In the early morning, Zach was reading today's newspaper in his office. Vertex 23S. Updated fastest Alice came out of the room rubbing her eyes. Before going downstairs, she said "Good morning~" with a beautiful smile belonging to a girl.
Zach turned his head and smiled the same way, "Good morning~"
The girl went downstairs for breakfast, and Zach continued to read the newspaper. Today had a very good start.
Just when we all thought the relationship between the Grande siblings would never be the same again, it became wonderful again~
Want to ask what happened? Well, it happened last night. Let's pick up where we left off last night.
The high school group, guided by Death Picture, had already poured into the bedroom with purpose while Zach was still looking at the decoration of a stranger's apartment. By the way, the decoration is nice, but it seems to be poorly maintained, with dust and cat hair everywhere.
"There is no breathing or heartbeat. He is dead." Kyle checked the stranger lying on the bed, his face was not good, "But he has not changed... cold... It seems that it is just the body that has stopped..."
"Under the pillow." Alice and Maya stood at the end of the bed, asking Laura to get what they wanted to get, "the blue vial."
"Are you sure he's dead?" Kepler, playing with the cat, "Poor cat, your master is dead~ But don't worry~ It's only been three hours~"
"Meow~"
"He's dead." Zach finally entered the bedroom after looking at other people's interior decorations. Believe me, there is a reason for observing other people's home environments. Because the bed was surrounded by a bunch of high school students, Zach couldn't get close. "I could see his Earthbender lying there."
Alice looked back at Zach and said, "Look, this is what Maya said is like when a vampire transforms into a human being. The position of this person's Earthbinder and the body coincide, so it appears with the Earthbinder but has not yet left death. It's the same as before, the only chance for a vampire to be born." Alice pursed her lips and looked back at the person on the bed, "If we don't distinguish carefully, we may miss that there is a corpse and an earthbinder lying here..."
Sissi took over the words, "Or, don't think complicatedly!" Baiyan, a saint, disliked Laura's slow movements, so he directly pushed the head of the person lying on the bed and slapped the pillow, "This guy was sleeping Damn it, this is how his earth-bound spirit reappears dead and lies there!" Sissi's head moved and dragged out an afterimage, tilting it to one side.
The corners of Sissi's eyes twitched, and she watched the afterimage dragging back to the tilted position of the head. She clicked her tongue and it was obvious that Sissi was wrong: if the death reappeared as a result of repeated sleep, the head of the earthbinder would not follow the body. move. Well, unless you're on a high-speed train, which is not the case here.
Sissi fiddled with the pile of bottles and cans exposed under the pillow for a while, then picked up the blue vial with an impatient expression, "That's it. Now, we have to figure out what this is..." Her eyes were on Looking around the bedroom, "Kepler, bring the cat over here." Sissi had already opened the cap of the medicine bottle and pinched out a pill that looked no different from a vitamin.
"What are you doing! No!" Kepler hugged the cat and pushed his boyfriend forward, "Protect me!"
Well.
Zach was not in the mood to make trouble with these high school students. Just as Laura stepped back to give up her position, she walked towards the bed and looked at the 'body' lying crookedly on the bed and the sizing of medicines next to his head, "This is a family with a broken family." Man." He said something incomprehensible.
"Well, who cares..." Maya rolled her eyes halfway.
"There are photos of his original family in the living room." Zach ignored Maya and glanced at Alice, "There is also a divorce agreement sent a week ago and expired doctor's prescriptions and sleeping pills on the coffee table." The results of the observation just now . And the reason for saying this is, "This is why he bought these drugs."
Alice was listening carefully to Zach's words, so she understood what Zach meant and opened her mouth, "This man can't sleep."
Zach nodded, "He needs help. And today, Grande took over his doctor." Zach curled his lips, "On the expired prescription, the signature is Amelia."
Maya and Alice rolled their eyes at the same time. This little coincidence is not information that the two girls need to know.
"He couldn't get help through normal channels, so he went..." Zach couldn't help but twitched his lips, "went to the place Louise told you to buy illegal drugs."
