Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 182 Do not drink coffee

  November 26, seven o'clock in the morning

  The classroom of the training class of the Equality Association was full of people early, and the fifty trainees of the first training session tacitly arrived early, which made Keating, Verac, Piaf and other people in charge of the training very satisfied.

  The selected people are not only excellent in ability, but also have a correct attitude. They have become the backbone of the Equality Association after training, and everyone is very relieved.

"Good morning, everyone." Standing among the five people on the podium, Keating introduced himself briefly to fifty students of different ages, backgrounds, and genders in the classroom, "My name is Robin Kee. Ting, you will be in charge of the training for the next eight days."

   "I'm Moster Verac, and I'm responsible for assisting Mr. Keating in teaching you the concept of equality." Verac on Keating's left said.

   "I am Lemain Piaf..."

After the five teachers in charge of the training introduced themselves one by one, Keating spoke again: "Many people may wonder why you were selected, and why there were only fifty people. There is no reason, and what you should consider is not here. In the next eight days, I hope that you will only have endless doubts and curiosity about our training content, and through your learning, you will become the mainstay of changing the world and develop learning opportunities for everyone."

   Keating has seen too many people in the world, and he is calm in the face of fifty people who are staring at him intently.

  Verak secretly took a deep breath from the side, and he will also participate in the lecture next, to really give advice to others. It was different from any previous experience, and he even rehearsed several times in private.

"Let me introduce myself first, I need to get to know you guys." Keating stepped off the podium and walked slowly through the gaps between the desks with his hands in his pockets, "All you have to say is your name, background, and interests. Hobbies, starting from the first position on the far right..."

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  November 26, 8:00 am

  In the government building, Locke Shriver, who was temporarily frozen in thought, ordered his subordinates to bring the arrested prisoner Ross, who was said to have had contact with 'Chris', to his office.

   "Danny Rose?" Locke Shriver sat at his desk, flipping through the information about Rose that the intelligence department had quickly gathered within a period of time, "Do you know Chris?"

   Ross, who looked very embarrassed, was shyly escorted by the intelligence department to sit on the sofa: "...Yes."

   "You said...he went to Dunman?" Rock Shriver asked.

   "Yes." Rose swallowed and replied, feeling sad.

  He just braved the heavy snow and managed to get to Laizein yesterday. He wanted to start his life again, make up for the gap in his life, and play the piano. But before he went in to find his family, he was arrested by the patrolling government army, and after identity verification, he was found to have escaped from Daymans Prison, and was immediately turned over here.

   Seeing that he had entered a government building, with words like 'Intelligence Department' all around his ears, Ross felt ashamed.

  Maybe this is fate, he managed to escape and was arrested again in less than half a month. If I knew it earlier, I might as well not come back, or follow Verak and the others with a stern face.

   While he was silently waiting for the people from the government to bring him back to Daymans Prison, and repeat the dull and disgusting days, something went wrong.

  The people here treat themselves with good food and drink, without any torture, and without any intention of pursuing themselves, they have been asking about the whereabouts of "Chris" in a good voice.

Ross knew that the fake identity Verak had used before was 'Chris', so he immediately understood that the people from the government were looking for Verak's whereabouts. He immediately stabilized his mind and did not hold back Verac. Continued to pretend that he only knew 'Chris' and not Verac, and in a rare scheming trick, tricked them into saying that Verac had gone to Dunman.

   "How do you know he went to Dunman? How did he tell you?" Locke Shriver asked Ross step by step, ready to find omissions from his words at any time.

"I live in the cell next to him in the prison. When we work, the two of us work next to each other, so we often communicate with each other. He once told me that if he wants to escape from prison one day, he will definitely not go back to Lai. Zein, after all, it's too dangerous here, he will go to Dunman with Keating..." Ross held back this set of rhetoric all night, thinking he was invulnerable.

"Keating..." Locke Shriver also knows Keating very well, knowing that Daymans Prison has been in charge of torturing Keating to find the whereabouts of a large sum of gold, "So, the two of them went together, and the reason why they chose Dunman is also To find that gold?"

