As a ray of morning light touched Alice's face, she was smiling, "Haha, I believe my brothers can solve this little problem~"
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the phone is ringing. Zach expressed his apology to Alice. Although his brother wanted to chat with his sister for a while, he had no choice now. Zach answered the phone.
"it's me."
"Who?" Zach actually recognized the voice on the phone, but Zach didn't like the other person's tone. We're not good enough yet to use this kind of opening.
"Tsk, Miley Lister! Do you remember the woman who was at your house yesterday morning?"
"Oh. Are you okay?"
"How about you guess where I am now."
"Not interested." Zach was about to hang up the phone, but there was a sound in the background
"Why are you talking nonsense to him!"
Miley replies to the woman in the background, "Because he's a vampire and I know how to talk to vampires, or do you think you have more experience? Huh, I feel the same way. So shut up!"
Zach had to interrupt helplessly, "Is that Kate's voice? Are you together?"
"Hey, are you interested now, Zach?" Miley on the receiver said sarcastically, "I'll give you another chance to guess where we are."
How can you guess something with absolutely no clues? Here comes the clue
A completely mechanical prompt sounded in the receiver, 'Insufficient balance, please insert coins. '
Zach was stunned for a moment, and the person on the other side was also obviously stunned for a moment, and then you could clearly hear the two women starting to look for change irritably over there.
Zach opened his mouth and expressed his guess, "Are you out of town? Is this call long distance?"
A series of coin tosses sounded, and Miley spoke again, "Yes! But you cheated, so there is no reward."
Zach didn't want to argue with Miley about such boring things, but something more important had begun to emerge, "Where are you? Why did you leave Barton?"
"Hehehe, why don't you guess again..."
Zach died. A quick push.
Ten seconds later, the phone came to mind again. Zach picked up the phone without haste and was greeted by the roar from the receiver, "You just wasted more than ten dollars on me!"
"If you don't talk nicely, I will continue to waste your change." Zach informed calmly, "Bite me, human."
We've seen Zach's pettiness more than once. Miley was the first to mock Zach's race. So it must be returned.
"*!" Miley was obviously ready to curse something, but after a small argument, the receiver was changed, "Hey, it's me."
Well, even though Zach didn’t think Kate’s relationship with him was good enough to start things off like this, it was still better than Miley, so he said, “Good morning, Kate.”
The other party was not prepared to reply to the greeting, "We are in xx city, do you know where we are."
Zach knew, "The city at the junction of the central and eastern parts." In any case, vampires are basically a federation established. Not to mention what contribution they have made to this country, at least geography, remember it.
"It's good, you know. James is here." In the background, Miley complained, 'Don't tell him so soon! 'Zach decided to ignore it.
"James is with you?"
"No." Kate denied simply, "James is here, your employee Dell is also here, the military people, mind readers Cozier, and Weiss are all here, in this city."
Zach frowned, "Don't tell you and Miley that you ran out of Barton to chase James..."
"Yes." He affirmed simply, "When Miley came to me, she said that James had been kidnapped by a human, your employee Dell." As if mocking herself, "If it was a foreign race, I wouldn't listen to her. In a word, James deserves it." What? "But he was kidnapped by humans, humans. I'm not ready to be indifferent when my boyfriend is kidnapped by humans."
Zach didn't want to delve into some of the meaning of Kate's words, but he had to say, "Are you crazy? When you were hiding with the black witch in Newton, didn't you know what was happening in other parts of the Federation? The middle? That's The most chaotic place in the Federation, you might die there."
"But I can't hide in Newton anymore, can I?!" Kate actually got angry, "I was called back by my boss to repair the relationship with you, right! And what did you do!? You refused! So what can I do? Staying in the office every day and being scolded by your boss for being incompetent??"
Zach was not prepared to accept this anger honestly, "Oh! So it's my fault? I made you unable to stay in Barton and Newton, so you went to the most dangerous place to die?"
There was silence on the other side of the receiver for a while, "That's it."
Well, we've been watching this story long enough to realize that certain stereotypes are impossible to eliminate. "Whatever you think." Zach gave up.
