"Why are you here - Morais sent you here?" In just one sentence, Verak guessed the reason why Elizabeth appeared in front of him.
"Yes." Elizabeth's face was still flawless, and even though she had put on plain clothes, she was still dazzling when she stood there.
This woman was born to be an ideal stage where she can enjoy herself and should not be tainted in a dirty world.
"you……"
"Are you in a hurry?" Elizabeth asked calmly.
It was only noon now. Verak had enough time to go to the cemetery to visit Colin. He shook his head gently: "It's late. I didn't expect that the person from the Morais faction would be you and come here so soon."
"Then let's go in and talk first," Elizabeth said.
"...Okay." Verak turned sideways and made way for Elizabeth to enter the room.
Elizabeth, who was half a head shorter than him, walked into the living room and sat on the sofa: "You have a lot of questions?"
Verak had just arrived in Lezein not long ago, but he had already answered many people's questions, which made his mouth dry. At this moment, Elizabeth was waiting for him to ask questions, which made him speechless. He closed the door and sat on the other side:
"You... also joined in?"
"Obviously," Elizabeth said.
Listening to Elizabeth's cold voice, Verak calmed down slightly: "You know everything about Chris, right?"
"Well." Elizabeth knew that Verak had many doubts, so she immediately explained, "Two and a half months ago, I saw Chris, or rather your wanted poster, and finally understood the meaning of what you once said to me.
Later, when you were caught, the Equality Society secretly spread the theory of equality and recruited new members, so I joined in. I wanted to know what Chris sacrificed his life for."
"I'm sorry that I ever used Chris' identity to benefit myself." Verak felt that he needed to apologize to too many people.
"You are still very honest with me. As for the harm that equality will cause to Chris, I am not qualified to forgive you for them. However, the fact that you can escape from Damans Prison and gain the respect of Morais shows that you have paid hard."
A lot, and it has been recognized by them again. I support their decision, so you are welcome to come back." Elizabeth didn't seem to care about it, and she seemed to see it clearly, unlike others who didn't delve into these issues at all.
Verak was quite uncomfortable with the way he got along with Elizabeth: "Thank you."
"Are you going to see Arnold Colin?" Elizabeth asked, "I've met him many times, and Chris always takes him with him to see the stage plays I perform."
"Yeah." Verak nodded and looked out the window, "He helped me a lot, but in the end he was shot by the government because of me... I want to see him, apologize to him, let go of some things in my heart, and concentrate on
Devot yourself to your career and use your life to make up for your shortcomings."
"Do you have a gun?"
"Yes." Verak pulled apart some of his clothes, revealing the pistol at his waist.
After seeing the gun, Elizabeth walked straight to the door: "Let's go."
"Are you sure you are the one taking me there?" Verak did not rush out, but called Elizabeth.
"Yeah." Elizabeth opened the door and stood still.
"Your face is too eye-catching in Lezein." Verak felt that going out with Elizabeth would easily attract others' attention, and he would be in big trouble if he was recognized.
Elizabeth didn't answer the question and went out directly to leave. Verak had no choice but to pull up his collar and lower the brim of his hat to follow.
"There are very few people in the cemetery. We won't be discovered if we drive there." After the two got into a car, Elizabeth answered Verak's question.
"...Okay." Verak didn't quite agree, but seeing Elizabeth's calm look, he could only choose to believe it.
After all, she has been in prison for a long time and does not know Lazer's current situation, and Elizabeth has been a member of the Equality Society for more than two months. This will not be her first time going out. She should have her own sense of discretion.
"So are you still an actor?" Verak asked casually about Elizabeth's situation.
Elizabeth personally drove the car and took Verak to a cemetery in the South District: "I won't do it anymore. I resigned from my job a month ago and claimed to the outside world that I was going to Welland to develop, but in fact I secretly stayed in the Equality Association.
