That night, several important comrades of the International Equality Alliance in Lelist City became busy.
Ross, who went to secretly retrieve the film on Piaf's order, ran straight to the main office building without having time to check the content, and met with Keating, Chairman of the International Equality Alliance, Charles, the Minister of Intelligence, and Piaf, the Minister of Propaganda.
"Comrade Keating, Comrade Charles, Comrade Piaf." Ross handed over the film.
"Our Propaganda Department has no shortage of comrades who can develop photos, but I think this is related to whether the public opinion war can be won after all, so it's better to get it first and then make arrangements." Piaf took the film and explained why he didn't ask Ross to find it.
Comrades who know how to develop photos should develop them first.
"There are indeed some spies within us, but they are not as scary as everyone thinks. If there are really 'eyes' of the provisional government everywhere, we will not sit here peacefully." Keating remained calm as always.
As the Minister of Intelligence, Charles knew the situation best, but he still affirmed Piaf's caution: "It's always good to be careful. Leave the film to me."
Piaf handed the film to Charles: "Which comrade do you think should be sent to Lezein to pretend to be journalist Capa's lover?"
"First of all, it must be a new face, so that our internal comrades will know it to some extent. Even if the interim government has an undercover agent to provide information, it will be difficult to find out. Secondly, the people in Orlando are the best. This is consistent with Capa's background declared to the outside world.
It's unanimous, even if someone is worried and wants to test and confirm, there will basically be no problem." Charles has been engaged in intelligence work for so long, and has developed a calm temperament that is no less than Keating's, he said unhurriedly.
"My proposal may not be professional. I think the most important thing to consider is ability. If the ability is qualified, you can still gain the trust of the interim government and the newspaper if you are not from Orlando." Piaf tried his best to propose.
Some opinions on the selection.
"Yeah." Charles nodded slightly in agreement, "So I hope this candidate can meet the requirements of being new, at least having lived in Orlando, and having outstanding abilities in these three aspects."
"Is there one in the Intelligence Ministry?" Piaf wrote.
"My impression is that not all of them are satisfactory. This needs to be carefully selected and confirmed." Charles replied.
Keating expressed his opinion at the right time: "In fact, there is a perhaps more feasible way, that is, we transfer people directly from Orlando to Lazerin. Don't forget, we also have a small-scale one in Orlando.
The sub-station, but because of the fall of Orlando some time ago, the sub-station moved underground."
Charles came to the map beside him and carefully looked at the distance between Orlando, Lelister and Lazerin: "If we send people from Orlando, we should be able to arrive one to a day and a half earlier.
It’s time to arrive in Lazerin. The most important thing is that the branch station in Orlando is not eye-catching. Even I
They themselves have not invested much energy into them, and the provisional government has no possibility of planting lurking spies in that pitifully low-value place. If we directly contact the Orlando branch and ask them to send personnel, we can report this matter
The level of secrecy is raised to the highest level.”
"It is guaranteed not to be discovered by spies. At the same time, the comrade himself is from the city of Orlando. Both his background and the route to Lazerin can withstand inspection. The three conditions you have proposed have been met logically.
Two." Keating said.
"Can the comrades from the sub-station do it? What I mean is that there is a certain difference between the work they usually do and the task they will perform this time." Piaf prefers to select candidates from the Propaganda Department and the Intelligence Department, so that they are at least professional.
The counterpart may have extremely high disguise ability.
"According to the lady, her husband has been standing alone in Lezeinli for more than a week. We don't know if he has gained anything new, but I think he must really want to get in touch with us earlier.
." Ross favors time-saving solutions.
"Comrade Ross has a point that makes sense. The reporter named Capa must want to get in touch with us as soon as possible and cooperate with us to further investigate and obtain new evidence." Keating indicated that he had been standing in the living room since he came in.
Ross, who was next to him, also sat down, "I admire this journalist who can already be called a gay, but after all, he is just a reporter. In such a dangerous environment, it is difficult for him to ensure his own safety. The longer the time, the greater the variables.
