"What on earth have you experienced?!" Nord ignored the box and quickly came to Verak, exclaiming in surprise.
"Prison, there will definitely be some punishment or something." Verak originally wanted to take off his pants, but seeing Nord's appearance, he gave up the plan and took back the top hanging on the side, preparing to take it with him after taking a shower.
Wash your clothes too.
Nord stretched out his hand, but did not dare to touch the wound. He did not dare to imagine how each wound was caused.
Verak didn't take it seriously before and didn't go into detail about what happened to him in prison. Nord really thought that the prestigious Dymans Prison was really nothing more than that, but from Verak he saw the epitome of what he had experienced in the past two months.
Finally, Nord realized that he was ridiculously naive: "How...how did you persist?"
"The Equality Society, or that new world worthy of expectations." Verak smiled, not letting Nord worry about him.
"No wonder you risked your life to come back here." At this moment, Nord completely understood Verak's desire to join the Equality Society.
That belief saved him and gave his life new meaning.
Nord's face was rarely relaxed at all. Verak didn't want the atmosphere to be so serious, so he patted Nord on the shoulder: "It's all over. Now it's time to regain a new life. By the way, we haven't eaten for almost a day.
It’s dinner, please help me get some food.”
"Okay." Nord was stunned for a moment and slowly walked to the kitchen.
"Teacher, you have something to eat first." After Verak said to Keating who was sitting on the sofa, he went into the bathroom and took a good bath, and then took Keating's dirty clothes with him to dry on the balcony.
superior.
Then, after eating, Keating went to take a shower, and after taking a shower, he went to eat.
Nord and the others lived here and ate very ordinary food, and they did not live a luxurious life just because they had more than 500,000 gold grams given to them by Verak.
"By the way, here you go." Nord didn't rush to leave after packing his things. After Verak finished taking a shower and came out to eat, he pulled out a box full of neatly packed banknotes of the highest denomination from under the bed in the bedroom.
Place it in front of him and open it.
Verak was chewing bread. After seeing the five hundred thousand gold grams in front of him, his chewing speed slowed down and he did not speak.
"Treating Murphy during this period, plus our miscellaneous expenses, has spent a total of more than 13,000 gold grams, and the rest is here." Nord said.
"Didn't I say, this is money for you." Verak swallowed the food and looked up at Nord standing in front of him.
"It's too much, it's uncomfortable to spend." Nord put his hands in his pockets, turned his head and looked out the window, "Okay, you can take it anyway, if not, give it to Chloe. Didn't he keep saying that because of you, equality
Will he lose a lot of money? If you give him this money, you should be able to stop his bad mouth, and then see if you can find a way to join in."
Verak actually didn't care that Chloe mentioned that equality would result in a loss of one million gold grams.
You must know that he and Keating hold gold worth 200 million gold grams. Things that can be solved with money now are nothing to them.
"Wait a minute." Verak stopped Nord, who turned around and picked up two boxes of luggage and was about to go out. "Do you know where Arnold Colin... is buried?"
"I don't know about that. Do you want to take a look?"
"Yeah." What Virak was worried about and knew that what he could not repay was Colin's life.
"Then I'll go and inquire after I'm done. If I have nothing else to do tonight, I'll take you to see him." Nord said and left.
Verak watched Nord close the door, his body and mind were stagnant for a short while, and then he continued to eat bread while taking out a few banknotes from the box and stuffing them into his pockets for emergencies.
After he finished eating and briefly looked around the house, Keating also came out from the shower.
"Teacher, we have to think about how to dissuade Chloe from giving up her unrealistic ideas." As soon as food and clothing were settled, Verak immediately discussed with Keating how to modify the direction of the Equality Society.
"Now I just hope that the one named Morais is not as resistant to you as Chloe." Keating believes that the most important thing now is that another important leader can listen and be willing to listen to Verak.
Verak once betrayed the Equality Society and is not yet a formal member of the Equality Society. His rash interference in such a major decision that affects the entire organization is likely to have the opposite effect.
