When Grande was having lunch, Fitz and the others came on time and drove a bus into Grande's backyard.
Yes, it's a bus. Not the bright yellow buses now covered in advertisements, but old-fashioned buses full of a sense of the times. Recall that an abandoned courtyard was filled with old buses like this.
It's just that the appearance of this old bus is somewhat different. The original cracked dark red patent leather has been covered with new paint. Fitz and the others have obviously put a lot of effort into it. The exterior of the bus, which has a contemporary look, is covered with graffiti from various comic book heroes.
The comic exhibition bus just stared at the colorful 'halo', dragging a bus of excited otakus and appeared in this lifeless funeral home in the South District.
In addition to the noisy chatter of a group of people in Grande's backyard, there was also such a conversation.
The gloomy voice with a strange tone came from James, "Fitz, where did you get this car?"
"Oh!" The excited voice came from Fitz, "That abandoned bus terminal south of Paisin! Didn't some, uh, bad things happen before? By the way, I remember reading on the news that there was a case there Wasn’t it you and your partner, Detective Coulson?! Did you know? The place is going to be demolished, and these things will be auctioned off by the government! It’s super! Super cheap!”
Everyone remembers it, Laura’s charity project took a group of high school students to clean the abandoned bus station in Paisiying. Yes, the place where Papa hid the walking corpse at midnight and made the Death Apostle contract.
So much for Zack's bad taste of 'eavesdropping' on other people's conversations. The Grande Restaurant could not accommodate so many guests, so a long table was set up in the backyard, and lunch was held in the backyard.
As for Zach, he did not participate in or even show up at this farewell lunch. Zach is in the office. Fortunately, one of the most senior members of Grande is accompanying Zach, Old Hank.
"Hank." Zach looked helplessly at the old man across the desk. Hank has already made a 'sacrifice' for the benefit of Grande. Zach really doesn't want to embarrass him now. However, there are some things that Zach must have answers for. "Do you want to tell me what happened to 'Grande'?" I know Ian well."
Zach said the word 'Grand' in a strange tone. This is to differentiate between the previous generation Grande and Zach himself.
In the previous conversation with James, didn't Zach mention two people? Before the war ended, Ian Anthony, a descendant of Toledo who was abandoned, had arrived in Barton, and Lip, a sanatorium patient whose entire existence was a mystery.
There is a golden rule for exploring and handling events, which is to ask yourself whether the matter is within your capabilities.
Like now, Zach has two choices.
Lip pursues the mysterious existence without any clue. Getting answers to this, which is clearly 'outside of competence', is a waste of time. Or, if you ask the old man in front of you who is already a family member, Zach thinks that this is 'within his ability'. Zach is wrong.
"We've been sitting here for an hour." Zach sighed and shook his head, unexpectedly. This is actually a waste of time, "Hank. Aren't you hungry?"
Old Hank lowered his eyes and raised them, glanced at Zach, then lowered his eyes again, not knowing where to look. The wrinkles all over his face, including those between the brows, are actually there originally. It was added just in time for the occasion.
Zach pursed his lips, "Hank, we don't need to sit here." Zach waved his hand in front of him, smelling the smell, "Can you smell it? Alice made lamb chops. You Don’t you want to go out to eat?”
Zach is chasing old Hank to stand up, get out of his seat, and leave the office!
This is a very ridiculous situation - Zach called Old Hank here because of his own questions and asked questions. Now, Old Hank neither answers nor responds whether he will answer. He just sits here with the older generation. Rand handmade the chair together, without saying a word!
The person who answered the question has not left the table, how can the person who asked the question leave? This is simply a question of upbringing. And we know how much Zach loves his gentlemanly attributes.
Zach stopped waving his hand in front of his nose and collapsed weakly, resting it on the table. Zach gave up, "Okay, Hank, let's do this." Zach shook his head, looking at There was chaos in the office, and he sighed helplessly, "We have plenty of time."
The self-defeating vampire twitched the corner of his mouth and muttered meaningless complaints casually, "If you want, we can sit here forever." Zach didn't even look at the bottle in front of him, and skillfully got himself lunch, " You know how easy it is for me to live forever..."
