"Click"

"Click"

"Click"

In the splashing water, the amplified footsteps passing through the waterway became clearer and clearer. The rainbow trout that had originally gathered in the waterway were also driven by the rapid footsteps and the lights that kept shaking with the footsteps to swim towards the gate.

Finally, when more than a dozen fish jumped out of the gate one after another and jumped into the moat covered with reeds with their plump tails flapping, Wei Ran also turned off the flashlight and got out sideways with difficulty.

"Is that you?" Sophie, who was hiding behind a pine tree outside the sluice, asked cautiously, holding an MP40 submachine gun.

"It's me, Sophie, I'm Victor, Victor Loew." Wei Ran responded as clearly as possible.

Hearing this, Sophie jumped out from behind the pine tree where she was hiding, and ran all the way to the floodgates. At the same time, she did not forget to say, "Come here and help!"

Before he finished speaking, Wei Ran had already climbed up and helped turn the metal wheel with a diameter of one meter, slowly closing the gate of the waterway amidst the squeaking noise.

It wasn't until there was only a fist-sized hole left at the gate that a parabola was pouring out that just hit a rock. Sophie, who was wearing a youth league uniform, let out a long sigh and shook her sore hand.

He raised his arm and asked, "Victor, is the journey going well? Is my dad okay?"

"Fortunately, the journey went smoothly and Uncle Letts is safe for the time being."

Wei Ran was not in a hurry to reveal the chained dog he had just seen across the street. He just took off the watch on his hand and gave it back to the other person.

"That's good, come with me." Sophie took the watch and put it in her pocket, then walked in the dark to the ruins of the castle not far away with Wei Ran.

After crossing a stone bridge covered with grass and passing through a locked iron gate, Sophie led Wei Ran around the mostly collapsed platform, then passed through the dead vines and shrubs covering the ruins, and finally got through.

We entered the church, which was mostly destroyed by the bombing.

Compared with the churches rebuilt in later generations, the only ruins of this building covered with weeds and vines that are still intact at this time are the bronze icon, the room behind him, and the bell tower.

As for the church itself, all that remained were three walls covered with vines and a collapsed dome that hit the floor and was also covered in grass.

"You can live here"

Sophie led Wei Ran into the room on the right side of the icon, pointed to a bed facing the fireplace and said softly, "Your backpack and your things are on the bed. The fireplace can still be used, but only

You can burn coal at night, but remember to cover the windows when using it, otherwise you will be discovered by American planes.

In addition, you can only use oil stoves during the day, and remember to put out the coal cover. The reason is the same. No matter whether Americans or our people are attracted, we have no chance of surviving.

Also, whether it is fuel or coal, it is best to save some, our reserves are not large, and no one knows how long this battle will last."

Glancing at Dominic who was sleeping soundly on the bed against the wall to the left of the fireplace, Wei Ran nodded slightly and then asked, "What about you? Where are you resting? And before..."

"Come with me"

Sophie didn't wait for Wei Ran to finish speaking, then took him out of the room and walked to the stairwell to the left of the icon. She closed the wooden door and walked to the small bed placed against the wall.

The heater converted from a US military oil furnace and a German gas mask can turned up the heat while explaining, "Originally I planned to let you live here, but a lot of my things here are, plus you live in

The person next door can help me keep an eye on the direction of the gate, so I’d better move here.”

"It seems I have no reason to refuse to live next door."

While Wei Ran accepted the other party's arrangement, he also used the weak light of the heater to take a quick look at the stairwell that only led to the basement.

In this small space, the stairs that originally led to the basement have been tightly covered by the wooden floor. Sophie's small bed is placed in this position. Under the bed, there are even more

wooden box.

Other than that, it's not that big

There are oil paintings hanging on the four walls of the room. Next to the bedside, near the only window that is tightly covered by an animal skin blanket, there is a wooden easel, with paintings on the tight canvas.

There was a goat and a kneeling lamb, and on the small table next to it, there were tubes of paint, a camera and a wooden box full of film!

Calmly looking away, Wei Ran couldn't help but ask again, "Sophie, where are those children?"

"They're not here"

Sophie yawned and said, "I'll take you to see them tomorrow. They've already gone to bed by this time."

"Okay, let's do it tomorrow, later..." "There's one more thing"

After yawning, Sophie patted her forehead, led Wei Ran to the room and walked outside the ruins of the building. She raised her finger and pointed in the direction of the sluice and asked, "Can you see the water column spraying out from the sluice?"

"can see"

Wei Ran nodded. Not only could he see the parabolic water column, but from such a distance, he could hear the white noise it made as it continued to hit the rocks.

"When you sleep in Dominic's room, you should pay attention to the water column."

Sophie wrapped her woolen coat tightly, handed a shiny whistle to Wei Ran and explained, "If this water column disappears, you must take your weapon as quickly as possible, open the floodgate and blow into it."