  Ross nodded: "That's right. Keating is Ravel's best friend, Ravel—"

"I know this, so you don't need to talk nonsense." Locke Shriver interrupted Ross's detailed explanation to him, "But as far as I know, if you go to Dunman, it must be faster to take a boat, why doesn't he take a boat at the nearest pier where to go?"

   "This... I don't know, it may be the boat at the dock... Maybe it's going to go another way." Rose shook his head.

   "Chris and Keating, besides the two of them, is there anyone else together?" Rock Shriver asked again.

   "Anyway, they were a large group of people walking together at the time. I heard that they seemed to say that they were going to dig out the gold together..."

   "Didn't invite you? That's a lot of gold. Even if you have a lot of people, it's still very, very, very impressive if you divide it equally."

Sweat dripped from Rose's forehead: "I was invited, but, but I didn't go, I want to go back to Laizein, I'm a pianist, playing the piano is more important than my life, I don't care about money, I just want to come back and play the piano... "

   "Hmm..." Rock Shriver rested his chin on one hand, and calmly looked at Rose, who was about to sit still, "I heard you talk so much nonsense, what do you think?"

"what?"

   "Aren't you a little self-satisfied, thinking that even I have been fooled?" Rock Shriver smiled, and that smile looked scary, "You can just tell your clumsy lie, don't hold on."

   At first, Locke Shriver didn't rashly conclude that what Ross said was a lie, because he was worried that his subordinates had made a misjudgment in some places, or there were some factors he didn't understand, but now it seems that his previous guess is still correct.

   "I didn't lie, I don't need to lie, why should I lie to you? I swear!" Rose denied it.

"What are you swearing to do? I was taken aback." Rose's unsteady performance gave Rock Shriver great confidence in finding some clues from him, and he asked questions that seemed unimportant "I read your information and said that you used to be a very good pianist, but it's a pity that you were arrested and sent to prison because of some misunderstandings, and all these good years were wasted."

   "Misunderstanding..." Rose's eyes changed.

   This is the first time that someone from the government said that his incident was a misunderstanding. Before, all the people coldly insisted that he had committed a crime and did not listen to his explanation at all.

"A person like you should live in a good environment and be your elegant pianist." Rock Shriver imitated playing the piano, dancing the fingers of both hands on the desk, "Ding, ding, ding... this is What a wonderful life you deserve to live."

  Listening to Rock Shriver pretending to be playing the piano, Rose's shortness of breath slowed down: "What do you mean..."

"You are lying." Locke Shriver indifferently saw through Rose's disguise, "But why are you lying? To lie, there must be something that needs to be covered up. I'm curious, what are you covering up, you can tell me Do you listen?"

   "...I didn't cover up anything, what I said was the truth." Rose froze for a moment, feeling uneasy.

"What's the point of you talking hard with me?" Rock Shriver laughed, "Chris should have come back by now. Look out the window, he may be in any corner of your sight, he is free, he You don’t lack anything, as long as you come back here, you can live the life you want. Compared with him, how miserable you are, you finally escaped and were caught, and all the longings you made on the way back turned into nothing Paoying, is it possible that what greets you is purgatory again?"

  Ross didn't speak.

"Don't talk about you, I can't bear to look at it. I just said that a person like you should live the life you want. So, as a friend who can empathize with you, I want to give you a chance , to regain your innocence, and you have the opportunity to return to Laizein." Locke Shriver poured a cup of coffee, and the coffee was steaming, "As long as you truthfully tell all the truth you know, in exchange, I will return your innocence and freedom. "

   "Innocent, free..." Ross murmured.

  Being able to escape from prison with Verak and the others and gain freedom, he already felt that God was giving him a chance, and he hadn't dared to expect to become innocent.

   "It's very important to you, and it's what a person should have to live with dignity." Rock Shriver took a sip of his coffee and said slowly.

