Quentin did not sit down like the others, but leaned against the door frame alone, scanning Vladislav and others vigilantly while touching the pistol on his waist, waiting to respond to emergencies at any time.
"...That's what happened." Verak started from Clark's back sight of the coincidence at night and talked about the test that just happened. "So to ensure safety, I tested you."
"How, how could..." Vladislav's eyes were dull.
During this period, he has been blaming himself and wondering if the Bash branch of the International Equality League had not merged with the Workers' Mutual Aid Association, the situation would be like this.
It wasn't until today that he and Arseni realized that the person who really caused the sub-station to fall to this point was this sub-station director who appeared to be courageous and resolute, but secretly was greedy for life and fear of death!
They spent months tracking down the undercover agent, the traitor, but they never imagined that the biggest traitor was right in front of them!
"Is this...is it true..." Arseni looked at Cozmo, who was crawling on the ground half-dead in disbelief.
"The exposure of Comrade Daisy..." Stuart connected all kinds of things with Cosmo.
"I haven't asked him yet, but I definitely have something to do with him." Verak looked at the reactions of several people and recalled his feelings when he learned the truth.
Vladislav looked at Cozmo with complex eyes, took a deep breath and spoke slowly: "Do you think they know all our movements but are hesitant to take action because they are worried about cooperation with the main station? If this is the reason, then we
There is not much time left. On the other side of the Sea of Signe, the Welland, Welland, and Bressi coalition forces are retreating steadily, and Bash is putting pressure on Shena at the same time. As long as Shenna gives up providing ports, supplies, and maintenance to Welland
Waiting for help, Willan will have no choice but to withdraw his troops and declare defeat."
Verak was convinced: "I think we have two points that we must solve first at the moment. One is to find out the undercover agents in the branch. Only in this way can we safely organize a counterattack, and even if we have to evacuate, we don't have to leave any comrades behind.
The second is how to take the next step when the government knows our movements. Now that we are at odds with Cozmo, there is less time left for us. We must wait until the Scavenger and Bash government notice the anomaly.
Beforehand, be prepared to deal with everything.”
"We can only start with Cozmo." Quentin said.
Everyone looked at Cosmo, who was curled up on the ground and groaning.
There must be a lot of information hidden in his body. Now that he has been torn apart, it is better to be more straightforward and find a way to make him spit out everything he knows.
"How to get started..." Vladislav was still in the state of digesting information, so he inadvertently asked the question knowingly.
"How can we get him to tell the truth?" Verak's meaning was already very clear.
torture.
Cozmo had killed so many comrades, it would not be an exaggeration to torture him severely.
Quentin gradually lowered his guard and crossed his arms across his chest: "I have some experience in this area, do you need me to come?"
"I can be considered...experienced." Verak has not yet interrogated himself, but has been interrogated and tortured by others. "Let's do it together."
"Yeah." Without further ado, Quentin and Verak dragged Cozmo to the deepest compartment, and found some things that could be considered torture tools, ready to let him experience the feeling of life being worse than death at any time.
.
"Whoosh!"
A glass of water was poured on Cozmo's face, but Cozmo didn't move at all.
"Crack!"
After Verak slapped Cosmo on the face, he woke up easily this time.
"You..." Cozmo saw a group of people staring at him silently, and his hair stood up in fear.
He was very clear about what he had done. Anything he did together with Maxim was unforgivable. As long as Verak and others knew about it, he would definitely die.
Verak, he did eavesdrop on Quentin's secret conversation at noon, but he didn't follow him immediately to eavesdrop, and there was a lot of missing information across the door, so he didn't know exactly what Verak and others were doing.
How much do you have control over your own affairs?
"Say it yourself, or wait for us to ask." Verak held a knife and dangled it in front of Cozmo's eyes.
"I……"
"You've killed so many comrades, and you're not willing to go back and make amends now, are you?" Verak put the knife lightly on Cozmo's arm, "You should have heard about me being imprisoned in Damans Prison.
Well, do you want to experience the methods of interrogating prisoners there?"
