James took the paper handed over by Kate, with the next questions for James written on it. James glanced at his wife in disgust.
Don't misunderstand that James doesn't hate his Kate, he hates this problem.
Kate also glared directly at James and made a speed sign.
James pouted speechlessly and turned to the speaker phone, "Ahem." He cleared his throat, "My last question is not about Newton." James still resisted a little. But under Kate's pressure, she could only say, "What status do you, Annabelle Vandeau, have next to Zach?"
Kate quickly wrote another sentence and pushed it in front of James, which was a supplement to the question. James glanced at him and read the words with a frown, "Are you answering all the previous questions on behalf of Zach?"
Well, reporter Kate has become lazy, maybe it has something to do with the fact that she is giving birth to a new life in her belly~ As a reporter, Kate seems too lazy to judge the fairness of the interview and asks the interviewee to express his or her own position.
The receiver was quiet for a while, then suddenly laughed, "Hehehehe~"
"Why are you laughing?" James instinctively said in displeasure.
"It's nothing~" Annabel finished laughing and asked back with a smile in her tone, "Does it matter? I answered every question you asked. I don't think Zach himself has ever been so cooperative with you~ Detective James Lance, you don’t care if I’m representing Zach~ You got what you wanted to know, and that’s the point, isn’t it~”
James raised the corners of his mouth and glanced at Kate. Kate also frowned, thought about it for a while, brushed and handed the newly written words to James.
James hesitated for a moment, but still read it, "The point is that the last woman who could represent Zach was Louise, and Louise and I have a special mutual trust. When she represented Zach, I was very Don’t worry. But you and I have nothing to do. I don’t know you and I don’t trust you.”
"Ah~" there was an inexplicable sigh, "James and Louise again." Annabelle on the other side of the phone seemed to have escaped from the question itself and was sighing.
James was facing the phone here, and the small electronic screen showed that the call had been going on for more than an hour! James's mental strength has actually been pushed to the limit by his wife, but this is the sin James deserves, which will be explained later.
James actually wanted to hang up the phone, but maybe because of what his wife Kate wrote, he clicked on something. James grabbed the receiver, made a quiet gesture to Kate when Kate waved in protest, and then said to the receiver, "What do you mean, it's James and Louise again."
"Hahaha." Annabell laughed again, and then said, "Wait a moment." It was the sound of the receiver being put down, and Annabell seemed to have left temporarily.
James didn't wait too long, "Are you still there?" Annabelle's voice reappeared.
"I am here."
"Zach is downstairs. I probably won't be able to continue chatting with you after I finish saying this, so you'd better listen carefully. I will only say it once."
"What..." James didn't like being teased.
"You and Louise took the script of the female protagonist. Louise is the one who has lost everything and can only rely on the male protagonist to live, and you are the one who has a huge conspiracy behind her. Together, you are the protagonist. The heroine in the story of Zach, you opened up Zach's story. And this script should be my talent... beep beep beep beep beep." The phone was hung up.
James was stunned for more than ten seconds holding the receiver. After Kate noticed that the timer on the phone had stopped, she grabbed the receiver unhappily, confirmed that there was a hang-up tone, and immediately threw away the receiver and stared. James, "What did she say?!"
"She said I was the heroine of Zach's story." James may have lost his mind.
"What??"
James' brain was corrected and he shook his head, "She said Zach's story started because of me and Louise."
Kate frowned, as if thinking about James' words. The result of thinking is, "She was right."
James' head was tilted, unable to understand, "She's right?? Why did Louise and I start Zach's story?"
Kate's frown turned into a white eye, "If Louise hadn't gone to Grande to explain the murder case early last year, you would have been just a useless person picked up by Alpha!"
James blinked, not knowing what to say for a moment.
Kate curled her lips and rolled her eyes again, as if she understood more things, "Oh, that's it, you and Louise are one less, and neither the Grand Vampire nor Alpha will be involved in Barton's territory." During the safe skinchanger invasion, your identity stolen by Jin will not come back, and Zach will not rely on you to convince Mayor Anthony to let him join in the power to influence events big and small in Barton... "
Hey, that seems to be true. Mayor Anthony, who has been preventing vampires from participating in urban events, has allowed vampires and Alphas to settle down in Barton for many years. However, it was because of the rumors that Barton was an ownerless city at the beginning of last year that dangerous aliens were attracted. Involved in the second-generation police detective James Lance who came in from the air, he accepted Zach and started to resume his activities! Then, it got out of hand!
"No!" Well, James' brain has not really been repaired. He instinctively retorted to Kate and continued: "She is not talking about specific events! She is talking about the setting. She said Louise is lost. All women can only stay with Zach, but this guy with a conspiracy! This is complete bullshit!"
"Really?" Kate didn't care at all about being interrupted by her husband. Instead, she turned to James and said lightly, "Is this really bullshit?"
James pursed his lips.
This is not bullshit. A qualified female protagonist must not only bring emotional sustenance to the male protagonist, but also provide a direction for action. The former given by Louise allowed Zach to finally give the Toledo clan a new start, and James, haha, brought the Sabbat to Zach~
If James wanted to deny this, then he could really die, not worthy of living and wasting his soul.
Kate withdrew her gaze and began to sort out a lot of information in front of her. These were all the information that Kate had sorted out on the phone just now. Zach was right, Kate was preparing for her exclusive front page.
There is no other reporter in the city with Kate's resources and efficiency, how could she not take advantage of it.
Oh, by the way, I just said that I wanted to explain why James was suffering for making this phone call.
We all know that James's call was very late for the Barton and Newton aliens involved in the incident. But that's not entirely why James wasn't directly involved.
