this damn love

The footsteps were getting closer and closer to the room where they were hiding. Lilian held her breath and watched the movement outside through the gap intently.

Suddenly, she felt hot tears falling on her neck, with a burning temperature.

Hannibal...

He hugged her tightly, buried his head on her back to stop her sobs, and his body trembled like fallen leaves in the wind.

There was no sound from my parents outside, so something unexpected must have happened.

She closed her eyes, long-lost tears gushing out.

In fact, the parents could escape through the back door in the first place, but they still chose to sacrifice themselves to attract the attention of the enemy.

This is the greatest love a parent has for a child, a love she has never felt before.

A man's conversation came from outside, "We're having a blast! I saw this family's photo album, they are Lecter!"

"Lecter? Is it the castle we were stationed in before? I said why the master is gone, so he is hiding here... Hurry up and search, they must have brought all the jewelry."

"A lot of things, we got rich! Hahaha!"

The men laughed wantonly across the wall, and Lilian felt even more uneasy.Such a group of people are local hooligans who made war money and took advantage of the fire to loot.

Suddenly a voice shouted, "Grutas, this family has a son and a daughter!"

"It must be hiding somewhere! Find it for me!"

The two children hiding in the closet suddenly stiffened.Lilian was anxious and missed the best time to escape, and now she was trapped here and there was nothing she could do!

And such a group of people are good at robbing houses, and they found the two children out in a short while!

"Oh, look what I found, two cuties?" A man suddenly opened the closet door and smiled maliciously when he saw the two of them.The others followed after hearing the voice.

Lilian's eyes swept over their faces. They were wearing the uniform of a German military medical officer. They all had mischievous eyebrows or stern eyebrows. They were not good people from their appearance.

"Come out, darlings." The other man had a smile on his face, but he used very ungentle movements, wanting to pull Lilian violently!

"No!" Hannibal waved his arms indiscriminately, biting and kicking the man, trying to kick the man away, but the man got impatient, and he dragged the two of them out together, and threw them on the ground!

As soon as Lilian looked up, she saw the pistol pinned to the waist when the other party bent down, and when she saw the timing, she was about to reach out--

His arms were tightly bound!No matter how hard you struggle!

"Lilian!" Hannibal hugged his sister nervously, protecting her tightly in his arms.He stared fiercely at those people with eyes like protecting little wolf cubs!

Lilian: "..." Brother, dear brother, there is a tacit agreement!

The opportunity is fleeting, she is short, and if an adult stands up straight, she can't reach the other person's waist.

"Grutas, what about these two children?" asked the man who dragged them out.

Grutas glanced casually, "The latte is chained, leave it there for now."

Lilian had a calculation in her heart.This man seems to be the leader of this group of people, and he looks shrewd and ruthless, not easy to deal with.

"Okay." Someone took out two iron chains from the bag, and Lilian frowned—this kind of iron chain has a collar, and you must have a key to open it.And would carry this kind of thing with them, I don't know how many people they have harmed!

Lilian and Hannibal struggled desperately, but how could two young children resist adults, they were finally put on iron chains, pulled out of the room and tied to the fence on the second floor.

"Don't be afraid, Lilian." Hannibal picked up a blanket on the ground and wrapped his sister tightly.

Lilian saw the group of people going downstairs, and started busy tuning the frequency of the radio at home, whispering, "Brother, bear!"

Hannibal followed the direction of her fingers and found his sister's teddy bear lying not far away.

He glanced at the people below, moved over there cautiously, and managed to get the bear.

The two pulled the iron chain straight, tried to stay away from the fence to avoid being seen by the people below, and hid in the shadows by cuddling each other.

Lilian carefully unzipped the zipper on the back of the teddy bear and groped inside. When her finger touched the cold dagger, she felt concerned.Now is not the time to take it out, just wait.

He took out a shriveled baked potato, and the two sneakily shared it.The hunger was relieved a little, and Hannibal even ate the potato skins.

Having regained some strength after eating, Lilian hugged the teddy bear in his arms, and Hannibal hugged Lilian in his arms, wrapped the blanket tightly, and used his own body temperature to keep his sister warm.

The two of them thought that this group of people would leave after looting the house. Unexpectedly, it was reported on the radio that the Russian army had set up a blockade every five kilometers around here. Can hide in the house.

After they had finished their own food, they couldn't hunt when they went out to hunt, and they were seriously threatened by hunger.

Lilian and Hannibal weren't much better, barely surviving for two days on food stolen from teddy bears.Soon there will be only the last chocolate left.

On the third day, Lilian took out a palm-sized piece of chocolate from the teddy bear, broke off a small piece, and tried to stuff it into Hannibal's mouth.

