"Oh. Apex 23S. The fastest update, but I can't guarantee it." Alice answered Zach while eating her dinner, "Sissy doesn't like the Republicans..." Alice shook her head and corrected herself, "She's not If you don't like the Republicans, you don't like... the fact that the Republicans have become believers of the Holy Lord."
Zach was shaking the wine glass, "Did she tell you why?"
This topic is actually a request from Fallen Angel Tea during the day. He needs the container that has been ordered by Sissi to return to him.
"She... said it." Alice pursed her lips and glanced at Maya.
Maya could only look at Zach with her lips raised, and it seemed that she would answer Zach, "She didn't go into great detail. But she gave an example that we can understand..." She rolled her eyes and fiddled with her meal. Pan, "We all know that the wizard families in the central part are already taking action to preserve the souls of Indian wizards. For example, the sanatorium in Pochquin is now filled with the souls of Indian wizards." Maya rolled her eyes. , "This is an example."
Zach stopped shaking the wine glass in his hand for a second, then reversed the shaking, "I don't understand." Not only did Zach not understand, he also didn't understand the relationship between the two things.
Maya rolled her eyes at Zach, "Why does the wizard family want to protect those wizard souls?"
Zach could only recall what Mrs. Furious Wave said. Do you remember, apple trees, apples, souls are nutrients, those. Without having to recall everything, Zach concluded, "In order to prevent non-Indians from becoming wizards. In other words, the wizard family hopes that the possibility of becoming wizards will remain within the Indian race, and they do not want to share it with other races. The abilities of their wizards.”
Maya gave a matter-of-fact eye roll, "That's it."
Zach stopped shaking the wine glass again, and after reacting for a long time, he realized, "Oh!" He frowned, "Sissi doesn't want to share the faith of the Holy Lord, the abilities of demons or angels with the republican race."
"Hmph." Maya would not praise Zach's intelligence.
Zach started shaking the wine glass in his hand again, still frowning, and asked uncertainly, "Is this considered racial discrimination?"
"Discrimination?" Maya's eyes rolled again, "Forget it. Four centuries ago, you didn't discriminate at all, and you tried your best to export your beliefs to this continent that does not belong to you..." Uh, Maya is talking about the Federation. History, wrong, the history before the founding of the Federation, the history of the Indians, "You know best, don't you, that is war!"
Zach glanced at Maya, "Objectively speaking, the political significance of the colonial war is greater than the religious significance. You are just deliberately targeting the Holy Lord Faith by saying this."
"Just target it." Maya shrugged, "Anyway, the souls that need to be protected now are the souls of Indian wizards, not yours. One day, the precious souls of your Holy Lord faith, those demons who can become angels and demons, You won’t say such things when everything is taken away by other faiths.”
Zach was not going to argue with Maya about this kind of issue, so he raised his cup and said, "Whatever, it has nothing to do with me anyway." This was self-defeating. As long as it was related to the soul, it had nothing to do with vampires. Zach glanced at Alice, "Just tell Sissi that whether she wants it or not, there are already believers of the Holy Lord in the Republic, and her displeasure has no meaning to the facts."
Alice nodded, "I'll try my best."
Zach nodded, took the wine glass and left the restaurant. Go to the office, James is in the office. The detective seemed accustomed to treating Zach's office space as his dining room.
At the door of the office, Zach deliberately refilled his wine glass with liquid, walked behind James, and looked at the documents spread out next to the dinner plate, "The ones from Vega?"
There was still food in his mouth, and James responded vaguely, "Yeah."
"Are there any new witnesses?" Zach didn't bother to read the text and walked around to sit across from the desk.
"No." James glanced at Zach, closed the file, and looked like he wanted to concentrate on eating.
childish
"If you're imitating the way Anthony treated me on official matters, you shouldn't be bringing your work back to Grandry."
We have been saying 'Anthony is the template for James' for a long time, and we also understand that this is a fact in terms of identity, background and career planning. But now, it's time to push to the next stage. Anthony is James' template, all-round.
