And finally, and most importantly. He foresees an uprising, so, according to our sources, he summons several additional drills to the Donetsk group.
I cannot give my name for obvious reasons of the possibility of this letter being intercepted."
"Sanya!" -called the leader to his assistant. He showed up fifteen seconds later.
"Sanya, I need all the information on Manhra by tomorrow morning. Including his disagreement with the Center.
Second. Get me Orlov."
Vasily Orlov, commander of the special elimination squad, arrived forty-six seconds later.
"Vasya, you have a special assignment. Actually, as always. Tomorrow you have all day to prepare. If I give you an order after tomorrow, Manhr must be dead."
Three people were sent up from the 381st Soma: Evgeny Severa, Sergey Bolshakov and Ivan Tikhomirov. Gora was particularly hopeful about the latter. He had been preparing this man for quite a long time (about seven years) and especially carefully. It was through him that the letter to Khmelnitsky passed.
On March 26, Tikhomirov was assigned to work as a janitor of the main corridor. On the one hand, it seems like nothing, but on the other hand, the main corridor is the main corridor, and if we take into account the contents of, for example, just garbage cans, the picture changes to the opposite.
The corridor itself was so long that by mid-afternoon only three-quarters of it could be scrubbed.
At 3:32 p.m., a man walking down the hall stopped two steps away from Ivan and whispered to the side, as if not to him, "I'm from Maki. Khmelnitsky. I need to get in touch with yours."
The time for such conversations looked as good as any – exactly half past four in the afternoon the plagues went to lunch until five.
In fact, this man could be as many as one of the four, and that's the minimum.
Option number 1.
The simplest and most failed. He serves the Imperial Black Stone Defense Service (BSDS).
Option number 2.
He is amateurish, that is, he wants to turn someone over to the plagues for possible help or reward (few people knew, but such plagues, after receiving information, were usually shot together with the accused; exceptions were in cases when they were used several times, but then killed anyway – well, who can sympathize with a traitor?).
Option number 3.
He was sent by someone like Gora from the mine to check on training or something.
Option number 4.
He really is who he says he is.
The first thing Gabriel taught his disciple when contact arose was to never "play his part" at once, that is, to check and make up his mind before performing the true task.
"It's better to miss some information than to bog down half the network on nothing," Gabriel used to say. That's what Tikhomirov did.
"In my opinion," Ivan replied. – you've come to the wrong place."
"How could it be wrong? Hey, everybody's making a lot of noise. They say it's going to be hard…"
Gabriel was not out of his head with his admonitions: "Constantly. Constantly try to determine who you are talking to. Sometimes it doesn't even matter what side he's on, it's who he is. Maybe he's a weakling… What would it take to make a weakling change sides? And if he's strong in spirit, look at how firm he is in his own convictions. How much confidence he has. Where are his traits of limit… All this, of course, will have to be felt, sometimes there is no time to analyze."
