Leaving the cemetery outside Ferm Village on horseback, Wei Ran did not dare to waste time and rushed to the town where the Siren Tavern was located as quickly as possible.
However, far away, he saw the entrance of the Siren Tavern brightly lit, and several trucks with tarps parked in a row.
What was even more shocking was that at this time, Artur and the dancers were lining up and being escorted to the car by the German soldiers. Behind them, the drunkards who had been woken up were also herded into another truck.
"It's broken!" Wei Ran's heart sank, and he quickly dismounted and hid in the shadow of the building on the roadside.
Soon, the trucks full of German soldiers, Artur and others roared past him, and the mud and water splashed by the tires even splashed on his feet. !
At this moment, Artur in the car seemed to have spotted the black horse standing alone on the roadside, and immediately shouted at the top of his lungs, "Don't burn my tavern! Don't burn my tavern." ! My Mia is still inside! Please don’t burn..."
The shouting Arthur was knocked to the floor of the truck with the butt of a Mauser rifle. , followed by a series of punches and kicks falling on him.
Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, silently put away the pistol in his hand, took one last look at the man and woman in the truck, gritted his teeth and continued to hide his body in the shadows.
Until the trucks disappeared, he immediately rushed towards the Siren Tavern under the cover of rain and darkness.
After a while, the tavern was completely empty. Only six or seven chain dogs were left, rummaging through the cabinets looking for something. One of them was busy removing the cash from the cashier drawer at the bar. Divide into equal portions corresponding to their number.
On the floor on one side of the bar, the body of singer Mia was lying on her back, her beautiful big eyes looking blankly in the direction of her room.
Looking at the two sidecar motorcycles parked at the door, Wei Ran, who was hiding by the mailbox outside, gritted his teeth, ducked and ran to the back door connected to the kitchen, and carefully got in. He aimed at the soldier who was dividing money at the bar and pulled the trigger.
The sound of gunfire suppressed by the silencer became even more inconspicuous after being obscured by the sound of rain outside. The chain dog who was shot in the temple was shot before he fell to the ground. Wei Ran rushed over and grabbed his arm, dragging him into the windowless room on the side of the bar.
But four or five minutes later, Wei Ran, who had changed into a chain dog uniform, walked out of the room, and he threw the body into the cellar in the room behind him that was specially used to store wine. inside.
Tuging the heavy metal plate around his neck, Wei Ran glanced at Mia's body on the floor and the torn chest collar of her pajamas. He bent down to put her clothes in order and helped her close her eyes.
Get up and walk to Mia's room. At this time, there were two chain dogs in the room rummaging through the cabinets looking for valuable things. One of them had something in his hand.There was even a handful of women's underwear and stockings.
Looking at the fireplace where the bonfire was still burning, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand and knocked lightly on the door. After the two German soldiers raised their heads, he immediately pulled the trigger.
After listening for a moment, Wei Ran closed the door and walked upstairs. He found the other three chain dogs searching for valuables in each room and killed them one by one and left them there forever. In this tavern.
Quickly returning to the first floor, Wei Ran looked outside and saw nothing unusual, and immediately ran into Mia's room.
Using the iron hook beside the fireplace, he gently tapped the metal plate under the bonfire. After Wei Yan pulled aside the still burning charcoal fire, he used the iron hook in his hand to lift the metal plate. There was a gap no more than two fingers wide, "Ms. Juliet, it's me, Victor, I want to take you away immediately."
After saying that, he fully opened the metal plate and took out the flashlight. Shining down. To his surprise, there were not only Juliet and Romeo still lying on the bed in the basement at this time, but Frank and his sister Karen were also there!
"Where are the others?" Juliet asked, holding a pistol and pointing it at the entrance of the cave.
"They..."
Wei Ran glanced at Romeo, who was half lying down, looking at him warily, and said with just the right amount of panic, "I just left The Germans were discovered in the tavern, and I watched them being captured with my own eyes. Ms. Juliet, now we must leave here as soon as possible, in case..."
Juliet panicked after hearing this, and was in a hurry. He put away the manuscript papers on the table and said, "Five minutes! Give me five minutes, I will take all the information away!"
"Victor, has the information been sent?" Lying down. Romeo on the bed asked slightly nervously, and Frank next to him also looked in the direction of the hole.
“I haven’t had time to go yet”
Wei Ran said as he climbed onto the handrail and entered the basement, “I’ll take you to Ferm Village later, I think. The people over there will definitely arrange it for you."
