Not long after Benjamin left, Zach waited for something related.
The ringing phone summoned Zach to the office, who was looking at the entrance to the backyard. It was Walter, the guy with half a front tooth missing, who informed Zach in a tired voice that he had not found Teddy in other worlds. Of course, according to the current situation, other worlds can already refer specifically to hell. Unless those guys from above in the Holy Lord’s faith come back and close the door to hell again!
"Thank you, Walter." Zach thanked him sincerely. Although Weiss roughly calculated the time when Teddy would leave Barton, after all, this was not an exact time point, but a time interval extending from yesterday to today.
Everyone still remembers the magical geographical distribution of hell, using the timeline as the main axis. It’s hard for us in this world to imagine how many thrills Walter went through, searching in the timeline, before finally making this call to Zach.
"No need to thank me!" The somewhat leaky voice was still tired, but with a hint of irritation, "Give me money! Don't take the charges I mentioned before as a joke! You have to pay me!"
Zach raised his eyebrows and smiled. He didn't say the joke of 'I'll give you some new candles', but responded seriously into the receiver, "Just tell me the amount."
The sound of leaking breathing came from the receiver, and the other party seemed not to have expected that Zach would agree so easily.
In fact, it is not that easy. This is not the first time that Walter has done something for Zach, but he does not cooperate well every time. Zach has enough awareness that if Walt is not satisfied, this guy will do something gangster-like and cause trouble.
Zach is very fond of this guy with a strange lifestyle and hopes he will be satisfied.
"You don't know how much you should charge, do you?" Zach asked funnyly on the phone.
"Who says I don't know..." Walter's voice was a little hollow, he pondered for a long time, and became angry, "I just don't know! How about it! I'll talk to you after I get the price list!"
Price list? Zach raised his eyebrows. Could this guy be irritated by himself? Are you finally going to put your abilities to good use? Seems like things are going well.
But before Zach could offer some friendly encouragement to Walter for finally doing something meaningful, the call was hung up.
Zach looked at the receiver and smiled for a while before remembering that he had forgotten to ask for Walter's contact information again.
Despite being optimistic about Walter's future career plans, the news sent by Walter is also good news for Zach, Teddy is still alive. Keep in the mood that Wes can tell you the good news when he comes. Zach left the office, sat back on the bench on the back porch, and waited with his head tilted.
The good mood was worn away by time and not much was left. Zach no longer looked at the entrance and exit of the backyard, staring at the moon in the east dragging the stars, climbing upwards little by little.
It wasn't until people in 'rural places' like the South Side had rested, and the only lights on the ground were the scattered streetlights on Route 27, that is, after ten o'clock in the evening, that vampire Zach sat on the bench on the back porch of Grande The superior waits until he has found the person he was waiting for.
Wes and Taylor, Mason and Mike, four people. This is what Zach expected. But in fact, there is another James with a gloomy face.
Zach watched the car turn into Grande's backyard, looked at James who was sitting by the window in the back seat, and shook his head helplessly. It was already obvious that James had caught the loophole in Zach's last words to him. Wasn't he helping the South District police find missing children? Grande's vampires could help, and so could the North District police detectives.
Zach was quite disappointed. James did not immediately pursue the clues he was given, but instead wasted time trying to 'monitor' Wes. Joined the case where he, the North District detective, was not needed. I wonder if it was also the North District police detective's 'contribution' that made the vampire wait alone on the bench for so long.
"You're here." The vampire's thoughts generally had nothing to do with the expression on his face. Now that's the general situation. Zach had a smile on his face, and his eyes were on Wes and James, "You guys came together, I'm really surprised."
Wes didn't speak, but glanced at James.
James pursed his lips. He frowned and snorted softly, "Are you surprised?" He seemed to be asking rhetorically.
Zach still smiled and faced James, "I'm surprised. You actually let Wes come here." Zach glanced at the three people who didn't join the conversation, and they all looked a little strange, and he didn't know the reason for it at the moment. , Zach finished the sarcasm he wanted to express, "I thought you would let Wes completely abandon Grande and take over on his own."
James unexpectedly did not refute, but agreed, "That's what I did."
Sure enough, the reason why Zach waited so long was because of James. Who knows what he did to stop Wes until now.
Zach was not very proud, but frowned. Ordinary human cases are not Grande's strong suit, as has been proven many times. Where Zach can help Teddy is to provide some consultative assistance as a bystander who is detached from the event - a bystander with a complete understanding of the world, which is a crooked way in the general sense.
In terms of his ability to investigate cases honestly, Zach doesn't feel that he is better than James, Wes, and that Taylor.
Then there's really no reason for these people to come to Grande. Unless the case is no longer an ordinary human case.
"Speak." Zach glanced at the five people in front of him and became serious, "What happened."
Wes handed over a videotape.
Zach took it, Grande had a bunch of this stuff. Remember, Zach and Matthew the wolf cub bought them cheap second-hand from old Mel. That was the only time Zach saw Teddy.
Zach looked at the very familiar video tape in his hand and was silent for a while, "I've seen this thing before."
"Everyone has seen the tape." James clicked his tongue.
Zach ignored him and looked at Wes, "What I saw was a video tape, at Old Mel's house." Then he explained, "When I went to Old Mel's to buy something, this video tape was stolen by Ty Dee pulled out the tapes that were supposed to be sold to me and hid them.”
Hearing Zach's words, Wes was obviously surprised, but immediately shook his head, "You're probably right, this is Teddy's thing."
Wes glanced at Taylor, "Nathan went to the beach to find this videotape." Then he looked at James, "James helped retrieve it from the evidence."
As Zach waited, it became clear what was going on. After Zach and Wes left, Wes met with Taylor first and found out about this. However, after being discovered by the Southern District police on the beach, Teddy's belongings were collected and stored in the evidence office. It was James, a guy with impure motives, who used his personal power to bring out things that the "rookie" Wes couldn't get.
Then James apparently did what he said he would do, trying to stop Wes from asking Zach. But they came anyway.
James ran out of patience, "Teddy is in there."
Zach subconsciously shook the videotape in his hand, "Teddy is in it?" he repeated. (..)