Mr. Donna Sr.'s funeral is scheduled for Wednesday. If it is selfish, then the church's preparations for Long's funeral, which is slightly urgent and will be held on Tuesday, can be used twice. No one should care about such a small thing.
After sending away the guests, Zach thought for a while and did not go to Benjamin. Although Alice went to the North District, Eve would probably find an opportunity to communicate with the girl she recognized as the Alpha Witch, but the process probably wouldn't be too fast, and Benjamin would have to wait for a while in an office he was not used to. Only then can you receive a contact phone call.
Don't worry about it for the time being. Zach went down to the basement door on the east side. He hesitated for a moment, but was still dispelled by the smell of corpses that was a threat to vampires. He knocked on the door and said, "Sloan, use the empty space." Come out and have a chat."
During the short conversation they had just made to make some personal space for Donna, Sloan had delivered not-so-good news, and Zach felt the need to lend a helping hand.
Sloan was quick, and immediately opened the door and came out. He glanced at Zach who was standing at the door. There was still a faint blue glow on his face, and his expression was not good.
"Failed again?" Zach raised his hand and made a gesture of speaking.
Sloan nodded and followed Zach, "I don't know why, Lip seems to be running away from something. His traces in the dream are everywhere!"
"Sounds like a good thing." Zach actually didn't know what Sloan was expressing. To be honest, no vampire would be interested in the topic of alien souls. "The more traces there are, the easier it will be for you to track him. "At the same time, the two men walked up the stairs and around to the back porch.
"No, it's not good at all!" Sloan was a little irritated, glanced at Zach, and sat down on the bench in the back porch, "Humph. It's impossible for a guy like you to understand."
"A guy like me." Zac curled his lips slightly. It's one thing if he doesn't care, but it would be bad if someone reveals it, right? "Are you referring to a vampire with a rotten soul?"
Maybe it's just a coincidence. Innocent James was in a daze on the back porch. Who knew what he was thinking. At this time, Zach shook his hand in front of his eyes and said, "James, make yourself useful and go get Sloan a cup of tea."
James glanced at Zach and then at Sloan, "If you bring Lip back, will he tell you why he had to commit suicide?"
The words came suddenly. The reason should not need to be explained.
Zach raised his eyebrows and responded to Sloan's confused look with a frown, "By some coincidence, Detective Lance participated in the process of Mr. Green entrusting us to deal with Lip's suicide." After Sloan showed his understanding, , and when he looked away without interest, Zach looked back at James, "I thought Benjamin and I had explained it to you clearly at that time. There were no 'essential' questions, just simple ones. If he doesn’t die, he won’t become a dream demon.”
An unexpected comment was made by James, "So instead of continuing to be a human, Lip thinks it's better to be an alien. Is that what you want to say?"
"I..." Zach frowned, and he could sense another thing that James really wanted to say. After all, if both Zach and Benjamin are unclear about the Incubus race, James is even less likely to have a deep understanding, so he must not have wanted to discuss the Incubus, "I didn't say that."
James had a deeper understanding of what a foreign race could be. Zack, a vampire who treats him as a servant. James is talking about Louise. Zach looked sideways at James, "But these are all personal choices. Lip's choice is already a fact. You should not question other people's choices or any other people's choices."
"Then I don't have to work!" James' tone suddenly became angry. Was he angry? There's something wrong with this guy, "You have things like the banshee that can see death, and you have guys like you who casually deceive people about eternal life, and you have people like you who have rested in peace and been brought out again..." James pointed with his finger. Harrison, who was even more innocent and just passing by, said, "Then what do you want me to do? What do you want the police to do? You can see life and death clearly. It is obviously the worst death but you have turned it into another life." In the beginning, it was obviously a bad and disgusting thing, but you did it in another way, you... "
Zach was not prepared to interrupt, because what James said was right, something that was constantly proven right by many events that happened here. But right things cannot be equated with good things. If James wants to express his emotions, Zach is willing to see this guy express his emotions in front of him, instead of hiding in a dark corner and getting into trouble.
