Zach flipped through the information Bishop gave him again, closed it, and walked out of the office. The files were blocked above his head and he stepped back as soon as he stepped out of the back porch, waving to Benjamin who was chuckling in the hammock.
Benjamin stood up slowly, walked to the back porch, and took the document handed over by Zach, "You have no choice."
Indeed, Zach called Walter and Steve every half hour, but it was almost noon and neither of them were there.
Zach curled his lips, "I can ask Crowley, but I don't want to ask until James comes."
Because James hates the vampire's circling style, Zach doesn't want to create the wrong impression before James talks to Grande again about reconciliation. After all, Georgina's matter was not over yet. Before James could tell Zach some details, he was interrupted by Harrison's matter.
The law of getting along with others is directness, which is the right way. Asking for information through other people will only come across as insincere.
Benjamin raised his eyebrows, "Crowley is not as useful as Walter."
This is true. If Hailey hadn't died in Barton, Crowley wouldn't have been able to help.
"You don't need to say this." Zach shook his head and looked at Benjamin flipping through the information, "Do you have any suggestions?"
Benjamin pointed to a piece of text in the document with Hailey's address written on it, "Go and take a look?"
The stupidest method. Zach shook his head, "I don't think we can find anything."
Bishop must have done these things before.
Benjamin pointed to a list of names on the document. Bishop's information was really sufficient. This was a list of people that Hailey usually had good relations with. "Go and ask?" Alpha blinked, meaning to let the vampire's charm Hitomi is out.
Zach shook his head again, "I don't think it's useful."
Hailey's social circle is not large. Her friends are also the staff of Bishop Manor, such as housekeepers, maids, cooks and so on. It's all in Bishop's hands, and if I can ask for something, it's already in this information.
Zach didn't want to get involved in Bishop's family affairs before finding Hailey, if he alerted the person who, according to Bishop, influenced Hailey to make undue demands. Or if there is someone who threatens Haili, then Haili, who still has great hope of being alive at this time, will definitely die.
Benjamin clicked his tongue, closed the document, and slapped Zach on the chest, "You have to start somewhere!" Zach frowned and looked up at the sunshine outside the verandah, "Okay, but even if I have to start. Not now. Think about other things, I don’t want to go out now... "
Benjamin spread his hands, closed the document directly, and threw it back to Zach. This is probably the real reason why vampires are always stained. Benjamin sat on the bench and let Zach ink.
"Hailey's behavior changed." Zach narrowed his eyes. "A maid who was very satisfied with the status quo began to make excessive demands. Who put this idea in her heart? Why?"
Benjamin shook his head helplessly. "Does she need someone else? She needs to think about her children. Bishop's son, and the maid's son." Benjamin tugged at the corner of his mouth. "I think it's a good choice."
"No, no!" Zack shook his finger in front of Benjamin's face, "Bishop's illegitimate son and the son of a single-parent maid." The vampire began to distort morality, "I think the latter is the better choice, and the latter's life will be Live in a friendly environment. Some people don’t want this friendliness and are destroying the current environment.”
Benjamin looked at Zach and shook his head. "You forget that no matter what kind of life it is, this child will grow up in the same environment, there is no difference at all."
Zach raised his eyebrows, indeed, no matter what the identity of this baby was. He would grow up at Bishop Manor. Judging from Chapman's account, it seems that he did not hide his relationship with the maid in his own home, and even went to check on the baby. There was no need to choose the identity of this illegitimate son, but the two always overlapped and weighed on him.
Zach regretted more and more that he had not asked Bishop to clarify the relationship between the characters in their family.
Seeing that Zach was silent, Benjamin suddenly laughed.
"What are you laughing at?" Zach glanced at Benjamin, who didn't want to contribute at all.
"We are very lucky." Benjamin shook his head and looked at the bright sunshine outside the back porch. "Every incident we deal with has something to do with alien races." Benjamin leaned his head against the wall, looking comfortable, "Then we will There is a gap to intervene, to use foreign methods to reverse or bury the incident, but the result is a happy solution for everyone."
Benjamin paused for a while, seeming to confirm something, "No, except for Pochi Quinn's first time, we were here for money. The others were that the incident had already concluded before we intervened, and we couldn't do anything. It is to fill the gaps created by the aliens and throw back a complete event that is acceptable to ordinary people."
Benjamin smiled again, "We are just cleaning up the mess for those aliens, and then asking ordinary people to pay."
Zach raised his eyebrows and moved closer to Benjamin, waiting for him to continue.
