Dragon Clan: Thought So Far

Under the tablecloth that was dragged to the floor, Zero gently stepped on Lu Mingfei's feet. He immediately fell silent and concentrated on the pot of braised beef in his bowl.

"Your ambition has become clear after becoming the Deputy Minister of Defense. Politically, you were eventually rejected by your allies. Even if you enter the mall, you are still a tyrant." Zero's tone was calm, but she sat there as if she was in a high position. On the throne, it was clear that he needed to raise his head to look into General Vatugin's eyes, but his posture was like looking down at the disobedient ministers from the clouds.

"My family and I have enough wealth to cause a financial crisis, and you are our only ally in Moscow. My dear General Vatutin, how can I completely put my trust in your hands?" Ling Leng said coldly.

Lu Mingfei felt that saying this was a bit excessive. Even he could see how happy the old man was when he saw Zero. His eyes that were cloudy due to old age shone in the reflection of the snow.

The old man pursed his lips tightly, with veins popping on his temples. He filled the glass with ice cubes again with vodka, and then poured the ice cubes into his mouth. The wine flowed down his throat, and the ice cubes were between his teeth. There was a crackling sound.

After a moment, General Vatutin smiled instead of being angry, staring directly into Zero's eyes: "Back then, the Romanov family chose me as your ally and agent among so many fallen marshals, generals, wealthy and noble families in Moscow. Isn’t that what you fancy?”

He sneered: "An abandoned communist, people like us will degenerate even more completely once we betray the class. Money, women, luxurious life, the Romanov family can use many things to control me, right?"

Zero returned a cold gaze. She said nothing, just waiting for General Vatugin's next words.

"If I was still a Red Army soldier who defended Leningrad many years ago and dedicated my blood to the country, how could you find me?" General Vatutin leaned forward and said in a cold tone, "I have always felt that there is something in your body. There is a more aloof soul hidden inside. That soul has lived for many years and can clearly see the illusions in this world. But this time, Your Highness Romanova, you saw me wrong!"

"It is true that I no longer deserve to be called a Bolshevik, but I still never thought of betraying my country. Before being liquidated, I was able to invest the lives of hundreds or even thousands of innocent people in Project Delta for experiments. After being liquidated I can still spend the rest of my life In exchange for freedom and wealth, the secrets of the empire will remain forever." General Vatutin stood up and looked down at Zero coldly. His body was like a thick mountain, blocking the way between the dining table and the window behind him, casting a shadow. Come, but it can't cover the loneliness in the eyes of Her Royal Highness. General Vatutin said, "If you come to visit me, there will always be pots of beef stew and beetroot soup boiling on the fire, but if you insist on exploring the secrets of this country that have been taken to the grave, then now You can go. The information you hope to get from me does not exist, and even if it does exist, I can't tell you."

Zero stood up, grabbed Lu Mingfei's wrist and left immediately.

Having said this, the cooperation between the Romanov family and General Vatutin has come to an end.

Lu Mingfei could sense the anger of Her Royal Highness. She held her wrist so hard, her legs pulsed so much, and the hem of her coat flew like arctic poppies blooming in the wind.

Until they walked out of the wooden house and left the small courtyard, General Vatugin never uttered a word of pleading, and Zero didn't look back. It was like two swordsmen who met on a narrow road and just passed each other. From then on, the world was far away. You and I have nothing to do with each other.

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The sound of the frozen porcelain ice being crushed echoed in Lu Mingfei's ears. Ling Xin turned the steering wheel with his hands, looked straight ahead, pursed his thin lips tightly, and said nothing after getting in the car. One sentence.

Strange to say, the wind in the Moscow suburbs actually picked up after noon, and large tracts of snow fell on the rustling withered and desolate branches. The silver Rolls-Royce had to turn on the windshield wipers to clear the windshield of the fallen trees. The snow drifts were swept away from the windshield.

The wooden house surrounded by unpeeled birch trees in the rearview mirror became farther and farther away, until Zero drove the Rolls-Royce to the end of the path and it finally disappeared.

