In the dark forest, Wei Ran hid behind a pine tree that was as thick as an oil barrel. He took out the oil barrel in the metal book in the dark, filled the coconut pot he brought with him, and the British army kettle in the metal book.
Red wine arrived from the fortress's munitions warehouse.
When he carried two heavy kettles back to the room on the side of the hall, he found that Sophie and Qi Qi were sitting on his bed, and the card game not far away had ended long ago.
Not only that, even Dominic and his little girlfriend don’t know where they went.
Seeing Wei Ran come in, Timov, Buck, and the nearest Qiqi sniffed their noses immediately, obviously smelling the smell of red wine.
"Let's have a drink together"
Wei Ran shook the wine bottle, and Sophie immediately bent down and pulled the box out from under the bed, and expertly pulled out five glass cups.
At the same time, Qiqi also picked up the kettle and scalded each cup, and then asked Wei Ran to give everyone a full glass of red wine.
"Brother Victor, how much red wine did you bring?"
Sophie took a sip of the slightly warm red wine from the scalded glass, and couldn't help but ask a question that had nothing to do with the topic.
"I..."
"He's a magician" Qiqi grabbed the topic, "I wouldn't be surprised if he could create an oak barrel full of red wine with just a clap of his hands."
"Are you really a magician?"
Timov asked curiously, and by the way, he helped Buck, who was lying on the bed, translate what Qiqi just said and what he said.
"Barely so"
Seeing that everyone in the room was looking at him expectantly, Wei Ran simply rolled up his sleeves and performed a trick of transforming into a gravity knife.
Let Timov take away the gravity knife from his palm for inspection. Wei Ran waited for the opponent to put the gravity knife back into his palm and clapped his hands hard. While startling the opponent, he also put the gravity knife back into the metal book.
"God! How did you do that?!"
Buck's eyes widened and he shouted with a dull expression, "Timov! Quick! Take off his clothes quickly! I swear by the cows and horses I raise, that knife must be in his sleeve."
..No! It must be hidden in his collar!"
"I think it must be hidden in his boots."
Timov, who was just startled by being slapped, pointed to the military boots on Wei Ran's feet and said firmly, "He must have thrown the knife in. Do you remember? That gambling god Little George from Company C is out to do something."
He did the same thing! It was in the pair of German boots he seized that we found the playing cards he had hidden."
"That makes sense!"
Buck, who was lying on the bed, stretched his neck with great effort and said with a proud look on his face, "Victor, we have seen through your little trick. Take off your boots quickly. The knife must be in your boots." "What if."
Are you here?" Wei Ran asked with a smile.
"If it's not there..." Buck thought for a while and said with a sly look on his face, "Then I'll punish myself with three... no! I'll punish myself with five drinks!"
"Me too!" Timov echoed happily.
"Five cups, just five cups," Wei Ran said jokingly, "But if it's not in the boots, you have to help me put the boots on."
"Deal!" Timov agreed without thinking.
"These two idiots thought I hid the knife in my boot," Wei Ran explained in German to the two watching girls.
"Is it not?"
Sophie asked subconsciously, while Qiqi rolled her eyes and patted her forehead. She really didn't know whether to remind her that she thought she was an idiot.
"may be"
Wei Ran said and sat on the chair, raised his hands high, stepped on the heel of the other shoe with the toe of his shoe and took off the two pairs of boots.
Seeing this, Timov immediately picked up one boot and shook it, and then picked up the other one and shook it.
As expected, the two American soldiers who lost the bet got five glasses of wine each. Naturally, Wei Ran couldn't really ask the other party to help him put on his boots, let alone
It was impossible to tell them the key to this impromptu little magic trick.
Fortunately, thanks to these little tricks and those glasses of wine, the remaining barriers between the two parties disappeared with those few glasses of red wine.
It was only at this time that Sophie said after a toast, "Brother Victor, Timov and Mr. Buck, we have just made a decision after discussing it."
After Wei Ran, Timov and Buck all put down their cups, Sophie and Qi Qi looked at each other and said, "Tomorrow night, we will take all the children and leave here for Belgium."
Before Wei Ran and others could speak, Sophie continued, "After arriving in Belgium, I will immediately return to Germany, go to the Ruhr Industrial Area to find Dominic's parents, and then find a way to bring them there."
"We asked other partners"
Qiqi took over the conversation and continued, "Okan is very familiar with the situation in this forest. He can show us the way. According to his estimation, it will take us about a whole night to reach Belgium, and there will be many obstacles along the way.
Passed through many barbed wire fences and at least two minefields."
"Then there's the issue of my father."
While Sophie was talking, she took out a delicate metal cigarette case from her pocket, took out a photo and placed it on the table, "This is a photo taken when my dad just joined the army. Now he is bald.
One leg is lame, with the rank of captain. Timov, I hope you can help me find my father. For this, I am willing..."
