The devil has dispersed, and also the temperature in the wooden house in the dark night, and the remaining hope.
The wooden house was in a mess, with tables, chairs and benches dismantled and thrown into the stove to squeeze out the remaining warmth.
"So the devil is real."
"It's not the devil, it's a person who is controlling everything."
"Who can do such a thing?"
"People like me."
The female hunter stood in front of the big hole opened by Makarov's pistol shot, and asked the mysterious lieutenant colonel next to her, "Can you tell us what your secret mission is now?"
The lieutenant colonel slowly shook his head. The huntress was not discouraged, "We are now grasshoppers on a rope."
"The less you know, the easier it is to survive." The lieutenant colonel said, "You have the possibility to survive, so ask as few questions as possible that you shouldn't know."
The female hunter was silent for a few seconds, lowered her voice and turned her back to the fire bed: "I still have a few questions I want to ask you."
"I won't necessarily answer."
"You will answer. Those demons are coming for those siblings."
"...Yes."
"Are they very special?" the huntress said, "About your secret mission and the 'delta' plan you mentioned before?"
The lieutenant colonel didn't answer.
"Without those siblings and those monsters, we will always be in this... strange circle?"
"This is a non-negotiable matter." The lieutenant colonel said, "The siblings will follow me all the way to Moscow."
"But we have to find a way to get out of here first. As you can see, we have run out of ammunition and food. Morale...if there is such a thing, it should be negative by now, right?" The huntress turned to look at
Dussa and Adam were sitting by the fire, both of them looking almost exhausted.
The arrival and departure of the devil did not affect the poisoning of the two people. The continuous vomiting and diarrhea filled the whole house with a sour smell. After drinking a lot of water to speed up metabolism, the two people did not go into shock at all, and their symptoms disappeared.
A little bit better.
"Did you poison me?" the lieutenant colonel looked at the huntress and asked calmly.
At the same time as this question was asked, Vika, who was sitting silently next to Dusha not far away, suddenly raised his head and stared at the huntress. However, neither the lieutenant colonel nor the huntress paid attention to him, because this man
The only possible threat was that the double-barreled shotgun had been seized by the female hunter and carried behind her back.
"no."
The female hunter shook her head, "I still haven't even figured out how the poisoner was poisoned... You said that their poisoning was caused by the venom of the arctic viper, but doesn't snake venom only work when it is injected into the wound?"
Will it be poisoned? Even if the high temperature of the stew does not destroy the snake venom protein, there should be no symptoms of poisoning unless you have a gastric ulcer if you eat it."
"Have you studied medicine?"
"Anyone who has been a hunter will understand these simple attempts." The female hunter paused and asked, "Before, were you negotiating with things outside?"
"Yes."
"what's the result."
"The negotiations broke down."
"You can see that." The huntress looked at the huge hole beside her, and then took another look at the ordinary Makarov pistol on the lieutenant colonel's waist. "Those things... want those children, right?"
"You also want those children...if my guess is correct, they are the 'delta' plan you call, the...miracle about the recovery of the motherland?"
The lieutenant colonel was silent for a long time, then nodded heavily, "Yes."
"I understand." Huntress said, "What should we do next?"
"Wait until daybreak and escape from here."
"How to escape? Now there are two more wounded and three patients. We can't move in the forest."
"Abandon the wounded." The lieutenant colonel glanced at the old hunter on the bed and the two poisoned patients by the fire.
"The current situation is indeed not optimistic." Even the female hunter did not offer any refutation of this opinion this time.
"Not only that, last night's negotiation was already an ultimatum." The lieutenant colonel said, "I used those two children as a threat, so they didn't break in."
"You mean as long as these two children are by our side, we will never be attacked by those demons?"
"Yes." The lieutenant colonel nodded slowly.
"So...they are our...hostages in disguise?" The huntress used an appropriate but weird word to describe the current situation.
The lieutenant colonel was speechless for a few seconds before nodding.
"What will happen to those two children if they fall into the hands of those devils?" the huntress asked, "Don't lie to me by saying they will be eaten alive. Although they look thin and tender, it does not mean that they are tenderer than fish.
tasty."
"I don't know." The lieutenant colonel turned his head and looked at the pair of siblings on the fire bed. "I just know that I need to take them back to Moscow."
"Your eyes were golden before, and that boy's eyes were also golden, including those monsters outside before... Can I understand that the motherland is conducting human experiments? It's like what the old people mentioned during World War II.
A human evolution experiment attempted by the German head of state?" The huntress lowered her eyes slightly, "Those siblings...are they the fruits of the motherland?"
The lieutenant colonel did not answer this question, because it was just a guess, and the huntress's idea was very close to the truth.
