"So, Old Hank has always been like this?" Derek smiled, looking at the receding scenery outside the car window.
Derek had just heard Zach tell what happened when he and Benjamin found Grande for the first time. There was Grande Sr.'s excitement and Hank Sr.'s doubts. No one will tell the rest of the details, so no one will know.
Zach raised his eyebrows, "You should feel lucky." He curled his lips and said, "At least we have eliminated one name, and there are many things that we don't need to prove to them. And this has already happened once, and Old Hank is much calmer."
Derek smiled to himself and shook his head. He thought of the sudden question he was asked yesterday after being treated silently by Old Hank. It turned out that one of them had been excluded, so he was let go so easily.
"What kind of person is Hank?" Derek suddenly frowned, and he seemed to notice something, "We talked for a long time yesterday." He waved his hand, "Of course, it was all about, well, our father , related. But he rarely talks about himself. Has he always been such a person?"
Somewhat strangely, Derek's attention seemed to shift, from Old Grande to Old Hank. It was as if he didn't have much curiosity left about his biological father. I can understand it, but exclude it. Haha, Old Grande is not a good person in this fabricated version.
Zach opened his mouth and suddenly put on a troubled expression, "No, if a few guys named Hank show up one day and come looking for him, I can't imagine that scene."
"Hahaha!" Derek was amused by Zach, threw away his inexplicable thoughts, and continued to look out the car window, "Then, how did he live, the last few years of his life?"
"Grateful?" Zach asked in a questioning tone. Then shook his head. The vampire could understand what Derek was asking, and it was not an answer. The vampire was ready to tell the truth, "Actually, it's nothing, he is very ill. There is no chance to feel anything else, and the pain and anxiety occupy it." Most of the time. Then resting.”
"Oh." Derek nodded silently.
"But he did express his gratitude." Zach added, but his tone was very flat, as if he didn't really feel anything. "He was grateful for our presence, and grateful that at least someone was by his side when he finally left."
Derek didn't know what to think. Zach's words were hollow and did not answer his question. He expected to learn more about what kind of person the real old Grande was from Zach, but Zach did not give him an answer. Just state a fact in a calm, emotionless tone.
My impression of Javier Grande can only be understood from what Old Hank said last night. A selfish person who delayed the lives of at least two women for the sake of work.
"Where are we going now?"
"West End, the original Grand Funeral Home West End Cemetery." Zach explained, "It turns out that the office there has not been demolished yet, and it is said that it will not be developed along with the cemetery land until the fall." Zach touched Touching Derek, "Benjamin and I haven't experienced that period either." Zach curled his lips, "According to Hank, that was Grande's busiest and most developing time. Now we can go and take a look. Maybe You’ll find something interesting.”
It means to feel the atmosphere of the past in the place where the old friend once lived. How did the old Grande neglect his family because of his work. Ignoring the loved ones around me' created an environment for Derek's terrible life.
After a brief silence, Derek let out a breath, "No need to go." He looked at Zach, who was a little surprised, "There's nothing interesting to see, and I don't understand anything about the funeral industry. Hank told me Those things are enough.”
Zach thought about it, and it was understandable, but this also broke his original plan, now. Our vampire is really wondering what to do as a tour guide. The vampire subconsciously touched his pockets and estimated his snack reserves.
"Take me to the station." Derek thought for a moment and smiled at Zach, "I, well, I finally got what I came here to find."
It can only be 'forget it', the real owner is no longer there, and all the resentment and anger towards life have not been vented. Instead, we have come to the conclusion that 'bad men don't die well'. It can be regarded as giving Derek some life guidance inexplicably.
"You want to leave Barton?" Zach was really surprised this time. He was already prepared to have another brother in the future.
Don't be too surprised, Grande is already a whole, surrounding the whole of its current owner. Derek also expressed that he is self-aware and does not want to disturb Grande's current life. So even if he will stay, he will not live in Grande and will not affect the alien races in Grande.
"Yeah." Derek nodded with a smile, "I want to go back." He smiled awkwardly and waved his hand, "It's not like 'going back', but at least..." He paused, "I want to be with my own The kid stays in a city.”
A strange light flashed in Derek's eyes, "Well, I don't want to be like us when my children grow up and get confused in life." Derek smiled at Zach, "I don't want to be like us. Go to the source and try to find some explanation." Derek paused, "and found nothing."
