Louise shouldn't have any expectations—Grande's personal relationship with the mayor wouldn't result in any of Grande's business at City Hall being expedited.
In the whole morning, Louise only met with four civil servants in total. Each of them responded after hearing Louise explain the purpose of their visit, "Uh, review of the funeral industry? Submission of information? Grande's? I didn't listen. "Say, please wait a moment, I will report it to my superiors." Then he showed up more than half an hour later and said, "Sorry, our department doesn't seem to care about this matter. You can go to Department XX and ask. Go out and turn left. I wish you a happy day. .”
At this time, Louise was sitting outside a certain office, staring at the paintings on the wall in a daze. She made a decision. After five minutes, if she still got the answer that she didn't know or asked to go to other departments, she would go directly to the mayor. office.
It doesn't take five minutes.
Louise's face darkened, she had already heard the conversation in the office -
"Finally lunch break."
"Well, there seems to be a woman outside to submit some review materials."
"See you in the afternoon..."
Louise stood up and walked to the elevator without moving her head. Go directly to the mayor on the top floor. It's time to take advantage of Grande's personal relationship with the mayor.
Louise entered the elevator. There was no one else, which was fine. Louise opened her bag, took out a metal thermos flask, and unscrewed the lid. You can guess what's in it, it's not brown sugar water, it's vampire food.
Of course, Louise would not always put a wine bottle in her bag like men, so she could only put a water bottle. Fortunately, it was common for women to carry thermos bottles and for men to carry wine bottles.
Louise frowned when she raised her head and looked at the ceiling of the elevator. She was not sure, she seemed to hear something.
Louise took a step back, put away the thermos bottle slowly, and adjusted her senses, trying to hear if there was something above her head.
This is not the first time this has happened. Every time Louise walks into a closed space or an empty corridor, she hears some abnormal noises, which are like illusions, but not unlike them, and cannot be confirmed.
Ding dong.
The elevator stopped, the door opened, and Blake stepped in. Stunned for a moment, "Louise?"
"Blake?" Louise also raised her eyebrows, and then looked around Blake, but did not see the undead Jackson.
As the elevator continued to go up, Blake also noticed Louise's movements and curled his lips, "He disappeared just now. He may have gone somewhere to play."
"I'm here." From the top of the elevator, the cyan undead floated down, looking irritated, "I didn't catch up."
"What didn't catch up?"
"I don't know." Jackson glanced at Louise, "There was a shadow-like thing on top of the elevator. I ran away as soon as I found it."
Louise's hand holding the bag tightened, but she said nothing.
"Shadow? What?" Blake asked, but he didn't seem to care much. He stared at the elevator door. Once the door opened, he didn't care what Jackson was doing. He was going to report to the mayor on today's work.
"I didn't see it clearly, but I saw a group of shadows. The elevator shaft was already dark, but it disappeared in an instant." Jackson curled his lips, "Maybe I saw it wrong, I didn't feel anything."
Blake shrugged and glanced at Louise, "By the way, are you looking for the mayor?"
Louise still didn't speak, standing in the corner of the elevator with a frown. She glanced at Blake, hesitated, and suddenly pressed the elevator button on the first floor. She shook her head at Blake to apologize for the weird silence, and then As soon as the elevator door opens, walk out immediately. I walked into the crowd of people who were also preparing to leave during their lunch break, waiting for the elevator to go downstairs.
This is vigilance.
Let's put it this way, in the morning, when Louise was coming to the North District to submit information, Zach was planning to go with her, but Ford hadn't arrived yet. But Louise refused, saying that such a trivial matter did not require company.
Zach agreed, but still told Louise to be careful because reliable information, Yuehua and the others, had already said that Mokavi had probably arrived at Barton, and that there were unidentified guys accompanying him. But the strange thing is that Mokawi did not show up at the police station to question her about the 'framed' wanted notice. This means that, for whatever reason, Mokawi and his group are covering up their whereabouts.
