Captain Dana, the commander of the 3rd Company of the 2nd Battalion, noticed something strange in the camp recently.
On the surface, there is no difference between this place and the past. It is running normally. The only disturbance is that Pisel was assassinated and Joseph was promoted to major general and served as the commander of the independent mixed division.
But beneath this, there seems to be a strange undercurrent surging.
He found that his subordinates were a little sneaky, their movements in the past few days were a little strange, and the atmosphere in the entire camp also changed inexplicably.
He had a bad premonition, so he secretly called his cronies late at night to discuss the recent strange feeling with Lieutenant Bunir, who had the same aristocratic background.
"Do you feel the same way?" Lieutenant Bunier asked after Captain Dana finished explaining his complex feelings.
Dana's eyes lit up: "You too?"
"Yes, in the last week or so, the people under my command have given me the feeling that they are doing something without telling me." Bunir was also planning to report the situation to Captain Dana, "but their whereabouts have not been revealed.
What's abnormal, I don't know if it's my own illusion."
"In the past few days, I have also been wondering if it was because General Pisel was assassinated and Joseph became a major general that I felt like this. So many low-class people from humble backgrounds saw Joseph becoming a general and imagined that one day they would
Even if you can be so high up, you will be so excited that you can't sleep at night..." Captain Dana's eyes flashed with contempt for the soldiers and officers in the regiment who came from poor backgrounds.
Bunir's father is a famous judge in Lezein, and his grandfather is a distinguished earl. The whole family is highly respected in the upper class. He became a lieutenant not long after he entered the army at a young age.
People who are not as good as him have an innate sense of rejection.
In his family, servants with civilian backgrounds would not even be treated seriously by him, but in the army, such civilians could become officers who were taller than him and instruct him to do things. This made him very unhappy, and he often got transferred.
The idea of this cavalry regiment, which is like a foreign species in the army, to work with the powerful in other regiments.
"There must be this reason." Bunir sneered, not taking Major General Joseph seriously, "Anyone with a discerning eye can see that pushing Joseph to the top is just to make him a scapegoat. The waiters will be eliminated, and this position will be immediately
will be killed by Colonel Benson, Jay
Lieutenant Colonel Free and the others were fighting for it. These fools thought they had hope of climbing higher, but little did they know that Joseph was probably crying and wishing he had three regiments to surround him tightly, lest one of them would accidentally be killed by an equal.
Wiped my neck."
"Haha..." Captain Dana smiled.
Only by staying with "similar people" like Lieutenant Bunir could he feel rare happiness.
"But this explanation alone is still too far-fetched. They give me more than that." After ridiculing, Bunir faced the problem squarely, "These untouchables are very cunning. You can see it from the battlefield. If you don't give them
More advantages, they will not charge to kill the enemy when we give the order. I think they also concealed this matter when I asked."
"Hide it...you mean they are doing something shameful behind our backs?" Captain Dana captured the key words.
"Yes." Bunir boldly said his guess, "I found that they often discuss some unknown things in private. Of course they did it before, but after I saw it, they just became more calm and would not
The fear flashed across my face like this now, as if something had been seen through me..."
"When you put it this way, I do feel the same way. When I have been in contact with them recently, their eyes seem to be wrong. I can't tell what is wrong, but it just makes me feel vaguely offended." Captain Dana said excitedly.
Echoing what Bunir said.
They feel the same way, so the possibility of overthinking becomes very slim.
"They must be plotting something." Bunir concluded.
"Do you have any specific ideas?" Dana valued Bunir's opinion very much.
Bunir pondered but shook his head: "It may be the issue of military salary deduction, or it may be that someone among us is secretly reselling military supplies... There are too many things for them to spread their opinions privately, so it is useless.
Guessing based on the local area is of little value."
"These untouchables are really troublesome, it would be better if they all died." Captain Dana cursed.
He was fed up with this group of untouchables, living with this group of low-class people, and struggling to drive them to do things every day made him feel very tired, and being ridden by this group of stupid, cunning, and stingy low-class people made him feel very tired.
