Quentin, Oscar, Stuart, and Connie, who were almost rested, came to the tavern to meet up and prepare to start their respective tasks.
"Comrade Victor." Seeing that Verac did not come, Quentin took advantage of the other three people to have breakfast and quietly inquired about last night's situation with the bartender Victor, "What happened last night? It was Bresina
Did something happen?"
"Yes, but the crisis last night has been resolved, and now everything is moving in a good direction." Victor smiled without revealing the details, "For the specific situation, I will ask Comrade Verak when he comes."
"What time does Comrade Verak take a break?"
"At five or six o'clock."
I am afraid that Verak has only slept for less than two hours. Quentin gave up his plan to know the situation now: "Let him have a good rest first, and then talk to him about Brexi's affairs at noon."
"Um."
Quentin returned to the cubicle and had breakfast with the three of them. While eating, they checked each other's actions.
When they finished eating and were about to set off, Verak, who was supposed to be resting, appeared in front of the compartment door.
"Good morning everyone."
"Good morning."
"Good morning."
"Why are you here? I heard from Victor that you only rested at five or six o'clock." Quentin was quite surprised by Verak's appearance.
"I've slept enough." Verak looked hard to be called energetic, but he certainly wasn't tired. "Are you about to set off?"
"Yes." Quentin nodded slightly, "Everything is ready, we have to make good use of the time."
"Okay, just be careful." Verak had no objection.
Seeing that Verac had arrived, Quentin was not in a hurry to go out, but decided to ask what happened at Bressy last night: "Comrade Verac, what happened at Bressy yesterday, it's convenient to tell us
What?"
Connie, Oscar, and Stuart all looked at Verak.
Verak had long known that they would be curious about the fact that he stayed in the cubicle last night waiting for news. Just as the crisis was over, this matter was no longer a secret. On the contrary, it could cheer up people's hearts. He sat down and read last night's Southern Hot
I talked about the war situation in the two cities of Puluo City and Puluo City.
"So many things happened last night..." Oscar imagined the battle between comrades on the rainy night in his mind.
"It's good if you win." Connie said.
"It's a good thing you didn't tell us last night, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to sleep." Stuart joked.
Quentin thought thoughtfully: "In this way, we will be relatively less passive and have the conditions to organize a counterattack."
"Yes, the victory of these two battles has effectively blunted the edge of the government forces, which is equivalent to stopping this mad cow that is ramming everywhere. In the future, they will not be able to rush forward if they want to be overwhelming.
It's easy, and we can seize this opportunity to further expand our advantage and try to push them back to Joseph County," Verak said.
"That will leave more time for Lai Zeyin to develop and grow. As long as the current situation can be maintained, the final winner must be us." Quentin, and even all comrades, are very clear: the longer the time drags on,
, the weaker the government forces are, the stronger the International Equality Alliance will be.
A week from now, a month from now, two months from now, the situation on both sides will be completely different.
"We have to do something quickly here to spread the good news back." Stuart was very excited and wanted to make the comrades on the Brexi side feel inspired when they heard their news.
"Let's get things done on Heping Street first," Quentin said.
"Don't worry, the overall revolutionary work is about to make progress." Verak reassured the agitated people, "The sub-station has a lot of information and has clear arrangements for what to do next. I'll wait for you.
After finishing here, Comrade Dai Qian, who has infiltrated the government, and the comrades who have stepped up to collect other information will probably have almost completed their respective tasks. When the time comes, the traitors and undercover agents will be eliminated, and we will have a big fight here."
"good!"
"good!"
"Have a big fight!"
"Then let's go first." Quentin led the three of them out and dispersed at the door of the tavern.
Verak did not follow them, nor did he go out to see them off. He just yawned: "The speed is quite fast. I thought I would have to keep an eye on them for another day today."
Victor wiped the wine glass: "Although they are immature, their abilities are not bad."
"Yeah." Verak was actually quite sleepy. Two hours was not enough for him to replenish his energy. "If there's nothing else, I'll go back and catch up on some sleep."
"Okay, you can just come over for lunch."
