In the parking lot outside Irkutsk Airport, Weiran carefully reviewed what he had done these days.
It is true that Culp was not wrong. He should not have made those low-level mistakes, but in his heart, the priority of being alert and vigilant about the KGB was subconsciously ranked above the assessment task itself. .
To put it more bluntly, from the beginning, his focus was all on how to avoid being tracked by the KGB. Invisibly, this assessment also changed from how to kill a smuggler to how to kill a smuggler. Escape from KGB surveillance.
But obviously, with the failure of the mission itself, all the preparations he originally used to deal with KGB surveillance became useless before they came into effect.
After thinking about the cause and effect, Wei Ran glanced at the empty parking lot and made a decisive decision after hesitating for a moment. Since the mission of killing the smugglers failed, let's try to see if I can use this mistake to escape the KGB's surveillance and run to the other side of the Lena River!
If you can get rid of those nannies, maybe you can try to find the smuggler. After all, the phone call Culp just made was not worthless. At least the other party revealed a key piece of information. The smuggler was in Beyashhe.
Thinking of this, Wei Ran got up and got into the rear compartment, closed the blackout curtains installed a few days ago, then opened the backpack on the seat and put in a complete set of clothes he purchased a few days ago. After changing from the inside out, only the feet were still wearing the high-waisted boots that were provided with the camouflage uniforms in the small hotel in Chita.
After changing clothes, Wei Ran opened a corner of the shade and looked outside. After hesitating for a moment, he handed Culp the old-fashioned touch-sensitive mobile phone, his smartphone and the few Buryat books that Culp had given him. The passports were all stuffed into the backpack containing the silent sniper rifle. By the way, the night vision goggles on the gun were also removed.
Before getting off the car, he took out a small mirror and took a final look at the disguise on his face. After making sure that there were no mistakes, he immediately put on his hood and mask, carried the backpack that he never left behind when sleeping, and pulled He opened the door and walked outside the parking lot.
Just as he got into a taxi and left the airport, a strong man dressed as a miner drove an off-road vehicle and parked beside the abandoned van and honked the horn.
After waiting for half a minute and seeing that Wei Ran had not come down, the strong man impatiently pushed open the cab door, got out of the car and walked to the side of the van. He covered the glass with his hand and looked inside. Then he tried to pull the sliding door of the rear compartment.
There was a soft "crash" sound, and the strong man opened the leaky door. At a glance, he saw the backpack on the seat and the half wooden gun butt exposed from the mouth of the backpack.
The impatience on the strong man's face turned into contempt and ridicule. He lit a cigarette, took out his cell phone, and slowly dialed a number. But then, when the outdated electronic chord ringtone rang from the backpack, the expression on the strong man's face finally changed.
Roughly grabbed the backpack and dumped all the contents into the van.On the floor, he finally realized what had happened when he saw the old-fashioned mobile phone still waiting to be answered.
Hang up the phone and dial again. When the call was answered, the strong man immediately said, "There was an accident and the student ran away."
"Run away?"
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The old fishing man who was already sitting in a tavern and started drinking was stunned, and then said with great interest, "This is interesting. Arrange your people to go find him immediately and arrest him first." His team can go to work in Europe."
"We can..."
"No" the old man put down the glass full of vodka, "He will definitely go. The other side has completed the work, but this is his assessment. So, find him before he crosses the river. This is my assessment of you."
"Understood!" The strong man in the parking lot simply hung up. Dropped the phone.
In the tavern on the edge of the city, the poisonous old man drank a full glass of vodka in one gulp, and then slowly took out the tablet computer from his bag.
After glancing at the fast-moving light spots on the screen, the old man immediately poured himself another glass and waited leisurely for his order to be served.
At the same time, Wei Ran had already taken off his shoes in the taxi, and then handed a banknote of ten thousand rubles to the taxi driver who was stopped by him, "I was playing with my friends. It's a shoe-finding game. You take the money and you can run around the city with my shoes until the sun goes down. As long as you don't stop when the sun goes down and the street lights turn on. Pick me up at Three Suns Bar and you can still get the same amount of money."
"Can I pick up other customers along the way?" the taxi driver asked in surprise as he took the money.
"Of course!"
Wei Ran said in a low voice, "However, if someone finds you and asks me where I have been, just say that I got off near the Three Suns Bar. Driver, remember not to look at the other person's eyes when you talk. If you can do that, I will tip you an extra five thousand rubles this afternoon."
"No problem!" the taxi driver said. He glanced at Weiran's action camera on his shoulder, "Are you taking a video and posting it online?"
"Yes! A promotional video for Yakutsk."
Wei Ran said with a smile. He deliberately fixed a second-hand action camera on his shoulder, hoping that the other party would lower their vigilance due to the presence of the camera and complete the task more diligently.
"Don't worry, I will help you!" As the middle-aged driver spoke, he stretched out the hem of his clothes in a serious manner, trying to make himself visible under the lens of an action camera that did not have a memory card installed. Keep a better image.
"Remember it's three sun bars, remember not to look into each other's eyes, this is the most important rule of the game."
While Wei Ran spoke, he took out an extra thousand rubles and handed it over He told the other party, “When the street lights come on, please be sure to pick me up at Three Suns Bar.Of course, it doesn't matter if my friend takes the boots away. ”
After saying that, Wei Ran immediately opened the car door, waited for the taxi to run away, and immediately ran barefoot into the alley on the side of the road, pulling out a dirty trash can from behind the wall. There was nothing else in the dirty cardboard box, just a pair of cheap boots and a pair of woolen socks that Wei Ran bought at the grocery store a few days ago.
