Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 115 Persevere

  208 cell.

   Keating sat on the bed and read the books intently, the noisy sounds outside did not affect him at all.

  It is noon now, about five hours after Verak was taken away. Judging from his past experience, this young man who had just been his roommate for less than a day may have encountered an accident.

  Because no prisoner has ever lasted so long in an interrogation room.

   Prisoners are usually tortured by Lecter for half an hour, and then they will be on the verge of collapse for an hour, and then they will be brought back, and the same time will pass the next day, and so on, until Keating compromises, or the prisoner compromises.

   Those who didn’t come back for two hours basically never came back again. New prisoners would fill in as soon as possible to take care of Keating’s daily life and continue the task of asking about the whereabouts of gold.

   Verak didn't come back for a long time, and even missed the meal, so it doesn't matter what it means.

  Because Keating has seen too much, even if he deduces that Veraker is dead, his heart does not fluctuate.

  Verak was a passing visitor to him.

   If there are no accidents, there will be hundreds of such passers-by. Some of them can be transferred to other cells in time to save their lives, and some will completely collapse in repeated tortures and end up in the same fate as Verak.

   Just as Keating was waiting for the next roommate to be arranged, the outside suddenly became quiet, and then there was a commotion. When he turned his head to look at the door, he saw two prison guards dragging the ugly Veraker over.

   "Shut up!" The door of the cell was opened, and two prison guards threw Verak in, then locked the door and left.

   "How are you?" Keating asked with concern when he saw Veraker's appearance.

  Valak, who was thrown in, collapsed on the ground, closed his eyes tightly, turned his head to the side, and remained motionless. Only the slight rise and fall of his chest proved that he was alive.

Looking at Veraker, whose hands were **** and bloody, with hideous wounds on his chin and collarbone, who was almost unconscious, Keating put down his book and called the prison guard over: "Shouldn't you take him to the infirmary? His injuries are serious! "

   "He himself refused." The prison guard explained, then shrugged and left.

  Rejected by yourself? Isn't this courting death!

   Keating looked at Verak again. It was the first time he saw a prisoner who was taken out by Lecter to torture him for five hours and came back alive. What was even more surprising was that Verak still seemed to have a smile on his face.

   What the **** happened?

"Why don't you go to the infirmary?" Keating asked, "In this kind of place, if the wound is not treated in time, the infection will soon worsen. Even if Lecter doesn't trouble you, you will lose your life because of the aggravated injury." of."

   "...it's nothing..." Verak's mouth moved, and two words popped out intermittently.

   Keating found it unreasonable: "Do you want to live? If you can't hold on, suicide is more enjoyable than this. If you still want to hold on, why refuse treatment?"

   "...huh." Verak, unable to speak, responded with a grunt.

  Of course he wanted to live, otherwise how could he have persisted for four or five hours with the double-headed fork against his chin and collarbone.

   "First...let me...sleep...sleep for a while..."

   There is a reason why Verac gave up on treating the wound.

   At noon, Lecter couldn't wait to return to the interrogation room. Seeing that Veraker had dropped the paper covering his face to the floor, and was still struggling with his head up, he was so excited that he screamed. Even while applauding Veraker, he came up with a new way of playing and made an interesting little deal with Veraker.

   As long as Veraker is willing to give up treating the wound, Lecter can tell him the latest information from the Equality Society.

Lecter thought he had pinched Veraker's lifeblood. He knew exactly what Veraker wanted, so he made full use of everything. While lifting Veraker's raw desire, he also increased the load on his body, making the pleasure of torture approach unprecedented the height of.

  Since Laizeinli and Boyne parted, Verac has lost contact with the Equality Association for four or five days.

  When he was under house arrest in the building of the Ministry of Security, he and Boyne cheated Rock Shriver, the person in charge of the 'Reef', and he couldn't even imagine how the furious Rock Shriver would retaliate against the Equality Council. He didn't dare to think about it.

  The passionate Equality Society in the distance is the biggest motivation for him to live in the dark prison.

   Now there is an unexpected opportunity to learn about the Equality Society, and Verac really can't find a reason to refuse it.

