Four-twenty in the afternoon.
"My sweetheart! Here!" Coulson stopped the car, leaned half of his body out of the window, and waved to the girls looking at the school gate!
"Daddy~"
Coulson turned back to Fitz and said, "Sit tight." He opened the car door, got out of the car, half-crouched and opened his arms to face the six or seven lolita running over.
A lolita with two pigtails rushed directly into Coulson's arms, "Daddy! Mommy, Daddy will definitely forget~"
Coulson wiped the sweat from his daughter's forehead, "Well -, she was wrong! How could I forget? I promised my sweetheart~"
Loli showed her two front teeth that were not yet fully grown: "I knew it! I believe in Daddy!"
Coulson wiped the sweat from his forehead, stood up, opened the back door of the car, and put on an expectant expression: "Now, who wants to go to Lisa's birthday party!"
"Oh! Oh!..." cheered.
"Lisa and my sweetheart, you can sit in the front~"
"Oh! Oh!..." cheered.
Seeing the crowd of guys pouring into the car and squeezing Fitz into a corner, Coulson breathed a sigh of relief, took a few deep breaths, disguised his tiredness as excitement, sat back in the car, and raised his voice: "Now, put on your seat belt! Lisa! Where are we going?”
"My house! My party! Uncle Coulson! Come out!"
"Yes! Sir!" Coulson moved the car.
… …
An old, stained truck was parked on the corner of the street where Detective Coulson's house was. The four people jumped out of the car and walked towards Detective Coulson's house. Fortunately, today is not the weekend, the people at work haven't gone home yet, and the housewives are picking up their children from school, so no one noticed the four strangers with very different styles.
Benjamin and Zach were followed by two James Lances, uh, or two Kim Grands. But don’t be confused by their faces, they are very easy to distinguish. The man holding the food and wearing Benjamin's clothes is the Alien, wearing a custom suit, but the one with the numerous mimeographs on it is the real James Lance.
Now, we can officially exchange the names of the two people.
Arriving at the door of Coulson's house, James looked at the closed door, "Are we going to invade?"
Kim swallowed the last of her egg roll, "Your left pocket."
James reached out and took out a bunch of keys: "He gave you the keys to his home? He has never been suspicious of you?!"
"Why are you suspicious of me? I didn't do anything wrong." Jin replied coldly.
"I... you, you attacked me! You stole my identity!" James was excited.
"You are still alive and your identity has been returned to you. What else do you want?" Jin was still cold.
Benjamin took James' key impatiently, opened the door, and entered first, "Don't waste time, Jin, where is the clue wall?"
"Backyard." Jin no longer cared about the still excited James, walked into the house, passed through the living room and kitchen, and opened the door to the backyard. Of course, when passing through the kitchen, Mrs. Coulson prepared one less fruit.
Zach raised his eyebrows, patted James on the shoulder, stepped on the door eaves, nothing happened, and entered Detective Coulson's house with the corner of his mouth slightly raised.
The four of them arrived at Coulson's studio, and the first thing that caught their eyes was the clue wall filled with photos.
James temporarily put aside his hostility towards Jin and studied the information carefully.
Zach glanced at it and found Louise's photo. Zach frowned, has the effect of the Charming Eyes disappeared
There was a red thread on Louise's photo, which connected two other missing women. The red thread was marked 'Friendship'. According to the corresponding number, Zach found Louise's previous visit to Barton on the messy table. Transcripts made by the police station. The body of one of Louise's two friends has been found and was dragged to another place by a red thread.
Zach was relieved. The essence of the effect of the Charming Eyes was to implant a false memory. Although the memory implanted in Coulson lasted for one night, the vampire had only replenished food before that, and it was not too long to release the Charming Eyes. Hard work.
Zach looked through Louise's transcript. Louise did not skip the matter about body temperature, but the officer who recorded it only attributed this special one to the cold weather.
"Uh, let me go through it." James stared at the wall of clues and began to move his arms in the order of the red lines: "Everything started a month ago, when the prostitutes started disappearing. Half a month ago, Lu Louise's friend became a victim, and then because his target was Louise, he took action again. But it was obviously different from the previous actions. The previous people belonged to various neighborhoods, although they were all working with prostitutes and women. However, from half a month ago to the following week, his targets were obviously focused on Louise’s neighborhood.”
James seemed to have a talent for being a police detective, and he soon noticed the first change in the alien's behavior from the clue wall made by Coulson.
"My first question is, why is it a prostitute?" James showed a look of disgust on his face and asked, "Does he have any special preferences?"
