Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 35 Temptation

   "Yes, Mr. Chris. Time will tell, and we will win." Daniel thought Verak was talking about the rebel organization.

  Verak made a "huh" by mistake.

  Walak was not idle on the way of strolling, and got some more information about the recent situation of the rebel organization from Daniel.

Although the rebel organization has thousands of members, workers and students account for a considerable proportion. Most of the time what they do is to serve as the mainstay in various parades organized by the organization. Like Chris, who is willing to work hard There are very few rich and powerful.

   This is also normal. Few of the vested interests who already have huge wealth are willing to risk their lives to fight against the existing system and do stupid things that dig their own graves.

   Now Verac, who is pretending to be Chris and manipulating the rebel organization, only admires the cause they have done, and has never thought of participating in it. He used the rebel organization just to use their power to help him do some shameless things, and at the same time sit on this powder keg so that the Thomas family would not dare to act rashly against him.

   Then, he took advantage of his status and tried his best to amass money. After accumulating enough wealth for him to spend his life safely, he escaped from Lezein and even Brecy, and lived the luxurious life he wanted anywhere.

   "Let's go back." After wandering outside for a while, Verak felt a little boring. There was nothing important to do today, so he might as well go back and study those files more.

   "Okay, Mr. Chris." The car turned around, and Daniel started to drive back.

   "Remember to find the charity gala held in the past few days as soon as possible. I will attend it on Sunday night at the latest." Verak reminded the charity gala again.

He had thought about whether to let Chloe organize a fake charity party and donate 10,000 gold grams himself, and the money would give them a little strength in the hands of the rebel organization, but the idea was just After a flash, Verak didn't think about it deeply, because even if it was feasible, he didn't bother to do something that would have no impact if he didn't do it.

   "Leave it to me, I will arrange it for you as soon as possible." Daniel said.

After returning to the mansion, Daniel left. Verac didn't see Fletcher, so he didn't make a special trip to greet him. He went back to the bedroom and took out the list of sacrifices and betrayals that Chloe gave him last night, and the file bag. The list book, compare it.

  After some comparison, Verak was a little startled.

He had already asked Chloe about the impact of this incident, but Chloe's performance was fairly restrained, making him think that the trauma of the rebel organization was not serious. Now, by comparison, he found that the number of betrayers was only twelve, and it caused nearly two The death of a hundred members of the organization!

The Republic of Brescia is one of the only three countries in the world without the death penalty, so the government's attitude towards these non-important members is 'because the rebels resisted desperately, we can only kill them on the spot' The words were killed openly and aboveboard.

  Only a leader like Chris would think of arresting them first, interrogating the whereabouts of other people, and then sweeping up the organization. Obviously, Chris also understood what would happen if he was caught, so in that incident, he chose to destroy his identity information and shot himself.

  Based on the information that all ordinary members were killed and the core members committed suicide before being captured, Vilak deduced the attitude of some governments towards rebel organizations.

  The government was ruthless and cruel, but Valak was relieved.

   At the very least, if he is very unfortunate to be caught before taking the money and running away, he will not be shot dead on the spot like others, but will be arrested, because of his special status, he will not be killed.

   As long as there is no death, there is hope, so Verak can accept the worst situation.

  After updating the member information, the number of people who have a general relationship with Chris has dropped to more than a hundred people, and the number of people who have a deep connection has been reduced from seventeen to six.

  Looking at the crossed-out names on several pages, Verak sighed and said to himself: There will be no good end to revolution.

  Then, he specifically looked for Daniel's information, but found that he was not on the list.

   Indeed, as he expected, Daniel is a newcomer and hasn't had time to update it into the list.

  Thinking of Daniel's innocent and hearty smile and his enthusiastic and progressive attitude, Verac sincerely hopes that this young man and the fresh blood that is constantly being added will have a bright future.

   Putting away the list, Verac took out the "Equality" that Chris hadn't finished yet.

  This book seems to have magical powers. While answering questions for Veraker, it also created more doubts for him, attracting him to read on.

  Villac turned to the second chapter 'Liberty, Equality, Fraternity'.

  【The Bresci Revolution, which happened fifty years ago, properly boiled down politics to these three words: freedom, equality, fraternity...Why use these three words? Why not less or more? There is a profound truth in this. All actions in a person's life are three-in-one, which means that perception, emotion, and cognition coexist at the same time... (Note: 1)]

  In the second chapter, Chris no longer limited the content to equality, but expanded to what he called the three aspects of human nature, and deepened the understanding again through these three indispensable natures.

  【People in the past only knew how to shout for freedom in their revolution, and it took a long time to start preaching fraternity. What does it matter? What is the use of me saying this? The question is to know whether liberty alone is not without its flaws, and whether fraternity itself is not without its flaws...While we demand liberty from the needs of life, while accepting fraternity in our hearts, does our wisdom not Should equality be declared? …the last word of this slogan is adapted to the need of human self-knowledge, just as the other two words are adapted to the other two aspects of our life, the need for action and the need for love. (Note: 2)]

   It was a long time again, and it was already noon after reading it.

  Villac put away "Equality" and went to the bathroom to wash his face to wake himself up.

  After reading the second chapter, he has some fears about Chris and this book. With his knowledge reserve and level of insight, it is difficult to judge whether what Chris said is correct, so when reading, he has a sense of contradiction whether to agree or question.

His purpose of reading this book is only to understand the situation of the rebel organization, so that he can talk to core members such as Chloe without being timid, but now the purpose of reading the book seems to be more than that. He has many questions and wants to learn from the book. To get the answer from the book, and to get the answer from the book, the premise is that he needs to agree with the content in it.

   "Can't read it."

  Verak thought.

  He admits that Chris is a powerful character, and what he wrote is shaking his perception. If I continue to look at it, I'm afraid that I will be like Daniel, sinking into the abyss where there is no hope.

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  Note 1 and Note 2: Both deleted and revised from "On Equality" written by Pierre Leroux.

  (end of this chapter)