'Welcome to Barton City. '
James gasped, holding on to the sign erected on the roadside with one hand and pressing his knee with the other. He hated this stretch of road. More than three months ago, it was here that he was beaten half to death by Jin and then thrown into the woods to die. Now he was left here by another shadow man.
James did not dare to waste time. After taking a breath, he found the direction and continued running. People in the Southern District, especially those closer to the border, seem to go to bed very early. It's only around ten o'clock, and there is no light at all!
James identified the direction of the house in the night. He needed a phone, he needed to find Zach and the others, and he needed to tell them that Wander had left Barton City.
After our detective ran wildly on the road for more than ten minutes, he finally stood in front of a farmer's house. His mouth was wide open. His nose was not working well now. He tried hard to control his breathing and knocked heavily. into other people's homes.
"Who is it! What time is it now!" came an irritable male voice.
"Police Barton!" James yelled, pressing his heaving chest, "Detective Lance! I need to use your phone! Open the door! Emergency!"
The door was opened, and a frowning man stared at James, but his expression immediately turned strange, "What's wrong with your nose? Are you okay?"
"Nothing!" James took out his police badge, put it directly into the other party's hand, and shouted hurriedly, "Where is the phone?! I need to make a call!"
The man was only wearing a pair of shorts and his hair was messy. He looked at the police badge in his hand in a daze and pointed in one direction, "Over there."
James rushed in without any intention of observing the surrounding environment. Picked up the receiver and started dialing.
Click click click…
After a moment, the man seemed a little embarrassed and handed the police badge back to James, who was staring at the phone dial. "Old phone."
James' fingers quickly inserted a number and then rolled it down. Then continue to wait, click click click...
"Who is here?" A plain female voice sounded from inside the house.
The man frowned and responded, "A policeman, he was using the phone, he was injured. Brielle (Volume 7, the sister of the person who died in prison). The man was his fiancé, and he took people to the mill to ask for burial. Reese), can you get the medicine kit?"
When James finally finished dialing Grande's number. Briar also walked out with a plastic box, sat aside, glanced at James expressionlessly, opened the box, and took out cotton cloth and disinfectant.
"No, thank you..." Before James could finish his polite refusal, his tone became urgent, "Zach! Where is Zac!"
Danny's voice came through the receiver. In fact, it doesn't matter who it is, they all received the explanation. If James calls, the reply is uniformly - "You are missing, they are looking for you, please call your home phone number to check."
Without wasting any time, James clicked the hangup button and inserted his fingers into the dial again. Turn it down quickly, click click…
A piece of cotton cloth filled with the smell of disinfectant was pressed to James' nose. In severe pain, James instinctively wanted to hide, but was held down by a strong man, and Siris frowned. "She doesn't like rejection. You need to clean up the wound."
James glanced at the expressionless woman. Her movements were not gentle at all, rubbing around the bridge of James' nose. James endured the pain and let her go.
The call was quickly picked up, "Zach! Is that you?!"
"Benjamin." Alpha's voice came from the receiver.
James looked at the woman standing in front of him disinfecting himself, raised his hand and covered the phone, "Can you give me some space?"
Brielle put down the box and walked away. Cyrus hugged her and sent her into the bedroom, "You should rest first."
James let go of the hand covering the microphone, "Benjamin! You have to come here quickly! The southern border of the South District! Wandel has left Barton City!" James said hastily.
"Yeah." Benjamin said briefly, "I'll tell Zach."
"Where's Zach?!"
"Looking for you outside." Benjamin maintained the principle of saying less and making less mistakes. "Wait where you are and he will look for you."
"Okay! Hurry up! I'll wait!" James nodded, still anxious.
"There's something." Benjamin's voice had a hint of an unknown smile, "Your girlfriend came to see you, alone, crying, you weren't there, and then left."
Georgina! James opened his mouth, "When?! Uh! It's none of your business!"
"I'm just telling you." Benjamin smiled on the receiver, "I didn't ask anything."
"Tell Zach to hurry up!" James hung up the phone.
"What are you doing?" Sires blocked the door and pushed James back who was about to rush out. He frowned and glanced at James's terrible nose, "You have to wait for someone anyway, at least Wrap your nose!"
James' voice was loud and urgent, and it was strange that he wasn't heard in this old house. Sires didn't give James a chance to refuse, picked up the cotton cloth, and continued what Brier had left off.
