Chapter 499 - 478: When the Map Ends, the Dagger Appears
Gao Yi had no intention of sowing discord right from the start, but since Alexander himself brought it up, he naturally could continue along the lines of Alexander’s implication.
It’s like the saying, when the birds are gone, the bow is put away; when the rabbits are dead, the dogs are cooked. Everyone understands this, and once the conversation can truly be steered in this direction, then everything else becomes easy to discuss.
Gao Yi is not someone’s Black Gloves, but he could be, or might have been.
The main approach is about empathy, and beyond empathy, he could provide Alexander with a vivid example to reference.
Originally, Alexander did not plan to discuss these things, but everything is relative, isn’t it?
After following the boss for years and handling huge sums of money, he didn’t manage to save much for himself. In the end, he was appointed to a position that seemed like a promotion but was actually a far-flung exile.
Although it’s said that it’s necessary to venture out to achieve greatness, with Alexander now backed by the big boss’s Black Gloves, trying to get himself reassigned back to the Moscow headquarters became difficult. He wasn’t treated as one of their own by anyone, so his fate was sealed – to drift from one country to another, always a regional head, but entering the core circle was just a dream.
And this is still under Nikolai’s reign. Worse, once the directorship changes, Alexander, the former director’s Black Gloves, wouldn’t be able to mix in at all. The best he could hope for would be like Sherkin – simply leaving the KGB and making do with some money earned from past allegiances.
Of course, Alexander could also choose to retire, moving to a picturesque place to live out his days.
But this wasn’t the worst scenario; the most dreadful outcome would be if Nikolai simply found an opportunity to have him killed.