Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 214 New Year

  Afternoon of December 24th

Under the leadership of Minister of Security White, Locke Shriver met the President of the Republic of Brescia, and received his commendation and encouragement, which inflated his ambitions, and almost bet everything on the Equality Society. Use these stupid revolutionaries to help yourself ascend to higher heights of power.

  In the evening, he prepared all his things, gave detailed instructions to the subordinates who stayed at the Intelligence Bureau, and made preparations to stay at the military warehouse to take charge of the overall situation in the next few days, so he hurried back.

   "How is it?" After returning to the room where Diaz and others were monitored in the South District, Rock Shriver went straight to the window to observe with a telescope.

   "They have investigated the situation in the three blocks near the military warehouse today." A subordinate replied.

   "Three blocks?!" Rock Shriver was extremely surprised by this efficiency, "Just the three of them?"

  The subordinate said: "Only Diaz and Nord. It can be seen that they are in a hurry. Except for coming back for lunch at noon, they didn't rest for a minute. It just exhausted the three groups of us."

"Oh." Lockshriver's eyes lit up, and he looked at the lighted window in the distance with the help of a telescope, "The World Expo is coming to an end soon, not only we can't sit still, but the Equality Council can't sit still either. Judging from the situation , the day after tomorrow at the latest, a large force from the Equality Association will come over."

   "Then Morais and Chloe, who are equal members, should also be able to come over?"

"Of course." Locke Shriver is full of confidence in using the military warehouse as a bait to win the Equality Society in one fell swoop. "If the Equality Society wants to do anything, it must first fill in the vacancies for weapons. Therefore, the military warehouse is their most recent priority. The most important thing is that it is normal for new leaders of the Equality Association like Morais and Chloe to come over."

  The subordinate nodded: "Then we have to hurry up and mobilize our troops for deployment?"

"I have personally reported this matter to the President." Locke Shriver put down his binoculars, his eyes full of pride, "Mr. President notified the patrol guards and other soldiers stationed there, and asked them to assist me with all their strength. So as long as I say Under the order, we can immediately concentrate our troops here."

"That…"

"I have to wait." Rock Shriver returned to the sofa and opened his suitcase, which contained clothes and the original manuscript of "Equality". "The Equality Society will be very cautious, and I don't want to leave too many hidden dangers before taking action .”

"clear."

Locke Shriver took out "Theory of Equality" and grinned contemptuously: "Tomorrow there will be a team of people coming to assist you in surveillance. From today onwards, I want you to stay on top of all the information about them 24 hours a day. Report to me in time."

"clear!"

"If there is another omission in this matter..." Locke Shriver was worried that something would happen to the waste subordinates, his face suddenly turned cold, and he stared at more than a dozen subordinates in the room in turn, "There is no need to blame the superiors, I will personally deal with you one by one .”

  —

   "Here comes the water."

"hurry up!"

  Murphy brought two jugs of hot water and poured them one by one in front of Diaz and Nord who were sitting on the chairs.

   "Hiss..." Nord slowly put his cold and sore feet into the steaming water basin. When the water reached his ankles, he breathed out comfortably, "Phew..."

   "It's really cold tonight." Diaz, a person who doesn't like to tell the bitterness of his experience, couldn't help sighing about today's temperature.

  Nord closed his eyes, all his attention was focused on enjoying the foot bath.

   "Yeah." Murphy went to add more firewood to the stove, "It feels like I've never been this cold before."

   "You don't have to work too hard, you can also take a rest." Diaz said.

   "Yes." Murphy agreed but did not follow through.

   Not long after, Nord slowed down: "The action will start tomorrow, have you decided where to rent a house?"

   "It's confirmed, the hotels in the three surrounding blocks will reserve some, and the total number of rooms should be more than 200." Diaz said, "Murphy, give me the money."

   "We are going to set it until the fifth of next month, right? This is really not a small amount of money..."

