"I don't know." Smalling chuckled, "I just said that I don't know any code names and no plans. I've heard about this 90 plan, but the guy I sent from Rostovsky to connect with me before I evacuated, leaked out of his mouth. ”

"Leaking?" D asked puzzledly, "Are you saying that the other party inadvertently slipped out?" ”

"Maybe." Smalling shrugged his shoulders and said uncertainly: "At that time, it was impossible for Rostovsky to come and meet me, so someone was sent. I haven't met this person, maybe he doesn't know I haven't heard of the plan, or maybe I'm in the plan but I don't know it. Anyway, after the man picked up with me, he said that he agreed to let me evacuate as I asked. I asked him why he was so happy this time. He replied to me, for our 90 plan? ”

"Is that all?" D asked.

"That's it." "I don't care about any plans, I just want to leave. At that time I was already in a dangerous situation, and although I had stopped providing information to Rostovsky, the previous search had not stopped, and the scope was still narrowing, and I was always in the range of suspects. I could be taken away at any time, and it was a time when I was really not human, and I was scared and terrified. For the first time, I realized that it wasn't that I was caught, but that it was the time when you knew someone else wanted to get caught but never did it. It was simply torture, mental torture. So as long as they can get me out and end everything here, do I have any damn plans for them? ”

"So... What role do you think Rostovsky played in the whole program? D asked.

"What role? Does this need to be asked? Smalling smiled and said, "He's always been a leader and has an important position. This plan was supposed to be carried out precisely on the territory of the USSR, and Rostovsky was clearly quite suitable. And as I just said, the person I connected with was talking about the 90 plan, not Rostovsky, and I don't know anything about the 90 plan at all, I only know Rostovs, so is it possible to understand that the 90 plan is led by Rostovsky, at least in this plan, this guy plays a key and even decisive role? If I were arrested, the unlucky one would be Rostovsky, and then the 90 plan would have failed, so the reason for my evacuation was not to protect Rostovsky, but to protect Rostovsky, but to plan 90. ”

Smalling's words made me nod my head again and again. This guy is not a simple guy after he wakes up, he has quick thinking, clear logic, and he should have thought carefully about the previous things after he fled, so he can say these words so clearly at this moment, but maybe it is precisely this that makes him have a lingering psychological shadow, and he is forced to become a madman step by step.

"Have you been in touch with him since then?" D asked again.

"Nope. When I arrived in the UK, I had a new identity. The work of the newspaper. In this respect, the Yankees and the British are more well-behaved, and no one bothers me, and I feel as if I am a real Englishman, at least to show that this is the case. Smalling said.

D nodded, took out a photo from his body, "Is Rostovsky the person in the photo?" ”

I glanced at the picture in D's hand, and it was the same picture of Herzog that he had given me earlier. I turned to look at Smalling, who took the picture and looked at it carefully, smiled, and said, "It should be him, hehe." It seems to have changed a lot, but this look should be right. ”

"Should it be?" I was puzzled and asked, "Is it just by the eyes?" ”

"You heard it right." Smalling returned the photo to D, "This person has changed a lot from a dozen years ago, a lot older, and a little different. But the look was still like that. He said and looked at me, "I like to look at people's eyes, everyone's eyes are different, just like fingerprints, but the eyes are much easier to observe than fingerprints, more direct." I remember the moment he met me a long time ago, standing on the side of the road or sitting in some public place waiting for him, just the look in his eyes. ”

D took the picture, nodded his head and looked at me, "Do you have any questions?" ”

I looked at Smalling, "You've been to Yugoslavia?" ”

Smalling immediately looked at me with a cold face when he heard me mention this, "Did you see that picture?" ”

"Yes." I admitted, "We wanted to know what that picture meant. ”

Smalling seemed very upset, but after a moment he let out a long sigh and said, "That's a beautiful lady I knew in Yugoslavia. That picture doesn't mean anything to you, because she's dead, dead in an armed conflict that followed. It's just a photo taken by a colleague at my newspaper. ”

"Your only photo?" I continued to ask.

"Yes. . . Group photo.. There is no group photo from the front. The picture was taken in front of the ruins of a war, and we were cleaning up the ruins, just having fun. Smalling said as if with difficulty, and then he looked at me, "Is that enough?" What else would you like to know? ”

"It's gone." I stood up and turned to look at D, "My question is over." ”

D nodded and looked at Smalling, "Do you have anything else to say?" About this Rostovsky. ”

"It's gone. That's all I know, and if you're concerned about the specifics of what I've done before, it's a very long story. Smalling said.

"Those don't matter." D shook his head, "We're not here to dig through old accounts. Like you woke up and said, the USSR is no longer there. After saying that, D looked at me and said, "The treatment is over." The Mr. Smalling also regained his senses. We can leave. ”

"So..." Seeing that we were over the conversation, Smalling looked at me with some confusion and said, "Where are you going to take me?" ”

"You?" I asked him a rhetorical question and immediately understood what he meant, this guy thought we might take him away, take him to a remote place and kill him.

"Nope." I waved my hand, "You're thinking wrong. We just want to learn about the past. That's it. ”

"Really?" Smalling asked in disbelief and then continued, "You're not afraid of me telling the truth?" You guys are looking for Rostovsky. ”

"Whistleblowers? And with whom? D smiled, "If I'm not mistaken." You want to make that guy worse than we are, right? After D, he didn't wait for Smalling's answer and beckoned directly to me, "Let's go." I wish you a happy life, Mr. Smalling. ”

"Maybe if the Soviet Union is finished, Tiana won't die." As we reached the door, Smalling stood up and spoke, and after seeing us look at him with puzzled expressions, he continued, "The lady in the picture." The civil war took her life, along with many others'. If the USSR ... Maybe she's still alive and will have a husband who loves her and children. ”

Smalling's words want to be in repentance... He should have felt that he was also a participant in the end of the Soviet Union, which made him feel guilty all the time. And in Yugoslavia, he must have been greatly stimulated, especially this Tiana, who was very respectful of Smolin's words, and her death seemed to be a great blow to Smolin, so that he felt even more guilty. This may be the final and perfect blow that makes the mind abnormal.

"Goodbye, Mr. Smalling." D turned around and opened the door and walked out.

And just as I was about to walk out of the room, Smalling spoke again: "If you could... Take me to say hello to my two loved ones. But after saying this, he changed his words and said, "No... Still.. Forget it... Forget it. ”