Zach was 'kidnapped' by James on the grounds, "My car is at Wes's, you take me to the police station."
During the drive, James turned on the radio himself. It's also wonderful. We have seen too many people asking Zach to stay nearby just to talk to Zach. James's behavior obviously means he doesn't want to talk and simply needs Zach's company
The drive was not long. When we arrived at the police station, James didn't get out of the car and forced Zach to circle around the parking lot. "I didn't see my car. If Wes didn't come to the police station today, you still have to give it to me." I'm going back!"
What's the meaning? Let Zach wait for him here
Zach wanted to ask more clearly, but before he could speak, James had already gotten out of the car and gave Zach a quick disappearing figure. Well.
Forget it, just wait. Anyway, James didn't really go to work. Considering James's usual disrespect for Director Darcy, he should have just rushed to the Director's office to vent his anger. He would be back soon.
Zach waited completely bored for about 5 minutes.
"Detective Lance said you were waiting in the parking lot."
Zach tilted his head and said, "Detective Levine?" The undead spirit floated outside the car door. Zach's surprise was real, "Are you still here?" This refers to the present world.
Remember that after this undead floated out of his body, he told Zach to go and entangle Director Darcy who murdered his life. This entanglement actually continues.
"Well. My wife hasn't settled down yet, so of course I'm still here." The undead Levin floated into the car, with a 'you know' smile on his green translucent face, "I have to keep an eye on Darcy. Fulfill his pledge.”
Zach didn't understand, "Sorry, I don't know what you're talking about."
Undead Levin was stunned for a moment, "Oh, I forced Director Darcy to join my wife in the witness protection program, and he arranged a new life for my wife."
"Sorry." Zach was still apologizing, "Now I don't understand what you are talking about at all."
"You know." Necromancer Levin shook his head, "Aren't you also wondering why my wife entrusted you to investigate the cause of my death, but she suddenly moved without looking at the results of the entrustment."
Zach raised an eyebrow, "Is this because of you?"
"Well, it's me." Necromancer nodded, "It worries me to see her taking the risk of contacting someone like you just for the sake of my death. I threatened Darcy and asked him to complete the task for him. The aftermath of the incident completely forced my family to stay away from Barton and start a new life."
Zach was a little unhappy, "Explain what it means to be a person like me."
"Haha, I mean the gray professionals." The former police detective, now the undead, smiled at Zach, "My wife should have told you when she entrusted you with the moral vacillation of gray professionals like you. For a law enforcement family like mine, this is not, well, a group of people that should be contacted.”
This explains that Zach can accept it and understands what he was confused about before, "Witness protection plan?"
"It's just like the identity rotation of you vampires. Use a new identity to completely separate from your previous life and start living again. Darcy can still easily do this kind of common thing in the police world." Necro answered and added , "My wife knows this process. Who asked her to marry a policeman~ Haha, so she gave up everything in her previous life."
Zach shook his head, "Is that so?"
"As for that." The Necromancer said with great certainty. His translucent body did not overlap with the seat in the car. He floated up and down and adjusted his posture. "With my current status as a Necromancer, I understand a lot of things that I didn't know before. Things you understand. Just like my death." The dead soul smiled at Zach, "Anyway, you seem to have nothing to do, just listen to my ramblings."
fact. Zach made a gesture of invitation—
"When I was first dragged into hell, I had already accepted the fact of my death, but what I understood at the time was that I failed in a small job to please Director Darcy and lost my life. .”
Zach didn't judge, just kept listening.
"Then I saw the real devil." He looked at Zach and smiled, "You have never seen it before. It's not the kind of devil in the world that can only show people with black mist or possess others. The real devil. Demons in their true form."
Zach nodded, not agreeing to anything, but just telling the other person, 'I know that the devil in this world cannot reveal its true form.'
"I thought at the time, okay, the story in the holy book is true, I will be eaten by demons, or become a toy to be tortured by demons forever. But, none of this happened, several demons surrounded me and started Ask me how I died."
Uh... This should be the time when James threatened the devil in Mary's church and interrogated Levin's soul.
