Chapter 5: The Instant Gunshot

  There is someone in front of me.

  A humanoid thing.

  She stared at herself expressionlessly as if she was looking at a dead person. She wanted to ask questions and move, but was completely powerless.

  Light blue sailor suit, two braids, and a terrible makeup that makes her look uncomfortable.

  If you could erase the inhumanly cold smile from that guy's face, you would probably take him for an ordinary female student who slunk home with a disappointing report card.

  Her image gradually merged with a very familiar figure in her mind, a hero character she liked to use the most in the game - OMEGA Hoshiko!!!

  When she saw her coldly smile and raise one hand towards herself, she knew what would happen next.

  I wanted to scream and ask for help. But the voice, for some reason, was like being choked by someone's hand, forcing it back down.

  In his desperate gaze, his own body was like a balloon that flew straight up, and then in mid-air, he himself was heavily slammed down by that guy's ruthless swing.

  "Ah!!!!!!!!!!" Xiao Bingjia suddenly sat up in bed. His two terrified eyes stared at the plain white but simple wall panel in front of him. His two empty eyes stared into space, his two hands tightly grasping the white sheet cover, cold sweat involuntarily flowing down and wetting his short white back.

  By the way, this is a temporary field hospital built by the Red Army before attacking the front line of Berlin. But if you say it's a hospital, it's actually an exaggeration. This hospital is just a few broken boards covered with several layers of coarse cloth, which is a makeshift structure. However, I have to admit that this building made of wooden boards and coarse cloth is quite large, and there are nearly two hundred people packed inside the entire tent.

  Because it was in a war hospital, due to Xiao Bingjia's exclamation, a large group of wounded soldiers around him were suddenly awakened.

  "You stinky little brat! What's with all your yelling? Believe it or not, I'll pour vodka right into your butt/eyes!"

  "Call me old man again and I'll beat you up! You damned dog!"

  "Kasane, be quiet for me!"

  The Red Army soldiers who were originally forced to rest here due to their serious injuries were suddenly awakened by someone, and they immediately began to scold loudly with their rough temperament.

  It can't be blamed on their poor quality because most of the people who were mobilized to join the army were peasants recruited from rural areas in the Soviet Union.

  A group of farmers, you can't expect them to discuss Marxist-Leninist ideology with you.

  Besides, it was also the Soviet government's intention to mobilize a group of soldiers who only knew how to fight for tomorrow. Soldiers are just that kind of thing, as long as they learn to charge forward, and leave the command ideology guidance to us generals.

  But scold if you must, those big-headed soldiers were still very measured. The soldiers shouted for a while and then buried their heads in the quilt again to sleep soundly. Everyone didn't know if they could survive tomorrow, rather than getting angry over this trivial matter and shortening their lifespan, it's better to save some energy to fight the Allied Army.

  What's more, if this matter is taken to the political commissar and a criticism meeting is convened on the grounds of "attacking comrades", then it will be impossible to get away with just a slap on the wrist.

  So, it's better to make a big deal into a small one and a small one into nothing at all.

  A slender figure outside the tent had been staring at the development of things, and only after seeing that things had subsided did she let out a long sigh.

  A soft and gentle voice sounded: "Thank heaven, you're all right..."

  At the temporary headquarters of the Red Army in Poland.

  Nikolai Kukov, known as the "Red Army Parent", is now furious. Firstly, because his subordinate Oleg was overconfident and ventured too far forward, causing the Red Army's hastily assembled 15th and 16th Corps to be thoroughly defeated. The two corps, which had a total of 24,000 men, were reduced to less than 9,000 after being rescued, ruining Oleg's plan to surround Berlin with these two corps. How could Kukov not feel heartbroken and angry about this? At the same time, what was even more infuriating was that the Allied forces who had been blocked in the valley suddenly disappeared into a white mist just as the Red Army was about to finish them off (this guy was unlucky, he was transferred away by Gilris using hyperspace transfer just as the Red Army was about to eliminate him...). This made Kukov's costly efforts to deplete the Red Army's forces once again go down the drain.

  But what made him even angrier was what happened last night.

  Yesterday evening, the elite special forces of the Triangular Delta, nicknamed "Dragon King" by the Allies, launched a surprise attack on him. Fortunately, he was attending a warfront party at the time and was not hiding in his "iron cage". When he received the news and returned, he painfully discovered that the ammunition depot of his proud base defense had been ignited, causing the entire base to be blown into a charred ruin. Unfortunately, his elite 3rd Guard Battalion did not have time to withdraw from the base, resulting in these poor children being incinerated along with the base.

  These are all elite troops!!!! They are elite troops!!!!!

  These loyal men, who had accompanied him in the fight against all enemies of the Soviet Union for 20 years, had exhausted their youth and energy. Kukov had intended to give them a chance to rest and enjoy life after one week, but before this last order could be issued, these brave warriors were...

  Kukov is now a mother bear who has lost her cubs, and in his rage he decides to make the accursed Allied forces pay dearly.

  He decided to use three armored army corps as the first wave of attack to break through the Allied defensive line in the suburbs of Berlin, and then use two airborne divisions to parachute into the urban area of Berlin to seize airfields, thereby disrupting the last air power of the Allies in Germany. Then reorganize those scattered Red Army infantry divisions into new infantry 17th and 18th Divisions to work with armored army corps to attack industrial areas outside Berlin, thus thoroughly destroying the German Allied forces' vitality.

  All this was also done in order for the Red Army to overthrow the last line of defense of the Allied forces on the European continent, the 'Maginot Line', and to thoroughly liberate Europe by coordinating with the Soviet Mediterranean Fleet's attack on Spain as a strategic preparation.

