"Still not resting?" Murphy groped out of the hotel and sat next to Verak, who was smoking.
"Why don't you rest?" Verak glanced at Murphy and continued to look up at the dim sky aimlessly out of boredom.
"Of course I took a rest. Didn't I find you here when I woke up and saw you weren't there?" Murphy shuddered, "Aren't you afraid of the cold?"
Verak was very calm: "I'm numb."
"Do you need me to help you get a coat?" Murphy asked with concern.
"No, it's not too cold." Verak took a puff of cigarette and exhaled it slowly.
Murphy could see that Verak was silently digesting the news of Boyin's death. He wanted to help in some way, but he didn't know where to start. In the end, he was silent for a long time and asked about his plans after dawn: "Have you thought about it?
?Will we see Gonzalez today?"
"I didn't think about it." Verak was thinking about this problem. "When I met him but didn't reveal the matter about Boyin, when the news came out later, there would be problems in cooperation. But after telling him about Boyin, the main station still refused.
We are blocking it out of various considerations. Once Gonzalez and the others are leaked, we will cause big trouble to the terminal."
"The best way is to wait, communicate clearly with the main station, confirm the time when they will announce the news, and we will meet with Gonzalez at the same time," Murphy said.
"That's all we can do for now." Verak nodded slightly, "But it can't be delayed for too long. After all, the charity dinner is in progress. If we don't show up for a long time, it will arouse suspicion."
"Then I'll contact the main station and ask for the specific time so that we can arrange it in time." Murphy stood up.
"It's too late." Verak raised his hand, "Let's wait until daybreak."
Murphy thought for a moment: "It should be almost dawn over at Lezein."
Verak raised his chin toward the upstairs: "I mean them, let them have a good night's rest. They all fell asleep with great difficulty, so sleep as much as you can."
"...Okay." Murphy sat down again.
"...What were you like when your brother Diaz died?" Seeing that Murphy had no intention of going back to rest, Verak took the initiative to ask about something they had been avoiding before.
"My mind went blank. It took me a long time to realize that my brother had died." Murphy looked away a lot. At least now he could maintain a stable mood and communicate with Verak. "It's hard to describe that feeling. Sad.
I’m not sad, I miss you, I don’t miss him, it’s as if my brother is actually still here.”
"Before your brother died, I had already experienced a lot of life and death." Verak felt a little lonely. "In the past, many things that happened to me always made me grow up and learn to face them calmly. But only the comrades'
Sacrifice, I will never learn to accept it... Every time someone passes away, I wonder why it is them and not me. What is so special about me? What will happen if they live to see the day when the new world comes?
happy?"
Murphy lowered his head and sighed softly: "We have no choice."
"Boin's sacrifice is different from others. We knew about his physical condition half a year ago and knew that sooner or later such a day would come." Verak thought of Boyin's figure and felt a sore nose, "But it's still too much.
Suddenly."
"How about...contact Mr. Keating?" Murphy could feel that the pressure and sadness Verak endured were countless times greater than his own. He could do nothing but listen silently and cry empathetically.
The only one who can make Verak feel better and soothe his grief is Keating.
"No." Verak stomped out the cigarette butt, "I don't know what to say to Teacher Keating."
"But we have to..."
"I'm fine." Verak patted Murphy in turn and took a deep breath, "It's just that people are tired. When these things accumulate in the heart to a certain extent, they can't help but want to put everything aside and take a few breaths.
"
Murphy looked at Verak.
Verak turned his head and gave a tough smile: "I have finished breathing and can continue to fight."
Looking at Verak's smile and eyes, the touched Murphy turned his back and quickly wiped away the tears in his eyes: "I can do it too."
"Okay, let's go back and rest." Verak stood up with his thighs propped up, "There are still many things waiting for us to do."
"Yeah." Murphy followed Verak back to the room.
On the surface, the two people were relieved and comforted each other, lying on both sides, both of them opening their eyes in the darkness, unable to erase the sadness in their hearts as easily as they said verbally.
The same is true for other people.
