Somewhere in the English Channel, which was calm but filled with thick fog, inside a lost rescue buoy, five shipwrecked people sat around a table under an oil lamp, talking to each other and playing the card game originated in England.

Ribic.

On the edge of the table, on an upside-down wooden box, a cheap radio produced in Germany was playing soothing classical music. On both sides of the radio were a P38 pistol and a Webley pistol, as well as

A half-empty bottle of brandy and several glasses.

"The first eliminated person appears"

Phil, with a cigar in his mouth, moved the pin nailed on the homemade scoreboard and gloated, "Victor, you are responsible for the first round of guarding, but don't worry, there will be an unlucky guy soon."

I'll take over for you."

"Hope you guys have fun"

After finishing speaking, Wei Ran, who was also holding a cigar in his mouth, took out a cigarette from the cigarette box used as a bargaining chip and threw it into the lid of the lunch box in the center of the card table. Then he stood up and climbed up the ladder.

Hearing the card game continue below, he also took off the camera hanging around his neck, pointed at the other four people who were continuing the card game, and quietly pressed the shutter.

Climbing onto the deck shrouded in thick fog, the cold air made him shiver.

Looking around and finding nothing, Wei Ran put down his telescope in vain, closed the door of the watchtower behind him, wrapped himself in clothes and walked to the edge of the deck, waved away the seagulls standing on the railing, and then leaned on it

, took a puff of the cigar in his hand.

Not long after, the hatch of the watchtower was opened from the inside, and Heidi, wearing a Luftwaffe uniform, walked up.

"Miss Heidi also lost?" Wei Ran asked in French with a smile.

"I'm not good at this kind of card game." Heidi walked to Wei Ran thoughtfully and also leaned on the railing.

After a moment of silence, Heidi asked, "Mr. Victor, could you lend me the telescope?"

"Of course." Wei Ran happily took off the telescope hanging around his neck and handed it to the other party.

Taking the telescope, Heidi asked again, "Which way is east?"

"In which direction?"

Wei Ran glanced at the compass on his wrist and raised his finger to point in the direction.

Hearing this, Heidi raised the telescope toward the east. After a moment, she sighed helplessly and returned the telescope to Wei Ran.

"Are you worried about your sister?" Wei Ran asked casually.

"yes"

Heidi nodded, took out the cigarettes that were used as chips from her pocket, took one out, put it in her mouth, lit it and took a deep puff, choking and coughing repeatedly.

"She's just 19 years old"

Heidi said as if talking to herself, "Her name is Vanessa. She is studying law in Paris. She is a smart and brave good girl."

"She will survive," Wei Ran said firmly.

"I hope so" Heidi showed a bitter smile.

Rubbing the aching jaw of his left hand, Wei Ran was about to change the subject when Heidi said apologetically, "Mr. Victor, I'm sorry, I threw the German pilot's radio into the sea."

"Yeah" Wei Ran nodded.

"Sure enough, you already know this." Heidi looked like she really did.

"Julian already knows this too."

Weiran raised his hand and pointed to the top of the mast, "There should have been a radio antenna there. Without that antenna, the communication range of the radio would have been impossible to contact the rescue aircraft."

"That's it..."

A tired smile appeared on Heidi's face, and she confessed apologetically, "Speer was worried that Mr. Julian would contact the Germans through the radio. He... We have killed several Germans. If we are captured, both of us will

Everyone will die."

"You did nothing wrong"

Wei Ran reassured, "From your and Spear's point of view, throwing away that radio is the wisest choice."

"Thank you" Heidi casually wiped the tears that overflowed from the corners of her eyes, "Mr. Victor..."

"Mrs. Heidi, if you have something to say, why don't you just say it?" Wei Ran said gently.

Gritting her teeth, Heidi lowered her voice and asked, "Why don't you and Mr. Phil kill Julian?"

"Are you worried about not having enough medicine?" Wei Ran was keenly aware of the girl's thoughts.

After they had breakfast, Phil immediately started playing cards as if he had forgotten to change Julian and Spier's medicine. However, the problem he communicated with Wei Ran before the meal about the shortage of medicines did not

Hidden from Heidi who can understand English.

