It was predicted before that Hughes Refro would come to accompany Zach...
"I have no experience working with police detectives. Apex 23S. The fastest update." Hughes suddenly appeared outside the living room window of Yuehua's house and spoke to Zach who was watching TV inside.
Zach has been following this guy's position with his eyes since Revro's aura appeared in the Black Witch community, thinking that he would hear the other person's knock at the door. As a result, there was no knock on the door, and the other person was directly outside the window. Showed up. Zach blinked, "What?"
"I said that in my life of nearly several centuries, I have never had any experience of cooperating with the law enforcers of human society." Perhaps because of his poor hands, Hughes pulled out a flower Yuehua planted on the windowsill, crushed it, and Throwing it back into the flower pot, "I never thought I would have this experience."
Zach actually wanted to ask why this guy didn't come in to talk. This kind of conversation through the window was a bit inexplicable, "No, it's not like that. I can understand the social environment in your west (law enforcement officers and vampires with absolute power are in conflict). , but no personal mutual friendship at all?"
"No." In Zach's eyes, Newton's Hughes was quite frank. "Vampires in the West don't have to have friendship with the police. If you have absolute power to suppress something, then spend time with this thing." Building a relationship is a waste of time.”
To take a very extreme example, an elephant will not spend time chatting with an ant in front of its feet. The elephant will just walk right past it.
Zach hummed, "Do you want to come in?" The curious question just now was asked, mainly when he saw Hughes reaching out to Yuehua's flower again.
Hughes frowned, "I don't want to." He immediately answered, "I want to, too." He crushed a poor flower again, "Part of my reason told me that I shouldn't continue to have contact with you, and I still want to maintain that you don't know me. , a state we have never met. But another part of my reason tells me that you are the only vampire I know who knows how to cooperate with the police, and I can only seek advice from you. "
"Oh." Zach tilted his mouth, stood up and went to the door. Anyway, the door was opened. It was up to the other party to decide whether he wanted to come in or not. "I see you are wearing the uniform of the security company." Hughes's upper body was exposed outside the window. There is a security company logo on the collar of the clothes, "You listened to my advice."
Hughes outside the window lowered his head and tilted his gaze slightly towards the opened front door, obviously struggling, "Yes, I personally have obtained the rights of one-third of the merchants in Newton City through the resources of the security company. Monitoring. This is much more efficient than our previous mindless exploration in Newton."
"City x? Isn't it the district where Newton University is located?" Zach glanced at the guy outside the window.
Hughes pursed his lips and looked at Zach with an expression that was slightly difficult to interpret.
Zach noticed, "Why are you looking at me like that."
"I'm just curious, how did you do it? Just two sentences to the point."
"Did I say something?" Zach really didn't know what he was talking about, "Newton's urban zoning?"
"Uh. That's not it."
"Oh, Newton University?" Zach waved his hand, "I don't know what you misunderstood, but I only know a few landmarks in Newton." Zach smiled, "Haha, it's you It’s too urgent. Now you have exposed yourself and what you just mentioned, which makes you need advice on cooperating with the police, is related to Newton University~"
Hughes clicked his tongue at the window and disappeared from the window. Soon, he came in through the front door and stood next to Zach. "I decided that it would be more beneficial to get your advice than not to have contact with you." He is an upright guy. Well, "Then, my pride will not allow you to call me 'Sid of Newton' anymore. I have my own name, Hughes Revero."
Zach smiled kindly, "Well, I'm very happy to meet a new Sabbat companion, Xiu Si Revluo." The kindness was because Zach didn't want to expose the other party, and no one would think that this guy came here just for Express your inner struggles outside Zach's window. The decision was made when he set out to come here. He came here to formally complete his self-introduction. Just being pretentious, just for self-esteem.
Hughes wasted no time, "As you just discovered..." He frowned, "I leaked information." He said straightforwardly, "You should be able to guess that the security company I work for is responsible for the security of the Newton University construction site. "
Zach nodded, and combined with what Hughes said just now, "Has someone from the Newton Police Department cooperated with your company?"
