– So! – Said Leonid himself – one thing done! Now we have to somehow pay a visit to his aunt Elsa. Before he could finish, the phone rang:
– Yes, I’m listening!
– It Garin! Well, like my son, are you?!
– Thank you for your prayers!
– Well, that’s ladnenko! Now let’s get ready kA and me!
– Yes! Comrade General!
– All you thirty minutes! – And short tones on the handset.
Leonid, dropping the robe, went into the bathroom. Twenty minutes later, fresh and cheerful, he is already out of the room…
The general stood next to the table his secretary. The girl was in the form of the captain of the Space Forces of the Russian Federation, and her name was Mary Zarudnaya. Garin gave her his orders:
– I will be out all day. So, Mary, will not receive. You, as always, commit all urgent matters and report back to me tomorrow as usual. Clear!
– Yes, Comrade General!
– Well, that’s ladnenko!
At this time the reception came Leonid.
– Let me enter, Comrade General?
– Here you go, Leon, come on! Actually why not pass! We’re going with you now! – He turned to Masha Zarudny:
– You understand, Captain?
– Yes, Comrade General! – Straightened to attention, snapped the captain of all the rules of the Armed Forces.
– Take Action!
– Yes!
He went out into the hallway from the reception, he was succeeded by Leonid.
– We’ll go to our lieutenant of medical service Filimonov. He warned and is waiting for us. Will retrieve the implants.
Along the avenues through which they passed, the right and the left have already made their way tulips. Their fresh green shoots here and there raspustivshiesya buds blush, eye pleasing, competing with red poppies.
In physical therapy they met Lieutenant, in a white coat:
– Good morning, Comrade Lieutenant General!
– Come on, officialdom! – Stopped him Garin – You better tell where we’re at this time?
– It would be necessary again, so to speak for the purity of the experiment!
– What do you mean? – Alert the general.
– And then, Comrade Lieutenant General, is that no one knows where, and that the two of you had that night!
– Well, if medicine insists that let repeat!
They were again ultrasound scanning. At this time, there were no changes, and new implant was observed.
– I congratulate you! – Could not restrain himself from saying lieutenant – on you is nothing new.
– Well, then, what’s next?
Next, sit down here on the chair and, with you, Comrade General, and let’s start! – Putting on rubber gloves and rattling instruments on a glass shelf on wheels, which in turn have been placed on a sterile cloth after a sterile cabinet. When everything was finished manipulation, lieutenant with a syringe with a dose of pain medication went to the General:
– Comrade General, tell me, what is your tolerance for anesthesia?
– Positive!
Well, then, let your forehead. – Lieutenant made a shot in the place of the forthcoming operation, – We must wait a little. Implant under the skin near here just do not get it would be difficult.
Leonid he sat for another chair, and placed his left hand on the table, behind which was the workplace of lieutenant. By doing Krazimovu anesthesia began operations in general. Baggage patients with a good hour, which resulted in lessons and thrown on the enamel surface of the medical sudochki three triangular objects that look like tiny metal oskolochki. Implants are in the form of miniature pyramids the size of a pellet from a hunting cartridge and were all similar in form of execution. Their graceful and pointed to the right edge of artificial origin. Alexei carefully considered the lessons implants through a magnifying glass while saying:
Well, I must! When it was inserted in me and how I did not notice and did not know about it! Yes, Leon, we really are dealing with a serious opponent who not only sees and hears us, but our thoughts and reads. And in general makes us all he wants. – He paused for a moment, and again with the new one considering implants, then grimacing in disgust, he added, – disgusting myself feel experimental cattle, do not you, comrades?
Lieutenant Krazimov and silent, stood silent and bewildered.
Garin and Krazimov were in deep thought to the residence of Lieutenant General. The two- storey building stood in the back of the park, reached by alley, lined with tall poplars, begin to dissolve your kidney. Spring breeze, filled with invigorating scents inspired hope and faith in themselves and in the best of times, which will come anyway, I wanted to believe them. They were met by captain Mary Zarudnaya:
Comrade Lieutenant- General … – Garin stopped her:
– That’s what my daughter, I now do not take action, as I told you!