It was a silent, sleepless night.
Later, Verak didn't know how he fell asleep. Anyway, when he woke up, Lopez and others had already left the hotel and went to investigate information in various districts.
"You're awake." Connie seemed to have woken up very early, sitting at her desk and studying Mongolian seriously, "I'm going to buy you breakfast."
"No need." Seeing that Murphy was still resting, Verak replied softly. Then he felt the warm sunlight filtering in from the window, and felt a little dazed for a moment, suspecting that the bad news might just be a dream.
"Then...are we going to do something?" Connie's expression told Verak that it was not a dream.
Verak went to the bathroom: "When Murphy wakes up, we will communicate with the main station first."
"Okay." Connie calmed down and started learning Mongolian.
"Whoa!"
The cool water emerged from the faucet, and Verak flushed it on his face to wake himself up as soon as possible and devote himself wholeheartedly to a new day's work.
Perhaps because he made a little noise, Murphy soon woke up. Hearing Connie talk about Verac's arrangements for him, he pinched the bridge of his nose and sat in front of the telegraph machine to start contacting the main station.
"Are you awake?" Verak asked after washing up and saw Murphy wearing headphones and pressing the buttons.
Murphy did not hear Verak's voice and was concentrating on operating the telegraph machine.
Connie put down the book when she saw this: "He just woke up and heard that you planned to contact the main station first, so he went directly to get it."
"Okay." Verak moved a stool and sat next to Murphy, waiting to communicate with him about the situation at the main station.
"Contacting." Murphy then noticed Verak and reported to him.
"Yeah." Verak didn't disturb Murphy much and waited quietly.
Not long after, Murphy adjusted his earphones and quickly picked up a pen to record the code on the paper: "Contacted."
Verak turned sideways and studied the lines of code written by Murphy.
After recording the code, Murphy translated the content against the code book. When the first sentence was translated, he paused and had no intention of translating backwards. He hurriedly pressed the key and sent the message to the main station.
"Bang!"
At the same time, there was a rush of footsteps outside the room, and then the door was pushed open with great force. Lopez and others who were originally going to investigate the situation in various areas rushed in with newspapers, talking in a panic.
Verak could tell something was wrong from the performance of Murphy, Lopez and others. After vaguely hearing the words 'International Equality Alliance', 'Lezein' and other words from everyone's mouths, he grabbed the newspaper and
I looked at the eye-catching headline above.
The only thing he recognized in the headlines were the words 'International Equality Alliance'.
Could it be that the news of Boyin's death spread?
How could it be so fast?
Aren't the main stations trying their best to block the news?
wrong.
If the news about Boyin had spread, Lopez and the others wouldn't have been so panicked.
"What happened?!" Connie closed the door and hurried over to read the newspaper with Verak, but she could only recognize a few familiar words as she had just started learning Mongolian.
"Murphy, what are they talking about? What's written in the newspaper?" Verak patted Murphy and showed him the newspaper.
Murphy turned a deaf ear and persisted in communicating with the main station to confirm.
"Murphy! What happened?!" Verak said with a serious face.
Soon, the main station sent back a message. Murphy, who didn't bother to answer Verak, picked up the telegrams he had recorded and checked them one by one. After checking and confirming that there were no errors in the telegrams, he leaned back on his chair and slowly took off his earphones.
.
Seeing Murphy's face turned pale, Verak opened the newspaper in front of him: "What on earth is written on this?! What did the terminal say again?!"
"Comrade Morais... last night..." Murphy's chest heaved violently, appearing even more shocked than when he learned of Boyin's death yesterday. "He was assassinated last night."
"What?!" Verak stood up suddenly, holding a newspaper he couldn't understand, and exclaimed in shock, "Didn't he go back to Lezein?! How could he-"
"It's in Lezein..." Murphy stared at the code.
Combining the telegrams from the main station and the contents published in newspapers overnight by the Bressy government forces, Verak and Connie quickly learned what happened in Lezein last night.
After Morais returned to Lezein from the front line, he first went to the hospital to see Boyne for the last time, and then summoned all the directors who could be present to go to the Equality Building for a meeting to discuss various matters.
