A complete assembly workbench was installed in a newly renovated classroom at Pike Elementary School. I don’t know if Boone Herman is trying too hard to please and taking the trophy making in this handicraft class too seriously, but the metal workbench that takes up most of the classroom space is considered a waste, and the teacher prohibits any Students approach.
It's necessary, this is a nursery, and the teachers don't want the children in their care to lose one or two fingers here, or have one or two holes in their palms...
"Well, why don't you let your workers make the trophy here? Well, and then our children will only be responsible for decorating it?" Teacher Cuisha looked at the cold mechanical workbench, mainly loading various tools that were the same as murder weapons. , suggested, “Draw some patterns, or glue some colored beads or something.”
"Of course!" Boon replied, "It's really our fault this time, so I'm very grateful that you won't hold us accountable! We'll cooperate with you in whatever you want to do!"
Boone is quite a reserved person. Judging from the words he said, "you" and "we", it is obvious that what he cares about is not Park Elementary School, but these third-generation nurseries in the West End.
"Well." Teacher Cuisha nodded like this, pushing the curious children to leave, "Then, we won't disturb you anymore, this classroom is for you to use." When he went out and closed the door, he told Lidia this way , "Don't let any kids in! It's too dangerous!"
Lidia nodded, and then explained to Eve: "Then you go to the classroom over there and teach the children crafts, um, simple things, origami, knitting, models, etc. Don't make anything, uh. You know, Complex stuff.”
These happened before noon. I mention these just to illustrate the situation that everyone is facing now, already in the afternoon.
Eve ordered everyone in the nursery. Come and help her build a tower, a model tower.
"You have yellow paint, right?" Eve asked Boone's workers, "Please bring some over. The top floors of this tower took too long to build and consumed too much manpower. , in the end the builders didn’t care about any decoration and used bricks and earth just to keep building upwards, and those gray cardboards didn’t meet my requirements. I needed to paint.”
"Eve..." Lidia looked at the three-meter-high tower model that had been moved outdoors, and she probably wanted to persuade...
"By the way, Lidya, when I was painting before, I found some watercolors. Go get them for me. On the wall on the ground floor, there are many wishes written by people who came to pray for wishes. I want..." Eve Talking and talking. Suddenly he remembered something and pursed his lips. "Mom, can you help me?"
Lidya smiled, "Of course."
"Lola..." Kepler, who was cutting cardboard, raised his head and looked at the physical education teacher who was still following Eve's order to glue the tower floors up on the ladder. "Remind me again. We are now in What kind of tower are you making?”
"Babylon..." Laura took the cardboard cut out and folded into various model parts that were handed over from all directions, and spliced them into a section of the tower. She answered with a strange expression, "Tower of Babel."
"Why do we make this kind of thing?!" Kepler asked with an aggrieved face while cutting cardboard. Because cutting requires the use of knives. So Kepler was doing these jobs that could be dangerous for kids. Judging from the band-aid on her finger, it was clear that this job was not pleasant.
"Crafts." Laura pursed her lips and nodded in a brainwashing manner, "Yeah! Crafts class!"
The children all obey Eve's orders with almost adoration, so even though Eve is leading everyone to make a model of a building that probably doesn't exist, it means that no one knows how to complete the model called 'Tower of Babel'. . However, Laura and others who only want their children to be obedient and spend a peaceful day at day care must show their support.
So, that's it.
"Lidya?" Teacher Trisha appeared in the corridor, "The Smith Manor called. Mr. Smith has something to talk to you about."
Lidia, who was about to go to the painting classroom, said oh and walked to the academic affairs office.
"Father is calling!" Kepler stood up quickly and threw away the tools in his hand, "Laura, do this for me! I'll go see what's going on!"
"Hey!" Before Laura could say anything, Kepler was already jumping and disappearing among a group of children who were immersed in folding and folding stairs, walls, skylights...
In front of Laura, a figure sat down. The porcelain doll-like Eve picked up the scissors and took over Kepler's job.
"Well..." Laura looked at the girl in front of her, hesitated for a long time, and then asked, "Eve? How many floors does this tower have?"
