While Prokhor helped restore the gift, Wei Ran sat on the edge of the well and didn't go anywhere this time. According to the skills he learned at the Hongqi Forest Farm, this mine has never been There is no reason to arrange only one.
Since the ammunition box just now was a disguised mine, it is obvious that there must be other dangerous explosives nearby. In this case, staying where you are is undoubtedly the safest option.
Cowardly? This is not called cowardice, this is called being in trouble with oneself.
However, Diane misunderstood Wei Ran. She obviously thought that the young historian was frightened by the danger just now.
"Mr. Victor"
Diane suggested carefully, "Or we can choose a safe place outside the forest and send the bones and finds there? "
"Why?"
Wei Ran guessed the other person's thoughts after asking subconsciously, and said in a dumbfounded voice, "No, just stay here. I was just here. Think of something and wait to see if Prohor and the others can continue to discover anything." Hearing this, Diane wisely did not ask any more questions, but turned around and walked towards the white truck not far away. , brought a canvas-covered folding chair from inside and handed it to Wei Ran, and then called to the young man who drove them here to help bring in a folding table and a wood stove with charcoal fire.
Guarding the well that was once used to bury corpses, Wei Ran took the coffee brought by Diane and sipped it, but in fact, he focused on the one that Prohor had just sent. Ammunition box mines and kerosene lamps and steel helmets on top. .
Putting aside whether these three things can send him back to that time, he needs to seriously consider whether to help Diane investigate what happened here.
In addition, if you take this job, what kind of commission you should charge is also something that needs to be seriously considered. But the main premise of all this actually has to wait for Katenka to send follow-up investigation results.
During the long wait, time passed little by little. Prokhor and his companions worked until the sun went down, except for a horseshoe that was abandoned at an unknown time and a large number of almost rusty iron sheets. Apart from the cans, there were no valuable discoveries at all.
"Plohor, in which direction are you going to search tomorrow?" Wei Ran, who had been idle for most of the day, asked beside the warm bonfire.
“Do you have any suggestions?” Prohol asked enthusiastically, taking the coffee from Diane, “I heard Ms. Diane say that you are a historian, and you must know better than us. Which direction should I look for?"
"You guessed it wrong"
Wei Ran spread his hands and said, "If you let me come, I might go directly into the archives. To be honest, this is the first time I have seen the work of the Digging Party up close."
Plohor said self-deprecatingly, "We often go to the archives, but we can't last long every time.They would choose to have a drink in the bar opposite the archives. ”
“Can you tell me your impression of this place? "Wei Ran continued to ask, "From your professional perspective. "
"We are not professionals."
Plohor pointed to the three companions who were busy making dinner in the distance, "We are actually from the same high school. teacher. "
"Are you a teacher? "Wei Ran looked at Prokhor sitting next to him in surprise.
"I am a physics teacher"
Plokhor pointed to his companion in the distance again, "The youngest of the three of them is the physical education teacher, the fattest one teaches mathematics, and the other one whose hair is almost falling out is the school nurse of our school. "
"You..."
"Actually, they are digging illegally"
Diane said bluntly, and Prohol also simply said Nodding, "It is indeed illegal. In Belarus, very few people can legally excavate war ruins, but this matter is very meaningful and interesting, isn't it?" "
"Yes...it is indeed...very interesting"
Wei Ran secretly glanced at Diane with a strange expression. He originally thought that the digger who cooperated with Diane How professional is the small team of the Tudang Party? I didn’t expect it to be a group of amateur players!
“Don’t underestimate us”
Plohor said proudly, “Two years ago! , we dug out a T-34 tank in the middle of the school playground. Now that tank has been made into a monument and stands beside the playground of our school. "
"It's...really amazing." Wei Ran praised dryly. He really didn't know how to evaluate these high school teachers who were not doing their jobs properly.
"Victor Sir, if you return to Liuban later, you can drop by our school to have a look. "
Plohor said with increasing pride, "Even outside the wall, you can see that tank. It was repaired by the four of us and the school children in a summer vacation. Yes, even the monument was built with donations from all the teachers in the school. "
"Want to take a look? "Di An used the topic to ask Wei Ran, but in fact she just wanted to ask him if he wanted to go back to the hotel tonight.
How could Wei Ran not understand the meaning of Diane's words? Just be happy He nodded and said, "That's right, let's go and see the tanks dug up by Prohor and the others, and then I'll also go to the local archives tomorrow to have a look. Maybe I can make some unexpected discoveries." "
"We will search in that swamp tomorrow"
Plohor finally answered Weiran's initial question, "Victor, if we I'll keep it for you if I find anything interesting. "
"Thank you then," Wei Ran responded in a dumbfounded voice. Obviously, because he had spent 500 rubles to buy the broken box, the other party now regarded him as a fat sheep to be slaughtered.< /p>
Take the metal ammunition box with the explosives removed and the two almostWith the rusty kerosene lamp and the broken helmet wrapped in newspapers, Wei Ran and Diane once again got on the off-road vehicle that sent them here, and slowly left this forest in the forest along the ruts they came from. of open space.
Diane waited until the car drove onto a relatively flat dirt road in the forest, and then she asked, "Looking at your expression, it seems that you have no clue?"
"Restore the historical truth. It's a relatively long process."
Wei Ran once again used the excuse he had used countless times before, "And if I just drank coffee by the well for half a day and had a clue, I'm afraid Ms. Diane also There’s no need to invite me from far away Kazan.”
