproof glasses, and a headlamp. He then moved over a large industrial electric fan that was also prepared in advance, placed it less than two meters away from the blast hole, and turned on the switch.
Amidst the humming sound of the fan running, Wei Ran bent down and got into the blasted hole, crawling towards the end where there was no body, and said loudly, "There might be space on the other three sides, and there might be space in there.
If you find anything, if you want to help, how about taking the responsibility of getting that body out? There might be some clues on him."
Glancing at Wei Ran, who had only his calves hanging out, Culp opened his mouth, but was willing to be ordered by Wei Ran. He put on a mask and dust-proof glasses, crawled towards the huddled body,
Although the flying dust obscured his vision due to the blowing of the electric fan, for Wei Yan who crawled in first, it was still much better than fainting due to lack of oxygen.
Not paying attention to Culp behind him, he crawled to the end of the gap little by little, pointed the electric drill at the collapsed floor blocking the road in front of him, and carefully drilled one small tapered hole after another on it that was not too deep.
hole.
Opening the canvas bag and taking out a piece of plastic explosive, he tore off a small piece with his hands, shaped it into a doughnut the size of a beer bottle cap, wrapped the detonator and stuffed it into the hole he had just made, and then stepped back,
A detonation line is arranged on one side.
Just as Culp pulled the mummy out, Wei Ran, who was following behind, immediately pressed the detonator.
"Pass!"
After another slight explosion, there was also a sputtering sound inside. Wei Ran did not wait for the smoke to be blown away by the fan, so he took the wire cutters and got into the smoke again.
He carefully cleared away the gravel and steel bars blocking the road as well as the gas masks that were everywhere. When he struggled to remove a piece of concrete, he finally saw a mummy! It was Feishenke!
Wei Ran recognized the other person at a glance, and also noticed the notebook beside him that was set on fire but was not burned up.
Taking off his headlamp and looking behind him, Wei Ran groped Feshenke's body as quickly as possible, then carefully moved the light mummy back little by little, along with his weapons and a few
The relics, as well as the unburned notebook, were handed over to Mr. Culp who was inspecting the body.
"There are a few mummies inside," Wei Ran said. Without waiting for Culp to open his mouth, he turned around and got in again.
Soon, explode
The mummies of Broken Hand Rezri, Machine Gunner Serge, Ammunition Soldier Agni, and even Deputy Captain Ruslan, and the innermost Captain Culp, along with their weapons and relics, were all sent out one by one by Wei Ran.
Taking this opportunity, he also discovered that they did not have Walkmans or tapes on them. Instead, on the collapsed floor at the end, there were still black French handwriting left by the two captains with blood.
And hanging on an edged steel bar next to the two lines of writing was a Colt 6-inch Python revolver with a finger groove walnut grip.
He took out his mobile phone and adjusted the flash to the always-on mode to take a picture of the two paragraphs of French above. Wei Ran glanced behind him, hesitated for a moment and used the cover of his body to take out the food box as quickly as possible, and then took out the food box from
He took out the Walkman whose battery had been removed from the food box, then grabbed a handful of dust and smeared it all over.
Finally, he put away the food box and took off the revolver. Like a large dung beetle, he backed away little by little in the narrow space, and finally allowed Culp to pull his legs and pull him away.
Pulled it out.
"This is the last thing I found."
Wei Ran stood up and handed the dusty Walkman and the revolver to Culp. Then he took out his mobile phone and pulled out the photo he had just taken and handed it to him, "There are still things on the floor inside.
There are two sentences like this. Judging from the traces, I guess they were written in blood."
"Click! Click!"
Culp put the revolver aside casually, squinted at the photos on the screen, and at the same time pressed the buttons on the walkman.
"I just checked. There is no battery in it. It must have been removed in advance. I guess this may be to preserve it for a longer time."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wei Ran paused here and asked tentatively, "Do you need me to buy a few batteries? Or a tape recorder that can play tapes?"
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"No"
Culp sighed and put the dirty Walkman into his pocket. Sighing, he walked over to Captain Culp's body and squatted down. He introduced in a murmur, "This is my brother Si."
Tepan Karp, he is the captain of this team and Daria's husband. That poor woman spent the rest of her life looking for his shadow."
"Your brother?"
Wei Ran was silent for a moment but then took a deep breath and asked a seemingly unrelated question, but one that connected the two brothers by blood, "What about you? What's your name?" "Taras, Ta.
Lars Culp
While helping the mummy carefully clean up the dust on its body, the handsome old man murmured in response to Wei Ran's question, "You don't seem surprised that the person you found is related to us?"
"When I found out that the extrajudicial mercenary Assol came to Grozny in 1994, I roughly guessed that the content of the final investigation might be related to you."
As Wei Ran spoke, he took out a wooden box from the shelf and handed it to the other party, "And in the past few years, whether it is Mr. Gorman, you or Kirov's veteran Leva, they have all mentioned some words and phrases in a few words.
