After sending away the uninvited guests who suddenly visited, the clinic in the alley returned to its original busyness. The city of Berlin, which had been continuously bombed and shelled, lacked everything, but there was absolutely no shortage of injured civilians and soldiers.
In the continuous busyness, except for a shell hitting the wall of an apartment at the entrance of the alley before the sun set, which shocked everyone, everything seemed to be peaceful. But it lasted all day.
The sound of firefights was getting closer and closer, and even at night, fires were already burning in the city across the river, and even the sky was reflected in blood red.
As night fell, the small clinic finally sent away the last injured civilian. In the clinic that still smelled of blood, the little nurse put the little food on the table, turned around and got into the kitchen to continue working.
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Dr. Lodge picked up a piece of fish with a fork, put it in the bread, took a bite, and said vaguely, "You can rest on the second floor tonight, but it's best to have someone on guard in case a plane drops a bomb here."
, maybe a few more people can escape."
"I'll do it!" Marco said without thinking, "I'll do it and stare at the sky."
Rocky nodded and stopped talking. After finishing the small amount of food in a few mouthfuls, he turned around and took out a pack of fishing nets from the utility room. "I'll go get some food for tomorrow. You guys can eat slowly first."
"I'll go help too and see if I can collect some food." Wei Ran stood up for the second time and chased Dr. Lodge out of the clinic.
The two of them walked around the newly discovered ruins at the entrance of the alley. Doctor Rocky skillfully cast the fishing net into the river. Then he walked a few steps not far away. With the help of Wei Ran, he cast another fishing net that was cast into the river last night.
Pulled up.
The harvest on this fishing net is not much, there are only less than ten fish in all, but fortunately every fish is not too small, but maybe it is because they have been in the water for too long, and most of these fish have died.
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Helping Dr. Lodge stuff the fishing net and the fish on it into his bag, Wei Ran hesitated for a long time before telling him what the woman said before she died at noon.
Hearing this, Professor Rocky paused, and with the help of Wei Ran, he carried the canvas bag and walked back while whispering, "Take me to have a look later."
"Okay" Wei Ran responded simply.
Just as he was about to reach the door of the clinic, Dr. Lodge suddenly said, "Get your weapons."
Looking at the person in front of him in surprise, Wei Ran nodded and said again, "Okay."
When the little nurse who was still wearing a mask took over the canvas bag containing the catch, Dr. Rocky also took a flashlight from the clinic and put it in his pocket. Under the leadership of Wei Ran, he walked in the dark to the hospital not far away.
Building ruins.
Arriving at the door of the collapsed room again, Wei Ran gently opened the door and pointed out the location for Dr. Lodge.
Under the weak light provided by the only flashlight, the two crawled along the gap in the corner to the side of the body. Before Dr. Lodge could say anything, Wei Ran pointed to the sofa.
The meaning is self-evident.
Dr. Rocky nodded, handed the flashlight to Wei Ran, and carefully lifted the cloth around the sofa. Under the dim light of the flashlight, just after the cloth was lifted, a pair of eyes with fear and tears were immediately revealed.
s eyes!
"Are you...Maura?" Dr. Lodge asked in a low voice.
When the eyes hiding in the sofa heard these words, big tears couldn't stop flowing down, and they fell drop by drop on the remaining dark red blood on the floor.
"Turn off the lights," Dr. Lodge whispered.
When Wei Ran heard this, he immediately turned off the flashlight and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Sure enough, he guessed correctly. There was really someone hiding in that sofa, and it happened to be Maura, one of his return missions.
In the dark, they pulled Maura out of the mezzanine under the sofa, and the three of them crawled out of the ruin-like room along the narrow gap.
As the flashlight light came on again, Wei Ran finally saw clearly that this little girl from Moura was about the same age as Mario, but compared to Mario, she was sallow and thin, and she had obviously been suffering from nutritional deficiencies for a long time.
status,
"Wait a moment"
Wei Ran seemed to have thought of something and stopped Dr. Rocky who was about to open the door to leave. He took a flashlight and got into the gap in the corner. Soon after, when he came out again, Wei Ran already had an extra card in his hand.
Group photo in a photo frame.
Wiping the dried blood on the edge of the photo frame, Wei Ran handed it to the little girl Maura, whose eyes were full of fear.
"Let's go." Dr. Lodge picked up Maura and then opened the ajar wooden door.
Taking the little girl Maura with them, they avoided the soldiers patrolling the city and carefully returned to the entrance of the alley.
"Doctor Rocky, what are you going to do with this little girl?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice.
