The west and north districts of Barton are connected by the Charles River, like a stretched rat's tail. To the south of this tail is a whole forest that extends southward into the city of Newton. In the center of the woods, the Paisine River comes from the city of Newton, flows to the north, and then converges at the end of the straight 'rat tail'. into the Charles River.
Zach patted Benjamin on the shoulder and pointed at a black car in front of him on the bridge above the end of the Pais Ying River, "James." His hand had already pressed the gear and wanted to accelerate.
Benjamin slapped Zach's hand away and glanced at him, "What do you want to do, let me hit him?"
Zach curled his lips, "Just letting you get close to him."
Benjamin ignored Zach and continued to drive at his own speed. He was about to enter the North District. The traffic flow was slow and it would be very unethical to suddenly stop.
Benjamin turned the steering wheel and followed James' car. It seemed that James was driving towards Lister Street. Benjamin was not in a hurry, hanging on the back, and when he finally got behind James' car, he waved to the front.
James felt like there was always a cool breeze blowing on the back of his neck, as if someone was trying to plot against him from behind.
In fact, he had been plotted against. He had just returned to the police station after sending Zach back to Grande. Because he participated in the evacuation of Mary Church, he also needed to go back and make a written report. After chatting for a few words with his partner, Detective Coulson, who was also writing a report, Chief Colon appeared at the guardrail on the second floor and stretched out two fingers at him.
Five minutes later, James left the police station honestly and drove to the Quest family's manor in Barton's West End.
Zach sold him.
But when he saw the young Quist couple lying on the bed 'resting' with their bodies intact, he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. But the relaxed spirit was immediately wiped away by what happened next.
James told the truth. He investigated the abandoned bus station for most of the night and found nothing. Then two people from Grande showed up, but there was no gain either. Just when the three of them were about to leave, suddenly, two missing people appeared.
James' words were true, but he felt like he was lying. This feeling was worse than simply lying!
The owner of Quest Manor used a coercive tone and forced James to repeat the entire process over and over again. James answered truthfully, and this process lasted for an hour. James felt like he was being interrogated, and his dissatisfaction with Zach deepened.
James sat in the car and stretched out his hand to pull on his collar, trying to dispel the chill of being plotted. He subconsciously looked at the rearview mirror. In a dirty truck, there was a tall and strong man with a figure that could not be ignored. The man waved to the front, but the passenger seat next to him was empty.
James shivered all over, and he seemed to feel a pale-skinned person smiling at him in the empty passenger seat.
"He discovered us." Zach smiled and patted Benjamin.
Benjamin changed gears and moved to the left side of James. Zach leaned toward the car door, stretched out an arm from the window, and knocked on the hood of James' car, "What a coincidence, Detective Lance!"
James took a deep breath, tried not to look or imagine Zach's current expression, stepped on the accelerator, and drove towards Lister Street.
Zach and Benjamin looked at each other and followed.
Lister Street is located in the southeast of Back Bay (Fenway Park) and southwest of Bache Street. The area surrounding Lister Street has completely replaced the former Bache District and developed into the most prosperous commercial district in Barton City. lock up.
In this area, you can see theatres, cinemas, hotels, casinos... The most famous is Lister Square at the north end of Lister Street. If you stand on the level of the Lister Building behind the square, you can see the entire Barton.
The two cars with great contrast walked along the back of the Lister Building and directly entered the Lister Backstreet. James got out of the car, saw the other two people also getting out of the car and walking towards him, and walked towards his attic with a sullen face.
When they stood on the elevator obviously, the two people had just entered the narrow corridor. When James pushed open the elevator fence, the two people were already standing in front of the iron door that he had patched several times.
"What are you doing again?" James opened the door.
"I'm here to apologize." Zach smiled and stepped into James' attic, "I'm sorry for dragging you into this again."
Of course James knew what Zach was doing, but he didn't think Zach was sincere and snorted coldly.
"You must have met Mr. Quest." Zach and Benjamin dispersed as if they were very familiar with this place. Benjamin walked to the bar that must be in a prime bachelor's home. Zach walked directly to the living room and continued to look at each other. James said with a face, "Then you can also know how, um--" Zach thought about the wording, "'aggressive'."
Although James Lance really didn't want to have the same opinion as the vampire, he had to admit that the thirty-year-old Quest was indeed extremely aggressive. He always expressed his opinions before the other party, and then turned the conversation around. Content is limited to the direction you want. If you don't get what he wants to know, keep repeating the conversation.
