"I'm starting to get nervous!" said Evan in the lobby of Yuri's Hotel, tugging at his tie with a blue eye.

Like he said, his body language speaks to his emotional tension. As for the dark blue on his face, that was how old Hank told him to shut up in the morning. It happened when Zach went to vote, and we don't care about this kind of thing anyway, so we won't repeat it.

Before coming out, Zach suggested that Evan take care of the wound on his face. At least don't let the reviewers who are about to give him real freedom have a bad impression of his appearance. But Evan refuses to smear any feminine products on his face, so ......

Zach ignored Evan and didn't answer.

"They're going to let me go, right?" Evan confirmed, "now it's just a process!!!"

Zach continued to ignore Evan.

I swear if I don't get my freedom, I don't ...... you."

Zach stood up suddenly, also picked up Evan, who was still yelling, and pushed forward, "Go, the person who picked you up is here." Zach gestured to Ethella, who was walking this way.

Evan glared at Zack one last time and walked over to Ethera. Aethra motioned for the elevator and continued on to Zack, the first thing he said when he got closer was, "Are you serious, that guy still has the marks of a fight on his face." ”

"That's proof of his popularity in the Grande, your halfway house program. "See what Zach means, don't explain," so you want your halfway house to continue to exist healthily, and there is nothing scandal you don't want, give him freedom, let him go, let him leave Grande. ”

Athera chuckled, "Translate and get rid of the troublemaker as soon as possible, right~"

"Exactly. As he spoke, Zach felt in his pocket and pulled out a gift box that was extremely poorly packaged, "Yours." ”

Aethra was stunned for a moment, then took it with a smile on her face, "What generation?"

"Four generations. You will be Hamilton's daughter. "It's that easy to talk to smart people.

"Okay, a little disappointed~" Glancing at Zack, deliberately, "It's a little different from my initial expectations~" Remember, Aethra's original request was to become Torredo and be a descendant of Zach, "but ~ the result may be worse, so, I can accept this~"

"A little friendly reminder. Zach wasn't the slightest bit interested in Ethella's wink, "Lesembra's ancestor may be at Barton, and you might want to use this later." Just a reminder, when you want to join the Eternal Life Club, the decision is still up to you. Zach's words were very tactful.

Ethra raised an eyebrow, obviously a little surprised to hear the ancestor, but she didn't ask much, and now was not the time to ask—Evan was rudely yelling in the elevator, urging this side. "Thanks for the reminder, I'll pay attention. Nodding at Zack, "Aren't you going up, I've gathered a few people who are some interesting people in Barton, and you might want to meet them." ”

Another piece of evidence that Aethra didn't know what Anfen was. As Murphy commented, Aethra is a very special female character even in this era.

"Nope. Zach refused, "I've got something to do. ”

"It's not strange~" Aethra finally gave our vampire a smile and headed to the elevator.

Zack watched the elevator doors with Evan and Ethela close, then turned to leave Yuri's Hotel, heading southwest.

Judging by the simple judgment, Zach went to the North District Police Department, and in fact, Zack went to Joe's bar.

The disgusting thing about witnessing a traffic accident while leaving your home is that it happens right on your doorstep. You can pretend that you didn't go out and didn't witness anything. But alas, it's there. The tattered human body dragged a red mark on the road in front of your house.

The follow-up of the accident will not find you as you wish. For example, the police knock on your door and ask you if you know the poor guy who was hit, or the car that caused the accident.

Theoretically, both of these questions, Zach had been asked, in Grande's office. Just a minute after Zach hung up the phone, Zach received a call from Chapman. Ask Zach if it's him who just called.

Can Zach say no?

Hey, even if you don't say how simple it is for the police to get phone records, the fact that Zach had already mentioned Evan in a previous phone call. As if the name wouldn't remind Chapman of Grande's most troublesome ex-criminal!

What happens in front of your house, happens in front of your house. Take it.

As Zach travels, there is one more thing that may be said-

Zach didn't tell Evan Joe that he was dead. Why? Good question. Everyone needs to find Zach Zack before the process of Evan is about to be freed, tell Evan the 'friend' he doesn't want to see, the reason why he is really free, Joe, is dead, the reason for this. Come on~don't be shy~ huh? no? okay. I guess everyone agrees with Zach's silence.

