In the cold and dark waterway, as the distance to the mill gradually narrowed, Wei Ran also slowed down his steps.
After listening for a moment, Wei Ran tried his best to hide his body in the shadow of the waterway, and said in English, "Mr. Buck, a U.S. Army soldier outside, can you hear me?"
After a moment, a vigilant inquiry came from the floor, "Who are you?"
"It doesn't matter who I am. Captain Timov is now our prisoner. He told us about your situation."
Wei Ran paused and continued, "We have decided to provide humanitarian relief to you, so Mr. Buck, please place your weapons above the entrance."
"What if I refuse?" asked Buck, lying on the mill floor.
"If you refuse, I can only kill you to prevent us from being exposed."
Wei Ran paused again for a moment and continued, "If you shoot at me and I get injured or die here, my companions behind me will also kill you, and kill Captain Timov by the way. Okay, Soldier Buck, it's your turn.
A decision has been made and we don’t have much time.”
With a crisp "clang" sound, Buck placed a G43 rifle with a scope directly above the entrance of the waterway with the butt facing forward.
Immediately afterwards, Wei Ran heard the sound of unloading the magazine and the sound of loosening the holster.
"Plop! Plop!"
In the continuous rising water, a magazine full of bullets and a 1911 pistol without a magazine were thrown into the waterway one after another.
"Do you still have a grenade in your hand?" Wei Ran, who was holding a grenade in his hand, asked Buck, who was also holding a grenade.
"Do you need me to throw it down?" Buck in the mill asked with a cold face.
"Just throw it down, that's too scary." Wei Ran, who was hiding in the waterway, said with a smile, "Please hand it down."
"You are so cautious."
Before Buck finished speaking, Wei Ran heard the friction sound of the other party crawling on the floor.
After a moment of waiting, Buck reached into the entrance of the waterway with one hand, holding two grenades in the palm of his hand.
"Please pass me that rifle by the way," Wei Ran, who was still hiding in the shadows, said while also putting the grenade in his hand into his pocket.
"Are you a sewer rat?" Buck cursed. "Why are you so timid?"
"Are you an American female soldier? Why do you talk so much?"
Wei Ran, who was holding a pistol, retorted. He first took the two grenades held by the opponent and put them into his pocket. At the same time, he pressed the muzzle of the pistol against the opponent's chin, and then he took the gun held by the opponent.
The G43 rifle with its tube inserted was thrown over his shoulder.
"Did you Germans occupy France with your mouth?" Buck said sarcastically, ignoring the weapon in Wei Ran's hand.
"Occupy France without even using your mouth."
Wei Ran pushed the opponent back a certain distance with the muzzle of his gun, looked around cautiously, then leaned out and climbed up the mill and continued, "Why?"
Buck, who could only lie on the floor because he was shot in the butt, raised his head with difficulty and looked at Wei Ran who had climbed out and asked in confusion.
Wei Ran grinned, squatted in front of Buck and explained seriously, "Of course it's because the French are happy to raise their hands to show off their sexy armpit hair when the weather is nice."
"Ha! What a novel statement!" After Buck finished speaking, a smile appeared on his face.
"Okay, soldier, I'm going to check if you have any weapons on you now. After making sure you won't hurt me, I will send you to the other side of the waterway and help you treat your wounds."
"Is Timov still alive?" Buck asked abruptly.
Wei Ran was stunned for a moment, nodded seriously, put the pistol back on his waist and buttoned the holster, "Don't worry, he is still alive. Except for one leg being hit by the animal trap, he did not suffer any injuries. We
It's not a German armed organization, so you don't have to worry."
"Not an armed organization?"
Buck muttered something and let Wei Ran search him all over.
And from his boots, he pulled out a 225q logistics fighting knife also inserted in a leather scabbard, and a pair of hawk-beak pliers fixed at his waist, specially used to cut barbed wire.
Interestingly, this pair of hawk-beak pliers was not issued by the American engineers, but was captured from the Germans.
Seeing Wei Ran looking at the pair of pliers, Buck explained in a calm tone, "Those are the trophies I captured. Take them if you like. They belong to you anyway."
"So you're a sapper?"
Wei Ran threw the pliers aside and said to himself, "No, engineers won't come here, so you are a scout?"
"Don't try to ask anything out of me," Buck, who was lying on the ground, said with a cold face, "I refuse to answer any questions."
