In the blink of an eye, on May 2, the battle at the Capitol finally came to an end. In the temporary first aid center not far from the building, Wei Ran and others were gradually less busy with their work.
After helping Captain Katya bandage the wound on his collarbone with dark circles under his eyes, Wei Ran followed the stretcher team back to the Ministry of Interior building. When he walked into the unfamiliar operating room, Father Hans and others were leaning against the wall, sharing a bottle of wine they didn't know where they came from. There was even a plate of boiled potatoes on the table next to him. .
"Victor, you are finally back!" Dr. Lodge was the first to spot Wei Ran standing at the door and said happily, "We thought you..."
"I thought you would be a deserter." Father Hans took over the conversation before Dr. Lodge finished speaking. At the same time, he poured a large glass of wine for Wei Ran, "Here! Have a drink!"
Taking the cup, Wei Ran took a sip and asked, "Where is Mario? Where are the other children?"
"They are all in the conference room next door. ” Nurse Leni explained.
"How about we go see them and take a group photo?" Wei Ran asked, shaking the camera in his hand.
“That’s a good idea!” Dr. Lodge stood up first, “But let me change into clean clothes first.”
“That’s it! That’s good. "Yes." Wei Ran urged, "It's just a group photo."
"That's right." Dr. Rocky hesitated for a moment, buttoned up his white coat again, and followed the crowd to the next door to lie down. A conference room full of wounded people.
In this conference room full of wounded people, several children led by Mario and Mora also got their own jobs. They were carrying baskets and distributing medicine to the wounded people on the floor. I don’t know where I got the food from.
With the help of these little guys, Wei Ran and everyone successfully found Ivan and Mikhail who were lying side by side by the window. At this time, Ivan was holding half a bottle of wine in his hand. He poured himself a drink, but Mikhail, who was lying next to him, felt a little sluggish.
"Why are you here?" Ivan asked curiously as he put down the wine bottle.
Wei Ran smiled and explained, "I want to take a group photo with you. After all, we all survived."
"I heard that the Capitol Building has been plugged in." Flag." Ivan shook Mikhail, whose face was red, "I heard that our battalion put the flag up."
"Well..." Mikhail was confused. echoed.
"What's wrong with him?" Dr. Lodge realized something was wrong first and reached out to touch Mikhail's forehead. "He has a fever. Leni, go get a penicillin!"
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"Okay!" Nurse Leni hurried out of the conference room and got a syringe and penicillin soon after.
After pushing the liquid into Mikhail's body, Dr. Lodge said worriedly, "His condition is not very good, Leni, please pay attention to his condition in the past two days."
“You two, don't waste your time."
Dad Hans doesn't care about Mikhail's life or death, "Aren't you here to take a group photo? Hurry up and finish the filming. Maybe some injured people will be sent back later. "
After hearing this, Dr. Lodge quickly put away the syringe, and together with several nurses and the children who were called over, sat around Ivan and Mikhail who were being helped up.< /p>
“Victor, please find someone to help you, please come quickly! "Daddy Hans held Mario in his arms and urged.
"Right away! Let me take a picture for you first! "Before Wei Ran finished speaking, he pressed the shutter without any explanation.
However, the white light he was expecting did not appear. Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, and then under the greetings of Hans' father and others, He quickly handed the camera to a wounded man who seemed to be in good condition, and then joined the group of people taking a group photo. After Wei Ran put away the camera, he looked at the soldier. Asked, “Comrade, what time is it now? "
The soldier rolled up his sleeves as if to show off, revealing six or seven watches. He generously took off one and gave it to Wei Ran, "Five-fifty, doctor, these watches Xanadu showed it was 5:54 am. ”
“So that’s it! "Wei Ran suddenly realized, and he had roughly guessed the reason why he hadn't gone back yet.
"What's wrong? "Dad Hans and others all looked at Wei Ran.
"Nothing, I'll go out first!" ”
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he took the camera and the watch that the soldier gave him, stepped on the bullet casings on the floor and the documents that had not been burned in time, and climbed all the way to the Ministry of Interior along the bullet-riddled stairs. The top floor of the building.
