Like yesterday, today also started with a phone call from two people, one from a powerful figure in Barton and one from Madison. Madison can ignore it for now. The call is still going on. We can still keep up. Let’s talk about the former first.
The first call was from Mayor Anthony. It was nothing serious, just about a truant boy - Caesar didn't show up at school. "I still write him a support check every month! So I still have to discipline him." Responsibility! She (Aisela) said!!*! Doesn’t this woman know what ‘no custody’ means!!”
Zach could understand the mayor's irritation at being bothered by something like this early in the morning with a lot of work to do, but, "Oh."
"Oh shit! Is he (Caesar) at your place?!"
Caesar, who was opposite Zach, made a sealing motion towards Zach, so Zach's answer was this, "He's right in front of me, I'll send him back to Reiput."
Haha, but Zach didn't immediately send Caesar back to school with a speechless face. Madison's call came, and we just picked it up.
"I'm going to shut down part of the mill's business." Madison on the other side of the receiver seemed to have thought carefully.
Zach was quiet for a moment, "Okay." There was nothing to say. Madison's tone was not to discuss with his boss, but to inform.
"Uh... that's easy." There was a speechless mood on the other side of the receiver, "Whatever, the morgue will continue to be maintained, but the cremation room will be closed. If there are any customers who are anxious for funerals in the near future, I will transfer them to Grande. "
"Okay." Still, Madison was the notification, so...
"Uh, don't you have anything to say?" Madison looked a little impatient on the receiver.
"Uh-no." Zach shook his head into the air.
"Tsk! Let's do it then! I've written the details of the shutdown of some businesses in the work report, and Matthew will send it to you right away. Employee holidays, work adjustments, expected finances..." Halfway through, Madison felt that It makes no sense, "Well, it's all in there, you can see for yourself! Or, leave it to Louise! I don't care!"
"Okay." Zach nodded and pointed at Caesar who was about to stand up, waving his fingers to signal the truant boy not to move.
"Okay!" Madison didn't want to say goodbye to her boss properly, so she rang the phone directly.
Zach also put down the phone, crossed his hands, and then looked at Caesar properly, "Why, uh, did you skip school?"
First a shrug, then, "I'm so bored."
Zach raised his eyebrows and accepted the general answer for now, "So, you came here? If you want to visit your biological father (cemetery), it's a bit early, don't you think?"
"Well, who wants to look at him?" Caesar rolled his eyes and lifted his legs up to Zach's desk in a confident manner, "Huh, as if I don't have enough 'father' now..."
Zach moved a finger, causing Caesar's words to get stuck in mid-sentence. His whole body lost balance on the chair and rolled sideways to the ground.
"Ah!" Caesar squeaked up and glared at Zach, "You will regret it!!"
Zach shrugged indifferently and stood up, "Let's go, I'll take you back to school."
"*! I'm not going back to Repute!" Caesar actually sat back on the chair again.
The thing is like this. Last Sunday night, the mayoral candidates held a public debate. Don’t think too exaggeratedly. It was just a competition for the mayor of a city. Although the debate was broadcast by a local channel, it was quite large. It's small. The whole process is the host looking at the two phones with the speakerphone on and talking to himself to the audience outside the TV. So the next day's political commentary program was less enthusiastic about the debate than Bishop's marriage news...
But last night, the two mayoral candidates attended a charity dinner hosted by Mrs. Quinn in the West End in aid of donations from the shelter. It was no longer a hands-free phone call, the two people actually appeared in a situation, a real debate took place, and the complete picture was broadcast.
How can I put it, that picture is really not very good-looking. The result is that now in the newspaper Zak has in hand, there is only a small paragraph in the corner of the society section about the achievements of the asylum after it was taken over by the Quinn Group, and the whole page is taken up by this 'real' debate.
I won’t repeat the whole report. Let me describe the accompanying picture - Antony and Ethela in gorgeous clothes were pushed away by the security guards. In the corner of the background, Caesar in a bow tie was holding a bottle of red wine, tilting his head and looking. The 'war' between his mother and his previous stepfather.