"If this money can save a lot of people from sacrificing, it will be worth it." Diaz took the two thousand gold grams that Murphy brought over, "But the two hundred rooms are shared equally, and each hotel gets a share. Quite a few, it would be best to lower the price and save money for the club.”

  After the water became cold, Nord stretched out his foot to wipe it off: "I'm good at this, let me do it tomorrow."

   "Let's talk about it tomorrow."

"When we reserve the rooms tomorrow, the government must think that we have decided to do it here, and at least hundreds of people have been arranged." Nord thought of the government's judgment on them, and said with a smile, "Plus It’s such a juncture when Shangren reaches No. 5, when they wait for No. 5, they will probably transfer more than half of their troops to this side.”

   "If it goes well, it will be like this, but if it doesn't go well—"

   "Don't be crowed, this matter will definitely be completed smoothly." Nord wiped his feet, and smiled at Diaz, "Okay, rest early, there are many things to be busy later."

   Diaz watched Nord go to bed wrapped in a quilt to sleep, and began to wipe his feet: "It will be smooth."

  —

  December 26th

  In the past few days, many people have been transferred from the main station of the Equality Society of the Morais faction in the west area, and the small factory has become more lively than ever.

  Villac’s newly formulated study class has basically been implemented. After discussing with Andre, they decided to set the time of the study class at the time of eating every day, and the location is in the cafeteria.

  Because several people are all people who do what they say they will do, this matter was discussed in the morning, and it was officially held in the cafeteria at noon without delay.

  The processing factory secretly controlled by the Equality Association is different from other factories. It secretly runs three shifts to allow workers to have sufficient time to rest. This also causes them to appear uniformly only when they are eating and sleeping every day.

  Compared to taking up rest time, listening to lectures while eating is naturally the best arrangement.

  At noon that day, the canteen was crowded with a total of more than 200 people including the workers and members transferred from the terminus. But fortunately, in the past few days, Andre led people to work overtime to produce a large number of seats, so that at least everyone can sit and eat in an orderly manner.

  Villac, Keating, and Piaf had eaten ahead of time, and they were standing in the middle of the cafeteria, and began to give lectures to everyone.

"Hi comrades, although after a few days of getting along, everyone basically knows us, but I still want to formally introduce the three of us before the lecture." Verak smiled and faced the meal, all excited Looking at his workers, "Comrade Piaf, she is very powerful. She is a person who has the courage to fight for women's rights and fight against any injustice. In addition to launching a newspaper to speak out for women, she also created a We will tell you about important works such as 'Women's Manifesto'."

  The workers listened with relish.

  Andre stood in the corner, his eyes shining.

"Comrade Keating." Verak stretched out his hand to Keating again, "I have been to many countries, and I know everything because of my knowledge. He is a teacher I admire very much. He helped me out of the darkness and helped me build up my confidence. He will also help me. Everyone, do your best to share your knowledge with everyone.”

   Keating smiled and shook his head.

"I am Verak." Verak has seen many big scenes, and he has no stage fright in front of hundreds of workers and members, and said in a clear voice, "Actually, I am a worker just like everyone else. I used to practice I worked in a steel mill for many years, and then I became a photographer by chance. After that, I devoted myself to the great cause of fighting for equality..."

After a brief introduction, Verac cut to the chase and gave a formal lecture: "The first thing I want to tell you today is the 'Women's Manifesto' written by Comrade Piaf. Why is it 'Women's Manifesto'? Why do I have to talk about it first? What about women’s equality? We agree that if we want to strive for equality, we must first recognize our own shortcomings, and realize that when others treat us unequally, are we treating others unequally? If we can first correct ourselves problems, then you can show due sincerity, gain more allies, and work together for greater and more comprehensive equality."

Piaf took a step forward, took out the "Women's Manifesto" written by herself, and calmly read the content to the male and female workers, male and female transferred members: "Women have the right to climb scaffolding, And the same right to be in the Tribune..."

  —

  December 27th

  Diaz finished booking the house and completed the second phase of the task.

