When James returned home, Zach was entertaining the guests behind the bar on his own initiative, namely Oz and Amelia, Wales, let's just call him a follower.
"Yo!" Zach raised his hand to James, who was gritting his teeth as he watched the lock on his door being torn apart, "You're back. Oh, don't worry about those little things, I will compensate you..."
"No!" Wow! James pushed back his iron door that still had two patches, "Where are the two Gangeros?!"
As Zach pointed in the direction, James saw two men nailed to the wall.
"It's yours." Zach waved his hand and said casually, "You're a little slow to come back. We've got what we want to know." Zach gestured to Oz, "There's a mind reader here. Very convenient..." From the corner of his eye, he could already see James pulling at the wooden stakes nailed to the chests of the two men with a sullen face. "I advise you not to move. The position I stabbed is right next to the heart, which is enough to cause continuous blood loss. Wounds, but not enough for them to die."
James' hand just touched a wooden stake and stopped in mid-air, not daring to move.
"Don't look at me." Amelia noticed James looking at her gloomily.
Please look at the current situation from James's perspective. When he got home and saw two men nailed to the wall of his house, he still couldn't put them down. At this time, who could he turn to for empathy. The vampire Zack who did this? Mind reader Ozzie Kozier? no. Only human Emilia.
Amelia's eyes didn't look that way at all. Looking at her tense shoulders, you knew that she was very uncomfortable with such a scene. "Zach said this is the best way to control the two of them so that you can interrogate them easily." ."
"What is the interrogation for?" James also turned his head, not looking at Gangluo, who was clearly giving him a look that said, "Please move the stake to the heart." Sympathy? It doesn't matter, being nailed to the wall with your chest pierced can still convey the look. This has fully demonstrated the state of 'I am not a human being', and I am afraid that it will not arouse any sympathy in James' heart. The irritability is very obvious.
"Just tell me what you know! Then get these two guys away from the wall of my house!!" James clenched his fists and walked towards the bar.
"Take them away?" Zach shook his head, "If you don't deal with these two guys, they will have nowhere to go." Zach's fingers crossed his neck, and the meaning was obvious enough. The reason why he didn't kill these two guys right away was probably explained in his own words before - he didn't want James to label him as a lyncher. Childish, no, Zach certainly has something worse in mind.
"Whatever, whatever!" James waved his hand irritably, snatched the mixing jar from Zach's hand, and drank it directly, "Hurry up and tell me what information you got from them! The case..."
Zach disappears from James. When he appeared, he stood in front of the two Gangeros, raised a finger and moved it gently to the left against the wooden stake, "Goodbye."
Like peeling paint on an old wall, the gray and black pieces pressed against the wooden stake that was still leaning against Zach's finger, and fell weightlessly against the wall. Just like coal that has been burned countless times until it reaches its limit. As it fell, it continued to disintegrate. In the end, it turned into a pile of ashes in front of Zach's feet, barely burying a bright red wooden stake.
"Don't be afraid." Zach's fingers moved to another wooden stake that was still fixed on the wall in front of Gangluo's chest. "As you can see, you have lost so much blood that there is almost no progress to speak of. Soon, just For a moment, I don’t feel anything at all…”
Zach's fingers moved too slowly. Not only did it support him to say these meaningless words, it also supported him until someone interrupted him.
"Wait a moment!"
James clutched the mixing jar in his hand and stared at the pile of ashes on the ground at Zach's feet. A vampire's 'corpse' is, well, a pile of ash. It's not really a corpse, just the remains.
James has seen the remains of vampires. The first time he saw the fallen angel Crowley in Mary's Church, he witnessed Zach instantly create a descendant and then kill it with his hands (at that time When a demon possesses a human being and kills the container, the demon can still escape, so Zach simply transforms the human being into a vampire, locks the demon's soul, and then dies instantly). At that time, such a pile of ashes was stepped on by people, lifted up and blown away by the airflow during the subsequent movement... In the end, nothing was left, or maybe the leftovers were scattered everywhere. Who knows, no one cared about it at the time. .
Now, there is such a pile at his house. Home.
Zach retracted his finger and looked at James who interrupted him, "Why, do you want to try it yourself?" and made a gesture of invitation.
"I don't want to!" James put the mixing jar heavily back on the bar, "Tell me what you know first! Then, deal with him, he..." 'They' only have one left hanging on the wall, so It’s singular, “not too late!”
"It's up to you." Zach shrugged and left the remaining Gangaro, but his steps were a little slow, as if he was deliberately not letting the moving airflow affect the pile of ashes on the ground. "You still have to use the method of explosion. Just ask Oz, I’ll only tell you what I think is important…”
He was interrupted again, "Methods are very important. The determination of the Becky bombing now depends on..."
It doesn't matter, Zach is also very good at interrupting James, "There are more than just these two gangeros in the club." This is the more important thing, as James shut up immediately proves, "There are five more hidden ones." In Bache.”
Probably in response to James' look, the mind-reader Oz responded, "I have mastered the identity and name."
"James, don't be stupid. Gangelo's identity is not something you should worry about." Zach continued to draw James' attention back, "The remnants of the club are not only Gangello, but also humans."
James' attention was like a ball being sent to Oz by Zach again. Oz handed over a list that had already been written, and James quickly glanced at it. Several of them overlapped with the witnesses he and Detective Coulson called today!
But James had no time to be happy, Zach drew his attention back again.
"We also know their motive for attacking Cozier's store." Zach waved his hand, "As I guessed, in order to attack Quinn, they seemed to have determined that Quinn was controlled by the devil."
