Dawn Redemption

Hearing the sound of footsteps outside, Finn stood up reflexively and walked towards the main hall.

There was already a small group of people around in the hall, and the man in the middle was panting, and it looked like he had just run over.

Finn took a break to watch, and then he heard someone ask, "You took a look around, what's going on?"

The man shook his head: "No, no, it's all collapsed. The lid almost couldn't be opened. Fortunately, I felt something pressing on me so I didn't use any force. Otherwise... the lid opened and the things outside fell down, even if I wasn't buried alive. I too must be crushed to death!"

"What's the situation?" Finn patted the shoulder of the person next to him and asked in a low voice.The man turned his head and replied: "I just asked someone to check the situation in the building of the Ministry of Security. The entrance is completely useless. It looks like the building is probably not working either."

"Then what should we do?" The question from the crowd was exactly what Finn wanted to ask.

Another person shouted loudly in the crowd: "Don't bother me!"

The noise stopped immediately, and the man continued: "This fortification has more than one exit! There are three other ones, all of which are connected to the street outside, but it is definitely not safe to go out now, wait!"

Hearing what he said, everyone dispersed, muttering, and returned to their original positions.When Finn was about to go back and wait, he was suddenly photographed.

He turned his head and almost rolled his eyes, but he also complained secretly.

Muller was standing back, looking at him with gray-green eyes set deep in their sockets.But what puzzled Finn was that he was holding a pot of...flowers?

He confirmed that he was not dazzled and did not make a mistake. Mueller stood upright, holding a pot of flowers like an important material.Fein suddenly remembered that this pot of flowers was the pot of cornflowers that he saw Mueller put on the windowsill in his office that day.

When encountering a bombing, Fein didn't even think about bringing something with him and ran away, but Muller actually thought about bringing something with him.It's fine as long as you bring some valuables, and potted flowers, which are completely incompatible with his aura.

But Finn still didn't ask.I just said hello to Mueller lightly. Since the banquet that day, I saw Lucas sitting at the dining table chatting with others instead of appearing in the promiscuous dance hall. Much better.Finn turned and walked into the side room, and sat down next to Richard who seemed to be asleep.

The bombing outside lasted for several hours before subsiding. In Fein's view, it was even longer than several days.

He didn't talk much himself, and it was boring to sit there and just listen to the other people in the room.Listening to them chatting passionately from the beginning, to some nonsense in the end, and then to falling asleep in a mess, Finn felt that he was about to fall asleep.

The soldiers of the Empire have always presented a rigorous and tidy image, and the neat military uniforms and neat queues also attracted many young people—such as Jonas—to join them with enthusiasm.Maybe only now, in the underground where the lights are flickering, can such fatigue be revealed.

The sound seemed to stop in the daze, and Finn suddenly opened his eyes.He wasn't the only one who found out, some of the others also began to chatter, and some stood up.

"Everyone, don't be too anxious!" Finn stood up quickly and shouted loudly, startling Richard who was still asleep next to him, "I don't know if they will come back, don't go out in a hurry, find someone to look outside Act now!"

He looked around, and found that after hearing what he said, everyone's movements froze, and they all stared at him blankly.The atmosphere suddenly became awkward. "Okay." Finn said, "I'll go out and have a look."

When Finn walked to the hall, he found that someone was already organizing to go out to inquire about the situation, so he followed suit.

Sure enough, the main hall and the room we stayed in before were just a corner of this air-raid shelter.Along the way, I went up and down the stairs, and I saw the infirmary that Richard said, and there were still mottled blood stains on the ground from the handling of the wounded.If there is no one to lead the way, Finn does not know how long it will take him to find another exit.

"That's right here." The leader said, walking into a narrow tunnel, at the end there was a ladder going up, "I'll go up and have a look first."

He climbed up the stairs first, and carefully opened the cover with a small gap, exposing his eyes to watch the situation outside vigilantly.

"No problem, I'm really gone!" He turned his head and said to the bottom, and then looked twice before pushing the entire trapdoor hard to get out.

The people behind climbed up one by one, and Finn was at the back.Looking out of the small square opening, it was already dark outside.He wasn't wearing a watch, but it felt like it was midnight.The moment he climbed out of the cave, he could only rejoice that the city after the catastrophe was still shrouded in darkness for the time being.

