Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 169 Internaxionel

   "Why are you here - Morais sent you here?" In just a few words, Verak guessed the reason why Elizabeth appeared in front of him.

   "Well." Elizabeth's face was still white and flawless, and despite the simple clothes she stood there, she was still dazzling.

  This woman was born to belong to an ideal stage where she can rejoice to her heart's content, and she shouldn't be soaked in the dirty world.

"you…"

   "Are you in a hurry?" Elizabeth asked calmly.

  It is only noon now, and Verac has enough time to visit Colin in the cemetery. He shook his head slightly: "It's too late, I didn't expect that the Moraisian would be you, and you would come here so soon."

   "Then go ahead and talk about it." Elizabeth said.

   "...Okay." Verac turned sideways to give Elizabeth the way into the room.

  Elizabeth, who was half a head shorter than him, walked into the living room of the room and sat on the sofa: "Do you have many questions?"

Verac had just arrived in Laizein not long ago, but he had already answered many people's questions, which made his tongue dry. At this moment, Elizabeth was waiting for him to ask questions, but he was a little speechless. He closed the door and sat on the other side: "You... joined in too?"

   "Obviously." Elizabeth said.

  Hearing Elizabeth's cold voice, Verac calmed down a little: "You know everything about Chris, right?"

"Hmm." Knowing that Veraker had a lot of doubts, Elizabeth immediately explained, "Two and a half months ago, I saw Chris, or your arrest warrant, and finally understood what you said to me. Later, when you were arrested, the Equality Association secretly spread the theory of equality and recruited new members, so I followed the trend and joined in, wanting to know what Chris sacrificed his life for.”

   "I'm sorry, I once used Chris's identity for my own benefit." Verak felt that he needed to apologize to too many people.

"You are still very honest with me. As for the harm you caused to Chris and the Equality Society, I am not qualified to forgive you for them, but you were able to escape from Daymans Prison and get the respect of Morais, which shows that you have paid Many, and I have regained their approval, and I support their decision, so you are welcome to come back." Elizabeth didn't seem to care about this, and she seemed to see it clearly, unlike other people who delved into these issues at all.

  Verak was quite uncomfortable with the way of getting along with Elizabeth: "Thank you."

   "Are you going to see Arnold Colin?" Elizabeth asked, "I've seen him many times, and Chris always took him to see my stage play with him."

"Well." Verak nodded and looked out the window, "He helped me a lot, but in the end he was shot by the government because of me... I want to visit him, apologize to him, let go of some things in my heart, and devote myself wholeheartedly In the career, use this life to make up for the debt."

   "Do you have a gun?"

   "Yes." Verak ripped off some of his clothes, revealing the pistol at his waist.

  After seeing a gun, Elizabeth went straight to the door: "Let's go."

   "Are you sure you are the one who took me there?" Verak didn't rush out, but stopped Elizabeth.

   "Yes." Elizabeth opened the door and stood still.

   "Your face is too eye-catching in Laizein." Verak felt that going out with Elizabeth would easily attract others' attention, and he would be in big trouble if he was recognized by then.

  Elizabeth didn't answer this question, and went out directly. Verac had to pull up his collar and lower the brim of his hat to keep up.

   "There are very few people in the cemetery, and we won't be found by driving there." After the two got into the car, Elizabeth finally answered Verak's question.

   "...Okay." Verac didn't quite agree, but seeing Elizabeth's calm appearance, he could only choose to believe it.

  After all, I have been locked in prison for a long time and I don’t know about Laizein’s recent situation, and Elizabeth has joined the Equality Association for more than two months. This will not be the first time she has gone out, and she should have her own measure.

   "Then are you still an actor?" Verac casually asked about Elizabeth's situation.

Elizabeth drove the car herself, and took Verak to a cemetery in the southern district: "No, I resigned a month ago and announced to the outside world that I would go to Wellland to develop, but in fact I stayed in the Equality Association secretly. "

   "You said that you joined the Equality Association to find out what Chris died for. After staying in the Equality Association for so long, have you found the answer?" Verac asked while turning his head to look at the street scene outside.