This was a man with clear goals and a strong desire to control, so for more than an hour, James was forced to recount what happened from last night to early morning more than a dozen times.
James is a police detective, and profiling people is one of his job skills. He doesn't have a good impression of Quest.
"He is like this." James was forced to reach a consensus with the vampire, "But it is very normal. There are two people in Quest's generation, him and Neil. If he is not aggressive, then he will not become The current owner of Quest Group.”
Zach smiled, James obviously did what he should do, "So, what do you think? Is he the one who instigated this?"
James glanced at Zach, "Why did you ask me that? Didn't you 'ask' him?"
Zach's eyes drifted to the side, seeming a little embarrassed, "We haven't met yet."
Before James exploded, Zach stretched out his hand to press the air and signaled James not to get excited, "Before you accuse us of accepting random commissions, I need to state that I didn't know that this matter would be so, well, bizarre. Zack blinked, letting the vampire admit to being bizarre, it wasn't easy.
James closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and stopped worrying about vampires randomly interfering in human lives. He thought for a while and shook his head, "I don't think it's him. His emotions are real. He wants to know what happened." James frowned, "When he finds you, he can basically be ruled out as a suspect."
Zach raised his eyebrows and curled his lips, "After what happened this morning, do you still feel that way?"
James thought of the boy in the wheelchair, and his face darkened again.
Illusions feed on human delusions. When the delusions are so big that even Illusions cannot digest them, the delusions will come true. But the human mind is a very wonderful thing. Would you imagine something that you have already obtained? No, so even if the boy in the wheelchair stands up, he still has to sit back down again!
This would explain Neil and Daphne's disappearance and then reappearance!
"This doesn't mean that Quest is the mastermind." James thought for a moment and lowered his voice, "Maybe it's just." James stared at the vampire and emphasized, "Maybe! Maybe the phantom man named Daniel is in his It’s just nearby.”
James is so 'protective' of human beings, which makes Zach feel comforted and sad. The comfort is that James has begun to accept the influence of alien existence on human beings. The worry is still about prejudice. Such an emphasis on 'maybe' is just helping humans get rid of their responsibilities.
Zach did not refute, but continued, "Maybe. Maybe, Quest's 'delusion' is just enough."
James clenched his fists, and the two people's eyes collided in the air.
"You are like children." Benjamin held a bottle of beer, shook his head and walked to the living room, "Is it necessary to shirk responsibility for strangers?"
Zach first withdrew his gaze and looked at Benjamin with a disappointed smile on his face, "I'm helping him find the right direction, but he doesn't appreciate it at all."
"You should come out directly." Benjamin curled his lips, "We are in his home, and he will not turn around and leave. The way you guide us will only end up driving us away."
Zach was stunned, the vampire indeed ignored this.
"What are you doing!" James raised his voice. The general's son was not used to this feeling of being like air.
"It's my fault." Zach smiled, "James, calm down first, think about it now, what will be the outcome of this matter?"
James's heaving chest slowly calmed down, "What!"
"It's very simple." Zach stopped going around in circles and tortured James' brain. "If it was done by a fantasy man, we Grande will deal with it. You may think this is the end of the incident, but for Barton City, this is another matter. It’s a mystery that will always hang in the air.”
Zach looked at James' wide eyes and satisfied head, "Good, you understand. Then it will be easier to understand."
Zach continued, "It's still what if, what if it's the Phantom Man. You may think there is no so-called mastermind, but in fact there is, that person, he can have such a 'loud' idea and let the Phantom Man passively realize this thing …”
"He must really want this to come true." James' eyes widened and tightened as he finished Zach's words.
"No, no!" James shook his head, "This is a 'delusion', and a 'delusion' is something that you know is impossible to achieve! He will never take action!"
Zach nodded, with a smile, "You are right, before these things happened, it was impossible. But it happened, the Barton police have made a 'missing' determination, no matter whose 'delusion' ' Leading up to this, he has seen the world after realizing his delusion."
Zach looked at James and asked, "Have the police found any suspects? Are there any names on the police's target list?"
Zach himself answered, "No. It's just that the two of them disappeared, and no one was implicated. So maybe I should ask another question, do you think this kind of disappearance will happen again?"
Zach looked at James, whose face had completely darkened, and added, "The second time, this will be a real 'disappearance'. You have to stop it, this is the end of the case, this is you, Lan Detective Si needs to go in the direction.”