For Zhuang Yi, he had no choice and had no intention of coveting the so-called wealth left by Ivanov. He just wanted to return to China to retrieve the notepad and give it to Maxim in exchange for his wife.
child's safety.
But for Maxim, he concluded that Zhuang Yi had already known the secret in the notepad. On the surface, he came here to take his wife and children on a trip, but in fact it was just for Ivano.
The wealth left behind by her husband.
Otherwise, what would happen if you, a foreign tourist whose wife and children were just kidnapped, hurried back to the country instead of waiting for further information from the police to confirm their lives? This is not a typical case.
Did the police direct their thoughts towards themselves?
And Zhuang Yi's igniting the fire was undoubtedly drawing fire to Maxim, and even to the entire mercenary army under Maxim's command. This was something Maxim would never tolerate.
Even when Zhuang Yi proposed that he wanted to return to China to retrieve the notepad, Maxim felt that this was a threat from Zhuang Yi to him. He thought that Zhuang Yi was warning him. After all, the Russian police did not know about the kidnapping.
Who is the person, but Zhuang Yi knows it. Maxim thinks that Zhuang Yi’s implication is that if he does not let Zhuang Yi’s wife and children go, he will tell the police everything about the mercenaries with the mentality that they will both die together.
.
With the firepower of mercenaries, of course they will not be afraid of the Irkutsk police, but that will inevitably lead to action by the Russian military. Maxim is not arrogant enough to think that he can compete with the Russian military, even if he believes that
He can run away with the mercenaries, but the secret base he has operated for so many years will be destroyed in one day.
Even after calming down, Maxim believed that the possibility of Zhuang Yi threatening him was not great, but he and his group of subordinates felt a sense of humiliation. They believed that Zhuang Yi might not care about the lives of his wife and children.
Because time was passing by, the police were obviously at a loss to find Zhuang Yi's wife and children, but Zhuang Yi still refused to hand over the notepad. During this period, of course, Zhuang Yi also understood that he was not suitable for the time being.
He returned to China alone, so he called Maxim several times and asked Maxim to release his wife and children. He also promised that after returning to China, he would immediately take photos of all the contents in the notebook and send them to Maxim.
Tom, and repeatedly stated that all the contents in that notebook were just Ivanov's nostalgia for his former family.
Zhuang Yi didn't know that there was indeed a clue hidden in that notepad, and that clue directly pointed to a huge fortune.
Zhuang Yi told Cheng Yu that the huge fortune was the batch of diamonds he later obtained. However, when the incident occurred, he did not know the secret of the notepad at all, and naturally he did not know the existence of those diamonds.
Maxim, on the other hand, has determined that the secret about the diamond is hidden in the notepad, because Ivanov divided the clues about the diamond into two parts. Hidden in the notepad are clues that can be used to directly search for the diamond.
Before he died, he also gave Maxim a necklace. The pendant of the necklace was inlaid with a ruby. There was a very small micro negative hidden between the ruby and the silver base. Maxim took the
After the negatives were developed and enlarged, I learned that there were still such valuable diamonds.
The clues to obtaining these diamonds are hidden in the notepad that Ivanov gave to Zhuang Yi.
Ivanov also stated in the film that he did not tell Zhuang Yi about this, but Maxim had reason to believe that even if Zhuang Yi really didn't know what was hidden in the notepad, time would still tell him
Gradually discover the secret of Notepad.
Since Maxim himself discovered the secret in the necklace pendant accidentally, and the ruby accidentally fell off, he discovered the negative. He felt that Ivanov might have simply hidden the clues about the diamond.
In a certain interlayer of the notepad. He even clearly remembered that the notepad in Zhuang Yi's hand was a notepad with a plastic envelope, and the clue was probably simply hidden in the plastic envelope.
Once the plastic envelope is damaged, it is actually easy for Zhuang Yi to get the clue.
Maxim was already on the verge of madness with his desire to acquire huge wealth. Therefore, when Zhuang Yi said that he would take photos of all the words recorded in the notebook and send them to him, Maxim felt deeply humiliated.
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A member of the mercenary army said to Maxim: "Do you think that a woman and a little boy can really make Zhuang Yi give up such a large amount of wealth? What will happen to him after he has that money?
Can't find a woman? As long as he wants, he can let those women line up to give birth to a football team for him. Boss, I think our best choice is to kidnap Zhuang Yi directly, and rely on this woman and
It's useless for this little boy to threaten him. That's what I suggested to you from the beginning, but you still miss the brotherhood back then and don't want to attack Zhuang Yi directly. Now it seems that he has no brother to you.
As for feelings, I estimate that if he hadn't really obtained those diamonds, I'm afraid he would have left Russia by this time."
Maxim pondered deeply and said, "Do you think he hasn't got the diamonds yet?"
