Twenty Seven Years

  Chapter 496 Public Opinion War (Seventeen)

  November 29, dawn

  Lezerin

   Capa woke up early, even though it had been less than four hours since he fell asleep.

  The room was still relatively dark. He was lying on the bed with his head turned to one side, looking out of the dimly lit window, thinking about a problem.

  Why haven't people from the International Equality League come to find themselves?

   Was it the wife who had an accident on the road?

   Was it the wife who made it to Leicester without any trouble finding a way to safely meet up with the comrades of the International Equality League?

   Or the International Equality Alliance has received the news from his wife and is trying his best to get in touch with him?

   Nothing more than these three possibilities.

  Kappa didn't know whether he was emotional or rational, so he ruled out the first possibility extremely decisively, and then began to study the latter two possibilities in detail.

   Clementine and the children set off on the 22nd, and it has been more than seven days since today. It won't take long to go from Laizein to Leliste City, so why should I have stayed in Leliste City for two or three days in the past.

  If it is because there is no suitable way to get in touch with an absolutely reliable comrade, and to inform the other party of this top-secret information, then Clementine will not wait foolishly, and will forcibly contact the other party in the near future.

  So if this possibility is true, it will take three to five days for the people from the International Equality League to get in touch with themselves.

  But if it is the latter, it will be troublesome.

Capa himself is more inclined that the International Equality Alliance has no good way to meet him after knowing about it. After all, as a reporter for a newspaper office and a key protection personnel of the interim government, he will always be accompanied by at least two soldiers when he travels, and there are soldiers patrolling and guarding his residence. It is really not easy for the Equal Alliance to bypass them and see themselves.

The most important thing is that even if it is actually the second possibility, in the end the International Equality Alliance will take such a step, so in any case, you have to solve the problem of being protected and monitored by soldiers around you, so as to ensure your communication channel with the International Equality Alliance Unimpeded.

   To solve this problem, the simplest and rude way is to find a way to pay off the soldiers.

  With no people from the provisional government around me, it is easy for comrades from the International Equality League to come to see me.

  So how to distract the soldiers so that they stay away from themselves without doubting themselves?

   Time passed, and Capa came to work in the newspaper office.

  Perhaps because the top-secret information is still there, the editor-in-chief Byron didn’t take the breach of the office too seriously. After seeing Capa in the morning, he asked with a smile, “Is she here?”

   This is obviously asking about the lover who doesn't exist.

  Editor-in-chief Byron helped Capa take away Clementine and the children, so that this old subordinate could live with his lover, remember his kindness, and continue to work steadily for him.

   Capa pretended to be expecting, and replied: "It's already on the way."

  This answer is what he thought of in advance.

He expected that Byron would ask such a question sooner or later, and he didn't know how the International Equality League was progressing. A week had passed and the follow-up was still unknown. Words are undoubtedly the best fools.

   "The city of Orondo is not too far from Laizein, right? And didn't you say that this woman is already ready to move? Why is she still on the road after a week?" Editor-in-Chief Byron wondered.

   "Ah, it's like this..." Capa bit the bullet and explained, "Something happened to her mother, which delayed some time."

   "I hope you will meet soon." Editor-in-chief Byron did not doubt, and ended the chat with Capa.

  Kappa sat in front of the work station, even having difficulty breathing.

   Can't drag anymore.

  Using this excuse for three more days at most, if it takes longer, Byron will definitely have doubts.

  Once a person starts to become suspicious, many things will be naturally connected together, and gradually strengthened in the subconscious, so that disbelief becomes probably credible, and then from maybe credible to firm belief.

  For example, Capa looked at a very reliable person, and suddenly said that he had an affair and wanted to take away his wife and children.

  For example, Capa stayed alone in the newspaper office to work overtime. Just in the evening, the newspaper office was attacked by the International Equality League, and the door of the office was forcibly opened.

  For example, Capa, who has almost no sense of presence, has repeatedly offered to go to the prison for interviews.

