Chapter 1288 "I Became the God of Death"
The answer given by Karachev did not exceed Malashenko's expectations, but even so it still made people feel helpless, painful, and extremely angry.
"damn it!"
boom--
Malashenko, who was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot but had no choice but to relieve himself, could only relieve himself by venting the suppressed emotions in his heart.
His fists as big as sandbags were smashed firmly on the broken wooden table. Even the empty cup on the table was knocked several centimeters high by Malashenko's fist. It fell from mid-air and rolled to the ground. The crisp sound of "bang" seemed to correspond to the sound of heartbreak.
"One year, I dare to guarantee you another year! In another year we will definitely overthrow the lair of those German bastards. Isn't there any way to make him hold on until the day when the red flag is planted in Berlin? This is His greatest wish, he must see it with his own eyes before he dies!"
The emotional Malashenko was pounding the table and demanding answers from Karachev, but Karachev, who knew that his words were too full and still a lie, were unwilling to do so, even if it would allow Malashenko to find temporary relief. The same goes for peace of mind.
"I still say the same thing, I can't give you any guarantee."
"Do you know what a powerful enemy Comrade Political Commissar is facing? This is the king of cancer! It's not breast cancer or even vaginal cancer that can be cured if you endure it and save your life!"
"There is no cure now, and even extending life is almost impossible. Ye Yan) I can even tell you that even if pancreatic cancer is fifty or one hundred years from now, there may still be no cure. If you don’t study medicine and understand it, you won’t know how terrible it is!”
"Materialists do not believe in gods, but pancreatic cancer is the messenger of death! It is the incarnation of Satan and the ultimate demon that harvests human lives! Once diagnosed, it means that the sickle of death has been placed on your neck and begins to cut off the flesh bit by bit. Throat! Comrade Political Commissar is now using his own muscles to fight against the sharp sickle blade. Do you know what a great and respectable miracle this is?"
Kalachev, who was getting more and more excited as he spoke and started banging the table, was the first to realize his gaffe. "A doctor should not be swayed by emotions at any time" was the advice given to him by his mentor, forcing him to regain his rationality and calmness. The calm Karachev soon spoke calmly again.
"The medicine I brought from the United States is almost running out. I have to find a way to contact Jessica and ask her to send me another suitcase from the United States! The transportation method can be directly through the Lend-Lease Act, which is no problem, but I don’t have the connections or the ability to deliver messages here. You have to help me, otherwise the political commissar may not be able to survive even a week once he stops taking medicine.”
Malashenko, who was holding a cigarette butt in his hand, clearly heard every syllable that came out of Kalachev's mouth. He knew that Kalachev always had a "high-end suitcase" in his hand, which he brought with him when he got off the ship from the United States. Take it with you.
It is filled with all kinds of weird and difficult-to-use rare items that can save lives at critical moments and are extremely difficult to obtain in the American market. Quite a few of them are stuff from the laboratories of pharmaceutical companies, including the new oral compound morphine tablets that the political commissar has been taking. Who knows what unpredictable side effects may occur after using them.
However, it is better than letting people lie there waiting to die. As long as it is stronger than this, it is worth a try? It is nothing more than treating a dead horse as a living horse.
The ability to obtain these things was not due to any extraordinary ability of Karachev, a "foreigner", but all thanks to the help of his little girlfriend Jessica, who had been tricked into sleeping with him and was in love with him. Her father is the boss of a pharmaceutical company? He is considered to be in the middle and upper reaches of the industry, and his network of black and white connections is pretty good.
If he wanted to get more medicine, he could only rely on her. The key was how to contact him. After returning to his motherland, Karachev, who was completely unfamiliar with the place he was born in, had to find someone to help him.
"How long can the remaining medicine last?"
Malashenko, who kept tapping the table with his index finger, asked, his words full of uneasiness and thinking.
"If you only refer to Comrade Political Commissar, then four months is no problem? I just calculated it. But there may be other people, other wounded people who need the same medicine? Comrade Political Commissar needs more than just morphine tablets now. If this happens, the corresponding medicine may not even be enough for a month? It may even be used up in two or three weeks."
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Malashenko's face was so black that ink dripped from his face. The life-saving medicine may now be shared with a bunch of people who are dying and waiting for life-saving treatment? Among them is Petrov, the political commissar. The cruel reality requires that Malashenko Rashenko had to make a decision.
This is a painful choice that must be made. Should you save more people's lives? Or only save the one that is most important to you. Malashenko, who shoulders the leadership of a division and is trusted by his comrades to the point where he is willing to risk his life, can only choose one of them and abandon the other.
Malashenko could not remember the last time he made such a painful choice. After being silent for a full minute, he finally opened his eyes again and spoke slowly.
"Unless I personally order it, these medicines will have been "used up" and can only be used by Comrade Political Commissar. Do you keep this in your stomach? You are not allowed to mention it to anyone, not even Comrade Political Commissar or the deputy division commander!"
When this sentence came out of his mouth, Malashenko seemed to feel something flying out of his body and soul, leaving him. It was something that originally lived in his heart, invisible and intangible, but actually existed.
Feeling that there was no need to say anything more, Malashenko wanted to be alone for a while, and his hand on the corner of the table made him stand up from the chair slowly and with difficulty.
"Write a letter to your girlfriend, explain the message clearly and fill in the address. Leave the delivery to me, and send the things to me before dawn."
"Unless someone special needs medicine, don't bother me to report, that's it for now."
Malashenko did not return to the living room of the hut where everyone was, but went straight through another corridor, came to the back of the hut, found a place to squat down in the wind, and lit a cigarette for himself.
For a long time, Malashenko has always required himself to be "perfect", to fulfill his duties to the heavy responsibility of the division commander, and even the most ordinary soldiers should not live up to the trust of the life handed over to him, who is not born by his father and raised by his mother? No Red Army soldier is unimportant to his family.
But now, everything has become a little different.
Existing history July 16, 1945, on the mountain outside Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA.
The first atomic bomb in human history exploded, evaporated, and turned into a bright and huge mushroom cloud of strong light. The light of destruction it released could be witnessed by people even hundreds of kilometers away.
After witnessing the great destroyer he created with his own hands, Oppenheimer, one of the initiators, wrote the following in his own notes.
"I became the god of death, the destroyer of the world."
His college classmate and colleague Benbrick happened to see it and leaned over to Oppenheimer who was sitting at the desk holding a pen and writing an inscription and said something.
"Now, we are all sons of bitches cursed by thousands of people."
Malashenko, squatting in the cold wind and smoking alone, trembled his lips and said slowly.