  Lock Shriver, who was always monitoring them, didn't feel suspicious for the time being. After quietly investigating that the Equality Association had reserved a house with more than 200 rooms here, and directly booked it on No. 5, he was so excited that he almost wanted to shoot a few shots to celebrate.

   In his opinion, this has already explained a lot.

  First, the Equality Association decided to attack the military warehouses in the southern district.

  Second, they will send at least two hundred people, and if there are more, it may exceed five hundred. The combat strength of 500 people is almost all of the Equality Society. This means that at least one of Morais and Chloe will come, and it also means that if they completely annihilate the power of the Equality Society, the Equality Society will hardly pose a threat to them anymore. .

  Third, the room is set to No. 5, which means that the Equality Association may act on No. 5. The 5th is also the closing time of the World Expo, which reveals that the Equality Society will probably first attack the military warehouse to obtain weapons on the 5th, and then go straight to the World Expo.

  Lock Shriver thought he had already figured out most of the situation of the Equal Society's master plan, and he also arranged the initial transfer.

  The military warehouse itself has trucks coming and going several times a day, responsible for transporting military supplies. Locke Shriver focused on this, and began to arrange for the military warehouse to transport the supplies out bit by bit by truck, and then transported a large number of troops in quietly.

  In this way, not to mention other mobilizations, when the Equality Association wants to attack the military warehouse, there will be no less than 500 troops in the military warehouse.

   As for the others, the patrolling guards of the entire city gradually concentrated in the southern area where the military warehouse was located, and where the World Expo was held.

  —

  A few days later, that is, on December 31st, the main station of the Equality Association in the West District was basically evacuated. Morais and the last people left behind also came to the factory in the North District in a truck.

  Many of the factories in the North District were secretly controlled by the Equality Association. After Morais came, he divided them into different factories for refuge according to the original division of labor of these transferred members.

  Villac, Keating, and Piaf still stayed in the processing factory in charge of Andre to give lectures, and Morais also set this place as a temporary terminus.

   It was after eleven o'clock that night that Morais finally finalized all the transfer matters.

   So far, the Morais faction has completely escaped Chloe's control. Even if Chloe betrayed the Equality Society in the future and turned against the government in order to cooperate with the government, it would not pose too much threat to them.

   "Tomorrow is New Year's Day." After finishing the work, Morais didn't feel sleepy, so he took the cadres of the Equality Association in this factory to sit around the cafeteria and relax, "Let's have a drink."

   "Let's celebrate the success of the battle in advance!" Andre said holding the cup.

  The minister of the intelligence department, Charles, laughed: "We can't take it lightly, drink it, drink it, celebrate it."

   "Comrade Charles is right." Piaf took a sip of wine and lit a cigarette by herself.

   "Teacher, it's a new year soon. Do you have anything to say?" Verac held a good amount of alcohol, so he drank it for fun, and then looked at Keating beside him.

   "I think that the new year will be recorded in history, and it will also be a new beginning for this world." Keating said, shaking his glass.

After hearing this, Morais raised his eyebrows, got up and poured wine for everyone one by one: "Comrade Keating is right, the new year will be a new beginning for this world. I sincerely hope that everyone can work hard to change everything one day .”

   "Sure, let's have another drink." Andre raised his glass.

"I drink this glass for Chris, for Francis, and for many comrades who died." Morais stood up, "If they were here, they would definitely get drunk when they saw that the Equality Society had grown to this point. I will accept this joy for the time being."

   "I'll drink it for Rose." Verak also stood up.

  He thought of Ross.

  At this time, in the government building, apart from Boyne being imprisoned, Rose is still alive and dead. Moreover, the government has not made any response to his true identity, which shows that Ross should not have disclosed anything.

  Charles followed up after seeing this: "Then I will fight alone in the southern military warehouse, Diaz, Murphy, and Nord."

   "I am for all women." Piaf said.

   "Let me take Boyin's place. It looks like none of you care about him." Keating joked.

"Snapped."

   There was a crisp clinking of glasses.

  The time came to January 1, 1434.

  (end of this chapter)