"I just hate how you guys look like this!!" A roar like a bell finally appeared in this office after an hour of silence. Old Hank finally spoke!
Zach's hand holding the wine bottle paused for a moment, his eyes wandering around the office returned to Old Hank, his movements returned to natural, and he raised his eyebrows, "You said, 'you guys'."
Of course Zach would not waste the hard-earned opening to confirm why Old Hank spoke. What Zach needs is to follow these words, either to reach a dead end and let Old Hank leave, or to get lucky and get the answer he wants to know.
"You mean me and Ian?"
"Otherwise!" Old Hank yelled, glaring at Zach, "How many vampires do you think would come to this shabby little border town!"
The small border town refers to the city of Barton. Barton is at the easternmost point of the Union, and Barton was carved out of Newton. Looking at Hank's age and comparing his life to this city that is only over fifty years old, it is no surprise that he said it was dilapidated. This statement is very accurate.
What Zach cared about wasn't Old Hank's statement, but his volume. Zach looked behind Old Hank and reminded him that in the backyard separated by a wall, there were a group of innocent citizens who didn't know what vampires were.
Old Hank looked back instinctively, and then snorted heavily with contempt, his voice still the same, "What's wrong?! You dare to say your 'forever' everywhere, but you don't dare to say your own 'race'?!"
Zach twitched the corner of his mouth, which was obviously anger, and reminded him in a calm tone, "Hank."
Old Hank frowned, hummed a few times, and waved his hand. The volume finally dropped, "What do you want to know?! Ask quickly! I'm hungry!"
Zach emptied the food in the cup and finally relieved his feeling of being completely speechless towards Old Hank. "Just tell me how you came into contact with Ian." Zach raised a few pieces of paper in his hand, "I need Confirm some time points... "
Zach's meaning is simple. I want to know how Ian was sealed in the cemetery in the Grand West End in a textbook manner. That was a thing of the previous Grande generation, and it’s gone. Zach just wanted to know some news about Ian when he was free in Barton City.
But Zach's words were interrupted, and Old Hank waved his hand impatiently, "Don't count me out of your problems in the future! Don't tell me! I don't want to hear it either!"
Zach frowned. The fact is that there has never been such a thing as "telling or not" in Grande. People who know each other well are just unprepared for each other. For example, they don't shut up when talking and don't shy away from doing things... Grande's architectural structure is A simple L-shape, the office serves as the center of the first floor, and anyone can pass by it.
But Zach pursed his lips. He nodded and agreed. This agreement was based entirely on the fact that Zach, who had seen the decoration design drawings, knew that the future Grand office would be so private that other Grand members would have little chance of passing by.
And Zach understood the mood of old Hank who just came back from Skoll yesterday.
"Then let's talk about the important time and some actions with Ian in Barton." Zach said in a half-soothing tone, "You don't need to force what you don't want to say."
Old Hank clicked his tongue. The year, month, date, and time were reported. The accuracy left Zach speechless again, "This is the first time we've seen him!"
us. Apparently with old Grande.
It is worth noting that in addition to the year and date mentioned by Old Hank, which is consistent with the time before Brian was admitted to a mental treatment institution, the time Old Hank mentioned was in the dead of night. The reason was immediately known.
"We were still in the South District at that time, and that guy Hardy was still one of ours." Old Hank took the time to click his tongue again. It's his own way of lamenting the current situation of old Hardy, right
"We are dealing with..." Old Hank frowned, "We are dealing with..."
"Skip." Zach gave a very considerate reminder.
"Handling a certain commission!" Old Hank stubbornly insisted on using a pronoun that was already obvious and couldn't be more obvious, and glared at Zach, "The client is...is..."
Zach spread his hands. "You can skip it."
"It's those people in the West District!" Zach had no intention of irritating them, and he didn't know what Old Hank was thinking. He insisted that there was no other way, so he glared at Zach and emphasized, "Those people!"
