The first sunrise in Newton is not as beautiful as Barton...
To be more specific, it is not as beautiful as Barton South. Vertex 23S. The fastest update. Because at least there are no buildings blocking the sunrise on the east side of Barton South District. You can see the complete process of the ball that gives the world brilliance rising from the sea level.
In Newton? Don't think about it. If the scenery is blocked by some beautiful high-rise buildings, forget it. After all, man-made buildings can also exude the beauty of civilization under the light of the sunrise. But the buildings in Newton... are dead.
literal death
"Another angel went to that building." Louise was in Zach's arms, and the two vampires occupied the roof of Yuehua's house. Louise was referring to a building east of Newton.
"Another one died." Zach glanced at it. The golden color of the opened door of heaven completely covered up the sunshine of this world.
"Hey." Louise sighed, turned her head, closed her eyes and rested, "My mood has gotten worse so early in the morning."
"It will only get worse." Zach stopped looking at the sunrise and looked at the community streets below. The familiar sound of cars is entering this community controlled by Indian women.
Louise heard it too, but didn't bother to look, freeing Zach's arms because she knew he would soon be occupied. The familiar sound of the car was James's car.
Zach didn't hurry down to the ground, sitting on the roof and watching the car drive into the driveway, then open the door. Wes got out of the car, walked directly to Yuehua's front porch, and rang the doorbell.
Zach decided to stay on the sidelines with the mentality of watching a show.
Baiying opened the door, holding a bowl with eggs in her hand. She had a job and was the oldest in the family. Making breakfast should be the only chore Baiying does in this house.
Baiying looked at the Barton police detective and said simply, "Is something wrong?"
Weiss said, "Let's talk to your roommate, Yuehua."
The title 'roommate' obviously makes Baiying a little uncomfortable. Just like her setting, she only says important words, "Do you mean my lover, my partner, the person I can't marry for the time being, Yuehua?"
Wes's face looked a little dark. It seemed that the two vampires on the roof were not the only ones who were stimulated early in the morning. "Is she here?"
"Why are you looking for her?" Baiying didn't waste any time and started beating eggs. Since the person in front of the door was an old acquaintance, Baiying's method of beating eggs was witchcraft. A dark red Indian mantra stirred in the bowl like a whirlwind, making Weiss look uncomfortable.
"She's a witness in a case and I need to talk to her!"
Zach raised his eyebrows, it must have been the case at the Newton University construction site yesterday.
"She already told the police what she knew. There is nothing more to say." The bowl in Baiying's hand shook, and the egg lifted by the dark red spell took off and floated towards the pot in the kitchen. New ingredients and tools also floated from the kitchen to Baoying at the same time, and Baoying began to mix the salad in front of Wes. Really no time is wasted at all.
Weiss's patience must have run out, "But I don't represent your Newtown police department, right? I'm a police detective in Barton! So when I say I want to talk to Yuehua, I mean..." Weiss glared. He glanced at the air and said, "I need to talk to her!"
Baiying showed no unnecessary expression throughout the whole process. He glanced behind Weiss and said equally important words, "Where is your partner."
"He's dead!" Wes replied.
"Yes." Baiying glanced towards the roof, and just in time, he guided Wes's gaze towards Zach. Then I went straight back to the house and closed the door! "Yuehua is still sleeping. We are all guests. You can pass the time by yourselves." The host's hospitality was really grand.
Zach landed next to Wes, pointed to the hanging chair on the front porch, patted Wes comfortingly, and asked him to choose a seat first, "Isn't James willing to come to the Black Witch's community?"
As soon as Wes sat down, a cup of coffee dragged by a spell came to the window. Wes took it with a complicated look and said a small 'thank you' to the witchcraft user in the window. Then he said to Zach, "Not even here. He just guessed that you and Louise might be here and don't want to come."
"Heh, let's just treat him as dead." Zach smiled, "How is the situation at Newton Police Station?"
