“30。 ”

After silently accepting several cycles of fate, Zach suddenly spoke.

The first to react must be the weakest one here, James, "No need to count! I know the time!"

Zach glanced at James, "I'm not counting for you. "Sorry look for Louise.

Louise just pursed her lips and didn't speak.

Leave it to the less clever one, Benjamin. Alpha, who clearly expresses his dislike for our vampire attitude, asks in a very childish way, "31, 32, 33, 44, 45......" and he is messing with Zack's count.

Zach would be hilarious if he fell for this kind of boring trick. Simply, "Do you still want your client back, and if you do, shut up." ”——

Murphy, not here. She has not been seen since her abrupt departure at the beginning of the 26th cycle.

Can you understand what Zach is doing now? He's keeping track of when Murphy is gone, keeping Murphy alive and reappearing in ...... The last glimmer of hope for any world.

We already knew why Murphy would leave the realm of the soul self-detonation and explore this 'simulation' world. But we don't have to think so far ahead about what Murphy is exploring:

Zach reminded Benjamin, at least after Murphy was able to return, verify that at the end of a cycle, leave the range of the time reset and rush back, be able to enter the next reset normally, and still have a chance to be saved by Walter. After having such a factual basis for a good ending in the end, think about the rest of the matter.

But Murphy didn't come back, and the devil knows where she was first, so this verification can be regarded as feeding the dogs. Zach's count, at least in tracking Murphy at that time. And these people are really trapped here - whoever wants to follow in Murphy's footsteps can do so at will.

Benjamin glanced at Zack, "I didn't ask you to do my commission for me, and I won't pay you." ”

"I'm not doing the commission for you, I'm doing my job as a vampire at the feast. Zach didn't bother to look at Benjamin and continued to give Louise an apologetic look.

Imagine a situation where your girlfriend asks you, can you help your wife when she is in unknown danger?

That's Zach's situation, and the answer. Although Zach wittily dumped the pot on the Demon Feast, which wanted to obtain information about the Asammet clan, right, whether it was hostile or something else in the end, no one would want information.

Louise has proven to us many times that she is not inferior to Zach at all in her wit, and she often runs ahead of Zach...... Therefore, Zack's little caution has long been exposed.

Louise pursed her lips again, "Murphy, what kind of person is he?" The significance of this question is to distinguish whether Zach seized the last chance to be saved for Murphy at this time, whether it was because of Murphy Asammet or Murphy Moreati.

Zach didn't even speak, James took the lead. It was the irritated oblique Louise, "She's been living in Grande for a few days, and you're still asking what kind of person she is!"

Louise pressed James directly to the table—everyone's patience was drained again. Then he looked at Zach with a look in his eyes asking for an answer.

Knowing that he could not escape this, Zach said, "Innocent, sloppy, dreamer, and, gentle woman." ”

Murphy: What do we see about Murphy that fits the above qualities?

Louise continued, "That's the Murphy you married, and then, the Murphy you want to strangle, what does it look like?" ”

"Emotional, stubborn, impermanent, unreasonable, dangerous woman. ”

No, that's not the Murphy we met.

"Now Murphy. "Louise's third question.

"Asammet. Zach's answer was succinct and crisp.

Louise nodded. She could accept that answer, which meant that Zach knew what he was doing. Louise let go of James and continued to speak unnoticed, "I have a guess that Murphy deliberately didn't come back. ”

Since Louise gave the beginning of a rational discussion, Zach answered, "What guess?"

"As long as we have someone here to keep counting the time, the chance of being saved back to the real world by Walter will be maintained. Louise glanced at Benjamin, "I guess Murphy didn't plan to come back when he left." As Benjamin was about to scare Zack with this, Louise glared at Benjamin as if it was the first time, shocking enough that Benjamin hugged his arms and kept quiet.

