Xixia dead book

Chapter 160 The Decisive Battle at the Peak of Helan (45)
Makarov also wrote a few words on a piece of white paper: Black Lama - Ma Yuan - Ma Changguo - Stephen (Fanny).He looked at the line drawn by Yelena, "Yelena, this is Stephen's line. On the surface, this line is much simpler than ours, but after looking at the lines you connected, I feel Stephen's line is not so simple either."

"Oh? Father, what did you see?"

"Elena, did you notice the connection between the lines you drew and mine?"

"Contact? Both Ma Changguo and Stephen are considered Americans..." Yelena's eyes suddenly lit up. "On the surface, the two lines have no connection at all, but if there is a connection, then it is White! Because he is also an American. people, but there is only this connection!"

"Well. Indeed, there is only this connection. Before Stephen died, he mentioned a 'White', but we can't be sure that 'White' is the 'White' back then. If it is because of this 'White', it will Our line is connected with Stephen's line, and it seems too far-fetched now. But my intuition tells me that these two lines are intrinsically linked, and I suspect that White back then..."

"Do you suspect that the general has something to do with this mysterious White?" Yelena asked back.

"Well, if you think about it, if Stephen's line is drawn further down, it will be 'General'. Assuming 'General' is the so-called 'White', or 'White' means 'General', then our few lines will be We can connect now!"

"Father, you are amazing! I only thought of connecting the two lines on our side, but you actually thought of Stephen's line. If it is really like what you said, then the three lines of rioting in the base, protecting Misha, and Stephen The line can be connected!" Yelena was rarely excited like a little girl.

"However, we can't be too happy too early. Both Stephen and Fanny are dead, so Stephen's line has been completely broken. Although our side can now combine the two lines of the base and Misha, but Bultenko, Isakov, and Brenin are all dead, and there is only one Stechkin whose life and death are unknown. It can be said that our clues have basically been broken at this point. Yelena, you know, The black hand behind the scenes is not willing to reveal his true face easily." Makarov was excited, but still kept a clear head.

Yelena didn't take it seriously: "No, we're not finished here, we still have Shedrin."

"You mean let him identify those pictures?"

"Yes! Maybe he can give us some new clues."

"Then may God bless us!"

"What? Father, you seem to have no hope for Schedrin."

Makarov shook his head, but did not answer.Seeing that it was getting late outside and the archives room was about to be closed, Yelena had no choice but to return the files to the administrator. She and Makarov left the headquarters archives with greater doubts and excitement of new discoveries.

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It was already afternoon when Yelena and Makarov rushed back to Petersburg the next day.The two hurried to Shchedrin's residence outside Petersburg without taking a break.

Shchedrin's home was in the wealthy area of ​​Petersburg. Yelena drove out of the city and soon saw a luxurious villa area.Yelena had been to Schedrin's villa before, so she parked the car firmly in front of the gate of the villa.The two jumped out of the car, and Makarov couldn't help sighing: "This kid is a blessing in disguise, and now he's getting paid, and lives in such a nice house!"

"No!" Yelena suddenly interrupted Makarov's exclamation, and drew out her gun.

Makarov also immediately realized something.He didn't know what was coming, but his years as a secret agent had given him a sense of danger.

Yelena held the gun and came sideways to the door of the villa. Makarov came to the other side and listened attentively. There was no movement in the house.The two hesitated for a while, and suddenly heard a sound coming from inside the house.Yelena didn't know what it was coming from, but she sensed that the noise was not right, so she broke open the heavy door of the villa without hesitation.

Makarov also rushed in.The two rushed straight into the living room. In the luxurious living room, Yelena saw Schedrin being tied to a chair.At this moment, Schedrin and the chair fell to the ground, and Yelena immediately understood what was going on with the noise just now.

Yelena and Makarov hurriedly helped Shchedrin up, and took the strip of cloth stuffed in his mouth.Shchedrin yelled, "That man has gone upstairs."

Makarov stayed behind to look after Shchedrin, and Yelena quickly rushed up to the second floor.A black shadow flashed in the master bedroom on the second floor, and when Yelena rushed to the balcony of the master bedroom, that shadow had already jumped off the balcony.

Yelena also jumped off the balcony, chasing the shadow, but the shadow flashed again and disappeared.Yelena was hesitating when a Volvo car rushed out from behind.Yelena quickly dodged, and when she stood up again and raised her gun to shoot at the "Volvo", the car had already disappeared.

Yelena was about to drive after her when Makarov's voice came from behind: "Yelena, stop chasing her!"

Yelena suppressed her anger and returned to the living room. "Do you know that man?" Yelena asked Shchedrin.

