The group stopped in front of the former presidential office.
The door number originally labeled 'President's Office' outside the office has been replaced by the words 'Chairman's Office'.
"Please come in." Joseph, who was very familiar with the government building, opened the door and invited Boyne, Verak, and Keating to walk in.
The first thing that greets everyone is a spacious and luxurious reception area, and then going deeper inside is the office area.
Joseph had come here to talk to Francois many times. He skimmed over the things that caught the eye of first-time visitors with ease, walked straight to the desk made of expensive wood, and picked up a stack of documents.
: "These are the progress reports that have been sent by various departments since the beginning of our operation. After vacating the office, I will have people put the documents here, waiting for you to read them."
"I have to work again just after I got here." Boyin smiled and walked over slowly.
"There is also a bathroom, a lounge, and a wine cabinet..." Verak looked around and sighed, "This is not an office. It is clearly a place where Francois enjoys his life."
"It's really an exaggeration. This area alone is enough for our main station to build ten offices." Boyin picked up the document and flipped through it, and replied to Verak.
"You are finally here!"
Not long after the group came to the office as a visitor, Morais, who organized the comrades to take over the building and various tasks, rushed over.
"Morais." Boyin said hello to the hot-tempered Morais on crutches.
"Are you feeling well?" Morais stepped forward and asked with concern.
"No problem, let's talk about the current situation in the city." Boyin did not miss a beat, reading the reports from various ministries while waiting to hear Morais's report.
Morais glanced at everyone and immediately talked about the situation: "Let me start from the building first. Now that the building is under our control, the former government staff have been placed. We will arrange for us to wait until the situation becomes more stable.
Handle work with people and maintain the basic operation of Lezein.”
"Well..." Boyin looked through the independent editor's reports on the embassies of various countries.
"It was a little smoother than expected outside. People from our Operations Department controlled all important facilities, and the independent mixed division led the Guard Corps to maintain public security and basic order. There were no big troubles in these places. The Propaganda Department
Bian also sent back news that the public's reaction was not very violent, and with vigorous publicity and reassurance, the public's mood is stabilizing."
"That's good." Boyin paused flipping through the report in his hand and looked directly at Morais, "Where are the sub-stations?"
"The situation in this regard is more complicated. Sub-stations in nearly a hundred cities respond at the same time, and it is difficult for us to ensure that their situations are all the same. Moreover, the sub-stations are not as powerful as ours, and most of them are still in motion.
Results should start to appear after noon," Morais said.
Verak made a special effort to have a phone call with Nord, Murphy, and Winston last night to learn about the response plan of the Kip City substation. After Morais reported to Boyin, he looked at the time on his watch and said: "
At this point, the comrades from Kip City should be besieging the city hall."
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at the same time
Kip City, City Hall
Thousands of people surrounded the City Hall, shouting in unison, "Down with the powerful, we want equality." However, the doors of the City Hall were closed and they were indifferent to the demonstrations outside.
"It's the Equality Association, it's confirmed without a doubt." In the mayor's office, the mayor's secretary hid on the side of the window and looked at several Equality Association flags raised by the crowd outside.
"Do you have to tell me?" Mayor Laika's face turned livid, "Where are the reinforcements? Where are the guards? How is the contact with Laizein?"
"The telephone line must have been cut off, the calls could not be made at all, and the telegrams sent to all parties were never answered..."
"Then why are you still standing here?" Laika glared at the useless secretary, "Why don't you quickly find a way to solve the problem and contact them?!"
"Yes! I, I'll go right away!" The secretary didn't know how to contact the outside world besides these two contact methods, but in order not to offend Laika, he left the office first.
Laika looked outside solemnly and said nothing.
Some time ago, he secretly instructed a group of people to pretend to be the Equality Society to make money. Later, because this method could not only make money but also effectively destroy the trust foundation between the True Equality Society and the people, President Francois, who learned of the situation, personally commended him.
, and prepare to secretly implement this plan across the country.
