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Normally, people in the Rio Grande don't care about the morning news. If you were immortal, you would really have little interest in current events. However, based on what happened yesterday, Zach was a little concerned about what would be in today's news.
Barton’s news media workers met Zach’s expectations. Reports on yesterday, the first day of voting in the mayoral election, dominated the news and included:
one. The number of people voting on the first day far exceeded the previous record of the city of Barton. Based on the current population base of Barton, the number of voters this year will also far exceed the previous record. This is a good thing and proves that citizens are attracted by this year's 'citizen badges' and travel subsidies and are more willing to exercise their rights.
two. Interviews with mayoral candidates other than Anthony. One of them said this to reporters, "I never thought I could become the mayor, but this is a very valuable life experience. Hey, we only have one life, right~ Ahem, thank you for providing me with I may have disappointed xx with campaign funds for 'xx Bedding Store', but hey!" Pointing to the camera, "xx Bedding Store will never let you down! You will feel heaven when you lie down..." Camera Cut away.
three. Ethera's interview. Asked if he regretted withdrawing from the race, only Mayor Anthony was competitive based on the fact that this vote would set a record. Eisela's answer was, "Of course not. Everyone knows that my personal relationship with Mayor Anthony is, haha, a little complicated. During the campaign, aside from the Smith family's tarnishing of this 'cause,' I also noticed that there were some People, after being separated from the goal of working for the future of this city, began to use my relationship with Mayor Anthony to make small moves." Pointing to the camera, "I will not let 'you' take advantage of the future of this city to be satisfied. 'Your', oh, ambition..."
Louise in front of the TV, "Aisela is adding drama to herself. No one cares about her relationship with Anthony."
"Smart, she is basically telling everyone in front of the TV that she is withdrawing from the race not because she can no longer compete with Anthony after the scandal in her campaign, but because she does not want to use the future of this city as a bargaining chip to win. It is a good change of focus. Skills. She bought a bunch of hearts again." Zach.
"She will regret it." Louise, "Her current exposure has seriously threatened her life as a vampire."
"Her exposure has always been like this. This is her job." Zach commented objectively, "She is just trying to accumulate all the resources that she can in human life. Let her go."
Let’s continue with the news.
Four. Not surprisingly, the issue of the military was raised again, and this time, the news anchor said, "The news sent back by a reporter from our Patton Daily said that we had seen the military issue in the central part of the country before. Party controls mass incidents…”
Zach glanced at James who was eating breakfast.
The news on the TV continued, "...the military is hiding many military operations that have resulted in civilian deaths." Then the topic changed, "Our reporters interviewed citizens on the street to see what they thought about this matter. , especially now that we are very likely to have a mayor with a military background lead us for another four years.”
Then, the people in the Grand Entertainment Room were 'surprised' and frightened to see Benjamin on the screen.
Benjamin on the screen didn't even speak. Zach's mouth twitched, "Did 'Benjamin' come back last night?" Pay attention to the quotation marks Benjamin.
"Obviously... no." Louise.
Benjamin, who was across a screen, said, "Military background and the military are two different things." Benjamin seemed a little impatient, his eyes kept switching between the reporter interviewing him and the camera, "As far as I know, from your news As reported here, our mayor only occasionally takes care of veterans, such as, well, the warden of the prison in the South District, the one who escaped from prison the summer before... "
Zach raised his hands to cover his face, "Uh, it's Benjamin." Unquote Benjamin, "Can't he think of other examples? Uh. Do you have to talk about this?"
"But the later halfway house project was also pretty good, wasn't it?" Benjamin himself probably realized that he had chosen a bad target and forced the transfer, "Also, Director Cologne, right? It turns out that the North District Yes, the one who came to the South District later, but he solved the case that he blew himself up before, right?"
The reporter asked uncertainly, "Are you trying to say that our Mayor Anthony's choice of people is quite correct?"
"Yes. That's what I want to say." Benjamin started to move away from the camera, "Are you done asking? I want to go home."
"Oh, thank you for your cooperation..." Benjamin had already walked away, but the street interview continued, and the questions were the same, so he answered
Someone mentioned Sadier Security, a security company run by veterans. Someone mentioned the Quinn Group's shelter project. Someone mentioned it, Detective James Lance.
"I'm going to the police station." James took the last bite of breakfast and said goodbye.
Zach said to James' back, "At least what Benjamin said is that the military background is different from the military. If everyone maintains a positive view of Anthony, your future will not be affected."
James left without responding.
The next news starts to get boring... Nope.
Fifth, Quinn Group announced the news that Poch Quinn refused to succeed as a director of the group.
