I was the first to climb over the remains of the bridge onto the steep bank and began helping the girls up. At one point, I even had to climb down and drag the stretcher with the wounded Lisa up the slope myself. And then I heard surprised and frightened cries from above. Had an alien spaceship really appeared? In two great leaps, I reached the top. However, the alien hunter had nothing to do with it; the cause of the commotion was something entirely different...
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Somehow I hadn't thought of that. To the left of the road stood the old town church. And now several girls suddenly ran not toward the high-rise buildings, where they could hide from the flying death, but in the opposite direction, toward the church. Among the fugitives, I recognized with some surprise a plump girl carrying
