When James' car parked in Grand's backyard, Zach was holding a small paint bucket in one hand and a small brush in the other, painting the new porch pillars.
James walked towards Zach, pinched his nose and then stepped away, "You didn't notify me that you were back!" His nasal voice was slightly thicker.
"I don't work for you." Zach stirred the paint bucket and did his own thing leisurely.
A stack of documents was thrown to Zach's feet by James.
Zach glanced down. The documents had the logo of the Barton Police Department printed on them. Case? No, too many.
"At midnight yesterday, the police station received a large number of calls. A group of priests and nuns claimed that their lives had been taken away by demons for more than a year!" The nasal voice was still heavy, "Do you have anything to explain?!"
"What do I have to explain?" Zach didn't bother to talk to James. He glanced at the counter of the showroom. Annabel was talking to Bain about work.
James walked around the new pillars and stood on the back porch. He also glanced at Annabel and Bain in the exhibition hall. After listening for a while, he didn't want to pay attention to it and stared back at Zach. "Not just the clergy, but also the civilians." !Report that they are possessed by demons!"
"What do you want from me, Detective Lance." Zach pouted. He didn't expect what Mike was worried about last night, but now he knows. There are many people in Barton whose lives are controlled by demons. Although based on the agreement between Jessica and Zach, the devil will not affect the personnel of the middle and upper classes of Barton society, but the devil has been stationed in Barton for more than a year anyway, and a sudden collective return to hell is bound to have some impact on Barton. Reporting this 'prank' type case to the police is probably the most insignificant impact.
What did those people who briefly regained their lives and knew that the devil would soon hijack their lives again do during these forty minutes? This was probably the real reason why James came to Grande. Forty minutes, honestly a lot can be done.
"I went to Mary Church before I came here, and Jessica said she would handle these things, but I don't trust her!"
Zach looked at James for a while. After all this time, James' attitude towards the devil was not getting better.
"James, those possessed people are the demons in Barton's life. It has nothing to do with whether you believe it or not." Zach continued to paint, "They will deal with their own problems."
"That's the problem!" James still pinched his nose, "Anyway, life is no longer his. Finally, there is a gap. Even if he does something disgusting during this period, the returning demon will take care of it!" James was very dissatisfied with Zach's attitude. He stepped forward and snatched the tool from Zach's hand, holding it far away, "What if someone kills someone?! Do you think Jessica will honestly admit that she did it?" The demon's vessel is a murderer?! She will just let her demon cover up the evil that happened last night and continue to use that vessel to live in Barton!"
Think about it, this is not a ridiculous conjecture, right
But James has the ability to act childishly on serious issues. Zach was speechless and glanced at the tools that were thrown far away, "Then if a crime really happened last night, is the sinner you want to punish the devil, or is it the devil?" Someone who is being used as a container? James, first figure out what you really don’t trust.”
James was stunned for a moment, and then got angry, "Don't bother me with these messy things!" Seeing Zach trying to get the tool back, he stood in front of Zach, "It's you, Toledo, who promised the devil, Barton The city government no longer has the power to command the devil!" Remember, "Because you claimed Barton as yours! Jessica was hiding behind Toledo's promise, and even Mayor Anthony couldn't pressure the devil to abide by this. The laws of the city!" James was actually very organized, "So this is your responsibility now!" James stared at Zach, still pinching his nose, "I don't know what a human policeman like me can do. Who will be punished in this situation!" As he spoke, he flicked the corner of his jacket with his free hand, and showed the police badge on his waist to Zach, full of malice and ridicule, "So I'm here Looking for you, the vampire who definitely knows what the 'right' thing to do is!"
Tsk, Zach looked down at the police badge on James' waist and realized that he had fallen into a trap. The two of them just stopped here.
James made an important point, right? Toledo claimed ownership of Barton, so it stands to reason that Toledo should take responsibility for all the intractable problems in the city. And the Toledo here must be Zachary Grande of Grande~
Annabelle and Bain finished talking about things in the exhibition hall. Annabelle left the exhibition hall, took a look at the confrontation between Zach and James in the back corridor, sat down on the bench, tilted her head slightly, "I I remember that when I was a countess, watching two men confront each other was one of my great hobbies~ But, that’s not the case.”
Zach turned away from staring at James' waist, and James also withdrew his thrusting hips, and both of them glanced at Annabell with unusual expressions on their faces. It was Zach who spoke first, saying to Annabelle, "If the handover of the Grande work is completed, I think you should get on your way, Countess."
