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As the fourth short day came to the hunter's cabin in the canyon, the raging snowstorm outside the window also began to decline visibly. On the contrary, everyone in the hunter's cabin became a little overwhelmed after waking up.

Karl was lying on his wolfskin blanket, looking at the much brighter window not far away, and complained with a frown, "Why did it stop so soon? We have just become friends."

Although the other German soldiers could not understand what Karl was saying, they made the same complaint. Conon, who had performed "Troika" on Flory's harmonica last night, already looked like a scumbag.

Like a man, he got up from his wolfskin blanket with an expressionless face, put on his clothes carefully, and then stood in front of the window and looked at the snowy scene outside.

"It's time for this friendship to end..." Dr. Jason sighed, and stood up silently and started to get dressed.

Wei Ran and Markla's father and son looked at each other. The three of them did not say anything after all. They had never experienced what Konon went through when Leningrad was besieged, so they were not qualified to give him any advice at this moment.

"I'm going to see if the trap has caught any prey."

Karl once again chose to escape and the hunter's cabin became oppressive again. Without waiting for anyone else to say anything, he opened the wooden door wrapped in animal skins and ran out.

But this time, neither his father Markla nor Flory, who had become friends with him, chose to follow him.

"It's time for us to go." After getting dressed, Dr. Jason shook hands with Markla and Wei Ran respectively, and finally extended his hand to Konon.

"Thank you for the surgery."

Conon and Dr. Jason held hands together and said calmly, "After you walk out of this hut, we will be enemies. You must be loyal to your motherland, and I must be loyal to mine."

"I hope that after the war, we can have the opportunity to sit together as friends again." Doctor Jason paused here and finally just added, "Remember to ask Victor to change your dressing on time."

Konon nodded and decisively let go of his hand.

"Jason, take our sleigh and a reindeer away." Markla pressed the wooden door and said, "For the sake of us still being friends, please accept this gift!"

"What should you do?" Dr. Jason asked subconsciously.

"There's a broken sled in the utility room."

Markla said in a relaxed tone, "As long as we repair the sleigh, we can continue to pursue you. And don't forget, we also have an anti-tank weapon. Your chances of winning are not great."

Dr. Jason nodded after hesitating for a moment, "Markla, if you can, please help me preserve the bodies of Luca and Yannick. If there is a chance in the future, I will come back and take them away. If... or just

Let them stay here!"

"Don't worry," Markla solemnly promised, "They will always be here waiting for you to come back and pick them up."

Dr. Jason turned his head and glanced at Konon, who had been staring at him. He stood up straight and saluted with a military salute, "Thank you."

Konon did not return the gift, but nodded inconspicuously.

"It's time for us to set off." Before Dr. Jason finished speaking, Flory immediately helped a wounded man out of the hunter's cabin.

Under the watchful eyes of Wei Ran and others, Dr. Jason and Flory took the three wounded and not many supplies, each picked up their weapons and got on the sleigh, and left with heavy steps, dragged by a reindeer.

The coniferous forest where the hunter's cabin was located finally disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Karl, move the sleigh out of the utility room. We should get ready to go." Markla said, picking up the ax, lifting several wooden floors and walking into the utility room.

At the same time, Wei Ran also put away the camera that had just photographed the backs of Dr. Jason and others, and returned it to its original owner, Konon.

Amidst the clanking sound, the entrance to the utility room's cellar was completely sealed by the floor, and the dusty sleigh was fixed by Karl with a temporary leather rope cut out of a wolfskin blanket.

On the remaining reindeer.

"Let's go, it's time for us to set off."

Markla raised one end of the anti-tank weapon, while Konon raised the other end. As for the gas, he picked up the rolled animal hide and closed the wooden door of the hunter's cabin after going out.

However, just as their dilapidated sleigh was about to enter the canyon, a clear and audible exchange of fire suddenly came from directly in front of them. Before they could react, the snow on the rock walls on both sides of the canyon suddenly

It began to slide amidst the repeated echoing sounds of gunfire, and finally galloped down like a wild horse!

Amidst the loud "rumbling" sound, more and more snow fell from the rock wall, and the speed became faster and faster. The steaming snow obscured all the sight in the canyon. The sleigh was originally pulling a sleigh and was about to enter.

The reindeer in the canyon did not need to shout at all, but turned around and ran back to the flat land at the edge of the forest, making restless deer calls.

"What's going on?" Konon asked loudly, frowning.

"Even the reindeer knew it was an avalanche!" Carl seemed to have returned to his unpleasant venomous tongue from a few days ago. Conon choked on his words and wanted to throw him into the canyon.

The avalanche came and went quickly, and it took only seven or eight minutes for the avalanche to completely recover. Without any prompting, Karl shouted to the reindeer and rushed into the canyon that was elevated several meters, looking for their destination aimlessly.

enemy.

However, just when the sled cart was halfway through, the reindeer pulling the cart refused to leave. It just pawed anxiously on the spot, using its mouth to dig into the snow under its feet, and at the same time made a burst of deer calls.