It was intolerable to him.
It would be better if they all died.
This was not just a remark made in anger, but what he really thought.
In their view, the world is cut into two halves, so people cannot generalize.
People in the upper class are elegant, kind, and knowledgeable, while people at the bottom are just like rats, smelly, ignorant, and selfish.
Why can't only upper-class people exist in this world?
Wouldn't it be better if they only existed?
There will no longer be any chaotic parties that disturb public order, and there will no longer be any problems caused by lower-class people.
"Should we go investigate? If there is really a big problem, this might be an opportunity for us to make a meritorious deed." Lieutenant Bunir suggested.
When he heard the word meritorious service, Dana's irritability disappeared. He became interested in the matter: "Investigation? How to investigate?"
"There will definitely be no results from asking openly. The best way for us is to inquire secretly at night."
"Night? It's a good time for them to plot something."
"Then let's go take a look."
"Walk."
The two walked out of Dana's office and patrolled the camp without attracting the attention of others as much as possible.
There was nothing wrong with the barracks, school ground, and racecourse in the camp. They looked around and found nothing. Just when Dana felt that this was not an option and they had to find a more suitable way to find out the secrets of the soldiers,
Bunir noticed something unusual at the armory.
"As far as I know, patrols at night do not go to the armory so frequently to check the situation, and in the half hour we have been around, no less than three teams have entered." Lieutenant Bunir said.
"And it seems that none of them have come out..." Captain Dana followed Bunir's analysis and looked at the armory. After some recall, he confirmed that no patrols had come out. "It will take a long time for so many patrols to go in."
If it doesn't come out, there must be something fishy in the armory."
"We have to go and take a look." A strong intuition told Bunir that the truth they were pursuing was in the armory.
Dana stopped Bunir: "If we go there directly, we will alert them. We have to find a way to sneak in and find out what they are doing."
"There is a ladder outside the armory. You can climb to the second floor. Let's go over and see if there is a way to sneak in from the second floor." Bunir originally planned to sneak in secretly. After Dana stopped him, he walked with him.
The infiltration route was explained.
"Okay." Dana followed behind Bunir, "The time has come for us to make a contribution."
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At the same time, in the armory.
Dozens of soldiers were sitting around, listening attentively to Ross and other maintenance workers sitting in the center talking about the Equality Council.
Ross and several comrades were still in contact with the soldiers as maintenance workers, so in order to tell more about the Equality Society, they each pretended to have different understandings and cooperated with each other to comprehensively answer everyone's doubts.
"What exactly is labor? It includes three meanings, reflecting the past, future, and present. Among them, science, fertilizer, and tools reflect the past, workers reflect the future, and land and materials reflect the present..." A Biros
A comrade who has conducted in-depth research on "On Equality" will explain the contents of the book to everyone.
There was a small lamp burning in the corner of the armory, which could illuminate the figures of Ross and others, as well as the faces of the soldiers sitting around.
Ross noticed that the soldiers were confused, and realized that the content of what his companions said was still too complicated for these tough soldiers: "I actually think the meaning is very simple. To put it bluntly, accumulation, people, environment, probably these things
…”
"I have a question." A soldier raised his hand.
"We are just civilians and we may not understand. You can talk about it first." Ross asked the soldier to speak.
"You just talked about a lot of things in the theory of equality, saying that in order to make the judiciary equal between the rich and the poor, first of all, there should be no distinction between the children of the poor and the children of the rich. That is, everyone should receive public education.
Let’s move forward together from the same starting point. What I don’t understand is which one accepted it?
If an educated child commits the same crime as an uneducated adult, the punishment should be the same? Or is it that in the absence of education, the so-called adults are actually no different from children? And they understand everything.
Children cannot simply consider their age?" the soldier asked.
This question made Ross and others look at each other.
