Louise didn't close her eyes all night, looking at the 'ancestor's office' in her hand like a sculpture. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
Next to her was Sam, who had also not rested all night, surrounded by scattered research notes. Without any warning, Sam suddenly stood up from the pile of papers, "Found it! Soul expansion!!"
Louise's eyes moved in that direction, unexpectedly cold, "You just 'found' it in one night?"
"Tsk, you can't blame me! John's research is too messy! It's like a puppy being led away by Papa at midnight! There is no connection with each other at all!"
Louise looked away and didn't want to speak. The business cards were placed neatly on the desk, strictly level with the phone. Louise pressed the phone with one hand, her fingertips slowly moved around the receiver, and her other hand slid against the edge of the business card...
She really didn't want to make this call.
"Very good! John recorded the place where he first saw Soul Expansion! A border town in the Western North, the year after the war..."
the phone is ringing.
Louise didn't respond, her hands were doing what they were doing just now, slowly as if they were massaging the phone and business card.
The phone's ringing is unaffected and continues to ring. Jingle bell, jingle bell…
"Uh, do you want to take it?"
Louise curled her lips and answered, "Grand Funeral Home."
"Well, hello, Grande, are you here?" It was a strange voice.
"Not here." Louise said without a tone. "I'm Louise. If you have anything, please tell me."
"I..." There seemed to be some hesitation, and he made a decision out of nowhere, "I, forget it. Sorry to bother you." Then he hung up.
Louise still put down the phone expressionlessly, not even thinking about the mysterious call for a second longer, and started dialing the number on the business card.
"Louise." Logan appeared at the door of the office, "That Arthur is looking for you."
"No time." Louise watched the dial rotate back to its original position at a steady speed, swiped and dialed a number, and continued to wait for the dial to rotate.
"He said he was supposed to have his first contact with Eli today."
"Then get in touch." Louise said silently.
"The day and night over there in En Gonghe are opposite to those here." Logan rubbed his face, as if he had just woken up. "He said that if he wants to contact Eli, he needs help."
"What does he want?" The dial swiped, then clicked.
"Becky's phone number in a small hotel is the contact information he and Eli agreed upon. He wants to go there."
"Address." He spoke calmly without a trace of ripples.
"He..." Logan pursed his lips, "He didn't say anything."
It was the last number, and Louise's hand stopped mid-dial, with a hint of gloom on her face.
Logan didn't continue talking and stood at the door rubbing his slightly swollen face.
Sam consciously remained silent. He took the notes he had spent the whole night looking for and looked at them quietly at the workbench.
"The number you dialed does not exist..."
A mechanical beep appeared in the receiver. Louise pressed the receiver back with an annoyed look, glared at Logan, and stood up, "Where is old Hank?" When she asked, she had already passed by Logan and started to go downstairs. .
The reason for this question is that when Louise came back yesterday, old Hank and Logan didn't come back. Didn't you forget it when you went to prison? Later in the evening, Logan came back, but old Hank never came back. When asked last night, Logan was a little embarrassed and said he didn't know. I am asking now when this guy is not ready to launch a surprise attack.
"Old Hank hasn't come back yet." Unexpectedly, Logan followed Louise with his head lowered.
Louise curled her lips and was too lazy to ask any more questions.
It is necessary to explain to everyone Louise's true psychology. She asked where Old Hank was because she actually wanted to talk to Old Hank. Louise wanted to hear Old Hank's "comment" on Benjamin.
criticize! Be precise!
Louise wants to have someone like her, who can evaluate Benjamin with malice like her!
'Brothers' for so many years, taking care of each other for so many years! Nothing? ! Want Grande to entrust him just to build a reputation for his firm? ! Benjamin is such a Benjamin! !
"Miss Louise."
It's great. Evan was coming downstairs when he went upstairs. "Where is our boss? I haven't seen anyone else for two days. Huh, I won't go to the middle of the building to recruit new employees..."
Being pushed to the wall by Louise with one finger, she said coldly, "Mo told me about your delusion yesterday. Be honest, Evan. Don't blame me for not warning you."
