"Prison director?" Verak knew that the prison guard should not know, but he still couldn't help asking in detail, "Why did he see me?"
"You'll know when you get there." After the door opened, the prison guard tilted his head and signaled, "Let's go."
Verak and Keating looked at each other, followed the prison guards out, passed through the heavy iron doors, and were taken to the second floor. The first floor included the offices of Warden Adel, Deputy Warden Lecter, and rest rooms for all the prison guards.
Entertainment area. Verak had previously tried to negotiate with Lecter in his office so that he could observe the terrain. Unfortunately, Lecter, who was very wary at the time, did not agree. Unexpectedly, he now had an opportunity.
The layout of the main second floor is roughly divided into three areas, namely office area, rest area, and entertainment area.
Prisoners did not have the right to pass the time through entertainment projects, but the prison guards still had them. When passing by the entertainment area, Verak saw some people playing cards and some playing pool. They looked relaxed and comfortable, and the atmosphere was completely different from that on the negative floor.
The entertainment area is closest to the stairwell, followed by the office area and rest area.
Because the rest area is at the very back, and the purpose of Verak's trip was to meet the warden Adel, he couldn't go there to learn more about the situation.
After passing the spacious and lively entertainment area, Verak was led by the prison guards to a nearby corridor.
Lecter stood in front of a door in the corridor, his hands in his pockets, leaning against the door, staring coldly at the prison guard, Verak.
"Deputy Warden." When passing by, the prison guard leading the way greeted Lecter and saluted.
"Hmm." Lecter responded and looked at Verak with complicated eyes.
Verak nodded slightly to him and without stopping, he followed the prison guard past and walked to the next door to stop.
The prison guard knocked on the door: "Warden, prisoner No. 8196, Thomas Chris is here."
Verak turned to look at Lecter, who was less than seven or eight meters away. Lecter also stared at him silently, without saying anything. He just made silent eye contact for a few seconds, then opened the door and returned to his office.
"Come in." A strong voice came from the warden's office. The prison guard carefully turned the door handle and slowly pushed the door open, "Come in."
The door of the warden's office and the door of the deputy warden's office sounded almost at the same time. Verak watched Lecter close the door tightly, turned his head, sideways to avoid the prison guard, and walked in slowly.
Warden Adel's office covers an area of about one hundred square meters. The first thing you enter is the living room, and going further inside is his office area. The entire office is simply decorated and doesn't have many highlights, so Verak just scanned it briefly.
After a general understanding, I focused my attention on the middle-aged man sitting on the sofa in the living room.
The middle-aged man wore a black and blue uniform coat, with short black and white hair, an angular face, and deep eyes that seemed weathered. Verak could tell from the man's propped-up coat that he was tall and strong, at least half as tall as himself.
Size.
"sit."
The middle-aged man crossed his legs and looked at Verak calmly.
"Okay." Verak walked to the sofa opposite the man and sat down, "Are you Mr. Adel, the warden?"
"Yes." Warden Adel is a person who likes to go straight to the point. As soon as Verak sat down, he got down to business, "I called you here today because I want to know something about Deputy Warden Lecter."
"Mr. Lecter?" Verak showed a puzzled expression, "Logically speaking, you know him better than I, a prisoner who has just arrived a month ago, right?"
Adel ignored Verak's rhetorical question and asked in more detail: "You have met frequently in the past few days. I want to know what you talked about."
Verak did not reply immediately.
Adel had already stated the purpose of calling him straight to the point, but when he met Lecter, his series of reactions, combined with the current situation, definitely meant that he didn't want him to tell him what happened.
Then he needs to weigh the pros and cons as soon as possible and think clearly about what will happen if he tells it and what will happen if he doesn't.
"Talk about Keating and the whereabouts of the gold, right?" Verak didn't say anything for three seconds before Adel came up with his guess.
"...Hmm." It seemed that this point could not be hidden from the warden. Verak admitted it and quickly changed the direction of his thinking to determine what was going on between Adel and Lecter.
