As noon approached, the thick fog in the forest completely dissipated. Correspondingly, the sound of firefights from the front lines was much clearer than before.

But under the ruins of the castle, the children, led by Heike and the restless Host, lived a regular life as before.

Watching Sophie and Qi Qi, who had drunk a lot of wine, supporting each other into the room on the left side of the church, Wei Ran gently knocked on the door. "The door is not locked." Dominic spoke from inside.

Helped open the door.

"Nadia is gone?" Wei Ran asked before entering the door.

"I left a long time ago," Dominic replied with an embarrassed look on his face. As he spoke, he glanced in the direction of Sophie's room.

"Sophie drank too much. She doesn't know anything." Wei Ran said while suppressing a smile.

"You really helped me a lot!"

A relaxed smile immediately appeared on Dominic's originally worried face. He had no idea that right next door, two drunk girls were hiding by the door and eavesdropping on his conversation with Wei Ran.

"So you two didn't do anything in my bed?"

Wei Ran asked reluctantly. Of course he was reluctant. How could a man in his twenties have the heart to be curious about the nonsense between these idiots? But he couldn't bear it and the two girls next door insisted on letting him

Must ask.

Of course, Sophie and Qiqi were not really gossiping. They were just worried that the girl named Nadia would get pregnant. Obviously, in such an environment, it would be difficult for a pregnant woman of fifteen or sixteen to survive.

"of course not!"

Dominic's face turned red and he said, "Victor! What are you thinking! How could we do something like that!"

"Oh—" Wei Ran deliberately made a long note to stimulate the other party, "You really didn't do anything?"

"I really didn't do anything!" After Dominic finished speaking, he quickly ran towards the basement.

"I hope not," Wei Ran muttered to himself, walked into the room and closed the door.

Glancing at the charcoal fire that had been extinguished by the sand, he could only put the wooden box in his hand back to its original position and relight the noisy oil stove as a heating tool.

Although he didn't drink at the dinner party in the cave just now, and even the kettle with the wine became Sophie's personal property, he couldn't bear the thought that he followed Sophie like a hawk last night, so it would be good to catch up on some sleep at this time.

- After all, he wanted to see if Sophie would still use the magnet phone to communicate with Captain Letts at night. Both expected and unexpected, on this night, Sophie indeed secretly communicated with Captain Letts in the dark.

I rushed to the forest on the side of the floodgate and answered the phone again.

However, that night, Sophie waited for more than two hours on the phone, but there was still no ring in the forest. Not only that, Wei Ran heard the buzzing sound made by her shaking the power handle on the phone again and again.

Unfortunately, neither she nor Wei Ran heard the response they wanted to hear.

At nearly one o'clock in the night, Sophie stood up staggeringly, used a rope to drag the box containing the phone to the tree again, then walked to the sluice and sat down, hugging her knees and curling up into a ball.

Wei Ran, who had been watching from a distance, sighed. After hesitating for a moment, he finally got up and walked to the other party's side, took off his cloak and helped him put it on his body.

"Thank you," Sophie, who had been trembling, said tremblingly. "What's wrong?" Wei Ran asked knowingly.

"My father may be in danger," Sophie said with a tearful voice, "I can't contact him."

"Would you like to...go to the other side and have a look?" Wei Ran asked tentatively. "Yes! Yes! Go to the other side and have a look!"

Sophie stood up as if she had just thought of it, but soon she sat down again holding on to the valve of the water gate, "No, no, we can't go through, what if..."

"Sophie, the Americans are very close to us now."

Wei Ran started to turn the cold valve as he spoke, "To be objective, I'm afraid the people over at the fortress have no intention of paying attention to us anymore, and..."

"And what?" Sophie asked, grabbing the valve wheel.

"Besides, I don't mind getting killed either

Two chained dogs." Wei Ran said, stuffing the British army's kettle filled with boiling water into the other's arms, "Keep warm."

He hurriedly took the kettle, and the warmth transmitted through the canvas cover made the 19-year-old girl shiver subconsciously. At the same time, Wei Ran continued to spin the roulette wheel.

As the cast-iron gate was slowly lifted, a raging column of water spurted out, crashing onto the moat surface covered with a thin layer of ice.

In less than ten seconds, as the accumulated river water in the waterway was emptied, the gushing water column turned into a small waterfall. Sophie glanced at Wei Ran who had loaded the submachine gun with bullets, and gritted her teeth.

He took out the square box flashlight in his pocket and followed Wei Ran into the cold waterway.

Along the way, Wei Ran noticed that Sophie had been observing the wires fixed in the corner above her head, and even almost slipped a few times because she accidentally stepped on small fish and shrimp in the water under her feet.

Deliberately slowing down and accompanying the other party to carefully check the phone lines along the way, Wei Ran also signaled Sophie, who was walking behind, to turn off the flashlight when approaching the mill.

In the quiet night, with the sound of running water, Wei Ran carefully moved to the bottom of the floor, carefully pulled the wooden block blocking the floor, then slowly pushed the floor away, and climbed up into the mill in the dark.

