Zach shook the document in his hand. He had only filled in half of it. The other half could not be written freely. The police seemed to be interested in investigating the prison.
"Barton Prison has a cooperative relationship with Grande, which can be found in public resources." Zach handed the document back to Wes, "So you should understand that I will not make any arbitrary comments about them."
Weiss took the document and didn't seem to want to ask any more questions. He wrote a general word 'cooperation' in the blank space, and directly crossed out the following questions, "It's just a routine question, don't worry about it."
There is no such thing as a routine question. Every question the police asks has a purpose. This statement is just to lower the vigilance of the person being asked. But for Weiss and Grande, who already know each other somewhat, this is really just a routine matter of representation...
Seeing that Wes handled his work casually without asking any questions, Zach felt helpless, "I guess the prison side can't escape responsibility this time, right?"
Wes glanced at Zach, "Are you asking me?"
Zack shrugged and acquiesced.
"I don't know." Wes thought for a moment. He wasn't very interested in Grande's social connections, but if what James said about vampire immortality was true, then they would have a lot of time to interact with each other in the future. There seemed to be no need to hide anything from Zach.
Weiss sorted out his thoughts, "In fact, we didn't know about the prison break at the first time. The prison didn't notify us when something happened. It was the hospital that actually called the police."
Wes was obviously telling the story of the incident. Although he was not answering Zach's question, how to understand it depends on what Zach thinks.
"The timeline has been determined. The escape and accident occurred in the early morning, between three and four o'clock. At five o'clock, the South District Hospital received the injured prison guard. There were accidental injuries from the accident and gunshot wounds."
Wes looked at Zach, "You know the hospital is obliged to notify the police when it receives a patient with a gunshot wound."
Zach nodded.
"The people in the prison tried to stop them. Fortunately, the emergency doctor was quite stubborn. In addition, the condition of several prison guards who were sent to the hospital was very bad. According to the doctor's description, they were delayed until their injuries could no longer be controlled. Send for healing.”
Zach listened expressionlessly. It was already obvious that Vincent, 'Barton's best warden', wanted to suppress the whole incident and failed.
"Originally, I was just asking my colleagues who had gunshot wounds in accordance with the regulations. When I was asking about other patients' conditions (accident injuries), I discovered that the prisoner's statement was vague. That's when I reported it to the superiors."
Zach suddenly remembered something. The chief of the Southern District Police knew Vincent.
"Then, the news basically made it clear that the sewer burst accident and the escape incident in the prison were discovered by the police who rushed to the prison. That's it." Weiss ended the story.
Something is not connecting.
The contents of the news also put the prison escape and the accident together, which means that Warden Vincent still has a very reluctant escape route. Jailbreaking is a natural disaster, not a crime. But the question Weiss was dealing with was clearly aimed at prison management.
Zach didn't know whether the relationship between the Southern District Chief and the Warden was friendly or hostile. But according to common sense, the relationship between these two people should be to take care of each other. Then these problems that are obviously aimed at the prison should not arise. Vincent will definitely be unlucky if a prison break occurs, but if any management errors are discovered, such as corruption. Then he is not simply unlucky.
Someone is urging the police in the South District to dig into the cause of the accident and want to get rid of Vincent!
Ethera. This woman's face appeared in Zach's mind very naturally.
Do you still remember the last time a prison sewer burst? The city government had allocated funds to Vincent for repairs. Only a month had passed and the same accident happened again, even more seriously. This time it also led to the prisoner's escape, posing a threat to the life safety of the entire city of Barton.
How did the accident happen? Were the repairs made a month ago actually carried out? What exactly does the appropriation for repairs do? The target is not Vincent, who everyone knows very well, but Anthony, as the mayor, what exactly has he used the money of the people of this city to support!
Zach frowned, "Wes, has your director had contact with anyone..."
"Zach." Benjamin spoke suddenly, looked into the vampire's eyes, and shook his head, "You know how he feels about us interfering in his affairs."
The 'him' here, of course, refers to Anthony. As he did at Mrs. Quinn's dinner, verbally attacking Ethera is the limit that Anthony can accept. If it's too much, Anthony will let the vampire go without any hesitation. Go aside. Remember, Anthony doesn't take the shortcut of alien ways.
Zach pursed his lips, thought for a while, and stopped asking. He waved to Wes and smiled, "Further east to Highway 27, there are not many residential houses left. You can rest in Grande A while."
Wes shook his head, "Unfortunately, the area east of Highway 27 is also within my scope of work. I have to leave."
Zach twitched his lips, what about it? The chief of the Southern District Police Department really has a problem with his stomach.
Zach found the key to the warehouse in the drawer and threw it to Wes, "Let's go find a car in the warehouse."
There is no shortage of cars in Grande, there are several hearses (from the former West End cemetery), as well as trucks and cars used by staff for daily travel (Louise occupied one). It's just that due to the special tastes and needs of the two owners, it has been collecting dust in the warehouse for a long time.
