Chapter 12: What is the Seventeenth Inning?
We are indeed in a lot of trouble. For the next week, we hid in this foothold except to go out to buy food and we all stayed at home, and Grandet asked his reliable people to inquire about the outside news from time to time. According to the feedback from the feedback, Maslov's gang has been torn apart, and the main members are either dead or fleeing. The territory is almost divided. There has been no news from Zibor for a long time, and the fate of the unknown is still in the hands of those who are looking for us. What's more, there were people out there looking for us, and there was more than a bunch of them. Now there are rumors outside that Grandet and a gang of people ransacked Maslov's money, and now Maslov's large sum of money is in Grandet's hands. And there were no rumors or information about that list, as if no one knew about it.
In fact, this makes us feel more dangerous, because this is undoubtedly making more greedy people come to us, as long as someone finds out about us, it will attract everyone's attention, and the people who really have the strength to kill us, or the people who want to get the list, will quietly follow and see the opportunity to get what they want.
Now there are two safest ways we can do it, one: stop and stay in this secret place. Wait for the wind outside to pass. Two: Get out of here quietly, get out of here with that key. And when this has not happened, wait quietly for a while before making plans for that list.
After careful consideration, and especially after making several calls to whom he didn't know who to call, Paul decided to go with the first method. But it didn't take long, just a week. Paul said that in a week he would decide whether to leave the place or not.
I wondered why he had waited a week, and the phone call he made was strange, making it seem like he was being instructed by someone. I asked him, and he didn't say it explicitly, just said that I would naturally understand in a week.
It's been a slow week, and there's not even a TV to watch in this place. A group of people are either eating, smoking, drinking, and telling jokes. In the end, the joke was gone, and we began to recall our experience in Chechnya. In fact, there is nothing to remember at all, except for the fact that a few of us successfully broke out of the ghost gate again and again, it was a failed war and all kinds of painful losses. Especially the names and nicknames of those people, I usually deliberately don't think about them, hoping that time will make me forget, but whenever I mention a certain battle, even if I deliberately don't mention that person, the figure of that person will always appear vividly in my mind. As a result, everyone felt sad when they talked about it, and they stopped reminiscing.
There's nothing to say, so it's just drinking. Fortunately, Paul has always been vigilant, always controlling the amount of alcohol everyone drinks, and has always arranged for people to keep watch.
One night, a week later, Paul's cell phone rang. Paul wakes everyone up after a brief conversation. I glanced at the time, half past one in the middle of the night.
"Prepare to get out of here. I already know where the key is. Paul said.
"Which bank is it from?" Grandet asked.
Paul smiled and shook his head, "You'll know when you get there." Get the guys ready, those guys are still looking for us. ”
"What are we going to do when we get the stuff?" I asked.
"Leave here, of course, and divide the money you got from Maslov. Then go home separately, aren't you going home for the New Year? Paul replied.
I nodded, "You're right. But are you sure those people won't continue to look for us? If we are together, even if they find us, they may not be able to bite us. But if everyone separates, it's hard to say. ”
Paul said disapprerovingly, "What you said won't happen." This matter will be settled in two days. Before you asked me what to call, now I can tell you. I'm on the phone with the Seventeenth Bureau. ”
"Seventeen Bureaus, your client? Is this list what your client wants? What exactly is Seventeen Innings? I asked.
Paul nodded, "The Seventeenth Bureau is an organization. An underground intelligence organization that is not recognized by the government. They're going to make a list, and their men are already in the city, and if they're going to do something to us, we're not the only ones who will be attacked. ”
"Who does the Seventeenth Bureau serve? State or individual? I continued to ask.
Paul smiled and said, "Do you know the KGB? The KGB has only sixteen sub-bureaus. ”
“KGB? Nima. USSR? Russians? I couldn't help but say to myself in amazement.
We quickly packed our things and got into the car. Paul led us all the way into the city, to the place where Maslov had kept his list. But not long after we entered the city, Paul found that we were being targeted. There were always two cars following us not far away.
Paul deliberately took a detour at first to make sure it was the tail, but the result was that the two cars always appeared alternately behind us. After Paul was sure it was the tail, he made a phone call, and after the communication was over, we stopped going in circles and headed straight to our destination.
Not far from his destination, Paul received a call. When he got the call, he slowly slowed down and drove along the side of the road. I looked at both sides of the road, every place that looked like a bank or something. Just as I was about to ask, I heard a sudden roar of a car engine behind me, followed by a violent crash.
I looked back and saw that a truck suddenly rushed out of the intersection and hit the car in the middle of the road that was passing through the intersection and we were in the same direction, and the truck rode directly onto the car and crushed the cab of the car. That little car was one of the ones that had followed us before.
When Paul saw that he had hit the back, he immediately pulled over and turned around and said, "Sasha, Grande, you two get out of the car." If another car catches up, just kill them. Valery, you and the gypsies stay in the car, don't move. With that, he opened the car door and quickly ran towards what looked like a clubhouse on the side of the street.
I looked behind me, the door to the cab of the truck was open, and the man was nowhere to be found. Grandet and Sasha hid by a dark door on the side of the road, staring at the intersection. I turned back to look at Paul, and in front of Paul there was a man in a coat and hood, and after a few words to Paul, the two of them went to the door of the clubhouse, and after a while they opened the door and entered the house.
At this moment, there was movement from the intersection, and another car that had been following us had come around the intersection and drove towards us. Seeing this, I patted Valery and motioned for him to get ready to do it.
They did not notice Sasha and Grandet, who were already lying in ambush on the side of the road, and just as they were about to pass in front of Sasha and Grandet, Sasha and Grandet opened fire.
The two of them each held an AK-47 rifle and fired in a series of shots at close range. Valery and I also opened the door and fired sideways at the lost car, many bullets pierced the car, and the car slowly drove diagonally towards the side of the road and stopped after hitting the curb.
Soon Paul ran out of the clubhouse, whistled at Sasha and Valery, who were still on guard, and motioned for them to get in the car and prepare to leave. I saw that the man I had met with Paul quickly walked out in the other direction and quickly disappeared into the darkness.
"Got it?" Sasha asked as soon as he got into the car.
Paul nodded, "Got it." We're done. Pick up Milk right away and leave the city straight away and we'll be home. ”
I looked at the messy road behind me and said, "What is the place where Maslov hides things?" ”
Paul smiled and said, "It's a fitness club." The key is the key to the locker. ”
"It was the people of the Seventeenth Bureau who picked us up this time?" I then asked.
Paul nodded, "It's them." In the future, it is likely that we will be working for the seventeenth game for a long time. ”