Old Hank didn't come back until late at night, and it looked like he was going out again after picking up tools.
Zach could only end the call with Alice hastily - because it was the weekend, and then Sissy and Chris were dating, the high school group definitely had follow-up arrangements, and Zach didn't expect to see Alice today. they. Sure enough, Alice didn't come home for a day. When she called back, she knew that Zach was back now, so she politely asked Zach, the guardian, to extend the curfew...
"Just come back before 10 o'clock tomorrow night."
"Tomorrow?!" Alice was super excited, "You don't have to come back tonight?"
"No need." Zach's thought was, "Old Hank seems to be in trouble." He glanced at the living area from the office. Sure enough, Old Hank came out with a bunch of 'cleaning supplies' without any employees. "He doesn't seem to want to Let Grande get involved and you can just stay out of the way.”
"Oh. What about you?"
"Of course I'm following." Zach curled his lips, "Okay, I won't delay your fun."
hang up the phone.
Zach walked directly out of the office and went downstairs. In the backyard, Old Hank forced himself into the passenger seat when he started the car. While fastening his seat belt, he said, "The Indian funeral has been successfully completed. Do you need to listen to the report?"
Old Hank left Zach, who was coming up, unable to catch up, so he started the car as usual, and drove out of Grande, driving on the dirt road, unable to see the direction he was going. Ignore Zach.
He didn't get a response from Old Hank, and Zach didn't ask any further questions. He sat slumped in the passenger seat with a solemn expression - since Zach and Benjamin had taken over the identity of Grande's son, Old Hank had hardly left the house alone. Worked. Zach didn't know if Hank Sr.'s driving abilities were reliable.
Leaving the gravel road, Old Hank controlled the steering of the car - heading south. Zach frowned, "Where are we going?"
What's to the south? In the area of Barton, there are only the offices of Benjamin and Mokawei's ancestors. Old Hank couldn't have gone there, then...
"Newton?" Zach looked at Old Hank and continued to ask, "Did you accept Newton's commission?"
Zach has just come back and is not ready to go back to Newton yet.
Because Zach said the word 'commission', Old Hank squinted at Zach and cursed in the air without responding, "Those employees are so talkative!" It was obvious that he blamed the employees in the living area for leaking his information. Delegate.
Zach pursed his lips, not bothering to talk to Old Hank about the employee's problems, "Please tell me we are not going to Winston's motel now."
It's not that Zach has the ability to predict things, but the fact is there - Winston is the one who originally let Grande out. At the same time, we know that Winston is now in need of illegal assistance.
"You can get out of the car!" Old Hank's expression was not good.
"Hank." Zach said a little seriously, "You shouldn't get involved in Newton's affairs." Zach couldn't tell old Hank about Newton's situation for a while - Revero, Phantom Man, Angel, the police, the city The government... there are so many things, we have been looking at things for a month, what can I say? Zach could only pick out the key points, "I have made comprehensive arrangements in Newton. There is Richie the Phantom Man on Winston's side, and Detectives James and Weiss on the police side (Zach has returned to Barton, But these two people did not reply), the entire city is still monitored by Angels and Revro from the Sabbat. Things in Newton no longer need our Barton's influence, Hank, you need to listen to me on this matter."
"Then why did you send his coat back!" Old Hank glared at Zach and said something incomprehensible.
Zach was stunned for a moment, then twitched the corner of his mouth, "Tsk. On the first day I arrived in Newton, Winston lent me my coat?"
"Yes!" Old Hank said with a sullen face, "You promised to send the clothes back, why didn't you send them back?!"
Is this kind of thing... important?
important. Old Hank continued when Zach was speechless, "Winston called Grande! Just before you came back today! He asked me why you haven't returned your clothes after so many days!"
So Winston is not only a monopoly businessman who cares about human life, but also a villain with a clear memory. Zach could only honestly say, "I forgot."
"Forgot? Ha!" Old Hank smiled, "You forgot!!" Obviously this smile was not happy, "Then don't be surprised that others will use this excuse to find Grandry!"