"The most important thing for us right now is to get in touch with him and ensure his safety."
Charles proposed a compromise plan: "Let's do this. I'll check the information first. If our intelligence department has someone who meets the three conditions, we will hand over the task to our intelligence department. If not, contact Orlando immediately.
Comrades from the city sub-station, ask them to send people to Lezein."
Piaf reminded: "We still have to confirm whether what Clementine said is true. If it is false, then we will waste our energy."
"Proceed simultaneously." Keating commanded in an orderly manner, "Comrade Charles, you go and determine the candidate. Comrade Piaf, with the highest confidentiality level, absorb a comrade with the ability to develop and print photos into this overall task as soon as possible.
Develop these photos and verify the content. In addition, you must make secondary preparations, that is, once you need comrades from the Orlando branch to perform tasks, send them to them as soon as possible.
Basic information about Clementine’s family and notes on the mission.”
"clear."
"clear."
"clear."
Charles, Piaf, and Rose responded.
"I'll contact Verak, that's it, let's take action." Keating waved, watched the three of them walk out of the office, and then called his secretary.
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November 29, 1:30 in the morning
Lezein, General Liaison Office of Lezeine Wartime Action Team
"Comrade Verak! Chairman Keating sent a telegram." Murphy's voice woke up Verak, who had just fallen asleep, but it was the second half of Murphy's sentence that completely swept away his sleepiness, "It's the highest level of confidentiality."
!But Chairman Keating relaxed the conditions for our action team members to know!”
"Light the candle." Verak took the telegram that Murphy had translated in the dark, and after the surrounding lights lit up, he read it carefully word for word.
"It's an opportunity!" Murphy, as the first person to know the contents of the telegram, was so excited that he couldn't hold his breath.
"Get the others up and have a meeting!" Verak's hands were even trembling slightly.
If the contents of the telegram are verified, their action team will be very busy!
Soon, Sherrill and Connie from the intelligence team, and Cyril, Spencer, and Nizan from the combat team all woke up and sat around.
Since it was already getting late, turning on the lights at this time would easily attract attention from outside, so they only lit a weak candle on the table.
The candlelight was just enough to illuminate everyone's faces.
Except for Verak and Murphy, everyone else was bleary-eyed, obviously not yet completely out of sleep.
"Just now, Chairman Keating sent a telegram with the highest level of confidentiality." Verak scanned the crowd, held the telegram in his hand, and repeated it completely.
"There are people in that newspaper who share the same goals as us?!" Sheryl, who had always been so calm as if she had never known what emotions were, was the first to say in shock.
The reason why she was so surprised was because two days ago, the intelligence team had no choice but to send a team of comrades to Lezein Daily News to inquire about the news.
Unfortunately, the team of comrades was ambushed by the provisional government and all died.
She did not expect that when the action team was trying so hard to break through the iron walls of the newspaper office, a light of hope would already appear inside.
"It has not been confirmed yet. The purpose of Chairman Keating's telegram is to instruct our action team to verify as soon as possible whether this matter is true. If there is really such a person in the Lezein Daily News who has sent his wife and children to Lelist
If the city and reporters are prepared to sacrifice themselves, then we will be much more certain to win this public opinion war," Verak said.
"Sounds like a good thing, but isn't it a little too smooth? We just couldn't break into the Lezein Daily News to conduct investigation and evidence collection, and the other party took the initiative to come out and throw themselves at us?" Veteran Spencer crossed his arms.
Chest, I feel like things are weird.
"I think this is quite normal. We will not be the only ones fighting in the huge Lezein. Among the people, those who work for the provisional government on the surface, there will definitely be awakened reserve comrades." Kang
Ni is very optimistic.
"I agree with Comrade Spencer. The provisional government just killed a group of our comrades a few days ago, which is enough to show that they are not low in ability and are very likely to set up such a trap to lure us out." Cyril did not dare.
Taking it lightly, "If we trust each other gullibly, the action team will be at risk of being wiped out by the interim government."
