When he returned to the buoy, the card game around the table was still continuing. Three men of different nationalities and unable to communicate directly in the same language also helped each other translate what they said and had a slightly troublesome conversation.

comminicate.

"Mr. Victor, is Heidi up there?" Spear turned and asked.

"Yes, she wanted to have some quiet time by herself, so I gave him the job of standing guard."

Wei Ran said calmly, while also picking up a box of matches on the table and relighting the extinguished cigar.

"How's the weather outside?" Spear continued.

"The sea is calm, but the sea fog is very thick." Wei Ran blew out a cloud of smoke and pointed to the oil lamp above his head and said, "It is much thicker than the smoke in the buoy."

"The wind stopped..."

Spear frowned and muttered worriedly. Obviously, this was not good news for this Jew who was in urgent need of northeast wind.

"Mr. Spear"

Julian tapped his knuckles on the table and said in French, "It's your turn."

"Sorry" Spear apologized and focused on the card game.

Not long after, Spear was eliminated, took out a cigarette from his cigarette case and threw it into the lid of the lunch box in the center of the table.

"Mr. Victor, could you please help me climb up to the deck?" Spear asked Wei Ran, "It's too cold outside. I want to replace Heidi and come down to keep her warm."

"sure"

Wei Ran nodded happily, ignoring Phil and Julian who were still fighting for the three cigarettes in the gambling pool, and helped Spear climb onto the deck with a rope.

"Heidi, go down and warm yourself up."

Spear walked out of the watchtower and said, "I also lost to those two gentlemen. Let me stand guard next."

"I'll accompany you," Heidi, whose eyes were still a little red and swollen, said with a smile.

"No, go down."

Spear hugged Heidi with his uninjured hand, then looked back at Wei Ran, and then said, "I just want to have a chat with Mr. Victor."

Hearing this, Heidi glanced at Wei Ran subconsciously, finally nodded, and walked into the watchtower alone.

It wasn't until Heidi's figure completely disappeared from the watchtower that Spear looked at Wei Ran and said, "Mr. Victor, can we have a chat?"

Talk to me no matter what...

Wei Ran muttered to himself and at the same time closed the watchtower hatch behind him, "What do you want to talk about?"

"Did Heidi just say something to you?" Spear asked directly.

"Talked something"

Wei Ran walked up to the other party and suddenly said in Hebrew, "She confessed about throwing the radio into the sea."

"Do you know Hebrew?" After a brief moment of confusion, Spear also switched to Hebrew and asked a new question.

"As I said, I am a linguist." Wei Ran spread his hands and said.

"I thought you were joking." Spear shook his head.

"You are indeed joking." Wei Ran spread his hands again, "Actually, I am also a Jew."

"What did you say?" Spier was even more surprised this time, "Are you Jewish too?"

"Believe it or not," Wei Ran said nonchalantly.

"All right"

After a brief surprise, Spear also regained his composure, and said slightly helplessly, "I have guessed that Heidi will confess this matter to you, so Mr. Victor, what are you going to do with me and Heidi?"

"Someone has to pay the price for this, right?" Wei Ran said ambiguously.

"I asked him to throw the radio out."

Spier said calmly, "This is good for us all. If the damn Germans were to contact the rescue team, we would have no chance of surviving."

"Maybe you and Heidi won't"

Wei Ran said bluntly, "But maybe Phil and I are pilots, and our value is far higher than yours. At least we can be treated like prisoners of war. If we can be rescued in time, even the Germans will be good."

"What's the value of a pilot?"

Spear's face showed an expression of helplessness that he had expected, "So is this why you and Mr. Phil didn't kill Julian?"

"You asked me to stay here just to talk about this?" Wei Ran deliberately stopped this meaningless topic.

"of course not"

Spear looked at the thick fog stirred by the breeze on the sea, and said in a disjointed way, "The northeast wind has become smaller. Soon, the ocean current in this strait will return to its original shape, flowing from southwest to northeast, and will

Pushing us back to the French coastline.

