red moscow

Chapter 2571

In the middle of the night, Sokov, who was in deep sleep, suddenly felt someone shaking his shoulder. At the same time, he heard someone calling his name softly in his ear: "Misha, Misha, wake up. Misha, Misha..."

Sokov, who had spent several years on the battlefield, woke up immediately. He opened his eyes suddenly and found that the person who was shaking his shoulders and calling his name was Ajelina. He asked quickly, "What happened, Ajelina?"

Seeing Sokov open his eyes, Ajelina said softly, "Misha, I feel like something is wrong. I want to ask you a few questions."

Seeing that nothing happened, Sokov's tense nerves relaxed immediately, and sleepiness came over him again. He closed his eyes and asked weakly, "Ajelina, it's late at night now. Can't you wait until dawn to ask your questions?"

"No, Misha." Unexpectedly, Ajelina said in a serious tone: "If I don't figure it out, I will never feel at ease."

Seeing Adelina being so serious, Sokov opened his eyes again, looked at her sideways and said, "Ask whatever you want to ask, and I will answer you truthfully."

"What documents did you say were stolen by the plumber?"

Hearing this question, Sokov replied with a smile: "I don't know. The deputy commander didn't tell me, and I didn't ask. In fact, it's better not to know some things. If you know them, you might get yourself into unnecessary trouble."

Adelina did not respond to Sokov's words, but continued to ask: "I remember you told me that when General Sokolovsky's adjutant asked you how to deal with the plumber, you said that he should be shot immediately, and General Sokolovsky readily agreed to your proposal and asked his adjutant to lead people to shoot the plumber who had just been captured."

Sokov heard that Ajelina seemed to have some hidden meaning in her words, so he quickly sat up, leaned against the back of the bed and asked curiously: "Ajelina, did you find anything wrong?"

Ajelina nodded and continued, "I think this document must be top secret. Once the contents are leaked, it will lead to very serious consequences. For the sake of confidentiality, the suspect who stole this information will definitely be executed as soon as possible. This is why your proposal was easily agreed by General Sokolovsky. And according to my guess, those who have come into contact with this information will probably be isolated or sent to a safe area."

Sokov raised his eyebrows, thinking about how many people had access to this document. In addition to the dead female translator and plumber, there was also the short and fat female sergeant and Sokolovsky's adjutant. If Adelina was right, these two people would disappear from the hotel soon. If this really happened, it meant that once this top-secret document was leaked, the consequences would be so severe that even Zhukov would not be able to bear it, let alone Sokolovsky.

But all this is just speculation at the moment. We can only wait until tomorrow morning to see the specific situation. Sokov raised his hand and patted Ajelina's arm outside the quilt, and said softly: "Ajelina, go to sleep first. If there is anything, we can talk about it after tomorrow morning."

After lying down again, Sokov closed his eyes, but he was not sleepy at all. He thought to himself, if he really found that the adjutant and the female sergeant were not in the hotel after dawn, it meant that the confidentiality of the information that was once stolen was beyond his imagination.

The next morning, Sokov took Ajelina to the restaurant for dinner.

While eating, I suddenly heard two officers passing by whispering: "It's strange, why did the deputy commander suddenly send his adjutant back to Berlin? With him gone, some of our work will not be able to proceed."

"Who says it's not true?" Another officer continued, "He was supposed to take us on a mission today, but now that he's gone, the mission has to be put on hold."

The conversation between the two shocked Sokov. It seemed that Ajelina's guess was correct. The adjutant was transferred back to Berlin, and the female sergeant was probably also transferred back. Thinking of this, Sokov immediately lost interest in the food in front of him.

Ajelina also heard the conversation between the two officers, so she leaned forward slightly, approached Sokov and said, "Misha, it seems that my analysis is correct..."

Before Ajelina could finish, Sokov raised his hand to stop her from continuing. He realized that the matter was too complicated and he should not get involved easily to avoid unnecessary trouble: "Eat, don't get involved in things that you shouldn't be involved in."