"No." Hughes looked at Zach, "It's your two friends who want to cooperate with me."
Zach was quiet for a while and raised his eyebrows, "Wes and James?"
Hughes nodded and began to take out documents from his briefcase and hand them to Zach.
Everyone knows Zach's attitude towards documents. He opened the document he was handed in his hand helplessly, without looking at it seriously. "If you want to cooperate with this pair of police detectives, I have no suggestions for you. I will give you everything." Suggestions may be counterproductive." He was talking about James' assassination at Fenway Park.
"Wes and James are not the focus." Hughes's thinking was extremely clear. "The two detectives from the Barton Police Department have no law enforcement rights in Newton. The ultimate direction of cooperation is the Newton Police Department. In other words , Wes and James are just tools to temporarily transmit information between me and the Newton Police Department." Looking at Zach, "And they are willing to be this tool."
"Active?" Zach smiled and shook his head, "I'm afraid you are in contact with the fake James Lance."
Hughes actually understood Zach's sarcasm and corrected him, "Wes took the initiative, and James Lance was in blackface throughout the entire exchange between Wes and me."
This is much more reasonable. Zach nodded and already flipped through all the documents in his hand. Of course, he didn't see much of the content. "What do I want to see?"
"Security rotation report, monitoring equipment maintenance report, security coverage blind spots..." After talking a lot, he finally took the document in his hand, "This is the security arrangement I currently arrange in Newton University Engineering."
Hughes is also very observant. He saw that Zach didn't like to read the report, so he didn't hand over the one in his hand. "I compared in detail the security of our company when the previous projects were destroyed. Arrangement. I discovered the fact that those who sabotage the project can always choose to take action during the rotation of our employees and equipment maintenance."
Zach was listening carefully.
Hughes continued, "There is another fact. In addition to the recent sabotage operation involving a black witch as a witness, the police obtained the prisoner's..." He curled his lips and pulled out a few more documents with his backhand. The police wanted order with a strong emphasis on contrast was added. The copy of the portrait that Weiss got from Yuehua, "Picture." Looking at Zach, "You should know, this is the police profile wanted, and this is the portrait that Weiss got from here."
Of course Zach nodded, and the matter happened right in front of his eyes, "You mean, whoever is doing the sabotage of the project knows the security arrangements very well, including the blind spots of surveillance."
Hughes nodded, "The result is that if the black witch hadn't obtained the death scene from the corpse, there wouldn't have been an eyewitness to these cases."
"Then..." Zach made a very reasonable guess, "These prisoners are professionals. They only act after collecting all the intelligence and formulating a comprehensive plan."
Hughes nodded, "The portrait Wes got from here cannot be used directly at Newton Police Station."
"Why?" Zach really didn't understand. Ordinarily, as long as the source of the portrait was provided by the witness Yue Hua, the Newton Police Department would not refuse to use it.
"It seems that James Lance has angered the Newton Police Department. The Newton Police Department does not believe the information provided by any of the two detectives Barton." Hughes waved his hand. It was not something he fully understood. He did not want to say more. To summarize, "If they hadn't been rejected at Newton Police Station, these two detectives would not have been lucky enough to find me here."
"Oh." Zach was not surprised at all, this was very James. Everyone must know that even in Barton, when James and Zach were still in the good stage of hello, me, and everyone, James could still find a way to anger Coulson, Cologne, his direct boss, and everyone around him...
Instead, Zach raised his eyebrows, "If the Newton Police Department doesn't accept the intelligence provided by Wes and James, how can it pass on the information to you?"
Hughes seemed quite proud of his conclusion, "Information can't be passed on, which is just right. It means I don't need to share things with the Newton police, and it's easier for me to do things." Full of positive confidence, "When information must be needed By the time Wes and James passed it to the Newton Police Department, I had already caught the culprit."
Zach thought for a moment before understanding what Hughes meant.