Something related to Dalia and the war."
After a short pause, Wei Ran handed over a second wooden box, "I just didn't expect that Teacher Dalia's husband turned out to be your brother."
"We are 5 years apart"
Culp carefully put the relics removed from his brother's body into the box while explaining, "He, Daria, and Anna and I all graduated from the same school, and then entered
It's the same department. But when we entered that department, he was already the captain of the arrest team of that department."
After a pause, Culp smiled, and said softly with a trace of nostalgia for the past and nostalgia for the good things, "My brother has captured many people, including spies from various forces and renegade Soviets.
From the time he became the captain of the arrest team until he disappeared, he never failed."
"Teacher Dalia must admire him very much, right?" Wei Ran said softly.
"yes"
Culp gently pulled the dagger from the corpse's leg and placed it in the box
Then he took out a tin jar filled with candies from his bag, "The reason why she became friends with me was to have the opportunity to get to know my brother. This is what Anna told me personally.
"
As he spoke, Culp opened the tin can, took out a candy produced by Caban Lake Candy Company, tore open the plastic candy wrapper, and stuffed the sweetness inside that had expired for too long but came from the home in his memory.
In the mouth.
"You haven't seen Dalia when she was young. She and Anna had another girl. She was almost the most beautiful among all the female students, but she was the first to get married and pregnant."
Having said this, Culp chewed the candy in his mouth and swallowed it, and said with pity, "She is also the most unfortunate one."
"And you?"
While Wei Ran was talking, he used the cover of his coat to take out the wine bottle from the metal book and handed it to Culp, "Aren't you married?" He took the wine bottle, unscrewed the lid and took a sip. Culp returned the wine bottle.
He gave it to Wei Ran, and after a moment of hesitation, he shook his head and replied vaguely, "I don't have any other family members."
"Alas..." Wei Ran sighed silently, reached out and took the wine bottle and put it into his pocket.
"This is Ruslan, my brother's best friend." Karp walked to the side of the second mummy and said while helping to collect the remaining relics on the body, "He is also Maya's father."
"What did you say?" "He is Maya's father."
Culp said to himself, "Maya's mother was a famous singer in the Soviet era. Unfortunately, that woman sent Maya to an orphanage shortly after giving birth to her, and then went to the United States. At that time,
It’s been less than half a year since they disappeared.” “Maya’s current parents...”
"Mr. Sosland and his wife used to be teachers and nannies at that orphanage."
Culp paused and said with emotion, "Gorman also grew up in that orphanage. I remember when I was a child, my parents would take me and my brother with them every festival.
I went to visit the children in the orphanage with the candies produced by my family’s candy company.”
"So you have known each other for a long time?" "Yes, we have known each other for a long time."
Culp said in a whisper, "First we became good friends, then we became classmates who studied together, brothers who trusted each other, and finally, together with the disintegration of the Soviet Union, we became what we are now."
"Is that orphanage still there?" Wei Ran asked subconsciously. "It's gone. It's gone a long time ago." Culp's emotion was filled with regret and inexplicable happiness.
"Who is the 'him' mentioned in the sentence who betrayed everyone?" Wei Ran asked tentatively.
As soon as he said these words, Culp, who had rarely shown a trace of humanity just now, immediately became extremely cold and usual serious, "Victor, this matter is over. If you can find them, we all
Everyone is grateful to you, and this result is enough for us."
"Can…"
"That's enough, that's enough. Don't continue the investigation." Culp became more serious and even stopped what he was doing and stood up. "It's not a good thing to know too much. It will only harm you and your family."
Family and friends bring trouble and danger.”
"That person is still alive?" Wei Ran asked with a frown. "I don't know." Culp shook his head, "It's dangerous just because you don't know." "Or..."
"Okay, it's time for you to get out of here."
This chapter is not over yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading! Culp did not give Wei Ran a chance to speak. He reached into his pocket and took out the Walkman Wei Ran had just given him and handed it over. Then he picked up the still
A tin jar containing a lot of candies was handed over, "Hurry back to Kazan as soon as possible, give this Walkman, the tape inside, and this jar of candies to Darya, and leave the matters here to me."
"
Hearing this, Wei Ran opened his mouth, and finally took the Walkman that he had given away not long ago. He climbed back alone along the secret road to the alley that was still blocked by police cars, leaving behind his car keys and his hands.
Gadou walked towards the hotel.
In the blink of an eye, it was the afternoon of the next day, and Weiran's flight landed at Kazan Airport in a somewhat rough manner.
This round and round has not even used up a week. Now there are not only two days left before June, but also Suisui, who has accepted the invitation of the little rich woman Kou Kou, and took the Katenka sisters to France.
Haven't come back yet.
After thinking about it at the airport, Wei Ran drove his armored commercial vehicle straight to the Hongqi Forest Farm, which was not far away.
However, contrary to his expectations, when he finally found a familiar and beautiful senior in the office of Time Film Studio and asked about it, he was told that whether it was Gorman, Anna or Dalia,
Not even there.