So, the reason why Caesar is here today is not 'boring'.
"Watch the language." Zach first reminded Caesar of his upbringing, and then, "Come on, I never said I would send you back to school right away. We, well, will probably take a long detour."
Caesar's eyes lit up, and he stood up immediately, followed by Zach, "What are we going to do?! Are we going to kill someone?! Please, let us kill someone!"
Zach curled his lips and shook his head, "No, we won't kill anyone, Benjamin will be together."
"Uh..." His tone was disappointing, "Can we get rid of him?"
"No, believe it or not, I had a hard time getting him to agree to follow."
"Whatever." Caesar was like a puppy, circling back and forth around Zach. Everyone knows, well, it's the kind of excitement that is about to be taken out by the owner. "Then where are we going? What are we going to do?"
"Pai Siying, Parker Elementary School, we are going to kidnap someone."
"Wow~ Finally!" Caesar looked satisfied, "The guy who sucks sheep blood has finally grown eggs!"
Eggs, uh, you know, those two things that are always used to link someone's masculinity...
Zach still frowned, "Pay attention to the language." He shook his head, "Seriously, where did you learn such words?"
"Sissi!" Caesar raised an eyebrow, "She once described you like this, 'I knew a vampire had no soul, hum, but I didn't expect he didn't even have eggs!'..."
Zach curled his lips, and you could probably guess that this was after he clearly told Sissy that he couldn't do anything about something.
"And I completely agree!" Caesar looked at Zach provocatively, "Now! Let me look at it differently!"
Okay, such a simple wish can be easily fulfilled. Zach lifted up the circling Caesar and threw him directly from the stairs. After Caesar's unprepared scream was interrupted by Benjamin who caught him, Zach confessed to Benjamin, "Tie him up in the back seat." ."
Then Zach turned around and went to the basement first, where Louise was down there.
Last night, when Zach was struggling to lead an adventure team with no magician, no priest, and a knight with evil intentions, something happened in Grandry.
Maya was teaching Alice witchcraft while helping Louise organize the basement. This meant that witchcraft materials that looked the same were no longer stuffed into a box, but were organized according to efficacy, maintenance methods... everything Under the rules of witchcraft that Louise couldn't understand, everything belonging to Sam was sorted and stored.
At the same time, Louise also followed Zach's instructions and asked about Teacher Trisha when Maya and Alice were tidying up the basement.
Of course, since there were some things that Alice shouldn't know, Louise asked very skillfully. We're going in a big circle again, let's try to understand -
Haven't the Port of Marsa been suspending cargo ships recently? This means that many crew members like Kyle's classmate are stranded in Barton. Without friends like Kyle who dare to go directly to Fisher to question, these people are equivalent to Trapped without a job. Now that Grande's new living quarters are nearly complete, that means Grande is ready to welcome new employees. Finally, there are rumors that Barton will soon have a lot of job opportunities, and now is an opportunity for Grande to grab people's opportunities. Grande needs someone who can say something good about Grande in front of some people who are now losing their jobs. Then, wasn't Teacher Trisha's husband a worker in Port of Marsa? She at least knew some people in Port of Marsa, and needless to say, Teacher Trisha had a very good impression of Grande.
So, the topic was brought to Teacher Trisha fairly smoothly, which not only prevented Maya from worrying about her high density, but also successfully concealed the real reason for paying attention to Teacher Trisha from Alice. Then Alice took the initiative to confess the innocuous 'girl's matter' lie when she felt that it was better for her family's career.
The result is that Zach knows that Trisha is not recuperating at home because she is single and pregnant, and is still working full time at Parker Elementary School. Unless Lola and her gang of girls force Trisha to go home and take her jobs in elementary schools and day care centers on the grounds of extracurricular credits, this woman is definitely in school.
There is also a plan that Zach will go to Parker Elementary School today to kidnap this teacher who spends all his time educating people. World peace, right
Zach walked into the basement where Louise was repeating something that was a little incomprehensible.