"Okay, okay, pretend I didn't ask anything."
Wei Ran glanced at Sophie who was cautiously poking her head out of the waterway. Seeing that she had changed into a set of labor corps clothes, he asked, "Is everything okay over Qiqi's place?"
"fine"
Sophie quickly replied, "I was worried that something might happen to you, so I came here to see if I could help you. Also, I was afraid that the person I wanted to see would come over at this time."
"It's just the right time." As Wei Ran spoke, he held Buck's armpits with both hands and guided him into the waterway.
After Buck stood firm while holding on to the wall, Wei Ran pulled Sophie up again, pointed at the half-track motorcycle outside and said, "Where is this car hidden?"
"I have a way." After Sophie said this, she looked at Buck standing against the wall in the waterway.
"Don't worry about him for now"
After Wei Ran finished speaking, he switched to English again, "Mr. Buck, if you are in a hurry, you can hold on to the wall and continue walking in. We will catch up with you after we hide the car you are driving."
After saying that, Wei Ran pulled a dried mushroom into the waterway and fastened it to the floor, regardless of whether the other party agreed or not.
Following Sophie out of the mill, the latter climbed directly onto the half-track motorcycle. After Weiran got on the car, he skillfully started the engine and drove the half-track motorcycle dragging the bucket downstream along the creek.
He drove more than ten meters, then rolled over a gravel beach, and drove behind a fallen pine tree in the distance. He asked Wei Ran to lift up the piled pine branches, then backed up the car and hid it inside.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "You are so familiar with this place," Wei Ran couldn't help but sigh.
"This land was originally my family's property."
Sophie explained matter-of-factly, "I used to go hunting here with my dad when I was a kid, so I'm very familiar with every tree here. Okay, let's leave it like this, no one will find out."
After following the other person and taking a few steps back, Wei Ran looked around cautiously and asked in a low voice, "Where did you arrange to meet that person?"
"At the entrance of the mill," Sophie explained in a low voice, "Victor, can you hide in the waterway a moment?"
"Yes, of course," Wei Ran agreed happily.
Hearing this, Sophie immediately breathed a sigh of relief, greeted Wei Ran and ran back to the direction of the mill.
While the people Sophie wanted to see didn't come, Wei Ran took the time to help the injured Buck to the other end of the waterway, handed him over to Qiqi, Host, Okan and others who were holding weapons, and seriously
He asked them to take care of these two people, and then quickly returned to the mill along the waterway.
Almost immediately, when he walked to the entrance hidden under the floor, he immediately heard the roar of an engine coming from a distance, as well as the unique noise of the rapid rotation of the half-track motorcycle's tracks.
Upon seeing this, Wei Ran, who was about to climb up, immediately retracted into the water channel, and Sophie, who was standing by the millstone, immediately blocked the entrance with her body.
After a while, a young man wearing a labor corps uniform walked into the mill. What made Wei Ran couldn't help but laugh a little. In his hand, the young man actually held a bunch of pink heather picked from somewhere.
.
The young man was really serious about finding such a bouquet of flowers that were still blooming in this winter, but it was obvious that Sophie wanted to hear the news about her father from the other person's mouth more than the flowers.
"Sophie!"
The young man hugged the surprised and slightly overwhelmed Sophie gently, until the latter tried to struggle, then he quickly let go and handed over the flowers in his hand, "This is the flower I brought from the fortress."
I brought it and gave it to you."
"Thank you...thank you"
Sophie, who was a little overwhelmed, hesitated for a moment and accepted the flowers from the other party's hand, "Tony, you know, I took the risk to come here to see you because I wanted to..."
"I already asked"
The young man named Tony quickly replied without waiting for Sophie to finish, "I asked, Mr. Letts and Mr. Jens went to our artillery position yesterday."
"Artillery emplacement?"
"Artillery emplacement?"
"It's the highest hill in this forest, the hill that can be seen from Hürtgen Village." Tony explained in detail.
"What are they doing there?" Sophie asked in confusion.
"have no idea"
The young man named Tony hesitated for a moment, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "But according to my friends, after they delivered the things and people, they came back directly according to the order, whether it was those two damn chain dogs or Lai
Captain Ci, they all stayed there."
After a pause, the young man lowered his voice and continued, "My friend also said that he secretly looked at the contents of the box. There were some valuable trophies in there, as well as valuables such as Pervitin."
"Did my father and the others come back this morning?" Sophie asked worriedly.
