Since the end of the war, although the two countries have stationed a certain number of troops on both sides of the border, there has been no vicious conflict, and even if there are some minor frictions, the border guards on both sides have tried to maintain relative restraint and tolerance. It was only during the time of the German invasion of Austria-Hungary that tension was felt on this border for a time.

On a clear winter morning, just after breakfast time, a small gray-white dot appeared in the western sky, and I saw it move rapidly eastward, and in a short time it flew across the border between the two countries.

"! The reconnaissance aircraft of the Germans crossed the line again! ”

At one of the Russian reconnaissance posts, the sergeant with a telescope greeted the Germans rudely. Then, he walked quickly to the phone in the checkpoint, and shook the phone handle a few times as if angry.

"Hey, regimental headquarters? Fuck the reconnaissance planes of the Germans are coming again......"

As the sergeant hung up the phone and walked out of the checkpoint, the gray-white dot was about to disappear into the eastern sky.

A few minutes later, two Russian-made biplane fighters took off from a military airfield in Ukraine near the German-Russian border, piloted by Russian Army Captain Koselov and Army Lieutenant Grubov, ace pilots of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Ukraine.

According to the report from the observation post, the two pilots piloted their plane first to the northwest, and after seeing the Pripya River on the border between the Ukrainian and Belarusian regions, they turned around and flew south. Just after both of them thought they were going to miss the German reconnaissance plane that crossed the border this time, Grubeuf first spotted the gray-white dot in front of them on their right. After the gesture exchanged, the two of them flanked the uninvited guest left and right.

However, when the two Russian pilots brought themselves closer to their targets to more than 2,000 meters and thought that the other party was doomed, the German pilots flying the off-white painted monoplane gave them a small surprise. After a rapid ascent, the German plane's flight altitude suddenly climbed from more than 300 meters to 1,500 meters, and then turned its nose and flew toward the border.

How easy it was for the two Russian ace pilots to give up, they also pulled up the nose of the plane and climbed quickly. Koselov's plane quickly followed in a small radius, and the Grubov plane took a little more time on the outer line, but it also followed Koselov less than 500 meters behind the German plane.

However, the pilot of the German reconnaissance plane did not seem to be in a hurry to return to German airspace, and his plane made a large arc over Ukraine with a beautiful sideways, and then accelerated southeast along the natural dividing line between the two countries in this section, the Georgia River.

Of course, the two Russian fighters followed, but to the chest of the Russian pilot, even if their plane increased to its top speed, they could only watch each other quickly move away, and the silver-gray German monoplane disappeared from their sight after just a few minutes! You must know that the two of them are already piloting the fastest flying fighter in the Russian Air Force!

The two Russian ace pilots were speechless. This was the same dilemma that Russian warplanes encountered every time they expelled a German reconnaissance plane that violated its airspace. In desperation, the two had no choice but to continue to fly south along the Gehe River, otherwise it would be too much to lose their identity as ace pilots if they went back in disgrace.

Half an hour later, the two finally decided to return home, but just as they turned around, they found a shocking situation - a gray-white German plane was actually following them from a distance of about 3,000 meters, whether it was the German reconnaissance plane just now, for the two Russian fighter pilots, the other party's move was undoubtedly a provocation. So, the two quickly started fighting. Koselov was in front and Grubov was in a two-plane battle formation at the flank. The two Russian pilots also invariably put the two machine guns in front of the cockpit of their plane into a state of readiness for firing. But before the two could find a chance to fire, the German plane made a light sideways turn, and then once again took advantage of the huge speed advantage and walked away. According to the visual inspection of the two ace pilots. That German monoplane must have reached speeds of more than 180 kilometers per hour, and possibly even more than 200 kilometers per hour.

Although the German planes did not leave the Russian airspace, the two ace pilots had no intention of chasing them anymore, and they quickly flew back to their own airfield, and then walked to the office of their boss in despair, and told them that if they did not provide them with better aircraft, they would never be able to drive away the German planes that intruded into the airspace from time to time.

In the afternoon of the same day, the report of the German plane's cross-border flight was again delivered to St. Petersburg, and the army generals commanding the aviation unit naturally had a gloomy face. The diplomats were even more indignant, and even the usually cold Empress criticized the responsible person in harsh terms, and ordered the aircraft design department to launch a high-speed fighter that could save the empire's face as soon as possible.

The next day, the diplomatic letter of protest was forwarded to the German government by the Russian ambassador in Berlin, but the German Foreign Ministry replied the same: "The matter will be thoroughly investigated and the pilots who fly across the border will be severely punished"!

Of course, all thorough investigations will eventually go unheard. Even if the Russian Government offered to shoot down the cross-border plane by force, the German Government would not object, because the Russians had not taken advantage of any of the previous air expulsions.

On December 15, Crown Prince Hirohito of Japan and his entourage concluded their visit to Warsaw. According to the original plan, a special train was to take them to Hamburg. At this time, Hirohito suddenly made a request to the German side, that is, to visit Königsberg, the central city of the German East Prussia region.

After urgently asking Berlin for instructions, the German side agreed to the request of the Japanese, but only allowed them to visit municipal, industrial and civilian facilities in the city, and shipbuilding bases and military facilities were listed as prohibited items.

Hirohito ostensibly agreed to the German conditions, but secretly asked his entourage to send a secret telegram to Japan, asking them to induce the Germans to relax the restrictions at all costs through diplomatic means. The Japanese Cabinet and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs faithfully carried out his order, and in the end, in exchange for concessions on the East Indies, where the two countries were at odds, the German government agreed to Prince Hirohito's visit to the port and aircraft factory in Königsberg, albeit for only one day and without photographing or taking notes.

