Pushing open the door that was not closed, Zach saw Bell who was packing his luggage.
Bell looked up at Zach and saw General Lance behind Zach. Both parties were stunned for a moment, obviously they didn't expect to meet someone they knew here.
"Are you ready to leave?" Zach interrupted.
Bell's eyes returned to Zach, and he resumed packing in his hands, "Yes, if downstairs hadn't said you would come over, I would have left."
This was somewhat beyond Zach's expectation, "Why are you leaving? Are you done with what you came to Barton for?"
"No." Bell closed the suitcase, "But there are results."
The mental journey in West's manuscript can be used. Zach: "Darcy gave you the way to survive as the inheritor of the Sabbat?"
Bell was stunned again. Then immediately there was alertness on his face, "Who told you that?"
"Holy Lord." Zach rummaged through his pocket, took out a few manuscripts and waved them to Bell.
Bell opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything. He closed it again and stared at his luggage gloomily.
"Darcy didn't give you what you wanted, right?" Isn't this what Bell just said. The matter he came to Barton was not completed, but the result was there. Translated, it means Darcy refuses to give Belle a 'way to survive'.
"Yes, he didn't." Bell looked at Zach again and picked up his suitcase at the same time, "I can't stay here chatting with you, I need to leave this place."
Note that Bell didn't say that he couldn't continue chatting with Zach, but that the place couldn't be here. Bell has always been open to communication with Zach and has not closed his mind.
"I drove the car." Zach gestured for the car keys, "Would you like to go to Grande for a ride?"
Bell looked hesitant and glanced at General Lance again, with unclear meaning, "No, if I continue to stay in Patton, I can only go to a place where Detective James Lance cannot appear."
Zach raised an eyebrow, "Why?"
"Because I am very sure that he is the detective investigating the man I killed."
Zach tilted his head slightly, "Did you kill someone in Barton?"
"It's self-defense." Bell said with certainty, "The other party wants to kill me, so I'll kill him first."
Zach looked back at General Lance, who looked calm and not ready to intervene in the incident, then... Zach, "There is also a successor in the South District, Linda's husband Cliff, have you heard of it? You can go there and hide for a while.”
Bell lowered his head and thought for a while, then said, "James Lance doesn't have law enforcement authority in the Southern District."
"No, he is a police officer from the North District. To investigate a case in the South District, authorization from the Southern District Police Station is required." Zach glanced at General Lance again. It doesn't mean much, just a little preparation.
"That's okay." Bell nodded, picked up the suitcase and followed Zach.
After returning to the car, General Lance unexpectedly and consciously went to the back seat, leaving Bell with the co-pilot. It seems the human general has adapted to being an incidental part of Zack's 'workday'.
The car just started, "Who wants to kill you?"
"In the whole of Barton, there are only two people who know that I am in Barton." Bell answered, "You and Darcy. Do you want to kill me?"
This is how elimination should be used. If it wasn't Zach, it would just be Darcy.
Zach also realized an important point at the same time, "The person you killed... no." Self-correction, "The person who died in your legitimate defense was a civilian or a police officer?"
Zach didn't need to look at Bell's expression, he could hear his breathing, heavy, "Civilians, anyway, don't wear police uniforms or provide identification like normal police officers." He said this just to comfort himself, because the following words were "But considering that as soon as he saw me drawing a gun and shooting, he probably wouldn't have had the chance to identify himself to me."
"You must have confirmed the death of the other party. Why, didn't you check the killer's identity by the way?" General Lance suddenly spoke in the back seat.
Zach glanced at General Lance in the rearview mirror and did not stop him.
"I don't have time to confirm." Bell also looked at the rearview mirror. "There were only two gunshots. One was the other party trying to kill me, and the other was my counterattack." Bell's breathing was heavy, but his voice was still good. Calm, "I only saw the other person falling to the ground, and then I heard a large number of people approaching nearby, so I had no choice but to leave. Then I saw the street was blocked by the police, and I couldn't get close at all."