Sound the whistle."

"clear"

Wei Ran took the whistle and hung it around his neck. After a moment of hesitation, he said, "Sophie, there is one more thing."

"What's the matter?" Sophie asked as she walked back.

"Just before I entered the waterway, I met two chain dogs." Wei Ran paused and described in detail what happened before.

"Have they noticed the mill?" Sophie panicked and said, "I know, I will inform my father."

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "You're welcome if you need my help in any way," Wei Ran said as he followed her back.

"I won't be polite"

Sophie glanced at the rusty icon with dry vines climbing on it, then walked to her room and said, "Victor, good night, I will assign you a job tomorrow."

"Good night, Sophie"

Wei Ran watched the other party enter the stairwell to the left of the icon, and waited until the other party closed the thick door before stepping into the room on the right.

Closing the door as well, Wei Ran first glanced at Dominic, who was still sleeping soundly on the bed, and then at the coals burning in the fireplace. Only then did he have time to look at the room carefully.

Still compared with later generations, the biggest difference in this room is that the wooden stairs leading to the bell tower are gone. Not only that, even the top of the head is tightly sealed with wooden boards. If this is the first time here,

I'm afraid I didn't even realize that there was supposed to be a wooden staircase leading upstairs.

Apart from this change, the furnishings in this room are also extremely simple. A fireplace, two beds, a table and four chairs are all the furniture.

In addition, in the wooden box next to the fireplace, there is a tin bucket full of coking coal and a bucket of sand. There are also two American kerosene stoves, a dirty Dutch pot and a

Heating radiator converted from a gas mask can.

Gently pull out the wooden box under the bed. In it are stored potatoes, carrots, onions and other storable vegetables with soil in different categories. On the ceiling above your head, there are also strings of sausages hanging.

Gently pushing the wooden box back under the bed, Wei Ran took off his boots and clothes, got into the American duck down sleeping bag spread on the bed, and thought about it secretly. He knew that what he saw in front of him was by no means everything. Under the ruins,

There must be more hidden there.

There was no talking all night, and early the next morning, Wei Ran, who was still sleeping, was woken up by Dominic's exclamation. When he opened his eyes, Dominic, who was cheering, had already jumped on him.

"Victor, you are finally here! I have been thinking about you for several days!" Dominic cheered happily.

"How are you doing here?" Wei Ran

He sat up and asked, and couldn't help but yawn at the same time.

"It's very nice here, many of my classmates are here!" Dominic said happily, "Victor, get up quickly, we should go help sister Sophie make breakfast."

"Are many classmates here?" Wei Ran was stunned, and quickly got out of his sleeping bag, "I'll get up right away."

Upon seeing this, Dominic immediately picked up the bucket of sand from the box and covered the embers that were still burning in the fireplace with familiarity.

Taking this opportunity, Wei Ran also got dressed. He opened the canvas covering the window and took a look outside. The water column coming out of the sluice had been dyed golden by the rising sun, and at the same time, due to the temperature difference, there were steaming masses.

White mist.

Just as he was looking at the mist, a goat leaned over half of its head and looked at him curiously through the window.

Wei Ran, who was startled, subconsciously let go of the canvas that was being lifted by him. When he opened it again, the goat was already being pulled by its not-so-large horns by a boy about the same age as Dominic.

After walking aside, another boy of the same age came over with a small bucket and squeezed the goat's milk in a familiar way.

And further away, he could see boys working in pairs and two, using sticks and tin buckets to carry water back from the sluice.

"Let's go!" Dominic put down the small iron bucket in his hand, pulled Wei Ran and left the room.

Looking up at the slightly dazzling morning sun, Wei Ran looked around and found that there were only seven or eight boys who could be seen on the ruins. Basically, these boys who looked about fourteen or fifteen years old or even younger were

They had things to do. Some of them were busy milking goats, some were busy fetching water, and some were carrying small buckets filled with rainbow trout and staggered towards the side of the platform building.

.

When Dominic, who was supposed to be the guide, saw this, he immediately ran over and helped the other party lift the clean iron bucket.

Seeing this, Wei Ran simply followed behind him, observing the ruins covered with shrubs and vines as he walked along the path.

When he walked around to the side of the half-collapsed platform building, he saw at a glance that in a room that had not yet collapsed, in addition to a 200-liter oil drum, there were also hills piled against the wall.

The same coking coal.

In addition, there are several oil drums that have been thrown away in half in this room. Some of these oil drums are filled with water, some are filled with chopped firewood, and some are filled with dry sand.

The rainbow-scaled fish that Dominic and the boy of his age put in together were poured into one of the oil barrels filled with water and kept there.

Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, Wei Ran simply went to the next door to take a look. To his expectation, in this room, there were several girls of fourteen or fifteen years old, sitting together, talking and laughing, dealing with various matters.
To be continued...