War Photographer's Notebook

Chapter 1770 Dream Realization

"Any plans?"

Wei Ran asked, "What do you need me to do?"

"Take Amani away later."

Clemont gave an answer that Wei Ran didn't expect, "I'll catch up a little later."

"what?"

Wei Ran was stunned. He didn't expect this to be such an outrageous yet reasonable strategy.

"That's the most reasonable way," Clemont whispered, "She'll take you there."

"Alright"

As Wei Ran spoke, he suddenly picked up the 1911 pistol and hit Clemont's forehead with it, leaving a bloody but not actually serious wound.

A little later, Clemont also let out a scream, and Wei Ran patted him on the shoulder, slowly put on his windbreaker and top hat, and walked out of the room. He even had the 1911 pistol in his hand.

"bang bang bang"

Wei Ran knocked gently on the door of Room 505. A moment later, Armani, who had changed his clothes, opened the door. Wei Ran immediately squeezed in amid the other party's exclamations.

"Are you ready?" Wei Ran asked as he closed the door.

"Ready"

Amani answered in a low voice, then picked up a PPK pistol on the table, loaded it with bullets and stuffed it into his bag.

“Don’t be too cooperative”

Wei Ran said as he opened the door. Amani nodded, and also opened the door carrying the not-so-big handbag, letting Wei Ran point the pistol hidden in his sleeve at her lower back as she walked out.

Deliberately leaving the door open, Wei Ran took the other person to the elevator door and walked into the elevator after a short wait.

Going down all the way to the first floor, Wei Ran glanced at Inoue Kenichi who was still standing not far away, then poked Armani's lower back with the muzzle of his gun, and the latter reluctantly walked towards the elevator door.

"Mr. Matsui."

"Don't ruin my business"

Wei Ran didn't wait for Inoue Kenichi to finish his words and whispered in Japanese, "I have already arranged someone."

"Hi!"

Inoue Kenichi responded to Wei Ran's request in a low voice. He had already guessed that the other party was probably going to catch the gunman as well.

After sending Inoue Kenichi away, Wei Ran pushed the panicked Armani out of the hotel at gunpoint, and the latter took the opportunity to get into a rickshaw.

Sure enough, it was this car again.

Wei Ran glanced at the familiar-looking rickshaw driver, who immediately nodded and uttered the word "Taijun".

"Get in, this one." Wei Ran said in French, and pushed Armani into the rickshaw a little roughly.

"Run faster"

Wei Ran urged in a bad tone, and the rickshaw driver also started running.

“He’s one of ours, too.”

It was not until the hotel was left behind that Armani whispered as Wei Ran put away his gun.

"I knew it."

Wei Ran muttered to himself. At the same time, he also noticed that Clemont, who was covering the wound on his head with his hands, also chased out from the door of the hotel behind him. After asking around, he also waved the money and got on a rickshaw. There was no need to ask, the rickshaw driver was probably one of theirs.

So what about the original history?

As Wei Ran withdrew his gaze, he couldn't help but wonder, could it be that all that he did was done by Huang Youze?

Amid such doubts, the rickshaw gradually disappeared into the night and slowed down.

A moment later, the rickshaw that Clement was riding in caught up, and both cars turned into an alley and stopped.

"I'll get the medicine when the time comes," Amani whispered.

"Okay." Wei Ran nodded, left this rickshaw and went to the one behind him.

After a brief change of vehicles, the rickshaw carrying Armani went along the alley to another street, while the rickshaw carrying Wei Ran and Clermont exited the alley and continued to move forward.

It is not far from here to the pier. With the rickshaw driver running fast, Wei Ran and Clement soon arrived at an intersection not far from their destination.

The car stopped again, and after the two got out, they immediately saw Huang Youze and several people following him.

"Time is of the essence, so I won't be polite."

Huang Youze looked at Wei Ran gratefully, then whispered, "The warehouse is right next to the dock, and there are people from the Otomo Corporation guarding it. We should try not to shoot. After dealing with the people inside, we must move the drugs away before Kobayashi Daisuke brings more people to surround this place."

After a short pause, Huang Youze said, "If we are surrounded, the only way to survive is the Huangpu River, but time is urgent and we don't have time to arrange a boat to pick us up downstream."

"No problem," Wei Ran nodded.

"My public identity is that I am a surveillance agent sent by Otomo Corporation to Shanghai."

Huang Youze took out a bayonet and walked towards the warehouse in front, "Brother Wei, come in with me later? The others will lie in ambush."

"Okay," Wei Ran nodded in agreement.