Zach didn't quite understand the significance of Molkawi coming to Barton at first. Corresponding to James saying that he answered Molkawi's call, Mokawi directly said that Toledo was a traitor to the Alliance. Zach was honest. responded that he didn't know what to think about the matter.
Even though theoretically speaking, Mokawi would not be Zach's enemy, but the opponent was Mokawi, a madman that Zack did not understand. Now that he was deliberately hiding his whereabouts, Zach didn't know what to think about these things. It's always better to be careful.
Louise followed the flow of people into the elevator, paying careful attention to the movements outside the square box. There was nothing, at least nothing that Louise could sense.
As the crowd left the city hall, Louise was no longer ready to submit the information. The reviewers were not in a hurry, so why was she in a hurry. Standing under the midday sun, Louise thought about where to go now.
Zach had told him that if he found anything wrong, he would return to Grande immediately. If Louise was completely obedient, there would be nothing to think about. but…
Louise turned back, looked at the city government building, pursed her lips, walked to the municipal square, and sat down on a bench. She was to watch every living thing that came in and out of the city hall.
Haha, Louise is the woman who showed off her cash cow unscrupulously on the roadside in the early spring when women in her company frequently disappeared and were tortured, with two police detectives watching on the corner. So, is it strange that she, a vampire, is sitting in the square in broad daylight, looking at the city hall in the distance
Let Louise sit here, let's look back at the interior of the city hall, still, the real interior, a place where no one should pass.
Bumi, "Uh, why didn't you remind me just now? I was almost discovered by that undead!"
Dora, "How do I remind you?" She was unhappy, "Shout, you were careless and you blame me?"
"Forget it, that woman sat down in the square." Bumi's tone was confused, "I should go and talk to her..."
"No!" Dora strangled this dangerous idea in the cradle with a gloomy expression, "We don't know her."
"But she is Toledo..."
"But we don't know her!" Dora emphasized again.
"Uh." Bumi was confused, "But I can feel that her bloodline is not low. She is probably..."
"Just because it's possible!" Dora's thinking seemed very clear, "We shouldn't contact him so rashly! Especially in the city hall, here!"
"Why?" He was confused again.
"I'm the one following the undead!" Dora said firmly, "Do you know who the person next to the undead is?"
Bumi was not ready to speak anymore, just waiting for Dora to explain.
"That's an undead spirit from hell. The person he's following is a scion of Barton's famous political family, named Blake Stone. He's now the public relations officer in the mayor's office. Use your brain!"
Bumi was quiet for a while, "You want to say that the mayor of Barton is controlled by a fallen angel?"
"I don't want to say anything, I'm just telling you the facts! The most important publicist of Mayor Barton now is a person related to the undead." There was also doubt, "And that publicist, no matter how you look at it, he is a Ordinary people, but there are traces of witchcraft on him and the undead, which should allow them to communicate with each other... "
"Wait a minute, you are saying that Barton's wizards are related to the fallen angels, and they control the city together..."
"I'm only telling the truth!" impatiently.
Xiao was silent for a moment, "I don't understand why they don't directly possess the mayor like other cities in the east, such as Newton. That mayor Anthony is still an ordinary human being."
"It's useless to ask me. Barton is already very strange. You can see possessed demons everywhere all the way from the east, but Barton, we haven't seen it yet. The only one who has anything to do with demons is this publicist." Dora paused and frowned, "Barton's power is more complicated than we imagined!"
Bumi hesitated for a moment, "I've been following that female Toledo all morning, and I also discovered something that made me uncomfortable, um..."
"explain."
"She seemed to be submitting some review information for a funeral home in Barton, but she was pushed back and forth, and no one paid attention to her. The matter was not completed all morning. Well, Dora, what do you think this means? ?”
"Funeral House?" Dora first confirmed this, and then frowned, "Toledo, at the bottom of Barton's power..." It was just a guess, and it was a very bad guess, so she automatically silenced her.
"But she seems to know the publicist and the undead you mentioned." Bumi added the obvious fact.
