Chapter 40 KGB Investigation (Part 2)

"Andrei, you must cooperate with the investigation of the comrades from the Second General Bureau." Kozhedub said with a smile. Although the person who came was only a major, they were from a powerful department, so even Kozhedub had to please them and gave up his own office to them.

"Commander Kozhedub, please go out first. I want to talk to Comrade Andrei alone." Major Shelov said.

The smile on Kozhidub's face froze instantly and turned ugly. He thought this was just an ordinary conversation and he could say a few words from the side, but now, he was ordered to leave.

"Yes, okay. I'll go out first." Kozhidub knew that he could not disturb the investigation of the Second General Bureau, so he consciously opened the door and walked out.

As the door behind him closed, Major Shelov's face remained serious. "Comrade Andrei, we have read your report and the descriptions of Commander Kozhedub and others about the general course of events. We have also studied your flight trajectory after you took off. We found that you were flying all the way to Hokkaido to search. All of this gave me the illusion that you had known in advance that Belenko was going to defect."

The KGB had a keen sense of smell like a police dog. When Andrei found out that Belenko was trying to escape, he became very anxious and flew his fighter plane towards the east after taking off. However, Major Shelov in front of him actually noticed the abnormality of Andrei's behavior.

How do you know that Belenko was flying eastwards and intending to defect to the island country?

"Belenko had complained about his dissatisfaction with our base and our entire system before," Andrei said. "I was not too vigilant at the time. This time, I was injured and hospitalized. After I came back, I found a map on the floor of the dormitory with several air force bases of the island countries marked on it. I realized the seriousness of the situation at that time. When I rushed to the control tower, I had already learned that Belenko's fighter plane had crashed. I judged that Belenko wanted to defect to the island country."

At this time, there is nothing to hide, and there is nothing unreasonable in the whole narrative process. The map is still in the dormitory, and the KGB people can check it.

Andrei looked at the people in front of him and felt uneasy. Could it be that these guys thought he was Belenko's accomplice? How could this be possible! He and Belenko were just living in the same dormitory, and now, it was he who discovered Belenko's defection and shot him down! How could he be Belenko's accomplice?

"Anything else?" Major Shelov continued.

Others? Andrei kept thinking, and suddenly a person appeared.

"Yes, before Belenko defected, he met a girl named Anne, who was a student in the Department of Geography at the University of Berlin. At that time, Belenko seemed to be in love with this girl." Andre continued: "This Anne is very suspicious. You should start with her."

In the past, Andrei felt that the appearance of Anne was too sudden, and he was worried that Anne was of great importance. But now, with Belenko's defection, Andrei always felt that Anne played a big role in promoting it and gave Belenko courage.

Otherwise...Andrei really couldn't believe that a young girl with a sexy body like Anne would fall in love with a gloomy guy like Belenko.

"Is this the man?" Major Shelov said, pulling out a photo.

When Andre saw the person in the photo, he was shocked. The person in the white tank top and blue jeans was Anne, whom he and Ekaterina had met yesterday, or the day before yesterday. Anne had even made Ekaterina drink two glasses of wine, looking very jealous, even though Andre had actually done nothing.

But now, the woman in the photo has a large pool of blood on her back and her face is covered in blood, so her features can no longer be seen. Judging from the scene behind her, she should be at the train station.

"Yes, it's her. Who killed her?" Andre asked.

"That's what we want to ask you," Major Shelov said. "At 3 o'clock this afternoon, one hour after you returned, this Berlin University student and her classmates were at the Vladivostok train station, preparing to take a train back to Berlin, when they were killed by a murderer using a silent pistol. The murderer took advantage of the panic of the crowd to escape."

Dead? The Americans are really more ruthless. Belenko was shot down by himself and failed to defect. At the same time, the mission of this girl named Annie also failed. Is the CIA so ruthless to abandon its pawns?

No, what does this have to do with me? Andre listened to the other party's tone, which had completely changed into an attitude of questioning himself.

"I don't know. It must have been done by the CIA." Andrei said, "Annie has been in frequent contact with Belenko recently. Now that Annie is dead, the Americans can completely shirk the blame."

"It's not just the Americans who want to shirk their responsibilities, right?" Shelov said, "Comrade Andrei, you were a hero we just established some time ago, but now we unfortunately see that you are a criminal who wants to betray our great country!"

"Comrade Shelov, you have to have evidence when you speak. If there is no evidence, you can't slander others and arbitrarily accuse them of crimes even if you are from the KGB, right?" Andrei said coldly.

Perhaps because he had only been in this world for a short time, Andrei was not that afraid of the KGB. He had spent all his energy and risked his life for the Soviet Union. Which of these actions did not show his loyalty to the Soviet Union? How could the other party want to slander him for treason?

The KGB gave Andre the impression that it was the Jinyiwei of the Ming Dynasty. Once it fell into their hands, any bizarre case would have an entirely unrealistic truth.

"We have investigated and found that the first people to come into contact with this Anne were not just Belenko, but Belenko and you, Captain Andrei. It was you two who met Anne by chance together." Shelov continued, "And the day before yesterday, before you were discharged from the hospital, you met Anne again, and then yesterday Belenko defected. In fact, this Anne not only instigated Belenko's defection, but also you, Captain Andrei. She originally instigated the two of you to defect to the West together!"

"What a joke! If I wanted to defect, why would I have shot down Belenko!" Andrei retorted. The other party's logic was extremely confusing.