James and Wes drove into the darkness as part of a Newton police motorcade. Streetlights, buildings, and all artificial light sources have lost the role for which they were created. Occasional bursts of lightning and sparks reflected off the road in front of the convoy.
The concrete floor does not reflect light at night. The light that occasionally heralds danger is transmitted by the diffuse and spreading water surface.
"We can't go any further!" The police officers from Newton Police Station made a judgment. "Has everyone put on their equipment?! Get out of the car! The first and second teams will start search and rescue first! The third and fourth teams will continue to Newtown. Patton University is approaching, please report the situation at any time! The fourth and fifth teams..." After finally completing the arrangement, "Barton's two... **! Where are the people!"
Where are people
The two Patton detectives had already entered the water and were close to the cover.
Wes grabbed James who continued to move forward, "We can't go any further." Wes felt the water that was already at the edge of the knee pads of his protective boots, "I don't want to die yet."
"They have cut off the power to the entire area! We will not die!"
"Can you have some common sense?" Wes was stronger than James and held down the resisting James. "The construction site has its own generator! The power supply network controlled by the city government is not the only source of power supply here!"
James stopped moving, standing tensely in the water. It's not that he became afraid of death after being reminded, but he was angry. They were already very close, and were already standing on the corner of the street where Fantasy Rich's fantasy office was located. If they could go a little further, turn a corner. , jog for a while, and you can find the 'culprit' of this Newton City accident.
Yes. Even though he didn't know anything, James had already put the responsibility for the accident on Richie, the Phantom Man.
reason? Richie is a fantasy man. Reasons over.
James is so 'upright'.
This may disappoint everyone. Wes, who has always been used as a foil to how bad James is, always treats foreigners objectively in various incidents. This time, he partially agrees with James.
Partial agreement means that Weiss also believes that this accident has something to do with the Phantom Man. The remaining part of the disagreement is that Wes does not think that human detectives have the ability to define the crime of Fantasy Man Richie.
Let us not care about the psychology of these two police detectives. What we need to know is that these two police detectives are on the right track. Literally, since they knew that there were aliens in the city that were influencing some events, they left the Newton police behind and headed to the phantom office in the accident area alone. This was the right direction.
The source of water conservancy, electricity, and paralysis of Newton University, a place that the Newton city government placed the city's pride on, was located in the office of Fantasy Rich.
However, Gento Rich really has nothing to do with the current situation. Due to Gento's special abilities, he was excluded from the plan by two vampires - who knows what will happen when an unstable Gento intervenes when the plan is implemented? What.
Yes, now the main people responsible for the creation of a freshwater lake in the middle of Newton, a coastal city, are none other than Zach and Hughes. But don’t expect to pass by first, don’t be in a hurry.
"Are you two looking for death?" Zach stood on the roof of the street corner, holding two civilians in each hand, looking down at the two police detectives who were in a daze below. As if to cooperate with Zach's words, the street was covered with water. A brilliant electric spark burst out.
It was enough for two detectives to see Zach's face when they looked up.
Wes's body sank, and James flew into his arms. Then Wes's body sank, and he passively held James and flew to the roof.
Zach patted his water-stained cuffs and walked around the perimeter of the roof without looking at the two detectives who were out of danger. He looked at the place where the red, white and blue light was flashing, and asked, "Yes." Someone from the Newton police?"
No need to think about it, the answer was Weiss who immediately abandoned James, "Yes! They first contacted the city government, cut off the power in this area, and then organized a search and exploration..."
Zach had seen the small kayaks heading this way on the street.
Don't think this is an exaggeration, after all, even James and Wes have not walked into the water deeper than their knees. But everyone should be aware of the principle of electric fish. One moment, the fish were floating freely in the water, and the next moment, they all turned white. Don't take any chances with things that happen in an instant. If you're not fully prepared, don't expect to escape.
Zach interrupted Wes, "They have to stop." He glanced at Wes, and then pointed in the direction deeper into Newton University, "During the initial chaos, a gas pipe burst in the newly planned dormitory area. ." Without giving Wes's face time to turn bad, he turned Wes's face towards the direction Zach came from. Except for the two civilians who had just been put down next to him, the roof was full of people. "The generator at the construction site. It's nearby and could cause an explosion at any time." Zach looked back to the direction of the Newton Police Department and said, "If the police go in, no one will need to be saved. Instead, they will die."
