Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 215 Let all those who yearn for light come closer to us

  At the beginning of the new year, the city is filled with festive atmosphere.

  Laize had frequent turmoil in the past years, and it was supposed to fight against the powerful and powerful who persecuted the people, but the people suffered most of the suffering it brought. The people who may be called "historical throes" lightly by later generations cannot separate themselves from their true feelings and look at everything from another great and rational perspective. Therefore, they hope that in the new year Here, everything is going smoothly and safely.

   Evans, who is responsible for delivering newspapers door-to-door, rides a bicycle through a busy street.

   "Ryder!" After seeing a young man standing in front of a certain house, he excitedly pedaled faster and came to him, "Newspaper, and this."

   "What is this?" Ryder, who was waiting for Evans at the door in a thick coat, took the newspaper, opened it and saw a page of lyrics inside, "The Internationale... What is the Internationale?"

   Evans looked left and right, smiled and said: "You can see it when you look at it."

  Ryder read the lyrics line by line, his eyes became brighter: "This is it!"

   "Shh!" Evans bumped Ryder with his shoulder, interrupting his cry, "Hush your voice, your parents will lock you in the house again."

   "I really envy you, you are free and you can do whatever you want." Ryder looked enviously at Evans, who has always been chic.

"Isn't it because my family lives in Kip City? If I let them know that I am spreading this for the Equality Society, they will probably yell and break my legs." Evans is not surprised by the restraint Ryder suffered. "Be careful anyway, don't get caught."

Ryder took a lot from Evans and covered it under his clothes: "I won't make the same mistake again, and sooner or later they will find that what we did was right. It doesn't matter what they care about, we want everyone to have a better life."

   "Of course they know you're doing the right thing." Evans forks a third of the newspaper. "They just don't want to…"

   "I understand, I will be careful, don't worry." Ryder showed a bright smile.

   "Then this street will be handed over to you." Evans said and set up his bicycle again.

   "Hey wait a minute." Ledra stayed with Evans who wanted to leave, "What's the situation now? When can we join the Equality Association?"

  Evans shook his head: "I don't know, contact me, and the comrade who gave me the task said that it will be in the near future."

"In the near future..." Ryder murmured, and then asked, "Then when will you organize a youth exchange meeting in our neighborhood? I have recently read about the theory of equality and I have some new ideas, and I want to discuss it with you. "

   "Wait a little longer, the patrol guards are too tight during this period of time." Evans squinted his eyes and smiled, "You should do your studies well first. I heard from other comrades that our Equality Association is very short of intellectuals now."

   "I promise to complete the task." Ryder nodded solemnly.

   Evans patted Ryder, who was several years younger than himself: "Be careful, I'm leaving."

   "You too." Ryder looked at Evans riding a bicycle excitedly, waved to himself and walked away.

  —

  North District Factory

   "One piece of good news and one piece of bad news, which one do you listen to first?" In the early morning, Morais hurriedly summoned all the cadres including Verak.

   "Bad news." Charles from the intelligence department raised his hand.

  Morais squeezed a cigarette and didn't care to light it: "Let me tell you the good news first. The good news is that we found some traces of the revolutionaries on Pruman's side."

"The ones who wrote 'Internationale'?" Piaf still remembers Verac's excitement when he guessed through "Internationale" that Pluman had an organization more advanced than them. .

   "That's right." Morais said.

   Everyone here is much more energetic. They know that if they can get in touch with the other party's organization and communicate with each other, they will learn a lot of experience, make up for the current shortcomings, and avoid going astray and unnecessary sacrifices.

   "What about the bad news?" Verak was not in a hurry to be happy, he knew that the bad news that Morais left behind must also be related to Pruman's organization.

"There is no organization there yet, we only know that there is such a sound, but we don't know who is talking." Morais put his hands on the table, "Simply put, their brains are faster than up the pace."

   "Maybe they're having their troubles too," someone said.

Verak's mood didn't fluctuate much, but he was very interested in the idea that Pruman gave birth to from himself: "To put it bluntly, people everywhere are fighting alone, and they may need each other to give each other strength and support each other. "

"Verak is right!" Morais emphasized, "If no one helps us to make a way ahead of time, then we will go by ourselves. If there are many people doing such a thing, then we will go together! "

   "What we want to unite is not only the people of Lezeinli, but also the whole country and the whole world." Piaf said.

Morais took a deep breath and put away the cigarette: "We have been preparing for several months this time, turning the impossible into possible, and putting into practice the plan of attacking the government building that no one dared to think about. It is necessary to tell the people that the government is not invincible, and that we do not have the only choice of compromise when facing oppression. It is not just to fight for our rights like the previous ancestors captured the fortress of Lezein, like the 14th Uprising. Let us fight and tell those who try to enslave us that the people are the masters of this country. We must also be the first warriors to raise a torch in the dark, so that all those who yearn for the light will come closer to us.”

  Let all those who yearn for light come closer to us.

   This is one of the important goals they want to achieve by gathering the efforts of thousands of people this time.

   "Understood." Verak applauded.

   Others followed suit.

"What are you talking about?" Morais waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, "By the way, from today onwards, our public opinion offensive will officially begin. We can't finish beating the government and let the government beat us down. Describe it as a messy force, and put us on the opposite side of the people."

   As he spoke, Morais took out a few pieces of paper and distributed them to the cadres present one by one.

  Villac and Keating each picked up one and found that it was the poem "Internasional".

"'International Xiong Naier' is the transliteration of Pluman. We can't still have a name that confuses everyone when Laizein spreads. Therefore, I renamed it and called it It's the 'Internationale'," said Morais.

