"What is this?" James looked at the thing in his hand.
Without explaining it first, let’s talk about what Zach is doing.
On the way back from the church, Zach entered the cemetery. It was impossible to pay attention to the progress of Matthew's work. Based on the fact that the current cemetery has security guards who work for Grande but not 'work' for Grande, as well as new employees. Matthew, Danny, and Harrison could only dig at normal human speeds, and they had to cooperate with James to chat with security guards from time to time. The process was very slow.
Zach doesn't care. Well, if anyone cares, well, Long's grave was ready in the morning, and now they're getting Mr. Donna Sr.'s grave ready. After all, Mr. Donna Sr. is also an upper-class figure in the West District. The size of the cemetery is larger and the decoration is more complicated. Although it's not the kind of tomb with angel statues like Quinn's Tomb, it is a family tomb, so depending on the progress, it will be enough for them to be busy until the evening.
Zach wanted to see what James had gained and if he had any troublesome information about the 'security market competition'. But seeing James' constipated face, he knew there was nothing to gain.
James explained it this way, "The people in their company hate me! They didn't tell me anything about Bishop's prosecution case before and then his involvement with Grande!"
The new goal James had just obtained was just dead.
Then there's the real reason Zach came, a 'new perspective'. Zach stood in front of the half-completed cemetery, took out the snack can, and watched the ghoul Harrison secretly cut out a new tomb with his fingers when no one was paying attention, while answering James. "Do you want to hear the full explanation, or a simple one?"
James twitched his lips, "What is this!"
That's what simple means. "A fax."
"I know this is a fax!" James took off his working gloves and flattened the fax in his hand. "I was asking what the content meant! Who gave it to you?"
Do you still want the full version? James is really an ink-stained guy. "Alice sent it back. She picked it up. What's the content? Well, if I knew it completely, I wouldn't come to you."
"Alice? Didn't she go to the North District? Help Laura."
"Yeah." Zach looked at James expressionlessly. "I was at Back Bay Community College and couldn't get back for a while, so I sent it back by fax."
"Uh..." James gave up, not wanting to ask Zach again. He frowned and started to read the fax carefully.
How to describe the content above. Do you know that the draft is dense and messy, and the handwriting has exceeded the limit of horizontal grids, and is scattered on the paper in various directions, which is almost what this fax looks like. Oh, let me explain first that this was the reason why Zach was distracted before.
"Who is Philly?" Among the dense handwriting, James quickly found this name that appeared very frequently.
"I don't know." Zach replied casually and irresponsibly. "But among the people we know, Fili, Fili..." Zach raised his hand. He made an epiphany face that was too fake to be fake anymore, "It's just Philip."
"Tsk." James didn't want to explore the psychology of Zach's pretentiousness at all, and continued to look at the things in his hands, "It says that Philly is not a devout Holy Bishop, although he is required to recite the Holy Scriptures every day. , but secretly admire a biography."
Does it look familiar to you? Do you still remember Lip's coded suicide note
James glanced at the fax randomly for a few times before he lost interest and glanced at Zach, "What on earth is this? It looks like the setting of a story, uh, or an outline, a collection of inspiration, etc. It’s stuff, and it’s also poorly written and messy!”
"Yeah." Zach still had the same artificial expression, "Alice said the same thing. She said that the author admitted that he couldn't continue writing and that the writing was broken."
"Author?" James asked, "Who?"
"Did I just say that Alice picked it up?" Zach said like a scoundrel, "Well, Alice picked it up."
James glared at Zach, "You just said that Alice confirmed that the author admitted that the writing was bad! Alice knows who the author is! Who is it?!"
Zach stopped talking and pointed to the fax. You are not ready to answer James. Do you know why? What Zach needs is a new perspective, not a detective who gets excited just listening to Zach talk and then only exudes negative emotions. James needed to find out for himself.
"Tsk—" James frowned and continued to look at the fax. The hand he was holding adjusted the direction back and forth for better results, adapting to the wayward text formatting.
"If the protagonist of this story is this Feili, I won't like this story!" I probably understood some of the content, "He doesn't like his situation, and he doesn't try to change himself, so he goes to the protagonist of a biography for help. This is very strange. Stupid! It’s like ordinary people worshiping a person because of a biography! It’s stupid! The biography is someone else’s life and is of no use to you at all!”
Zach will tell James that the protagonist of the biography is himself, no. As mentioned above, a new perspective, not an excited detective.
"Uh..." James probably understood some of the content, "Is this a science fiction story? Traveling through time? Huh, don't change the status quo, but want to change history. How stupid can someone think of this..." James Shi shut his mouth and glanced at Zach with an indescribable look. What did James guess
"History has been changed. Fili succeeded a little bit, and things gradually deviated towards the future where he was." After adjusting his mood, James continued to read this story setting that he didn't like, "But the price began to appear. ." James held up the fax, stretched it out in front of Zach, and pointed at a blur caused by creases and poor-quality ink, "What is this sentence?"
Zach blinked, thought about it, and said mechanically, "If I remember correctly, the original words were like this - 'The changes in history played tricks on Feili, and his birth was erased'."
It looks familiar. The nursing home fire, Donna's funeral was postponed, the tragedy that happened to the Green family had no cause, 'birth was erased', the dream demon's.
James looked at Zach again, and really couldn't tell what his eyes were expressing. Just lucky, not excited. James took back the fax and his eyes fell on an underlined sentence. "'The person who was changed and thought there would be a better future has lost his own existence. Philly did not accept this irony and decided to fake his own birth.'"
Zach and Benjamin once explained Lip's suicide to James - the incubus cannot be born until others die.
"How are you feeling?" Zach asked after James was silent for another moment.