"You actually can't figure it out." Zach flipped through Louise's transcript, "Kim, tell Detective Lance how aliens generally choose food."
"People who no one pays attention to." Jin chewed the apple in his hand, "Traffic people, prostitutes, women, bottom workers, mobile population."
James frowned, "Okay, so prostitutes and women are the easiest targets at the beginning. You aliens are all strange... creatures with extremely heavy target consciousness. Why is Louise still alive?"
"Because she's smart enough." Zach ignored the awkward twist in James' words, and being able to change it already meant that he was working hard. Zach turned to the last page of the record, "After escaping for the second time, Louise hid until the body was discovered four days ago. The Barton Police Department launched an investigation. After she took notes, she realized that the police were paying attention. After this happened, he showed up again and started working." Zach handed the transcript to James, with an expression of appreciation on his face. He looked at James jokingly, "Look, she took the initiative to write the transcript. of."
James took the transcript and looked through it roughly. He knew that Zach was obsessed with Louise's behavior of not calling the police before he was ridiculing him.
James put down the note, found the location of the clues he had seen before, and summarized: "Before the second turning point, a total of twelve women disappeared, and only three bodies were found." Posted on the clue wall Three women's mutilated corpses were found, and the most recent one was the one in the Barton Daily News that Zach 'bought' yesterday.
"Where are the other corpses?" James seemed to have thought of something bad, his lips turned white.
Zach looked at Jin and made a gesture of please, meaning, please explain to Mr. Detective.
"In Barton City, each place has its own unique environment." Jin explained calmly.
"You know the location?!" James glared at Jin: "Why didn't you report it?!"
"Why should I? Detective Coulson never asked me." Jin frowned. He didn't understand what James was excited about. The things he took away have now been returned to James intact. Musi is still not satisfied, humans are really strange guys.
The shadow flashed! Zach was already in front of James, holding down his hand on the holster. Staring at James: "James Lance, you should know that we are helping you now. Benjamin and I need to prepare for Mr. Quinn's funeral. As for Jin, he can become anyone and then leave In short, we will not stop him. The only reason the three of us are here is because of your last name 'Lance' and your current identity!"
James stared angrily at Zach. His hand was grabbed by the vampire and he couldn't even move his fingers, let alone take out a gun and shoot! His nostrils opened and closed violently, his chest heaved, and he suppressed the anger in his heart.
Zach is right, the vampire did not use the 'Eye of Charm' on him to change his will, nor did he directly make him disappear from the world. The reason is that the vampire listened to the words of the alien Jin, and the vampire's eyes always look at humans. Anthony is Zach's ally in the upper class of society, and now they need someone who can pay attention to the lower class, and this man is James Lance.
And James Lance must be a humane person, not an alien suffering from 'bulimia'!
Zach repeats what he did to Anthony more than ten years ago. Save a person, then reach an agreement and become an ally, but now, this new alliance is still very fragile.
"Have you calmed down?" Zach looked at James' chest that was gradually calming down, loosened his grip on his hand, and then turned to Jin: "Continue."
Jin glanced at Zach and continued: "I don't know the specific location, but I can probably guess the environment. This is just a test conducted by the first skinchanger who came to Barton City."
"Test? Test for what?" James asked as calmly as possible.
"A test to see if there are other alien races occupying Barton City." Jin said plainly: "Werewolves prefer mountains and forests, water demons like humid environments, wizards like places where human races are mixed, hellhounds haunt churches, and phantoms live in places where business is flourishing. More powerful... vampires." Jin glanced at Zach, and then said: "Vampires will not be under the sun."
James looked at Zach and frowned: "He is in the sun."
"Because I am more noble." Zach slightly curled his lips, straightened his tie, and changed the subject: "James, you should realize by now that he has already obtained the results of such a test." Zach After finishing his tie, he began to fiddle with his hat: "It is foreseeable that in the future, a large number of aliens will enter Barton City. You don't want this, and I don't want this either. We can help each other." Zach looked at James scholar.
Zach had made the proposal while they were still at the Grand House. It's just that at that time, James's promise was not very sincere in order to regain his identity, but now, James began to think seriously.
"Mayor Barton also knew your identities before you?" James asked.
"You can ask him yourself." Zach replied nonchalantly.
"Well." James nodded, "Now, at least on this case, we have a cooperative relationship! After that, I can't guarantee it now. I want to discuss it with the mayor in person!"
"I can accept this answer." Zach smiled and looked at Benjamin, who also smiled.
James pleased them greatly, with his caution, sense of justice, and attitude of having to confirm everything personally, he would be as perfect an ally as Anthony.