After Fletcher returned to the mansion, he first went to Verak's room. He saw Verak sitting at the desk and reading a book as he asked. His head, which had a headache, was relieved a lot: "How do you remember?"
"This book is very obscure, but it contains Chris' annotations, personal opinions, and thoughts after reading it. I can barely understand it." Seeing Fletcher coming, Verak stood up and replied.
"This was Master Chris's favorite book during his lifetime. He will inevitably talk about it with others in the future, so be sure to read it carefully and read it several times," Fletcher explained.
"I will, Mr. Fletcher," said Verak.
Fletcher took a deep look at Verak: "Keep writing it down, I'll come over to check before dinner."
"Okay." Verak sat down and started reading hard.
Fletcher saw this and went out.
After reading for a while, Verak opened the closet and took out a file bag about the rebel organization. In terms of importance, the rebel organization is the key. If he cannot be tied to the rebel organization, he will not be able to use those tricks alone.
, so he first read through the contents of the rebel organization.
There are more things in the portfolio than bills. There are dozens of letters and several notebooks.
Verak took a deep breath and read the letter first. The time was marked on the envelope. He turned to the oldest one, the one from a year ago and opened it. There was a piece of manuscript paper inside, which Chris had sent to someone else for some unknown reason.
It was back in Chris's hands.
[Dear Francis:
I think of the last time we met, when we graduated from college. Who would have expected that just one year has passed and the whole of Bressy has changed drastically. Whenever I have insomnia, I always recall the time when we were students and discuss it together.
Those problems, the future we longed for together. We made a vow during the long night to work hard to make the world more equal. Unfortunately, after graduation, I started to follow my father to manage the company, and you still hold on to the beliefs you once had.
Doing things that are like dreams.
I heard about your deeds in organizing workers' strike march in Lezein. Brother, you are changing the world! You will be recorded in history! Although it only shortened the workers' working hours by one hour a day, there is no doubt that this is human
What a big improvement! I envy you that you can do these things without restraint. I know that you have difficulty with cash flow recently, and I will give you a check that can meet your current needs.
I hope I can help you in more places. My extremely admired friend, I will always be by your side.
Chris Thomas
April 5, 1432]
It can be seen from this letter that although Chris had the idea a long time ago, he only officially came into contact with the rebel organization after contacting his friend Francis a year ago. And it seems that the rebel organization did not look like Verak
As imagined, it is just to usurp political power, but to improve the treatment and status of workers.
There is another thing that surprised Verak. The movement that broke out in Lezein a year ago and effectively improved the conditions of workers turned out to be organized by this young man who was two years younger than himself.
While admiring him, he continued to read other letters. The other letters were all sent by Francis to Chris. Although the content of Chris was missing, he could still roughly sort out the past year.
Francis has been committed to improving the treatment of workers and improving the current flawed system. He organized more and more influential movements and published theories that impacted Bresci's existing ruling class. Then, the letter disappeared, and the last
The time of the letter sent to Chris stayed four months ago.
Verak frowned, stacked all the letters, and opened the first notebook. There was only a handwritten sentence on the first page of the notebook: To my best friend, Francis Leroux.
On the second page, there are only three words: Theory of Equality.
Beginning on the third page, the notebook is densely filled with Chris’s investigation and discussion of the historical development of equality. Many of his views and theories are based on the content of Francis’s letter. It can be said that this book was written by the two.
of.
This book is called "Equality". Although the last article titled "Three Possibilities of Inequality" has been written, it leads to more questions at the end, so Verak guessed that Chris was in the last period of his life.
He should have continued to write, but before he could finish writing this political book that might shock Bressi, he unfortunately committed suicide.
Verak just glanced at it a few times before putting aside the unfinished "On Equality" and flipping through the other two notebooks.
One of the two books contains Chris's plans for the future development of the rebel organization, as well as his secret support for the rebel organization in various forms. The other contains a list of members of the organization, which has almost filled up the entire list.
There are roughly thousands of notebooks.
In Verac's opinion, the priority of these things should be: list book, planning book, "Equality", and letters sent by Francis.
There were too many people involved in the list, and Verak could not write them all down in a short time. He also believed that Chris could not maintain close contact with all of them. Therefore, the top priority was to keep track of the people in the list.
Carry out screening and based on the existing information, select the core members and members whose apparent identities are related to Chris, and focus on understanding these people as soon as possible.
Then there was a detailed study of the plan. After all, Chloe passed a note to him, which stated that the rebel organization was in urgent need of formulating a development direction. The other party would definitely mention this issue the next time they meet, and Verak must be able to answer it.
Gotta come out.
Later, since Chris has been dead for some time and there has been a major undercover purge in the rebel organization, Verak will have to update the current roster and the development plan may also need to be changed accordingly.
After arranging the tasks for the next three main stages, Verak put the things back into the file bag and began to think about where to hide the file bag.
After Carmine discovers that something has been stolen, although he will first suspect the rebel organization, as an outsider, Verak will definitely turn the room upside down.
Hidden in a secret room in Chris's bedroom?
In the bathroom?
Verak felt that no place was absolutely safe as long as the room he lived in.
There is only one safest place - Julia's room.
Carmine will not suspect that his daughter, who is still in school, has stolen the file, and Julia's room is the only place that Verak can enter at the moment, so this is the best choice.
Time was running out, and Julia would be home from school soon. Verak got up and rushed to Julia's room, stuffing the file bag under Julia's bed.