Grande's east basement, morgue. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
Zach has something to ask Mr. Ford, and similarly, Mr. Ford also has something that needs Zach to explain. Zach said that those 'corpses' are living people, and now is the time to prove it.
More than ten 'cadavers' were arranged on the ground. After a night of thawing, they had risen to normal temperature. Zach first motioned to Ford to feel it.
"Is this the 'corpse' you dragged back last night?" Ford looked at the bodies on the ground and instinctively covered his nose, but put it down halfway because there was no smell of rotting corpses here.
Zach nodded. These bodies are all incomplete, some have no arms, some are missing a piece of flesh on their thighs, some... Anyway, it's a pretty disgusting picture.
One side of Mr. Ford's face was twitching, and his tone was a little excited. He didn't know where to direct his anger, so he just found a place to vent his emotions. "This is what xx (Short) secretly sold behind my back! I'm sorry." I will definitely quit him when I go back!"
"Don't." Zach shook his head, "He saved your life. If he hadn't sold these 'corpse' parts, I wouldn't have come to your place at night."
"If you hadn't run to my place last night, I wouldn't have been shot!" Ford glared at Zach, but quickly shook his head, looking too lazy to speak. Don't worry, I'll explain it later.
Zach glanced at Hamilton, who nodded indicatively and said, "The side effects of 'Xiaobai'." Don't be surprised, although Hamilton is investigating the missing mayor's secretary Gina, but Gina relies on He pretended to be dead and disappeared successfully. It is inevitable that Hamilton's investigation and the 'Little White' case will come together. "The cessation of body functions caused by 'Little White' will become more and more serious until..." He glanced at Ford, "People will never wake up again. . To humans, they are no different than dead."
The reason why humans are specifically emphasized is that for humans, the cessation of body functions and loss of the ability to live is indeed no different from death, but for aliens, the difference is very big. At least it is impossible for Zach to 'resurrect' these 'corpses' and hand them over to Wes as he planned before, because their souls are still in a state of being separated from the body but not completely leaving. Zack gives them blood, or creates vampires.
Zach took over, "For some reasons you don't need to know." He said to Ford, "I can't save them like I saved you, but you should have discovered that they didn't ** they are still alive. ."
Ford snorted with a gloomy expression, out of pure annoyance. Zach's pretentiousness is really frustrating sometimes, so he honestly told Ford what was wrong with him being a vampire! There won’t be any missing pieces of meat! But Zach just didn't want to say it.
Andrew... By the way, this kid is still following Zach. Zach had no intention of fulfilling his responsibility as a nanny for his neighbor's son, but today Andrew seemed determined to fulfill his role of being taken care of by his neighbor, hanging behind Zach at all times. What he said at this time shocked Ford, "I can stuff these people's souls back~"
Ford seemed to have only now noticed that there was a child next to them. Before he could speak, Andrew had already slipped between the legs of the three adults in front of the 'body' on the ground.
"It's no use, I've already tried it." The one who made the sound was Sam in the thimble on Zach's finger, with a mocking expression that he didn't want to be compared professionally, "You may be a gifted child, but I'm sorry , Soul control is my specialty."
Andrew turned back, his height determined that his sight could just reach the thimble on Zach's finger, "Then your method is wrong. The focus is not on the soul~ but on the body~"
Mr. Ford was already very confused about a child speaking suddenly on such an occasion, and now he didn't know who Andrew was talking to. His face wrinkled and he stared at Zach: "Do you have an ordinary human in Grande?!"
"Yes." Zach tilted his head and gestured to the south, "Ex-criminal employees in the living area."
Ford shut up, unable to chat.
Hamilton, on the other hand, seemed very interested in Andrew's words, "You said body."
Andrew nodded, "The alpha of the wolf pack that Mommy used to serve had a special... hobby." Andrew tilted his head thinking he was cute, "He wants to look back on what he did after the wolf body of the full moon is over."
Ford now felt so smart that he kept his mouth shut. If you don't shut up, where should you start asking about what you are hearing now? Not participating is the correct answer.
Maintaining the racial discrimination of a vampire against werewolves, Hamilton naturally mocked, "Huh, what else can a bunch of beasts eat, drink and litter together."
