James no longer had any reason to stay overnight in Grande. He got what he wanted, the murderer of the Republic case, but he still showed up at Grande on time every day when the sun went down. Vertex 23S. Updated fastest. It’s really impressive when people give up their self-esteem~
There is no need for James Lai to waste time in Grande. All everyone needs to know is that he is in Grande. So when the North District Police Chief Darcy called and summoned his detectives to work, Zach answered the phone.
Then, quite naturally, Zach rode in the back seat of James' car to Back Bay Community College.
Why not take the passenger seat? Of course, it was left to Wes who picked him up halfway. Zach had never seen the pair working together, so it was a good opportunity.
Zach wasn't so sure it was a good thing that James' partner was Wes. I don't mean to criticize Weiss, it's Coulson. Detective Coulson has 'skills' that James does not have, and in a sense acts as a buffer between James and humans. After all, when James was worried about the country and the people and was thinking about aliens trying to destroy humanity, Coulson was thinking about how to deal with things diplomatically.
This subtle difference between people's hearts, which is completely incommunicable with each other, is something that James, a cotton wall, cannot convey to his closest partner, Coulson, and he cannot convey it to the world. Look, buffering.
Weiss? This buffer around James is gone. Zach can't tell whether it's good or bad yet, it depends on how Wes deals with James' psychology towards aliens.
"So he lives in Grande now?" It was also strange. Wes tilted his body and asked Zach in the back seat.
"'He'!" James was obviously dissatisfied with this feeling of being ignored, "He just spent the night in Grande!"
Wes ignored James and continued to talk to Zach, "Did he talk to you about Eric's trial?"
"'Him'!!" James forcibly raised his voice again to emphasize, "No! He is a civilian..." He finally used the third person in the right place, referring to Zach, "What qualifications does he have?" Know these things!”
Zach wasn't even ready to speak. As far as the purpose of observing the interaction between the two people is concerned, Zach has achieved it.
"Then why is he in the car?" Wes was not ready to continue this boring game and looked at James, "We are going to handle the case, what do you mean by bringing a civilian with you?"
"Tsk!" James was about to fight back.
But wait, if I don’t tell everyone now, it will be too late. Zack in the back seat is not alone. Well, Blake sat next to Zach. Moreover, Blake did not get into the car at the Grand. He came out of Wes' house and got in with Wes when he picked up Wes.
James' counterattack failed to grasp the degree of control that a friend should have. "You also brought a civilian with you! So what is the situation?! He is also living in your house now?" 'Also' means that Jason before, Everyone still remembers that the last time James came to see Wes, Wes kicked Jason under the bed.
Although nothing like this happened this time, in the eyes of outsiders, it was almost the same. To briefly describe the situation at that time, after Wes listened to James at the door saying there was a case, he went back to the room, pulled Blake out, and put him in the car.
When Wes looked at James expressionlessly, Zach glanced at Blake curiously. Blake looked embarrassed, "We were just chatting." He explained to Zach, "Do you still remember my project? Anyway, I'm on vacation these days, so..." He curled his lips as if he didn't want to elaborate, "We're talking about Jason."
Zach glanced at Wes, who was still looking at James, feeling that the two guys in the front seat probably wouldn't have any valuable exchanges for a while, so he simply asked, "How is Jason doing?"
Zach's memory about Jason was the exchange with Linda, the inheritor, in front of the nursing home. If you remember, Linda made no secret of her disgust for people like Jason, it was biological instinct. But all Zach has is memory, and Zach has lost his emotions at the time (amnesia).
"Not very good." Blake shook his head, "Cliff feels like a good person, but Linda..." Blake shook his head, "I'm a little confused." He glanced at Wes uncertainly, "Jason He said that he moved there entirely because Linda wanted to thank the 'brothers' in their orphanage for helping with the wedding, but I don't think Linda really meant to thank her."
It seemed Linda didn't explain that instinct to anyone else. Zach considered the current situation for a moment and felt it was not a good time to relay it, so he kept quiet.