Weiss was stunned for a moment, probably because he saw a mess of people lying on the roof of a human building in the night sky. This scene was a bit shocking - this feeling was much more shocking than seeing wounds healed by vampire blood. Intuitively, the impact of quantity always exceeds that of quality, and everyone must admit this.
So, it was James who reacted. As soon as he got up and stood up straight, he rushed in front of Zach, "Can't you go turn off the generator at the construction site!"
It is understandable to ask questions about a race that is undeniably vulnerable in certain events, and to a race that is equally undeniable in those events as powerful.
Zack, the vampire, can do a lot more if he can save so many humans on the roof.
But this is not in line with the spirit of this era, right? Equality is the value of this world.
Zach didn't look at James. The entire "spring outing" in Newton has been going on until now, and James has not given Zach any reason to speak to James properly. Therefore, Zach waited until Wes reacted and replied to Wes, "I You can use the Charming Eye to make these people think that they have completed self-rescue, and then easily get rid of the relationship. But I haven't yet had the ability to repair the gas pipeline or stop the generator on its own."
This answer is so... realistic. It has nothing to do with the philosophical issue that Superman is also a human being, it is pure egoism. There are some things I can do, so I do them, and there are some things I can’t do, so I don’t do them.
James' face was swollen and full of blood.
To be honest, James needs to make up his mind about how he wants to view aliens. He couldn't just put the blame on the alien race as soon as something happened, and then change his mind and ask the alien race to do more things the moment he saw the usefulness of the alien race.
This situation is most obvious when James versus Zach, isn't it? No wonder, I don’t know if you still remember, but Murphy once said to James when he was at Yuri Hotel (Henuo) that James is also a human being struggling between reason and sensibility.
But don't take Murphy's evaluation, it applies to our evaluation of James here, because Murphy said that James's entangled emotions and reasons have reached a balance. It is a realm that all Assamite clan vampires do not have.
Balance, as we have witnessed, is no better than the imbalance experienced by the vampires of the Assamite clan.
"Where's Richie!" It must be that the accumulated grievances in his heart have reached the critical point. James actually thought of Richie, the only fantasy man he had ever 'suppressed', "You can't, he can!!" - Show James childishly proves, "I can make him do it!!"
"He's got other things to take care of." Zach was referring to Winston's plan, a monopoly deal at a motel on the edge of Newtown. Of course, it was explained early on that Zach was not going to tell the two detectives about Winston's novice plan, so it was impossible to say it clearly here, and could only vaguely say, "What kind of commission?"
Although Zach still answered James in the same way he spoke to Wes, Zach, based on his understanding of James, was very suspicious of James's motives for asking the Phantom Man, and added to Wes, "If you guys If you think this thing was done by a fantasy person, I can tell you right now that you are wrong. This is me... "
Before he finished speaking, Wes's face changed and he grabbed Zach, "Richie went on a commission? What kind of commission! From the cannery??!"
"What cannery." Zach didn't know what Wes was talking about.
"Martin! Rich revealed his non-human identity as a commissioned client, Martin's commission! The advance payment for his second commission has been paid to Rich's foundation!" Wes may have been a little anxious, and in excitement, It was all about things that Zach didn’t understand.
Perfect, James also joined, but it was not directed at Zach, but pulled Wes angrily, "We are late! If you didn't insist on using Barton's identity to get the Newton police to cooperate, we would have reported it directly Huan Ren, it won’t be too late!!”
Look, James' attitude towards foreign races really needs to be unified and changed.
Zach watched the argument between the two Detective Bartons for a while and understood a little bit. It seems that Weiss has found a way to force the Newton Police Department to open a case of unnatural death that occurred in the fish market in a way that the Newton Police Department cannot refuse. It seems to be related to some inexplicable foundation and Barton's Quest.
Knowing that Quest was involved, Zach didn't want to continue listening. We all know that Zach and Mr. Quest do not have a good impression of each other.
