Zach came back, humming a folk song from an unknown era or region. He seemed to be in a good mood and went straight into the restaurant. Grande's breakfast had just finished. Only Louise, who had been delayed by two consecutive phone calls, was still sitting. On the table.
"I'm back." Zach smiled and stood behind Louise.
"Yeah." Louise responded and continued to deal with her breakfast.
Zach raised his eyebrows, something seemed wrong, where is the welcome? Why was no bottle handed to me
Zach's response was still very quick, and he smiled and sat next to Louise, "I went to the Church of the Holy Child. Together with Mike, um, I 'asked' some new Earthbinders about some things."
Perhaps you may still remember that when Zach asked Walter to summon Dylan, Zach once lamented how well Dylan accepted his new life form. The fact is that most Earthbenders are not as calm as Dylan. Referring to the Pentology of Grief, the reappearance of death is only the first stage of 'denial'.
There is no need to describe the midnight attack. The earth-bound spirits were dragged away by the hellhounds, which forcibly interrupted the first stage. There will be two, three, four, and five more to come. This process is necessary. People who are irrationally grieving will not Being rational, Zach couldn't ask anything, which is why it took Zach all night to come back.
As for Zach, he was in a good mood, just because he was forced to change his perception of life by watching a bunch of painful earthbinders, which only reminded the vampire himself how wonderful eternal life is. So Zach's good mood comes from a sense of racial superiority, which is quite childish.
"Oh." Louise responded again, indicating that she knew, and then continued to deal with breakfast.
Zach raised his eyebrows and frowned, turning his eyes, "Did something happen before I came back?"
"Yeah." Louise pushed out a note next to the dinner plate. There is no need to explain.
Zach curled his lips and could only pick it up and look at the writing on it.
After waiting for a while, Zach frowned, "I didn't do anything to Ryan's mother. You should know that."
"Yeah." Louise still just responded, and then pushed another note in front of Zach.
Zach frowned. He looked again, this time very quickly, "Tsk, I feel like Madison has attracted a troublesome guy." Obviously he was talking about the seductress Riley, Zach shook his head, "My suggestion. Even if I don't suggest anything. , she will do the same."
"Yeah." Louise frowned. She decided to give up breakfast and stood up with half of the food. Still ignoring Zach, he left directly for the kitchen.
Zach rubbed his chin, having no idea what was going on.
You may not know it very well. Please think about it this way and you will understand.
Regarding Emilia's phone call, the conversation related to Ryan was nothing. Louise's defense of Zach was natural. The key is that in the end, Zach casually helped Emilia to promote Mrs. Kunyu's support for her project.
Then came the call from seductress Riley. Zach also suggested something casually, don't try to deny it. Zach's advice goes to the heart of Bishop's heart, and it will double Riley's success rate.
Then back to Louise, think about it, isn't Louise also the woman that Zach helped casually.
This kind of emotion is difficult to explain and express, and if you express it, it will be regarded as a woman's paranoid nerves. So with Louise's current state, she didn't want to say or pay attention to anything about these two women. Once the words came, let it go.
Zach glanced at the two notes again, having no clue. Forget it, I can only think that he disappeared without saying hello all night, which made Louise angry.
Zach put down the note and picked up the phone. He wanted to call Nuo to inform the Earthbinder of the results of his questioning.
"No. It's confirmed, it's the warehouse opened by Boqi."
"Me?" Nuo's voice in the receiver was still a little confused. Zach went to see Mike at midnight, so he naturally went home to catch up on his sleep. He's an ordinary human who can't even see the Earthbinder, so he's useless with Zack.
However, although the voice was still in the confused state of just waking up, Nuo still remained rational. Listen to what he asked, me? In Nuo's world view, there is already the possibility that one person is not necessarily the same person.
"This still needs to be confirmed." Zach curled his lips, "But I asked something more interesting. When Pochi came to open the warehouse, it was delayed for a while, and Aix, their boss, came in person. After confirmation, the storage of those soul-inducing grasses was carried out."