– Yes!
They proceeded to the already familiar office. Garin took out a new bottle of brandy, began to fill thick glasses.
«Where is he taking this cognac?» – Leonid thought.
– Come on, Leon took a sip lastly a drink! – And do not wait for Leonidas, he drank to the bottom of his brandy.
– Alexei lastly at what you have in mind?
Yes, the one that is here now with these implants, I certainly will trample the army. – With sadness in his voice began to speak compassionately General. Leonid realized that the general waiting comforting words which he shall speak Leonid.
– Alexei, and I think that our business is not quite so bad.
– How so? – In the voice of General flashed hope.
– The fact is that in the material world in which we live, this highly developed civilization, no miracles! Everything is subject to the laws of the material world. It may be that we have and some do not own, but the fact that it is so I do not doubt for a minute. So we can conclude that this fact brings us together, it is time. – Leonid slowly put down his glass filled with green felt table at the General.
– Secondly, if the stranger could read our minds, then the hell, I’m sorry, hell, he would take us to implant these implants? – With these words the general’s eyes glistened:
– So it turns out that we can not be afraid of these implants is not that we are listening to say anything?
It turns out, that is!
– So it’s a different matter and put things on its head. We then there is no need at all to hide our thoughts and reasoning, and indeed openly talking about our projects.
– With the exception of one!
– Well, tell me!
– Except for the fact that none of those present did not have these implants implanted themselves and their did not have nowhere in the room or in the air or near places where the discussion is conducted our secrets and secret projects.
Well, you, Leon done, you literally pulled me out of retirement, I was about to serve. – Garin was kindled spirit, corked bottle of brandy and put back in the safe.
– We are still with you Alexei povoyuem.
– Tomorrow I will write a report to the Academic Council of the problem, and then together we will decide what action can be taken on the problem. That’s it, my friend, for decades to ignore their presence. As the saying goes until roasted cock in ass Russian guy does not bite man does not scratch his!
Yes, it’s true! But you also know that the presence of the higher ones in general and in academic circles close to the government, is not it?
– Did son, and ignored, arguing that they do not interfere in our affairs, ignoring the fact that the company is mass kidnappings of them. Ignoring the fact that the interference is inexcusable in our airspace and in the airspace of other countries, other facts and other interventions. And now these implants here! – He looked at a glass filled with Leonidas, untouched by them. Picked it up and threw it in the water dispenser in the bathroom that was graceful for having driven there from the door of the cabinet. When the general returned from Leonid told his wife on his cell phone, which insisted to speak with Alexei Alexeyevich.
– Anya asks you to want to talk about! – Leonid gave smarfon general.
– A, Anna, hello, darling! How’s my godson is faring? Excellent! – He paused, listening to what Anya says – Yes, he’s here in my office. And yesterday we had a few drinks, well, Anushka since you forgive him, I promise! – General made another pause – then said – well I let go of it! – Ending the conversation, he handed over to Leonid up, saying this:
– Asked me to tell you to finally went to Elsa Edwardovna, promise! – His laughing eyes and a kind smile, decorated with full and round face general.
– Yes, Comrade General, perform!
From General Leonid came out fresh and brisk pace, heading to the hostel for a gift Elsa Edwardovna. After earning her mobile phone, soon heard her voice:
– Yes! I’m listening!
– It’s Leonid! Hello Aunt Elsa!
– Yes! Hello, Lenichka! Anya called me yesterday, asking about you!
– I’ve brought you something from Anya.
Well, why? I’ve only got here so full, nowhere to go!
– Elsa Eduardovna, there is such a thing, well, how would you test Anya rents.
– And, of course, a different matter!
– Mind dawned a bit of free time and I have finally been able to visit you. If you can, then I’ll come back tomorrow morning.
Yes, yes, of course, when you Lenichka wish. I’ll be waiting.
– Well then, see you tomorrow!
– See you tomorrow, Lenichka!
Leonid, ending the conversation was already on the steps of the hostel. He walked into the lobby and quickly rose to his third floor. Entered the room and, left, at last, for a single, long look in the mirror in the bathroom. From yesterday’s overly drunk face was gray, rumpled, nestled wrinkles that ran from the corners of his eyes and fanned fleeing at the temples. Mieszko sagging triangle pointing downwards, his eyes bleary look splashes missing eye- «What a mess! – He thought – It is necessary to wash your hair and get a good sleep!»