Zach darkened slightly. Just like when he was recognized by Winston in Rich's office, Zach didn't know why Winston deliberately 'reminisced' with him. Zach now doesn't know what Winston wants Old Hank to do when he comes to Grande with such a boring excuse as 'returning clothes', "What does Winston want from Grande?"
Old Hank stopped looking at Zach and stared at the road ahead.
Actually Zack can guess.
Let's guess together with Zach.
We all know that Winston is now carrying a large number of unnatural deaths in Newton. Once upon a time, before the Hannah siblings reported the case of unnatural death to the Newton police, causing a chain reaction and exposing the matter to the public in Newton, we knew that Winston was on his own, dealing with the withdrawal from Xiaobai. A body resulting from death resulting from a reaction.
After the police intervened, Winston's own processing process was interrupted by the police. The appearance of the body was no longer under Winston's control and was included in the police's law enforcement procedures.
Winston also formulated a new plan, deliberately subverting the market by setting the price of novices too high, completely letting go of control over the death of novice users, and starting to escape. That is, after Zach entered Newton, he asked Richie to be replaced to cooperate with Winston's plan.
We can make a dividing point in time. When Zach enters Newton, he happens to come into contact with Winston when he goes to the Fantasy Man Rich to make a commission. From this point on, Winston will not have any work to deal with corpses, except Hanna was left to the phantom Richie.
Add to that the fact that now old Hank is heading to Newtown with the tools of the Cleanup Man.
We should be able to draw a rough inference - the entrustment given to Old Hank at this time may be to deal with the corpses that Winston 'reserved' in Newton before the dividing point.
The inference needed to be confirmed, Zach spoke, tactfully, "If Winston wants to ask Grand, his old club, to help him solve something, you should refuse directly. Hank. The Grand now is no longer Winston." The Grande that Winston knew." Zach was trying to separate the current Grande from the cleanup black organization that Winston once knew.
Old Hank didn't look at Zach at all, and his wrinkled skin twitched twice, "Let me ask you, after you have stayed in Newton for so long, have you ever visited Newton's funeral industry?" Listening to the tone, he was surprisingly calm. It seems that he has accepted the fact that he cannot get rid of Zach for the time being.
Zach already had a premonition that this direction would be detrimental to his purpose, so he blamed himself, "No."
"Hmph, you don't have to pretend to blame yourself." Although Old Hank calmed down, his words and expressions remained the same. "Then tell me, when Winston asked me about Glen When De's son went to Newton to do something, can I say that you, the master of Grande, were on business for the funeral industry?"
"Can't." Zach didn't pretend to blame himself, this was his own fault. Too many things have happened recently regarding the vampire Zachary Toledo, which has led Zach to become more and more casual about maintaining his human identity as Zachary Grande. This was Zach's own oversight.
"Hmph." Old Hank continued to use modal particles to start, "Then do you remember how you explained your appearance in an illegal commissioning firm when you met Winston in Newton?"
Zach replied, "I have no explanation." Because he didn't know what Winston wanted to do when he suddenly reminisced about the past, Zach naturally had no positive attitude to express. Remember, at that time, Zach's attitude, overtly and covertly, was to signal to Winston, 'Don't bother me anymore'.
"Hmph, remember you didn't give an explanation." Old Hank looked straight ahead, "Then I'll go find out for myself. Do you have any objections?"
What can Zach say? Gee, is this something Zach can express his opinion on
According to the situation in which Winston and Zach were reminiscing about old times, we can roughly guess that Winston misunderstood the reason why Zach was here. He thought that he and Grande's employees injured Barton's reporter, which made it into the social news. relation.
Zach had no intention of communicating with Winston. The Grande that Winston knew was completely different from the Grande that Zach knew, so he allowed this misunderstanding to arise and was too lazy to explain it.
Now what Old Hank means is that Zach's mistake was not only to ignore the human identity of Zachary Grande, the funeral owner, but also to ignore the conduct of Grande's son!
