"Okay, thanks."

Dressed in a neat general's regular uniform, Long Yun thanked the entourage and took the elevator to the fourth floor.

I found the fourth room on my right hand and walked in, and found an old acquaintance at the desk: Vladimir Kirov was still busy, just signaling to him with his head clipped to the phone, he sat quietly on the sofa behind the coffee table, took off his large-brimmed hat and placed it on his right hand.

was promoted to major general of the aviation force before, and when he set off from Aralsk, he changed into this outfit, and Long Yun was still a little unaccustomed to his new identity.

After a while, Kirov, an old acquaintance who had finished the call, came over to say hello, and the clerk with a tape recorder and a record book also came to the house.

Or it is possible to speculate from another point of view that the KGB urgently needed his statement for some reason.

After getting off the IL-76 before, he got into a Volga car and was taken to the KGB headquarters without reporting to the Air Force Command or the General Headquarters of the Territorial Defense Force, which made Long Yun once again confirm that the chief planner of the incident was obviously not the military. In the face of the tape recorder and the agent who took notes, he had long been accustomed to the fact that information equipment in the parallel world was quite rare in the 90s, and he concisely explained the course of the two take-off interception operations before and after, mixed with some personal views of himself, or the head of Levsenko.

Basically, it is a formality of the transcription process, which is actually very relaxed; In fact, apart from the eyewitness accounts after the liftoff, the KGB has already investigated the whole thing. Now it is nothing more than the oral statement of Victor, an important party, to corroborate each other.

Since guarding against and containing intelligence reconnaissance in the West, especially in the United States, is one of the core responsibilities of the KGB. There is nothing surprising about an exhaustive investigation.

“…… After the last exit attack. After confirming that the target had caught fire and fallen, and considering that there was not much fuel left for the fighter, I reluctantly controlled the fighter to return home. -- On the phone call this morning, it was mentioned that the pilot of the 'Blackbird' had signs of ejection, right? ”

Unlike the last time he came to the KGB headquarters, Long Yun, who was already a two-time Hero of the Soviet Union and promoted to major general of the Air Force, did not speak with the same restraint as before, and he asked some questions while stating.

"Ahh Yes. Now our people, as well as the local garrison, are under intense search. ”

The brief transcript was quickly over, and the two clerks who had taken the notes were sent away, Kirov turned around and greeted Long Yun, and the two chatted casually, and then went down to the all-day building restaurant to ask for two simple working meals. Eating in the cafeteria of the KGB headquarters, there is no need to worry about eavesdropping, and there are not many people here at eight o'clock in the evening, so the two of them simply talk while eating.

"Comrade Rezenov, this battle was very well done!"

"Ah, it's all thanks to the full support of the 290th regiment, and there is also a bit of luck. Saying. What is the situation on the Western Front and the South now? ”

"Central Europe is still the same. - Oh yes, you probably don't know yet. The French and the Spanish have just risen up, and now the shape over there has become very subtle. As for the Black Sea and the Caucasus for the time being, it is calm, and, I remember that you were transferred from the 237 regiment? ”

"Ah, actually not, I'm still attached to the 237th regiment, just a temporary ......"

While chatting with Kirov casually, Long Yun, who was chatting while eating, was a little absent-minded.

It had been some time since he left the front line, and at this time the first thing he thought of was the comrades of the Red Air Force who were still fighting in the Caucasus, the boys of the 237th Fighter Aviation Regiment, how had they fought in these days when he was absent?

I learned from the phone call before that the current special mission is not over, and I don't know when I will be able to return to the battlefield and refresh my 63 records.

Oh no, it's sixty-four now!

Compared with the previous take-offs, which had to be captured at most nine enemy planes at a time (of course, there were also three oolongs presented by the Americans), this sixty-fourth victory was really not easy to come by; Of course, the number of shots shot down alone is quite small, but when it comes to gold content, it is very different. How many days have he not piloted the familiar Su-27S to fight in the air, Long Yun is only looking forward to the task in front of him and hurriedly has a saying, the sky battlefield of fire and smoke is his favorite, and it is really depressing to always grope for reconnaissance aircraft in the dark night sky!

The desire to fight, after all, was carried out with impulses, and after a sharp rise, it temporarily dissipated. Thinking of his current situation, Long Yun unconsciously calculated in his heart again, this time he didn't make any arrangements to return to Moscow in a hurry, should he honestly go back to his single apartment to sleep later, or tell the driver to send him to Lyudmila's apartment?

Thinking of the heartthrob singer who separated not long ago, and the most intimate contact with the ear and sideburns, Long Yun couldn't help but feel his heart beat faster, but he quickly dispelled this dangerous thought.

When she was in the Caucasus before, Valentina told Long Yun that out of the need for secrecy and security, the KGB positioned the relationship between the two of them as a "chance encounter"; If he comes and goes too often, he, a time-traveler with superpowers, can say that Lyudmila will encounter more threats. Considering this alone, Long Yun immediately suppressed the desire in his heart, he didn't want to put his woman in crisis because of this.

