It's time for the people of the Southern District to wash and sleep again, and at night, they can only show off their might in the 'simple' land of the Southern District, shrouding the sky, ignoring the lights of one or two cars still moving on the road, and competing with the stars.

One of the cars belonging to James turned west on Highway 27, drove onto the dirt road, crossed the sign "Welcome to the Grande Funeral Home", and turned into the backyard of the Grande. James is back.

The word "come back" is because James got out of the car and drove straight to the back of the car and dragged out a suitcase of luggage. Knowing that Grande no longer had a room for him, he consciously dragged his luggage into Benjamin's warehouse, stopping his gaze for only half a second on the game console placed against the wall, and joining the ghoul Harrison in tidying up the hay bed.

Oh, why don't you take up Zach and Louise's room? Then you probably forgot why James went back to Grande. Do you really think James was kind enough not to disturb Wes and Jason? Of course not, for Ike, for James's shattered, once-known, world, about his father, about the West, about the military, about the Feast, about the alien race that he didn't know about but permeated every inch of his life.

Regardless of Ike's personal wishes, the colonel who came back from the dead had a human bed companion in addition to the ghoul, Harrison.

The 'pillow talk' didn't start now, and James made his bed, left the warehouse, and walked to Grande's room with the lights on, Zack's office.

When the door was opened, Zach and Ike, who were sitting across desks from each other in the office, seemed to be waiting for something. Is it James?

"I ......"

The phone rang.

Zach casually pointed at James and told him to shut up and pick up the phone.

"I got your message. Mayor Anthony's voice was slightly tired, but calm, "He's not there, that Ike." Call him. "There's something brewing.

Before Zach could speak, he tilted his head and obediently handed the earpiece to Ike.

Ike's look was not good, and he took the phone, tentatively first, "Mr. Mayor......" interrupted. Anthony said something in the earpiece, and Ike, who was holding the earpiece, listened to it with an ugly expression, and finally handed the earpiece back to Zack.

Zach heard it, of course, and pursed the corners of his lips, "Don't you think it's a little harsh." ”

"Stern, I have more vicious words to say!" Anthony in the earpiece adjusts his breathing, as if he is responding to emotions that change depending on the person holding the earpiece.

Zack glanced at Ike with an ugly face helplessly, don't guess anything, Mayor Anthony just scolded him. "At least Ike is a colonel, you ......"

"What am I?" the mayor's tone was impatient, "he is a colonel, although I was only a non-commissioned officer when I was discharged from the army, but now, I am the mayor, what is he? a dead man! I can scold him as much as I want!"

The status rank didn't work, and Zach changed directions. "He's at least a friend of Cologne......"

"Friends?!"

Zach, who was supposed to help Anthony adjust his emotions, seemed to have brought the fire to himself. "Did my friend do this?!Use Cologne to get out on his own and leave Cologne in such a big problem?!Friend?!If that's how you see your friend, I should hang up now!Break up with you, with Grande!"

Zach pouted, "Don't rush it yet, Anthony." Zach's tone began to be helpless, "You should understand. If you initially found out and stopped Cologne from investigating me. "To investigate Zach, "None of this is going to happen." ”

There was silence on the other side of the receiver, so let's take this moment to explain the reason for the call.

In the afternoon, Taylor left a ...... that could not be ignored Intelligence - the military will be held accountable. Ike didn't have a comprehensive plan to replace the death, and didn't think clearly about him after getting out. What happens to the people involved. Whether it is his conscience or his sense of responsibility, he can't adapt to the new life in Grande with peace of mind after knowing that the military will target Cologne.

But we're talking here about the so-called 'dignity of the military in the outside world,' the military, where the judicial system is beyond civil statutes, and the police chiefs of small cities in a civilian legal system.

What's more, this director also has a military background, and if the military wants to, they can easily drag Cologne back to their military law home and abuse this 'little man' who undermines the dignity of the military.

What can a funeral proprietor, a colonel who has nominally died, do to help Cologne? As a result, only the man with the highest political status in the land could have helped, Mayor Anthony.

So Zach called Anthony, and naturally, the mayor didn't answer at all, so Zach left a message, described the whole thing as concisely as possible, and then waited for the mayor to call back. Oh, don't you need to worry about Anthony not coming back, no, Anthony and Cologne are also friends, haven't forgotten.

