After staying with Mr. Charlotte for three days in Italy, Wei Ran saw that he had nothing to do next, so he submitted his resignation and returned to Volgograd with the two letters of authorization.
Seeing that this precious half-month vacation was wasted for nearly a week, and thinking about the huge sum of money he spent not long ago to buy Katenka a house, Wei Ran felt physically and mentally exhausted for a while. Tired, yet full of motivation to make money.
Looking at the long wooden box from Moscow that was still on the long table, he took a deep breath and finally decided to take a nap first to relax his tense nerves. Say it again.
He locked the rolling shutter door and got into the warm bedroom and slept comfortably until noon the next day. Then he got up and made himself a decent lunch. After eating and drinking, he went out to the supermarket. Came for a big purchase.
With this purchase, he replaced the contents of the food box with chocolate and condiments, then emptied the oil drum filled with high-concentration alcohol and poured bottles of it into it. Frozen vodka. Finally, all the bullets in the anti-tank gun magazine were replaced with original ammunition from seventy or eighty years ago.
After making all the preparations he could, Wei Ran finally mustered up the courage to open the long wooden box that Teacher Dalia brought back from Moscow.
Just like what I saw in the ring building apartment in Moscow, there are not many things in this box, a telescope that had been hit by a bullet, and a telescope with a scope , notches and two rings, a Soviet cape and helmet.
Of course, in addition to these, there is also a piece of information provided by Teacher Dalia about the owner of the apartment and his father. Unfortunately, what is recorded in this information is simply an ordinary family and has no reference value at all.
Taking out everything except the information and placing them on the long table one by one, Wei Ran took a deep breath and summoned the metal book.
As always, the metal book on the table automatically turned to the blank page 16, and the metal quill also automatically floated, drawing on the light yellow paper. A Soviet soldier lying on a stretcher.
The soldier was wearing a steel helmet and the binoculars hanging around his neck had slipped to the edge of the stretcher. He was covered with a Soviet cloak, but a highly identifiable muzzle was exposed on his shoulder. There was no doubt that this soldier was holding an SVT40 semi-automatic rifle under the cloak.
Character identity: Pravda reporter Victor
Return mission: Assist field nurse Lano to find her fiancé, snipe and kill at least 10 German soldiers, assist Lano in completing cover missions, and shoot At least 5 photos.
Pravda reporter again?
Wei Ran muttered to himself. He still remembered that when he was sent back to the Stalingrad battlefield in a metal book for the first time, he was using his identity as a Pravda reporter.
In himIn his thoughts, increasingly intense white light gradually filled his field of vision. At the same time, he also smelled the moist earthy smell, disinfectant water and the unique smell of the birch forest.
When the white light faded and his vision returned to normal, Wei Ran immediately found himself lying on an iron bed. On the hospital beds on the left and right, there were wounded people lying next to each other.
"Are you awake?" Just as he was looking around, a thin female nurse came over carrying a tray and asked.
"What's wrong with me?" Wei Ran subconsciously lifted the blanket on his body, and then breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, his legs were not broken and his arms were broken.
"According to the wounded who were brought here with you, you were buried in the mud stirred up by the explosion shock wave on the front line." As the nurse said this, she began to give him another picture. Dressings were changed for the wounded on the bed.
"Is there anything I can do for you?"
Wei Ran tried to stand up and asked immediately after seeing no discomfort in his body. At the same time, he was thinking secretly in his heart. I wonder if the nurse in front of me is the Rano mentioned in the return mission.
"You are helping us by giving up the bed as soon as possible."
The thin nurse continued without looking back, "Your personal belongings are under the bed. In the wooden basket, if you think you are okay, you can leave now. If you don't want to return to the dangerous battlefield, you can use the excuse that you are still dizzy, as long as you are not worried about being sent to a military court. "
Hearing this, Wei Ran quickly bent down and pulled out the wooden basket under the bed. There were not many things in the box, only a Soviet army-style kettle and a bulging canvas bag.
In the canvas bag, in addition to two rolls of film in sealed tubes, there was also a Leica camera stained with mud and a small notebook covered in plastic.
Putting the canvas bag on his shoulders, Wei Ran blew the dirt off the camera, then aimed at the ward full of wounded people and pressed the shutter.
After taking the first photo, he walked out of the canvas tent filled with hospital beds and found that he was in a dense birch forest shrouded in mist. As far as he could see, except for In addition to the canvas tents hidden under the trees, there were sheets or strips of gauze hanging on ropes between the trees.
In the forest clearing not far away, there is a vague log building like a hunter's cabin. In the thick fog, from time to time, soldiers would run in from outside the birch forest with stretchers and hurriedly bring them into the building that looked like a hunter's cabin.
