Before letting time flow smoothly to tomorrow, Zach still had something to confirm, so he took the opportunity to go to Liszt Backstreet after coming out of the West End. I kind of hoped that I wouldn’t see the person I needed to find here, but it wasn’t too surprising—
Louise is still at James' house.
"It's almost noon and he's still sleeping?" Zach asked Louise, who was watching TV on James' sofa.
"He didn't go to bed until dawn," Louise answered.
"And you stayed." Zach sat down next to Louise. Although James' sofa was probably several times more expensive than Grande's, the comfort level was inversely proportional. "Why don't you go back? At least play Just give me a phone call."
Zach didn't mean to blame, and his actions didn't mean to take Louise home at all. He sat down and put his arms around Louise's shoulders very naturally, already treating James' living room as a formal space. Rand's recreation room.
Louise was also very casual. She handed the remote control to Zach and fiddled with the soft cushions to adjust her posture to a comfortable position. A vampire worthy of being called an inhuman being, he was shamelessly performing 'warm' behavior in other people's homes.
"I called him. You were already out." Louise shook her head. "When he went to sleep, I asked him to calm down and think about it. So, well, I think I'd better wait here until he wakes up. , confirm what he thinks."
Everyone can understand that this is James.
"Is he very restless?" Zach raised his eyebrows.
"Well, what do you think?" Louise rolled her eyes, "You gave him almost no chance. You took advantage of his trust without mercy and undermined his case." Louise curled her lips, " You made him doubt his life."
Let's put it this way, everyone thinks that James took the police file and went to Zach to ask the truth. It was trust. Did Zach satisfy this trust? No, Zach betrayed this trust with just one sentence, 'Before this was your case, it was already my entrustment.'
"Doubt life?" Zach shrugged, "This is too big a fuss. I think I have explained it clearly. If he does not see clearly the relationship between the West End and the current Grande, that is his own problem."
Isn't that right? When Heather's case began to be related to the West Enders and James clearly found out that he was being followed by Novel, shouldn't he be thinking about the close relationship between the West Enders and Grande instead of being naive? personal grudges.
Speaking of personal grudges, isn't it? James will find every opportunity to question Zach's character. This time, he questioned in the wrong direction. Is it Zach's fault
Louise's elbow touched Zach's arms, "You'd better not let my efforts all night go to waste! You should say sorry to James!"
"I have nothing to apologize for." Zach pressed James' remote control while watching James' TV, "But why do you care so much?" Zach raised his eyebrows, "Honestly, I I didn’t expect that after I left yesterday, you would leave with James. Why do you care so much about James? Aren’t you supposed to hate... well, at least not like the police? "
As everyone knows about Louise's past occupation, at the very beginning of this story, Louise did say, 'The police would not listen to a 'single career woman'. '
Louise blinked, seeming to be thinking about this question seriously.
Zach waited quietly.
"Well, you still remember the story you told. Four centuries ago, you were a refugee. You met the ancestor of the Toledo family, a noble at that time. You were spotted and became a vampire, and then you still gave your original human friends at night. Hunting for food." Louise spoke.
"I remember, and that's not a story, it's a fact, although I don't even remember who that friend is." Zach shrugged. Four centuries is a very long time. "Is it relevant to now? I think I told him at that time. This thing is to congratulate Alice for showing herself in front of Laura for the first time.”
"Well, I mean, when you become a vampire, I think, at least you are no longer a victim of famine, not a refugee, right?" Louise waved her hand, motioning for Zach to follow.
"Well, that's true." Zach raised his eyebrows, probably sensing a bit of what Louise was trying to express, "But my friend is still a human and a refugee, and has not changed at all, and when I tried to help him, He called me a monster."
"It's true." Louise curled her lips, "Now that I think about it, you are the noble, and James and I are refugees. It is basically true. When we met you, we were basically waiting to die. .”
Zach completely understood, and looked down at Louise in his arms, "So, your life has completely changed, I think, and I hope, for the better. But the other one, James, hasn't, and probably still has." Worse."
