East Berlin's June Boat Song

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In front of us was a gray building, overlooking us like a giant in the night. The neat windows were pitch-black, and none of them were lit.I wondered that there was such a place in Karlshorst, and Sonia thoughtfully explained that it was an apartment that had been abandoned for a long time.

"Look, it's a dangerous building." Sonia pointed to the gap in the wall of the stairwell and said.

As I climbed the stairs, I asked out of breath and doubts: "Then what are you doing here?"

Sonia winked at me slyly: "Destroy."

My eyes widened: "Destroy? What is this?"

"Okay, little Rhine, stop asking questions, you'll find out when you go up! Let's go to the rooftop."

Sonia hopped up the stairs like a little rabbit, and I could only keep up with it. When I reached the top floor of the tenth floor, I was out of breath.

"This can't be done, my physical strength is so weak."

Sonia took the wooden box from me, threw it on the ground, squatted down and stroked the smooth surface of the wooden box, and smiled lingeringly.As soon as I was blown by the cool night wind, I suddenly became refreshed.It is very high here, overlooking the whole of Karlshorst, brightly lit, military vehicles passing by, and the white mansion under the shadow of plane trees can be seen from a distance.

"What is this? Sonia?" I crouched beside her and asked after recovering.

Sonia's eyelashes trembled slightly, whether it was because of Xia Feng or something else.

"Want to know?" She raised her eyes to look at me softly, pursed her lips and smiled lightly, her eyes were moist.

I nodded in a daze.

"Then open it and have a look." She curled up her fingers and tapped, and said, "Open it."

I frowned, feeling uneasy in my heart, I caressed the edge of the wooden box, then unscrewed the lock and lifted the lid.

In the next second, my eyes widened.

It's a... wiretapping device, with reels of packaged... tapes?

I looked at Sonia in shock, Sonia just took out a small bottle of gasoline from her waist and poured it on the box with a blank face, and then threw a match that could be ignited.

With a bang, the flames burst into flames and thick smoke billowed.

Surprised, I looked up at her.

Sonia had already stood up and walked slowly towards the edge of the roof. She smiled and lit a cigarette.

"Sonia, what do you mean?"

"Can't you recognize what this is?" She took a puff of cigarette tremblingly, and said with twitching corners of her mouth, "Didn't he tell you?"

"What?" I stood up and looked at her puzzled.

She closed her eyes, shaking her head in disbelief, tears streaming down her face.

"Didn't he tell you that it was me who eavesdropped on him?"

"Did he not tell you that I was the one who assassinated you that time?"

I took a step back in horror and nearly staggered and fell.

"Why... Sonia, don't scare me, don't lie to me, what does this mean? I don't understand..."

"What don't you understand? I abandoned my friendship with him and have been helping Yevgeny eavesdrop on him." She looked away, not daring to meet mine.

"No. Yevgeny said, you are helping us hide..." I stepped forward, but she backed away again, and I couldn't help but stop.

"Yes, I'm helping you hide it, but I can't hide it anymore, Yevgeny still knows everything."

"But, but why are you?" I was so sad, "Do you love Evgeny?"

"Love?" Sonia smiled sarcastically, "I only hate him, and he has never had feelings for me, Rhine, my father is a senior professor at Dzerzhinsky High School, do you understand what this means? I... I'm a... KGB too!"

Sonia sobbed in pain: "I was sent to monitor him for more than ten years! I lied to Julian for more than ten years!"

"But do you think I am willing?! But who can really decide for themselves! For so many years, I have seen you two make fake plays, and listened to everything that happened in the piano room countless times. I am both envious and afraid , What should he do, what should you do, I have lied to Yevgeny about the monitoring content countless times, and I have lost his trust long ago, and Julian...Julian was investigating who actually assassinated you , I must have known that it was me, so I didn't investigate further..."

"Sonia..." I shook my head in pain, feeling that everything was ridiculous.

Sonia burst into tears suddenly, her fingers holding the cigarette were trembling, she simply dropped the cigarette, walked towards me bitterly, and hugged me.

She began to wail, bordering on hysterical.

"Rhein! I'm sorry for you! But I really can't help it. Both of them have lost their heads because of you. They are completely crazy! I see you are all in so much pain, I really don't know what to do... At that time, the KGB had already given up on you, and they wanted to eliminate you, but Julian and Sasha tried their best to hold you down and put you in an underground prison, saying that you were still useful, and trying to find value for you! God Ah, Sasha was crying so sad at that time, he wanted to kill you again to hurt you! Julian couldn't sleep all night, and he was crying alone in the piano room... My heart is about to break , I'm so helpless, I'm so desperate, I thought about letting you out secretly, run away by yourself, and never come back again, but, but..."

"It turns out that you opened the door..."

"Yes, it was me and that George. I thought at the time, if you leave, everything will be over! But you were detained by Yevgeny, and then you came back again, Rhine, what do you want me to do! Xie Er Guy is dead, I only have Julian and Sasha, I can't watch them go crazy for you, lose their minds for you, do you know how many people put them to death?"

