"Yes." The person next to Ashraf agreed and immediately chased forward. After a while, the chasing person leaned towards the river. After continuing to push forward and drove the people ahead away, the guy named Vitali moved with the flashlight and following the route he had taken before.

"I asked, no one heard it." Ashraf's men reported.

Ashraf nodded and said, "Take five people with you. Look back and see if there is any place to hide people on the way we came."

"Yes!" The man agreed and ran back with the man. After looking around, Ashraf took two people and walked out with the guy named Vitali.

"How is it? How many of them are there?" Ashraf asked.

The Vitali shone around the ground with a flashlight, "They have very few people. They are very separate." As he said that, he shone a flashlight at a place, and there was a clear footprint there, and there was a bullet casing next to the footprint.

"This is a shooting point, but strangely there are no other footprints around him, and behind him are all this man." Vitali said, taking a photo at the back and said, "This man may not have good legs and feet, so the footprints are different in depth. I think there should be only three or four of them, all of them are men."

"Isn't that less than you found when you were by the river before?" Ashraf asked immediately.

"It's really less." Vitali said as she continued to check.

"We were fooled." Ashraf continued after cursing: "Come with me, let's turn around, the person we are going to catch may have run away long ago."

"What should the person in front do?" someone asked.

"Let them chase. There are just a few mercenaries who lured us to chase us. We were fooled. Let's continue to let them drive them away. Let's go and look for them. They shouldn't run far." Ashraf said as he walked back quickly.

Just as Ashraf realized that he was probably fooled, he was in the post office in Slonim, Baldachev, who was brought here by Ivan, was having dinner. He ate very deliciously, and did not feel depressed or sad, or even nervous. He just ate the dinner prepared by Ivan there very quietly and focusedly, just as if he was not the one who was caught today.

Ivan stood at the door, looked at Baldachev and turned to look at the person beside him. He was about forty years old, wearing a suit, tie, glasses, and had little hair, but he was combed neatly. After Ivan turned his head, he spoke, "What are you going to do?"

"Talk first." Ivan looked at the man and said, "Let your people be prepared, Antonov. Maybe you will catch a lot of people tonight."

The man named Antonov smiled and said, "Isn't it the same there?"

"I hope there is no too thrilling plot." Ivan curled his lips and said, "Look at the way this person looks, it seems that everything that happened here has nothing to do with him. He is not easy to deal with."

"If you think it's not easy to deal with, you can leave it to me." Antonov said immediately.

Ivan sneered and said, "Don't worry, you will get what you want. And it will definitely be worth the money."

"I hope so." Antonov said and signaled to Baldachev, "He seems to have eaten."

Ivan turned his head and looked over. Baldachev picked up the napkin next to him and wiped his mouth, then looked at the door, and said, "Can you give me a cup of coffee?"

"Of course. Mr. Baldachev." Ivan said, signaling to his subordinates, then looked at Antonlov and said, "Let's go, let's meet him together?"

"Go." Antonov said: "The woman and the child have not been found yet. I don't think you will get anything before this. I'd better let my people find people as soon as possible with those who are acting outside."

Ivan nodded and said, "Then I'll go and talk to him."

"Good luck." Antonov glanced at Baldachev in the room and turned around and left with the people.

After Ivan waited for his subordinates to bring the coffee, he walked into the room with the cup of coffee and put it in front of Baldachev.

"Thank you." After thanking Baldachev picked up the coffee and took a sip. Ivan looked at him and said, "How is our dinner still acceptable?"

"Of course. Very good." Baldachev said in very authentic Russian: "Thank you. Do you have anything to say? I think it's perfectly possible to start now."

Ivan smiled and said, "Can you know your real name and when did you come to Russia?"

"Yevgeny Vatro Kurbarov." Baldachev said: "This is my Russian name. If I were in Russia since I was a child, I should have called this name."

"What about in the United States?" Ivan asked, "What name do you use in the United States?"

"Fabian Best. But you should call me Baldachev. Those are just old things and have little to do with me." Baldachev said.

"Okay, what about the time?" Ivan continued to ask.

"Not long before the collapse of the Soviet Union," said Baldachev: "I was in Moscow. I was an international student before, but later the society was in turmoil and chaos. The entire Russian economy collapsed. I changed my identity and became Baldachev. And then it has been almost twenty years since now."

"Who was your identity in the Soviet Union then?" Ivan asked.

"Yevgeny Vatro Kurbarov. I have half of Russian descent. This is my Russian name, like a fake one," said Baldachev.

Ivan nodded, agreeing with his statement. "What about your mission?"

Baldachev said: "Originally, I was just an inconspicuous person. The Soviet Union was sent to the then Soviet Union just participated in some peripheral activities and messed up. The purpose was to watch the Soviet Union fall and break it up, and at the same time, further destruction of the Soviet Union from all aspects so that he could never turn over. I think you should understand what I mean."

Ivan looked at Baldachev, and of course he understood this. He only heard him say: "Provoke conflicts between the CIS, instigate important personnel in various fields, steal state secrets, further divide Russia, build puppet parties, and try to gain control of state power."

