– What do you need?

– I'm on the ad, is this apartment two hundred and seventy-five?

– Yes, Malinovsky twenty-five two hundred and seventy-five, but still, what do you need?

– I am a friend of Sibagatullin Galley Shavkatovich, you studied with him in the same group at the institute,

he recommended that he turn to you if you need to spend the night, you have a three-room apartment, he said that there was enough space for one night. – His narrowly set eyes with a slanting look lit up in a friendly smile, – My name is Ferdinand Fleur, and these certificates are so fiction.

– Yes, come in already, there was no surveillance for you? I asked apprehensively.

– What kind of surveillance, when I crossed the border from the train directly from Kherson, Lieutenant Colonel Chernov Ivan Ivanovich sent to find out why there were no reports on the

state of affairs at the headquarters of the CIA and MI-6, from Vladimirskaya, where they sit on the upper floors of their service. Interested in their plans and actions in terms of preparing operations for execution? – Taking off his jacket, said Ferdinand. I ignored his words as I offered him breakfast. The guest sat down at the table, I began to eat the traditional scrambled eggs with sausage. When fried, put in a plate with a fork on the table and poured cognac into glasses. Then he said:

– For acquaintance, and let's get to know each other better, tell me your title, position, and, in general, what do you think is necessary?

– Major of the intelligence unit of the FSB foreign intelligence under the control of the general in charge of the department.

– Wow, the direction means when the major himself was sent, experience is valued in your office, isn't it? – I poured more cognac from a new bottle, – I report! – and I told the major all the ups and downs with a visit to the resident Boris Eduardovich Sosnin.

– The resident failed, – the major said, thinking, – my task was to find out only this, but how we will conduct business further, it does not depend on me. Lieutenant Colonel Chernov handed over to you, captain, money, here twenty thousand American rubles, and ordered them to be handed over to you if there is confidence that you have not been identified and agree to work further, do you agree? Ferdinand asked with a barely perceptible smile.

– In my opinion, it is obvious that I agree! I answered firmly.

– Wait, I'll get a reward, – the major got up and went out into the corridor, taking off a camouflage bag from the hanger, he took out a solid bundle of dollars and a book about traveling to the ends of the earth, putting it on the table, adding, – for each completed task you will receive twice as much, and for this, that he managed to survive and not reveal himself, that's how much, – he put the money on the table, and two receipts, saying, – sign here, please, for the amount received and for the valuable artifact.

I put my signature in the indicated place and refilled the glasses, we drank. The major tore off my copied signature on the forged copy of the receipt:

– And one more thing, on the Runetka website, in the section Young, you will find a girl working under the nickname Your-X-Eva, she lives in the Khreschatyk hotel, hiding her a place of residence for ordinary customers, of which quite a lot comes to the site. Quite a few business travelers from the CIA and MI6 stay at this hotel. She is an excellently trained agent of ours, fluent in English and the art of seduction. Often high-ranking officials, who do not skimp on the generosity of tips, lay out, along with solid sums of money, the secrets of their missions, like those and others, so it is your task to get to know her, become a fan of her talent and receive information. This book has a cipher translator, you apply in infrared illumination the copied text of the email received from Galley Shavkatovich, and by the arrangement of the letters highlighted through a thin copy of the email, you read the message, and in reverse order you encrypt the letter to your friend, send him the information obtained by Eva. From our letters you will give the girl tasks with whom she should make contact and what information interests us in the first place. You understood, first of all, acquaintance with Eva, look, do not scare her with an excessive pressure of feelings, show, first of all, a businesslike approach to the common cause.

– What are you, a major, how can I be interested in some kind of scow who obtains information ?! – I spoke in complete bewilderment, – I'm not a pimp!

– The first thing I want to tell you is that she is a very experienced agent who has been trained since early childhood, and virtual sex does not require the presence of a model in bed, I hope

you understand everything? – Ferdinand answered in a calm voice, – Where can I lie down, I haven’t slept for almost a day, and the way back is not easy and can I take a shower?

After a shower, having laid the major in the allotted room, I again sat down at the laptop, watching reports from the front … In the morning, after preparing breakfast, I decided to invite Ferdinand to the kitchen and knocked on his room. Nobody responded. This alerted me, I opened the door and saw that the bed was neatly made, there was a note on the table: “Sorry, captain, I didn’t want to wake you up.” I left the room, puzzled, and starting to eat began to weigh the situation with the visit of the scout. The picture looked rather strange. Major, making sure that I was not a failure and that there was no evidence of Boris Eduardovich in his espionage activities, otherwise the SBU would have canceled surveillance. But, on the other hand, surveillance is necessary to identify residents of signalmen. From this it follows that a search will be carried out at his apartment, which will not give anything, since I destroyed the evidence that he gave me. And I think they'll leave him alone. What about me? And I had to wait for a secret e-mail from someone who would send a letter to me under the nickname of Galley Shavkatovich, and introduce me in detail to the work, what and how to conduct my underground activities against the regime that had seized power in Ukraine, and what to convey to Eve. I sat at the laptop until 11 o'clock and decided to take a walk around the city. It was my first exit with a new appearance, I carefully examined myself and was amazed at how a beard and long hair radically change my appearance, clicking the fingers of my right hand with satisfaction, I left the house. Having not gone even a hundred meters to the Obolon metro station, when the air raid siren suddenly howled, I had to return. Before reaching his entrance, two powerful explosions were heard one after another. I looked around the houses were intact, there were no clouds of smoke in the sky. So I will get information from the Internet. I didn't go anywhere else today. From the local report on the shelling, it turned out that a missile was shot down by an air defense system over the residential area of Troeschina. The wreckage fell on the house, injured 12 people, are being treated in the surgical department of the emergency hospital. An unexpected thought came to mind:

“I’ll find some kind of series and sit, perhaps at home!”, – I ordered myself, and with this decision I started searching. Having wandered around, and not finding anything worthwhile for my mood, suppressed by the events of the unfolding war on the territory of Ukraine, I began to watch the news. But there, in addition to the heroic resistance of the Russian-speaking residents of the Luhansk and Donetsk regions to the criminal regime that came as a result of the coup, and the slowness of Russia, which led to a protracted military conflict. And a unified unity among the business elite and business circles of Russia, for which, like a sickle in their genitals, it was that the rallied Western countries, on which relations were established and the movement of capital in Western banks, with which Russia is now entering the war, were frozen . And I had a lot to think about. Thinking about how generously I was supported by the foreign intelligence service with American rubles, I was told that the dollar was no longer playing an important financial role in world banking, in which Russia was gradually moving to settlements in Russian rubles with friendly countries. And in Ukraine, the dollar becomes almost the state currency of the fifty-first US state called Yuzhno-Novoukrainka. In an extremely depressed mood, I came across informational news that another missile attack on Kyiv was expected, completely fell into a state of extreme melancholy from this …