Do you all eat apples? Before an apple is put into your mouth, it needs to be grown first, then sold by a merchant, and finally in your hands. You are the Newton Police Department, the businessmen are Wes and James, and Hughes is the apple grower.
Because you don't believe in profiteers, you refuse to listen to the sales pitches for apples that come out of the businessmen's mouths, such as how good the origin is, how good the varieties are, how good the cultivation is... So the people who grow apples use pesticides when no one cares about the apple production process. Indiscriminate use of hormones and indiscriminate use of hormones... When the apples produced are put on the market, you will be the one who buys them.
Of course, this is a pretty extreme example.
But as long as everyone understands the meaning, in the process of transmitting information, there must be someone who plays the role of a businessman selling apples. If you don't ask the Newton Police Department, no one will take the initiative to tell you important information about the product's intelligence case. In the end, the only thing that comes before the police is the ripe apple itself.
Zach looked at Hughes, "It sounds like you already have a very thorough idea of how to deal with the police. What other advice do you want from me?"
Hughes curled his lips, "I do think comprehensively, but these are all my beautiful assumptions." He shook his head a little irritably, "For example, I don't know whether Wes and James will make any actions in line with my actions in the early stage. Their moral ethics." The last document that had been in his hand was opened. He had said before that this was a security arrangement that he personally arranged, "I designed a security arrangement with obvious security loopholes based on the reports on previous cases. Plan to lure criminals to sabotage the project again." Looking at Zach, "Can you assure me that Wes and James will absolutely support my actions?"
Zach tilted his head. Wes had already proven himself in Ford's novice case. Wes was willing to put aside his current professional ethics for the sake of the final result. As for James, does it need to be discussed? He won't.
Hughes already understood Zach's face, "So I need you, in this situation, to tell me how to stabilize the two detectives." He did not finish speaking, "Even if I successfully completed the first We have finally come to the stage of contacting the Newton Police Department." Frowning, "How should I explain to the Newton Police Department how I caught the criminal? Now the Newton police and security companies are not in the public opinion. unbalanced."
This should have been shown to everyone when telling everyone how Hughes became an employee of the security company.
"I don't want to do something good for this city, only to be maliciously targeted by the Newton Police Department. At this time, I need your help. How did you Grande reach a peaceful existence with the Barton Police Department?"
All right. To sum up, Hughes is courageous. He at least knows what to do, but at his core, he is not confident. It was understandable, after all, he was dealing with a group of people he had never dealt with before, and his lack of experience made him have some doubts about his actions.
And Zach, who is obviously a model of success, is here, so he comes to teach.
Understanding what Hughes was thinking, Zach was a little helpless now and said, "Okay, I understand what you mean, but when you say that, it feels like I have to watch next to you the whole time?" Zach looked at it. Hughes, "In the early stage, I will keep an eye on the two Detective Bartons, and in the later stage, I will keep an eye on the Newton Police Department. If you are in trouble, I will be there to help you at any time."
Hughes's face wrinkled a little, "Yes, I need you to be by my side the whole time..." He felt like he was asking for help, "Teach me."
And Zach, who is obviously a model of success, is here, so he comes to teach.
Understanding what Hughes was thinking, Zach was a little helpless now and said, "Okay, I understand what you mean, but when you say that, it feels like I have to watch next to you the whole time?" Zach looked at it. Hughes, "In the early stage, I will keep an eye on the two Detective Bartons, and in the later stage, I will keep an eye on the Newton Police Department. If you are in trouble, I will be there to help you at any time."
Hughes's face wrinkled a little, "Yes, I need you to be by my side the whole time..." He felt like he was asking for help, "Teach me."
"I'm just a nanny." Zach characterized Hughes' request.
"A guide that I need very much now and will remember in the future and be forever grateful for!" The nanny must be replaced, and Hughes knows what to say now.
Zach was quiet for a while, at least he didn't say the words 'your need, remembering and gratitude are useless', Zach's upbringing did not allow him to say such words.