"
"You said you joined the Equality Society to find out what Chris died for. After staying in the Equality Society for so long, have you found the answer?" Verak asked while turning his head and looking at the street scene outside.
"For the equality and freedom of more people, I know he died for these, but I don't understand." Elizabeth drove the car intently, looking straight ahead, "He is knowledgeable and has a good family background, why would he suddenly want to do this for himself?"
Fighting for the same rights as those he never sees."
"What did you do during your time in the Equality Society?" Verak asked again.
"Read his essay on equality, help with documents, cook, and clean." Elizabeth said.
Verak leaned back on his seat and lowered the window a little, letting the wind rush in. He reached out and pinched the brim of his hat: "These are all very ordinary jobs. Do you feel the difference from your past?"
"Um."
"When you were looking for answers, you kept looking at Chris, trying to find something in him to understand him." Verak did not comment on the fact that Elizabeth joined the Equality Society because of love, but instead gave her a trick
, "This is bound to be fruitless. I suggest you and Morais apply to do something else. Go to sites in other cities and see the world below with the comrades there."
"Are you referring to the living conditions of the poor? Lazer has it, and I have seen it too." Elizabeth half understood what Verak meant, "But I have never thought of giving up everything I have to let them
The idea of getting better. We are two lines. We just have to do our own things and live our own lives."
Verak also nodded and agreed with Elizabeth's idea: "It is understandable that there is no law that stipulates that we must make sacrifices to let others live as well as ourselves. But we must use legal constraints and order things. If we don't do it, we will do it.
It doesn’t sound so noble. The biggest difference between Chris and you is that he doesn’t think from his own point of view, he looks at the problem from the point of view of us civilians living at the bottom.”
"What's the difference?"
"The difference is that you know that we are short of money, good food, luxurious accommodation, and educational resources. Only he knows that we are even more short of dignity that has been taken away long ago." Verak said, "You stand by for the things we have.
You can't see it from high places. Only by experiencing it can you understand that losing those things is more terrifying than losing wealth."
Elizabeth said no more.
Verak always looked out the window. During the World Exposition, this city, which was already the largest in the world, became even more prosperous.
After a long time, the car arrived at a cemetery in the South District. As Elizabeth said, there were only a few people visiting here. They didn't have to worry about being recognized if they covered up a little.
"Let's go." After parking the car, Elizabeth took Verak into the cemetery and all the way to Colin's grave. "Just stay, I won't disturb you."
"Thank you." Watching Elizabeth leave, Verak looked deeply at the tombstone in front of him and was speechless.
After Colin was shot, he gave up his increasingly slim hope of escaping and chose to stop the car and ask the government agents who were chasing him to take Colin to the hospital as soon as possible.
Since then, he has never seen this innocent and simple boy again.
There is still a faint feeling on his arm now, as if Colin, who had been shot and vomited blood, was pulling him and urging him not to stop.
Nowadays, it seems that just a distracted person, a trance, a living person has turned into a cold tomb.
It was a bit difficult for Verak to accept it. He squatted down, stroked the tombstone, and said in a deep voice: "Colin, I'm sorry. I think you should already know that I am not Chris, but another person who used Chris's identity to deceive you.
Kill your people."
The tombstone cannot reply, and the dead person is really dead.
"I..." Verak paused.
No matter how many apologies and excuses you make to a dead person, it is meaningless. He can't hear it, and he can't come back to life. Everything has happened, and it can't be reversed, so you can only bear it.
"I spent a small part of the more than 500,000 gold grams I deceived you, and the rest was given to the Equality Society, which is equivalent to giving it to your friend Chris." After a long while, Verak only said this.
, "If you want, you can always call me Chris, because I will do the same thing that he has pursued throughout his life. What he has not finished, I will finish for him."
In fact, he was very resistant to being called Chris anymore.
He had no intention of replacing Chris' aura, and he had no intention of erasing his true self. He became another person in order to cater to various purposes and interests. Therefore, he has been trying to break away with difficulty for a while, and he has indeed succeeded.
