"What is he doing?"
Grande’s backyard is surrounded by light sources from all sides. Vertex 23S. The fastest updated are the living area in the south, the Benjamin Warehouse in the west, the Grand main building in the north, and the moonlight in the east.
Where there is light, one can be seen. James ran circles with eyes in these four directions. I didn't say anything symbolic, he just ran in circles there, running steadily with a slight amount of heat steaming from his skin covered with beads of sweat.
Talk about these looks at James. First of all, there is a gaze on the moon looking at the world. Don’t argue with me, I won’t listen. Then, the people from the living area were naturally Grande's employees. There was only one reason why they watched James run. When will this detective get out
One person who might be able to answer that question is the sight on Grande's back porch, Zach. Zach and Lois are watching the moon, mostly because Alice and Maya are hogging the TV. Zach will not answer any questions from the living area employees, but will answer Benjamin's questions.
Oh, yes, the top question was asked by Benjamin. Standing at the door of the warehouse with Murphy, watching James running past them over and over again, he asked this question.
"Running." Zach's answer was too practical.
"I'm not blind, why is he running?" Benjamin asked when James ran in front of him again.
As if Benjamin's voice needed to be 'carried', James circled 90 degrees and ran to Zach before he answered: "Exhaust yourself." Zach followed James' eyes Shi stayed away, "He was adjusting his schedule."
"Is this useful?" Benjamin twitched the corner of his mouth, "The energy consumed by a person while awake and the energy consumed by exercise are two different things."
Are they two things? Uh, this problem is too deep... low-level, people don't know this.
"He's tired, he's slowed down." Louise judged James' speed very objectively.
"Hey, humans. It's only a few kilometers." Zach.
"Not bad, he was already very weak. He was just kidnapped for such a long time and his body is still recovering..." Louise raised her eyebrows and looked at the moving James, "Look, the speed is back~ Come on~ James~"
Zach also said, "Come on, James, pay attention to your breathing, breathe~"
It was like someone set a fire behind James' butt. James used the ultimate speed that a human could achieve, and swept through the living area, past Benjamin, past Zach... and couldn't move anymore. He cast a ferocious look at the only two people cheering for him, and then slowly, pantingly, bumped towards the moonlight.
Promise me, when everyone is running, don't let others watch.
"If you need sleeping pills, I have them." Benjamin called to James.
James turned back weakly and had no time to answer.
"It's too early, Benjamin." After being intercepted by Zach, everyone should have guessed what the sleeping pill in Benjamin's mouth actually meant.
The conversation in the backyard stopped for a while, and there was only the sound of James' footsteps, stepping through the moonlight in a reduced frequency, stepping across the living area, and came to Benjamin, "What, what, too early..." The breaking point was breathing. Alas, humans.
Benjamin responded by tilting his head in Zach's direction.
The steadily decreasing frequency of footsteps was approaching Zach.
"I planned to tell you when you finish your vacation."
"Now!" What does this answer mean? James will start his official work tomorrow.
"Okay." Zach nodded, "The case Wes is handling. A 'sleeping pill' called 'Xiaobai'." Zach made a quotation mark gesture.
"Follow me!" James ordered.
Zach complied and stepped down the back porch, on the outer edge of James' side, using a normal walk to keep up with the other's run. "Wes left some police information in my office. If you want to see it..."
"Information from the police station? You just told me now?"
"Breathe." Zach first reminded James of the correct way to exercise, and then, "You have enough things to focus on, and I don't want to distract you."
"You mean, there's bad things going on in Grande?!"
"I mean Kate." Zach glanced at James, are you quarreling with me? Then don't blame me for fighting back.
James gave up running. Anyway, the speed was not as fast as two feet touching the ground at the same time. Instead, Zach pushed James on the back as the two were passing by the living area.
Zach looked at the pairs of eyes in the living area, pushed James, and walked through this section as quickly as possible without James falling. "The sleeping pill called 'Xiaobai' is a kind of sleeping pill that is extremely dangerous." Drugs." You can understand why Zach didn't want to say this in front of the living area, I won't explain it.
"poison-??"
"More dangerous than 'Valmina'." Benjamin said when passing by.
James stared at Benjamin with his head tilted, and was pushed forward by Zach, "Benjamin was hit once, died for a few hours, and then resurrected."
James pulled back and stared at Zach.
Zach has become immune to James' gaze. If you rank all the people in Zach's life who have stared at him with absolute concentration, James would probably be in the three digits. "It seems to have the same effect on humans." Same. Make people die for a few hours and then come back to life."
"You have to tell him the 'dangerous' part~" Louise reminded her as he passed by.
Likewise, James' eyes were fixed on Louise, and then he was pushed away by Zach and walked towards the moonlight, "These few hours of death are the time for vampire inheritance. The soul appears and is about to leave the body and complete the bonding to the new life form. Spiritual transformation. Normally, this is just a short moment. But for the user of 'Xiaobai', it is a few hours."
"Danger??"
"How do humans know for sure that another person is dead?" Zach asked.
"Breathe! Pulse!"
"Yes, you won't stand there waiting for the earth-binding spirit to appear, right?"
"*! Of course not!" Waiting for what, invisible things
Zach shrugged, did he mean to speak more clearly
Forget it, just pretend that James's brain is not getting enough oxygen, and forgive him for showing that his IQ is better now, "With 'Xiao Bai', it means that in this world, only aliens can tell whether a person is really dead, you Do you understand?"
James' breathing state was like this: suck, suck, suck. Only enter, never vent.
Zach patted James' back thoughtfully, "Breathe out, breathe out, James."
"But I tell you, it's good for you to know. Judging from the information that the police know now, in addition to knowing the existence of 'Xiaobai' and that it is a drug that has the effect of sleeping pills and is illegally circulated in Barton, I don’t know what it means.”