"What do you want to know..." Cozmo seemed to be confessing frankly, but in fact he threw the question back to Verak to avoid falling into passivity.
Verak naturally saw through Cozmo's trick. Without stopping, the knife directly penetrated Cozmo's palm and nailed it to the table.
"Uh!" Cozmo's eyes widened, and a heartbreaking pain rushed over him, making him want to twist in pain, but he was afraid of disturbing the wound and tried his best to endure it, "Hiss... Huh..."
"Don't talk nonsense. Just say what you know. If you dare to hide anything or make up lies to confuse the public, you can look forward to the results when the time comes." Seeing that Cozmo could endure the pain, Verak gripped the handle of the knife tightly, ready to stir at any time.
, putting further pressure on Cozmo.
"Huh..." Cozmo exhaled tremblingly, his head covered with sweat. He subconsciously shrank his neck and asked, "If...I tell everything...will you kill me..."
"...No." Verak wanted to say, 'You will still die,' but he held back for the sake of the overall situation, "provided that what you said is true."
Quentin was afraid that Cozmo would play tricks, so he added: "Needless to say, you also know that we will use your intelligence to counterattack the scavengers. Of course, while counterattacking, we will have people watching you. If you dare to deliberately give wrong information,
information, then you won’t even be able to live.”
Cozmo turned to the Scavengers just to stay alive. Quentin believed that threatening him with death would frighten him to the greatest extent and reveal all the secrets.
Sure enough, Cozmo, who was about to speak, fell silent again after hearing Quentin's words.
After more than ten seconds, he sounded like a deflated balloon and said in a hoarse voice: "Yes, I...betrayed the revolution."
Vladislav, who had been silent all this time, and Arseny's eyes widened with anger.
Too many comrades have died in the past few months, and the sub-station is struggling and crumbling. All of this is really Cozmo's fault!
"You bastard!
"Arseni cursed angrily and was about to step forward and beat Cozmo.
"calm!
Vladislav grabbed Arseny and said, "Keeping him alive can prevent more people from being sacrificed!"
"
"Comrade Arseny!"
"calm!"
Stuart and Oscar also stepped forward to help stop Arseny.
"My best friend died!
Several of the workers who trusted me the most also died!
So many comrades! So many people who trust you! Are you worthy of them! You bastard! Coward!
"Arseny's eyes were red.
Having experienced these difficult times personally, he could not tolerate Cosmo's betrayal.
The grief and anger in Vladislav's heart were no less than his, but he still pressed Arseny firmly: "What do you want?! Beat him to death now?! What next?! Where are the other comrades?!"
"Then the people who died before were in vain!
"Arseny shouted.
"Kozmo is just our most insignificant enemy! Do you want to ruin the future of the entire substation just for the sake of the present happiness?" Vladislav's voice became louder, "Remember this! Our enemy is the scavenger! Yes
government!
"
"Let go!" Arseny pushed a few people away and went out alone to calm down.
"How can you guarantee that I will still be alive after all I have said?" Cozmo looked to Verak for reassurance after watching Arseny's series of performances.
"How do you want me to guarantee it?" Verak didn't have any good ideas.
Cozmo was relatively calm: "I don't believe in any verbal promises or written promises. No one in this world is absolutely trustworthy. I want the most reliable guarantee."
Verak heard a bit of arrogance in Cozmo's tone. He stirred the knife in his hand without hesitation, and the wound on Cozmo's palm suddenly turned into a lake of flesh and blood.
"Uh-huh!" The pain this time was unbearable by Cozmo. He grabbed Verak's wrist with his other hand, "I said! I said!"
"I can only make a verbal promise, and you can only choose to believe it or not." Verak took the initiative back and said, "Continue."
"Huh...huh..." Cozmo gritted his teeth and endured the severe pain, "Three, three months ago...Maxim found me in Shiling City..."
Cosmo carefully recounted the three months of cooperation with Maxim.
The merger of the sub-station and the Workers' Mutual Aid Association, the appearance of undercover agents, the failure of every attempt to regroup, Dai Qian's sacrifice, etc., all have the shadow of Cosmo's secret action.