"Rhein...I'm sorry for you, I was crazy at the time, and I wanted to kill you...God, I regret that moment all the time! You suffered so much, So many sins..."

Her voice seemed to be torn apart, and she couldn't stand still when she was crying. I hugged her slender and soft body tightly, but I felt like I was about to collapse on the ground.

"Sonia, what do you want me to do..."

I kissed her wet cheek painfully, but Sonia broke away from my arms and put on a sad smile.

"Rhein, do you know? People need support to survive. During the war, I lost everything, only Sasha and Julian, but then Sasha also left, so in this world, only Julian can support me to survive. But I was sorry for him and hurt him, but he always knew about it and even carefully maintained the relationship between you and me."

"Because he knows that you have no malice... You are also helpless, Sonia, my good Sonia, why do you keep retreating? It is dangerous over there, Sonia, come here."

"Line, let me tell you what I know."

She smiled calmly, but couldn't restrain her excitement, her smile gradually became distorted and deformed.

"Many years ago, they didn't want Julian to stay in Berlin anymore, because he sat in this position for too long, which was scary. But he refused to leave, because he knew that if he left, you were finished. The KGB has no reason to let you go, he stayed for you!"

"Then they wanted to take the credit for solving the Berlin crisis out of his hands, and tried every means to find him. Because once he solves the Berlin crisis, his prestige will increase, and it will be more difficult for them to move him."

"But then Julian took it down hard, but so what? He thought he built that wall, that he could put pressure on Shelepin, and that completing the performance in Berlin would make them restrain themselves. But I tell you , They changed their way a long time ago, they knew your relationship well, they deliberately asked Yevgeny to do all that, and even treated Yevgeny as an outcast and let him lose his life, Yevgeny could leave that day, but he He didn't leave, he was waiting for Julian to kill him, even if Julian didn't kill him, he would commit suicide and plant it on Julian. They have calculated clearly! No one can escape!"

"They... have no evidence..." I was so frightened that I couldn't close my jaw, trembling helplessly, I stared at Sonia in panic.

"Yes, they have no evidence, but they will find out sooner or later. They are not moving him now because they need him to finish repairing the wall and then settle the accounts. Do you understand? Shelepin is already on the same side as Khrushchev On the front line, pressure? How much pressure can he exert? So what if the wall is built and the crisis is resolved? He committed a crime of homosexuality, seriously violated military law, and even killed a KGB colonel! Julian is now in a daze for you, for You've lost your mind, who do you think you're fighting against? Khrushchev? The Soviet Union?"

Sonia rebuked impassionedly: "You are fighting against this era! You are destined to lose, and you will lose to pieces!"

Her chest heaved violently, she stared deeply at me, her expression became mournful again, and she said softly: "And I, Sonia Dounechka, your friend, will save you in my own way."

Under my shocked gaze, Sonia tore off her military cap, let loose her long, smooth hair, unbuttoned her military uniform, opened her collar, and even exposed her underwear.The snow-white chest hurt my eyes, I didn't know what she was going to do, I only knew that if she stepped back like this, she would fall down the stairs.I hurried forward to grab her, but she quickly pulled out her gun and fired two bullets at my feet, forcing me to take a few steps back.

"Sonia!" I woke up instantly, gritted my teeth and said fiercely, "Come back!"

"No." Sonia shook her head sadly and smiled softly: "That's why I came here. My dear, I have sent the file to Lubyanka and it has almost been received now. You killed Yevgeny, yes You killed him because you couldn't wish for me, and I will be pushed downstairs by you after refusing your courtship. Rhine, run away! Run away before the wall is repaired, you can't play them with tricks, but Sa Sha handed over everything in the Second General Bureau to you, you still have a chance to survive if you escape, but Julian has nothing to do with all of this, you can all survive."

I was so terrified that I forgot to breathe, I only felt that my eyes were dark, and in a trance, Sonia had already stood on the edge of the steps.The night wind blew, and the long golden hair fluttered in the deep night, dreamy and charming, she looked down at me like a virgin, the two tears were shining with silver light, and her red lips fluttered, she said softly: "Rhein, forgive me , because I love you deeply..."

She slowly opened her hands and closed her eyes.

I forgot how I rushed forward, but only missed.My mournful howling echoed in this dangerous building, and I watched Sonia hit the cold concrete floor like a bird with broken wings, blood spreading, and her smile was fixed on the messy body.

Reaching down in despair, I couldn't make any sound at all.

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PS: It is recommended to read back the relevant chapters where Sonia went to prison to visit Rhine, and what Rhine said when he was shot down by Yevgeny when he ran away.

Shelepin was considered an upright person in history, so Julian held the expectation that he and Khrushchev would not side with each other.This is not written in the text, explain it here.But it doesn't affect the reading.