Unfortunately, James was interrupted anyway, by a somewhat irritable Sloan.
"So this is your Grande's daily conversation, discussing such useless 'philosophical' issues. Uh-huh." Sloan shook his head, "I can't believe that Lip is messing with the future just for you guys. .” Then his voice trailed off, “Ruined my freedom.”
James, who was interrupted, looked at Sloan with a gloomy face and took a deep breath, "You haven't answered my question yet."
"So what if I answer." Sloan glanced at James, "What can you do, detective, to fight for justice for Lip's death."
Zach consciously gave up the space for the two of them to talk, because this topic is very dangerous, and it is very easy for James to catch him again and drag him back - there is no justice for Lip's suicide, at least from the current point of view, the only need is The only person to be condemned was Grande, who accepted the commission to deal with the suicide secretly.
James' face became even more gloomy. Of course he noticed Zach's little move and chose to ignore it, "That's my business, I don't need to explain it to this civilian!"
"Humph." When class was put on the table of conversation, people at lower levels actually had nothing to refute. Sloan shook his head and stopped looking at James. "What do you want to know? The reason why Lip committed suicide. Well, you don’t need to ask after I bring him back, I can tell you.”
"I don't want to listen to Zach's nonsense..." James just raised his tone to the breaking point.
"I said, what you are discussing is useless." Sloan glanced at Zach, "Because he will become a dream demon, so he committed suicide. How stupid can someone do such a thing, a dream demon? Is this a very fun thing? Idiot."
Zach pursed his lips, not knowing what expression to put on, and chose to take out the snack can.
"What's happening now..." Sloan ignored James and Zach's reactions and took a deep breath. "It's different from what should have happened. Lip has been helping you since that time in the nursing home. From the beginning, it forcibly changed the course of the future.”
"Don't say things I don't understand!" James said gloomily. It would be too difficult for a creature that lives on the timeline to discuss the changed future.
Sloan ignored it. "Originally, Lip's death, the death that really should have happened, was murder."
What…
"There was no fire in the nursing home. Porky Quinn would not be taken back to Quinn Manor. Zach used Porky's visiting rights to enter the nursing home and was noticed by Quinn. No one cared about the nursing home because of you Grande. They were noticed by Smith, Quest, and Quinn. Then they discovered that Lip was receiving treatment in the sanatorium." Zach frowned and glanced at James, the same. Sloan didn't care what these two people were thinking, and continued, "As Green, the son of the director of the nursing home, Lip will lose his inheritance rights due to mental illness."
Although cliche. But listen carefully, the serious stuff is below.
"Do you know who is the real owner of the sanatorium?" Sloan asked a question. Without waiting for anyone to answer, "The Barton family. Do you know why 50 years ago, Barton obtained the naming rights of Barton City and became the mayor of Barton?" It seems that this question does not need anyone to answer, "Because he did this for this A piece of wasteland provides education and medical care, allowing people to come and live here. This is something other West End families cannot do."
"What do you mean, where are you going to proceed?" Zach reminded the other party not to go off topic.
Sloan did not look at Zach and continued at his own pace, "I see you are preparing for Donna's funeral, huh. Although Donna may still be considered a family in the South District, but Barton's development is really just a minor role. , Mr. Donna’s death has made no difference. The orphanage in the South District belongs to Quinn, you don’t need me to tell you this.”
"What are you going to say?!" Zach just prompted, and James urged irritably.
"Lipp's death, before Mr. Donna or after?" After asking, Sloan looked at Zach.
Zach waited a moment before he realized, oh, this was a real question, "After."
"Then let me ask you, if Pochi Quinn was not brought back to the manor and Mrs. Quinn had time to care about her subordinates in the South District, could Mr. Donna's funeral be postponed until now?"
Zach frowned. There was a loophole in Sloan's words. Mrs. Quinn never had time to deal with rural places like the South Side. Amelia's project and Smith's whitewash were enough to keep Mrs. Queen busy.
