After giving the waiter a purchase, Yakov closed the door and was about to ask Xu Changqing what instructions he had, but Xu Changqing spoke first and said, "Did you feel something was wrong when you entered the hotel?"

"What's wrong?" Yakov was stunned for a moment, recalled the situation before, shook his head, and said, "There is nothing wrong? This place is like a normal hotel. Have you discovered something?"

"Didn't you notice it yet? You said now that this place is the same as the usual hotel. ◇↓◇↓ Novel.￥f" Xu Changqing woke up the other party and said, "It is not the peak tourist season, and the situation in Zagreb is so chaotic. Like what we encounter today, I'm afraid it happens frequently during this period, so there shouldn't be so many foreigners with status gather here. Now there are at least twenty big people who are not rich or noble in the hotel reception hall. This is still outside, and there are probably more than a dozen or twenty in the room. The Sunset Hotel is almost full. According to the information about Sunset Hotel I have seen, even when the business is at its best, the occupancy rate is not so high."

"It's true that something is wrong." After Xu Changqing's reminder, Yakov quickly realized the wrong thing. He thought for a while and asked, "Why should I go out and ask about the situation?"

Xu Changqing nodded and said, "Okay! Maybe you can find out some interesting things."

Yakov exited the room. Not long after, a waiter knocked on the door of Xu Changqing's suite and handed over the local intelligence that Yakov had just asked the members of the security committee through a code word to Xu Changqing.

Although the Sunset Hotel is a stronghold outside the Soviet Security Council, most of the people working here are not agents of the Security Council. Only a few senior managers, like the front desk manager, are real agents. In order to protect these hard-built strongholds, such resident front-line agents generally do not directly contact the agents who come here to perform their missions, so as to avoid being involved in any accidents and destroying the stable stronghold that was finally established.

Xu Changqing returned to the living room and spread out the two local morning newspapers in his hand. He had two pieces of paper in the morning newspaper. The paper was filled with some digits of varying sizes, and each number was separated by different words in languages ​​such as Greek, Latin, Russian and English.

Through the intelligence reading method obtained from Selov, Xu Changqing easily converted various numbers and words on the paper into simple intelligence data. Through these intelligence data, Xu Changqing easily grasped the general state of Zagreb.

It is not difficult to see from the intelligence that the municipal government that appeared in Zagreb has lost control of the situation. The Croats began to secretly exclude local Serbian officials from the outside. The confrontation on the official side has become semi-public, and the gang forces in the darkness of the city have also appeared in a confrontation. In short, Zagreb is just a word, chaos.

However, even though Zagreb is already in chaos, neither government officials nor gang leaders seem to be willing to expand the conflict and keep the situation as much as possible, because they know very well that if Zagreb is really in chaos, then Yugoslavia will inevitably intervene, the Soviet Union will not stand idly, and Western countries will not watch the Soviet Union destroy the anti-Soviet forces they had finally created and agitated, and naturally they will intervene. By then, let alone those gang leaders and local officials, even those with higher powers will not resist these external exploitation. Zagreb will no longer be their city in the end, which is also the result they will never want to see.

After reading the information, Xu Changqing waved his hand casually, exhaled a secret force in his palm, swept the newspaper and password list on the table into debris, and flew into the air with the force of the palm wind, and fell into the trash can on the side.

Although the information is very rich, Xu Changqing can easily understand the situation in Zagreb, but this information does not have what Xu Changqing wants, such as why so many powerful people who are not rich or noble gathered in the hotel, and how many killers and agents who tried to assassinate Vera were hidden in the city of Zagreb, etc.

Xu Changqing did not think that the hotel manager deliberately concealed this information, because the code shown by Yakov showed that his identity level was very high, and the hotel manager absolutely did not have the courage to do such a stupid thing that would definitely be held accountable afterwards. So it could only be that the Sunset Hotel is a stronghold, and it could only collect information from major forces that can influence the situation in Croatia in a targeted manner. As for other matters, they could only temporarily put them aside.

How would the struggle between Croatia develop and other things mean nothing to Xu Changqing. He quickly cleared the information from his mind, took out a bottle of wine from the living room wine cabinet, went to the balcony outside, sat on a chair, poured himself and drank himself while looking at the scenery of the Sava River in the distance, relaxing and enjoying the rare tranquility.

