After an unknown amount of time, Edelweiss, who was lying in Wei Ran's arms, gradually stopped crying, and her breathing gradually became even and long. This cute girl who looked like a child who had not yet grown up actually fell asleep just like that——
She even bit Wei Ran's collar and forgot to let go.
What do you think I am?
Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief, but he could only continue to hold her like this, carefully enjoying this moment of tranquility that could be called luxury, and also carefully providing some illusory sense of security to the girl in his arms.
While the Soviet mechanical watch on his wrist was tirelessly keeping time, Wei Ran, who was also tired, gradually fell into sleep.
But soon, he woke up again because of the slight movement of the girl in his arms.
"you're awake?"
"Woke you up?"
The two of them asked questions with similar meanings at the same time, and also noticed the extinguished candle lights and a series of explosions that seemed to be faintly transmitted to their ears from a very far distance.
Edelweiss subconsciously wiped the saliva from the corner of her mouth, then shifted her shoulders to avoid the collar that was wet with her own saliva, and lay in Wei Ran's arms again.
After a slight hesitation, Wei Ran hugged the other person again, a little tighter than before.
"My family is in Graz, Austria. My grandfather has a small farm in the countryside but far away from the town."
Edelweiss almost whispered into Wei Ran's ear as she recalled, "I grew up on that farm since I was a child. My grandfather raised many goats, and he was also a veterinarian."
After saying this, Edelweiss couldn't help but smile, "He is a real veterinarian, not a veterinarian like you who saves and kills people at the same time."
"Is life happy there?" Wei Ran whispered almost as if he was babbling.
"yes"
Edelweiss's voice sounded much happier, "When I was a child, I used to ride my grandfather's goat and compete with his St. Bernard named Adolf.
When competing to reach the highest point of the farm first, I would fall off the goat's back halfway every time."
At this point, Edelweiss couldn't help but hugged Wei Ran tightly, "Although my grandfather was a veterinarian, he would always go out to rescue skiers on a voluntary basis during the winter.
Rescue them from the mountain, treat their wounds, scold them, and provide them with dinner."
"With the Saint Bernard named Adolf?"
Wei Ran couldn't help but ask, "I also have a dog. It's a Caucasian. His name is Beria."
"That Beria from the Soviet Union?" Edelweiss asked with a smile.
"Do you still know him?"
"Of course I know. My grandfather said that he was a man who was not easy to mess with. He was very lucky that he was not sent to prison by that gentleman, otherwise he might have to spend 120 years in prison before he could get out."
At this point, Edelweiss brought the topic back, "My grandfather's Saint Bernard doesn't bring whiskey to rescue people. It is really good at catching mice on the farm."
"Are you homesick?"
Wei Ran asked softly, and then he noticed that hot tears fell from the corners of the girl's eyes and hit his neck.
"Um"
Edelweiss responded vaguely, but at the same time, she subconsciously hugged Wei Ran tighter, absorbing the sense of security she desperately needed.
"you..."
"I miss my grandfather, my parents, and my younger brother. He is only 11 years old and the same age as Rama.
I still miss the dog named Adolf. As soon as I go back, he will lick my face crazily and spin in circles and wag his tail crazily."
Edelweiss murmured to herself, "But I can't just leave, otherwise I will feel guilty for the rest of my life."
"Actually, you can't change anything," Wei Ran sighed, "I can't change anything either."
"I know"
Edelweiss straightened up and wiped the corners of his eyes carelessly, "But someone has to do something, right? We may not be able to change anything, but we at least saved a lot of people. As you said, we can at least give them half a life.
Hours."
"Did I say that?"
"You said it," Edelweiss said stubbornly, "when you were doing preliminary treatment for the seriously injured."
"Maybe I said that" Wei Ran smiled.
"The extra half hour of survival may allow them to receive further treatment, which is the difference between life and death for them."
There was a smile on Edelweiss' delicate and protective face again, "So you see, we can still change something."
"Maybe, maybe we really changed something."
Wei Ran murmured to himself, but his mind was filled with those tragic fates that he could not change.
"I want to try again." Edelweiss suddenly changed the subject.
"What?" Wei Ran, who didn't react for a moment, asked.
But what responded to him was Edelweiss lying in his arms again, and another clumsy kiss that he was not prepared for.
After some dull confusion and struggle, the original one-way request finally yielded a proactive response.
Maybe it was a moment, or maybe a long time passed. After a brief taste that was still unfinished, the two people who did not want to be matched by their desires held the bottom line with difficulty and tacit understanding and stopped.