Sophie gritted her teeth as she said this, "I am willing to pay 200 grams of gold as a reward. This is all the property I can afford."
Before the expressions on Timov and Buck's faces changed, Qiqi had already put down the cup and added with a cold face, "The reward also includes Mr. Buck's life."
Ignoring Sophie's wink at her, Qiqi continued to speak in German that Buck could not understand, "Mr. Timov, if you fail to help us find Captain Letts, we will kill Buck."
"I will not trade the lives of my companions." Timov also put down the cup with a cold face.
"In this case, everyone should not leave." Qiqi said with an indifferent expression, "It would be good for everyone to die here together."
"Okay Qiqi"
Sophie hugged Qiqi's shoulders and said, "Mr. Timov, don't pay attention to Qiqi's angry words. As I just said, if you can help find my father, I am willing to pay 200 grams of gold as a reward. Even so.
..Even if you fail to help me find it, we will not harm Mr. Buck."
"I will do my best to help you find your father." It was only then that Timov picked up the black and white photo on the table.
Wei Ran, who had been silent just now, sighed secretly. He had just seen clearly that the handsome man with a serious face in the photo was exactly the photo that would be on the tombstone of Captain Letts later in life.
"What is this?" Timov turned the photo over and asked, pointing to the numbers written with a pen on the back of the photo.
"This is the radio station contact channel"
As she spoke, Qiqi pushed Aesop's Fables, which she would read to the children every day after dinner, to the other party, "This book is our code book. Although we don't know if it can be used, this is what we can think of."
It’s the only way to get in touch.”
"You have a radio station?" Timov keenly sensed the key information, "And it's the radio station we use?"
"Indeed, but not here." Sophie responded vaguely, but she had no intention of explaining in detail.
"I will do my best to help you find your father," Timov said, about to stuff the photo into his pocket.
"I'll give this to you too."
Sophie pushed the cigarette case in her hand to the other party, "If you can find my dad and show him this cigarette case, he will know that you are trustworthy."
Having said this, Sophie paused, then sighed, and added with a deep sense of helplessness in her tone, "I don't even know whether I should believe you or not."
"Miss Sophie"
Timov put the photo back into the cigarette case and put it back in the cigarette case
He put it in his pocket, and then said, "I haven't been able to prove whether I am trustworthy for the time being, but even for the 200 grams of gold, I will do my best."
"I hope so"
Sophie and Qi Qi clasped their hands together and asked after a moment of silence, "We plan to leave on time at 11 o'clock tomorrow night. Timov, do you need anything from us?"
Subconsciously looking at Wei Ran, Timov thought for a while and said, "Buck and I have soldier tags, IDs, and weapons. Of course, Buck also needs a stretcher that is strong enough."
After saying that, Timov turned to look at Buck, who was lying on the bed and staring at him but couldn't understand a word. He asked in English, "Buck, let's go to Belgium together tomorrow night. Do you have any suggestions?"
"If you need to cross barbed wire fences and minefields, you must bring wire cutters." Buck gave advice from the perspective of a reconnaissance team soldier without thinking.
Seeing Timov looking at him, Wei Ran suggested, "Let Buck also put on a labor corps uniform. Of course, if we have steel helmets, it would be best for each of us to wear one, and the others on the road.
Water and food."
"Yes, we have all of these!" Sophie nodded immediately, "Qiqi and I will prepare these things before departure."
"Get ready as soon as possible"
Timov picked up the British Guards flagon, poured some of the remaining wine in it for everyone, then raised his glass and said, "I hope all of us can survive, cheers."
"Cheers!" Buck, who was lying on the bed, was the first to respond, holding up his glass - even though he didn't understand German at all.
After drinking the last glass of wine, Wei Ran sent the two girls out of the room. After closing the door, he asked, "Sophie, I remember there is a camera in your room?"
"That's Qiqi's camera," a slightly tipsy Sophie explained, holding the dusty bronze statue, "but it seems there's only one film left."
"To be precise, there are only the last five negatives left."
Qiqi said angrily, "There were originally a lot of them, but that bastard Dominic stole the camera the second day he came here. Not only did he take a lot of photos of Nadia, but he also asked Host to take photos of the two of them.
We took a lot of group photos together.”
"How about you let me take two group photos for everyone tomorrow?" Wei Ran asked before Sophie could say anything, "I want to take two group photos for everyone tomorrow."
"no problem!"
Qiqi agreed without thinking, and then said under the influence of wine, "But I want to take a photo with you, just the two of us. And! There are Sophie and Heike, I want to take a photo with you too.
Take a group photo alone."
"no problem!"
Wei Ran agreed without even thinking about it, but at the same time he sighed secretly in his heart. He naturally knew what this little girl who had just grown up was thinking, but even if he didn't have a girlfriend, no matter how many assumptions they made, the two of them would still be together.
After all, people are not in the same time and space at all, and even what is happening right now may be nothing more than a mirror image.
