Chapter 14 Bus Stops
It's the sixth day that Wells has been 'on duty' at Grande, and Zach has overestimated the efficiency of the civil servant, and his investigation is only halfway through! Zach looked at Wells, who was 'on time every day' and 'went to work', and was a little disappointed, because we all knew that he wanted the bait to be bitten, but now, Wells seemed to be still hanging on the hook.
With the investigation of the funeral records, Zach was also busy during the day, and many calls from the West End called the Grande House to discuss the removal of the grave, and they were all guys like Quinn and Barton, and Zack didn't dare to slack off. Benjamin was also busy, and some farmers around Grande were recruited to carry out extensive graveyard cleanup. The desolation that Mrs. Quinn had seen had become more in line with the neatness of a cemetery.
Alice could have been very idle, but for the charity of her friend Lola, she prepares small snacks for charity sale in the kitchen every day.
Zack's night visits with the pupil of charm for several days in a row didn't have much effect, because the 'human words' were too difficult to track, even if there was a backbone analyzed by James, and people who had nothing to do with the Windwinds' witchcraft sixth sense, but the news that Wells wanted to win the lottery and quit was like a dandelion blown away by the wind, scattered everywhere. All Zach could do was wait.
Two more people committed suicide, and not surprisingly, Zach had already seen these two names in the list given by the Tempests. James Lance listened to the vampire's advice and tried to find out who might have died once, but his investigation didn't go well, and he called up a list of accidents that happened around the full moon of last month, except for Massa Harbor, where Trisha's husband Todd was located, and there were accidents everywhere, especially Ford's graveyard.
Because the construction and public outrage are going on at the same time, there are often large and small incidents, and the list of people who may have been resurrected by Papa at midnight after death can only be handed over to the Hurricane couple to observe one by one, and the progress is very slow. And what makes James most helpless is that the suicide he and the Coulson investigated have never made progress on the hijacking that once occurred, and they are about to face closure and return to the conclusion of suicide.
It may not be much for Cowson, but for James, who already knows part of the truth, it is a torment! The result of the torment is that James often harasses Zack, which makes Zach a little annoyed.
Around three o'clock in the afternoon, Lola arrived as promised, and Benjamin and Alice were ready to wait. Zach also wanted to change his mood, and more importantly, to avoid the frequent phone calls from James, so he prepared for a while, handed over the Grande House to old Hank and Louise to watch, and went to [Parker Elementary School] with a few people.
It's Friday, Lola didn't skip class, she had already quit cheerleading and started her own club, and with the support of Mrs. Barton and Reipt High School, there was now such a volunteer group-like club. Today's task is to go to an abandoned bus stop on the southeast side of [Parker Elementary School] to clean up.
The name Paisin is already known, connecting the city of Newton to the bustling North End of Barton, which is just a passing place. When Barton was just rising, the city government wanted to make it an alternative road to Barton West End.
However, with Route 27, the Charles River and the train station leading directly to the interior of the North End, the southwest side of Barton and the road to the center, the Paisian District has never met the city's expectations and has been abandoned, and the facilities that were once built, such as schools, housing, transportation, etc., have gradually declined and become what it is now.
Others are fine, at least people use them, but the bus terminal, located southeast of Parker Elementary School, is so unpopular that it has to be abandoned.
Abandoned anyway, Lola wants to use the place to build a bazaar where the proceeds can be used to improve the environment at Parker Elementary School. Today is the day Lola decides to clean it up.
When I arrived at the bus stop, I could see that Barton's last name was very good, and Lola 'borrowed' Reipter's school bus, and twenty or thirty high school students poured out of it. Teachers and students at Park Elementary School stood in two rows, looking at a group of teenage boys and girls wearing volunteer white T-shirts designed by Lola, holding brooms and tools, and their faces were filled with indescribable excitement.
With a dozen dusty and dilapidated buses lined the courtyard, shattered glass, peeling patent leather, and occasional half-man-high weeds poking out of the ground, it was hard for pampered teenagers to imagine that this was still within the confines of Barton's North End.
Zach and Benjamin did not enter the bus stop, but at the door, opened the back of the truck, the old man's stand for restraint was extended, and several people began to help Alice put out the cakes, cookies, and doughnuts she had made Zuò. Do you think those teenagers are going to find pain the day before the weekend and come to volunteer? Of course not, Lola uses the phrase, 'Delicious snacks in exchange for a little bit of labor.' ’
And the high school students who have already been sold by Lola at Raipt High School do not want to give up this opportunity to eat the legendary Alice's snacks again. The reason why they came was not Lola's 'charity' but Alice's craftsmanship!
"Wait!" Lola knocked out a boy who had already reached for the food, "Go and pull the grass first!"
"I'm not a farmer!"
"You've got hands!"
