In this night's dream, Wei Ran returned to his childhood grandma's home, back to the small fishing village of Baiyangdian with beautiful fish and water, and went around the stove to help his grandma make delicious skin jelly.

However, before the dream ended, and before he could eat the hand-made skin jelly in the dream, Wei Ran woke up inexplicably.

He looked around with some confusion. At this time, the children were still sleeping soundly next to each other. The cast iron stove in the middle was still burning hot. Even the enamel kettles placed on the side of the stove were also burning.

Still steaming slowly.

Silently getting up, Wei Ran walked to the edge of the stove, gently opened the cast iron lid with an iron hook, first looked at the charcoal fire still burning inside, and then threw a few pieces of firewood inside before starting again.

The fire sealing lid was closed.

Returning to his position, Wei Ran was about to lie down when a whistle that made him uneasy came from outside. Almost at the same time that his face changed dramatically, a loud "boom" was heard from the direction above his head.

There was a loud sound, followed by a tremor like the earth was shaking!

"Wow!"

As he watched helplessly, a crack opened in the corner of the basement, enough for the cold wind mixed with masonry and rubble to rush in. The flying earth and rocks also hit the children who were still sleeping soundly.

Wrapped in blanket.

For a time, exclamations, screams, cries and even the sound of shelling coming from the cracks and the slap of the building collapse hit everyone's eardrums, and Wei Ran's hoarse roars and shouts also

Being completely covered up.

"Hide in the corner! Hide in the corner! Open your mouth!"

While Wei Ran reminded loudly and in vain, he picked up a little guy who was about six or seven years old and was crying loudly. He almost roughly used the blanket that the little guy was wrapped in to wrap around his chest and back.

He walked around in a circle, then pushed him to the corner, pinched his cheeks with his hands to signal him to open his mouth.

He took out his flashlight and shined a beam of light that shook the only three other adults in the room, and then the older children headed by Alexander, and finally aimed the beam at the little guy who had been placed by him.

Soon, Lydia and Mrs. Via were the first to react, and Kena and Alexander also understood what he meant.

With the help of these people, more and more children were wrapped in blankets around their backs and pushed to the corner, and were signaled to open their cheeks.

At the same time, Wei Ran also opened the door. However, before he could step out, there was a rain of bricks outside. Those large and small bricks, those large and small pieces of broken walls, and even the third floor

The two frozen corpses were all smashed down, and in a very short time, they piled up in a small pile in the open space outside the door.

Without any time to think, he immediately closed the door again, rushed to the stove as quickly as possible, and used hot water from the enamel kettle to extinguish the burning charcoal fire in the cast iron stove.

Amidst the steaming water vapor and dust, the cast iron stove that was burning red could not withstand the sudden change in temperature and cracked a gap that was enough to make it scrap. The only light source in the already narrow basement was left in Wei Ran's hands.

The beam of a flashlight.

Fortunately, this makes it easier for him to use the beam to guide children and adults to designated places to hide.

But at this time, the artillery fire coming down from outside showed no sign of stopping. The gap above the head was getting bigger and bigger, and more and more ruins of collapsed buildings were falling on the ground.

"Wow!"

There was another heart-shaking collapse sound. Wei Ran subconsciously hit the beam, but he vaguely noticed that a figure seemed to have been hit and fell into the smoke.

Regardless of the danger, Wei Ran and Ke Na rushed over indiscriminately. When they re-entered the steaming smoke, they found that Mrs. Weiya was crushed by a broken wall that was about half the size of a door panel.

The entire lower body.

But even so, she still protected the baby Galina in her arms.

Seeing Wei Ran and Ke Na rushing over to try to dig themselves out, the old lady, who was so thin that she had just had a full meal last night, ignored the dark red blood gushing out of the corners of her mouth, and her hands, which were as skinny as bones, were dead.

He grabbed Wei Ran's belt tightly, waited for him to put his ear towards him, and immediately said intermittently, "Protect... protect the children, Victor, they... are handed over to you, no, no eating... human flesh. Ke

Na…”

Hearing this, Wei Ran sighed secretly, stretched out his hands to take over the tightly wrapped Galina, and at the same time stretched out Kona who was trying to lift the broken wall, and asked her to put her ears close to her.

.

"Kona, protect...protect the child, live...survive..." As she said this, Mrs. Via tremblingly took out a small TK pistol from her arms and handed it to the tearful Ke Na with difficulty.

Na.

Finally, she glanced at Ke Na and Wei Ran, and then at the corner where the howling could be heard in the darkness in the distance. Mrs. Weiya waved her hands with satisfaction and murmured silently, "Go, go."

"boom!"

Just at this moment, there was another loud noise outside the cracked gap. Upon seeing this, Wei Ran, who was holding the child in his arms, immediately grabbed Ke Na's wrist, forced her to hide in the corner, and pushed her away.

and the baby Galina in her arms.

"Grandma Via! Grandma Via!"

Ke Na, who was being held down by Wei Ran, cried hoarsely, but her cry was completely covered up by another collapse sound coming from the direction of Mrs. Via.

