Mike felt Zach's emotional change, but he did not stop and continued to relay, "After Quist's project started, Smith began to go around Quist and contact farmers in the South District."
Zach shook his head slightly. The previous narrative only filled in the blank background of James' investigation results. Now is Quest's real action against Smith. That was what Zach had originally hoped to do, to offend Smith.
"Quest Group has signed supply and demand agreements with most of the farmers in the Southern District on the grounds of expansion. In the next five years, Quest Group will control the planting options of the land, and the sales of crop products will go directly to the north and south of Big Q. District chain. Smith's side isn't happy, but they don't have Quist's clout in the South Side..."
"Just tell me what he did?" Zach waved his hand to interrupt Mike's narration. He was no longer in the mood to listen to the story.
"Neil and Daphne." Mike said directly, "Quest has been pushed into a corner." What a straightforward conclusion.
"I thought Crowley said I would be happy." Zach shook his head.
This is a very simple question, do vampires want to live in the middle of a 'poisonous weed'? of course not! It’s not a bright and righteous reason. Just by imagining it, you can foresee endless troubles and a lot of attention in the future! Vampires and Alphas initially chose to occupy the Grande Funeral Home, in addition to Old Grande's suitable identity, just to avoid this.
Secrets don’t want to sit next to each other.
"That's what she said." Mike nodded, seeming to recall Crowley's original words, "'Push the recording incident to Quest, and then turn it into a deal between the two parties to make Smith give up continuing to threaten Quest. Quist remained silent about the recording.'"
Crowley thought quite reasonably. As for getting Quest to cooperate, it is not difficult for the vampire.
"Then what?" Zach smiled, "Crowley wouldn't be naive to think that Smith would let Quest go. From what I heard, I don't want anything to happen to Quest."
Mike's face became embarrassed, "Crowley said, that's your problem."
Zach could already imagine Crowley's smile behind those words. "Yuri." Zach said, waving his hand and frowning.
"It's very simple Yuri." Mike was very talkative and immediately changed the subject of the topic.
Yuri was a foreign company to Barton City, so he was unlucky. Fortunately, Herman chose a moment when Barton needed development to enter here. When Yuri came to Barton, Barton City already had the size of a city. Speaking of businessmen, Herman might have had some ambition to build a city, but Yuri was a very simple businessman.
"The rivalry between Uri and Smith reached a peak during Lister's construction."
Zach frowned as he listened to the information dug out by the devil's convenience, and thought in his mind. The development of Lister Street and its surroundings is the result of the joint efforts of all the citizens of Barton.
Of course, Zach didn't experience that period, but he only heard some of it when he could still stay with Anthony often.
The development of Barton City had a bottleneck before Lister. Initially, the urban skeleton built on sea, highway, and railway laid the foundation for convenient transportation for Patton City. Later, Hermann's automobile industry relied on the convenient transportation to fully develop.
But Barton is not so much a city. Rather, it is a large-scale production and transportation station. Do you think those who play City Development are satisfied with the results? No.
So they began to push Barton into a real city. The first step was to turn the former center into a city. Move away from Bache, which is focused on transportation. Let this new city get rid of the impression of being 'just a station'.
This process was not pleasant because Yuri appeared.
It may have been a friendly solicitation, but when these businessmen faced real interests, a bloodless war began.
"We have determined that Urie at that time has confirmed the true identity of Smith. Lister at that time. Most major buildings, using Urie building materials. Only the iconic Lister Building was left to Smith. The two parties reached an agreement through overt and covert transactions, and it was because of that period that Yuri stabilized in Barton City."
Zach thought, look at it this way. Smith and Yuri have fought before and won. So this time, it is okay to want to copy the previous victory.
"Also." Mike drank the water in the cup. "Crowley said that you would hesitate after listening to Quest's content. She personally prefers Yuri. As for the reason, she said that you asked Anthony will know later."
Mike looked at Zach who was still thinking, no longer just relaying the story, and asked expectantly, "Have you asked Anthony?"
Zach glanced at the demon, smiled, and said, "Tell me, how many days of leave will Crowley give you this time?"
Mike grinned, seeming a little embarrassed, "I don't have to go back this whole week until the Sunday service."