Andrew laughed, "Hahaha~" After laughing, "One of Mommy's jobs during the full moon cycle is to preserve the traces of wolf pack activities, including preserving some creatures that were attacked or eaten by wolves..." Andrew probably did it on purpose. , the little head was specially tilted towards Mr. Ford, with an innocent look on his face, "Sometimes, ordinary humans~"
Before Mr. Ford's face turned completely pale, Andrew had already approached the nearest 'corpse', "Mommy stopped the state of the creatures that encountered the wolf pack, so that Alpha could see the completely preserved body when retracing the wolf's movement trajectory. Scenes recall the situation.”
Andrew took action, placing his fingers on the body on the ground and quickly tracing witchcraft incantations, "The corpse is easy to preserve, usually frozen. But humans, especially humans who were attacked by wolves but did not die, are very troublesome. ~"
Hamilton reacted quickly, "You mean the werewolf candidate who was deliberately injured by Alpha but not killed, and wants to be absorbed into the wolf pack."
Andrew used witchcraft and nodded, "Not every human being can remain calm after discovering that he has been attacked by a monster, and calmly accept the fate of becoming a monster in the future~ Some people will react violently, which may expose the wolf The secret of the group~So, Mommy’s way of dealing with it is to leave these humans to Alpha for decision.”
"You mean your mother imprisoned these humans until Alpha fell?" Hamilton frowned. Vampires would naturally be curious about the inheritance of werewolves.
Logically speaking, the racial characteristics of vampires are worse than those of werewolves, but vampires win because vampires do not lose control and become monsters that are a threat to all living things once a month. Vampires, who can always look like a standard human and blend in human society, have thus gained a much better living space than werewolves.
It is said that the racial trait of werewolves, who must seek death once a month, must have been noticed by humans long ago and killed. But it still exists well now. It seems that it is the credit of those wolf wizards.
"It would be great if this were the case~ Mommy wouldn't have to bother so much~" Andrew smiled, "I told you, the Alpha that Mommy serves is sick, and he likes to look back on the wolf's deeds, so~ he has to do it He knew the reason why his wolf body attacked those humans~ He asked Mommy to save the situation of his wolf body attacking those humans~"
Zach pouted, not knowing how to evaluate
You all still remember a year ago, when James was found dying in the woods by Benjamin's wolf body. 'Benjamin' said that he discovered James, but deliberately decided not to touch James, because 'Benjamin' believed that James had the potential to become an Alpha, and 'Benjamin' did not want to create a person who would threaten his Alpha status. Descendants.
In this way, the Alpha that Andrew's mother Mu En serves is not sick, but a leader who fully knows what he is doing.
Andrew continued, "In order to save the situation when humans are attacked by wolves, Mommy created a witchcraft to stop the normal physiological processes of living things." Andrew's witchcraft has been completed, and there is only a little left, "Been The souls of humans who survive Alpha attacks but do not die will die, but their bodies will be healed and become containers for cultivating the dead souls to become wolves. The death of the soul cannot be prevented, but the process of the body being healed, Mommy can stop it."
The red spell painted on the 'corpse' flashed for a moment, and then there was no visual change. At least not in Ford's eyes.
Zach raised his eyebrows and glanced at Andrew, "The soul has merged with the body again. What did you do?"
"I terminated the normal physiological process of this body~" Andrew was very proud, looking up at his little face~
Wait a moment. Isn't the normal process of these 'corpse'-like bodies supposed to be **? In terms of human understanding of corpses.
Oh, wrong. The normal process of the body after taking 'Xiaobai' is the stagnation of physiological functions.
What Andrew terminated was stagnation. Therefore, these bodies that were supposed to be alive were restored... alive!
Hamilton's face instantly became wary, staring at the proud Andrew
This is something to be wary of. Witchcraft, as I have long told you, is a technology invented by Papa Midnight to manipulate the laws of the world. Controlling souls, transforming creatures... It's very powerful, but it's just powerful. Change the normal physiological processes of organisms
Predict what will happen if Andrew paints those spells all over Hamilton's body
Well... the vampire's biological characteristics of immortality have been terminated?
Zach was a little strange at this time, wondering why he didn't feel threatened. Zach patted Hamilton and said, "Would you allow a wizard to graffiti on you for one minute?" Yes, the casting time is too long. With this time, any vampire can dismember his enemy more than a dozen times. . However, although Zach said this, Zach himself did not think this was the reason why he did not feel threatened.
The corner of Hamilton's mouth twitched, "No." It was a false alarm.
Andrew gave additional comfort, "If you want to cure him, hurry up, this witchcraft won't last long..." He yawned, and his voice began to weaken and his little body began to shake, "Mommy, every time The first time I use this witchcraft... I have to sleep for a week..." He was hugged by Zach.