When the sun completely sank into the western horizon and the moon hangs high in the sky, Yakov returned to the villa suite, but his face was a little unsightly at the moment, as if he was angry about why things happened.

"Idiots! A bunch of idiots!" After Yakov entered the house, he couldn't help but curse to himself.

"What's wrong?" Xu Changqing frowned slightly, curious about what made Yakov so calm and so lose his composure.

Yakov poured a glass of water and poured it into his stomach. It seemed as if extinguishing the anger in his heart. After a long breath of turbid air, he gradually calmed down, but his face was still gloomy, and hesitated for a moment, and said, "This matter is an internal matter of the Security Committee, and it also has something to do with us. Since Selov deliberately leaked the news that Vera had turned to us, Western countries have photographed more agents in Italy, and we have fallen at a disadvantage in Italy.

The idiot in charge of things in this area did not ask for help from the headquarters, but most of the Yugoslavia's personnel were dispatched to Italy. Now the stalemate in Italy is in stalemate, and the Yugoslav government just took this opportunity to use the people in the west to clear out the strongholds we had built before one by one. Our power here has almost retreated for twenty years. The Sunset Hotel is pretty good and has not been exposed. Otherwise, we would not find a safe place to find today."

"So that's it. No wonder the information I got was so one-sided." Xu Changqing nodded suddenly, without expressing his opinion.

Although Yakov had broken off relations with the Soviet Security Committee and was completely adapted to Xu Changqing's identity, he was still very concerned about the Soviet Union and the affairs of the Security Committee. He was also responsible for the establishment of some frontline agents at that time, and he also participated in the establishment of strongholds in Yugoslavia. Now that he saw the results of his hard work and was destroyed by a stupid colleague, how could he not be angry? If the idiot who made this dispatch decision stood in front of him, he would burn him to death with magma without hesitation.

After complaining for a while, Yakov's anger disappeared a lot. Although he was still very worried about the current situation in Yugoslavia, the saying that he was not in his position and did not plan his politics was very appropriate. He was not qualified to interfere in this matter at all, and could only be a bystander.

"Oh!" Yakov, who was thinking of his situation, sighed heavily, shook his head helplessly, ignored the matter that made him angry, and instead reported to Xu Changqing what he had found, saying: "The hotels in Zagreb have almost been filled with people these days. Most of these people are members of large European and American families, and there are also some representatives of wealthy people and powerful people. Their purpose of coming here is mainly to hold an underground auction at Lady Erin's Manor tomorrow night."

"Underground Auction?" Xu Changqing was stunned for a moment. He did not expect that the reason why so many powerful people gathered here was actually an underground auction. So he asked curiously: "I think the items in this auction should be extremely precious, right? Otherwise, these people would not have come to Zagreb, a small town sandwiched in the middle when the situation in the east and west is so tense."

"I'm not very clear about this. According to the rules of underground auctions, the specific list of items will only be taken out when the auction begins," Yakov shook his head and explained: "However, the power to hold this auction is not simple. They claim to be the Temple of Wealth, which first appeared during World War II. At that time, they mainly helped the Jews sell their property and fled Europe. Later, their business expanded to all European powerful people who wanted to escape from the battlefield. This also allowed them to accumulate a large number of rare collections from ancient European families and forces in a short period of time, but most of these collections were shady. After the war, they held three underground auctions, and each time they could take out something that was touching, such as once, a complete Shakespeare manuscript."

Xu Changqing said with interest: "This is worth a look, maybe there will be some surprises."

"This may be a bit troublesome!" Yakov said a little embarrassedly: "Attending the auction requires a special invitation. Even if others arrive at the venue of the auction, they will not be able to enter the auction site."

Xu Changqing asked, "What's going on?"

"According to the experience I have heard from people who have attended the auction," Yakov said in a deep voice: "The real location of the underground auction is not actually the venue, because after they arrive at the auction site, they will be blindfolded and then go to another underground palace-like place. The time there seems to be a bit strange. It is obviously night outside, and it is dark there. It is obviously staying there for a few hours, and it only takes more than ten minutes after they come out."

"Is there such a thing?" Xu Changqing became more interested. He seemed to think of something and his eyes lit up slightly, and then he smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if there is no invitation letter. Let's make one by ourselves. You can go to the person in charge here to ask, who has the invitation letter in the hands of the guests who are staying in, and we will still make one when we borrow it?" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!