At dinner time, James woke up. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
Zach, who didn't know whether to say good morning or good night, said to James, "Miley called again and asked when you will be home."
"Tsk, what does she want?"
"The heating in your house stopped, and she asked you when you were going to pay the bill." Zach didn't lie.
"Uh, I'll go tomorrow." James started to wash up.
"You don't have to answer me, just remember to go tomorrow~"
"Is there breakfast...dinner?"
"Yes, Alice and Maya are eating in the restaurant. Also, John is here too."
"John? Does he have any news about Kate?" James washed up faster.
"I don't know, I didn't ask, he came back with Alice." This is the truth, "I didn't bother." It must be that after the Yinghuo family went to see Alice at noon, this real brother came to Alice Silk is around.
James was silent, quickly solved the hygiene problem, and rushed downstairs.
Zach had nothing to do, so he told James what he needed to know and then went to the recreation room to watch TV with Louise. Today’s bilingual teaching program teaches something new
The host looked serious, "Beep is an insulting word, don't use it! In public or in private!"
Louise looked at the program with a confused look, "What? Why aren't there even subtitles? Who knows which words can't be used!"
"I think the word that was silenced was 'white-skinned ghost'." Zach tilted his head and speculated.
"Uh, why? How did you know?"
"When the Federation was first established, there were envoys who visited various countries. The republican royal family of that era privately called the envoys of the Federation this way." (Extra)
"Is this insulting?"
"Well, right? After all, the people who went there were all vampires, including those from the Secret and Sabbat. They had done some inhumane things to the royal family of the Republic at that time."
"Oh." Louise pretended to understand, "It's so unfair. Does our Federation have any insulting name for the Republic?"
"Of course~" Zach smiled, "beep"
Louise hit Zach, "I hate it~"
Zach pushed back.
Perfect. This kind of topic can make two vampires start flirting.
Fortunately, this unpleasant behavior did not last long and was stopped by James, "Zach! Office!"
Zach went to the office. The host and guest seats were all occupied. Zach casually leaned against the desk, looking at John who had snatched his seat, and then at James who was eating hurriedly with a dinner plate. He said nothing and waited for them to speak.
John took out two photos and pushed them towards James, "Taken in xx (Central City)."
Zach tilted his head and glanced at it. It was a blurry photo of a tightly covered woman walking into a funeral home. It seemed to be a picture captured from some surveillance camera.
"It's Kate!" James shouted vaguely with food still in his mouth.
Zach raised his eyebrows, "How did you tell? The only appearance in the photo is the eyes. I can't even tell who this person is."
James glanced at Zach, "I bought her a hat, a scarf, and a coat!" He was unhappy with Zach's questioning, "So I know! This is Kate!"
Zach curled his lips, "When did you buy Kate the winter coat?"
James didn't answer.
Forget it, no more questioning. Zach looked at the time stamp on the photo, "It was from two days ago." Zach looked at John, not that the information was out of date, but the complete opposite, "The Wizard family acted really quickly."
"It's just luck." John also glanced at Zach, "We happen to be monitoring some funeral homes in the middle of the country."
This topic interested Zach, "Why?" Monitor funeral homes in the middle of the country
"Because of Grande, is that enough of a reason?" This was not an answer, but John stopped looking at Zach and looked at James, "Do you know the reason why Kate went to the funeral home?"
"Miley said Kate came to find me. I, I don't understand that she went..." James' face wrinkled, "She thought I was dead??"
"Ha." Zach laughed, not intentionally, but just couldn't hold it back, because there were too many things to laugh about in James' words. First of all, Miley said? Hahaha. Kate will think James is dead. Hahaha.
James glared at Zach, "laugh*!"
"James." Zach suppressed his laughter, "Although your return to Barton won't make the news, if anyone goes to the police station and inquires, they will know that Barton's city hero, Detective Lance, has returned. Kate is a reporter , can you respect your girlfriend’s professionalism a little bit.”
James twisted his face and took a few bites of food.
Zach knocked on the table, deliberately letting John look at him, "The funeral industry in the central part of the country has not implemented the privatization policy."
John looked at Zach reluctantly, "Yes."
"So in theory, the entry and exit information of the funeral home, the remains, and the funeral information are all public resources and can be consulted at will."
"yes."
Zach knocked on the table again, this time to remind James to look at him, "Have you asked your father's military subordinates how they dealt with the lives that were ended by Dell?"
James looked at Zach, but his expression was very bad, and it felt like his cheeks were twitching like he had bitten his tongue.
James can answer it. Remember, he asked Wes the same question, and Wes's answer was, "Those collateral damage? Drag it somewhere and burn it! Who cares!"
Now we know someone cares, reporter Kate.
Because James was too busy twitching his cheeks to speak. So it was John who answered, "Do you think Kate is investigating the bodies that were disposed of by the military?"
Zach shrugged. He still remembered the day James was rescued. During the phone call he patiently waited for, Kate shouted excitedly into the receiver, 'People, people are dead! '. But of course, the receiver at that time was quickly mastered by Miley, foretelling the news that they were going back to Barton. But Miley is the only one back, right
James spoke, "Barton TV station broadcast some news footage from the Central Government! The footage of my father's men controlling the crowd! Miley said it! It was in those images that Kate discovered Wes and decided to go to the Central Government to find me!"
Forgive Zach, Zach wanted to laugh again. But I held back this time.
James had already put away the dinner plate in his hand, holding the blurry photo and looking at it with eagerness, "Wes told me that under the control of the military and Oz, the local authorities had no idea what the military's actions were! You guys Do you know how...suspicious it looks to cover up an incident in front of the local authorities?!"
This is not a question.
James suddenly grabbed John nervously, "Where is Kate now?!"