Maxim's promise was very simple. After clearing out the sub-station, he would only erase Cozmo's past and give him enough money to live anonymously in other countries.
Just for this money and to survive, Cozmo trampled on the lives of hundreds of comrades under his feet.
While listening, Verak repeatedly clenched his fists.
Every time there is such a cancer in the organization, dozens or hundreds of comrades will need to sacrifice their lives to plug the loophole. If there were fewer such people, not only would the development of the sub-station be much smoother, but the process of world revolution would also be accelerated a lot.
"...That's what happened. What else do you want to know?" Cosmo looked at Verak indifferently.
"Who else in the sub-station betrayed the revolution?" Verak asked.
"I don't know." Cozmo emphasized, fearing that Verak would not believe it, "I really don't know. Maxim is not very confident about me and has never informed me of this matter."
"Then how do the scavengers monitor us?" Verak asked again.
"I don't know... Maxim didn't tell me... He only wants me to report the sub-station's intelligence to him regularly and wait for the sub-station to be wiped out..." Cozmo shook his head.
Verak suddenly felt a little ridiculous: "You have sacrificed so much just to be Maxim's dog?"
Cozmo said nothing.
"If you have any other information, tell me."
"... Maxim plans to officially clear out the sub-station after the war in the Signe Velen Sea ends... He also said that the war there will end in a few days..."
This is basically consistent with what Verak and the others predicted, and the scavengers are about to close the net.
And their situation did not become optimistic after interrogating Cosmo.
Cozmo didn't know whether he was pretending or he really didn't know. He didn't reveal the other undercover agents in the branch, the list of traitors, or whether the scavengers were secretly monitoring their every move.
This prevents them from acting rashly. Even if they want to evacuate, they cannot lead all their innocent comrades away.
"We will take you with us in our subsequent actions. If we are in danger, you will die." Quentin warned Cozmo again, asking him to tell the truth and tell everything he knew.
"What I said is true. Now it's your turn to choose whether to believe it or not." Cosmo shrugged.
"Stuart, Oscar, Connie." Verak shouted, "keep an eye on him."
"yes!"
"yes!"
"yes!"
The three new comrades are ready.
"Victor, go to the door of the tavern and keep an eye out for emergencies."
"Understood." Victor walked out quickly.
"Let's go." Verak took Vladislav and Quentin towards another compartment.
"Arseny, come here." Vladislav called out when he saw Arseny sitting on the side of the corridor, smoking silently.
Arseni was still immersed in grief and did not react at all.
Seeing this, Verak stepped forward to help Arseni up: "We can't forget the sadness, let alone be immersed in it. We still have a lot to do, come on."
Yawen Library
The four of them came to the opposite cubicle to discuss countermeasures.
"The clues Cozmo gave are too limited, and this is not the way to go." Quentin said solemnly, "We can either find another way to pry clues out of him, or we can only arrange an escape route."
"It doesn't look like he's telling lies." Vladislav held up a cigarette, "This is not a surprise. Maxim is cautious. Even if Cosmo disclosed everything to him, he would still do it.
Considering that a situation like this occurs today, ensure that the scavengers still take the initiative."
"Arseny, what do you think?" Verak looked at Arseny.
Arseni sighed, feeling depressed: "I don't know... My only thought is to stay no matter what. I want to avenge those who sacrificed their lives, and I want to change this city and this country."
"I'm afraid we really have to leave this time." Quentin was at his wits' end.
The only trump card they had was Cozmo, but after turning over Cozmo's card, they discovered that the value of this card to them was close to zero.
I don’t know who the traitor is, I don’t know if the Scavengers are watching, I don’t know when Maxim will notice Cozmo’s exposure...
The branch station has no advantage at all in this game.
"If it really doesn't work...just withdraw as much as you can." Vladislav agreed with Quentin's opinion.
"The problem is that we don't know if there are any scavengers watching us. Leaving hastily may make them clear us out in advance." Quentin said helplessly.
"Maybe... there is still a way to go." After listening to the opinions of the three people, Verak said.