James thought a lot. For example, why did Director Cologne dislike him for following Grande? "Isn't he just an informant and needs to be protected like this?" For example, how Zach taunted him, "It turns out I cured you. Sorry, my memory is a bit blurry. Can you restore how I cured you?" '
But none of the above happened when he stepped into Grande's backyard.
Director Cologne was sitting on the bench in the back porch, being harassed by Alice, "First, sir, are you sure you want to wait? Yes, do you want to have lunch with us? I don't know when my brother will be back. ."
Zach isn't here? James quickly avoided the director's gaze, "Love, Alice, where is Benjamin?"
"James? You're here, oh, Benjamin's not here either." Alice winked, who knows what she was expressing.
Director Cologne's face began to show sarcasm - James is really familiar with this family, because -
"Oh, James, have you had lunch? Come in." Alice seemed a little disappointed that James didn't respond to her look. She said casually and continued to face Cologne, "Well, sir, how about , please leave a message and I will forward it to my brother for you."
"Alice." James pursed his lips, "He is our police chief, Cologne."
"Oh!" Alice blinked, stunned. Our banshee sister’s mind is filled with too many things at once—Barton, the top law enforcer, has come to Grande, and Alice is fragmented.
"Bureau, Director!" James adjusted his mood and took out two sheets for investigation. He had to explain the reason for following him. Whether the other party believed it or not was beyond his control, "I am a friend. A friend dragged me to deliver something."
Director Cologne didn't want to pay attention to him at all.
"Alice, where's Louise?" James tried his best and pulled Alice who was still dazed.
"Oh! Louise! It's still down there!" blurted out.
When Director Cologne cast a strange look, James' face darkened, "Basement. She meant basement." To avoid being caught by the Director with any questions, James dragged Alice into the back door and lowered his voice. "Can I get down?!"
Alice nodded, her eyes widened, and she spoke in a breathy voice, "James, what is your director doing here?"
James was not prepared to answer, but instead asked with a sullen face. "Is there anything you can't do that the director can't find out?" This is just a regular taunt. We know that James can't defeat Zach, but he can still bully Alice.
did not expect-
"Well, Zach went to the southeast to help the 'General'. Some of the gang members who died in the southeast were taken under the sea by the mermaid Moorman." Of course, in a breathy voice. "Zach said that the police have never found the bodies of those people anyway, and they cannot be regarded as people who have truly disappeared. They are just missing persons with the police, and the police will not really look for them. It is a pity. No matter it’s for their families or their lives. There’s no problem in turning it out and giving it to the ‘general’. Well, so I went.”
James, open your mouth. After looking at Alice for a while, he went down to the basement without looking back. Since Benjamin is not here either, James can only see Louise, who is the most master here at this time.
If anyone was wondering why James didn't pay more attention to the Director on the back porch because there was nothing to care about, Director Colon made it very clear when he was at Weiss' house - he wasn't going to tell James why he was here. . The only thing James knew was the vague 'medical experience'.
Pushing open the basement door, James was also worried that he would see some disturbing scene. Fortunately, Louise was normal, lying flat on the stone platform in a daze.
"Louise." James frowned and called tentatively, "Are you okay?"
"Very good." Louise glanced sideways at James, "Give it to me."
James pursed his lips and handed over the survey in his hand. At this time, Louise was no different in appearance from the woman James saw for the first time in Grande's office, sitting opposite Zach's desk and recounting her experience. But inside, James glanced sideways at the mirror in the corner, seeing gray shadows. James knew it was completely different. It's a different kind of emotion that I can't express.
"Is this... what Jason asked you to send?" Louise took a quick glance and came to the correct conclusion.
"Yes." James responded, watching Louise stand up from the stone platform, looking around and muttering to himself, "I remember there is a pen here."
