It took Yelena no time at all to seal the deal. Her Russian connection predictably meant barely anything since the protection deal with the Russian fleet was essentially sealed from the money they offered. Xia Lei generously handed out six million US dollars to the captain, one million each for all six of them.

After receiving the six-million-dollar deposit, the captain of the Russian destroyer boasted that any infiltration on the ship would mean war!

Aboard the ship, Xia Lei requested a laptop and some lead material from an officer named Ivanovic. 

Xia Lei’s request naturally caught Ivanovic off guard. Suspicious of the pairing of his demands, Ivanovic proceeded to interrogate, “For the laptop, I can give you a military-grade standard, but why the raw lead material? What do you want to do with it? What do you have with you?”

Xia Lei reassured, “Captain sir, rest assured. I have no nuclear ingredients in my possession or any radioactive materials. If my words don’t sound convincing enough feel free to do a nuclear detection test on us.”

“For security precautions, I have to.”...