"I said I was shot and then bled to death. I could see the dissatisfaction in the eyes of those demons. I was thinking again, now they are going to eat me or torture me as a plaything."
Zach can already feel the tendency of the other party's expression -
"But this didn't happen. They told me patiently that James was investigating how I died. I was shot and I lost too much blood. James saw it. They didn't need the information that James already knew. , let me start from the beginning.”
If you think of this as a person's mental journey after becoming an undead soul in hell, then you are wrong. This is a being (human) living in this world, in the worst possible way - passively after death knowing the true nature of the world in which he has lived his whole life.
"Do you know how many questions I had at that time?" Necromancer Levin kept a smile on his face, "A bunch of demons that I firmly believed would eat me, for James Lance-I always thought he was just a Good luck to the second-generation official investigating the case." The smile became even wider, "I answered the information they wanted to get, and I also saw them passing on the information I gave, and I even saw them receiving the information from me. The temporal order said James was satisfied with the information."
Zach remained silent. Because Zach could already imagine the collapse of the worldview that this undead experienced.
"In the end, I think the reason for my continued existence should disappear as James is satisfied with the information. I think I will definitely be eaten." The undead continued to laugh, "But that didn't happen, I watched with my own eyes those demons discussing what to do with me. The first option they crossed out was to erase my existence, because, I quote a demon, 'who can guarantee that those guys in this world will not Looking for this guy again? We can fool James Lance, but can we fool Grande's vampires?'"
Undead Levin was silent for a while, "Then they threw me back. I was in Mary's Church, a Mary's Church filled with demons. I was confused for a while, I was scared for a while, I was happy for a while, and then I calmed down came down. I realized that from now on, no one would give me guidance on how to live my life, and I couldn't possibly think what could happen to me, so I went back to the police station, saw my body, and left it there, I Need time, think about how I'm going to survive. Then you know, I was sent to Grande, I met you, the vampire of Grande, and I asked you if Darcy would attend my funeral, you I said yes, I met Darcy, and I got entangled with him."
After a long pause, Zach thought the other party had finished speaking. Just as he was about to speak, Necromancer Levin took the lead and said, "I'm still thinking about how I want to go in the future, but no matter what the outcome of my thinking is, I know that if I want 'Embracing' who I am now, I need to address my legacy in the world."
Zach spoke again, "Your wife. The point is not that your wife wants to start a new life, but that you want a new beginning that is completely different from the human life you once had."
Undead Levin nodded, "Now you understand me."
Zach approved, "It's a good attitude, I support you mentally." This is not a fun thing to say, but the only spiritual support that Zach can provide - we know that Zach does not Hope that Mrs. Levine can start a new life again disappears. Zach also hopes that Detective Bell will use Mrs. Levine as a bargaining chip to fend off Darcy's possible targeting in the west. Of course, there is no need to understand the undead Levin here so deeply.
"Now I know why the Barton aliens I have come into contact with during this period are always talking about you. You are... a person worth talking about, Zachary Gran... Haha, I'm sorry, Mr. Toledo."
"Thank you." There's no need to ask what Barton said about Zach, just take it as a compliment.
"So what is James Lance doing this time?" Necromancer Levin asked proactively, still smiling, "He threatened Darcy. If Darcy doesn't listen to him, he will come down and call you. Let you personally teach the inheritors how to behave."
Zach curled his lips, "You should know about the Indian suicide case that your North District Police Department threw to the South District Police Department."
"Sibella, right? She is a wizard. Darcy got very angry in the office when he received the case application. Coulson got very angry after the press conference at the Southern District Police Station yesterday. , I was in a very bad mood when I sent the notice to the Barton Daily News today." Oh, this undead understood clearly, "It took me a long time to ask him about something, Indians, wizards. , Sabbat, vampire." Necromancer Levin actually had a sympathetic tone, "Darcy is actually quite pitiful, but my previous role did not allow me to see him as anything other than a subordinate. Now, haha, inheritance The creature is really a funny species. I still find it ridiculous sometimes. I died because of the entanglement between these creatures~"
From this contact, Zach at least understood that this undead's mentality adjustment was quite good. As mentioned before, the attitude towards life is very good.