Sixth, the progress of the new port in the Southern District is far behind the expectations of the trade agreement between the federal government and the republican government. While the Port of Marsa reached its maximum cargo load, Falcon Group paid a huge fine for project delays.
Seventh, the legal process of a certain drug promoted by Smith Group was confirmed. The drug, called 0711, can now be prescribed regularly by a small number of psychiatrists. Among the names typed on the screen, Zach saw Emilia Browning.
8. The evening classes at Back Bay Community College have officially joined the Republican-Federal language courses, and you can use your immigration status to enjoy discounts when registering for Republican immigration courses.
Nine…
Zach couldn't continue watching the news, there was a phone call.
Zach went to the office to answer the phone, but was stopped by Alice who came up to say goodbye. After staring at Zach for a long time, he said, "I went to Parker Elementary School."
Zach nodded, "Yeah."
You know what Alice is looking at, wondering if Zach will die today.
After answering the phone, Zach had a guess who was calling. The first guess was Anthony, as to whether he got the news from Gina. The second guess was Benjamin. After what happened with Benjamin on TV just now, Zach felt that with Benjamin's consciousness, he would call and say... 'If you talk about anything about me being on TV after I come back, I won't tell my wolf last night. of the investigation results. '
Zach guessed wrong.
"Hey Mr. Grande! It's me, Joe!"
"Joe?" Zach actually thought for a moment, "Oh, Joe." Uh-huh.
"Haha, I said I would contact you yesterday, haha."
Zach was actually not sure what the other party was saying, but remember, the business card that Zach handed over was the business card of Grande Funeral Home. Did anyone say 'hehe' when contacting the funeral home? "Qiao, do you have something to ask me about?"
"Yes! I have a, um, personal matter that I need your help with, Grande."
"Oh." Zach blinked, "I'm sorry."
"what why?"
"Well." Zach blinked again, "You were calling a funeral home and saying that you had a personal matter that you needed help with."
"Oh! God! No! No one died! I don't need a funeral service! God, no!" Joe on the other side of the receiver seemed to react.
"Oh." Zach curled his lips, he must be wary, because Joe said yesterday that Grande is very famous among the police. If Joe doesn't need the funeral industry, then... "Joe, what do you need?"
"Well, can you come to my place? I want to talk to you in person. Haha, for the sake of old acquaintance?"
Zach was confused. The two 'identities' of Grande that are demanded by this society, Joe has denied that it is the identity of the funeral industry, so is the other 'identity' of Grande suitable to be discussed in Joe's bar? After all, we all know Joe's bar is full of police.
"It's not convenient." Zach didn't want to go.
"Well... then I'll go to your side?" Well, the other party didn't seem to be ready to give up, "I just need, well, find someone to take over for me, haha, you know, these policemen need their coffee and food, haha, hehe."
Why. Zach was a caring gentleman, "Okay, I'll come over."
"Okay!" He agreed simply, "Then I will wait for you!"
Zach put down the phone.
Go back to find Louise, "Follow me to the North District."
"Too lazy to move. I'll go down and guard the counter in a moment."
"We just said yesterday that we would go out more together." Zach and Ting were helpless.
"Same." Louise hesitated, "Then who's going to see the counter? Old Hank's people can't go."
"Serys."
"Okay, there's nothing to do in the barn anyway." Sires is no longer working at the port in the South District, remember. He was bored until his construction crew got a new job.
The two vampires made simple preparations for their trip and headed to the North District.
On the way, Louise is bound to ask questions about Joe, such as what kind of person he is, what he might want, and so on.
It was strange how Zach answered. Even the name was reminded by James, so you can guess how little impression Zach had of this person.
The boring car ride is narrated, and we enter Joe to get down to business with Zach.
Believe me, it's a surprise
In the corner of Joe's bar, Joe gave his police customers the right to enter and exit the bar and kitchen at will and sat across from Zach and Louise.
"I'm sorry to ask you to make this trip, but I believe God has a purpose in letting me know your identity at this time!"
This opening is as ominous as it sounds.
"Are you religious?" Zach asked.
"Uh, no, I'm going to start now. Because if this isn't some god guiding me, I don't know what is."
Before Joe's words became more confusing, Zach decided to get straight to the point, "What do you need Grande to help you with?"
"I need Grande..." Joe looked at Louise for a long time, "Are you..."
"My girlfriend, Louise." Zach quickly ended the introduction, "You continue." Get to the point.
"Oh, I need Grande to give me..." He looked at Zach, and then looked at him for a long time, "A person."
