Sam quickly came back when Zach made the second call, "You can rest assured." Sam sat directly opposite Zach, meaning, 'Now you have no reason to leave me, you Whatever you do, I will follow, or, in this case, watch you call.' "Steve accepted my deal because I am a Grande." There was a pause here, not being called The Grande's pride, on the contrary, was irritation, and he preferred to be called Zach, who was more specific and more in line with his identity. "Give me a friendship discount."
Zach was in a good mood. He had wiped away the unhappiness of the past few days. Why? Anthony finally opened the door for him. From now on, Zach would officially become a member of Anthony's mayoral campaign. Of course, a member of the public. Zach no longer has to do things without being appreciated while caring about Anthony's human feelings like before.
Because of this good mood, Seth didn't seem so annoying anymore. Zach didn't mind chatting with Sam while waiting for the receiver to answer the phone. "I'm curious, how do you move so fast?"
"Which one are you referring to that is involved in Grande's witchcraft?" Seth seemed unprepared to be cared for so easily by Zach. He was a little uncomfortable and adjusted his position on the seat. "I stole it from John."
Who put Zach in a good mood, "Oh." Zach shrugged, "I guess it was the one John studied, the witchcraft of Papa's midnight move to the Republic."
But Seth raised his eyebrows, as if in a daze, "Uh... So, that's why there are a lot of preparations for witchcraft rituals in his witchcraft notebook that cannot be broken down! He himself doesn't know how this witchcraft works, he just transforms it After a while..." He curled his lips and actually said the following words, "I think I still think highly of him, that's all, huh."
Zach smiled and shook his head, not wanting to comment, and the receiver switched to the message. Zach hung up and dialed the number again, not in a hurry, "So, have you chosen a good identity with Steve?"
"Yeah." Sam didn't look too concerned, "I found a very suitable identity in Grande, but I'm not ready to give up my name. I like my name." He glanced at Zach, as if he was exploring Zach. Gram's reaction.
Zach, there was no reaction, and he even responded, "Samuel is a good name, keep it." If there was any reaction, Benjamin had already said that he, Zach, would do it himself Collect the fruit. Although this name was given by Benjamin, it can basically be said that it was given by Zach.
Sam seemed relieved, "So he needs some time to change his name." After thinking about it for a while, he said, "From now on, I will be Samuel Ximu, a funeral director from the middle of the country."
Zach raised an eyebrow, "Funeral industry?"
Sam has begun to adapt to this identity, which is a good thing, "Well, obviously, I, Samuel Ximu, used to work in the funeral industry. After cremation became popular, the income was greatly reduced, the city government cut it, and I lost my job ( Privatization and cremation are two different things. Only Massachusetts has tried privatization, and cremation is popular throughout the federation.) Looking for a place to continue to maintain the traditional funeral industry, and then..." He glanced at Zach, "I heard I went to Patton City in the east, and under the trial privatization, there is also Grande, which retains traditional funerals and is very profitable, so I came."
Zach tilted his head, "This is a..." Sincerely, "A very good background story."
Sam curled his lips, glanced at today's newspaper that was still on Zach's desk, and frowned, "Obviously when I heard about Grande, I didn't hear that Grande's owner was a 'villain'. "This is not a satire on Zach himself, this is an attempt to explain to Zach that if his backstory is what really happened, then the central 'Ximu' can hear about the good of Grande, and they can also hear about Grande." Bad host. Zach should take reports like this more seriously that are having a serious impact on his reputation.
Zach smiled and waved his hand, too lazy to say anything more, but a human voice came from the receiver and the call was connected.
"Smith."
"It's me, Zach." Zach gestured to Sam, meaning that he could listen and don't interrupt.
"Ah, Zach!" The other party looked surprised, "Was it you just now?" The call that transferred the message was not answered just now.
"Yeah." Zach had a smile on his face and leaned on the receiver, relaxing, "Isn't it a bad time now?"
"No, no, no." Smith's voice was lowered, obviously speaking to someone outside the receiver, and his tone of voice could confirm that it was not good. "I think we are done talking, please." Then he turned back to the phone, He returned to the smile he only had for Zach, "I was talking about something with Liszt, and I'm finishing it now."
Zach raised his eyebrows with a smile, "Lister, haha, it's not that I have any class prejudices, but haha, do all the people in the West End start working so early?" Zach was playing Smith Manor, Smith's Personal call, because it's not working hours yet, it's not yet nine o'clock.