After some thought, he simply drove away from Hongqi Forest Farm to the shore of Kaban Lake, and drove to the yard of the library next door.
This time, before he even had time to get out of the car, he saw Teacher Dalia and Anna sitting in their exclusive seats facing the door.
"This job of delivering letters is really tiring..."
Before Wei Ran got out of the car, he kneaded his still sore right arm and muttered something. After doing some mental preparation, he took a deep breath, opened the door and walked in, where the sound of coffee echoed.
In the library of aroma and Chinese classical music.
Ignoring Lola, who was looking at him on tiptoes and waving wildly, Wei Ran walked straight to the two teachers who had occupied a large exclusive table.
"Sit down." Teacher Anna took a sip of her coffee as she spoke, but from beginning to end, her eyes never left the "Young Guards" with yellowed pages in her hand.
Look at Dahlia again, she is also holding a cup of coffee, and even on the chair next to her, there is a big-eared fox wearing a blue triangle scarf curled up cutely.
"What's wrong?" Dalia looked at Wei Ran with a smile and asked in a gentle tone.
"Something happened." Wei Ran scratched the back of his head, "How about we talk somewhere else?"
"Two of us or three of us?" Dalia looked at Wei Ran suspiciously.
Wei Ran spread his hands and said, "If Teacher Anna has time, it's best to get up and come over."
"Where to go?" Anna closed the book and waved to the young genius Korava who was not far away.
"Next door"
Before Wei Ran finished speaking, the little girl with a smile on her face also rode a tricycle and stopped at the edge of the table. She spoke very slowly and said a very good Russian greeting to her.
,"What do you need Korava for?"
"Good boy, put this book away for me."
While Anna was speaking, she first took out a toffee from her pocket, peeled off the wrapper and gently stuffed it into Korava's little mouth, and then picked up the book "Young Guards" and showed it to her.
, and then put it into the cargo compartment of the three-wheeled children's bicycle.
"Leave it to Korava!"
The little girl said something vaguely, got out of the car and straightened the book in the cargo compartment, then got into the car and sat down, pedaling straight to a bookshelf in the distance.
"Can she speak now?" Wei Ran asked in surprise. "She has learned a lot, she just doesn't like to talk." Dalia said regretfully, "If we educate her carefully from the time she is born, she will be peaceful
Ordinary people won't see much difference."
"It's not too late"
Anna finally picked up the coffee and drank it in one gulp, "Let's go and see what Victor has to say."
After saying that, she ignored Dalia's words and already picked up the big-eared fox wearing a blue triangle scarf. She stood up and urged Wei Ran towards the outside of the library.
Seeing this, Dalia opened her mouth, and finally stood up and followed out. She led the two teachers through the electromagnetic door between the two courtyards, and Wei Ran led them into the lobby on the first floor of the villa without stopping.
"Victor, we..."
"Come up with me first." Wei Ran interrupted Teacher Dalia's question and walked non-stop towards the stairs leading upstairs.
Looking at each other, Dalia finally sighed and followed Wei Ran silently to the two rooms on the far left of the third floor.
"Teacher Dalia, please choose one of the two rooms." Wei Ran said gently.
Taking a deep breath, Dalia reached out and pushed open the door on the far left, and said with a trembling tone, "Come in...come in and sit down."
Hearing this, Anna walked into the room first, sat on a sofa with familiarity, and said inexplicably, "You really look like an accountant."
Dalia did not respond, but just sat behind the desk as a matter of course.
Seeing this, Wei Ran silently took out the slightly rusty tin can with the Russian words "Kaban Lake Candy Company Multi-flavored Fruit Hard Candy" printed on it from his bag and placed it on the table. Then he took out the tin can from his bag.
He took out the walkman that had been wiped clean on the road and had batteries installed.
"What are you going to do?" Dalia asked with a little panic. "Let's listen to a song first."
Wei Ran had already connected the headphones to his Walkman while he was talking. Seeing this, Anna immediately invited Dalia to sit on the old double sofa.
After the two teachers each took over an old-fashioned earphone, Wei Ran pressed the play button.
"Listen to me honey, don't wait for me, if you can hear this recording..."
"It's...it's Brother Lezli's voice!" Anna exclaimed, but Daria had already covered her mouth, and a series of tears fell uncontrollably from the corners of her eyes.
Gently putting a pack of tissue paper bought in advance into Dalia's hand, Wei Ran opened the rusty tin can, took out three expired fruit candies from inside, and gave two of them to
Two teachers.
He left the room silently, and almost at the same time he closed the door, the mournful cry of Teacher Dalia could be faintly heard in this room that was deliberately reserved for certain people.
"This is also a death knell..."
While Wei Ran was murmuring, he also tore off the candy wrapper and stuffed the expired and deformed hard candy into his mouth.
It's a pity that this once extremely sweet candy is now only left with an unpalatable bitterness.
