A new week has begun, and because Laura was grounded for protection during the weekend, she did not come to the Grand House again. Alice has been busy preparing food for the charity sale for a week, and she can take a break temporarily.
On Tuesday night, with the full moon hanging in the east, Louise was lying in a hammock in the backyard of the Grand House, covered with a thin blanket.
She did not look at Zach who was standing aside. There was a trace of thought in the corners of her slightly curved eyes. It seemed that she was not sure whether she wanted to ask what was going to happen next: "There is a chained person in the basement."
Zach's closed eyes opened, and the beautiful night seemed to have ended.
"you saw it?"
Louise frowned sensitively, and Zach's rhetorical question had no practical meaning other than delaying time to think about his resignation. This is a smart woman who knows how to read a man's heart.
"I saw it." Louise's eyelashes fluttered. "In the afternoon, Old Hank asked me to sort out this month's newspapers. Then I saw his foot fell out, and I stuffed it back for him."
With a smile on his face, Zach looked at Louise, "Then let me thank you on his behalf."
So that 'person' is still alive? Louise held back her thoughts and asked, "Who is he?" She met Zach's gaze and asked lightly.
"What do you think?" Zach asked again, with the same purpose as before. He had not yet thought of how to introduce Ian Anthony to Louise.
Louise's nose twitched slightly, and the disappointment on her face disappeared in an instant. Her red lips opened: "I guess he is..."
"Zach!" James appeared on the back porch of the Grand House, opened the door, and shouted to the two people in the hammock.
Zach smiled apologetically at Louise, sat up from the hammock, and walked towards James.
James is not in good spirits. It has been four days since the bus station warehouse was discovered last Friday. Investigations and public opinion are simultaneously oppressing the Barton Police Department. It is very rare for James to come to the Grand House in person. .
In the past few days, the number of suicides in Barton City has increased sharply. They all use the same method, with wounds from the chest to the heart, cruel and bloody methods. The number of people who have committed suicide so far has exceeded 30. The definition of a cult has become clearer, and the police are facing increasing pressure from public opinion.
According to police law, this was a 'demonstration' carried out by members of a cult whose evidence was discovered by the police. In fact, the police only obtained a list in the warehouse at the bus station, and this list was passed to the Hayate couple by James, who performed the necessary 'persuasion'.
James was stuck again in a gap he didn't want to face. In theory, this list is an important clue that can help the police get the members of the cult, but in fact, these people are under the control of Papa Midnight and it is impossible to reveal any useful information.
The police have now begun to take action to try to control the people who are still alive on the list, but the suicides are still continuing. Even in front of the police, the wind and his wife's way of 'persuading' people has made James doubt his life. The world of more than ten years feels strange.
"Are you okay?" Zach looked at James with some relief. This lovely police detective helped him avoid a problem!
"Not good." James lowered his head and sat at Zach's desk.
In the office, in front of the bookcase, boxes of information are placed on the wooden workbench. On the work notes spread out are the investigation records of civil servant Wells, which were spread out among the Grand. Home. Recently, the work progress of civil servants has become slower and slower, and their attitude has become less and less serious. Zach was very happy with this change, which meant that someone's mind was not on work at all.
James looked at the work table on the side, a little dazed. One morning, he was sitting behind this table, replacing the data files with the sandwiches and coffee that Alice had prepared for Benjamin, and the lights were replaced by the early spring morning sunshine. , the people in the office add Louise and Benjamin, and their identity becomes 'Kim Grand'.
At that time, he still told Louise righteously that when she encountered a problem, she should call the police. Now, someone calls the police, but what does he do
Snapped!
James' hand suddenly slapped on the desk! Inexplicable curses suddenly burst out from the mouth of the son of a general who had received a superior education.
Zach frowned, but did not stop James's outburst of emotion. He stood up, pulled out a real wine bottle from the bookshelf, got a drink for James, and placed it in front of him.
"Are you feeling better?" Zach asked softly after James finished cursing.
James's chest rose and fell, and the custom-fitted shirt was stretched out into a flat shape due to the bulging muscles. James gasped, glanced at the wine in front of him, and drank it all in one gulp. Zach reached for the previous glass again, signaling with his eyes to continue.
James frowned and pushed away the wine glass.