"It's not roughly, it's definitely worse." Louise shook her head, "If you think back, you will find that we have never seen James smile."
Zach wanted to refute this point, "I've seen it before, on game night, when we attacked the dungeon without destroying the group."
"Uh." Louise was dissatisfied with Zach's sophistry, "Do you think that was a smile on you?"
"No." Zach was still a little self-conscious, "He would smile at Fitz, then check the loot, then calculate the experience, and then let me sort out the trash."
"That's my point of view." Louise curled her lips, "So, probably like you who used to carry prey and run to your friends in the middle of the night, I am not able to be happy and self-satisfied in my own life. , I will care about humans who have been in the same situation as me, but I have nothing to give James, so I can only stay with him after he is 'hurt' by you, at least."
Zach curled his lips, "Look at you, you can already separate 'human beings' from yourself very naturally."
Louise blinked, "Is this a good thing?"
"Of course it's a good thing. Human beings have distinguished themselves from animals and are civilized, right?" Zach smiled and tilted his head, "right, James."
James woke up and was standing in front of the guardrail on the second floor, inevitably looking at the two vampires below with a gloomy expression.
James didn't, probably because he didn't want to say anything to Zach, so he turned around, went downstairs, and went directly to the bathroom.
"James." Louise rolled her eyes at Zach, stood up from the sofa, and at least had the sense not to chase after her. "Your phone rang several times, and Coulson also knocked on the door for a long time. I mean, it’s long. You should probably check the message.”
"I'll check it later." Perhaps to show Zach, James turned his head and smiled at Louise. An ugly smile, the kind with eye droppings stuck to the corners of his eyes.
"Zach is here to apologize to you." Louise smiled back, which at least showed that the night was not wasted. Then she glared at Zach and said this before James entered the bathroom, "Here I’ll leave it to you, it’s time for me to go back.”
The night had been long, and Zach began to wonder what Louise and James had talked about. But it was obvious that James would not answer well. Zach looked at Louise as she really packed her bag and was about to leave, "I said I have nothing to apologize for."
Louise was too lazy to continue arguing with Zach about this kind of thing, so she rolled her eyes and said, "Then what are you doing here?" She curled her lips and left.
Listening to the sound of water in the bathroom, Zach shrugged and continued to press the remote control casually. This drop-in visit was to confirm certain things, and Zach was not in a hurry.
I don't know how much time passed, but James, who was casually wearing some clothes, walked between Zach and the TV. Ignoring Zach's intention, he went to the phone and pressed the answering machine.
He really pretended that Zach didn't exist and didn't even pick up the receiver.
"Lance! Where are you?!"
It's not surprising at all. The message was left by Detective Coulson, and it was an extremely brief message, lasting only a few seconds, like this.
"Lance! Where is the person?! I won't go to that xx hotel (the hotel on Heather's receipt) alone to continue questioning witnesses!"
like this.
"Lance! Are you coming to the bureau or not?"
like this.
"Lance! I swear if you don't show up I'll...*crack*...did you hear that!"
like this.
"Lance! I swear if the director asks me where you are one more time, I'm gonna *bang bang bang bang*"
like this.
"You're going to regret it! Lance! I swear you're going to regret it! If you hear this, you'd better meet me at the xx hotel!!"
Zach laughed out loud very consciously, "Coulson, haha, he is such an interesting guy." Can you understand what's so interesting? Coulson, who didn't want to advance the case, seemed to be forced to do so by the director, hehe, Director Darcy. Went out to continue investigating the case, poor Coulson, without James, the 'hatred guy' by his side. The old fried dough sticks were burnt.
James seemed to have used all his strength to stop turning around to look at Zach. The taut muscles were proof, and the message continued—
"Lance! I'm at Hotel xx! Where are you?!"
Continue again.
"Hahaha, Lance, you know what." The tone in the message changed 180 degrees. It was extremely relaxed and the longest one. "I don't care about you anymore. Haha, I have done all the work and paid tribute to you." The director reported the case and closed it, haha. No matter where you are, I don’t care~"
The message is gone.