After careful inspection, Wei Ran whispered, "Come up here, don't turn on the flashlight."

Hearing this, Sophie immediately stretched out her upper body and let Wei Ran pull her up.

Before she could stand still, the girl turned her gaze to the hydraulic millstone not far away. However, after some groping, she became increasingly panicked.

"Victor, I. I need to go to the cabin."

Sophie said, having returned the kettle and cloak to Wei Ran, "Can you help me guard this place? I'll be back soon."

"Tell me what you are looking for." Wei Ran grabbed the other person's wrist while taking the kettle and cloak.

After a moment's hesitation, Sophie whispered, "If my father didn't leave a message for me on the millstone, then he must be in danger. If he wants to send me a message, he can do it here in the mill or in that wooden house."

The only choice."

"Get your weapons"

Wei Ran said, handing the submachine gun to the other party, "Can you use it? I've already loaded the bullet."

"If I can use it, I can use it." Sophie subconsciously took the submachine gun, "My father taught me how to use it, don't worry."

"You also have these magazines." Wei Ran took off the magazine bag and hung it around the opponent's neck.

"I'll be back soon, within an hour at most!" Sophie promised tremblingly.

"You wait at the second turn of the waterway."

Wei Ran whispered, "Put the animal trap at the first corner. When I come back, I will flash your flashlight three times in a row and then call Dominic's name. If I don't call Dominic,

Name, you run back immediately and close the floodgates."

"Can..."

"Stop wasting time, remember what I just said?" As Wei Ran spoke, he had already pushed the other person to the edge of the opened floor.

"Remember..." Sophie replied in a panic. After all, she was just a 19-year-old girl, and now was the time when she needed a backbone.

"Repeat it again." As Wei Ran spoke, he already motioned for the other person to sit on the floor and put his head into the waterway.

"Hide...hide behind the second corner, and set up the animal trap in front of the first corner." Sophie paused, and jumped into the waterway obediently under Wei Ran's push, "You will meet me when you come back.

First flash three times, then call Dominic's name. If... if..."

"If what I call is not Dominic's name, you should run back immediately and close the water gate." Wei Ran added as he covered the floor and put the cloak on himself. "You will come back, right?

?" Sophie asked with a cry. "Of course"

Wei Ran put away the kettle and replied matter-of-factly, "I will be back soon. If someone enters the water channel before me and

If you step on the animal trap, go back and close the floodgate immediately."

"There is a telephone in the hollow of the fallen pine tree east of the mill." Sophie pressed her hand on the crack in the floor, tilted her neck and whispered, "If, if I close the water gate, you just need to put the phone through the hollow of the tree.

phone line, then call me and I will open the floodgates immediately."

"Okay, it's settled." After Wei Ran said this, he stood up and walked out of the mill empty-handed.

Under the floor, Sophie waited until Wei Ran's back completely disappeared from sight, then turned around in panic, stepped on the cold river water, and walked towards the bend of the river in the dark.

In the forest outside the mill, Wei Ran also quickened his pace, trotting all the way to the wooden house in the forest that served as a supply point. At the same time, he was also paying attention to chain dogs or Americans who might be hiding in the surrounding forest. Fortunately, until he

I rushed to the wooden house and didn't encounter any two-legged animals at all.

Even when he cautiously walked to the wooden house, he saw boxes of ammunition supplies. And inside the wooden house, there were many trophies from the US military.

After closing the door and turning on the flashlight, Wei Ran carefully inspected the trophies in the wooden house, but found nothing special at all. Moreover, there were no clues left by Leitz in this small wooden house.

.

"Click"

Just when he was thinking about whether to search for the ammunition boxes outside, there was a banging sound outside the door.

Wei Ran lay down subconsciously and put away the flashlight. After listening for a moment, Wei Ran reached out and carefully opened the door to a gap as wide as a finger. With a little moonlight, he could vaguely see that the door was in the right position.

Lying quietly was a wooden stick.

"Is it Sophie?" A voice asked cautiously from the back door of a pine tree not far from the cabin.

"Who are you?" Wei Ran asked while hiding in the wooden house, and grabbed two silly MK2 grenades from a wooden box beside him.

"Are you Victor?"

The person behind the tree obviously recognized Wei Ran, "Brother Victor, is that you? I am Okan, Uncle Otto's orderly Okan. We met before, do you remember?"

"Jonas's brother?" Wei Ran indirectly confirmed his identity, "I haven't given him the can and compass you asked me to give him yet. I plan to give them to him on his birthday."

"Really Brother Victor?"

Before he finished speaking, Okan jumped out from behind the pine tree with an MP40 submachine gun, and his excited tone also sounded like he was crying.

"It's really me, why are you here?" Wei Ran also put the grenade back into the wooden box containing the loot, stood up and walked out of the wooden house, while secretly keeping an eye out for enemies that might be hiding around him.

"I came here secretly in the evening."

Okan rushed to Wei Ran and said in a panic, "This morning, Uncle Letz and Uncle Jens were caught by chain dogs. Uncle Otto asked me to wait here. He said

Sophie or you will definitely come here."
To be continued...