At 8:22 in the evening, Wei Ran finally finished telling the story about the Don River. The girl in his arms also straightened up and gave her a passionate and slightly drunken kiss.
After they separated again, Edelweiss lay on his shoulder again and whispered, "The woman who gave birth in the afternoon died due to dystocia."
"Her child..."
"He's dead too," Edelweiss hugged Wei Ran tightly and said, "None of us could be saved."
After a pause, Edelweiss murmured tiredly, "Hide it from Rama for us. She is a kind girl. If she knew, she would be very sad."
"I will help you hide it," Wei Ran promised against the other person's ear.
"Are we still sleeping in the car tonight?" Edelweiss's mood seemed to improve a lot in an instant. She straightened up again and asked Wei Ran with her arms around Wei Ran's neck.
"No need," Wei Ran replied with a smile, "We won't sleep in the car tonight."
"Sleeping in the dormitory?" Edelweiss asked, not intending to move at all.
"No, let's go rest in the rented house. The conditions there are better." Wei Ran said, already reaching out to open the car door.
Seeing this, Edelweiss finally yawned, got off Wei Ran's legs clumsily, jumped out of the cab holding on to the door frame, "Should I call them out?"
"good"
Wei Ran responded, watching Edelweiss climb over the window, then he put away the one-third-empty water bottle on the hood, stretched out and got out of the cab.
After a while, Edelweiss rolled back again, stood by the window and helped the three children and the cradle out of the window.
When the sewing machine also climbed over the window, Wei Ran had already wrapped his head in the square towel given to him by the hot air balloon before.
"Shall we wrap it up too?" Cradle asked.
"Ladies, please wrap it up." Wei Ran thought for a while and replied, "Forget it, just wrap them all up."
"Where's the hot air balloon? Where did he go?" The sewing machine asked in a low voice while untying the scarf around his neck and wrapping it around his head.
"He...he went to meet his friends," Wei Ran said in a low voice, "Follow me and stay quiet."
Hearing this, everyone else became nervous. Edelweiss even subconsciously held Rama with one hand and pulled Wei Ran's cuff with the other.
Seeing this, Wei Ran took the other person's hand and led them out of the side door of the hospital in the dark, and then followed his memory to find the narrow and dark alley where he couldn't see his fingers.
"Hold hands and follow closely, don't touch the walls on both sides."
Wei Ran said in a low voice, "Sewing machine, you are at the end. If anyone notices that the person holding hands with him has loosened his grip, immediately speak out to remind everyone."
When the adults and children all responded, Wei Ran took Edelweiss's hand and walked slowly into the alley.
Although this alley was a little scary and long for the women and children walking in the middle, luckily Wei Ran had already specially cleaned up the garbage and stumbling blocks on the ground when he came back in the afternoon. So no one fell down.
Therefore, no one made much noise.
Walking slowly along the not-so-wide street in the dark, Wei Ran noticed the faint light shining in one of the windows on the second floor of the house from a long distance away.
"It seems that Mr. Hot Air Balloon has arrived early," Wei Ran said softly, while also speeding up his pace slightly.
When the group of them reached the door of the small building, the hot air balloon was already waiting for them inside the ajar iron door.
"Come in," the hot air balloon greeted them in a low voice and let them in.
"Have you been waiting here?" Cradle asked curiously.
"I guessed you would come at this time," the hot air balloon said proudly.
You guessed it!
Wei Ran muttered secretly. Even if he had to use the soles of his shoes to guess, he would have known that this guy must have been aiming at them with that SVD just now. Maybe he had already noticed it just now when he and Edelweiss were drinking, chatting and telling stories in the car.
Peeking through the scope of that gun.
The evidence that he was so sure was the huge Soviet-style 1PN51 night vision scope that the hot air balloon was holding in his hand at this time, which could be used as a cold weapon.
"Where did you get it?" Wei Ran asked in a low voice as he took the night vision goggles from the other party.
The hot air balloon was "bought from my friend" without reservation, "bought with the property you gave me".
"Is it also a black market?"
Rama looked up at the hot air balloon and asked curiously in a low voice, "Mr. Vet also bought a lot of things from the black market before."
"right"
The hot air balloon smiled and replied in a low voice, "It's also a black market. Okay, let's keep our voices down and go upstairs first."