James curled his lips and spoke, "Vega Police Station found several witnesses, but no one was willing to be a witness."
"What do you mean?" Is this kind of operation still possible? Is the charge of obstructing law enforcement just a joke in Vega City
"The police cannot force anyone to testify." James curled his lips, "If those witnesses just casually describe the scenes they witnessed, it will only cause the police to fall into wrong information. That will add confusion." The corner of his mouth twitched, "It's like Wes arrested someone according to the description of Alice and Maya, and now he may be complained by the other party."
You know what James is talking about, Alice went to the police station yesterday.
"Sorry." Zach apologized on Alice's behalf, and then thought for a moment, "So the difficulty at Vega Police Station now is that even if there are witnesses, they cannot confirm whether the witnesses' testimony is true."
James nodded and frowned, "In the final analysis, the victim is an interracial relationship. Ordinary human citizens are unwilling to offend them and the police have no clue at all, let alone the captured criminals."
Zach also frowned, "Human citizens who feel that it has nothing to do with them are invisibly protecting and condoning the perpetrators of murdering aliens. This is not a good sign."
When James heard Zach say such words, he didn't react for a moment. He glanced at Zach and asked tentatively, "What do you mean?"
"That's what it means literally." Zach shrugged his shoulders and sipped his wine glass, feeling that there was no need to explain as the words were clear enough. Immediately, Zach tilted his head and said, "Maybe it's time to suggest that Vega Police Station change its angle."
James obviously didn't like Zach's answer, but as soon as he reacted, he understood what Zach meant. This topic cannot be discussed in depth, it is too dangerous. I can only follow Zach, "What angle."
"You should understand that the witnesses that the Vega Police Department has been looking for are all human beings." Zach organized his order, "Except for me who became a witness through the phone."
James chewed the food in his mouth and thought for a while, "Well. If there are foreign witnesses, the murderers should also kill them." This is not surprising, it is quite simple logic and it is impossible for criminals to leave a Witnesses who pose a threat to themselves will be kept alive.
"Then humans are the reason why the Vega police have no witnesses." Zach raised his glass towards James, "You just analyzed the reason."
James opened his mouth and stuffed a large mouthful of food into his mouth.
"So don't count on the witnesses who can't be confirmed, and focus on the objects that the Vega police can definitely confirm." Zach took another sip from his wine glass, "The victim."
"The dead alien." James didn't even finish swallowing the food in his mouth, and looked at Zach with an ugly face, "Or the only mayor's secretary who is still alive, by the way, I just talked on the phone this morning The secretary of the mayor who told me he would have nothing to do with anything other than asking the police to reopen the case." James took a moment to pause, swallow the food in his mouth, and said sarcastically, "Let's not talk about that first. Does the mayor want the police to continue to delay his secretary's work?" We heard how Lutresembra defined the profession of 'secretary', and we should be able to understand what James said, "Just tell her the information she can provide. , hum, if it had been useful, this case wouldn’t have dragged on for so long.”
"I'm not talking about the victims who have been harmed." Zach waited for James to finish speaking before waving his hands to retort, "It's the aliens who have not yet been victimized and who meet the murder targets. In this case, they are the aliens who have adopted human children. family."
"Impossible." James shook his head directly. "Protecting possible victims is a common method used in cases like this." He glanced at Zach, meaning that you don't need to teach him, "After several consecutive cases, When the characteristics of the victim became clear, the Vega Police Department sorted out the interracial families that met this standard." James shook his head, "Nearly a hundred of the permanent interracial families in Vega City have human children. The number is so huge that it is impossible to cover it with police force.”
Zach also shook his head, "It's only close to a hundred households. If the social security agency is more diligent, within a week, those children can be separated from the interracial families and this number can be reduced to one."
James blinked and didn't follow.
Zach shook the cup, "If this is some kind of 'normal' serial murder case. What kind of pervert is the criminal, and what is his obsession with, well, blond women." Zach gave an example casually, don't pay attention, "This method won't work. After all, even the most powerful agency in this country cannot make all blond women with free will become bald."
