After sending away the uninvited guests who suddenly visited, the clinic in the alley returned to its original busyness. The city of Berlin, which had been continuously bombed and shelled, lacked everything, but there was absolutely no shortage of injured civilians and soldiers.
In the continuous busyness, except for a shell hitting the wall of an apartment at the entrance of the alley before sunset, which shocked everyone, everything was fine. But the sound of firefights that lasted all day became closer and closer. Even at night, the city across the river was already on fire, and even the sky was reflected in blood red.
As night fell, the small clinic was finally busy with the last injured civilian. In the clinic where the smell of blood still lingered, the little nurse put the small amount of food on the table, turned around and got into the kitchen to continue working.
Doctor Rocky picked up a piece of fish with a fork, put it in the bread, took a bite, and said vaguely, "You can rest on the second floor tonight, but it's best to have someone on guard. If a plane drops a bomb here, maybe a few more people can escape." "I'll do it!" Marco said without thinking, "I'll stare at the sky."< /p>
Rocky nodded and stopped talking. After finishing the small amount of food in three or two mouthfuls, he turned around and took out a pack of fishing nets from the utility room. "I'm going to catch some food for tomorrow. You guys wait a minute." Eat slowly."
"I'll go help too and see if I can collect some food." Wei Ran stood up for the second time and chased Dr. Rocky out of the clinic.
The two of them walked around the newly discovered ruins at the entrance of the alley. Doctor Rocky skillfully cast the fishing net into the river, and then walked a few steps not far away. With the help of Wei Ran, another fisherman The fishing net Zhang had thrown in last night was pulled up.
The harvest on this fishing net is not much, there are only less than ten fish in all, but fortunately every fish is not too small, but maybe it is because it has been in the water for too long. Most of these fish are dead.
Help Dr. Lodge stuff the fishing net and the fish on it into his bag. After hesitating for a long time, Wei Ran told him what the woman said before she died at noon.
Hearing this, Professor Rocky stopped, and with the help of Wei Ran, he walked back with the canvas bag and whispered, "Take me to see it later."
"Okay" Wei Ran responded simply.
Just as he was about to reach the door of the clinic, Dr. Rocky suddenly said, "Get your weapons."
Looking at the man in front of him in surprise, Wei Ran nodded and said again, "good".
When the little nurse who was still wearing a mask took over the canvas bag containing the catch, Dr. Lodge also took a flashlight from the clinic and put it into his pocket. Under the leadership of Wei Ran, He walked in the dark towards the ruins of a building not far away.
Arriving at the door of the collapsed room again, Wei Ran gently opened the door and pointed out the location for Dr. Lodge.
Under the weak light provided by the only flashlight, the two crawled along the gap in the corner to the side of the body.superior. Before Dr. Lodge could say anything, Wei Ran pointed to the sofa, and its meaning was self-evident.
Luo Qi Yisheng nodded, handed the flashlight to Wei Ran, and carefully lifted the cloth around the sofa. Under the dim light of the flashlight, just after the circle of cloth was lifted, a pair of eyes filled with fear and tears were immediately revealed!
"Are you...Maura?" Dr. Lodge asked in a low voice.
As soon as the eyes hiding in the sofa heard these words, big tears could not stop flowing down, and they fell drop by drop on the remaining dark red blood on the floor. .
"Turn out the lights" Dr. Lodge whispered.
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately turned off the flashlight and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He guessed correctly. There was really someone hiding in that sofa, and it happened to be one of his return missions, Mo La. .
In the dark, he pulled Maura out from the mezzanine under the sofa, and the three of them crawled out of the ruin-like room along the narrow gap.
As the flashlight light came on again, Wei Ran finally saw clearly that this little girl from Moura was about the same age as Mario, but compared to Mario, she was sallow and thin, and she was obviously very long. He has been in a state of nutritional deficiencies for a period of time,
"Wait a moment"
As if he thought of something, he stopped Dr. Lodge who was about to push the door to leave, holding The flashlight got into the gap in the corner of the wall again. Soon after, when he came out again, Wei Ran already had a framed photo in his hand.
Wiping the dried blood on the edge of the photo frame, Wei Ran handed it to the little girl Maura, whose eyes were full of fear.
"Let's go" Dr. Lodge picked up Maura and then opened the ajar wooden door.
Taking the little girl Maura, the two of them avoided the soldiers patrolling the city and carefully returned to the entrance of the alley.
"Doctor Rocky, what are you going to do with this little girl?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.
