I don’t know if you have ever had this feeling in your life. The bad feeling is outside the scope of your consciousness, and something is happening. Vertex 23S. The fastest updated. For example... the water pipes in the walls of your home are leaking; thieves are observing your movements of taking out money; express delivery on the way is being thrown to the ground by workers...
It's the 'little' things that happen all the time, the 'normal' things, things that are outside of your awareness. Until it appears in front of you and turns into a disaster.
We call this feeling a sense of crisis. When you look around and see that everything is a smooth daily routine, you know it deep down! Something terrible is about to happen!
It's a sickening feeling.
Zach was in this feeling. The last time Zach felt like this was... a century ago. As a member of the Moriarty family, Zach was chatting with a group of gentlemen at a party in an upper-class society.
The content of the chat was that one of the gentlemen complained that his slave had escaped and now he needed to buy a new one and retrain and retrain, which was a waste of energy...
Let Zach circle around there, it's better to have a sense of crisis than none.
It was the employees in the Grande Living Area who noticed something was wrong with Zach's condition. They found their boss circling Grande's backyard non-stop for almost an hour, continuing without slowing down.
Some guy approaches Zack.
"How many benefits did Evan give you before you let him go?"
Wrong question in every sense of the word. Zach wasn't going to pay attention.
"Hey! We all will leave Grande sooner or later. If you try to get some benefits for yourself before leaving Grande, hey, brother, none of us will criticize you or anything like that. On the contrary, why don't you leave? Before that, how about doing something for us?”
Zach glanced at the guy who came to talk to him, "Who are you?"
"xx." With a speechless look. There is no doubt that it’s the speechless Zach who doesn’t even know his name.
"xx." Zach repeated, "If you continue to follow me, I will tell old Hank your name."
"Uh, come on, man! I didn't offend you!"
"You're offending me now."
"Just tell us directly, how much do you want before you are willing to give us freedom! Let us get out of this hellish place!" The other party was not ready to talk properly.
Zach continued to take a few steps forward, then suddenly turned around and leaned towards this xx, "You said, 'we'."
The other party was obviously startled by Zach's sudden approach. He took a slightly unsteady step back and kept his distance from Zach. "Well, there are seven of them that I know of, including me."
"Almost a third." Zach continued to approach. "Do you want to leave Grande?"
The other party continued to retreat, with obvious suppressed panic, "Well, you don't have to think that this is offensive to you... I mean... you won't stay in Grande anyway, and we want to leave has nothing to do with you..." The soft-spoken person Silence.
"Then tell me why." Zach's footsteps did not stop.
After the other party stumbled out of Zach's direction, he blinked and followed Zach who had already walked past him. The circle changed from clockwise to counterclockwise, and there was an additional follower.
"That... Didn't Evan say that? When he left?"
"He said his, now I want to listen to yours." Zach said in a toneless tone.
"Uh, okay." The guy turned around and gestured to the employees who were looking this way in the living area, and then stayed beside Zach, "We don't really believe in Old Hank's idea of Grande's future. ." He glanced at Zach secretly, "We are not stupid either. We all saw that you are the big one in Grande. You know a lot of cool people in Barton, *, let alone Barton, that one lives for free every day. Detective Lance in Grande, isn't he the son of some great general in the west! The one who really has the resources in Grande is you. Hum, after you leave, I'm sorry, it's the same sentence, no offense intended, None of us are optimistic about how good Grande's future development will be."
Zach nodded slightly, "Don't you think Old Hank can lead Grande to receive the resources I left for Grande."
"Tsk. Let's put it this way, we all know what old Hank does. He also took us to do 'work' a few times. He is very powerful, but that's all! We have seen you in your office. The police chief, Ethela, the big shots in the West District, when you were meeting with those people, where was old Hank? Uh." The guy shook his head as he spoke, suddenly stopped, and looked at Zach, "Evan has Didn’t he mention to you his plan to make Old Hank suddenly disappear one day?”
very good. When Zach was disturbed by the feeling of crisis and could only circle around, having such a down-to-earth exchange was really... healing.
Zach gave the guy who was not prepared to remember his name a smile, "He mentioned it."
"Hey, why am I not surprised at all? Evan is a bad guy and he is not afraid." The guy curled his lips, "So you know that Evan is planning to take you in and leave it for Grande. Everything. Now that Evan is gone, what can we do if we stay in Grande? Be gravekeepers for the rest of our lives? Uh-huh."
Zach suddenly remembered what Emilia said inadvertently after finishing Evan's psychological treatment. She said that Grande's future probably had no future. At the time, Zach didn't understand how a psychiatrist could come to this conclusion. Now, Zach seems to understand.