Zach suddenly thought, "Can I ask you a question? Answer me with the way you used to think as a police detective."
"you say."
"If there is malicious behavior against a certain group of people in society, what is the attitude of your law enforcement officers?"
"Are you saying that Paisi's British-Indian culture is threatened this time?" Necromancer Levin quickly entered the role, "This is really not Darcy's fault. Let me give you an example. Some time ago, West End's Blake Stone, the young master of the Tong family, was involved in a nightclub attack... "
Similar events are indeed used as analogies -
"... That is the attitude that a law enforcement officer can have, because there is a clear perpetrator and a clear victim. The attitude of the law is the attitude of the law enforcement officer."
Zach nodded. This was the same idea as Zach, but it was helpless. "But for some reasons, the people of the West End temporarily suppressed the incident and let the case pass the time when it could create social attitudes."
Undead Levin seemed to agree with Zach's words, "Yes, I was still alive at that time. I didn't understand why Director Darcy didn't use that opportunity to hug the West Side man's thigh. This was very important to him as the airborne director. It will be helpful in the future. But of course, I know now that he is already in the arms and it was the West Enders who missed the opportunity."
Zach was not prepared to mix up the subject, "What about the current Indian culture?"
"Those threatening letters received by Pai Siying's Carnival Committee are not harm that can be measured by the law." Necromancer Levin said a little professionally, "Words and words are not forms of violence in the face of the law. Alas, It's a bit unethical to say this, but the fact is, if a person threatens your life, but as long as he does not take action, the law cannot say what happened to the person who threatened. This is your answer, law enforcement in this kind of thing No attitude.”
Zach pondered for a moment and accepted. This is not a time when you can persuade someone with loyalty. This is the reality and this is the law. However, "In addition to the threats in words and words, haven't the preparations for the Carnival also suffered damage? Can't these be considered measurable harm?" ?”
"It's the same if you destroy a trash can on the roadside." Necromancer Levin answered very simply, "But you haven't seen any city's police force waste resources chasing a criminal who destroyed a trash can, right?"
"The exhibits of Indian culture and Mrs. Quinn's relics are not trash cans." Zach responded with a curl of his lips.
"So what you are saying is that if something is given a special label, law enforcement should use different standards when measuring it?" Necromancer Levin asked Zach seriously, "Everything is equal before the law. , do you think this is a slogan only spoken by humans?”
Zach was actually spoken to by an undead on the topic of human law and was unable to respond. Zach pursed his lips, not knowing how to respond.
Undead Levin shook his head, "The fault of the Indians in Paisying is... I can't say that they are wrong. I can only say that they care too much about the label on themselves. In fact, the label of 'Indian' It will not bring them any preferential treatment in society, not to mention that in some areas of the federation (the west), this is still a very negative label."
Zach understands, "It's all human culture. No one is lower than the other, but no one is necessarily higher than the other."
"Yes." Undead Levin actually sighed, "Every day in this city, signs, street lights, public seats... are damaged maliciously or unintentionally. These are all things created by human culture and civilization. You can’t expect everyone to give in to you just because you’re a ‘minority’, or a ‘race’, or a ‘tradition’. This is impossible.”
Zach also wanted to sigh a little bit, "The fact now is that things with labels will not only not be treated favorably, but will also be used as targets by some people."
"What you said is good." Necromancer Levin shook his head, "If Pai Siying just does the carnival honestly and doesn't force any Indian cultural gimmicks, who will do it. Pai Siying's India People have their own selfish motives, and if they want to promote their culture, they should face the fact that there are people who cannot see through it. In modern society, no one’s mouth is sealed or hands are tied, everyone is a free person.”
The conversation is over. There is no room for discussion on this topic.
Necromancer Levin stayed with Zach for a while, "After talking to you so much, I, I miss my life as a law enforcer." The sudden nostalgia for his human life that he could no longer return to.
Zach glanced at Levin, "You are a free man."
"Well, I am." Necromancer Levin smiled, floated out of the car, and disappeared.
How about we give Zach a new title, life coach? (To be continued)