Chapter 7: The Tramp
These days, the House of Grande is inundated with trivialities. The construction of abandoned mills and the purchase of cremation facilities also had to consider the recruitment of new employees. Although Zach never did it himself, he lost it to Madison, but Madison, who had just entered the Grande House, was still in the process of carefully grasping the boss's temperament, and he would still ask Zack honestly about the things that needed to be decided. I have to say that it was at this time that I developed the habit of asking him questions......
To Zack's surprise, the Grande House seemed to be on fire, thanks to a report in the Barton Daily on Monday about 'traditional funerals'. Of course, this kind of reporting on social phenomena and then inviting people from all walks of life to express their opinions has no practical significance for the thing itself. Obviously, the reporters didn't dig out any 'conspiracy', and then came up with such an article, which they wanted to use to test the waters and see where public opinion went, which is the so-called 'fishing'.
When it was discovered that a large number of people had begun to book the cemetery of the Grande House, the Barton Daily devoted a great deal of space to praising Mayor Barton for defending the 'right to choose' for the citizens, Balabala......
Occupied by trivialities, Zach ignored James and hadn't called for a few days.
After the Shapeshifter incident was resolved, James would often call and ask for the assistance of the Grande House, as in Madison's time, and the two parties would work together to clear out the aliens who had entered Barton City because of the rumors.
James's failure to call again was partly due to his distrust of Zach, and the example of Maddison made James realize that he could not be given a chance to strengthen himself. But the more important reason was that James had no time for 'private business', and he had a hunch that his secret mission and his own work had intersected.
"You'd better tell the truth!"
This is Barton North, a dark alley where the light of the street lamps is blocked by the buildings on either side, and the shabby cardboard and garbage bins surround the homeless people's homes. Detective Cousson was holding more than a dozen bills in his hand, "If I find out that you lied, I don't mind taking you away with the crime of 'sabotage of official duties'!"
"Dude!" the homeless man quickly drained the money from Curson's hand, "Then you can take me away! At least there are four complete walls in the police station!"
"Humph!" Curson snorted coldly, unsheathed his coat with both hands, tucked his waist into his waist, and exposed half of the gun tucked into the holster at his side, "Now tell me what you saw." ”
The homeless man put away the money and began to narrate with some nervousness: "Every night, the people who live on the fourth floor always drop some bread. The homeless man looked up and pointed up the escape ladder, "But yesterday, the man didn't do that." I'm angry! I'm going to go up to him and reason! Doug convinces me to forget it! But how can this be counted! I haven't had dinner yet!"
James and Corson looked at each other, and their disgust was not hidden.
"I know I'm right!" said the homeless man smugly, "I'm still alive because I'm up!" he pointed to it, and then, his eyes turned horrified, and he dramatically put his dirty hand to his mouth: "That's when I saw that guy!"
"So you're looking down from above?" James shook his head, "You didn't see his face at all!"
"Of course I can't see it! It's night, it's so dark here! I can't see his face even if I'm no longer on it!"
Curson waved his hand and signaled his partner not to worry: "What the hell did you see?"
"He, no! It's it! It just opened my bed!" the homeless man angrily pointed to the tattered cardboard beside him, and then showed a hint of smugness: "It's good that I'm not there!" he lifted Doug's place again and pulled Doug out," the homeless man pointed to the other side of the alley, and his face became more proud: "Then, and then ate Doug!"
"What?" Curson glared, "What the are you talking about!" Curson didn't mind the smudge on the homeless man's body, and pushed his hand away, about to snatch the Dozen that he had hidden behind his pants.
James reluctantly pulled Coulson, who had lost ten dollars for nothing, and asked the homeless man who was tightly guarding his buttocks, "What is it, an animal?
"Of course not!!Have you ever seen a dog in clothes?!" said the homeless man in the tone of an idiot, "it's a man! a man with infinite strength! Doug didn't even utter a hint of **!"
"Let's go!" Cousson wrenched James's hand away, "It's just a waste of time here!"
James sighed helplessly, left the nervous homeless man alone, and left the alley with Corson. But Corson didn't really leave, and instead knocked on the door of the building on the side of the alley with James. They wanted to make sure that the homeless man who was in the neighborhood was a guy named Doug.
After a brief visit, the two returned to their car. Both detectives had a bad look on their faces, and it had been confirmed that there were indeed two homeless men here, one of whom was the nervous guy and the other was Doug, whom he declared 'eaten'.
"You go home first. James looked at his partner, "You should go home with Mrs. Cousson and the child, I can keep an eye on it." ”
Curson stared at his partner for a moment, wondering why his partner felt like a different person, and James was so much more reliable now than he had been in the first week when he had only known how to eat. The doubts that were destined to be fruitless were thrown away by Corson in an instant, and he frowned and shook his head: "No, it's too dangerous. There's a good chance he'll come back, I don't believe that guy's, but the murderer has the ability to get that Doug away quietly, and it's obviously not an easy person to deal with!"
The case started when someone reported that a homeless man who had been in a certain place had disappeared. With the unsolved prostitution-woman death case some time ago, the Patton Police Department is very nervous, not to mention the Cologne Commissioner and Detective Coulson, who know that 'David' is in storage.
The official record of David is missing, and the informant is the Barton Telecommunications Bureau, who found David not coming to work on time, but was actually dealt with by Benjamin. Only James and Mayor Patton knew this, but they obviously wouldn't say it. The Barton police department, who did not know the truth, and even Cologne and Corson, naturally linked the two cases of prostitutes-women and homeless people.
In the eyes of the authorities, perhaps at some point in the future, they will find that the missing homeless man has become the same residual corpse as the prostitute who used to do it.
James sighed in his heart, because he knew that the two cases were completely different, and that the mentally ill homeless man was most likely telling the truth......
Zach once reminded James to be careful and to protect himself. Because, because of the rumor that 'Barton is a paradise', the low-level aliens who will come to Barton will be rejected as low-level creatures by the original alien society and find a new place to live, there must be a reason.
These reasons, James could guess with his toes, were not good.