No one could predict the journey of the intruder's heart in an instant. The angry eyes passed by the dull Zach, passed by the somewhat surprised No, and finally landed on 'Colt' on the desk. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
Mr. Allen recognizes this weapon? Probably not. Knowing that this is a gun is enough.
"Where?!" Mr. Allen asked in a questioning tone.
"What?" Zach frowned slightly. As a master, he still had to do what he had to do. "Allen of Allen Funeral Home, Repet is Nouripet of witchcraft." This was the introduction. To be honest, Zach's behavior of always being so 'down to business' is probably a disease. Get cured.
The corners of Allen's eyes twitched, and his eyes were fixed on the 'Colt' that Nuo had started to put away. Nuo did not do anything strange. He just nodded and put the 'Colt' back into the holster. The only thing worth paying attention to is that Nou did not bring back the holster to tell Zach about the existence of the third 'Colt'. This should not be the only purpose of Nou's visit, otherwise he could just put the gun away now, right? .
If you don't quite understand, think about Zach's 'trust' when he showed the 'Colt' to the aliens. Even if he wasn't watching, he wouldn't worry about someone taking the 'Colt' away. Why? As I said before, can you find another place in Patton that is suitable for keeping the 'Colt'? If Nuo still had a glimmer of the delusion that he could hold a 'Colt', he should have come to his senses after knowing the reaction of the Barton race after Grand announced that he had a 'Colt'. Correct awareness.
Let’s not go back to Nuo, the protagonist now is Allen.
"The weapons I left here yesterday! Where are they?!"
"The warehouse in the south." Zach answered, ah~ Allen saw today's newspaper and knew that there were a lot of ex-criminals living in Grande.
Allen's face twisted, as if to confirm, "The warehouse next to the living area??!"
"You know there's only one junk warehouse in Grande." Zach shrugged, "Do you want to take those things back?"
"Yes!" It was straightforward and direct. Looking at the swaying figure, it seemed that something was going to happen... Allen stepped towards the desk in one step, and picked up the holster with the Colt in his hand. Nuo was caught off guard, with a look on his face. Confused. Allen took it, "And I want to take this too!!"
Zach's current mood was a bit, well, strange, and he frowned, "This is not yours." However, he did not stop Allen who turned to leave. Instead, he followed Allen out of the office, "You have no right to take it. …”
"I didn't?!" Allen yelled as he went downstairs, asking and answering, "I really didn't! But you didn't either!! Ha!" This was not a joke, "Grand provides people with the opportunity to re-enter society. 'Stress-free compound environment'!!”
What the hell? Oh, that's a quote from today's newspaper coverage of Grande. Community Corrections Program, a news article that Kate derided as a standard city government release.
The quote continues, "'The Grand's living quarters will give those who have made mistakes a new chance, a chance to reintegrate into society smoothly, healthily, and become upstanding citizens'!!" Allen had walked downstairs. Finally, he turned around and glared at Zach, the 'Colt' he was holding tightly in his hand swinging in front of him, "And this is the opportunity you provided?!!"
It's like you fill an alcoholic's house with whiskey, you fill an addict's house with heroin, you take a sex addict to a bar... Okay, everyone. You should understand what I want to express. Oh no, that's what Allen meant.
Zach felt like he wanted to laugh, but it wasn't a mockery or anything like that. "I actually didn't know that Alan, you are the type with a sense of social justice." Nuo, who was following from behind, was stopped by Zach. , Zach gave a relaxed look and turned to Allen, "The thing in your hand is not Grande's, it belongs to Mr. Rippert, give it back to him."
Allen ignored it and went out.
"What's wrong with him?" Nuo said.
Zach waved his hand and said, "Just wait a moment, we will continue talking later." He followed Allen.
To the back of Allen's head, "Now you are just being unreasonable, Mr. Allen."
The new employee who was 'outing' in the backyard, Charlie and Matthew all looked at the two people who were walking through the backyard quickly. The expression of someone handing it over for instructions was accompanied by the movement of rolling up the sleeves. Zach waved his hand to stop him speechlessly, "Ellen..."
"Open the door!" Allen stood at the door of the warehouse and gave the order.
Zach glanced at the entrance to the living area. Logan was sitting on the steps expressionlessly, also looking here.