  The scene cuts back to the hospital.

  Xiao Bing Jia leaned against the wall with a blank expression, a slender and beautiful girl was carefully changing the bandages on his body, this girl's name is Vera Semyonovna Yelizaveta, 16 years old. She is currently Xiao Bing Jia's nurse.

  "Thank God, the shrapnel that pierced your body all missed vital organs." Vera said as she bandaged him up, "But now it's only you who can survive in a situation like that."

  "Are you praising me or mocking me?" Xiao Bingjia really wanted to spit out this sentence, but when he looked at Wei La's bright eyes, his mouth twitched a few times and he swallowed it back.

  Vera's tone was somewhat coquettish, and their relationship seemed a bit ambiguous.

  Xiao Bing's expression was indifferent, without any reaction.

  Vera lightly bit her jade lips and scolded: "Hey, were you blown stupid by the cannonball? Someone is talking to you."

  Xiao Bing sighed secretly in his heart, Vera's affection for him was palpable even to a blind person. If he were living in a peaceful era, he would be more than happy to accept Vera's feelings. Unfortunately, they were currently in the midst of war and soon the Far Eastern Empire would launch an unprecedented massive attack on the Soviet Union. He didn't even know if he could see tomorrow's sun, what could he offer her?

  Honestly, Xiao Bingjia really likes Vera, but precisely because he likes her, he doesn't want to bother her.

  A faint sorrow flowed out from Xiao Bingjia's eyes, he didn't want Wei La to be a widow at such a young age.

  Vera felt as if her heart had been pinched, she saw the gloom on Xiao Bingjia's face and the faint sorrow in his eyes. Vera would never forget the scene when she first saw Xiao Bingjia, that pair of melancholy eyes, which easily opened her heart.

  There is a kind of affection in this world called love at first sight.

  Just as she was about to bandage the wound on his chest, when the gauze was torn off, a bite mark on his shoulder caught her eye.

  This... This is!!! A slight wound easily knocked open Vera's sweet memories hidden in her heart.

  That was when Moscow University organized students to go to the front line for inspection, and I got separated from my companions. I was in pain and hated myself for being so stupid on that pitch-black mountain at that time. My elderly father and mother at home must have been very anxious, remembering that there were a few wolves hiding not far away beside me at that time, but I didn't know it at all. As a result, when I accidentally fell on the road, those wolves rushed up at once.

  "Wolves in Russia are very ferocious, so when you're alone and don't have a gun, never provoke the wolves." His father, who was also a hunter, had warned him like this.

  At that moment, I had a thousand thoughts in my mind, but never thought someone would come to rescue me.

  The wolf that rushed over first was suddenly pierced by a bullet through its brain, and it burst open right in front of me. Fortunately, I majored in medicine, so I'm used to dealing with blood and flesh, and I've developed some resistance to blurry things like this.

  After killing the first wolf, the dark figure in the distance pulled out a handgun from his pocket and shot the other starving wolf dead on the spot.

  But then for some reason that figure quickly rushed towards him and knocked him down to the ground.

  At that time, he couldn't see anything, but could only feel the person's heavy breathing hitting his face and the stifled moans desperately suppressed in his throat.

  Then, under the moonlight, she saw that person's eyes in the darkness, shining like a bright lamp. What kind of eyes were those!!!

  Sorrow. Helplessness. Pain. Loneliness... And just a little bit of love and pity.

  In the pitch-black night, a man and a woman stood face-to-face, staring at each other.

  It's as if they are mutually opening their hearts, and also like they are mutually lamenting.

  Neither decreasing nor increasing, neither polluted nor annihilated.

  Gunfire erupted...

  When he stood up again, he was shocked to see that the man's shoulder was covered in blood. Next to him lay a huge wolf corpse and on its neck was a small knife shining brightly.

  She herself wanted to tear off her handkerchief to bandage his wound, but suddenly a loud military horn sounded in the woods behind him.

  He ruthlessly removed his right hand that had been covering the wound for him, and gave himself a military salute with an expressionless face. His body was like the distant mountain peak, upright and sharp.

  His handsome face, as if carved by a knife, was full of calmness. As if the bleeding wound was not his own.

  "My assembly call has sounded, I should return to the barracks, ma'am. The wolves have all been chased away, and from here on out, there probably won't be any danger within 30 minutes."

  He finished speaking and turned around with a flourish. He slung his rifle over his shoulder and walked away from here with small steps.

  His shoulder was still bleeding...

  Until the very end he didn't tell himself his name.

  But I was lucky enough to remember his brown eyes that were full of complex and inexplicable emotions.

  Vera, who was bandaging his wound, recalled past events and her hands slowed down unconsciously.

  The excruciating pain caused by the wound coming into contact with fresh air made Xiao Bing Jia's body suddenly start shaking. Although it was a heart-wrenching pain, Xiao Bing Jia clenched his lips tightly and didn't let out a single groan, his fists were clenched so tightly that they turned white.

  Seeing her own daze had caused the lifesaver in front of her to suffer so much, Vera hurriedly apologized:

  "Sorry! Sorry!"

  As she hastily applied the antiseptic solution to his wound, reapplied the medicine and re-bandaged him, Vera's eyes had already begun to well up with tears. Unintentionally, a tear gently fell onto Xiao Bing's shoulder.

  Xiao Bing Jia still looked at the door with an expressionless face, as if what had just happened had never occurred.

  I've finished writing, this chapter I wrote 5 times, but every time after finishing writing, I read it myself and felt dissatisfied. After thinking carefully, I barely managed to write out the protagonist's character... So this chapter was posted late, please forgive me.