After lunch, the documents Mrs. Quinn wanted to send were delivered, and it was Harrison who sent them.
Didn't Zach agree to help Mrs. Quinn investigate the leakage of 'drugs' from the asylum, for free? Ha, I guess Grande will never receive any money from Mrs. Quinn in the future.
Before getting down to business, that is, when Harrison first arrived, Zach stopped the car door that Harrison was about to close, leaned over and pulled off the red knot hanging on the rearview mirror, "This is not a talisman." Just pull it a few times and throw away the broken rope. It will probably be blown away by a gust of wind. "This mark tells others that the person carrying this thing is not a human being."
In Harrison's confused eyes -
"The person who gave you this thing is named Maitreya. He is a guest brought by the Yuri family back to Barton." Just to prevent Harrison from understanding, "He is not a human being."
"Wha, what?" Harrison, holding a pile of documents, chased Zach.
"Have you read today's newspaper?" Zach kindly helped Harrison share some of the burden.
"Look, look, Emilia..."
Harrison couldn't keep up with his thinking and misunderstood Zach's question, so he interrupted, "It's not a suicide case in a nursing home. Tell Amelia not to be distracted. Mokawi alone is enough for her to handle. Don't worry." Influenced by other unrelated things." You understand, Harrison's opening was wrong. The news in today's newspaper that can be related to Amelia is the asylum.
"Oh..." Harrison nodded blankly, "I told her the same thing... Uh, that amulet, mark you just mentioned? Yuri's guest? Maitreya?"
"Yeah." Harrison's mind started to work, and Zach was very satisfied, "News about Bishop, guess who made Bishop lie half-dead in the hospital now?"
"Bi, Bishop went to Yuri's house for a party, yes, is it Maitreya?"
"You guessed it right. He obviously thought that Bishop, who was entangled by evil spirits and surrounded by charming demons, was too, haha, pitiful, so he 'saved' him." Zach used a teasing tone. This is the state that Zach will maintain until he has a clear attitude towards Maitreya, "Don't ask me what 'transcendence' means, I don't know. I'm not even sure if my pronunciation is correct."
Harrison followed closely behind Zach. To be honest, he still didn't follow what Zach wanted to express, so he confirmed, "This, this Maitreya, uh, is a dangerous person?"
"I don't know. You can ask Bishop at the hospital." Is this also called an answer
"... Then, that knot, you said mark?"
"Think of this as a census. This Maitreya has been wandering around Barton a few days ago, handing out these knots everywhere." He glanced at Harrison and said, "Only to foreigners. His explanation to Sheila was that this was a tribute to him. Yuri's request, Yuri just wants to know who is human in this city and who is not."
"Why, why?"
Having already entered the office, Zach did not answer directly, "Because we look the same as humans?" He shrugged. As I said before, Zach will keep teasing until he doesn't know what to think of Maitreya. Sitting down behind the desk, he opened the documents he was holding and asked, "What are these?"
Harrison was shaking his head as he sat down, and Zach's rhythm was a bit difficult to follow. Although there were many documents that Harrison brought, they were already classified into thick files. "What you are looking at are the personnel files." Harrison raised the cover and glanced at it. "The invalid personnel files were once in the containment." Someone who worked for a while and then left, Mrs. Quinn asked me to get everything for you..."
Zach waved his hand and said, "I've already seen it." Because he turned over a page and happened to see Shepard's file. In addition to the regular things in the character file, the employment status column said "resigned." Plus a line of small print: Now at Sadier Security Company.
Zach raised his eyebrows. When he met Shepard, he heard him say that Shepard worked as a prison guard before becoming disillusioned with the system and becoming a homeless man. Shepard didn't tell the specific process, and Zach didn't ask, but it was written in the file that Shepard offended the 'best warden' and resigned on his own initiative.
But it's obvious that these files are in Zach's hands now, and they are not for Zach's gossip. "So, have you ever suspected these people who have left the asylum?" Zach flipped through Shepard's files and the stranger's files. There is nothing to describe, there is only one thing to note. In the same employment status column, there are small words after resignation. Zach flipped through several files in succession. They are all - Aix Security Company, "Most of the people here are Mrs. Quinn borrowing asylums." In the name of security when promoting pilot drugs, we hired people who stole the system of Saidil Security Company. I thought these people must be carefully selected by Falcon and trustworthy."
Harrison frowned and looked a little unhappy. I can understand the reason. These all happened while he was still in the process of Grande's resurrection. Although Harrison got his job back, the shelter is no longer the shelter he used to be. "In this matter, Kun Because they share the same opinion as Smith, although they trust Falcon, everyone who knows the asylum's drug channels is suspect."