Blake waved his hand, "I originally went to find Jason, and I met Wes there." He hesitated and lowered his voice, "I don't quite understand. Jason was very, well, happy before. I didn't know that he Why move away from Wei…”
By the way, in a closed space, does it make sense to lower your voice? No.
Therefore, Wes's gaze, which had been on James, turned sideways, with the same expressionless look, which made Blake's whole body tremble.
Zach was the only one who came to the rescue. Zach acted as if the conversation just now had not happened, "Where's Jackson? Didn't you already tell him your 'secret'? I thought you no longer left him alone in your private activities."
Blake grabbed the straw thrown by Zach, "Oh! He is still in your Grand Cemetery, looking at Toby."
Zach raised his eyebrows. This was completely beyond his expectation. At least Zach suddenly mentioned Jackson here. It was not because he cared how much Jackson was not with Blake. Look at Zach's wording. He was deliberately emphasizing Blake's love for Blake. Jackson reveals 'secret'.
Yes, Zach's preset conversation direction was to use him and Blake to talk about Jackson to ease the, uh, atmosphere between James and Wes.
If Zach had any expectations for the interaction between the new James-Weiss pair, it was definitely not that the two were embarrassed over 'that kind of issue', as now, it had reached the point of implicating the people around them.
It would be great if the relationship between Blake and Jackson could be used to make Wes admit that everyone knows the 'secret' anyway. But this expectation is obviously impossible to carry out now. Zach is really surprised, "Toby's trial of faith hasn't appeared yet?"
"No." Blake shook his head, "Jackson said that the angel seemed to have given up and took back the angel feathers. Now Toby is just an earthbinder bound to his own cemetery. Jackson..." Blake became a little irritated. The feeling, “Worried that Toby would just disappear.”
Although Toby becoming a dead soul in heaven is equivalent to disappearing for Jackson, it is better than actually disappearing. It's just a matter of acceptance.
"Ryan has existed as an earthbender for three years." Zach wanted to comfort him, but Ryan's situation was very special, so Zach's comfort required some sincerity, "I'll let Sam go take a look tomorrow. "
"OK, thank you."
For a while, Zach had no turning point to bring the topic back to his preset theme, and the car became completely quiet.
The time was not too late, it was still early before midnight. The feeling became obvious after the car drove out of the South District, which was basically dark, and entered the North District.
Although Paisin District cannot be as prosperous as Liszt District and Beqi District, since the Carnival, we have to admit that the "urbanity" here has increased linearly. At least at this time, there are still people running up and down Ogier Street to enjoy the Indian An’s special late night snack.
James' car passed through the Paisley area longitudinally, dropped Blake off at the junction with Back Bay, and then continued on until he entered Back Bay Community College.
When Wes and James got out of the car, Zach had disappeared.
A civilian is not in the mood to follow the work procedures of two police detectives. Our civilian gentleman has his own rhythm...
A little disappointed, Zac said, to be honest. When Darcy said on the phone that someone had self-destructed, Zach naturally thought of himself in that cycle of time, constantly experiencing the indifferent soul expansion, which each time ended Zach's immortality, and made time have to A chain of explosions that self-corrects and rolls back.
Even when Zach's life was not ended and he was saved twice by Papa Midnight, Zach saw the impact of those explosions in the rest of his life. The open and twisted bus body, the flesh and blood smeared on every inch of the metal surface...
But here, what Zach felt was disappointment.
Judging from the radiating traces, the impact range of this self-destruction was only two meters at best. The skewed seats still formed in a circle, and the opposite half of the circle were not contaminated with any sticky things. Even the center of the sputtering, a chair completely covered in red and yellow filth, actually kept the shape of the chair intact. The impact of the self-destruction did not cause it to shift or anything. The crooked chairs surrounding the entire space were probably overturned by the witnesses who fled in panic.
"You're late." Fallen Angel Jessica's voice said, "If you had come two minutes earlier, you would have seen something interesting."
Zach glanced down at his feet. Jessica only showed her head on the floor, and she seemed to have no intention of rising up. Zach motioned to the outside of the building next to him speechlessly. He already took a step forward. It was necessary to leave before the police realized that there was an extra person here.