Kate on the other side of the receiver took a breath and said, "The picture broadcast by Barton TV yesterday was a news picture from a certain city in Central China. After Miley came, I contacted the Central Government and learned that this situation happened in several cities in Central China. ”
"Are you saying that the military controls civilians, and the media and authorities don't know what happened, except that someone died?" Isn't this what was ridiculed in yesterday's talk show? Under the control of the military, civilians have no complaints.
"Yes. So either I stay in Barton and get scolded, or I use this reason to come out and investigate."
Good, even though Kate verbally insists that Zach ruined her life, at least she knows in her heart the real reason why she went out.
Zach also had to praise Kate's ability, "Then you succeeded, you arrived in the city where James is."
"Huh, they're not hard to find at all. Anyone with eyes can see military vehicles passing through the streets." Probably the reporter had an occupational disease, "I don't know what's going on in this country, but we obviously gave The military has too many privileges! They have no intention of 'hiding'!"
Zach began to worry about the content in the newspaper about the mayoral election again, but Kate was obviously not the one to share his worries. Zach collected his thoughts and asked, "Have you met up with Miley and Cozier?"
"No. We tried." Kate's tone was not good, "Those soldiers should learn how to treat women correctly!"
Translated, it means that these two women did not see Kozier and the others at all. There was no need to ask Zach’s subsequent questions, as they obviously didn’t see Dale and James either.
But Zach could guess the purpose of the call, "Do you want me to provide you with a channel to meet with Kozier?"
"You guessed it," Kate replied, "I need to know what's going on!"
"You already know." Note that Zach is not going to let Kate get away with it here, "James was kidnapped by Dale. Cozier and the military are rescuing people."
"I need to know more!"
"More?" Zach smiled, "Oh, that's right." What Kate tried to hide: "If you write this kind of thing, you can't publish it~ Our Director Darcy of Barton can't let you announce Barton's future city. Is it true that the president was kidnapped? So you need to know more. For example, the content of this military operation. Even if Patton doesn't let you publish a report on rescuing James, the authorities in the central city will want to know it. What on earth did the military do in their own city in the past few days?"
Kate stopped talking, she was exposed, what could she say. A reporter is a reporter. Putting aside such trivial matters as a boyfriend who cannot provide him with a sense of security, news value is the reporter's profession, so don't report fantasy.
The caller changed again. Miley's cold voice sounded, "I just told you that the two of us haven't slept for more than 24 hours. We are very tired and impatient. Let's put it this way, Zach, you can either cooperate with us and let us intervene with Cozy Er and the military's actions, or the two of us think of our own methods. And believe me, you won't like the methods we come up with."
"If you want to threaten me." Zach deliberately used a sleepy tone, which could be regarded as deliberately irritating the other party. "Please be specific."
Then, the atmosphere of the phone call took a turn for the worse...
"For example, I will kill Kate now, then go back to Barton, wait for James to come back, and cry to him that Kate died in the middle because Zach didn't help."
Zach took half a minute to respond to what Miley said, "No, you can't do this."
"Impossible? Are you familiar with me? Do you know me well? I am an actor, and you don't know me at all."
Zach found himself unable to argue. It was bad, so bad that all Zach could say when he spoke again was, "I don't have Kozier's contact information unless they contact me." Zach gave in.
"Then I guess that's your problem, vampire."
Zach frowned, "Give me an hour, I should be able to contact the west, find General Lance, and get to the military contact in the central part..."
"I don't care what you're going to do." Miley, "I care about getting it done. And then, you have a quarter of an hour, vampire."
It’s time to reminisce about a time when technology didn’t control life. Do you know that in ancient times, if two people were talking to each other and had a disagreement, they could knock each other down and bite them to death? Let the other person's blood be sprinkled on the place where he was so arrogant just now.
But ancient times are ancient times, a beautiful era that will never return. At this time, Zach could only hold the receiver firmly and glance at the time, "At least half an hour."
"Ten minutes. Tick tock, tick tock..."
Zach did not continue to remember the beautiful ancient times in his mind. His hand was already on the hang up, ready to cut off the call here and call the west as quickly as possible.
The moment Zach was about to cut off the call, a piercing siren whistled in the background of the receiver. Zach paused with his hanging finger pressed, "What happened?"
