At dinner time, the girl downstairs was eating dinner, and Wes was too. Zach and Louise were upstairs watching TV, and it was worth mentioning that the content they watched was an instructional program — bilingual teaching in republican and federal. It seems that under the reality that there are more and more Republicans in Patton, Barton's local television station has put up practical programs.

I don't have too much in-depth content, and the content of the daily teaching is basically full of friendly atmosphere, such as "Hello, how are you doing today, do you like this?"

"Is James coming back?" it was Wes, holding dinner, standing at the door of the recreation room.

"He said to make you wait. I just don't know, Zach looked at Wes, "There are quite a lot of Republicans in the West, is there such a show in the West? ”

Wes glanced at the screen, "No. Obviously, he didn't care much about this kind of problem, but it seemed that he didn't have much choice, so he walked in with a dinner plate and sat down on the sofa, "Many people in the west came there during the gold rush, they have lived in the west for many generations, they don't need this kind of ......" and then glanced at the phrase taught on TV, "Elementary course." ”

"Oh. Zach raised an eyebrow, "You mentioned that you had a comrade-in-arms and told the legend of outsiders. Zach gestured to Louise, "I bet on the history of the West, there are many non-Confederate races that have been passed down through generations in the West, right?" ”

"Who doesn't love gold?" Wess pouted.

"Barton and the West, where do you prefer?" Zach asked again. It's probably a good question for Wes, after all, we know that Wes is an orphan, and in terms of belonging, he doesn't have the origin of our entanglement.

Wes frowned and thought for a long time before replying, "I don't like it." Looking at Zach, "Do you know that in the northwest of the Union, across the border, within the limits of the northern country, there is a little village called, 'Kangkang', I like it there?" ”

Louise tilted her head, "Strange name." ”

Zach tilted his head and thought, "No, I don't know that place. Why do you like that place?"

"I was stationed there for a year when I was in the army. Wess fell into memory mode, "It was a quiet year, no one died, no one was hurt, and the villagers didn't welcome us but didn't bother us. ”

"Then what are you doing there?" Zach blinked, and the fact that the Federation's troops were stationed in the Northland was really a bit curious~

"I ......," Wes frowned, "I don't know." Then he looked at Zach, "Even if I knew, I wouldn't have been able to tell you." Pouting, "I probably shouldn't have told you that I was stationed there, and if you look at my file, it must be blacked out." Picking up two bites of food, returning to the original topic, "If James doesn't come back, I'll wait?"

"You can wait at James's house, and if James comes back here, I'll call you. ”

"Well, I don't like that Miss Liszt. Wes pouted, "I don't think James will go back there." ”

"Why?" Louise asked.

"James is not the type of person who can comfortably co-live with another woman when his girlfriend is in unknown danger. Wess replied, "I think." Shaking his head, "Forget it, I'm going home." "It just so happened that the contents of the dinner plate were also finished, and he stood up, "I will put the information he needs to fill in here in the police station, and let him come back and take a look." His vacation, well, Director Darcy didn't say it explicitly, but it probably meant that James would get fit and go back to work, and I'd come back to see him tomorrow. ”

Zach nodded, ready to send Wes out.

At the door, I bumped into Alice who came up. Zach thought that Alice and Maya were going back to the room to prepare for the evening's trip, but the two girls went directly into the entertainment room and asked Louise what was on the TV.

Zach motioned for Wes to wait, "You guys didn't move at night?"

"Nope. Alice was a little disappointed, "Kepler is grounded, and so are Lola and Kyle. "Glancing at Zach helplessly," Mrs. Barton came home and asked Lola and Kyle to stay with her every night and not go out. ”

"Oh. Zach didn't have anything to say about it, and continued to send Wes.

Downstairs, standing on the back porch, Wes unlocked his bike, "I'm still worried about James, he's a little, well, different. ”

Zach helped Wes unload his helmet and handed it over, smiling, "Relax, he's normal." I've already told you that his anomaly was because Dale possessed him. ”

Although Dale wore a helmet, it did not affect his emotions to be transmitted to Zach through the helmet, "That's what I mean, you and I know how much James hated aliens in the past. He couldn't have allowed a groundbound spirit to possess him before, no matter what it was for!"