"Give you someone." Zach repeated, "Give you someone." He repeated it again, but he still didn't understand what Joe meant, so he repeated it a third time with a different tone, "Give you someone?"
"Hey." Joe sighed and shook his head again, "How should I say this..." He looked back at the policemen in his store. Some were looking here clearly, while others were not so clear. Look this way. It seems like Grande is really famous among police officers.
"Tell me about it." Zack encouraged him because the speed of Joe's speech was really uncomfortable.
"I have a friend." Joe suddenly turned around and faced the policemen who were looking at him, "I'm not ashamed to admit that he is my friend!"
baffling. But Zach tolerated Joe's inexplicable behavior and decided to wait patiently for Joe to finish.
"He... committed some crimes many years ago and went to jail." Joe turned back to look at Zach, "I got the news that he came out a few months ago, but he didn't contact me. I can understand..." Joe seemed to be doing something inexplicable again. It doesn’t seem like it, it’s actually done. He turned back and faced a group of police officers, "Yes! You are the reason why my friend finally came out but couldn't come to me! Do you know!"
Zach and Louise looked at each other. Before they came here, they predicted that there would be a subtle atmosphere between Grande's special attributes and the police who knew Grande, but now, Zach and Louise feel... ignored...
The focus was entirely on the inexplicable Joe.
A police officer responded, "Save it, Joe! We did you a big favor!"
"Save it! Have you noticed that I can't keep a waiter here all the time? It's all you who 'helped me'!"
Well, what a wonderful relationship between the police and the public...
If Joe continues to ignore Grande and the others and draw attention to himself, Zach is really ready to leave, so, "Joe, what on earth do you want to talk to me about? I still have a funeral home to run."
"Oh! Sorry!" Joe turned around and looked at Zach apologetically, "My friend, my friend, didn't contact me after he was released from prison. He entered a community adaptation project run by the city government." Joe looked at Zach expectantly. G. and Louise, “Halfway House Project, in Grande, CA.”
Be pleasantly surprised. Zach and Louise looked at each other again.
"Wait a minute." Zach frowned, looked at Joe, and lowered his voice slightly, "You said before that Grande was very famous among the police, not because I used to help Anthony..." Zach waved his hand and said, "Now help Lance..." He waved his hand and said, "Is it because of the halfway house project of Grande Funeral Home?"
"Yeah!" Joe stared at Zach, and then his voice was lower than Zach's, "Of course I know you used to help Anthony..." He waved his hand and passed it, "Now you help Detective Lance..." He waved his hand and passed it, " They don’t know! You haven’t appeared here for so many years! Who remembers you! I am the only one who remembers you as a ‘Mr. Citizen’ who doesn’t order anything every time you come here!”
"Uh." Zach was a little... disappointed. I have been in and out of the police station many times with great arrogance. No one has connected me with the mysterious informant who has provided clues to solve the case several times. Hmm, it seems that Darcy and James did a very good job of protecting the informant's identity. often. good.
"Hey!" Continuing to lower his voice, Joe looked at Zach, "This is a good thing! I have seen too many people brought here by the police turn into corpses on the news one day, and no one knows you are Who is a good thing! Trust me! And..." Joe looked back at the policemen again, "It's useless to let these low-level characters know your identity." Looking back at Zach, "You should continue to stick to your vision. , Anthony before, now Lance!”
"Thank you." If this means that Zach showed his abilities in front of the right people just right. After all, everyone in Barton knows how good the Grand Funeral Home is now. Who gave it to him? Mayor Anthony. Then Zach accepted the praise. "So, the reason why most police officers talk about Grande is that there are many ex-criminals in Grande." This is a reasonable speculation.
"Yes!" Joe confirmed, "In addition, the owner of Grande died once on the news before, and then the original chief of the police, Cologne, came out to apologize again (Zach faked his death for Eli's arrival) ), and then Grande was attacked by a self-destruction again, and you killed your employees, right? The Southern District Police Department even sent people to the North District Police Department to protect you. Tsk, the guys here just talk about Grande if they have nothing to do. "Qiao curled his lips.
Zach also wanted to pout. Grande's image in the eyes of the police was a bit worrying.
Then Zach asked directly, "Who, your friend. Name."
What a surprise.
"Evan." Then, "Oh no!" Joe stared at Zach's face, "You just made a face when you heard that name! Oh no, no, no! What is he doing in Grande? Is he doing it again? Getting into trouble??”
"No, I didn't make any expressions." Zach denied, "I made any expressions? Louise?"
"No, you didn't." Louise shook her head, "I didn't make an expression either. This is my normal face. Don't look at me."
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