The sun is just right and Grande is a little noisy. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
On the one hand, there is a problem in the living area. After the snow stopped yesterday, a group of people collapsed the sewer while clearing the snow. Don't ask me how, this is what you get when you make a bunch of ex-convicts do housework. Remember Austin, the contractor who built the Grande Living Area. Unfortunately, I can't do the big work at the southern port, so I can only come to Grande for after-sales service.
On the other hand, there were a lot of police in Grandri. James is back.
After Zach politely asked Darcy, Coulson, and Chapman to leave for the third time, he finally succeeded. But he still promised Darcy that he would report the story of James' rescue to the Sabbat; he also promised Coulson that he would personally go to the Southern District Police Station to explain to Chief Cologne when he has time. As for what to explain, I'll talk about it when I have the chance. ; In the end, Chapman, Zach allowed Chapman to meet James, allowing Chapman to express his concern for his colleagues, and left with satisfaction.
After closing the door, Zach quietly faced James, no, and Wes.
Wes had forgotten that he came to Grande to apologize and make amends to Zach. Before Zach could make eye contact with James, he pulled Zach aside and lowered his voice, “There’s something wrong with him! I'm really worried about his mental condition! He won't have any sequelae!" Wes seemed a little panicked, "I saw Dr. Browning (Emilia) here (living area), let her come and take a look Bar!"
Zach carefully observed Wes and knew that this worry was not a lie, "Don't worry, I can..." He walked towards James, first lifted James' chin, and tasted the crooked bridge of his nose, "Fix it." As he said that, he started to take action. The red from the thimble pricked the wound on the bridge of James' nose.
"I'm not worried about his body." Wes could only follow Zach and say this in front of James, "I'm worried about his head! Your blood can't repair the head!"
Zach glanced at James' normal nose with satisfaction, lifted James' chin again, casually pulled at his collar, and watched the bruises on his neck disappear. Refuting to Wes, "Blood can't fix it, I can." A smiling face faced James, "Are you right, detective~"
Under normal circumstances, if James heard this metaphor that he was being trained by Zach, he would explode and yell a few words to cheer him up.
But this time, James just looked at Zach and moved away Zach's hand that lifted his chin. At the same time, eyes began to wander past Zach and Wes' focused wanderings.
"Look! Look!" Wes was a little excited. "Look at him! Something's wrong with him!"
Zach also frowned, followed James' wandering gaze, clicked his tongue, raised his hand and waved to where his gaze fell, and explained to Wes in a consoling way, "Ryan is just joining in the fun." .James can see Ryan because I tricked him into reciting the soul-inducing spell that fixed Ryan's Earthbinder..."
Verifying what Zach explained, after Zach waved someone away, James' eyes stopped moving. He lost focus for a while and then returned to Zach. He simply looked at it without any special emotions.
"But don't worry, we are all used to treating Ryan like nothing. James just left for a while and got used to it again." Since James looked at him, Zach also looked at James, "Are you right, Detective Lance~" The title was a little more complete.
James didn't respond.
Zach just waited for a while and frowned again, "Wes, why don't you ask Amelia if she has time to come over and take a look?"
"Let's go!" Wes rushed out of the office.
Zach pulled up a chair and sat down face to face with James. His tone lost the previous frivolity and he was very serious, "There is no one here anymore, you can talk now."
James really spoke, but the content was something Zach didn't care about, "Dale's brother came to Barton with us."
"Well, what does he want."
"Meet you."
"Boring." Zach directly defined the perseverance passed down from generation to generation. The privilege of the immortal.
"I just discovered that you are really... interesting." James looked at Zach and said something incomprehensible.
Zach didn't think James could say anything that would 'surprise' him, so he raised his eyebrows, crossed his arms, and said with a smile, "Oh, tell me~"
"How many times have you healed me?"
"Too many to count~" Zach chuckled, "Are you going to say something disgusting? Haha, don't, I'll be shy..."
Zach's performance was not even finished, "It's a boring move." James calmly interrupted Zach's smile, "I will never thank you, so no matter how many times you heal me, it's still a boring move. .”
The corners of Zach's mouth slowly returned to their original positions. What a surprise.
Soon, Zach's smile returned, and he raised his hand to tap James' newly healed nose, "Okay~ I remember~ I won't do boring things next time..."