Later, the group of people under his command were suddenly destroyed overnight, and then people began to spread rumors that true equality would begin to pay compensation to the defrauded people.
At that time, Laika specially ordered people to search for traces, but they could not find any useful clues. So, he forced himself to believe that this was just a rumor. After all, Kip City had never heard of anyone from the Equality Society being active. If there really was one
, it’s impossible for him to send so many people and not even find any clues.
But now, he was dumbfounded.
Being able to organize nearly 10,000 people to surround the city hall in protest, the Equality Association must have taken root in Kip City!
His eyes were so low that there was a group of people that even Francois couldn't do anything about. Moreover, he had no idea how long the other party had been rooted in Kip City and how deep it was. The most terrifying thing was that they
Today was a surprise. They came up to surround the city hall, and they seemed to be trying to capture it in one fell swoop.
Laika's back was soaked through.
Time passes little by little.
Five minutes, ten minutes, twenty minutes...
The secretary did not come back, which meant that he still could not contact anyone from the outside world. The people surrounding the city hall were getting impatient after receiving no response. Some people started throwing things and smashing things, and they were about to attack.
"Damn..." Laika lit up a cigarette tremblingly and held it in his mouth with great effort.
There was a possibility that he didn't want to face that was eating away at his brain.
Even if they couldn't contact the guards, they should have noticed that there was such a big commotion here after such a long time, and at the same time arranged for people to come over to maintain order and defeat the Equality Society's conspiracy.
However, the fact is that no one from the government showed up.
Coupled with the sudden appearance of the Equality Society, which has never appeared before, with great fanfare, all this is enough to show that the Equality Society came prepared this time, and the largest armed support in Kip City, the City Guard, has also been captured by them.
Take it!
If this is the case, the situation is extremely bad.
Because even if they can contact Zein later, the distant water cannot save the nearby fire, and the fall of the city hall is a foregone conclusion.
If you can't save the city hall, what about your own life?
"Let's rush in! Drive away those people who don't regard us as human beings and only serve the powerful!"
People outside decided to storm the city hall.
"Mr. Laika!" The secretary who found nothing had to come back to ask Laika how to deal with it.
"Still can't contact anyone?" Laika tried his best to stay calm, otherwise the secretary would find that he was gradually getting confused.
The secretary sighed: "No one responded to the telegram, and there is really nothing we can do about the phone calls. Either we rush out and reconnect the phone lines, or we have to wait for people outside to rescue us."
"Is there any need to pick up the phone line when I can go out..." Laika always stood on the side of the window to prevent people outside from seeing him, but he could detect the situation outside to the maximum extent, "Go and call the city hall.
All the manpower inside must guard the door and not let them rush in."
"this……"
"The Guards Corps will arrive soon. If we don't hold on now, we will be killed by these crazy and uncaring untouchables. Are you willing to do so?" Laika looked at the secretary coldly.
"Understood!" The secretary firmly determined to defend the city hall and left quickly.
After the secretary closed the door and left, the cigarette butt in Laika's hand fell on the expensive carpet.
In the past, he would scold someone even if he stepped on them with dirty shoes. Now that a hole was quickly burned into the carpet, he didn't even bother to look at it or move his feet to stamp out the cigarette butt.
"It's over..." Two words came out of his mouth with difficulty.
When the phone line is cut off, people inside can't call out, and people outside can't call in. This is normal.
But what about the telegram?
The Kip City City Hall is surrounded by the Equality Society, and the situation is extremely serious. For such an important matter, as long as you come to Zein, you will definitely receive a reply as soon as possible.
Why not reply?!
There is only one possibility, and that is that something happened to Lai Zeyin.
This is hard to believe, but it is not surprising at all when it comes to the Equality Society, which attacked government buildings and destroyed the Universal Exposition that Bresci had been preparing for several years.
And if this is the case, the Kip City side makes more sense.
Why did they dare to attack the Kip City Hall, not afraid of the city guard or the retaliation from Laizein after the occupation?
It's almost over for Lai Zeyin, so what do they have to be afraid of!