"Oh." The conversation seemed to have been hijacked by General Lance, "So it's a trap. Even if you can survive the assassination, the police can catch you later." General Lance paused, and there was disappointment in his tone. , "At least the plan is to catch you."
This disappointment is not directed at Bell, but at James. Because obviously, James didn't catch Bell. The father, a general, was very disappointed with his son's ability to work.
The car was quiet for a while.
"Why did you become a police officer." Zach started a new topic.
"ha?"
"I'm very curious about why a race that cares about life as much as the inheritors would do such a high-risk job as the police."
"Who told you that inheritors cherish their lives?"
"experience."
"Then you don't have enough experience, Toledo." Bell actually rolled his eyes.
"Am I wrong? At least the inheritors I know care about their own lives very much."
"The inheritors you know are all the inheritors in the human life cycle." Bell glanced at Zach and clicked, "Humph, that's right. No one would say that they know a dog, a flower or a flower. A potato." It's a metaphor that people can't understand for a while.
But I just can't understand it for the moment. Let's understand it carefully...
We have already left the Beqi District and entered Highway 7. If there are no accidents, just go straight. Zach has a lot of experience in time.
Zach raised one eyebrow slightly, "Before your human life cycle, were you an animal or a plant?"
"Uh, how is that possible? I have also been a human being countless times." Unexpectedly, he said with a bit of contempt, "Don't use the pitiful span of immortality of your vampires to measure the life course of the inheritor."
Not only Zach was surprised by this unexpected disdain, General Lance in the back seat also adjusted his sitting posture and looked at Bell in the rearview mirror.
Bell realized that something was wrong with his words, and pursed his lips, "Every living thing has a survival instinct. Countless species I have cycled through have this instinct. Since I am a human this time, I don't plan to donate mine casually." Human life. But in order to retain this human life and give up some so-called high-risk lives, I'm sorry, if the inheritor has a law of existence, experience is this law, and I am not ready to give up."
This is an answer to Zach's previous question.
"Experience it." Zach raised his eyebrows, "There are many things in human life. You just happened to be experiencing the police this time. Is that what you mean?"
"Yes." Bell responded, "Why do you ask me this suddenly?"
Zach took out the manuscript he had just shown and handed it to Bell, "When I said just now that it was the Holy Lord who told me your true identity, you didn't seem surprised." Yes, Bell's performance was standard speechless and speechless. Words don't mean surprise.
Bell pouted. Although he took the manuscript, he had no intention of reading it. He flipped through it casually and said, "There is nothing surprising. It was not a day or two before the Holy Lord fell into this world." Wonderful wording , "Before I cycled into this human being, I also lived through crops, parasites, catkins, fish..." Listed a bunch, "There are some things that I know better than you guys who can only see the world in one life. A lot."
Zach bit his lower lip subconsciously. When studying West's manuscript, Zach felt that the content West wrote was too restricted to a person in the identity of a police detective and the pressure in a society like the Sabbat. Although necessary for the story—none of the incidents Russell and Logan caused in Vega were cases that human law enforcers could solve. But Zach just felt like something was missing.
Bell's purpose as a successor is missing. What does Belle want, does he want to be like Darcy? Is it possible to become the inheritor of vampires, or does he want to keep his secret identity and just want to live an easier life. West describes the pressure, but does not tell the reader where the outlet of the pressure is.
So Zach's plan is to fill in West's missing piece. Anyway, now everyone has regarded their lives as stories, so let’s be more thorough and enrich the characters, right
But Zach really didn't expect that the start would be so unfavorable. Only when discussing the identity of the inheritor, Zach found that Bell seemed to be completely different from the inheritor that Zach understood.
"Why did you come to Barton to find Darcy?" Zach could only return to West's manuscript and start again from the pressure of the police detective.
Bell was still holding West's manuscript in his hand. Although he didn't read it carefully, some words must have entered his sight. He quoted, "'Why is this life so difficult?'" He was reading West's book. Something, "'Why can't humans, aliens, and vampires in this society find a balance point for co-existence like other creatures? Why so much trouble? Isn't it good for everyone to live this life well? Or is everyone with me? Are they the same inheritors of secrets? Are they more open-minded than me and don't care about the course of a life?'" After reading, the manuscript was returned to Zach, "So I came to find Darcy."
