"What if I say no?" Wei Ran turned around and asked with a smile at the edge of the birch forest next to the front line.

"Kena admires you very much." Lydia also joked, but immediately shuddered.

"This has nothing to do with Kena's worship."

As he spoke, Wei Ran bent down and picked up a slender birch pole that was not put into the sledge. He walked deep into the birch forest and put it on the trunk of a thick pine tree.

Put it aside, now we need to get a shelter to stay warm, otherwise we won't have anywhere to hide when it gets daylight."

"Will it be discovered by the German plane?" Lydia asked subconsciously.

"Probably not," Wei Ran said, having already picked up the second one and put it on the tree trunk.

Seeing this, Lydia also quickly picked up some thin wooden poles left over from the tree just cut down, imitating Wei Ran's example, and built them around the trunk.

Wrapping the two remaining blankets around the cone-shaped wooden pole and covering them, Wei Ran picked up the snow shovel he brought and buried the surrounding circle with snow, then shoveled out the snow inside and covered it with snow.

The roof of this simple shack was covered with a layer of pine needles.

After carrying the iron bucket used to transfer fuel into the shack, the two picked up some branches that were not worth taking back, chopped them into small pieces with an axe, and lit them in the iron bucket.

After waiting for a while, Wei Ran breathed a sigh of relief and said, "You take a rest here, I'll try it first."

Let’s see if we can find some horsemeat.”

As he spoke, he rummaged through his pocket, took out two pieces of chocolate and handed them to Lydia, who was still frighteningly thin.

"I haven't..."

"One of us must retain enough physical strength."

Wei Ran didn't wait for the other party to finish speaking and then stated his reason, "This way, if there is any accident, at least one of you can escape, and you are not really resting."

"What do you need me to do?" Lydia asked immediately.

"Watch Heaven"

Wei Ran pointed to the top of his head, then took off his goggles, wiping the water mist accumulated inside and saying, "If you hear the sound of an airplane, put out the bonfire immediately. This will affect whether the two of us will be attacked by the Germans."

Plane found."

Hearing this, Lidya opened her mouth and finally agreed to this arrangement of resting in disguise.

After putting on his goggles again, Wei Ran picked up the snow shovel and saw, put the ax on his waist, and followed his memory toward the direction where he last found the corpse of the army horse.

After such a long time, there were several snowfalls in the middle. The corpses of the army horses that were discovered by the dog Joseph had already been buried tightly. Even the abandoned trench had only a few traces left.

A furrow in the snow.

After digging five or six snow pits with a snow shovel, he finally got lucky and dug out a piece of army horse rib with no meat at all.

Upon seeing this, his face immediately showed a look of surprise, and he threw a piece of chocolate into his mouth extravagantly, chewing it vigorously, and waving the snow shovel even harder.

While he was busy, all the mutilated corpses of the army horses were dug out.

Although the internal organs and horse hide had been taken away the last time I came here, this corpse still had a complete spine and horse head.

After a moment's hesitation, he swung the ax and smashed off the thick ribs and sternum, leaving only a thick fleshy spine and a complete horse head connected to the spine.

"I'm sorry..."

Wei Ran muttered secretly, dragged the spine and put it aside, and then continued digging into the soft snow.

Soon, the body of the second military horse was dug out, but this time, he chopped off the horse's head more simply and simply and threw it behind him.

Next, the bodies of the third, fourth, and fifth military horses were dug out one after another, and there were also horse heads one after another in the area behind him.

After taking a breath, Wei Ran looked up at the snowflakes that were still falling with the strong wind. Seeing that there was still some time before dawn, he immediately started digging up the bodies again.

Soon, he dug out the sixth army horse corpse. He remembered clearly that this was also the last army horse corpse here.

However, before he could chop off the only fleshy head of the army horse corpse, a flash of fire flashed in the direction of the birch forest in the distance, and less than a second later, a dull explosion of "boom" was heard.

got into his ears.

Wei Ran stood up straight and was stunned for a moment. After reacting, Wei Ran threw away the snow shovel in his hand and ran like crazy towards the direction of the explosion.

Outside the city behind the battlefield, the strong wind blowing in his face was far colder and colder than in the city. The snow under his feet was also deeper than that in the city. As a result, he fell into the snow more than once and again.

Get up again and again.

As he stumbled, he got closer and closer to the location of the explosion, and he gradually saw the shack still emitting a faint smoke in his field of vision.

"Lydia!"

Wei Ran rushed to the shack and opened the blanket that served as a door curtain. As expected, except for the charcoal fire still burning in the iron bucket and the slightly pungent aroma of birch bark, there was no one he was looking for at all!

Wei Ran put down the blanket and turned around. After looking around, Wei Ran followed a series of footprints and chased him out.

Soon, he noticed a black area on the snow in the forest glade directly in front of him.

He followed the footsteps more and more cautiously to catch up, and soon found Lydia lying in the snow!

"Lydia!"