He undressed and got under the jet of warm shower, gently lifting his bandaged left hand, trying not to let water soaked bandage flies away from the body spray. Soaping his right hand, the hair on his head, he washed the foam shower, then the right hand ter head. Having washed, felt relieved, as if a stone had fallen from his shoulders. He was easy and relaxed. He put on his robe, came out of the bathroom and climbed into bed under the covers, instantly fell asleep. Wall clock at that time showed 19- 00…
Chapter 5
The air spring breeze blew. On the 25th of April, when Leonid flew home to birthday Dima, after seven days. Today has come May 1, the last month of spring and the day of solidarity of all workers around the world, as in the great and mighty Soviet Union used to be called this wonderful celebration of spring. But today, it was an ordinary spring day. Green young leaves are already on the trees of the park adjacent to the rehabilitation center. And the sun has had time to warm the air. Birds on poplar trees and sang all the voices, nesting and romping in their nests. Everywhere seething life and noise and clamor of birds voices was heard all over the place and in the open window of the room where still sleeping Leonid. When a ray of sunlight fell not his bed and face, Leonid frowned and opened his eyes. The clock was already 8- 00.
«Wow, he thought» – he never slept so «late», always get up at seven in the morning sometimes six.
Charging, shower room, dining room. This schedule has been led in the service and he tried to stick to this today.
And now, with the dining room, he walked with his weighty leather briefcase in hand to Elsa Edwardovna. It was ten in the morning. The sun was shining spring- friendly and happy, and breathing in the fresh scent of spring, crisp and tight springy step he walked up to the gate house in which lived Aunt Elsa. Heart skipped a beat in bondage, when he looked at the house next door, where it once lived Anya. It seemed that she’s come out of the house, such as the young and beautiful in its self- consciously innocent feminine girl’s pristine beauty, cling to it elastic chest and nipples will plunge into a riot of sensual bliss and infinite desire to kiss her heavenly features. Infinitely inhale the scent of her hair and love, love, love this and not the earth the beauty of his only girl born on the planet Earth. He wanted to searing pain to her home, so cherished and so far now. After all, it’s only been seven days of his release, he had every right to have legal seventeen days. And pressing the bell at the front door of the house Auntie Elsa, he decided that after a visit to her, try to negotiate with Garinovym to continue his vacation. And again, like the first time, stir in the window curtain. But, this time, Elsa Eduardovna opened the door and let in a guest house. At Elsa eduardovny he did not stay long. POGOST with half an hour and citing urgent business, Leonid was walking along the highway fast and springy step towards the rehabilitation center. On the way, he dialed number Garinova.
– Yes! Garin on the phone!
– Alexei is Krazimov, hello!
Yes, hello, I listen to you, Leon!
– I have seventeen more days of vacation! Can it get?
– I think I can! I was just preparing a report about all this. The Academic Council will proc before make a decision. You look and seventeen days of your holiday and end. So that after the holidays, waiting for the service!
– Thank you, Alexey!
– Give my godson!
– Be sure to pass. I want to say that I have all things with you, I can go to the hostel.
Well, if it’s all right, I’ll tell the commandant that you are not urgent and turndown of the case, so that the act, fly home. By the way after thirty minutes the helicopter flies off our service to the airport, hurry up. If you need emergency care will be there, dial me!
– Thank you!
– Good luck! – And short tones on the handset.
On the highway at breakneck speed towards raced taxi cab driver is clearly in a hurry. Leonid realized that it is a gift of fate and, without hesitation, went out into the street with his hands up, they say, zdayus and that’s it. The taxi driver started beeping incessantly and pulled up at the feet of Leonidas. White as the wall in anger, the cab driver jumped out of the car, cursing swearing, lashed out at Leonidas, as his worst enemy:
– You do that and re so tired of life, you’re kind of a goat! – Leonid quietly listened to all this by saying:
– I urgently need for our launch site.