Oh, the idea of being a woman of your own...... Even Victor's women are the same!

What the hell is going on in this world, it's really a confused account.

Breaking free from the crimson fantasy of the young singer, Long Yun found that he had just been a little distracted: Kirov on the other side was looking at his face with a hesitant expression, as if waiting for something to respond:

"Comrade Rezenov? …… Comrade Major General? ”

"Ah, - what?" Realizing his gaffe just now, Long Yun swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, "I'm sorry for being a little distracted just now, what did you say?" ”

"Oh, that's right."

Use a fork against the large pieces of stew and mashed potatoes on the plate. Kirov apparently understood the ace major general who was running around and busy fighting in front of him. He repeated what he had just said: "Now the threat of the 'Blackbird' has been temporarily eased, but the above arrangement is to conduct an investigation for the purpose of reconnaissance by the Americans. Do you have any insights on this? ”

"Oh...... My insights ......"

Realizing that the KGB's views on this matter were surprisingly consistent with those of himself, or rather of Captain Levsenko, Long Yun immediately became focused, and he was keenly aware that this seemingly ordinary conversation might be very important for solving the mystery.

"As for the purpose of the Americans' reconnaissance, when I was in the 290th Regiment, I saw the track records of the 'Blackbirds,' and the people present at that time basically thought that they were looking for something."

Oh, yes. What are you looking for?

Baikonur Space Center, the launch site of the R-36M ICBM, or the newly built long-range warning radar "Pechora"?

Any one of these targets is definitely the target that the Americans are focusing on, but Long Yun knows that what the "Blackbird" is looking for cannot be them -- a launcher, a missile silo, or a ground-based radar that cannot be moved, and it still needs to fly around like a headless fly? So he hoped to get the answer from the mouth of Kirov in front of him, or that as long as he knew, his consciousness could be snooped into.

But contrary to his expectations, Kirov in front of him obviously didn't know, he just nodded slowly in an acknowledgment:

"Yes. Actually, that's how we see it. -- But the question is. What are these Americans looking for? ”

"It's hard to guess. Perhaps, some kind of maneuvering target in Central Asia? ”

Heuristic rhetoric was adopted. Long Yun was actually reminding himself that the only important mobile targets he had in mind were mobile ballistic missiles, such as the road-mobile RS-12 "Topol", the RS-24 "Topol-M", and the railway-mobile RS-22 -- of course, in Central Asia, where the railway density was relatively low, the latter could basically be ruled out.

Hearing Long Yun's words, Kirov thought for a moment, and then slowly shook his head.

"In my personal opinion, this assumption is wrong. -- Comrade Rezenov, think about it, if the reconnaissance is a maneuvering target, then what is the point of seeing it? The model and parameters of the maneuvering target are not secret, but the location of the deployment is the real secret - and to obtain this information, spies and satellites are much better than reconnaissance aircraft. ”

"Oh ......! That's true. ”

He didn't know much about intelligence reconnaissance work, and Long Yun had to admit after a little thought about it logically that Kirov was right. But before he could say more, the detective turned to the topic:

"Frankly speaking, as the person who shot down the 'Blackbird', you have a certain ...... Hmm, superpower potential. So the above is basically the same as our opinion, that is, I hope you will also participate in the survey, maybe can give us some unexpected help? ”

Seeing that Long Yun in front of him was a little dazed, Kirov explained to him in detail that the recent "Blackbird" invasion incident was handled by their group of people who were assisting the Fifth General Bureau. Unlike the Fifth Directorate, which is in charge of military resources, that is, the Fifth Directorate, which is responsible for armed interdiction, Kirov's department specializes in intelligence analysis, or tries to give the "Blackbird" detection motives, and there has been no substantial progress in this area so far.

Hearing Kirov's explanation, thinking of the cobweb-like track map he saw in the conference room of the Alarsk base, Long Yun smiled at the agent in front of him in understanding—the kind of route as messy as a three-year-old child's graffiti is indeed very tricky.

However, his smile did not receive the expected response, and Kirov, who was obviously in a working state, was still talking to himself:

“…… Therefore, we hope that you will also participate in the observation and analysis from the perspective of an ace pilot, which should give us some inspiration. How's that, Comrade Major General? (To be continued......)

PS: R-36M, NATO codenamed SS-18, is the world's longest-range and most powerful heavy ICBM. RS-12, NATO code SS-25, a road-mobile ICBM with a MAZ7917 chassis. RS-24, NATO code SS-27, an ICBM MAZ79221 chassis, in addition to silos deployed. RS-22, NATO code name SS-24, is the world's only combat-deployed railway-mobile intercontinental missile, which belongs to the category of heavy ballistic missiles.