Zach waved his hand, intending to helplessly signal Hank to ignore this obvious enough description. If you haven't noticed, the hint is that Grande once had a gray professional status - a cleaner; people worth mentioning in the West District can still hire Grande to "clean up". Could it be those servants, security guards and the like? It can only be those who The guys at the top, such as Quinn and Herman, no matter how bad they are, are still on the same level as Quest.
But Zach's raised hand stopped in the air before it could be waved to any angle. He pursed his lips and thought, "Go on." Then he explained.
"The first time we met! We didn't even know what he did, and he used that red eye on us!" Old Hank was a little angry, and this old incident seemed to make him very unhappy.
"Charming Eyes." Zach shook his head and corrected Old Hank's wording.
Correction is useless. The 'guy with red eyes' was a curse that Old Hank blurted out after discovering Zach's true race (Volume Fourteen, Chapter 24). Then 'red eyes' was retained, no matter how Zach corrected it, it had no effect.
"But he obviously doesn't know how to use his red eye!" Old Hank stubbornly insisted on his choice of words, "That guy Hardy got it! Grande (Old Grande) got it! I didn't!"
Zach's emotions were a little complicated at this time. Remember how Zach’s education with Ian only lasted a few days? He was not a descendant of Heyi, and on the battlefield, Anthony regretted his decision to ask Zach to convert Ian. Zach abandoned him to fend for himself before he had time to teach the only Toledo properly.
Facts have proved that this abandoned descendant of Toledo did not make much progress when he came from the battlefield to Barton, a city longed for by soldiers, especially his brother Anthony. This was a belated disappointment.
Zach shook his head, putting aside this nonsense, Ian was already working hard. Don't forget the reason why Anthony regretted and finally drove away his brother - Ian is an impulsive, extreme and reckless person. Giving him the power of a vampire would be a bad thing.
Zach felt relieved at this time. When Ian saw Old Hank and his group, his first reaction was not to use violence to solve the problem, but to use the unique charm eyes of vampires. Regardless of whether his abilities are sufficient or not, at least Ian is adapting to the life state of a vampire - conflict with humans, and never needs to descend to the use of violence.
It is a conflict, which will be explained later.
"Then he disappeared!" Old Hank snorted coldly, "I have never seen anyone with such red eyes and such fast speed! For that matter, I, as the only person who was not confused by red eyes, , and I was still on tenterhooks for a long time!”
"Gone," Zach repeated. But Zach knew that Ian did not leave Barton because it turned out that he was buried in the cemetery in the West End. "And then until he was buried, do you know some of his actions and what he did in Barton?"
This question is more suitable to ask Sibella, but it is a pity that Zach had not thought of this when Sibella was here.
"I don't know!" Old Hank directly blocked Zach's expectations. "When I saw him again, he came directly to Grande with red eyes! He asked us Grande to 'clean' him!"
Old Hank again gave a precise date and time.
Zach looked at the information in front of him. It coincided with the time when Brian was admitted to a treatment facility that was disconnected from society.
Zach had confirmed a few things and felt relaxed. Looking at Old Hank, he suddenly wanted to laugh, "You didn't hit him..." Maybe he wanted to lighten the mood, so Zach used, "'Red Eye'."
Old Hank's face darkened and he was silent for a while, "(Old) Grande was already ill at that time and he was very weak. Hardy has some bad habits... "
Old Hank shook his head and mumbled a name in a low voice, "Smith."
Everyone knows about Smith’s products. It goes without saying that Old Hardy eventually went further and further down this road and reached the state we know now.
Old Hank took a deep breath and glanced at Zach, "I have lived with you for such a long time, and I almost know how your red eyes work. I am very healthy, and my vitality is very strong! His half-toned red eyes cannot fool me! "
Zach laughed dryly, and once again threw away the relief that had just surfaced, and replaced it with disappointment. How vigorous can an old man's life be? ! Even on a diet, Zach could make Hank forget his name by squinting!
This disappointment was compounded by something else, Ian couldn't even save a child who was in deep trouble, and to this day, that child became Zach's problem.
After finishing speaking, Old Hank finally stood up from his seat and couldn't wait to go to lunch. Zach, on the other hand, calmed down and dialed Anthony's number. (..)