On the third day after deciding to build this shelter to help everyone survive the long winter night, everyone, under the command of Kantan, tried their best to drag the crucial main beam to it with a rope. The place to be.
With a muffled sound of "clang", the two ends of the main beam were pushed into the depression cut out in the center of the two short side stone walls of the foundation.
After stepping hard to make sure it would not shake, Weiran and Kantan each called Gale and Dorian at the edge of the opposite wall, and together they easily lifted a log that was only one-quarter of the thickness of a log. One size sub-frame.
The two auxiliary beams were placed in one go. Everyone did not rest, but continued to place the thick wooden boards, which were more than four meters long, one by one on the three main beams and the long poles at both ends of the foundation. On the side wall, there was only a gap left for them to enter and exit.
"The next step is to dismantle the tent and lay it on top." Kantan looked at Gale, "I remember you found a lot of nails in the oil drum yesterday."
"Just It's in the tent," Gale responded as he walked towards the tent.
"When the time comes, use nails to nail the tent cloth to the wooden boards," Kantan said with great anticipation. "Just leave this job to me. You go down there and dig out the accumulated soil and charcoal."
"At least lay out the tent cloth together first." As Wei Ran spoke, he had already taken out the Mauser bayonet in the metal book under the cover of the Soviet cloak.
Crudely cut off the canvas on two sides of the tent with a knife, and everyone worked together to spread it on the wooden boards, then pressed it down with nails and some large and small stones, and finally put it on the tent. It was covered with a layer of deadwood bedding that was taken out from the brown bear's den.
After finishing all the work, everyone picked up a bundle of dead branches or firewood, and eagerly got in through the reserved gap.
"It's really short in here," Dorian bent down and commented, "and it's darker than outside."
Exactly as he complained, after adding wooden beams and planks overhead, there is now less than one meter of space left for them in the basement, which still contains a large amount of earth and charcoal. Only the height of five.
As for the area, it is not much wider than the original bear cave. But fortunately, they no longer have to worry about being buried alive in the snow.
"As long as we clean up the garbage, this place will soon become spacious."
While speaking, Gale had already thrown the dead branches in his hand into the pile he found yesterday. As for the things found in the oil drums, they had naturally been cleaned out and placed in the sled bucket outside.
"I remember that there were several bottles of wine in the metal box in the trailer."
Wei Ran suggested while Gale was lighting the bonfire, "And we have another Chef, why don’t you open a bottle of wine to celebrate?”
Kang Tan, who was also unable to stand straight, touched the wooden beam above his head, “This is indeed a moment worth celebrating.".
"Leave it to me."
Gail, who had already lit the bonfire, threw some thicker firewood into the barrel, "Wait until the soil around this oil barrel melts. Come on, let's move it to the corner and get you some delicious food. "
"Before that, we must at least clear out a place where we can stand up straight. "
Before he finished speaking, Kantan had already picked up a pickaxe and struck it hard on the frozen soil.
"I'm here to help you too," Dorian He immediately picked up the second pickaxe and pounded the soil in another area
"Is this the third day?" Gale asked abruptly.
< p>Quantan paused, swung the pickaxe again, and answered vaguely, "On the fourth day""I don't know if Quentin escaped." Sighing, he also picked up a pickaxe.
Seeing this, Wei Ran sighed, but didn't say anything, but also picked up the pickaxe.
Amidst the clanging sound of hammering, large and small pieces of frozen soil and charcoal were dug out. When the accumulation was almost complete, they were all carried outside with canvas bags, covering the tops of their heads that had been laid not long ago. Canvas and dead branches.
After working for almost an hour, Gale had pulled the oil drum out of the frozen soil and moved it to the corner. Dorian also turned into a cook and moved all the food and drinks he had captured. Come in.
Wei Ran and Kang Tan are still hammering away at the frozen soil, trying to clear out as much space as possible.
"I seem to have dug to the bottom. "
As Wei Ran spoke, he pulled away the frozen soil, revealing the charred wooden floor with ice at the bottom.
Dorian stretched his neck and took a look , “I am becoming more and more curious about what happened here. "
"Some people will be curious about what happened here in the future." Wei Ran muttered to himself, changed his position and continued to swing the pickaxe.
At the same time, Gai Ran muttered to himself. I had put a large piece of bear fat on a scrap board, chopped it into small pieces, mixed it with a small piece of snow, and threw it into the lunch box and placed it on the red-hot oil drum lid.
“I think we need to get a chimney,” Gale said with a frown, “otherwise it will be too choked. "
"After we clean up the garbage, we can build a fireplace at the entrance and exit.
Dorian, who was cutting potatoes on another board, said, "You can leave this kind of thing to me. When I was in the country, I often went to the city to help those rich people clean the fireplaces." "
"Have you ever done this kind of work?" Gale asked curiously.