   These usually look good, but when you put them together with suspicion, how bad the result will be.

   In order to prevent this situation from growing and growing, the lover of the International Equality League comrades and the International Equality League action team contacted themselves, and one of these two must arrive within three days.

  The former arrives first, and Capa's safety can be guaranteed. The latter arrived first, and Capa handed over the evidence to the other party and hid directly, or simply went to Leliste City to reunite with his wife and children under the **** of the International Equality League.

   But when the lover will arrive, it is not up to Capa himself to decide. All he could do was to find a way to wipe out the power of the provisional government around him, and give the action team of the International Equality League stationed in Lezein a chance to contact him.

  As long as they can get in touch and hand over the films containing complete evidence to the other party, their most important public opinion battle will be basically determined. At that time, it doesn't matter whether the lover comes or not.

  Kappa can also be considered to have contributed valuable power to the birth of the brave new world, making his life, which was gradually dimming and mediocre, burst into unprecedented light.

   Or... pretending to have an infectious disease?

  While thinking hard, he heard a colleague coughing, and Capa had a bold idea.

  Sick, preferably with an infectious disease, let alone the soldiers, the editor-in-chief Byron dare not let him stay in the newspaper office, and he will be sent to the hospital for treatment 100% since he has sufficient evidence.

  There are many people entering and leaving the hospital, and most people are far away from patients with infectious diseases. It is relatively easy for the International Equality League action team to contact themselves in the hospital.

  However, under the followers of the soldiers, it is very strange that I have an infectious disease for no reason.

   If you really want to use this method, the safest way is to really get sick.

  In the name of shooting materials, I went to some streets with harsh environments to find suitable subjects, and deliberately contacted patients. The illness was logical, and there was no doubt about it.

  The greatest risk is nothing but your own health.

   People who are about to die if they don’t struggle anymore, and all the previous efforts will be in vain if they don’t struggle anymore, what’s the point of contracting a disease now?

   It took only a short time for Capa to convince himself.

   But before he could do it, the editor-in-chief Byron answered the phone and called him into the office.

   "Editor-in-Chief." Capa didn't know the purpose of Byron's search for him, so he could only improve his wording on the question of why his lover hadn't arrived in advance.

"We have performed well during this time, and thanks to everyone's hard work, our public opinion campaign has officially come to an end." Editor-in-Chief Byron played with a cigar, "It won't be long, after the plan is officially over, I will give you a good job Take a break and celebrate our victory again."

   "Really, really? That's great." Capa smiled a little stiffly.

  He thought that the public opinion campaign would continue for a long time, trying to discredit the International Equality Alliance to the point where it could not stand up.

  However, since the provisional government intends to end the work in this area, it means that the effect has reached expectations.

   "However, don't tell others about this, I'm afraid everyone will relax at the last moment." Byron motioned Capa to sit opposite him.

   "Why?" Capa became more and more puzzled.

  I don’t want everyone to know, but why did I tell myself.

   "Actually, you also wanted to keep it a secret, but it just so happens that I still have some work to arrange for you, so I will let you feel a little bit better first." Byron said, "Do you still remember the prison?"

   "Of course, I have always felt that the members of the International Equality League who are locked up in the prison are the new focus of our propaganda. Unfortunately, the people in the prison did not give me this opportunity..." Capa spread his hands.

   "Now you can go there, interview whoever you want to interview, what you want to film, and the people in the prison will fully cooperate with you." Byron's attitude changed drastically.

   "What?" Capa was a little confused.

  He and Byron mentioned this matter no less than three times, but Byron refused each time.

"Prison things can be done." Byron repeated, "This is actually the meaning of the above. Considering that the public opinion plan has come to an end, and we are in the final stage to distort and distort the impression that the International Equality League brought to the world, We can consolidate our victories, nail down the situation thoroughly, and leave no room for them to counterattack."

   "Then why didn't the higher-ups disagree before?" Capa inquired about the situation.