"Do you think Darcy can give you the answer?"
"At least I'm looking from the outside in, and Darcy is in the Sabbat system, isn't he? Outsiders can never understand the fundamentals of the system. I can only find out about it from insiders. Is that wrong?"
"That's right." Zach agreed with Bell, "but it turns out that Darcy obviously doesn't agree with your thirst for knowledge."
"I don't blame him. I question the foundation of the Sabbat's society. Those vampires who set the rules of Western society will destroy his accumulated achievements in the Sabbat, which will eventually lead to the waste of more than a dozen human lives."
Zach frowned, "Do you know that Darcy is hoping to become a vampire and use the immortality of a vampire to retain the human form of an advanced creature?"
"Of course I know." Bell waved his hand, and then there was a look of regret on his face, "Maybe you are right, most inheritors are like Darcy, and they will miss the so-called advanced biological forms. Especially those in the Sabbat. In captivity, they have fully enjoyed the advantages of human beings, and they do not want to return to a low-level state where life and death are determined by looking at the sky."
"Okay, so it's your different ideas about inheritors that led to your meeting being unsuccessful." Zach was already free to express himself, and there were some facts that couldn't be circumvented. "But why did it become so bad? Darcy wanted to end it." This life of yours.”
General Lance interrupted again, "I just want to mention one thing. If my son, James, is working now as part of a trap, maybe Darcy doesn't really want to kill you, but your reflexes in self-defense are too sharp. And it was accurate, causing the trap to have a fatal flaw." Well, General Lance actually found an excuse for James - it was not that James lacked the ability to work, but that a link in the plan died and James was delayed .
This speculation makes sense. The gunfire may have been just a way to attract police to surround Bell, rather than actually killing him.
Bell frowned and glanced at General Lance, but he still said to Zach, "Because of my status as a police detective, Darcy feels threatened. He is afraid that I will become him next." Bell did not finish his sentence. .
Zach added without expression, "Darcy is afraid that he will be abandoned by the Sabbat."
General Lance in the back seat sighed and said nothing.
Zach nodded calmly. This unexpectedly frank conversation allowed Zach to make a temporary decision, "I won't hide it from you anymore. Now that you know that the Holy Lord wrote part of your story and gave it to me. . Then you should know that this story will continue."
"Everything in this world will continue. This is the only path for everything here." Bell said... Enlightenment
Zach opened his mouth slightly and continued, "I need you to do a few things for me. This is why I came to see you today."
"Are you kidding me?" Bell glanced at Zach, "You need my help?"
"Certainly not in Barton."
Bell nodded, "I guess it's about the current situation of Logan and Russell who left Grande."
"You guessed it right." Have you noticed the manuscript just now? As I said before, West's manuscript is quite thick, and Zach showed only a few pictures to Bell. The reason is that Zach deliberately removed some information about the incident. 's book manuscript. In Zach's original plan, he would not tell the character what he was going to play in the West until he was ready for the role.
Now, it's no longer necessary. The frequency is obviously several levels higher than Zach expected. It's very accurate to see things.
Bell frowned, "You understand that your two employees were involved in these messes because of Mayor Lesembra's secretary, the ghoul named Lily."
Oh, he is indeed a police detective. He knows very well the reasons for the cases that put pressure on him.
"I know." Zach nodded, "The Sabbat system has brought you troubles in this human life experience. The alien race in this system, Darcy, has been killed by you. Do you think Lute Leson How about Mayor Bulla’s secretary?”
This is Zach’s plan after repositioning Bell. Whether it works or not depends on the answer.
"You want me to take Lily away from your two employees?"
"Can you?"
"You know it's dangerous for me to approach someone like the mayor's secretary rashly, right?"
Zach ignored it, "Can you?"
"Uh, I need to think about it."
"Very good. Cliff runs a holiday farm. You can think about it carefully." (To be continued)