Weiss took a sip of coffee and said with a bad expression, "It's terrible! We reported the information about the smuggling gang to the Newton Police Department as you suggested. According to the content of the Barton case, people who died from partial organ function stopped , is a member of the smuggling gang. In Barton, this kind of death can be regarded as an internal dispute within the gang, but not in Newton." Looking at Zach, he obviously needed help, "Most of the dead in Newton are civilians. The theory of internal disputes among the smuggling gangs in Barton does not hold water in Newton."
"You don't have to stand still." Zach waved his hand, "They were two different cases originally. You were just invited to supplement the intelligence as a consultant who died in similar ways." Zach's words had completely thrown away James. , "How to advance this case in Newton is the job of the people here in Newton."
Wes held the coffee and frowned, thinking about Zach's words.
Weiss is not like James. In Weiss's world view, society has always had alien races and humans coexisting. Don't you forget this? When he first returned to Barton, when he was still unaware of the influence of Barton's aliens, he was in the nursing home. In the fire incident, he showed an attitude of consciously stepping back and staying out of the way when he came into contact with foreigners.
We have always considered this a strength of Wes.
Now this advantage comes into play again.
Weiss thought for a while, "Yuehua has been involved in this case as a witness, and I know that angels must be collecting the souls of those who died. Do you mean that Newton's aliens are already involved in the entire case? Going?"
Zach has always admired Wes's way of thinking, "You are right. A large number of deaths have appeared in Newton, which will have an impact on the people of Newton and the alien races. Like any society where people and alien races live together, it is difficult to solve this problem." Everyone will contribute to the case.”
Wes breathed a sigh of relief, "That puts me at ease." He took a sip of coffee and said, "Because the people from the Newton Police Department did not accept the smuggling gang disputes that James and I informed about, they deliberately gave us the case of several corpses. He looked back at Baiying in the window and said, "I knew it was the right thing to come here first."
With that said, he handed Zach the coffee cup, went to the car, and when he came back, handed Zach a document from the Newton Police Department.
Zach hates looking at documents. Living up to Wes's trust, he opened it and glanced at it, "This is the one that was found at the construction site of Newton University, and was later proven by testimony to have been moved..." Zach scanned a keyword, "Throwing the body to the construction site?" "Read Yuehua's confession record carefully.
Yuehua said that when she was visiting friends near Newton University, she saw a group of people carrying a suspicious box and climbing over the roadblock at the construction site. When they came out again, the box the group brought was gone. Yuehua felt curious, so she took a look after the person left and saw the body sinking in the new cement floor.
Zach looked up at Wes, "How were the bodies buried under the road discovered?"
Can you make sense of it? The body was dumped on a concrete floor that was being renovated. After the body was completely sunk into the road, no one would know that there was a person underneath. Then the body would not have been found. Without being discovered, the police would not have suspended the Newton University project, the construction team would not have entrusted Richie to resume work, and Yuehua would not have been a witness.
Weiss turned over a page of documents for Zach, "The road where the body was dumped was vandalized the next day." Weiss curled his lips, "People from the Newton police said that someone has been sabotaging the construction process of Newton University." Waving his hand, this is not the case. Now to the subject, "The body was turned out."
There was a photo of the body when it was found. Zach glanced at it and closed it directly. A professional in the funeral industry told Zach that no matter how good the restorer was, there was no way to save such a body. Have you ever played with building blocks and plasticine? Throw the building blocks into the plasticine and stir it up.
A new question arose. Zach looked at Wes, "The body is already like this. How did the Newton police classify this body into a case of death caused by some organs suddenly stopping working?"
Wes's face returned to gloom, and he helped Zach open the file from the Newton Police Department and turned the pages, "Because the deceased had contacted the Newton Police before his death. This is the call record at that time."
