In the waiting room of Kazan Airport, Diane saw Wei Ran staring at the satellite map on the tablet screen. She wisely did not say anything, but stood up silently and brought two cups of coffee from a short distance away. come over.
"Thank you" Wei Ran took the coffee and pulled back his wandering thoughts.
"Did you find anything?" Diane asked, holding coffee.
Hearing this, Wei Ran shook his head, "Not yet, we'd better go to the scene to see the details before discussing."
"About the commission..."
p>"Let's talk about the commission after I am sure I can help you."
Wei Ran said in a calm tone. Before confirming the commission, he must know the incident of this investigation. It’s not really related to the Battle of Liuban. And this also determines whether he will take over the investigation.
Seeing this, Diane stopped continuing the topic and instead talked about Weiran's studio and Time Film Studio, which had always made her curious.
They passed the time before boarding by chatting. After the announcement rang, the two of them each picked up their small luggage and lined up to board the flight to Minsk, the capital of Belarus. .
Taking advantage of this five-hour long journey, Wei Ran once again focused all his energy on the graduation thesis that gave him a headache. When Diane saw this, she stopped disturbing him and turned to Started thinking about how to deepen cooperation with Weiran.
At five o'clock in the afternoon that day, Wei Ran, who was dizzy from being tortured by his graduation thesis, pulled his suitcase and followed Diane out of the airport, boarded an off-road vehicle, and headed straight for more than 100 kilometers. Liu Ban outside.
"Mr. Victor's first time in Belarus?" Diane, who was sitting in the passenger seat, looked through the rearview mirror and looked curiously at the scenery in the back seat. of Weiran.
"First time"
Wei Ran smiled and replied, "I have always heard that only Belarus still retains the shadow of the Soviet Union. But it seems that there is not much difference with Russia. Difference."
Diane responded with a smile, "I had the same expectations when I first came to Belarus. Although it looks similar to Russia, if I live here for a long time, I will feel the same. I found it to be more pleasant than Russia."
Hearing this, Wei Ran finally retracted his gaze that had been wandering outside the window, "So Ms. Diane is familiar with this place?"
Diane smiled and nodded, "It should be familiar. About six years ago, a similar charity organization found my great-grandfather here and told our family about the battles he participated in during World War II, the medals he received, and the I sent back some relics found on my great-grandfather's body."
At this point, Diane turned to look at Wei Ran sitting in the back row and said with a smile, "You can't imagine that on Saturday. "Years ago, I was a securities trader with pretty good results."
"It's really hard to imagine," Wei Ran said with emotion, and at the same time, he had secretly made up his mind to wait for an opportunity.Katenka helped to check carefully whether what Diane said was true.
"I find it unbelievable myself"
Diane sat up straight again, "Over the years, I have worked with that organization to send many people missing in the war in Belarus. The Germans or the Soviets found their descendants or reburied them to explore the war they experienced at that time. Although this process is difficult, it is more meaningful than the constantly beating numbers on the stock exchange. "What about Edelweiss?" Wei Ran asked abruptly, "What happened to Edelweiss? I remember the brochure you showed me before, when the Edelweiss organization was established. Less than two years ago."
Diane sighed and continued to explain, "The founding of Edelweiss arose from some irreconcilable differences between me and the organization that once sent my great-grandfather home. ."
"How about talking about it in detail?" Wei Ran asked with interest.
Hearing this, Diane turned her head again and asked Wei Ran a question, "Mr. Victor, how do you think we should look at soldiers missing in the war? Whether it is the Germans or the Soviet Union "Human."
"The bottom line in interpreting history is objectivity and truth." Wei Ran simply gave his answer.
“This is the irreconcilable difference between me and the previous organization.”
A wry smile appeared on Diane’s collagen-filled face, “I worked in that organization for a long time. The volunteers later realized that they sent my great-grandfather home just because I was a good securities trader and I knew many rich people.
Even I doubted it. Were those so-called relics of my great-grandfather found together with his bones? Or is the person buried in the cemetery not my great-grandfather at all?"
Seeing that Wei Ran didn't say anything, Diane sighed and continued, "In the past few years as a volunteer in that organization, I have seen them too many times, under the pretext of comforting the living, they patched up the mutilated corpses with bones from who knows who. Putting the relics that also belong to unknown people, and then using only the oval-shaped metal piece, they dare to tell the living that they are their ancestors.