"I don't know." Eve shook her head, "My ancestors... According to legend, this tower was not completed."
"Legend? Are you referring to the stories in the Holy Scriptures?" Laura flexed her sore fingers, so this work had no head at all. Then, Laura discovered an unexpected secret, the porcelain doll always had a special aura and would roll her eyes.
"Yes. It's not recorded on it, so I don't know." Eve answered.
"Are you a follower of the Holy Lord?" A reasonable question.
Laura discovered it again, and Eve curled her lips! This is a good thing! The overly good-looking girl who always made people feel a sense of distance has become a little bit, well, human.
"That's right." Eve replied again.
"Well, I guess so." Laura blinked, "I sometimes accompany my grandmother to church, and occasionally, I will donate something to the church in my name. I seem to have the title of honorary church member. ." Laura twitched her lips, "You live in Smith Manor now, so something like this should happen to you, and the same goes for Kepler. Well, it's basically the same for our children in the West District."
"Honor, member." Eve seemed to be a little interested. She looked at Laura without stopping, and the neatly sized cardboard was distributed to the children behind her.
"Well, just in name. Anyway, I haven't participated in any church activities, but some of the church's missionary leaflets and so on are sent to me regularly." Laura tilted her head, "And it seems that they have been sent to me recently. There are more and more.”
Eve showed a thoughtful look, "More? Are there doctrinal leaflets like admonitions?"
"Yeah. Pretty much." Laura shook her head, "Probably because of Kyle." Laura remembered something, "Oh! Kyle, my brother! He, well, he works in the church now. .Summer internship and the like. He studied at the Holy Episcopal Learning School in the West for a semester..." Laura's voice automatically lowered, as if she didn't want to talk about this issue.
"Your brother." Eve frowned, looking at Laura in front of her who was obviously immersed in her own emotions. "In the church, now the church in the Federation." Eve was obviously emphasizing something.
She is Rimmer, she knows that the gate to hell is open, and she knows that the devil has come to this world. So of course, she's emphasizing that. The brother of the girl in front of him was probably like any other church in the current Federation - a place occupied by demons. practice
"The federal church?" Laura's expression was a little confused, "Well, probably, he also has an intern mentor who came from the west to guide him." Laura shrugged and was immersed in her own emotions again, " I don’t like him to become one of those priests or priests, but, hey. If it must become like that, I still hope that he can stay in Barton. Just stay in the church in Barton... "
Eve knew that Laura had misunderstood, but she was not prepared to correct anything. She had something more concerned about, "Your brother, Kyle..." Eve didn't know how to describe the devil to an ordinary girl. It took a long time. Said this sentence, "Do you like to use silver things?"
Needless to say, Eve is an outsider. For Barton, she only has Lidia, the Smith sister who has been away from Barton for too long, as a guide, and she has no idea about everything in Barton now! She needs information!
At first sight. Confirming whether Laura's brother is a devil is information worth paying attention to!
"Huh? You mean tableware or something?" Laura tilted her head. She had no idea where the question came from, but the girl's brain circuit actually allowed her to make a reasonable supplementary question.
"Yeah." Eve frowned.
"Most of the tableware in my house is porcelain." Laura answered. Nothing surprising, porcelain is expensive...
Eve opened her mouth, wanting to continue asking, but immediately closed it, knowing that nothing could be asked. Lydia and Kepler are back.
"Eve." Kepler's expression looked normal, but Lidia's expression was a little strange, "We have to leave for a while."
Eve had already stood up, and while talking to Laura, she had already heard the entire content of Lidia's phone call. Suffice it to say, Smith on the phone was angry.
"Kepler, what's wrong?" Laura looked at her friend.
"Oh, it's nothing. That James from the morning..." She stopped in time and changed her words. It seemed that Kepler also knew that it was strange for a girl like her to meet a police detective. "The two policemen hoped that Eve and Aunt Lidia assist investigation."
This is not entirely accurate, it is just something that Kepler can judge by being next to Lidia and listening to Lidia's reply to Smith alone. What she didn't determine was that Smith was asked to help investigate a fire in one of Smith's warehouses in the Port of Marsa warehouse complex.
