This star is a bit cold

Chapter 223 Merry Christmas

Seen from above, it is a mottled brown-gray land.

And as the line of sight slowly draws closer, people can gradually see what the mottled ground is. Plants and animals were all killed by poisonous gas and artillery fire. Their destruction was violent but continuous. At first, most creatures were Annihilated in the artillery fire, only tenacious creatures like humans are still running back and forth on the broken land.

As the war continued, this piece of land was destroyed again and again, poisonous gas would rage here from time to time, and artillery fire continued day and night, which completely wiped out the remaining weeds and those small animals that were good at survival. disappeared from the land.

However, there are still people.

This incredibly fragile yet surprisingly tenacious creature.

But this kind of existence may not be a good thing.

Apart from people, the bomb crater is the only surviving feature that can be vaguely recognized. The trenches with ravines and the remains of countless soldiers are embedded on the ground, like a touch of a huge oil painting.

If you draw your eyes a little closer, you can see a group of people panting violently like mice in a trench in this temporarily quiet land. After bloody water, muddy water, howling, panting, and mental breakdown The insanity, all these together provide a sample of the world for the existence of hell.

Mayan was one of those scenes that couldn't be more normal in this battlefield.

The harsh and harsh military training did not make Meian lose her enthusiasm for defending the motherland. Although there were many unreasonable incidents in the process, under the light of the lofty ideals of the collective and the motherland, Meian still gritted her teeth and persisted.

However, just when he was transported to the front line full of passion and thought that he could become a part of a grand narrative -- young people always have this kind of fantasy, a sudden poison gas battle gave him a blow.

Whether the use of poison gas is humane has long been beyond the scope of consideration of both parties. Even if Meian's army is the so-called "army of justice", the poison gas gift packages are given to the opposite side one after another.

Use all means to win the war. If you don't use it, you will die. War is often that simple.

Facing the sudden rise of poisonous gas, these recruits who had only briefly trained panicked all of a sudden, and put on their gas masks in a hurry after being reminded by some people around them and veterans. There were corpses one after another, with blue heads and black lips.

After they hid in the bomb crater in a panic, they took off their gas masks prematurely. They didn't know that the poison gas stayed at the bottom of the crater for the longest time.

When they saw the people above take off their masks, they took off their masks themselves, but they could only inhale enough poisonous gas and burn their lungs.Their state was hopeless, they could not breathe, and they suffocated to death due to hemoptysis.

Meian was lucky, he survived without taking off the gas mask prematurely under the reminder of a companion beside him, but this was not a good thing at all.

War will never satisfy the fantasies of any passionate young people or so-called military fans. There is no heroism they think, no bloody battles, no fascinating coldness of iron and blood, no sublime, no Great for almost nothing.

There are just all kinds of people.

A man without a mouth, a man without a chin, a man without a face, a man without a lower limb.
You can see almost everyone here that you have imagined and that you have never imagined.

Less than a week after coming to the battlefield, Meian saw running soldiers, whose legs were blown off, struggling to climb to the next bomb crater relying on their broken bodies.I saw a private first class, dragging his knee that was blown out, and crawled two kilometers with his hands.
And there are wounded soldiers on the battlefield every day. Through them, Meian also learned many things that he could never have imagined before.

Shot in the abdomen, shot in the spine, shot in the head, shot in the eye, shot in the lung, shot in the pelvis, shot in the joint.
People can be shot all over.

This can only be known when you get here.

In modern warfare, people are just a unit to be harvested.

Their only function is to take up the weapons in their hands and launch a hopeless charge towards the enemy on the opposite side.

Less than a week after arriving on the battlefield, Meian found that there were too many familiar people around him. Every battle for positions was a test of life and death for recruits like them. It's almost like running out of luck.

Meian is still a lucky one today.

Even though the charge just launched didn't have any effect and only added a few hundred more corpses on the battlefield, at least Meian survived.

And these are all thanks to one person.

Panting violently for a long time, Meian finally suppressed her beating heart and stuffed hard food into her mouth with all her strength, then turned her head to look at her companion and said, "Thank you! Li!"

Despite suppressing his inner emotions, Meian still burst into tears unconsciously, "Sorin is dead! Christmas is coming soon, and his parents are still waiting for him to go back! He said he would invite me to his house as a guest at that time." .”

"Everyone has a mother, Meian." He replied without thinking, and the young man named Li looked as embarrassed as Meian.

The black and gray covering almost completely covered the facial features, and the exposed skin was also dry and cracked, showing an unhealthy dead gray.

Although the tone was flat, the pain on the young man's face was not less than that of Meian.

It's hard to say that this pain is for a specific person, for myself, for those who are still familiar, for the comrades around me, or even for many, many things, it is really hard to say clearly.

"Hmm." Meian, who replied indiscriminately and began to wipe his tears, didn't care about this companion's nonsense, even though these words did sound disturbing.

In fact, not only his words, but even his behavior of this companion almost immediately make people think that he is treason!
First of all, although the other party was in the same situation as him, they would have to follow the orders of their superiors to charge together, but his charge did not threaten the life of the enemy, but chose to save.

He will collect all the wounded soldiers who seem to have hope of treatment, and then try to carry them back to his camp. When facing those German sons of bitches, he will choose to run instead of killing them with weapons .

On the battlefield, this is all courting death!