"Humph." Smith smiled a little strangely, "Outside of work, someone needs to come to me to talk about something outside of my working hours." That was a conversation off the table. Smith probably just said this out of emotion. , immediately returned to his normal tone, "You rarely call me. Is there something wrong?" With a smile, "It won't be about today's newspaper..." He replaced the next words with a smile.
It seems that everyone has read the newspaper.
"Uh." Zach said in a helpless tone, "Don't mention the newspaper." He immediately got to the point, "Smith, can I ask you a little question?"
"Of course." Very simply. It had to be, Zach saved the Smith family twice, didn't he, once with the tape and once with the reappearance of 'Valmina'.
"Has Ethela ever tried to win over you and compete with Anthony?" Zach asked very directly.
There was actually silence on the other side of the receiver. Zach didn't have any unnecessary reaction. He already knew enough about Smith that Smith was not someone who hesitated at all, so he didn't need to think too much and just waited quietly.
"Sorry." After a while, there was a voice from the receiver. Helplessly, along with the sound of cups clinking, it should be pouring wine or coffee or something like that. "I've been seeing some inexplicable things recently, uh, I I just saw a butterfly fly past me, eh."
"There are no butterflies this season." Zach chatted with a smile. What he didn't say was that there were no wild butterflies, but there were domestic ones. The Smith Manor did raise one, Eve. Inexplicably, Rimmer was very fond of butterflies, regardless of the season.
"I know." The voice of swallowing added helplessness, "I guess I'm just a little stressed recently, because Lydia, uh, her husband... uh. I need to see my psychiatrist." This helplessness is very real. , Zach wanted to reach into the receiver and give poor Smith a pat.
"Sorry to interrupt, did you just ask?" Smith regained his composure, but he didn't even pay attention to Zach's question just now.
"Has Ethela ever tried to win over you to compete with Anthony?"
"Yes." After regaining his composure, he answered very simply, "But of course, I refused without giving her a chance to propose anything." After a short pause, he said with an analytical tone, "And, I think, She came to me out of support for etiquette. She should know that it is impossible for me, who cooperates with Quinn to promote the legalization of sex among veterans, to transfer my support to Anthony and support her. Hmm, what can she give me."
Look, is Smith a hesitant person? No, the order is clear and clear, and it is impossible to hesitate about things.
"So, Falcon and Fisher, or Bishop, are there any?"
"Bishop?" After a brief thought, it was probably the three last names that Zach named, which were more attractive. "You mean, the Bishop now, uh, or well, the Bishop before all the tragedies happened. .”
The current Bishop is useless, but it is worth mentioning that Smith was the second phone call Zach made. The first one was Bishop, telling the charming demon Riley and also telling the evil spirit Shel something.
"Before." Zach made it clear.
"They did look for me, not Sher, but the old Bishops." Smith probably felt that Zach was sorting out something, "Zach, are you investigating something?"
"Yeah," Zack admitted straight away, "Something bad."
There was silence on the other side of the receiver. Smith didn't ask what it was. Of course, if he asked Zach to investigate something, he wouldn't want just anyone to ask Zach. Zach answered honestly, so he simply didn't ask and continued. Answering Zach's question, "But Bishop didn't say what he was going to do at that time. He only said that it might use my, um, private industry's federal shipping channels. You should know that I have a regular cooperation with Fisher. Channel, half of my goods go out through the Port of Marsa and enter the central and western parts of the federation.”
Zach nodded, "Why isn't Fisher talking to you about this but the older generation Bishop?"
The receiver let out a sigh of relief, "You know the Bishop family, you should know that the real person in power now, uh, sorry, the contemporary of the Bishop family at that time was Sher. Although Sher was just Bishop's spouse, But..." The other side of the receiver sighed, "I don't want to say anything bad about Bishop, who grew up together, but everyone knows that the Bishop family is divided because of Bishop's inability to balance his parents and wife. It’s very big. And we, the second generation who are currently in power in the West End, when we have to deal with work and affairs, we don’t turn to Bishop, we turn to Schell.”
Zach actually nodded here. This is good. In the future, we should find the charming Riley. Of course, we can't say this, "So it was old Bishop who tried to bypass Sher and help you and Fisher as an elder." Pressure.”
"Yes." Smith confirmed, "And you attended Herman's luncheon, and you also saw that Sher was on Anthony's side, and old Bishop continued to try to unite their generation and try to fight against We, the second generation, exert pressure.”
"But they failed."