"Aix personally confirmed Poch's identity?" Nuo's voice became more sober, and then the voice in the receiver moved away. The next words were not addressed to Zach, "Muna (Nuo's maid), can you give me some help?" Can I get you a cup of coffee?”
Zach heard a female voice that seemed to come from far away in the receiver. It was a angry voice, "I told you! If you don't give me time to go to my book club, I won't do anything for you!"
Zach felt Nuo's momentary embarrassment on the other side of the receiver. He sighed helplessly, "Forget it, I'll do it myself." Then he said to Zach, "Wait a minute, I need some coffee. Now. return."
Zach would naturally not interfere rudely in such a matter, so he expressed his understanding with a gracious expression. But Zach didn't forget about this little incident he overheard as usual.
It has been proven that any insignificant thing Zach heard or saw was not insignificant at all! There shouldn't be any difference this time either.
Recall Myona's book club. Who were the members? There was Sibella and Mrs. White. Zach also saw this group of women go to No's house for activities once (during the Valmina incident). Now it sounds like Noh has banned his maid from participating in the book club, which makes people wonder why.
Zach didn't wait long, and could clearly hear the sound of coffee pouring from the receiver, "Back, you said that Aix personally confirmed Pochi's identity."
"The two people seemed to have a hidden two-person conversation, and then Boqi got permission to open the warehouse."
Nuo was silent for a while, thinking, before speaking again, "So Ax knew that Pochi should be in a state where he could not move freely, so he would be cautious to confirm it himself."
"It does seem like that." Zach didn't mean to show his curiosity at all and limited the conversation to the main topic. "Then Poch obviously dispelled Aix's doubts. What should have been said in the conversation between the two. Important stuff. Not only the identity that Jean Akers confirmed, but also as we discussed before, Jean Akers did not return the news to the West Enders that Poch was free to move around."
"Then..." Nora said in a long voice, with helplessness in her tone, "I have to work again, investigating Aix. Does it still fall on me?"
There was a smile on Zach's face, "Thank you for your hard work. But you can call me anytime if necessary. My abilities are very convenient sometimes."
"Haha, okay." Nuo also smiled, "I still hope that these things will remain secret for the time being, and I will try my best to complete them as soon as possible without disturbing you."
Trouble means. Nuo knew that Zach had a commission from Falcon. Moreover, the Boyson matter has begun to go around in circles. The current direction is to find Boyson through Bochi. But there is a frustrating problem in finding Bochi - Mrs. Quinn's attitude makes it difficult to proceed directly, so she can only Curve processing, now it's time to find Aix first.
Zach was still very pleased with Nuo's thoughtfulness. He smiled and nodded to the air in the restaurant, and then curled his lips, "I have a suggestion. If Aix is difficult to deal with, you can use exchange. Use Midnight The person responsible for the attack came to exchange information."
"Do you know who did what happened at midnight?!" Nuo's tone was obviously surprised.
"It's Skoll." Zack said it directly, "And I roughly know why. It's revenge for someone passing the news to someone in the West End about who attacked Grande."
"What?" Nuo seemed even more surprised, "Who spread the news? I thought you had arranged everything, and Grande's attack was just a draw to attract attention."
"Falken, Falcon said that his old friend in the southeast told him." Zach had nothing to hide from Nuo. He curled his lips and felt a little weird, "We all know that it can't be one of ours, especially the 'General'. So yesterday, when I met Skoll by chance, I told him this by the way."
It is impossible to say that Nuo Midnight witnessed such a completely massacre-style attack and did not have any thoughts in his mind. Now that all the questions have been answered, I don’t know what to think at the moment. I can only mutter to myself, "Uh, Skoll, uh, Skoll..."
According to Old Hank's definition of the gray professional circle - a group of professional people who must rely on grouping and hugging to survive, full of contempt. And Skoll was not among these people.
So Zach felt Nuo's tone at this time and thought for a moment, "I just suggested that you don't need to listen to me. There were only two of us witnesses to what happened at midnight. Skoll was even more self-righteously guessed by me. It’s not necessarily correct.”