"This is a very good question." Ross commented after thinking about it, "As for what should be done, I don't know much about it yet. I can try to think about it from the perspective of the Equality Association..."
Captain Dana and Lieutenant Bunier, who sneaked in from the second floor of the armory, saw the light and quietly touched it.
"Sure enough, there is a problem..." Captain Dana said secretly.
Dozens of soldiers were sitting quietly together, definitely plotting something big.
"You can't hear what they are saying, so get closer." Bunir mainly wanted to hear clearly what the soldiers were talking about, otherwise he would still be unable to do anything if he just saw them gathering.
The two of them took advantage of the people below to talk engrossed in conversation, and moved a little closer to the gathering direction.
Now they finally heard the intermittent content.
Equality meeting!
Dana and Bunir looked at each other and saw indescribable shock in each other's eyes.
They had speculated on many possibilities before coming, but they did not consider the Equality Association. Because the control in the Corps is very strict, logically speaking, the information of the Equality Association should not be spread. And as Lezein's defense work
The main person responsible for this, they couldn't even imagine that the idea of equality had penetrated into it.
It turns out that during this period, the soldiers were discussing the Equality Association privately...
Dana took a breath, unable to calm down the shock he received.
When did the Equality Society enter the Corps? To what extent has it penetrated the Corps now? They couldn't imagine it, let alone think about it.
The seriousness of this incident outweighed their desire to make meritorious deeds.
It's a pity that they are still a little far away, and they can't hear the specific content clearly. They only know that everyone is talking secretly around the Equality Association and "On Equality".
Dana wanted to get closer, but Bunir stopped him.
"We can't get any closer, otherwise we will be discovered. Let's go out and find a solution first." After Bunir finished speaking, he took Dana back the same way and left the armory.
"It turned out to be the Equality Society!" Dana murmured in disbelief after going out, "We should arrest them all! If we allow this unhealthy trend to spread within the Corps, the consequences will be disastrous!"
"No." Bunir rejected this plan. "We don't know how many there are yet, and we don't know exactly how Equality will break in. We need to have more information before we can catch them all."
"The question is how to do it?" Dana had no clue and habitually asked his subordinate Bunir for his opinion.
Bunir looked at the armory and imagined how many soldiers had been there, gathering together every night to talk about the Equality Society. He felt a chill in his back: "It's absolutely impossible for the two of us alone to do this. We have to seek
help."
"Let's report it secretly to the boss." The matter was too big, and Dana didn't dare to take it upon himself.
"The question is who to look for?" Bunir asked.
"What do you mean?" Dana narrowed his eyes.
"Should we go directly to the regiment commander, the division commander, or someone else?" Bunir said meaningfully.
Dana understood what Bunir meant: "Commander, the division commanders are all civilians, are you worried that they are also involved?"
"This possibility cannot be ruled out," Bunir said.
"It's impossible." Dana didn't believe that Major General Joseph was involved in this matter at all. "Although Joseph is a civilian and has the same background and origin as them, he is now highly valued by the President and his future is limitless. This afternoon, he will also
He was assassinated by the Equality Society, how could there be any contact?"
"What you said makes sense. I just feel a little strange. I feel that many things have collided together and are vaguely related." Bunir always felt that several major events that happened recently could be connected together, but for a while he still couldn't.
There is no specific idea.
"Tell me about it?"
"I...I'm not sure, it's just..."
Dana shook his head, his chest heaving violently: "If Major General Joseph is also related to this matter, how could we possibly find out? Let's go and see Major General Joseph together."
"Or, should we consider other people? For example, Colonel Benson or Lieutenant Colonel Jeffrey?" Bunir suggested cautiously.
"Then when this matter reaches the ears of our regiment commander, how can we still stay in the cavalry regiment?" Dana asked.
They left such important information without reporting it to their superiors and went to tell others about it. This clearly shows their distrust of their superiors.
"Okay then..." Bunir felt that what Dana said made sense.
"Let's go." Dana didn't hesitate, and went to see Joseph with Bunir.