Ever since Old Hank came back from Scooter, he has been making up for his lost time. This strange old man carries his carpentry tools every day, firstly to fill up the Grande coffin inventory, and secondly to save the life of Scooter. Some of the furniture was destroyed.
Speaking of the furniture, Old Hank doesn’t have to worry about it. When discussing the Grand's attack plan with Skoll, Zach restricted it. Things left over from the previous generation of Grand were not allowed to be touched. Therefore, people in Grande don't care at all about the damaged decorations and furniture in showrooms and reception rooms.
The original plan was to sell what could be resold second-hand, use what could not be used as lumber, and throw away the rest. But, coincidentally, something happened to old Mel's house in the 'famous' second-hand store in the South District, and Zach went to get involved like asking for trouble, so the matter was dropped and the things were piled up. In the warehouse to the south.
Old Hank came back and fished out these abandoned things from the warehouse. No one wanted to care about them when they were busy every day.
Therefore, during this period of time, old Hank was very tired from working all day long. He went to bed early and got up late. For example, today, breakfast started and the old man came back with the newspaper.
Zach is rarely seen at Grande's breakfast, but this is a special period, and the restaurant is Zach's office, so Zach sat at the dining table, swaying the wine glass in a daze, looking at the plate of baked potatoes. The phone was in a daze.
Zach actually didn't know what he was waiting for. There seems to be some hope in his heart that he can receive a call from Smith and ask him to go and see what happened in Smith's underground industry last night.
But Zach also knew that Smith would definitely not call him. After Zach repeatedly emphasized that he did not want to participate in the West End people's interests, Zach had no chance at all, even to take a look at the place where Dylan disappeared.
Snapped!
Old Hank casually threw a magazine in front of Zach. It’s “Urban Legends—Barton’s Weekly” that no one competes with Zach to compete for this Monday’s entertainment.
No one grabbed it, so Zach was no longer interested in this thing. He twitched the corner of his mouth and put it aside casually. Ignoring the old Hank who had just sat down, he just took out the dinner plate and put the newspaper next to him to read, and took the whole thing away.
Old Hank snorted impatiently. But he didn't say much. Even though he emphasized many times that he no longer wanted to participate in anything in Grande, he still learned about the complete disappearance of a certain Grande member.
Zach turned directly to the social section. Naturally, it was Hermann's news that dominated the headlines. Including Herman's press conference at noon yesterday, the interruption of the luncheon...
Zach was not in the mood to thank the journalists who had kindly replaced the person who caused the interruption of the luncheon with the vague word 'someone present', thus saving Grande the embarrassment of embarrassing himself throughout Barton. Zach quickly read the news about Herman. Start looking for news about Smith Warehouse.
But nothing.
Constantine said it last night. Fortunately, the 'World Punishment' took place underground and the outside world was not involved.
Zach didn't give up and began to look for information about missing people or missing people in the corners, borders, and gaps of the page. Isn't that what Constantine said, even the soul no longer exists? Those living people must have relatives and friends, and they will always find that this person is missing.
Of course, Zach still found nothing. This is natural, he is too impatient. Let's do a simple arithmetic. If today's newspaper was printed in the early hours of this morning, last night's 'world punishment' occurred at night. How long is the difference? They are all adults, and this little time is really not worth letting anyone make a judgment about missing, let alone appear in today's newspapers.
Noticing Zach's depressed mood, Louise pursed her lips, reached for "Urban Legend" and opened it. Louise's idea is actually very simple. Her man is in a bad mood, and it is her responsibility to find a way to make Zach happy. Good woman.
But from last night to now, Louise has not been able to help Zach's mood at all. This comes down to a very helpless fact - even though she has lived with Dylan for a long time, the only time Louise saw Dylan was at Dylan's funeral.
Louise's fingers slid over the catalog. She knew that she was not qualified to talk about Dylan in any position to comfort Zach, but she knew that if she could find a distraction, even a slight distraction, Note, they are all good.
And this "Urban Legend" always made Zach happy in the past, and Louise hoped that now she could also find funny articles that allowed vampires to ridicule and criticize, at least to ease the current bad atmosphere.
Louise's finger paused under "Barton's Ghost Covered in Flames", she looked at the page number, turned it over, and took a look at the eye-catching subtitle "Swallowing Patton's Light—Herman's Red Devil!" ", Louise frowned and shook her head. Although Louise could almost guess that this article should be about the explosion of Hermann's factory, the title was too bad and not suitable for those who had calculated against Hermann. Vampire—Zach looks.
Returning to the catalog, Louise continued to search, and this time her fingers stopped under another title, "Justice under the Night?" Red is also hope? 》.
According to the style of this magazine, the more bizarre and bizarre the title, the more entertaining the content is for aliens.
So Louise looked at the page number and turned to this page. Before showing it to Zach, Louise had to filter it first. What can I say, what a good woman.
Not long after, Louise adjusted her sitting posture and hummed softly in her breathing with a strange rhythm.
No one pays attention to her.
Louise adjusted her posture drastically again, "Yeah." She glanced at Zach and spoke hesitantly, "Zach?"
Zach folded up the newspaper that had yielded nothing, returned it to Old Hank, picked up the wine glass, and responded without energy, "Huh?"
"Well..." Louise's eyes returned to the opened article, "Last night, with Dylan..." Louise paused, "How many others, um, disappeared completely?"
Zach sighed. To be honest, he didn't care too much about the number. He recalled it and said, "Twenty-three."
Louise pursed her lips, nodded, looked at the newspaper that had been returned to Old Hank, and frowned, "Has it been reported in the newspaper?"
Zach shook his head and made a somewhat rational judgment, "No, Smith will not take the initiative to report. The relatives of those people." Zach twitched the corner of his mouth, "They didn't notice it so quickly."
Louise stopped talking, picked up the magazine in front of her, and faced Zach, "I think you need to read this article."
Zach glanced at it with some doubts, but one glance was enough.
The subtitle is "1 plus 23, the light in the dark underground world of Port Massa?" Let time give the answer."
1. It’s Dylan. (..)