Even at night, he could see the streets full of craters, messy debris.Every step he took was potholed, and there was hardly a smooth spot.The street lamp that I don't know where it belonged to fell on my feet, the glass of the lampshade was shattered all over the floor, and the sharp edges shone with a faint light, like the last starlight reflected in the eyes of a person who died in the wild when he was dying.

Finn came out of the tunnel, standing alone in the street after the bombing.The buildings on both sides were no longer as complete as he had imagined.The lights of the past have been extinguished, the night conversations of the past have been silent, the bustling city of the past has been completely destroyed by bombings again and again, and it is old and feeble.At night, the outlines of buildings that only have shadows left are no longer regular.

He heard the mournful wailing, faintly visible, as if in the distance and sometimes in his ears.It took him a while to realize that it was because there were such voices in all directions, so it was really difficult for him to discern the direction from which the voice came.

"Go to the security department first!"

Hearing the people behind him calling, Finn tried his best to move his eyes from the edge of the ruins.But it was no use, because there were ruins everywhere the eye looked.

The people under the trapdoor came out one after another. Like Finn, they froze in place when they saw the scene outside. It took a long time to recover, but the freeze in their eyes could not go away for a long time.

Fein called everyone to follow the people in front to gather under the building of the Ministry of Security, and then he trotted to follow.

Although I heard people say that the exit leading to the security department in the air-raid shelter has been completely blocked by collapsed things, I was prepared in my heart, but the shock of listening to people's words and imaginations will never be as good as when Finn stood in the tall and glorious guard in the past. Strict, but now only the vicissitudes of the Ministry of Security building felt the shock that almost made him unable to stand.

It wasn't quite a ruined building, but this building was already like the last bruised and wounded person alive among the enemy lines on the battlefield.

Looking up, half of it was blown down, but fortunately, Finn's office happened to be on the other side.The two classical statues in front of the door were already scarred. Fortunately, they were only lifelike statues, and they could not gain life after all. If they were human bodies, the picture would be bloody and horrible.Looking down, the collapsed stones and broken glass are piled up all over the ground, as if forming an array, preventing the crowd standing in front of them from approaching.

"What... what to do..." Hearing someone mutter, Finn turned his head and saw Tom from the personnel department.Seeing that his eyes were dull, trembling and almost falling down, Finn quickly helped him: "This building is temporarily unusable, anyway, everyone is gathered here, wait and see, is there anyone here?" Make arrangements."

Finn looked left and right, dragged Richard out of the crowd, and whispered a few words to him to see that he was going to look calmer.Richard nodded, walked to Thom, and chatted with him pretending to be small talk, seeing Thom's mood calmed down a little bit, Finn walked away with peace of mind, because he saw several officials had gathered aside.

"Yannick!" Seeing Finn beside him, a figure beckoned to him to let him go.The light was dim, and it was only when he got closer that he could see clearly that the man was Minister Ernst Kaltenbruner's adjutant, Abendroth.He stood in the very center of a group of officials, holding a small stack of paper like a list in his hand, looking very anxious.

Finn ran over and stood in front of him, and Abendroth's mouth was cramped and said quickly: "Yannick, we can't contact Chief Lübeck right now, but you don't have to worry that he is not in danger, we need you now Temporarily replace him to organize the personnel of the personnel department, listen to what I will say next, and pass it on to your people, these are the meanings of Mr. Director."

Finn nodded, and took two steps back to stand among the other officials.At this time, he found that Abendroth's shirt was an ordinary uniform shirt, his trousers and shoes were also non-standard, and the decoration on his coat was not neat.Finn guessed that he might have gone home before, after evading the air raid, he suddenly received a call from the minister, so he just put on his coat in a hurry and rushed over.

"Quiet, everyone, listen to me." Abendroth cleared his throat, "As you can see, this time the American and British air strikes have caused great trauma to Berlin. The specific losses are immeasurable now. The investigation can only be done after dawn. Our Security Department building is temporarily unusable. Mr. Kalten Bruner is in contact, and we may temporarily move to another place.

"Tomorrow at nine o'clock, everyone will gather here for the time being, and then go to contact other personnel in the department after getting arrangements. People from the three departments A and D will stay, and the rest will go back and convey what I said, and they will be disbanded."