"Even if I leave, the owner of Grande is not Old Hank, you can rest assured."
"Then who?? The real Grande son? The doctor? Uh." The guy shook his head vigorously, "Do you know, he has been to Grande several times, and we have tested him."
"Oh?" Zach was a little curious. Every time Derek came to Grande, he didn't look like he had been threatened by some ex-criminal. "What are you trying to test?"
"Test him to know that you are not his brother at all! Hank said that your and Benjamin's false identities are only known within Grande, so we have to slowly squeeze you out and take Grande back. Hum. , 'Take Back the Grand', Hank's motivational slogan!"
Zach laughed again, "Derek knows I'm not the real Grande."
"That's it!" This guy started to roll his eyes. "He knows that every time he is called to Grand by Hank for some inexplicable reason, the person he spends the most time with is your fake brother! We are not blind. , we can all see it! And do you know what conclusion we came to? Even the real Grande son is closer to you, the fake! Uh... No offense, you know. Then you said, Grande Virtue, what else is left for us? Huh, an old man who doesn’t know how many more years he can still dance.”
"Hahaha." Zach's smile was quite kind, "You think so just because you missed the people who will truly inherit Grande."
"Who? Don't talk about Alice. God, even if I am an ex-criminal, I know that your little sister is just a high school student. If you and Hank just want to build Grande into some kind of gray industrial base, let it go Live like that innocent girl.”
Ouch~ An ex-criminal with a moral compass~
"Innocent girl?" They were talking about Alice. Zach didn't mean to be sarcastic. He looked at this guy with curiosity, "What do you think of my little sister?"
"This is not a trap problem." This guy suddenly became alert.
Zach was also alert, "No. Remind me, what crime did you go to jail for?" Please, it's not an obscenity crime, then Zach will regret asking this question.
"Theft!" the guy answered quickly. You can breathe a sigh of relief. "You really want to know what we think of Alice?"
Zach just made a please gesture.
"Okay. First of all, she's a girl. Secondly, she's a girl. And finally, she's a girl!"
Okay, very fully expressed.
Zach could only nod at this irrefutable answer, but, "The reason why you can enjoy incomplete freedom in Grande is because you are a woman."
"Tsk. We know that the halfway house project was started by Aisela, but Aisela is Aisela, and she is the ex-wife of the current mayor!" Cause and effect were reversed in this guy's mouth. This guy obviously It is believed that Athera's achievements are due to the fact that she is Antony's ex-husband. But it is understandable that ordinary people will not think or understand that the mayor became the mayor because of his ex-wife, let alone such an ex-criminal. "Aisela is not an ordinary woman. She has resources. She has means, just like you!"
"Do you think Alice doesn't?"
"Alice is a girl, and boy, what does she have!"
"You are indeed blind." Zach smiled and waved his hand, "Can't you see who Alice's friends are."
"Uh, those three generations of West End people? Forget it, you are Alice's guardian, what's the point of your relationship? How can they not be friends?! Not to mention they go to school together! When you grow up, do you think those friends are still No, my friend! The adult world is beyond the control of a little girl! Humph!" That's it, the ex-convict is sharing his life wisdom.
But there’s no way, Zach wants to listen, so we have to listen too. Objective judgment, this is similar to the wrong inversion of cause and effect above. How should I put it? There is no need to be so serious about sexism, just inertia of thinking.
Zach was silent, thinking. The meaning of down-to-earth communication is that this is the other person's true thoughts. Although it is far from the truth, it is true to him. Not everyone is lucky enough to rely on facts to decide their actions. Everyone only cares about what they think is true.
Therefore, Zach can't convince this guy here that Grande's future is infinitely bright... Zach can't even convince himself.
After not waiting for Zach's reply for a long time, this guy became a little anxious, "To be honest with you, you are a 'good person'. I even apologized for the things we did to you when Evan was still here... Listen. Wait, I'd love to continue walking around here and chatting with you, but I really don't have the time. Hank just went to the tomb area for a walk. He may come back at any time. He doesn't like us to be in contact with you alone. If he is in our Just give us a random note on the schedule and we'll be doomed! Just give us an accurate answer! How much do you want to give us freedom?"
Zach still said nothing.
"Tsk! You know we are paid in Grande, but don't worry, we all still have some hidden things, some people have money, some people have things that were hidden outside before..." Don't comment, now he is an ex-convict. Showing his trump card, "It should be worth some money. You just have to give me a price!"
