In the days before returning to Hongqi Forest Farm for class, Wei Ran once again locked himself in the studio. In addition to spending most of the day picking up English that had been abandoned for a long time, or died in childhood, Wei Ran spent the other half of the day. All the time was spent on designing the company logo.
After being rejected countless times by the picky teacher Dalia and wasting countless sheets of A4 paper, Wei Ran finally came up with a logo that he thought he was most satisfied with.
This logo is a film reel with no film wrapped around it, but a roll of blood-stained bandages, with a silhouette of a soldier with only one leg in the center.
The soldier was holding a crutch in each hand, but according to Wei Ran's label on the side, the two crutches were a Mauser rifle and a Mosin-Nagant rifle respectively.
But such a disabled soldier and the two rifle crutches in his hands happened to form an anti-war symbol with the film reel.
The idea that he racked his brains to come up with was reported to Teacher Dalia, who finally reluctantly agreed with Wei Ran’s design after some discussions with Nikolai.
Time passed in a blink of an eye. On August 15th, Wei Ran and Jima returned to the Hongqi Forest Farm with their teacher Dalia who had been staying in Volgograd.
"Teacher Dalia, did you put up the sign so quickly?"
Before Wei Ran and Ji Ma had time to get out of the car, they caught a glimpse of the building in the Hongqi Forest Farm. On the door of the five-story building, there is a large and conspicuous sign. On this sign is written "Time Film Studio" in Russian, a name that looks quite dated.
“Let’s go in and take a look.”
Dalia pushed open the car door and walked into the lobby on the first floor with Wei Ran and Jima. She casually discovered that they were facing the door. On the wall, there is also a huge LOGO illuminated by a row of spotlights.
Compared with Weiran’s rough idea that was purely hand-drawn and spliced with elements cut from printed pictures, this obviously professionally designed logo naturally looks much more beautiful.
"Now let's take a look at the designed opening animation"
Dalia walked to the bar with Wei Ran and Jima, stopped, and picked up the remote control on the table and turned on the projector hanging from the ceiling.
After waiting for a moment, an animation lasting only ten seconds was projected on the wall on the side of the bar. Against the black background, a film reel rolled with gauze rolled from one side and stopped in the center of the screen.
Amidst the clicking sound, a silhouette of a disabled soldier holding a rifle and a cane in both hands slowly walked out from the middle of the film reel, leaning on a cane. At the same time, his image gradually became clearer, revealing his broken military uniform with no nationality, a helmet with bullet holes, and his eyes wrapped in blood-stained gauze.
The soldier whose appearance disappeared in a flash became increasingly blurry in the white light behind him, leaving only one figure who seemed to be saluting and saying hello.silhouette.
In a daze, Wei Ran only felt dazzled for a moment. He seemed to see the shadows of many familiar friends in the wounded man. Among those shadows was the young sniper Ole who had been with him on the battlefield of Stalingrad. Lieutenant Gehe Lev, the Aleutian company commander in No. 19 Don River position, those friends from Finland, and squad leader Li Hexian who defended Teng County, etc.
When the short scene jumped to the line "Time Film Studio" in Russian, Teacher Dalia pressed the remote control, "How do you feel?"
"Better than I expected" Wei Ran replied without thinking.
Teacher Dalia nodded noncommittally, threw down the remote control, and led the two of them directly into a conference room on the first floor.
“Little guy, we meet again.”
In the smoke-filled conference room, Gorman, who had had a master-student relationship in Kirov, raised his head with a smile. He raised his hand and said hello to Wei Ran, and beside him sat Mr. Culp, who had disappeared for a long time.
"Gorman, why are you here?" Wei Ran subconsciously took a small step back. He promised that it was really just a small step.
"It seems you don't welcome me very much?"
Gorman stretched out his wrinkled suit, "But I am now the director of Time Film Studio. , of course I want to be here."
"Are you the director?"
Wei Ran glanced at the smiling Dalia and turned his attention to Gorman again. , "Where is your mental hospital?"
"Of course it will be left to others to take charge of," Gorman replied as he put out his cigarette butt.
"Okay, we have plenty of time to talk first." Dalia opened the window as she spoke, "Now it's time to talk about business. Gorman, this young man has returned from acting classes in the next half month. You are responsible. Jima, you can follow Gorman to class."
"No problem"
Gorman stood up happily and patted Wei Ran on the shoulder. Holding a laptop computer that was playing a TV series, Jima waved to the confused Jima and walked out of the conference room where cigarette butts and cans were scattered all over the floor.
"I hope you have fun studying..."
Wei Ran glanced at Ji Ma with pity, who had some expectation on his face, and then shook his head to dispel the random thoughts in his heart. Sitting quietly opposite Teacher Dalia, waiting for the other person to speak.
"The future affairs of the film company have nothing to do with you"
Teacher Dalia said straight to the point, while Mr. Culp on the other side had already taken out a bag of documents from his bag and opened it. He placed the A4 papers inside one by one on the table between the three of them, and motioned for Wei Ran to come closer.
"Now let's talk about the postponed assessment." Culp said with a smile.
"The postponed assessment? What assessment?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in confusion. , "Didn't I successfully kill the smuggler?"
"That was after you agreed to postpone the assessment."
Culp showed his hands like a rogue, "So no matter what you did at that time, the assessment has been postponed, right? "
"I can't find anything wrong with it," Wei Ran muttered with an ugly face.
"Since I can't find anything wrong, let's come over and take a look.
Teacher Dalia pointed to the photo on the first piece of paper and said, "The target of this assessment is a woman, who is also the main beneficiary behind the smuggling organization." She has lived in Daisen City, Akita Prefecture, Japan for a long time.
What you want to do in this assessment is not to kill people, but to find evidence of her crimes of smuggling and human trafficking. Of course, it doesn't matter even if you kill this woman.
In addition, the time limit for this assessment is before Christmas. So you have plenty of time to plan. "
Culp took over the topic and reminded, "Accordingly, if you make any stupid mistakes again, you will stay there forever and never come back. "
"I...I know. "Wei Ran grinned in embarrassment and reluctantly accepted the postponement of the assessment as if it was a shame.