I sat on the cardboard box and changed them. Wei Ran did not dare to delay for a moment, threw the action camera he was using for show into the trash can, and immediately ran towards the car rental shop at the other end of the alley.
Wei Ran walked into the car rental shop. Ran took out a driver's license and a thick wad of rubles from his pocket, and easily rented an off-road vehicle that he had taken a fancy to a few days ago and drove to the other side of the city. At the entrance of an outdoor clothing store, Wei Ran quickly grabbed a few sets of clothes and a pair of boots. After paying, he immediately drove to a nearby unmonitored street.
Parking the car on the side of the road, he changed again. A set of clothes he bought, and the shoes he put on not long ago were thrown into the trash can on the roadside.
The reason why he changed his shoes so frequently was because of the one he wore in Chita. When he was in the hotel, he discovered that the boots provided by the other party were equipped with a positioning device. This was why he left the boots in the taxi when he got out of the taxi.
They were also installed. He suspected that the small positioning device, the old-fashioned push-button cell phone, the wooden butt of the sniper rifle, the shabby van, and even his own cell phone were equally unsafe.
After tying his shoelaces, Wei Ran took out a pair of license plates from his backpack and hung them on the front and rear of the car. This license plate and the driver's license he used for renting the car were from someone he had drunk in front of a local bar a few days ago. It was borrowed by a local. Even the off-road vehicle he rented was based on the model of the other party.
He quickly replaced the license plate and threw the original license plate into the glove box. Wei Ran immediately stepped on the accelerator and changed positions again. Then he took out a photo that had been printed in advance from his pocket, compared it with the drunk man who had been knocked unconscious by him in the photo, and used the cosmetics in his bag to change himself into a photo and The face was similar to the one in the photo.
In the end, Wei Ran threw the used cosmetics and his backpack to the roadside. He didn't care anymore and drove the car to the center of the city and bought some food at will. He immediately followed the road out of the city and left the city of Yakutsk.
While he was leaving the city, the well-fed and poisonous old man also drove to catch up with him. After getting into the taxi and roughly stopping it, the old man opened the door and saw the pair of boots still placed directly behind the driver's seat. The expression on his face became more and more satisfied.
“Where did the people who were in your car get off from? "The venomous old man picked up the pair of boots, and at the same time took out a few rubles and handed them to the taxi driver who was about to curse.
He hurriedly took the banknotes.He opened the glove box on the passenger side and put the money in while replying, "I remember he got off the car at the entrance of the alley to the right of the Three Suns Bar entrance with bare feet. He looked like he was in a hurry."
The sharp-tongued old man who had already thrown his boots into his car didn't care. He didn't even wait for the other party to straighten up before he got into the cab, stepped on the accelerator and rushed towards the Three Suns Bar.
As for the taxi driver, he opened the glove box again, took out the banknotes he had just put in, put them into his pocket, and drove straight to a woman waving to him on the side of the road. .
When the venomous old man arrived at the door of Three Suns Bar, Wei Ran had already driven out of Yakutsk and ran south along the main road for about 20 kilometers until he reached the other side of the river. He had already left Lower Beyashhedu behind, so he drove the off-road vehicle off the main road and drove east along the muddy dirt road to a small place called Tabagan on the bank of the Lena River.
However, just as he had expected at the dock, although the road to Tabagan is only a short five kilometers, most of it has turned into mud or even mud due to the melting of permafrost. Swamp with lots of gravel.
After driving less than halfway, Wei Ran had to park the car at the edge of the coniferous forest on the roadside. Along the nearly two kilometers of road, the off-road vehicle he rented I got stuck in the car four or five times. If he continued driving like this, he might not be able to complete the remaining half of the road even if he was given just one day.
So instead of wasting time here, it is better to walk there. But just after he bypassed two mud pools that were more than ten meters long, a heavy truck loaded with coking coal slowly drove over behind him and honked its horn as Weiran turned back.
"Do you need me to help you pull the car out?" The truck driver lowered the window and asked enthusiastically.
"How about taking me directly to Tabagan?" Wei Ran said while handing the other party a large banknote.
"Get in the car!" The driver took the cash that Wei Ran handed to the window without hesitation. This situation often happens in this wasteland, but not many people are willing to pay.
After riding on this truck full of coking coal and running for a full hour on a muddy road of just three kilometers, the Ministry of Health rushed to Tabagan.
He came here all because the passenger ship that could sail to Nizhnybetyaskh as soon as tomorrow morning departed from here.
According to the information he found, this passenger ship departed from Tabagan in the morning. The first stop was Nizhnybetyaskh, downstream, and the second stop was Yakutsk. After that, go back the same way. To put it simply, there are two round trips a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. This is also the main public transportation line connecting the three places across the Taiwan Strait in summer.
However, beyond his expectation, the truck driver, perhaps because of Weiran's generosity, actually provided him with a second way after learning that he was going to Beyashhe - —Take a ride on a cargo ship transporting minerals, and the price is onlyIt only costs one thousand rubles, which is an absolute surprise for Wei Ran.
Happily paying the fee, the driver enthusiastically took Weiyan to a bulk carrier transporting coking coal. Less than an hour later, the cargo ship filled with coking coal slowly left Tabagan in the dusk.
The distance to the left and right is only 20 kilometers, and in addition, we are going down the river. Weiyan didn’t even have time to eat the fried salmon provided for free by this cargo ship, and saw the lights of Lower Petaskh. Transparent dock.