Looking at the overly large watch in his hand, it showed that it was already 5:57 in the morning. In other words, it was not far from the time when General Weidelin, the commander of Berlin City Defense, told the Soviet army. There are only three minutes left before the surrender! There are also only three minutes left before Mario and the Jewish girl Mora are completely safe.
He hurriedly placed the camera on the window sill and pointed it at the Capitol Building! After completing the focus, Wei Ran hesitated for a moment, but then moved the camera slightly, focusing on the abandoned tanks in the King's Square in the distance, the only outlines of the surrounding buildings, and the few German soldiers holding white flags.
The crisp "click" sound of the shutter sounded, and the dazzling white light arrived as promised. When his vision returned, Wei Ran found that he had returned to his own room in the studio.
With a soft clatter, the leather book automatically turned to the sixth page. Under the black and white photos of the two youth league knives, a metal quill wrote:
"The Ending of the Battle"
Dr. Lodge, together with Nurse Leni and others, continued to operate the clinic at the original location after the war. In 1961, he died suddenly of a heart attack.
Dad Hans died on the night of May 8, 1945. , committed suicide by injecting cyanide in the basement of the clinic
Mario and Mora were adopted by Dr. Lodge and Nurse Leni after the war, 1955.They held a wedding that year and had a son after their marriage.
Captain Ivan, after the Battle of Berlin, was awarded the Patriotic War Medal 2nd Class, the Medal for Conquering Berlin, and the Medal for Victory over Germany. After the war, he retired due to disability and settled in Kiev. He died on the night of April 20, 1988. After the robbery, he left an unfinished memoir.
Second Lieutenant Mikhail, after the Battle of Berlin, was awarded the Patriotic War Medal 2nd Class, the Medal for the Conquest of Berlin, and the German War Medal. He retired due to injuries after the war and settled in Belgorod in September 1946. On March 11, he died of organ failure.
Looking at the various medal numbers listed in detail by the metal quill, as well as the detailed addresses of Ivan and Mikhail after the war, Wei Ran closed his eyes tiredly and let the quill start again. After one line, he wrote, "How cruel war is, how stupid war is."
It wasn't until the metal quill clanged on the desk table that Wei Ran opened his eyes, and then Seeing the writing under the slowly rotating red whirlpool, "The war is over, pack your bags and start a new life!"
However, before Wei Ran could raise his hand to take out the items in the whirlpool , only to find that the metal quill floated up again, and actually started drawing again on the blank seventh page!
"Bang!" Wei Ran stood up suddenly and let the chair under his butt hit the floor heavily. All attention was focused on the tip of the metal quill.
Under his surprised gaze, the metal quill drew a colorful pattern the size of a tea cup on the page. The main body of the pattern was a crossed silver-white scalpel and hemostat, surrounded by Surrounded by a circle of dark red thorns wrapped with some blood-stained gauze. The most eye-catching thing is a double snake-wrapped staff with a pair of white wings that runs straight up and down through the intersection. But at the tip of the needle at the lowest end of the wrapped staff, there was a drop of bright red blood hanging that seemed likely to drip at any time!
When the drawing was completed, the metal quill continued to write under the pattern, "Junior Battle Angel Medal: Awarded to medical workers who have rescued more than 100 wounded on the battlefield."
< p>Just as the metal quill hit the table again, a new red vortex appeared directly below the so-called Junior Field Angel Medal.He reached out to grab the floating object in the vortex. To his surprise, the thing in the vortex seemed to be larger this time, and it seemed to be stuck. Only a metal wrapped in leather was exposed. Handle!
He simply let go of his hand, looked at the red vortex on the back of the page in front of him, and stretched his hand in again. Fortunately, it was easy to pick it out this time.
Looking at the horse fur camera bag that was taken out and the gold melee assault badge embedded in it, Wei Ran burst into laughter. He didn’t expect that what he got this time was another camera.
Gently opening the buckle on the camera bag, Wei Ran took out the almost brand new camera inside. Just like the camera I got in the Don River last time, there was no film at all.But in the accessory bag of the camera bag, there is a sealed Bakelite bucket containing the matching film.
Looking at the serial number on the camera one last time, Wei Ran finally showed a satisfied smile. Just this Rollei twin reflex camera with a sports viewfinder is worth a lot of money, not to mention the one on the camera bag. A gold melee assault medal is a rare thing.
