Chapter Three Hundred and Seventy: Dispelling Doubts
Independent mixer camp, Joseph's office
"It's not good." Adel, with a stern look on his face, didn't even bother to knock on the door. He barged in directly and said to Joseph who was doing official business inside, "François is coming."
"What's going on?" Joseph put down the documents in his hand and stood up.
"I don't know. Francois suddenly came out of the government building a few minutes ago and drove straight here. I'm afraid he will be here soon," Adel said.
Joseph looked at the phone in the office. There was no call from the government building today. When he went to the morning meeting in the morning, Francois didn't say he was coming over: "Francois didn't notify me."
Adel had not asked before, but he also guessed this: "He seemed to be in a hurry during his trip, as if he wanted to launch a surprise attack. I wonder if he discovered something, but he didn't have any evidence, so he wanted to come and inspect it?"
"It's possible. In short, the situation shouldn't be very bad. If he had discovered something and had enough evidence, he wouldn't have taken the risk himself." Joseph and Adel analyzed the current situation and made plans for Francois's purpose of this trip.
make a judgment,
"What do you think we should do in this limited time?" Adel asked, "There hasn't been a fight in the Sder Kingdom yet, and Francois hasn't sent troops yet. We must not break up with him at this time.
"
"Well, it's not yet time." Joseph looked at his watch. It would take almost half an hour to get here from the government building at the fastest. "What is certain is that Francois will come here without even saying hello.
It's not a good thing. Regardless of whether it has something to do with the Equality Society or not, we have to deal with this aspect well. You go ask Ross and the others to put away all the books and propaganda newspapers about the Equality Society, and then go to the detention room to arrest the comrades.
They were all handcuffed again to show off."
"Okay." Adel left quickly.
Joseph was not idle. He called Brian, the commander of the cavalry regiment, into the office and ordered him to bring the cavalry regiment back to standby and prepare for the worst case scenario. Afterwards, he communicated with Boyne and Morais at the main station.
I made a phone call, briefly explained the situation to them, and asked them to make some preparations.
Twenty minutes passed quickly as everyone was busy.
The car carrying Francois and the guards entered the camp of the independent mixed division.
After the car parked, less than half a minute after Francois and White got out of the car, Joseph came over with Brian, Adel and other subordinates pretending to have just learned the news.
"Mr. President!" Joseph led his men and surrounding soldiers to salute Francois.
"Not bad, the camp is very orderly, not as free and unorganized as the Guard Corps." Francois praised, and looked at the environment of the camp again, "I was a little tired from dealing with official duties, and White happened to suggest that I come out to relax, so I decided to come here on the spur of the moment.
You take a stroll here."
"Okay, I remember this is your first time here." Seeing that Augus White, who was in charge of intelligence and security work, came with Francois, Joseph basically confirmed that Francois came here for equality.
"Mr. President, Mr. White, let me first introduce to you the commander of the cavalry regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Bryan. This is my staff officer, Major Adel."
When he heard Adel's name, Francois's eyes changed obviously: "Adel? This name sounds familiar."
Adel saluted Francois again: "Mr. President, I served as the warden of Damans Prison."
Francois deliberately widened his eyes: "Ah, you were the warden of Damans Prison before. No wonder. Eh? By the way, weren't you dismissed from your post because of the prison escape? How come you met Joseph again?
, started working in the military?"
Joseph answered for Adel: "The two of us have been friends for a long time. I know his abilities very well. In addition, several important members of the Equality Society were imprisoned in the prison he managed. It was also those people who planned it."
Jailbreak, I think he should know the behavior of those people very well, so I specially invited him to come and participate in the cleanup."
"That's it." Francois looked up and down the tall Adel, "Do a good job. After the Equality Society is wiped out, I think there are still many places where you will be needed."
"Thank you." Adel said.
"This is your first time here. Let me show you around first." Joseph did not let Francois and others stand there stupidly, and began to take them around the camp, looking at the barracks, school grounds, racecourses, etc.
, "The war horses we have here are all the best. If you want to try riding one, I can ask someone to pick one for you."
"No, no, no." At the racecourse, Francois, who was distracted by the visitors, covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief to resist the strong smell of horse manure. "I am already an old man, and these horses are still suitable for you to control."
."
Joseph glanced at White, who couldn't stand the smell and was coughing softly: "Then let's go and talk in the office?"