Zach raised an eyebrow, and there was some truth to Wes's words. But it can also be interpreted as, "He just wanted to prove to me that I ruined Dale and brought the evidence to me." If you think about it this way, it's very Jamesian. ”

Wes stepped onto the motorcycle, his face in the helmet a little speechless, a little agreeing, and a little ...... Annoyance, "Still, I'm worried about him." His father's organ transplant, Dale, and now Kate......" Wes shook his head irritably, "The things that happened to him one after another, and none of them were good, I can't even imagine what was going on in his head!"

Zach looked at Wes, based on the helmet's barrier, Zach's measurement was less than half effective, "Tell me the truth." The corners of Zach's mouth curled, "Don't be shy, do you like James?"

I mean...... Where are the facts, right, put together, it's a very logical question.

"What?!no!" Wes reacted unexpectedly, "Why would you ask such a question?!, I have a stomachache!"

Zach blinked and looked at Wes, "I really can't tell if you're dodging or genuinely uncomfortable right now. ”

"Uh, it's uncomfortable!" Wes replied, and deliberately took off his helmet so that Zach could see his expression completely, "Listen, I don't like James, he's not my type!and......" Speechlessly, the corners of his mouth tugged at the corners of his mouth, "I probably shouldn't have said that, but, you can imagine standing in my place." My comrades-in-arms are dying all the time, and if I weren't James' friend, I'd die too! And I'm an orphan, and after I die, the military won't have to make up a reason to comfort my non-existent family! I'm simply dying, in the midst of a military operation that is destined to be blacked out on my file!"

Zach frowned, "So you're saying that being friends with James is purposeful, for you. ”

Wes opened his mouth, probably instinctively rejecting the conclusion, but ......, "Yes! It's purposeful! It's strange that I found the vampire who was protecting James by his side, Naynard Tsmich! I forced me to be friends with James! for my own survival purposes!"

Zach nodded and kept smiling, "I see, there's actually no difference between you and Dale." ”

Wes stared at Zach for a long moment, then suddenly tilted his head, "Yes, you're right." The tone was also inexplicably calm, "James is just a 'talisman' that we can use. Shaking his head, he glanced at Zach and brought back his helmet, "James's father has seen everything clearly. ”

That's right, wasn't this 'talisman' the first thing General Lance said.

"I'm sorry. Zach was sincerely sorry, at first he asked that question, he really just wanted to gossip, and now, as if revealing something unusually heavy, "But you should be proud, although the purpose is the same, but the approach you and Dale use to achieve the goal is very different." At least you don't want to hurt James. ”

Wes didn't respond to the obvious comforting words, just waved his hand, started the motorcycle hard, and drove away.

Zach stood on the back porch for a while, blaming himself for not enough, and exploring the root of human behavior is science. Hehe, at least Emilia, the psychiatrist, will approve of Zach.

Zach was standing on the back porch because of the gaze that came from a window in the living quarters, Evan's.

"You, no, his, type!" Zach shouted into the living quarters. There's no reason, there's no basis, Zach just wants to shout out-tease-play-down Evan. Bad taste.

Evan disappeared behind the window.

Zach shrugged his shoulders and went back to the second floor, and instead of going back to the entertainment room to watch TV, he went into the office. Wes left a lot of police information to make up for James.

As a civilian, Zack shouldn't be watching these things, but, if Zack wants to see it, who can stop it~

The information has been classified, and at the top is the miscellaneous cases handled by the police in the past month - ordinary illegal acts, such as brawls, thefts, and destruction of public property. Zach can understand that this is due to Wes's intimacy, and first use this little thing to make James easily return to work.

Then there is the material that was marked with a sealed mark - a self-explosion case that the police covert in the past month.

James has admitted that this is shady, so let's stop fantasizing. Most of the information that Zach went through was a police cover up at the scene of the self-explosion, and only a small part was that the police prevented the incident before the explosion died.

It is worth noting that in these cases, the police hired a civilian adviser to be involved throughout the process. Someone we know.

Who, recall, got Zach out of the cyclic time of soul expansion? Yes, Walter.

