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St. Petersburg is made up of the Neva River and many islands, and although there are four seasons in a year, the proximity to the Arctic Circle makes the winters here particularly long and cold, and in the depths of winter, the daylight hours are sometimes only five or six hours. 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】

At night, an old Volga sedan drove along the streets along the Neva River, not very fast, although it had not yet entered the real sense of winter, but late at night, the temperature was close to freezing, and there were hardly any pedestrians on the road.

After driving some distance along the river, Volga turns into a dim, narrow alley, which is narrow but not dirty, except for the occasional homeless man or drunken wandering out of the corner, which will startle you coldly.

After a few rounds of such streets, when the Volga turned onto a slightly brighter street again, the speed slowed down significantly, and the driver of the car drove while observing the house numbers on both sides of the road, and finally the car stopped in front of a brick building with a flashing neon sign.

The driver was an Asian man, and instead of getting out of the car, he parked directly in the middle of the road, and sat in the driver's seat laboriously identifying the long-blurred house number engraved on the wall of the building, as if to confirm that there were two men in the back seat of the car, both Asian, who were also looking at the building.

The men in the car whispered to each other, and then the man in the driver's seat pulled the car to the side of the street and parked behind the other cars, leaving a safe distance for a quick drive.

The two men sitting in the back opened the door and came to the outside of the car, and after standing still, the two looked left and right at the unrecognizable dark depths at both ends of the street, and there was nothing unusual, and then looked at the front and left of the four-story building, except for the corners of the building and a few surveillance devices placed on the opposite side of the gate, it was also peaceful, and the only movement was the flickering neon lights above the gate.

The two men who got out of the car were not tall and slightly emaciated, they were always alert to everything around them, they were in the wet and cold street, a cold wind was blowing, both of them involuntarily shrunk their necks and tightened their collars, seeing that there was nothing suspicious around, the two men looked at each other, turned back and picked up a lockbox from the car, closed the door and walked towards the heavy gate across the street.

In the darkness on the edge of the doorway, there was also a surveillance probe silently watching the two Asian men who were approaching, and the two who came to the door found it, and while the two looked up at the surveillance probe, one knocked on the shiny gate ring on the door that had been rubbed by time.

A small window opened next to the knocker, and a big, bearded, shiny face stood in front of it, his alert eyes fixed on the two uninvited guests outside the door.

"We're going to see Ivan, as promised."

This small window was certainly not designed for the figure of an Asian, and when the person standing outside the door spoke, he almost had to turn his face up to face the big face in the window, and from this face alone they could deduce that the gatekeeper inside the door must be tall and mighty.

The guard inside the door did not respond to the words of the two outside, lifted the window back shut, and waited for about a minute or two, with a sound in the door, the door was opened a gap, and the two people outside the door flashed and squeezed in.

The man in the door was indeed as tall as a tower of flesh as the visitor had guessed outside the door, and both were only as tall as the doorman's shoulders, and the other was almost as heavy as the two combined, and they had to look up to see the whole man.

Seeing the two thin men who came in looking at themselves, the strong man raised his hand behind the two and pointed behind them, and the two of them followed the direction pointed by the doorman, and saw that from the light shadow not far away, a man in a sophisticated suit with a delicate beard on his lips was walking towards them, and what impressed the two of them was that the man's neck-length blonde hair was not messed up at all, which was in stark contrast to the grass-like beard of the guard in front of the door.

The blonde man looked the two in front of him up and down, nodded and said:

"I'm waiting for you, come with me."

After saying that, the blonde man didn't see how the two of them reacted, and turned around and walked deeper into the building, where the two Asian men glanced at each other and quickly followed.

This is a typical building of the former Soviet period, although the building is now dim and messy, but through these old can still be glimpsed here in the past grandeur and dignity, but no matter how noble and worthy of showing off its past, now this place can only be described as dilapidated and decadent.

Follow the blonde man forward through a small patio in the building, and the visitors who enter the corridor again feel that there are obviously more people here, these people have different appearances, different races, many people are already drunk, and there are many sensual and charming women with heavy makeup, some of these people are performing body language on a small table for the men gathered around, and some are shuttling through rooms of different sizes, providing wholehearted service for men in need, ** The sound is endless.

Following the lead of the comer, they went up and down the building several times, and finally after passing through a narrow passage, the two entered the second basement floor of the building, and were stopped by guards at the entrance to a hall:

"Hand over your weapons and."

The bodyguard with a handleless AK rifle stepped to block the path of the two visitors after letting go of the blonde man, and the blonde man did not continue to move forward, but stood there waiting for the bodyguard to check the results of the two, the two Asian men reluctantly handed over their weapons and, the bodyguard threw the two people's things on a tray behind him, but still did not let go, but took out an electronic detector and conducted a strict inspection of the two from head to toe to ensure that there was no problem. Only then did the two of them pass through.

