Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 161 The Eve of Prison Break

   After talking with Adel, Verak didn't feel relieved. Now the pressure that Adel brought to him is no longer worth mentioning. The upcoming change in the prison, which involves two thousand prisoners, is the only thing he cares about.

  He walked out of the warden's office, didn't listen to Adel, and went down the stairs to the first floor, ready to start working again.

   "Hiss..." On the way back to the work area, the prison guard escorting Verak shuddered.

  Verak realized that the weather had turned cold, and it was already November. If he can leave the prison smoothly, it will be mid-November at least when he returns to Laizein, and he will face another long winter by then.

  The peace talks between the Equality Association and the government have been going on for more than a month.

  As time goes by and seasons change, the attention of the World Expo will gradually decrease, and it will not regain the attention of the world until it closes.

Judging from the current declining popularity, the possibility of the Equality Association choosing this period of time for sports is very low. They have already missed the world-renowned opening ceremony of the World Expo, and now the only thing they can hope for is the critical time of the closing ceremony point.

   That is to say, it is the cold winter, and when the new year is approaching, the phased confrontation between the Equality Association and the government of the Republic of Bresci will begin.

  After working on the textile production line with musician Ross until 9:00 pm, Verak returned to Cell 208. He basically recovered and took over the work from the prison guards, helped the disabled Keating take a bath, and washed himself clean.

Because of the weather change, the basement floor no longer looked so stuffy, and Verak felt very refreshed after taking a shower: "Adel is quite calm, knowing that I reported the news to Lecter, he didn't report to me either. Furious, just warned me to keep quiet until the twelfth of next month."

   "In other words, apart from making Lecter more stable, this move didn't affect Adel's actions." Keating wiped his hair with a towel, "It's really difficult to deal with."

"Yeah, with the problems of jailbreak and having Adel in command, it's really a headache." Verak echoed, "We have to increase Lecter's threat to Adel, and let Lecter attract Take most of Adel's energy."

   After wiping his hair, Keating handed the towel to Verac: "We need to find the most suitable time."

  Villac took the towel and put it aside for Keating: "It's almost there, teacher."

   Keating smiled without saying a word.

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  November 2

  Verak was not assigned with Dawn during the release, but his reputation is no less than that of Dawn, and he no longer needs help to organize the prisoners to arrange things.

   Continued the unfinished work yesterday by himself, and recruited a group of prisoners who were approved by him and Dawn.

Although Verak and Dawn planned to escape from the prison, they haven't officially told the prisoners, but they are investigating information about the escape recently. In addition, Verac doesn't look like a person who is willing to stay in prison. Dawn also Uncharacteristically less decadent behaviors have revealed something.

   Therefore, when Veraker and the prisoners he selected revealed the escape, the sensitive prisoners were not surprised.

  They were not timid because they had never successfully escaped from prison. Instead, they joked to Verak, saying that they had been waiting for Verak and Dawn to find them.

  Villac was very surprised by this, and he was ready to do another psychological mobilization to the prisoners. After all, it will be a very long process to restore everyone's confidence. He thinks that he has been here for two months, and it is not enough to completely change anything.

Seeing the seven selected prisoners smiling and eager to try, Verak held a poker card in his hand, and under the supervision of the prison guards on guard, he threw out a card: "If we have never felt alive here, why should we?" to fear death."

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  November 3rd

  Although Number One had just received new information on gold from Verac, Lecter was not satisfied. Because if he didn't get the exact location of the gold before the twelfth, no matter how many clues he had, it would be useless.

   On this day, Verak met Lecter again in the infirmary after having lunch at noon.

   "How is it?" Verac had just stepped into the door of the infirmary with half a foot and sent away the doctor. Lecter, who was not in the mood to sit down, quickly asked about gold.

   "Still asking." Verak went straight to a hospital bed and sat down.

   Lecter put his hands on his hips, wanted to say something, but swallowed it after taking a deep breath.

  Watching Lecter pacing back and forth in the small infirmary, Verak asked with hypocritical concern: "What's wrong? You look so anxious? Is something wrong?"

