War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1733 Intelligence Sharing

The day after joining forces with his scumbag friend Xia Shushi to defraud clients, Wei Ran finally cheered up again. He borrowed Anfisa from Sui Sui, took her into the basement of the library, and took out the photo album he brought back from Spain, which was full of bullet holes and severely sticky.

"Look at this"

Wei Ran handed the photo album to Anfisa, "Are you sure you can clean it out?"

Hearing this, Anfisa did not rush to respond. She just took out a pair of rubber gloves and put them on, then picked up a pair of tweezers and carefully examined the photo album.

“Confidently cleaned it out”

Anfisa said, "But I'm afraid there will be some damage. The album is in such a bad state. I'm optimistic that we can save one third of it."

"Forget it, I'll figure it out myself."

Wei Ran shook his head. He knew better than anyone how precious it was to be lucky enough to leave the battlefield and develop negatives worthy of being put into an album. It was too luxurious to see the other third at the cost of damaging two-thirds of it.

"Is there anything else I can help with?" Anfisa asked nonchalantly.

"What's the latest news?"

Wei Ran put the worn photo album back into the moisture-proof box and asked the other person to sit down.

"The comics competition made money"

Anfisa poured two cups of hawthorn leaf tea. "Unexpectedly profitable."

"What do you mean?" Wei Ran asked as he took the cup of hot tea handed to him.

"Many people contacted the Seven-Colored Elephant Organization and won the distribution rights in East Asia and Southeast Asia through online bidding."

Anfisa took a sip of tea and said, "Among them, your friend Miss Jiaya from the Philippines invested the most. She won the Southeast Asian distribution rights at a high price of one million US dollars.

"What about China?" Wei Ran asked with interest.

“Still bidding”

Anfisa said, "Huaxia is a big cake. Everyone knows that they can make a lot of money, so the bidding is the most intense."

"Let's support one of our own to win this business."

Wei Ran thought about it, smiled and said, "Support a nuclear recruiter to do this, or find a cow urine man from the seven-colored divine elephant to do it."

"How about the girl codenamed Dujuan?"

Anfisa asked, "The descendant of the Wendigo in Palau, the Palau girl named Kano Chinatsu, who has nuclear-recruiting bloodline."

"she?"

"She might be the most suitable person," Anfisa said.

"Does the Cow Urine Man have a suitable candidate?" Wei Ran asked.

"At least those cow urine people in the Seven-Colored Divine Elephant are fine. They have only recently learned to defecate at designated places and use toilet paper. They are even harder to train than Belia." Anfisa said with a headache.

"In that case, the cow urine man will not be considered."

Wei Ran pressed on, "But are you sure you can control that girl?"

“She’s now fully part of us.”

Anfisa answered confidently, "And we are confident that we can completely control her. We may even be able to use her to hook some big fish."

"That must be her."

Wei Ran said nonchalantly, "Is this writing competition really that profitable?"

"The advertising fees alone have already recovered all the initial costs"

Anfisa replied, "There are also auctions for subscriptions and distribution rights, which together make far more money than the overt business of Succubus and Morpheus.

Also, Boss, Sister Aurora already knows about the competition, are you still not going to talk to her?"

"There should be some unspoken understanding between husband and wife, even though we are not married yet and most likely we will not get married."

Wei Ran smiled and said, "You can consult her for some opinions and ideas on the comic submission competition business, but this is ultimately a business for cow piss people. Just like..."

"I have a friend?"

"That's right!"

Wei Ran smiled and snapped his fingers, "I have a friend, yes, I have a friend."

"I see," Anfisa nodded.

"Is there any other good news?" Wei Ran continued to ask.

"The Makar family has arrived in Australia and bought a farm that is not very big but very close to Cape Tribulation. They are now renovating the farm, and Diego has also gone over to help."

"They didn't go there, did they?" Wei Ran asked.

"No, they have been breeding 17-year cicadas lately."

Anfisa paused, and seeing that Wei Ran had no intention of expanding the topic, he continued, "Also, regarding the floating corpse that appeared in Niigata not long ago, things seem to be getting a little out of control."

"out of control?"

Wei Ran turned his head and looked at the other party, "What kind of loss of control?"

"An organization is carrying out a campaign to silence people. Many researchers we were originally targeting have been silenced in recent times."

Anfisa said, “And the news about this incident on the Internet has begun to be controlled.”

"USA?"

"It should be," Anfisa gave a not very accurate answer.

“Have Hela and the succubus been implicated?” Wei Ran asked after a moment’s silence, “And us.”