In this way, the high school students took action, and Parker's teachers joined in with the elementary school students who had no extracurricular activities anyway, and soon, the students who experienced a sense of accomplishment were already in the state and began to work hard.
Zach and Benjamin are by Alice's side, for the sake of friends, Alice has worked hard to adapt to such an environment, but whenever there is a boy who doesn't know if it's for food, or Alice herself, she is still scared. That's where vampires and werewolves come in handy.
"Benjamin!" Lola came running with a couple of boys, "You're here to help!
Zach is helpless, Lola never seems to remember his name!
A couple of Park Elementary teachers came over to take over Alice's job, of course, as if they were only there to protect the food. Zach and Benjamin followed Lola and made their way to the inside of the bus stop.
The abandoned buses lining the courtyard have been cleaned by the students to reveal their original colors, and the dark red paint used for the original buses is different from the bright yellow of the current buses. There are no advertisements that now cover the body, and the large headlights of the basketball team, the rearview mirrors with a very modern shape, and the patent leather that has been cracked and mottled by time, give these buses the temperament that should be displayed in a museum.
Most of the surrounding buildings have been opened, the south side is the former staff dormitory, data room, and the north side is the ground depression downward, with a metal platform to divide the upper and lower bus maintenance rooms.
Lola walked directly to the back west, and in the front door that was opened, there were already students cleaning the interior, the broken glass was removed, the collapsed bracket was lifted up, the old-fashioned phone hanging on the wall was wiped clean, the workbook after the dust was blown off, and the workbench that was attached to the wall was extended all the way to the workbench, and various old-fashioned communicators could be seen embedded in it, as well as buttons and displays of various colors.
This is the main control room, which is used to dispatch buses.
"Here. Lola continued to walk inside, removing a collapsed bracket, where there was already a male teacher standing with the Parker Elementary logo on his chest, presumably Parker's PE teacher. The sturdy man saw that an adult was coming, and patted the shelf blocking the innermost part: "The back should be a warehouse, connected to the maintenance room, but the doors on the west and north sides are locked from the inside, this side is open, help the handle." ”
Zach and Benjamin nodded, rolled up their sleeves, and began to put down the clutter on the sloping shelf, and moved the shelf out of the way again, revealing the door that was buried inside. Lola found the key, tried it a few times, and the door opened.
The damp and rotten mold from the shop was no smaller than the former No. 13 warehouse! A few people at the door waved their arms to spread the smell, and a few high school students had already retreated far away, not wanting to get closer.
"You go somewhere else, let's go in and have a look. Zach and Benjamin glanced at each other and gestured to the people around them.
"Okay. "No one refuses, no one wants to put up with the smell! Lola is still a high school student after all, and she is not fully prepared, and she does not prepare anything like a mask.
Several people dispersed, and Benjamin turned out the keys in Lola's hand, and Zach had entered the warehouse. Their task was to open the door to the maintenance room to at least let the smell of it dissipate somewhat.
But they themselves know that from here things start to deviate. Because vampires are sensitive to blood, let alone werewolves with a sense of smell, they detect a hint of blood in that moldy smell!
Werewolf Benjamin's thick arms covered his nose and frowned, the smell of mold and rot was so strong that it confused his senses, which made him very uncomfortable. At this time, the vampire's sensitivity to blood is the most useful, but Zach also frowned, waving his arms in front of him, I don't know how many years there has been no ventilation here, although it is cold enough, but it is definitely not the environment that vampires like.
The cold concrete floor sloed downward, and the spacious space was indeed extending to the maintenance room, and the two of them had already seen the door on the north side after a downhill slope, but they didn't open it, and continued to walk inside. Rusty tools, iron tracks, a mess of mechanical parts, and dismantled buses......
Zach approached a bus with its shell removed, and a slight click came from the bus. The smell of blood came from here, and the two looked at each other, one behind the other.
Outside, there were a group of students and teachers, the two of them did not change their shapes, the werewolf put one hand on the back of the bus, jumped on the bus with a little force, and approached the place where the sound came from, the damp mildew had been replaced by rot. The werewolf curled up, the muscles of his legs already tensed, and his palms held the backs of the seats on the bus, ready to impact at any time!
Brush!
The gray figure jumped out of the rows of seats like a bounced crab! The werewolf's body rushed out with it! Zack's eyes were slightly red, his fingertips were together, and his figure drew a gray shadow in the air, blocking the bouncing thing! Just when this sudden appearance of the 'creature' attracted the full attention of a wolf and a ghost!
Syllable!
The sound of the metal door banging on the west side of the warehouse! Suddenly, a beam of sunlight suddenly penetrated into the cold room, and Zach and Benjamin didn't even look at what the 'creature' they had intercepted was, and at the same time looked back to the west!
A figure quickly stepped out of the cold warehouse, drowning in the afternoon sun!