"Is this how you punish me? Apex 23S. The fastest update." Murphy looked at Zach and Louise again. "Every time I thought I would be left alone in this world, you, Come out and show your face with your young girlfriend.”
Ah, that's right, Zach and Louise didn't choose the 'hell' that would cause memory reset, but chose this 'heaven'.
But of course, Zach ignored Murphy. He looked thoughtfully in the direction of the city hall, thinking about something.
"What are you thinking about?" Louise asked.
"I was thinking, since we are all here anyway, why not..." Zach pointed to the ballot box transported by the police at the end of the City Hall Square.
It seemed that the results of several other voting points had been sent over, and boxes of ballot boxes were ordered by people from the mayor's office to be taken into the city hall.
"This is just the first day of voting." Louise frowned, "If the way we look at it is too, well, 'destructive', the voting tomorrow and the day after tomorrow..."
"Then let's take a 'gentle' look~" Zach started walking towards the city hall, "I saw Blake."
"Blake can't help us. After all, he belongs to Anthony. He has to avoid suspicion in this kind of thing." Louise said very objectively.
"He is also a member of the Stone family. The Stone family will find a way to get the results of the first day of voting." Zach is also very objective.
Behind the two vampires walking towards the city hall... Hanging Murphy, "Aren't you just showing up?" No one paid any attention to her.
"Wait a minute." Zach stopped and pulled Louise quickly around the front of the city hall, avoiding the sight of all creatures, and stopped in the alleyway on the side of the building.
Zach saw something that made him suddenly do this, but Louise was more concerned about the boundaries of this world after stopping.
How big a world one person's soul can create is now intuitively reflected. Behind Zach and Louise is the edge of the world.
How to describe this border... a bit like a wall of melted chocolate. That's not a 'good' description, it's disgusting. It's like a mess of various colors that come together, abruptly dividing buildings, lanes... and spaces.
Louise could clearly feel the space... no, the world was not far behind her, cut off by that dark wall.
Just like when you open your eyes and look forward, what you see is not the horizon, but the wall. You strain your ears to hear sounds coming from all directions, but there is always silence in one direction. You expose your skin to feel the temperature, but no cold or heat is transmitted to that place. you…
"I tested the boundaries of this world with my fingers." It was Murphy. Even if no one paid attention to her, she still stubbornly followed Zach and Louise, and was not afraid to speak out in any situation: "Do you want to Do you know what happened?" This is a clear question. Murphy was 'begging' for a response.
Louise glanced at Murphy, turned her head, no longer looking at the boundary of the world, and asked Zach, "What did you see?" She was not prepared to ignore Murphy.
Zach pointed in the direction, "Gina."
Behind the escorted ballot box, at the end of the police line, was a woman hiding.
'Hide' is a very subjective word used to describe someone who does not want to be noticed. And she was indeed unnoticed, Zach, not a human being.
"who?"
"Uh..." Zach was speechless, "Gina, Anthony's secretary, lover, choose any one."
"Oh." Louise glanced at her and raised her eyebrows, "She's pretty and has a good figure."
Murphy: "What a primitive instinct. When you see someone of the same sex, you compare your sexual attraction with that of the other person. Primitive."
Louise looked back at Murphy and broke the rules, "Then I guess, when you see someone of the same sex, you compare the other person's family background, social status, and the value that can bring benefits to men. Origin Ms. Murphy of that era. Do you think you are superior?"
Murphy was expressionless, "I didn't say that primitiveness is bad, you are anxious to attack me." After a pause, "Are you attacking me?"
Louise rolled her eyes and ignored it.
Zach, on the other hand, looked back at the two women and pursed his lips, "Beauty and figure are the reasons why this Gina became Anthony, uh, woman."
The three vampires were quiet for a while. Murphy: "Before I came here, I read the information about Mayor Barton, Anthony. He became the mayor entirely because of his ex-wife, Isela." Obviously no one wanted Murphy to speak, but anyway, she Said, "Esela has a very 'unique' background, social status, and existence value. Even for contemporary women, she is special."
Louise frowned, glanced first, and then helplessly asked Murphy directly, "We are talking about Gina, not Aisela."
"Based on the fact that Anthony became the mayor of Barton, Anthony's choice of women will definitely not be just about beauty and figure. My husband, I regret to tell you that your judgment is wrong."
We don’t have to look back at Anthony’s path to becoming mayor. In one sentence, Aisela's background, status, and value can be summarized as a wedding dress.
If we didn't know much about the city of Barton, we might agree with Murphy. But, we know it too well. so
There is no need for Zach to say to Murphy, Louise said, "It's a pity for you. Zach is Anthony's friend. This is not a judgment. If Zach says that Anthony chose this woman just because of her appearance, then it's just because Appearance." After Louise finished speaking, she curled her lips and glanced at Zach, "After I said this, I felt a little unhappy."
Zach tugged at the corner of his mouth, "I apologize for Anthony." Then, he frowned, "What is she going to do?"
In the direction Zach was looking, Gina bypassed the employees of the mayor's office and entered the city hall behind the voting escort.
In contrast, Blake, who was the reason Zach came here in the first place, was still outside the city hall, facing the vehicle that was then escorted by the police. People in various costumes got out of the car, all with temporary audit certificates hanging on their chests, and were led into the city hall in batches. Blake was exchanging glances with one of the auditors from one of the batches.
So if Gina's unnoticed move is to get on the first day of voting, she should follow Blake Stone, or at least imitate him. But she didn't.
"The vents on the rooftop can enter every room in the city hall. Of course, including rooms in this world," Murphy said.
Zach glanced at Murphy. This is proof that Murphy has indeed explored the city government in this world. No response.
