In the dazzling white light, Wei Ran, who had already sensed that the matter was not over, waited patiently to regain his vision, and at the same time secretly analyzed the situation he had grasped so far.
However, even though he was prepared, when his vision returned and he could see everything in front of him again, he still subconsciously rubbed his eyes.
Looking left and right again, he became more and more certain that he was indeed in a four-wheeled carriage with a canvas shed. There were several square bales in the carriage, and there were several square bales on two of them.
A thick blanket.
Looking forward along the car body, although he could only see the back of the coachman, he could still recognize that the man seemed to be the farmer Derwent.
He habitually lowered his head to look at his own attire. Underneath the black woolen coat was a set of brown overalls and a knitted sweater. On his feet was a pair of well-made leather boots. However, there was a fake American style hanging around his neck.
Goggles, and US military pilot gloves on his hands.
He subconsciously touched the top of his head. Fortunately, he was not wearing that inappropriate leather flying hat, but even so, this warm outfit was definitely considered nondescript.
Taking off his gloves and looking at the missing index finger of his right hand, the long-healed wound allowed him to immediately figure out his own camp - now he was once again a German who luckily escaped the war.
Before he could open the suitcase at his feet to see what was inside, the farmer Derwent had already ordered the two docile black draft horses to stop.
Immediately afterwards, a woman who also wore a woolen windbreaker but exposed the hem of her skirt, black pointed-toe shoes, a hat and a scarf on her head, quickly got into the carriage carrying a small bag.
"Qiqi!" Wei Ran recognized the woman immediately after she took off her scarf. Although he hadn't figured out what time it was yet, it was absolutely good news that this girl was still alive.
"Victor!"
Qiqi immediately gave a warm hug, and then said excitedly, "I heard that Jutta and Boyi said that you are now working in a clinic in Mons? So you are a doctor now? "
"Ah...ah yes!"
Wei Ran waited for the girl to sit firmly on the hay bale, then simply followed the topic and said, "Having a job seems more normal after all. What about you? How have you been doing during this time?"
"I joined G Group"
Qiqi lowered her voice and said almost close to Wei Ran's ear, "Now I am their liaison in Aachen, responsible for contacting Sophie."
"Where's Sophie?" Wei Ran asked, "How is she doing now?"
"not bad"
Qiqi picked up a grass root and held it in her mouth and explained, "Sophie successfully returned to the Ruhr Industrial Zone and met Dominic's parents.
In the Xiaotuya District of Dingyou, brother Naiqie has arrived at Zhao Xi Ma, who cannot bear to die."
At this point, Qiqi sighed, and then continued, "But Dominic's father is currently under surveillance. In other words, many engineers similar to him are under surveillance. In a short time, I think
It may not be an easy task to bring them here. "At least they are all alive, which is good news." Before Wei Ran finished speaking, a young man had already thrown a bulging canvas bag into the car.
At the same time, he stretched out his hand towards the car and shouted, "Victor, please give me a hand!"
It's Dominic!
Wei Ran immediately recognized the other person, and at the same time subconsciously reached out to hold the other person's hand, and easily pulled the young man into the car.
"Sister Qiqi!"
It wasn't until he stood firm in the car that Dominic recognized Qiqi sitting in the back, and immediately let out a cheer and hugged her.
"Long time no see Dominic," Qiqi greeted happily, "How are your and Nadia's injuries?"
"Morning, I'm ready already!"
Dominic answered the question with a slight embarrassment, but the annoyance in his tone could probably be heard by any man.
Of course, they could also tell from the neat way he got on the bus that this poor young man had completely gotten rid of the pain in his crotch.
torture.
"Be happy, I brought you a good thing." Qiqi had already pulled her bag over as she spoke.
"What good stuff?"
Dominic said, not forgetting to point to the canvas bag just thrown into the car, "Victor, I bought all the things you asked me to buy for you. They are all in that bag, as well as our breakfast."
inside."
Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately opened the canvas bag, reached out and took out a few hot breads wrapped in newspapers, and a few sausages also wrapped in newspapers.
In addition, the bag actually contained several canned meat from the US military and several canned German pork, plus some common seasonings, a big mouthful of bacon, and a bottle of wine produced in Belgium.
By the way, I glanced at the news in the newspaper wrapped in bacon. It published news about the Battle of the Ardennes. I turned over the bacon and found the publication date. It was February 2, 1945.
"Dominique, what day is it today?" Wei Ran asked as he threw the bacon into his bag.
"No. 3?" Dominic asked uncertainly.
"No. 4, February 4th."
Qiqi gave a more accurate answer, and at the same time, she took out three bulging folders from her bag and handed them to Dominic Yuan.
"What is this?" Dominic asked in confusion.
