Chapter 2676 Sergei's Story (Part 2)

"Then, he smiled and said to me: What I can do, I believe you can too. Someone once reached out to me and gave me a hand, giving me courage and opportunities. I think this luck and Trust should not belong to me alone, it should be passed on. ”

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Kirill's words, narrated by Sergey, echoed in everyone's ears. Everyone present seemed to be deep in thought, thinking about their own things, and fell into a deep state of confusion because of these words. Buried deep in memories.

After a long time, as usual, Iushkin, the "most eloquent" guy, spoke first and broke the silence, but this time it was not a meaningless chat or nonsense.

"It sounds sour and full of life philosophy that I don't quite understand. It's his style. The top student of the Music Department of Moscow State University is always so impressive, just like his bravery and risklessness are unforgettable."

In the eyes of not only Iushkin, but everyone here and others who are familiar with Kirill, Kirill can definitely be called a brave warrior.

Kirill not only saved Sergei's life, it is no exaggeration to say that even Malashenko owes Kirill a debt.

It was precisely because of Malashenko that Kirill was shot and the bullet pierced his lung, leaving sequelae. In the future, any heavy physical exertion work would make it extremely difficult to breathe. He had to do it as a last resort. He left his position as a loader and became a vehicle commander, until he died in a way that no one expected.

For a long time, this made Malashenko unable to let go and even felt extremely guilty.

If only I had paid more attention and looked at the map more to make an estimate and analysis.

If I could have acted one step faster and one second earlier, Kirill would not have received the bullet that changed his fate.

Will everything that happens next not happen? Can the gears of fate be reversed? Could Kirill's sacrifice have been avoided?

As a time traveler, Malashenko can predict and change the future, but time travelers also cannot change the past and reverse history.

Of course Malashenko also knows and still remembers that the person mentioned in Kirill's words who once believed in him and gave him opportunities and encouragement was the same person who first met Kirill in 41 years.

"Captain Kirill helped me a lot. He not only changed my destiny, but also saved my life. It can even be said that he exchanged his life for mine."

"I hope I can use my life, the life we ​​both share, to witness with my own eyes the moment when this war is won. Then I can return to my hometown and tell him the news of this victory. , brought to the hero’s grave.”

"Then, I wanted to spend some time with him, to spend the time in my life that should have stopped long ago but is still flowing. That should have been his time, his life, but he took it Leave it to me. I want to talk to him, tell him stories, tell him what happened in those days when he was away, and just stay with him quietly until the long story is finished. Moment."

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You can call yourself an atheist and do not believe in the afterlife or the reincarnation of souls, but this is not a reason to hurt someone or deny others.

Be it emotion or sustenance.

In any case, Kirill is an extremely special being to Sergey.

Anyone who can feel and understand his feelings will understand why he did what he did.

Malashenko has been silent from just now to now. It's not that Malashenko deliberately didn't say anything or didn't know what to say.

It's just that the shadows and stories cast by Sergey's words and deeds really overlap too much with the memories deep in Malashenko's mind and flow too deeply.

Malashenko and Kirill, Kirill and Sergey.

This kind of emotion that is similar to a bond and a bond is just as Kirill said. Some things should, of course, be passed on and will not be destroyed until death.

"Then will you come back? This guy Artyom ran away and went back to work as his old fitter. Are you going to leave me too? Is I, Iushkin, so unpopular? One or two loaders Were all scared away by me?"

Maybe he felt that the atmosphere was a bit sluggish, but in short Iushkin once again started to show off his traditional art: nagging.

These few words were spoken casually, and Sergey, who originally looked lonely and a little lonely, couldn't help but smile.

"No, I will definitely come back, I can promise you that."

""Never give up fighting, live bravely and strongly", this is what I learned from Kirill. He left this thing to me. This is not only a memorial, but also a reminder for me to move forward. The meaning of going on. I will continue to walk along the road that he has not finished and entrusted to me. No matter what is waiting for me, I will not give up. "

"I will follow through on what he wants me to do and I will do what I say."

What Sergey held in his hand and placed on the table was the last relic that Kirill personally handed to him before his death - the Tokarev TT33 pistol.

It was 1941, when Kirill had just graduated from college and was drafted into the army. Political Commissar Petrov, his uncle, gave him his first college graduation gift for joining the army and serving the country.

That was once the sidearm of the Political Commissar. As the first batch of mass-produced early models, it has accompanied the Political Commissar for many years and experienced countless things since the day it was delivered.

The Political Commissar, who placed his hopes and expectations on this gun, gave it to Kirill as a gift.

Then the gun did live up to expectations and accompanied Kirill through countless days and nights on the battlefield, and experienced countless bloody battles on the battlefield, until Kirill came to his end in the form of many Red Army soldiers in this era, and handed it over to Sergei as a baton.

Sergei once thought about giving up and escaping, and felt that this thing was as heavy as a thousand pounds and was not something he could hold at all. He used this as a reason to "return it to its original owner" - returning it to the Political Commissar as Kirill's relic.

But the Political Commissar finally chose to hand it back again, handing it back to Sergei and entrusting him with trust again.

At the moment when he was about to give up again, Sergei thought of Kirill's words again and again, and thought of what Kirill had hoped he could do, but now he was about to fail and could not complete it.

Just because of his cowardice, fear, escape, and unwillingness to face it

"If you give up on yourself, then everything is really over, and failure is doomed from this moment on."

At that moment, although it was only a short moment.

But Sergei, who was echoing the words of the commander in his mind again, had actually made a decision by looking at the pistol that was gradually tightening in his hand.