"Okay, I understand. Well—" Nola responded with a long voice, "I'll make a judgment based on the situation then."
Zach pursed his lips and nodded to the air, "That's all. In addition, there is one more thing I want to ask you about, about this Aix."
"whats the matter?"
Zach thought about his statement and decided not to be completely honest, "Well, I accidentally learned that there is a successor to Grande's work in Barton, the profession of 'cleaning up'. I asked old Hank, and he It doesn’t seem clear that there were any competitors at the same time as him.”
Zach waited for a moment, and Nuo on the other side of the receiver seemed to have no intention of refuting, so Zach continued, "It was by chance that I heard the name Aix. When I heard you say this name at midnight, I also I'm a little hesitant. Now that you're going to investigate him anyway, how about confirming it for me. Just treat it as a little curiosity of mine. I want to know how this profession, um, operates. You know, old Hank doesn't know anything. explain."
"Okay, I'll help you keep an eye on it." Nuo agreed readily.
"Well, thank you. It would be better if you could have work records or arrangements?" Zach said in a relaxed tone, "Haha, I don't understand. You understand what I mean. I'm just curious. I want to Know."
"Hehehe." Nuo also relaxed, "I understand, I understand. If Old Hank was willing to tell you about their past, you wouldn't be so curious. I didn't expect you to have such a childish mentality. How long have you lived? It’s been years, haha.”
"Haha, a few centuries." Zach waved his hand in the air and responded nonchalantly, "Okay, I won't bother you anymore. If anything happens, notify me immediately. By the way, I should do it today, no, maybe in the next few days. They will all be at the mill, asking me to call the mill." This decision was made naturally with the help of various things, he said later.
Nuo responded to express his understanding without any unnecessary polite words, and the two hung up the phone.
Zach first replenished his snack can, then picked up two wine bottles and threw them into the truck. Before traveling again, Zach still has to explain to Louise, otherwise he will disappear without saying hello and make her unhappy, which is what he deserves.
Zach stood silently behind Louise who was helping Alice wash the dishes in the kitchen, "I'm going out again."
"Yeah." Louise twitched the corner of her mouth and responded simply.
Zach tugged at the corner of his mouth, "Well, I'm going to go find Ryan and ask him not to bother Amelia all the time. Amelia should be very busy with Mrs. Quinn now, and I still appreciate the project that Amelia is going to do. , try not to disturb me."
Louise frowned, as if she wanted to say something, but held back.
Zach also frowned to himself, "Actually, it's not Emilia's problem. I'm more worried about his mother. Did you hear the last few words I just said to Nuo? I hope things don't turn out like I think. That bad.”
Louise pursed her lips, glanced at Zach, and finally gave a reaction. Then he turned away his eyes again, relaxed his brows, and shook his head helplessly, "Go ahead, Emilia is actually right, Ryan is still your responsibility after all."
Seeing Louise's reaction, Zach felt much more relaxed, knowing that everything would be fine, "Then I will go directly to the mill." Zach, who was just relaxed, frowned again, "That Charming Demon, I think I need to talk to Madison Let’s talk.”
Louise also frowned again. This situation is really annoying. Zach sometimes understands it and sometimes doesn't. Louise once again didn't bother to respond to Zach.
But Zach didn't finish. He continued, raising an eyebrow, "Madison's attitude really makes me helpless. Did you see his appearance yesterday morning? Hey, tell me, should I take advantage of this opportunity?" Opportunity to make him fully realize that I am his and Grande’s boss?”
Louise frowned and let go again, looking at Zach helplessly, feeling uninterested for a while and then understanding for a while. This situation is really annoying.
"Yes, yes! You are right! Then hurry up and stop annoying me." Louise turned around, pushed Zach away with her hand holding the wet plate, and rolled her eyes impatiently.
Zach blinked and thought for a moment, but to no avail, "Then I'm leaving?"
"kindness!"
Zach walked away with his lips twisted, he had no clue at all. (..)