Beautiful, beautiful day.
It started with the morning announcement on the radio, "Good morning, citizens of Barton, are you ready for the first day of the workday?"
"Ready!" Austin replied to the radio, "Step on the accelerator and go! Work and make money!" He gave the order with full heart.
So the construction team drove towards Grande.
For civilians, there is no better place to start than this, go to work and make money. It's a great day.
"Mr. Grande!" Austin loves his employer at all times, "Good morning! We are here!" Of course, the employer is the financial backer.
"kindness."
The employer is a little cold, that's okay, Austin is already used to Grande's master's attitude. Mr. Grande is a great employer, and that's not flattery, it's true, he doesn't give a shit about anything—
"What? The distance is not enough, you want to redo this corridor?" This is a review of the last cooperation experience (Grande decoration), "Did you tell Louise? Did she agree? Yes, just agree. do it."
"You found defective wood?" It was still the review from last time, "Old Hank has a supplier... You have your own supplier, can the price be cheaper? Whatever. As long as it can be finished this afternoon, I don't care."
…
As long as the goal is clear, this employer, Mr. Zachary Grande, doesn't care about any process. Of course, as long as nothing irreparable happens, like the elevator falling and scaring a bunch of West End kids.
Therefore, it can be said that although he did not make a penny when he cooperated with Grande last time, Austin likes Grande's attitude in employing people very much.
"Mr. Grande, this is the staff member of this project. Let me introduce to you..."
"No need." The employer remained indifferent, "Your workplace is over there." He pointed to the south side, the land that had been enclosed next to the warehouse, and waved his hand, "You have a house to build, don't waste your time here, go , do your job. You hope I can pay you this time, right?"
Look, Austin couldn't love this attitude more, "Yes! Sir! Everyone heard what the boss said, get moving!"
Does Austin need to act like he's working hard? Yes, but he won't do anything himself. He directed his workers, holding drawings and talking about irrelevant things. His main focus is on the north side, in the direction of Grande.
Very well, the owner of Grande had no intention of supervising the work. He stood on the back porch facing the warehouse on the west side (Benjamin's warehouse) in a daze for a while, and then entered the house.
Could it be better? Couldn't be more at ease. Construction was being carried out at the employer's home, and no one at the owner's home was supervising Austin and the others.
No, there was one, a Great Dane that occasionally passed by.
Under normal circumstances, it would be troublesome for a construction owner to have a dog, but Austin already knows Grande's stupid dog very well. As long as you don't try to touch it, even if you smash a hole in the floor, It won't even bark. Even if everyone is lazy, chatting and telling some bad gossip about the owner of the house, such as when Zach was kidnapped by James during the last renovation, he will still wag his tail next to him.
I wish this day, no, this entire construction period, could be so relaxing and comfortable. God knows, in this time's design, Austin didn't have anything like a lift. There will definitely not be any trouble, unless, well, unless, haha, the nearby warehouse collapses.
Austin was not too surprised when the luxury car drove into Grande's backyard. Grande was the symbol of Barton's current funeral industry, so any car coming would not be surprising. What was unexpected was the person who got out of the car, Porky Quinn. This guy has been in the newspapers a few times this year.
Austin watched with interest as Pochi seemed to be familiar with Grande and entered the house without anyone greeting him.
"Hey, you guys know who that guy is? Porky Queen!"
It’s time to be lazy, let’s start gossiping.
"Oh! I remember him! The one who was imprisoned in the sanatorium?"
"When was your news? Can you please release it!"
"Yes. Which one of you still remembers how he was imprisoned? I remember it was old Quinn and his wife at the beginning of the year. But, hey! In the blink of an eye, Mrs. Quinn recovered and this kid went in!"
"By the way, is Mr. Quinn buried in Grande?"
"Yes! This is it! The first traditional burial after the privatization of funerals. I remember the news!"
"What do you think of this Quinn family? Is there something special about that? You see, the old man died and his grandson was admitted to a mental hospital, leaving a woman outside. I remember that during that time, Mrs. Quinn was admitted to the mental hospital. So many interviews…”
Well, while the workers were gossiping, a stupid dog was shaking its butt happily.
"Quiet, quiet! Work! Come out!" Austin's main job is to pay attention to Grande, so he ended the lazy chat in time, and with a smile on his face, he trotted across the backyard to meet the people who came out. Grande’s host Zach and guest Poch, as well as Louise following behind them.