"Don't worry, Zach." Annabel gave Zach a smile, "I still have something to tell you in person." She gestured to James, "I'm not in a hurry, you should deal with what you're doing first. Things~"
"You're leaving?!" James actually answered Annabel's words. In Zach's memory, the two people had never crossed paths, so he didn't know what James was excited about.
Annabell also seemed surprised that James would answer her words, "Yes." She simply nodded to James. This answer was just polite.
James looked inexplicably angry, "You let her go?!" He asked in a questioning tone.
Zach had no idea what James was angry about, "You don't want her to leave?" He added, "Are you familiar with each other?" Obviously not, Annabelle's politeness said it all.
"No!" James searched the surroundings even more inexplicably, and then revealed the reason for his sudden excitement, "Where are they?! The living corpses that Fanzhuo once smuggled from the Federation to the Republic through Xiaobai! Those living corpses? Where are the innocent civilians who were used as tools for Fan Zhuo’s demotion! Where are they?!”
Well, the living corpse in Xiaobai's case is indeed a knot in James' mind.
Zach frowned, "James, Xiaobai's living corpse..." Zach wanted to say that Xiaobai's case has passed a long time ago, and those living corpses in the Republic are already belonging to the Fanzhuo clan and cannot be Save, it’s time to let go.
But Zach was interrupted by James Wizard, cutting off what Zach wanted to express: "I can't save those living corpses in the Republic! But this one!" He stared at Annabelle, "This mortal Zhuo, now that Barton is here! I can't let her..." James actually didn't think about his words, his face twitched, and he simply pressed towards Annabel, "Come back!"
Zach pursed his lips and pulled James, "James, don't make excessive demands." This is excessive, not that the innocent civilians who became living corpses are not worthy of being saved, but, "You can't beat her, I can’t beat her either.”
Let me share a truth. If you try to take something away from someone who is much stronger than you, you'd better find someone who is even stronger than the other person. Otherwise, the other person will let you go with a light 'no'. At a dead end.
James turned his anger towards Zach again, "You can't beat her?" Gloomily, "Don't she love you?! You need to 'beat' her to make her listen to you?" Uh...
Zach glanced at Annabelle, who was looking down, not knowing what expression she was hiding, "I just told her that she loved me yesterday." Uh...
James's face is a face that has eaten shit. And as he took two steps back, he raised his hands and began to rub his hair.
In fact, Zach couldn't bear to see James acting bad every time. He was obviously trying to teach this pretty good human guy how to survive in this real world, but he always acted like he was destroying his life.
Zach didn't look at James, but looked at Annabelle. Judging from the shrug of his shoulders, Annabelle was smiling, "What are you laughing at?"
Annabel answered with a smile, "I've actually been curious about when this Lance detective would find me." What? Annabel raised her head and looked at Zach with a smile, "I also asked White Cat why Detective Lance didn't use the living corpse case of Xiaobai's case to find me. Anyone who has watched James Lance in Barton and After all your deeds, I understand that this police detective is not someone who will give up easily. So~" Annabel spread her hands, "Why hasn't he come to confront me, the real murderer of the Xiaobai case, Fan Zhuo?"
Zach glanced at James who was still pulling his hair. "Because he knows things are no longer within his capabilities?"
"Today, the police detective came to you to deal with the devil. Is it within the scope of the police detective's ability?" Annabell asked with a smile.
Zach curled his lips and looked back at Annabel, "What's the white cat's answer?"
Annabel glanced at James who was tugging at his hair, "He's waiting for you. He knows that Fan Zhuo needs Xiao Bai's living corpse in order to escape the fate of vampires given by the Holy Lord's faith. He also knows that you have a dog that is completely different from Fan Zhuo. Different solutions wizard ghost. He knows that as a human being, he has no position to intervene in this kind of matter." Looking back at Zach, "He feels that as long as I am still in Grande, you have the opportunity and qualification to punish Fan Zhuo. crimes."
Oh, so here's Zach letting James down. We all can see that during the time Annabell spent in Grande, Zach didn't ask about this at all.
Zach shook his head, "I'm still trying to figure out how to get rid of the landmines laid by the Holy Lord's faith for the fate of vampires. I won't be arrogant enough to think that Fan Zhuo's novice way is wrong. Let alone any punishment. .”
This is a fact. Please recall that although Zach did not like the result that Xiaobai would cause humans to become living corpses, he never said that Fan Zhuo was wrong.
Do you think the wizard-ghost plan is the best one? Don't forget that Zach was also worried that werewolves kidnapping wizards would appear in vampires. The complete vampires would deprive the wizards of their lives for their own benefit! This is literally depriving life!