Taking a look at Sissi, she was trying to break through Jimmy and put the pill in her hand into the cat's mouth in Kepler's arms. Leave it alone.
"So?" Maya kept this attitude and had nothing to say, "This medicine has a sleeping effect?" Maya glanced at the person on the bed, "We can already see it! You don't need to reason!"
Zach continued to ignore Maya and said to Alice, "Did you see how this transaction happened?"
"Not entirely, I see." Alice pushed Maya, "We first saw the strange death scene of this person, and then sorted out the route of the death, and then we 'saw' the transaction process." Alice tilted her head After thinking for a while, "It's just like the street drug trade, it happens very quickly."
Zach frowned, "Where did you see the street drug trade??"
"In the movie!" Alice's reaction was also quick.
Zach waved his hand, "If this drug is sold as a sleeping pill, and its effect is like this..." Pointing to the man on the bed, "Zhuo Qun. It will circulate very, fast, and widely." Looking back at Alice , "After all, except for aliens, humans can't see the difference."
Alice frowned as if thinking, Maya was the one who couldn't wait to express her opinion, and glanced at Sissi who was still entangled with Kepler, "Well, don't say Sissi's plan is the right one, we should follow the seller People of this thing." Looking at Alice, "If it was just you and me, we could take care of each other."
Zach half-knelt on the bed and began to seriously signal Kyle to step aside to carefully examine the dead man. At the same time, "If you follow the person who sells this thing, what kind of death do you see?"
Alice and Maya looked at each other, and Alice said, "Man-made murder. First it was Caesar, who died in his bedroom, probably in the early morning. Then there was Kepler, tomorrow morning, sneaking behind Parker Elementary School with Jimmy On a date. Lola and Caesar died on the way to the hospital to see Mrs. Barton. Maya, Sissy, and I lived."
Zach could feel that the atmosphere in the bedroom had become colder, and he did not speak. Alice did not finish her sentence, "We thought we were discovered when we were following that person, and he was getting rid of us one by one." Alice frowned. Mei, "We first thought of many ways to see if we could avoid being discovered, but the result of death was the same."
Uh, didn't we see how these high school gangs stalked the guys on the bed? What did we expect!
"Then we thought of many ways to stay together. But..." Alice hesitated, as if she didn't want to say it. So Maya answered impatiently, "But there is almost no one at Caesar's house all the time. If we weren't together, he would be alone! And Kepler and Jimmy just can't stand that disgusting 'love'!" Finally, he was speechless. He looked at Laura and Kyle, "And no matter what we plan, we can't stop Mrs. Barton from letting Laura and Caesar go to the hospital to see her, and prohibit us 'inhumans' from traveling with her!"
Zach's eyes moved from Caesar, who looked indifferent, to Kepler and Jimmy, who were protecting the cat together, to Kyle and Laura. sigh. There is nothing to say about this combination.
Zach could only quickly stick to the body of the person on the bed and let out a topic to change the atmosphere. "Maya, you are right." Looking at Maya, "This is the state that vampires need to transform into humans. The only difference is that normal, this state Only for a moment, at the moment when the human body loses and completes death, 'living' stops, and healing cannot restore the 'life' that has begun to decay. The blood of the vampire begins to completely transform the body, turning the person into a new life to continue the 'life' '. And this guy, it wasn't just a moment, it was three hours."
"Look! Let me tell you!" Maya was proud.
Let her be proud, the atmosphere has relaxed a bit because of her presence.
"What happened to Benjamin today." Zach was thinking, "It's the same." After hearing what Zach said, "It's just that Benjamin's soul has died long ago. There is no Earthbinder, only the wolf body that silently transforms and appears." Looking at the person on the bed, "With this person as a supplement, I can see more clearly..."
"What are you doing!" Sissi was still struggling with Kepler, but suddenly, the pills in her hand disappeared. Caesar took the time to grab it.
Zach also stopped talking and stared at Caesar's movements.
Caesar looked indifferent, "Isn't it just an extremely effective sleeping pill? Haha, even Benjamin can put it in it~ I want to try it~" He opened his mouth and put it in with the hand holding the pill...
