Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 338 Bash Visitor (3)

   "What's the situation..." Vikenji and August, who were untied and locked in the meeting room, stared wide-eyed.

   "I don't know, it feels like a conference room..." August looked around to confirm the environment.

Vikenji saw it too: "The question is, shouldn't they lock us up? Why did they take us out of that camp, go all the way to this remote place, and lock us back in a In the meeting room?"

  August couldn't figure it out: "I don't know, why don't I go out and have a look?"

"Don't, be careful, there is some danger. They probably went to call someone to meet us, otherwise there is no need to do this, but I still can't figure out who it is..." Vikenji was worried about the danger of going out, but he was concerned about the lives of the two of them. Safety is assured a lot.

   "Someone is here." August said in a deep voice.

   "Hmm." Vikenj listened to the sound of footsteps, and stared at the closed door.

   "Boom boom boom."

  The people who came were very polite and respected them. Even if they were arrested, they still knocked on the door before entering.

   Then, a total of four people walked in.

  Two of them are Ross who brought them here, and Clark who acted as an interpreter. The other two are thin but look energetic, and the other has obviously fought tough battles, exuding murderous looks, and has been stern since he showed up.

   "Ahem, are these two?" Boyin asked Rose after covering his mouth and coughing.

   "Yes, this is August, and this is Vikenji." Ross said.

  Byne sat across from August and Vikenji, gestured with a smile, and asked, "Do they know who we are?"

   "Not yet." Rose pulled out chairs for Morais and Clark, and the four of them sat opposite to Bash's visitor. "They are still in a daze."

   "Clark, help me with the translation." Boyne glanced at Clark and communicated with August and Vikenj, "Are you revolutionaries from Winterhold? What's the situation in Winterhold now?"

   "Who are you?" Vikenji felt that these people in front of him were not soldiers, although they had close ties with the army.

   "You will know later, now answer my question truthfully. I can assure you that telling the truth will only bring you countless benefits."

After a brief eye contact between Vikenji and August, he decided to tell the situation: "We have a group of people who are engaged in the revolutionary cause in Winterhold, but it is not going well. Due to the lack of weapons, manpower, and experience, we are about to Failed."

   "This is too general, tell me what you are fighting for?" Boyne asked.

   "So that the poor are no longer oppressed, and everyone can live a life of freedom and abundance."

   "What are you going to do?"

   "Down with the government and create a new one."

"and then?"

   "Promulgate a bill to allow everyone to live equally and completely eliminate exploitation and oppression."

  Byne pondered: "Well...it's too simple."

   "Easy?" Vikenji thought Boyne meant that changing the world was too easy.

"Your thinking is still very naive. I want to overthrow the other party alone. From now on, I will decide everything on the surface. It is impossible to succeed in the revolution. Even if the government is overthrown, it will soon usher in a revolution. It’s a miserable failure, and the disease cannot be truly eliminated.” Boyin continued to understand the other party’s situation, “How many people do you have? Who are the members of the organization? Where are you active in Winterhold? What campaigns have you launched?”

Vikenji felt that Boyne's answer seemed to be guiding them, and a strange feeling rose in his heart: "We are called the Bash Workers' Mutual Aid Association, and we are currently only active in Winterhold. Basically, the members of the association are workers with a small amount of knowledge. There are about 2,000 people in total. We have fought in large and small places in Winterhold, mainly to protest and destroy some facilities. If the guards suppress it, we will resist."

   "The result of resistance is often countless casualties?"

"...Well, dozens of people die every time, and our leader Vladislav is also wanted. Now everyone's will is a little shaken. After all, if this continues, it will only be death. A meaningless thing can How many people do you expect to do?"

   "When did you start doing this? And why did you decide to do it?"