"No, no one will notice us."

Anfisa answered confidently, "But the biological weapons information may be more troublesome than we thought. I don't recommend that you hand it over to the embassy as planned. Those things may need to be released in a more secret and secure way."

"I'll find a way to deal with this matter," said Wei Ran.

“Although this matter got out of control, there were also unexpected surprises.”

Anfisa explained, "The Koi Trading Company that we had been keeping an eye on was implicated. We also took the opportunity to use the official power of the nuclear recruitment to see the structure of this trading company. After this matter is over, perhaps we can try to control them."

"Be more patient," Wei Ran reminded casually, "Anything else?"

"There are also a few less important news."

Anfisa said, "Gleva and your Spanish gang friends are starting to work together."

“They’re starting to cooperate?”

Wei Ran raised an eyebrow, "What? Blood business?"

"smuggling"

Anfisa said, "I mean, smuggling tropical fruits. Greva's fruit business has begun to enter central and southern Europe."

"Is there any other news?" Wei Ran asked with interest.

"The next is some gossip. Mr. Charlie's daughter, Daofeng, who is also your and Sister Aurora's friend, recently received an investment from Miss Koko."

Anfisa said, "Coco gave her the farm in Canada, the maple syrup farm we visited."

"not"

"Yes, growing marijuana."

Anfisa said, "Mr. Carlos and Mr. Paul from the Elk Foundation helped us get the license. Although it is still in the initial construction stage, I'm afraid the profits will be very high. Boss, do we want to participate?"

"Whose idea was this?" Wei Ran asked curiously, "And is this considered gossip?"

"Daofeng contacted Miss Koko himself to get the sponsorship."

Anfisa explained, "But we cannot rule out the help of Ninel's female partner, Ania."

After a short pause, Anfisa said with a strange expression, "The following is the core content of the gossip. I guess... well... I mean it's just a guess, a guess with more than 95% probability. Aniya and Daofeng seem to be... uh... in a relationship now."

"puff!"

The mouthful of hawthorn leaf tea that Wei Ran had just poured into his mouth sprayed all over the face of the dog Belia beside him.

"Ahem! What did you just say?" Wei Ran asked, looking as if he had seen a ghost. "It's just a guess."

Anfisa spread her hands. "I don't want to admit it, but my sister did monitor Daofeng and Koko's phones to prevent a similar situation like Matthew's kidnapping from happening again. Then she found that the recent chats between Daofeng and Aniya were... too ambiguous and too sentimental."

"Does Chacha know about this?" Wei Ran asked after wiping the tea stains from the corner of his mouth.

“I guess I already know.”

Anfisa replied, "From the chat records between Daofeng and Aniya, Mr. Charlie seems to be a very open-minded person. He doesn't seem to object. In addition, Ninel doesn't seem to know about this.

However, the person who might be happier about this matter is Miss Koko. Recently, Ania finally stopped pestering her and finally moved out of her house.

This is probably why she invested in Miss Daofeng. Of course, these are just my guesses."

"That's fine. Very good, very good."

Wei Ran grinned, "I don't know about this. You never told me."

"My sister and I don't know either," Anfisa said. "We've never heard of it."

The two looked at each other strangely again. Wei Ran took out some tissues and wiped Belia's face while asking, "Is there any news more explosive than this?"

"There is one last message. As for whether to explode or not, you need to judge for yourself."

Before Anfisa finished speaking, Wei Ran's hand holding the teapot trembled, "Tell me about it."

"Since the last time you provided your Austrian friends, I mean those Doctors Without Borders, with some insignificant intelligence support, they have demonstrated tremendous destructive power."

Anfisa paused and said, "As of New Year's Eve, they have successfully hunted down all the targets we provided."

"All of them?" Wei Ran raised his eyebrows in surprise.

"All"

Anfisa nodded, “And they’ve already started looking for targets on their own, more efficiently than we expected.

In addition, you asked those Doctors Without Borders, no, fighters without borders, to shoot more videos of the 8 Lestan front, and this thing started to make money under our operation. "

"make money?"

“As long as the video is viewed, there will be revenue”

Anfisa said, "And we coordinated with them to start the bounty hunter mode."

"Bounty hunter?" Wei Ran looked at Anfisa in confusion, "What kind of bounty hunter?"

"For just $25, you can kill a soap soldier with a 14.5mm bullet with a specific message on it.

For $100, you can help the audience kill at least two soap soldiers with a rocket with specified words on it.

For $200, you can leave any greeting on an anti-tank mine. For $500, you can even customize a video of a drone strike.”