"Yo! Mr. Grande!"
Although it was strange that Mr. Grande's skin, which he hadn't seen for a while, had improved a little and was rosy, but Austin didn't care about this. He watched Master Grande, who still didn't want to pay attention to him, get into Porch's car, " Gotta go out!”
"Yeah, I'll leave this place to you and Louise..."
ha! Austin almost completely guessed what the Master of Grande said, and looked at Louise who followed him with a smile.
"… Hopefully nothing collapsed when I come back."
"Hahaha! How could it be possible! Come on, Miss Louise, look, the workers and materials we have prepared this time are..."
Austin was interrupted. Danny, who appeared from nowhere, got into the car. A strange woman, who also appeared from nowhere, also got in the car. She also said, "What! I'm curious and want to see it." Look, can’t it?” (Mo)
Uh, where were these two guys just now? Austin was sure he didn't see these two people coming out, uh, forget it.
Austin curled his lips instinctively, "Miss Louise..."
There were interruptions. Because the stupid dog that was just wagging its butt on the construction site came running behind him. It jumped into the passenger seat and stared at Porky.
With just a moment of brain twitching, Austin felt that the stupid dog understood the gossip just now and wanted to 'see' the secret of the Quinn people from Pochi's face.
This is a stupid idea. Austin shook his head, probably because he drank too much coffee, "Haha, Miss Louise, Mr. Grande is very busy." Looking at the car driving out, Austin had forgotten I had no idea what to say to Louise.
Louise looked at the car disappearing into the backyard and said simply, "Yeah."
Well, Miss Louise, who has always been very talkative, seems to be in a bad mood.
Then I won’t bother you, “Haha, I’ll go and get busy.”
"Yeah." Louise was still looking at the exit of the backyard with a sad look on her face.
"Well, Miss Louise, when we start laying the foundation later, it will be very noisy."
"kindness."
Austin shrugged, he was very satisfied with the answer, no, it was a fluke.
Grande is truly the best. With a relaxed and comfortable working atmosphere, coupled with the casual gossip material, what more could you ask for
Before long, Louise was sitting on the back porch in a daze with confusion on her face.
Austin avoided the flat ground that had been marked with various locations, glanced at Louise on the back porch, then pressed on his safety helmet and earplugs, and waved the small flag in his hand.
boom!
Huge wooden stakes drove into the earth. A layer of dust floated on all surfaces in Grande that were in contact with the air—the floor, walls, and roofs.
Austin shook his head and glanced at Louise on the back porch again.
Well, the only person overseeing the work here in Grande is still like a stone sculpture, sitting there motionless without any reaction.
Grande went from a perfect place to work to a magical place to work. Austin waved the command flag in his hand with a smile on his face and directed the workers to continue.
"Hey, boss!" The worker operating the pile driver stuck his head out and shouted, "Did you hear something?"
Austin temporarily put down the flag in his hand and removed his earbuds, "What did you say?"
"I said, did you hear anything?" The worker pointed to the warehouse next to them.
Austin curled his lips, glanced at it, and shouted back, "I didn't hear anything." Of course he didn't hear anything, and he hid far away, "Don't worry about anything else, continue."
"Oh! Keep going!" The worker retracted his head and operated the pile driver again.
boom!
The floating dust is again shaken off the surface to which it adheres.
The worker stuck his head out again, "Boss! I definitely heard something! It's over there!" Still pointing at the warehouse.
Austin pursed his lips as the other workers began to nod in agreement, "There was definitely a sound inside the warehouse. Do you want to remind Miss Louise that there are no valuables in this warehouse?"
Austin thought for a moment, waved his hand, and decided to ask Louise. There will be no valuables. Austin knows what is stored in the warehouse in Grande, some second-hand sundries and stones from Grande in the West District. Just a reminder, it's not good if the vibrating stone rolls and hits something.
Austin walked around the construction site and was stunned for a moment. There were two strangers beside Miss Louise, a hooded man and a, uh, girl. He instinctively said, "Hey, when did these two people show up?"
"I don't know, it wasn't there just now."
"Uh, never mind." Austin shook his head, took a deep breath, pointed to the warehouse, put a professional smile on his face to treat his employer, everything was ready, "Lu..."
On this beautiful day, the weirdest thing happened.