Zach was very satisfied with James' self-discipline, "What are you angry about? You seem to have a lot of malice towards the world."
After expressing his feelings, James began to calm down. He shook his head: "No, I'm just disappointed in myself! I know too little and can do too little! I need to work harder!"
"That's the spirit!" Zach raised his eyebrows, "Now, let's look at the results of the police investigation. You know I've been waiting for you."
James's newly uplifted expression became depressed again. The result of the police investigation? What made him feel disappointed was that the police had no investigation results at all!
Let's take a look at the police investigations these days.
The character of the person who escaped from the bus stop is written: Man, medium height, gone. What can you expect a few teenagers to notice
List of potential cult members found in warehouses: The list keeps getting shorter because they keep killing themselves!
The only place the police can investigate is... the identification of the body in the warehouse!
Those walking corpses that were used and abandoned were just tools in the eyes of Papa Midnight, but they have become the only things that the police can investigate and hope to find any clues.
Zach thought for a while, "So the identities of most of the corpses have been determined now?"
James's expression became indifferent, "They are all people who have died a long time ago. The police want to find the person who stole the bodies and gathered them in the warehouse." James looked at Zach: "You You will tell me that those corpses actually walked away on their own, right?"
During the investigation, the police found new lacerations on some bodies. James naturally thought that it was Zach and Benjamin who had done it. If it was really just a motionless corpse, then there would be no need for these two people to attack.
Zach was amused, but still nodded: "Yes, they are controlled zombies."
James shook his head and sighed helplessly, he guessed it was the same. In other words, the police investigation is still a dead end. No one stole the body, the body walked away on its own.
The vampire put away his smile, looked at the depressed James, thought for a while, and raised his eyebrows. He found James' problem. In the detective's mind, phenomena that were out of common sense accounted for too much. There were too many things that could not be explained by common sense. These things disabled him. A police detective should have the ability to rationality.
"Your partner, Detective Coulson, is investigating the identity of the body, right?" Zach began to guide.
"Humph." James responded coldly, "What's the point? He will never catch the person who 'stole' the body!"
"But he can know where those corpses come from." Zach looked at James, "He can't catch the thief, but he can find the channel through which the stolen goods flow, right?"
James glanced at Zach, frowned and thought, "The channel for corpses? What do you mean?"
"Whether in Coulson's mind, it was 'moved' to the warehouse, or as you already know, the body walked to the warehouse on its own." Zach looked with satisfaction at James, who was thinking again, "That's it. Like any stolen goods, they didn't just appear out of thin air. Papa Midnight, or someone recruiting in the middle, they must have known where to find those bodies."
James frowned more tightly, with a hint of impatience. Now that they were at the funeral home, Zach asked the question seriously, 'Where can I find the body?', James turned his head and said: " A place like yours."
"What are the results of Coulson's investigation?" Zach looked at James and continued to ask.
James took a deep breath and said, "The relatives and friends of those people need to be notified, and the tombs need to be opened for verification... What do you think?"
Zach could imagine that scene, which was similar to the current situation in Ford's graveyard.
"Which cemeteries did those corpses originally belong to?" Zach used 'some'.
"There are them everywhere." James shook his head and replied: "Return to your people in the cemetery in the West District."
"So what do they have in common?" Zach asked.
"Common?" James glared at Zach: "Corpse, this is what they have in common!"
"No, Detective Lance." Zach shook his head: "Their death time was not long, they were all corpses in the past two years, and their limbs were intact. I can think that these corpses were strictly selected."
James looked at Zach blankly.
"You already know that Benjamin and I fought with them. I don't want to boast, but to be able to hold us two down, the zombie's body needs to be in a state that can exert its full strength." Zach looked at James: " These corpses were carefully selected. They are strong and complete. Where can people get information about the status of the corpses?"
Perhaps it would be easier to understand in another way. Where can we have detailed physical status information and records of the time of death
"Hospital." James frowned and said two words.
Just like the work carried out by civil servant Wells, all the cemetery information is placed in front of him, and he has to spend a lot of time investigating, just to find out the few people who meet the conditions in the accumulation of the cemetery for decades, and report it to The upper level is then compensated by the city government.
These few people are like what Zak said, those carefully selected zombies.
"This is the channel for stolen goods." Zach concluded.