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Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Russia.

Alexei, no longer young, gasped for breath, standing at the forefront of the researchers who had rushed to the scene. He clenched his fists tightly, glaring angrily at the officials and Americans blocking the institute's gate, like an enraged brown bear.

"Сука блять! This is an important research base! Absolutely no foreigners are allowed in this top-secret place! This is treason! You bastards, if this were a few decades ago, you'd all be hanged and shot! All of you shot!"

"Mr. Alexei, please calm down... The Cold War is over, the world is no longer shrouded in the shadow of war, and these redundant research facilities are no longer necessary to be preserved. Human society will enter a new era of technological sharing..."

A Russian finance official, surrounded by several police officers, wiped the spit off his face, frowned deeply, looked around at the staff gathered at the institute's gate, raised his arm, and waved the document stamped with a fresh seal.

"Look! Look! You know, this area was originally supposed to be demolished directly, but Citibank of the United States specially chose to buy the institute at a high price and renovate it into a bank branch, considering the friendship between the two peoples. This is a cooperation intention that we have finally reached. If you continue to make trouble, you will all end up in the police station!"

"Okay! Even if the government agrees to the closure of the institute, you should at least give us half a month, no, a week! The transfer and preservation of valuable data, documents, and equipment in the institute take time, and what's more..."

Alexei glanced at the police cars parked in front of the institute and the wary police officers. He took a deep breath, tried to suppress the anger in his chest, pointed his arm at the researchers behind him, and said with a face full of indignation.

"Directly dismissing so many researchers, what will happen to everyone's lives in the institute?! The salaries for the month before last have not been paid yet. Do you think that a vague severance fee can solve the problem?!"

"Regarding this point, it has been explained before that there are still some problems with the financial process, please be patient..."

Faced with the indignant staff of the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, an embarrassment appeared on the face of the Russian finance official who had taken over this job. He nervously shrunk back, raised his hands, and tried to appease the emotions of the crowd.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian economy has been on the verge of collapse. The economic assistance promised by Western countries has not yet arrived for various reasons, so the government has to open the market and actively accept foreign enterprises and banks to enter, in order to earn high foreign exchange to subsidize the finances.

In fact, according to the original idea of the Russian government, places like the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics were not within the scope of land for sale to foreign countries, but the Americans gave too much money, so they reluctantly agreed.

"Ahem, please don't be excited, we quite understand your difficulties."

Seeing that the scene was about to get out of control, several Americans standing in the back watching the excitement exchanged glances, walked to the gate, patted the Russian finance official on the shoulder, coughed lightly, and put on a professional smile on their faces.

"Actually, we are here today to solve these problems."

Along with the voice of this American representative, several thick leather suitcases were placed in front of the crowd.

Each large suitcase was filled with stacks of neatly stacked rubles. The unique smell and dazzling color of the money instantly silenced the entire venue. People looked at the Americans with suspicion, wondering what they wanted to say.

"First of all, please rest assured that Citibank of the United States is an international bank with a good reputation worldwide. As a bank, we are not interested in the content you are studying at all—according to the agreement reached with the Russian government, all the data in the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics will be directly destroyed, so there is no need to worry about leakage."

"Secondly, considering the current difficulties encountered by Russian finance and the situation learned in previous communications, the bank's board of directors has decided that we will temporarily pay part of the severance fees for the institute's personnel to ensure that this transaction will not cause too much impact on your lives."

"Finally, for some senior researchers, we have prepared special recommendation letters, which can be used to go to the United States for free and take positions in various research institutes and universities—but the specific positions and work content will depend on the actual situation in each place, but it will definitely be enough to solve your daily life problems..."

Originally, these words should have been said by the Russian finance official, but from an official point of view, it was difficult for him to say something similar to encouraging people to defect and go abroad. Seeing that the Americans took the initiative to take over, the official from the Russian Ministry of Finance also breathed a sigh of relief, and his face gradually returned to its previous calmness.

"That's right, that's basically it... Everyone, please line up according to the list in my hand, we will distribute severance fees and recommendation letters according to everyone's position and salary, and then please pack your personal belongings within today and tomorrow, and complete the data cleaning work of the institute..."

"Deputy Director Alexei, what should we do now?"

"Yeah, the institute won't last too long like this. It's good to have severance pay..."

"I heard that the Mendeleev Institute is also laying off staff. Why don't we try teaching at foreign universities? It sounds good."

Looking at the eager colleagues around him, as well as the police and government officials who had become extremely unfamiliar, Alexei opened his mouth, and finally waved his hand disappointedly, saying weakly.

"Line up, go ahead... What else can we do, life still has to go on..."

"Eh, what about you? Aren't you going to get severance pay..."

"No, I have something to do at home, I'll go back first—anyway, I'll be on time at the institute tomorrow to preside over the data destruction work, and stand the last shift. Hurry up and line up to register, it's also the last bit of benefit."

Alexei shook his head, bent down and picked up the bread bag that had fallen on the ground due to the physical conflict. He patted the dust and snow on the bread sticks, sighed deeply, turned around and walked in the direction he was leaving.

Not far away, the American tourists who had been standing on the edge of the crowd and paying attention to the development of the situation took out a small notebook from their shirt pockets, opened it and looked at it carefully, exchanged glances with each other, brushed up their gray high-necked windbreakers, and quickly followed behind Alexei.

[Alexei, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Deputy Director, Senior Researcher, Stalin Prize, Medal of Merit, Hero of Labor Gold Star Medal, Order of the Red Star, Order of the Red Banner of Labor... Winner, Danger Level: Extremely High.]

[Recommendation: Intelligence personnel attempt to contact and recruit. Depending on the situation, transfer to domestic research institutes, universities and other institutions for close management; or, in the event of communication failure, clean up threats in advance to prevent the spread of threatening information to neighboring countries.]

Behind the intelligence personnel disguised as American tourists, Frank thoughtfully stroked the wand hidden in his pocket, and followed at a slightly more distant position. After casting the Disillusionment Charm, he followed silently.

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