"Sometimes it's good for you to know less, but you're an exception today." Byron explained to Capa some of the other secret operations of the provisional government, "You know why the prison didn't let you see the arrested International Equality League member?"

  Kappa has already guessed in the bottom of his heart: "...because of what?"

   "Because there are no members of the International Equality League." Byron paused every word. He even opened his eyes wide when he said this, wanting to appreciate the change in Capa's expression after he learned the truth.

"No? There are no people from the International Equality League? How is this possible? They are not, didn't the newspapers say it? Dozens or hundreds of people from the International Equality League are arrested every day? Could it be possible—" Capa said incoherently The shocked look satisfied Byron.

   "Yes, this is also a scam." Whenever others are kept in the dark, Byron will have a kind of pleasure, a pleasure of being above others, and only he is sober and can see the truth of the world.

   "Why?" This sentence is what Capa really wanted to ask.

"It's very complicated here. Anyway, the person who controls all this can at least be regarded as covering the sky with one hand in Laizein. Any extra people who know about this will disappear from this world without a trace." Byron didn't reveal it all, "For you, so you just need to know that there are no IEL people in the prison at all. We have killed some for so long, but almost never captured anyone alive."

   Capa was a little angry.

  He'd rather have the real International Equality League people arrested.

  That kind of ending is what every comrade who joins the International Equality League is mentally prepared to face.

  But innocent civilians are different, they did nothing.

  —Not being treated as human beings, and dying in such an unexplained manner, it is probably because they did nothing.

   "So, those who are reported and exposed every day, and those who are pulled out and executed are all civilians?"

   "Yes, someone has to impersonate, we can't use our own people?" Byron didn't think there was anything wrong with this.

  Dozens of lives, hundreds of lives, thousands of lives so what?

   They are all untouchables who are not qualified to talk to him face to face in this life.

   Even if their corpses pile up into a mountain, it will not affect their good life.

Listening to Byron's understated tone, Capa clenched his fists until his nails were deeply embedded in the flesh, and the pain forced him to maintain his sanity, before he stretched out again: "Is it okay if I go to the prison to do a fake interview? "

   "That's fine." Byron nodded.

"I still don't understand." Capa was terrified and puzzled by Byron in front of him and the people behind him. What's the point of putting them to death in the name of members."

"Did you not understand what I just said?" Byron only felt that Capa was ridiculously stupid, "It's no good for you to know about it, it can only satisfy your poor curiosity. To put it mildly, I don't know , you don’t have to bear anything. To put it bluntly, if you don’t know, you won’t be threatened, and you won’t be inexplicably involved in the vortex of some forces’ struggles, and you can just live in such a dazed and ignorant way until you die. "

   Capa wanted to say "but I still want to know", but the words turned into: "I understand."

"Remember, don't mention this matter to anyone. When you get to the prison, you only need to take some photos and write the fake interview under the supervision of the relevant personnel." Byron patted Capa's shoulder, "This work It’s easy, right? It’s no different than when we go out on the street and take pictures and fake reports.”

   "It's very easy." Capa said.

   "Anyone can do this job, but I'm optimistic about you, don't disappoint my expectations." Byron praised Capa, trying to create an illusion for Capa that he was valued.

   At this moment, Capa felt that it was hardest for him to pretend.

  There is no mirror, but he knows that his expression has collapsed.

  As a reporter, pursuing the truth and exposing the truth is what he should do most.

  He is glad that he has invested in the International Equality Alliance, and he can still stick to his lofty ideals, and set an example for more people with lofty ideals in the future, and open up a better environment.

   "I will complete the task." Capa promised.

   This was not meant for Byron.

  Kappa, who wanted to use his illness to leave the newspaper office to end his mission, decided to continue fighting.

   Reveal more truths to the world.

  Defend health and human dignity, defend the oath to become a reporter, and win another victory in the war of public opinion.

  (end of this chapter)