"About four or five months ago, we read in the newspaper that a group of rebel groups captured the government building in Bresci, which caused the much-anticipated closing ceremony of the World Expo to not be held. At first, this incident did not attract our attention. But then Vladislav accidentally got a copy of the "Theory of Equality" written by the rebel organization. After reading it, he felt that the equality that turned Bresey upside down would not be as simple as reported in the newspapers. They should They are fighting against the government for equality, so they think they are also being oppressed, why should we accept all this instead of fighting like them?" Vikenji was depressed and his voice was hoarse, "That's it, we slowly Slowly, workers' mutual aid associations were formed, and the struggle was carried out in the same way as the equality association."

   Morais glanced at his head: "It seems that we were quite successful at that time."

"The newspapers didn't report our goodness at all. If it weren't for the spread of various translated versions of the theory of equality, we would still be demonized." Boyin frowned, "Since we have been fighting for so long, and It was still affected by the Equality Association, so why didn't you come to Laizein earlier to seek support?"

"Because since the attack on the government building, there seems to be no news about the Equality Association. Everyone is saying that they were wiped out by the government. We plan to fight alone and become the new pioneer. After a while, I heard about Dunman's old With the help of the Equality Association, NATO successfully held a protest and forced the Dunman government to abolish the new conscription law. Only then did we know that the Equality Association is still there and is growing bigger and bigger. But when we were just preparing to send people, we Knowing that the Equality Society was wiped out in the old South Treaty, I gave up the idea again... Until recently, we were unable to move an inch in Winterhold. Vladislav said that we can only hope that the Equality Society is still there and can give us a helping hand. We pooled our money and arranged for the two of us who learned a little Bressi to come..."

"It's really tortuous enough." Morais crossed his arms, and after listening to Clark's translation, he briefly commented on the experience of the Bash Workers' Mutual Aid Association in the past six months. Feel like trying to help spark fires everywhere, and come up with a book that's kind of like a guidebook for the struggle."

Boyne’s questioning did not end: “As far as I know, the workers in Bash work long hours. How do you find time to fight? Or are you out of work? Then how do you make ends meet? ?”

"Most of us have jobs, and the fighting time is generally set at night. After work at night, we will take an hour or two to rest and wear masks to go out to protest, so many people in Winterhold call us mask people." Viken Ji was a little impatient, "Why are you asking these questions? It's not your turn to take care of Bash's revolution, right?"

"It's almost the end of the question, don't worry." Boin didn't face Vikenji's doubts directly, "So, the Bash government has been sitting by and watching you make trouble? Except for wanting one of your leaders and sending troops every time you make trouble Suppressed, so you don’t do anything anymore?”

"Of course not. Not only have they strengthened night patrols, they have given guards the right to shoot and kill troublemakers on the spot, and they have also issued orders to factories, asking factory owners to strictly control their workers. The workers will be directly accountable to the factory owner and punished. Therefore, it is difficult for us to go out quietly at night. Once we are found, even if we are not caught by the guards, we will be fired by the factory owner. If we are fired, all the factories in Winterhold will shut us out and not give us the opportunity to work..." Vikenji clenched his fists, but he still felt powerless in his heart that the powerful and powerful would jointly suppress them.

"This is very troublesome. The Bash government has done so much just to increase the cost of your troubles. If you can't find a solution as soon as possible, you will have to face dissolution in a short time." Boin said that the Bash government's behavior It’s understandable, because Blessie did the same thing. “To put it bluntly, your attack on the government is indifferent, but the other party’s attack directly hits your life.”

  August nodded slightly: "That's right."

   "Who the **** are you? Are you not from the patrol team?" Vikenji felt that the other party's tone and the angle of communication with him were not like a patrol team, and there was no hostility.

   "The last question, I'll tell you who we are after you answer it." Boin unhurriedly raised his index finger, "After several months of establishment, you are still fighting with the same method, no progress?"

   "Progress? What do you mean?"

  "Didn't you realize that such a struggle is blind, and you haven't explored a new direction?"

