Lieutenant Lev played with the PPK pistol he had just picked up, and then reluctantly handed it to Wei Ran, "Your trophy, this is not something ordinary German soldiers can use."
After taking the pistol and looking at it, Wei Ran handed it to Lieutenant Lev again, "Take it, I won't have any use for it."
"Then I won't be polite!"
Lieutenant Lev happily took off the cowhide holster from the waist of the corpse and hung it on his own waist. Then he inserted the pistol and covered it with the hem of his tattered clothes. Then he continued to rummage through the corpse for possible clues.
Something useful.
"Biscuits again... bless you, Comrade Lenin! There's even wine!"
Lieutenant Lev was pleasantly surprised and took out a silver wine flask from the corpse's arms. Unfortunately, when he unscrewed the lid and poured it into his mouth, he only had a small sip.
"Sorry, I drank it all accidentally." Lieutenant Lev said awkwardly.
Wei Ran smiled sadly and waved his hand, "It doesn't matter, let's go see that little girl."
"She won't live long"
Lieutenant Lev threw away the hip flask in his hand, smashed the sniper's rifle optical sight with the butt of his rifle, and then removed the firing pin and put it in his pocket, "I guess it won't be long before the Germans will catch up, and
It is simply impossible for us to complete the mission with her."
"At least let her have a full meal." Wei Ran stood up unsteadily, dragging his trembling body with weak feet to the small room next to the stairwell.
From beginning to end, the skinny little girl didn't make a sound, she just hid in the corner, wrapped in a blanket and shivering.
Wei Ran took the biscuit from Lieutenant Lev and put it into her hand. Upon seeing this, the little girl immediately stretched out her thin dirty hands, put the biscuit into her mouth and started to devour it.
"Drink water"
Wei Ran untied the kettle from his waist, and then discovered that a bullet had been embedded in it, and the water inside had already leaked out.
"Drink from me." Lieutenant Lev, who followed in, took off his water bottle and threw it over, "I'll go see Oleg."
While Lieutenant Lev was away, Wei Ran took out half of the biscuit box he had seized not long ago, put it directly into the hands of the little girl who almost choked on the water, and asked softly, "What's your name?"
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The girl put down the kettle, pointed at her throat and ears with dirty fingers, and then waved her little hands. Wei Ran sighed secretly, waved his hand to indicate that the other party should keep the kettle without returning it to him, stood up, and prepared to walk out.
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But then, he felt his legs being hugged, and when he lowered his head, he saw the skinny little girl holding half a biscuit in her mouth, raising her head and looking at him eagerly.
"You want to go with me?" Wei Ran thought he had guessed the answer.
Unexpectedly, the little girl simply shook her head and pointed at the grenade on Wei Ran's waist.
"Why do you want this?" Wei Ran asked in surprise.
The little girl looked at Wei Ran quietly, her big eyes no longer filled with fear and fear, but instead revealed a calmness and...expectation that was particularly rare amidst the rumbling gunfire.
"well..."
Wei Ran sighed, and after struggling for a long time, he silently pulled out the only two grenades from his waist and handed them to the little girl.
Seeing the big smile on the other party's dirty little face, Wei Ran left the small room in a panic as if he had been burned.
Behind him, the little girl calmly crossed herself on her chest, hid the grenade in the light blue blanket, and continued stuffing dry biscuits into her mouth.
After waiting in the corridor for less than five minutes, Oleg ran over from the opposite side carrying his sniper rifle.
"Are you not injured?" Wei Ran asked with relief.
Taking the biscuit from Wei Ran and stuffing it into his mouth, Oleg shook his head vaguely, "He didn't hit me, but the Germans went to search the ruins where we were hiding just now. In order to avoid them, I
I didn't dare to shoot, but they should catch up soon."
"In that case, let's set off quickly." Lieutenant Lev threw the few remaining cookies into his mouth and walked along the dilapidated corridor to the other end farthest from the little girl.
"How far are we?" Wei Ran asked, looking in the direction behind him.
Lieutenant Lev pointed to another building almost right outside the window, "We may be able to see the firepower point after we pass through up to three such buildings, but there must be many Germans around there."
Before he finished speaking, he had stepped on the window sill and jumped over the gap less than one meter wide between the two buildings. After he stood firm, he immediately raised his submachine gun and aimed in the direction of the corridor to cover Wei Ran and Oleg.
"Don't be in any more danger." After Oleg jumped over, Wei Ran looked under the window and saw that no Germans were passing by, so he immediately stepped on the window sill and jumped to the opposite side.
Compared with the building just now, only one-third of the part of this building that still maintains a complete outline is left. The rest of the building seemed to have been split from the middle and completely collapsed to the outside, forming a large area of ruins.