Derek shook his head, "Coming out this time was an immature move. It's time to go back." As if he thought of something, he looked at Zach apologetically and explained, "You are different from me. My life is already here, so there’s no such thing as going back. It’s right here.”
Zach looked at Derek, smiled, and nodded. In fact, he didn't need to explain. Zach had told Derek before that when they found Grande, they were still young and life had not yet begun. The Grande Funeral Home that Derek saw now, in his understanding, is the only traditional funeral home in Barton, and it obviously already has an important position in Barton. This is Zach and Benjamin's real life.
"You're right." Zach still admired Derek's ability to take into account the feelings of others, and patted Benjamin on the driver's seat on the shoulder, "You heard me, station."
"Wait a minute." Derek's face suddenly became embarrassed, "Let's go back to Grande first. I don't have much cash with me..."
Zach smiled and patted Derek, "You should have a good rest and we will make arrangements."
The truck that was already at the junction of Patton's South and West districts turned and drove back.
When he returned to Grande, Zach had no intention of helping Derek arrange his meeting, but left it to Louise.
Hearing that Louise and Derek had already called to reserve tickets in the office, Zach glanced at Benjamin and walked towards the basement entrance on the side of the Grand Funeral Home.
Pushing open the metal door and entering, the light dims instantly. Neither the vampire nor the Alpha liked the smell very much, so they pressed their fingers to their noses and headed down the dark slope.
The flowing colored light shines at the end of the ramp. Danny the Phantom is back, so fast!
Let's take a look at what form a truly powerful phantom takes.
The colorful light that filled the entire basement dimmed the surroundings with a hazy brilliance. Danny sat in the corner with his head lowered in human form, but the brilliance all over his body completely ignored the boundaries between his body and the world around him, spreading and flowing freely.
"Danny." Zach frowned, "What's wrong." Although the scene in front of him showed that the phantom man at this time has the ability to disturb the boundaries between reality and illusion in the world, the space shrouded in colored light is dominated by the phantom man. world! However, Zach could feel Danny in pain.
Danny raised his head, his face was completely blurred by the colorful light, he didn't speak, he just looked forward.
The vampire stopped asking and looked at the stone platform in the center of the basement. Remember, this is where the vampire put makeup on 'Dylan'. Dylan, who seems to have a special affection for this place, is also floating here, but his cyan body is inconspicuous under the colorful light of the illusion.
Alice, covered in work clothes and wearing gloves, stood in front of the stone platform in confusion, looking at the two burnt corpses placed on it, one large and one small.
Zach walked closer. The small one was only about the size of a baby. It was too horrible to describe. Judging from the size and frame, the big one is a woman.
"You shouldn't have let me go..." Danny's voice suddenly sounded, "Everything, everything, has come true..."
Some people want to find Hailey, some people want her to disappear, not as the vampire expected, the strongest delusions come true, but everything, everything comes true!
Zach frowned and looked at Danny, who was thinking about other things now. It’s just one night. No one’s dream can come true in one night, and no fantasy person can transform from a low-pitched and weak fantasy person into the one who can dominate a space in just one night!
Zach thought for a moment, shook his head, and looked at the confused Alice, "Alice, what did you see?"
Alice shook her head and hugged her shoulders sadly, "No, I can't see anything, something is blocking my sight." Her eyes began to become misty under the goggles, and she shook her head at the vampire, her voice Already starting to tremble, "I can't see anything..."
WestEnders' commission on Grande, for the first time, was a complete failure.
Zach frowned and hugged the sad Alice, "It doesn't matter, this is not your fault." Besides the banshee, there was another person who needed to be comforted. Zach looked at the phantom man whose entire body was blurred in the light. "Danny, don't blame yourself. It wasn't the things you accomplished that caused her death."
The colored lights in the basement trembled, and along with their owners' emotions, they began to violently collide with each other! The colorful light spots exploded in the clear sound of the intersection of gold and stone!
"Calm down!" The vampire's eyes turned red and he stared in the direction of the fantasy man. "You can't hinder Alice's ability. This is not your doing." The vampire frowned, "There was someone before us..." Zach looked. He looked at the two bodies on the stone platform and "'processed' them." (...)