Twenty Seven Years

   "Leaving Winterhold?" While others were still digesting the heavy news, Quentin frowned and asked about the situation, "Is it because of the undercover traitor?"

"Well." Seeing that everyone was disappointed, Verak couldn't help but sighed softly, "The list of undercover agents and traitors is only available inside the 'scavenger' who specialize in cleaning us up, but we can't get in at all, and we can't use other means. Steal the list. Instead of stalemate here, it is better to go to other places to build strength."

  Vladislav said with a sullen face: "Comrade Dai Qian, the deputy station chief, broke into the department that has a connection with the scavenger just to obtain the list, and finally exposed and sacrificed."

"Is there no other way for us?" Stuart thought that he would show his strengths here, and that he would grow up in adversity, but he never thought that he hadn't brought out any of his strengths, and the sub-station was repeatedly frustrated. , to withdraw from Winterhold.

   "Should we go straight to the leader of this organization? He must know who's on the list." Connie tried to think of a way.

"The leader of the scavenger is named Maxim. He is a ruthless character. He can prevent all departments from our intrusion, so he must have considered our attack on him." Verak patiently vetoed the feasibility of the plan, "We can't even It's unrealistic to be near him."

  Oscar listened and wanted to contribute: "Then can we—"

"We have already thought about or tried all the things you mentioned." Vladislav took a deep breath, interrupted Oscar's speech, and interrupted other people's meaningless thoughts, "I hope everyone understands, We did not make the decision to evacuate casually, this is the last way we have to go."

   "Yes." Verac said.

   There was silence in the compartment.

  They are all one-in-a-million talents, and they are placed with high hopes by Laizein's comrades, but the reality hits them head-on so that they can no longer immerse themselves in those expectations and rhetoric.

   "I know, this decision is difficult for people to accept." Verak said, "We came to support the sub-station, but we have been here for almost a month, and we still haven't even done a decent thing."

   "This is normal." Quentin quickly relieved.

"...Yes, no matter how good life is, it is impossible to be smooth sailing, not to mention that we are taking the road of revolution." Verak continued, "Everyone should face it with a normal heart. What we have to do is to retreat. Get out and do it all over again."

   "Then the task here..." Oscar managed to do something that he was good at, and he was a bit unwilling to give up here easily.

Veraker went straight to the point: "This is the purpose of my meeting with you. The overall evacuation work will take about ten days, which means that if you insist on performing tasks here before evacuation, then your mission is hopeful to be completed. Yes. But now you still face another choice, that is to abandon Heping Street, use the next ten days, and go to Xiling City to help the sub-station regroup, so as to return to Winterhold as soon as possible."

   "Shouldn't you decide this?" Quentin asked.

   "You have made a lot of preparations for the struggle on Heping Street. I don't want to erase your hard work these days with just one sentence." Verak wanted to tactfully take everyone away.

  The importance of Heping Street cannot be compared with the substation as a whole. If everyone goes to rebuild the substation earlier, and the substation returns earlier, Heping Street will also benefit.

  Quentin immediately understood Veraker's meaning: "So you tend to let us abandon this place and go to Xiling City to build a substation first."

"Yes."

   "I trust your judgment. If you suggest that we go to Xiling City first, then we will go to Xiling City." Quentin categorically supported Verak's decision.

"Let's go. Anyway, no matter what we choose, it is to liberate Bash and let the people of Bash live a better life. Falling on the head of Heping Street is the difference between changing earlier and changing later." Stuart was also very open.

   "I listen to you."

   "I listen to you too."

  Oscar and Connie followed the arrangement unconditionally.

   "Okay, then I will hurry up and arrange for you to go to Xiling City." Verak was very pleased, "Comrade Clark, I will solve it tomorrow."

  Quentin was still about to ask Clark, who had entered the inspection team, what to do: "Okay, then we will hand over the work to the people on Heping Street tomorrow and terminate the mission."

  Verak said: "Pay attention to safety, hold on to those who have been in contact, we will come back after a while."

"clear."

   "It's these things. Thank you for your hard work. We will finish everything that needs to be solved tomorrow. It is expected that we will leave one after another the day after tomorrow." Verak apologized.