If these can still be used to comfort the living. Such a poor excuse, then how can they explain the crimes committed by the missing soldiers in the war? Let the living only remember the glory of the dead and forget or simply not know the fact that their ancestors were invaders."< /p>
Wei Ran shook his head and smiled bitterly, "I'm afraid this is the reason why the Edelweiss Organization has been unable to develop in Russia?"
"The roots are not in Russia"
Diane There was a trace of exhaustion in his tone, "Among those who are willing to fund us, there are really too few people who dare to face the facts and expose war crimes.
Unwilling, or do not have the courage It was even considered unnecessary to tell the living beings about the actual acts of aggression or even massacre.The living person. Instead, they hope to just whitewash how many missing soldiers they paid to send home, and then get some ridiculous fame and votes. There are really too many people like this. "
"But what's the point of doing this? "Wei Ran asked again.
"The significance of sending those missing soldiers home is not just to move their relatives and descendants."
Diane said extremely seriously, "Let all The living people remember the ugly acts of aggression during the war and prevent such things from happening again. This is the key point, isn't it? "
"Although it is a bit extreme and idealistic"
Wei Ran spread his hands and looked at this fat woman who was at least twenty years older than him and said, "But at least I agree. I also hope that your actions will be highly consistent with what you said. "
Hearing this, Diane smiled softly and did not continue to explain or try to prove anything. She just said in a calm tone, "Time will prove everything. ”
“Time will indeed prove everything”
Looking at the rapidly retreating scenery outside the window, Wei Ran muttered something to himself, but he became more and more curious about what was going on in the former’s mouth. How much of it is true?
It took nearly three hours to complete the journey of more than 100 kilometers. When the car stopped in front of a hotel with a strong Soviet style in Liuban City, The strange city outside the window was already lit up by street lights.
“Let’s have dinner here first and then have a night’s rest.”
Di An took the initiative to help Wei Ran open the car door. , and said while leading him to the hotel, "How about we go to the excavation site at eight o'clock tomorrow morning? "
"No problem," Wei Ran said nonchalantly, "Even if it's earlier, that's fine. "
Hearing this, Diane obviously misunderstood what Wei Ran wanted to express, and said quickly, "The excavation site is not far from our current location, and we will not waste too much time. "
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter," Wei Ran explained straightforwardly, "I have plenty of time. ”
Diane smiled and did not explain any more. After taking Wei Ran to the hotel for a sumptuous dinner rich in local characteristics, she personally sent him to the room.
Waiting through the peephole until Diane left, Wei Ran looked back at the layout of the room, then immediately opened the door and walked towards the safe passage not far away
Look up casually. After climbing two floors and checking the security passage, he immediately took out the authenticator from the food box, then took out the business card Diane left from his wallet and took a photo of it. After that, he sent it to Katianka in Italy via webmail.
Putting the authenticator back into the food box, Weiran slowly walked downstairs and returned to the room, and then began to pay close attention to the room.
In the blink of an eye, the next morning, Wei Ran, who woke up on time under the urging of his biological clock, glanced at the screen of his mobile phone and saw that Katenka still didn’t give a reply, so it didn’t matter.I took a long cold shower, went downstairs and started jogging along the deserted streets.
When he arrived here yesterday because it was getting late, he didn’t have a clear impression of the city, but now he discovered that this place is more like a city than a city. A relatively well-developed agricultural town is more appropriate.
Even in the small town, you can see small but vibrant farmland, which also makes the air here particularly fresh.
And to be honest, this was his first time to see the work site of the Digging Party up close, which also made him more and more curious about his upcoming trip.
Almost at the same time that he finished his daily physical exercise and walked into the hotel, Katenka also sent an email. After looking at the familiar spam message on the screen, Wei Ran, who was about to go back to his room, immediately turned around and got into the corridor, and once again took out the authenticator from the food box.
After some operations, Wei Ran opened the web mailbox. Wei Ran glanced at the email sent by Kajianka, and an uncontrollable smile appeared on his face.
After downloading the file attached to the mailbox to his mobile phone, Wei Ran simply unplugged the authenticator and threw it into the food box. While putting it back into the metal book, he turned and left the stairwell.
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