Hannibal turned his face away, grabbed her little hand and stuffed the chocolate into her mouth, coaxing in a low voice, "Eat, brother is not hungry."

Since it was impossible to spit it out and waste it in her mouth, Lilian licked the chocolate reluctantly with her tongue. They hadn't had a full meal for a long time.Chocolate can supplement calories and is very precious.

After eating this small piece, she stubbornly stuffed the rest of her brain into her brother's hand, "Eat! When I'm full, my brother will take me and run away!"

One sentence blocked Hannibal's refusal, his eyes fell on the dead mother in the corridor, remembering what he promised, he must protect his sister.

"Okay!" Hannibal agreed, but he just broke off a piece that was not much bigger than a fingernail and put it in his mouth. The rest was hidden in his sister's vest, and he wanted to keep it for her.

Seeing his actions, Lilian put her arms around his neck, lay on his chest, and blinked her wet eyes.

It's not that no one has given her food, but it's an adult, and it's not such a critical moment.

When facing death from starvation, it is even more precious that the person doing this kind of thing is a simple child.

"If this continues, we'll all die!" A roar suddenly erupted from downstairs, Lilian and Hannibal huddled under the blanket and looked over.

The group couldn't find food in the heavy snow, and they had been starving for two or three days, and now their eyes were green from hunger.

The leader, Grutas, gnawed viciously on a dead bird, and the feathers in his mouth were stained with blood.

He suddenly remembered something, and slowly raised his head, his cloudy eyes fixed on Lilian and Hannibal at the fence on the second floor,

"...eat or die."

Following his words, several other people raised their heads at the same time. Everyone's eyes were greedy, hungry, crazy, bloody...

When it fell on Hannibal, she felt a "thump" in her heart!

These people, do they want to...

With great panic in her heart, she quietly took out the dagger from the teddy bear and hid it in her sleeve.

She is not afraid of death, but Hannibal is not. He is the heir of the Lecter family, a brother who loves her and protects her. Even if she is eaten, it doesn't matter, as long as Hannibal can be kept!

The hand hidden in the sleeve quietly clenched the dagger,

Hannibal behind him didn't see that his younger sister's immature face was full of determination to die.

"squeak"

There was a hoarse sound of footsteps on the stairs. Several men went upstairs, staring at them like wolves, and gradually approached the two children.

"No--" The precocious Hannibal understood their eyes, hugged Lilian and desperately wanted to back away. Lilian had already adjusted her gestures, and the tip of the knife was aimed at her heart. It was definitely a fatal blow!

Just at the very moment, Grutas' gaze shifted from Hannibal to Lilian's face, "Just this little girl."

The people are small and the meat is tender.

Lilian guessed that he might mean that, but it didn't prevent her from secretly heaving a sigh of relief.Under the cover of the blanket, he quietly stuffed the chocolate and the dagger back into the teddy bear, intending to leave it to Hannibal.

It was hoped that her death and the remaining food would allow Hannibal to survive for a few more days, waiting for possible rescue.

Several men came to pull her, Hannibal crazily tore and bit at the comer, "Go away! Lilian!"

But Lilian was still taken away, and she was obediently led by Grutas to the outside of the house. After a last look, Hannibal was beaten to the ground, with tears mixed with blood on his face, stretching towards her. Shot, crying in despair, "No, Lilian--"

The door closed in front of her eyes, and Lilian turned her head. A large pot of hot water had already been boiled in her former bath tub.

A man wearing glasses approached her with a sharpened knife, drooling.

Lilian raised her face, glanced over everyone's cheeks one by one, remembered their faces and names, and smiled brightly, "Uncle, are you going to eat me?"

The man holding the knife was taken aback, Grutas raised his eyebrows, showing a hint of surprise, "The little girl is quite smart."

Lilian tilted her head, her face was innocent and childish, "Then, eat me well, don't waste it. This way I can eat for a few more days, and don't touch my brother, okay?"

Everyone present looked at her in shock, and Lilian snapped her fingers self-consciously, "Cut the throat first, and connect the blood to make blood; The bones are crispy..."

Following her narration, a group of people swallowed their saliva in fear and couldn't help it, and the way they looked at her changed a little.

How does a four-year-old know so much!

"Shut up." Grutas was the most calm and calm. They had long lost their humanity in the face of hunger, and they had no interest in exploring this weird little girl.

He gestured to the man nicknamed "Watchdog". With a look of fear and uncontrollable greed on his face, the man raised the butcher knife in his hand--

Lilian closed her eyes, quietly waiting for her impending death.