In the hunter's cabin protected by barbed wire, Ralph lit the firewood piled under the fireplace. The crackling fire only took a short while to warm the cold cabin again.
On the sofa facing the fireplace, Wei Ran and Andy each held half of the script and carefully read every line and narration on it.
"Andy, look at this, when the setting sun shines through the narrow window into the ice cellar entrance in the utility room."
Wei Ran held up the part of the script manuscript he was responsible for and approached Andy and asked, "Which way does this house face south?"
Andy subconsciously raised his finger in the direction of the window, and then realized the problem.
Wei Ran returned the script in his hand to Andy, "Since the window is facing due south, the utility room in the script should be to the west of the hunter's cabin, which is where the entrance is now, otherwise the setting sun would never shine in.
From the utility room.”
"I will lift up the platform floor outside the door now."
Andy put down the script in his hand, reached out and took down a rusty ax hanging on the wall and walked towards the door.
"Ralph, go help Andy. Maybe he has found the entrance to the basement."
"Oh! Okay!"
At Wei Ran's reminder, Ralph quickly put down the firewood he had just brought in, grabbed an ice ax hanging on the wall and followed Andy.
On the other hand, Wei Ran did not stand up from the sofa from beginning to end. Instead, he reached out and picked up the other half of the script that Andy had just put down, and continued to read the familiar lines above:
In the cold utility room, Dr. Jason took off his military cap and lowered his voice, "Mr. Konon, even without your pursuit, even without the obstruction of this blizzard, we would have already missed the opportunity to send us there."
The ship back to Germany. In other words, it is impossible for us to leave Finland or Norway alive."
Conon blocked the narrow wooden door of the utility room with his body and asked in a cold tone, "Do you want to surrender to me?"
Doctor Jason held his military cap in one hand and took out a cloth bag from his pocket with the other hand, "Surrender? No, no, no, it doesn't make any sense whether to surrender or not. But if you can, please help me in this stupid
After the war is over, send Yannick’s belongings back to his home.”
Conon, who blocked the door, said after a long silence, "I can accept your surrender and do my best to let you enjoy the treatment that prisoners of war deserve under the Geneva Convention."
Dr. Jason put the military cap sewn with the eagle emblem and edelweiss on his head again, "Thank you for your kindness, Mr. Conon. But let us retain the last dignity and glory as a soldier."
It was only then that Konon took the cloth bag that the other party had been holding and put it into his arms. "After the war, if I am still alive and if I can go to Germany, I will give these relics to Yannick's family."
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"If I live by then, we can sit together and have a drink as real friends. There is a bar opposite the gallery of Yannick's house. Of course, if I don't survive, please tell Yannick's wife that her father will always be with you."
Love her."
"Who are you..."
Dr. Jason nodded, "Yannick is my son-in-law. I spent a lot of effort to find a way to make him my ambulance driver. I thought this would protect his safety and I thought I could bring him back."
House's..."
"Do you need me to do anything else?"
"Leave her with some hope of living. Try...try not to let her know that Yannick is dead. They still have a child to feed. She...she needs an excuse to live."
...
Closing the script that he had not finished reading, Wei Ran leaned against the sofa and closed his eyes. It was not until he saw this completely handwritten script that he realized that Dr. Jason had called Conon to the utility room alone after Yannick died.
The content of the chat. It was only then that he knew that Yannick was actually Dr. Jason’s son-in-law!
After finally recalling everything that happened in the hunter's cabin, Wei Ran sighed secretly. He could not imagine what kind of grief the serious-faced German doctor at that time endured while showing a smile to other living people.
Weaving the dream of going home. What kind of mood do you have to find the enemy who is on the opposite side while you are still alive, and muster up the courage to trust the other person and leave a legacy to your daughter?
"Found it!" Outside the door of the hunter's cabin, Andy and Ralph exclaimed in unison, bringing Wei Ran back from his thoughts.
Carefully putting the script in his hand back into the waterproof bag, Wei Ran rubbed his face vigorously, got up and walked out of the warm hunter's cabin.