I don't know if it was ten seconds or a minute, or even longer, but the position of the bombardment finally moved away from where they were, and the one-meter-wide crack above their heads finally stopped falling.

The bricks and tiles were broken. But this originally warm basement was completely destroyed.

"Kona! Victor! Are you still alive?" Lydia shouted in panic and asked in the darkness.

Hearing this, Wei Ran immediately fired the flashlight beam, and then looked in the direction. Like an old hen protecting her chicks, Lidya squatted on the ground with open arms, protecting the children huddled in the corner behind her.

It seemed...as if she could block falling bricks and concrete blocks with her thin arms.

"We're still alive!"

Wei Ran responded loudly, "Kena, Galina, and I are all still alive. What about you? Are any of you injured? Alexander! Are you there?"

"I'm here!" Alexander was the first to respond before Lydia could speak. "There are five of us here, and each of us is holding a younger brother or sister."

"I have five children here," Lydia responded immediately, "We are all still alive! Mrs. Via? Where is Mrs. Via?"

As soon as these words came out of her mouth, Ke Na, who was still protected by Wei Ran, trembled subconsciously.

"Mrs. Via..."

"She was buried," Wei Ran said, having already stood up and pointed the beam of his flashlight at the place where Mrs. Weiya was buried.

After a while, the pile of broken bricks and tiles was almost one meter high, and only one of Mrs. Via's arms was still exposed.

After a brief period of sluggishness, Lydia, the older children, and the younger children all gathered around, hurriedly trying to move away the broken bricks and dig out their Grandma Via.

"How could this happen? How could this happen..."

Ke Na, who came to help, repeated over and over again with a tearful voice, "Didn't we just eat for the first time last night? Didn't we already have food? Why are you torturing us like this?"

"Kona, Lydia."

Wei Ran grabbed the two girls' belts and easily pulled them back a meter, "Now is not the time to dig her out, we need to let the children survive first!"

"Let me go!" Kena cried, turning around and trying to break free from Wei Ran's restraint.

"If we don't find a warm place soon, we will all freeze to death soon."

Wei Ran pointed the beam of his flashlight at the young girl's eyes, forcing her to cover her eyes with her hands while continuing, "We now have 16 children to take care of, and we need to do everything we can to keep them alive.

There needs to be a warm shelter, the fire needs to be rekindled, and their bellies need to be fed like they were last night.”

Seeing that the girl gradually calmed down and stopped struggling, Wei Ran looked at Lidia again, and then he looked at the older and younger children who were still trying to dig out Mrs. Via, "Alexander, take the

Your people are responsible for dressing our brothers and sisters and wrapping them in blankets. We need to find a warm enough place as soon as possible before we freeze to death. We also need to load all our food and drink into the car before others come over.

take away!"

After saying that, he directly loosened the belts of the two girls and continued to speak loudly, "We have a lot to take away, including our clothes, blankets and even the pine needles and dead grass spread on the floor. We cannot waste them. We also need to take them with us."

Carry firewood and food next door, so kids, I need your help."

"Victor, what should I do with Grandma Via?" Alexander, who has become the king of children, stood up and asked.

"When we survive, if we survive."

Wei Ran gave a big premise, and then continued, "We will take Grandma Weiya away when the time comes, but right now, we have to give priority to ensuring that those who are still alive continue to live."

"I..." Alexander gritted his teeth, "I listen to you, we all listen to you."

"What about you?" Wei Ran looked at Lidia and Kena. "What do you need us to do?" Lidia was the first to express her attitude. "Lydia is responsible for taking care of the baby Galina and the youngest ones.

child"

Wei Ran paused and continued, "In addition, I am responsible for instructing Alexander and the others to take away everything they can from this house, and by the way, think about where we should move to."

After saying that, Wei Ran looked at Ke Na who was still crying and said, "You and I go next door to check the supplies and take away everything you can." Before he finished speaking, Wei Ran handed over the flashlight.

Lydia, after searching through his memory for a while, found the candlestick with half a candle fixed under the smashed table.

Taking out the lighter and lighting the candlestick, Wei Ran walked out of the room on his own. After a moment of hesitation, Ke Na took one last look at Mrs. Wea who was still buried underneath. Finally, she followed Wei Ran out of the basement and walked close to the corner.

next door.

The round of shelling just now, as expected, caused cracks to appear on the walls of the basement, and even the door tilted to one side, which saved the trouble of unlocking it.

Pushing open the wooden door that was useless but could still be used as firewood, Wei Ran lit a candle and walked into the basement.

Fortunately, although the top of the head also collapsed, the wooden table, as well as the boxes and musical instruments placed on the table were intact, and were only covered with a thick layer of dust.

"Move them all out"

Wei Ran arranged the work for Ke Na without any explanation, then placed the candlestick on the table out of the wind, picked up the iron bucket filled with coking coal, and picked up the locked wooden box. By the way, he also put the

His personal wine bottle was stored in a metal book.
To be continued...