Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 394 Undercover

   This remark made Stuart ashamed.

  He originally wanted to perform well in front of everyone and let everyone know his excellence, but he lost his face in the end.

   "Are you okay?" Daisy asked Stuart concerned.

   "It's okay. When I went up, I thought that I might fall down, so I was always on guard..." Stuart endured the pain and tried to make amends to ease the embarrassment.

   Dai Qian didn't talk nonsense with this big boy who wanted to save face. She glanced at a few people and said loudly: "Those who can ride horses, each take care of a comrade who can't ride a horse."

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

   "Comrade, come to me!"

   "Come here!"

   Comrades from substations, Vikenji and August invite new comrades who can’t ride horses.

   "Comrade Veraker, come on?" Daisy remounted and invited Veraker to join him.

   "Let Comrade Connie come, I'll go to their side." Verac felt that something was wrong, and suggested that Comrade Connie come over.

   Daisy smiled heartily, and stretched out her hand to Connie: "Comrade Connie, come on."

   "Thank you!" Connie got on the horse and hugged Daisy tightly.

  Verak went to Arseni, and the group did not wait too long, and rode their horses towards Winterhold.

   "Flick bang bang bang bang..."

  More than a dozen horses made intensive trampling sounds, and several people who were riding horses for the first time let out exclamations amidst the bumps.

   "Comrade Arseni, this place should be quite a distance from Winterhold, right?" Virak was also afraid of falling, so he hugged Arseni with both hands.

"Yes, if we keep driving on horseback, we won't arrive until the day after tomorrow at the earliest, so we will change trucks and move forward when we reach the next pick-up location, so that we can guarantee that we will meet Vladislav and Cosmo before tomorrow night. We've met." Arseni knew that what Verak really wanted to ask was the time of their arrival and how to get to Winterhold, so he explained the plan at once.

   "Okay." The vague figures of Vladislav and Cosmo appeared in Verak's mind.

  He has never met these two people, but in the preliminary preparations, he has more or less learned about them.

  Vladislav, a native of Bash, was the president of the former Bash Workers' Mutual Aid Association. After the merger of the Mutual Aid Society and the Bash branch of the International Equality League, he served as the deputy station chief.

  Kozmo, a native of Bash, formerly the head of the Bash sub-station of the Equal Society, still retains the post of head of the station after the merger.

   These two people and Comrade Dai Qian who came to meet them are the three main leaders in the substation.

   "However, we will not enter Winterhold this trip." As Verak recalled, Arseni said voluntarily.

   "Not going to Winterhold? Why?" Verak asked inexplicably.

"Winter Castle is currently under strict inspection, and there is no way to safely send you in for a while, and Vladislav, Cosmo and the others are currently at a secret site outside Winter Castle for safety reasons. Wait." Arseni explained.

   After listening to Veraker, his face became more serious.

  The situation in Bash is obviously much more complicated and severe than that of Bresci. At the beginning, Lei Zein had a large number of soldiers patrolling and the curfew would not prevent comrades from entering and leaving. Now it is even difficult for them to enter Winterhold.

  If you can’t even get in, you can’t carry out all kinds of work, let alone launch a revolution to liberate Winterhold and Bash.

  However, this is also the reason why I brought people here.

  If everything goes well with Bash, then there is no need for him to intervene. The more difficult it is, the more he needs to break the situation.

   "Comrade Arseni, hurry up."

"it is good."

  —

  July 3rd, early at eleven in the evening

   Arseni and Daisy reluctantly fulfilled their agreement, without stopping all the way, and brought Verak and others to a small town only a dozen kilometers away from Winterhold.

  The town is extremely quiet at this point, and it is difficult to find even a single pedestrian on the street. When they arrived at the outside of the town in a truck, they got out of the car ahead of time for fear of alarming the townspeople. Dai Qian and Arseni led the way, followed by the rear, and tiptoely led people to a house on the easternmost side.

   First riding a horse, and then riding a truck, this non-stop driving for more than 30 hours made most of the comrades drowsy and exhausted. Now that there is no one to welcome them, it is quite embarrassing for some people to keep a high degree of vigilance to move forward.