– I am deeply nachhat where you need it, I know that I urgently need to call, and if I am because of you heathens pluck the challenge, then you will not find life honey, okay! – Leonid and raised an eyebrow:
– My helicopter will fly over twenty- five minutes! If you do not help me, then I will lose my day.
– Yes, I do not care what day you lose!
– Well, be a man – do not give up, Leonid – one hundred dollars be enough?
Since then, we had to start! Sit down! – Instantly agreed to the taxi driver if possible, good pay…
Board techniques already closed the door MI- 6, when the taxi pulled up to the machine. The technician reluctantly opened the door:
– We have a complete set of service loads. You get nowhere! – Leonid advance another entrance to the helicopter dialed the number of General Garinova:
– Wait, take the phone! – Leonid gave his technique smarfon. He reluctantly picked up, put it to his ear, and then disappeared into the cabin of the helicopter, the screws which are gaining momentum, getting ready to lift the machine into the air. Tech did not have a moment, and then he appeared in the doorway, red as a lobster, started down the ladder addl. According to him, Leonid climbed into the cabin:
– Uh, kind, and the phone? – The side of the technician slowly, pulled the ladder into the cabin, hooked it right at the wall, slammed the door. At this time, Leonid watched a round glass window of the taxi drove off the fence helicopter launch pad. The noise of helicopter blades grew with each passing moment. Finally technician aboard deigned to pay attention to the passenger, who was sitting on a plywood box, among the piles of cargo.
– Here’s your phone, take! – Over the noise of running engines, said aloud techniques – And that Lt. Gen. Garin your relative? – Somehow ingratiating, or enviously asked techniques. Leonid not found an answer as soon as a:
– Colleague! – A technician looked up in surprise Leonidas. Then timidly looked down and mumbled,
– Sorry for the service!
Yes, that really there, serve yet! – Indulgently humorous said Leonid board technology, which is the whole flight did not take his eyes off his passenger who is not so well prisluzhil, apparently assuming that it is a general, but from Moscow, which kind of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. Since Leonid was dressed in civilian, then the insignia on it was not.
In Moscow, Leonid arrived late at night. He specifically called and reported his arrival. And when in the morning at the apartment door bell rang Krazimovyh, Anya barely opened his sleepy eyes and walked to the front door, carefully looking at the sight stekoltse. Then, in the excitement of shaking hands, quickly became a pick locks, and more in a moment they stood, arms around each other in the hallway apartment. Broke away from the kiss, Anya looked around in surprise and her husband, noticing the bandage on his left hand, exclaimed:
– What’s that?
– A real gangster shot! – Half- jokingly half seriously, he said. Anna glanced suspiciously at the bandage:
– It’s time to change, look how stained bandage!
Bint was really dirty with a dirty cover, which was nestled in the cargo cabin of the helicopter, and two sites was black with soot.
– It’s a way of Trivia!
– Go to the bathroom, and I will prepare the dressing and peroxide!
Having washed, refreshed and cheerful Leonid came out of the bathroom. Anya immediately seated man on a chair at the kitchen table and began to gently unwind the bandage on his arm. After making a few skeins of brown stain appeared gore, which is clearly permeated several layers of bandage until his hands. After removing the bandage, Anya looked up in surprise at the Leonid:
– Are you kidding me? Yes?
Leonid carefully examined his hand, traces the wound was not there.
– Anne, you would not believe, that from this place the implant was removed! Just the day before yesterday! And today, the cut was gone!
Anya subsided, surprised and cautiously looked at the place on the hand, which pointed Leonid:
– That’s what I believe! What a fool I am, or what? It can not be, I’m talking to you as a doctor!
In general, on the forehead and ear lobes removed from the entire two implants!
– I will not believe until you give him a call.
Well, Anna, well, tell me, why would I lie to you?
Yeah do not why. I’m sorry, Leon, I just perenervnichala because of your silence and believe still can not, you’re already at home with me!
You know, Anna, went to bed!
