There is a clear 'line' that tells you the seasons have changed. Vertex 23S. The fastest update is from when you add a piece of clothing casually to go out for a short time, to when you take off clothes to go indoors for a short time. This boundary determines what you have to endure, the cold outside or the bloated warmth indoors.
Revealing the seasons is what you have to endure, what you are prepared for, and what temporary situations you find yourself in given the poor adaptability of humans to the environment. like this
The heating in the North District Police Station is very sufficient. You can see heavy coats hanging on the backs of chairs and clothes hangers. Law enforcement officers in single clothes and working are hurriedly passing by, and occasionally they are irritable. Pull off your collar and go to the bathroom to splash some cold water on your face. Before we realize that a busy police station is definitely not a good sign, let's focus on the seasons. The warmth, even the heat, here does not represent the seasons.
What can represent this is that Coulson, who was dressed in bloated clothes, walked very slowly among his colleagues who were walking back and forth around him. Holding a cardboard box, he stood in front of his desk.
He did not sit down, nor did he take off his bulky clothes to adapt to the warm environment. He started to pack things, including family photos, a pot of cactus, coupons he didn't know where he had received... a pen holder with the police logo on it, a stapler...
After filling a box, Coulson glanced around the police station and said, "Huh." He hugged the box and started to return the way he came.
Detective Coulson had no intention of staying here any longer. He no longer worked here. The warmth here was something he had to endure for the time being. Outside, the temperature that made his bloated clothes work was his world.
"Coulson!" came the troublemaker.
James, who had water stains on the chest of his shirt, rushed over and ran in, but lost his voice for a moment, "Uh... Coulson, I..."
"I'm sorry?" Coulson looked sideways at James, "Huh, save it." He was prepared to continue leaving without being affected.
James's face began to turn red, "I need your signature. Your previous... uh, our previous cases will be handed over to me. You no longer have access to..."
The corners of Coulson's eyes twitched twice, and the box in his hand crashed into James's arms. He snatched the documents from the other party's hand and began to swipe his signatures without even looking at them.
James looked at Coulson's box with mixed emotions. Is this the entire net worth of an old police detective in this police station? It doesn’t weigh as much as a box of apples!
The signed documents were photographed on his chest, and Coulson snatched back his box, his mouth twitching, "Is there anything else, Detective Lance?"
"... Well, say hello to Director Cologne for me."
Breathe a sigh of relief, Coulson did not lose his job, he was just transferred to the Southern District Police Department.
"Is there anything else?" Coulson looked at James. Feel the gaze.
"No, no more."
"Very good." Detective Coulson walked up again. "Goodbye, Detective Lance. Well, and good luck to you."
"You too." James stood there with his head lowered and watched Coulson walk out of the police station with raised eyelids. When the hem of Coulson's coat was lifted by the cold wind, James took a deep breath and withdrew his gaze. He still had work to do.
But it’s not really work, it’s a necessary process before work. James needs a new partner.
The argument in the homicide chief's office had been going on for some time, and James really didn't want to get involved in it again if he could help it. No, that's not right. Either he was involved in it, or it was a dispute caused by him.
The chief of the North District Police Department, Chief Darcy, was arguing with James's direct boss, the female team leader, about James' new partner.
There are two candidates placed on the table. It's boring to describe it directly, let's hear it.
Now it was the female team leader who was speaking, "No! I said no! I won't let you promote an ordinary field police officer casually! Become my detective!" He threw away the file in his hand, the photo above , it was Chapman, "Huh! It's even more impossible to be Lance's partner! That" pointed at James who just came in, "Young! Arrogant! The partner of the detective who doesn't obey orders!"
James continued to take a deep breath and put down the document in his hand, "Detective Coulson has signed it..." It really doesn't matter what he has to say.
Darcy glanced away from James and opened Chapman's file, "That's all that's left, Detective Weiss..."
I couldn't even finish.