"Can you tell me your secrets?"
Edelweiss twisted her body into a comfortable position where she wouldn't be hit, and lay in Wei Ran's arms again and asked softly, "The secrets of suicide that make you despair."
"I..."
Wei Ran couldn't help but shiver, and subconsciously hugged the girl in his arms tightly in the darkness.
After a long silence, he finally whispered hoarsely into the other person's ear, "When I first participated in the war, I met a little girl. She was probably not as old as Rama.
When I met her, she probably hadn't eaten or drank water for a long time, and she couldn't even speak."
"Did you save her?" Edelweiss, who also hugged Wei Ran tightly, asked subconsciously.
"No," Wei Ran sighed, "she saved me..."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In the dark cab, Wei Ran confided in the opponent's ear his regrets and guilt about the battle, confiding in him even though he was facing his most difficult situation.
A painful secret that even close family members cannot tell.
He also talked about the friends hidden deep in his memory, and of course, the enemy he killed with his own hands for the first time.
When he is held in his arms, or when Edelweiss is also holding him, she is more like a qualified listener.
She just listened quietly and comforted her gently, but did not ask about any details that Wei Ran didn't want to talk about or didn't dare to recall.
After an unknown amount of time, Wei Ran's voice became increasingly blurry, and he entered dreamland again as if a heavy burden had been lifted.
After kissing Wei Ran gently again, Edelweiss lay in his arms with peace of mind and murmured a promise, "I will help you keep those secrets, and I will also help you share the pain.
ensure."
After saying that, this angel-like girl also closed her eyes.
She didn't notice in the darkness that just when she was making the promise, a tear had slipped down from the corner of Wei Ran's eye and lightly hit her pale golden hair.
During this short night, Wei Ran slept more soundly than ever before. When he woke up, he subconsciously thought he had returned home, to a time and space he was more familiar with.
But soon, he was brought back to a certain level of "reality" by his numb legs and the fragrant edelweiss still sleeping in his arms.
Listening to the slight sound coming from behind, as well as the occasional shadow of a child flashing in the rearview mirror and the light of a candle lamp, Wei Ran gently patted Edelweiss, bringing her back to reality from her dream.
After a brief period of confusion, Edelweiss finally realized that she was still lying in Wei Ran's arms, and her cheeks turned pink in a very short time.
Fortunately, because the light was dim, she believed that Wei Ran would not see her distress.
"The children are already up," Wei Ran reminded softly.
After coming back to her senses, Edelweiss leaned forward again and kissed Wei Ran, then whispered into his ear, "Can you continue to tell your secrets tonight?"
"If you will listen"
Wei Ran also responded in the other person's ear, and by the way also took away the empty wine bottle that was thrown into the driver's seat last night.
"As long as you don't come back so late"
Edelweiss said, and with the help of Wei Ran, she carefully returned to the driving position - her legs were also numb.
They stretched out in unison, and after stretching her sore legs and feet, Edelweiss took advantage of the children to go to the yard behind the garage and was the first to open the door, get out of the car and get into her tent.
"Will she die in the next massacre..."
Wei Ran looked at the petite figure disappearing in the rearview mirror, and painfully asked a question in his heart that no one could answer.
Taking a long breath, he shakily lit a cigarette and took a long drag, then began to think about more pressing matters.
Today is already September 14th, and the 200-kilogram bomb will explode at the Falange headquarters, taking away the chief barrel and the little bit of peace that has just sprouted.
After waiting for the cigarette to burn out, he picked up the small bag containing the collected belongings at his feet before pushing the door and getting out of the car. He stuffed the banknotes, rings, watches and other items inside into every corner of the car.
.
Finally shaking the scarf that he used as a furoshiki, he also pushed the door and got out of the car. He smiled at each other tacitly with Edelweiss, who had also just changed clothes and walked out of the tent. One walked to the small yard behind the garage, and the other walked into the house that had been waiting all night.
Return tent.
"It seems that the edelweiss really calmed the dangerous beast"
Almost the second before Wei Ran walked into the tent, in the compartment belonging to the sewing machine and the cradle, there was also a joke in the rabbit language that the sewing machine thought Wei Ran could not understand.
"Now I hope they can be more sensible, and I hope they didn't do anything dangerous last night."
Cradle said worriedly, "I don't want to induce labor on Edelweiss in such a harsh environment, it will kill her."
"It seems we need to send them some safety measures."
When Sewing Machine said this, he didn't know that Wei Ran, who was separated by a canvas curtain, rolled his eyes and almost rolled to the back of his head.
