"Zach, phone." Louise knocked on the kitchen door and called Zach.
These days, the phone calls in Zach's office usually stop after the ringing, and then the phone on Louise's desk will ring. If the other party asks for something that Louise cannot solve, it will be transferred to Zach again. Gram here.
Because the answer to the original phone call clearly stated that this was a private call, please call the new number if you have any funeral matters.
But this time, the caller seemed unusually persistent.
Zach returned to the office and answered the phone.
"What are you doing? Why did it take you so long to answer the phone!" It was James' voice.
"Make lunch." Zach was almost very used to the irritable tone of this human being, "Detective Lance, everyone in the Grand House needs to eat." And the vampire also knows what to say, and can turn James around. Ms.'s most fragile nerve.
The sound of James taking a deep breath came from the receiver.
"I'm just calling to tell you that Neil and Daphne are awake!" He said in a vicious tone, "You'd better be ready!"
"I listened. This is a good thing. Congratulations to Quist." Today's newspaper has already reported this. The best way to wait for the funeral to end is to read the newspaper. However, Zach's 'congratulations' were obviously not sincere, but he was confused. What did it have to do with him? "Prepare? Prepare for what."
James on the other side of the receiver seemed to be organizing his words, but nothing came out after opening his mouth several times.
Zach frowned and decided to ask himself, "Have you gone to Quest?"
"It's Quest who's looking for me again!" James said with great resentment in his tone, "He thought I would know something!"
"What do you know?" Zach became even more confused. "How did the two of them disappear? Why ask you? Wouldn't it be faster to ask the person involved?"
"That's the problem!" James became excited, "Those two people don't know anything! They have been in a state of confusion since they woke up, like crazy people! They kept shouting 'don't hurt me' and the like ! The police can’t ask anything useful at all!”
Zach chuckled, "So, you must think that's not crazy, right?"
"Yes! Something attacked them!"
Zach frowned, "Be specific."
"There's nothing specific!" James said angrily, "I'm sorry, the two of them are insane. Something beyond what they can describe in words attacked them. This is the only thing that can be confirmed!"
Zach thought for a while, "James, did you leave this matter to our Grande again?"
"Of course! What else can I do?! It was originally started by you, I just told him who he was looking for and who to look for again!" James became obviously irritated, "Quest kept forcing the police , exerting pressure, but what can we do?! The police can’t force two mentally disturbed people!”
"You are shifting responsibility." Zach sighed, "I should tell you that there is no news about Daniel so far. Even if Quest entrusts me to find the 'murderer', I can't do anything..."
Zach paused suddenly, "Wait. James, what's going on."
James Lance said to the victim's family, "If the police can't solve it, find someone else." This is not in line with the vampire's understanding of James' character. At best, James would ask Grande to assist him in his investigation, and he would never leave all the work to Zach!
Zach tried, "You're avoiding contact with Quest. You want to get rid of him."
Listening to the rapid breathing in the receiver, Zach's test came to fruition, "You were investigating Quest. Did you find any clues, right?"
After a moment of silence, James over there responded in a low voice, "Yes, but it has nothing to do with you!"
Zach pondered for a while and then smiled, "You must have discovered something important, which is enough to fit our previous guesses and constitute a motive for the disappearance to reappear..."
"Stop! I'm done! I won't tell you! At least not now!" James on the other side of the receiver raised his voice and interrupted Zach, "Anyway, be prepared! And you can't cross the line! I do my job, you do yours and find the real perpetrator!"
Zach smiled and understood what James meant, "Okay, Detective Lance."
After hanging up the phone, the vampire was in a good mood and took out a wine glass. Vampires are probably the easiest creatures in the world to prepare food.
"What are you laughing at?" Benjamin, who entered the office, looked at Zach, sat down at the desk, and fiddled with the pen holder on the desk. The werewolf came here to wait for lunch after he had nothing to do. As a werewolf who could only knead dough, Alice did not expect Benjamin to contribute in the kitchen, but Matthew seemed to know everything and was helping in the kitchen.
"James' phone number," Zach answered.
"Oh." Benjamin smiled, "What's wrong with him?"
"He's 'Don't cross the line, I do my job, you do yours.'" Zach narrowed his eyes.
Benjamin scratched his chin, "It sounds like there are still some prejudices, but I have been guided by you and have the intention to truly divide and cooperate with my own will."
Zach raised his eyebrows and sipped the 'wine' in his glass.
