On the morning of April 28, the rumbling sound of artillery fire was getting closer and closer. From time to time, a shell would even hit the buildings on both sides of the alley, scattering large areas of broken bricks and tiles.
But since the morning fog dissipated, no injured person has been brought over. On the contrary, the tent that served as the operating room had two holes the size of pot lids smashed by bricks. Even the seriously injured people left around the tents, as well as the medicines and supplies that had not been moved into the basement in time, were buried in the newly formed ruins.
Under the intense busyness of everyone, the dilapidated tent was urgently moved to a shell crater formed a long time ago, and the wounded were all sent to a distant cinema by the four young soldiers who were left behind. Take refuge.
"Marco, take Mario and Maura to the cinema." Father Hans sat on a three-legged chair while letting Dr. Lodge stitch him up. He said while looking at the wound on his forehead that had just been accidentally opened by a brick.
"I want to stay." Marco pointed to the major uniform on his body. "My mission is to protect this clinic and protect all of you. Let Victor go. He can just take care of those people." Wounded."
"I..."
"Save it!"
Doctor Rocky cut the sutures without waiting for Wei Ran to say. After that, he took over the topic, "The cinema is not much safer than here, and here is not much more dangerous than the cinema. It's better for us not to separate at this time. In addition, Marco, let your brother and Maura go to the basement first. If it's true, It’s too dangerous, let’s hide in again. Also, Nurse Leni, you should go down first!”
“That’s okay.” After hesitating for a moment, Father Hans finally agreed to Luo. Doctor Qi’s decision.
While they were dressing Father Hans’s wound, Marco and the little nurse Leni took Mario and Moira into the bathroom in the ruins. After lifting the bathtub, they put the two little ones into the bathroom. The guy sent it in.
"Mario, stay inside quietly." Marco lay down at the entrance of the cave and gave the last instruction.
"Brother, I..."
"Mario, protect Mora." With just one sentence from Marco, a look of strength immediately appeared on Mario's face. Color, "I will protect her!"
However, as the only entrance and exit above his head was tightly covered by a heavy bathtub, the strength and bravery on Mario's face were immediately replaced by fear. . On the contrary, Maura looked at the other children sitting on the folding bed with a look of surprise. One of these children was actually her classmate!
And Mario was not really as stupid as Father Hans said. He immediately guessed the general truth and asked in disbelief, "Mora, they...they It's all..."
Mora hugged a little girl of the same age with eczema on her face and nodded happily to Mario, "Are you scared? Or, you want to send us all away? A round head for you?"
"I...IDon't be afraid! ”
As Mario spoke, he stepped backward step by step, and then he accidentally tripped over a wooden box covering the ground. But before the wound on his butt touched the ground, he was struck by a man with the same face covered in it. The woman with eczema held her little arm.
“Be careful.”
The woman gently pointed to the Youth League knife that Mario hung on his overalls, “This knife. It’s so beautiful. Can you lend it to me? "
"Yes...it's okay." Mario suppressed his tears, tremblingly pulled out the dagger and handed it to the woman who was supporting him.
The woman suppressed her laughter. He took the dagger, then bent down to find a carrot with dirt from the box under the folding bed. After carefully peeling it clean with a knife, he cut it in half and gave it to Mario and Mora, "Eat it. Very sweet. Every child who comes here can get a piece of fruit. Unfortunately, you came at the wrong time, and now only carrots are left. "
"Can you return the knife to me? "Mario asked timidly.
"Of course"
The woman carefully cleaned the knife and put it back into the scabbard, then helped Mario hang it on his overalls while smiling. said, "Major Marco said you can protect our safety? "
"I..."
Mario thought for a while while holding half a carrot, then looked back at Mora who was chatting with a good friend, and finally he was sure. He nodded and said decisively, "My brother is right! I will protect you! ”
Gently touching Mario’s little head, the woman smiled softly and said, “Then it’s up to you, our little warrior.” "
Mario, who was completely unaware that his concept had been secretly changed, suddenly became confused because of the words "little warrior", and even the tears that were about to fall were forced to hold back.
The other women in the basement smiled at each other and continued to do their own things quietly. On the surface filled with gunpowder smoke, Wei Ran and others were also hiding in the shell crater, waiting anxiously. The wounded may be sent here at any time, or the war may end at any time.
Perhaps because there are not a large number of wounded here as usual, this day seems to pass extremely slowly. .