The vampire's standing jump was very, very high... Then, the three vampires moved quickly through the abnormal passages inside the city hall.
"I... never thought that the ventilation ducts would be so clean. A place like this should be full of dust, dead animals and the like." Louise sighed as she moved.
"This place is filled with the smell of Novel." Murphy explained Louise's sigh without asking.
Just confirming Murphy's words, Louise saw 'Bumino Fele is here' at a corner. Why.
"Shhh" Zach slowed down his movement, "I found her." A vertical landing, plus a little translation. Zach passed through a ventilation exit, leaving the other side to Louise who arrived later. He pressed against the wall and looked at the room outside the narrow exit.
The last sealed box containing the votes was placed on the conference table in the room by the police, and then everyone exited and closed the room.
Then, something amazing happened. Gina, got out from under the conference table.
Louise wordlessly pushed away Murphy's head and said, "There are passages in this building that I haven't discovered..." covering up Murphy's voice that he didn't care about the situation.
"Who's there?!" Gina stood up awkwardly and stared at the ventilation duct as she was adjusting her clothes.
"No one is here." Zach answered expressionlessly with red eyes.
Gina continued to sort out the dust and hair from dead animals... This may be important information that we should probably remember.
Gina finished arranging her clothes, bent down under the table again, and when she raised her body again, she was holding a box in her hand.
Zach frowned, it was exactly the same box as the ballot box on the conference table!
Gina continued to bend back and forth, replacing the ballot boxes that represented the choices of the citizens of Barton...
Footsteps began outside the 'closed' room. Gina has finished replacing half of the boxes. Then, as the first auditors were brought in by the police, they disappeared under the conference table.
At this moment, the thing to do should be to keep up with Gina. Zach did the same and jumped out of the ventilation duct with red eyes. In front of a bunch of civilians and policemen, he said "nothing happened" while flipping up the conference table and stepping on the floor...
"Uh... where am I?" Walter replaced a demented police officer. After seeing Zach's red eyes, "Ah!! What are you doing!! Don't you want to go back?! Don't look at me!!"
Zach's red gaze really disappeared, but not for Walter, because Zach leaned to the ground. The first words he said when he fell to the ground were, "Louise..." Weakly, "Control the crowd..."
The red gaze was caught by Louise.
Then, "Silver." Zach leaned on the floor and struggled to lift his feet. A row of tack-like objects were stuck on the soles of his shoes.
It was Murphy, who rushed towards Zach very quickly, and with a wave of his hand, a flash of red shot out from Zach's soles followed by the shoe that took off.
"What are you doing?!" Walter had already stood behind Louise, avoiding Toledo's gaze.
"The mayor's secretary secretly changed the vote." The commentator, huh, was Murphy. Inexplicably, this woman is going to be the protagonist here. She glanced at Zach, expressionlessly dragging Zach aside who was still holding her leg on the ground, and then observed beside the floor that collapsed under Zach's step, "This is the passage the secretary left, silver, a passage made of silver. I can't sense what's inside, and I'm not prepared to die in this kind of world. We can't continue to chase that Gina." Then he glanced at Louise and walked into the crowd who were stunned in Louise's eyes.
Murphy's target was not a person, but the ballot box that fell to the ground after being opened by Zach. He opened one at random and picked up the voting sheet, "This is the vote at the West District polling place. I have 7 votes in my hand, and your friend Anthony only has one vote." Murphy picked up a few more votes, "12 Vote, Anthony, one vote.”
Murphy continued to open other boxes, "8 pictures, Anthony, none. From the South District." Continue without repeating, the trend is already obvious...
"Are you going back or not?!" It was Walter, who just suddenly intervened in this situation and obviously didn't care about what was happening here.
"Can't you see that something important is happening here?" Zach's wound has healed, but his limbs that were obviously 'conspired' are still not very coordinated, and he picks up his shoes crookedly.
"Is it important??" Walter's face was twitching, "Then how about you live here! Don't go back!"
Such a straightforward truth.
Zach frowned and pulled off the concealed weapon on his shoe. He looked at Murphy who was earnestly counting votes for everyone for a while and said to his wife, "Thank you."
"No need." Very simply.
"In order to continue to understand why Gina did what she did, I need the world to continue to develop normally." Zach's second sentence to Murphy.
"Memory control is your Toledo's domain." Murphy really likes to say this kind of nonsense.
"Louis and I will take care of the memory."
"Then I will restore this place to its original state." Murphy glanced at Zach, "Don't thank me, husband, I said before, I don't want anything to happen to this world, and I don't want my activity space to be filled with corpses. "
Zach didn't reply. He glanced at Louise and finally looked at Walter, "Take us back."
"Tsk."
…
A little conversation that happened on the way back
"Do you know the reason why those hellhounds appeared?" Zach asked.
"Don't you want to know things that have nothing to do with you?" (What Zach said when he asked Louise not to care about where the dead people were that caused Cerberus to appear)
"Because Cerberus delayed our trip, we found out that Gina was sabotaging Anthony's political career. This has something to do with us. It has benefited me. I want to know what has benefited me. In addition, I’m really curious: why in the past time, there have been incidents of Cerberus being dispatched sometimes and sometimes not. Even you admit that this is a situation that requires concern.”
"Tsk."
"'Tsk' is not the answer."
"I hate you." It's typical to express his position first and then answer, "Although we see that it's already past time, what happened at that time has not been determined! Did anyone die? Do you need it? Cerberus is out, but it’s not confirmed yet!” Before Zach could interrupt, he interrupted, “It’s the cat in the box!”
"What cat?" Zach blinked, unable to follow Walter's metaphor.
Louise, "I think I heard a story about killing a cat..."
"Can you tell stories slowly when you get home?" He was anxious.
The two vampires shut up.