"No!" the female team leader refused again, and looked at Director Darcy with an incredulous expression, "Do you think this is some kind of exchange game?! We will transfer a detective from the Southern District Police Station, and then another detective from the Southern District Police Department. A police detective is coming over?! Is this how you want to run our police department?!”
Director Darcy's face was ugly, "This is not a game! Detective Lance and Detective Weiss have worked together! From their former military background to Detective Weiss's first case when he came to Barton! They, very Suitable! It has nothing to do with my policy of managing 'our police department'!"
"Really?" The female team leader seemed not to be suppressed by Darcy's majesty. The reason? Recall that we seem to have never described positively how Darcy, the airborne chief, was viewed by everyone after he became the police chief, including the female team leader’s attitude towards Darcy. However, we know that Coulson briefly took over a case from three years ago (Papa made something using materials from the Barton alien race at midnight, a cold case, belonging to the female team leader), a case that Zach almost let Coulson die. Do you remember how Coulson was worried about how to behave between his two bosses? Therefore, this dispute may appear to be just an issue about who is James' partner, but, hey, we understand, "Then explain it! Coulson is my most senior detective! My director, my director Darcy "What kind of 'genius management policy' of yours makes you think that Detective Coulson, who is very qualified as Detective Lance's mentor and guide, should be transferred! Then change him..." He casually flipped through Weiss's answer. , "A young boy will take over?!"
Darcy seemed to be losing. Nan looked at the face and said, "You want seniority? Okay! Let's go back to Chapman. Chapman has been working in the bureau for more than ten years! He has seniority!"
"Oh my God!" The female team leader was probably surprised that Darcy had the nerve to mention it, "Chapman is a field police officer! A field police officer for more than ten years! What do you call this qualification? Director?!" And what she probably didn't want to mention, "And Chapman is still, uh, forget it this year." I really won't mention it. We know that there is a stain on Chapman's file, right
"Then what do you want?" Darcy twitched his lips ferociously, "Here are two candidates I recommended, but you rejected them. Are you the team leader? Your subordinate! You have the final say! What about your candidates? ?”
The female team leader looked at James gloomily, "I didn't!"
"Then choose one! From these two!" It seemed like Darcy's victory. Darcy glanced at James, said nothing, and left the office.
There was an awkward silence in the office for a long time. Until there was the sound of files being sorted out, the female team leader took a deep breath and re-read the files of the two candidates. "Sit down." She said to James who had been standing next to him for a long time.
James sat down obediently.
The female team leader probably didn't want to look at James at all, "What's your opinion?" Questions without a questioning tone are the worst.
"I have no objection." James still clearly remembered that he was described by the team leader as young, arrogant and disobedient, so this was probably the best answer.
"Hmph." The female team leader shook her head, "But you obviously have a problem with Coulson!" There was a tone, a dark mockery, the worst kind.
James just frowned.
"Don't think I don't know!" The female team leader raised her eyes, "How did you frame Coulson to get him suspended by the director!"
James looked gloomy. Framed is a very serious word, but it is very appropriate. Isn’t that what James did
"What? You framed your partner and you don't dare to admit it!" The female team leader might just be venting.
"I didn't!" Are you admitting it? Well, don't think too highly of James, "I didn't know the director didn't want those lists to be released! Coulson and I just wanted to help!"
"Hahaha!" The female team leader seemed to be laughing happily, "This is the funniest joke I have ever heard! Don't you know? Don't you know what Darcy wants? Haha, do you think I'm stupid? I don’t know how many times Darcy talks to you alone? Would I not know that your Lance family has a relationship with the Darcy family in the west? Would I not know? Now! This police station belongs to Darcy! Not yours The result of having a halo-like surname! I don’t know why Director Cologne was willing to accept the mayor’s arrangement and be demoted to that hellish place in the South District?!”
James pursed his lips, knowing that what he said was meaningless.