Harrison reached out and flipped through a few more pages in front of the file Zach was flipping through, to show, "Smith himself also investigated the shipping employees on his side, and I also handed over some files of the original shelter employees who left midway. "
"Anyone who needs my special attention?" Zach pursed his lips. He was not prepared to read these files one by one.
"Well, there are a few." Harrison handed over a list. "Several security personnel in Aix are missing. When we investigated, neither Falcon nor Aiske could tell where these people were. Yes. Well, we wonder if we expected that we would investigate and hide... "
"Tam." Zach interrupted Harrison while patting the summoning bell, making a waiting gesture.
"Uh, what are you doing!" Tam came in with an impatient look, "Sofia's sister is about to find out that her husband and Sophia are..." This soap opera should be a magical drama.
Zach handed over the list directly.
When you open the door, you can see mountains—
Tam glanced at it and curled his lips, "You still found out, uh, I told 'General' that you would find out sooner or later!" Tam glanced at Harrison and raised his chin as a greeting, "If If you want these corpses, I can ask General to send them to you. They are just rotting in the ground anyway..."
Can you keep up
Zach waved his hand, "Go back and continue watching your show." The list was returned to Harrison, "Some time ago, when the 'General' first started to transform his men into vampires, he 'attacked' the Aix Security Company, but The news didn’t report it.” Do you remember it? The report was about a welfare physical examination in the southeast. The equipment malfunctioned and people with blood pressure of 300 appeared. "So they cannot be the people we are looking for now. This list is useless."
Harrison opened his mouth, took the list, was stunned for a moment, and faced Tam who had closed the door behind his back, "You know my address for those corpses."
Tam made a gesture behind the crack of the door, closed the door and left.
The document in front of him was useless. Zach put it aside and opened the next one, "This one again?"
"Current employee files." While answering, Zach also saw that the first file belonged to Harrison himself.
Zach raised his eyebrows again and glanced at Harrison, "Are you also chosen by the suspected person?"
"No." Harrison curled his lips, "I just want to retrieve the employee files. It's not easy to retrieve parts separately. We don't want people to find out that we are investigating, so we took them all."
Zach closed the heavy document and said, "I don't need to look at these. You work there every day, so you should find someone suspicious."
Harrison was a little embarrassed, "I think the suspicious people have been told to Mrs. Quinn and Smith. They have all checked and they are all clean..." He pursed his lips and glanced at Zach, "I really don't I'm good at observing people's reactions, that's why I do this job." He shook his head and looked helpless, "I suggested asking Amelia to help me for a few days, but Mrs. Quinn reminded me that I shouldn't Get Emilia involved..."
There is no need to pay too much attention to the helplessness of the ghoul. Zach tilted his head and thought for a while, and was already moving forward, "Then, if I run to the shelter to help you observe, do I have to find a reason to go there? You know, Not to make people suspicious?"
"Well, it's best." Harrison flipped through the documents in front of him for a while and handed out another piece of paper. "This is the list of supplies that the shelter is currently collecting donations for. If you have anything on it, please donate it to We give you a reason to visit. We will organize a visit for everyone who donates to express our gratitude. Mrs. Quinn said this is the best way to market a charity event - people enjoy being thanked. Of course, your donation is the most It’s better to have a bigger portion.”
Zach glanced at it, but he didn't have any objection to Mrs. Quinn's approach. Instead, "The Grande still has some old furniture that was not used before, and the sundries from the original Westside Grande." He tilted his head slightly to indicate the west side of the backyard. side of the warehouse.
"That's the best." Harrison nodded, watching Zach let go of the file in his hand, and continued to push the file on his side to Zach, and took the initiative to introduce it, "This is our current pilot project. The drug information." Very seriously, "It should be kept more confidential than the personnel file just now, so..."
Zach waved his hand. Should Harrison say something confidential, or should he stop saying it and waste the vibration of his vocal cords.
Zach's browsing action seemed to have some purpose this time. He quickly flipped through the drug introductions, and seemed to be complaining, "Why are they all common drugs, psychotropic drugs, analgesics, etc." Common? Please forgive the vampire's otherworldly fireworks. In Zach's eyes, the only thing that is not a common human medicine at this time is his, which is vampire blood.
Harrison probably guessed what Zach was turning, so he reached out and turned to a certain page for Zach, but it wasn't what Zach wanted to read yet, it was just the beginning, "Starting from this page is the experiment provided by Smith." Sex drugs.”