"No! I don't know that person. I really can't figure out who would kill me. I didn't offend anyone!" Xiedlin looked innocent.

"How can you be sure that the man is going to kill you? If he wants to kill you, he will shoot you directly, and there is no need to tie you up." Yelena asked him back.

"That person wanted to create the scene of my accidental death, so he tied me up first. If you guys come a step later, that guy is going to inject me with something!" Xiedlin still had lingering fears.

"Let me tell you why someone wants your life, because you used to be a member of the KGB," Makarov said.

"I've been away from the KGB for so long, I should have done it long ago."

"Because you still know the secrets of the KGB, you are destined to have no peace." Yelena answered Schedrin's question while untying the rope.

"Secret? What else do I know?"

"Advance to the base." Makarov said.

"Ah! Didn't I tell you all I know?"

"Some people don't want you to tell everything you know," Yelena said.

"But I've already told what I know! What's the use of killing me again?"

"Maybe you still know something that scares those people." Makarov said in a low voice.

"No! I told you all I knew, and I didn't hide anything."

"We believe in you, but please remember again." Yelena helped Schedrin to the sofa.

Schedrin thought about it carefully, then shook his head: "I really don't know what else to say."

"Do you know Brenin? Andrei Grigorievich Brenin?"

"Brenning?!" Sheidrin thought for a long time, and finally shook his head.

"And what about Isakov? Vasily Alexeyevich Isakov?"

"No! I definitely don't know this person." Schedrin replied very simply.

Yelena and Makarov looked at each other, and Makarov asked Shchedrin again: "Well, please remember carefully, how many times have you met Stechkin?"

"Stechkin? The only time I really dealt with him was that time, in Vladivostok. Later, when I went back to the headquarters, I ran into him a few times, but it was just to say hello. Because I saw his hand I was bandaged and knew that he was not well, so I didn’t talk to him much. Later, he left the headquarters, and I never saw him again.”

"Okay! It seems that you really don't know anything, but we believe you, but those people don't." Makarov said, and took out the photos scanned in the archive room.He didn't tell Schedrin the situation of those people first, but let Schedrin identify the 18 photos.

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Schedrin flipped through everyone's photos one by one.To the surprise of Yelena and Makarov in the end, after seeing the photos, Shchedrin shook his head and said to them, "Who are these people? I don't know any of them. They don't look like It was filmed now."

Yelena and Makarov were stunned by Shchedrin's answer, so Yelena had no choice but to take out the photo of "Warren White" and put it in front of Shchedrin: "Remember, do you know this person?"

"This person?" Schedrin frowned and looked at the photo carefully, and finally shook his head, "No, I don't know this person."

"No matter how hard you look at this person, don't you really recognize him?" Yelena reminded Xiedlin.

"I really don't know this person." Schedrin replied with certainty.

Yelena felt that she was going crazy, so she had to tell Schedrin: "This person is the 'Warren White' you interrogated back then!"

"What? This...it's impossible." Schedrin couldn't believe it, "White's appearance is not like this, absolutely not. This man has a fair face, while the White I've interrogated has a beard, and his complexion is the same as those of the crew. , with a bronze complexion. More importantly, White's facial features are not like this. It is difficult for me to describe that White's facial features in words, but I am sure that White is not the person in the photo."

"Recall carefully, this photo was taken ten years later..." Makarov said.

"Even in ten years, a person shouldn't have such a big change."

"What about the figure of this person in the photo?" Yelena asked suddenly.

"Status?" Schedrin looked at it for a while, and said, "The stature is about the same."

Makarov took out the photo of "Martin" again and asked Schedrin to identify it carefully, but Schedrin still didn't recognize him.

Things seemed to be at an impasse again, but what Schedrin said made Yelena fall into deep thought.After a while of silence, Yelena told Schedrin about the situation of the "Joyce" they had mastered.

After hearing this, Schedrin turned pale with fright, and murmured after a long time: "It turned out to be like this. I... At the beginning, I let him slip away under my nose! So I caught White, and I didn't catch him wrong! "

Yelena nodded at Schedrin: "It's just that this White is a little strange."

"Warren White?!" Sheidrin suddenly yelled after thinking about it, "Could it be that the files you saw were tampered with?"

Shchedrin's words surprised Yelena and Makarov.But soon, Yelena denied this possibility: "When I checked the file of the 'Joyce', I specifically read the review record of this file. Like the file of the base riot, no one has ever reviewed it before us." Read it. And if someone doesn't want us to see this file, just take it, no need to create a fake copy to put in it."

"Yes, we discovered this file by accident. No one should deliberately tamper with this file." Makarov also said.

"That's strange. I can assure you that the White I saw is definitely not the person in the photo." Schedrin swore.