It is worth noting that in this last message, Coulson said the case was closed.
James stood for a while next to the answering machine that signaled the end of the message, and finally spoke. Since he spoke to the air, he should have asked the air, "What did you do to that person in front of the xx hotel?" "
So the air answered, "Nothing. Thanks to Coulson's extremely detailed notes, I hardly did anything. I just reminded him of what he was afraid of, and he packed up his things and ran away." The air was saying something. Magic words.
Breathing air, talking to air, is how James now keeps calm, "the things he fears."
"What happened to Heather will happen to him." Qiu Qiu said in a matter-of-fact tone, "If you can make you feel better, I personally accompanied him into the Bache Station to see him get on the bus. The things he fears At least not while I was watching.”
"Your, watch!" It seemed that the air also annoyed James.
"That's what I said, isn't it." The air conveyed the voice and also conveyed Zach to James. If James had to hate something, the air was innocent. Zach is just so sweet.
A finger waved in front of James, "Let's talk about something practical. I just came back from Falcon Manor. Do you want to know what just happened in the West End?"
Even just thinking that Zach's presence can be eliminated from his field of vision is delusional. James turned several times in succession, and Zach seemed to be fixed in the center of his field of vision, with a look that made people think. With a beating smile, "I will tell you whether you think about it or not. The West District police already know that Heather is Falcon's mistress, and they summoned Falcon's two children..."
When James lowers his head, Zach will rub his chin, when he raises his head, Zach will pat his head, and when he tilts his head, his ears will be pulled. That's right, it's how it makes people uncomfortable, Zach did it on purpose.
"Please pay attention, James, do you understand what I mean? I don't quite understand how your West and North District Police Departments cooperate in cross-district case handling, but it seems that the West District Police Department you told me yesterday did not The case was shelved because of no clues. The only clue in the case was the front desk of your hotel in the North District, which is a joke. The West District police seem to have smooth clues."
Zach always kept his face in James' pupils, "And in the message just now, Coulson said the case was closed. Oh, at least when I left Falcon Manor, I didn't see the police arresting anyone..." Zach paused and looked at the two eyelids, "Open your eyes, James."
Silence is the answer.
Zach continued to look at the closed eyes, raised his eyebrows, and turned around, "It's up to you, I just hope you understand what I mean." He was walking towards the door, Zach wanted to confirm The matter has been confirmed. James did not help at all. He relied on Coulson's message.
There are two conclusions. The first is that Director Darcy did try to use this case against Falcon as Zach predicted in the 'General' bar, as evidenced by urging Coulson to go out and handle the case. The second one was just mentioned. The cooperation between the Western District and North District Police Department is a joke. The progress of the Western District Police Department is not shared with the North District at all. Closing the case does not mean solving the case. Now from Coulson's message, we can know that the North District terminated the case process because the clues were cut off, while the West District is obviously still continuing.
While this was going on, it was also when Zach received the commission reward and was told to end the commission. What does this mean? This means that although the investigation currently being conducted by the West District Police is Heather's case, it is no longer Heather's case. In other words, it is no longer the Heather case commissioned by the Falcons.
what is that
Come on, the information shared by the West District Police and the North District is that 'Kozier' women's clothing products were leaked from Heather's home. Let's have a 'what if'. If Mr. Falcon, who has been confirmed to be Heather's lover, firmly states that he did not give Heather those things, then how did Heather get those things? Let’s look at them one by one. After all, there are only so many families in the West District who are qualified to experience Cozier’s products first, Quinn? Patton? Smith? Fisher... Hey, these families need to give gifts to Mr. Falcon's mistress? No kidding, go ahead, wait a minute, we seem to have a surname that has a reason to do such a secret thing to please Falcon, hehe, Lister. Yes, the one who will replace Fisher's crimes of human trafficking and Sabbat under the joint planning of the West End family, Lister.
The people of the West End took control of their own police affairs, so they could naturally make Zach retreat. (.)