We have already described John's physical fitness. This young wizard who ran away from home and traveled around the Federation to collect Papa's midnight information was not as weak as James. So he got rid of James' pull quite easily, "I said, these two photos are the result of our luck!"
James changed his mind and caught Zach, "Kate is in danger!!"
Zach was even more relaxed and took off James' paw. "She is also a very smart woman." Zach did not hesitate to praise other people's girlfriends. "She also knows about foreign races and the environment in the central region. I don't think so." She's putting herself in danger and you should relax..."
Before he could finish his words, "I didn't say her danger was from a foreign race!!" James' eyes were spitting fire, because he knew Zach too well, and he knew that Zach said this deliberately to anger him. Because "It's human! It's the military! Kate can't continue to investigate what my father's people are covering up in the middle!! I know the military, I know my father!! I can't let Kate..."
Zach looked at James, "It's no use shouting at me, James~"
Zach's words and tone should have caused something in James' head to explode, otherwise it would be impossible to explain the fist he swung at Zach.
James had already learned the lesson about the consequences of beating Zach during the last breakup, right
reappeared. Zach stood still and didn't move, but James bounced back on the chair and flew out. He rolled around awkwardly, then lay motionless on the ground.
The office was quiet for a while, and then John slowly stood up after reacting, leaned forward, looked at James behind the desk, then at Zach, and sat back with a frown. Not ready to speak.
Zach shook his head, not feeling like he was being pushy or too hasty. If James himself can't go one step further...
Don’t you understand the psychological process at this time? Let’s review it.
Let’s start with the topic of victims. We know that when James was kidnapped by Dell, he firmly believed that Dell was the victim, and the persecutors were the aliens who were the source of all evil in James' heart at the time.
And then James witnesses Dale's transformation from victim to persecutor, right. Oz's psychological tricks put Dell on a narrower and narrower path.
Let us use a piece of glass with cracks to describe James' state at this time. Victims can become persecutors.
Then back to Barton. Two things.
One is the living area last night, Evan. James believed that it was a dilemma deliberately created by Zach, allowing him to choose between justice and injustice. And we know that James is overthinking this. In fact, only one James tolerated a growing sin before his own eyes like Dell did. Perhaps we should be more accurate: James tolerated a growing sin before his own eyes. The criminal behavior nurtured in the living area was erased from the surface because of James's personal narrow kindness to the victims, and he no longer remembered his own experience. On the contrary, another persecutor was raised in Enron.
Saving the victims, it turns out, cannot bring justice to the persecutors. Isn't this the truth? The cracks in the glass are increasing.
two. The concept of victimhood is amplified in Vega's interracial serial murders. The cracks in the glass began to expand. Why? Because the persecutor, James didn't know who it was, no one knew who it was, only the fact that the victim only had a 20% chance of getting justice was clearly stated by Detective Vega. This is not cultivating persecutors, it is laissez-faire and encouragement. Go ahead and kill more.
While persecutors can already appear in the world from various places, methods, and angles, persecutors are still being born continuously and steadily. The victims seem to be the only loss in this situation.
Now. The relationship between the victim and the persecutor has become even more complicated and distorted. It's Kate, it's James, it's the military represented by James' father. The military rescues James and Kate investigates the military. thus
It can be said that Kate is the victim, and the persecutor who will persecute Kate in the future if reporters reveal the cover-up operation is the military. It can also be said that the persecutor is Kate, and the one who will be harmed is the military who saved James. Can you keep up? It's actually quite simple logic, but it's the completely opposite conclusion.
And James stands in the middle of these two conclusions. The cracked glass is time to be crushed.
Yes, this is not about aliens at all. Stop being so narrow-minded and open up everything, your senses, your mind, your heart... It's about the world, it's... living in a world full of living things, things that thinking creatures will inevitably face.
When Zach said to James for the first time, open your world view, Zach introduced James to the alien races in this world. But the worldview, is it really open if you know that your neighbor sucks blood, your classmates can levitate, and your friends eat corpses? Are you a primary school student, thinking that addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are everything in the world
James stood up, the wound on his fist beginning to heal. He didn't want to apologize for his behavior, but instead said, "You're right, shouting at you is useless!"
If we had to find a reason for James' punch to Zach, it would be that James, a primary school student, finally saw advanced mathematics, and his teacher, his guide, the only person he hated and had to rely on Safe Harbor Zach said, 'I won't teach you anymore, you figure it out'.
Zach and John watched as James picked up the phone and started dialing.
Zach was not prepared to ask what was about to be revealed anyway, so it was John who asked, "What do you want to do?"
"Call my father," James answered.
"what do you want to say?"
No need to answer specifically, the phone is connected
"It's me, telling my father that if he touches one of Kate's hair, he will be the only 'Lance' alive in the world." Hang up.
Zach raised his eyebrows and looked at James, "This is really a vague threat. Tell me, you are not using your life as a bargaining chip." This is too stupid.
"No." James answered Zack, "It's his life. His eternal life." James, solved the advanced mathematics, "The Sabbat wants me, not the one who is robbing organs and fighting with Tsim The general with whom I have a close relationship is me, James at Barton."
There is no need to repeat the Sabbat’s development of the organ transplant incident and the internal coup of the arms supplier Zmich. If we now want to use architecture to compare General Lance's status in the Sabbat, is it a solid castle or a shaky high-rise? Choose one.
Zach smiled and nodded, "Then I think there's some information you might want to know." Recalling Zach's blood business arrangement work when he was at Vega, "The amount of vampire blood purchased by the military is increasing year by year, from war From the beginning of the period to the present. Don’t ask, I don’t know why, but if you need help finding out, I can help.”