"The reindeer they took away and the one they left behind are a pair." Markla sighed and explained, "It seems that they encountered an avalanche here."

Before Konon could say anything, Wei Ran, who had been observing the front, immediately reminded him, "Be careful, someone is coming from ahead."

Hearing this, the others subconsciously picked up their weapons and looked at the two sleighs that were getting closer and closer in front of them.

About three or four minutes later, two sleighs ran over from the other end of the canyon and stopped less than ten meters away from them. Both sleighs were pulled by two reindeer, and one of them was sitting on

Three people dressed as Finnish Civil Guards had a Lati L39 anti-tank gun on their sleigh. On the other sleigh, except for the driver who seemed to be a local, the remaining two people were

They were all wearing Soviet military uniforms, and in the middle of them was a mortar.

"That sleigh full of Germans just now was your prey?" One of the Soviets stood up from the sled and asked apologetically.

“Indeed it’s ours”

Markla hid her sadness and said with regret on her face, "We have been chasing them for several days, and we are about to capture them alive."

"There is no need for the Germans to survive. Killing them all is the simple way." The Soviet man said in Finnish in a calm tone, "Are there any traces of Germans behind you?"

Markla held down Karl who was about to say something, shook his head and replied, "No, the rest will be killed."

"In this case, we won't go in." The Soviet man waved his hand and signaled the Finn driving the car to change direction.

The Finns in the other car obviously saw something from the whining reindeer, but in the end they just sighed in despair and silently shouted to the reindeer to follow the previous reindeer car.

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"Let's go too"

Markla sighed, picked up a Mosin-Nagant rifle on the sled and poked it hard on the snow, "In the summer, this canyon will become a seasonal river, and all the snow will

They will all turn into rivers, and the friends we once had will disappear completely."

"Dad, should we..."

"No"

Markla obviously knew what her son wanted to do, "When a person dies, he is dead. Even if the body is preserved, it has no meaning."

Everyone on the sleigh fell silent one after another. Apart from the howling cold wind, only the sad roar of deer echoed repeatedly in the narrow and deep canyon.

Soon after, the sleigh walked out of the canyon. When it passed the half-track ambulance that was mostly buried in the snow, Conon, who had been silent all the way, suddenly said, "Doctor Jason has expected it."

They can't go back."

Upon hearing this, Karl immediately shouted to the slowly moving reindeer to stop, and turned his head to look at Conon in confusion.

The latter took out a cloth bag from his arms and opened it, revealing the belongings of the wounded Yannick. "He asked me to send these relics back to him if there is a chance after the war. He said that even if we don't pursue them,

They, they have also missed the last time to board the ship to go home. He just wanted to give the wounded some hope of continuing to live for the time being."

"Let's go back"

Markla sighed, "I'll continue to be a hunter when I go back. The job of the Civil Guard is really not suitable for me."

"Maybe I should consider Flory's suggestion," Carl said with a hint of tears, "I want to be a comedian."

"Just do whatever you like." Markla tiredly took off the submachine gun on his shoulder and threw it aside. He wrapped himself tightly in a bearskin blanket and lay next to the anti-tank weapon that had never been used before.

As time went by, there were no more snowflakes above the head, and even the temperatureless sun hanging in the sky seemed to become extraordinarily dazzling.

When the sled stopped next to the half-track armored vehicle that blinded Konon's eye, Konon signaled Karl to stop.

"What's wrong?" Karl asked impatiently.

"Fire it with your anti-tank weapons," Konon said, pointing at the half-track armored vehicle.

"Are all Soviets so stingy?" Karl mocked, "Although it cost you one..."

This time, Konon was not interested in Karl's venomous tongue at all. He just interrupted the former's taunting in a calm tone, "Let Dr. Jason die in this car, so that at least he has a chance to be listed as killed in battle instead of missing."

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Karl was stunned, then lowered his head and said, "Sorry, I..."

"It doesn't matter." Konon waved his hand, "Hurry up, don't waste time."

"Daddy" Carl rocks his daddy Markla.

The latter had no intention of getting up. He just stretched out his hands on the bearskin blanket and said, "You can do whatever you want, I'm tired."

Karl looked at Weiran for help. The latter sighed and helped lift the anti-tank weapon down and prop it up less than a hundred meters away from the half-track armored vehicle carrying the quadruple anti-aircraft gun. Conon was already there.

Sliding back from the wreckage of the armored vehicle, he reached out and handed Wei Ran a cold armor-piercing bullet.

"Come on," Carl said to Wei Ran, "I want to watch the reindeer to avoid being scared away by the gunfire."

Wei Ran looked at Konon whose face was wrapped in gauze, finally nodded, pressed the only armor-piercing bullet into the magazine, and then vigorously shook the crank on the right side of the gun body to complete unbolting and loading.

With a crisp "click" sound, the only armor-piercing bullet was pushed into the chamber. Slowly, the muzzle of a gun was aimed at the front of the armored vehicle not far away. Wei Ran held the trigger with his right index finger and middle finger and slowly exerted force.
To be continued...