A few minutes later, Oston, the interim president of the Bressi government, arrived at the reception room of the North District Prison, escorted by many guards.
"Mr. President." Selt and several subordinates stood aside and saluted.
Verak sat leisurely on the sofa, just keeping smiling and looking at Auston.
Auston shook hands with Selter with satisfaction and patted his arm at the same time: "You have worked hard during this period, and I can see your performance."
"Nothing." Selt could no longer see the doubts and wariness about him in Auston's eyes. He knew that this trick was successful, and he used the biggest gain to dispel all of Selt's doubts.
"Most Verak." Then, Alston walked up to Verak unhurriedly.
"I didn't expect that a little person like me would be able to meet the president one day." Verak seemed flattered as he spoke, but he didn't show any intention of getting up.
Auston didn't mind this little thing. He glanced at Selt and sat opposite Verak: "You are not a nobody. You are the dignified Vice Chairman of the International Equality Alliance. Aren't you just as high and mighty?"
?”
Verak's heart became calmer and calmer: "There is no distinction between high and low in the International Equality Alliance."
"How is it possible? No matter who looks at it, you are completely different from an ordinary member of the International Equality Alliance." Auston said.
"To me, this is the most filthy and smelly place." Verak walked towards the living room on his own.
"Wrong views are inherently untenable, so how can they prevail over the truth and my truest feelings?" Verak also stood up, "Is the questioning over? I should go back to where I should be.
place."
Selt had no choice but to tell the jailer: "Put him in a cell alone."
Alston suddenly smiled and asked: "Are you promoting the idea of the International Equality Alliance to me? Just like you do to coax ordinary people?"
"The International Equality Alliance will fail. I hope you can come forward as an intermediary between our government and the International Equality Alliance to persuade them to stop their meaningless resistance." Auston was stunned for a moment, then went straight to the point, "Of course, I can also ask you
Make a guarantee. After the International Equality Alliance is disbanded, the past can be forgotten. Now for Bressy, the most important thing is to restore stability so that people can start living a good life again and everything is prosperous."
"I refuse." Verak said.
Selt is rarely right in saying that the greatest test is that life is worse than death. In order for a person to remain fearless in death, it is better to destroy his psychological defense first and make him fear death.
A dozen soldiers outside the door also left.
The conference room was once again silent.
"I don't expect you to really realize the crux of the problem, but at the very least, don't whitewash yourself and this wrong and backward era so high-sounding." Verak did not show a mocking expression in the end, but just gave advice calmly.
Not being afraid of death and not being afraid of torture are two different things.
Auston rarely felt his own ignorance from Verak's series of questions. This was not something he wanted to admit and face: "It's not difficult to guess, right? Not all disabled people have broken arms and legs. Can't see
If you can't see things, can't hear sounds, or can't speak, there will always be some people who still have the ability to work."
Sweat beaded on Auston's forehead.
"...Of course." Auston's aura was no longer so arrogant.
"I refer to the disabled people at the bottom," Verak emphasized.
"Even..." Verak smiled helplessly, "Even when I chat with the disabled people I know, they will be very envious of their peers who can go out to perform and make money, and wish that their own bodies are also weird and can be begged for viewing by the audience.
They have never thought about the government's problems or that mankind is a community with a shared future. When they are pitiful, they can only complain that they are not pitiful enough——"
"What you said..." Auston interrupted Verak impatiently. He was afraid that if Verak continued to speak, he would not be able to say a single word in response, "It's existence, it's what we need to improve.
That--"
After the two jailers agreed, they took Verak out of the door.
The silence this time was longer than before.
"It's winter, and such cold winters are not common, so as long as there is a fireplace installed in the home, it must be inspected and cleaned by a chimney sweep to ensure that the chimney is not blocked by soot or fly ash."
Verak's eyes became softer. He looked at Alston for a long time and asked a question: "You must have seen the most luxurious things, drank the most expensive wine, enjoyed the best service, and lived in the best
's mansion."
"Then what?"
So what if the president is speechless?
"I happen to be a little tired, let's go." Auston stood up and was sent to the lounge by Selt.
Auston, who was eager to regain the upper hand, found the omission in Verak's words: "As you said, tragedy can present itself in ten thousand ways in this world, and no one can guarantee that he can feel everything and understand everything."
All the problems have been solved. As you said, the vast majority of powerful people will not notice it. This is inevitable, but I think for those very few, the problems will eventually become less and less."
"yes."
"Then do you know there is a profession called chimney sweep?" Verak then asked.
"This sentence can also be applied to you." Verak shot back, "For those of you who are still immersed in the old world, it's time to open your eyes and see where mankind will go next."
There was silence for a few seconds in the conference room.
"Have you ever seen a disabled person?" Verak broke the silence.
"It's not in your hands either. This is not something that a single individual can control, but a spontaneous choice of all human beings. The awakened minority will become the majority, and the awakened majority will defeat your minority. This day will not take long, maybe you
I can witness it in my lifetime." Verak was very confident and vowed, "In other words, we may not know exactly what
is correct, but we have deeply realized that it is wrong to do so now. So, human beings can go from the Stone Age to today, conquer things that once seemed invincible, analyze themselves more objectively and rationally, and understand nature.
, what reason do we have not to believe that human beings will eventually liberate themselves and realize true freedom, equality, unity, and beauty?"
"...You continue." Auston did not answer.
After wandering all the way, Verak finally came to the prison and was locked in a cell alone.
"What's the connection between...?" Alston didn't follow Verak's thinking.
"certainly."