"This is what your father asked us to pass on to you." Before Qiqi finished speaking, a look of surprise appeared on Dominic's face, "My father..."
"They can't come over yet."
Qiqi knocked on the folder held in the other party's hand with regret, "We spent a lot of effort and took a lot of risks to get these things out. Dominic, you have to protect them."
"
"What is this?"
While Dominic was speaking, he had already opened one of the folders. Immediately afterwards, Wei Ran, who was sitting next to him, saw that the folder contained folded blueprints!
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Qiqi spread her hands, "It seems to be a gift for Uncle Letts. Speaking of which, have you found any clues about Uncle Letts?"
"No"
Dominic shook his head in despair, "Dr. Walter tried to find an American to ask about the fortress where Uncle Letts used to work. It is said that the fortress had been conquered long ago. The specific time was probably when we
The day after the escape, all the soldiers still alive in the fortress surrendered and were sent to prisoner-of-war camps."
No news from Captain Letts? Wei Ran was stunned and continued to collect useful information from the conversation between the two parties calmly.
"All right…"
Qiqi sighed, then asked with a hint of complaint, "Except for this, every time I gave you a power board before, why didn't you reply?"
"Victor is going to work in the clinic."
Dominic spread his hands with an innocent look on his face, "Although he taught me and Nadia how to operate the radio, even if Nadia and I were together, we couldn't remember those ticking sounds at all."
Seeing Qiqi looking at him sadly, Wei Ran, who was cutting the bread with a gravity knife, spread his hands like Dominic, and weaved natural excuses according to the topic, "I can't watch the radio every day, and I don't
I don’t know who sent the telegram, let alone its content, and I don’t know what to reply to.”
"It can't be the American who sent you the telegram."
Qi Qi muttered, took the bread and sliced sausage from Wei Ran, took a big bite, and took the initiative to change the subject and asked, "If we don't talk about it anymore, why do you want to go back to the castle this time?"
"It's an invitation from American Timov"
Dominic took the breakfast delivered by Wei Ran and answered hastily, "He sent a telegram, hoping that we can help find Buck's body. In addition, we also want to find Host, Heike, Okan, and Bernd.
As for Stefan’s body, we want to return them to the castle and bury them there temporarily.”
"This time the electricity
How did you receive the report?" Qiqi rolled her eyes angrily.
"Because when he sent the telegram, Miss G happened to be a guest at our place. She helped record the telegram, and then she helped translate it after Victor came back in the evening."
Dominic helped answer the question without hesitation, while Wei Ran, who took the blame for no reason, was busy handing the third breakfast to Derwent, who was busy driving.
Before he could say anything, Derwent shook the reins and shouted for the carriage to stop. Then he turned towards the carriage and said, "Children, we are about to enter Germany later. Remember to bring your
The documents are ready."
Hearing this, Qiqi and Dominic immediately took out a passport from their pockets. Wei Ran also felt in his pocket and successfully pulled out a French passport and a large roll of cash.
I don’t know if they said hello in advance, or maybe it’s because in the war years, there are no decent inspections at the so-called border. Not only did the three of them not get out of the car, they didn’t even use the documents they prepared.
After entering Germany, Derwent ordered the carriage to stop again. This time, it was the American soldier Timov who got into the carriage!
Compared with two months ago, Timov's figure is slightly fatter, and he is actually holding a crutch from an unknown place in his hand. It is obvious that there is some problem with his legs and feet.
However, when Wei Ran and Dominic were pulled into the car, the guy immediately threw his crutch behind the bales of hay.
"You're finally here. I've been waiting for you in this damn place for more than an hour."
Timov said, opened his backpack, took out a few glass bottles of Coke from it, then took out a bottle opener, skillfully opened it, and gave it to everyone including Uncle Derwent who was driving.
Everyone got a bottle.
"My train is late," Qiqi said apologetically after taking a sip of Coke.
"It doesn't matter"
As Timov spoke, he took out three more packs of Lucky cigarettes from his bag and handed them to Weiran, Qiqi and Mr. de Winter respectively. At the same time, he asked, "Is Sophie okay? There are others, everyone.
Are you okay? Oh, of course, there is also Mr. Letts, he must have joined you, right?"
The three of Wei Ran looked at each other, and Wei Ran, who almost knew the whole truth, chose to shut up again. After a short silence, Qi Qi lit a cigarette with the help of the lighter that Timov stretched out, and then the smoke filled the air.
, briefly describes the tragedy that occurred when he was about to cross the border.
"They...all three of them are dead?"
Timov looked at Qiqi and Dominic with red eyes in astonishment, and then at Wei Ran, who was silently cutting sausages and bread with a paratrooper knife, and then asked uncertainly, "They... were mined by us.