"For the equality and freedom of more people, I know he died for these, but I don't understand." Elizabeth drove the car intently, staring straight ahead, "He is very knowledgeable and his family is well-off, why would he suddenly want to Fighting for the same rights for people he doesn't normally see."

   "What have you been doing during your time at the Equality Council?" Verak asked again.

   "Read the theory of equality he wrote, help with documents, cook, and clean up." Elizabeth said.

  Verak leaned on the seat, lowered the car window a little, and the wind came in. He stretched out his hand and pinched the brim of his hat: "They are all very ordinary jobs. Do you feel the difference from your previous work?"

"Um."

"When you were looking for the answer, you kept looking for Chris, trying to find something from him to understand him." Verac didn't comment on the fact that Elizabeth joined the Equality Council because of love, but gave her a trick , "Doing this is destined to be fruitless. I suggest that you and Morais apply to do something else, go to the station in another city, and see the world below with the comrades there."

"Are you referring to the living environment of the poor? Lazerin has it, and I have seen it too." Elizabeth half-knew what Verac meant, "but I never wanted to give up everything I have, to let them The idea of ​​becoming better. We are two lines, each doing its own thing and living its own life well.”

Verak also nodded, agreeing with Elizabeth's thoughts: "It's understandable, there is no law that stipulates that we have to make sacrifices to let others live as well as ourselves. But we must use legal constraints and orders, do not do it, do it It’s not so noble. The biggest difference between Chris and you is that he didn’t think from his own perspective, he looked at the problem from the perspective of us civilians living at the bottom.”

   "What's the difference?"

"The difference is that you know that we lack money, delicious food, luxurious housing, and educational resources. Only he knows that we lack the dignity that has been deprived of us long ago." Verak said, "Some things you stand You can’t see it from a high place, and only when you experience it personally can you understand that losing those things is more terrible than losing wealth.”

   Elizabeth did not speak again.

  Verak kept looking out of the car window. During the World Expo, the city that was already the most prosperous in the world became more prosperous.

   After a long time, the car arrived at a cemetery in the southern district. As Elizabeth said, the place is remote and clean, and there are very few people who come to visit. They don't have to worry about being recognized if they cover up a little.

   "Let's go." After parking the car, Elizabeth led Verac into the cemetery, all the way to Colin's cemetery, "You stay here, I won't bother you."

   "Thank you." Seeing Elizabeth leave, Verak looked deeply at the tombstone in front of him and was speechless.

  After Colin was shot, he gave up his ever-disappearing hope of escape, and chose to stop the car and ask the government personnel who were chasing him to take Colin to the hospital as soon as possible.

  Since then, he has never seen this innocent and innocent boy again.

  Now his arm still has a faint touch, as if Colin who was shot and vomiting blood is still pulling him, advising him not to stop.

   It seems that it is just a distraction, a trance, a living person becomes a cold tomb.

Veraker was a little hard to accept, he knelt down, caressed the tombstone, and said in a deep voice: "I'm sorry... I think you should already know that I am not Chris, but another person who used Chris's identity to deceive you and kill you people."

  The tombstone cannot answer, and the dead are really dead.

   "I..." Verak paused.

  It’s meaningless to apologize or justify to a dead person. He can’t hear it, and he can’t come back to life. Everything has happened, and it cannot be reversed. We can only bear it.

"I spent a small part of the more than 500,000 gold grams that I lied to you at the beginning, and the rest was handed over to the Equality Council, which is equivalent to handing it over to your friend Chris." After a long while, Verac only said this. , "If you want, you can always think of me as Chris, because I will do the same career as he has pursued all his life. If he hasn't finished, I will finish it for him."

   He actually resists being called Chris again.