"After the drugs are moved out, Clement is a foreigner and won't be questioned easily. He will take the drugs and leave."

Huang Youze explained in French and added, "Clemont, I'll leave it to you from now on. Please ensure the safety of yourself and the medicine."

"Don't worry," Clemont said seriously.

"Is there no news about Yanlin's family yet?" Wei Ran asked suddenly at this time.

"no"

Huang Youze sighed, "I can't investigate this matter in a big way. I'm worried that someone with ulterior motives will find out something along this clue. Once my current identity as a nuclear recruiter is exposed, many comrades will be implicated."

"I understand." Wei Ran nodded regretfully and did not continue the topic.

The group hid in the dark and walked quickly. Huang Youze led Wei Ran to the door of a warehouse with familiarity, while the others hid in the dark on both sides of the door.

"Bang bang bang!" Huang Youze knocked on the warehouse door.

"Who is it?" A person asked in Japanese inside the warehouse.

"it's me"

Huang Youze said, "Open the door quickly. The president was shot. Section Chief Daisuke Kobayashi sent me to guard the warehouse and bring you some weapons."

After these words were spoken, the people inside let out a series of exclamations. Apparently, the previous shooting had not been heard here.

With a loud noise, the iron door that was locked from the inside was opened, and Huang Youze and Wei Ran immediately saw that there were not only five or six men inside, but also a table of food and wine, a woman dressed as a geisha, and a hissing gas lamp.

"You just said that. Poof!"

Before the leader could finish his words, Huang Youze stabbed the other's chest with the bayonet in his hand. At the same time, Wei Ran took a quick step and grabbed the two men's heads and slammed them together with a "bang". Then, before the geisha could scream, he kicked the other in the chest.

"Click"

With the crisp sound of bones breaking, Huang Youze had already arrived in front of the next Japanese soldier, grabbed the opponent's shoulder and gave him a fierce knee strike.

It was not until this time that the two Japanese soldiers who were farthest away seemed to have just reacted and were about to shout.

However, before they could shout, Wei Ran jumped over on the table.

"laugh!"

With a flash of cold light, a bayonet with a lingering smell of Spanish French blood stabbed into the throat of the Japanese soldier who was about to shout before the two knocked unconscious Japanese soldiers behind him fell to the ground, and went all the way down into the chest.

Grabbing the bayonet with an anchor point to gain leverage, Wei Ran, who was standing on the wine table, kicked the last Japanese soldier on the chin in an absolutely ugly kicking posture.

Amid the splattering blood, the last Japanese soldier's neck made a crisp sound, and a small piece of his tongue fell off the corner of his mouth.

"Bang!" As the last Japanese soldier fell on his back, Wei Ran pulled out his bayonet and swung it, while also looking around.

This warehouse is far from being the kind of factory buildings of later generations that are several thousand square meters. Instead, it is more like three classrooms without windows.

The space here is not very large, but there is a lot of goods piled up.

"Otomo Co., Ltd. is mainly engaged in the sake business, and the scale of the business is not very large."

Huang Youze walked deeper into the warehouse and said, "They also do labor business secretly. Many laborers were transported by them to recruit nuclear weapons. Thanks to Clement and his help over the years."

"careful!"

Before Wei Ran finished speaking, a 1911 pistol appeared in his hand.

"boom!"

Amid the deafening sound of gunfire in the night, a Japanese soldier hiding in the innermost room of the warehouse fell on his back, and the submachine gun in his hand also fell to the ground before he could open fire.

"Quick! Move the goods!"

Huang Youze realized that something was wrong and shouted quickly. After some searching, he lifted a piece of canvas in the corner and used a bayonet to pry open the wooden box that was originally covered by the canvas.

"That's it! Quick!"

Before Huang Youze finished speaking, the people who had followed him had already surrounded him, each carrying a box and running out.

Wei Ran noticed just now that these boxes contained not only medicines, but also some bullets and a small number of submachine guns.

Fortunately, this batch of goods was not large, only a dozen boxes at most, so it only took two trips to move them all out.

However, in just a short while, truck lights were already flashing on the street far outside the warehouse.

"Clemont, take the medicine and go first!" Huang Youze said, "Transport them and hide them as soon as possible!"

"you."

“We hold the enemy back”

As Wei Ran spoke, he swung the engineer shovel and chopped off the geisha's head with a "click".

“You have to survive”

Clemont said, then turned and led his helpers out of the warehouse, each carrying double the ammunition boxes and disappearing into the darkness.

"What are you doing?" Huang Youze asked as he loaded the submachine gun he picked up.