"Yes, but we can't figure it out..." Vikenji was a little ashamed. They couldn't even read a few words. They didn't know how to achieve their goal except fighting the government. "We want to attract more people. Come in to strengthen our strength, but no one is willing except some workers. We want to arm ourselves so that the government and factory owners are really afraid of us, but we have no money and no access..."

  Wickenji's words made Boyne, Morais, and Rose feel a burst of gratitude.

   To be honest, the fate of the group of people in Winterhold should be the standard ending of the struggle. They will only do it blindly, and then they will be manipulated to death by the powerful.

   If Francis hadn't organized a labor movement that broke history.

   If Chris hadn't written "Equality" and surreptitiously funded it.

  If there is no Morais advocates fighting resolutely with arms.

   If there is no important start-up capital from Verac.

  If Piaf hadn't written the "Women's Declaration" to perfect the concept of equality.

   If it weren't for Winston's "A Theory of Classes" pointing out how to change.

  If...

  How much better would they be than the Workers' Mutual Aid of Winterhold without these decisions that each step changed the future of the Equal Society as much as possible?

   Being able to have many talents like the Equality Association, coupled with luck, some accidents, and some inevitability, can hope to open up the situation and no longer be restrained by the government.

   "You have worked hard." Boyin finally said.

Other revolutionary organizations are unfortunate, because they did not produce great revolutionaries such as Francis, Chris, Boyne, Morais, Verac, Piaf, Winston, etc., but they are lucky, Because these people really exist, the Equality Society has already stepped into the new world with half a foot.

  Equality will give them a hand, it will give everyone a hand.

   "Can you say it? Who are you?" Following Boyin's in-depth inquiry, Vikenji actually had a vague result in his heart.

   "We are the Equality Association." Boyne said.

   "We are the Society of Equality," Clarke translated.

  The faces of Vikenji and August did not change for three seconds, and then they first questioned, then looked at each other, and then couldn't believe it.

   "You, who are you?"

"This is the headquarter of the Equality Association. I am the third chairman of the Equality Association, Boyne, and this is Comrade Morais, the head of the Equality Association's Operations Department. These two are Comrade Ross and Comrade Clark from the Equality Association's Propaganda Department. Boyin smiled, stood up and extended his hand solemnly, "Welcome to come here."

  After listening to Clark's translation, Vikenji and August opened their mouths slightly and were speechless.

   "This, no, impossible..."

   "How come, are they lying to us?"

  Vikenji's eyes were red. He was both happy and scared. He wished he would meet the Equality Council, and he was even more afraid that it was just the other party teasing him: "No, you must be lying!"

   "Why do you think so?" Boyin asked calmly, understanding their mood swings.

   "How could the Equality Association get mixed up with the army? We were captured by the patrol team, how could they hand us over to the Equality Association?" Vikenji couldn't understand.

"Because basically, the troops stationed by Laizein are all our people, and only two guard regiments are still under the actual control of the government." Boyin listened to his words from the perspective of the other party, and felt that this was pure bragging , "I know it's unbelievable, but we have indeed secretly controlled Laizein's independent editor and held Laizein in our hands. The reason why he hasn't been active and frequently appeared recently is that we are keeping a low profile and waiting for more Great timing."

   "How can the Equality Council control the army? How can the government sit back and watch you control the army?" Vikenji was still very skeptical.

Boyin still hung his outstretched hand: "If you are curious, I can tell you about this slowly. In addition, you don't know the trend of the Equality Association, and your own side is in a mess. You should also I know that I am worthless in the eyes of the government. If we are members of the government, there is no need to waste time with you, and we can just execute them directly or hand them over to the Bash embassy.”

   "Are you...really the Equal Society?" Vikenji wavered.

   "Ross, go and get the wanted list of us." Boin reluctantly asked Ross to bring the wanted list of himself and Morais.

  Seeing that the photo on the wanted list looks exactly like the person in front of him, Vikenji finally accepted this fact, stretched out his hand tremblingly to shake hands with Boyin, and cried with joy: "Hello!"

  (end of this chapter)