Dr. Lodge stopped, held Maura in his arms and said in the darkness, "Her father used to work in my clinic, but he was also a Jew and was arrested two years ago. . At that time, I thought Maura was also taken away, but I didn’t expect her mother to hide her for so long.”
“So?” Wei Ran took a step back and asked.
"Let our Major Rudy decide," Dr. Lodge said, walking back to the clinic in the darkness.
Without explaining the origin of the little girl, the little nurse took her and took her to the bathroom. Soon after, a bald girl wearing a hospital gown came out of the bathroom. Marco and Dr. Hans were also called down by Dr. Lodge. They gathered around the oil lamp on the table and told the whole situation without reservation.
Seeing everyone, including Wei Ran, looking at him, Marco scratched the back of his head and looked at the frightened little girl not far away, "Mario also brought the youth league uniform from my childhood.Come here, you can put it on for her first. As long as my identity is not revealed, she should not be in any danger. ”
“Marco, I’m glad you gave this answer. "While Father Hans was speaking, he threw a scalpel on the table with a clang.
Ignoring Marco, who had his eyes widened, Dr. Lodge also took the scalpel under the table. He came out, placed a Ruger P08 pistol gently on the table, and said in a neutral tone, "Remind your brother not to do stupid things, otherwise we will all be in trouble. ”
Marco swallowed hard, “I will remind Mario, I...I will get her clothes.” "
Watching Marco leave in the dark, Father Hans looked at Dr. Lodge with a mocking expression, "Aren't your hands for holding weapons? "
"That is my father's relic, you should know it. "While Dr. Rocky was speaking, he put the pistol back into his arms.
Soon after, Marco handed a set of khaki youth uniforms to Maura, who was still standing in the corner, trying his best to He said gently, "Put it on, from now on, your name is Marco, you are a little boy, do you understand what I mean?" ”
Maura looked at Marco timidly, then nodded, hugged her clothes, and followed the little nurse into the next room.
The little nurse had been arranged. Girl, Dr. Lodge blew out the kerosene lamp and whispered in the dark clinic, "The battlefield is getting closer and closer to us now, and our medicines, food, and even kerosene for lighting are not enough. . ”
“Where else can I get these things? "Dad Hans asked in a low voice.
Doctor Lodge sighed, "It's difficult, the whole of Berlin lacks these things. "
"What if we leave here? "Marco asked, "As long as we can find a way to cross the Moltke Bridge, maybe..."
"Maybe we will die faster." Father Hans took over, "Listen. From the commotion outside, the Soviets may have already reached the city. At this time, except for relatively few bombings, the other side is no safer than here. "
"If you leave..."
"How to cross the Moltke Bridge is a problem," Wei Ran, who has been watching, reminded.
" I'm going home! "
Marco said suddenly, "I'm going to find my aunt to think of a way. Maybe she can help us get medicines and other things. "
"Yes, go for it! Father Hans snorted coldly, "Then let her bring soldiers over and set up a machine gun at the door of the clinic, or just use a flamethrower to burn us to death." "
Young Marco opened his mouth and finally ran out of ideas.
"Hold on as long as you can! "Dr. Rocky lit a match, and under the faint flame, he walked to a hospital bed and lay down. Soon he began to purr, which was not much smaller than the explosion outside.
"We Go and rest too! "Father Hans took out a coalThe oil lighter was lit, and Marco and Wei Ran were greeted back to the second floor.
Almost as soon as the light of the lighter disappeared, the little nurse finally took off her hat and mask, walked into the kitchen cautiously in the dark, picked up a small basket filled with fish and bread, and left. Entering the bathroom, he gently lifted the bathtub filled with blood-stained clothes, revealing a hole with a faint light.
"Shh——"
The little nurse made a silent gesture and handed the basket full of food down first, waiting for the person inside to catch it, and then Helped a girl who was also wearing a nurse uniform to come out.
Immediately afterwards, buckets of foul-smelling excrement were handed out from the hole under the bathtub. The two girls used a stick to carry all these things outside and dump them into the sewer at the entrance of the alley.
After they finished these tasks and finally sent several buckets of clean water from the river into the cave entrance, the little nurse who had been busy outside all day finally joined another nurse who was also wearing the same clothes. The convinced girl hugged him and crawled into the hole tiredly.
The girl who had just come out of the cave not long ago was left outside. She put the enamel bathtub back into place with ease, walked out in the dark, and put on a nurse's cap and mask. .
At the same time, Dr. Lodge, who was lying on the hospital bed next to the stairs and snoring, quietly put away the pistol covered by the blanket and closed his eyes completely in relief.