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What's even more weird is that when they walked to the edge of the other end of the corridor, the sound of a piano playing came from a room next to them!
The three of them looked at each other. After receiving Lieutenant Lev's nod, Oleg gently pushed open the ajar wooden door with his rifle.
This is a small room of only thirty square meters at most. In the center of the room, there is an extremely clean piano. An old man over fifty years old wearing a slightly worn black tuxedo sits with a limp.
On the chair with two legs, an unknown piece of music was being played seriously, and on a small sofa against the wall, there was an old woman with silver hair looking at the player with a happy face.
The two people did not react at all to the three young people who suddenly appeared outside the door. They even waited until a piece of music was played and the performer with his back to the door said in a calm and gentle tone, "If
If you want to come in and listen to me playing the piano, you'd better knock on the door first. This is the most basic etiquette."
Lieutenant Lev, who stood among the three men, was silent for a moment, raised his blood-stained hand, and knocked lightly on the wooden door.
"Please come in." The old man sitting in front of the piano said with a full sense of ceremony. Then he stood up and carefully leaned the chair with one missing leg against the piano.
"What do you want to drink?" The old lady sitting on the sofa also stood up, "Sorry, we only have hot water."
"Hot water will be great," Wei Ran said quickly, while looking at the small room which was not too big.
It is hard to imagine that such a warmly decorated room can be found in such a tragic battlefield. Although the only window has been completely blocked with bricks, there are two pots of blooming flowers on the small table next to the window.
There were flowers with red flowers, and even the not-so-large double bed was made exceptionally clean.
"Just find a place to sit, this place is so big." The piano player slowly closed the door and sat on the lame chair again, "What music do you want to listen to?"
Wei Ran and the other two looked at their dirty clothes, then walked to the table by the window rather awkwardly and sat down. For a moment, no one knew how to respond to the old man's question.
"Then let's play the Waltz of Flowers. I hope the music can make you forget about the damn war outside." The old man said to himself as he determined the track, flattened the small chair with half a brick, and then picked up a towel.
After carefully wiping the dust off his hands, he started to play.
At the same time, the old lady who came out of the small kitchen brought them each a glass of warm water, and also put three boiled potatoes the size of ping pong balls on the table.
Before the three people could express their thanks, the old lady waved her hands indifferently, sat back on the small sofa, and looked at the old man who was playing with a happy face.
The three people sitting at the table all made a tacit agreement not to touch the three potatoes, and they didn't even drink the water in the cup. As the war progressed to this point, both food and clean water became more and more precious.
The cheerful piano music like flowing water echoed in this not-so-big room. Wei Ran stood up quietly, silently walked to the door and raised the twin-lens reflex camera on his chest that was stained with blood, trying his best to
Include everyone in the room into the square viewfinder, and then gently press the shutter.
"boom!"
An abrupt but extremely clear explosion came in at the same time as Wei Ran released the shutter. Before he could put down the camera, Wei Ran was stunned for a moment. He opened the door like crazy and ran out of the room, looking at where they came from.
direction.
Even through the windows of two buildings, he could still clearly see the large smoke and dust evaporating from the place where he killed the sniper, and he could even see the light blue blanket that had been blown into pieces like petals.
It fell floating on the floor full of corpses.
"Plop"
Wei Ran sat weakly on the floor leaning against the wall. He was not a holy mother, and he did not care about how many people died in this war that had already been determined in the history books, and who won who. For him in the 21st century
Say, those are just a string of numbers and letters that must be memorized for professional course exams.
But even so, the shock of seeing the cruel side of war at such a close distance still stung his eyes and made him shed tears.
Unable to tell how much time had passed, the bright piano music in the room behind them had stopped. Lieutenant Lev and Oleg walked out and immediately saw Wei Ran, who was leaning against the wall in a daze.
"It's time for us to go"
After speaking, Lieutenant Lev patted Wei Ran's shoulder extra hard and continued in a murmur, "For that little girl."
Wei Ran hammered the floor beneath him, stood up silently, followed the two of them silently, and followed the stairs to the first floor.
Looking at the ruins caused by the collapse of the building outside, and then at the silent Wei Ran, Lieutenant Lev irritably took out the half pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and he and Oleg each took out one and lit it.
, said in a puff of smoke, "Victor, you are a reporter, you should take a picture of that little girl. This is the only thing you have not done that you need to blame yourself for. The rest has nothing to do with you."
"I..."
"Don't waste your time, and don't let that little girl's efforts go in vain."
Lieutenant Lev said again, "If you are still a qualified taxi... a qualified reporter, then take your camera and submachine gun and don't let me waste any more time educating you."
Wei Ran raised his head and looked at Lieutenant Lev, then at Oleg who was deliberately hiding far away, and finally nodded solemnly, "Let's go."