Dr. Lodge stopped, held Maura in his arms and said in the darkness, "Her father used to work in my clinic, but he was also a Jew and was arrested two years ago. At that time, I thought Maura
She was also taken away. I didn’t expect her mother to hide her for so long.”
"So?" Wei Ran asked, taking a step back.
"Let our Major Rudy decide," Dr. Lodge said, walking back towards the clinic in the darkness.
Without explaining the origin of the little girl at all, the little nurse took her and took her to the bathroom. Soon after, a bald girl wearing a hospital gown came out of the bathroom. And Marco and Dr. Hans,
Dr. Lodge also called him down, gathered around the oil lamp on the table, and told the whole situation without reservation.
Seeing everyone, including Wei Ran, looking at him, Marco scratched the back of his head and looked at the shivering little girl not far away, "Mario also brought my youth league uniform when I was a child. You can put it on her first."
Yes, as long as my identity is not exposed, she should not be in any danger."
"Marco, I'm glad you can give me this answer." As Father Hans spoke, he threw a scalpel on the table with a clang.
Ignoring the wide-eyed Marco, Dr. Lodge also took out his hand from under the table, gently placed a Ruger P08 pistol on the table, and said in a nonchalant manner, "Remind your brother not to
Do something stupid, or we'll all be in trouble."
Marco swallowed hard, "I will remind Mario, I...I will get her clothes."
Watching Marco leave in the dark, Father Hans looked at Dr. Lodge with a mocking expression, "Aren't your hands for holding weapons?"
"That's my father's relic, you should know it." As Dr. Lodge spoke, he put the pistol back into his arms.
Not long after, Marco handed a khaki youth uniform to Maura, who was still standing in the corner, and said as gently as possible, "Put it on, from now on, your name is Marco, you are a little boy, understand.
What do I mean?"
Maura looked at Marco timidly, then nodded, hugged her clothes, and followed the little nurse into the next room.
After making arrangements for the little girl, Dr. Lodge blew out the kerosene lamp and whispered in the dark clinic, "Now the battlefield is getting closer to us, and our medicines, food, and even kerosene for lighting are all gone."
It’s not quite enough.”
"Where else can I get these things?" Father Hans asked in a low voice.
Dr. Lodge sighed, "It's difficult, the whole of Berlin is lacking these things."
"What if we leave here?" Marco asked, "As long as we can find a way to cross the Moltke Bridge, maybe..."
"Maybe you will die faster," Hans father took over. "Listen to what's going on outside. I'm afraid the Soviets have already reached the city. At this time, the other side is no safer than us except for relatively less bombing."
"If you leave..."
"How to cross the Moltke Bridge is a problem," Wei Ran, who had been watching, reminded.
"I'm going home!"
Marco suddenly said, "I'm going to find a way with my aunt. Maybe she can help us get medicines and other things."
"Yes, go ahead!" Father Hans snorted coldly, "Then let her bring soldiers over and set up a machine gun at the door of the clinic, or just use a flamethrower to burn us to death."
Young Marco opened his mouth, but finally ran out of ideas.
"Hold on as long as you can!" Dr. Lodge lit a match, and under the faint flame, he walked to a hospital bed and lay down. Soon he began to snore loudly, which was no less than the explosion outside.
"Let's go have a rest too!" Father Hans took out a kerosene lighter and lit it, and greeted Marco and Wei Ran back to the second floor.
Almost as soon as the light of the lighter disappeared, the little nurse finally took off her hat and mask, walked into the kitchen cautiously in the dark, picked up a small basket filled with fish and bread, walked into the bathroom, and gently lifted the
A bathtub filled with blood-stained clothes revealed a hole emitting a faint light.
"Shh-"
The young nurse made a silent gesture and handed down the basket full of food. After the person inside caught it, she helped a girl who was also wearing a nurse uniform come out.
Immediately afterwards, buckets of foul-smelling excrement were handed out from the hole under the bathtub. The two girls used a stick to carry all these things outside and dumped them into the sewer at the entrance of the alley.
After they finished their work and finally sent several buckets of clean water from the river into the cave entrance, the little nurse who had been busy outside all day hugged another girl who was also wearing a nurse uniform.
Wearily, he crawled into the hole.
But the girl who had just come out of the cave not long ago was left outside. She put the enamel bathtub back into its original position with ease, and walked out in the dark while putting on a nurse's cap and mask.
At the same time, Dr. Lodge, who was lying on the hospital bed next to the stairs and snoring, quietly put away the pistol covered by the blanket and closed his eyes completely in relief.