Binary code Mystery number three. Artur Zadikyan

      Already on the airplane, returning from Switzerland to Moscow, thinking about the ZCD, Rutra recalled his conversation with Omni. He remembered a fragment when he came up and in parting said one more of his assumptions: "If you want to find any associates of Alikhanov, I can advise you to look for them among the discontented, for example, nationalists or anti-globalists, although it is difficult to suspect the scientist in this. Perhaps they have socialized in the past." Rutra remembered that they had said goodbye with a slight sense of mutual distrust. Ruthra decided to check this thread as well, since so much work had already been done. As the proverb says, what the heck.

      In a couple of hours, Zero had prepared an analysis of the conversations, travel routes, and veiled conversations of virtually all former and present scientists, military officers, intelligence officers, and persons with radical (and not so radical) nationalist statements, even if they were made in secret. From all the analysis, Rutra concluded that the most suspicious was that the most inconspicuous of them periodically visited abandoned military and especially significant Soviet-era sites, ostensibly to view the great achievements of the Soviet era. Additional analysis revealed that two sites were particularly active and secretive. These are the Kola ultra-deep well and the Protvino scientific center near Moscow, namely, a semi-abandoned ring tunnel 21 kilometers long, lying at a depth of 60 meters.

      First of all, Rutra decided to check Kola, since there were no reports about the "gathering" there from all the structures. Rutra logically decided that her "visitors" could not be homegrown underground fighters. Intuitively, Rutra realized that the case was worthwhile and should be taken seriously. First, he wanted to "inspect" the site.

      What was the well? The brain's "vault" gave out the following information: "The Kola ultra-deep well is the deepest in the world. Its depth is 12262 meters. It is located in the Murmansk region, 10 kilometers west of the town of Zapolyarny. The well was drilled in the northeastern part of the Baltic Shield solely for research purposes in the place where the lower boundary of the Earth's crust comes close to the Earth's surface. In the best years, 16 research laboratories worked at the Kola ultra-deep well, and they were personally supervised by the USSR Minister of Geology. In 2008 the facility was abandoned. The Kola ultra-deep well is associated with many improbable legends – about the "well to hell", from the bottom of which the screams of sinners are heard, and the drills are melted by the flames of hell".

      To get there with the group that was meeting there covertly, Rutra contacted Sergei, a GRU officer that Hent had recommended to him as an assistant; someone he had "worked" with on virtual reality operations. It was a real person from the OAM department. There was no time to investigate why Rutra didn't know that.

      Rutra did not hold general meetings, as was the rule at Zero. He didn't have time to do it because of his schedule, and the lists were controlled by the records department, whose head, an old, battle-hardened general, Rutra trusted completely. He shuffled the deck so that the staff of one department did not know who was in the other.

      According to the legend in this operation, Sergei was a radical oppositionist, a nationalist, so he very quickly introduced Rutra to "his own" as an ardent anti-Semite. According to the rules of the secret organization – no one in the subsequent chain of contacts should have known the real data of the new associate. He had to be introduced to his superiors by an active member of the brigade who had the right to recruit. This was done without the knowledge of the person being checked. After the new member was verified by his superiors, if he was approved as a member of the team, he was given a secret name, a legend of origin and activity. Rutra learned from Sergei that the "bosses" were interested in influential personalities, preferably connected with the special services or the military-industrial complex. Rutra was presented to them as an employee of the Foreign Intelligence Service, who, because of his patriotic and world outlook views, had fallen into disfavor with the command and was ready to support and help true patriots in saving the Motherland for the sake of liberating Russia from the "yoke of invaders". For this Rutre was invented a wonderful legend, which was not particularly different from the true one, as in post-Soviet Russia there were more than half of them. Namely – labor and political activity of his parents, associated with the Communist Party, the military past of his grandparents, and his Komsomol past. Since the past of the Zero employees was simply "erased" from history and another one was invented instead, Rutra was not afraid of being exposed: the past matched. According to legend – Rutra was given a secret name: Yuri Gagarin (or Cosmonaut).

      After the third meeting with the "like-minded" Sergei set them a task: they needed to find out – who was secretly meeting behind their backs and where. Sergei's specialization was a bit off, as he was only doing this domestically to improve his skills for such events abroad, so Rutra started meeting with "his friends" without him. He soon found out that the "especially literate", as they put it, and financially able were going to another convention. Rutra asked to meet with them, to which he was told that he needed a recommendation from "someone close to him." When asked if Sergei's recommendation was not enough, he was explicitly told that it would be a good idea to back up this recommendation financially. Rutra agreed, with a counter-condition: to help him to play a play to borrow money at interest from a Jew with the Ukrainian surname Andreenko, whom they were to "screw". This was an excellent way of showing them a positive side.

      Rutra "agreed" with Andreenko under pressure from an acquaintance in the Prosecutor General's Office in advance. Soon the necessary sum was given to his new "friends" and in return they received the consent of the "older brothers" to attend their meeting. From the leader of the group, nicknamed Akella, Rutra learned that the leader was Professor Muromov, who wished to meet with him. Rutra agreed and went to the meeting a day later.

      Muromov himself was unable to meet him, so Rutra had to impress his close comrade in the community. He was a long-retired scholar, a dry, thin, tall grandfather with a clear expression. They talked, and Rutra was well versed in history, though in some places he had to secretly use Isa's help. Ruthra had a very favorable impression of the man, and he said nothing vile. He was a true patriot, though a bit nationalistic; he explained that all nationalistic and anti-Semitic manifestations had grown out of the opposition to the Zionist worldview. The goal was achieved, and four days later Rutra attended their meeting in Protvino.

      Nothing particularly "grandiose" or secret was going on there. The conversation was mostly about Russia's "traitors and invaders," as one might hear at a market, a parade, a party of law enforcers, or a meeting of bankers and ministers. Rutra realized he was being tested, and that pleased him. Their conspiracy system was professionally practiced.

      Six months later, when Ruthra had had enough of these meetings and had begun to be distracted from other points of the test, he was unexpectedly invited to a small talk. The meeting was to take place in Protvino, in an underground tunnel. Kola was "scanned through", nothing important was going on there, though Rutra "smelled" something wrong, suspicious individuals did visit the place, but only alone. They were retired intelligence officers. His intuition told him that something important was going on, though it could have been a diversionary maneuver to catch the tail.

      Rutra went to Protvino. In a dark room he was "interrogated" and "examined" by persons, some of whom were scientists, humanitarians, and artists, but the rest were clearly from the security services. And many of them, judging by their behavior, manner of conversation, and thinking, were or were members of secret and power structures. What kind of "hypnosis" they possessed, what secret equipment they used, Rutra could not determine precisely. But what they used, he calculated and passed the test perfectly. After another "interrogation" and interview, he was given "documents" that he was a member of an amateur amateur art group and a participant in the annual fair. Thus, observing complete secrecy, not sleeping at home, disconnecting the telephone, which, of course, he had warned in advance, Rutra found himself on Kolskaya. Namely,