Zach will definitely be embarrassed at this time. After Georgina is gone, can anyone find any reason why Zach still needs to come to this warehouse? You can't find it, right? Well, we all know Zach quite well.
"Logan, the key."
Oh, Grande's staffing structure has finally been improved, that's inevitable.
So this must have once again made Alan stare at Zach in disbelief, so it's easy to understand, "You let such a person take care of the key?!" The key is not the point, the point is what the key can open. Opens a warehouse containing a bunch of large hunting weapons.
Logan came over, opened the door, and said calmly, "Mr. Allen." Isn't it strange to know each other? Didn't Louise take Logan to sign the funeral industry contract yesterday? "Watch your volume. Take a look. Around." The people in the backyard, "are all, 'this kind of people.'" It's up to you to decide whether it's a friendly reminder or a direct threat.
Allen's expression was already bad, but now it was a little worse. As soon as the door opened, he entered first and saw the weapons piled casually on the shelves.
After the brief daze caused by disbelief passed, Allen turned around and closed the door of the warehouse. Logan was agile and stepped in. A pair of calm eyes looked at Allen, meaning 'I won't go out even if you please'.
Allen glared back at Zach and took a breath to gather his emotions, "You are really a guy with no limits!!"
"Is it because I trust these people who have already served their time for their crimes?" A reasonable question.
"Ha!" Still not really smiling, "Trust? Did I say trust?! Did you forget something?! I know! I know what you Grande are!!"
What kind of thing is Grande? Well, let's think about it, this is one of the hallmarks of Barton's funeral industry. The funeral contract has come into effect, and this is one of the good people who save the entire funeral industry with their own resources. Is this what Allen said? It's a good habit to ask when you have questions, "What is it, stuff?"
"Gray professionals!!" Allen gave the answer!
Zach squinted his eyes and stopped Logan, who was about to step forward and didn't know what he was going to do, with one hand, and stood in front of Allen. He had to be extra careful about what he said at this time, "They are all people who open the door to do 'business', although I don't Put up the 'Grand Firm' sign." In Analog, the example just mentioned, "I'm not surprised that you know Grande's gray identity."
Why be careful. Come.
Regarding the fact that Allen knew Grande was a gray professional, we already knew it, right? After Allen accidentally killed his accountant, no, earlier, when Zach helped Allen's son Chris get out of trouble. , Alan mentioned some when he came to 'reward'. Later, when a manslaughter occurred and Zach had to be entrusted, he directly admitted it and also explained why he had always disliked Grande and suppressed the mill. The retired 'professional cleaner', the previous generation Grande came to the South District to retire. I'm not here to compete with Allen for business. But starting this year, Grande broke the default rule that the old Grande first came to the South Side ten years ago.
So what can be confirmed in this past synopsis is that Allen admitted to knowing Grande's identity when he entrusted Zach to dispose of the accountant's body. However, we should all still remember what that commission developed into! Zach erased Allen's memory and helped Allen for free to quell the incident that might destroy Allen's Funeral Home. In the end, he caused a fuss and was sued by Allen in court. There was a review of unfair competition. .
The reason why Zach is careful about what he says is that in Allen's memory, this should be the first time that Allen has said anything about a gray profession to Zach!
"Ha!" Allen really smiled this time, an ugly and weird smile, "Of course you're not surprised!!" Under the twitching eyelids, those eyes flashed something that gave people a bad feeling, "Why? You want another surprise now!! You have already..."
Please note Allen's use of words, 'now', 'already'...
Zach's eyes have also narrowed to a slit. For a Toledo, this is a very bad behavior because Zach is suppressing his incomparable urge to immediately confirm whether his former charming pupil has been lifted! Squinting, just to cover up the redness that has begun to spread...
Things took a turn for the worse.
The 'Colt' in Allen's hand was thrown away with disgust. The hem of the bloated coat was opened by Allen, and the gun inserted in the belt at his waist was lifted and pointed at Zach.
After Logan was pushed back by Zach once, his squinted eyes began to open, and they were normal light green. Zach stared at the muzzle of the gun pointed at him and said, "Where did you get this gun? Allen, this is not your gun." Because, this is James' gun.
Please don't let me switch perspectives to explain the current situation at this moment... This switch has already been done. People or things living in Barton have their own experiences of the beginning of today...