James also started to look around and discovered first, "Here..." James walked towards the old container, but a gray shadow was drawn in front of him. The gray shadow was drawn back again, turning into Louise sitting sideways. In front of the stone platform, the survey was laid out on the stone platform, and the pen was already in his hand. While filling it out, he seemed to be saying to himself, "No... no... um, still no..."
James really didn't know what his emotions were. He watched Louise quickly fill in the survey, "Uh... Jason said..."
"You don't recommend that our Grande change the insurance agreement, right?" Louise actually showed a smile and glanced at James, "He is right. Haha, he must have guessed that Grande's insurance and There is no overlap in the cooperation between the security companies in the tomb area, and Grande does not need to change anything."
"Do you know that this is because of Saidil Security Company?" James frowned, he hadn't mentioned these reasons yet.
"Didn't Alice just say that Zach went to help the 'General'?" Louise still smiled and lightly shrugged, "Zach is not very happy about the expansion of the Aix Security Company, but he is. It's not all for the 'General'. Well, it's just that the new employees, you know, are the employees of the original Hermann factory, who are particularly sensitive to safety." Louise looked up with a helpless expression, " We don’t want Aix to come to Grande to do something about the tombs of those West End people.” Louise shook her head, feeling really helpless.
Looking back, it was Louise's idea to recruit new employees, and it was Louise's idea to cooperate with the security company, but now it seems to have turned into trouble.
"Zach, will..." James wanted to ask Zach if he would do anything to Ax that he, as a detective, was not suitable to know, but immediately, he realized that it was pointless to ask. He shook his head and swallowed it.
"What do you want to say?" Louise filled in quickly and was already filling in the second page. She raised her head casually and glanced at James' constipated face.
"Nothing." James took a deep breath to adjust his emotions. "Well, Director Cologne above." He paused and tested first, "Did he say anything when he came?"
"No." Louise's behavior has always been normal. "I just said I was looking for Zach. When I heard he wasn't there, I sat there and waited, and then you came. By the way, do you know what he came for?"
"I don't know..." James frowned, "Not sure. But he went to Wes' place to find me first and asked some inexplicable things."
"For example -" Louise noticed that the last signature needed was the autograph of Grande's owner, Zach. She scratched the pen tip in the air a few times to practice Zach's handwriting, and by the way, he lengthened the ending to signal to James. Ms. continued.
"He asked me if Zach had any medical experience." James looked at Louise and started writing, a very smooth Zachary Grande. The detective didn't even shy away. Why.
"Medical experience?" Louise looked up again and handed back the completed survey. "What medical experience?" I didn't understand.
James could only explain more specifically, "He noticed that my injury was healed and asked me if it was Zach who treated it." This explanation was filled with resentment.
"Oh!" Louise winked at James and suddenly smiled, "Then what did you answer?"
Please understand one thing, Zach will not just sit in a daze when he is with Louise. Whatever Zach knows, Louise knows. So Louise's smile is absolutely adorable for James, a guy who doesn't know anything.
"What else can you do but yes!" James was unhappy and tugged at the corner of his mouth, "Why are you laughing? Is this something laughable! He must have seen my medical records! My injuries are not curable. ! You need to cultivate yourself! It's the ribs! Here!" James pointed to his chest.
"Okay, okay, I won't laugh." Louise stopped smiling. This was indeed a question that was not suitable for laughing. "Well." Louise frowned and started thinking, "As for medical experience, Zach has it. He has it." Didn't you use to be a medic on the battlefield?" Then he looked at James and said, "You shouldn't say it was Zach who treated him."
First of all, Zach's identity as a military doctor is fake. It is an illusion maintained by the Charming Eyes. It only provides a layer of protection for Zach to mix among a group of people who can die or disappear at any time. There is no such thing as Zachary Gerard. Rand's life.
Then, about James' injury, in this world, even the medical methods that can heal skin injuries are more about preventing infection, providing wound protection, and accelerating the healing process? Medical treatment hadn't advanced to that point yet, let alone that James' injury was on the bone. The process will be slower.