“Why haven’t the wounded been sent over yet? Marco couldn't sit still. "Could it be that the Soviets were beaten away?" "
"Have you been infected by your brother's stupidity? "
Dad Hans said angrily, "It's not that the Soviets were beaten away, but that the soldiers on the Moltke Bridge may not be able to withdraw." That's why no wounded were sent over. And those Soviets must have been very close to the Moltke Bridge, so close that even the surrounding residents had fled. Only the four of us were still guarding the broken tent like idiots. "
"Put up the white flag," Dr. Lodge said abruptly, "Maybe it will be more useful than the Red Cross. "
"Wait a minute, now is not the time. ”
Dad Hans lit a cigarette and said, "At least we have to wait until the Soviets capture the Moltke Bridge, otherwise we are likely to be used as targets and killed by the idiots supervising the team."
Moist In the shell crater, Wei Ran and others fell into silence again. After a long time, panicked shouts came from the ruins blocking the alley. A young German soldier ran over and shouted, "Doctor Lodge, Dr. Hans, and Dr. Victor, the cinema has just been destroyed by a shell. !"
Everyone in the shell pit stood up quickly. Father Hans was the first to ask, "How are the wounded?"
"There are several people trapped under the stone slabs." "It's gone!"
The young soldier held his helmet and shouted, "A few more were hit, they are about to die!"
"Let me go!" Wei Ran stood up carrying the heavy metal medicine box and kerosene gas lamp, "You continue to guard here!"
"I'll go with you!" Father Hans also grabbed it and put it beside him medicine box and kerosene gas lamp, "Marco, you stay to protect Dr. Lodge!"
"Be safe!" Dr. Lodge said worriedly.
"So are you." Before Hans finished speaking, he had already climbed out of the crater with Wei Ran.
Under the leadership of the young soldier, Wei Ran and Father Hans walked through the ruins, ducked into the collapsed cinema, and then heard a continuous scream and cry.
Most of the cinema has collapsed, and only one area near the curtain is still safe. At this time, all the surviving wounded have gathered here. In the collapsed area, the three young soldiers were working hard to dig out the trapped survivors.
"Fortunately, Marco and the others were not allowed to come over." Father Hans muttered. After lighting the kerosene gas lamp, he quickly opened the medicine box and began the treatment work.
But in fact, except for those who were only scratched and could receive effective treatment, the rest of the seriously injured people, especially those who were still pressed under the stone slabs, what the two of them could do was, He just gave them a shot of Mafei to relieve pain, and then watched them stop breathing.
"Clang!"
Wei Ran threw the glass medicine bottle aside, and thrust the last Ma Fei into a little girl who was suppressed from the waist down.
As the glass syringe was pulled out, the expression of pain finally disappeared from the blood-stained and dust-stained face of this little girl who looked not yet an adult. But before the medicine wore off, the little girl froze and stopped moving, letting the doll she was holding in her arms roll down the steps and under the curtain she wanted to escape from.
"Ah——!"
The young soldier who had been trying to rescue the little girl just now let out a desperate roar, and then under everyone's dull eyes, he jumped out of his arms. He took out a P38 pistol, put it to his chin, and simply pulled the trigger!
"Bang!" The crisp sound of gunfire echoed for a long time in the mostly collapsed cinema.Swinging, warm blood splashed onto Wei Ran's face. The young body, like the doll just now, rolled and rolled down the stairs.
"Fuck!"
Wei Ran reacted and slammed the syringe in his hand to the ground before he could put it down. Then he collapsed and covered his head, sitting down on the steps next to the little girl's body.
He had no sympathy for these Germans, let alone the soldiers who wore swastikas and eagles on their uniforms.
From the Battle of Stalingrad, from Position 19 on the Don River, from the cannibal winter in Finland, Wei Ran hypnotized himself again and again, trying to make himself believe that the cowhide notebook sent him back, just Experience an overly realistic war game. Even if it wasn't a game, the Soviets, Germans and even Finns who died in the war had nothing to do with me!
But when the warm blood splashed on his face, all the lies and comforts he had lied to himself were exposed in an instant. One after another, fresh lives disappeared in front of his eyes. The pale and cheap feeling of powerlessness finally made the reason he had tried to maintain for a long time completely collapse at the moment when the soldier committed suicide!
The wailing ruins of the cinema fell into silence after the gunshots. In the space illuminated by two kerosene lamps, only Wei Ran's uncontrollable crying and the words they could not understand were left. curse.
Dad Hans sighed, silently took out a Ma Fei, walked to Wei Ran's side, opened his arm, and pushed in a small amount of medicine.
"Go to sleep for a while. When you wake up, maybe the war will be over." Father Hans put his arm around Wei Ran's shoulders and waited until the medicine took effect. Then he struggled to stand up and walked towards the other side. A survivor waiting for treatment.