"Has he threatened that you must ask in these days or before the 12th?" Adel asked again.
Verak couldn't help but swallowed: "Yes."
"Since he chose you, you must have something extraordinary. There is indeed hope that he can find out the whereabouts of the gold before the 12th, right?" Although Adel was asking in every sentence, he guessed
Very precise, it sounds like a statement.
"Yes." Verak felt a little tight in his chest. Since Adel asked this, Lecter must have been doing it without telling him, otherwise he wouldn't have done anything unnecessary. And while he was hiding it, he could still figure out the situation completely.
It shows that this warden is really not simple.
"Is there any progress now?" Adel finally asked a question that he was really waiting for Verak to answer.
Verak shook his head: "Not yet."
"Tell me why you think it's possible to find out the whereabouts of the gold."
Verak took a deep breath, organized his words, and spoke out about how he had withstood Lecter's nine days of abuse: "It can be considered an accident. I think so many prisoners who lived with Mr. Keating didn't ask
There was no hope for me to come out, so I simply didn’t try. Probably because unlike others who interrogated him in various ways in order to find out clues, I unexpectedly gained Mr. Keating’s favor by doing so.”
"So he has a tendency to reveal things to you?"
"...So be it." Verak nodded.
"What did Lecter promise you? Just get out of jail?" Adel opened the cigar box and took out a cigar. "Do you smoke it?"
Verak thought for a second: "No need. Mr. Lecter...promise to regain his freedom if I ask for clues."
This is almost a well-known thing in Demans Prison. There is no need for Verak to hide it and admit it directly. As for the other things Lecter promised, he fully supported it during this period and asked for clues to satisfy any request. He did not say
come out.
After just a brief contact, he found that the warden was very difficult to deal with. Naturally, Verak did not dare to rashly tell these two things that were closely related to the subsequent escape plan. If, like Lecter, he didn't say anything, but
If people already know everything, it will be completely over.
After all, even if Lecter knew that they were thinking of escaping from prison, he would still tolerate it with a playful attitude. But Adel would not. He is the most important shackles for the prisoners in Damans Prison. Once he knows, the plan will be revealed.
Overthrow it immediately.
"It's more than that." Adel lit the cigar, squinted his eyes and took a deep breath, looking at Verak, "You are the leader of the rebel party. You can lead the rebel party to the point of specifically confronting the government and promoting peace talks. You cannot be naive.
Take Lecter's word for it."
"What exactly do you want to know?" Seeing that some of his remaining secrets were about to be revealed, Verak quickly used offense as defense and asked Adel.
"He should have agreed to your other requests. According to your mentality, you should have thought of a way to ensure that he means what he says." Adel flicked the ashes into the ashtray, "I need to know all of this."
Verak smiled bitterly: "If you want to know, you can ask Lecter directly. It doesn't make much sense to leave my colleagues alone and make me a prisoner, right?"
At present, Verak is not sure what Adel wants to do specifically, but through Lecter doing this thing without telling him, and he is pursuing it in this way, he can at least conclude that Adel and Lecter are not dealing with each other. If they do not deal with it, Adel will
Del would not want to see Lecter accomplish anything, or even stay.
If Verak reveals everything and Lecter No. 12 is transferred, their situation will take a turn for the worse, so although it is funny, he can only stand on the same front as Lecter now.
"Do you know what will happen if you don't answer my question directly?" Adel frowned and picked up his cigar.
Verak saw Adel for the first time today. During this period, he only knew about Adel what Keating said. He really didn't know what the consequences would be, but after seeing how powerful Adel was,
He knew that the consequences would undoubtedly be serious.
"Then you continue to ask." Verak could only take one step at a time, waiting until he really couldn't answer before refusing.
The Equality Association and the government have reached peace talks. Even Lecter, whose father is the Minister of Justice, dare not deal with Verak casually. No matter how cruel Adel is, he cannot threaten Verak's life.