Baldachev smiled and said, "The last point is too...too ideal. Russia still has such a group of people who are unwilling to surrender. At that time, our goal was not that Hongda. At most, there was a shit stick, and it was not clear how long this shit stick could last."

"Apart from this, isn't everything else right?" Ivan asked.

"Absolutely. If 100 Feng is the full score, you can get ninety." Baldachev said.

"Then obviously you did a good job," Ivan continued, "You should have developed a lot of people during that period. I checked the records you could find in Russia during that period. You were very active in your work and looked like a... like a person you just said unwilling to surrender. So after a painful period, you were quickly reused and became a state cadre."

Baldachev smiled and said nothing, which was a pity. Ivan said: "The water rises and the ships rise, and you soon became an important spy from a marginal figure you mentioned. A person who wants to lurk for a long time and can play a key role at critical moments. Am I right?"

Baldachev spread his hands and said, "It's almost the case. But it seems that the important role has not begun."

"Can you tell me what you want to do in Slonim?" Ivan asked.

Baldachev glanced at Ivan and said, "Aren't you occupied that place? You should know what you have."

"Actually we got nothing there," Ivan said. "Your people reacted very quickly. Before we started, they burned and exploded, destroying everything there. The intelligence station was already in a mess and had no value."

"Then I can't say anything? I'm not responsible for the work there. I never ask." Baldachev said: "In fact, neither I nor them are on the same line."

"You didn't tell the truth about this." Ivan sneered and said, "You have contact with the people there. If you are not on the same line, how can you still have contact? Isn't this a violation of the principle?"

"Contacting doesn't mean I know everything about them. If I say it's just a contact station, do you believe it?"

"Don't believe it." Ivan immediately said: "If it were just a contact station, how could it be of this scale? How could there be someone as important as you here?"

Baldachev smiled and said, "Thank you. Thank you for thinking I'm important. But in fact... I'm not that important."

"No need to be modest, Mr. Baldachev." Ivan thought for a while and said, "I don't know the specific purpose of everything you are doing here, but it is definitely not small. Now that you are here, we will just click directly, how can we let you tell what I want to know as soon as possible?"

Baldachev looked at the accident, and after a moment of silence, he smiled and said, "To be honest, there is nothing that tempting to me here. I don't have many secrets, and I'll be worthless soon. I'm arrested now, the news will be spread soon, and those who have something to do with me will receive it soon. Maybe they are on the way to escape now. But it cannot be denied that even so, our losses are great. If you win just in this matter. And as me, this is my last task, to win time for those people. So I don't plan to tell you the things you are interested in. This is not my intention to irritate you or anything else. I think you wouldn't have spoken so easily, right? If that were the case, wouldn't it be an insult to people like us?"

"Insult?" Ivan of course understood what the other party meant. He played another person alone in a foreign country. He worked for nearly twenty years and didn't know which day he would be. He could not return home. Those relatives had long lived in their own memories, and they were still the kind of memories that could not be recalled casually. After paying such a price, one day he was arrested and explained everything like pouring beans on bamboo tubes. Don't be nonsense, then first of all, I'm sorry that it's not someone else, but yourself.

"You're right." Ivan said, "Those who have been instigated or who have no intentions can really not compare with you. If you didn't do this job, I think you should live a good life now."

"It's not bad now." Baldachev said relaxedly: "I've been used to it for a long time. Actually, I'm just a Russian. I rarely do it when I'm a real spy."

"What if it comes at the cost of your wife and children?" Ivan said suddenly.

Hearing this, Baldachev was stunned at first. He did not answer but wanted to think about something quickly. Seeing that he was not speaking, Ivan continued, "They are very important to you. If it weren't for them, I think you should be somewhere abroad now, right? I think there should be no problem with me exchanging your secrets with you, right? It wouldn't be considered an insult, right?"

Baldachev stared at Ivan for a moment, and suddenly he smiled and said, "You are right. But they are obviously not in your hands."

"Oh? Are you so sure?" Ivan asked curiously.

"Haha. I'm sure." Baldachev smiled and said, "To be honest, I was really shocked just now. I haven't been scared by anyone for many years. I mean threats, haha. But I did... in that moment I really backed a little. But this thing didn't happen, they were not in your hands." He pointed to the window and said, "Just before, did you hear the gunshots? Why? Can you tell me what happened?"

Ivan soon realized the problem, that is, why someone suddenly attacked the people sent by Ashraf to capture Baldachev's wife and children, and put them in a rhythm. The answer was the guy in front of him, or he made some arrangements before being shopped, so that those Americans who were supposed to escape were returned.

"I know you found those people." Ivan said: "But I want to say that it is not easy to take out this country. It is only a matter of time before they are arrested."

"Then give it a try. Why don't you wait until you actually catch them before asking me your questions?" said Baldachev.

Ivan chuckled and said, "Isn't that like a threat? Is that better than it is now?"

"Haha." Baldachev smiled as if he was a little surprised and said, "I can't let you all know just because of a supper and a cup of coffee. I admit that I failed, but I have to give me some reason to ask me to speak. Why don't we talk about something else first, and when your people tell you to catch them, let's talk about what you care about?"
Chapter completed!