Except that Mr. Julian will be saved, we will all be captured by the Germans. Believe me, Mr. Victor, you and Mr. Phil will not enjoy the treatment you think as prisoners of war."

"What do you want to say?" Wei Ran asked noncommittally.

"Let's make a deal," Spear said, turning around. "A deal that keeps us all alive."

"Do you want to kill Julian?" Wei Ran asked almost certainly.

Spear nodded candidly, "Our interests are the same, aren't we? As long as we kill him, I can find a way for all of us to reach England faster."

"And so that you can monopolize those medicines?" Wei Ran's words became more and more straightforward.

Hearing this, Spier smiled indifferently, "If you think so, you can throw the remaining medicines into the sea after killing Julian, or even throw me into the sea."

"Why?" Wei Ran looked at the other party suspiciously.

"I just want Heidi to survive," Spear gritted his teeth, "She must survive, we...she already has my child."

"What did you say?" Wei Ran looked at the other party in astonishment.

"She has been hiding this from me."

Spear's face showed a look of happiness, "She thought I didn't know yet, but in fact her sister had told me a long time ago."

This... Wei Ran had the illusion that his brain's thinking and logic were in confusion for a moment.

"So I must let her reach England alive," Spiel paused, then added, "at all costs."

"Including Heidi's sister?" When Wei Ran said this, he chose to look directly into the other person's eyes.

"What?" Spier was stunned and looked at Wei Ran in confusion.

"Tell me about Vanessa. How did she separate from you?" Wei Ran asked straightforwardly.

"I'm sorry about Vanessa"

Spear sighed, "I don't know why she cut the rope to prevent us from getting separated. Heidi and I searched for a long time at the mouth of the A River. Later, our oxygen was really not enough, so I was forced to take him with us.

Heidi left."

"Did she cut the rope?" Wei Ran looked at the other party's eyes suspiciously, but he couldn't smell the stink of lies.

"I guess she wanted to give Heidi and I a chance to escape."

There was a trace of uncertainty and sadness in Spear's tone, "There were too many pursuers on the shore at that time. Those...Mr. Victor, what is that look in your eyes? Are you doubting me?"

"Aren't you worthy of suspicion?" Wei Ran asked with a normal expression, "You just said it yourself, you will do whatever it takes."

"I swam in front of the three of us!"

Spear gritted his teeth, forced himself to calm down and explained, "How do I get around Heidi and cut Vanessa's rope? And why should I do that! Just because I am a Jew?"

"I can't tell whether what you said is true or false." Wei Ran took a step back and spread his hands, "and I don't care what the truth is."

"So are we going to work together?"

Spear took a deep breath, suppressed his anger and asked, "If we can kill the German pilot before noon, I will have the confidence to allow everyone to arrive in the UK before tomorrow morning!"

"Where do you get your confidence?" Wei Ran asked flatly.

"The weather gives me confidence!" Spear answered in a suppressed voice, "So do you want to cooperate? Even if you kill me after arriving in England, it doesn't matter if you kill me before landing."

"I don't want to answer your invitation so quickly." Wei Ran pointed to the top of his head, "before the weather turns bad."

"The weather will turn bad soon." Spear looked up at the sky covered by thick fog, and the anxiety in his tone could not be concealed.

"what are you worried about?"

"I'm worried about the weather tomorrow"

Spear took a deep breath and said like a prophet, "The weather will get better around noon tomorrow, and the weather will be good in the next few days.

The German bomber fleet overhead will be as numerous as before, and the water will flow back to the northeast.

We...we will also be sent back to France."

"How did you..."

"Mr. Victor, can you lend me your pen?"

Spear seemed to have given up on persuading Wei Ran, and instead made a new request, "I saw Mr. Julian return the pen to you before breakfast. Can you please lend it to me?"
To be continued...