Chapter 18: A Place to Sell News

When Jia Lei said that he was the unlucky guy who was robbed, the expressions of the whole car changed.

"What? Are you the missing people that the city government has offered a high bounty for looking for?" asked the bus, full of passengers, in surprise.

"Why do you want to reward us? According to common sense, shouldn't the city government offer a reward for catching those robbers?" Jia Lei asked puzzled.

"We don't know about this, anyway, at about eight o'clock in the morning, the Yekaterinburg city government issued an urgent notice with a large reward for clues about the robbery that took place in the suburbs yesterday. Especially for one of the missing foreign businessmen, a high bounty of $10,000 was offered to collect clues. A male passenger said.

"That's not right! What is the Yekaterinburg city government looking for me, I have never met their people! I have never been to Yekaterinburg, and I am not a big person...... why are they looking for me?" Jia Lei suddenly asked in Chinese.

Boer and Mo Bei glanced at each other, and immediately understood that Jia Lei wanted to discuss it with them alone, and did not want to be heard by the Soviets in the car.

"I don't know, maybe we made a big fuss yesterday, and the city government has to offer a reward, right?" Mo Bei thought for a while and said.

"Come on, if that's the reason, the bounty should also be a bounty for the robbers and not for me?" Jia Lei said with a frown.

"I think it's weird, doesn't it make sense?" said Bre.

"Isn't it as simple as not being reasonable? There must be some inside story in this? Which financial department in the Soviet Union is not short of money now...... The city government here is spending $10,000 just to solicit a clue? Do you think the people of the Soviet government would be so generous without inside information?" Jia Lei asked.

"Definitely not!" Bol nodded in agreement with Jia Lei's guess.

"That's why I said there's a greasy ......," Jia Lei said with squinted eyes.

"And what do you want to do?" asked Burr.

"I originally wanted to go to the police station as soon as I entered the city, but now I'm afraid we will have to make other arrangements......" Jia Lei pressed his temples and said

"Then what arrangements are you going to make?" asked Mo Bei.

"In this case, we should find a place to hide! Then send someone out to find out the situation, and we should not show our faces until we know the real intentions of the people in the city government...... So as not to have any accidents!" Jia Lei said this, subconsciously hugging the schoolbag in his arms.

"That's a good idea, but where are we going to hide? We don't know each other well in Yekaterinaburg, so it's not easy to find a safe place to hide, right?" asked Ronan.

"Don't we have Boer? I don't believe that with his KGB connections, can't he help us find a safe place?" Jia Lei looked at Boer and asked.

"You're the boss, you call the shots...... I can indeed help you find a safe place!" Boer glanced at Jia Lei, twitched the corners of his mouth and said helplessly.

"Not only to be safe, but also to be hidden?" Jia Lei admonished.

"Got it!" Bol nodded.

"What's going on up ahead?" asked a man from the Udo tribe, pointing suddenly to the front of the road.

Jia Lei They heard his words and looked in the direction of his finger. It was seen that on the road into the city of Yekaterinaburg, there was an additional temporary checkpoint.

"Bir, you have to find a way to get the passengers on the bus to cooperate with us! I don't want anyone else to know for the time being that we have arrived in Yekaterinaburg. Jia Lei said.

"Understood! boss. Bol nodded.

"Jia Lei, how can Boer let the passengers keep it secret for us? I'm afraid it's unlikely, after all, the city government has offered a high reward...... Luo Nan didn't ask halfway through his words.

Because he's already seen the answer!

"Haven't you heard of it? The barrel of the gun is the last word! Do you see how obedient they are?" Jia Lei said.

Luo Nan watched Boer hold and pointed at the passengers to keep them secret, and everyone in the car immediately obediently raised their hands to agree, and could only nod stiffly in agreement with Jia Lei's words.

"But I always feel that it's a bit bad for us to bully ordinary people with guns!" Luo Nan said, which is not the style of Chinese soldiers.

"Where did we bully them, I didn't scold them or beat them! Jia Lei shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands and said.

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"Stop! routine checks!" said the soldiers at the checkpoint, stopping the bus.

"Okay officer, what's the matter?" the driver asked.

"Who are the people in the car, and have you seen any suspicious people along the way?" asked the soldier as he walked outside the cab.

"The bus was full of ordinary passengers, and I didn't see any suspicious people. The driver replied.

"Oh, in that case, go in. The soldier glanced in through the window outside the cab and waved his way in.

As the bus slowly drove past the checkpoint, the soldiers on guard spotted a little boy in a blue beanie looking curiously at them from the window. The soldier subconsciously smiled at the little boy, and the boy's eyes widened in fright.

Immediately after the checkpoint, the bus began to speed towards the city.

"It's all right, let's all come out!" said Boer, who was sitting in the co-pilot, with a sigh of relief.

Then he put it in his clothes, pointed the driver's pistol, and retracted it into the holster at his waist.

"......Huh" The driver breathed a sigh of relief for the rest of his life, raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat on his head.

"But it's killing me. Mo Bei rolled out from under the chair and said, and several other people also climbed out from under the chair.