However, Zach now knows that Boyson is at Quinn's place, and Mrs. Quinn came to tell her personally (xxv, 16). Boyson has completely controlled Pochi and caused serious trouble to her.
Amelia's project, Smith's whitewash, these are the jobs that Quinn is good at, and they are her life. That being troubled by a wizard was something that was really difficult for Quinn to deal with. So if Donna's funeral was delayed because Quinn couldn't distract herself from paying attention to the South Side, then what kept Quinn from being distracted was Porky, who was initially brought back to the manor from the nursing home.
"Probably not." Zach frowned, "But there are some inconsistencies. Quinn and old Mrs. Donna came to Grande together (xxv, 15), and Quinn supported the delay of the funeral."
"Of course I support it, because she can't spare any time to help Old Donna deal with the issue of publishing the will. She can only let Old Donna drag it on while she handles it on her own."
"Wednesday." Zach suddenly changed the topic, "Mr. Donna's funeral will be held on Wednesday. If you know anything, do you have anything to remind me?"
Sloan frowned and thought for a moment, "What should have happened was that Mr. Donna's funeral had been held long ago. With the announcement of the will in the funeral, Donna's five children were abolished because they were adopted. Lost the right to inherit."
Thinking carefully about what should have happened, it was Quinn who personally handled the outcome of Mr. Donna's funeral when there was no Boyson brought in by Pochi to hold her back! Now, in reality, will this be repeated
"What does this have to do with Lip's murder..."
There were two people who interrupted James. Zach - "James, don't get involved. In reality, Lip committed suicide."
Sloan - "My boss, the director of the sanatorium, Green, is heartbroken. The people in the West Side don't care at all that these people in the South Side, who have devoted and worked half their lives for the glory of their West Side, will be easily deprived of them." The lives of the next generation, as exemplified by Donna’s five children.”
"Barton would strip Lip of his right to inherit the sanatorium?!" James finally caught up, "Because his mental illness was discovered by the West Enders?" Then lost again, "Then why was he murdered?!"
Sloan glanced at James, then looked at Zach, "I thought you said before that after the fire in the nursing home, you came to Lip and I and asked the police to help investigate. Why, doesn't this guy know?"
Zach glanced at James and waved his hand, "James is the detective from the North District. The one I asked for help is Wes, the police from the South District..."
"You asked Wes to do it again..."
"James." Zach shook his head helplessly, "How long ago it happened, is there any point in arguing with me?"
James pursed his lips and could only hold back, "What the hell!"
Zach began to explain, "I asked Wes to help me check the patient records in the nursing home, hoping to find Lip, but he couldn't." Zach looked at Sloan again, "So Lip has mental illness. "The inability to exercise inheritance rights is just information, and there are no medical records or records to confirm this."
Sloan nodded, the expression on his face was indescribable, "So if Barton doesn't like this Green heir, there is no way to legitimately abolish the Green family's inheritance rights."
"So you used unfair means?!" James began to yell, seemingly completely ignoring Zach's reminder about the truth.
"No, Sloan. Do you know what you are talking about?" Zach frowned. The land where our vampire stands and lives is Barton City. Is the family that gave this name so unworthy
"It's not like that." Sloan tilted his head, "It just happens to be added together with another thing. It's just a passing thing at most."
"please continue."
"I see that your Grande has hired a security company, Sadier Security Company. Don't you have a very good relationship with the people in the West End? Why didn't you hire Aix Security, which is supported by the Falcon family?"
Zach didn't answer. He felt that there should be no need to remind the other party not to go off topic. The conversation had reached this point.
"It doesn't matter. Soon, in Barton City, all the companies that cooperate with Aix Security will have some accidents, and then everyone will switch to Aix."
"The security of the nursing home is Seidir Company." Zach confirmed.
As I have said long ago, Smith is not the only one who has been cleared. (.)