"Didn't you arrest a lot of people from the Equality Association in the past few days? Take me to see them. I have been dealing with them for so long, but I have never had face-to-face contact with any of them. Today is the time to see them."
Francois inspected the camp and found nothing unusual, so he decided to go see the people from the Equality Association to further verify the situation.
"Okay, come with me." Joseph agreed readily, leading a group of people out of the racecourse and towards the prison, "But I want to remind you first that the scenes inside will be bloody, so you'd better be prepared.
"
"Hmm." After hearing this, Francois couldn't help but glance at White, who had just told him that Joseph had not interrogated members of the Equality Society.
White dodged his eyes and followed Joseph and Francois into the prison.
As soon as they entered the prison, a strong smell of blood and stench that was several times more pungent than the smell at the racecourse hit their faces, causing Francois and White to retch.
Joseph pointed to the nearest cell, which contained two stinking corpses: "People are dead, why are they being locked up? Get rid of them quickly!"
"Yes!" Several soldiers quickly unlocked the door, went in and pulled out the two bodies.
"Ugh..." Stimulated by the smell and appearance of the corpse, Francois retched again.
"Are you okay? Why don't you go out first?" Joseph helped Francois.
The suspicion in Francois's heart had not dissipated. He tried hard to suppress the desire to go out and breathe fresh air, and waved his hand: "I'm fine... vomit..."
Joseph and Adel looked at each other and were satisfied with the things they arranged: "Then I will take you in to have a look."
"Okay." Francois gritted his teeth and walked inside with Joseph.
"The people of the Equality Association are famous for their toughness. You should also know this. We are now using all kinds of methods to force them to explain more things. But most people probably really don't know anything and can only
Let’s lock it down for now, and focus on those leaders first.” Joseph naturally and smoothly made up lies, explaining why most of the members of the Equality Society in the prison were sitting around and did not seem to have been tortured.
"What are you going to do with these people of little value?" White asked.
"It cannot be said that these people are of little value. To be precise, their value will be reflected in other places, such as attracting people from the Equality Society outside to save them." Joseph answered calmly.
"Bait? Not bad." There was no problem with this answer. White raised his eyebrows and didn't delve into it further.
Joseph said "Yeah": "After all, there are hundreds of people, and the Equality Association cannot be indifferent to their life and death. So it makes little sense to torture them, and let them hang for their lives here, attracting more and more Equality Associations.
It is the best choice for people to fall into the trap we have laid."
With that said, several people came to the interrogation room.
In the interrogation room, several comrades from the Equality Association who were covered with scars were hung up and looked at the person coming with difficulty with their eyes open.
"These are the cadres of the Equality Association we captured this time. Each one is tougher than the last, and they haven't let up yet." Joseph described the situation calmly, but his eyes were deeply shocked.
These few are indeed cadres of the Equality Association.
He is the webmaster of several sites where equality will be cut off when acting together.
It's just that they have been well placed after being captured, until they encountered an unexpected situation today...
Several corpses were easy to find, but the one who was seriously injured, could speak, and could claim to be a comrade of the Equality Society could not be found for a while.
So in an emergency, they were really tortured for the performance, and in order to deal with Francois perfectly, these Equality cadres stepped forward and asked to be hung up, so that the soldiers could torture them.
"It's already like this and you still don't want to say anything?" Francois looked at the horrific wounds on those people and really couldn't understand how they persisted.
"Yes, this is where the Equality Association becomes difficult to deal with." Joseph walked into the interrogation room and said to the Equality Association cadres in the lake, "The distinguished Mr. President is here in person. He can assure you that as long as you
If you tell me all the information you know about the Equality Society, I will give you glory, wealth, and everything you want."
"Bah!" A cadre of the Equality Society spit out a mouthful of blood on Joseph's face. "I don't care whether you are president or not. Sooner or later you will be overturned and swallowed up by the sea of people! Long live the Equality Society! We will eventually win!"
“Long live equality!”
"We will win!"
Other cadres followed and shouted.
Joseph took out a handkerchief and wiped the blood from his face, then slowly walked to the side and took the whip: "How dare you be so presumptuous in front of Mr. President!"
"Crack!"
"Well!"
Joseph whipped the cadre of the Equality Society who had just vomited blood at him.