In fact, James learned the news that Newton was attacked by demons almost at the same time as the Barton aliens, and Darcy told him. However, no one caught up with James. Before he could leave Barton, the war at Newton was over.
Then James sets out to find the truth, detective style. Yes, it’s the pattern of witness, victim, and criminal we mentioned before.
Of course, no one is willing to check the number, and it is impossible to do so. Therefore, no one cares about James, even if James waves his police badge vigorously.
James' method was a dead end, so reporters with different motives came forward and said, "Stop being naive, you know who to call in this situation." Kate pushed her husband to the phone, "There is nothing to resist , this is the world we live in, the city where our children will be born." Kate's words make perfect sense, "We should be grateful, we are one of the few families in this city who can call that person directly. What do you think, dear~"
Everyone knows what happened next, so I won’t repeat it.
But while Kate was starting to sort out the reports that would be printed on the front page of the Patton Daily News tomorrow, the situation in Grande was more worthy of attention.
The reason why Annabelle's dimension-breaking words to James were interrupted was because of Zach.
Different from James and Kate's childish instinctive rebuttal and Kate's rational analysis...Zach, he doesn't need one more person in the world to tell him that his life since last year has been a story. !
So Zach just stared gloomily at Annabell who was still holding the receiver, "Where is that cat?!" Zach spoke to Annabell.
Unlike James who was mentally ill, James did not hear Annabelle's last words completely.
"... And this script should be mine. I'm here to get it back."
Of course, Annabell did it on purpose. She finished the sentence even after Zach had pressed hang up.
The emphasis is, of course, "I'm here to get this script back."
This is the only reason for Zach's judgment, the only one, but it is sufficient. There is only one creature in the world who would say such a thing shamelessly!
Annabel also looked at Zach, but she did not answer Zach's question, "You asked Logan to inform me to do the reception work at the counter of the showroom. This was Louise's job before, right?"
Not only did he not answer Zach's question, but he also... stabbed Zach in the heart with a needle.
Annabelle: "The moment James met you, the conspiracy the Sabbat gave him became invalid. The Sabbat was a collection of abandoned vampires when they formed the Secret Alliance in Toledo four centuries ago, and it is the same now. You have never regarded the Sabbat as a threat. The former Federation is the unknown that you and the secret alliance you have assembled have to face to build a new country. James's function from the beginning has been to promote the Republic-Federation trade. Everything is unknown, the alien race and society of the Republic." There was no expression on Annabel's face, this was a simple gesture of reporting. As for whose words Annabell is paraphrasing, haha. "I can replace James because I followed the Secret Alliance to the Republic and returned to Fan Zhuo with you."
Zach doesn't actually need these interpretations, Zach knows
After Annabell told the settings of Louise and James on the phone, Zach saw the settings of Louise and James in Annabell:
Lose everything and have to stay close to yourself? Tick.
Comes with a conspiracy from a distant place? Tick.
The most terrible thing is that there is no need to whitewash it. In this story, Louise and James have not contributed anything to the so-called male protagonist for a long, long time. We're tired of watching Zach fool around alone in the Grand.
Zach still feels good about himself and feels that he is in control of his reality, but... the story has long lost what it should be.
Annabell, at this moment, fills in the attributes that the story should have, she is...
"Where is Madison?!" Zach won't admit it. Zach just wants to...
"Even if I tell you where it is, you can't find it. It only appears when it wants to appear. It is no longer a creature of this world." Annabell finally answered Zach's question.
Zach continued to look at Annabelle for two seconds, then looked away, turned and left the office, went downstairs, and pushed Roy and Nick, who were about to go upstairs, back to the back porch.
While Zach was talking to Roy and Nick, he suddenly acted, rushed upstairs, and hung up Annabelle's phone. Now, Zach is just back to the business where he was interrupted.
Roy looked first, as expected, "What nonsense is that woman talking about! The Sabbat is not a threat to you? Humph, I remember that your Toledo identity was discovered by our Sabbat!"
Zach didn't answer. Nick, on the other hand, glanced at Roy and said, "You remember wrongly. It was Zach himself who released the reward of Toledo's bloodline into the middle, and we confirmed that the only Toledo was still alive."
Roy glared at Nick, "Who are you helping?!"
"I'll help you with the facts." Nick pretended to be objective and looked at Zach, "What she said is right. She has revealed a lot of information about the situation of the Republic to us, and every piece of it is worthy of our attention!" For example, Papa's innocence at midnight , uh, "And her advantage over James is that she is Fan Zhuo! A punished alien Fan Zhuo! If the Secret Alliance doesn't keep an eye on her, our Sabbat should accept this 'gift'!"
Nick wasn't thinking about Zach at all, he was, as usual, thinking about the Sabbat. The pride of Nick Giovanni.
After Roy reluctantly gave a look of approval, Nick became a little confused, "And compared with Louise, she is more..."
Nick shut up because he saw James' red eyes turned towards him.
Roy also avoided the sight of the two of them after noticing, "Ahem." Using the old topic changing technique, "We don't need to think about this now. Now, Barton's situation is more urgent."
I remember I mentioned before that the war situation that Roy and Nick spent time discussing was Novel and Rimel from the old secret team. These two Sabbat vampires would not easily let go of what they saw as Dora and Eve led the clan to fight.
Nick also immediately gave up what he wanted to say and returned to the topic, "We need a reasonable plan to absorb Rimel and Nofele. We must let these two clans join the Sabbat! Otherwise, their threat will be too great! We can't just expect them to be 'friends' with you Toledo!"