Wei Ran rushed over quickly, but with just one glance, he saw that the girl's two hands were gone from the elbows, and her face and chest were also a mess of blood and flesh.

"Victor..."

After being held in Wei Ran's arms, the girl said with difficulty, "The can...don't...open it, it will...explode..."

"I heard it, the cans are going to explode!"

While repeating what the other party had just said, Wei Ran hurriedly took out the first aid kit he had been carrying with him ever since he picked it up. He took out a shot of Demerol distributed by the German army to pilots and injected it into Lydia, and then took out another shot.

The rope tightly tied the elbows of her hands to prevent her from dying from excessive blood loss.

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Lidia took a deep breath and tried with difficulty to reach out to her chest with only half of her remaining hand, "The hearth...take it away...it's very warm...Victor, give it to you...give it to you"

Now, you and the children...have to...survive..."

"Lydia? Lydia?!"

Wei Ran, who had just found the bandage, stopped all his movements, looked down at the girl lying in his arms, lowered his head tremblingly, and put his ear to her bloody mouth and nose to listen. But that call

In the howling cold wind, he couldn't hear even a trace of the girl's breathing.

"Crack!" The gauze in his hand and the styptic powder he had not yet torn open fell onto the snow splattered with blood.

Carefully putting his hand into Lidya's arms, he could still feel the girl's body temperature.

He gently pulled out the body stove that the children had found. At this time, the cloth bag containing the body stove was stained red and soaked with Lydia's blood.

But except for a little bit of body temperature inherited from Lydia, this hearth furnace is not releasing any heat at all - this kind and strong girl is as stingy as Mrs. Via, which makes people feel distressed!

"This body stove is really warm..."

Wei Ran murmured to himself and put the blood-stained body stove into his arms, carefully put down the body, picked up the brown Budyonni hat from a distance, helped her put it on again, and also helped her to block it.

His eyes were bloody and bloody from being bombed.

He turned to look at the opened German airdrop box not far away.

The box is less than half a meter square and more than a meter long. On one end hangs two sets of intertwined speed parachutes, and on the other end is a T-shaped metal handle. On both sides of the box, there are two more that are almost as long as the box.

sleigh.

But the box that had been opened contained German cans one next to another!

Looking at Lydia who had died in her arms, Wei Ran secretly sighed. These cans were undoubtedly thrown here intentionally by the Germans. They probably did so in the hope that hungry Soviet soldiers would throw them away.

The can was pulled back to the position, shared with the surrounding comrades, and then when they opened the can like Lydia...

In fact, Wei Ran from later generations knew better that more such mine cans were actually air-dropped onto the ice highway on Lake Ladoga, where there were more hungry people who could not resist the temptation of food.

But he never expected that such a vicious trap would be dropped on the front line of Leningrad.

After a moment's hesitation, he poured out the cans in the airdrop box as quickly as possible, then carried Lidya's body and the broken limbs into the airdrop box, and dragged them back to the shack.

On the edge.

After a slight hesitation, he still hardened his heart and hugged Lydia's body tightly into the warm shack. Then he picked up the saw and felled the birch trees that could be seen everywhere around him alone, sawing them one by one into about one meter.

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While he was busy, the sky gradually became brighter, but the wind and snow became more and more intense. As a result, the front line became extremely quiet, but this quietness made Wei Ran even more tormented.

After sitting in the shack and escaping for a long time, Wei Ran finally put Lidya's body into the small airdrop box, and then stacked thick or thin logs horizontally on top of them, and carefully tied them with ropes.

Well and covered tightly with a blanket.

Finally, he picked up the six horse heads and a spine, wrapped them in blankets and tattered umbrella cloth, and threw them to the top. Wei Ran took a big sip of honey and held it in his mouth, dragging the heavy airdrop box with both hands.

, braved the cold wind and the goose-feather university, and walked step by step towards the besieged city of Leningrad.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, he passed by the gate of the zoo. After a short pause, he took steps again, walking step by step towards the north of the city.

Before noon, he once again encountered the corpse of a German pilot hanging from a wooden beam by his own hands, crossed the frozen Neva River, and passed by the abandoned basement where Mrs. Via was buried.

But when he saw that he was only a hundred or ten meters away from the abandoned school playground, he stopped.

After a long time, Wei Ran took another step and walked to the door of the small cement house step by step with great difficulty.

Before he could knock on the door, the little girl named Olga opened the door that was locked from the inside and came out with her two classmates, Ivan and Sasha.

"Victor, why are you back so soon?"

Olga asked in surprise, "Sister Kona said that you and sister Lidya won't be able to come back until night! Where is sister Lidya?"

"The German planes were not going to come out in this weather, so we came back early."

As Wei Ran spoke, he handed the baggage with the horse head to the young man named Ivan. At the same time, he changed the subject without leaving a trace and asked, "Kena and the others are back already?"

"came back!"

The girl named Sasha and Olga helped unload the logs one by one and said, "They are catching up on their sleep in the basement and are going to pick you up in the evening. Where is Sister Lidya?"
To be continued...