Zach, on the other hand, frowned, "She did emphasize the number of loops one last time before leaving. ”

"If Assamet is so proficient in the 'arithmetic' of rational logic, we cannot ignore this possibility. Every time we cycle here, she's outside, freely exploring the secrets of Barton. ”

Benjamin made a move, but was stopped by Zach in time, and was speechless, "It's useless for you to go to her now, our time has been staggered, and you'll just put yourself in another timeline." "Zach is really afraid that Benjamin doesn't understand," Louise said only maybe, and the other possibility is that Murphy wants to come back, but can't. ”

"Perfect!" the weakest James, there is nothing to disparage, after all, it is normal for humans to be less able to withstand than these old monsters, "so no matter what, our situation has not changed! We are still trapped here! And every second that we can't do anything here, we don't know what that Murphy is doing outside!"

The 'good guys' are stagnant, but the 'bad guys' are moving forward. It doesn't matter if the comparison is inaccurate, that's what James meant anyway.

"Actually......" Zach suddenly raised an eyebrow, "we know ......"

Louise was the first to react, "What did you think of?"

Zach took all the papers on their desks and put them together, "Self-detonation on the bus, the incomplete world that Papa and I were in at midnight......"

Pink mist, radiant fragments......

“31。 Zach counted. Habit becomes natural, there is nothing to say.

Repeat the action before the time is reset, pick up a pen, and draw a map of Barton, an owl with a mouse's tail in his mouth, on a patch of paper. Then cut it with a line on Barton's map, and at the same time, explaining, "I suddenly remembered what Papa said at midnight." ”

"Papa Midnight?" Louise frowned, at any time, it didn't mean anything good to mention this Inand.

He said. Zach slowed down, "The soul determines the size of the world. Then he showed the result of his painting, that incomplete world.

No one understood what Zach was talking about.

Zach waved his hand, "It's my fault, I told you that Papa and I were exploring that incomplete world at midnight." Let's focus only on what is happening in the world that is not real, and not recognize such obvious ......"

Louise was enlightened, momentarily excited, and pressed the incomplete world drawn by Zack, "It's not an incomplete world!

"Yes!" Zach began to recall, remembering how many people were in that bus!"Souls determine how big the world is, and there were ...... people on the bus who blew themselves up" Zach wrote the next number in the space of the paper. Don't doubt the accuracy, we all know how many times Zach looped through that weird time, and Zach won't be mistaken!

Then there's the simple division.

Zach looked back at the man who had brought them to this point, the self-destructor who didn't know how long he had been throwing his pen. Then, in a circle around the City Hall Square on the Barton map, "This is the size of the world we live in right now. ”

Then, it was James who reacted, pointing to the outside of the boundary that Zach had drawn, "The North Police Department is out of range!

Louise gave James a roll of the eye, "Are you serious, what do you get from Murphy going to the police station? Louise pointed to a dot in the circle, "The city hall is in range!"

It was inevitable that they were in the square outside the city hall, too close.

Zach ignored the ugly James, who was obviously only Louise who could help him, "A small Liszt district," the hand nodded northwest in the circle, and then moved west, "a little bit of Paising." "Move North," a Becky Street. ”

Louise looked at Zach, "The only thing worth exploring is the city government!"

Zach nodded, "What's in the city hall." "It's a self-question that helps think," is worth getting from Assamet. ”

"Anthony knows everything. Benjamin spoke suddenly, quite abruptly.

"Huh?" Zach looked at Benjamin.

"I said, Anthony knows all about Barton. ”

Zach wasn't ready to take it seriously, and the words didn't help the situation in any way, so he replied, "He's the mayor, of course he knows everything." ”

"I'm not talking about such general things. Benjamin actually reached out and snapped Zack's gaze back to himself, "When the ancestral office officially opened, Anthony sent someone to report on every interracial commission. I agreed. ”

James was actually the one who spoke first, "Why should the mayor know about interracial commissions?"

"Don't ask me, Anthony is a friend, he wants to know, and kindly asks, so I agreed. Benjamin's answer was simple.

A few people were quiet for a while, and Zach shook his head and adjusted his thoughts, "So there is a record of Barton's daily troubles in the city hall." "It's not like Zach is going to say it on purpose...... It's harmless, it's something serious Zach doesn't want to say - in the world built by the self-explosion on the bus, we all know that Papa kidnapped Anthony at midnight in the hope that it would not affect the real world, which led to the end of that world.