Verak confirmed the different speculations of several people: "It is precisely because it cannot be confirmed and there are still certain doubts that Chairman Keating ordered our action team to secretly investigate this reporter named Capa. It is true. Get in touch as soon as possible.
, is false, either he will follow the plan, or he will nip the provisional government’s conspiracy in the cradle.”
Cyril said: "It's difficult to investigate. Let's not talk about whether this reporter is truly revolutionary. Just talking about his identity, he must be a special talent who is under the protection of the government forces. If we had the ability to investigate him, we would have gone there long ago.
Contact them and collect evidence from them."
"I know this. Because of this, our task is no easier than any other department." Verak knows how much effort and sacrifice it takes to achieve results. "Secretly investigating him is only the first step, collecting information for screening.
In fact, that’s the most difficult thing.”
"Time is very tight." Murphy said.
In the last paragraph of the telegram, Keating set a time limit for their action team.
Two days.
Within two days, accurate conclusions were drawn.
Because in order to seize the time, other departments are also working simultaneously. For example, the comrade pretending to be Capa's lover will leave on the morning of the 29th at the latest, and the time he will arrive in Lezein to meet reporter Capa is about two days later.
.
If no conclusion can be reached within two days, should Comrade wait or take the risk?
What should we do if we draw the wrong conclusion, miss an opportunity, or push our comrades into a trap?
The action team instantly shouldered the greatest pressure of this task.
Seeing several people become silent, Verak, who also suddenly had no idea because of the incident, bit the bullet and said: "I think everyone knows very well, even if this matter is only 10% or 1% possible,
Sex is real, and we should try our best to do it."
The six people looked at Verak in unison.
"One person can easily destroy another person with a rumor, not to mention the momentum created by the interim government united with so many countries. We are used to seeing fierce swords, guns and artillery fire, but this time it doesn't seem to be such a direct war, maybe
It's more serious than ever before." Verak knew that he was speaking about everyone's feelings.
If you know it well, "Many things are difficult to do. Like you, I don't want to complain, because it is meaningless, because you have to face it." I said some inexplicable words, in short, no matter how difficult the difficulties are,
Everyone must be anxious, there is always only one choice left for us, and that is to defeat it."
"...I understand what you mean." Spencer leaned on his chair and rubbed his temples, "Let's inform some comrades overnight to prepare. I think we must first confirm reporter Capa's address and his daily route to the newspaper office.
, ensuring that we can monitor his every move 24 hours a day."
"Our combat team should plan as many actions as possible to attract the attention of the provisional government. As for how to break through the guard of government soldiers around him, contact him, and how to identify the authenticity of the other party, we still have to rely on the Intelligence Department." Cyril.
Stopped things that were within my ability.
"Give us some time." Murphy looked at Verak.
It is impossible to find a solution immediately.
Out of emotion, Verak wanted everyone to continue to rest first, and the official meeting would start at dawn, but rationality prevented him from speaking: "...Well, we will wait until dawn before the official meeting. Now everyone thinks about it for themselves. Murphy, contact the main station
, we need the support of more information."
"Understood." Murphy returned to the telegraph machine.
The rest of the people also interrupted communication and meditated alone.
Verak stood up and stood by the window, wanting to look at the wider outside to get ideas.
"Dong dong dong——"
Twenty minutes later, when everyone in the guest room was awake but extremely quiet, there was a knock on the door from outside.
Before opening the door, everyone tensed up.
But considering that no trace of government troops was found and the visitor could only be Duke Hall's servant Henry, Verak nodded to Connie who was closest to the door.
Connie took a few steps forward and opened the door.
"Hello, is Mr. Verak here?" The person who came was indeed Henry.
The vision was very limited late at night, but Connie still saw the other person's face turning pale: "What happened?"
Verak thought about coming this way.
Henry wiped the cold sweat that he couldn't stop, and saw Verac approaching with a candle. He seemed to have seen a savior, and he felt a little ashamed and said: "Wei, Mr. Verac, the camera thing... seems... seems to have been discovered by the government.