"The shelter project." It was Amelia who spoke. "Quinn is supported by Liszt Industry. And the store that has been promoted the most recently is Kozier's store." However, the core figure of her project came to It is quite appropriate to explain this relationship.
Zach smiled at Amelia as a thank you for the explanation, and then continued to let James look back at him, "But that's not the only reason. I guessed it right, they witnessed Amelia's recovery process. Conclusion He concluded that Barton is also a vampire, so this attack is also a test to draw out Barton's vampire." Then Zach pointed at himself, "They were very successful."
The corner of James's eye twitched, but he still resisted looking in the direction where a Gangrel was hanging. Zach's humor was too cruel.
"So in addition to blowing up my store, they chose to contact me and Emilia first." Oz frowned, then shook his head. "However, this attack was completely predicted and prevented by us. These details are meaningless now."
"Precognition?" James took the initiative to look back at Zach this time.
"The banshee, Louise." Zach only gave two words, a concise enough answer, but the meaning was clear enough.
James frowned, "How is Louise now?"
"Haha, I will convey your concern. She is fine now and is in Grande." Zach waved his hand. "But this is not the only operation they carried out to 'lead out the Barton vampires'." Zach narrowed his eyes. "Their preparations for attacking Kozier were completed last night, and the operation should have been carried out this morning, but because of Something was delayed, and even in the end only two people came to act, so I just said it. There are five more, still in Bech."
"Becky?" Of course James hated Zach's way of speaking that insisted on arousing people's interest, but what could be done, the other party was Zach. "What happened to Becky?!"
What happened to Becky? We know that two Sabbat Toledo - Robert and Georgina are in Betsy! Let's see what Zach has to say.
"Becky..." Zach raised his eyebrows, "Someone appeared to compete with Gangro for food."
"The result of mind reading." Oz probably read James' thoughts, glanced at Zach, shook his head, and decided to speed up the conversation, "Last night, it shouldn't be this early morning, they discovered themselves The food reserves have been used by other vampires. Not only that, the other party even carried out a cleansing near dawn and plundered most of Becky's blood."
James glared at Zach, "'General'!"
Well, James was right to think so. After all, there were only a few vampires he knew. He had already made progress by not first doubting Zach who was right in front of him.
This time, there was no need for Zach to explain. Oz, the mind reader, continued, "No, it's the other two. This is something Zach needs to deal with..."
Interrupting, "Two? Wait, what are you still doing?!" James stared back at Zach.
"Toledor of the Sabbat." It was Oz again, the mind reader looked directly at James, "Sorry, James." Nickname! "They came to visit me and then..."
"Don't call me James!" James turned his head directly, as if he didn't want to look at Oz.
The puzzle presented in the previous phone call is extended here. To be more clear, we still don’t know the real reason why James came to Barton from the west! What happened to his so-called family friendship with Kozier!
Think about James coming to Barton in a state of knowing nothing about alien races. After arriving, his world view was constantly shattered by our vampires, and now he discovered that his home and the people he once knew were all alien races. His original life was quite pitiful.
But now that James glared at Zach again, Zach took over the task of speaking, patting James' stiff shoulder as if to comfort him, but his words were not very 'consoling', "Just like O What I’m saying is that Sabbat Toledo is something I need to deal with. I just don’t want to hide it from you, so I’m just letting you know so you don’t have to worry about it. But…” Zach pointed at the list that had just been handed to James. "You should be concerned about the actions of these humans. When Gangro was trying to find out Barton's vampire actions, these people were not idle."
James' eyes tightened, "Speak quickly!"
Zach was not urged and continued to follow his own pace. "Because of their ability, the gangeros among these remnants continued to carry out the purpose of the Fight Club, bombings, attacks..." Zach pointed at the person who had been huddled nearby and had no presence. Feeling Wales, "The devil's men. As for those humans..." Zach deliberately lengthened his voice until James's face looked completely impatient, "Execute pure revenge."
James was stunned for a moment, "What do you mean?!"
"Have you forgotten how the Barton police solved the club case?" Zach prompted.
James's mind was spinning rapidly, and then his eyes suddenly widened, "Revenge! You mean..."
"Yes." Zach nodded, "They are looking for the person who betrayed the club, and they are looking for Jason." Zach spoke faster, "Barton's Fight Club did not take shape, it was killed. But Thor Your police department likes to express its merits. After the case was solved, a large number of criminals in small-scale security cases were arrested and punished. This time and situation are too obvious. Looking through the newspapers from that period is equivalent to telling directly. These remnants who have formed, who are their new brothers who failed to grow up in Barton."
James opened his mouth. It’s surprising, but also self-blame! From the beginning, they thought of revenge from the remnants, but their eyes were always on those big shots. The real and most direct target of revenge - Jason, who betrayed the club and solved everything with violence, was ignored!
"The only good thing is that the members of Barton's club did not know the situation at that time. They only knew that they were identified and betrayed. Therefore, the progress of these remnants is not fast, and they are still investigating those who may be members of the club. .”
Zach slowed down his speech, "But, James, you don't have much time. After the investigation is over, they will find that among the people who can mutually identify the members of the Barton Club, several people have received police attention. , they are the ones who betrayed the club, and they are the ones who deserve revenge." Who it is, Zach has already said it from the beginning, Jason and the others!
James walked around Zach and was about to return to the police station. After taking two steps, he turned his head with a sullen face and said, "Do you have anything else to say?"
Zach shook his head. What he felt was important had already been said.
James took two more steps forward and passed Gangro who was still nailed to the wall. His body stiffened for a moment, he raised his hand, bumped the wooden stake, and left without looking back. (.)