"What an interesting thing." It was quite noisy outdoors at Back Bay Community College, and I felt that the police's security maintenance was of no use at all. Zach asked while already searching along the wall for a place to talk quietly.
"Like death reappearing or something." Jessica seemed not to be ready to come out from the ground.
Zach stopped walking along the wall and looked at the window beside him, which was the classroom where Madison took her writing class. It was now obviously a space for the police and medical staff to comfort witnesses. Zach saw a few familiar people.
Kyle's classmate, Vincent; Ms. West; Cologne's brother-in-law. And, to Zack's eyebrow raised in surprise, Mr. Pixar.
Mr. Pickles was a little embarrassed. It was winter, and his upper body had no clothes. Medical staff were slowly peeling off the solidified filth from his waist down.
"He's the closest." I don't know how Jessica managed it, but she was able to confirm Zach's line of sight with her sight that only reached Zach's ankles. "You should have seen what he looked like before. The whole hood was covered in It was stuck to the head. Apparently the blood and flesh leaked into it through the holes in the eyes. It was like a skinned rabbit. It's as disgusting as you want it to be."
Zach's focus was on an inexplicable place, "Rabbit?"
Jessica didn't bother to explain, "This is the soul expansion that attacks you."
Zach had to refocus his attention, "How do you know?"
"Because, just like you, they have been looped by time." I don't know if it was an illusion, but Jessica got stuck when she said this, and it didn't feel smooth.
How perceptive Zach is, "Are you sure?"
"Sure." Jessica shook her head as if irritated.
Zach looked at the fallen angel's head, speechless at this weird perspective, "Can you be normal? Get up and talk."
"No." Jessica said simply, "A certain being doesn't like to look up to me, so I must stay in a position where 'it' can look straight at it."
It became more and more inexplicable. "What existence?" Zach curled his lips.
A 'meow~' sound appeared out of nowhere
Zach and Jessica both fell silent. No need to explain.
"You said..." Zach made sure that there would be no more 'Meow' to remind them, and then asked, "These people have all experienced time loops."
"Yeah." Jessica didn't seem as sure as Zach. Her head on the ground moved around under Zach's gaze, "But unlike you, buses move. At least you can find out from the changes in geographical location. My own reality has been distorted. These people, uh, they are in that room. And." Jessica felt speechless, "They all wear inexplicable masks, clowns, Republican masks called masks, cats, The rabbit... is a mess. Even if something inexplicable appears, they can't feel it. Well, at least none of them have said anything strange to the police." Jessica snorted, "Except for someone suddenly exploding. ."
"How did they leave the time loop?" Zach pointed out what he cared about.
"Meow." This sound was made by Jessica. She turned her face up to Zach without expression and imitated, and then said, "It also wiped out those expanded soul fragments and ended the reappearance of death." Jessica also I don’t know what’s going on, but I have to emphasize something, “Two minutes ago.”
Zach didn't want to pay attention to Jessica's emphasis. Her state was like a mushroom growing on the ground, which really made Zach unable to take it seriously. "Can it do this? I thought only Mokawi could do it." After all, it was bitter. Zach's time loop was ended by Mokawi. So what Jessica means now is that this 'Meow' has the functions of Walter and Mokawi at the same time
"Obviously, it can."
Zach had to ask, very solemnly, "Fallen Angel." Starting from the title, "Do you know what it is."
"I don't know." Then just as solemnly, "But it scares me."
"Are you afraid that it will inexplicably expel you back to hell like the demon Leon? In a time zone that is not within your sphere of influence?" Unexpectedly, Zach went off topic, "I know that your forces in hell are being suppressed. But I didn't know your situation in hell was so bad." What Zach meant was that the fallen angels used 'fear', and Zach could only think that the fallen angels were afraid that they would be thrown into the sphere of influence of other lords of hell unprepared. After all, we know that the gates of hell in Jessica's hands last only five minutes. This is her entire sphere of influence in hell.
"Uh, no." To be truly convincing, Jessica should now be eye-level with Zach and explain with all the pride of her fallen angel.
but.
"Jessica?" Zach stomped on the ground a few times and the mushrooms on the ground disappeared. The fallen angel was gone.