"This time, there doesn't seem to be any trace of the alien race." Benjamin glanced sideways at Zach and smiled, "It seems to be a purely ordinary incident, and the result has not been confirmed. Hailey may be alive, or she may have died. Being in danger, Grande no longer has an economic crisis, you have no direction at all, and you can't find a gap to intervene."
Zach blinked, "You're right!"
Vampires have been alerted! This commission has been unclear since Bishop came to Grande to meet and talk with Zach. It is because Zach did not feel the involvement of foreigners in this incident and did not have enough motivation to work hard.
It seems that from the moment that photo appeared in front of Zach, the vampire characterized it as a human moral and ethical dispute, and downgraded himself...
oh! What the alien race lacks the most, and what makes the alien race the most impatient, is this thing! In the eyes of an immortal vampire, this matter is as boring as children fighting over toys.
This is a very vivid analogy. If the toy that children are fighting for is a talking puppet, the vampire will take the puppet himself and give a new one to each of the two competing parties. This has been Grande's style since his career transformation, stealing the truth, deceiving his employer, and getting both toys and employer's reward.
The most essential problem with this commission is that there are no 'toys' that vampires are interested in, only naive children fighting for an ordinary toy!
"What's wrong?" Benjamin frowned and looked at Zack, who curled his mouth.
"I'm forcing myself." Zach raised the document in his hand, "I really don't care about this thing. It's just to not break the promise to Mrs. Quinn."
Benjamin looked at Zach for a while, "Then what do you want to do? Can you cancel the commission?"
The vampire raised his eyebrows, "Of course not!" Zach opened the file and stared at the photo on the first page, "I want to complete this commission."
Benjamin pursed his lips and clicked his tongue. The vampire would tell him anyway, so there was no need to take the initiative to ask.
"Benjamin, you mentioned a very important point, the first commission from Mrs. Quinn."
Benjamin curled his lips and mentioned this just for the sake of comprehensiveness. His main point was that there was no alien gap that Zach was interested in in this incident. I didn’t expect it to be the most important thing, eh.
"In the Pochi incident, it was also just a conflict between him and Mrs. Quinn." Zach blinked, "Just think about it, there were no other alien races that created cracks for us to fill."
Benjamin raised his eyebrows, and he began to understand Zach's direction. In the fight between Mrs. Queen and Porky, Grande was the guy who created the alien-featured gap! They set the Porchi outcome, and then it's up to the shapeshifters to complete it.
"It has nothing to do with the alien race." Zach blinked, "Can't you find the gap? Then let us create the gap ourselves."
Benjamin's summary made it very clear. Maybe he didn't mean it, but it made Zach realize that what allowed Grande to proceed smoothly until now was the gap created by the alien race in every incident. Regardless of whether the maker is an unknown alien race or Grande itself.
It would be a waste for Grande to play the detective game as seriously as No.
Zach's thinking was limited previously. When Nok asked Zach if there was no other way to deal with the aliens, Zach's mind kept looking for Hailey, and Zach really didn't have any good ideas for this. But look at the conversation between the two Grande brothers just now. What is Grande’s true ability? It is to clean up the mess of the foreign race and make money on the way.
"Danny," Zach called.
Colorful rays of light gathered directly in front of the vampire, and there was a faint gray flowing under Danny's skin, making the human uneasy. He has been like this ever since he knew the real Firefly would come back.
There was his own uneasiness about taking someone else's identity inexplicably, and Alice's uneasiness about the unknown. The two were mixed, and finally reflected in this phantom, and it was impossible to tell which side was more.
"What's the matter?" Danny asked weakly.
Zach smiled and looked Danny over, "You look like you need to hang out outside and get some fresh air."
Danny nodded bitterly, he understood what the vampire was talking about.
Danny shook his head, "What happened?"
"I want you to go to Bishop's manor." Zach pointed to the address on the document, handed it to Danny, and then smiled at Benjamin, "Let us bring this matter to an end."
Danny looked at the address with a hint of doubt, "What am I going to do?"
Zach smiled sideways, "No need to do anything. Being a fantasy person is born to do things." The vampire narrowed his eyes, "Just go and realize the strongest delusion."
Because of his own impatience, the vampire has missed clarifying the neutral position of Bishop Manor, and lost the possibility of using real detective skills to solve the commission like Nuo did.
But what does it matter? The most important thing is Hailey who is at the center of these positions. She is missing, she is found, she is hurt. May the strongest delusion win. (..)