Moreover, Daimans Prison is almost isolated from the outside world. Even people at the level of the warden are delayed in getting the news. It is even more difficult for a person who has cut off all contact with the outside world to get the news. There is no longer any way to find out what is going on with the Equal Society. And if he agrees, maybe he can continue to trade in the future and keep informed about the situation of Laizein.

  So not only for the moment, but for the future, Verak agreed to the deal and gave up treating the wound. Only after persisting until tomorrow's torture can he go to the infirmary with tomorrow's new injury and receive treatment from the doctor.

   As for how bad the wound would be due to the hot weather and bacterial growth, he had no intention of thinking about it until Lecter told him about the Equality Council.

  Lecter was not surprised by Veraker's reply. He helped Veraker unload the torture equipment attentively and thoughtfully, and told him the status quo of the Equal Society.

Just as Verak expected, the enraged Rock Shriver arrested the members of the Equality Society who were stubbornly fighting with unprecedented force. As long as they found out, regardless of whether the members of the Equality Society resisted or not, they would be immediately sentenced to 'possible possession of weapons. He was killed on the spot in the name of hurting innocent people'.

  In just a few days, many strongholds of the Equality Association have been destroyed, and more than 50 members were killed.

   But even so, the Equality Association is still active.

Mass-printed "Equality" was stuffed into the cracks in the windows and doors of every household, and small-scale protests appeared frequently, and several small-scale gun battles broke out irregularly in various places every night, making Lazer Because of panic, the government has paid more and more attention to it.

   It is now less than ten days before the arrival of delegations from various countries, and the opening ceremony of the World Expo is less than half a month away.

  If the chaotic party has not been resolved by that time, the government will only have two choices.

  One, cancel the World Expo.

  Second, hold the World Expo despite the bad influence.

  No matter which choice they make, the price will be unbearable for them, and the dream of the Bresci Republic to demonstrate its national strength will be shattered.

  Now they have no choice but to list the Equality Association as the number one enemy, and set a deadline for the Ministry of Security and the intelligence organization "Reef". At all costs, the riots must be completely quelled within a week.

   Therefore, the atmosphere in Laizein is very serious, and a big battle seems to be about to break out.

   Knowing that the situation of the Equality Society is not optimistic, but at least it has survived the suppression by the Bresci government. While feeling sorry for the comrades who died, Verak also has some bottom line in his heart.

  If the Equality Society is just blindly suppressed, it means that their situation is very critical and they are unable to fight back. If they don’t withdraw from Laizein as soon as possible, they can only wait to be wiped out.

   But now, despite the tragic loss, they are also going upstream, expanding their influence, and fighting back and forth with Brestian all! This shows that Boyne's original plan is hopeful to be realized!

  Equality has really grown.

  From the naive child who hid in Tibet and tried to use reason to persuade the government to change the system, he grew up to an adult who dared to fight the government head-on, made the government feel scared, and had no choice but to take them for a while.

  If the concept can really be spread through the World Expo, then the growth of the Equality Society is just around the corner. When the torrent of awakening hits, how can the chaebols stop it? !

  Feeling exhausted, Verak, who was about to fall asleep, thought of this and felt a surge of emotion.

   "Don't fall asleep."

  Hearing Keating's voice, Verak thought to himself:

   Absolutely not.

  —

   "Uh..." Verak slowly opened his eyes.

  As he regained consciousness, the pain hit overwhelmingly, and he almost passed out from the pain again.

   "Hoo... hiss..." I don't know whether it's because he got used to it quickly, or the pain came just for a moment. After he gritted his teeth and carried it for a few seconds, he no longer felt the unbearable pain.

  After lying on the floor and sleeping for a long time, the back of his head and back are sore and sore now.

  He glanced over at the bed and saw Keating sleeping.

  Prisoners in other cells went to work in the afternoon, and Keating would take advantage of this exceptionally quiet time to have a good rest, and then wake up before dinner at 8 o'clock in the evening.

   Now that he is still asleep, it means that it is between two o'clock in the afternoon and eight o'clock in the evening.

  Deduced that he had been unconscious for several hours, Verak straightened his head, raised his arm and looked at the injury on his hand. After being pinched by the thumb clip, except for the thumb, his other eight fingers were all red, and the skin was rubbed off in some places, and blood scabs formed in some places.

