Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 167 You saved the Equality Society

   "What have you been through?!" Nord said in surprise, ignoring the box, and hurried to Verak.

"Prison, there must be some punishment or something." Verak wanted to take off his pants at first, but when he saw Nord's appearance, he canceled the plan and took back the jacket hanging on the side, ready to take it off with him after taking a shower. Wash your clothes too.

  Nord stretched out his hand, but he didn't dare to touch the wound. He didn't dare to imagine how each wound was caused.

  Verak didn't take it seriously before, and didn't elaborate on his affairs in the prison. Nord really thought that the famous Damans Prison was nothing more than that. But after seeing the epitome of what he had experienced in the past two months from Veraker, Nord found that he was too naive: "How...how did you persevere?"

   "Equality, or that brand-new world that deserves to be expected." Verak smiled, so that Nord would not worry about himself.

   "No wonder you took the risk to come back here." At this moment, Nord completely understood that Verak wanted to join the Equality Society.

  That belief saved him and gave him new meaning in life.

Nord’s face was so rare that he couldn’t find the slightest relaxation. Verak didn’t want the atmosphere to be so serious, and patted Nord’s shoulder: “It’s all over, and now it’s time for a new life. By the way, we haven’t eaten for almost a day After dinner, please help me get some food."

   "Okay." Nord froze for a moment, and walked slowly towards the kitchen.

"Teacher, you have something to eat first." Verac finished talking to Keating who was resting on the sofa, went into the bathroom to take a good shower, and then washed Keating's dirty clothes and hung them on the balcony superior.

   Then, Keating, who had eaten, went to take a shower, and after taking a shower, he went to eat.

   Nord and the others lived here and ate very ordinary food, and they didn't live a luxurious life just because they held the more than half a million gold grams that Verak gave them.

"By the way, here you are." Nord didn't leave in a hurry after packing up his things. After Verak took a shower and came out to eat, he pulled out a box full of banknotes of the largest denomination neatly from under the bed in the bedroom. It was placed in front of him and opened.

  Verak was chewing bread. After seeing the half a million gold grams in front of him, his chewing speed slowed down and he didn't speak.

   "The treatment of Murphy during this period, plus our miscellaneous expenses, cost a total of more than 13,000 gold grams, and the rest is here." Nord said.

   "Didn't I tell you, this is money for you." Verak swallowed the food and looked up at Nord standing in front of him.

"Too much, it's uncomfortable to wear." Nord put his hands in his pockets, turned his head and looked out the window, "Okay, anyway, you can take it, if you can't, give it to Chloe. He doesn't keep saying things because of you, equal Will you lose a lot of money? If you give him this money, you should be able to stop his bad mouth, and then see if you can find a way to join in."

   Chloe talked about the loss of one million gold grams for equality, but Verac didn't really care.

   You must know that he and Keating are holding gold worth 200 million gold grams, and things that can be solved with money now are nothing to them.

   "Wait." Verac stopped Nord who turned around and picked up two suitcases of luggage and was about to go out, "Do you know where Arnold Colin... is buried?"

   "I don't know about it, do you want to go and see?"

   "Yeah." What Verak cared about in his heart, and he knew that what he couldn't pay back, was Colin's life.

   "Then I'll inquire after I'm done. If I have nothing to do tonight, I'll take you to see him." Nord said and left.

  Verak watched Nord close the door, his body and mind froze for a while, and then he continued to eat bread while taking out a few banknotes from the box and stuffing them into his pocket for emergencies.

   After he finished his meal and briefly looked around the house, Keating also came out of the shower.

   "Teacher, you have to think about how to dissuade Chloe from giving up unrealistic ideas." As soon as the food and clothing were settled, Verac immediately discussed with Keating how to correct the direction of the Equality Society.

   "Now I just hope that Morais doesn't resist you like Chloe." Keating believes that the most important thing now is that another important leader can listen and is willing to listen to Verak's speech.

  Verak once betrayed the Equality Association, and he is not yet a full member of the Equality Association. His rash interference in such a major decision-making that concerns the entire organization is likely to be counterproductive.