Wes looked at the key in his hand without any pretense, drank the chocolate in the cup, thanked him, and left.
There was no one in the office, and Zach became embarrassed. He watched Benjamin leisurely walk down the aisle and sit down at his desk, shaking the wooden box in his hand, and waited.
God knows if this alpha has been cornering Zach in the office.
"Tell me, what did Walter find?" Benjamin was straightforward. Walter had promised to have a result before the full moon, but there had been no news since then, and no one answered his phone calls (Walter was moving). So Benjamin has actually been waiting for news from over there.
This time Zach went there in person. It would be very inconsistent with Zach's character to get nothing.
Zach curled his lips, first took out the hunter's poison and stood on the table. Begin the narrative.
The process is no longer repeated.
After listening, Alpha picked up the poison and frowned, "What are we going to use this for? Find someone to drink it and test the effect?"
Zach swung his glass, "I think Maggie thinks so. Either we do this experiment, or she does it."
Put another way. That is, if Maggie's experimental analysis idea is correct and the materials are opposite and the effects are opposite, she can continue to analyze the effects of the materials in the laboratory to deduce the effects of spices. So the most important step in conducting this analysis is to use this bottle of poison, which is the finished product after gathering the materials, to try to kill a soul.
Maggie chose the latter between poisoning someone herself or letting Grande poison someone. Return this step in the experiment to Grande. The choice is Grande's.
We've seen giving others the right to choose whether to become a vampire, the right to choose an educator, the right to choose where to belong. Now, we meet another woman who gives away the right to kill or not - Maggie Crescent.
Benjamin looked at the bottle of poison, and the corner of his mouth twitched, "Walter has such good taste." He didn't know whether this sentence was sincere or sarcastic. Alpha threw the poison aside casually, "Throw it away. Don't worry about the spice anymore. It doesn't sound like its effect is bad."
"Isn't it a bad thing?" The vampire shook his head, "If this spice really resurrects the soul, you really have a split personality." Zach looked at Benjamin with strange eyes, "I know we often identify you with the wolf The title makes it sound like you are not one. But if you really become two souls in the same body, I don’t think that is a good thing!”
As for the werewolf's soul, it has already been explained that the werewolf's soul is dead. Bound in the body with vampire blood by Papa Midnight's witchcraft, he became a wolf during the full moon. It is not an exaggeration to think of Alpha, who is usually in human form, as a human-shaped wolf soul container.
The first discovered effect of the spice was to stabilize Benjamin's thinking when he was human. When he was not in the full moon cycle, he would be affected by the wolf heart that was about to move and become malicious to the vampire. And after becoming a wolf, he can keep his mind clear and gain memories for one night.
Looking at what happened in Maggie's laboratory, it probably has nothing to do with maintaining human consciousness. It's just that a real soul (band) is activated in Alpha's body. Relying on Alpha's body, it begins to bind the memories, thoughts, and desires of the human body, that is, the soul mark generated by consciousness, so that it cannot be captured by the wolf body! This is to ensure Benjamin's sobriety.
Benjamin raised his eyebrows and actually smiled, "It's quite interesting, isn't it? I only thought it was different from it (the wolf body) before, but now there are actually two individuals."
Zach sighed helplessly, "Benjamin, this is not interesting. We still don't know why you lost all abilities after stopping using it, as well as your usual laziness."
Benjamin glanced at Zach, shook his head, and smiled, "It's just that you don't know. I already know it very well."
Zach frowned, "What do you know?"
Benjamin waved his hand, "Remember Matthew thought his wolf body was a demon raised by his own body?"
Zach twitched his lips and said, "That's just an analogy. I won't allow you to belittle yourself like that."
"After I stopped using spices." Benjamin ignored Zach's childish 'not allowed', "Where do you think the bonds that were stimulated went?"
Zach was stunned, like in the laboratory, death without any attachment, disappearance and intangibility? I'm afraid not, the werewolf's body is just a cage that binds the soul of death! The real situation should be that it was captured by Alpha under the full moon!
Benjamin looked at Zach's expression and knew that he had already thought of it, "So it will become stronger again." Benjamin raised his eyebrows, "I will become stronger again."
The outcome took a very ridiculous turn, as Alpha's usual laziness and previous abilities disappeared, not as a side effect of using spices.
Benjamin's body could not keep up with the growth rate of the wolf in his body, and he began to suffer from fatigue and his usual laziness. Like developmental pain during human development.
After stopping the use of spices, there was no tie to share the excess soul imprint and human consciousness - Benjamin's simple body could not bear the growing wolf body, and his abilities were temporarily shut down. The pain of development is too great for the body to bear, causing physiological cessation and fainting.
"You have to work harder." Benjamin stood up, tapped his fingers on the desk surface, gave the dumbfounded vampire an unclear smile, and left.
As for how to solve these problems? Like any developing teenager, eat more and sleep more, well, that's it. (..)