Verak raised the corner of his mouth: "And those very few are the ones who betrayed the camp of vested interests, betrayed the bourgeoisie, betrayed you, established the Equality Society, the International Equality Alliance, and fought for the proletariat without any regrets.
People. Among them, Thomas Cleese, who has a similar appearance to me and can be considered a younger man than me."
"Okay, just tell me what you have to say." Verak was too lazy to talk to Auston about anything.
Verak looked directly at Auston: "Because we will win in the end."
A prison cell with a harsh, cramped and depressing environment.
The world will not change because of this.
Auston spread his hands: "Is there any problem with this? Failure to clean it up in time leads to poor ventilation and there are many fires."
On the way here, he looked around but did not see Murphy, Connie and other comrades. He asked the jailer, but the jailer did not respond.
"Mr. President, do you want to go take a rest first?" Upon seeing this, Selter quickly gave Auston a chance to go down the steps.
"You should have been to the circus." Verak seemed to change the subject.
After all, he himself has been tough enough after going through so many things, but he is still worried about other comrades.
"In recent years, the trend of watching 'freaks' has become popular all over the world. Therefore, circus owners and managers of various performances will search for disabled people on a large scale and hire the most curious ones to perform to satisfy the audience.
Their curiosity." Verak opened up a real world for Auston bit by bit, "We can't really understand what it feels like to be treated like an animal when the body is disabled and has problems.
But this is the only chance for these disabled people to get money and survive."
"According to intelligence, you secretly carried out factory tests earlier. Judging from this behavior alone, you are worthy of admiration, because this is a real exploration of the future. However... this matter is a failure.
Are you done?" Auston said.
"It will be a dead end for quite some time in the future. Don't think that the government will only be a lackey of the powerful, helping them exploit and oppress. The suffering of the people is all caused by us. No, this is a problem for all mankind.
We still have a long way to go, making life better and better for everyone is not what you, the International Equality Alliance, want, it is what we want to achieve." Alston said grandly.
"Yes, it failed."
"yes."
"Yes, cleaning blockages is a normal thing, and chimney sweeps are very necessary. It is also worth mentioning that the number of chimney sweeps is also limited, and each block has fixed personnel. Generally, only cleaning
When the work can no longer be done, he will slowly find an apprentice to replace him." Verak added the information.
More than ten minutes later, Selter returned to the reception room and sincerely praised: "I feel balanced that I can speak to Mr. President to this extent."
"No." Soon it was Verak's turn to interrupt Alston, "You, him, them, and most of the powerful people will never notice these problems in this life, and there will be no talk of improvement. More
What's more, what I mentioned is only one ten thousandth of the miserable situation. There are still many, many hardships that are too subtle to be noticed by others, but they still exist."
"Coaxing? What's the basis?" Verak asked seriously.
After watching several people leave, leaving only two jailers to monitor him, Verak still showed little emotion.
"Yeah." Auston was not surprised. They have tried to persuade them to surrender countless times over such a long time. If a few words and a few words of guarantee could really disband the International Equality Alliance, then the situation in Bresci would not be reduced to this.
"Can you tell me the reason for your refusal?"
"Have you ever told the public about this? I have no impression. Your words are still the same, weaving a very beautiful future and letting every desperate person fall into it. For this illusory
He sacrificed his life for the matter." Auston asked Verak, "You only say nice things, but you never reveal the truth.
Tell the people, if you get more pay and more holidays for your work, then the factory will lose money and close down. The final result is that you will lose your job and you will not even be able to earn the original money. You have not
Tell them what the cost of breaking the balance is, and whether you have the ability to break the balance and establish a new balance."
"I don't deny this." Auston raised his head and raised his chest. He wanted to appear as magnanimous as Verak.
"Haha..." Auston only found it funny, "I always thought that your International Equality Alliance was pragmatic, but now it seems that you only fantasize. Otherwise, how could you possibly be defeated by us?"
Come on, tell me unrealistic dream talk that you will eventually win."
"Such a job that requires risking one's life to climb to the roof of a building in the coldest weather to clean up the dirtiest black dust is already an excellent job in the eyes of the poor. Because it is stable and can be done without any accidents.
Until old age."
"Are you so anxious to stay in that smelly and cold place?" Selt pressed his hand, signaling Verak not to leave in a hurry.
"Well..." Auston groaned, "There are always different jobs. Someone has to do this dirty and dangerous job. What do you think?"
This is not a victory worthy of joy and praise.
Auston swallowed.
"But the poor cannot afford to burn coal. For them, the only way to deal with the cold is to endure the cold." Verak said, "Can you imagine? The poor cannot afford to burn coal, but they are rushing to make chimneys.
Cleaners clean chimneys for the rich... Look outside the window, the sky is always gray, that's because the burning coal produces a lot of smoke, which covers the sky. It's ridiculous, the poor not only cannot enjoy the warmth
The benefits are great, but we have to bear the cost of not being able to see the blue sky together with the rich.”
"You think this is a dead end."
"I don't know where it will go, but the decision-making power is certainly not in your hands."
Verak learned the answer from Alston's behavior of avoiding the question: "Disabled people at the bottom often live in darkness and pain. The vast majority of them have no jobs and no source of income. They also suffer from
They suffer from various problems such as inconvenience in mobility, and are restricted from basic social interactions. So do you know why I said that the vast majority of people have no jobs, not all of them?"
In this regard, all Verak could think of was to persevere.
Being as unyielding as he was in Dymans Prison gradually gave the prisoners confidence, courage and hope.
Fortunately, there is no Keating in this prison, but Verak.