Zach stood in front of the front door of Joe's bar and saw the last person he wanted to see - James Lance.

The detectives from the Homicide Squad are here. Got it.

"Is it so quick to characterize the case? Zach didn't prepare to go in, and asked James, who was already walking over with a gloomy face.

"He was stabbed more than a dozen times in the body!" James lowered his voice slightly, but he didn't want the busy police officers to find out that he was leaking information about the case to a civilian, "This case has been characterized from the beginning!" He impatiently glanced at the police officers who were not here to work, but just onlookers, "If these guys delay, I should take over the case as soon as possible." ”

What James meant was that when Zach called Joe, it was him, not some ordinary police officer.

"They just want to help. Zach didn't mean to defend anything — Chapman had already explained part of the situation when he called:

It was Joe's customers who found Joe dead, and the police officers who frequented the area. Years of habit had never expected any cases to happen here. So when the police, following their long-standing habit, ran to the kitchen to get food themselves, only to find Joe lying on the floor and starting to stink, they ...... It's messed up.

There is no need to question the professionalism of the police here, their chaos, it is not that they destroyed the scene or anything like that, but that the entire case acceptance procedure was disrupted. The police who have been reporting crimes have become reporters. The police officer, who has always been in charge of interviewing, interrogating, and looking for witnesses, has become an interviewee. To put it more bluntly, most of the time, people who repeat in the corners of crime scenes, 'Why is this happening!' become the police themselves.

Plus Joe's ...... identity, although he is only a civilian, he can almost be regarded as a member of the North District Police Department, he is a person who can talk to all the police, he is everyone's friend. So a lot of police officers who shouldn't have been here at all came running. All of this makes this place chaotic.

That's what James is complaining about, the redundancy of normal procedures because of the victim's particularity.

Zach's gaze began to wander aimlessly. James noticed, a little nervously and continued to lower his voice, "What are you looking at?"

"Joe......" Zach's gaze froze, "here." Then he immediately turned around and walked away from the place where there was too much sight.

James was stunned for a moment, and immediately followed.

Finding a place where there was no other line of sight, Zach stood still, "Where's Wes?" Zach asked James.

"I'm still working on the 'Xiaobai' case. ”

"Be careful. Zach was giving advice, "Although Wes started the 'Xiaobai' case before you were reinstated. "It's about the fact that the pair isn't working together right now," he said, "There's no reason for him to quit halfway, but don't let that become a reason for Darcy to give you another partner." ”

James opened his mouth, nodded, and said, "Where's Joe?

"Give him some time. Zach's gaze seemed a little far away, "He wasn't sure I saw him yet." ”

James adjusted his mood, and after waiting for a while, he saw that the focus of Zack's gaze quickly narrowed!

"Can you see me?!" Is it Joe, Groundbinding?no, he's a phantom! Colorful light under the fat body inherited from the human body, Zack wanted to rub his eyes.

"I can see you. Zach pouted, "You won't want to touch me......" Before he could finish speaking, the dazzling light disintegrated in front of Zack, and then, the trembling light slowly regrouped......

"You, what ...... are you"

Zach sighed.

James on the side looked anxious, "What?!What's going on?!Is Joe here?!Is he talking to you?!What is he talking about?!"

"Shhhh But he probably thought I could see him, as if he could touch me. So stop shouting and ask questions that you can understand with a little bit of consideration and a little bit of empathy. Give Joe a moment to understand where he stands. Zach let go of James, "Is that okay?"

James shut up with a blushing face.

This is good.

Zach looked at the phantom who was much dimmer - Joe, as Zach just said, gave the other party time to feel all this before speaking, "I am a vampire, and I have an innate restraint on the soul. And you, Joe, you understand what you are now. ”

The weak voice came from the humanoid Joe who gathered from the points of light, "Huh." It was a chuckle, "Vampires and souls." Scold. Hey......"