Grande’s back porch began to twist. No, the back porch isn’t distorted, it’s the shadows that are distorted.
The shadows cast by the sunlight from the east, of people, benches, and awnings on the back porch... are like floating dust whose reflection arc is too slow, rising from the surface of the objects they are attached to.
But instead of slowly falling back like floating dust, they twisted and wrapped around the hooded man.
"...Miss Yisi." Austin couldn't even hear what he was saying.
"Is there anything in the warehouse?" A cold voice pressed against the side of Austin's face. Austin turned his head stiffly. He felt the air he exhaled being bounced back, but there was nothing beside him. of open space. Yes, the clearing, and his own shadow disappeared.
There was no time to give any answer to the unknown question.
The ground seemed to twist, and Austin's shadow was smashed back to the ground as if it had been discarded, unfolded again, and connected back to the soles of his feet. The dust that was raised for no reason spread from the ground around him as if it had been trampled at an extremely fast speed.
As if in the blink of an eye, the warehouse door opened a crack.
Austin turned his head not knowing what to think and looked at the back porch. He saw two pairs of red eyes.
"In the warehouse!" It was Louise who held down the little girl who was looking around, "Eve, Georgina is in the warehouse!"
Two pairs of red eyes looked past Austin and towards the warehouse.
Still not knowing what to think, Austin turned his head and looked at the warehouse.
The messy and trivial collision sounds clearly came from the warehouse.
Austin's thinking became clear for the first time, 'There is really something in the warehouse. '
The sound of wood breaking suddenly appeared on the side wall of the warehouse, accompanied by splinters of wood and stones flying out. The shadow was pulled by the eastern sun and cast diagonally all the way.
Inexplicably, Austin felt like he knew what to look at—those splashes and trivial debris, the creations and shadows that blocked the sunlight.
Sure enough, Austin saw it. The shadow dispersed at a certain moment. It was probably not intentional. Austin saw two people wrapped in the shadow. One is catching and restraining the scattered shadows, and the other is desperately trying to shrink his body behind the shadow...
Austin felt like he saw ten thousand frames at this moment, ten thousand frames of scenes that he could not understand at all. Very good, the next moment, it is understandable.
The red flames erupted after countless flying debris lost their shadows, turned into fireballs in the air, and fell towards his construction site.
"It's on fire! Put out the fire!" Austin instinctively shouted out the solution to this only situation he could understand.
He was wrong.
"Don't come close!"
The flames that hit the ground began to spread.
The overalls that were slapped at the struggling fireball, the water jets that were shot at the fireball, the rising sand... everything that was contaminated was ignited.
Austin felt that the air in his lungs had been emptied because he was flying up, at least he felt like he was flying up. Everything in his vision became blurry. When it became clear again, he was already standing outside the Grand. On the dirt road, and the number of people around him is increasing, his workers.
Faintly, in the west, blocked by the Grande buildings, the flames were still glowing red.
"The last one!" The little girl whose body was wrapped in red thin threads spoke angrily after leaving the last worker behind, "Where is Bumi!"
"I'm here." The floating worker was put down, and the shadow that had been taken away at some point returned to everyone's feet, and the hooded man revealed his figure.
"What did you do!" Louise, the only person Austin knew, appeared like an afterimage, holding black and gray powder in her hands, "You killed Georgina! She is James's..."
"Calm down Louise!" The redness on the girl's body is fading, but her eyes are still red. "I want to ask a question! Answer it carefully! Does anyone know that Georgina will die?!"
"Eve..."
"answer me!"
"No..." The dust in Louise's hand was blown away by the wind, her voice trembling, "Georgina always stays in the warehouse, Maya and Alice have never 'seen' it."
"Very good!" The girl looked at the hooded man, "For the sake of your friendship with Novel and Toledo, Zach doesn't need to know!"
"Why does this Sabbat Toledo affect Zach and me..."
"Shut up Bumi! You don't know anything!" The girl turned around and looked at Austin with her red eyes, "Louise, Bumi and I can only help you restore Grande's warehouse now. These people , we can’t help it, you know what you have to do.”
The Charming Eyes of Toledo are the strongest.
Austin finally had a chance to speak, "Lu, Miss Louise, what just happened? You, what are you going to do..."
The world turns red, with trembling narration.
"Nothing happened. Today, everything is wonderful..." (.)