As the truck drove away from Grande, Benjamin shifted gears unhappily because "Urban Legend" was being held by Zach next to him. The vampire didn't know what he saw was funny, so he chuckled, "You see this..."
"Don't tell me!" Benjamin stopped Zach's spoiler behavior, he wanted to watch it himself.
Zach smiled and closed his mouth, turning to the next page to continue reading, to relieve his boredom on this boring road trip without music.
At the end of Route 27, the truck turned onto Betsey Street, following the same route as last night. After passing the ** bar, which was completely closed in the morning, we entered the warehouse group around Port Massa.
A typical detective like No has his own way of doing things, and so does an amateur role player like Grande. And more effective.
The truck bypassed the blue and white police car. James frowned and blocked the sunlight from his eyes, casting two dull black spots in his eye sockets. James was talking to his partner next to him, Detective Coulson, but after his eyes came into contact with the truck approaching from far away, he could no longer move away. With a sullen face, he saw Benjamin stopping the truck next to him.
James didn't remember asking these two guys to come over when he called.
"Good morning! Detective Lance!" Zach waved happily, and then walked towards James very confidently. The policeman who blocked the road was pointed to James's position, "I am a friend of Detective Lance. !”
Detective Coulson, who had never formally met Grande, stood next to James, trying to face the face in his memory.
Because of the Wells incident, Coulson already knew that his partner had a 'helper' in Barton City. Of course, it is against professional ethics and dangerous for a detective to ask another detective for information about an informant, even between partners. matter. But in retrospect. Coulson had seen Zach's pale face twice, once by Herman, who was nearby, and once at the abandoned bus station in Paisin, although at that time Zach's reason was that of Herman's son. funeral. The reason for going in circles like this.
Coulson was not stupid. After thinking about it, he slapped his young partner in realization and said, "Not bad!" Then he gave an "I am (liao)" expression in the direction of Zach and Benjamin. Consciously step aside.
Zach, who was walking with a smile on his face, was bumped into by the oncoming James. The detective's arm directly wrapped around Zach's body, pushing the vampire back without any explanation, and lowered his voice, "Why are you here now! We haven’t finished checking yet!”
This sentence really disappoints the police. It was as if the police inspection was over and the crime scene could be put on public display. However, James, who knew that Grande had a commission, could not stop this. It was already rare for him to be able to say something that would cause Grande to miss the mark with the police.
Zach smiled helplessly, "James, what are you thinking about? If you don't come here immediately, why don't you wait until the Earthbinder disappears?"
Alien methods, see. More effective.
James pushed Zach and his body stagnated, and his face actually turned blue under the sun.
Zach smiled and took a step back. Smoothing out the wrinkled shirt caused by James' pushing, "James, we are here to help."
"And we need to hurry," Benjamin reminded.
He was not pushed by James because Benjamin Bizak was self-aware and had no intention of approaching the police. But now he was approaching from the direction where the truck was gradually approaching the area surrounded by yellow and white police tape, "Right away. 'He' is going to disappear."
James couldn't describe how he felt now. Although he knew that the earthbound spirits of the dead would linger in this world for a period of time, he had never really thought about it. Believe me, this feels very bad! Please refer to how I, Madison, decorated the mill.
Don't do it because James is ex-military. The current police detective thinks that he should be very adaptable. Before coming to Barton City, James was just a simple human being.
The young police detective suppressed the discomfort in his body, walked towards Benjamin, and lowered his voice, "Where is he."
Benjamin glanced sideways at James and frowned, "You can't throw up, right?"
"No!" James could only ignore the malice, "Where is he? What did you see!"
The vampire and Alpha were not really close enough to offend the other police officers, and both of them had their eyes on the same spot.
It was a passageway between two warehouses. The load-bearing rubber was covered with metal tracks, which were used to carry goods in and out. The sun, which has not yet fully climbed into the sky, cannot pour sunlight into the corridor. On the west warehouse wall, the dazzling red color, light and darkness are divided into two parts. A transparent human figure made of light and shadow is broken and attached to the red center of the west wall. A picture of fear and pain. The distorted face has begun to blur.
Zach patted James on the shoulder, "You know that the Earthbinder will relive the death process for a period of time after death to accept the fact of death. Right."
It was obvious that James kept his mouth shut. For him, the level of discomfort in this matter had risen to another level.
