"Old fellow?!" The first thing I recognized was the old guy, not so much because I knew him well, but because of the smell of wine and the way he drank. When I saw him, he was pouring wine into his mouth.

"Poof..." The old guy squirted out the wine in his mouth when he heard my voice, and he wiped his mouth dissatisfiedly and said, "In front of so many people, can you not call me like that?" ”

I looked away from the old guy and looked at the others present. I saw Rebich and, of course, Krzhakov and two of his men.

"How? I kid you not. Kerzhakov said in fluent Russian: "Not only did I not do anything to him, but I also treated some of them." Be stingy yourself, but don't think of everyone the same as you. ”

The old guy nodded, sat down on the sofa in the room, and said unhurriedly, "How long have we not seen each other?" ”

Krzhakov looked at the old guy and said impatiently: "I don't remember." I don't have the time or mood to talk to you right now. What about the people I want? ”

"What are you anxious about?" The old fellow Younis smiled and said, "You are still the same as when you were young, an urgent child who can't wait. ”

"Don't mention anything when you were young. That would be very unpleasant for everybody. Kerzhakov said.

The old guy Younis glanced at Kerzhakov and nodded, as if agreeing with his words, "Thank you for never attacking Komova." Even though you already knew everything, you still haven't done it. I feel ashamed of that. ”

"Shame? Hehe. Krzhakov said, "When will you be ashamed?" Is it really old that this place has changed? He said, gesturing to his head.

"Sort of." Old fellow Eunice took another sip, "I've not been as good as you all these years. There is a comfortable place in Greater Paris, where the old children can stay together. Nothing to do and go to Italy for a vacation. That's nice. I... Before Klinger found me, I think you must have thought I was dead, right? ”

"Yes." Krzhakov said: "Originally, I was about the same as you, thinking that I was the only one in our group who survived. ”

"I'm far from you. I was hunted down all the way, and the enemy still had my own people. That's why I went incognito, and then in Iraq, I arrested those who had been bribed or rebelled by the Yankees. And in the end, it fell into the hands of the Yankees after a battle. The old man said slowly, as if he were recounting the past.

"I'm not interested in your story." Krzhakov waved his hand again, "What about my people?" ”

The old guy looked at Kerzhakov with dissatisfaction and said, "Can't you just sit down and wait for a while?" Since I'm here myself, will I still play tricks with you? Besides, don't you know what I'm thinking? ”

Krzhakov looked at the old fellow helplessly, and finally sat down on the sofa on the other side. He looked at me and Rebic and said, "Do you think it's appropriate to tell your story here in front of them?" ”

"What's this?" "One is my most proud student, and the other is a good informant who has been forgotten and rediscovered by me," said the old fellow. Does it matter? And our stories aren't classified. There's nothing unsavory in it, is it? ”

The old guy's words sounded like words in words. He said that there was nothing unseemly, more like he was satirizing certain people and things. For example, the apostasy of Krzhakov, although this guy has been deliberately distinguishing himself from Kudrya, but in essence, it seems to us that it is about the same. Because he was in the service of NATO, and he will continue to do so in the near future.

"Hmph." Krzhakov obviously understood the meaning of the old guy's words, and he snorted coldly and stopped talking, and the atmosphere became awkward.

But old fellow Younis has never been afraid of such occasions. He looked at Krzhakov with a smile and said, "Don't you want to tell me what you thought back then?" If you say that you have defected, and you don't admit it, then I say that you abandoned all of us and your comrades, and you should not be able to deny it, right? We're old, it's been more than ten years, and it's going to be twenty years in a few years, right? A lot of people died back then, and as the two people who survived, no matter what was right or wrong before, should they say something, right? ”

Krzhakov listened to the old guy's words as if he was angry, he got up from the sofa at once, glared at the old guy Eunice and said: "What mutiny? There are no traitors in our group! Never! But when it comes to abandonment, it's you bastard who abandons us. That bastard mission shouldn't be done at all, it's a mission with no return. Kerzhakov said and took two breaths and continued: "I suggested you, didn't I?" As the leader of the action group, did I suggest it? Do you dare to shake your head? I've suggested everything else, except for the brainless guy. But did you listen? You didn't listen. The final result proves that we people are right, you are wrong, and your stubbornness, unaware of the so-called persistence, has buried the whole group. It's you old bastard who really betrayed everyone! It's you! ”

Kerzhakov's words, no doubt ... It subverted my previous impression and imagination of the old guys and their group. Originally, I thought they were a very united comrade-in-arms who treated each other with all sincerity and shared life and death in the same boat. But at the moment it doesn't look like that, there is a contradiction between them, and a sharp contradiction. Judging by Krzhakov, these contradictions are not a day or two, but a backlog for a long time.

"It's me..." The old guy nodded, his mood was much calmer than Krzhakov's, "I am the leader of the group, the specific implementer of the operation, and you can't be wrong when you say that I killed everyone." ”

"Don't put gold on your face." Krzhakov said, "What I said is not the same thing as what you said. If the normal operation fails, then it is a group that is responsible, and they are all responsible, even if they die, they will not complain. But you're different, we tell you in advance that there's a problem with the guy you're going to contact, there's a problem within us. But you just don't believe it, you say that guy is worth the risk of being worth it, right? That's what you said, right? That's what I said. Krzhakov pointed to his head, "I remember clearly, we have met before this, and I have repeatedly asked you to be cautious, the situation at that time was that people were constantly having accidents, we should lie dormant, wait quietly, and find out what is going on inside us before making plans." And how do you do that? Do you dare to say it in front of the master? In your eyes, the lives of those people in the group are! It's just a tool you use to gamble! ”

Ask for fat. It's only seven fat. It's miserable...

(End of chapter)