– Come on, dear! – Trying not to make a noise that would not wake the baby, they quietly snuck past the child’s room into the bedroom, and finally left alone with yourself, with your love and rough delight the senses…
Lt. Gen. Garin in the Academic Council, which was held in the hall of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow, the platform gave a report on the intervention of the controlling Mankind advanced civilizations. The Council was held in the utmost secrecy, and all that happened there, did not have the right to be publicized.
– Dear representatives of science. We obtained a unique material supporting the intervention highly developed creatures of the universe in our study … – he said, showing a record flight of Colonel Krazimova in anomalous zone, how and why adjustments have been made in controlling the trajectory of the flight of an advanced civilization. Showed footage of the ship Leonid dialogue with the guest. And demonstrated implants seized their body and his Leonidas, by which aliens control not only the thoughts of the people but are constant surveillance of their activities, for research in particular. And ended his speech with the words:
– Dear Council, due to the extremely dangerous development experiments with torsion fields, as a consequence of the emergence of an unpredictable chain reaction absorption of space matter, I highly recommend it to freeze the direction of science and more to these experiments for any reason not to go back! – He was done, came down from the podium and took his seat. The room fell silent.
Took the floor Academician Glushko Peter S.:
– I can say my father and theoretician of this trend, strongly protest against the collapse of studies and experiments with torsion fields. Let me remind you that we were given the torsion fields, is the transmission of a signal anywhere in the universe instantaneously. For example, the radio signal from the surface of the moon comes in ten minutes, of course, you, dear Council know about it, using the torsion fields, the signal reaches the surface instantly. Yes, all our robots on planets of the solar system are controlled and transmit images from other planets using the torsion signal. In addition, we have a strong protection against the spread of contagion. And in the conclusion of his brief protest officially declare that it is my duty and continue to insist on this research and experimentation…
Universal suffrage, seven to six, decided to continue the study, achieving better materialization of space objects gone there. This decision was made by Garin again, trying to protest and call on High Council of reason and end of the study. But the Council has not listened to him. Then he made a last attempt:
– Dear tip if you think that these barbaric experiments should continue, then I, as an honest man I want to ask Dear Board to accept my resignation.
To which a unanimous vote of the Academic Council expressed the view that against the dismissal of the doctor of physical and mathematical sciences, professor of the Academy of Sciences, General Lieutenant Space Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Alexei Garinova not mind. Now everything depended on the general, he will submit his resignation, the resignation will take place, for this is the will of the Council of Scientists. Do not give, will work on, but in the direction against which he so strongly advocated.
The Academic Council also adopted a decision on the intervention Inna advanced civilizations in the affairs of the earth. That issue was simply ignored by the Council, and only suggested that this trend will remain on the conscience let enthusiast amateurs, serious science which does not take seriously. Depressed and frustrated feelings, the general left the Council. From the Academy he went 23- 00 in the evening and in the police car, which highlighted the Academy of Sciences of each of the 13 members of the Academic Council, went to the house where they lived Krazimovy. There would have waited for him, and Peter Leonid Sobinov, what news will bring with them a general…
The car was the streets of Moscow, among the glittering lights of windows, night clubs and cafes. Moscow at that late hour was still awake, still seething life, strolling the sidewalks were filled with young people. From everywhere came the sound of pop music and incendiary rock. Protorchala in traffic broken half an hour, the car finally pulled away to direct the flow of vehicles and, after about twenty minutes, drove to the house where lived on the twelfth floor Krazimovy.
– You can go! – Throwing the driver out of the car Garin.
– Comrade General, and tomorrow, what are your orders? – Sticking his head, shouted after the driver.
– By six in the morning at the entrance! – Turning in half- turned, posted Krazimov – You are now no longer needed! Thank you for your service! – And disappeared into the stairwell.
The driver slammed into the hearts of the car door, muttering:
– I could, and to get some sleep, so no to six in the morning! And, I would say that was stuck in a traffic jam, in which case! – Volga and utility, making a circle, turning, drove off home.
Concierge, seeing the military generals in clothes, stood up in his box at attention, like a former military retired, then, embarrassed, sat down in his place. The general smiled warmly and walked to the elevator.
The general smiled warmly and approached the elevator.
When Garinov phoned the Krazimov’s’ apartment, it was 23 hours and 50 minutes. Anya opened to him.