  He has no intention of replacing Chris' aura, no intention of obliterating his true self, and becoming another person for various purposes and interests in order to cater to him. So, he's been trying to break away the hard way all this time, and he's done it.

   But at this point, he wished Colin would continue to think of him as Chris.

  In this way, this big boy will not be disappointed, and will continue to be naive, thinking that he died for his best friend, not a liar.

  He will feel better.

  Verak will feel better.

   "Heh." After saying these words, Verak laughed at himself.

   These things seem to be meaningless, more like self-comfort, but it's a pity that he can only hold back these things.

   "...I will create a new world with the Equality Association." After stopping for a long time, Verak finally said something from the bottom of his heart, and then stood up holding the tombstone, intending to leave.

  He looked around and was about to find Elizabeth to take the car back together. When he was preparing for the evening meeting with Morais, he accidentally found Elizabeth showing a sad expression in front of another tombstone not far away.

  Whose tombstone is that?

   Who else is buried here?

  Verak guessed that Elizabeth took the initiative not to meet him and talk to him about something, but to come here to meet that person logically.

  He stepped forward and saw that Elizabeth was not sobbing, but there were two tears on her face: "What's wrong?"

   "It's okay." Elizabeth replied briefly.

   "Who is this?" Verak looked at the tombstone. The name on the tombstone was very strange.

  Internasional.

  How could someone have such a name?

   "This is Chris' tombstone." Elizabeth stared at the words on the tombstone.

   "Chris?" Verak's pupils shrunk.

   "An empty tomb." Elizabeth wiped her tears and explained, "We didn't find his body, and we couldn't use his real name to engrave a monument. We can only use such an empty tomb to commemorate him."

"Then why is it called International? Does it have any special meaning?" Verak looked at the words on the tombstone repeatedly. He thought he knew Chris very well, but he still used the words on Chris' tombstone. Such a pseudonym is puzzling.

   "He once wrote a poem called Internacional." After Elizabeth finished speaking, she turned and walked towards the car, "Let's go, we should go back after you finish reading it."

Among the information about Chris collected by Verac, there is no content about the poem "Internasional". He was about to ask Elizabeth what the poem was about, but before he could speak, Elizabeth He left quickly, probably because he didn't want to show his misery in front of an outsider.

   "You go first." Verac left with Elizabeth in no hurry.

  He never imagined that Chris would be buried here. Although there is no remains of him, his spirit will remain forever and infect countless people forever.

   "Chris." Verac knew he was talking to himself, but still insisted on saying something.

  He wished so much that he had the opportunity to meet Chris, asking him many questions in person, talking with him all night long. It's a pity that fate tricks people. He and Chris were destined to be black and white before, and they couldn't really meet each other. What remained was the exchange of will across time and space.

"I really don't know what to say to you, and I don't know what the relationship between us is." Verak felt that Chris was very kind. They are brothers, like friends of the same person, "Let me say thank you on behalf of some people. Thank you for changing the world for us and sacrificing your life for it."

The Internaxonel on the tombstone is particularly eye-catching. Verac stared at the line and bowed: "There is still a long way to go to change the world, and the theory of equality written by you and Francis will eventually need to be continued. Answer. I am an ordinary person, because you have become a little bit extraordinary. Next, I will be you and not be you. I will do my best, and I am willing to give my life to fight for the new world. "

"Comrade Thomas Chris, I know you so well, and I hope you will remember my name, Most Verak." Verak glanced at Elizabeth, who had stopped the car and was waiting for him, "I will replace you You finish what you haven't done, and when that day really comes, I will see you again and tell you what the answer is, and how beautiful that scene is."

   "Drip." The car honked.

  Elizabeth seemed very reluctant to communicate with Chris from Veraker, or she didn't want anyone other than herself to disturb the sleeping Chris.

   "Okay, that's all for now. It may be a long time before we see you next time. I hope I won't die." Verak grinned, lowered the brim of his hat and walked away quickly.

  (end of this chapter)