Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 375 Change (4)

  After a two-hour comprehensive plan inspection, after confirming that there were no problems in all aspects for the last time, half of the cadres of the Equality Association who had not yet set off also officially set off and went to their respective mission areas to stand by.

Keating was getting old, and he couldn't do enough to support the frontline work too much, so he stayed at the terminus with Boyne, who was not in good health, to take care of the overall situation. building.

  Villac went to the government building with Morais and the First Brigade of the Equal Society Operations Department, waiting to cooperate with the independent mixed division to start operations after eight o'clock.

  No action has been taken yet, hundreds of comrades from the First Brigade of the Operation Department are wearing plain clothes and scattered in different places.

In a hotel, Morais gave instructions to the squad leaders: "Go back to your respective positions later, remind everyone to check their weapons, and be sure to tie a red scarf on their arms after the operation starts, so that they can be independent. Recognized by the brothers of the blender."

"Yes."

"Yes."

"Yes."

"The government building is currently being deployed by an independent mixed division to take charge of the defense work. It can be said that there are our people inside and out, and the operation is expected to go smoothly, but even so, we must not take it lightly." Morais said in a statement. Sit down in the room, "Other things are prepared according to the original plan. Finally, let's make an appointment with each other."

  The team leader flashed out his watch, matching the time to the score exactly.

   "Go." Morais watched the squad leaders leave.

   "Less than an hour." Verak, who was sitting next to Morais, looked at his watch and said.

   "What mood?" Morais asked with interest.

   "I will be in whatever mood you are in." Verak believes that everyone is the same now.

   "Hehe..." Morais chuckled a few times, "It's coming soon, but I feel like I haven't woken up yet."

  Villac took out the cigarette case, first pulled out a cigarette and handed it to Morais, and then lit another one himself: "Take it as a dream, keep it easy."

"I've heard that some people can control everything in their dreams when they sleep. It would be great if we are in a dream and can do things as we want." Morais took a deep breath of the cigarette and exhaled the smoke slowly, "but dreams always The moment you wake up, it’s better to be realistic.”

   "Dong dong dong." While the two were chatting, there was a knock on the door.

"Enter."

   "Minister, Comrade Veraker." A young comrade walked into the room with a man in military uniform, "Captain Brian of the Independent Mixed Division Cavalry Regiment is here."

   "You are here." Lieutenant Colonel Brian, who was in charge of the government building area from the independent mixed division, came over specially, and Morais and Verac stood up to greet him.

   Lieutenant Colonel Brian shook hands with Morais and Verak: "Yes, let's see how your preparations are going."

   "Sit." Morais invited Brian to sit down, "Our people are already seated, and we only have to wait for eight o'clock."

   "Have you arranged for the red scarf on your arm?"

   "Of course, how could such an important thing be forgotten." Morais said.

"That's fine, we're only waiting for eight o'clock here." Lieutenant Colonel Brian nodded slightly, "When the time comes, our people will enter the government building in the name of unidentified dangerous elements. Everyone is under control. After we arrest everyone, you can go in again."

   Such an arrangement is equivalent to that the people in the War Department of the Equality Society don't have to do anything, just wait to receive the government building.

   Morais has no objection to such an arrangement.

  If people from the Independent Mixed Division and people from the Equality War Department flooded into the government building, the scene would probably be a little chaotic.

   It is more convenient to leave it to the independent mixing engineer to save the coordination between the two sides.

   "Eight o'clock... Is François having a morning meeting?" Verac asked.

"Well, at eight o'clock, most of Francois's subordinates were there, and we happened to catch them all in one go, so as not to cause any trouble outside." Lieutenant Colonel Brian nodded. They chose to act at eight o'clock because they had considered at this point.

   "What about Comrade Joseph?"

"General Joseph will also participate in the morning meeting. This is not only to prevent François from suspecting anything, but also so that he can direct the work as soon as we control the government building." Lieutenant Colonel Brian said, "By the way, President Boyne, what about them?"

   Morais extinguished the finished cigarette in the ashtray: "He is not in good health. He will stay at the terminus first, and he will come when we formally control the government building here."