After hearing this, everyone said nothing and followed the hot air balloon along the outer staircase to the second floor.
While the lady and the children were allocating rooms, the hot air balloon also called Wei Ran and the sewing machine downstairs, took them out of the small courtyard and walked into the alley next to it.
"I opened the manhole cover," the hot air balloon whispered.
"what is inside?"
"What manhole cover?"
Wei Yan and Sewing Machine asked completely different questions almost at the same time.
"You can see for yourselves later"
The hot air balloon said something vague and perfunctory, and led them in the dark to the end of the alley, passing through a temporary ragged carpet held up by wooden sticks.
It was only then that the hot air balloon took out a kerosene lighter, lit it and put it aside. Then he used an iron hook to lift the manhole cover that had been cleared. Then he picked up a torn blanket, shook it, and put it on his head.
Covered the well mouth.
Before he could pick up the lighter placed by the wellhead again, Wei Ran, who had already squatted down in advance, had already lit his flashlight and reached into the wellhead.
With the help of the flashlight's beam, he could clearly see everything under the wellhead.
The space inside was much smaller than he thought. The depth was less than one and a half meters, and at the bottom were staggered pipes and yellow sand that almost buried the pipes.
Fortunately, perhaps to facilitate maintenance, the diameter below is much larger than the wellhead, estimated to be about 1.5 meters.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Almost subconsciously, he began to calculate how many people could be hidden in this small hole with a big belly.
But no matter how he did the "fill-in-the-blank" questions, he found that the most they could hide were Lamar, their three children, and at most two adults.
As for this, I'm afraid it's only possible to "stack" them like a stack of Tetris.
"I'll go down and have a look"
As Wei Ran spoke, he handed the flashlight to the sewing machine, held the mouth of the well with both hands and jumped down.
"Be careful, there may be scorpions down there." The hot air balloon warned Wei Ran a second before he jumped.
"You should have said it earlier"
When Wei Ran reacted, his feet had already stepped on two wrist-thick iron pipes.
"You jumped too fast"
The hot air balloon gloated and reminded, "Be careful, the scorpions here sting you very painfully."
Hearing this, Wei Ran didn't say anything. He just took the flashlight from the sewing machine and inspected the area around his feet. Then he slowly squatted down and inspected the surrounding red brick well walls.
Before he had even finished reading half of the circle, he actually found a scorpion in a crack in the wall that was not cemented tightly.
Without avoiding the two companions above his head, Wei Ran took out the Mauser bayonet he picked up from his sleeve, stabbed it into the gap in the wall and killed the fat scorpion, and then continued to inspect it as usual.
After killing four or five scorpions one after another, he used his bayonet to carefully pull out the slightly moist yellow sand under his feet.
Fortunately, at least there were no venomous snakes hidden in the yellow sand he pulled away. But unfortunately, his bayonet was blocked by the hard ground before it penetrated completely into the yellow sand.
When he dug up the yellow sand, concrete was poured underneath. Obviously, time is tight now, and it is simply unrealistic to continue digging. Moreover, those complicated pipes are also built directly into the wall, and it is impossible to get out from here.
Climbing from one well to another.
Without further wasting time, Wei Ran stood up straight, handed the flashlight to the sewing machine again, and climbed up with his hands on the well mouth.
"What are you two going to do?" At this moment, Sewing Machine finally couldn't help but ask.
"Safe House"
The hot air balloon replied, "A barrel just died outside, we have to make some preparations."
"Are they planning to occupy the refugee camp?" Sewing Machine asked, dumbfounded.
"Whatever they like is their business."
The hot air balloon relit the lighter before Wei Yan extinguished the flashlight, "But I don't want to risk your safety that they won't do something to the refugees."
Having said this, the hot air balloon has already lifted the manhole cover, "Although this is a refugee camp, there is a high probability that there will be no problems, but I would rather be prepared in advance. Right? Mr. Dongfeng? I guess you think so too."
"That's right"
While Wei Ran was talking, he had already lit a lighter. After observing with the faint light of the fire, he pulled out a cracked car tire and several wooden boards less than one meter long from the pile of debris at the end of the alley.
"Don't rush to cover it yet, you can go back first."
As Wei Ran spoke, he had already put the things in his hands at the mouth of the well and extinguished the flashlight himself.
