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Chapter 2770: Ideas for Identification

The next morning, Sokov ran to Vlasov to ask for leave.

"Comrade Commandant," Sokov said to Vlasov, "I would like to go out for a walk this morning with the garrison patrol. I hope you will agree."

Colonel Del and Nikolsky were present while he spoke.

Hearing what Sokov said, Colonel Del couldn't help but ask curiously: "Captain Sokov, you are not from the garrison headquarters, why do you want to go out with the patrol?"

"Comrade Chief of Staff," Vlasov explained to Colonel Del before Sokov could answer, "There are many officers and soldiers in the garrison headquarters who used to be Captain Sokov's subordinates. I think he might want to use the patrol opportunity to catch up with them and check if there are any changes in the city." After saying this, he turned to look at Sokov and asked politely. "Captain Sokov, am I right?"

"Yes, comrade commander, that's what I mean." Sokov said this, and muttered to himself: "The main reason is that I want to find Victoria." Since his unit was not in Moscow and he didn't have any business cards, if he met an unfamiliar patrol on the road and wanted to check his ID, he might be arrested as a deserter. But if he set out with the patrol of the garrison headquarters, he wouldn't have to worry about this problem.

Vlasov waved his hand at Sokov and said reasonably, "Captain Sokov, we may have to stay at the garrison headquarters for a few days. There is nothing else to do anyway. If you want to patrol with the patrol, go ahead."

"Thank you, Comrade Commander." Seeing that Vlasov agreed to his request, Sokov raised his hand to saluted several people and turned to leave.

A few minutes later, Sokov followed the patrol team led by Andrei, walked out of the garrison headquarters compound, and began patrolling along the street from west to east.

"Andrei," Sokov asked casually, "You patrol the streets every day. Have you ever encountered any emergencies?"

"Sokov, what kind of emergency do you mean?"

"For example, have you ever encountered a robber who robbed a store or a bank?"

"No. I have never encountered the situations you described." Andre shook his head and said, "Our main task is to deter the enemies who have sneaked into the city and prevent them from acting rashly."

Sokov knew very well that the news of Kiev's disastrous defeat and the German army's desperate efforts to rush to Moscow had not yet been widely known, so the people in the city were really calm. By mid-October, as the situation became increasingly tense, the city would fall into chaos, and a large number of residents would try every means to escape the city, causing all roads out of the city to be blocked.

"Comrade soldier," Andrei called to another soldier who had just come out of the barber shop and said sternly, "Your ID!"

The soldier did not dare to delay and quickly took out his military ID and handed it to Andre.

After Andre looked through the other party's ID, he frowned and said, "Comrade Soldier, what are you doing here?"

The soldier pointed to the barber shop behind him and reported to Sokov: "Comrade Captain, I came here to get a haircut."

"Haircut?!" Since the patrol leader was Andrei, who had been promoted to sergeant, Sokov ignored the soldier in order to maintain his prestige. Instead, he let Andrei continue to question the soldier: "Your unit is not stationed here, why did you run so far to get a haircut here?"

"Comrade Sergeant," the soldier replied in a panic, "I came here to see a friend. But after running all the way here, I didn't see any trace of my friend. When I was about to leave, I saw a barber shop here and got a haircut."

Seeing that Andrei was questioning the other party, Sokov couldn't help but ask curiously: "Andrei, why do you keep asking this soldier questions?"

"Sokov, you don't know." Andrei leaned close to Sokov and whispered, "I questioned him for two reasons: first, to prevent Germans disguised as our soldiers from sneaking into the city; second, to prevent deserters. After all, it is wartime now, and it is possible that some individuals have become deserters because of panic."

"Oh, so that's how it is." After Sokov figured out what was going on, he didn't say anything and stepped aside, letting Andrei handle the matter. After all, this was Andrei's job, and although his position was higher than Andrei's, he was not qualified to ask about this matter casually.

The soldier explained to Andre for a long time, and finally Andre borrowed a phone from a nearby store and called the soldier's unit to ask whether there was such a person, whether he was out, whether he had asked for leave from his superiors, etc.

After verifying the soldier's information and confirming that he was telling the truth, Andre returned his ID to him and warned him, "Comrade soldier, I remind you that this is an emergency. If it's not something important, don't move around casually. We are easy to talk to. If other patrol teams encounter you and see that you have crossed the area, they may directly arrest you and put you in the confinement room for a few days."

Sokov, who was standing nearby, felt a chill all over his body when he heard what Andrei said. He thought that if he had not been forcibly conscripted into the army by Andrei after this journey, but had followed the fleeing crowd to Moscow, he might have been detained by the patrol because of his identity.

After releasing the soldier, the patrol team continued to patrol along the street. Andrei smiled and said to Sokov, "Sokov, go to the intersection ahead, maybe you can see the policewoman. I think she seems to be interested in you."

"Maybe." Sokov replied calmly.

Seeing Sokov's cold reaction, Andrei was a little surprised: "Sokof, such a beautiful policewoman, don't you like her?"

"Yes, of course." After answering Andrei's question, Sokov took the initiative to say, "But now is war time. You and I may go to the battlefield at any time. If I die on the battlefield, won't she become a widow? So it's one thing for me to date her, but we can't easily talk about marriage."