"Bang bang bang!"
"Bang bang bang!"
Fierce gunshots were heard outside the city hall, and Laika, who was quite sensitive, immediately moved away from the window and hid behind the wall.
The Equality Association and citizens are really going to rush in!
They even carry guns!
"It's over, it's over..." Laika's whole body was covered in sweat, and his final gaze was fixed on the desk.
There is a gun in the desk drawer.
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Wellland, capital Roden, royal palace
"What?!" King Edward IV of the Kingdom of Wellland, who was in his prime and had a strong style, almost fainted after hearing that Lezein was captured by the Equality Society and that movements broke out in large parts of the city of Bressy, "It's the one from before.
Is it the same organization that attacked the Bresi government building?”
"Yes, they have now announced that it will be renamed the International Equality Alliance." The Minister of Intelligence nodded.
"It's been so long, haven't they got rid of this organization?" Edward IV didn't take the Equality Society to heart at all before. He felt that this organization had caused such a big thing before, which made Bressy embarrassed internationally.
For the sake of face, Bressi should have eradicated them no matter what. But the result shocked him so much that he thought he was dreaming, Bresci actually fell down in the same place for the second time!
"As far as we know, this organization has been active in Bressy. In recent months, President François of Bressy has introduced various policies and means to suppress them. Although some results have been achieved, they have never been able to
Uproot it. The reason why they were able to control Lezein so quickly and easily this time was because the independent mixed divisions and guard corps that Francois specially transferred back to garrison have defected to the International Equality Alliance, making Francois
When President Va faces the enemy, he has no way of organizing effective resistance."
"Isn't that idiot François not aware of this at all..." Edward IV wondered whether François had a brain or not. He didn't even know that Laizine would be so eroded by equality, "Our Ambassador
How are the people at the museum doing?"
The minister said: "The people in the embassy are fine at the moment, but the people from the International Equality Alliance are not allowing our people to leave."
"Obviously, they want to contact us later. That's fine. You can notify the ambassador later and let them contact this group of people and ask them to guarantee the safety of us Welllanders in Zeinli and Brexi."
A ray of good news among all the misfortunes made Edward IV feel a little more relaxed.
"yes."
"In addition, let's inform the ministers to come for a meeting. We have to find a way to deal with this big change." Edward IV felt tired.
The international situation is inherently unpredictable, and rising new powers are constantly trying to compete for the cake and challenge Willand's dominance.
The war between Welland and Bash also broke out.
However, considering the surrounding situation, for the sake of safety, Wellland did not fight with Bash alone. Instead, he reached cooperation with Bressi and formed the strongest joint fleet that was frightened by all countries to launch an expedition.
In everyone's opinion, Wellland will win this war. Because it is the world's hegemon and the most powerful country, and this time it has united with the equally powerful Brexi, there is no reason to lose to Bash.
Unfortunately, the final result was beyond everyone's expectations.
Bash received the secret support of Pruman and used a large number of submarines to defeat Welland. Bressy's combined fleet was retreating steadily, disrupting their original combat arrangements.
During this period, Edward IV was worried every day about how to counter submarines and how to deal with Pruman, who was more dangerous than Bash.
It's better now, I can't think of a solution. The owner of the ally's house will be changed first.
How can we fight this battle?
It won't take long for Blissi's fleet to know about this. Once they withdraw, the Welland navy will bear all the pressure. Coupled with Pruman's imminent move, this expedition will most likely end in failure early.
The allies, the Castelia Empire and the Kingdom of Sder, are at odds with each other, so it would be enough if they don't ask for help.
The ally Bresi Republic has become like this again.
If he loses the expedition again and cedes Nero's interests to Bash, declaring that the world's hegemon cannot stop his rise, Pruman may make new moves.
"Alas..." For a moment, it seemed that everyone was against him, and Edward IV felt a little powerless.
"Your Majesty." The minister of the Ministry of Intelligence bowed and saluted, "There is no need to inform other ministers, they have already been waiting for you outside."