Evan held his sternum, which felt like it was about to collapse in an instant, and pressed against the wall, with an incredible expression on his face.
Logan was conscious and did not continue to follow Louise. He raised his hand and grabbed Evan and pulled him down, probably to have a one-on-one talk. Leave it alone. We follow Louise.
If you want to truly experience the living conditions of a vampire without the ability to travel by day, this is it. Arthur was wrapped in a quilt and squatted in a corner of the room. He only glanced at Louise who came in and said, "Close the curtains."
Louise frowned and looked at the space in front of the window that was occupied by the morning light. "Evan did it?" She went over and closed the curtains again.
"Who else could it be!" Arthur was gritting his teeth.
Louise had no sympathy, "Did you provoke him?"
"I'm sick! Why did I provoke him? He provoked me! Can you Grande take care of your employees!"
"Aren't you ashamed? You are a descendant of Eli, but you were bullied by a human." Louise really had no sympathy at all, and a little contempt. This is a subtle psychology, based on the history of Eli and Zach, based on her and Arthur's seniority... Everyone understood, "No." Louise shook her head, pulled up a chair and sat down, and also signaled to Arthur not to Squatting in the corner again, came over and sat down, "He doesn't even know that this behavior is bullying you."
Yes, who knew that pulling a curtain could be life-threatening? Evan has absolutely no idea, and is probably just in the curious stage, wanting to test what this guy who never leaves home does since he came to Grande. Can you imagine, while others are still sleeping, you can come in and draw the curtains to remind the people in bed that it is dawn? Yes, that little test that wasn't even a prank.
"What are you suggesting?" Arthur took off the quilt wrapping his body, revealing the white middle-aged man's naked body and sitting over, his tone still bad, "Eat him!"
Louise looked away and shook her head, not bothering to respond, "Address." She went straight to the topic.
"Impossible!" Arthur said simply, "Eli will not contact anyone except me!"
Louise was calm, "Becky's little hotel, there aren't many." Her eyes were looking at Arthur's body. The difference between people is sometimes so huge. Some people can maintain a perfect body in middle age. Condition, but anyone, it's as loose as bacon from a farm.
This is complete sympathy, this physical state will last forever~ Yes, it has only been two days, Louise misses a certain body. Worrying about the unknown.
Louise turned her eyes away and put aside her fruitless thoughts, "I'll cover it all by asking the Novelles for a favor. Why don't you cooperate a little and tell me the address directly. It will save us all a little trouble. "
"Hmph, go find Novel. You can see if Eli says anything when he hears that it's not me after he calls!"
Louise shook her head and said helplessly, "Is it necessary?"
"have!"
"Would you like to explain?" Louise looked at Arthur again, this time with a sincere inquiry in her eyes.
Arthur just turned his head away, looking too lazy... Russell opened the door and came in, "Hey, Arthur, I..." There was breakfast on the tray he was carrying. When he saw Louise here, he was stunned for a moment, "Uh, I'll come over later." He turned around and prepared to leave.
"Give me blood!" Arthur shouted.
"Oh." Russell came over with a tray, put down the two glasses of red drinks still stained with tomato pulp on the edges, and put dirty tableware on them. He pursed his lips at Louise and left without saying a word.
Louise frowned slightly, "Russell?" It was a question.
"Don't ask me!" Arthur looked impatient. "I don't know what's going on with that guy. I didn't ask him. He wants three meals a day to 'take care' of me." The quotation marks here should not be needed. Explain it.
Louise picked up a red drink, which was not a very big cup, and frowned, "Where did he get this blood? This is human blood."
"How do I know!" Arthur drank a cup and looked at the full cup in Louise's hand, the corner of his mouth twitching, "But I don't think he knows how much a vampire like me eats. Every meal is two cups. I don't. Any opinions, no matter how much, don’t matter. Huh, if you want to drink, I don’t mind.”
Louise put down the full glass in her hand. She was not hungry. Based on the fact that Charlie hasn't come out of the basement yet, I can probably guess the reason why Russell is 'looking after' Arthur, so let's make up for it. As for people's hearts, as long as they can make themselves feel that they have made a difference, they can feel at ease.