Based on what he had heard, Zach absolutely and inevitably sided with Wes, pushing away James who wanted to continue to entangle him, "Richie is not doing Martin's commission, your case is still there. "While giving Wes a look of approval, to James?" Ignore.
Zach just ignored it and continued to look at the Newton police who were using water vehicles to avoid danger on the street below and were traveling at a relatively fast speed. "We can't let them go any further." This was just a warning.
Zach left the edge of the roof and looked around among the scattered Newton civilians—
Zach has to pick a hero.
Following the human impression of a hero, Zach chose a man who looked pretty strong, lifted him up, and slapped him awake.
The moment the other person opened his eyes, he had already turned his red gaze upwards, "You saved everyone." Zach motioned to everyone around him, "How to save, you have five minutes to figure it out."
Tsk, Zach was lazy and left the work that he should have done to his newly awakened brain. Hey, forget it, don't worry about it, Zach doesn't have much time to make up stories for the 'hero'. Zach let go of the guy who had fallen into confusion just after he was freed from the Charming Eyes, and walked towards the edge of the roof again, not very gently kicking or pulling to wake up the civilians along the way. The memory that I had to control was given to everyone, "You were all saved by that person."
Zach walked to the edge of the roof, bent down to look at the policemen below who were getting closer and closer to the dangerous area, and cleared his throat, "Save us! We are all here!!"
Zach retracted his body, glanced at Wes, and tilted his head helplessly, "Comrade Newton is here to assist you."
Wes was excited and ready to respond to the police who heard the call for help below. He paused for a moment, opened his mouth, and his eyes were strangely blank. Then when he turned to James' face, he showed a kind of Inexplicable emotions.
Who knows what Weiss has gone through mentally in this short period of time. Anyway, the result was that he pulled James and pushed James directly to the edge of the roof, "You meet them!" He threw off his coat, took off the police badge from his waist, and walked towards the rescuer who was still in a daze. He became the 'hero' of everyone here, "The Barton Police Department is now cooperating with your Newton police in rescue activities." Wes looked at Zach who had already walked to the other end of the roof with his eyes that once again turned into complicated emotions, " How did you..." Weiss lowered his head when he looked away, "rescued these people?"
"I...I..." Everyone guessed how many times this 'I...' went on.
The answer is revealed, just these two times.
Don’t underestimate our brains. You must know that with the support of modern technology, we already know a fact—the thing that tells us that the brain is the most important organ in the human body is the brain itself~
A story of urban heroes that takes place in a moment of crisis, two 'I...'s are enough to construct it -
"I was watching TV, and then suddenly I heard my wife's cry. She was taking a shower, but the cold water suddenly disappeared! She was burned! I regretted that I didn't prepare common medicines at home, and I went out to buy medicines! Then I heard an explosion, right from that direction! I saw the workers running this way, and I realized something was wrong! I pulled the fire alarm downstairs, and when I saw water starting to come this way When it spread, several workers told me not to go down to the ground, so I stopped everyone and took them up... "
Wes raised his head, and when he looked at Zach, there was no shadow.
Zach moved quickly. Two reasons.
One, as planned, Zach will control the situation here and go to meet with Hughes after it is stable.
Second, Zach was also angry—things shouldn’t have gotten out of hand like this!
The plan is very simple, and the focus is not even here. On Hughes's side, what Zach calls controlling the situation here is not at all about saving a bunch of Newton citizens from floods, electric shocks, and explosions. Instead, simply keep an eye on the gang of antisocial elements who are about to leave a body outside a water delivery node a few blocks away. Make sure that the bodies they placed are washed into the newly planned dormitory area according to Zach and Hughes' plan, completing the evidence of actual damage to the project!
But there was a fatal problem.
Zach, a Barton vampire who wasn't even a Newtonian, was recognized.
"You...you!!" When Zach was just a casual passerby, casually passing by the construction site to confirm that there was a rotting corpse underground rushing into the construction site in the current, a scene should appear showing Hughes being controlled. The sociopath in said to Zach, "You're a vampire!! And you're not Gangaro!!"
Then. In a moment of confusion for Zach, the man jumped into the construction site and exploded. (To be continued)