Soon after receiving the news, Prince Hirohito's special train slowly entered Königsberg Central Station.

In order to "welcome" the visit of the Japanese crown prince and his entourage, the aircraft design and manufacturing center of Jiji Airlines in Königsberg was deliberately closed for a day, and the important design rooms and production workshops were closed, and a small number of technicians stayed in a few innocuous design rooms. Some workers were assigned to work in several of these workshops for the production of non-new aircraft.

In this case, Igor also gets an extra day off, and instead of spending this time on design drawings, he spends some time with his new girlfriend.

His new girlfriend is none other than Nastasia, the life assistant arranged for him by the Germans, a talented man and a lonely man, and it is not surprising that they have feelings for more than 3 months together, and the heads of the design institute seem to have acquiesced to this. After all, many of the designers here are bachelors. Retaining them with affection is also a major policy of the design institute.

"My dear, I heard that Dr. Matthias is not very satisfied with the fighter you designed, and he thinks that you are better suited to design a bomber, is that right?" The beauty lying in Igor's arms asked.

"Alas......" Igor sighed helplessly, "the doctor said that the fighter I designed was great in speed, range and take-off weight, but its agility and maneuverability were not even comparable to those before the war!" If you let it go to the front line, it can barely be used as a reconnaissance aircraft! ”

The beauty said coquettishly: "Then you will design the bomber!" Anyway, the salary and bonus of any kind of aircraft are the same! ”

"You don't understand!" Igor looked up at the ceiling, his heart full of melancholy. The two "assistants" he brought with him were transferred to a factory far from Königsberg last month, giving him a sense of being alone, not to mention that he was originally a designer rather than a professional spy. Usually let him stammer when he talks in a panic. Now he is asked to steal extremely important military secrets and give them away, which is simply killing him. The content of the three months of assault training before he came has basically been polished by the love of his children, and now he is thinking more about if he can live here forever. It's a pity that he has to face up to the fact that his wife and children are all detained by the Tsarist government.

The beauty in her arms moved a few times, and the soft, smooth feeling made a certain part of Igor's body congested again. At this time, he would rather forget his identity and mission, and would rather sink to the end in this tenderness.

After a while, Igor gently stroked Nastasia's blonde hair, and with an excitement in his heart, he asked in a low voice:

"Honey, do you love me?"

"Love!"

"Love to death?"

"Hmm!"

"Are you willing to do anything for me, then?"

"Yes!"

"Really?"

"Hmm!" Nastasia looked up at her lover with love in her eyes.

This look intoxicated Igor, and he plucked up his courage. He said, "Then would you like to go back to Russia with me to live?" ”

"Back to Russia?" Nastasia put her face back on Igor's chest.

Igor said: "Yes, go back to our homeland and live!" We can buy a farm in the countryside near Kyiv, build a beautiful house, raise many cattle and sheep, and live happily with our children! ”

"Well, that's my dream, too! When you're retired, we'll go together! Nastasia smiled.

Igor continued to touch the beauty's blonde hair, "I can't wait for retirement, it's too long." I want now! But before I can get out of here, I have to do something, a very, very dangerous thing! ”

Nastasia looked up, a look of consternation written on her face.

Igor smiled and said, "After that, we will be free!" ”

Nastasia's gaze swept back and forth over his face, finally resting on the thick lips, and then kissed it softly, before retreating for a full minute. After that, she said in an extremely sad tone:

"Would you rather risk your life than live here with me?"

Igor hurriedly explained: "No, Nastasia, I just want to live more freely with you!" ”

"Rare example: Are we not free enough and unhappy enough now?" The beauty looked at him with teary eyes.

"No, Nastasia, you don't understand! I...... I'm not your average person! By this time, Igor couldn't worry about revealing his identity.

"You're not an ordinary person!" Nastasia held his face in both hands, "Otherwise, you won't be able to steal my heart!" ”

Igor was almost heartbroken, "Honey, how I want to pull out my heart to show you, I love you so much that I'm willing to risk anything for you!" ”

"Then why don't you want to stay for me?"

"I ......" Igor hesitated and struggled in his heart, and the last few words were about to pop out, but there was still one step away.

At this time, Nastasia suddenly parted her head, "Okay, since you've decided, I'll do it for you!" ”

Igor Moran.

After getting dressed, Nastasia left Igor's room without looking back.

Before that, she finally knew the true identity of the "Niklov" and the purpose of his visit, and promised to steal the blueprints of the German fighter jet for him.

After Nastasia left, Igor began to smoke, one after the other.

Slowly, he began to regret that he had pulled Nastasia's head into the matter.

Gradually, he began to feel frustrated, because there was little hope of letting Nastasia, a weak woman, steal confidential information, and it was better to wait patiently for the opportunity himself, or simply forget everything about the past and stay here honestly.

The mere brilliant designer would not have known that during the time he had arrived in Königsberg by train from Rotterdam, the German intelligence services had a general idea of who he really was, and this could not be attributed entirely to the efficiency of the German intelligence service, but also to the forces of opposition to the Empress in Russia, some of whom were revolutionaries, some of whom were persecuted dignitaries, some of whom did not want to live under the White Terror, and of course some of whom worked purely for German money. In short, this group of people formed a special force in Russia, and they jokingly called themselves subversives living in the sewers of St. Petersburg.