Exploded to death?"
"Indeed it is"
Qiqi wiped the corners of her eyes, raised her Coke and touched it with Timov, "But we don't blame you, this is not something you can decide."
"Feel sorry"
Timov took a sip of Coke and asked again, "Where is Mr. Letts? You have finally got in touch with him, right? I personally handed the radio address and half of Aesop's Fables into his hands."
"What did you say?!" Qiqi and Dominic exclaimed.
"You didn't get in touch?" Timov was stunned and quickly explained what happened before.
After some communication between the two parties, everyone realized a problem. Captain Letts, who was hiding in the castle, seemed to be missing!
"Where should we go first?" Timov, realizing the seriousness of the problem, asked for the first time.
"castle!"
Everyone, including Wei Ran, immediately gave a unanimous reply. Even the girl Qiqi got out of the carport and sat side by side with Derwent, taking on the task of guiding the way.
From Timov's introduction, everyone also learned that the areas around the mill and the castle were now behind the line of fire between the Americans and the Germans, and belonged to the American rear, or to be more precise, the rear that was not concerned.
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Leader, they can go there openly and take a look in the name of helping Timov collect the bodies of his teammates.
Driven by Qiqi's guidance and Mr. de Winter's constant waving of the whip, the carriage ran along the bumpy dirt road for almost an hour, and then drove into the woods along an inconspicuous logging road.
Tegan Forest.
Nowadays, the fighting in this forest has basically ended. Even if you occasionally see some German soldiers, they all line up with their hands raised and walk silently outside the forest under the escort of American soldiers.
As the lanes changed again and again, the surroundings became quieter and quieter. Occasionally, there were some trenches where corpses were still lying, and they were all covered with a thin layer of snow.
Not only that, even this dense forest now has many forest clearings along the way that were burned due to various reasons.
Even when their carriage stopped hard next to the mill in the forest, there was an American flag on the roof of the mill, and on the wall of the mill, there was a sentence written in white paint: "Take everything."
All the silk is stuffed into the mustache's vagina." Such a threat with a lot of work.
Before everyone got out of the car, Timov stopped them, reached into his bag and took out two 1911 pistols and handed them to Derwent and Qiqi respectively. Then he took out two M3 submachine guns and put
One of them was given to Wei Ran.
Seeing everyone looking at him, Timov shrugged and said matter-of-factly, "Hold on to defend yourself. There are still some guerrillas hiding in this forest who are not ready to surrender, so it is not particularly safe."
Hearing this, Wei Ran took over the submachine gun and loaded the bullet skillfully, "I'll walk in front, Timov, how about you walk behind?"
"The rangers are responsible for leading the way." Timov took over the job of leading the way without hesitation, and was the first to jump out of the carriage and walk towards the mill.
"Is your leg okay?"
Dominic glanced blankly at Timov, who was walking smoothly, and then looked back at the forgotten crutch. His slightly immature face was already full of confusion.
"I'm pretending," Timov said while jumping up and down.
Seeing that Wei Ran and others were waiting for him to explain, Timov just smiled and walked into the mill full of shit. He carefully opened the floor and was the first to get into the frozen water channel.
, and also turned on the flashlight.
It wasn't until Wei Yan, who was walking at the end, had fastened the floorboard that Timov, who was walking in front, explained, "The day after I separated from you, I joined the No. 3 fortress, which is where Mr. Letts is.
The capture of the fortress.
That operation caused some minor injuries to my legs, but fortunately, a military doctor kindly gave me a certificate that allows me to take leave until March this year. "
Having said this, Timov sighed, "I was lucky enough to hide in the hospital in the rear, but less than two days later, the Ranger unit I was in was almost canceled because of the attack on Hill 400.
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"You're so lucky..." Wei Ran couldn't help but mutter.
"My luck is really good"
Timov patted the cold wall and said bitterly, "Now I can only continue to pretend to be lame with unhealed fractures, otherwise, I might be sent to a military court and shot.
And I don’t know where to go next. Instead of becoming a murderous hero, it’s better to continue to recover from my injuries for a while. If I’m lucky enough to survive until the war is completely over, I can take Buck home. Victor
,Dominique, can you help me find Buck's body? In fact, I have been looking for it for almost half a month."
Seeing Dominic looking at him subconsciously, Derwent, the farmer walking in the middle, nodded confidently, "Don't worry, you can definitely find it. I almost guessed which one it was after hearing your and Nadia's descriptions before.
It’s a creek."
"Are you familiar with this forest?" Timov asked in surprise.
"certainly"
Farmer Derwent replied matter-of-factly, "I have grown up outside this forest since I was a child. If there weren't so many landmines and crazy Germans here, I would have helped you put those things away two months ago."
Poor guy brought it back."