James grabbed Zach's hand and acted strangely, but James probably didn't notice his behavior, "Then what do the police know?! What is Wes checking?!" James had just recovered a little. All the energy was used to explode, this guy really doesn't know how to save.
"Be quiet." Zach pushed James again and quickly walked through the living area. "We know enough, such as the circulation and marketability of sleeping pills. Calm down, James." Zach continued , "The place where 'Xiaobai' is traded is an underground club in Beqi." Passing by Benjamin, he cast an expressionless look, "Two people who can be confirmed to be engaged in the 'Xiaobai' trade are dead. This is the police case, murder.”
When Zach walked by, Benjamin added, "It's not our ancestors' office."
Zach looked back at Benjamin, "Thank you for the information, I will pass it on to Wes." He stopped looking at Benjamin and said to James, "Something wonderful is that this club belongs to Lydia Smith."
"Smith's sister is selling 'Xiaobai'??"
"Can you be patient?" Zach thoughtfully slowed down his walking speed as he walked towards Grande. "Before the murder happened, Lydia didn't even know that she owned this club."
"Tsk! It's like she got together with Rimmer before she didn't even know what Rimmer was!" Is this James's evaluation of the rich second generation from the west side of Barton
Zach tilted his head and didn't respond. "Murder, two related deceased, the real person in charge of the club, the manager who really knew what was going on in his club, is missing. The police signed a cooperation agreement with Smith... "
"What?!" James' excitement just...
"Uh." It was Louise, looking at James walking by, "You are listening to Zach giving you a briefing on the police case. Can you be a little more tolerant to other people?"
James stopped talking. Oh, because all the jokes are on himself. Why bother.
"I'm very optimistic that with the police force and Smith's resources, this case should have a very good result." Zach said facing the moonlight, "And I also promised Wes that I would help if I am needed."
James glanced at Zach. Let it go, anyway, human eyes are not lethal to vampires.
Zach accompanied James and walked another 90 degrees to the living area. "Actually, you don't have to go back to the police station in such a hurry. You can recuperate for a few more days."
"I need it!" James looked gloomy, why? "I need to let the West see me! I need to let them see my impact! My potential! What I mean here! More than my dad!"
What an ideal, or goal. After all, Kate's safety in the middle depends on James' threat to his father, doesn't it? And James continues to cultivate himself day and night in Grandry, haha, it won't be of any help to the current situation, right? He needs to go to work, continue to be Patton's 'star detective', and weave his own bright future. For comparison.
Zach nodded, "But due to the agreement between the police department and Smith, you should be prepared. No matter how this case is resolved in the end, you probably won't get the attention you expected." Imagine having Smith's Many illegal acts will be exempted by the police, and the way of exemption is for the police to help cover up the details of the case. "I support you coming back and going back to work, but I actually don't support you wasting time on this case. So I I’m not going to tell you this now.”
"Then do you plan to tell others, such as Weiss, 'Xiaobai', how to judge the true meaning of death for humans and aliens?!" It's a good question.
Zach glanced at James and shook his head, "No, he won't understand. He won't realize that this will bring about differentiation between aliens and humans. You can." He added with a smile, "You can now ." Happy, yes, happy. James' world view finally opened up.
But the character is hopeless. James glared at Zach, "Don't say that all alien races are superior to humans! I don't think there are many alien races out there except you who understand what 'Xiaobai' means!!"
"Hey! This is the benefit of living under the roof of Toledo, isn't it~" Zach smiled and told a very true joke.
No matter what emotion it is in, Grande's master tells a joke, and everyone should laugh with it, politely, disgustedly, sincerely, desperately... whatever, but laugh! However, there are people who want to ruin the atmosphere.
Toledo's wife, Murphy, spoke as James and Zach walked by again, "What is this?"
Is this a question
"Is this Detective James Lance your son?" This is a question, "You are here to nurture him."
Zach was not prepared to take any of Murphy's words and walked past without slowing down.
James stopped. Louise told James that she wanted to find out the details of this Murphy. Zach began to play the silence game, and the only ones who had to take action were the people around him.
"Do you have children, Murphy?" James looked at Murphy and did not stop Zach from returning to the back porch.
Murphy's question was supposed to be directed at everyone, but Benjamin, Louise, and Zach didn't speak. She could only look at James, "No, Zachary is infertile. He didn't tell you. What?"
Uh... tell...
This... leaked something
"He told you?" James looked at Murphy, "When? When you found that your stomach has not moved after you have been married for a long time? Did you ask? Was it because your family put pressure on you? Friend ?Society? That era? So you asked?"
Murphy... raised his hand and held his hair, "This is none of your business, detective."
"No, it doesn't matter." James looked at Murphy, "But I'm going to work tomorrow. I need to warm up, physically and mentally." Please impress James. James took a step back and circled Grand's backyard. "I can run. Physically, I can handle it myself. But mentally, you are the one I want to warm up to." James touched his pocket and waved his police badge. Come out, "So when I ask you a question, you better answer, Murphy Moriarty Assamat whatever the hell lady."
Do we still need to recall that James initially threatened Murphy based on the legitimacy of his status as a vampire of the Thirteen Clan? Haha, no need.
Murphy pinched his hair, "Yes, I asked, when I found out that I was never pregnant."
"Then he told you why he was infertile..." James shook his hand quickly, "No, no, no, better, he told you the reason why he couldn't make children with humans, right? He told you, he was A vampire, right?"
Murphy's hair was pinched. That’s right, it’s broken. "yes."
"Then, from that point on, your marriage went to hell, right?" James waved the police badge in his hand.
"yes."
"Huh, guess what? You still can't make children now. You're back to hell again. Good luck to you." James turned around and walked away... No, he started running again, going around in circles. , two circles...