James was still blinking.
Nazak continued, "But this case is very simple to operate. As long as a social worker determines that 'the child cannot obtain the necessary growth conditions in the current family,' the interracial family that adopts a human child will quickly Reduction. This is not even an exercise of power or a manifestation of free will, it is just the normal functioning of the basic functions of society."
James stopped blinking, but his expression didn't get better, it got worse, "This is a test of the murderer's loyalty to their standards of murder!"
That's right. The reason is, tsk, the standard itself for killing aliens who have adopted human children is very, very weird. If you have to add a prefix before the alien race, look at how simple the target of the hunter is, and he can kill an alien race.
"That's right." Zach nodded, "It's just to test the 'loyalty' to the target. Aren't the police willing to figure out the criminal's way of thinking? The motivation for targeting a specific target?"
"Tsk." James clicked his tongue. He didn't want to answer this question for the Vega police, but he said, "If this test succeeds, the Vega police will successfully seduce criminals into committing crimes in specific interracial families. If it doesn't succeed!" This is more important. "Your method will just make nearly a hundred children lose their families out of thin air! Moreover, the aliens who may be attacked will still be attacked and die!"
Zach put down the wine glass and looked at James seriously, "Do you really think it is a good thing to raise children from a different race?"
James was stunned for a moment, how did he know? ! He couldn't answer this question!
Zach can. "From my personal experience, I don't think that's a good thing."
James... opened his mouth wide, "You?! Have you ever raised a human child?!"
"It's not quite raising. But it's infinitely close." Please recall the story Zach told Louise about how he was supported by a boy in the North Country. Do you think that story is a good story? "So I don't think that incident was a good thing. It can't be a good thing for humans to become emotionally dependent on aliens. The family is the highest level of cultivation of this kind of dependence. If we continue to deepen this level, human beings in the state of children are the most likely to become dependent. s things'."
In order to make it easier for James to understand, Zach added, "Look at you, we have known each other for only a year, and you can still rely on your adult self-awareness and gradually learn to try to escape my influence." Deliberately "But if you You’ve called me daddy since you were little, do you think you can still get rid of my influence, bastard?”
James' face wrinkled into a rag, "Okay, okay! I understand! You don't have to use such disgusting metaphors!"
"I just used the most efficient metaphor." Zach smiled, and the atmosphere relaxed slightly. "As for the result of the test, even if the aliens no longer have human children, they will still be murdered. Then this case , you don’t need to continue paying attention.”
"What?!" James almost slammed the table.
"Because there is no factor of human children, James, you are just doing things purely for the alien race, you understand. Or for the alien race that is far in the west and has nothing to do with your life." Zach became serious again, "This is not Your persona.”
James froze. Lutresembra already made it clear about his character on the phone, right? James Lance, when it comes to aliens, is definitely not 'Jack Sue'.
There was absolute silence in the office for half a minute. The next sound was accompanied by the sound of chewing as James resumed eating and mumbled words, "Joe's case is solved. If you care, it was a burglary gone wrong..."
"I know, Joe has been to Grande. You said it was your suggestion to him to come to a place with less people in the South District." Zach said very pleased, "Yes, James, I am proud of you." …”
"Stop!" As for the father-son joke just now, James doesn't need Zach's pride. In every sense, it's better to shut up Zach as soon as possible, "Don't you still want to go to Walter's place? I don't need you to accompany me here. I want to eat!" He actually chased Zach away from Zach's office. Really worthy of being proud.
"I'm not going today, Louise is going alone."
James glanced at Zach, his eyes not very... upright. But asked nothing.
Zach still answered, "She said 'see you tomorrow.'" Zach first repeated the last words Murphy said to him in that world yesterday, "I decided to punish her."
James looked at Zach again, with undisguised disdain. He stood up with the plate in hand and went to the restaurant to continue his dinner.