After a long silence, "Tsk!" "Tsk!" "I'm so relieved!" Anthony in the earpiece banged on his desk irritably, how do you know? In the background of 'Knock Knock', Anthony's voice continued, "I didn't expect Cologne to investigate your identity at all!"

In Barton, Zach's identity is investigated...... No, there are quite a few people in Grande's family, Quinn, Barton, Smith, Quest...... You get the idea.

Anthony's words can be understood in this way, Zack's identity is very clean and has been verified repeatedly. Such a clean identity should not cause any waves.

But Cologne is holding such a clean identity, and in this office, he forced Zach to ask many questions that are not clean at all - illegally practicing medicine on the battlefield, remember. Eventually, Zach would have gone to the hospital to find out even without James's petition.

Anthony was too relieved of Zack's citizenship, and if he had stopped it at the beginning of Operation Cologne, the current situation would not have arisen.

"Tsk!" said again, "It's all this Ike!If it weren't for him, Cologne wouldn't have been able to investigate you at all!" Anthony's tone was very unhappy, "Even if I found out in time, I couldn't stop Cologne from going to you to save his former comrade!*!"

Yes, that's the way it is. It's all to blame on Ike. It's a pity that blaming doesn't help solve the problem in the slightest.

Zach pouted, "Is there anything going on over there in Cologne? Is the military moving?" Without any details, "Do you have a plan to protect Cologne?"

James seemed to have something to say, and Zach waved his hand to continue to shut him up first, and talk to the mayor, not to be disturbed.

Anthony in the earpiece replied quickly, "No! if you don't leave a message." I had no idea what was going on! The military brought the colonel to Patton for hospice care, I just saw the documents, and I just found out about the police force that Cologne had called around the hospital before!" This answer became more and more unpleasant and irritating, "*! I don't know anything!"

Zach frowned, "What have you been busy with lately?" It's not that Zack wants to digress, it's that as a friend, he must be concerned, right?

"The campaign office is officially established......" Anthony spoke in an irritable tone and spoke quickly, obviously not wanting to go into details. Just told Zach, who expressed concern, "The first poll preparation." Quinn, Smith's funding is being discussed. And Bisharp's side, what are you doing......"

So for the sake of mayorship for the next four years, our Mayor Anthony ignored what was happening in Barton.

"Riley. Zach added, then waved his hand into the air, "Anthony, don't go into detail with me, you just know what you're doing." ”

It seems that Anthony is really tired. After a deep breath in the earpiece, the speed of speech returns to normal. "I'm already in contact with Cologne, I need to know the details and I'll come up with some plans. ”

"Yes. Zach nodded, and now that's all he can do, "Don't let the military drag things to their home turf." "That's the only suggestion, I just said. The military is independent of civilian existence, they have their own running and judicial system, and the only way out for Cologne is politically.

After a simple distant sigh, the phone hung up. Anthony too, goodbye without saying one. But Zach is used to it. also hung up the phone, poured the wine seamlessly, and his eyes fell on James, who had been trying to say something, "You can speak." ”

"What are you talking about with the mayor?" asked, unsurprisingly, somberly.

Zach really didn't bother to be the messenger anymore, so he glanced at Ike and motioned for him to get on.

Ike looked at James with a strange gaze, after all, it was his opponent's son, he hesitated for a moment and spoke. No repetition, it's Taylor's notice.

After listening to this, James's face changed several times, and finally his gaze returned to Zack, "So that's why someone from the military in the police department went to talk to the chief in the afternoon?"

Zach shrugged, "You ask me?" Where did Zach know, "Do you know what they talked about?"

"I don't know. James replied honestly, with a bad face, "but not pleasantly, and ......"

Zach waited for a moment, "and—" The elongated tail note was for James to continue.

"They gave me a letter from my father. "Stopped.

Zack, who was aroused by James's words, waited a little longer, and even Ike's strange eyes looked at James a little interfered before shaking his glass, "James, you stopped at a weird point. Do you want to tell us what the letter says?" James himself said that he had received the letter, and no one asked him, he said it himself!

James moved in his seat, pulled out a crumpled piece of paper, and threw it to Zack.