Ajelina understood what Sokov meant, nodded, and stopped talking about it, instead continuing to eat.

After breakfast, Ajelina asked, "Misha, there are no court hearings these days. What should we do next?"

Sokov thought for a moment, then said, "Didn't Officer Bayer say that he would help Captain Hosenfeld find his wife and children? Anyway, we don't have anything to do these two days, so why not accompany them to look for them?"

The two came to Bayer's room and saw Bayer and his son preparing to go out. Ajelina asked with concern: "Officer Bayer, where are you going?"

"I plan to take Zorda outside and try my luck to see if I can find Captain Hosenfeld's wife and children."

Seeing that the purpose of the Bayer father and son was the same as his, Sokov said, "If that's the case, then we'll go with you."

"Okay, Comrade General." Since Sokov took the initiative to offer to go out with him to find someone, Bayer naturally wanted it very much and nodded in agreement: "Then let's go."

If they wanted to go out to look for people, it would not be enough for Sokov, Adelina and the father and son of Bayer alone. After all, this was the territory of the US military. If there were no guards around, if something happened, there would be no one to report it. It was for this reason that Sokov called Vasherigov and asked him to take two soldiers with him to go out.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he reached the door of the hotel, he was stopped by the sentry on duty at the door: "Excuse me, Comrade General, do you have the warrant from Comrade Deputy Commander?"

Sokov was stunned after hearing this, and then asked back: "What? I need to show General Sokolovsky's warrant to leave the hotel?"

"Yes, Comrade General." The sentry replied respectfully, "The hotel has been under martial law since last night. No one is allowed to enter or leave at will. If you want to leave, you need a warrant from Comrade Deputy Commander."

Hearing what the sentry said, Sokov knew in his heart that if he didn't get Sokolovsky's warrant, he might not be able to leave the hotel today. So he turned around and said to everyone, "Wait for me here for a while, I will go to find the deputy commander now."

When Sokolov arrived at the door of Sokolovsky's room, he was about to raise his hand to knock on the door, but the door opened from the inside, and a strange lieutenant colonel walked out and asked politely: "Comrade General, who are you and what are you doing here?" When Sokolov saw this strange lieutenant colonel, he was more certain that the conversation he heard in the restaurant was true. Sokolovsky's original adjutant had been transferred and replaced by a new person. He coughed lightly, cleared his throat and said: "I am Sokolov, I have something to see Comrade Deputy Commander."

"Excuse me, General Sokov," the lieutenant colonel replied politely, "Comrade Deputy Commander is still resting..."

Before the lieutenant colonel could finish his words, Sokolovsky's voice came from inside the room: "Is that Misha outside?"

"Yes, Comrade Deputy Commander, it is indeed me."

"come in."

When the lieutenant colonel heard Sokolovsky's order, he quickly turned his body to the side and extended his hand to Sokov, saying, "General Sokov, please come in."

Sokov walked into the room and saw Sokolovsky sitting on the sofa in the living room. He quickly stepped forward and saluted: "Hello, Comrade Deputy Commander!"

"Misha, we are not strangers, so don't be so polite." Sokolovsky pointed to the empty sofa next to him and said, "If you have anything to say, sit down and talk."

Sokov did not follow Sokolovsky's order to sit down, but said: "Comrade General, I just met a sentry on duty at the door of the hotel. He said that the hotel has been under martial law since last night and no one is allowed to enter or leave. If you want to leave the hotel, you must have your warrant."

Hearing Sokov's words, Sokolovsky raised his eyebrows, and then asked the lieutenant colonel standing next to him: "Lieutenant Colonel, what's going on? Why hasn't the hotel's martial law been lifted yet?"

"Comrade Deputy Commander," the lieutenant colonel said quickly after hearing what Sokolovsky said, "I will immediately call and inform them to lift the martial law on the hotel." As he said that, he walked to the table, picked up the phone on it and started dialing.