   "I'm not in a hurry." Lecter denied it.

   "Then you can't stop shaking..."

   "I didn't eat at noon, I was in a hurry to eat." Lecter randomly found an excuse.

  Verak looked puzzled: "Then go and eat."

   "I'm going to ask you a question now, and I can't go there until the question is finished." Lecter said.

   "Then you ask."

"I..." Lecter was already in a state of anxiety, and was even more confused by Verak's seemingly unintentional but intentional question, "I...I...you didn't find any new clues, so what can I ask you? Yes!"

  After Lecter showed signs of collapse again, Verac told the content of the conversation that Adel called him over: "Adel warned me that I cannot reveal the clues of gold to you before the twelfth."

   "You mean, you have another clue now?" Lecter's eyes lit up.

"No."

Lecter was about to be **** off by Veraker: "You don't have to worry about Adel now, what's there to be afraid of? He's just a little warden. My father can replace him at any time, or even put him in this prison." Be a prisoner in this prison! I understand you, it really takes a lot of courage to resist the warden as a prisoner, but this is really nothing to be afraid of, is it just a display for me to stand here?"

"Indeed—I mean, you shouldn't be afraid of Adel." Veraker began to push Lecter to trouble Adel, "The problem is that you and Adel have been arguing for so long, and I haven't seen you take advantage of it. What are you doing?" Can you keep me, this matter..."

"What do you mean I didn't take advantage of anything? Didn't he just help the prisoner win a football match? I don't care about winning or losing. Have you ever defeated me?" Lecter snorted disdainfully, making no effort to hide his disgust and contempt for Adel.

   "Then I will continue."

  —

  November 4th

  After Dawn's deliberate arrangement, the two of them were assigned to have lunch in the same batch as the seven backbones of the escape plan selected earlier.

  Nine people deliberately sat at the same table, and after the prison guards distributed the lunch boxes, they started a discussion.

"Verak has some reasons for having to escape from prison as soon as possible, so I think it's best for us to determine the time for action before discussing how to solve the difficulties we are facing." Dawn picked up the lunch box and pretended to eat, Start hosting the first small meeting of their core personnel.

  The others were also very alert, pretending to chat while eating, waiting for Verak to express his opinion.

After frankly telling Keating about his true identity, Verak quickly explained the situation to Dawn and the seven newly recruited backbones of the escape operation, so everyone gradually changed their names to him. I also feel that I am coming out from the shadow of a giant.

"On the twelfth." Verak said, "...I have considered a lot of time points before, for example, either delay it by one day, and the prison guards on the thirteenth will definitely lower their vigilance significantly, or advance it by one day, and the eleventh will be more or less caught off guard. But the side effect of these is that even if we succeeded, there was no boat for us to leave at that time. We had to ensure that the prison escape would not be leaked while waiting for the boat to arrive. This was much more troublesome than the prison escape on the twelfth. So it’s better to not beat around the bush and just get it done at the best known time.”

   "There are still eight days to go." Dawn counted the time and looked at Veraker, "Are you sure?"

   "Sure." Verac said.

Dawn glanced at the prisoners at the same table, and said solemnly: "The twelfth is the day that determines whether we can regain our freedom. Prison escape is not a joke. Even if I die at the forefront this time, I will not slow down. My own footsteps, but I have no right to decide your future, and now I will give you the last chance to choose. Either give up and continue walking dead. Or continue, if you are not dead, leave here and really live.”

   "Hurry up and eat, there is not much time." One prisoner said, and the other prisoners quickly picked up the food.

   Veraker and Dawn understood the meaning and smiled at each other.

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  November 5th

   It was another day of venting. When everyone had no idea what to do after they marched on the four roads and controlled seven to nine gates, Dawn proposed a bold plan that used offense as defense and lived to death.

  Since it is impossible to break through the seven gates in a row and get out of the prison, don't waste time obsessing over it.

  Which door can be controlled, close the door, which in turn blocks the prison guards who try to prevent them from coming in. Then, he concentrated his strength and rushed to the second floor. Before the resting prison guards had time to notice the abnormality, he seized the time to control them, **** their weapons, and formally take control of the prison.