"If you need anything, come to me anytime." Verak waved his hand and went out to the small hotel diagonally opposite the tavern.
At early ten o'clock, as his prophecy came true, Victor hurriedly knocked on Verac's door, woke up Verac who had just slept for less than two hours, and reported the unexpected situation.
Dai Qian, the deputy director of the sub-station who was sent out by Cozmo, the sub-station director a few days ago, successfully broke into the government department and tried to steal the sub-station's undercover traitor list through the connection between the relevant departments and the "Scavengers", an organization that specializes in eradicating them.
sacrificed.
Her sacrifice represents the Bash government. When the scavengers know that the comrades at the sub-station are trying to infiltrate their ranks, they will inevitably be more vigilant to prevent similar incidents from happening.
Once this road is cut off, there is only one way left for the sub-station to master the list, which is to find a way to directly penetrate into the "Scavenger".
"Alas..." Verak sighed after a moment of silence for Daisy, whom he had just met.
There is good news coming one after another from Bressy. He has been in Bash for almost a month but nothing has been done yet. Fortunately, Boyin has not talked to him yet and asked him to explain the progress of the revolution in Bash, otherwise he would not know at all.
What to say.
"Webmaster Cozmo hopes that you will go back and discuss follow-up matters with them." Victor said.
"Well..." Verak was a little listless.
There are not many reliable comrades in the current sub-station, and Comrade Dai Qian's sacrifice is another heavy blow to them.
The most important thing is that there is still no clue how to break through the many difficulties and enter the Scavenger.
If this continues, the substation will completely collapse.
"Help me make some arrangements and leave after noon." Verak wanted to go back now, but he didn't know how long this trip would take, so he decided to stay a little longer and wait until Quentin and the others came back at noon to give them instructions before leaving.
"At noon? Is it too dangerous?" Victor asked.
"So I have to trouble you to make arrangements." Verak is a person who gets things done as soon as he has something to do, and naturally he doesn't want to delay it until night.
"...Okay." Victor agreed bravely.
At noon, Quentin and his party came back one after another. After listening to their respective progress in the morning, Verak gave them instructions respectively. After revealing that Comrade Dai Qian died and that he was going back, he hurriedly said goodbye to a few people.
Under the escort of Victor, we returned to the secret site in the basement.
At the site, the site chief Kozmo, the deputy chief Vladislav, and the captain of the combat team Arseny were all in a bad state. When they saw Verak coming back, they all just nodded.
"Tell me about the specific situation." Verak carefully closed the door and asked.
Cozmo, with messy hair and unkempt beard, sat aside, holding a crumpled cigarette in his hand: "...I suspect that the people in the government have long seen that Comrade Dai Qian is one of ours, and they used a trick to let Comrade Dai Qian in.
In order to lure us out. Fortunately, we made an agreement with Dai Qian to wait until she successfully steals the list before we meet again, otherwise our entire army would be wiped out this time..."
Verak knew that Daisy was a staunch person, but he still asked for the one in ten thousand chance: "Have the information about these secret sites and our arrival been leaked?"
"Comrade Daisy is not that kind of person. She will never say a word until she dies. Don't worry..." Vladislav said.
"Well..." Verak couldn't stand the bleak atmosphere. He stood up and paced back and forth after sitting for half a minute. "Now we definitely can't send people to try to break into the government. Once they do, they will definitely be more vigilant.
Secondly, if they try to trick us all into showing up again, we won't be able to judge."
"Then what should we do now? We can't even get into these departments, let alone the scavengers themselves." Arseny threw the unfinished cigarette on the ground and crushed it with his foot irritably.
Vladislav grabbed his messy hair: "Can we temporarily give up all the suspected comrades and integrate the forces we can use at the moment to do things? We can't just hide here and there because we can't find the undercover!"
Cozmo closed his eyes: "Unless the undercover agents are uncovered, they are just hidden mines buried in Winterfort. How long do you think we can avoid them? Can we bypass them and win the revolution?"
"The problem is that if we make this the first priority to solve, then nothing can be done." Vladislav was angry and guilty. He thought that the merger of the Mutual Aid Association and the Bash branch of the International Equality League was a strong alliance.
