Seeing the mysterious Rykov disappear at the door, Long Yun was still holding a note and was stunned in the analysis room.

This guy, he's going to throw himself down and run to lunch?

After a busy morning at the map table and now feeling a little hungry, Long Yun looked at the small note in his hand, and then came to the table to check the map suspiciously.

This time, without much effort, he quickly read out the coordinates of the center point of the suspicious blank area, rounded it according to the agreed latitude and longitude scale, and then took out a pen and did a simple hash code reduction calculation on the slip of paper. As a number appeared at the end of the calculation formula, Long Yun subconsciously memorized this number; Although he couldn't guess at this time, what kind of bizarre experience this mysterious number would bring.

Right in front of him, on the rough manuscript paper was the number he had just calculated—zero, three, five, three.

Zero-three-five-three, what does this represent?

One of the most unbearable feelings in the world is to grasp the tiny tail of a secret and not be able to drag it out of the hole; And now Long Yun's mentality is like this, with great curiosity about the number "0353", and the noon working meal is also unate. Seeing the sad and suspicious look of the ace major general on the other side of the table, Rykov, who was eating peacefully next to him, quite understood, and he stretched out his finger and tapped it lightly on the table a few times:

"Comrade Rezenov, are all the calculations done?"

"Well, forget it."

"Okay, you need to do your own calculations, it's for the sake of confidentiality. However, it is best not to think about work when eating, as it will affect digestion. ”

"Uh...... That being said. "Mix the cabbage with the leftover fish stew from the plate. Long Yun chewed absentmindedly. He thought that the food at the KGB headquarters was really good, but he was not thinking about it now, "But I'm just a layman, so I have the urgent idea to investigate immediately." ”

"Oh, of course I can see this mood, it's understandable, hehe."

Probably it was the words of Comrade Major General that reminded him of the past when he was young, who is not all the same at the age of blood and strength? Rykov who responded kindly. In fact, the thoughts in his heart are almost as urgent as Long Yun's: if the number one ace's intuition is right, it means that the work he is responsible for has made serious progress - of course, after many years of career grinding, even the biggest things may not make him mess up and reveal his inner twists and turns.

"Actually, after hearing your analysis, I was also very curious."

……

In the afternoon of the same day, on the second basement floor of the KGB headquarters building, Long Yun and Rykov, who accompanied him, stepped out of the elevator and met an agent of a certain KGB department who was in charge of contact.

In the previous brief conversation, although I didn't know who the name of this burly, ruddy-faced strong man was. But on the way to the underground database, Long Yun still tried to communicate briefly with the silent agent. As far as his observations of the KGB headquarters are concerned. People here have always disliked to talk too much, and the so-called "keeping silent is the minimum professional accomplishment and living habit of every intelligence officer" seems to be really true.

Of course, although the detective didn't say much, he didn't deliberately avoid talking to Long Yun.

After snooping into his consciousness during the conversation, Long Yun knew that this was not because of the epaulettes of the major general on his shoulders, and his position and rank were invalid on the territory of the KGB; Rather, the agent in front of him was a helper sent by the Sixth Directorate of the KGB (the Main Directorate in charge of archives and data secrecy), and his superiors had instructed him to cooperate as much as possible with Viktor Rezenov's investigation.

"That's right, Comrade Rezenov, the 0353 region is a first-class top-secret area, which looks like a blank space on an ordinary map. However, I have received orders from my superiors before, and you have just been authorized to view the relevant materials in the designated location. ”

"Okay. So, "Long Yun couldn't help but wonder who gave him the authorization, General Secretary Malenkov?"

"What is so unusual about this area?"

As Long Yun expected, the questions he asked were not answered positively by the detectives.

"I'm sorry, but this issue is not my responsibility. However, you can check the information first, and if you still have any questions, I will be responsible for conveying them to my superiors. ”

Sure enough, in such a place with a clear division of labor, it's useless to ask anyone!

Nodding helplessly while thinking, Long Yun beckoned Rykov to speed up his pace to keep up with the agent, and only after passing through two security gates and an airtight gate was he allowed to enter the cool and dry underground data storage area.

Standing on the inside of the closed airtight doorway, looking up at the long corridor with no end in sight, the dim light shining from the mercury lamp in the ceiling and spilling on the transparent glass partition, reflecting the dim figures of several people present. More than 90 percent of the classified event records and archival materials of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a huge red empire that had existed for decades, were stored in this underground fortress that could withstand direct hits from 100,000-ton yield nuclear warheads, which of course was an absolute secret that Long Yun later learned.

Such a high-standard underground warehouse is very expensive to build and operate, and ordinary secret materials are not qualified to be stored in it; But any record that comes out here is an extremely unbelievable mystery if it is not a great secret that can cause a sensation in the world.

Standing at the end of the deep corridor, Long Yun couldn't help but wonder what kind of situation the 0353 region was.

Under the guidance of the detectives, he walked forward cautiously for a while, turned a corner and entered the file storage room marked "Class 1 Top Secret Files", Long Yun glanced at his eyes and saw the file box numbered 0353: because the area in front of him was not large, there were only a few dozen sealed files in total, and most of the two rows of stainless steel brackets standing in the room were still empty.

Putting on gloves and a mask as instructed by the detective, Long Yun reached out and wanted to pull out the file box from the shelf, but the first feeling of getting started was that it was light and fluttering, and it seemed that there was nothing in it; Confused, he was about to open the lid of the box to take a look, but was stopped by Rickoff next to him.

"Comrade Rezenov, you see, this dossier—"

As if he had seen something extremely surprising, Rykov's rare face changed slightly, and he hesitantly raised his hand to point to the file box in Long Yun's hand; Following Rykov's pointing, Long Yun erected the box only to see the dark red mark on the side sticker, a circular stamp that was obviously some years old, and next to the sword and shield badge representing the KGB was a little scribbled writing left by a black ink pen.

Top Secret Material, Transferred - General Directorate of Rome

...... "General Directorate of Rome"?

What kind of department is this, Long Yun thought a little dazedly, he had never heard of the KGB's institutional setup-

No, it's not! (To be continued......)