"You should go to the hospital, otherwise your nose will be crooked. I can only help you avoid infection." Siris frowned, but his movements were much gentler than Briar's.
James looked at the man in front of him. This was probably the only thing he felt warm all day long, but the other man was a strong man wearing only a pair of old shorts, which made him feel a little strange.
"Thank you, I will." James deflected his gaze, trying not to look at the other person, nor to pay attention to the severe pain from the bridge of his nose being forcibly broken.
"Did you say Zach and Benjamin were Grande's two brothers?" Sires seemed to hesitate for a long time before asking. He was already bending over and folding gauze.
James frowned and asked in surprise, "Do you know them?"
"That's right." Sires curled his lips, and his expression didn't look happy. "Why do they have anything to do with you, a police detective from the North District?"
Because James was anxious, the police badge that was directly handed to him seemed to have been checked very carefully.
"Uh..." James became irritable in an instant. He found that he accidentally let it slip while relaxing, "It's nothing, they are just helping." James frowned, "Please don't tell anyone. "
"There's nothing to say." Siris curled his lips, impatience flashed across his face, "Everyone knows that Grande has a relationship with the Southern District Police Department, otherwise there wouldn't be that mill." He looked at it Looking at James, he said, "It's just that you are from the North District. I didn't expect Grande to be related to the North District Police Department." This was already ironic.
James looked at the man in front of him. He obviously had some bad thoughts and had a bad impression of the Grand House. His tone was full of repulsion.
"They are helping me investigate a case." James stared at Siris who pressed the powdered gauze to his face and said seriously, "They are helping as civilians. I hope you can understand this. , this cannot be made public, it can only be done in private, to help. This will protect Grande and help the police, and the city of Barton will be grateful."
Think about Grande's image in the minds of people on the South Side. No one cared about it for several years, and it relied on the prison and hospital business, plus funding from the city government, to survive. Then, miraculously, he defeated the earnestly run Allen Funeral Home, won the cooperation with the South District Police Department, and made a lot of money from the city government's tomb relocation compensation, and was dubbed the only tradition in Barton City. Funeral industry titles.
Maybe this was just something everyone talked about after dinner, but James didn't know about Siris and Grande's personal relationship. Therefore, when Sires talked about Grande, his subjective and biased tone made James only think: This kind of Grande does not represent a good meaning in the eyes of some people.
So, James did something he didn't even think of, he was explaining for Grande!
Grande is not some dependent scum, but someone who is helping the people of Barton City.
Sires increased the strength of his hand and pressed the strip of tape onto James' cheek. He frowned and after a while, he said, "I understand, you don't need to explain to me." He turned around and locked the medical kit, "Okay, you can go."
James touched the thing on his face irritably and shook his head. Forget it, he really didn't need to explain. He glanced at Siris one last time and said, "Thanks again." He walked out of the opened door.
Zach stood on the roof of Siris's house and looked at James' back with his head lowered, quickly retracing his steps, heading towards the southern border of the South District. The vampire's face showed both satisfaction and disappointment.
Of course, he was satisfied that James was speaking for Grande, and the vampire's teachings to the detective finally bore fruit. What's disappointing is that he only now realizes that the tone in which Siris said those words shows that Grande is like this in the minds of these humans.
The vampire shook his head, sighed softly, and then smiled again on his face. Well, Sires is not wrong about Grande's point of view. Grande's existence is because of Mayor Anthony. This is the largest and most solid relationship in Barton City.
Zach moved silently on the roof, and casually helped Siris lay down some weak tiles on the roof. Then he checked the surroundings, jumped off the house, easily pressed back the raised fence, spread straw evenly in the cowshed, and blocked the leaking pipe...
There was no special intention, Zach just needed to kill some extra time when he was 'rushing' to James.
As for Wander, there is no need to worry that they have escaped too far. Walter had made an agreement with Zach a long time ago. After entering Newton City, he would not drive far, but would directly explain everything to the shadow man who caused all this, and wait for Zach to arrive for the transaction.
So, when James was anxiously pacing back and forth on Route 27, waiting for Zach to arrive. The area around Sires' house is being repaired bit by bit by vampires. Wander, who was already within the city limits of Newton, was staring in surprise at Walter who had turned off the engine and was resting on the backrest, "Are you serious? Those two...them, they are willing to help me!"
Please understand Wander's excitement, like a fox who finds two lions willing to help him escape from the tiger, it is a fairy tale come true. (..)