On the right side of the stone platform in the center of the basement, an open space has been cleared here. You can vaguely see a circle of Indian mantra ritual array in the open space. The meaning of the spell was deciphered by Maya when she was cleaning up the basement yesterday. After referring to John's notes that Sam had stolen from John and then copied by Zach for the 'right reason' -
This is a castrated teleportation witchcraft. The prototype is the Papa Midnight witchcraft that teleports from the east coast of the Southern District to the Republic on the other side of the world. The point is, this is the castrated version. The witchcraft ritual array in the basement cannot be teleported over long distances. According to Maya's prediction, the furthest range of this teleportation is probably only to the borders of Herman Factory and Paisying.
What was Louise doing? Well, how to describe it? She carefully threw the paper ball into the witchcraft circle.
"Has anything been teleported?" Zach asked.
Louise shook her head and continued to throw a ball of paper. Like all the paper balls she threw before, after touching the ground, it rolled and stopped. Louise grabbed something like a fire stick, hooked the paper ball out of the witchcraft circle, and then continued to throw it away.
Zach pursed his lips, "Maybe this witchcraft doesn't work at all..."
"It does!" Louise confirmed.
reason? It was still last night, when the three people were 'chatting' and cleaning up the place, this witchcraft was activated. Nothing disappeared, but something appeared. A twisted and wrinkled thing, like a rubbed cigarette, suddenly appeared above the witchcraft formation, and then fell to the ground summoned by gravity.
Regardless of how unsettling and incomprehensible the image was at the time, it did explain how things that shouldn't be here were there.
And this 'cigarette' that shouldn't be there has now been carefully repaired by Louise with tape and placed neatly on the stone platform. And it is not alone, there are two crumpled cigarettes placed on the stone platform. The other one Zach picked up on the stairs of James' house yesterday.
Zach pursed his lips, took Louise's hand, took away the ball of paper that Louise continued to try to throw towards the witchcraft formation, and opened it. There was a sentence on it, "Sem, is that you?"
Regardless of the meaning of this sentence, Zach patted Louise and said, "Should you go up too? We are no longer closed today. You still have real work to do."
"Okay." Louise curled her lips, but still took the paper ball from Zach's hand and threw it towards the witchcraft formation for the last time. "Maybe it will disappear on its own." She shrugged and left.
You can say that Zach is an incompetent boss all you want, but at least Zach knows how to urge his 'employees' to return to work before he goes out.
Zach glanced at the paper ball in the witchcraft array and twisted his mouth. It's time for an explanation. This is actually a sign of uneasiness. No one likes to live in a home where smoke falls from the sky for no apparent reason, and this 'smoke' has been proven to be a dangerous thing that can make the owner of this home do uneasy things.
Can you think about it from Louise's point of view? She needs to know that this witchcraft circle did not teleport here for no reason something that would make Zach literally fly into the sky. So she wrote a note asking whoever passed the smoke to Grande better have a proper explanation.
Of course, the premise is that the witchcraft array can pass the note back to the person who passed the smoke.
Zach shook his head, feeling that it was time to completely move into the master bedroom on the second floor. The basement might not be suitable for living here. Not to mention Louise's uneasiness, everyone thought that Zach would sleep peacefully and would send a message at any time. What's coming to the basement? Remember that sleeping vampires are the most vulnerable!
Benjamin in the backyard had already started honking the horn impatiently, and Zach had no reason to stay in the basement anymore, so he turned around and prepared to go up.
After exiting the basement and closing the door, a dark red light rose up on the edge of the witchcraft array, loosely entangled with the paper balls in the witchcraft.
Zach held the door and blinked. I shouldn’t have blinked, I don’t know at which blinking moment it happened, the paper ball disappeared.
Zach raised his eyebrows, not sure if he was looking forward to something or not, looking at the witchcraft formation returning to normal.
"Are you coming or not?" Benjamin shouted irritably in the car, and simply didn't let go of his hand on the horn, making a harsh noise in the backyard.
Zach took one last look at the silent witchcraft formation, pursed his lips, and could no longer test Benjamin's patience. Zach closed the door and went up. (.)