  He's got the odds on Rose.

  If Ross looked calmer and hadn't escaped from prison, he would have a lot of trouble dealing with it. But looking at it now, Rose has gradually become confused without saying a few words. In addition, he has already escaped from prison once, tasted the sweetness of freedom, and it becomes even more unbearable to return to his previous life. Facing such a temptation, he is Impossible to hold on.

"Think about it again, how many people escaped from Daymans Prison? More than two thousand. Will we only catch you? Then you underestimate the government's ability too much." Seeing Ross hesitate, Locke Shi Ruifu strikes while the iron is hot, "There will always be someone who knows what you are covering up, and there will always be someone who is willing to cooperate with me. Since the secret will definitely be known to me, it is only a matter of time, why do you need to support Chris for a long time?" How about sacrificing your entire life for a day or two?"

   "I..." Rose was in a mess.

  He didn't know any secrets about Verak.

   At most, I know two. One is that Verac and Keating are going back to Laizein, and the other is that 'Chris' is just a pseudonym of Verac, and he has another identity.

   But do you really want to say it?

"There is not much time left for you to choose. New prisoners may be recaptured at any time. At that time, you will really be worthless." Locke Shriver saw that Ross looked a little cold, and deliberately took it. Give him a cup of coffee, "Drink some and warm up."

   "Thank you..." Rose held the coffee stiffly. He hadn't drank it for a long, long time, and he forgot what it tasted like.

   "Drink it, I'll pour it for you if it's not enough." Rock Shriver stood next to Rose who was sitting on the sofa and didn't dare to look directly at him, urging him to drink coffee quickly.

  Coffee is perhaps more important than anything else at this moment for such a prisoner who has been imprisoned in Daimans Prison for so many years and then ran back to Laizein despite the cold.

  Rock Shriver was quietly destroying Rose's psychological defense.

   "Okay..." Rose held the coffee and didn't drink it for a long time.

"Chris has been here before." Rock Shriver walked to the window, turned his back to Rose, and threatened, "I wanted to kill him at the time, but he knelt down and begged me for mercy in this office. My biggest problem with this person is being soft-hearted. I spared his life and let him go to Daymans Prison after seeing his pitiful appearance. But Daymans Prison is not a good place, I still hope he can grasp it Opportunity, if you recognize the reality earlier, you won’t have to suffer so much.”

  Verak knelt down and begged for mercy?

   That man was tortured by the lunatic Lecter for nine days in prison, even if he was on the verge of death, he never compromised.

   Then he stood up again in just ten days, and began to change everything in the prison with superhuman willpower, and began to lead the prisoners to ignite their fighting spirit.

   He helped himself get a chance to play the piano in prison.

  He fought side by side with the prisoners and beat the prison guards to the ground in unfair football games.

  He blew the horn to break out of prison, fulfilled his promise and brought himself out of prison.

   When he left, he gave half of the only ten silver grams to himself.

   "You're talking too much..." Ross refuted Rock Shriver's words in a low voice, "I know you want to scare me, but...too much..."

"Huh?" Locke Shrivel turned around, didn't quite hear what Ross muttered, he thought it was over, and strode back to Ross, "I repeat, I didn't hear clearly, don't miss any clues .”

"Chris..." The words came to his lips, but it was so hard to come out, Ross gritted his teeth and made up his mind, "I really went to Dunman, he told me earlier, and I also watched him move towards Running in the direction of Dunman..."

  Rock Shriver's face quickly turned cold: "You don't want to go out, do you?"

"I…"

  Why do people who have dealt with Chris and the Peace and Equality Association become so stubborn? !

  Rock Shriver is puzzled and angry.

  He hates, hates.

   "Freedom, innocence, compared with prison, can't you see which one is more important? Are you a fool?" Locke Shriver grabbed Rose by the collar and grabbed him.

   "I'm not." Rose suppressed his fear, and handed the cup of coffee to Lockshri tremblingly, "I just don't drink coffee."

  (end of this chapter)