But at this time, he hoped that Colin would continue to think of him as Chris.
In this way, the big boy will not be disappointed and will continue to be naive, feeling that he died for his best friend instead of a liar.
He will feel better.
Verak will feel better.
"Ha." After saying these words, Verak laughed at himself.
None of these things seemed to make sense, but it was a pity that he could only suppress these things.
"I will create a new world with the Equality Society." Verak finally said from the bottom of his heart, then stood up holding the tombstone and planned to leave.
He looked around and was about to find Elizabeth and take the car back with him to prepare for the evening meeting with Morais, but he found Elizabeth showing a sad expression in front of another tombstone not far away.
Whose tombstone is that?
Who else is buried here?
Verak guessed that Elizabeth came not to meet him and talk to him about something, but to come here naturally and meet that person.
He walked forward and saw that Elizabeth was not sobbing, but there were two traces of tears on her face: "What's wrong?"
"It's okay," Elizabeth replied briefly.
"Who is this?" Verak looked at the tombstone. The name on the tombstone was very strange.
Internachonelle.
internationality.
How could someone have such a name?
"This is Chris's tombstone." Elizabeth stared at the words on the tombstone.
"Chris?" Verak's pupils narrowed.
"An empty tomb." Elizabeth wiped her tears and explained, "We didn't find his body, and we can't engrave a monument with his real name. We can only use such an empty tomb to commemorate him."
"Then why is it called Internachonel? Is there any special meaning?" Verak looked at the words on the tombstone repeatedly. He thought he knew Chris very well, but he still used the word "Internacion" on Chris's tombstone.
Such a pseudonym is puzzling.
"He once wrote a poem, and the poem is called Internacionaire." After Elizabeth finished speaking, she turned and walked towards the car, "Come on, we should go back after you finish reading."
Among the information about Chris collected by Verak, there was no content about the poem "Internachonelle". He was about to ask Elizabeth what exactly this poem was about, but before he could speak, Elizabeth
He left quickly, probably because he didn't want to show his misery in front of an outsider.
"You go first." Verak was in no hurry to leave with Elizabeth.
He was surprised that Chris was actually buried here. Although there were no remains of him, his spirit would remain forever and would always infect countless people.
"Chris." Verak knew he was talking to himself, but he still insisted on saying something.
He once desperately hoped that he would have the opportunity to meet Chris, ask him many questions face to face, and talk to him all night long. Unfortunately, fate played a trick. He and Chris were destined to be black and white before, and could not really meet. What was left was only
An exchange of wills across time and space.
"I really don't know what to say to you, and I don't know what the specific relationship between us is." Verak felt that Chris was very kind. He was someone who he had never seen in person or spoken a word to, but seemed familiar to him.
They are brothers, like one's friends. "Let me say thank you on behalf of others. Thank you for changing the world for us and sacrificing your life for it."
The inscription on the tombstone was particularly eye-catching. Verak stared at the words and bowed: "There is still a long way to go to change the world. The theory of equality written by you and Francis will eventually need to be continued.
Answer: I am an ordinary person, and it is because of you that I have become a little bit extraordinary. Next, I will become you, but not you, and I will try my best and be willing to sacrifice my life to fight for the new world all my life.
"
"Thomas Chris, I know you so well, and I hope you remember my name, Most Verak." Verak glanced at Elizabeth, who was waiting for him while driving the car, "I will do it for you."
Complete what you haven't done, and when that day comes, I'll see you again and tell you what the answer is and how beautiful that scene is."
"Beep." The car whistle sounded.
Elizabeth seems to be very reluctant to communicate with Verac and Christo, or she doesn't want others to disturb the sleeping Chris.
"Okay, that's all. The next time we see you will be a long time later. I hope I won't die." Verak grinned, lowered the brim of his hat and left quickly.