"But she has no intention of communicating with the undead and public relations." Dora shook her head irritably, "We have no way of knowing the relationship between them."
"Uh." Bumi pursed her lips, "I probably, maybe, um, made the female Tori a little more alert..."
"You what?!"
"Well, um, when she was alone, I wanted to touch her, knock on the wall, make some noise, and see if she noticed. Well, you know, we used to get along like this all the time. Are you kidding Zachary? He was socializing with the nobles at the banquet. We knocked the code in the ventilation duct and asked him to ask some interesting things..." Inexplicably, Bumi's pitted face showed a look of recalling the past. look.
"Why would you do such a thing?!" In this narrow passage that didn't know whether it was a ventilation duct or something, Dora waved her little arms.
"I, I don't know, I just wanted to..." Bumi shut up, "I'm sorry." Then he changed the subject, "Then what should we do now? Should we continue to pry into the city government's intelligence?"
"How to spy?" Dora twitched her lips impatiently, "Now that the publicist is with the mayor, the dead spirit is floating around there. He is already alert and will be discovered accidentally!"
"Then let's go to the square now..."
Interrupted, "No! Don't even think about contacting that female Toredo! At least not within the confines of the city government! Who knows if there will be other demons from the fallen angels around, we can't be exposed now!" Then, It sounds like we can breathe a sigh of relief, "And if Toledo is really at the bottom of Barton's power, we must be more careful. As Toledo's secret support, we must be even more careful now!"
"Then we..."
"Funeral home!" Dora made a decision, "Which funeral home does that female Toledo belong to?"
"It seems to be called Grande."
"Grand." Dora recited silently, nodded, and then looked at Bumi who was disappearing in the shadows, "Bumi, what do you want to do?"
"Go to Grande." Of course.
"Go back to the camp." Dora tugged at the corner of her mouth, "Get ready to move. Tonight is the beginning of the full moon cycle. Although Mokawi discovered that Alpha Hair's woods are to the south, we can't take risks and continue to stay in the woods. We are now facing We don’t have any idea of the size of Alpha’s group yet! Go and help the others settle in!”
"That's not fair!" Bumi retorted dissatisfied, "I want to go to Grande!"
"Well, that's a funeral home, it won't disappear suddenly! We all have to go back to the camp! Move first, make sure everyone is safe, and then go investigate the funeral home! Together!"
"Okay." He agreed helplessly, "But you are in charge of Mokavi, and I won't cause trouble for myself by persuading her to transfer."
"I'll do it!" Dora clicked her tongue, and at the same time, the two Nofils who had made a written plan began to move to leave here.
Regarding where can Nofiler go who has been transferred to avoid the full moon cycle? Well, there aren't really many choices. This is Barton, not a big city, and there are no once-abandoned underground transportation facilities to go to. But fortunately, Barton is a city by the sea. It not only relies on Martha's Bay, but also has the Charles and Paisine rivers flowing inside. Barton's sewer project is still very complete.
Better yet, have you guessed it? The junction of the North and South Districts, the Hermann Factory in the south of Paisin District. Because it is a factory, the drainage requirements allow it to have an underground route from the Paisin River to the interior. The factory is now in an abandoned stage, and Smith's project has not yet begun.
There is no need to stay in a wet sewer, and there are small water channels that lead to various parts of Barton, making it a perfect hiding place. Novelles, get ready to go there.
Let’s go back to the square in front of the city hall.
Louise shook her thermos, but it was empty. She underestimated the autumn sun at noon, and her highly divergent senses accelerated her need for food.
Louise pursed her lips, shook her head helplessly, and stood up, but still looked around vigilantly, maintaining the maximum senses. It won't last long.
With her relatively new vampire years, she was just relying on her not-so-bad bloodline. Must go back to Grande.
'Let Zach come to the city hall this afternoon. ' Louise decided in her mind, 'Zach must be better able to figure out whether someone is following her. Moreover, Zak’s words would definitely not be casually prevaricated by those civil servants. What a waste this morning was. '(.)