Don't think that the Wizard Ghost's plan is the better solution just because Sam is willingly bound to Zach.
Now that everything is a trial and error, no one is qualified to judge!
After destroying a lot of hair, James put his hand down. He still had a shit-eating face and stared at Zach gloomily, "I don't expect you to punish Fan Zhuo! At least, I thought you would save another person." Innocent civilian who walked in front of you!" Angrily, "Now you let this Fan Zhuo go?! Do you have any sense that this Fan Zhuo can stand here safely because an innocent civilian sacrificed his soul? Will life give her all this?!"
"Of course I am conscious." This was the truth. Zach looked at James, "Then what do you expect me to do? Let Fan Zhuo give up the demotion and let Andrew 'resurrect' the living corpse. Let an innocent federal civilian take this He returned to his own life, but Barton, is there a complete Vandro? James, you have met Mokavi, you have met Frank, you have met Bob. When you accused me, you were conscious What does it mean to have an ancestral vampire in the city?"
It seems that James didn't realize it before. He was stunned for a moment, and now he realizes it, and then the expression on his face is that he has been fed another mouthful of shit.
It was quiet on the back porch for a while. What broke the silence was 'Manfield', a 'middle-aged baby' who had been parasitized by a spirit-sucking monster, carrying his luggage to the back porch.
Zach raised his eyebrows and immediately looked at Annabel, "Manfield? What's going on?"
"This is actually what I want to talk to you alone later." Annabel stood up with a smile, and without seeing any orders from her, 'Manfield' dragged her luggage and walked directly outside the Grande, "That The woman you met who originally came to Grand with me has been liberated by me, and she is in a body freezer somewhere in the basement on the east side of Grand."
Zach didn't say anything, and James' eyes followed 'Manfield', "So, is that the body of the soul-sucking monster that was left in Grande?!" James still had channels to know about this kind of thing, Look who his wife is~ "How can he move? Isn't his soul supposed to be a baby that has never grown up?!"
"He is a baby." Annabell answered James, "But by social status, he is an adult with a family and a career." She looked at Zach, "I made my own decision when the spirit sucker gave up this blank soul. After taking him in, during the month you left, I fed him Xiaobai for a long time and turned him into a living corpse." After a pause, "My living corpse." Everyone knows what this means, so I won't explain it.
Zach calmly straightened out the incident, "Did White Cat ask you to make these preparations?"
Annabel shook her head, "It didn't~" smiled, "But it did tell me when preparing for the beginning of this volume of stories that it would be a waste for the spirit suckers to give up 'Manfil'~"
Yes, Annabell originally had James Lance's doubts about Xiaobai's victims, plus this waste from the soul-sucking monster. Annabell would make this inevitable choice even if she didn't know that Zach would let her go to the West.
"Detective Lance." Annabelle looked at James, "Don't even think about punishing me~ Never even think about it in this life~ But I hope it will make you feel better knowing that an innocent civilian can return to her original life. ~Of course you have to get her out of the freezer first, and then do what you can do~ As for this one~" He and James looked at 'Manfield' standing next to the luggage, "If you don't do it with me The downgraded tool man, 'Manfield', really has no life in this world~ A family will be broken, and the federation will lose a philanthropist who respects the Indians~ I think, even if you are a persistent policeman like you, Tan, you will turn a blind eye to this situation, right?"
James didn't speak, but his behavior was that he turned his eyes away and no longer looked at 'Manfield'.
Annabelle's luggage has been carried out, and she is leaving Grande, so this is a farewell. To Zach, "I know you must be unhappy that I used the words 'this volume of stories' in what I just said. But Before I leave, I still want to say something for White Cat."
To be honest, unless Annabell mentioned it specifically, Zach would never think of the unhinged feeling that his life was 'dominated' by a story again...
He shook his head speechlessly, "What did you say?" What could Zach do? Anyway, even if Annabell was not allowed to say it, the white cat would write these words into the story!
"The white cat is helping you~" Annabel came closer to Zach and whispered, as if she didn't want James to hear, "As the end of this volume, the meaning of my appearance with 'Manfield' to say goodbye to you is not white. Cat likes my character so much, and wants to add to my construction of Fanzhuo in Sabbat~ But you, the protagonist, need help~" His eyes moved to the corner of his eyes, James at the edge of his vision, "Human life occupied by alien races has already This is the 'life' of aliens~ This is what the police detectives bring, the key to the devil problem~ Come on~"
Zach reacted for a while, and when he wanted to say something, Annabell had already walked away.