"Let me show you a way." Adel leaned on the sofa, his eyes indifferent, "If you have any golden clues, don't tell Lecter, just report them to me. Any threats he poses to you are not a problem. He can
I can give it to you as well."
"Can you give me safety and freedom?" Verak asked.
"Yes." Adel looked directly at Verak without any dodge, which made Verak feel guilty.
Verak thought about it.
Of course, what he was considering was not whether to cooperate with Adel. Cooperating with Adel would be a dead end. It would make all the troublesome prisoners in this prison fearful. Verak had no confidence that he could escape from the opponent's hands.
What he was really thinking about was how to delay Adel and apparently stabilize Adel.
"How do you think?" A few seconds had passed, and Adel asked as if he had been waiting for a long time.
"Can you give me some time to think about it?" Verak planned to go back and discuss it with Keating first. He couldn't handle Adel by himself.
"how long."
"one day."
Adel shook his head and did not accept Verak's proposal: "Now what you have said and what I can give you are clearly better than Lecter. In this case, you still want to consider it, which means Lecter is still committed.
I don’t know, but it must be a more favorable condition than what I just proposed.”
"No." Verak was shocked and denied decisively, "I just felt it was too sudden and felt that there seemed to be some problem between you two."
Adel raised his eyebrows.
"You are very powerful, but Lecter is also not simple. His father is the Minister of Justice in Bressy." Verak's mind was running rapidly, concealing his true thoughts, "Now you and him are holding different opinions, and you both want to reconcile with him.
If I cooperate, I can’t just listen to you. It shouldn’t be too much to give me some time to think, right?”
"It's not too much." In Adel's eyes, Verak's current performance makes him look like a leader who can lead the rebellion against the government. "I can give you half a day and give me a reply in the evening."
It was enough night for Verak to go back and discuss a solution with Keating. Verak agreed: "Okay, I'll see you again in the evening."
"Go out." Adel focused his eyes on the ashtray, thinking deeply.
Verak got up and went out, following the prison guards.
As soon as he passed the deputy warden's office, the door opened. He glanced back and saw Lecter opened the door and was standing at the door looking at him.
The two of them gave each other indescribable looks.
A second later, Verak strode away.
It wasn't until Verak's back was no longer visible that Lecter came back to his senses and moved his neck, as if his body was filled with anger and murderous intent and was about to explode.
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Dymans Prison, basement level 1, cell 208.
After going back, Verak found that his back was covered in cold sweat. In Adel's view, the conversation just now was like an ordinary chat, but for Verak, every word affected his escape plan, which also affected his life.
life.
"What did he ask you?" Keating saw that Verak's mood was abnormal as soon as he entered the door, and he felt something was wrong.
"Give me a moment and let me rub it." Verak sat on the bed, closed his eyes and rubbed the bridge of his nose.
The conversation between him and Adel didn't last long, but the content was quite complicated.
After clarifying each line of dialogue and the intention behind it, Verak exhaled thickly and told the story without hiding his worried look in front of Keating.
"Things are more complicated than we imagined." The development of the matter was also beyond Keating's expectation.
"I tried my best to buy half a day to discuss with you what to do next." Verak felt exhausted, "Adel is really difficult to deal with... I feel like I can't hide anything from him.
"
"Next..." Keating paused for a long time, "Let's wait for Lecter."
"Adel shouldn't let Lecter see me at this juncture." Verak said.
Keating took a deeper look: "Adel doesn't allow Lecter to see you, which is equivalent to them breaking up. If they break up, they won't give you half a day to think about it."
"Then we have to wait for Lecter to come to me." Verak leaned against the wall. "If he sees me, it means there is still room for a solution. If he doesn't see me, he probably won't be able to do anything. We can only cooperate with Adel."
, then you need to think about how to jailbreak with Adel."
"There will always be a solution." Facing unprecedented problems, Keating still smiled and said, "Think carefully."
Verak has dealt with all kinds of people in Lezein, but this is the first one like Warden Adel: "I...this person is really difficult to deal with..."