"I'll do it, and ask our good girl what happened to them last night."
As the cradle said, there was already the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets in their cubicle, "How about giving them half?"
"I hope it will last until they leave here."
Sewing Machine looked at the excitement and said jokingly, "I will also remind Mr. Veterinary emphatically."
You are the seventh-legged doctor! Wei Ran cursed secretly, took the toiletries and left the tent first.
Maybe those "calls for help" mentioned yesterday are already in place, or maybe it's just the quiet before the storm.
On this morning, they rarely left the garage until 8:30 and returned to the operating room in charge of them.
Even so, there were not many new injured patients sent here that morning except those who had been treated before and needed dressing changes and stitches removed.
The news was both good and bad. Although work was much more leisurely, Wei Ran also noticed that in this hospital that was still barely functioning at this time, there were indeed many doctors with unfamiliar faces that he had never seen before.
Without waiting to chat with the medical workers who came to support them, almost half an hour before lunch, two batches of wounded people were brought in.
Just hearing that even after they were sent into the corridor to wait for treatment, they were still yelling at each other, and even ready to open fire at any time, it became clear that the injuries on the two groups of people were most likely caused by each other.
Of course, it was through the verbal abuse between them that Wei Ran was able to confirm that he still couldn't understand Arabic.
Compared with Wei Ran's tangled affairs, two groups of people who are obviously hostile can be treated in the same hospital, and there are scolding battles in the operating room, and the tense atmosphere of gunfire outside the operating room at any time also makes all other medical work
The reporter was dumbfounded and had to be more vigilant and try his best to be impartial and even with a bowl of water, so as not to become a trigger for the two parties.
Because of this, the helpers who were wondering whether to rush back to the refugee camp in the afternoon not long ago could only temporarily shelve the proposal that had been approved by the majority of people.
As time passed by, and by the time it was close to four o'clock at 3:30 in the afternoon, fewer and fewer wounded people were arriving one after another, and everyone finally got a moment of rest and time for lunch.
"Why is it so weird today?"
The sewing machine murmured as he ate the hard flatbread, "It's obviously not as busy as yesterday, but I don't have any free time."
"It is said that the fire broke out because of the lack of water and food."
Rama, who was also nibbling on the cake, explained, "Both sides said that the other side shot first, and then it turned into a melee."
"Are you still fighting now?" Wei Ran asked.
"It has stopped"
Rama replied while chewing the flatbread, "The specific situation..."
Before Rama could tell what the specific situation was, the wooden door of the operating room was pushed open through a gap. Immediately afterwards, a hot air balloon came in. In his hand, he was also carrying a suitcase and
A huge backpack.
"Why are you here?" The sewing machine asked in surprise.
"You don't plan to leave, so why should I leave?"
As the hot air balloon spoke, he put down the things in his hands, randomly gathered his iconic afro, then opened his backpack, and once again took out lunch boxes equal to the number of people, "Eat this, I
Brought from the ship."
"What are you doing here?"
Cradle asked in confusion, "And, Ed..."
“I can always help you or something.”
The hot air balloon didn't wait for the cradle's question to be completely asked before he answered, "I have already sent the two Eds and your packages to the ship, and my comrades will personally take them to where they should go.
As you know, he has been helping us and is someone we can absolutely trust."
"So what are you going to do here?"
Edelweiss took a big spoonful of the still-hot paella and put it into her mouth, chewing it while asking vaguely.
"You always need people," the hot air balloon spread its hands and said, "I can at least help you transport the wounded or protect your safety."
When the hot air balloon said the first half of the sentence, everyone including Lama didn't think it was anything. But when he said the second half of the sentence, except for himself and Wei Ran, everyone who could understand French looked weird.
I looked at a certain veterinarian.
"What are you looking at me for?"
Wei Ran took a big mouthful of paella with an innocent look on his face. This thing was indeed much more delicious than flatbread.
As for the others, although none of them had seen Wei Ran kill someone with their own eyes, they all had no doubts about the ability of Mr. Dongfeng, who only appeared at night.
"What's that expression on your face?" the hot air balloon asked dissatisfiedly, "I was an excellent sniper when I served outside the law. I can definitely protect you."
"Are you a sniper?" Wei Ran looked at him in astonishment.
"Of course, I've been a sniper since I entered extrajudicial service."
The hot air balloon said proudly, "I can hit a target as big as a volleyball from a magazine 500 meters away."
"What weapon did you use?" Wei Ran asked jokingly.