"It's normal to be confused. Zach glanced at James and continued to say to Joe, "You know what Detective Lance, all the cops over there, are trying to do here. "After touching Zach, the dimming point of light is re-lit by James's, hehe, desire. This is the Phantom Man. "You can feel it, right. But we can ignore that, and we don't have to worry about what the human beings want. As the only creature here that can see you, communicate with you, I, you can ask me any question. ”

We have witnessed Zack's goodness time and time again, and we should put a bold 'good guy' on Zack's head!

"Human ......" Joe was just repeating Zack's words, wasn't he, Zach said, regardless of what humans wanted, "I, what am I?" This is a question that should be asked to all of us often.

"You're a phantom. As soon as Zach answered, he pressed James as he prepared to shout again. You can understand James, Joe is not a groundbinder. Zach's answer continued, "You are a soul alien race that exists in this world by the desires of humans in this world. ”

"I, I don't understand ......"

"People want wealth, people want attractive appearances, people want happy events. Zach was explaining the phantom, "Everybody wants, but it doesn't really happen to people." "It is worth listening," to wish to have, but never to get, to become the soul mark of a part of the human soul. "There is no need to explain here that the soul imprint is a human experience," it is you, the phantom person who lives in this world. ”

"I, I ......" may be Zach's explanation, too essential, "I, I'm not real?"

"Nope. You are very real. Zach looked at Joe, "You'll understand." Now, are there any questions?"

"I, how did I become like this?"

"Yes. Zach looked at James again, in response to the question James was trying to shout, "You're dead." "It's so direct," your body can't carry your soul, so your soul ......," Zach used a rather euphemistic word, "exposed to the world." Zach found Joe's eyes in the point of light, "You've passed through a stage we call the Earth Bonders. Zach described, "You should remember that you grabbed something familiar to you, like, your corpse or something, and repeated the sight of your death, trying to understand why you died." ”

"I, I remember...... obviously not a good memory, the light was shaking, "I remember a bunch of disgusting animals suddenly appeared...... Dogs! They look like dogs! They want to attack me! I'm fighting them! I'm ......."

Zach interjected, "That's Cerberus, they're not part of your repeated deaths, they just want to drag you to hell." ”

"Uh, Cerberus...... Drag me to hell??"

"Don't take it to heart, you will understand that hell and heaven are meaningless. Zach waved his hand.

"Okay, okay, then, and then they, they left, and all of a sudden, they left!" Joe's light lit up once, "I, I want to follow them to make sure they're really gone, I'm going to leave mine, I didn't see those Cerberus, I started walking out...... Then I felt ...... Broken...... What belongs to me...... Broken...... Then, then I felt like I was disappearing...... I, I've become like this......"

Zach frowned and concluded, "Your death reappearance was interrupted by the Cerberus, but instead of doing their job and dragging you into Hell, they left abruptly, and then you chased them out of the range of your Earthbinder, so because you crossed the border, your instincts required you to continue to exist, and you became a phantom." ”

"Uh...... I, I want to ...... That's it...... bar. "Can we blame Joe for not being sure.

Zach nodded, turning to James, "You hear me, I'll leave it to you here." ”

"What are you going to do?!" James asked as he watched Zach turn away.

"Go to the fallen angels, Cerberus won't drag the soul halfway away. Unless you want Barton to have a lot of people like Joe who have become inexplicably alien souls in the future, you should let me tell the Fallen Angels about this, and let them solve the problem of Cerberus's sabotage. ”

"Ugh. James was never so easily satisfied, "What about here? What about the case? I can't see Joe! I can't ask him a question!"

"James, Joe is a phantom. Zach shook his head and walked farther and farther away, "Believe me, if he hadn't touched me just now, this case would have been solved." ”

"Oh. James blinked, and saw Zach leave.

James still has questions, for example, what if the case is solved, he can't leave Joe, who is already a phantom, here. For example, what to do if the phantom man is revealed, although this is obviously not an easy trick, but considering Joe's adventure of becoming a phantom person, the devil knows what 'miracles' he might have done in this place where the police are gathered. Like what......

But, that's what James needs to be able to solve, isn't it, he's James Lance, the future mayor, that's his job. He knew he needed to do it without Zach. From now on.