But the female team leader shook her head for some reason and adjusted her mood, "I hate it!" She said emphatically, "I hate it! I transferred people from the South District and Director Cologne! It's not like some people! "glaring at James, "I have my loyalty! I don't want Director Cologne to be in trouble in the South District!" At the same time, he pushed away Weiss' file, "And I really don't need another military officer. The subordinates in the background! I really don’t know if your so-called ‘obeying orders’ is just a slogan! Do you have any objections?!”
"There is no team leader!"
"Well, Chapman." Chapman's file was placed in the middle. He was obviously not satisfied. "He has cooperated with you several times on his record. You and Coulson were also responsible for his previous cases. , so I guess you’re already somewhat familiar with it.”
James only nodded in reply. In his heart, he was actually, well, exploding. What the fallen angel wanted came true.
The female team leader shook her head, as if she didn't understand, "I really, really don't understand, how did he get in front of Director Darcy!" He glanced at James, "Did you know that he recommended himself? ?! Humph! Self-recommendation! You didn’t come to me, you went to find the director!” Then he became even more irritated, “I don’t even understand how the director accepted this self-recommendation!”
How to accept it? Tell Darcy, hey, you know, fallen angels will always stay in Barton. The saints made a promise that Barton will always open the door to hell, allowing us, vampires and demons, to live happily together in this city. Come inside. What if I don't accept it
The female team leader pointed her finger at the table, her eyes kept wandering over Chapman's file, and finally she said, "Tsk, it's useless!" The explanation came immediately, and she glared at James and said, " He can't control you at all! He owes you and Coulson! Your identity! Your experience! They are all much higher than Chapman! As your partner, he just gave you a follower who obeyed your words!"
He shook his hand irritably, seeming to have the intention of getting the Weiss file again.
This is not an easy decision. Can you understand the troubles of the female team leader, James Lance? It is such a difficult problem to deal with.
"I don't need a partner!" James suddenly said.
The female team leader glanced at James and said, "Humph." She closed her eyes without bothering to think about it, raised her hand in the air, and then pressed down fiercely, holding down a file. He opened it and looked at Chapman's photo, "It's decided." Without further ado, he pushed the file away, then took out a folder from the drawer and threw it to James, "You and your new partner new task."
James didn't look at the new task at all, but looked uncomfortable at being forced to accept the arrangement of his partner, "I already have a case on hand, Becky..."
"Becky, you don't have to worry about it." The female team leader interrupted directly, "A fire accident is a fire accident! No one died, no one was murdered! It's none of our business!" He said irritably, "You framed Coulson and published the list. , and now there is no practical follow-up! Regarding the people on the list, they are just complaints about causing trouble at night! Do you want to waste your time on this kind of thing?!"
This needs to be explained in detail. First of all, we know that this list is actually a list of the descendants of Eli Toredo. The fire accident in Becky was an accident in which no one was injured. It was just Eli Toredo creating descendants.
Then, the list was released, and in addition to having Coulson suspended due to Darcy's blame, it also achieved an effect. The people on these lists were known, which meant that although they would disappear during the day, Becky's night business place began to superstitiously avoid their own property being damaged by fire, and refused to enter the people on these lists. . This led to some night-time troubles, which were not serious, but enough to keep the police station busy during the day, searching for these non-mainstream people who caused trouble at night and disappeared during the day.
"But..." James wanted to say, no, the effect he wanted to achieve was that he needed to continue to pay attention to these things about Becky, because sooner or later, people would die. The descendants of Eli Toledo are just practicing control now. Blood, do you remember the practice method of gluttony? Therefore, they need their practice objects and their food to live. When they don't need food to live, people will die!
"No but! You are a police detective! Maintaining public security in Becky is left to ordinary police officers! We don't need you!" His eyes fell on Chapman's file again, and he twitched from the corner of his eye, "Tsk!" Keep up! "No! Not Chapman!" Staring at James, "I won't give you a follower who can't suppress you! Wes! Although he has an old relationship with you, didn't he originally not want to work in the North District Police Department? ! Okay! Go and explain to your friend why he still has to be transferred to the North District! Now!" The worst kind of sarcasm, "Go now! Explain in front of Director Cologne and Coulson who just passed by!"