  This method made Veraker, who had been suffering from headaches, feel enlightened.

  He, Keating, and many others focused on how to get out of the prison, so they got stuck in the corner and couldn't get an overview of the whole situation. Perhaps because of his rich experience, Dawn has a different opinion on this matter than them, and was able to break through the blind zone of thinking and propose a brand-new, highly feasible plan.

   "What do you think?" Dawn asked for advice.

"I think it's very good. I'll go over and talk to Mr. Keating later. If Mr. Keating agrees with this idea, we will make a more detailed plan around this idea." Verac nodded , I appreciate Dawn's idea very much, "When the time comes, everyone must be mentally prepared to go all out, and don't shrink back and miss the great opportunity at the critical moment. In addition, the four-way parallel is a test of our cooperation. As long as there is one way out If it goes wrong, it may lead to a global collapse. Our actions must be decisive with caution, and cautious with decisiveness."

   "Understood." Everyone responded.

  Verak got up and walked towards Keating impatiently. While pushing Keating for a walk, he told him Dawn's thoughts.

After hearing this, Keating couldn't help but face the gentle sun: "The problem we racked our brains to solve before was solved by Dawn so simply. This is also a kind of gain and learning. If we face such a situation in the future , you can try not to go forward forcefully, but to take a step back.”

   "Yes." Verak also felt that he had benefited a lot, "Do you also think this idea is highly feasible?"

   "Well, just follow this." Keating couldn't come up with a better opinion.

   "Okay." Verac pushed Keating around for a while, then joined Dawn and the others, and began to plan in detail the implementation of the plan.

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  November 6th

The plan is becoming more and more perfect. In order to ensure sufficient preparation time, Verak and Dawn decided to expand the number of key personnel from today, to absorb more people, and wait until the number of core members reaches a certain level, and then in the first few days of the jailbreak plan. Today, spread the news widely, or it can be prudent to block the news and notify everyone at the last moment.

   This evening, after dinner, Verac worked with Rose on the textile line as usual.

   Rose, who has always been talkative, suddenly became a little embarrassed: "Chris..."

   "What's the matter?" Verac hasn't explained his true identity to Rose yet.

   "I want to do a crazy thing, I don't know if you would like to do it with me." Ross's work slowed down, and he hesitated to make this decision before he said it.

   "What?" Verac couldn't think of anything crazy that Rose could do.

  Rose gritted his teeth, holding back his strength and said, "I... want to escape from prison."

   "Why?" Verac persuaded Rose so many times before, but Rose never let go. He was curious why Rose made such a decision suddenly.

   "I just figured it out." After Ross said it, his whole body became smoother. "It's meaningless to spend any more time here. I want to play the piano. I can't bear life without a piano."

   "I figured it out." Verak laughed.

  Ross looked around the circle vigilantly, and after confirming that there were no prison guards, he asked: "Do you want to work with me? You have a high reputation now, and you can get a lot of responses. If you want, we can quickly bring many people together."

   "That sounds good, so do you have any specific ideas? No prisoner has ever been out of Damans Prison alive for so many years." Verak nodded and asked Rose.

   "Not yet, isn't this negotiable? I plan to talk to Brother Dawn tomorrow. He has experience." Ross said.

  It seems that Ross is not as sensitive as some prisoners, and he doesn't have a clear understanding of the undercurrent of the prison, so he tries to win over the giants of the two prisoners, Verak and Dawn, to plan a prison escape.

   "Remember what I told you?" Verak put a hand on Rose's shoulder.

   "Which sentence?"

   "I said, I will take you out of here no matter what."

   "Yes, yes, you did say that..."

  Verak chuckled, patted Rose on the shoulder, and held his hand: "You are welcome to join us."

  Ross didn't understand the situation, and looked at Verak in a daze: "Wh, what do you mean..."

   "You will know tomorrow." Veraker did not intend to reveal the situation while working, "Hurry up and work first."

  (end of this chapter)