Still affirmative, "Yes, Mrs. Barton doesn't care. Mrs. Quinn, the only one who is still in power in the family, haha, was saved by you." Isn't that right? Recalling the situation at that time, Zach took Mrs. Quinn away to chat.
Zach also smiled, "What about Fisher and Falcon?"
"Uh... you don't know?" Smith's tone was a little confused, "I thought you knew."
"what do you know?"
"Let me think about it, um -" a brief memory and organizational words, "it seems to be the visit to Marsa Port at Parker Elementary School, when Laura and Kepler took the elementary school students to visit Marsa Port."
Zach looked like he was reminiscing. He remembered that when Benjamin and Eve met, they randomly saved a few dockworkers who might have died in an accident, disrupting Fisher's opportunity to fire Sadier Security Company, and giving the law to the law. Irken's Aix security opened the way. Later, Fisher asked his son Zeddy's driver to go into action again, which led to the Kraken incident.
At the same time, Zach also remembered that after returning from that visit, Benjamin mentioned that Laura and the others met three adults, Smith, Fisher and Falcon, who were talking about things in Port Massa. Falcon's siblings were also taken home early.
Zach raised his eyebrows and asked further, "What do they want you to do?"
"Same thing, use my freight channel." Smith's tone was not very good, "But at that time, I was busy with the things at the shelter, and I felt that it was not something I should be involved in, so I refused. , and asked them not to tell me anything I didn’t need to, and Falcon wasn’t too happy.”
"You're smart, Smith, and you don't want to get involved." Zach said into the receiver very sincerely.
"Then..." Smith trailed off, "Fisher and Falcon, are they in trouble now?" Smith was really good, and still bypassed what Zach was investigating and directly asked his peers.
Zach thought for a moment, "Falcon, no. Fisher, yes."
Smith mentioned the newspaper that Zach had just asked not to mention. "In today's newspaper, there was a report that two of his freighters were suspended. Is this related to this matter?" Without waiting for Zach to answer, "I You should ask him, maybe I can help..."
"No, Smith." Zach shook his head at the air here, "You already have enough things on your hands, you don't need one more thing."
Smith on the other side of the receiver was silent for a while, "Just tell me, where do you and Grande stand now?"
"Hahaha." Zach smiled, "After you have told so many things, do you think of confirming Grande's position now?" This was not a prelude to an immediate fallout, but, "Don't worry, I don't trust you with this." Will live up to it.”
The person on the other side of the receiver smiled, but nodded a little seriously, "Don't let anything happen to Fisher, we need another 'Bishop' to appear."
"No." Zach also became a little more serious, "I promise." He added abruptly, "What can I count on, that you won't listen to anything Liszt says?"
The receiver was stunned for a moment, and then said, "No need for any hope, I don't like that person."
"Good. I should probably stop disturbing you. Goodbye."
"Uh... ok, bye."
Pressing hang up, Zach began to dial the third number, which was Falcon's number. And let me tell you, after Falcon, there will be Aesera.
"What are you doing?" Sam frowned and said, "Tell me." This is the wizard asking the person he serves to explain to himself.
"Get ready." Zach glanced at Sam and continued dialing.
"Uh, what are you preparing for? You just asked a bunch of questions and said some weird things." Sam pursed his lips.
Zach shrugged, "Someone hopes that there will be problems within Barton, so that some families will disappear and their own power will be strengthened. So, what I have to do is to reverse everything."
"Just make a few phone calls." Sam pursed his lips.
"Yes, by making a few phone calls, we can put the ideas that should appear in their minds." Zach nodded.
"What do you think?" Sam still couldn't follow. Probably no one is following.
"A certain 'someone' got their West End people into trouble. It's time for the West End people to recognize that 'someone' and then make that 'someone' pay the price." Zach tilted his head, and Falcon answered the phone very quickly.
"Falken."
"It's me, Zach." Zach gave Seth another don't disturb look.
"Oh! Zach." The other party said teasingly. Zach had never taken the initiative to find Falcon. After all, the commission Falcon had given Zach was the most 'gentle'. "Is something wrong?"
If there was nothing worth interrupting, Zach would start with, "Can I ask you a little question, Falcon."
"Uh, okay. What's the problem?"
"Has Ethela ever tried to win over you to compete with Anthony?"
“…”
Don’t jump to conclusions now—Zach said that the ‘person’ who needs to be known to people in the West End is Ethela, because at the end of the phone call, Zac will use “I can count on you not to listen to Liszt.” Did you say anything?" ends. (.)