"No way, who made us foreigners look so conspicuous? You sit there, and people can tell at a glance that they are Chinese. How will I hide my whereabouts then?" Jia Lei complained.

"Then why don't you come with us and hide under the chairs?" asked Mo Bei, patting the dust on his clothes.

"I'm white! I'm as white as a white man, and if I put on a hat and cover my hair, I'm about the same as a Soviet kid. Jia Lei touched his face and said narcissistically.

"You're just a little whiter than us at most, not as white as you are! You can blend in just because there are so many ethnic minorities in the neighborhood? Your skin color is about the same as the Mongol Tatars in the neighborhood, and people think you're a Mongolian kid. Mo Bei complained that there were ethnic minorities with a similar skin color to Jia Lei in this car.

"You're jealous! I do have 1/4 Tatar blood in me, that's why I'm so white. Jia Lei said.

"Actually, I think that if I were like you every day and do nothing and drink milk, I would be so white!" Mo Bei touched his face and said.

Jia Lei was originally white because of his bloodline, and after he came to the Soviet Union, he dealt with dairy products every day, so he was even whiter!

"I'm drinking milk to grow taller, not to whiten! I don't want to be a creamy baby. Jia Lei immediately defended himself.

After drinking milk for more than a year, he has grown by 6 centimeters in height, and he will soon reach 1.2 meters.

Children born in the 80s have not yet eaten nutritious meals and drank milk, and their development is later than that of children born in the 90s! The average height is also lower than that of the post-90s!

"Alright, you two stop talking nonsense! let's find a place to get off. Bol looked at the side of the road, and finally picked a remote and uninhabited street corner for everyone to get out of the car.

Before leaving, Jia Lei also forcibly bought hats for a few passengers at the price of ten dollars a piece, and put them on for several Chinese compatriots.

Then Jia Lei and the others came to a small hotel in a remote alley under the leadership of Boer.

"Daddy Ani, do you have a room? I'll bring a few friends over for two days. Bol walked over to the counter and asked the chubby innkeeper.

"Bul, why are you here, and who are you behind you?" said Father Ani, hurrying out and closing the door of the inn.

"These are my new colleagues, and one is my boss. Rest assured, they are serious businessmen and won't get you in trouble. Bauer said.

"Do serious businessmen want to carry a gun with them?" asked Father Ani, pointing to the guns on the Uyu tribesmen, disbelieving.

"You also know how chaotic it has been since August 19! There have been looting, looting, marching and rioting among independent people. When we go out to do business, it won't be safe to defend ourselves without guns!" Jia Lei said.

In fact, the Soviet Union was so chaotic during this period, so Jia Lei and the others were able to walk on the streets of the city with guns on their backs, but they were not stopped.

Now a lot of the former Soviet army and police have been disbanded, and a lot of local armed forces have emerged, anyway

There were people with guns everywhere.

"Then I'll rest assured! You don't know, a group of Tatars came to the city today, and I don't know what crazy they had, and they searched everywhere in the city for underground contact points. I've heard that the Chechen contact points have been taken by them!" said Father Ani.

"Do you know why?" asked Bre curiously.

"I don't know yet, but we've sent someone to inquire. Daddy Ani said.

"Forget it, I'll take them up there first, take a shower, get some rest, and I'll come down and talk to you later, just in time I'm going to buy some news from you." Bauer said.

"Okay, I'll ask the waiter to open a few rooms for you. Daddy Ani said.

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"What kind of place is this? It looks weird and mysterious? Could this be your KGB's secret contact point?" Jia Lei asked excitedly, with a green light in his eyes.

The KGB's secret point of contact or something!

"Boss, you think too much, I have retired from the KGB, how can I still have contact with the KGB people! And do you think that the KGB contact point is so easy for people to come in?" Boer said helplessly, rolling his eyes.

"Oh, it turns out that this is not the KGB's secret contact point......" Jia Lei said with great disappointment.

"So what is this place? Judging by what you just said, this is certainly not an ordinary hotel. Luo Nan asked.

"Daddy Ani is a news monger, and this is an underground news hub in Yekaterinaburg, and the bar below also works as a black market business. If you're willing to pay for it, you can buy probably anything here!" said Burr.

"Then let's go to that bar?" Jia Lei said, his eyes lit up.

"No, boss, I think the most important thing you should do now is to take a good shower, eat something, and get some sleep. Bauer said.

"I'm going to have to sleep when something so big has happened! I don't know if Sasa and them ran away in the end?" Jia Lei said worriedly.

"It's useless for you to inquire about the news, so it's better to leave it to us! Mo Bei, please take the boss back to the room to take a bath and change clothes. Bauer said.

"Got it, boss, let's go. Mo Bei said and pushed Jia Lei into the room.

"Hey...... I'm the boss, why don't you listen to me?" Jia Lei asked as he struggled with his teeth and claws.

"We are your bodyguards! The first task is to keep you safe, if you die, no one will pay us! So you can't go anywhere that is dangerous! Although you are the boss, you want us to obey you. I'm afraid I have to grow up quickly!" Mo Bei said. I want to talk about "Rebirth 1990: The Invisible Rich" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~