"What will happen to them when you take them back to Moscow?"
"I have no idea."
The huntress stretched out her hand to wipe the frost from her eyebrows, and she probably understood, "I thought you liked children, that's why you were so kind to them."
The lieutenant colonel glanced at the huntress and said nothing. Maybe the huntress said something stupid.
"What if we can't find a way to leave this forest?" The huntress asked again, "At that time, will you hand over these children to compromise with your enemy?"
"No," the lieutenant colonel said slowly.
"I will kill both of them first and then kill myself."
The huntress was stunned for several seconds, "So extreme?"
"This is the heritage of the motherland. If it cannot return to the motherland, it must be buried in the frozen soil forever and cannot fall into the hands of the enemy." There was a fire burning in the lieutenant colonel's eyes.
"What an indestructible will." The female hunter sighed, "But isn't it a bit unfair to the siblings? They never had the chance to decide their own destiny from the beginning to the end."
"The motherland will thank them." The lieutenant colonel said, "They were also born for the motherland."
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Vika stood up by the fire without saying a word. The eyes of the huntress and the lieutenant colonel fell on him. He just walked over and picked up the overturned kettle on the ground, and then took it from the ice bucket.
A pot of water is brought to a boil by the fire.
Dusha was so weak that she couldn't speak. Vika could only hear her calling her brother in a low voice, but he couldn't do anything. Hungry was already about to destroy a person's will, and now coupled with the influence of snake venom, if not
With sufficient food and medicine, Dussa's remaining time may not exceed twenty-four hours.
Vika waited blankly for the water in the kettle to boil. When he returned to Dusha with the kettle, he suddenly smelled a corrosive smell under the firelight. He lowered his head to look for it and only saw Dusha hanging her bag beside her.
The right hand is covered with gauze.
He peeled off the gauze on Dusha's right hand bit by bit, and sure enough he saw that the arrow wound inside was infected, festering and suppurating. Just looking at the wound made him sick and made him want to vomit. He didn't know if it was due to complications caused by snake venom. After touching it,
Touch Dusha's forehead, it's as hot as a kettle...
Vika wrapped the gauze back in despair, as if it had been wrapped tightly and disappeared, and it no longer existed. He took a deep breath, but no matter how he breathed, he felt as if a piece of gauze was missing.
"Water...water..." Dusha was still murmuring, her lips were chapped and bleeding.
Vika quickly lowered his head to pour water for his sister. He picked up a water glass from the ground, and subconsciously began to distinguish whether the water glass was his own or Dusha's. However, the moment this idea appeared in his mind, his whole body was filled with confusion.
Stiffened.
Water glass?
He reached out and touched his lips. Due to the low temperature, his lips had already been chapped with countless blood marks, and he could feel the sting just by touching them.
Snake venom, blood, water glass.
As if he suddenly figured something out, he suddenly raised his head and looked at the fire bed with bloodshot eyes.
—
"By the way." said the huntress looking out the window, "I suddenly have a question, are people like you with golden eyes... all resistant to freezing?"
The lieutenant colonel looked at the female hunter a few more times. She seemed to be sure that people with shining eyes were "extraordinary people", but this guess was not wrong. He replied, "The physique will be better than ordinary people, but it cannot be completely
Ignore the temperature difference.”
"Then you say...it's so cold outside, wouldn't the 'people' you call driving the monsters feel scared from the cold?" The huntress lowered her head and said, pondering.
"What do you mean?"
"I mean...it's been almost three days, right? There's no way he's been hiding in the coniferous forest for three days, right?" The huntress lowered her head and said slowly, "You said there was something behind all this nonsense.
He is a 'person', right? If he is really a 'person', he must eat, drink and keep warm, right?"
"...Is there a possibility that he has been hiding in a warm place and watching us quietly?"
"There are no other houses in this taiga."
"Yes, for example, he might be hiding in... this wooden house?" The huntress suddenly raised her head, her eyes bursting with light.
But when she raised her head, she saw the calm expression of the lieutenant colonel in front of her. She was stunned for a moment - the other person's expression seemed to be answering her, as if he had known about this for a long time.
"Wait a minute, have you been looking for... since you entered the house?"
The female hunter was stunned and subconsciously pulled the shotgun on her back. Just when she was about to say the next half of her sentence, she suddenly caught a shadow jumping up from the ground in the corner of her eyes and heading straight towards the fire bed not far away!
That was Vika. This man rushed towards the fire bed like a madman and threw himself at the siblings.
"It's you! It's you! It's you!" He yelled madly, "It's you who poisoned me! It's you who wants to kill everyone!"