"The problem is that we don't have much time left. The World Expo will close around New Year's Day. That is our last chance." Verak sighed, "And I don't know what impact my jailbreak will have on the plan."
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At early ten o'clock, two brothers, Diaz and Murphy, drove Morais and his companions to the grocery store. Morais and Chloe were in the basement to negotiate peace talks about Verak's escape from prison.
, the impact of events such as the World Exposition and the Equality Society Plan were discussed.
At the end of the meeting, as Nord, who was waiting at the door, expected, it returned to the issue of whether the Equality Council should have real peace talks or fake peace talks.
Two people who had the same lofty ideals in the past had huge differences on this matter. They both kept saying that they were thinking about their comrades and that what they insisted on was the only choice to change the world.
The result was the same as before, a quarrel broke out and they broke up.
Chloe stayed in the basement and yelled at Morais who slammed the door out: "You have to let your comrades make hundreds of sacrifices, completely break up with the government, and miss the best opportunity."
Are you going to give up?! You are ruining the future of the Equality Society!"
Morais, whose chest was heaving violently, closed the door fiercely, walked a few steps past Nord with a lady and stopped: "You are a friend of Verak, right?"
"Yes." Nord stood up straight, but he didn't expect Morais to be impressed by him.
"Chloe said he drove Verak away. Do you know where he is now?" Morais asked.
Nord was afraid that Chloe in the basement would hear it, so he didn't say anything and just nodded.
Morais seemed to quickly understand Nord's concerns, and without saying anything, he tilted his head and motioned for Nord to lead the way and take him to see Verak.
After leaving the grocery store, Nord excitedly walked towards the apartment building on another block with Morais, who lowered his hat: "You said it was a coincidence, Verak persuaded Comrade Chloe once before you came over,
But Comrade Chloe didn't listen at all, he was just thinking of taking a break before going to talk to you again."
"Really?" Morais was quite surprised by this.
What surprised him was not that Verak had the same views as him, because he felt that anyone with a normal mind and some social experience would not go against him on this matter. What surprised him was why Verak was so concerned about equality.
Shang Xin, this is completely different from his previous performance.
"He just escaped from prison?" Morais asked about Verac's situation in prison.
"Yes, he suffered a lot of injuries, and there are scars all over his body..." Speaking of this, Nord couldn't help but tell Morais what he knew and saw.
After hearing this, Morais arrived at the door of Keating's temporary residence in Verak before he had time to express his opinion. Without knocking, Nord took out the key and opened the door. What he saw was that he was sitting on the sofa.
Two people discussing.
"Morais?" When Verak heard the noise, he guessed that one of Nord, Diaz, and Murphy was back, but he never expected that Morais, whom he wanted to see, actually took the initiative to visit.
Own.
"Long time no see." Morais walked to the sofa and shook hands with Verak and Keating who stood up.
"I just wanted to see you and talk to you about the Equality Association." Morais's attitude was much better than that of Chloe, and he was willing to take the initiative to come to him. Verak vaguely felt that something was going on, "This is Mo Laisi."
Les, a retired soldier, is now the leader of the Equality Society. This is Keating, my teacher, who lived with me in prison. He was once a close friend of Ravel, the king of the Bresci Empire, and assisted Ravel.
Will has been in power for many years.”
"Hello, I've known you for a long time. It seems that there are many big shots in Demans Prison." Morais was a soldier when the Bressy Empire was still in operation. Naturally, he has a certain interest in this capable general of Ravel.
As I know, "I would also like to introduce to you that this is Piaf, a novelist. She is a very capable independent woman. She founded her own newspaper, advocated equality between men and women, and criticized the dark side of the current system.
It exposes the survival difficulties of women and provides a channel for more people to speak out."
Verract shook hands with Piaf, who was dressed in men's clothes and smelled of cigarette smoke. He also shook hands: "It's an honor to meet you."
"Me too," Piaf replied.
"Sit down and talk." Verak asked everyone to sit down, and then couldn't help but ask Morais, "You came to me, must be to let the peace negotiation plan continue to proceed according to Boyin's plan, right?"