Zach regained some patience and casually scanned the introduction as he flipped through the pages, "There's still nothing creative about it. They're all pain relievers. Haha, painkillers. The only difference is the dose control. It's so troublesome, I'm suspicious. After becoming a regular business owner, Smith's income in this area will be higher than before. After all, after going through the legal procedures, he still has to pay taxes, and people will no longer buy his products just based on their preference."
Harrison was not prepared to accept this obviously joking truth, but said, "It really helps those homeless veterans who have completely lost their ability to live. At least now, we have rescued a dozen people from alcohol paralysis, I’m back on track with my life.”
Zach glanced at Harrison, said nothing more, and turned to something he was interested in.
Thanks for the pictures in this document. It was a picture of a cigarette. Zach read the name of the thing, "0711." He looked at Harrison again, "Seriously? This thing is called a string of numbers?"
Harrison curled his lips, "What Smith took was the date of Lydia's return. He wanted to use this as a souvenir." He shook his head, "Mrs. Quinn said she had already told you that this was the first time that the Smith brothers and sisters The product of a collaboration, so." Needless to say.
Okay, Zach accepted this explanation and continued to look back at the document, "Treating phantom limb pain?" He frowned.
"The pain of some veterans is not physical or mental, but more like... "
"Soul." Zach glanced at Harrison and added it himself, without reading the professional instructions on the document. "Most soldiers will be injured. In severe cases, they will have various degrees of amputations, ranging from small fingers to large ones. Entire limbs. This kind of pain occurs in parts of the body that no longer exist. Because the soul still thinks that these limbs still exist." When there is a vampire's 'professional', what is the need for human medical expertise
Harrison nodded, "There are less than half of the people in the shelter who cannot live because of phantom limb pain. This kind of pain cannot be cured because the soul that carries the pain is not a soul that humans can understand. These people have spent almost All the savings I had made, installing prosthetic limbs, and trying various treatments could not get rid of this pain. In the end, I lost the purpose of life and ended up living on the streets."
"And this 0711 can treat the pain of soul exposure?" The pain of soul exposure? Our vampire even gave up the medical term for pain. Zach's eyebrows hesitated between frowning in the middle and raising upwards.
"Okay." Harrison pursed his lips, "Eve didn't know that she used a formula to create something that shrinks the soul, 0711." He reached out and turned another page on the document in front of Zach, which was a rendering. , a bit weird - a photo of a one-legged veteran who was intoxicated by the smoke at his fingertips, "Eve used vampire blood when she showed it to me." Her face became a little weird, and she looked at Zach, "You should know, when If you put vampire blood on the painful area of the phantom limb, the vampire blood will corrode the exposed soul and intensify the pain."
Zach's hesitant eyebrows turned into a frown, "I know, but I don't have the bad taste to make these poor people suffer more."
Harrison was not defending Eve, but stated, "Just for comparison. After using 0711, the pain disappeared." Everyone should have common sense. Before any life-saving drug can bring people happiness, how many Experimental animals will die under this 'contrast'.
Zach closed the document, "So, this is just a drug with a specific effect, right? Then, tell me, why would someone want to steal this kind of thing? Obviously, its audience is very small, so it makes no sense." It's a test. After all, Sissi once said that this thing can improve concentration. In addition, Zach himself has also tried to shrink his soul? No, remember what Zach said, he couldn’t feel his soul when comparing the before and after.
"Side effects?" Harrison helplessly opened the file again, complaining a little that Zach couldn't finish reading. "I wonder if it's because of the shrinkage of the soul. People who use it will enter an inexplicable state, um …”
Zach read out, "'state of self-abundance,' what does that mean?"
"The manifestation is that he cares too much about himself, does not care about others, processes external information with unexpected efficiency, and ignores the senses of the people around him." Harrison looked at Zach, "Although it has some effects on ordinary people, the amputation part The bigger the person, the more obvious it is. Eve said that this is caused by the shrinkage of the soul, and there is no way to avoid it. Fortunately, the bigger the amputation part is, the more inconvenient it is for people to move. When they are independent, they will not have a big impact on others, such as this person. , just singing a marching song for half an hour in a wheelchair. Smith only regarded it as the joy of people after the pain disappeared... "
The frown turned into a raised eyebrow, "Well, if there is a situation, well, let me think about it, like this - a body is completely amputated, and the soul is exposed no matter how it is extended... No, no, let me put it another way." Ke pointed at himself, "Vampire, for the vampire's soul, its body no longer exists. Do you understand?" Zach didn't care whether Harrison understood. He just wanted to ask, "If a vampire uses 0711, to what extent will a vampire’s soul shrink?”
Harrison looked at Zach, as if waiting for this question, "Eve asked me to tell you, you can try it yourself." (.)