"Is this important?!" Allen's eyes began to become bloodshot. "I was in a good mood today! Until I read the newspaper!!" It is a common sense in biology that if a person's eyes become bloodshot, then the brain behind his eyeballs will also be affected. ... "Why? Why! This should be the moment for the entire funeral industry to change!" Allen was talking about the funeral contract. "It turns out it was reported that it was indeed your Grande,*! You are such a Grande (grey professional)!" Contributing to society!!”
what is this? World-weary jealousy? No, Allen was too anxious, or maybe the timing of Grande's community correction was too coincidental. Just wait one day, one day is enough, and the protagonist in the newspaper will not be just Grande! Emotions will not be piled up here!
Well, Zach has been reminded of what Saint Sissy passed on to Chris on the phone.
The increased pressure in his skull caused Allen's saliva to begin to erupt, "Just when I thought my mood couldn't get any worse today! That woman! That damn crazy woman!!" The gun's safety was turned on.
The silence that I don't know how to break started.
What Zach wanted to ask was, what kind of crazy woman. What kind of ghost did Allen see... The gun began to move away from Zach. It was Allen who was retreating, but the situation did not get better.
"These!!" Allen began to randomly shake the weapons piled on the shelves with his free hand, "Haha! These! They are all useless, right?! That woman said..."
Tsk! What kind of woman! What on earth was said! Zach's patience was wearing thin. I wish we didn't, because we know who it is, and, we know, what that woman would say, a wake-up call for someone who's awake to wake up someone who's not yet awake, uh, crazy story, right.
"Wound! Bleeding! It's useless, right?!" The muzzle began to approach Zach again, and it was Allen who was coming back, "Ha! But this! This! It works!*! A little bit works! Do you know why?!" Ai Lun's other hand began to tap the magazine on the gun handle, and his face became even more distorted, "It's just a little bit, right? Zachary Grande?!" The finger holding the trigger began to twitch, "A Gun! I can see it with my own eyes, right? Is that crazy woman really crazy! Or is it me! I am acting like a fool... "
Is Alan awake? Probably not, we don't know. But like he said, one shot and he wakes up.
"Calm down, Alan." Zach looked at the muzzle of the gun right in front of him. If everyone hasn't forgotten, Zach had a bad memory of being shot by this gun. Zach didn't want to do it again, "I don't know what you were thinking, and I have absolutely no idea what you were going to do. But I can confirm that if you do it, you will regret it. Look at me, I'm right in front of you, Zach Regrande, your colleague, an ordinary person, I have a girlfriend, a brother, a sister, and someone who is in charge of a funeral home like you. You would not want to commit intentional injury... "
When you have a gun pointed at you, Zach did the right thing by making the gunman realize that he is as flesh and blood as the other person.
But, the right approach is also wrong, right
"Hehe, she said, hehe, this is the troublesome part..." Allen smiled, "You, hehe, you are just like us..."
Remember the example James gave to Kate? Aliens, such as skinchangers, are just like humans. If they hurt aliens, it is humans themselves who are committing the crime...
There is nothing to hesitate about, the temptation to wake up is too great...
The muzzle of the gun moved slightly and the gun went off.
Zach sighed, took out the bullet stuck in his arm in front of Allen, and handed it to Logan, "Keep it away, Silver, it's not good for me."
Then, his blood-stained hands pressed the head of Allen, who finally woke up, and his eyes began to turn red, "You did it, you killed your colleagues."
Everyone has already guessed it. The more fully prepared something is, the less likely it is to happen. Who wants to read a story that already knows the story and ending? How boring.
"But not with this gun that I don't know where you got it from." Zach was still in the mood to take a look at the still hot muzzle, "I'm just going to do a good thing and save James from having to write countless malpractice reports. Please. What you used was..." He glanced at the third Colt that was thrown on the ground, "That gun."
His eyes returned to Allen's face, "Can you see, my death is scary, right? I'm decaying. Run." Zach let go of his hand, "After you are killed by Grande's employees, Before subduing, run. Two easy choices, stay here and get subdued and go to jail after saying a bunch of crazy things, or run, Newtown seems like a good place, chaos, with or without government."
Allen is already ready to make a move.
Zach looked over and did not follow the order to throw away the silver bullet, "Do I need to repeat it again, or do you already know what to do?"
Logan stared into Zach's red eyes, "No!"
"very good."(..)