Smith on the phone said this, "The two detectives said, I just wanted to thank you for the help you provided at Boone Herman's this morning! But I heard about our warehouse in Port Massa by chance. A similar fire happened, so let's see if there's anything we can do to help! Help? Humph! Help!! Lidia! What the hell did you do?! It took me a lot of effort to put down that fire! How could you..."
"Oh, then go ahead." Laura also stood up, "I'll ask xx (Laura's driver) to take you there."
"No need." The weirdness on Lidia's face has disappeared and turned into a smile, "I don't know what we can do to help, so we don't have to be too active. Eve and I can just stroll over and take a look at Barton. .”
She was about to blurt out, "What's there to see in Paisiying?" but was stopped in time. Laura snorted and sat back down, only to find that her friend Kepler blinked and looked happy. The joy did not last.
Before leaving, Eve turned around and looked at the 'Babel Tower' which was already three meters high. "I wonder how tall it will be when I see it again."
"As tall as the Liszt Building!!" the naughty children raised their hands and answered.
Kepler sat back in his seat dejectedly and picked up the cardboard and scissors again...
After leaving Pike Elementary School, Eve immediately spoke, "What do you want to tell me? Although we are Rimmer, half human and half vampire, the sunlight still weakens our abilities. Why should we refuse Laura's car?"
Lidia put her hand in front of her forehead, looking sluggish in the afternoon sun. If it was just weakness for Eve, for someone who was clearly said to have no talent, the sunlight had an even greater impact on her.
Eve shook her head and held Lidia's hand. We couldn't tell what happened. Anyway, Lidia's face looked much better. She smiled gratefully, "Do you remember that Kepler mentioned yesterday that an accident occurred in one of Smith's warehouses?"
"I remember." Eve nodded, "So the building materials to be donated to Parker Elementary School have been temporarily reduced."
Lidia chuckled and tilted her head, "The Smith family's manufacturing 'factory' is under the warehouse."
Eve pursed her lips and understood, "I heard the fire mentioned on the phone, under Smith's warehouse." Eve tilted her head and looked at Lidia, "What happened in your 'factory' What." Just to remind Lidia, she is also a Smith, that is her family and there is no need to always use the third person pronoun 'Smith'.
Lidia shrugged and accepted, "But you don't have to ask me." Lidia smiled and shook her head, "I just found out. Yesterday morning, I tried to test it out. Now, in our home..." Lidia smiled. Emphasizing these words means that she is very obedient, "You have also heard some things in our family. My dear brother used 'little things' to perfunctory me. Now it seems that there are many things that he does not want me to do." Know."
"Then we should thank the two police detectives who were eager to express their gratitude." Eve turned back, "The warehouse fire they accidentally learned about gave us the opportunity to learn about some things about our family that we are interested in. "Eve regretted it. Such a name was too convoluted.
"But I still don't understand why they set the meeting place in the warehouse." Eve shook her head, "Obviously your brother doesn't want the police to show up there. Those two detectives are trying to offend Smith." Eve said Curling his lips, he said, "We are Smiths."
"Is there anything you don't understand?" Lidia waved her hands with no malicious contempt, "Boone Herman." Lidia pursed her lips, "With Herman here, who would care about his brother. Smith is different. We also saw Boone in the morning. The fire in his workshop may not be taken seriously by the police at all. Although I don't know why the two detectives are so active, but if Smith is involved. Smith If he were also a victim, this case would have been taken seriously.”
"Then the detectives will be disappointed." Eve shook her head, "Although, I really hope they can find out what is the thing that was punished and burned to destruction by the laws of the world at the boundary of the barrier. But they expect to use Smith to increase The hope of attracting attention is completely dashed." Eve looked a little disappointed, "Unless there is something in your 'factory' that is punished by the laws of the world, ordinary fires cannot be the same as the fires in Boone..."
"It's our 'factory'." Lidia caught Eve's slip of the tongue and shrugged with a smile, "Who knows, just go and have a look. Maybe, our factory..." Lidia was a little childish. Emphasis on the words, "... something really was punished."
Needless to say, Lidia was right. The one being punished was Dylan. (..)