"I have been doing this kind of work since I was 10 years old"
< p>Dorian said with some pride, "In our place, the work of cleaning the fireplace chimney is usually done by children, because their bodies are small enough and will not get stuck in the chimney, and they don't have to worry about the weight being too heavy. The chimney is broken. ”"It sounds like a lot of hard work," Gale said with a frown. He didn't mean to dislike it, he just felt choked.
“It’s really hard work, but you can actually discover a lot of interesting things.”
Dorian said with an experienced look, “Those rich people will always find some things that are not worth it. Small but valuable things were placed around the fireplace. I stole two silver wine glasses and a broken pocket watch. Oh, and there seemed to be a silver table knife. In addition, birds were often found in the chimney. Eggs and birds, those things can also be sold."
"Have you ever stolen anything?" Gale asked in surprise.
"We only steal things that are dirty and have obviously been forgotten by the owner." Dorian spread his hands, "You have to leave a way for the poor to survive, right?"
"It would be great if those Germans thought so," muttered Kantan, who had been digging hard.
"In their eyes, we probably aren't even human beings. I really can't understand why Quentin, who had so many German chef friends before, suddenly became like this."
While Gale was speaking, he also started to turn over the bear fat particles in the lunch box with a spoon, patiently boiling out the fat. When the entire basement illuminated by the fire was filled with an alluring aroma, this Just threw in a handful of green pine needles. But for his previous doubts, the other three people in the underground shelter were unable to give a reasonable explanation.
In the silence of everyone, the permeating aroma was filled with the fragrance of pine trees. Gale carefully poured the hot bear oil from the lunch box into a tin can box that had been scrubbed clean with snow, and then poured it again. Put a thin branch full of pine needles into it, "I boiled some bear fat, and after it cooled down, everyone used it to smear the frostbite on the body. As long as you stick to it for a week, it will get better soon. Before, We do this all the time in the winter."
"You should have gotten some of this sooner," said Dorian, blowing his nose.
"We were outside before, so even if we apply it, it's useless."
While Gale was speaking, he had already placed several other lunch boxes on the red-hot bucket lid. superior. "When we clean this place up, and when it warms up here, I can make some bread with that flour. God is my witness, just thinking about the aroma of baking bread makes my mouth water."
"If we could always eat bread here, I think we wouldn't even have to go to the Soviet Union." Dorian swallowed his saliva and expressed his inner thoughts, "Of course, the premise is that the Germans will not find this place."
“We don’t have much flour,” Gale muttered while already throwing the chopped onions into the lunch box.
"What do you think?" Kantan asked Wei Ran, who had been silent.
"I don't have any ideas." Wei Ran didn't stop his movements at all, "As long as we don't get caught by the Germans or Finns."
Kantan is undetectable. He shook his head but didn't say anything else. Apparently he had his own thoughts.After getting along with each other for the past few days, Wei Ran gradually saw the differences between the three people.
Dorian is the youngest here, but at sixteen or seventeen years old, he has no opinions and no worries. It seems that as long as he has food to eat and clothes to wear, he will always look cheerful. appearance.
Kangtan, who is nearly fifty years old, is obviously more stable and independent, but perhaps it is the maturity and a little sense of responsibility that comes from being a middle-aged man that makes him regard surviving with the other few as a priority. The main and only goal.
As for Gale, this young man in his mid-twenties has the heaviest burden on his heart. Quentin, who lured away the enemy, and the lying half-track should not have been his responsibility. The guilt he had to endure had always left a deep feeling of guilt in his heart.
It was precisely because of that guilt that he couldn't settle down at all. He just wanted to do as much as possible. Whenever he was free, he was wondering whether to find Quentin back.
These emotions and thoughts can be clearly felt by Wei Ran as a bystander. But he also knew that these three people would eventually stay in this basement forever.
If I tell them the truth, will they leave here?
Wei Ran was startled by the idea that popped into his head, but then he shook his head secretly. Let’s not say whether the three of them will believe it or not, but where can they go even if they leave here?
In this polar night that doesn’t know how long it will last, they can find such an abandoned basement that can be warm, and that They were lucky enough to have brown bears with enough heads to feed them for a long time. If they really left these, maybe even their short-term warmth and comfort would be gone with the howling cold wind outside.
Sighing silently, Wei Ran dismissed the thoughts that had just emerged from his mind. The experience of wandering around the battlefields of World War II for so many times has made him clearly understand that he is only a bystander of historical events after all. No matter what he does, there is no way to change the history that has happened. All he can do is He just tried to record as much as possible, but the small shelter and dim brightness prevented him from even taking a photo.
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