Zach can only watch anymore
The deceased seemed to have a premonition that he would die, but he was not sure how he would die. His conversation with the police operator was filled with questions like 'Why don't you message me! I need protection! I might die! 'When the operator asked him if sleeping could kill him, his response was, 'I don't know! But so many people have died recently, how can you police do your job well! Find the murderer! ! '
Zach finished reading and curled his lips, "So it was not the police who classified him, but himself, who foretold in advance that his own death would be the same as the large number of deaths in Newton."
Wes nodded, "He provided his identity, address, contact information on the phone..." Uncomfortable, "everything." He was desperate. He really placed all his hopes on the police to send someone to protect him. .”
Zach asked the question that would make the topic more uncomfortable, "Did Newton police protect him?"
"No." Weiss shook his head gloomily. "After the prank call was handled and the punishment was still in the process of being submitted to the court, this man's body was discovered at the construction site."
Zach and Wes shared a moment of silence, and this was when the tragic ending of a true human tragedy came, and no one could be blamed.
After the moment of silence passed, Zach had a new question, "With a real-name phone call, the police submitted it to the court and requested punishment. The rules of the Newton Police Department are too strict."
Wes looked at Zach for a moment with the corners of his mouth twitching, "This is not strict, occupying police resources is a very serious illegal act." As a police detective, his attitude was first expressed, and then... he continued to look back at Zach's hand gloomily. The document said, "I can't tell you the reason, but the Newton Police Department has received a lot of calls from people who are crazy and sure that they are going to die!"
Zach nodded slightly, understanding the difficulties of the Newton Police Department, but the question still had to continue, "Are they all the same real-name phone numbers as this person?"
Weiss shook his head, "When Newton began to find a large number of corpses, there was a sudden increase in calls like this at a certain time. There were some who called the police with real names, but most of them were very vague, and then these calls disappeared completely." Wes looked at Zach. Both of them were understanding people, so there was no need to be vague. "It felt like, at the beginning, no one knew what caused these people to die, and they were still guessing. Some anxious people People began to ask the police for help, but the fact was that the police did not help in this situation, and then everyone finally realized it!" Weiss's face was a little ferocious, "It's Xiaobai! If you want to survive, you can only continue to use Xiaobai! These people also Just don’t expect anything from the police anymore.”
Zach was thinking about whether to tell Wes about Winston.
The reason for consideration is actually entirely timing. Don't get me wrong, Zach will tell Wes... er, and James sooner or later. But informing too early will do no one any good. Although Wes could rely on his world view and knew that the detective would not interfere with Winston's plan, Winston, with the cooperation of Richie, succeeded in making the inevitable Xiao Bai's death happen smoothly at least. Don't cause new troubles in human society. During this time, as Weiss said, angels are receiving the dead souls, and the black witch group represented by Yuehua has also intervened in the police investigation. The alien race in Newton can always find an explanation that can be accepted by the human society in Newton, so that the whole thing can pass peacefully.
But can we put our trust in James? Well, although we can treat him as dead, this guy's resurrection only takes a moment. Without Zach making any 'out of the ordinary' moves, you can expect James to get in front of Zach and yell at Zach...
"Zach." Wes unexpectedly pressed Zach's shoulder. This action was usually done by Zach to others to comfort him. Now, Wes obviously didn't want to comfort Zach. His eyes were full of help, "We all know that Xiaobai has two side effects!"
Zach instantly predicted what Wes was going to say, but...
"The withdrawal reaction leading to death is the worst one! The other one!" Wes stared at Zach, "Although it is also bad, and if you are not careful, it may cause all humans to panic about the definition of death! But we You know, that’s not death!”
Another side effect of Xiaobai is that after long-term use of Xiaobai, the living corpse may 'sleep' and then be unable to wake up. To become a Xiaobai gang, you need to move the Ford Funeral Home, issue a fake death certificate, and then put it on The cargo of the Republic's ship...
Zack instinctively rejects this option because the living corpse state is the permanent vampire inheritance timing state! Zach keeps feeling something weird!
Weiss continued, "As long as the amount of Xiaobai is large enough, we can save all the Xiaobai users in Newton!"