The cadre's body was originally covered with scars, but with such a whip, the skin and flesh were torn apart.
"Apologise, Mr. President!" Joseph said with a sullen face, and whipped him again and again.
"Crack!"
"Crack!"
"Crack!"
The cadre couldn't help being so cruel and fainted.
“Long live equality!
"
"Long live the people!
"
The other two cadres were also seriously injured and were still in high spirits.
"Looking for death!" Joseph continued to beat them.
Francois was shocked to see what he saw outside the interrogation room, and cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
White said nothing, with subtle changes in his eyes.
Seeing that several people had gone from suspicion to shock now, Adel should have eliminated their suspicion of Joseph, and finally said to the interrogation room: "General, if you beat them again, they will be killed! Beat them to death now."
It doesn’t do us any good!”
Joseph stopped then, threw the whip aside, walked out of the interrogation room, and first looked at the soldiers in charge of the interrogation: "Within three days, I want you to make them let go at all costs!"
"Yes! General!" the soldier shouted.
"Joseph, let's go out." This was the first time Francois saw Joseph with such a violent side, and his tone subconsciously softened when he spoke to him again.
"I'm sorry, Mr. President." Joseph apologized for the rude offense given by the Equality officials just now.
"It's okay, let's go." Francois gave up his doubts about Joseph and couldn't wait to leave the stuffy prison.
"Follow me." Joseph glanced at the three Equality cadres who were motionless in the interrogation room, and led Francois and White out of the prison cell. "Mr. President, go to my office and drink some coffee."
There was little point in Francois staying here anymore. He glanced at Adel who was following Joseph with fear: "No, I'm just coming out to relax. Come with me and I'll tell you something.
After saying that, leave."
With that said, Francois took Joseph to his car.
"Mr. President, what's wrong?"
"Do you think Adel is reliable?" Francois looked through the car window at Adel who was standing not far away.
"He is my best friend, so of course he is reliable." Joseph said matter-of-factly.
Francois said nothing, and White spoke at the right time: "The intelligence department under my command recently accidentally discovered that there are a few soldiers in the independent mixed division who are not normal. We should deal with people who are equally likely to infiltrate or instigate rebellion."
"Yeah?"
"And that Adel has a close relationship with this group of people, maybe..."
"You mean, Adel is also a member of the Equality Society?" Joseph smiled.
White said solemnly: "It should be. Damans Prison is impregnable and no one has ever successfully escaped. Why was the prison breached from the inside as soon as the Equality people entered? You have to be careful about Adel, he is very likely to be Equality.
An eyeliner will be placed around you."
"I think you misunderstood something." Joseph dismissed it. "There are indeed a few people under me who were instigated by the Equality Society, but I have been pretending not to know, and specially arranged for Adel to contact them, pretending to join them.
To catch bigger fish.”
"Wha, what? You mean, this is all under your control?" White said.
Francois also looked at Joseph in surprise.
"As the commander of an independent mixed division, if I didn't even know whether the division had been infiltrated by the Equality Society, I would have died eight hundred times a long time ago." Joseph shook his head gently, "Mr. President, you are here today, actually.
Are you worried about me?"
"Ah... yes, I was worried that you were in any danger, and I was afraid of alerting the enemy, so I came over to take a look in person and told you secretly about Adel in the car. I didn't expect that we were overly worried and almost messed up the situation.
Your layout." Francois couldn't laugh or cry.
"I have made you worry. I will report these things to you first in the future to avoid any misunderstandings. Or maybe there are things that I don't know about and Mr. White finds out. You think I know about it..." Joseph said with a look.
He didn't take it to heart that the two came to test him, and interpreted it as a sign of concern for him.
"I'm sorry for causing you trouble. It seems that we in the reef and your independent mixing division still need to communicate more in the future, otherwise our own people will end up beating our own people." White pushed the matter to Joseph, secretly blaming him for not reporting in time.
This led to such an embarrassing scene today.
Francois came out to smooth things over: "Okay, okay, let's all remember it. Cooperation is indispensable in the future. Information exchanges should be exchanged, and the capabilities of each department must be maximized."
"Understood." Joseph responded.
"Understood." White followed closely.
"That's it, I won't disturb you from your official duties." Francois ended the farce.
"Be careful on the road." Adel got out of the car and silently watched the convoy go away.