Winston is your father, old Grand's old subordinate. When people clearly express their concern, can't you tell them more about Grand's situation to make people feel at ease
Zach didn't, so going back to Old Hank's words, it became clear that Winston had to find a way to find out about Grande's current situation.
Well, we can draw a conclusion full of ridicule for Zach. After a few years, when Winston wants to understand Grande, where he once worked, he will definitely not rely on the so-called social news that is filtered once by Barton and then filtered by Newton, and can be seen by all passers-by.
Don't think that Winston has no channels to get information. How he got Xiaobai, 0711, Valmina from Barton... he can use the same method to get information about Grande's true influence in Barton.
We've watched Grande come along. If we were to describe Grande's significance in Patton to someone who didn't know the story, what would we say
Um...we'd say, Grande? ! Good luck! In Barton, don't mess with anyone but Grande! Unless you want to be targeted by all the people in Barton’s black, white, yellow and green roads!
Using ourselves as a reference, we should have a good idea of what the news about Grande was that Winston inquired about.
Zach shook his head and insisted on his original conclusion, "Still, the Grande now is different from the Grande he knew. No matter what he expects Grande to do for him, we can say no."
Old Hank glanced at Zach, "Why do you always think it's Winston asking Grande for help."
"It's a commission, isn't it?" Zach used the judgment of the employees in the living area... Tsk, now that I think about it, Zach feels a little stupid... Why do you trust the employees in the living area so much! Zach tilted his head and pursed his lips, "Isn't it Winston who commissioned Grande?" He shook his head again, "You just don't want the current employees to have any possibility of contact with the original Grande employees. You deliberately You lied to them by pretending to be a commission."
We have already discussed during the day that the commission now taken over by Old Hank in Grande is impossible to bring Grande employees who are under public attention, don't forget. So what's the best way to make a clean break between the former employee and the current employee? If you use the term "entrustment" or "basket", employees in the living area will try their best to stay away for the sake of their future.
Old Hank stopped looking at Zach and continued driving.
Going back to the original question, the commission can be thrown away. Zach asked, "Then what are you doing over there now?"
Old Hank's driving skills are pretty good and stable. Zach seemed not to hear his renewed question and continued to control the direction of the car steadily.
Zach quieted down.
One thing needs to be made clear first - Old Hank has already gone ahead of Zach and does not want the current Grande to have any contact with Winston. In this case, what is the significance of this trip? Just to perfect the 'commissioned' look in the eyes of the living area staff
Having lived with Old Hank for so many years, Zach knows the old man's stubbornness better than anyone else. So, if you keep asking, it shouldn't have any effect anymore. Zach was prepared to wait until he reached his destination and watch.
The drive is not long. Grande is only ten minutes away from the city limits. Zach is also familiar with the scenery along this road—he used to take Benjamin to his transformation and often walked this road.
Soon, the familiar night scene was left behind, leaving the confines of Barton and entering the borders of Newton.
As the city changes, let’s change our emotions too.
This was not the return to Newton that Zach expected.
It was also revealed just now that Zach returned to Barton, but the two Barton detectives were still staying in Newton. The Newton University incident requires human help. James and Wes have finally found a way to stay in Newton.
Zach had expected that when Winston's plan came to an end, Newton's novice market fell into chaos. Unnatural deaths caused by simple withdrawal reactions were deliberately guided by Winston's plan, and novice users interacted with each other. When the snatching of time is replaced, he will come to Newton again.
At that time, it was Zach who, as Toledo of the Sabbat, consolidated Revro's power in Newton, and cooperated with the two Barton detectives at the Newton Police Department to socialize unnatural death cases into human society. On the one hand, it provides guidance for starting life in Newton for its own descendants, Kent, and the descendants chosen by Kent...
The key point is that everything in Newton is coming to an end and Zach is sure to accomplish what he expected, but now? Zach was unsure about returning to Newton before things reached the stage he expected. I hope that no matter what Old Hank wants to do, he won't disturb Newton's progress. (To be continued)