It's also not surprising that James reached out to Walter for help. After all, during the noon conversation, James was very determined to end the self-detonation incident. And the time loop caused by the self-explosion is an inevitable difficulty for the police, and James already knows the solution, doesn't he?

In Dale's fifteen-day diary, and in the month since Zach left Patton, Walter probably made a fortune by rescuing civilians and police officers from the time loop. Considering the amnesia effect of the time loop, Walter probably made this money with peace of mind.

It's also worth noting that Zach saw Madison in some of the live photos. A vague figure, holding a black cat, just passing by the scene.

Eliminate the soul fragments created by soul expansion and completely stop the occurrence of the time loop, one of the ways we know now is Mokawi's blood, and the other is the black cat that happened in the community college night school self-explosion case.

Looking at these photos, Zach naturally thinks that the guy who completely helped the police finish up these incidents is the latter. Hehe, Madison, it's good to know that this guy has found himself a new hobby in addition to recording.

But we know that Zack, when it comes to a certain cat lady, he avoids it. The god that our vampires are willing to be forced to face, one more is enough for Pappa Midnight, and one more? Zach doesn't want to accept this 'blessing'.

Zach began to flip through the materials that Wes had placed at the bottom.

"Is there anything interesting?" is Alice. It's weird. Normally, if Zach is in the office and someone intervenes, that person will be Louise.

"Nothing. Zach smiled, "Just some reports from the police." Zach won't let Alice out, and the brother-sister relationship that has finally warmed up, Zach should cherish it.

"Is there a case about Becky's secret trading club?" Alice walked over to Zach and pursed her lips, "The reason Kepler was grounded was because his father, Mr. Smith, found something there and forbade her to run around at night. ”

Zach glanced at Alice, "I'm sorry. "I don't know why Zach is sorry? here—" I suggested that Kepler investigate that place through family connections, suggesting that she find Eve, not Mr. Smith. ”

"I don't blame you. Alice rolled her eyes, "She's talking to Eve, but Eve is just a, uh, exemplary junior high school student." Alice told a joke, "If Kepler's question is 11 p.m. for high school students and 8 p.m. for Eve." Hehe, I guess there is a loss to be a model child~"

Zach smiled, understood, Eve had limited mobility. There is nothing to lose from a model child, it is the child who has a loss. There are some things that only adults can do.

Alice continued, "Lydia took some of Remer to find out. "It's helpless again," Lydia still doesn't have any real power in the Smith family, although Mr. Smith gave Lydia an interface in some aspects, but ...... "waved his hand, didn't say anything, after all, it was a bit arrogant," Lydia, who has some clues, still needs to find Mr. Smith to advance the investigation. And then. "Alice spreads her hands," Lydia accidentally said, accidentally saying that the beginning was actually discovered by Kepler. And then, grounded, poor Kepler. ”

"Okay. Zach flipped through the information in his hand and raised an eyebrow, "There really is a case in this regard." Seeing Alice reach for the information in front of Zach in surprise, Zach frowned, but did not speak.

Alice's hands pinched the edge of the document, paused, and looked at Zach, "I shouldn't be looking at this, am I." ”

Zach nodded, but still didn't speak—

You can feel it, Mr. Smith grounded Kepler when he found out that Kepler might be in danger. And is Zach here going to condone Alice to look at the police file? Well, not conniving, just not stopping. But in the end, it doesn't work. Having said that, it is back, and the brother and sister relationship that has just warmed up......

Alice's hand retracted, "I still won't look at it." A smile at Zack, "You read it and tell me~"

Zach breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Alice for her realization, which allowed Zach to avoid a difficult choice.

Ten minutes later, "two people died. The police are also checking the identity of the deceased. "Zach finished reading.

"Do you have a picture?" asked Alice.

Zach picked up the two photos, hesitated, and showed them to Alice.

Alice wrinkled and pointed to the left, "This is the man who killed Caesar, this man is the man who killed Capler and Jimmy." ”

Zach put down the photo, and he understood what Alice meant - neither Caesar nor Kepler were dead, it was just a 'death picture' seen by the banshee that night, and it didn't really happen.

That," so, the two deceased were not victims. ”

"They are not victims. Alice replied very firmly.