Maybe it's because the war hasn't been fierce enough, or maybe it's because the luck of this young man named Li is really good. In short, he has survived until now, but it is foreseeable that he will die here soon. On a dirty battlefield, and there will never be any luck, it's just a matter of time.

What war is best at is destroying all good things and hopes. People with unrealistic fantasies will die on this battlefield sooner or later.

So it was with the young men with their romantic fantasies, and so it was with Mae Ann's messy companion.

After eating the food with difficulty, Meian, who felt somewhat better, began to rub his hands gently, and then slowly exerted force, trying to use this behavior to slowly recover his body temperature.

Christmas is approaching, how happy are those sitting in front of the fire, then how difficult is the situation of Meian and the others now, the dry and cold weather and the cold wind like a knife are almost destroying them psychologically and physically bit by bit .

Although the clothes on his body are still warm, facing the inclement weather that will rain from time to time, this protective measure is not enough.

While trying to regain his body temperature, Meian also looked sadly at his companion who was still eating.

Thinking about it now, less than half a month has passed since the moment when he spoke bold words in the car, but Meian's state of mind is already very different from that time. The general called their change After being tempered by blood and fire, he has truly become a qualified warrior.

But what the truth is, only they themselves know.

When he was finally able to kill those Germans who were vicious in the propaganda and did all kinds of bad things with his own hands, Meian found that he couldn't feel any pleasure at all. Every night when he was finally able to rest, the Germans killed by him were like ghosts Drilled out of his mind, and then disturbed him so that he could not sleep peacefully.

All I kill are beasts!
Meian has been hinting at himself like this all the time, but no matter how long it has passed, those eyes and their painful faces will still appear in Meian's mind, as if reminding him of what he has done all the time.

This is a rare moment of recuperation in the war, and the two sides temporarily ceased fighting to rest.

Feeling that the temperature of his body was rising, Meian was about to say something when his companion stood up first and gave him a hand by the way, and then the two supported each other and walked into the room.

Feeling the temperature of his companion beside him, Meian, who had just calmed down, suddenly had a sore nose.

At first, Meian was quite dissatisfied with the "deviant" words that Li occasionally said during his military training. Own.

In other words, he saved a lot of people, although some of these people died soon on the battlefield, but this did not prevent those who knew him from respecting him.

Lee was a good man, and Lee will soon die.

This is the consensus of those who know Li.

However, Li didn't seem to care. He was a man of few words on weekdays, and some people couldn't accept what he said casually occasionally, as if he was tarnishing what they had believed in for a long time.

Charge, save people, pray silently with the things in your hands, and then look at the sky that has been shrouded in thick smoke of war all day long.

Rather than saying that he came for revenge, it would be better to say that he came to die.

And the process of dying seems completely meaningless.

Instead of choosing to die at the first gunshot after the battle started like a hero, but to save those soldiers who are destined to die again and again, this is the same as pushing a boulder that will never reach the top of the mountain. What's the difference?
It's pointless to work hard.

Will not be understood, destined to die faster than others.

Although Meian had the same thoughts as the others, it did not prevent him from being grateful to this silent companion, so there was one thing that Meian always kept in his heart and never told anyone.

That is, Li actually let a wounded German go back to their camp!
This was the only time Meian saw it, but he didn't think it was the first time this happened.

If this kind of thing is really found out by the upper echelon of those sons of bitches, I am afraid that Li will be pulled out and shot immediately.

But in any case, it is impossible for Meian to inform. On the one hand, he is indeed grateful to his companion; The companion moves closer.

After helping each other to sit down in the room, seeing that Li was still silent, maybe it was to enliven the atmosphere, or maybe he really had hope, Mei An said as cheerfully as possible: "Li, Christmas will be soon in two days. One day, we have reached an agreement with those Germans, and there will be a complete truce on this day, so that the soldiers can spend this Christmas in peace."

"The most urgent supplies will be sent to the front line first, and some veterans can go back to the rear to rest temporarily. Although we can't go back, we should be able to let go of our stomachs and eat a lot."

"Yes." Speaking of Christmas, Li's expression seemed to soften a lot, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "I hope this day will come soon, otherwise I'm really afraid that I won't be able to wait until this time."

"I'll wait, I'll wait." Although he really wanted to say these words with hope and confidence, Meian finally lowered his head in a low tone.

After a while, Meian asked inexplicably: "Li, do you think those Germans will also be happy because Christmas is coming?"

"I think so, even though in our propaganda, every German guy deserves death and should go to hell." Before Li could answer, Meian asked himself bitterly: "But I don't want to shoot anyone Germans, I didn't even see what Germans looked like before they went to war, and I don't think they saw Frenchmen before they came here"

"Don't think about Meian too much, it's useless." Li patted Meian's shoulder lightly, his face was still sad, but his tone was still calm, and he replied in a hoarse voice: "Keep working hard to live. .”

"Yeah" nodded silently, not knowing why, Meian persuaded again: "Li, you can't be like before! Otherwise next time"

"Okay, you don't need to talk about it." A faint smile appeared on his haggard face, and Li, who no longer looked at Meian, said softly: "I am such a person, and I think I am very good like this. I personally hold the same opinion as mine, so I will never change easily, even though I almost collapsed due to the heavy pressure from the outside world countless times."

"...then wish us the best of luck until Christmas."

"God bless, Galina."

"what?"

"nothing."

(End of this chapter)