   "Hmm..." Verak felt a little heavy.

  He tried to clench his open hand into a fist, but the fingers only curved a little before they froze, unable to move any more.

   As for the neck, the situation is no better than the hands. In addition to being able to turn his head from side to side, Veraker couldn't even tilt his neck forward or back, as if his head had been nailed to the floor.

  The wounds on the chest and jaw were no longer felt. Verak reached out to touch them and found that they were also scabbed.

   Scabbing is also a good thing. The cells on the basement floor are quite stuffy, and the wounds are prone to ulceration. Waiting for the ulceration to heal the wounds in an environment like a prison is tantamount to nonsense. Now the scab will not bleed anyway, and it is not easy to be infected.

   After a while, Verak twisted his body, moved his bones, and sat up straight relying on the strength of his abdomen. While exerting force, the muscles also pulled his wound, and he immediately grinned in pain and let out a groan.

   Keating woke up when he heard the movement, saw Verak sitting up with wounds all over his body, and sighed: "Your willpower is really strong."

   "Your former roommate shouldn't be as serious as me, right?" Verak said.

"Why do you say that?"

"If they are tortured every day as hard as I am, you should have changed more than 500 roommates in the two years you lived here." Verak laughed, propped his elbows on the ground, and knelt tremblingly stood up.

   Keating sat up and took out the water glass: "Drink some water?"

   "My hands are useless now, please feed me." Verak walked up to Keating with his arms drooping and squatted down.

   "Head up." Keating said.

   "I can't look up anymore." Verak smiled wryly, "My neck can't move at all now, I can only lean back."

"also."

  Keating was sitting on the bed, and Verac was half-leaning beside the bed, being fed and drinking two sips of water.

   "Now it's you who takes care of me..." Verak smiled wryly.

   "In return for not chattering and using all kinds of outrageous means to press me for the whereabouts of the gold." Keating wiped Verak's mouth with a towel.

   "So many roommates didn't ask about it before, and I can't think of a better way. It's pointless to ask you." Verac couldn't get into bed, so he simply sat on Keating's bed to rest.

   Keating didn't say any more about this meaningless matter, and asked the question he cared about: "Why didn't you go to the infirmary?"

"The lunatic said that as long as I give up going to the infirmary today, he can tell me the latest news about the Equality Society." Veraker still has lingering fears when he thinks of Lecter's crazy face, "Of course I can't miss it." The opportunity to obtain news about the Equal Society in this closed place has granted his request."

  When Keating and Veraker first met, I heard Veraker briefly explain why he was arrested and the organization behind him called the Equality Association: "Then how is your organization now?"

"It's not bad, at least I won't be at the mercy of others like before." Thinking that the Equality Association will make the government anxious under the leadership of Boyne, Morais, Chloe and others, Verac has an inexplicable pride .

   "Then I don't need to worry about you." Keating looked at Verak kindly.

  Verak knew what Keating meant.

  He was afraid that he would not be able to persevere, but seeing his performance today and the news that his companions were well at last, he was completely relieved.

  Today, he insisted on withstood the inhuman torture, which represented his inner tenacity and strength.

  Knowing that the companions are well, it means seeing hope.

  The combination of these two extremely rare things in the prison, although not enough to create an invulnerable soul, is enough for Verak to face it calmly, and will not be easily defeated by the storm.

   "There is still a long way to go..." Verak did not remain optimistic blindly, "Tomorrow will be a new round of tests for me, and it will be the same for them in the Equal Society."

   Keating said: "You are fighting side by side with them."

   "I feel the same way, although we have lost contact." Verak agreed with Keating's words.

   Keating stared at Verak's neck for a few seconds: "What happened to your neck?"

  Verak told Keating one by one about the torture he had endured.

"come over."

  A pair of warm hands were placed on Verak's shoulders, rubbing his shoulders and neck to ease his stiffness.

   "Thank you..." Verac turned his back to Keating and thanked him.

   Keating's strength was well grasped, making Veraker feel a little comfortable: "Keep going, young man."

  (end of this chapter)