The man scratched his head and said: "Of course, it is also possible that he has already succeeded, but he has not yet thought of a better way to get those diamonds out of Russia. Russian customs cannot let him take away those diamonds so easily.
diamond."
Maxim was convinced of this.
And at this moment, he discovered that he could not contact Zhuang Yi.
Maxim didn't know that Zhuang Yi's visa was about to expire, and the Russian police obviously didn't have any clues. The embassy suggested that Zhuang Yi return to China first, and they would urge the Russian police to continue investigating the case.
In desperation, Zhuang Yi had no choice but to agree. He tried to contact Maxim again, but Maxim failed to receive his call.
At that time, Zhuang Yi's thinking was relatively simple. He decided to return to China first, get the notepad, then contact Maxim, and then tell him everything in the notepad. He believed that maybe in this way, Maxim would still
Spare his wife and children.
But what Zhuang Yi didn't understand was that after he returned to China, he could no longer contact Maxim. The phone number Maxim had left for him was completely unreachable.
Of course he didn't understand that after Maxim tried to contact Zhuang Yi but failed (actually because Zhuang Yi was sitting on the plane returning home and his phone was turned off), he sent someone to Irkutsk to check.
He discovered that Zhuang Yi had left Russia. This made him even more convinced that Zhuang Yi didn't care about the life and death of his wife and children. In anger, he killed Zhuang Yi's wife, but just as he was about to shoot Zhuang Yi's son,
While killing him, one of his men stopped him.
Worried that the secret base would be exposed, Maxim simply threw away the mobile phone he had used to contact Zhuang Yi, and used the shortest possible time to find another suitable employee in the Yablonov Mountains.
The entire mercenary army was moved to the valley of the military base.
Neither of them knew that due to a series of mistakes, they lost contact.
Zhuang Yi still doesn't know the life and death of his wife and children to this day. After Maxim killed his wife, he threw her body into the wilderness. No one could find such a female body in the mountains of Russia.
And Maxim didn't know that it took more than a year for Zhuang Yi to slowly stabilize his emotions from the grief of the disappearance or death of his wife and children. Then he remembered the notepad and found out about the batch of
The secret of diamonds.
Moreover, about two years later, Zhuang Yi found a suitable opportunity, went to Russia again, and finally obtained the batch of diamonds.
However, just as Maxim and his men thought, Zhuang Yi did not have the ability to bring the diamonds back to China. He just hid the diamonds somewhere on the shores of Lake Baikal.
Zhuang Yi said: "After I found the diamonds, I realized why Maxim was so crazy. This batch of diamonds is more than enough, whether it is used to continue to support his mercenaries or to provide settlement allowances to everyone after they are disbanded.
.Because there has been no news about my wife and children, I am not sure whether Maxim has killed them. I still have a last hope. So, I took the diamond to the base we used to have, but, there
Things have long since changed and everything is in ruins. Maybe Maxim really disbanded the mercenary army, or maybe he took those people and moved them to another place."
"If Maxim disbanded the mercenaries, he would definitely hide his name or even make a false identity for himself, right? You should understand that although the darknet is very powerful, it is not said to be powerful enough to help people in Europe or even the world.
You're looking for a desperado who is deliberately anonymous."
Zhuang Yi nodded heavily and said: "Of course I understand, so I don't have such extravagant hopes. When I went to the base of the Yablonov Mountains to look for them, I really thought that Maxim had dissolved the mercenary
But I also have the last bit of hope... Mr. Cheng, you should be able to understand my desire to have a life-saving straw, right?"
Cheng Yu nodded slightly and took a sip of wine to show his understanding.
"So, although I knew it was probably in vain, I still followed the style and habits of our team back then, as well as the general scope of activities, and continued to check the large and small related armed conflicts that occurred in Russia over the years.
News. Of course, most of these news cannot be found in normal media, but fortunately, the Internet and private media are developed enough now. As long as you are diligent enough, you can always find some clues."
Regarding this point, Cheng Yu also agreed. In the era of big data, even personal activities can often be hidden as long as they are intentional enough, let alone a mercenary army of more than 200 people?
"In the end, I found traces of Maxim. Although I am not sure where his base is now, I can confirm that he did not disband the mercenaries, but led those people through the most difficult period.
, is now considered a quite famous team in the European underground world. And, as far as I know, the size of his team is quite impressive. Unfortunately, I have tried to contact some European mercenaries, but regardless of my
No matter how high the price is, once the other party heard that they were going to kill Maxim's mercenaries, they all chose to give up without exception. My only hope is on the dark web."
"How do you know about the dark web? It's not all because of your guest's bragging, right?" Cheng Yu asked. He never believed that anyone would listen to the nonsense of a drunk guest.
"Actually, it was the advice they gave me when I came into contact with some mercenaries in Europe."