  As the current supreme leader of the sub-station, he is considered by Boyne to be the person most capable of changing Bash.

   It has been a month, and the revolutionary work of the sub-station has not only made no progress, but also regressed a lot, which made him doubt himself for a moment.

  Can I lead the revolution of the Bash substation to success?

  Will the tragedy of the Dunman substation be staged again? Didn't even get to that step and everyone fell down?

   Fortunately, these are just fleeting thoughts.

  Can or cannot, who can insist before it happens?

  The only thing that is certain, known, and unchangeable now is that he is here. As the supreme leader of the sub-station, he will lead everyone to turn the situation around and turn the tide.

  The only thing left to him is to be firm and go all out.

   "Everyone go to rest." After finishing the matter, Verak asked everyone to take a rest and get up early tomorrow to make use of the time.

  The few people who originally got together to discuss the follow-up mission, because the mission was shelved and had nothing important to do, they all left the cubicle to rest.

   "Aren't you leaving?" Vladislav stood still at the door of the cubicle, looking at Verak who remained motionless in the cubicle.

   "I'll be alone for a while." Verak waved his hand, signaling to leave him alone.

   "...OK." Vladislav closed the door and left.

   Alone in a confined space, the quiet atmosphere made Verak's heart calm down quickly.

  He lit a cigarette and thought about the future direction of the substation while smoking.

  Is Winterhold a place that must be taken? Is it the place that must be won first?

   Before today, this point was a consensus that no one questioned.

  Winterhold is the capital of Bash, and now Bash is at war with Welland and other countries, and his energy has been restrained a lot. If he can take this opportunity to overthrow Winterhold, the whole of Bash will be affected.

   It can be said that winning Winterhold is prying the foundation of Bash's old forces.

   This is the undoubted shortcut to changing Bash across the board.

  But the reason why a shortcut is a shortcut is not only because it is fast, but also to ensure that it works.

Winterhold spared no effort to suppress the revolutionary forces, so that they did not dare to show their faces, and no one dared to respond to them. Coupled with serious problems such as infiltration, this road was almost blocked, and there was no shortcut at all. up.

  When Verak proposed to evacuate Winterhold, he still didn't say a word.

  He wants to include Winterhold as the last place to take.

   Instead of struggling to open up in Winterhold, but to surround Bash and swallow it with absolute advantage.

  Putting the heart at the end of the change is contrary to the collective cognition of the sub-station, but Verak vaguely believes that this is the fastest and safest way.

   "Hoo..."

   After puffs of cigarettes were spit out, Veraker made a rather courageous decision—overthrowing all the layout of the Bash substation, and starting all over again.

  —

   Late night

  Winterhold, the residence of Maxim, the man in charge of the heavily guarded "scavenger"

  A man wearing a black hood was escorted in by two soldiers. After a rigorous search, he was finally sent to the parlor.

  "Mr. Maxim." The soldier escorted the man wearing the hood to the sofa and sat down.

   "Go out." The tough man with a shaved beard and short black hair turned his head slightly, ordered the two soldiers to leave, then crossed his legs, and looked at the man in the hood with a half-smile, "Take it off."

  The stiff man took off his hood, his face could not hide his nervousness, and he said respectfully, "Mr. Maxim."

   "This is your first visit to my mansion, right?" Maxim looked around his magnificent living room.

"Yes…"

   "Tell me, how did you get out of here."

   "They all went to Heping Street, and I was the only one left in the site. I happened to have important information to report to you, so I came here in person."

   "What happened? Cosmo." Maxim asked with narrowed eyes.

Less than two meters away from him, Cosmo, the head of the Bash sub-station of the International Equality League, rubbed his hands and swallowed his saliva: "Verak believes that it is difficult to eliminate undercover agents at present, and the environment of Winterhold is also seriously hindering the development of the sub-station. So it was proposed to withdraw from Winterhold and bring comrades back to Xiling City for development. I tried to block it, but because Vladislav and Arseni both agreed, I could only agree to it for the time being.”