"Didn't he just accept it? Didn't he deserve to be killed?"

Heidi lowered her head and asked, "I am really worried about the shortage of medicines. I am worried that Spear will die at sea, and I am also worried..."

"worry about what?"

“No, nothing”

While Heidi was speaking, she knelt on the floor, covered her face and cried bitterly, sobbing softly, "I am too selfish, I am too selfish, I have harmed everyone!"

Wei Ran sat next to him on the damp and cold deck, leaning against the railing behind him and muttering to himself, "People are selfish, and because people are selfish, there are wars."

Wiping away her tears, Heidi also sat down against the railing and murmured in a desperate tone, "Originally, Spear and I were already planning the wedding. And then it was as easy for the Germans to break an egg.

France was captured, then the British fled, and everything changed.

In order to survive, we postponed the wedding and even dared not contact him easily. Also in order to survive, Spier agreed to a Jewish traitor and agreed to marry his daughter."

"What did you say?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in astonishment, "You...you know this?"

Heidi, who was in tears, nodded, "He has never hidden it from me. I know every step of his plan. Spier is also a Jew. Only in this way will he not be betrayed by his compatriots and have the opportunity to prepare to escape to England."

of everything.”

"So you all know..."

"it's me"

Heidi buried her whole face in her arms, "It was only when I killed three German gendarmes who wanted to rape my sister that I disrupted all plans.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! He could have escaped to England alone. After he escaped, I could take my sister to meet him in England through Spain.

It was also me who insisted on staying and wanted to wait for him to escape before going to the UK to meet him. It was me who ruined all the plans."

Hearing this, Wei Ran fell into silence.

He didn't know if he had misunderstood Spear, but he had not forgotten that the Jew sacrificed him and Vanessa in order to escape.

"Your sister...Vanessa" Wei Ran asked tentatively, "Does Vanessa know your plan?"

Hearing this, Heidi shook her head and choked with despair, "She doesn't know. She only knows that we were supposed to escape to Spain and then to the UK in mid-October. It was me. I was the one who killed Vanessa. It was me too."

It hurt Spear."

"Your sister..."

Wei Ran rubbed his increasingly painful mouth, suppressed the words that almost blurted out, and comforted him, "And Spear, they won't blame you. No matter what, in order to save your sister, you will do whatever it takes to save your sister."

There is sufficient reason to kill those three Germans you just mentioned."

"Thank you, thank you for your comfort."

Heidi wiped the tears hanging from the corners of her eyes, "I don't know why I am telling you these things. I just hope you can forgive Spear's selfishness and hatred, and I also hope you can forgive him for trying to let you take risks in the wind and waves.

It depends on which way the wind blows."

"I forgive him"

Wei Ran sighed, but he had mixed feelings in his heart. For a moment, he didn't know how to evaluate Spier. He couldn't even evaluate whether he was a good person or a bad person.

What if this happened to me?

Wei Ran sighed again. Those little sisters who killed Suisui to ensure that Suisui survived? Why not sacrifice themselves? Yes, without the meteorological knowledge that Spear mastered, Heidi and Vanessa could

,perhaps...

No, that's not the case.

Wei Ran overturned his previous assumption and began to think about the possibility of not taking Vanessa with him to escape.

Was it a lack of supplies or was the target too big? Or was it possible for someone to attract the attention of the shore patrol to escape?

Under the circumstances at that time, there were too many possible reasons, but no matter what, he could not find any excuse that could clear up Spear's abandonment of Vanessa.

"Leave the duty of standing guard to me!"

When Heidi was about to burn her hand with the cigarette she had only taken one puff, Heidi threw it into the sea. She wiped her tears with her sleeve again, grabbed the railing and stood up and said, "Thank you, Mr. Victor."

, I feel much better after saying these things. If it is convenient, please leave me alone for a while."

"be safe"

Wei Ran, who still couldn't find the answer, gave the other party a worried word, then took off the telescope hanging from his neck and hung it around the other party's neck. Then he walked into the observation tower holding the extinguished cigar and closed the door.

I raised my camera before and quietly took a profile picture of Heidi holding the telescope.
To be continued...