If knowing that Patton's interracial daily troubles are one of the reasons why this Patton Mayor Anthony has become a pivotal point in this world, Zach doesn't know what to do right now.

"Think for the worst. Zach glanced at Benjamin and looked away, "Murphy can get detailed information about Barton's alien race based on how popular the Ancestral Office is. ”

Benjamin snorted at the wrong time, "Very popular. You should think the worst. ”

"Good!" Zach had to look at Benjamin again speechlessly, "Murphy has access to all of Barton's alien races. Satisfied?"

Benjamin shrugged his shoulders.

"Is there any point in knowing all the information about Patton's aliens?" it was still James, and although the tone continued the excitement and impatience of his weakest position here, he had to admit that James was visibly more focused when the topic entered Mayor Anthony.

Oh, role model. You get the idea.

It was Louise who answered James. The beauty was that she watched Zach reply, "I ......" and said uncertainly, "I can only think of one thing, related to all of Barton's aliens." "Did you think of that," said the child in Cuisha's belly. ”

Zach, head down.

To be honest, the logical thread that can advance thinking at this point is very fragile. Zach is using what Murphy can explore in this limited world, and what exactly Murphy is waiting for at Barton!

The limited world means that the possibilities that Murphy can explore are limited, which also means that the conclusions that Zach can get at this time may be far from the truth.

For example, in the current situation, the 'Son of Barton' made by Papa at midnight can have a bird relationship with the Assammet clan hidden in the middle!

But the question is, what else can Zach and them do here besides speculating on the conclusions of this limited possibility?

......

"32." Zach counted again. Then this time, "I have a bold idea. ”

"Don't listen. "Don't worry, this is what Louise said, Louise understands Zach, so the follow-up to this sentence is, "Too busy, not available." ”

It is impossible to be amused by the words of such an atmosphere which is obviously used to spice up. No one here wants to laugh. But twitching the corners of the mouth twice means that it is enough to receive this self-regulating attitude.

"Let's not save Murphy first. Zach said his bold idea, "We keep track of where she is and when she is. So when we want to save her, we can save her. ”

"Meaning?" asked Benjamin.

"Temptation. Zach glanced at Benjamin, "It's actually an interrogation technique." Prisoners are kept in an isolated place and the outside world is observed to determine the correct information. In our case, it is to lock up Murphy and then observe the movements of central Asammet. ”

James's face, slightly wrinkled, said- "This is a good way. Fortunately, Murphy was not locked up by us, she came on her own, and we didn't force her or anyone else, so Assammet in the middle couldn't hold us accountable. And then once things go bad, we can also save her when it doesn't happen. ”

Louise looked at James suspiciously, "Is this technique real?" or are you just, uh, too familiar with us?" ”

Control the course of events, right.

James pouted and didn't answer.

"So, that's it?" Zach looked at Benjamin, "The world, for your client, is absolutely safe. ”

"What if she starves to death?" Benjamin frowned.

"She won't. Zach shrugged, "We know the time and place, and we can bring her food on a regular basis." Real food. "But of course, she's our prisoner after all, and the diet won't be very good." ”

"As long as she's absolutely safe, I'm fine. "Benjamin is also true, yes, his job is just to keep Murphy safe.

"Good. Zach nodded, "Now, we'll just wait for Walter to come ......"

"*!!!" a leaky curse appeared in the crowd of people who bowed their heads to fill out the ballots, and Walter ran here, "Every time! Every time! You run around! Into a world where the hell knows when! Today! You don't run around!!!Do you know how much time I've been looking for you?!!"

"Excuse me?" Zach raised an eyebrow, and the question, "You know you're saving us?" Zach doesn't remember telling anyone they'd come to vote. Could it be Alice?

"*!" Walter pointed to the top of his head, "Monitor!!"

"Oh. Zach looked up, blinked, and looked at the black camera overhead. There's a small, upside-down Zach in there~

"Hurry up, catch me! He's going to explode!!"