He was interrupted again, "I don't need you either. I can ask Hamilton for blood, or worst of all, I can buy it with money. I'm very rich, you know."
This time, after Zach's smile was interrupted, he could not recover. Looking into James' eyes with a slight frown, "We'd better wait for Amelia to come over."
James has changed. It's still the Sabbat's values in the worst direction, isn't it
Wait a minute, it's only a few sentences, don't jump to conclusions so early.
James' eyes were still on Zach's face, "You're scared."
"Me? Afraid? What are you afraid of?" Zach wanted to laugh again, but seemed to be unable to do so.
"You're afraid that you can no longer guess what I'm thinking." James looked at Zach, "I used to be a fly, you put a broken egg there, and I flew over, simple and innocent. Now, I am a woodpecker, flying to the towering trees by myself, pecking, clicking, clicking."
Zach opened his mouth. Who is the person sitting in front of me? The James we know so well can tell such a 'vivid' metaphor
So, Zach looked at James again and asked, "Who are you?"
answer
"Dale Walker."
Zach was stunned for a moment, then raised his hand to the thimble, "Sam, your time is up."
The dark red witchcraft spell just lit up from Zach's fingers.
"Wait a minute." Zach pressed the hand with the thimble and looked at James again, oh no, Dale Walker, "Why are you in James' body? Explain, or die again."
"You don't have to do it." Dale Walker controlled James' facial muscles to make a painful expression, accompanied by a smile. This was really not the first expression Zach expected James to show to him, but the reality is like this, look. Lai could only accept it, "The blood you used to treat James' body has already made me uncomfortable. I can feel that my second death is coming soon."
Zach crossed his arms again and leaned back on the chair, "Then you need to hurry."
"Yes. To answer your question first." Dale Walker began to touch James' body in a strange way, "He asked for it himself, just when he realized that I was bound to the book "The Destiny of God's Punishment" "Hidden", he let me possess him."
""Cain of God's Punishment"." Zach said expressionlessly, "The book you took from your brother."
"Yes. The mind reader knew I was bound to that book, and he asked Wes to burn it, but my stupid brother insisted on keeping the book. Haha. Stupid."
Zach was not prepared to participate in an older brother's evaluation of his younger brother, "What, are you disappointed, in yourself or in your brother?" He didn't understand what Zach meant, it was okay, Zach immediately explained, "Finally, in this The thing that has your sense of existence in the world is not your diary, but this old book." Do you understand? This is a pun. On the one hand, it mocks Dell's brother for insisting on leaving behind his brother's diary. On the other hand, Dell's own restraint It’s not my own diary! Zach can be quite vicious sometimes.
Dale didn't reply immediately and continued to touch his body in weird ways.
Zach was not going to watch an Earthbender quietly here, using James' body to complete what might be his last self-touching in this world, so "Now is not the time for you to remain silent and protect your image, Dale Walker, we all I know you talk a lot." Zach even used an encouraging tone, "Come on, this is your last chance. Cherish it."
"Hehehe."
I have to admit the fact that if James himself could occasionally let out such a hearty laugh, he would probably be more likeable.
After laughing, Dale put his hand on the body's chest, "It feels so strange to have a body and a beating heart."
If this is how Dale Walker 'cherishes' this last chance, there's nothing wrong with it.
Zach didn't ask for anything more, stood up, put his chair back, and sat behind the desk. Wait until the real James comes back. Wes seems to have encountered some difficulties in the living area. While arguing with Amelia, he may not be able to get through it for a while.
"You don't seem surprised at all that James asked me to possess him." Dale took the initiative to speak.
"What's so surprising? He's James." Zach shrugged. Yeah, that's James, has he done anything that's truly surprising
"That's right, he is James." Dale nodded, "You know I should have died long ago, in your villa (Vega Villa in 200)."
"Really?" Zach wasn't very interested.
"I'm sorry for making such a mess in your villa. Did you see the blood on the stairs?"
Zach just tilted his head.
"I can't beat James..."
After all, some interesting information appeared in this last opportunity.
"He is young, strong, from a military family, and was born in the regular military. Haha, how could I, a free contract killer, beat such a guy?" Is this self-deprecation? Yes.