"Juliet, use a camera. There is a camera in the drawer, so you can take away more information." Romeo reminded quickly.
"Yes, yes! Use a camera!" Juliet hurriedly opened the drawer and took out a camera from inside.
"I'll take the picture."
Wei Ran snatched the camera from the opponent's hand, handed Frank the pistol that Artur had given him when setting off, and said, " Juliet, light the kerosene lamp. Frank, take your sister and watch outside. If someone comes in, throw a piece of charcoal into the basement immediately."
"Leave it to us!" Frank took the pistol and immediately left the basement with his sister, Karen, climbing on the metal handrail.
"I didn't expect that it was Mia who died..." Wei Ran looked at Karen's back and sighed secretly. He really didn't know whether to be happy or hurt.Heart.
After a while, Juliet lit the kerosene gas lamp, trotted over and spread the information that needed to be taken away on the table. After the ignition was finished, she immediately threw it into the still burning fireplace, and then put the The rest was spread out on the table.
In addition to pressing the shutter again and again, Wei Ran, who was in charge of taking pictures, focused most of his attention on Romeo who was struggling to move towards the entrance of the cave.
Fortunately, this man was extremely honest at this critical moment of life and death and did not make any dangerous moves.
With the cooperation of Wei Ran and Juliet, the only two rolls of film in the drawer were filled with the information that needed to be taken away, and only the last two rolls of film were left in the camera.
“Let’s go up”
Seeing that the last piece of information had been thrown into the fireplace, Wei Ran hung the camera around his neck and started to climb up, “Romeo, wait a minute. I'll pull you up with a rope from outside."
"Excuse me," Romeo said quickly, holding on to the chimney.
Without looking at each other again, Wei Ran climbed up to the ground quickly, but in just a short time, Frank and her sister Karen had dragged Mia's body back with a sheet.
"Sister Mia was beaten to death because she was trying to save us..." Karen choked, wiping her tears. "She was beaten to death because she was trying to save us."
" Victor, send her to the cellar." Frank said on the side, "Mia, she is actually Erich's girlfriend. She could have gone to Switzerland to hide with Erich."
Wei Ran was stunned, and silently wrapped the sheet under Mia tightly and knotted it. Then he picked up a sheet and tore it up to make a rope. He put Mia's body down first, and then Use this sheet to pull up the traitor Romeo who has an injured thigh.
"Frank, take Karen to see what's going on outside." Seeing that Romeo's upper body had left the hole, Wei Ran immediately said to Frank who was helping him.
Frank, who had no doubt that he was there, nodded, immediately picked up the weapons on the two corpses in the room and ran out of the room, while Wei Ran also took advantage of Romeo to untie the sheets tied around his waist. Closed the door.
A moment later, Juliet, whose face was covered with scars, also crawled out of the basement. Only then did Wei Ran speak, "Romeo, actually I have been to Ferm Village, what do you think? Go to Ferm Village and talk to the rebellious tombkeeper?"
Looking at Romeo who was panicking under the flashlight beam, Wei Ran continued, "Let's talk about how you betrayed him? Everyone, let’s talk about how you put a price on every exiled compatriot and every Jew who worked so hard to hide.”
Romeo threw the sheets he had just taken off onto Mia’s bed and took a look. Wei Ran, holding a flashlight, grinned and asked indifferently, "It seems you know everything?"
"I just need your admission"
"Yes, I I have indeed betrayed you." As he spoke, Romeo had already spoken.Jing reached out and pulled out a pistol from his arms.
However, before he could point the gun at any one of Wei Ran or Juliet, Wei Ran, whose left hand was empty just a moment ago, pulled the trigger.
Amidst the suppressed gunfire, Romeo received a bullet on the back of his hand holding the gun, and the Polish pistol in his hand spun and fell to the bottom of the bed.
"You betrayed us?" Juliet, who came back to her senses, asked in disbelief.
"Let me go, I'll give you one kilogram of gold! One kilogram of gold for each of you!" Romeo kneeled on the floor covering the wound on his hand.
Juliet took two steps back, then took a deep breath, turned around and opened the door. As she walked out, she said to Wei Ran, "Victor, help me, I don't dare to kill anyone." , but I don’t want him to leave here alive.”
“As you wish, madam.” Wei Ran pulled the trigger in his hand as he spoke, leaving a bullet hole in Romeo’s forehead.
