Soul to the Rhine

Chapter 24 Catastrophe
024 Disaster
"stop!"

When Rosia didn't notice, Dill broke free of her arm and rushed over.

She was stunned for a moment and didn't react at all.

When she saw Dill rushing over, pulling the Jewish old man away, and even protecting him like a hen, she finally came to her senses.

Damn, this guy is out of his mind!

If Rosia pretended not to know Dill at this moment and walked away, she might just get away with it. However, after she was stunned for a while, the Gestapo had already looked over.She didn't even have a chance to move reinforcements.

However, Dill didn't seem to know how scary they were, and he stood in front of the Jewish old man like he was protecting a calf.

She was challenging the majesty of the Germans.

Rosia knew that this matter was no longer good.It seems that it can't be good anymore.

In the dead of winter, the old Jewish man, who was already wearing thin clothes and was weak, was frightened and walked into the ditch again and couldn't hold on any longer.He covered his mouth and coughed violently, suddenly bent over, unable to stand and fell to the ground.

"Professor!" Dill exclaimed and immediately turned around to help him.

Rosia was startled, never thinking that the two of them knew each other.But this surprise was instantly suppressed by another kind of chill.

professor!Professor from the University of Warsaw!

Didn't Dill, a brainless person like him, make three people die with him if he shouted like that?
Several Gestapo had already narrowed their eyes. Their eyes wandered back and forth between the three people, and suddenly they laughed, as if they had discovered something interesting.

"It turned out to be an old Jewish professor! It seems that our cleaning was not thorough, Eric."

"Isn't it the same with cleaning now? It's a pity that these two students have to be implicated by this old thing. It's really unfortunate."

The subtext of this sentence is that all three people must die.

Dill also heard what he meant, and his face suddenly turned pale.

And Rosia's only feeling was that she couldn't believe that the Nazis were cruel, but it turned out that they would kill people at will for a ridiculous reason, and everyone became their puppets to please them.

The old Jewish man was still coughing lifelessly on the ground, but when he heard this, he raised his old face, and his eyes showed a look of prayer.

This is the kind of look that can make an aggressor obsessed and crazy. It is of no use and will only make cruel people even more crazy.

"Click."

The Gestapo cocked the safety on their guns.

The old Jewish man suddenly struggled and pushed Dill into the ditch. He himself was on the shore, blocking the Gestapo and the gun in his hand.

Dill fell into it unexpectedly and drank several mouthfuls of dirty water.Rosia only felt that his mind was in a daze, and before he had any thoughts, his legs had already moved towards the shore.When she came back to her senses, she was lying on the shore and stretched out her hand to Dill.

"It's a touching scene, but I'm sorry, I have to carry out the order today and let you off."

The Gestapo's voice was very gentle, but in Rosia's ears it sounded like a life-threatening demon, making people feel like falling into an ice cave.She could even feel the black hole of the gun being pointed at the back of her head.

Dill was still holding her hand, but she was frozen in the water.

"West, West Asia..."

Her eyes were wide open, looking behind Rosia, with an emotion of extreme fear in them, and her lips, which were purple from the cold, trembled and called her name.

Death was so close, but Rosia couldn't think of any way to save herself. She regretted not holding Dill just now, and she also regretted that she was useless, and she hated God for letting her come to such a dangerous place.But now, it's all in vain.Turning her head, she wanted to see what these Gestapo looked like.

His eyes passed over several unfamiliar faces one by one, and suddenly stopped in front of one of them.

It's a somewhat familiar face.

She didn't actually know this person, she didn't even know his name. However, because of that little bit of familiarity, there was an inexplicable wave of extremely weak waves in her heart.

The man looked at her as expected, then raised his eyebrows and said with unclear meaning: "Miss Franti."

Things seemed to be turning around a little bit, but Rosia didn't have much hope in her heart. She knew that people who had only met twice and didn't even have any friendship would not be lenient at all.

Someone next to him looked at him: "Eric, do you know him?"

"She's German," Eric answered. "I don't know her."