It took a while for the receiver to reply, "Police car, heading..." Then Miley became impatient and said, "Nine minutes, vampire." This woman has absolutely no accurate concept of time.
But Zach's fingers were already removed from the hang-up, "Gunshots, I heard gunshots."
"Don't interrupt, Zach." The title changed, and Miley's voice could be heard to be tense for a moment, "Eight minutes." After all, this woman's concept of time is definitely wrong.
"No, I'm serious. I heard gunshots, continuously." Zach said without a tone. "Unfortunately, I wasn't there. I can't tell you the specific location."
Miley seems to be about to say something else, background sound
"Miley! Get down!" Kate's voice said, and then, "Run!! Get out of this place!" Among the chaos, screams and explosions, Zach could still distinguish the voice he recognized.
Zach, hey, Zach held the receiver, "Hey, is anyone there? Hello, hello, hello..." Zach put down the receiver. He looked at the time, not to see how much time was left as agreed between himself and Miley, but to start recording how much time would pass from now until the phone would ring again.
While this process was going on, Alice came up again to say goodbye. Although there were a lot of activities at night, the girl's schedule during the day was also fixed, and she had to go to the nursery. This farewell is considered a benefit after the good relationship between brother and sister. Zach accepted it with a smile and said, "Be happy and stay safe~"
Emilia also came, complained to Zach as usual, and then went to the living area to continue treating Evan.
Even Betchi Quinn came once, saying that the first batch of wizard souls sent by the Raging Waves family had arrived, and asked Zach if he wanted to go and take a look. Of course, Zach said no.
It feels like life goes on in Patton except for Zach waiting for a pending phone call.
the phone is ringing.
Zach picked up, and the other side of the receiver spoke first, "We succeeded~" It was Ozzie Kozier with a smile, "James is safe~"
Just in response to the other person's smile, Zach also smiled, "Great~ I hope you don't run into any trouble~"
"Trouble? Haha, no, it went very well~ Do you want to talk to James? He is right here..." Zach could hear the movement of the microphone, but there was no other sound except breathing. The microphone returned to Oz, "He seems to be a little confused, haha, but it's completely understandable~" Oz's mood seemed to be very high, "Do you want to talk to our 'hero'?"
"'hero'?"
"Ah, Dale's brother, we can't save James without him~"
"Well, forget it." Zach refused, "Where's Dale... forget it, I don't care." Zach asked someone else, "Where's Wes? I want to talk to Wes." Ask Wes to do it Well? Talk about James's woman problems.
"Of course, wait a minute." Oz's voice calling Wes came from the receiver, and then, "He... is a bit busy, but there's nothing for you to worry about~" It was Oz again, still in high spirits, "I'm happy to continue talking to you. You chat~ Haha, but I think I have to deal with it..." He didn't explain clearly, "Haha, it's nothing for you to worry about~"
"Of course, you do what you have to do." Zach was so considerate.
"I will start arranging James' return. You should be able to see him tomorrow~ I know you must have some questions. You can ask him in Grande~"
"I will."
"Then, haha, goodbye~this time it's true." I don't want to explain this anymore.
"kindness."
Zach put down the phone and continued to wait for the call.
Wait and wait, wait and wait. coming.
"Consider yourself lucky!"
Zach himself couldn't believe how relieved he was when he heard Miley's voice again, "I'm glad you're okay."
"Hmph! Stop pretending! Let me guess, you have been notified that James has been rescued?"
"Yes. Did you see it?"
"We saw it! James was dragged by several soldiers..." The receiver was taken away and replaced by Kate, "Zach! People are dead! Civilians are dead!! Here is the reappearance of the news picture! The military begins Seal the scene, control civilians and the media... "
The receiver was snatched back by Miley, "We still can't get close to that side! Tsk, we're going back to Barton now! This whole trip is a waste! You pay for the transportation expenses!" and hung up.
Whatever.
Zach put down the phone and never got up since he sat down early in the morning. He was tired from sitting. Our vampire was watching the clearing sunshine by the window and stretching. It's time to start your day. Enjoy it, after all, James is back tomorrow...