As if instinctively looking for something to rely on, Andrew's body twisted in Zach's arms, and his breathing completely calmed down.
Zach pursed his lips and said, "Hamilton, send him to the bedroom." He handed Andrew over.
Hamilton resisted for a while, but finally took over, but he said firmly, "This witchcraft cannot fall into the hands of the black witch!" Everyone remembers how incredible the black witch's witchcraft talent is.
Zach did not respond in any way. The reason was that Zach himself did not know why he was not frightened by this witchcraft.
There was no time for Zach to wonder why. Hamilton carried Andrew upstairs. Zach looked at Ford, whose face turned pale the whole time, signaled "I'm about to start", raised his hand, pricked his finger, and squatted towards the body whose normal physiological process had been terminated by Andrew. Body.
Ford's body trembled, and he subconsciously held his stomach. Last night, Zach put his hand here. But last night, his own blood took up too much attention. Now, he saw clearly that one of the important steps for Zach to save people was to bleed himself.
The body lying down, the missing part (sold to Harrison) began to grow, but other than that, there was no special visual effect. After all, what difference can it make if a 'corpse' that seems to be sleeping is restored to a real sleeping person.
The body pierced by Zach's fingers suddenly raised his legs and turned over, hugging the 'body' next to him, and rubbed the hugged guy as if in a dream. Zach also took the opportunity to retract his finger, "He's fine."
Ford opened his mouth several times and his expression changed several times. The last thing he asked was, "What are you going to do with these people?"
"Leave it to James. His partner Wes is investigating the 'Xiao Bai' case." Andrew saved Zach's plan.
Ford took a deep breath, "The person who shot me last night." The topic returned to the account he had just given to Zach and Hamilton, "He signed a long-term contract with me." He looked up at Hamilton who came back, " The content is that he will regularly send corpses to me, and I need to provide him with a legal death certificate, fabricate the source of the corpse, and complete the transfer in accordance with his requirements."
"The only funeral home in Barton that is operating normally is doing illegal business," Hamilton said. "Why I'm not surprised at all."
"Last night, he was the one who came to deliver the transfer destination of these corpses." Ford's expression turned gloomy and he didn't look at Hamilton. "When James Lance appeared, he thought I called the police."
Zach felt a little regretful, "Ford, why would you do such a thing?"
"You really have the nerve to ask?" Ford's mood changed, the bad kind, to Zach, "What is Grande?" to Hamilton, "What is your Allen?" Finally, he pointed to himself. , "I used to wonder if I was not suitable for the job I have been doing all my life. Now, I realize that I am not competing with people who are starting from the same starting point!"
Zach waved his hand, "Our three funeral homes in Barton have never been in a competitive relationship."
Ford gave a speechless look and didn't answer.
However, Hamilton pursed his lips and whispered, "Grand and Allen are not in competition. They just look alike." Knowing that this was too false, he gave up the explanation and resumed his volume, "I found it. One of the personal expenditure records of Mayor Secretary Gina is the transaction with the person yesterday. I think Gina’s ‘little white’ was obtained from him. He is my only clue.” Frowning, “In order to save James, I killed him."
Zach: "His soul can still provide some information. I asked you to go to Mary's Church last night. Did you find anything?" Death is definitely not the end of information acquisition in Barton's environment. Only Barton is a vampire with such a good relationship with the devil. This family. So Zach asked.
"Yes, there are, but not many. It is not as useful as keeping that guy alive." Hamilton shook his head helplessly, "He is just a node in an action chain, and now he is broken." Looking at Zach, "The whole chain was shaken."
Zach could accept this result, "Then let's use the information we can get..." Before Zach could finish, Ford seemed to be saying to himself, "I, what the hell did I get involved in..." After all, aside from Except for things like the soul, which Zach would not answer even if asked, the mayor appeared in this conversation. Ford, a little timid.
Hamilton didn't allow Ford to be cowardly now, pointing at Zach, "He is the person who saved your life. I am the person who helped you kill that person." This means that you were not involved in some ghost incident. , you are still inside, and the core is still inside, "Cooperate, or break up with our two families. Your choice."
Zach, I agree more with Hamilton's advancement at this time, but I have to say that Zach feels that Hamilton's wording can be a little gentler, "It's rare that our three funeral homes in Barton have a common goal, so that we can How about we cooperate well once?"
Ford looked at Hamilton, then at Zach, and chose Zach, "Okay, okay." He didn't have a choice.