Similarly, from time to time, some wounded were carried out from the hunter's cabin, either into tents, or deeper into the birch forest shrouded in thick fog.
"Rano! Rano! Come here!"
While Wei Ran was stunned, there were waves of shouts coming from the direction of the hunter's cabin, and then, just now, in the tent, The female nurse, who had had a brief exchange with her, got out and walked towards the door of the hunter's cabin.Xiang ran and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Your brother Ivan! The person on the operating table is your brother Ivan!" At the door of the hunter's cabin, a middle-aged woman also wearing a white coat He waved hard and shouted.
Soon, Lano was pulled into the hunter's cabin by the other party, and not long after, a thin young soldier who looked to be in his early twenties at most was carried out on a stretcher, followed by Rano walked into the tent that Wei Ran had just come out of.
As Wei Ran watched, the soldier was carried and laid on the hospital bed, while the nurse named Lano just watched the young soldier's amputated limbs with red eyes. Right arm.
"Sister, you are already fine. At least I survived, right?"
Young Yiwan comforted, "At least I am not like those soldiers who pretended to be injured. I injured myself. Although my hand was lost by the Germans, I can at least leave the battlefield and go home alive, right?"
This optimistic young soldier said so much in one breath. Nurse Lano, who was holding back her tears, finally burst into tears and smiled, "It's true that you think so. At least you can bring the medal and go home alive."
"I don't know if mom and dad are okay. , I haven’t received a letter from them for a long time.”
Ivan looked at the broken arm wrapped in gauze again, and pretended to be relaxed, “But I will see them soon. "
"They should be fine, after all, they are so far away from the battlefield." Nurse Lano hesitated for a moment and asked, "Ivan, is Danila okay? Do you have any news about him? ?”
Ivan shook his head and shook his head after a moment of silence. “I only know that his company was sent to the west of the forest. The last time I saw him was two weeks ago. At that time, he had obtained a rifle with a scope, and I never saw him again after that, but at least I didn’t hear about his death.”
Hearing this, Nurse Lano sighed, "I understand, Ivan, just concentrate on your recovery. Someone will probably send you home soon. Then remember to tell your parents that I love them and let them Don't worry about me."
"I don't care if you tell them yourself after you go back."
Young Ivan looked around and said, "Sister, yes. Can't you get me something to eat? It's best to get a glass of wine. I haven't had a drop of wine in a month." "Where is the wine that was assigned to you?" Changing the subject, "Don't every soldier have 100 grams of vodka?"
"100 grams of vodka mixed with water"
Ivan complained angrily, "The distribution is Our company's vodka was blown up by German planes before we even had time to unload it from the truck. That's our monthly quota!"
His words not only caused a stir in the tent! The other wounded who were eavesdropping burst into laughter, and even Wei Ran, who was standing outside the canvas tent, almost laughed.
"I'll get you something to eat," Nurse Lano said helplessly, "But you don't have to think about vodka. We don't have a vodka quota here."
"Comrade Lano, if No vodka, alcohol will do."
On the hospital bed closest to Ivan, a middle-aged soldier with both legs amputated shouted angrily, "If you can use disinfectant alcohol. My water bottle is full, maybe I will grow two white and tender new legs tomorrow."
"This seems to have happened"
The other one lay down. The soldier in the far corner of the tent shouted, "I heard that when fighting the Finns a few years ago, a soldier had his leg amputated and then grew a new hand."
"Then what? Possibly!" In the tent full of wounded, all the amputees, including Ivan, questioned in unison, but then someone asked excitedly, "Tell me, how did he do it?"
"I heard that he killed a Finnish prisoner"
The soldier who started talking nonsense lowered his voice seriously, and then continued after attracting everyone's curiosity. "Then he cut off the Finn's hand and ate it raw, of course, with a lot of vodka. Although it sounded disgusting, when he sobered up the next day, a new hand grew. , But it's a pity..."
"What's a pity?" Ivan asked, believing it was true.
"Unfortunately, his left palm was amputated, but he ate his right palm, so he has two right palms."
Speaking of which, in the tent The wounded finally realized that this bastard was fooling them, and all of a sudden, everything including pillows and enamel cups flew to the man's head.
Nurse Lano, who was also deceived, rolled her eyes, shook her head helplessly at Ivan who was gritting his teeth, turned around and walked out of the tent to get him some food.
Outside the tent, Wei Ran, who was also dumbfounded, stretched his camera lens through the ventilation window on the canvas tent, pointed it at these soldiers enjoying themselves, and pressed the shutter again.