James' face was gloomy and he looked very irritated, "I know! But you don't know the situation at that time, so I can only answer like this!"
Louise shook her head, "Forget it, it's nothing." Wait a minute, is it nothing? "Let your chief come to see me."
"What are you going to do?!" James was instantly alert.
"Correct the mistake you made." Louise replied matter-of-factly, and then glanced helplessly at the mirror in the corner, with its gray shadow, "I don't dare to go out and try to see if I can survive in the sun. The results here seem to be, well, just like that." He tilted his head and said, "I want to try my other ability."
The charming eye that controls memory.
James stared at Louise with wide eyes, slowly backed away, slowly...
Louise smiled, "I'm just teasing you, haha." Louise laughed so much that she bent down, "You should really see your expression! Hahaha..."
James pursed his lips tightly, and although his retreating steps stopped, his expression did not change. To be honest, has James really understood Louise? No. James' feelings for Louise were based on the fact that they were humans who met and got to know each other in Grande, and then Louise saved his life (Revinch attacked James as a skinchanger when he first appeared) ).
So James really didn't know which of Louise's words was a joke.
"Oh!" Louise noticed James' eyes, her face quickly darkened, and she frowned, "You don't believe me."
"What do I want to believe?" James and Louise kept their distance, with equally stern faces.
"I was just teasing you. I can't use the Charming Eyes casually. I don't want to be like Ian (who created Brian). You should be able to think of it." Louise explained again.
"I just can think of it." James's face became more gloomy, "So I haven't run away yet. I want to know, if you and Zach are like that, are you sure that you can fully use the Charming Eyes. We all know that Zach has What is Ian's attitude? He has never taught Ian anything. You are different! You are his Louise! What will you do when you get out of this basement?"
Finally came, James' emotions went beyond the limits when he heard for the first time that Louise had become a vampire. Look, above, this is a vast distance.
Louise's lower lip subconsciously tapped behind her teeth, "James, what do you mean?"
"You heard me clearly, you are no longer the Louise I first knew, you, you are..." James looked at Louise up and down, very rude, don't imitate, "Vampire..."
"Get out." Louise looked at James without any expression and said these two words.
James regretted it and moved his mouth, but turned around without saying anything.
Louise's voice was behind him as he left the basement.
"James Lance, I am Louise. Now I am a vampire. I was once a human. It was all me, Louise." This is not over. "When I was a human, I saved you and helped you with the stabbing." "I said good things to him in front of Grams." Remember, Louise asked Zach to be more relaxed about James more than once.
"I was Good Louise. Now, I'm a vampire, but I'm still the same Good Louise."
James opened the door to the basement and walked out. Louise's voice continued, "If you have any other thoughts in your mind. James Lance, you are the bad person. Think about it yourself. .”
It was not James's turn to close the door behind him. Probably the gray voice shadow flashed back and forth again, and the door behind James was slammed shut.
James pursed his lips tightly, looked back at the closed door, raised his head and prepared to go up. His eyes met Zach's gaze standing at the top of the stairs, tilting his head and looking down.
James' heart skipped a beat, because Director Cologne was standing next to Zach, looking in the direction of going upstairs to the office.
Zach retracted his gaze from James, put on a smile that he had withdrawn as soon as he appeared, saying "this is very forced", and continued to make a gesture of please come first, "Sorry, I made the director laugh, as you can see , Detective Lance is not a welcome guest in Grande.”
"I've made things difficult for you. But the police department has always been grateful for the clues you provided." Colon glanced at James expressionlessly before retracting his gaze and followed Zach's guidance and went upstairs. "If Mr. Grande doesn't mind, I I can use the authority of the director to change the operator for you. I can guarantee that it will be confidential and safe, and there will be no adverse reactions."
"Oh? Is this still possible?"
"Of course, I'm the chief and that's my police station."
James's human hearing stopped and he went up. (.)