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Chapter 2675 The Plague God Reappears

"What the hell is going on?" Looking at himself in the dressing mirror, Sokov was almost going crazy.

Yesterday at the flea market on Arbat Street, I saw Yakov calling me from an old TV that didn't even have an electrical plug. Today was even more outrageous, I actually saw Asia in the dressing mirror in the study. This was simply outrageous.

But what Sokov didn't expect was that even more outrageous things were yet to come.

When he squatted back beside the cardboard box and continued to take the books out, he was surprised to find that he was the author of every novel.

In addition to the first book discovered, "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", the next books taken out include "An Ordinary Soldier", "The Siege", and the three major works of "trench realism", "An Inch of Soil", "The Last Bombardment" and "The Third Flare".

Sokov placed all the books signed with his name on the table and began to search for information on the Internet using his mobile phone.

Before I returned to this era, the only book I published was "The Dawns Here Are Quiet", and the other one, "An Ordinary Soldier", was just the finished manuscript and had not even been sent to the publishing house. There were still some doubts as to whether it could be published.

But what about the rest of the book?

As for The Siege, I only wrote the beginning before Stalin urgently stopped it because it involved the main leaders of Leningrad and the subject matter was too sensitive, so it had to be shelved temporarily. But judging from the books in front of me, I still finished writing the book and published it.

As for the three books of "trench realism", "An Inch of Soil" was published by Baklanov in 1959; Bondarev's "The Last Bombardment" was published in 1949, and Bykov's "The Third Flare" was also published in the late s.

He put down his phone and thought about a possibility. If these books were real, it meant that in addition to accidentally returning to the present due to injury in 1946, something else might have happened later, causing him to return to decades ago and write these books under his own name.

Looking at the books in front of him, Sokov was certain that traveling back to the Great Patriotic War and returning from there by accident was not a dream, but a real thing. However, traveling from the modern times to the past and then returning from the past to the modern times by accident was outrageous enough, but the chance of traveling again was probably lower than the chance of winning the special prize for 100 consecutive times.

  There was a knock on the door and Sokov was startled. He thought to himself that he had just moved in, who would know that he lived here?

But then I thought, maybe it was Anna. Yesterday I refused her to let her friend live in the rental house, and she left without saying goodbye this morning. Could it be that she has thought it through and came back to find me?

At this point, he quickly walked to the door and opened it without even looking through the peephole.

A woman in a postman's uniform was standing at the door. She saw Sokov appear at the door and asked, "Excuse me, does Damana live here? I have a package for her."

"I'm sorry, there's no one named Damana here."

"But the address on the package is right here."

Hearing the other party's affirmation, Sokov couldn't help but wonder, could it be that Liuba's mother was called Damana? Thinking of this, he quickly said to the female postman: "Please wait a moment, I'll ask, I just moved here yesterday, and I don't know the situation here."

After that, Sokov returned to the room, picked up the phone from the desk, and called Liuba: "Liuba, hello! This is Misha."

Liuba's voice sounded very tired: "Misha, what's the matter?"

"It's like this," Sokov said, looking at the female postman standing at the door. "There's a postman at my door. She said there's a package from Damana, and the address is where I live now."

Liuba hesitated for a moment and said, "I have never heard of Damana, and there is no one named Damana in our building." She was probably worried that Sokov would not be able to explain it to the other party, so she took the initiative to say, "You give the phone to the postman and I will talk to her myself."

The phone was handed to the female postman, and Sokov stood aside bored, waiting for the outcome of the negotiation between the two.

A few minutes later, the female postman handed the phone back to Sokov and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, sir, the address on the package may be wrong. I'm so sorry for the trouble."

"It's ok."

Sokov returned to the house and continued to search for information after 1946 on his mobile phone, but the phone rang.

The caller ID showed that it was Lao Hu. After the call was connected, he asked directly: "Lin Hua, are you free tomorrow?"

When he heard the name from the other person, Sokov remembered that his real name was Lin Hua. After being called "Misha" or "Sokof" for so many years, he almost forgot his real name. He quickly asked, "Old Hu, what's the matter?"

"I plan to go back to China tomorrow." Lao Hu asked, "Can you give me a ride?"

