It was getting colder and colder, and in the morning the damp places on the ground had frozen over, and Bella had fallen while going out.

"Bella, be careful, the ice is slippery." Liszt got off Bella's pickup and tried to lift her up from the ground.

"You're late to the war."

At this time, Charlie came out of the house and helped Bella up, and Liszt awkwardly withdrew his outstretched hands, and Bella looked at Liszt and smiled very unkindly.

"Ahem" Liszt and Bella have a good relationship, which Charlie is happy to see, before that Charlie was worried that Bella would not be able to get along with Liszt, but now the relationship between the two is too good, which makes Charlie feel uncomfortable.

Well, the sense of crisis as a father made Charlie automatically set every male of the same age who had contact with Bella into a hostile camp, and if it weren't for Fox's security waiting for him to maintain, he would probably ...... And this kind of thing can only be talked about around the clock.

"Charlie, let's have dinner together tonight, I'm in for a treat." Liszt's sudden suggestion was not that he meant anything else, but that it was entirely on a whim.

Although the three of them often eat breakfast and dinner together during this time, Liszt always feels that there is something shortcoming, maybe that sentence does make sense, life, there must always be a sense of ritual.

Bella felt that there was no problem, but it was a big problem when he came to Charlie, he always felt that everyone had a meal together "officially" as Liszt said, and there was a kind of meaning that his daughter brought her boyfriend home to show his old father-in-law, and he felt very uncomfortable, of course, this was not a reason for him to refuse.

"I'm sorry Bella and Liszt, there's a call from Masonshire, the guard at the Jackson Flour Mill has died in a beast attack, I need to go and see."

Liszt's words were half-truthful, and it was John and not the Mason County Police who informed him of the situation, in other words, if Charlie went to Mason County to investigate because of the case, it could only be of a private nature and not official business, which was not in line with the case procedure.

Without the authority of the Mason County Police Department, Charlie could not investigate cases in Mason County privately, he was only the sheriff of Fox.

"Again...... Isn't that case over yet? Did the medical examiner identify the beast that did it? There don't seem to be any large beasts in the nearby mountains, and my hunting license has not been used since it was issued, wasting hundreds of dollars. ”

Liszt didn't know that Charlie had registered with the Mason County Police Commissioner, but the information provided by Charlie made his heart move, and if he guessed correctly, the beast was also a vampire.

I just don't know if it's the gang of miscellaneous fish in New York or the carnivorous vampires with high-speed movement, super strength and special abilities that appear in Twilight.

It seemed that it was time to meet with Alice, and Alice seemed to release his pigeon, saying that he had something to talk about, and that the last phone call was not enough

"Well, it looks like we're two left, beautiful young lady, can I have this privilege to invite you to dinner with me?"

Liszt learned the London accent in the TV series, and made an elegant English gentleman's invitation move, Bella put her hand on Liszt's palm very cooperatively, and the corners of Charlie's frowning eyes jumped again and again.

And the young men and women who died in front of them, experienced a heartbeat and decided to accept it when they saw it, which really annoyed Charlie, and Liszt was really worried that Charlie was going to take out his Winchester "hole".

When he arrived at the student parking area, Liszt saw Alice's car, and the rare Alice was still in the car, and she didn't go directly to the classroom as usual when she came to the school, and never stayed in the parking area for a second longer, which was incompatible with these classmates who liked to gather in the parking area before class to chat and play.

"Liszt, I have something to tell you."

Alice opened the car door and nodded to Bella in greeting, then stepped forward and pulled Liszt into her car.

Of course, Liszt wouldn't have any sexual encounters or anything like that, with Alice's character, there should be something important, but this kind of behavior is different in the eyes of others, Liszt can hear some people's malicious whistles, of course, he doesn't know what kind of mood Bella, who witnessed this scene, is in to go to the classroom.

Anyway, Eric and Mike, who usually like to pester her, have chosen to walk around now.

"What's going on, Alice, you don't look good."

Liszt, who was forcibly dragged into the car, had just sat down, and when he saw that Jasper had not left, he thought to himself that this was normal, how could Alice be separated from Jasper?

Alice glanced at Liszt, who was not distracted: "You will never see me when I look good, we want to talk to you." ”

"What are you talking about?"

"War"

"WHT? War?"

Liszt was stunned by Alice's words, war, what a distant word, now except for a very small number of regions and countries in the world that are still fighting, the United States has long been unified, where is there any problem that needs to be solved by war?

But soon Liszt reacted, and it didn't matter if it was someone else who said these two words, but this was Alice, a vampire with the ability to subjectively predict the future, and what she said couldn't be overstated.

"War, there will be a big battle between vampires and werewolves, with heavy casualties on both sides, if you don't stop it, the next time you see me, you may have to go to the Rare Animals Expo to find it.

"You've been at peace for hundreds of years, how can you suddenly split up between you and me, Alice, can you be sure?"

"No...... You know, I can only predict one possibility, but that's not the whole future, as long as there is a little change, the future may change. ”

"You can at least know what touches the line of the Indians."

"There's a vampire in Mason County that attacked humans, and you should know it, the same vampire you killed before. They are weak but have a stronger desire to destroy, and their greed for blood makes them even more unscrupulous. ”

"We know very well that we are not in league with them, but the wolves don't know, they only know that the vampires are out to harm people again, and they will be angry with the Cullens."

"What do you want me to do when you're telling me this?"

"We want you to act as a lobbyist at a critical moment, and we never wanted to hurt anyone."

Alice's request seemed simple, and Liszt had nothing to lose, so he had no reason to refuse.

"Okay, I'll ask, Alice, can you tell me that the Jackson Flour Mill guard was killed, who the murderer was? Is it the same special ability as you, or the rookies from New York that I mentioned to you?"

Charlie and John met quietly, and Will had not agreed to continue to investigate and assist in the case, so Charlie took a leave of absence to come to Mason County.

It's not that Charlie is so dedicated to the public that he can't get involved in a case, although it makes a conscientious old policeman feel uncomfortable, but he doesn't act like this.

Charlie is selfish, he is afraid that there are really vampires, so he will consider sending Bella to places like Phoenix or San Francisco, in a word, to keep Bella out of danger.

"Charlie, hasn't Zorro already destroyed the enemy, we saw with our own eyes, the silver bullet passed through the chest and left a cloud of ashes, and now there is another beast that attacks people."

"I don't know, maybe there really was a beast attack, I don't rule out that the vampires that day were not all of them, that would be terrible, we don't know how many enemies there are." Charlie's expression was very solemn, he really wished it was just a beast attack, but the wounds of the deceased described by John were too similar to the previous ones.