The phone rang, and it wasn't Louise who connected it. Zach raised an eyebrow at Benjamin and answered the phone, "Grand House, how can I help you?"
"It's me, Quest." A male voice of about thirty years old came from the receiver, "I have a new entrustment for you."
"Mr. Quest!"
Benjamin looked at Zach's helplessly fake expression of surprise, smiled and shook his head.
"What does Mr. Quest need?"
The voice on the other end of the receiver was cold and low, "I want someone, no matter who did this to my brother, I want that person! I don't care about the 'truth' or the 'process', I just want that person, no matter who he is, I want that person!" Want him! This doesn't violate your rules!"
Zach was silent, giving the illusion of thinking, but in fact he was just holding the microphone and exchanging glances with Benjamin. After a moment, Zach made a thoughtful expression. The acting must be adequate and the voice transmitted through the phone would be convincing.
"No. We Grande refuse."
"Why!" The other party seemed to have lost his calm! The sound was loud enough that Benjamin could hear it clearly without using Alpha Skin.
Zach pulled the receiver away from his ears, tilted his head and rubbed his ears, and raised his eyebrows at Benjamin, "The police are paying too much attention to this matter." Zach said in a regretful tone, "Since Mr. Quest is It was introduced by Mr. Herman, so it must be understandable that we do not want to be associated with the police."
Don't forget, Zack basically asked Herman, 'I'm going to kill the person who killed Connor.' What happened? Except for one hunter who was waiting for his execution in the autumn, all the others, both those who surfaced and those who did not surface, died! Of course, Herman didn't need to know that someone, Ravenci, had become a Death Apostle.
The other party was silent. Anyone could make such a simple reasoning. What Grand House did was not within the limits of the law.
"Especially that James Lance." Zach winked at Benjamin, "Mr. Quest should also have heard about the last commission from Mr. Herman. Such a police detective is a good thing for Barton. , but it seems a little too dangerous for us.”
The other party was still silent, so Zach had no choice but to continue, "I suggest Mr. Quest hand this matter over to Detective Lance. After all, if you find your brother, he is also involved."
"He won't get involved again!" This time, the other party responded quickly.
"Oh?" Zach continued to pretend to be confused, "Why? The Detective Lance I know is not someone who gives up easily."
"My brother... Neil, he..." The other party's voice was full of hatred, and the vampire could clearly hear the rapid and chaotic breathing caused by emotion, which was transmitted to the vampire's ears through electronic conversion, "He, he is crazy. Got it!"
A muffled bass came from the receiver, and Zach frowned. Now he is a little shaken. The speculation that Quest is the person who caused his brother's disappearance was made when he had no contact with Quest. Now this emotion does not seem to be a 'strong wish' for his brother to disappear. people can show it.
"There is a..., uh, what regulations! The police." The person on the other side of the receiver seemed to be extremely angry, "They, mentally unstable people, well, the words of such people cannot be used as testimony, cannot Adopted! The police have all evacuated, including that one, Lance!"
Occupied by two emotions, sadness and anger, Quest even spoke intermittently, but the meaning was fully expressed.
Zach and Benjamin exchanged glances, "What's up, Neil? Where's Daphne?"
"They... I don't know! I don't want to know either! This is your job!"
Zach thought for a while, this time he was really thinking, but the content of his thinking was not whether to accept the commission. It makes no difference whether you accept it or not, because the suspect in Zach's mind is missing, and he can directly reply to the request with 'solved'.
She is devoted to Quinn because Alice has a crush on Mrs. Queen, to Mrs. Barton because Mrs. Quinn revealed some of Grande's secrets, and to Herman because Zach wants revenge.
To Quest? Well, it seems like nothing. But now Zach has wavered in his judgment, and this is what he is thinking about.
"Mr. Quest, have the police given up on this case now?"
"Yes!"
"Okay, then we accept it. But we can't guarantee the result."
"Can!"
"Where are Neil and Delphine now?"
"Hospital."
"Bring it out. Mr. Quest, I hope you understand that we do not want public attention."
"Okay! Your afternoon..."
Zach hung up the phone before the other party finished. Quist is a controlling person, and Zach is not prepared to give him the feeling of control, even though the two parties have the same intention.
In the afternoon, avoiding the fierce midday sun, Benjamin's truck left the Grand House and drove on Route 7, destined for the Quest Manor in the West End.