   "Have you arranged for someone to compose the music?" Verak looked up at Morais who happened to be passing by his seat.

   "Not yet, spread the word first, and wait for your friend to compose the music." Morais said.

  Verak wants to leave this opportunity to Rose, but the overall situation is the most important thing, and he can't delay such an important thing because of Rose: "But..."

   "I know what you mean, aren't you just afraid that I will take care of him for your sake?" Morais guessed Verak's mind, "What kind of care is this, and I can arrange whoever I think is good."

  “His life and death are uncertain, and we urgently need to spread ideas faster and wider through songs, so delaying time may be meaningless.”

   "Do you want him alive?"

"certainly."

"That's it." Morais returned to his seat and sat down, "Actually, I didn't plan to do this before, after all, he was arrested, not to mention that he can't get out for a while, even if he can't survive." It's a problem if you can't keep it. But I heard that he knew your secret, but didn't reveal it, so I changed my mind temporarily. There are a lot of people who can compose music, but how many people have the willpower like him What? I’m never stingy with the right things, we’ll wait for what’s worth it. If he’s still alive, I’m sure he’ll compose the best song for the International.”

  Verak just nodded silently.

  The government has not moved for so long, which means that Ross has not leaked a word. He didn't expect Rose, who had lived like a puddle of mud in prison, to insist on keeping his secrets under the torture of the government.

   This may be the power of equality and rightness.

   He will never be the only one changed.

  Verak was eager to meet Rose again, and this time it was his turn to ask questions full of admiration, praise and appreciate the perseverance of another person from the bottom of his heart.

"And then, the last thing." Morais said, "Charles said that the military warehouse has achieved initial results, and the government's troops have been significantly mobilized. The Dimena Pavilion gathered. This greatly reduced our pressure, otherwise it would be impossible for us to capture the government building with thousands of people. Then, in order to consolidate their achievements, we have to advance the implementation time of the plan by one day .”

   "One day? Why? In this way, we only have three days of preparation left." Some people wondered.

Charles, the Minister of the Intelligence Department, answered: "We have created the illusion for the government people in the military warehouse, making them mistakenly think that we will loot weapons to fill the gap before attacking the government building. In this case, if we still follow the original plan If you act on the day of the closing ceremony, there will be a problem with the timing. The closing ceremony has begun, and the military warehouse has not moved yet, what do you think the government will think?"

   "Do you think we are deliberately spreading their forces?"

"Even if you don't think so, you will be suspicious. And once their troops are transferred, our entire plan has to be adjusted in real time, which is very time-consuming. The best way is, when they still focus on military warehouses When they were on the sidelines, they were caught off guard." Charles explained in detail the reason for the day ahead.

"So we don't have much time, and we have three more days to go. Three days later, we are attacking the government building." Morais waited for Charles to finish speaking, and looked at the crowd seriously, "In the end, each of us The greater the pressure, the greater the pressure, the less we can back down! In these three days, everyone will be very busy, so please persevere!"

  Diaz, Nord, and Murphy are attracting firepower at the military warehouse, while Boyne and Ross are trapped in the government building.

  Verak is the person who most hopes that the plan can be implemented quickly and proceed smoothly. He was the first to express his position: "Awaiting the arrangement and ensuring that the task is completed."

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  South District of Laizein, the terminus of the Chloe faction of the Equality Association, in a grocery store

   "New news." Chloe's subordinates whispered something to Chloe when he was having a routine meeting.

  After hearing the news, Chloe dropped the pen in his hand on the table: "Are you sure?"

"I'm sure."

   "You know what this means, let me ask again, are you sure?" Chloe asked again with a cold face.

"I'm sure!"

   "Go out." Chloe picked up the pen again and twirled it in his hand, "Everyone, our people found that the terminus under the jurisdiction of Morais has been evacuated."

   "What?!" The cadres who participated in the meeting were surprised.

   Morais moved the terminus, but he didn't tell them. Every one of them knows what this means.

   "They played with us?! It's clear what they want to do! I don't think they really reached a consensus with us, follow your plan!"

   "But... when President Boyne came out, Comrade Morais called you the first time, explained the situation to you, and said that they would not come to the rescue."

   "What can this explain? This may be Morais' strategy to appease us!"

   "Everyone knows that President Boyne and Comrade Morais have a close relationship. President Boyin finally escaped, but Morais didn't go to rescue him. I think he really wants to take care of the overall situation with us."

   "Then how do you explain that they moved the Terminus without telling us?"

  A quarrel broke out in the conference room, and the cadres were divided into two factions. One group believed that Morais must have some kind of conspiracy, and the other group believed that Morais did not say that there was another reason.

After listening patiently for a while, Chloe raised her hand to make everyone shut up: "We really need to be cautious when dealing with this matter. We can't let the painstaking efforts of the past few months be wasted because of some doubts, and Boyne will Chang’s sacrifice was in vain. However, if Morais made such a big noise and didn’t tell us, it must be because he didn’t want us to know, and if he didn’t want us to know, he must be doing something that is not good for us.”

   "Then you?"

"I'm different from Morais. My vision is far-sighted enough. I don't want to let everyone's efforts go to waste." Chloe sighed and stopped turning the pen, "Don't disturb them yet, Send someone to check again to see what's going on at their other sites, and we'll make plans when we have a general understanding."

   "Would you like to call Comrade Morais first?"

"I'll alarm him if I call rashly." Chloe's face was calm, and she didn't know if she was really calm, or she was holding on, "The closing ceremony of the World Expo will soon be over, and I don't want to see any accidents happen .But ... we also have to prepare for the worst."

  (end of this chapter)