While the lieutenant colonel was on the phone, Sokolovsky asked Sokov to sit down again and said apologetically, "Misha, my former adjutant had to return to Berlin for an urgent matter. The new adjutant didn't understand the situation and didn't lift the curfew on the hotel in time. I'm sorry for the inconvenience. By the way, what are you going out for? I remember telling you last night that there will be no court hearings in the next few days."

"Comrade Deputy Commander, this is what happened." Sokov quickly reported to Sokolovsky in detail his plan to go outside with the Bayer father and son to look for Hosenfeld's wife and children, and finally said: "We can't be sure whether they are still in the city, so we can only go out and try our luck."

"Oh, so that's how it is." As the deputy commander of the German group, Sokolovsky naturally knew about the establishment of a second-level security command in Berlin. Hearing what Sokov said, he nodded slightly and then said, "But you can see that most of the city was destroyed by the war. Even if the German captain's wife and children came here, they might have been evacuated to the countryside."

When Sokov heard what Sokolovsky said, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. He thought to himself that if they were really evacuated to the countryside, it would be troublesome. It was like looking for a needle in a haystack to find a few people in this city. If he went to the countryside to find people, it would be even more difficult.

When Sokov arrived at the hotel, he saw that the sentry at the door was gone. He waved to the others and said, "Let's go."

After leaving the hotel, Vaseligov immediately came over and curiously asked Sokov, "Comrade General, wasn't the enemy who stole the information executed last night? Why is the hotel still under martial law?"

Sokov turned his head and glanced at Vaserigov, and said to him, "Major, this is what happened. General Sokolovsky's former adjutant, the colonel who came to pick us up outside the city, was sent back to Berlin overnight. The new adjutant who took over his position didn't know much about the situation here, so he didn't lift the curfew on the hotel in time."

After hearing Sokov's explanation, Vaseligov asked in surprise: "Why was the colonel suddenly transferred back to Berlin when he was doing well?"

Sokov naturally would not tell Vaserigov that the adjutant had seen a confidential document and that Sokolovsky had sent him back to Berlin overnight for the sake of confidentiality. He could only shake his head and deliberately frowned and said, "I don't know either."

Baier walked to the side and saw Sokov and Vaserigov whispering to each other, so he asked Adelina curiously: "Adelina, what are the general and the major talking about?"

After listening to Ajelina's translation, Bayer unexpectedly said, "Oh, I saw the colonel leaving."

"Oh, you saw it?" Ajelina asked in surprise, "What did you see?"

"I saw the colonel and his men put the female translator's body into a coffin and put it on a tarpaulin-covered truck parked outside the hotel. Then he and another female translator got into a jeep and left with the truck."

After listening to Bayer's story, Ajelina did not dare to be negligent in the slightest and immediately repeated what Bayer said to Sokov.

Sokov asked Bayer with a shocked look on his face: "Officer Bayer, did you really see another short and fat female translator leave the hotel with General Sokolovsky's adjutant?"

"That's right, Comrade General." Bayer gave Sokov a positive answer to his question: "As you know, I am known as the 'living file' in the police station. Not only can I remember the files I have read, but I can also remember the people I have met very clearly."

Sokov had no doubt about Bayer's memory. Since he said so, it must be correct. He thought to himself that it seemed that Ajelina's guess last night was correct. This once stolen document must contain a shocking secret, otherwise Sokolovsky would not be so impatient to send his adjutant and the female translator back to Berlin overnight.

At this moment, Sokov couldn't help but worry about his adjutant and the female translator. Now that they knew this top-secret document, they might have a car accident or encounter other dangers on their way back to Berlin. After all, only the dead can truly keep secrets.

"Misha, Misha." Adelina saw that Sokov suddenly began to be in a daze, and she quickly pushed him with her hand and asked with concern: "What are you thinking about?"

Sokov turned his head to look at Ajelina, trying to force a smile on his face, and said with some difficulty: "Ajelina, I was thinking about what you said last night. It seems that your guess is completely correct. Fortunately, I didn't see the document at that time, otherwise I would probably be on my way back to Berlin now."