The next two words made Rosia's heart sink completely, and she was sensitive to the tightening of Dill's hand.

"But before last month, she had been in Germany." Eric added nonchalantly.

"So that's it." His companion laughed twice and looked like he was thinking: "Since she has been in Germany all the time, then she is no longer a student of this old guy. Well, should we let her go home to add some more Where are the clothes? It's really cold today."

Rosia was stunned and couldn't believe that things would develop like this. She would save her life because of Eric's words.

However, before she could think about it, the Gestapo pointed the gun at Dill behind her with a smile, and pulled the trigger with his finger.

"No, no, stop!"

Rosia didn't know where the courage came from. She stood in front of Dill again and explained incoherently: "We are just employees of Herris Hospital. Dill has been working there for a long time."

"So, what do you mean, I just need to kill this old guy?" The Gestapo seemed to be eloquent and moved the gun pointed at Dill to the head of the Jewish old man.

"..."

She's going crazy!These Nazis are psychopathic lunatics.His pistol moves back and forth, easily destroying people's minds and forcing them to collapse.When people walking this way saw them, they hurriedly avoided them.

A feeling of despair spread in Rosia's heart. She was no longer sure that she could survive.At this time, it seemed that she should put life and death aside, and morally she could not leave the old man behind. However, she was still afraid of death, which made her unable to stop the gun.

At this moment, gunfire suddenly rang in his ears.

Rosia froze completely and did not dare to move.The sound was close to her eardrums, and it was clearly directed at them, but after a while, she found that she was still alive, and the Jewish old man was not dead either.

Because of the gunshot, there were no other pedestrians on the street.

"Miss Franti, right?" the Gestapo who fired the gun seemed to remind her kindly: "Maybe you should turn around and check your companions. By the way, remind her not to challenge the majesty of the Third Reich at will." After speaking, After a sentence, his voice had cooled down.

Rosia was at a loss. She looked down and saw a water-stained Star of David on the Gestapo boots. There was a water stain on the upper of the shoes.

As if she understood something, she hurriedly turned around to look, feeling suddenly cold in her heart.

There was a blood-red wound on Dill's arm, and the surrounding flesh was twitching and shrinking, and a large amount of blood flowed from it into the ditch.

"Dill!"

Rosia's heart was broken and she felt like she was going completely crazy.Normally, the pain is excruciating when you fall down. Who can understand the pain of a bullet penetrating the flesh?And the Gestapo raised his gun and pointed it at the Jewish old man.He never thought about letting them go, he just wanted them all to die.

The water in the ditch was extremely turbid. Rosia had never been exposed to gunshot wounds, but he knew what would happen if he got infected.She didn't have time to think about it and jumped directly.

"Dil, Dill, are you okay?" Rosia raised her injured arm to avoid getting into the sewage.

She didn't resent Dill in her heart. Why was this guy so impulsive? He was so scared that he dared to throw the Star of David on the Nazi's head. He was so desperate.

But she also understands the so-called integrity and justice during war. If this were China, many people would have rushed forward to fight for their lives.

She didn't know if she would still do this if she were facing the Japanese, but at this moment she finally realized her own insignificance, like an ant, struggling to survive in this place.

Dill was in so much pain that he lost consciousness and his whole body collapsed.No matter how hard she tried, Rosia couldn't climb up.She didn't want to raise her head, didn't think about the teasing gazes above her, she just grabbed Dill's body and tried her best to lift her up to prevent her from falling into the water.

Her ears were rumbling, and she could no longer hear any sound. Only the water spray caused by her futile struggle in the ditch soaked her clothes all over.

I don't know how much time passed, but they were still in the water. Rosia was already desperate. She raised her head and found that the Gestapo and the old Jewish people were gone. The whole street was empty and no one could be found.

Did they survive?
A German military vehicle drove past the shore.After a while, it fell back again.

A German officer in a slate-grey military uniform stepped out of the car, followed by several soldiers.

Rosia looked over blankly. After being slightly startled, her nose suddenly became sore and swollen inexplicably.

"Werner..."

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