“I’m in a hurry.” Diane smiled and changed the topic and asked, “Are you planning to go to the archives tomorrow?”< /p>
"Maybe." Wei Ranhun nodded nonchalantly, "If it's convenient, leave me a car tomorrow. I want to drive around."
"Use Shall I accompany you?"
"No, just do your thing." Wei Ran quickly waved his hand and refused.
Hearing this, Diane did not insist and wisely suspended the topic.
In this off-road vehicle with a local license plate, the two chatted all the way back to the hotel. After getting off the bus, Weiran also got the off-road vehicle that had driven them from Minsk to Liuban. car keys. But Diane did not get out of the car, but left the hotel directly, and seemed to have returned to the excavation site. As for the tank mentioned by the teacher named Prohor, it seemed that they had forgotten it together. Yeah, never even mentioned it.
Watching the busy fat woman leave, Wei Ran weighed the car keys, then carried the scrap metal in the canvas bag upstairs and got into his room.
When he went downstairs to eat again and came back as usual, he checked the room carefully, took a shower and changed into clean clothes, but there was still no new information from Katenka.
Wei Ran is not worried at all about this. It was only the second day, and neither he nor Diane could afford to wait, except that Katenka might have to work overtime for a while.
In the blink of an eye, it was early the next morning. Wei Ran, who was woken up by his biological clock on time, picked up his phone before opening his eyes, and then noticed that he received a message at around three o'clock in the morning and almost four o'clock in the morning. spam messages.
Covering his head with the quilt, Wei Ran took out the authenticator from the food box, then grabbed the laptop on the bedside table and connected it to it.
Less than two minutes after he completed the certification, pictures and documents automatically expanded on the computer screen.
"These are things I found on the Edelweiss organization's finance office computer, as well as Diane's own personal email."
Katjan stuck in the text used for communication After typing out a line of German on the document, he turned to remotely control the laptop in Weiran's hand to open a group photo.
“The man in the photo with Diane is named OguSte, her husband, is also one of the top executives of the World Cinema Foundation and a major financial supporter of the Edelweiss organization. "
After typing this paragraph, Katenka changed the photo on the screen to a document that was opened in advance, and then continued to write, "I found this in Diane's mailbox, Basically consistent with what I found before.
Taken together, first of all, because there are relatively few funders, the Edelweiss organization does not have sufficient funds. And even the descendants and relatives of the corpses they greeted didn't seem to have a favorable impression of this organization. "
"Why? "Wei Ran, who had been sitting back and enjoying the results, couldn't help but touch the touch panel, and then typed a question.
In less than ten seconds, Kajianka on the other end of the network cable called up a news item Screenshot, followed by text explanation, "According to this news interview report last fall, this edelweiss not only brought back soldiers who disappeared during World War II, but also brought back their criminal evidence.
But it is obvious that just like racial discrimination in the United States, even ordinary people in Germany today, which is overly sensitive to Nazism, will feel ashamed because their ancestors were invaders who committed war crimes and crimes against humanity. .
However, this edelweiss always shows the good and bad sides without reservation, which obviously does not meet the expectations of some people. "
"Continue" Wei Ran typed out a German word.
After a moment, Katenka closed the news screenshot he had just opened and continued to type out a line on the document. "Secondly, this small organization was intimidated and kidnapped by unknown sources last spring because it exposed a small-scale massacre of Jews by the German army in a small village in France during World War II. For this, they paid It took $500,000 to redeem one volunteer from this organization.
Finally, according to the emails I found in her mailbox, at least a year ago, Mr. Hans, the sponsor of this organization, recommended a man named Victor to her several times. Historian. ”
Looking at the various screenshots and documents displayed on the screen in turn, as well as the photos of himself and Hans’ family, Wei Ran shook his head in confusion, and finally understood why Diane was so interested in him. The reason for the co-authorship lies with the enthusiastic Mr. Hans.
After carefully reading through all the information Katenka found, Wei Ran finally let go of his guard against Diane after understanding the cause and effect. No matter what, at least for now, the fat woman's views are quite upright, and this is definitely the bottom line for in-depth cooperation.
Just type it out on the empty text document. After giving a bunch of worthless thanks and continuing to ignore Kajianka's request for a bonus for the incident at the American farm last time, Weiran decisively unplugged the authenticator and plugged in the laptop.
At the same time, in the single-family house next to Gubijing Pasta Restaurant, Katenka also buttoned up with a snap.On the laptop screen, he muttered fiercely, "I think our boss seems a bit stingy! I just want a bonus of 40,000 euros. I mentioned it twice, but he didn't seem to notice!"< /p>
"Perhaps he already knows about your extortion of the farmer before?" The girl who was busy putting on makeup not far away reminded me with gloating, "You all cheated from that American." Why do you need to ask the boss for the $100,000?”
“How could he know about the $100,000 from the United States?” Katenka muttered very confidently and then asked, "Even if he knew, he probably wouldn't care..."
"How about giving him half of the extorted money?" The girl who was putting on makeup came up with a bad idea without looking back.
"Then give him your half!"
Katenka rolled his eyes and couldn't help comforting himself, "Anyway, we'll pay him back the money." If he didn’t move it, even if he really knew it, the worst thing would be to give it all back to him.”
“What’s the difference between money you dare not use and waste paper?”
Just now. The girl who was putting on makeup had already picked up the small bag placed on the table before she finished speaking, "Okay, I'm going to the zoo with Matthew."
"Remember to bring pizza back," Katenka finished. , and immediately re-entered the bedroom with the curtains drawn.
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