Waiting for his body to hit the floor with a thud, Wei Ran thought for a moment and used the metal plate to cover the hole leading to the basement. At the same time, he also used the surrounding ashes to carefully scan the surrounding area. buried.
Looking at Juliet who was sitting at the dining table in a daze and Frank who was also looking in disbelief, Wei Ran sighed and asked, "Where are you going next? I've already asked The place and person to contact the British."
"Forget it,"
Frank said abruptly, "I don't want to have contact with the British. I'm going to send Karen away first. Go to Switzerland to meet Erich, and then I will find a way to come back. There are many compatriots and Jews here who need my help."
"Ms. Juliet, what about you?" Wei Ran turned around and asked.
"I'm going to meet the British"
Juliet glanced at Mia's room, "Cracking the German cipher machine will have a big impact on this stupid war. If I can get help from the British, my cracking progress will be greatly improved."
Wei Ran opened his mouth, but did not give his own suggestions, but changed the topic and said, "Since that's the case. Let me take a group photo of you before I leave. I hope we will have a chance to meet again in the future." Juliet subconsciously touched her scarred cheek and nodded after hesitating for a moment. Okay, let’s take a group photo.”
“I’ll take the photo,”
Wei Ran said first, then took the camera from Juliet and waited until Frank lit it. The kerosene gas lamp on the bar was pointed at the three of them, and a photo was taken with the bar as the background.
"Victor, come and take a picture too." Karen said and walked over.
"Okay, let's take a picture." Wei Ran handed the camera to the other party, and stood side by side with Frank to the left and right of Ms. Juliet.
When the shutter sounded, Frank immediately extinguished the kerosene lamp, then found a roll of fishing line from the bar and waited for the fireAfter the three people left, he immediately fixed the fishing line to the door of the tavern. After he closed the door, he passed the other end of the fishing line through the mailbox delivery port on the side of the door, and then pulled it from his neck. He took out a key, opened the mailbox, and fixed the fishing line inside.
“This was filled with explosives a long time ago.”
Frank said as he locked the mailbox, “We all know that sooner or later we will be caught by the Germans, but we all know Afraid of being tortured, this is how we stay and die together.”
“Is it meaningful?” Wei Ran couldn’t help but ask.
"Even if we just kill one enemy, then everything we do will already be meaningful." Frank glanced at the sidecar motorcycle at the door, "Okay, we should leave, and you should hurry up Click to leave. If we can survive until the end of the war, let's get together here."
"Take these things, they will be helpful to you," Wei Ran said. The canvas pocket on his belt was handed to Frank.
Looking at the gold bars and various valuable gadgets in the canvas pocket, Frank hesitated for a moment and then did not refuse. He handed it to Karen beside him, and then shook it with Wei Ran and Juliet respectively. Shaking hands, he pulled his sister towards a sidecar motorcycle without hesitation.
"Let's go too," Juliet said calmly, "Don't waste time."
"Let's go, it's really time to go."
Wei Ran murmured to himself, helped Ms. Juliet get into the motorcycle sidecar, and waited until Frank's motorcycle completely disappeared in the rain, then started the motorcycle. At the same time as the motorcycle engine started, intense white light also instantly filled his field of vision.
When the white light in front of him disappeared, Wei Ran found that he was still where he was, but the surrounding scenery was already a sunny day. The tavern in front of him had also been turned into ruins.
Not far away from him, a black car stopped slowly. Then, Karen was accompanied by a tall, thin young man with glasses, and a chubby middle-aged woman. Came over.
Almost subconsciously, Wei Ran hid behind the ruins of the Siren Tavern and listened quietly to their conversation.
"Erich, do you think my brother is still alive?" Karen asked worriedly.
"Alive, I guess he must be alive."
The elegant young man wearing glasses responded absently, and after a moment of silence asked, "Mia... "Is she in here?"
"Sister Mia is in the basement." Karen also became depressed.
"We should have taken her to Switzerland at that time." The chubby middle-aged woman glanced at her son standing next to her with distress, "We should have been firmer at that time."
Erich looked up at the clean blue sky above his head, and murmured to himself, "I will build the Siren Tavern again and complete it."Looks exactly the same as before. "
"For Mia? "Karen couldn't help but ask.
"For Mia" Erich wiped the corners of his eyes and his tone became more determined, "and for all the friends who died in the war. "
"I hope you can reunite..." Wei Ran muttered to himself, letting the white light that appeared again fill his vision.
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