James didn't answer, the paper in his hand was still changing directions. In order to adapt to the writing direction of this poor author, "'If there is a God of creation in this world, he will definitely punish Philly for his blasphemy.'" James stared at this sentence for a long time. "What's the punishment?" (*Suicide is a sin, go to hell*)
Zach couldn't answer the question, and it was one of the questions that kept distracting him at church.
James shook his head, "Has this story been written? Where is the text."
"Do we really need the text?" Zach asked rhetorically.
James frowned and tilted his head. "Why are you showing me this! I thought you didn't want me to interfere with Lip's affairs!"
"I need a reference." Zach held up the snack can. "I've started to have a bad feeling lately. I know what I'm doing, and I feel very, well, comfortable with my state. So most of the time I'm the one who informs others... "
"Are you saying that you like to tell others what to think and how to act?" This sentence contains resentment.
"That's exactly it." Zach admitted, "But I gradually began to notice. Sometimes, I don't know what I am doing. I only have one pair of eyes, and I can't see what others see. I don't know what I am doing. How will the things you do and the decisions you make affect... the future?" Zach frowned, as if he hated the word future.
You can understand it this way -
If a vampire were asked to imagine the future, what would it be, it would be 'I am still alive'. Eternal life, this is the pride of the race, isn't it? The same thing happened to Zach. Don't look for any beautifying modifications. Our vampire took in the Banshee and picked up Madison, just for the sake of saying "I'm still alive" in the future.
But now, Zach thinks about the future, what will it be? It will be a future that I have clearly not experienced yet, but I am told that it is not good! This feeling is terrible!
It was Lip, the incubus, who informed Zach of this. It's a pity that Zach doesn't have the ability to question this guy who came to destroy Zach's 'good' imagination of the future without his consent, huh? What do you think will happen in the future
Everything is going well in the future, but it is not what Zach wants. The direction has been limited by others. It cannot be like that, it must be like this. Haha, how does this look like? It seems that it is true, no one came to tell Zach at all!
That's right, our vampire has begun to feel confused about life. After giving birth to a descendant Louise that he is satisfied with, and allowing the Toledo clan to finally move in the right direction, it has entered a mid-life crisis and is unsure about the future of life. Lost control. If only vampires had such a thing.
James stared at Zach. He was completely unprepared for what Zach said. He frowned, "What on earth do you want to do?"
"Do you have to tell me?" Zach twitched his lips, "I need help, give me some advice, from your perspective, tell me..." Pointing to the fax, "What does it mean and what should I do."
Not only James, but also Matthew, Danny, and Harrison all looked at Zach.
Zach looked around and said, "It's just a suggestion, I may not necessarily listen to it." You can breathe a sigh of relief, our vampire is not completely confused yet.
Before James tutted, Zach continued, "The reason why I'm looking for you is relatively simple. We don't need to read Ms. West's article to know that Lip's behavior has only appeared in your case so far. , in front of me." Ryan has been forgotten by Zach, or ignored intentionally. We understand, Ryan's attitude towards Zach... Zach does not need to ask for trouble, "I don't want to expand the scope of its influence, if If you continue to read the content on the fax, you will find that in the time travel constructed by Ms. West, the original words are, 'Changes in history are like snowballs... '"
James had given up arguing with Zach, looked back at the fax, and found the words quoted by Zach, "'...Irrespective of those in the future that Philly hates, they are all involved in this ever-expanding white terror. , is still rolling, accumulating its destructive power in the future... '"
Zach nodded as an explanation to the other three people, "So I don't want to involve those of you who haven't been affected yet. I will always respect everyone's opinions on matters within Grande."
While Zach was comforting people, James' face turned ugly, "What does this mean? We need the main text. What is destructive power! I..."
Zach pointed his finger directly on a certain paragraph on the fax, signaling James to stop yelling and just read.
James sullenly said, "'Like scar tissue under the skin, in order to eliminate the protruding sarcoma, Fili needs to go deeper and remove the wounds that have been scarred in history. No, that's not what Fili wants to do. , it’s other people in history, other people who were affected, who want to hunt down the time destroyer who caused the first wave." James read it again, his face became darker, "Who?" (*Boyson *)
"This is the second question I need to refer to." Zach was honest. "Sloan said that Lip is being hunted by others, but I don't want to rule out Sloan's possibility yet." Zach did not give this sentence Without any emotion, he said, "After all, Sloan is also a victim of Lip's altered future. I need to know what you think."
James' gloomy face only showed his intention to curse, and did not respond to Zach. He continued to look at the fax. After a while, he stared at Zach again and pointed to a piece of erased writing, "It is written here. What?"
"I didn't paint it out, that's how it was originally." Zach answered truthfully, "Alice said the story was not finished, so this setting probably only ends here."
James frowned, turned around, faced the fax in the western sun, and squinted to read it carefully.
"Have you forgotten that this is not an original, but a fax?" Zach was a little helpless, "You can't see anything like this."
James' face darkened and he turned his head sharply, "Where is the original?!"
"Alice's place."
"Where is Alice?!"
"Hey, you should pay more attention, I told you from the beginning, at Back Bay Community College."
James lifted his feet and left.
"Where are you going?" Zach asked helplessly as he stood there.
"Where did you say I was going!"
"Then do I need to remind you that while you are on vacation, you do not have the resources of a police detective, such as the help of the police forensics department?"
James paused for a moment, but immediately continued moving forward firmly.
"Then I don't think I need to remind you that you are still injured, and you can't explain what made you recover at all, so it's not suitable for you to contact colleagues in the police station on the basis of personal relationships. Me?"
James stood still.
For five seconds, James continued to take steps.
"James..."
"Mill! Madison and Ryan!" James turned back with a sullen face, "Also, yes! I don't have the resources! I can't come forward! But Wes does! I can find Wes!"
Zach tilted his head and let James go. (.)