"Well." Lieutenant Colonel Brian sat in the room for a while, smoked a cigarette, drank half a glass of water, and saw that the time was only half an hour away from eight o'clock, so he didn't stay any longer, "...it's almost eight o'clock Alright, I'll go there first, and you guys pay attention to safety."

   Morais and Veraker sent Brian to the door: "You too, be careful, see you in half an hour."

   After seeing off Brian, Morais and Verac turned and looked out the window.

  The sky lit up unconsciously.

  This prosperous city is gradually waking up.

  Shops are open, and pedestrians come and go, just like usual.

   "Let's prepare and wait for departure." Morais checked the pistol.

  Villac saw Morais check the pistol no less than ten times today: "Are you nervous?"

   "There's nothing to be nervous about." Morais checked carefully.

"How many times have you checked the pistol today." Verak couldn't help laughing, "And the government building is diagonally opposite, at most a distance of four hundred meters, plus we wait for the independent mixed division to act first, then we will Anyway, I still have to sit for another half an hour."

   "I'm not nervous, mainly because I can't sit still." Morais argued.

   "Okay, just stay at ease." Verak came to the window and poked his head out to look at the government buildings diagonally opposite.

  Many places in that building complex have been renovated.

   This is because the Equality Association attacked once more than half a year ago, causing considerable damage to it.

   "Wait, Francois." Verac said silently against the breeze.

  …

  Time passed quickly, and the minute hand of the clock in the hotel was about to complete a full rotation.

  Moles couldn't sit still this time, and began to help each other tie the red scarf with Verak: "It's fifty-seven minutes, and they are going to take action soon, we should get closer."

   "When the Bresci flag in front of the government building is lowered and replaced with the flag of our Equality Association, it means that they have completed the control, and we can go in, right?" Verac estimated the time, and it was indeed almost the same.

   "That's right." Morais went out and froze in front of the corridor.

   Without his reminder, the dozens of comrades who stayed in the hotel on standby like him and Verac have all tied their red scarves and lined up waiting to set off.

   "Good boys..." Morais grinned, "Let's go!"

  —

  Government buildings, conference halls

  Francois is having a routine morning meeting with a group of ministers.

"Mr. President, the troops we dispatched have arrived at the border, trying to mediate the conflict between the Kingdom of Sdir and the Empire of Castelia, at least to ensure that the flames of war will not spread to our territory. However, both sides are red-eyed , it seems that it is not so easy to solve." The Minister of Defense reported with François.

   "Well...their two sides have had a long-standing grievance, and this time the old and new feuds will be settled together, and it certainly doesn't mean that they can be separated." Francois replied a little listlessly.

  He had another nightmare yesterday.

  The scene in the dream was similar to the previous few times. The Equality Society quietly launched a large-scale attack and arrested him.

   "Mr. President? Mr. President?"

   "Huh? What's the matter?" Francois looked at the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

   "You...didn't you hear what I just said?"

   "What did you say? I didn't hear you clearly. Say it again." Francois was distracted just now, and didn't even notice that someone was talking to him.

  The Foreign Minister pushed his glasses and said: "Bash's side is at a stalemate. The coalition forces are temporarily unable to effectively counter Bash's unlimited submarine tactics. The losses have been rising rapidly in the past few days. Do you think our next step should be..."

   "Let's take a look at Welland first. They are under much more pressure than us, and they should be stepping up to find a solution now." Francois plans to end the meeting early to meet Bash's ambassador.

He made a secret alliance with Bash, and waited for Bash to push Sdell and Castelia to fight on the border of Brexi, and then he transferred his navy back logically, leaving Wellland to fight against Bash .

  Now the time is ripe, and if the fleet is not brought back, I am afraid that these elite forces will follow Welland and suffer a lot of losses for no reason.

   "Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong..."

  At this time, the bell in the meeting room rang.

  It's eight o'clock sharp.

   "You continue to report." Francois raised his chin, and while listening to the speeches of the ministers, he unconsciously glanced at Joseph who was sitting upright.

  He feels that sometimes he can't see through Joseph.