Seeing James' face turn from green to pale, Zach smiled, "It seems that you have figured out the entire process of the case."
The process was as follows: the body of the earth-bound spirit was squeezed against the west wall and dragged back and forth. Every time it went back and forth, more blood stains were pulled out of the wall. The transparent spirit body only left a layer of halo on the dried red color on the wall.
James took a deep breath. It had been more than an hour since the police arrived here, and the evidence collection and examination had almost been completed. Having seen the corpse, he could not control his brain from replaying the entire scene. When he opened his eyes, he saw only a passage stained red with blood.
There was a sense of helplessness added to the nauseating discomfort, because Zach said that the whole process was reappearing. Not only could James not see, he could not do anything.
"Can he speak?" James' voice became even lower.
"No." Zach shook his head regretfully. Because in addition to the Earthbinder himself re-enacting the death process, his body is being torn apart.
The demon's loyal dogs are dragging this new earthbinder into hell.
Before the moment of light and darkness, these hellhounds living in the gap have no form and can only attack those beings who have half a foot in another world.
Benjamin frowned, watching the other person's body being slowly torn and peeled off layer by layer. The face that had spent a short time with him last night had completely lost its original appearance.
"What's wrong!" James didn't know what was happening in the eyes of the two aliens, so he suppressed his voice, "Tell me what's wrong!"
"Ah." Zach withdrew his gaze and looked at the sullen but eager James with a smile, "It's nothing, the hellhounds are performing their work, taking..."
James stretched his palm in front of Zach's face, and the uncomfortable feeling rose to another level again. He didn't want to hear it anymore. The innocent and beautiful world in his eyes no longer existed.
James turned around without warning and started walking aimlessly. He looked up at the sky, down at the ground, and looked left and right at his colleagues who were still working... He was eliminating all negative thoughts in his mind. He needed to meditate. He needed to Keep your wits about you.
Benjamin looked at it for a while, shook his head, and looked away from the crime scene. Those trapped creatures that are extremely hard-working because of their owners - Cerberus, are very helpless things. At any given moment, even vampires and Alphas cannot do any harm to them.
Benjamin looked at James who was swaying expressionlessly, curled his lips, and looked at Zach as a signal.
Zach thought, he couldn't say anything to James before Smith's commission was clear, so Zach lied for the time being. But now it seems that when James is struggling with a new worldview, it is not a wise decision to attack his old worldview.
"Then let's go." Zach walked towards James who was wandering around and patted him on the shoulder.
"Yeah." James said gracefully without even bothering to open his mouth. Then he seemed to remember something, and his eyes drifted to a place in the distance, "Did you see anything special just now?" The detective's mind was rare and still clear.
"No more." Zach shook his head and curled up the corners of his mouth. This lie will continue for the time being. "It looks like an accident."
James Lian was too lazy to be grateful, nodded, and walked towards Coulson, who had been secretly paying attention to this side.
Coulson hugged James with a half-smiling expression, and the two began to whisper something, but this was not what Zach cared about.
Back in the van with Benjamin, Zach took out a note with the address, glanced at it, and threw it aside. These are the addresses of the two deceased persons provided by Smith. According to the normal steps of human detectives, they should investigate who they have been with recently, who they have called, what they should not have done... and so on.
However, aliens have their own methods.
"Teacher Mary..." Zach shook his head and twitched the corners of his mouth. If she were to ask Crowley for these two souls, it would be complete Grande asking the devil for help.
The nature must be corrected. The Cherubim incident and the incident with Wells and Seth were all because James was involved between Grande and the devil. Zach voluntarily chose to help James. Working with Crowley. This time, it was just a simple request for help, and Zach didn't want to give this favor away in vain.
Zach showed a smile, "It's time to visit old friends."
Benjamin turned the wheel, "Which one?"
When the 'last' Toledo and Alpha, who had no clan, came to Barton City for the first time, they made many 'friends'. They made a tacit agreement with each other not to disturb each other, just like the tacit agreement with Hayate and his wife.
"What's his name?" Zach frowned, recalling his memory, "I only remember that he was missing one front tooth."
"Oh." Benjamin nodded, as if he already had a clear destination, "That liar."
"Master of deception." Zach corrected and raised his eyebrows, "At least that's what he calls himself." (..)