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Later that same year, at the end of August, some local neighborhood guys came to visit Natalia and her sister. They occasionally came over to sober up. These were the neighbor from the floor, Igor Shaladonov, and his friend Yura. Both were highly agitated. Igor Shaladonov’s family had also suffered from the actions of Yura Semenchuk, because Zhenya had lent money to the wife of Igor’s older brother. Later, Yura imposed high interest rates and forced them to make an unequal exchange of their three-room apartment for a house in a small settlement 40 km from the city.

Igor and Yura recounted a strange event that had happened to them that night. Since the previous evening, they had been drinking in the company of Zhenya Semenchuk. Zhenya boasted that his brother owned a very luxurious cottage in the 5th microdistrict of the city, which he had purchased for $50,000. On a dare, Zhenya called a taxi, and at 3 a.m., they went to see the cottage. Igor Shaladonov, Yura, Oleg (nicknamed «Fat»), and Slava Kolyadov went along.

When they arrived, they saw some familiar guys from the neighboring yard, who at 3 a.m. in August were moving paving stones near the house under artificial lighting. When the visitors entered the house, they were shocked by the luxury inside. All the door handles were gilded, the fireplace grill was also gilded, and the furniture and entire interior were extremely expensive. This was not just a house – it was an emperor’s palace.

After some time, the owner, Yura, arrived. He began beating his brother Zhenya, kicked out Igor, Yura, and Oleg, and left Slava in the cottage. Later, the guys had to walk from one district of the city to another because they had no money for a taxi. Sitting in Natalia’s kitchen, Igor and Yura were so stunned by what they had seen in the cottage that they could not understand how Yura, living in such luxury, could oppress his former friends and neighbors, taking their last possessions.

When the guys left, Natalia was left with only one thought from their entire story – Yura Semenchuk had buried a treasure under the paving stones. However, the guys had not realized this, as they had focused on the wealth of the house rather than the actions of its owner.

A week later, Slava Kolyadov came to see Natalia and told her a strange story that had happened to him. He had been visiting Yura Semenchuk in his cottage and then remembered nothing. He woke up in the intensive care unit. The doctors barely saved him. Some people had found him on the street and called an ambulance. The doctors said it was 100% poisoning and that he had been extremely lucky to reach the hospital in time. He asked Natalia if he had called her that day. Natalia explained that the guys had come by and said that Slava had stayed at Yura Semenchuk’s cottage, who was the best friend of his older brother. Slava’s relatives had been searching for the person who poisoned him, but of course, no one could imagine Yura Semenchuk being involved. Natalia realized that it was Yura who had poisoned Slava to eliminate an unnecessary witness.

A few months later, the guys came to visit again and said that the people who had been moving the paving stones could not be found by their relatives. They had simply disappeared. The only thing known was that someone had called them to work somewhere, and that was all. Natalia realized that searching for these guys among the living was pointless. That’s when she understood the extent of what Yura Semenchuk was capable of.