   Fortunately, the house was not far away. After walking for a few minutes, they came to the back door of the house.

Dai Qian knocked lightly on the door regularly, and soon the back door was opened, a faint candle was lit in the dim room, a person whose face could not be seen led everyone into it, and then the door was gently closed .

   "Ouch..."

   "Sorry sorry..."

   "Be careful."

  The space in the room is quite large, and a dozen people didn’t feel too crowded when they came in, but there was only one person holding a candle all the time, so they couldn’t see the surrounding environment clearly, and they would inevitably bump into each other.

   "Everyone be quiet, follow me." The man with the candle walked to the side of the room and stopped in front of a floor, "Comrade Daisy, help me get it."

   "Okay." Daisy stepped forward to take the candle.

  The man squatted down with his hands free, and lifted the floor, revealing the basement glowing with light: "Comrades, come down with me."

   As he spoke, the man walked down the rough and simple stairs first.

"Everyone come one by one, be careful." Dai Qian did not rush down, but sent one comrade after another down with a candle, until Arseni at the back of the palace also went in, and then she went down, and by the way, the floor Close up.

  The space in the basement is even much larger than the room above, and it is very bright with electric lights connected.

   After going down, Verak quickly scanned the environment as usual. This basement was not much different from other darkrooms he had seen. There were bookcases for storing materials, a place for meetings, and other miscellaneous things.

   It took a second or two to understand the basics, and Verak looked at the man who brought them down, and another person in the basement.

   "Station Master, Comrade Vladislav, this is Comrade Verak sent by the terminal." Daisy greeted the two and introduced Verak to them.

   "Hello, Comrade Verak." The man who had just brought them down stepped forward and shook hands with Verak. "I am Vladislav, the deputy station chief of the Bash branch."

   "Hello, I'm Moster Verak." With the light, Verak was able to see Vladislav's face clearly.

  Vladislav wears round-frame glasses, has thinning hair, and has a gentle voice, giving people the illusion that he was once a teacher.

   "Hello, Comrade Veraker, I'm Donald Cosmo, the station master of the Bash branch." Cosmo was as meticulous as a lawyer.

   "Hello, Comrade Cosmo." Verak shook hands with Cosmo again.

   "Vladislav!"

"We're back!"

  Vickenji and August excitedly embraced Vladislav again.

   After greeting the acquaintances, Verak introduced the comrades who came with him to Cosmo and Vladislav.

   After everyone had a basic understanding of each other, Cosmo saw that many people's eyes were blurred, and said: "After driving for half a month, you should be very tired. I will arrange for you to stay and rest first."

   "Let them all go to rest first, let's chat." Verak shouldered the heavy responsibility, and finally met the leaders of the sub-station, eager to hold a meeting to discuss matters immediately.

   "I'm not sleepy either." Quentin chose to stay.

   "I'm not sleepy either." Connie was responsible for keeping Verac safe, so naturally she had to follow her as much as possible.

  Clark also wanted to stay as Veraker's translator, but Veraker saw that his eyelids could hardly be lifted, so he told him to trust his current level of Bash and go to sleep.

   "Okay." Cosmo immediately ordered several comrades in the branch station to arrange for Vikenji, August, Clark, Oscar, and Stuart to rest first.

Soon, there were only Verak, Quentin who was in charge of supporting intelligence work, Connie who was in charge of security work, and the substation chief Cosmo, deputy station chief Vladislav, Connie, and Combat in the basement. There are seven captains, Arseni.

   There are exactly seven chairs in the basement before anyone needs to stand and talk next.

   "Our conditions here are relatively poor. If there is anything unprepared, you can tell us directly." Cosmo first politely asked Verak and the others if they had anything they needed.

"It's nothing, as long as you have food and a place to live." The conditions here are quite poor. There are no conference tables to save space. The environment can further train several new comrades.

   "That's fine." Cosmo was relieved.

  At first, he was afraid that people from the main station would look down on their place, but now it seems that everyone is dedicated to the revolution, and it is not a problem if these things meet the minimum requirements.