"FR-F1" the hot air balloon replied matter-of-factly, "Of course it's FR-F1, I always use her."
After looking at the other people who were looking back and forth between the two of them, Wei Ran put down his lunch box and took out a cigarette, "Shall we go out for a smoke?"
"certainly"
The hot air balloon stood up as he spoke, and at the same time he did not forget to use his hair tie to roll up the bangs on his head into a small braid.
Watching the two people walking out of the operating room one after another, Sewing Machine and the cradle looked at each other, and then looked at Edelweiss in tacit understanding.
"Watch what I do"
Edelweiss asked innocently, and then put a big spoonful of paella into her mouth.
"Forget it, let's eat." Sewing Machine shook his head helplessly, and also took a big mouthful of rice into his mouth, chewing it as if he was angry.
Outside the operating room, Wei Ran took the hot air balloon all the way outside the building until it stopped under the tall cedar at the garage door. Then he stopped and gave the other party a cigarette.
"We're not really here to smoke, are we?" the hot air balloon asked casually, lighting up a cigarette.
After Wei Ran failed in his attempt to ask whether weapons could be sent to the refugee camps, he retreated and asked another question, "Have you ever used Soviet-style weapons?"
"Soviet weapons?"
The hot air balloon looked at Wei Ran, "You mean A..."
"SVD" Wei Ran said simply.
"One was seized," the hot air balloon replied simply.
"Have you ever killed anyone?" Wei Ran asked his second question.
"This is Lebanon" the hot air balloon pointed at its feet.
"Come with me"
Wei Ran said no more, waved his hand towards the other party, walked to the garage door, and under the strange gaze of the other party, easily opened the padlock on the iron door with two hairpins.
Without stopping at all, Wei Ran walked forward on his own. The hot air balloon behind him also ducked in and didn't forget to lock the iron door before catching up with Wei Ran.
Arriving all the way to the small yard behind the garage, Wei Ran opened up an old car tire and a tattered blanket, then kicked away the sand, pulled out the body bag with the weapons, and then walked toward the heat.
Balloon raised his chin.
After a moment's hesitation, the hot air balloon opened the zipper on the body bag, and then saw the weapons and ammunition contained inside.
"Where did you get it?" the hot air balloon asked in surprise, "Doctors Without Borders is..."
"It was found right here," Weiyan replied with white teeth.
Twitching his mouth, the hot air balloon explorer picked up the SVD wrapped in a surgical sheet, opened it and looked at it, then picked up the bag of bullets and inspected it.
"What do you want to do?" The hot air balloon finally looked at Wei Ran.
"Didn't you say you wanted to protect us?"
Wei Ran spread his hands and asked like a scoundrel, "You must have a weapon, right? Are you using your explosive head to protect us?"
Hearing this, a bright smile appeared on the hot air balloon's face, "So you gave these to me?"
"Take it if you need it."
Wei Ran said generously, and then turned around and walked towards the garage regardless of whether the other party agreed or not.
After a while, the hot air balloon caught up with him empty-handed, "How about locking the door later? I'll go push my motorcycle in."
"Of course." As Wei Ran spoke, he had already opened the iron door of the garage and let the hot air balloon run out in a hurry.
Can you save them? Even one person...
Wei Ran looked at the retreating figure of the hot air balloon and murmured to himself. At the same time, he couldn't help but worry whether the man codenamed Hot Air Balloon would also...
"Boom--!"
Just at this time, a dull loud noise came from the distance, and he subconsciously rolled up his sleeves. The time displayed on the Soviet watch he picked up was indeed four-ten in the afternoon.
"It's about to begin..."
As Wei Ran murmured to himself, the hot air balloon that was originally riding towards the garage suddenly swung out of the hospital after the explosion, heading towards the direction of the explosion - which was also the direction of the Falange Party headquarters.
Wei Ran turned around and locked the iron door of the garage, and walked quickly towards the operating room.
"What was the explosion just now?"
Far away, the sewing machine that had already run out of the operating room shouted to Wei Ran. He even had a lunch box in his hand and a spoon in his hand, and he was busy putting it into his mouth.
"have no idea"
Wei Ran rubbed the tattoo that felt a bit burning at the tiger's mouth, and replied cautiously, "The hot air balloon has just rushed out on a motorcycle. I guess he went to investigate. I believe there will be news or injured people sent out soon."
coming."
"That's the direction of the Falange headquarters." Cradle looked worriedly at the direction of the explosion.
"The war is about to begin," Edelweiss sighed, hugging Rama and Dalal beside her, and murmured to herself, "the war is about to begin again."