   "The problem is that we don't have much time. The World Expo will close around the new year. That's our last chance." Verac sighed, "And I don't know how my jailbreak will affect the plan."

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In the early ten o'clock, brothers Diaz and Murphy drove Morais and his companions to the grocery store, and Morais and Chloe were in the basement to talk about the 'Villac Prison Escape Meeting'. , the International Exposition, and the Equality Association plan, etc., and what impact they had on' were discussed.

  At the end of the meeting, as expected by Nord who was waiting at the door, it returned to the question of whether the Equality Council should be a real peace talk or a fake peace talk.

  The two people who had the same lofty ideals in the past had a huge disagreement on this matter. They both kept saying that they were thinking of their comrades, and that what they insisted on was the only choice to change the world.

  The result is the same as before, quarrels broke out and broke up unhappy.

Chloe stayed in the basement, and Morais, who slammed the door, yelled: "You have to make comrades make hundreds of sacrifices, completely tear yourself apart from the government, and miss the best opportunity." Let it go?! You are ruining the future of the Equality Society!"

  Moles, whose chest was heaving violently, closed the door fiercely, took a few steps past Nord with a lady, and stopped: "You are Verac's friend, right?"

   "Yes." Nord stood up straight, not expecting Morais to have an impression of him.

   "Chloe said he drove Verac away, do you know where he is now?" Morais asked.

  Nord was afraid that Chloe in the basement would hear it, so he didn't say anything, but just nodded.

   Morais seemed to understand Nord's concerns quickly, and didn't speak any more. He tilted his head and motioned for Nord to lead the way and take him to see Verak.

Out of the grocery store, Nord excitedly led Morais, who lowered his hat, towards the apartment building on another block: "You said it was a coincidence, Verac persuaded Comrade Chloe once before you came over, But Comrade Chloe didn't listen at all, he just wanted to take a break before going to talk to you again."

   "Really?" Morais was quite surprised by this.

   What surprised him was not that Verac agreed with him, because he felt that as long as he had a normal mind and a bit of social experience, he would not oppose him on this matter. What surprised him was why Veraker was so concerned about the Equality Society, which was completely different from his previous performance.

   "He just escaped from prison?" Morais asked about Verak's situation in prison.

   "Yes, he suffered a lot of injuries, with scars all over his body..." Speaking of this, Nord couldn't help telling Morais what he knew and saw.

  Morais arrived in front of the temporary residence of Verac and Keating before he had time to express his opinion after listening. Nord didn't knock on the door, just took out the key and opened the door, and the two people who were sitting on the sofa and discussing came into view.

"Moles?" When Verac heard the noise, he guessed that one of Nord, Diaz, and Murphy had returned, but he never expected that Morais, whom he wanted to see, would take the initiative to visit Own.

   "Long time no see." Morais walked to the sofa and shook hands with Verac and Keating who got up.

"I just wanted to see you and talk to you about the equal society." Morais's attitude was much better than that of Chloe, and he was willing to take the initiative to come to him. Verac felt that the matter had some clues, "This is Moles Rice, a retired soldier, is now the leader of the Equality Society. This is Keating, my teacher, who lived with me in prison. Will has been in power for many years."

"Hello, I've heard of your name for a long time. It seems that there are many big shots in Daimans Prison." Morais was a soldier when the Bresci Empire was still in operation, so he would naturally be of great help to this Ravel's right-hand man. I understand, "I would also like to introduce to you, this is Piaf, a novelist. She is an independent woman of great ability. She founded her own newspaper, advocated equality between men and women, attacked the dark side of the current system, It exposes the difficulty of women's survival and provides a channel for more people to speak out."

  Villac shook hands with Piaf, who was dressed in men's clothing and smelled of cigarettes, and said, "It's an honor to meet you."

   "Me too." Piaf replied.

   "Sit down and talk." Verak called everyone to sit down, and then asked Morais impatiently, "You must come to me to make the peace talks plan continue to proceed as Boyne made?"