"Then do you still remember the appearance of the other crew members on the 'Joyce'?" Yelena didn't give up.

"At that time, I had dealt with their captain and first mate, but it was only in a hurry, and after such a long time, even if I saw it, it was difficult to recognize it. It's just... just that White, leave me alone It was not because I had interrogated him several times, but because I had pinned all my hopes on him at the time, but in the end..." Shchedrin said this, and suddenly asked Yelena and Makarov, "I don't understand, it's been so long, why are you investigating this again?"

"Because a series of terrible things have happened recently, from the United States to China to Russia, I, a retired old man, cannot enjoy my old age comfortably," Makarov said.

"Scary thing?"

"Yes, that Stechkin escaped from prison..." Yelena told Shchedrin all the information they had about Stechkin and Brenin.

After hearing this, Xie Delin was stunned for a long time before saying: "It turns out that this matter is so complicated!"

"That's why we need your help. You should think about what happened later, like Stechkin..." Yelena hoped that Shchedrin could recall some valuable clues.But Schedrin thought for a long time before shaking his head.At this time, Makarov suddenly asked: "Then where can we find Lieutenant Nikolai?"

"Nicholas?" Shchedrin was startled, and then said slowly, "He's already dead."

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When Makarov heard that Nikolai had died, he was shocked: "Nikolai died too? How did he die?"

"Later, after the whole incident was over, the higher authorities sent an investigation team down to hold the relevant personnel accountable. I definitely couldn't escape, but I didn't expect Nikolay and Stechkin to be locked up like me. Waiting for the final result of the review." Sheidrin rolled his eyes, as if recalling an extremely difficult thing, "We have been reviewed for about a month, and there was a period of time when the review was so strict that we were hardly allowed to rest. Interrogation Divided into several groups, they kept asking us all kinds of boring questions. That’s when Nikolai’s accident happened. Facing the intensive interrogation, Stechkin and I finally survived, but Nikolai In the end... he slit his throat with a blade and killed himself in the brig."

"Where did the blade come from in the confinement room?" Yelena couldn't believe it.

"I don't know. Later, I heard from the officers who investigated us that Nicholas hid it secretly."

"Why did Nicholas commit suicide? It stands to reason that his responsibility should not be greater than yours!" Yelena asked again.

"The psychological quality is not good. I thought the sky was about to fall, so I committed suicide! So the only people who were punished for this incident were me and Stechkin. Everyone else died in the line of duty."

"At that time, what questions did the officers who examined you ask?"

"I was just asking about the incident, so I'll tell you exactly what happened. They mainly judged whether I was dereliction of duty in the whole incident. Anyway, I put the responsibility on Buldenko. If you want to blame, you can only blame this guy for training. The students are too fierce, otherwise, how could they cause such a big loss!"

"It must be these questions that asked Nicholas. Could it be that he can't persist?"

"Nikolai spent the longest time at the base, so you might ask him a lot about the base, Brdenko, and even you, Makarov," Shchedrin said.

"During the review period, did you have any direct contact with Stechkin?" Makarov asked suddenly and sensitively.

"No. We were detained separately, each in a small confinement room, and we were also separated during interrogation."

"Did the officers mention Stechkin when they questioned you?" Makarov asked again.

"Very little, almost none, because his situation is different from mine." Shedlin paused, and then said, "However, there was a situation that puzzled me later. Stechkin made some mistakes later on. It stands to reason The question should be very simple and can be asked quickly, but when I was released after being interrogated for more than a month, Stechkin was still locked in the cell."

"Oh? This is indeed suspicious. Could it be that Stechkin is dishonest?" Yelena wondered.

"I don't know the specific situation. Anyway, Stechkin has been under scrutiny longer than me." Schedrin is still puzzled.

"It's not difficult to understand. Based on what we know about Stechkin now, he has more doubts, so he must have been very uncooperative during the review," Makarov said.

"By the way!" Shchedlin suddenly exclaimed, "What are the names of those people you mentioned just now?"

"Brenning?"

"No! Another one!"

"Isakov? Vasily Alexeyevich Isakov?"

"Yes! I remembered. I've heard of this person. If you don't mention the censorship, I will forget it. At that time, the person in charge of guarding the confinement room at the headquarters was a tall guy. That person seemed to be called Isa Cove!"

"Are you sure?" Both Makarov and Yelena were shocked, and Yelena hurriedly added, "The Isakov we mentioned is two meters tall!"

"Yes! That man is two meters tall, with a hulking back and a fierce face, very sturdy!" Shchedlin thought of Isakov's appearance.

"This is right again!" Makarov murmured.

(End of this chapter)