Lu Mingfei sighed, and deafening gunshots suddenly came from the direction they left.

He turned back suddenly, lust and Tian Congyun slipped into his palm at the same time.

But a trembling, slightly cold hand pressed firmly on Lu Mingfei's thigh. In the end, Zero did not choose to turn the car around. Instead, he stepped on the accelerator and accelerated away from this military-controlled area.

The checkpoints and roadblocks along the way did not question the car too much. They entered the main road smoothly. The buildings on both sides were relatively bright, but they were lonely, like guards standing in the wilderness with no one changing their guard. There were surprisingly few cars on the road, and everyone was in a hurry.

It's hard to say whether the people living in this country are better off or worse off after the old empire was dismembered.

When the last Bolshevik fell in Chernobyl, Muscovites could only measure the two eras through the traces left by the Soviets.

Those solemn cast iron lamps that have been left over from the Great Purge era, those bronze statues of leaders that can still be seen everywhere but are rarely maintained anymore...

Lu Mingfei's nerves were tense after the gunfire. He quietly entered a violent blood state, and every muscle fiber in his body had been adjusted to the best condition before entering the battle.

He didn't want to think about what happened to General Vatutin after they left. Zero just drove in silence until they entered the city and the traffic and people around them increased. The tense atmosphere in the car was relaxed.

They slowly stopped in front of a golden onion-shaped church. Across the street was an open space covered with leaves. Rusty barbed wire fences were surrounded in circles. There were faded Russian signs on the wire fences, which read "Land for Sale", "Private Land Prohibited" and "Former Site of the National Academy of Sciences Library".

Zero turned his head to look at the open space and slowly sat in the leather chair. His eyes were as empty as a beast that had just woken up from hibernation.

"He was executed." After a moment, Zero finally said. She looked at Lu Mingfei in astonishment, because the man suddenly unbuckled his seat belt and leaned over from the passenger seat and hugged her gently.

"I'm sorry." Lu Mingfei said, "It's my fault."

Moscow was the base camp that General Vatutin had been operating for many years. Lu Mingfei could not think of any other person who could issue an execution order on him except the academy.

But why didn't those people kill him and Ling? Perhaps it was because the executioner who was ambushed there was not sure that he could keep Lu Mingfei.

"It has nothing to do with you." Ling said, "The political legacy left by General Vatutin has been completely consumed, and the wealth he earned from cooperating with the Romanov family for so many years has also been divided up. As early as the last time he escaped the assassination of the Executive Department and contacted me, he used his fingers to tap on the table to pass me the Morse code, telling me in this way not to look for him again, because he knew that he had lost his value and would probably disappear from this world quietly soon."

Lu Mingfei nodded: "If you are angry, let's kill those people."

Being able to divide the political legacy and wealth left by General Vatutin within the territory of this country, you can imagine what kind of amazing power is hidden behind the execution of the former Deputy Minister of Defense.

General Vatutin said that the ultimate goal of the Delta plan is to create a super soldier who can fight one against a hundred, but he didn't know that the person closest to God in the world was sitting in front of him at that time.

Perhaps the Soviet Union at that time hoped to use those super soldiers to achieve outstanding results in more secret battlefields. In the field of espionage, super soldiers can do better than ordinary people. They can even blow up the Pentagon alone, or sneak into the political center of a small country and assassinate their leaders.

Herzog's closest finished products, Yuan Zhisheng and Yuan Zhinu, are not Lu Mingfei's opponents. If he wants to kill someone quietly, no one in the world will find any clues.

With the strength of the intelligence system under the little devil, it is not difficult to find the culprit who planned the death of General Vatutin.

Their status must be extremely high, and they have a decisive voice in this country, but Lu Mingfei doesn't care.

He can decisively choose to die generously when faced with the choice between his own life and the lives of millions of people, but he can do some crazy things when facing his girl's curled up deer-like confused and sad eyes.

"All you can find are pawns." Ling said.