"No"
Tony shook his head, "I went to the munitions office early this morning and there was no one inside at all. And the Americans are already very close to us. Sophie, I secretly drove a car over here. You drive this car."
Get out of here quickly. You can leave the forest by going all the way north. You..."
"No, I can't leave."
Sophie shook her head, "Tony, thank you. If you want to escape, just leave quickly. I will continue to stay and wait for my father."
"But……"
Halfway through Tony's words, he saw Sophie shaking her head seriously, and finally swallowed the second half of the sentence. He took out a bottle of Pervitin from his pocket, opened it, poured one out and stuffed it into his mouth, saying,
With the slightest hope of being affirmed, he said, "I won't escape either, Sophie, do you know? I have killed 6 damn Americans these days. Sooner or later we will be able to drive those scum out."
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"I..."
Sophie gritted her teeth and said with a hint of helplessness, "I believe in you, I believe you can definitely drive them out."
"We will definitely do it!"
Tony's words and demeanor were filled with morbid confidence, and he even straightened his right hand. In this mill where only the girl he liked existed, he shouted passionately, "Hey! I'm so excited!"
"Hey...suck...sucks so good," Sophie responded more and more weakly, and also straightened her right hand.
Seeming to be particularly satisfied with Sophie's response, the young man named Tony hugged Sophie into his arms again slightly rudely, "Sophie, get out of here as soon as possible. We will drive away the Americans. We don't need you here."
Women come to fight.”
"well..."
Sophie nodded absently, "I'll leave later, Tony. I'll go back with the sisters from the Women's League who came to pick me up later. But if they find out that I ran out to meet you, I'll be in trouble."
You and I and my dad will definitely be in trouble."
"this..."
Tony reluctantly let go of Sophie, who was struggling again, and asked with deep anticipation, "Then...is there still a chance for us to meet again?"
"have"
Sophie was more serious this time, "Tony, wait until the war is over. After the war is over, if you are still alive, we will definitely meet again."
"After the war is over? Okay! Then after the war is over!"
Tony pointed behind him as he spoke, "That car
I’ll leave the car to you. Didn’t you say last time that you walked a long way to get here? It will definitely be faster to drive it back.”
"No"
Sophie quickly waved her hand, "We have our own car. If you leave the car, it will be hard for me to explain."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "That's right." Tony looked behind him and said with some reluctance, "Then...I'll go first..."
"Yes!" Sophie nodded, "We will definitely meet again after the war is over."
"When the time comes..." Tony looked at Sophie nervously, "Then... can we go to the movies together?"
"Okay." Sophie nodded again.
"Then...then please be safe. The war...see you after the war is over. Goodbye, Sophie."
After saying that, Tony left the mill with a look of reluctance, drove the half-track motorcycle that was still on, and left the mill with three steps at a time.
"Plop"
Sophie collapsed directly on the floor, letting the bunch of pink heathers she held in her hands fall to the floor, letting the pink petals fall along the gaps into the waterway, and also onto Wei Ran's incomplete body.
A finger fell into the palm of his hand, and then fell into the water along the gap between his fingers, and was rushed into the cold, dark, and cold waterway by the rushing water.
It wasn't until those petals had completely floated away that Wei Ran slowly pushed open the cover above his head, looked at the girl sitting on the ground with tears streaming down her face and sighed, "Sophie, we should go back."
"well!"
Sophie quickly wiped the tears on her face, hurriedly picked up the heather and threw them into the waterway and let them float away. Then she and Wei Ran carefully cleaned up the water stains on the floor with a towel, and then jumped
The cover of the water inlet was locked, and he stepped on the cold river water and ran to the other side where there was no war.
"Victor, my father..."
Deep in the dark waterway, Sophie, who was walking at the front holding a square box flashlight, stopped and asked hesitantly, "He... was he... arrested?"
"uncertain"
Wei Ran took out the cigarette case, put a cigarette in the other person's mouth, and then lit one himself. Then he said, "If your father was really arrested, I'm afraid those chain dogs would have followed him."
Suido came and arrested us too."
"But..."
"Maybe those chain dogs took him and Uncle Jens away for some other purpose."
Wei Ran glanced at the direction behind him, gently pushed Sophie's shoulders and continued walking forward while comforting, "And this is not necessarily a bad thing. At least, the Americans are about to reach here, but Uncle Letz and the others have already
