Chapter 8: The Vampire in the Coffin
Old Hank rarely spends long in Grande's office, but today, the materials stacked at Zack's desk are placed on the right workbench, and the usual coffee and fruit have been removed and piled up with papers, and Old Hank is sorting through the funeral records.
I don't know if I saw the bits and pieces of the Grande House with Old Grande again, and Old Hank was immersed in a strange feeling.
Funeral records have always been a federal public resource, but few people come to check them, and if you really want to know someone's grave, it's more efficient to look up obituaries from a certain time period. But this time the investigation is clearly different from 'finding someone's burial', which is all the information about the entire cemetery.
Identity, location, time, funeral procedures, participants, expenses, including orders, preparations, notes, funeral homes record more than the average person thinks. Zach didn't care about these things being investigated, he cared about being seen in places that no one cared about. For example, today he sued SΓΉ Anthony's cemetery.
The North Park of the cemetery, because of customs, is usually buried here with sinners and poor people who no one cares about. There are many tombstones with anonymous names engraved on them, and they are inconspicuous hidden in a pile of low tombstones, but in the records of the funeral home, the surname 'Anthony' is very prominent.
To Zack's dismay, when he told Hank last night that the Land Planning Bureau was going to investigate the funeral records, Hank said hesitantly that he should reorganize it. Because it was supposed to be an anonymous tombstone, in the notes, many of them were written by name.
There are many names, and Zach still has impressions, wanted criminals, deserters, and even Poch Quinn's parents......
Not only Zack, but I was also curious about what old Hank's life was like when they didn't come to the Grande House. But he's a weird old man, I don't agree with him, I can't say anything, I'm sorry everyone.
Zach and Hank Sr. were working together to sort out the materials, mainly about the northern cemetery, and those information that did not need to be known by government workers were taken out separately and burned, and Zack only kept the text of 'Ian Anthony' and left it to Mayor Anthony to dispose of himself.
As the day passed, Zach moved his stiff back, handed over the rest of the work to Hank, the initiator, called Benjamin, and left the Grande House, where he put a few shovels in Benjamin's wagon.
Instead of hitting Route 27 in the darkness of the night, the van headed west at the Grand House to the western boundary of Barton South. Heading north on the western boundary, cross the Paisian River from Newton, enter the eastern suburbs of Newton, and then go diagonally onto the south side of Barton's Westside.
The people of Barton West are either rich and noble like Quin and Barton, or they are housekeepers, nannies, etc., who work for the rich and noble. The wealthy are concentrated south of the Charles River, and only 10 percent of the population of the West End occupy half of the West End. On their periphery, the remaining two-thirds were occupied by the men who worked for them, and beyond that, to the cemetery in the district of Grande.
Benjamin was pulling the car, and there was no difference between this place and their impression, compared to the cemetery where Ford was no different from the construction site, and there was still the solemnity that a cemetery should have.
Zach got out of the car and nodded to a black limousine hidden in the night in the distance, and Mrs. Quinn in the car also nodded slightly in return, and the limousine left the cemetery.
Of course, Zach informed Mrs. Quinn during the day that the renovation of the West End cemetery was inevitable, and that Mrs. Quinin, who had long been in partnership with the previous generation of Grande House, might be the last time she would come to see her son.
There was no one around, so the two took out the shovels behind the truck and walked towards the North Park.
The black dress jacket was casually thrown on someone else's tombstone, and a slightly blessed middle-aged man sat in front of the cemetery in the fourth and second rows to the east, and the tombstone was engraved with the words 'Anonymous ,?-xxx'.
"He knew I wanted to come to Barton. Anthony clearly heard Zach and Benjamin approaching, and said a little blankly: "So he came here to wait first, but he didn't wait for the war to end." β
Anthony's full name, Ann Anthony, is called by his surname because the name is too similar to the abbreviation of the surname, and his identity is the mayor, so it is obvious that the abbreviation does not reflect respect for this identity, so he will be called by his surname.
Zach patted Anthony on the shoulder and handed him a shovel very ruinly: "Dig." β
Anthony stared at the shovel in his hand and shook his head blankly: "I'm not ready yet." β
"It's a shame. Zach had already inserted a shovel into the dirt behind the tombstone, and the City of Barton was ready to dig him out. So it's better for us to do it, you say?"
Once construction begins here, the North Park cemetery, where the sinners are buried, must be the first to be built. So what Zach said wasn't bad. Anthony wasn't ready to face his brother yet, but Barton couldn't wait......
Anthony suddenly became excited! He threw away the shovel, "What are you going to do when you dig him out?!Do you want to put a stake in his heart?!Thirteen years ago, you couldn't do it, now you can?!"
Zach glanced at Anthony, and the dirt was tossed aside, "Why would I do that? You're the one who drove him away, and I." There was a hint of mixed emotion in Zach's eyes, "I'm a little excited to see him again." β
Anthony stopped talking, and Benjamin observed the situation and confirmed that Zach had won the duel between the two parties. Then he stepped forward and waved his shovel. The werewolf is still curious about the guy who can connect the friendship between the vampire Zack and the human Anthony.
The friction between metal and earth continued in the night, and the ground behind the anonymous tombstone slowly descended, and the square notch took shape. Unstoppable, Anthony viciously picked up the shovel and joined the digging.
Benjamin's shovel hit something.
The three of them threw away their shovels and tossed through the loose dirt in the pit that had completely covered their bodies, and the decaying coffin revealed in the soft moonlight.
Without waiting for Anthony to get ready, Zach lifted the lid of the coffin.
Mottled chains bound the 'dried corpse' in the coffin, and his shriveled, jointed fingers were crossed against his chest, long curled yellow nails nearly piercing his wrinkled skin. The withered yellow hair was scattered around the head of the 'dried corpse' like hay, not falling off or decaying, but growing and intertwining in a mess for more than ten years. On the left chest, a steel cone the thickness of a baby's arm is nailed to the place of the heart.
Zach tilted his head sideways, subconsciously showed a painful expression, and touched his left chest. You should be kinder to Old Hank in the future, it's a textbook vampire sealing technique in front of you.
Yes, please don't underestimate Old Hank.
Zach touched his chin and glanced at Benjamin, the werewolf, whose attention had obviously shifted to somewhere, and ordered, "Carry it out first." β
Anthony breathed a sigh of relief, at least, Zach hadn't decided to wake up his brother right now. But he didn't notice the hairs on the back of Benjamin's neck in the moonlight, and Alpha's instinct told Benjamin that a 'guest' had arrived as they were intent on digging up the vampires buried in the cemetery.