This time he didn't go far, and as soon as he turned the corner through the hall, two large iron doors with windows appeared in front of them, and the blonde man stepped forward to push the door, tilting his head at the two visitors beside him, and the two stepped in.

The room is very open, there are several cabinets of different sizes and buzzing on the wall on one side of the door, and there are several monitoring screens in all corners of the building and the entrance on the other wall, and on the opposite side of the monitoring screen, a huge office desk occupies almost a quarter of the space of this room, in addition to a calculation monitor and some sticky notes spread on it, in addition to the more eye-catching there is a brocade box containing cigars and a large ashtray, behind the desk, A slightly obese man with a cigar on his left and a boot on his right and a woman in knee-length fur sat there, staring intently at the two Asian men who walked into the room, and the woman sitting on his lap looked with interest at the two males who were clearly different from the different breeds she had come into contact with on a daily basis.

The two visitors stood in front of the desk, also looking at the man in front of him, the man sitting in the chair opposite him could not see his exact height, but he could perceive that he was strong enough, and in stark contrast to the sparsely haired top of his head were the thick, thick eyebrows on his face like a bristle brush, and under the eyebrows were a pair of eagle-sharp eyes, which were so cold that those who saw them could not help but be afraid, this person was Ivan, the biggest gang leader in the city.

After looking at each other for a few seconds, Ivan in the senior chair lifted the woman in his arms and pushed him out, and the woman deliberately pinched her eyes at the two visitors in front of her when she got up, and then sat down in a row of half-worn sofas behind Ivan, lit a cigarette and watched all this in front of her.

"Did you bring anything?"

With a puff of smoke coming out, Ivan behind the desk asked.

"Brought it, we won't break the previous agreement."

The visitor put his lockbox on the countertop in front of him, turned the lock, and heard a 'click', the box was opened, and the visitor rotated the box to face the man in the chair.

"It's good, I like collaborators who keep their promises."

A slight smile appeared on Ivan's face, he took a deep breath of his cigar and waved at the blonde man standing on one side, the blonde man stepped forward to open the lockbox on the desk, which contained a wad of dollars, and after roughly looking through it, he nodded at Ivan, and at Ivan's signal, the blonde man walked into a small door behind Ivan's side with the lockbox.

"We have complied with your request and expect you to fulfill your promises."

Seeing the blonde man leave with his suitcase, one of the visitors led by him asked Ivan.

"Don't worry, we won't default, we also hope that we will cooperate with you next time, why not?"

Ivan's facial expression was no longer so cold, he had a smile on his face, as if to comfort the two Asians, and while speaking, Ivan reached open a cabinet under the desk, pulled out a hard leather folder from it, opened it and looked at it, and then put it on the table:

"No, that's the information you need, listen, I don't care what you're going to do with it, but I have to remind you to do whatever you want to do."

Ivan said, shoving his thick finger clip from his own near front to the other side of the table.

"By the way, the reason why I don't want new coins is not because I deliberately make things difficult, but because I don't have time to identify the authenticity of banknotes, and you have too many experts there in terms of coinage."

Ivan's joking words were clearly mocking, and he lifted his finger pressed against the clip.

The two people who came were ** senior agents, the leader was called Kim Jong-seok, and the other was named Park Tae-se, Ivan's joking mockery made the two people very uncomfortable to listen to, Kim Jong-seok secretly gritted his teeth and stepped forward to pick up the folder and open it, carefully looked at the pages inside, and then said to Ivan:

"I hope your information is accurate enough not to disappoint us."

Hearing this, Ivan's smiling face turned cold again, he pressed his cigar heavily into the large ashtray on the side, leaned forward with both sides of the table and looked at the two in front of him, and said:

"You have to pay attention to the wording when you speak, I don't question the content of the information expressed here, and I don't dare to question the person who handed this thing to me, so I don't want you to have any doubts and disrespect for it, or that sentence, if you want to do something, it's better to leave here with it quickly, there is not enough time left for you, Ali, send our two distinguished guests for me."

After saying that, Ivan leaned back, sat down in the executive chair again, and no longer looked at the two opposite, picked up the cigar cutter and 'clicked' the newly brought cigar scissor.

There was a noise behind him, and the bodyguard who had just searched Kim Jong-seok and the others outside the door pushed the door and walked in, and he stood there with the handle of the door tilting his head at Kim Jong-seok and Park Tae-se, waiting for the two to leave.

Seeing that it was useless to say anything, Kim Jong-seok stared at Ivan sitting in the chair, gritted his teeth and put the clip into the leather bag he was carrying, and turned to leave the dim and gloomy basement.