  This person's words and deeds are very straightforward, not like the kind who hides things in his heart and likes to do one thing in front of the other, but the more he is like this, the more uneasy Francois feels.

   This anxiety rose to the extreme after the command of the Guard Corps was also temporarily handed over to Joseph.

  Francois thought about it for a while, and it seemed that after Joseph took power alone, he began to have nightmares one after another.

   Maybe it's time for me to rearrange the layout and make some checks and balances on Joseph.

  Francois was thinking this, the door of the conference hall was suddenly pushed open, and then a group of soldiers led by Lieutenant Colonel Brian of the independent mixed division walked in.

   "Mr. President." Lieutenant Colonel Brian saluted Francois.

   "This is..." Francois looked puzzled, and the ministers also looked at each other in blank dismay.

  A small lieutenant colonel dared to lead a group of armed soldiers into the conference hall without knocking on the door. What happened?

   "According to intelligence, some dangerous elements have mixed into the government building. In order to ensure the safety of you and the ministers, we need to **** everyone to a safe place." Bryan said.

   "Dangerous element?" Francois's scalp was numb.

   "What's going on?" Joseph stood up and looked directly at Brian.

  Bryan saluted Joseph: "General, time is running out. We need to move Mr. President and the ministers to a safe area as soon as possible."

   "Okay, we must ensure the safety of Mr. President and the ministers!" Joseph didn't ask much, and directly granted Brian's request, and then looked at Francois, "Mr. President, hurry up."

   "Let's go, let's go." As soon as Francois heard the word "dangerous element", Francois had a strong premonition that Equality would come again. In the past few days, he has been dreaming of the Equality Association in his dreams, and now he is so frightened when he learns that the Equality Association has sneaked into the government building. He almost stood up and said, "Let's go!"

   Without Francois saying anything, the ministers had already panicked and ran to the soldiers to seek shelter.

   "Bryan, we must ensure everyone's safety." Joseph finally walked over, "Mr. President, I will dispatch troops to investigate hidden dangers."

   "Yes." Brian had a meaningful smile on his face.

   "Hurry up and arrest these people!" Francois said.

   "Yes, Brian, take everyone away."

"Yes!"

  The calm Joseph stood at the door of the conference hall, quietly watching Brian lead the soldiers to lead François and others to a higher level, and the soldiers took over the surroundings, and walked outside alone with big strides.

  —

  The intersection in front of the government building

  An old man in ragged clothes, as thin as a skeleton, curled up on the side of the road, thanking the pedestrians who dropped a coin in front of him from time to time.

   "Ah..." He leaned against the lamppost, covering his shriveled belly with one hand, and counting a few coins repeatedly in the other.

  These coins add up to less than two copper grams. In the expensive city of Laizein, even a decent breakfast is not easy to eat.

   But this is not bad for him, a beggar with nowhere to go.

  Even a small piece of black bread is enough to keep him alive.

  He slowly looked towards the majestic government building in front of him. Everyone inside was rich and powerful. As long as anyone gave him a little money, he could get him out of the predicament and try to live his life again.

   It’s just that he’s been begging for so many days, and those who come out of it, and those who go in from the outside, haven’t looked at him directly.

   "If only there were people from the Equal Society..." he murmured.

  The powerful will not notice him, but equality will make a difference. During this period of time, he heard that many beggars were properly settled with the secret help of the Equality Association.

   Maybe one day in the future it will be my turn.

   "What, what?!" The old man sat up suddenly, rubbed his eyes, and looked at the flag raising platform in front of the government building in disbelief.

   There, a few soldiers lowered Bresci's flag, replaced it with a flag with a scale pattern, and raised it into the air.

  Scale pattern…

   Isn't that the symbol of the Equality Society? !

   "How is it possible..." The old man was stunned. He guessed that he must be starving and fainting to have such absurd hallucinations.

  The scene after that made him affirm his guess.

  After the flag of the Equality Association was flying in front of the government building, countless people with red scarves on their arms rushed from all directions. Their goal was the same, and they all rushed to the government building.

   "Hehe..." the old man smirked, his eyes began to blur, "It's time to eat."

  (end of this chapter)