   "I want to understand some things first." When Verak spoke Bash, he slowed down his speech for accuracy. "What is the specific situation of the sub-station now? Why can you even hide here?"

  According to expectations, after the sub-station is merged with the Workers' Mutual Aid Association, it should take advantage of the trend to enter Winterhold, gain a firm foothold in Winterhold, and accumulate strength to fight against the Bash government.

   It shouldn't be that all the leaders hid outside the city, and even the supporters were so cautious when they met.

   "The situation in Winterhold is more complicated, it's like this..." Cosmo sighed and told the situation to several people.

  Although the sub-station and the Workers' Mutual Aid Association merged some time ago and entered the development of Winterhold, the situation is still difficult.

The Bash government has adopted the most stringent system. After the people in the sub-station are arrested, their relatives will be implicated. This makes comrades with families retreat, or are stopped by family members who know the news, and are no longer allowed engage in related activities.

  At the same time, the Bash government publicly offered rewards for arrests, so some people could not resist the temptation to disclose what they knew to the government, resulting in many comrades being arrested, and Cosmo and the others had to change places up to four times a day to avoid being traced.

  In addition to these, the most troublesome thing for the sub-station is that the government first sent some people to lurk in the sub-station as undercover agents to absorb information. These undercover agents are more frightening and dangerous than the comrades who escaped and chose to expose. Because of their existence, everyone in the sub-station is in danger, mutual trust is greatly reduced, and it is difficult to carry out any medium-scale or larger activities.

  In order to ensure the safety of Veraker and his party, only a very small number of absolutely trustworthy comrades in the sub-station know about their coming to support, and these very few are currently gathered here.

  As for the martial law of Winterhold, it is even worse than that of Laizein.

  The entire city of Winterhold was divided into hundreds of independent areas according to the blocks, and each area had a separate guard stationed for inspection. Passes are required to travel through it during the day, and traffic is completely prohibited at night, which greatly prevents the circulation and planning tasks of comrades in the sub-station.

"...The pass is issued every day. The guards in each independent area have the right to issue the pass, and the pass is mutually recognized. For example, we set off from No. 1 Street and encountered the first inspection site. After careful search, the first The site will give us a pass that is valid for the day, and we can just show our pass at other stations in the future, and we don’t need to waste time checking.” Cosmo said, “Such a system effectively restricts our passage and can also effectively relieve the guards. The search pressure is a very tricky trouble..."

   "Hmm..." Hearing this, Verak understood why they couldn't bring his group into Winterhold.

  It is easy to enter Winterhold, just bypass the checkpoints at various intersections, but after entering, there will still be guards in every block. At that time, if they can't take out their pass, they can't prove that they live in the block, or they are directly recognized, they will be in danger.

   "The situation at the Bash substation is indeed more difficult and complicated than we imagined." Verak frowned, "I want to know first, hasn't the substation checked the comrades?"

   "Of course there are, but we merged with the Workers' Mutual Aid Association, and the Workers' Mutual Aid Association caused a lot of troubles in Winterhold before merging with us, and it has been infiltrated, so..." Cosmo said.

   To put it bluntly, the undercover agents are mainly concentrated on the workers' mutual aid association, and after the branch station is merged with the workers' mutual aid association, it is equivalent to absorbing all the undercover agents.

"Okay." The president and vice president of the former Workers' Mutual Aid Association were present, and Verac couldn't say anything. It could only be regarded as some price paid for the substation's entry into Winterhold, "Quentin, what do you have to say about this?" What do you think?"

   "It's really troublesome." Quentin said, "It is no less difficult to find out the undercover agents placed by the Bash government inside us than it is for our army to defeat the Bresci government army head-on."

   "Then do you have any countermeasures?" Verak asked again.

"First of all, we must rule out the possibility of us launching an internal search, which is dangerous, time-consuming, and inefficient." Quentin said calmly, "I think the best way is to launch a strong counterattack, and we will in turn plant inside the Bash government. Undercover. In this way, we can not only learn the government's intelligence, but also hope to steal our internal undercover list, and catch them all."

  (end of this chapter)