"Sokof, I think your idea is wrong." Andrei shook his head and said, "There is a marriage registration office on our patrol route. I have seen soldiers and girls from the city come out of it several times after completing the marriage registration. I once asked a girl, and she said that she got married after knowing her husband for just a few hours. Before he left, he gave her his allowance card and asked her to collect the allowance on his behalf every month; if he died on the battlefield one day, the girl could still get her husband's pension." What Andrei said, Sokov had seen with his own eyes before the Battle of Stalingrad in his previous life. When he and Asia registered their marriage at the Stalingrad Registry, he also thought about giving his allowance card to Asia so that she could collect her allowance. But since they were both in the same unit, he gave up the idea.

At this moment, Sokov was eager to meet Victoria as soon as possible and continue to study with her how to return to the future.

Arriving at the intersection, Sokov saw a long line of people waiting to buy bread. There were five or six police officers standing on the roadside, maintaining order to prevent people from cutting in line or to prevent thieves from appearing. You know, bread is now distributed according to the rationing system. Once a thief steals the ration card, the person who lost the ration card will have to go hungry before the next month's ration card arrives.

Sokov followed the patrol team and walked a distance forward. Sure enough, he saw Victoria explaining something to two policemen at the entrance of the bakery. He raised his hand and said, "Hey, Victoria!"

Victoria, who was talking to the police, heard someone calling her and turned to look in the direction of the voice.

After seeing Sokov walking with the patrol, Victoria smiled: "Misha, you're back!"

"Yes, Vika, I'm back."

Victoria took a few steps towards Sokov and asked with concern: "When did you arrive in Moscow? Why didn't you contact me immediately?"

"I arrived last night." Sokov explained to Victoria, "I heard that Moscow is now under martial law at 10 o'clock at night. If you walk around the city without a pass, you will easily be caught by the patrol. So I had to wait until now to come to you."

"Sokof," Andrei said to Sokov, "Our patrol will go one block further and then turn around and go back. If you have anything to say to the policewoman, hurry up and say it. I'll call you when we pass by here later."

After the patrol team left, Sokov pulled Victoria aside and asked, "I heard from Lieutenant Dennis and Sergeant Andrei that you have asked them about my whereabouts many times. Is there something urgent?"

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"It's really inconvenient to contact each other without mobile phones in this era." Victoria muttered, and then went straight to the point: "I thought of a key issue and wanted to discuss it with you. Maybe it can help us return to the future."

After hearing what Victoria said, Sokov quickly asked, "What key issue did you think of? Tell me quickly."

"I told you last time that there was a movie called 'We Are From the Future'." Victoria said, "Do you remember it?"

"Of course I remember." Sokov nodded and said, "The four diggers traveled back to the Great Patriotic War, and finally returned to the modern era."

"They traveled through time because they promised an old milkman to help her find her missing son and a silver wine flask that Budyonny gave to her family." Victoria said carefully, "We traveled through time and space to this era while searching for Baharov. I think if we want to go back, we must first find Baharov. Only when the three of us are together can we complete the mission of this time travel and have a chance to return to the future."

"But whether Baharov traveled through time is still just a guess." Sokov did not deny that Victoria's statement made sense, but it was not so easy to put it into practice, so he expressed his concerns: "Even if he traveled through time to this era, we don't know where he is now, what his name is, and whether his appearance has changed. Even if we want to find him, we have no idea where to start. We can't just ask someone, 'Did you travel through time?' If we really do this, it won't be long before we are either sent to a mental hospital or sliced ​​and studied by scientific research institutions."

Victoria shuddered when she heard this. She didn't want to be sent to a mental hospital, and she didn't want to be sliced ​​by a scientific research institution. So she could only ask helplessly: "What should we do? Should we just wait like this?"

"Of course." Sokov nodded and said helplessly: "We don't have any clues now. Even if we want to find Baharov, we have no idea where to start."

"You often go to the front line, so you're definitely not as convenient as me when it comes to finding people." Victoria said thoughtfully, "But I've never passed by Baharov, and I'm worried that even if he appeared in front of me, I wouldn't be able to recognize him."

Victoria's words reminded Sokov that he had forgotten to show her a photo of Khabarov before he dragged Victoria to the basement of Khovlin Hospital to look for Khabarov. It was too late to regret now. He wanted to draw a portrait of Khabarov for her, but then he thought that his painting skills were very poor and the portrait might not look like the real Khabarov at all. It would be impossible for Victoria to find the real Khabarov with such a portrait.

Thinking of this, Sokov said tactfully: "Vika, in the future, when you see a young man in his twenties, whether he is a soldier, a policeman or a civilian, as long as he is named Khabarov, you can test him with words."

"Probing with words?!" Victoria raised her eyebrows and asked, "How do you think I should test you?"

Sokov folded his hands over his chest and tapped his arm lightly with one finger, thinking about how to test whether those people named Baharov were from the future like himself.

Seeing Sokov's action, Victoria couldn't help but laugh, and then asked: "Misha, who did you learn this action from? You look so serious, which is quite intimidating."

Sokov did not speak, but continued to think. Many ideas popped up in his mind, but he denied them all, because once those questions were asked, not only would they be exposed, but they would also cause unnecessary trouble.

Finally, he shook his head vigorously, smiled bitterly and said to Victoria: "I'm sorry, Vika, I really can't think of any questions to test those people."

Since Sokov couldn't come up with a good idea, Victoria had to come up with a solution. She thought for a while, and then proposed her own idea: "Misha, didn't we accidentally travel here when we were looking for Baharov in the Hovlin Hospital? Why don't I see someone named Khabarov and ask him if he knows where the Hovlin Hospital is?"

When Sokov heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately gave Victoria a thumbs up: "Vika, you are really amazing. If it was the real Khabarov, he would be able to guess your identity just by hearing the place name."

(End of this chapter)