Zach smiled. This simple guy didn't care about Grande's commission or the problems Crowley and Zach were facing. All he cared about was that after completing Crowley's mission early, he would have free time to move around. .
So he expected that Zach had already contacted Anthony and had made a decision at this time, and then solved all these problems in one morning, so that he could make up for the vacation he missed because of Wells last time, and happily feel this The world!
Zach pursed his lips and glanced at Mike apologetically, "I'll fight now."
"Oh." Mike was a little disappointed.
There was a gentle knock on the door, and Louise walked in from the side door. The silk shirt was tied into a short skirt around the waist. The skirt that just covered her knees revealed her straight calves wearing stockings. A jacket hung on the arm holding a briefcase. Louise was wearing light makeup. Si smiled and asked, "How was it?"
It had been a long time since Zach had seen Louise put on makeup. The vampire recalled his initial impression. They were completely two people...
"Very good." Zach smiled and nodded, "Are you going to drive?"
Louise nodded, "Benjamin found one in the warehouse."
Zach thought for a while and said, "Let Danny come with us." The vampire was still a little worried. Please try to understand that if the elephant and the ant were lovers, it would be the same as the elephant would be worried about the ant traveling. This is the first time Louise has left the South Side since she settled in Grande.
Louise pouted, "Okay." She winked at Zach, "But I am the leader and he is the follower."
Once again, Louise placed the landing point in a wonderful place.
Zach smiled and nodded, watching the woman walk out of the office.
Mike looked at Zach's face, "Don't worry, Crowley has people guarding Dylan."
A soul escaped from hell, and this gossip spreads faster than you think. Zach directly told Walter that if someone came to find him, just tell him Grande's name, so it was really no surprise that Crowley paid attention to Dylan. I believe that as soon as Crowley sees him, she will realize that he is special, protection, surveillance, control, you can choose any word.
Zach tilted his head to express his gratitude. He was indeed worried that Dylan would lose control. After all, watching his relatives and friends discuss whether to burn or bury him was not a pleasant thing.
The dial on the phone slowly turned, and Zach dialed the number in Anthony's office. Almost immediately, the phone was picked up.
"Why so slow!" Anthony's voice was not very happy. He called Zach early and asked Zach to reply, and now he was impatient to wait. As for why Anthony thought it was Zach who called, not many people knew the mayor's private phone number.
"It's me who should complain." Zach curled his lips. He didn't have to make those boring expressions to his friends, "Where were you last night?"
"I'm very busy!" the mayor said impatiently, "and please stop filling up my answering machine! This is not fun!" Last night, Zach called Anthony every quarter of an hour. All were transferred to the message, and Zach talked a lot of nonsense to pass the time and the depression of not being able to find anyone. This process lasted until the end of the midnight snack at three o'clock in the morning, and Zach gave up only when he heard the reminder that the tape was full.
Zach made a don't blame me expression towards Mike, "We need to talk, it's a serious issue." Zach thought about it, usually Anthony would only be vague about vampires when it comes to things within work. Thinking of the dinner party (for the campaign) that Anthony accidentally talked about before, Zach decided not to rush to the city hall directly, "Do you have time?"
In the muffled background, Anthony's calling voice came. It was obvious that the mayor covered the microphone and was asking about his schedule, but it had no effect on the vampire. After a moment, Anthony's voice became clear, "Where are you going at noon?"
"Does it have to be noon?" Zach frowned.
"I'm very busy." The sound of pen writing on paper could be heard in the receiver. The mayor was really busy.
"Okay, then the same place. Twelve o'clock." Zach glanced at Mike helplessly.
"Yeah." A voice came from the other side, and then he hung up.
Looking at Mike's somewhat disappointed expression, Zach smiled and shook his head, "If we had your devil's ability to communicate, it wouldn't be such a troublesome thing."
The disappointment on Mike's face disappeared, and he actually started thinking seriously. Then he shook his head and pointed to the old phone on Zach's desk, "Sometimes I wish I could put this ability on the table, fix it, and go by myself. Playing. Or just..." Mike reached out and picked up the receiver, and a beep came from the receiver. Mike looked at the thing in his hand and pursed his lips, then gently put it back, "Hang up like this."
Zach blinked, Mike was an amazing guy. (..)