Knowing this, Louise had nothing to care about, "I'm glad you've made friends in Grande." Half sarcastic and half factual.
Arthur frowned, took the cup that Louise put down, and drank it down in one gulp, "Tsk, you don't have to provoke me! Huh! It doesn't matter if I tell you!" It seems that Russell's little episode has brought about this. A change in mentality "Eli doesn't want the Federation to cut off his bloodline! He wants me to live!!"
Louise frowned and thought for a moment, "So the only way to contact him is fixed on you, forcing Grande to protect you?"
"Yeah! Humph, it's obvious that he doesn't trust you Grande much!" He must be specific at this time, "Trust Zachary Toredo!" This is really surprising. The history of Zach and Eli is not based on trust at all. Built right.
Louise lowered her head, "What if I tell you, you won't be his only bloodline in the Federation. We are saving Nate from Papa Midnight, and you are not the only one."
"who?"
"Nate." Louise was a little speechless, "Before you came to Barton, you exposed yourself as a fan of Eli."
"Uh, Barton people?" Arthur actually didn't care. "Do you think Eli has much affection for the descendants he created all the way to Barton? They are all guys who were driven out in order to quickly expand the clan! Some guys even They don’t even know their own talents, and they don’t even realize that they are vampires! Let alone the descendants created in Barton? They haven’t even experienced blood screening! They are all used to disgust the 8 members of the Sabbat! The purpose is only One! Occupy Barton City quickly! What do those guys have to protect! I am Eli’s direct descendant! If there is still a successor of this bloodline in the Federation! It’s me! Not some Nate!”
"What is a blood screening?" Louise focused on, well, some details.
"Tsk, you don't need to know."
In other words, the information Georgina told Zach was not comprehensive. It was probably Eli's way of controlling the clan's population after recruiting descendants, so there's no need to pursue it now. Louise looked at Arthur, "So there is no need to discuss."
"No! And I can tell you now that after each contact, the place where Eli will contact you next will change! The order of all the contact places has been determined with me, and only he and I know it! So don't expect you to be able to do it this time What method can you use to deceive him so that you can replicate it next time!"
"Okay." Louise nodded, "What do you need."
Impatiently, "Protect! Against the midday sun! I want to go out! Go out safely and come back safely!"
"Umbrella?" Louise seemed to have experience with this kind of thing. Do you still remember the hard time when she couldn't walk by day? "A big, big parasol?"
"Tsk! Car! There's no way I can walk on the road again!"
"Oh." Louise stood up, "It's noon, right? I'm going to get ready."
He was pulled by Arthur, "I don't want you to accompany me, I want Zach to accompany me!"
The atmosphere that had just calmed down returned to the starting point because of this sentence. Louise slapped Arthur's hand away, "It's just me, love or not."
"Tsk, Eli is going to want to talk to Zach! When is he coming back?!"
Louise didn't want to answer this question that she didn't even have the answer to, so she walked out.
"You'd better think clearly about how to answer Eli's question when he asked him about it! He's in the Republic now entirely because of Zach's, ugh, 'framed'!" You really have the nerve to say it, but it seems like you can't. Retorted, "We know in our hearts what Eli might do if he knew Zach wasn't even here, oh, anywhere!"
Immediately jump on the ship back to the Federation, and then replace Toledo's position in the Thirteen Clan? Well, this possibility seems quite high.
Louise looked back at Arthur, the corners of her mouth twitched behind her back, and she didn't respond.
"Evan? Evan!" He went out and went downstairs, "Our guest's room is a mess! Are you still dreaming of getting promoted? Then do your job well! Clean it up for me!"
Evan's job is to maintain the living quarters, isn't he, 'servant', as he puts it. How could you not take advantage of it
When Louise went downstairs, she saw Logan covering his face and shaking his head in the corridor. It was probably because the one-on-one conversation with Evan just now was wasted.
Louise wouldn't care about this kind of thing, her mood dictated that she needed more venting.
Just in time, Russell was clearing the plates, "This makes no sense! Charlie is there! And the one upstairs is nobody!"
Yes, whoever shows up in front of Louise now will become the target of venting emotions.
Don't mess with Louise.