Just as they arrived in front of the Equality Building and were being inspected by soldiers one by one, Elton, the Minister of Health of the International Equality Alliance and one of the directors, suddenly shot at Morais and Keating, catching everyone by surprise.
Morais, who witnessed Elton's violent outburst, pushed Keating away and was shot three times in the chest. Although he was immediately sent to the hospital for rescue, he still died due to his injuries.
The Minister of Public Security urgently activated the entire city's alert, and personally led people to search Elton's home overnight for evidence of secret contacts with government forces, confirming that it was government forces who planned the assassination.
Then, within two hours, the government troops on the front line launched a surprise attack on the weak points of the Equality Army's defense lines, and spread the news of the deaths of Boyin and Morais to major newspapers.
Although Joseph, who was on the front line, had been guarding against the government forces, the government forces took advantage of intelligence and secretly mobilized far more than the Ping An Army. They accurately selected the best locations to attack after the Ping An Army had redeployed them, and sent heavy troops along the way.
The momentum is like breaking bamboo.
The situation in Brexi instantly reversed, and the balance of victory tipped towards the government forces.
"Judging from the evidence of contacts with the government forces, Elton has been secretly in contact with the government forces for several months. As the Minister of Health and one of the directors, he must have informed the government forces of Boyin's death."
Murphy analyzed with a sullen face, "The reason why the government forces did not make this matter public, but pretended not to know, was to secretly mobilize frontline troops and plan this assassination against Morais..."
"They must have expected that Morais and many important comrades would come back, and the person who succeeded Boyn was among them, so they wanted to use assassination to severely damage the International Equality Alliance again!" Connie was so angry that she wished she could go back and kill the government troops now.
People were cut into pieces by thousands of swords.
"It seems that Elton plans to enter the building and then take action. When the directors and vice presidents of the alliance are undefended, he can suddenly kill the most cadres to the maximum extent and cause the greatest damage to the International Equality Alliance. But he
Unexpectedly, Morais would temporarily change the inspection regulations of the Equality Building. With no choice, he could only attack Morais and Keating before the gun was taken away..." Verak looked expressionless and looked repeatedly
The detailed information sent by the main station, "If Comrade Morais and Comrade Keating can be successfully assassinated, the International Equality Alliance will not be able to elect a new chairman for a while. I am far abroad and cannot go back. If Joseph comes back to take charge
, there will be omissions on the front line, and then the government troops will be able to attack Lezein in one go..."
Lopez angrily kicked down a chair: "These bastards!! So insidious!!"
"right!"
"A group of heartless people! Helping those powerful people to fight against the International Equality Alliance!"
Murphy glanced at Lopez and others but said nothing.
Whether it was an assassination or the government troops pretending not to know, there is nothing to say about the secret transfer of the main force after the Ping An Army redeployed its defense lines.
The International Equality League has also assassinated many people in the government.
It makes no sense for both sides to just pay lip service to the tactics.
"The situation on the front line is not optimistic now. Fortunately, Teacher Keating is not injured and can sit in the rear and maintain the overall situation." Verak said solemnly.
Morais's sacrifice and Boyne's sacrifice were different.
Morais's sacrifice was more sudden and regrettable, and it also brought about a more critical situation. At this juncture, no one had time to feel sad again, but unanimously focused their attention on the front line.
Once the International Equality Alliance's front line is captured, even if the railway is destroyed, the government forces will be able to approach Lezein within two days at the earliest.
"What should we... do?" After getting angry, Lopez and others looked at Verak helplessly.
However, after Boyne's death, the International Equality Alliance still has great hope to withstand the pressure from all parties and continue to develop. With the main station stable, they can safely carry out cooperation with Porfirio and Gonzalez and establish a branch in Monrego.
stand.
But Morais was assassinated immediately, and the overall situation of the terminal was in danger. No one could say whether the urgent front line could withstand the offensive of the government forces. Their cooperation with Porfirio and Gonzalez was completely