"That's right." After Morais got to know Keating briefly, he and Verak got to the point, "Chloe has no ambitions and little experience. How can the government really negotiate and agree to our demands? The purpose of our peace talks is to reduce the
The government's vigilance is to appease us not to cause trouble during the World Expo. Once the World Exposition is over and we have not taken any action, the government will definitely start a new crackdown on us."
"I think so too, but he can't listen to us." Verak shook his head slightly.
Morais stared at Verak: "What can you do?"
"Equality is never decided by one person. We pursue equality, and everyone has the right to make choices. I think that if we want to solve the biggest obstacle to the implementation of Chloe's plan, we have to find ways to expand
Our momentum and our voice." Verak said of his thoughts.
After Chris's death, Boyne, as the most prestigious one, unsurprisingly became the new leader of the Equality Society. However, he took the initiative to act as a hostage to fight for opportunities for the Equality Society, causing the Equality Society to once again fall into a leaderless situation.
Chloe and Morais in the Equality Society have equal status. When they have the same opinions, it's fine. When they have different opinions, no one can convince the other. As the contradiction gradually expands, they will either split or become infighting.
Weak, the government took advantage of it.
In prison, Verak, who took advantage of the infighting between Adel and Deputy Warden Lecter to create an opportunity to escape, did not want to see Equality reach that point one day.
Now only by establishing another person like Boyn can we lead everyone forward despite all opinions.
"I have also thought about it. Either he and I can decide who has the final say and continue to lead everyone, or we can only part ways according to our own choices," Morais said.
"It's not that serious." If the Equality Association were to split because of this matter, it would be too much of a loss. Verak shook his head repeatedly, "There is no other way besides this."
"What?"
"Establish another leader. When facing major issues, the minority obeys the majority and the decision is made through voting." Verak said.
Morais suddenly laughed when he heard Verak's suggestion: "What do you think of this candidate?"
"Okay." Verak did not make any humility, looked directly at Morais, and fought for this spot, "This will be a good choice."
"I also think it's a good choice." Morais said.
"Why?" Verak was curious as to why Morais had no ill feelings toward him.
Morais leaned on the sofa and crossed his legs: "It turns out that you do have this ability. As far as I know, you have replaced the deceased Comrade Chris since mid-July, right? Let me list the times when you were president.
What have you done? You agreed to my armed proposal, which made the government finally take us seriously. With the help of the Thomas family's bills, you helped the Equality Society collect nearly 10 million gold grams of wealth, and helped the Equality Society obtain an extremely important key.
Development funds. These two things have laid a solid foundation for the government to choose peace talks with us."
"Ha... your words are completely different from Chloe's, which makes me a little uncomfortable." Verak, who was used to hearing how much negative impact he had on equality, found it a bit funny.
"These are all stated on the surface." Morais didn't think it was a big deal. "You can look back and think about it. If there was no Armed Equality Association and if we didn't get that large amount of development funds, we would be where we are now.
What does it look like? I’m afraid it was wiped out by the government long before the opening of the World Expo.”
"Comrade Chloe said that it was Verac who caused Equality to lose one million gold grams, and caused Equality to change the location of many sites." Seeing that Morais had no prejudice against Verac, Nord said
Repeated what Chloe said.
After listening to Chloe's words, Morais couldn't help laughing: "Without you, how would we have the money to let you take away one million. And there were no government personnel to check the places we moved to in the end.
However, it shows that you suffered inhumane treatment in Dymans Prison and did not reveal our secrets."
"...Thank you." Faced with Morais' approval, Verak didn't know what to say.
Keating smiled from the sidelines.
"Although I joined relatively late, I have a basic understanding of things." Piaf said objectively, "You pretended to be Chris, and you used the Equality Society, but you didn't do anything detrimental to the Equality Society.
It can even be said that without you there would be no Equality Society today."
"That's right." Morais didn't have much dealings with Verak before, but he sincerely admired Verak's several important decisions. Now he is willing to let go of the past and face up to Verak's dedication and his current honesty, "Verak