If Zach were to lead the conversation, what Zach wanted to know more was the process of rescuing James, not the process of James' kidnapping so long ago. But, since this is Dell's last chance, let him take the lead.
Zach glanced at Dale, "James won, but he was still kidnapped by you."
"Yeah, if he hadn't stupidly thought I was dying and used your blood to heal me, I wouldn't have been able to kidnap him."
Zach didn't know what his emotions were, but such a picture had already appeared in his mind. After a fierce battle that almost destroyed the interior decoration of the villa, James used his last strength to drink vampire blood into Dale, and then was Dell, who was resurrected with full health, fought back and kidnapped...
Deserve it? Is it the right emotion
Zach waved his hand, not ready to share his evaluation.
"Then, at first I was just going to leave the west and let James go once I got into the middle."
Now Zach was a little interested, "Yeah, we think so too." Remember the metaphor James' biological father said, James is just a talisman on the battlefield, and it is useless if it leaves the battlefield. "You couldn't adapt to the environment in the West and did this..." Pointing to Dale (James), "It's something. Why didn't you let him go after leaving the West?"
"Hahaha, in fact, it's not the west that I'm not used to, it's this world~" Dale looked at Zach, "When we went to the west, we took a boat and crossed the middle. As you know, I was basically seasick. During the whole process, I didn’t quite understand what we experienced on the ship. That young boy Jack? Is he your friend? "
Dell is asking sincerely? Is the last part of your life used to reflect on a period of seasickness
Whatever, his life. Zach answered, "No, passerby. If you're really curious, we encountered a Kraken."
"Oh, siren. I guess, not like the engineer earthbenders we met on the train and on the road trip, or the goblins who just want to play. They are dangerous aliens, haha, I vaguely remember you Rebuked me for treating your blood as the most precious thing (when tempted by the Kraken, Dale was about to throw the blood that Zach gave him into the sea but was stopped).”
"Yes." Zach nodded, "The siren is a dangerous alien race."
"Yes." Dale seemed to be sure of something, "So the central part is a worse place than the west. It is dangerous on land, and even in the sea."
Zach narrowed his eyes and looked at Dale, "Were you attacked by aliens in the middle of the country? No, the phantom I hired didn't mention this."
"Oh!" Dell seemed to be suddenly puzzled, "Fantasy Man! You sent him to find me and James!" Still looking cheerful, "Haha, I've never seen him before, haha, I won’t have the chance to see you after death.” Then he winked at Zach and asked, “Does Phantom Man have the ability to fulfill people’s wishes?”
"**, it's not a wish." Zach was not going to elaborate on the difference between the two here, but instead nodded, "The ability of the phantom allowed you and James to avoid the danger in the middle. What do you want to say? "
"Yes, haha. To avoid is to avoid. After all, my desire should be said to be very simple. I don't want to encounter foreigners, and it is strong enough. I should thank that phantom man for keeping me safe all the way." This sentence Maybe it was just a joke, right now, "You know when you're on the run, there are some things you have to pay attention to, such as local news, police action directions, or even gossip from strangers."
Zach could understand Dale's thoughts. "So, you who already know about the existence of the alien race, although you benefited from the protection of the phantom people and were not 'disturbed' by the alien race, you knew that when you were running away, you saw , what kind of things I heard were caused by alien races."
There is a very appropriate metaphor here, which may offend some people. Doctors regard everyone as a patient. And in Dell's case, it's true, there are sick people everywhere.
"The central part is really chaotic."
Zach didn't need Dale to tell him what he already knew. Do you remember the news that Dale watched at his brother's house
"So you escaped from an environment that you couldn't adapt to, the west, to a more dangerous place, the middle." Zach shrugged, "After all, the west at least has a system that humans and aliens maintain. The middle. But there is no such thing. And you, think of your brother." This is where the topic ends, isn't it
"Yes, haha, I think of my brother." Dale paused for a while, "You know, after meeting my brother, I am planning to go all the way east and come back here."
return…
Zach was... kind of, feeling sorry for Dale, "Oh, yeah." It was appropriate to feel sad.
"Then the military appeared, and your mind-reader appeared." Dale's last words in this world, "I am a fish. All my life, I have adapted to a water where I cannot survive. This is my despair..."
Zach watched James' eyes lose their sparkle, then regain it. James, "He disappeared."
Zach was quiet for a while, "Go on."