"I'll leave the matter of Buck and the two children to you." Timov thanked him gratefully, continued to bend his waist, and stepped on the thick ice to speed up his pace.
They crossed the waterway without any danger, and when they emerged from the half-open sluice gate, they noticed at a glance that there were still messy footprints on the surrounding snow.
Looking at each other, Timov picked up his submachine gun in no particular order. Using alternate cover, Timov and Wei Ran carefully moved toward the stone bridge across the moat.
As the distance got closer, they gradually noticed that the Americans seemed to have opened a forest passage diagonally to the side. Not only that, but even the dozens of barrels of fuel they had hidden so well seemed to have been taken away.
Already.
Seeing that everyone outside Derwent's room was looking at him, Timov made repeated promises, "Don't look at me like that. This is not what I did. Before today, I was always in the rear hospital, and I
I swear I didn’t tell anyone about what happened here.”
"Let's go see if Uncle Letts is here," Qiqi said before the young and impulsive Dominic could speak.
"Yes, it's more important to find someone first." Derwent also said.
Dominic finally nodded honestly, followed Wei Ran, crossed the stone bridge that was blown apart in the middle, and once again set foot on the ruins of the once extremely lively castle.
Fortunately, although the fuel stored outside the moat is gone, the changes inside the moat are not big - except for the pile of feces left by an unknown shitbag in the corner of the collapsed church, and the freeze on the wall.
Together, there is solid ice that smells like urine.
Entering the room to the right of the icon with great expectations, everyone found that although everything in this room was still there, it had been ruined. Not only were a large number of sheep bones discarded on the floor in front of the fireplace, but also various
Cigarette butts and wine bottles can be seen almost everywhere, and even some unopened cans are discarded on the single bed in the room.
The room next door, which originally belonged to Sophie, was ruined and looked like an aqua toilet filled with feces and urine. I didn't even know which anus was growing on her chest, and there were three big blisters on the bed board like tribute.
But there were no clues related to Mr. Letts in these two rooms.
"I'm going to look for you in the basement!" Before he could finish his words, Dominic ran out quickly.
Seeing Wei Ran and Qi Qi both looking at him, Timov casually hung the submachine gun on the door, "I'll go with him."
Watching the two people walk away, Qi Qi immediately looked towards the ceiling, while Wei Ran stared at the wooden table with a missing leg.
As for the farmer Derwent, the old guy is still outside, raising his neck and admiring the beautiful bronze statue.
With Qi Qi's help, Wei Ran carefully stepped on the table that was missing one leg, and gently pushed up the wooden board above his head. As expected, the man-made disaster in this mezzanine was not discovered.
Climbing up to the mezzanine with both hands, he discovered that on the table next to the wall, the BC1000 radio that had been dismantled into parts had been assembled together, and was even connected to the hand-cranked generator with wires.
In addition, there are two American oil stoves, radiators converted from gas mask cans, and a set of greasy Dutch ovens.
He opened the lid of the heavy cast iron pot and took a look inside. Wei Ran immediately frowned. In addition to a frozen hard boiled potato, there was also a Sauer 38H gift pistol and a
A ring from the rank army!
Look at the single bed in the corner. Although there is no one lying on it, there is a silver-covered cane and a crudely made STG44 assault rifle!
"Qiqi! Come up and take a look!" Wei Ran stretched out his hand towards Qiqi who looked up at him.
Upon hearing this, the latter immediately carefully climbed onto the three-legged table placed against the wall and allowed Wei Ran to pull her up.
"This is Uncle Letts' stuff!"
Qiqi, who was holding a flashlight in her hand, exclaimed when she saw the cane, "Why is it here?!"
"It seems that Uncle Letz has indeed been here," Wei Ran muttered with a frown, and at the same time began to wonder more and more where he had gone.
But when he was distracted staring at these things, Qi Qi suddenly said, "Brother Victor, do you still remember the letter I left you when I left with Sophie last time?"
"Remember" Wei Ran nodded subconsciously.
"I have something important to tell you."
Qiqi, who was kneeling on the floor, took a deep breath and looked at Wei Ran with her big eyes through the beam of the flashlight. After mumbling for a long time, she finally said, "Brother Victor, I..."
"Bang!" Just when Qiqi was about to say something, a crisp gunshot suddenly sounded outside the church.
"Plop!"
Less than a second passed between the gunfire and the gunshot. With a dull crash, Mr. de Winter, the farmer who was praying to the bronze statue outside the dilapidated church, also fell straight to the ground.
Frozen feces and snow on the floor!
"Uncle Derwent!"
Dominic's shrill screams followed, but soon Wei Ran and Qi Qi, who were still in the mezzanine, heard the unique noise of M3 submachine guns firing!