Anfisa spread her hands. "Since the Soap Man has chosen to sell the children of the Lestans as merchandise all over the world, then we can also trade on the lives of their soldiers."

"Business is good?" Wei Ran asked suspiciously.

“Exceptionally good”

Anfisa said, "My sister specially set up an online group to run this. Most of the disabled children in that online group are from the Middle East. One tenth of the proceeds from the bounty video is used to recruit and train more helpers for those groups."

"Who came up with this brilliant idea this time?" Wei Ran couldn't help but ask.

"t1kt0k"

Anfisa spread her hands, "To be precise, it's Marta's t1kt0k.

She has recently been learning Chinese with Lucinda, so she reads Chinese t1kt0k every day and sees a lot of genius ideas in the comment section.

Frankly speaking, we have even seriously considered recently assigning some people to keep an eye on China's t1kt0k to look for ideas.

Boss, it is a free and efficient think tank platform without any moral bottom line. "

“You are geniuses too.”

Wei Ran shook his head. This news was indeed shocking, much more shocking than the fact that Aniya and Daofeng were in love.

"Is this a compliment?" Anfisa asked abruptly.

"Indeed"

Wei Ran spread his hands, "Do you need me to give you a bonus?"

"never mind"

Anfisa was speechless. With the development of Hella, the two sisters no longer cared about the bonus.

They knew clearly that if they needed money, their academic boss would probably let them use every penny in Hela's account at will, and might not even be curious about what they did with the money.

Because of this, their pursuit has become increasingly large with the overt and covert branches such as Hela, Succubus, Morpheus, and even the 17-year cicada.

Gradually, she changed from wanting to find wings to avoid the fear brought by the red ghost to wanting to control more secrets, control a larger network and public opinion force, and become the queen of the online world - just like the queen of Inta.

“We’ve had enough surprises today.”

Wei Ran drank the tea in the cup and said, "I was originally planning to ask you to help me clean up that photo album."

“Sorry I couldn’t help you”

Anfisa's tone was unapologetic, "I almost forgot, there is one last insignificant thing."

"Even if it's insignificant, it better be good news."

“Good news indeed”

Anfisa said, "Early this morning, three Ka-3 helicopters were sent to our transport plane and have now landed at the hot spring camp. Boss, how do we allocate these three helicopters?"

"It was delivered so early?"

Wei Ran muttered to himself, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "Let's keep one each at Yin Tower, Hot Spring Camp, and the abandoned military base for emergency support and rescue work."

"Mr. Karp said that two more An-74s will be added in the near future. They will appear as private planes used by you and Sister Aurora, and Marta's private plane respectively."

"I can probably understand Aurora and me, but what about Marta?" Wei Ran asked puzzledly.

"She will be the second star to be launched by Time Film Studio in the near future. Her experience as a model while studying for a nuclear power plant, and as a battlefield doctor on the front line in eastern Ukraine, will make her a star as popular as Jima, or even more popular than him."

Anfisa explained, “So the studio plans to package her in the same way as Jima, but she and Jima are unlikely to appear in the same movie.

Also, the next batch of Hela girls trained will join the studio.”

"Hejima Mode"

Wei Ran shook his head and didn't respond to what Hela said. Instead, he asked, "So we have four An-74s now?"

"That's right"

Anfisa nodded and said, "There are two more Il-76 transport planes. Although they are nominally owned by different parties, they are actually ours.

Thanks to our own airports and cheap jet fuel, these planes are basically self-sustaining.”

"There is no other good news or bad news, right?" Wei Ran asked.

"That's pretty much all that's worth your time," Anfisa replied.

"Thank you for sharing your information," Wei Ran said politely, "Go and do your thing."

Hearing this, Anfisa simply got up and left Wei Ran's studio.

"I need to digest it."

Wei Ran muttered to himself as he poured himself another cup of tea.

Although Hela was causing trouble, he was not worried about the Kajianka sisters pulling her strings. At the same time, he did not care at all. He always held the attitude of "as long as they are useful, everything else is fine" towards Hela and the branch organizations extending from Hela.

Now it seems that although she was suspected of being a hands-off boss, at least the Kajianka sisters have developed Hela very well.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but think of the idea the other party had just mentioned, about sending someone to keep an eye on t1kt0k and act as a free think tank.

This may be something that can be done.

Wei Ran muttered to himself, thinking about discussing this idea with his friends after returning home.

Of course, in addition to this idea, he also had to start thinking about how to send out the relevant information about biological weapons through secret and safe channels.