Zach also felt that it was time to give the other party a right word. These people are quite pitiful, aren't they? "I don't need money."
"Then what do you want? What did Evan give you??" You can hear the anxiety in the other party's words.
"He..." Zach was wondering whether to lie casually or... "He didn't give me anything." To be honest, "He was let go because an old friend asked me for help, and I did it easily."
This guy stood there, watching Zach walk away a little bit, "We will never be able to leave this hellish place, right!"
Zach glanced back and shrugged.
"*!*!!"
Zach continued to circle alone, and the sense of crisis that had been interrupted and calmed down again returned.
Louise stuck her head behind the office window, "Phone, Anthony."
Zach stepped onto the back porch, up the stairs, into the office…
"He died." Louise glanced at Zach speechlessly, "I told you to watch the news at night, and then call Benjamin to go to the port at midnight to celebrate."
celebrate. You can guess what they are celebrating.
Zach turned around and left the office again, went downstairs, down the back porch, and continued in circles.
"Please let me go! I said 'please', how about you help me, please?" The guy just now ran to Zach again.
Surprisingly, joyful.
Zach was amused, "Haha, it's time for you to go back to the living area. I can hear the footsteps of old Hank coming back."
This guy glanced to the west warily. If he could see Old Hank, he would be in trouble. Reorganizing his emotions and facial expressions, "Please, let me leave Grande. I want to have a truly new beginning, which does not include guarding the cemetery for a lifetime and disposing of the corpse." He also winked at Zach, fearing that Zach would not listen. Got it, "Legal and illegal bodies (Old Hank's trade). Please."
"Seriously, old Hank is coming back. You should go back to the house." Zach smiled and shook his head as he walked back to the back porch, where there was a new phone
Louise also stuck her head out and said, "Lesembra." Seeing that Zach had entered the building, she shrugged and disappeared behind the window.
Zach entered the office, and when he passed by Louise, he was still followed by that... xx.
"My father has set off. Since he is somewhat curious about modern human transportation methods, I think you should have plenty of time to prepare for the job."
Zach glanced at xx who had followed him in, gave Louise a look that didn't bother him, and then said to the receiver, "Is there anything else you need to explain, Mr. Mayor Vega?"
"Wei, Vega? That Vega from the west??" Ignore this guy who entered Grande's office for the first time.
"Do you have a visitor, my dear brother?"
"No, just a confused employee." Zach waved his hand, "Do you want to hear the heart-to-heart conversations between my employees and me?"
"Not interested. This reminds me that I don't like your descendant, Charlie. Keep him away from my descendants."
Zach looked happy, why wasn't he happy? This means that Charlie is properly executing the authority given to him by Zach to select qualified descendants for Toledo, "Is there any more?"
Probably hearing the happiness in Zach's words, the person on the other end of the receiver took the wrong direction, "You sound very happy. Did your friend tell you the results of Mayor Barton's election?"
Zach didn't need to explain this misunderstanding, "Yes, Anthony just called and confirmed his re-election. We will celebrate tonight."
xx: "City, Mayor Anthony??" Leave this guy alone.
"Haha, not bad. Go celebrate." It was an imperative sentence, as if Zach's celebration required his permission.
"Any thing else?"
"Since you asked, I have already given Hamilton the order about Asamat, and you should be ready to receive the order at any time. When I say preparation, you may hope that when Hamilton arrives in Grande, haha, your wife ,not at home."
The Sabbat doesn't know that Murphy is in another world, does it
"Any thing else?"
The receiver was quiet for a while, as if he was thinking about what else he could say to Zach. Everyone knows, it would be so embarrassing if Zach asked so persistently and didn't respond with anything.
"I would be happy to hear the follow-up to Secretary Anthony's disappearance."
"Well, what can I say, she's missing. Is there anything else?" Look up the dictionary to find out what missing means.
There was another silence.
"Toledo, are you digging out everything I can say and then looking for an opportunity to hang up on me?" Mayor Vega on the other side of the receiver, Rutelesombra, seemed to have become smarter.
"No, I enjoy hearing your voice." Don't take it seriously.
"Yeah, if that's the case, then I'm satisfied..."
Zach died. Then he looked sympathetically at xx who had listened to his call, "You're done, old Hank is going upstairs."
Three seconds later, "What are you doing?!" Old Hank's voice said, "Why are you in this guy's office! Do you want to go back to prison?! Huh?! Do you miss your friends in prison?!"
See, the little things that happen outside of your awareness can be a disaster once they appear in front of you.
Poor xx, what is his name, we don't even remember his name.