Hearing this, the hot air balloon was already prepared and took out a Coke bottle from his pocket and handed it to Wei Ran, "I took the gasoline out of the car."
"You two really understand each other well," said the sewing machine strangely as he stood up.
Hearing this, both Wei Ran and the hot air balloon had a tacit understanding as he said and did not answer the question.
Watching the sewing machine leave with the hot air balloon, Wei Ran threw the tires and broken wooden boards he had just picked up into the wellhead, poured a small amount of gasoline on them and ignited them, and hung up the manhole cover before the fire became bigger.
After waiting for a moment to make sure that the fire inside was not extinguished, Wei Ran simply turned around and left this inconspicuous alley, letting the dark fire and thick smoke scorch the insects, snakes, rats, and ants in the well.
Returning to the yard again, the hot air balloon was still waiting for him inside the iron gate.
"Do you know any inside information?" the hot air balloon asked in a low voice while bolting the iron door.
Holding back the burning heat in the tiger's mouth of his left hand, Wei Ran replied with a normal expression, "I don't have any inside information. I just simply don't believe in the chairmen and the Falangists."
"On this point, we are highly consistent."
The hot air balloon gave Wei a cigarette to light, and after lighting his own, he walked out and walked up the stairs and said, "Do you have any plans for tomorrow?"
After trying to open his mouth and make arrangements to no avail, Wei Ran suppressed the helplessness in his heart, regained his energy and said, "There is no plan, just do whatever you want."
"In that case, I want to take some photos tomorrow." The hot air balloon said, "It's too dark in the afternoon."
"It's up to you," Wei Ran said, stepping up the outer staircase.
"I'm so lucky to have a teammate like you," the hot air balloon said at the end.
"But in that time and space without me..."
Wei Ran sighed heavily in his heart. While walking up, he was also thinking about another question. He was very sure that he had collected 20 heads, but he was not sure, let alone whether he had completed the language task.
And if completed, what language did you learn?
"Why don't you faint? This is making things more difficult for me."
Cursing in his heart, Wei Ran pushed open the wooden door on the second floor and saw Edelweiss sitting cross-legged on the sofa in the living room, writing her medical notes by the candle light.
"The room by the door is yours."
Edelweiss yawned after speaking, "Your luggage has been sent in for you."
"What about you? Sleeping on the sofa?" Wei Ran asked casually, and then he realized that this casual question seemed to have some ambiguity including "invitation elements".
Fortunately, perhaps because she was drunk, or perhaps because she was busy writing notes, Edelweiss did not seem to hear the ambiguity in the words, and just followed the topic and replied, "I am next door to you, with Rama and Dalal
one.
On the other side of the door is the room of the hot air balloon and Hanwalder, and next to him is the room of the sewing machine couple."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Taking a breath, Edelweiss pointed downstairs, "If you want to take a bath, you can go to the well downstairs. Hanward and Dalal have just put those buckets
Filled with water."
"Forget it for today, do you need another drink?" Wei Ran asked, immediately changing the subject after the other party finished speaking.
"Can you please pour me a glass and fill it with my birthday gifts?" Edelweiss, who seemed to be in a much better mood, asked deliberately in a mocking tone.
"Of course, it's my pleasure."
Wei Ran responded in the same tone, and then while the other party covered his mouth and chuckled, he took out the kettle under the cover of his shirt, first poured a cup of coffee and red wine for the other party, and then made a simple funnel with cigarette paper to fill it up.
The portable wine bottle that belongs to me.
Without further disturbing the other party, Wei Ran got into his own room, opened the window and let the night breeze blow in. At the same time, he also looked out the window at the side door of the hospital across the road, secretly worried about what would happen tomorrow, especially...if he would die.
how many people.
This is destined to be a question that has no answer for the time being, but it is hard not to think about.
After waiting for a moment, Wei Ran locked the door and closed the window. Then he took out the Bayi bar from the metal book in the dark and disassembled it. After carefully wiping the parts one by one, he reassembled it in the dark.
At the same time, in another room on the other side of the door, the hot air balloon, which came back only half a cigarette later than Wei Ran, was also wiping the weapons Wei Ran gave him and the weapons he got himself in the dark.
Obviously, even though he didn't know what was going to happen next as clearly as Wei Ran, the keen intuition and experience of an outlaw veteran made him almost subconsciously alert.