The old policeman with a trough nose was tapping the window glass with his fingers outside the car, holding a ticket book in his arms. He must be the traffic police here. Zero stuffed a large-denomination banknote through the gap, and the old policeman immediately smiled and turned around and left. Before leaving, he took off his hat to greet the two distinguished guests in the car.

"General Vatutin was the leader of one of the two most powerful violent organizations in the world. He was the Deputy Minister of Defense of the Soviet Government. He had so many secrets that even the Kassel Academy would be surprised." Zero said, "After squeezing out his value, everyone in the world wanted to die for him. No one could save him. I couldn't do it, the Romanov family couldn't do it, and you couldn't do it either."

Politics is really the most dangerous thing in the world. You get those treasures that you can't control through political means, and they will eventually be taken away by political means.

"I was originally planning to see him for the last time, but he did leave me something. General Vatutin did not betray our covenant until he died." Ling put a small envelope in Lu Mingfei's hand, and there were still crumbs of dry black tea stuck in the gap of the envelope.

Lu Mingfei's pupils shrank slightly.

General Vatutin put this thing in his black tea can. When Lu Mingfei and him were chatting alone, Ling went to make black tea for them. I think it was hidden on him at that time.

The wooden house was full of surveillance. Only in this way could the information that General Vatutin wanted to pass on be delivered to Zero quietly.

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So the so-called quarrel just now was just a tacit cooperation between General Vatutin and Zero? But they had never communicated before.

Under the stamp on the envelope was a row of Russian words, "Renata personally."

Lu Mingfei looked at Zero.

"General Vatutin helped us a lot. Without him, there would be no Romanov business in Russia. He even helped me find my last name." Zero said softly, with no hint of happiness or anger. "After re- Before I took back the surname Romanova, my name was Renata Yevgenia Chicherina. My father worked at the National Academy of Sciences Library, which was also my childhood home, across from the lot. ”

Her Royal Highness raised her chin towards the other side of the street.

Lu Mingfei looked over and saw that it was covered with snow and deserted. There were only a few old buildings from the Soviet era nearby, but no one lived there anymore. The glass in the windows had long been damaged, and the holes were dark, like the eyes of monsters.

"Then it was burned down by a fire, and nothing was left." Zero said, "Take it apart and take a look?"

"Okay." Lu Mingfei nodded.

He was actually thinking that General Vatutin must be a very courageous person to embrace death so calmly.

Most people will feel fear and panic when they predict their own death. Even when Lu Mingfei faced the threat of death for the first time, he felt a huge sense of powerlessness in his heart.

But the old man embraced death like an old friend.

He witnessed with his own eyes the passing of that glorious and idealistic era. Perhaps with the death of the last Bolshevik, General Vatutin's heart had already died, right?

After the envelope was opened, the contents fell out, including a note, a one-inch photo, and two red-covered special passes for military restricted areas.

There was a coordinate written on the note. Lu Mingfei handed the thing to Ling, "The coordinates of Black Swan Port." Ling glanced at it and whispered.

Lu Mingfei nodded, keeping the string of numbers firmly in his mind, then took out the cigarette lighter from his pocket, lit the note with a faint blue flame, and watched the ashes slowly wither on his Palm.

"Now that we have the coordinates, do we still need to find Bunin?"

"Siberia is his territory, and only he has the means to send you there." Zero said.

Lu Mingfei nodded and put away the pass for the military restricted area. With this thing, they could travel unimpeded in Russia. It seemed to be the last political shadow left by General Vatutin.

The last photo is of a giant bear-like old man lifting the girl with deep eyes and placing her on his shoulders in the white snow.

Lu Mingfei's heart moved slightly and he looked at Ling beside him.

In the photo, the girl looks much younger, still like a child.

"Maybe it was taken when I was a kid, when I was living at the National Academy of Sciences," Zero said coldly.

This photo appears here as General Vatutin delivering a message to Zero. Before she was sent to Black Swan Port, the old man who was then Deputy Minister of Defense already knew her. (End of chapter)