Chapter 50: Retribution (1)
Heavy and slow footsteps sounded outside the door, and after a long time, the door was slowly pushed open, and it was a ..... who pushed the door open It turned out to be an old man with gray hair.
He wore a hat and a cane, slowly came to me, took off his hat and nodded at me slightly, very self-contained, I stretched out my hand and motioned for the old man to sit down, the old man sat down, and began his story tonight.
My name is Tatsuto Okamura, I'm eighty-five years old, yes, Your Excellency Officer, I've worked in many professions before, you look at those photos, water deliverers, repairmen, security guards, drivers, oh, and the soldiers who invaded China belonged to the 396th Brigade of the Second Division of the Kan/East/Army, the Sakata Wing.
This is all the past that can not be looked back on, and it is precisely because of this that things like this are happening now, this is all retribution!
Ahem, ahem... Ahem, ahem... It's all right, Your Excellency, don't worry, I won't be dead soon, because of my condition.
I didn't notice any suspicious people that day, and there were no strangers around the neighborhood all the time.
That day, I went fishing in Taihu Lake, because apricots like to eat fish, so I deliberately went to Taihu Lake early with a heavy fishing rod on my back.
Apricot is the cutest child in the world, two little ponytails wrapped around the back of the little brain melon, running up and down like a flying catkins in the spring, she loves to be small too much, that smile looks like Yuriko was a child, but unfortunately Yuriko's childhood was not happy, the only thing I remember is that she kept pulling the corner of my clothes and asked where my mother went? Then every time I got a reply, I was drunk and punched and kicked, I almost didn't care about her, this is what I owe Yuriko, I owe her a mother, and I owe her a father, fortunately Kyoko is not like Yuriko, on the contrary, her childhood has always been full of love and happiness, I believe this is also because Yuriko doesn't want her child to repeat the mistakes of her childhood.
I'm sorry officer, but you've been here to listen to me whining, so please keep asking.
The event of retribution... It's been so many years, but I still remember it vividly, and it was a nightmare.
The year was 1945, Germany surrendered, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and marched into the Northeast to wage war with our Kwan/East/Army.
My group of five men went to a garrison of our troops in the mountains far away on the outskirts of the country on the orders of the Wing Commander, because our unit had lost contact with them, and our task was to ascertain what had happened.
After about two days of walking, a village appeared in front of us, and we decided to go in and resupply, and I was worried that the other team members would kill people, so I repeatedly reminded them that they had a task to do, and they should not stay too long and cause some trouble, and they all nodded and promised not to disturb the villagers.
We quietly came to the entrance of the village, it was already evening, the village was full of white smoke, a delicious rice fragrance wafted out, stimulating my sense of taste, alas, how long has it been since I went home, my village is also like this at this time.
A child with a cotton hat and an ear of wheat in his hand saw us, standing there and staring blankly, Yoshida took out a chewing gum from his pocket, smiled and beckoned to the child, the child's eyes lit up and he ran over, the child's face was red, his mouth was drinking hot air, and there was a snot dripping in front of his nose, he stretched out his little fat hand to take the chewing gum in Yoshida's hand, but Yoshida shrank his hand, squinted his eyes and pushed the candy paper away, stretched out in front of the child's face, and made an ah--sound in his mouth.
The child would have grown his mouth and let out a cry like Yoshida, but at this moment I could clearly see Yoshida's other hand pumping towards the bayonet at his waist at great speed.
The sky gradually flushed, and the child was quietly held in his arms by the half-squatting Yoshida, face down, the bright red viscous liquid flowed to the ground along the handle of the knife exposed from the child's mouth, and the child didn't even have time to make a sound, and the half-crouched eyeballs that were staring like light bulbs were almost bursting into their eye sockets.
At this time, there was a terrible cry like killing a pig at the entrance of the village, and I looked up and saw a woman in patterned clothes standing not far away, looking at us in horror, and then rushed up like crazy, and pounced on Yoshida and snatched the child in his arms, it turned out that the mother had come to call the child to eat.
The woman clutched the child's corpse tightly, trembling violently, and her mouth kept saying words that we couldn't understand, and Yoshida's laughter accompanied by the woman's desperate cry was very uncomfortable to listen to.
Suddenly, the woman raised her head violently, her bloodshot eyes were so terrifying, and suddenly she pulled out her hairpin and threw itself at Yoshida at an incredible speed, and the gunshots rang out.
Yoshida looked at the corpses of the mother and son on the ground and put away the pistol, the sound of the gunfire alarmed the village, many people poked their heads out of their homes, still holding rice bowls in their hands, and the rest loaded their rifles and walked towards the village.
They carried out a massacre, killing almost everyone who saw it, even I killed five people....
"Is the bride pretty?" Yamano said to Woburn with a smile, and Woburn walked out of the door with his trouser pocket and spat casually.
"Replenish the dry food and whom, and set off in an hour." Nakamura told us that I suddenly felt sick when I looked at the corpses everywhere, and that there was a well nearby, so I walked over to get some water to drink.
But when I arrived at the well, I was stunned, because I saw a little girl of six or seven years old sitting on the barrel hanging in the well, she looked up at me with her head up, with fear and anxiety, the hand holding the barrel was shaking, I made a decision at that moment to help her survive, so I pretended not to see, but Yamano ran over with a steel helmet, "Hooray, find water!" ”
I stood in front of him, and he pushed me away to look into the well, and suddenly his eyes lit up and he shouted happily, "Wow, so cute!" ”
Soon the rest of the people came around, and Yamano couldn't wait to pull up the well rope, but just as the barrel was about to be pulled up, the girl jumped down, and Yamano scolded angrily, but his eyes lit up randomly, took off the incendiary bomb on his waist, pulled out the safety ring and threw it in.
Almost blue flames soon rose from the well, and I couldn't take it anymore and left the well.
Two days later, we arrived at the destination and found that it had been occupied by the Russian army, fortunately there were not many people, after discussion, we launched a sneak attack, and wiped out the Soviet team at the cost of zero casualties, and then we got in touch with the wing by radio, and the wing commander told us to stay put, and we lived in the same tent to make a fire for heating.
In the middle of the night, I was woken up by Nakamura, he asked me to accompany him to urinate, we came to the wilderness together, after urinating and smoking, blowing the wind for a while, but it didn't take long for a fire to suddenly ignite behind us, it was the direction of the tent, we hurried back to the station, sure enough, the tent had been engulfed in flames, we hurried to put out the fire, the fire was quickly extinguished, but the other three people had become three charred corpses, and what was even more strange was that after an autopsy, the forensic doctor told us that the three corpses had traces of being stabbed with a knife in their mouths.
It was only then that I realized that this was retribution, this was retribution for the sins we had committed before! Although we didn't find the intruder, I knew that someone in the village must have survived, and he followed us all the way and killed us while we were asleep.