"Whenever I am really short of money, I will sell the camera or the assault badge!" Wei Ran played with the camera in his hand, and returned it to the red vortex with satisfaction, and then took the leather notebook with him. Put it away.
"Now let's see what's in the whirlpool under the Battle Angel Medal!"
Wei Ran stood by the bed and muttered, and then a microwave oven appeared in his hand. It’s one size larger and an extremely heavy wooden box! Caught off guard, he lost his balance and was thrown onto the bed with the extremely heavy box in his hand.
"No wonder I can't just lift it out." After Wei Ran got up, he looked at the box on the bed. No matter which side of it he saw, it was much bigger than the whirlpool itself.
Except for the addition of a Battle Angel Medal as big as the mouth of a bowl on the lid, and a standard red cross on a white background of the same size, this box is the same size as the one used by German medical equipment in World War II. There is no difference in the medical first aid kit, it is just a bit larger than the metal first aid kit used in Dr. Lodge's clinic.
But when he opened the buckles on both sides and opened the lid of the box, Wei Ran immediately rejected his previous judgment. Although the box was made of wood on the outside, it was lined with relatively clean stainless steel. This is not available in the original version.
There is even a slightly smaller stainless steel cover on the lid that opens at 180 degrees. Gently open the cover, and it is filled with various common medical instruments on the operating table. .
The main body of the box, which is also lined with stainless steel, is filled with various medicines needed for first aid, just like the first aid box used before. In addition to these medicines and medical equipment that can fully support battlefield first aid, there is also a thick stack of stationery written in Russian handwriting lying in the center of the box.
"I am Ivan Sergeyevich Molchanov, the 150th Division of the 79th Infantry Corps of the Soviet Union, the company instructor of the 756th Regiment, February 1940..."< /p>
After just reading the beginning, Wei Ran put this thick pile of letter paper on the bed. There is no doubt that this is the unfinished memoir of Ivan, who settled in Kiev after the war. manuscript.
Gently snapping the lid of the medical box and buckling it, he put it back into the cowhide book. Then I lay on the bed and flipped through the contents of the memoir manuscript one by one.
In this memoir, Ivan recorded in detail the entire process from joining the army in February 1940 to the end of the Battle of Berlin. It also recorded that he and Mikhail were captured by the Germans. Doctor Rocky and others fished it out of the river.
Unsurprisingly, there is no memory at all in Ivan’s memory.There is no doctor named Victor, replaced by Marko, who has learned Russian. In addition, the person who buried Marco also became Father Hans. This does explain why Father Hans returned to the basement to commit suicide shortly afterwards.
This unfinished manuscript even records various details of his participation in the wedding of Mario and Mora in 1955. Even the children of Mario and Mora were born from Named by Ivan. But unfortunately, shortly after that, the two sides completely lost contact due to the establishment of the Berlin Wall.
Putting this unfinished manuscript into a file bag, Wei Ran closed his eyes and thought about what he had gained this time.
With that manuscript, I can easily get a remuneration of 12 million rubles. Even if the introduction fee of 1 million is deducted, my income is definitely not low. With this money, not only will I not have to worry about next year's tuition, but I will also be able to live a very comfortable life when I return home at the end of the year, or even when I come back after the year.
On the other hand, the German language that I have completely mastered, the first aid kit that comes with the Angel of War medal, and the large amount of clinical experience accumulated in that clinic are even more valuable. Even compared to these, the perfect Rolleiflex twin-lens reflex camera and the gold melee assault medal on the camera case became the most insignificant additions.
"Although I am not in history, I have also won the honor this time."
Wei Ran summoned the cowhide notebook again and admired the painted primary battlefield. Angel Medal, then walked downstairs with satisfaction, and took out dozens of negatives from the bulging paper bag next to the Youth League knife photo.
Turn on the power of the copy board and put the negatives on it one by one. Wei Ran held up a magnifying glass and carefully observed the content of the photos. A large part of these negatives were not taken by himself. The one I downloaded must be the work left by the previous owner of that camera.
But fortunately, after some serious searching, he finally found the photo he took with the light of a flare while rescuing the wounded near the Capitol!