Lao Hu was a friend of Sokov’s for many years. Since the other party had made such a request, he naturally could not refuse, so he asked, “When do we leave tomorrow?”

"Four p.m."

"Okay, come find me then."

The next afternoon, Lao Hu called Sokov again: "Lin Hua, I'm coming over now, are you in the store?"

"Here I am."

"Besides me, there is another friend returning to China today." Lao Hu asked tentatively, "Can you take him to the airport with you?"

Hearing that he was Lao Hu's friend, Sokov almost agreed immediately. But when the words came to his lips, he hesitated and said, "Lao Hu, you and I are friends, it's okay for me to take you to the airport. But I don't know your friend, and I don't want to send a stranger to the airport casually."

"Oh, Lin Hua, I was asked by a friend to come and I can't refuse." Lao Hu said, "How about I take him there first and we can talk about it after you see him."

Since Lao Hu had said so much, Sokov couldn't refuse and could only agree reluctantly.

A few minutes later, the balding old Hu came in from outside dragging a suitcase.

First, he greeted Lena and Ada outside, and then went directly into the room to find Sokov: "Lin Hua, I'm here!"

Sokov stood up and shook hands with him. After chatting for a while, he asked, "Where is the friend you mentioned?"

"Wait a minute, I'll call them in." After saying that, Lao Hu turned and walked out of the room, came into the store, and shouted outside: "Mr. Cai, come in quickly."

  When he heard Lao Hu calling "Mr. Cai", Sokov immediately thought of the weirdo he met when he was having dinner at Mumu Restaurant. He thought to himself that he couldn't be so unlucky. Could the friend Lao Hu was talking about be Cai Bo, who had studied for an EMBA and thought he was superior to others?

Sometimes the more you worry about something, the more it will happen. Sokov was worried that the friend that Lao Hu mentioned was the weirdo named Cai Bo, but he didn't expect that the person who walked in from outside was really that person.

As soon as he entered the door, Cai Bo said dissatisfiedly: "Old Hu, I have followed you for such a long time, but I haven't seen the car coming to pick me up. How long do I have to wait? If I were in China, I would only need to make a phone call and the car would be parked at the door waiting for me. Why would I have to walk such a long way?"

"Lao Hu," Sokov saw that it was indeed this person who came. Knowing that the other party did not understand Russian, he said to Lao Hu: "Lao Hu, if you go to the airport alone, I will take you there, no problem. But if he is with you, then I will not go." Lao Hu was stunned when he heard Sokov suddenly speak Russian to him, and then he thought of a possibility and hurriedly asked in a low voice: "Is there any conflict between you and him?"

"It's not convenient to talk about it now," Sokov frowned and said, "You find a way to get rid of him, and then I'll take you to the airport."

"What do you want me to say to him?" Lao Hu looked embarrassed.

"It's very simple. Just tell him that my car is broken." Sokov said to Lao Hu, "You said I plan to arrange for you and other friends to share a car. There is only one seat. Let him go somewhere else to find a solution."

"How can I say such a thing?" Lao Hu said awkwardly, "I was entrusted by someone to take him to the airport. I can't go back on my word, can I?"

"The man who's asking for your help is called Lao Tan, right?" Sokov said in a tough tone, "Call Lao Tan immediately and ask him to take this man away."

Lao Hu had no choice but to go outside and call Lao Tan.

And that weird Mr. Cai was walking around the store with his hands behind his back, talking nonsense all the time.

Lena frowned and looked at him for a while, then a look of shock appeared on her face. She quickly ran to Sokov and whispered, "Misha, this seems to be the person who was taken away by the police when we were having dinner at Mumu Restaurant, right?"

"Yes, that's him."

Lena looked at Cai Bo with disdain and said dissatisfiedly: "Why is he here?"

"He was going to return to China today, and he probably didn't want to spend money. He just happened to hear my friend say he was going back to China, so he wanted to take the opportunity to get a ride."

"This kind of person is so annoying."

Lao Hu made a phone call for a while, then walked in from outside and said with a bitter face, "Lin Hua, I called Lao Tan. He was very unhappy. He said I didn't keep my word and was going back on my promise. It seems that I have no choice but to trouble you to take us to the airport."