   "Oh." Maxim snorted coldly, and said contemptuously, "I thought this Valakle Winterhold would cause a lot of trouble. After a long time, I still had to escape in despair."

   "When do you plan to clean up the International Equality League sub-stations?" Cosmo asked.

   "Now we have cooperation with the International Equality Alliance, and we kill these people when we come up. After all, it's a bit embarrassing." Maxim took the initiative to lean forward, poured two glasses of wine, and pushed one of them to Cosmo.

  Cosmo quickly picked it up with both hands: "Isn't Laizein denying the connection with the sub-station here? If we get rid of them, Laizein won't be able to say anything, right?"

   "That's what I said, but there are too many uncertainties in doing it. Since we have time, there is no need to rush to take risks to affect the overall situation, isn't it?" Maxim took a sip of wine leisurely.

   "Yes..." Cosmo's head was dripping with sweat, "The problem is that the situation is difficult to control after they leave Winterhold."

   "When are they planning to leave?"

   "Verak hopes that the sooner the better, but the evacuation also has a lot of work to be arranged. I took all of these on myself, so it can be delayed for at least ten days." Cosmo's real purpose is to delay time.

   "Enough." Maxim said, "Within ten days, we will win the war with Welland and Bresci."

  Cosmo involuntarily lowered his voice a little: "The battle situation at Signe Willen Sea is about to come to an end?"

  Maxim smiled confidently: "The coalition forces of Welland and Bresci are shaky, and the withdrawal is a blink of an eye."

   "That's good..." Cosmo heaved a sigh of relief.

   "It's been hard work for you during this time." Maxim raised his glass, "It's not easy to pretend to be a conscientious webmaster, right?"

   "No, no..." The words made Cosmo's face feel burning pain.

  The Bash branch of the International Equality League has come to where it is today, all because of his deliberate efforts.

   Before the sub-station was merged with the Workers' Mutual Aid Association, Maxim personally took people to Xiling City to secretly grasp their tracks, and then found an opportunity to meet him alone, and threatened and lured him.

   Confronting Maxim made Cosmo feel deeply powerless.

  After realizing that his life and death depended on the other party's thoughts, he betrayed the organization and the revolution, and became Maxim's biggest dark chess piece.

And Maxim, knowing from Cosmo that Boyin intends to merge the sub-station and the Workers' Mutual Aid Association, so as to expand his strength and enter Winterhold, took advantage of the opportunity to deliberately leave the Workers' Mutual Aid Association, and placed a large number of scavengers in it. Then, after the merger of the workers' mutual aid association and the sub-station, wreak havoc and severe damage together, these revolutionaries easily lost the ability to plan new actions.

   Then, Maxim has been patiently controlling Cosmo, and let Cosmo hang on to the half-dead substation.

  In his eyes, the half-dead International Equality Alliance is the best International Equality Alliance.

  Leave them alone, and Winterhold will be in chaos. After clearing them, it won't take long for new organizations to emerge.

   The stability of Winterhold can only be achieved if they exist all the time and can't do anything all the time.

   "What did they go to Heping Street?"

   "Verak wanted to organize the new comrades to plan for follow-up development. Vladislav and Arseni felt that staying here would not help me, so they went with them."

  Maxim was thoughtful: "Didn't they notice something?"

   "This is definitely not the case. No matter how much they suspect, it is impossible for them to suspect me." Cosmo is confident that he will keep Verak and others in the dark.

   "That's good, is there anything else to report?"

   "No more, I think you are very clear about Brexi's affairs."

"Well. You go back, delay as much as possible, and leave this group of people in Winterhold. Once the war is over and we have won the victory, there is no need to cooperate with the International Equality League, and we will completely eliminate them." Maxi Mu's victory is in his hands, "When the time comes, I will fulfill all my promises to you."

   "Thank you." Cosmo thanked.

   "Come here." Maxim didn't talk nonsense with Cozmodo, and directly raised his voice.

  The two soldiers guarding the door of the living room heard the voice and walked in quickly, and Cosmo put his headgear back on before they entered.

   "Mr. Maxim."

   "Where he came from, bring him back."

"Yes."