“Well, well, well, I wonder what significant event has brought you all the way here?”Vasili asked, dressed in formal attire as he guided Lanok to the center sofa inside his barracks. “Would you like some Vodka?”

“Why not?” Lanok accepted.

They were currently in a Russian air force base in Vladivostok. Lanok crossed his long legs and sat back on the sofa.

“Here, your cigar! And the ever important…” Vasili trailed off as he pushed a box of cigars toward Lanok and poured some vodka into a wine glass. Lanok stretched his hand out for the cigar first.

Click. 

“Haah!” he exhaled the smoke in the air.

“I’m sure you didn’t come here despite the long trip just because Suo Ke died. And I’m certain it isn’t because you missed me, either,” Vasili said through his thin lips as he awaited Lanok’s response with amusement.

“I hope you can hurry along with all the compensation that has to be made, Vasili. Everyone is too intricately knotted up right now. And there is something suspicious about China,”...