“When in Spain”

Wei Ran said as he carefully stacked the heads together, "Yanlin had a dream. He dreamed that his elder brother killed many devils and even built a Jingguan beside the Huangpu River."

"His elder brother"

"Is this the bank of the Huangpu River?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"Of course it counts." Huang Youze nodded with a smile, and at the same time he took out a small bucket of kerosene and sprinkled it on the surrounding goods.

"Yanlin keeps calling me Brother Wei"

Wei Ran had already turned off the gas lamp while he was talking. "As an elder brother, I must help my brother realize his dream."

"That's not enough. Far from enough."

Huang Youze threw the oil drum aside, walked to the door, raised his submachine gun and said, "His elder brother Yu Yanting had all the blades of his sword cut off during the Battle of Songhu. In the end, he was surrounded and stabbed to death by a dozen Japanese soldiers. Even so, he still managed to detonate a grenade."

"How do you know?" Before Wei Ran finished his words, Huang Youze had already pulled the trigger at the Japanese military vehicle that had just stopped.

"I was serving as a communications soldier under him at the time," Huang Youze replied.

Hearing this, Wei Ran also pushed a small truck loaded with goods out of the warehouse and parked it at the door. Then he took out his revolver and pulled the trigger at the Japanese military vehicle in the distance.

"Are you a party member?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.

"Yes"

Huang Youze smiled and replied while firing to suppress the enemy, "I went to recruit nuclear weapons after the Battle of Shanghai. It took me several years to get through this line. I joined the party only half a year ago. Although it's a bit late, I am already a member of the Communist Party. What about you?"

"I'm not yet"

Wei Ran replied with regret, "But Yanlin was already a party member when he died. He joined the party in Spain."

"Then he definitely has no regrets!" Huang Youze said firmly.

"He also wants to meet his adopted daughter-in-law." Wei Ran said subconsciously.

"If I can survive, I will help him find her. I know her." Before Huang Youze finished his words, the Japanese soldiers who got off the car on the opposite side had already started to fight back.

The enemy outnumbers us, so the two of them naturally have no advantage. But they cannot retreat at this moment, they have to buy more time.

"boom!"

Wei Ran stretched out his hand from the side of the bunker and fired the last bullet from his revolver. Then he picked up a small wine cup that he had just picked up when he came out and threw it out fiercely.

"Grenade!"

Wei Ran shouted at the top of his lungs in Japanese, and the Japanese soldiers who had already approached him subconsciously lay down.

This tried and tested trick immediately created a rare opportunity. Wei Ran, who had already taken out the box gun, immediately pulled the trigger and fired a series of bullets. At the same time, Huang Youze threw a lit lighter into the warehouse and ran over.

"Go to the river!" Huang Youze shouted while suppressing with his submachine gun alternately.

"Let's go!" Wei Ran said and started to retreat.

However, as the fire broke out in the warehouse, the Japanese soldiers began to counterattack. At the same time, they unexpectedly encountered Japanese soldiers who were encircling them from another direction.

"boom!"

"Bang! Bang!"

At this critical moment, they also heard gunshots coming from the direction where Clement and others were evacuating!

"Oh no! They are in danger!"

Huang Youze didn't even finish his words before he fell to the ground with his head raised and screamed.

"Where did you get shot?" asked Wei Ran who was firing back.

"thigh"

Huang Youze looked at the river bank not far away and said, "I'll cover you. Run quickly. They are going to surround us."

"Shoot and suppress!"

While Wei Ran was speaking, he turned around and Huang Youze immediately raised his submachine gun and opened fire.

However, what he didn't expect was that Wei Ran, who came running over, carried him up!

"Quickly release it."

"Shut up! Fire!"

Wei Ran shouted, and at the same time he passed the box gun in his hand through the armpit on the other side of his body, aimed it behind him and pulled the trigger!

Amid the shrill and intensive gunfire, Wei Ran ran faster and faster. Finally, before he ran out of bullets, he was shot in the thigh near the knee and jumped into the icy Huangpu River carrying Huang Youze.

“Bang! Bang! Bang! Dadadada—!”

Amid the intensive gunfire from the Japanese soldiers on the river bank, Wei Ran dragged Huang Youze, whose life or death was unknown, and swam towards the center of the river for his life.

But at the same time, he also saw that in the distance there was also a person who jumped into the icy Huangpu River without hesitation amid the continuous gunfire.

Is he Clement?

Before Wei Ran could figure out the problem, everything in front of him was swallowed up by the white light, leaving only the pain from the muzzle of the gun and the biting coldness.