Without any alien in this room taking action, Kyle punched Caesar on the waist. He caught the pill that fell from Caesar's hand, pouted, and handed it to Zach. The oldest member of the group said the most rational thing, "Sissy! Put the pill bottle back! We have achieved what we came for! We know what this thing can do! Zach can keep a pill to figure out the rest Yes! We can withdraw!"
Zach pinched the pill and looked at Caesar, who was leaning on the bed with his belly in his arms. He just looked at it for a while without saying anything. Then he turned to Alice, "Kyle is right, I need to take this thing to confirm with Benjamin before making plans. You should go home, this matter is already in the 'dangerous' category." I don't want to say it, but I also This can only be said, "Kepler can ask Eve to investigate the source of this drug. After all, it is the domain of your Smith family." Without giving this high school group a clue that they can continue to follow up safely, Zach does not feel that this group People let go easily.
A group of teenagers looked at each other. Kepler looked reluctant, "Okay, okay! I'll just look for Eve!"
accepted.
The next step is to restore the things here. Fortunately, no one messed with anything. The pillow was put back in place, and the earthbinder pulled the residual image back to the correct position with the body...
Alice pulled Zach out of the door, "Thank you."
"You're welcome." He started politely, "I'm the one who should thank you." He smiled forcefully, "Benjamin really scared me today, and you know my current relationship with Benjamin. Haha, he is unhappy that he rarely gets together with me once. I saw the embarrassment he was left in, and I was unhappy that he didn't bother to ask me for help." Zach laughed and shook his head, anyway, Alice understood, "Now at least I know what happened to Benjamin."
Alice was quiet for a while, then gave Zach the girliest smile, "I know my brothers will take good care of each other~ just like you took good care of your sister today~ me~"
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Now turning the time back to this morning, we know how this wonderful brother-sister relationship emerged.
Zach continued to read the newspaper. Today's news was very interesting. The front page was titled "Do you need to vote?" Do we need democracy if there is no competitive election? 》
Zach knew it! The talk show I saw yesterday morning, the way the two hosts talked was not good! I still remember that when Aisela was still running for election, in terms of campaign advertisements, here at the TV station, Aisela had always suppressed Anthony.
It's not that Zach thinks too much, it's the fact that Aisela did too many things after announcing her withdrawal from the campaign. Zach really doubts whether Aisela is planning to do something big at the end of the campaign! And this newspaper is already echoing the argument on TV yesterday.
In addition to this front page, there are also some other noteworthy articles. There is an article about Grande. But something wonderful is that the author is not Kate who has already answered Barton, but a guy Zach doesn't know. The article did not mention the owner of Grande, but rather described the success of the federal west in imitating Patton's funeral industry. It was Grande who provided a lot of experience and information to the west. That's all.
Zach couldn't see Barton's media plans for Grande for the time being, so he could only leave it there for now. There is also an article about Parker Elementary School Nursery. Of course, the third generation of the West District were praised one by one. One thing worth noting is that this article mentioned people in the nursery project other than the three generations of the West End, such as Alice and Maya. Although it was only vaguely stated as 'friends of the Barton brothers and sisters', Zach didn't know that they would be. What impact does it have.
In addition, reports on the immigrant population occupy the majority of the social pages of newspapers. This foreign population included republican immigrants, Indians from the central part of the country, and people from cities around Patton. It depicts a scene of Barton's prosperity.
Out of some possibly abnormal psychology, Zach felt, well, strange when he saw this prosperous atmosphere.
"You went to see Benjamin yesterday, how was Benjamin?" It was Alice, standing at the door of the office with a breakfast tray, "I miss him." It's just the younger sister expressing her longing for another brother, how nice~
Zach put down the newspaper with an embarrassed smile on his face, "He kicked me out."
"Why?" Alice opened her eyes wide.
"Because..." The embarrassment turned into a bitter smile, "If I had known that I would go find him so quickly, I would have fulfilled the Winchester brothers' commission well."