After a while, Andy and Ralph opened the wooden platform at the door, revealing a small square wooden platform slightly higher than the ground.
Seeing Wei Ran come out, Ralph immediately took out his mobile phone and turned on the video function and put it into Wei Ran's hand. Then he danced and communicated with Andy through gestures. The two of them worked together to pry open the small wooden platform with the tools in their hands.
The firmly nailed wooden boards allowed the ice cellar, which had been sealed in dust for more than half a century, to be shrouded in sunlight again.
Wei Ran tilted his head and glanced at the situation at the bottom of the ice cellar. Wei Ran nodded secretly. Compared with the original ice cellar, it had been carefully reinforced. Not only was there a log frame that had been smashed into the permafrost, but there was also a layer of animal skins on top.
And in the frost-covered bottom of the cellar, you can vaguely see several corpses wrapped tightly in animal skins, lying quietly on wooden boards about half a meter above the ground.
After turning off the video recording function, Weiran returned the phone to Ralph, "When will Mr. Noah arrive?"
Ralph took the phone and replied hurriedly, "Tomorrow at noon, we can arrive at noon tomorrow at the earliest."
Upon hearing this, Wei Ran turned to Andy and suggested, "Mr. Andy, one of the descendants of the bones in the ice cellar will arrive at noon tomorrow. Why not wait until he arrives and then..."
"No problem, of course no problem!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Andy, who was already shocked by the bones in the ice cellar, hurriedly agreed to Wei Ran's suggestion. Although he had always wanted to find the location of this hunter's cabin
Ice cellar, but I was just curious about whether the script story that had been passed down in the family for two generations was true. Now that the story had been verified, all that was left was the fear of corpses.
"Victor, I want to stay here tonight." Ralph, who was also shocked just now, calmed down and said, "Help me translate, I hope to get Andy's consent."
After listening to Wei Ran's translation, Andy nodded and agreed to Ralph's request without hesitation, and also expressed that he would also stay tonight.
With both of them left, Wei Ran naturally couldn't go back on his own, so after Andy and Ralph repeatedly promised that they would send him directly to the airport by helicopter tomorrow, it was logical that he stayed again in this full-scale hotel.
A hunter's cabin filled with memories and stories.
As night fell outside, Andy skillfully dug out a kerosene gas lamp and an oil drum used by the Germans in World War II from the changed utility room.
Wei Ran, who was watching the excitement on the side, shook his head in confusion. These things were all pulled here by sleds at that time. He didn't expect that they are still in use after more than half a century.
Under Andy's busy work, the small hunter's cabin was quickly illuminated by the hissing kerosene lamp. Then, he moved a plastic box out of the utility room and took out some personal items from it.
Hot food and bottled water frozen into ice lumps explained, "In winter, I occasionally come here with my friends to hunt, so I prepared a lot of food and drinks."
"A Finn and a German are so similar to the winter of 1944..." Wei Ran couldn't help but muttered.
Andy was stunned when he heard this, and nodded with a smile, "Fortunately, we are not both friends and enemies like we were in the winter of 1944. What's even more fortunate is that there probably aren't many Soviets left in the world. But to be honest,
Until we discovered the entrance to the ice cellar, I thought it was just a tall tale in the script."
"The reality is far more absurd than the story," Raffl sighed after listening to Wei Ran's translation. "It would be great if I had the chance to interpret that script."
"Act that play?"
Wei Ran didn't expect that Ralph's sudden idea would be approved by Andy, so that for the next half hour, the two of them discussed the feasibility of this matter with the help of Wei Ran's translator.
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As night fell, the three people who had eaten and drank enough sat down at the table next to the window at Wei Ran's suggestion, picked up the box of playing cards produced in the war years, and started playing at the sponsor's suggestion.
Fighting the Landlords.