Zach put down his glass and spread his hands.

I'm about to see the handwriting of the famous general of the Federation, and put some respect for it.

Unfortunately, there were only two words on the letter, which were still printed - "disappointed" and "ready".

Zach glanced at James, and decided not to ask deeply, and handed the letter to Ike, "What do you think?"

Ike looked at the two-word letter and focused his gaze on 'ready', "It's not good. ”

Zach didn't speak.

Ike promised when he was still dying, let him live, he could say a lot of things, about the West, the military, the magic feast. Zach just felt that there was a better person to ask these questions - James.

And for James, we know if he has answered some of Zach's questions.

Now, at the right moment, when the right people are present and the right situation is right, it's time for these two to talk to each other and show something.

Ike frowned, "I don't know what that Lance guy is disappointed about. "There was clearly no respect for General Lance, and there was disdain in his tone, "but 'ready', apparently he ordered you, James, to be ready ......"

The question should be what to prepare.

"I don't obey him. James interrupted directly.

Ike glanced sideways at James, pursed his lips, then at Zack with a look in his eyes that said, 'The only reason I'm saying this is because you made me believe him,' "James, you know why you're here for Barton. The tone was sarcastic, "From what I've heard from Cologne about your evaluation......"

"Did the Director mention me to you?" interjected James. Zach was also curious, and watched from the sidelines.

Ike pursed his lips and glanced at James and replied, "It's not you who matters, it's your partner, Detective Cousson." Cologne doesn't obviously like you, let Cousson take you. ”

James turned his head, and to be honest, he wasn't surprised at all.

Ike continued, "Your future at Barton is not very broad, your father can't stand it anymore, and he wants to pave the way for you......" Ike stopped suddenly, his face turned bad, and he stared at Zack, who had already begun to think.

Did you think of the possibility that neither of them would want to meet?

"What?" James frowned at the change in atmosphere, "what do you think again?"

Zach ignored James, shook his head after thinking about it, and looked at Ike, "No way, James has only been in Barton for more than half a year, and Cologne has been in the police department for more than ten years." Moreover, it means that they sent you to Barton because they knew about your comradeship with Cologne, and they wanted you to die with his intervention. ”

Please try to keep up, it's not hard to think of.

"You mean ......" James's expression was gloomy and momentarily interrupted by Zach as the phone rang again.

There was a tiny noise coming from the earpiece, music and conversation, but it was too small for Zach to make out clearly.

"Say something, let me know it's you, Zach. Mrs. Quinn's calm voice came out.

"Good evening, Mrs. Quinn. "Zach is obedient.

"Yes. Confirming that it was Zach who answered the phone, Mrs. Quinn continued, "I just spoke with the head of the military this time, and he gave me a promise that he would not embarrass the doctor. ”

No surprise, there are two people to be held accountable by the military, Anthony is looking for Cologne, and now Mrs. Quinn is for the hapless doctor (he was the doctor of the Quinns, and he once wondered why Mrs. Quinn was cured overnight, Volume I. ）

Zach nodded a little relieved, giving Ike a reassuring expression, and his tone was a little more relaxed, "Still helping us so late, thank you, Mrs. Quinn." ”

"Nothing. Mrs. Quinn didn't seem to care much, "Liszt's opening banquet (the former cemetery of Grande in the West End, now Liszt's industry, waste such as game consoles has been sold and removed, and work is about to begin.) That's just the gathering of these people. xx (doctor) is a good seedling, and the relationship with the military, the Kunyin Group has maintained it well, and there is nothing to help. Rather, I need to know why he's in such trouble. ”

Zach shrugged, "Probably not. ”

"Hmph. "It doesn't matter, but I'll warn you, maybe it's just my delusion." I feel that their main target this time is the chief of the North District Police Department, just a feeling. For the loss of the life of a colonel who had been ordered to be transferred to the hospital for protection, they looked too relaxed and too calm after the mission failed, as if everything had been arranged. ”

Zach glanced at James and frowned.

"It's just my feelings that you can ignore. If all of them who have failed in their military mission can enjoy a banquet that has nothing to do with them, I will also go back to the banquet to 'waste' Liszt's wine, goodbye. "Mrs. Quinn hung up. (To be continued.) )