Still in the West End, Grande's truck stopped in front of a house. This was the home of one of Woody's band members that Hardy Sr. knew. Zach looked at Nuo coming out of the front door unharmed and smiled. It seemed that the two of them had found the same clue.
Nuo watched Zach waving in the car and approached with a smile, "There is a cafe over there, let's go there."
Zach nodded, turned the car around, and Nuo's car followed. After driving two streets, they both stopped. The two of them entered the noisy store and found a seat near the back to sit down.
Nuo casually ordered some drinks, looked at Zach and smiled, "You already know who the seller of 'Valmina' is, right?"
Zach also smiled, "Better." Zach raised his eyebrows, knowing that Nuo would rely on this thing to turn his situation around, so naturally he would not hide it, "I have already admitted that the purchasing channel is the client Hardy himself. Outside of Barton The source is in Newton City, and he used old connections left over from the former West End Grande.”
Nuo frowned. As you can imagine the progress of Nuo's action, he went to inquire about it first, and naturally found out that 'Valmina' was bought from Woody's band. However, Woody's disappearance had been confirmed, and he turned to the direction of the other band members. After all, this kind of thing has a difference between retail and wholesalers.
Nuo's luck was pretty good, he found that wholesaler!
It's just that this wholesale channel is actually the client entrusted by Grande, which is not easy to handle.
Zach looked at Nuo's hesitant eyes, smiled happily, and patted Nuo on the shoulder, "Don't worry, there is no conflict of interest, they are two different things." Zach blinked, "Besides, we have a way A solution that doesn’t hurt anyone. Why not.”
Nuo looked at Zach's eyes and thought for a moment, "You said the source outside Barton is in Newton?"
Zach smiled and tilted his head, "Crowley is in Newton."
Understand, the way to not hurt anyone is to remove the responsibility for Valmina's invasion of Barton's monopoly market from someone deliberately bringing it in. It turns out that someone deliberately sent it in! There is a difference between the two. Old Hardy, who just wants to make some extra money, is more in line with the latter!
With Crowley operating in Newton, Smith's focus will shift from being wary of Barton's internal to competing with Barton's external!
Then, Old Hardy, who provided the channel, changed from the antagonistic role of Smith, the 'rat' within Barton, who provided the means of invasion to the outside world, to the important role of Smith, who in turn had to deal with the competitors in Newton!
That's understandable. In the drug lords' war, there is a resource that cannot be used in vain - the federal police who represent justice.
Think of the channels in Old Hardy’s hands. Should he convict the Smiths, a famous family in his city, or would he convict the guys in Newton who could only provide extra money once
Nuo, who understood, smiled and shook his head, feeling relaxed, "Although I know you don't like to participate in their struggle for interests, you always seem to be helping them."
Zach smiled and nodded to the waiter who brought the drink and shrugged, "It's not me who helps Smith. It's you. My commission is just boring looking for someone." Zach smiled, "Now I have to follow Let me tell you. What did you find?"
Nuo glanced at Zach gratefully, and Zach had made it obvious. The 'Valmina' incident was drawn from the clues extended from Grande's request to find someone. Although the two are intertwined, according to Zach's just-mentioned assumption, there will be no conflict between the two. There will be no impact if the event is divided and ended by two people respectively. It's a win-win situation, just go for it.
"How did you talk to your friends at the police station?" Nuo smiled, and he realized that this might be the last time he could help Grande with his job.
After exchanging information this time, the two people will deal with the two separate matters separately. It was impossible for Nuo to help Old Hardy find his grandson's helper because of a favor, and. When he went to negotiate with Old Hardy for the benefit of Smith, these two identities appeared at the same time. You wouldn’t think that for a professional detective, mixing favors and interests is a sign of professionalism, right
So I want to be as comprehensive as possible when I can finally help.
Zach twitched his lips. It was no surprise. After Nuo left the office, his phone conversation with James was really not pleasant.
According to the vampire's plan, Zach had exaggerated the influence of 'Valmina' on Benjamin as much as possible, but James actually refused to accept this!
Detectives being detectives, James immediately discovered how few clues the vampire had! He is a police officer under the public service system, not a detective who exists only for private interests, so what he considers is even more positive and practical than Nuo!
He told Zach directly that if there was only one clue about 'Valmina', he couldn't do anything! Addicts can disappear and disappear every day! For these people who give up on themselves, the disproportionate reward-to-pay ratio is simply not worth the waste of public resources! Unless Zach sent him a sample, he could take it to the anti-drug team for inspection, that's all.
And out of habitual doubts about Zach's character, James reasonably accused the vampire of caring more about 'Valmina' who influenced Benjamin than the commission itself! The young police detective asked the vampire on the phone, "Do you want to find out the secret of this 'Valmina', or do you want to find that Woody!"
Zach naturally answered "Find Woody" with some guilt.
So after James taught Zach a lesson again on the phone, in the end, there was a good result, and James agreed to pay more attention to him at the police station. The reason is that James thinks that if he doesn't help, no one will take care of Woody.
"He agreed." Zach curled his lips, "But I don't think he can gain anything." Zach shook his head. It was Zach's own fault. He had too few clues at the time. If he told James now, There were conflicts within the band over allocating funds, and maybe there were directions James could look into.
"You shouldn't underestimate your police friends." Nuo smiled, took out a notebook, opened it and pushed it to Zach, "Woody's band has four members, two of them were involved in a fight three days ago. , have been detained in the Barton Police Station, and another one is hiding for unknown reasons. I just came out of his house."
Nuo smiled and waved, "So your police friends probably already know more than us." Zach raised his eyebrows and looked at the handwriting on the notebook, which was a messy transcript.
"Also." Nuo thought for a moment, "While I was inquiring, I vaguely heard news about the discord between the band members." Nuo glanced at Zach, "The first thing that came to my mind was the issue of fund allocation. "Nuo paused for a moment, received a positive signal from Zach, nodded, and his eyes began to imply the same thing as what Old Hardy expressed when he was interrupted by Zach.
But immediately, Nuo smiled and shook his head, "But since you have confirmed that the purchase channel is provided by Old Hardy himself, it is impossible. Although these young people are impulsive, they will not destroy a steady stream of goods for the sake of temporary money. channels.”
Nuo shook his head, as if he was helpless because his clue was terminated. Pointing to a record in the notebook, "This is something I asked from the family of the guy who was hiding just now."
'Before he disappeared he was talking about going to the West or something like a concert. '
Nuo pouted, looking disappointed, "Sorry, they started to suspect that my police badge was fake, so I had to come out quickly and couldn't ask more."
Zack blinked and a door opened. Vampires have enchanting eyes, so don't think that Zach is interested in the old trick of pretending to be a police officer to investigate.
The door that opens is 'Concert of the West'. Remember Zach's complaint to Benjamin? If the Sabbat's 'Toledo' really wanted to find the Toledo that had been missed, the tour should be in the central or eastern part. How could the first stop that everyone is looking forward to be right here? The turf of the western city is held! (..)