What surprised Wei Ran was that Andy seemed to have inherited some talents from his grandfather Carl. If nothing else, at least his poker skills were really powerful. After figuring out the rules of the game, it seemed that Andy
The ski instructor, who seemed kind and honest, almost managed to win every game. Along with it, the few bills Wei Ran and Ralph had on them all became his trophies.
Unsurprisingly, he lost the last ticket in his hand, and there was no need to continue the game. And at some point, a breeze started blowing outside the window.
The three of them slept by the warm fireplace until dawn, when a helicopter landed in the open space outside the hunter's cabin with the roar of its propellers.
As the cabin door opened, the silver-haired Mrs. Tinia was the first to be helped down, followed by a wheelchair stained with various colors of paint. The last person to be helped down was Mr. Noah, who had rushed from Germany.
Wei Ran hid in the corner knowingly what happened next, silently watching Noah and the old lady Tinia, who was just a few years younger than him, talking in proficient Finnish, and watching the two old people read carefully.
They read every line in that script, and hidden in those lines, about the experiences of their parents.
After a long time, Noah carefully closed the script and said, "Tinya, can I... take them home?"
Tinia nodded, "Of course, my friends, they have been waiting for a long time."
Noah nodded gratefully, then walked to Wei Ran and handed over a hard leather wallet with the same grateful attitude, "Mr. Victor, you really helped me find my father. This is your reward. The rest is
Please let me do it myself."
Wei Ran took the hard leather folder and opened it. Inside was a check for 100,000 euros.
Putting away the check, Wei Ran said knowingly, "Then I'll leave the rest to you. If it's convenient, please arrange a helicopter to take me to the airport. My flight will take off soon."
Noah nodded with satisfaction, "Ralph, take Mr. Victor to the airport."
After bidding farewell to Noah, Weiran, accompanied by Ralph, boarded the helicopter to the airport with a check for 100,000 euros. As for the 60,000 euros in cash that Noah had paid before, both parties seemed to have forgotten
It didn't seem to be mentioned at all.
For Wei Ran, although the final outcome left a trace of regret because of the two old men's deliberate secrecy. But on the other hand, he had to admit that since he obtained the strange book, the benefits of this Lapland campaign
It is almost the most rewarding and the easiest process.
Not to mention that the time spent on the battlefield was short enough, and there was no actual firefight throughout the process. The most important thing is that he also received an amazingly powerful anti-tank gun with sufficient ammunition. Of course, there was also the generous payment from Noah.
A full remuneration of 160,000 euros.
Thinking about the semi-automatic rifles I got from participating in the last battle between the Finns and the Soviets, the Weilan in the business class has classified Finland into the "Feng Shui Treasure Land" category. At the same time, I secretly wondered if I would find an opportunity to use it more in the future.
Brush Finland's "copy", maybe one day you will be lucky enough to brush up a German 88mm anti-everything weapon, which will be exciting in the future.
I was thinking wildly all the way, and the long flight became a lot faster. After eight hours of flight, as the plane landed at the Capital Airport, Wei Ran, who had slept comfortably in the second half of the flight, was also in a daze.
Wake up.
He secretly moved his left hand that he had covered with a blanket before going to bed. Seeing that he didn't take out anything scary from the metal book, he stretched out, yawned and stood up in confusion.
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It took most of the day to rush back to his hometown in Cangzhou. Before returning home, Wei Ran went to the supermarket and bought a large bag of seasonings and two large boxes of chocolates. These things were naturally prepared for the food box
, even if you can’t use it this time, at least you can use it in the future.
Before his parents got off work, Wei Ran quietly got into the house that Suisui helped him decorate. After carefully checking every room to make sure that no one else was there, he immediately locked the door and closed the curtains, and then
Take out the food box and fill the spaces between the two layers with the seasonings and chocolate you bought on the road.
After taking back the full food box, Wei Ran looked up at the two large lifting rods that served as the background wall, and then patiently checked all the used and unused ones in the metal book until
After making sure that nothing was missing, he stood under the background wall composed of two large lifting poles, and solemnly summoned the metal book that turned into a tattoo.
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