"Lao Hu, let me make it clear again, we are friends, and there is no problem in sending you to the airport." Sokov pointed at Cai Bo who was walking back and forth in the store and said angrily: "But for this kind of person, I will never let him take a ride."

Seeing Sokov's tough attitude, Lao Hu also showed an unhappy expression on his face: "Okay, then, I'll call Lao Tan again."

"I think you should stop calling." Sokov looked at his watch and said to Lao Hu, "Leave your luggage here and send this weirdo back to Lao Tan first. Whoever is willing to send him to the airport can do so. After sending this plague away, come back here and I'll take you to the airport."

Lao Hu followed Sokov's advice, came to Cai Bo and whispered a few words to him.

Cai Bo was so angry that he jumped up and said, "Old Hu, what do you mean? I followed you for such a long distance, and you said your car broke down and you couldn't take me to the airport, and you wanted to send me away. I tell you, it's not that easy. I'm giving you two choices: one is to take me to the airport immediately, and the other is to compensate me for my mental damages of 10,000 US dollars."

Lena and Ada, who were watching the fun, saw Cai Bo's outburst and asked curiously, "Misha, what is he talking about?"

After the two men finished listening to Sokov's translation, they couldn't help but glare at him and cursed, "What a scoundrel!"

Cai Bo's yelling alarmed the security guard patrolling outside. He walked into the store and asked Ada, who was closest to him: "Ada, what happened?"

Ada quickly told the security guard what happened, exaggerating the incident.

After hearing this, the security guard walked up to Cai Bo and yelled at him.

But what the security guard didn't expect was that Cai Bo didn't understand Russian at all, and what he said was like talking to a deaf person.

Although Cai Bo doesn't understand Russian, Lao Hu does.

He was worried about something going wrong, so he quickly came over to ask Sokov for help: "Lin Hua, the security guard said he wants to take Mr. Cai to the security room. Can you help put in a few good words for him?"

"Old Hu, go tell that so-called Mr. Cai that the security guard told him to leave immediately or he would be locked up. Ask him whether he will stay and continue to act like a scoundrel, or go back to find Old Tan obediently?"

Old Hu had no choice but to go back to Cai Bo and explain the interests involved to him.

Although Cai Bo had just acted arrogantly, he was stunned when he heard that he might be imprisoned for a period of time, and quickly asked Lao Hu for help.

When Sokov saw Lao Hu looking at him, he quickly winked at him, indicating that he should take Cai Bo away.

Old Hu understood what Cai Bo meant and quickly dragged him out of the store.

After Lao Hu and the others left, Sokov dragged his suitcase to the parking lot, opened the trunk of the car and put his things in.

Ten minutes later, the haggard Old Hu returned to the store and said to Sokov with a bitter face: "Lin Hua, you really made me suffer. I just sent Mr. Cai back and Old Tan complained about me, saying that I didn't keep my word..."

Sokov didn't wait for Lao Hu to finish speaking, and quickly raised his hand to interrupt him: "Lao Hu, are you familiar with Lao Tan?"

After hearing Sokov's question, Lao Hu thought for a moment and replied, "I have a fellow villager who I have a good relationship with. Lao Tan and I once shared a house for a period of time. Before today, I didn't even know Lao Tan."

"That's right. Old Tan is just your fellow countryman's roommate. He has nothing to do with you. And this mysterious Mr. Cai has nothing to do with you. Why should you send him to the airport? Even if you want to take advantage of him, you shouldn't do it this way."

Sokov looked at his watch and said to Lao Hu, "It's getting late. We should set off."

Lao Hu looked around and asked in surprise, "Where is my suitcase?"

"I've put it in the car." After saying hello to Lena and Ada, Sokov walked out with Lao Hu: "I'll tell you the whole story of this incident slowly on the way. I never thought that Lao Tan would provoke this weirdo somewhere, and finally dump the trouble on you."

"It was mainly because my friends asked me to help." Lao Hu said awkwardly, "I was embarrassed to refuse them, but I didn't expect this to happen today."

"Old Hu, you should keep your eyes open when you go out." Sokov reminded him, "You should know who you can be friends with and who you can't be friends with. Don't be a pushover, otherwise you will be the one who suffers the most in the end."