Unexpectedly, the Workers' Mutual Aid Association not only failed to achieve anything, but also almost dragged down the International Equality Alliance branch.
"Don't worry yet." Verak handed Vladislav a cigarette, "I have an idea."
The three of them looked up at Verak in unison.
Verak clutched the cigarette case and said in a deep voice: "We will withdraw from Winterfort and go to other places to develop first, and then come back when we have the strength."
"No." Cozmo refused, "Winterfort is the heart of Bash. If we can successfully revolutionize in Winterfort, then the whole of Bash will respond. This is the fastest way for us to change this place. If we go elsewhere
place, as time goes by, after Bash and Wellland finish fighting and they can concentrate more on dealing with us, even if we are elsewhere, the situation will not be better than now."
"Judging from the current situation, we still have a chance to go to other places. If we stay in Winterfort, we will really be dragged until the end of the war." Verak thought about this on the way here, "I know that the sub-station is entering
Winterhold is not easy, and quitting now means we have to start all over again, but we have no choice."
"There must be another chance." Cozmo didn't want to give up.
"Other places don't have curfews, there aren't groups of patrol teams on the streets, and there aren't Maxim and his scavengers pressing every step of the way. It shouldn't be difficult for us to develop again." Arseny also agreed.
This idea, "We have been in a stalemate in Winterfort for almost two months. If we had withdrawn a long time ago, we would not be helpless here, but would be leading people to reenter Winterfort."
Cozmo frowned: "Do you think all this is caused by my indecision?"
"I didn't mean that." Arseny raised his hands to show his innocence.
"Everyone calm down." Verak's tone was a little more serious, preventing the two from quarreling at this juncture. "I very much recognize Comrade Cozmo's perseverance, and I also agree with Comrade Arseny's ideas. At this time, we
The more decisive we must be, if we want to evacuate, evacuate immediately, accumulate strength as soon as possible to fight back, and if we want to stay, we must come up with feasible ways to break the deadlock. We can't wait like this, waiting for another two months and still get nothing."
Cozmo also stood up, causing Verak to pause: "Is this what Chairman Boyne meant?"
"No." Verak and Cozmo faced each other, "Chairman Boyne hasn't taken the initiative to ask about the situation here. This was decided on the way here."
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"Do you think Chairman Boyne will agree? He sent you here because he wants you to lead the substation to do a better job, not to evacuate Winterfort in a month."
"What's the point of agreeing or disagreeing if it's not a choice?" Verak asked.
Cozmo opened his mouth but said nothing.
Before Verak arrived, Boyin had informed him that upon his arrival, the highest command here would be transferred to his hands.
However, since Verac came here, he has always respected the opinions of the comrades at the sub-station and has never decided anything forcefully or with great fanfare. This time he advocated evacuation, but he was still listening to the opinions of a few people. Before he came up, he said that this was unacceptable.
Questionable decision.
"Really... giving up Winterhold just like that?" Cosmo said in a weakened voice, knowing that he couldn't defeat Verak.
"Give up temporarily." Verak said solemnly.
"You have no idea how much effort we put into breaking into Winterfort..."
"Then let me ask you another question." Verak looked directly at Cosmo, "What do you think is breaking into Winterfort? Or, do you think we are hiding in an abandoned basement like this without even daring to go out?
Does this count as breaking into Winterhold?"
Cosmo was speechless.
Their current situation is far different from the expected 'invasion'. If this is not an intrusion, then evacuation is not an evacuation.
"I know this arrangement is difficult to accept, but rationally, this is the best way at the moment." Verak said.
"What about the other comrades? There are undercover agents and traitors among them. We can't contact them rashly, and we have to tell them when we evacuate." Cozmo thought of another obstacle to the evacuation.
"This is indeed a trouble. We can't let the undercover traitors know our whereabouts, and we can't keep our comrades in the dark. But now it's difficult to distinguish between ourselves and the enemy, and the news can't be spread even if it wants to..." Verak came back and really wanted to communicate with the three of them.