"That's right." After getting acquainted with Keating briefly, Morais cut to the point with Verac, "Chloe has no ambitions and little experience. How could the government really agree to our request through peace talks? The purpose of our peace talks is to reduce the The government’s vigilance is to appease us not to make trouble during the World Expo. Once the World Expo is over and we haven’t taken any action, the government will definitely clean up us again.”

   "I think so too, but he doesn't listen to us." Verak shook his head slightly.

   Morais stared at Verak: "What can you do?"

"Equality has never been decided by one person. We are pursuing equality, so everyone has the right to make choices. I think that if we want to solve the biggest resistance to the implementation of Chloe's plan, we have to find a way to expand Our momentum and right to speak." Verak talked about his thoughts.

  After Chris died, Boyne, as the most prestigious one, became the new leader of the Equality Association without accident, but he took the initiative to act as a hostage to fight for opportunities for the Equality Association, which made the Equality Association once again fall into a situation of no leader.

The status of Chloe and Morais in the Equality Association is about the same. It’s fine when they have the same opinion, but no one can persuade the other when they disagree. Weak, the government took the opportunity to enter.

   In the prison, Verac, who used the infighting between Adel and the deputy warden Lecter in the prison to create a chance to escape from prison, does not want to see that equality will come to that point one day.

  Now, only by setting up another person like Bo Yin can we lead everyone to go on despite all opinions.

   "You and him will either decide on a person who has the final say and continue to lead everyone, or they can only part ways according to their own choices." Verak said.

   "It's not that serious." If the Equality Association split because of this incident, it would be too much to lose. Morais shook his head again and again.

   "There is no other way."

"what?"

   "Establish a leader again, and in the face of major events, the minority obeys the majority, and votes to decide." Verak said.

  Morais suddenly laughed when he heard Veraker's proposal: "What do you think of this candidate?"

   "Yes." Verac didn't make any humility, looked directly at Morais, and solemnly fought for this spot, "This will be a good choice."

   "I also think it's a good choice." Morais said.

   "Why?" Verac wondered why Morais didn't have any ill feelings towards him.

Morais leaned on the sofa and raised his legs: "It turns out that you do have this ability. As far as I know, you have replaced the dead Comrade Chris since mid-July, right? Let me talk about when you were the president What have you done. You agreed to my arming proposal, which made the government finally face us. You used the Thomas family’s bills to collect nearly ten million gold grams of wealth for the Equality Society, and helped the Equality Society obtain an extremely important key These two things have laid a solid foundation for our vigorous development, and the government can only choose to negotiate peace with us."

   "Heh... Your rhetoric is completely different from Chloe's, but it makes me a little uncomfortable." Verac, who is used to hearing how much negative impact he has on equality, finds it a little funny.

"These are all on the bright side." Morais didn't think it was a big deal. "You can look back and think about it. If there is no Armed Equality Association, if there is no such a large amount of development funds, we are now What does it look like? I’m afraid it was wiped out by the government long before the opening of the World Expo.”

"Comrade Chloe said that it was Verac who caused Equality to lose one million gold grams, and caused Equality to change the position of many sites." Seeing that Morais had no prejudice against Verac, Nord thought Repeat what Chloe said.

After hearing what Chloe said, Morais couldn't help laughing: "Without you, we wouldn't have the money to let you take away a million. And in the end, there were no people from the government to check the places we moved out of However, it means that you suffered inhuman abuse in Daymans Prison, and you did not reveal our secrets."

   "...Thank you." Facing Morais' approval, Verak didn't know what to say for a moment.

   Keating smiled from the sidelines.

"Although I joined relatively late, I basically understand everything." Piaf narrowed her eyes and said objectively, "You are impersonating Chris, you have used the Equality Association, but you have not done anything to the Equality Association. Unfavorable things, it can even be said that without your fake, there would be no equal society today."

"That's right." Morais didn't have much dealings with Verak before, and compared to the impression that Chloe only had Verak in his mind, he admired Verak's several important decisions, so he was willing to Let go of the past, and face up to Verak's contribution and his current frankness, "Verak, you saved the Equal Society."

   The monthly pass is over 200, and the number of words owed has risen to 16,000.

  (end of this chapter)