After using all the ammunition they had, the two left the Zotland Shooting Club.

Returning from the smoke-filled shooting range back to the sun-drenched streets of Zotlán, Angel took a deep breath of fresh air and exhaled slowly, only then did he feel the fatigue on his body swept away.

Klein also had a rejuvenated expression, he looked around, took out a silver-white pocket watch from his coat pocket, opened the cover and glanced at it, and closed it again with a "snap".

"It's exactly twelve o'clock, and now I can go back to the company to catch up with the time for a working meal."

He muttered to himself.

"Working meals?" Angel repeated curiously, and then suddenly said, "Oh, you mean the old Weil restaurant." ”

Black Thorn Security doesn't have its own kitchen, but the nature of the job is limited, and there are staff members who have to solve lunch and dinner in the company every day, so the nearby "Old Weil Restaurant" took over the task of providing meals.

Every morning at 10:30 a.m., a waiter would come to the security company and ask who needed to order a meal, and it would be delivered at noon, and at 3 p.m. it would be time to order dinner.

Angel remembers the first time she came to Blackthorn Security, the white-haired Ms. Siga Theon brought her a lunch, which should have been ordered at the Old Ville Restaurant, although the portion was not much, but there was meat and vegetables, and she could barely eat enough.

"Do you settle lunch at the company every day? I remember you're not alone in your family, so why don't you eat at home? ”

Angel asked curiously, knowing that Crane also had an older brother and a younger sister who currently lived with Crane at 2 Daffodil Street.

She had only seen the siblings when they were brought back to the Black Thorn Security Company by Dunn and others, and she had the impression that they were a tall and thin man with short hair but a little old, and a young and beautiful girl, with the same black hair and obvious family characteristics.

"My sister, Melissa, attends the Technical School in Tingen and has classes six days a week and a short lunch break, so she eats at school; Benson works overtime every day, and sometimes he doesn't even come back for dinner, so it's too much trouble for me to make lunch at home if I eat alone. ”

"And the captain gave me a special task, every afternoon to patrol the neighborhood, it is better to have lunch directly at the company, and now every day they will directly order lunch for me."

Klein explained.

Angel also feels the same way: "It is indeed very troublesome to cook alone, the weather is too easy to spoil if there is too much, and it is not cost-effective to cook with a small amount." ”

She also often eats out outside the home, only occasionally buying some bread and making her own soups and salads to eat, which in the summer months when there are no refrigerators, unless they are eaten up on the same day, otherwise the food will spoil the next day.

The two of them had already walked along the street to the other end, across the road was the Black Thorn Security Company.

Since he didn't order lunch, the takeaway from the old Weil restaurant that will be delivered later will definitely not have his own share, so Angel does not plan to stay in the company, but is ready to go to a random restaurant on Iron Cross Street to solve the problem as originally planned.

These days she's visited almost every restaurant on Daffodil Street, and her foraging has expanded to include Iron Cross.

Fortunately, although there are no special foods in Tingen, there are delicious restaurants all over the street, and as long as you look carefully, you can always find something that satisfies her.

But before taking the bus back, Angel plans to go back to the Black Thorn Security Company to replenish some of the bullets that he had just run out of ammunition at the shooting range.

"Well, these are consumables."

Remembering Neil's earnest teachings, she justified her excessive consumption of ammunition.

Walking up the stairs to the second floor, pushing open the door of the reception room, Roshan and Bright, who were sitting on the newly purchased sofa in the reception room, swept their eyes over the two people who entered the door, and their faces could not hide their disappointment.

"I thought old Will's lunch had arrived." Dressed in a breathable white dress, Roseanne complained, "Why are they late today?" ”

"Don't worry, Rosan, maybe they're too busy, you know, the police station across the street has been working a lot of overtime these days, and the food delivery business at Old Ville's restaurant is much hotter than before."

A bushy bearded Bright comforts Roshan, who is also one of the clerks at Blackthorn Security and whom Angel met yesterday when he came to report on the day.

Crane hung his top hat on the coat rack, approached the couch, found an empty seat to sit down, and quipped to Roseanne, "Maybe we should write a letter of complaint to the restaurant, how can they starve our beautiful ladies to feed the rough guys at the police station." ”

"Are you really thin?"

Hearing Klein's words, Roshan subconsciously touched her lower abdomen, then looked bitter and removed her arm.

Her envious eyes swept over Angel: "Alas, Angel, how did you do it with such a figure, can you teach me?" ”

In order to make it easier to move and avoid hurting her heart that still retains her male pride, Angel rarely chooses feminine dressing, but wears a neutral outfit, a white shirt, a slim waistcoat and trousers, and a light trench coat to hide her proud figure made of "witch" potions. Seeing that the topic suddenly turned to herself, she was stunned, and she didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Hmm...... Dieting and exercising? ”

Searching her intestines and scraping her stomach, she held back these words.

"No, I mean...... Hey, forget it. Roshan blushed and waved her hand, signaling that Angel had misunderstood what she meant, but her eyes turned to the other two men present, and she hesitated for a moment before ending the topic.

"By the way, just now the captain received a request for help from the heart of the machine and went to Hoy University to help investigate the case, and Ms. Siga Teang said that she had been looking for material for writing a novel recently, and she went with her." Seeing that the atmosphere was a little awkward, Bright pointed to the direction of the distant Hoy University bell tower outside the window.

"In other words, the lunch they ordered may be wasted, and it is better to ......"

He looked at Angel.

"Ah, that's right, before the captain left, he said that the Heart of the Machine would eat out when he was done, so he didn't need to help them leave lunch. Angel, stay for lunch, both of them will be given to you. ”

Roseanne picked up.

It's already past twelve o'clock, and even if it's a public carriage that arrives in a while, it's more than one o'clock in the afternoon to get back to Daffodil Street, and it's a little late to find a place to have lunch......

Angel estimated the time and nodded: "Okay, then I'll help the captain solve the trouble of wasting food." ”

Several people laughed.

Since she decided to dine at the company, Angel was not in a hurry to go to the basement to get the bullet from Old Neil, but also sat down on the sofa, and the four of them sat in a circle around the coffee table, drinking the coffee made by Roshan, padding her shriveled stomach, and chatting.

"There was a murder at Hoy University last night, and that's where the Heart of Machines is in charge, but something went wrong when they questioned the witnesses, so they had to call the captain over, well, dream about solving the problem."

"This kind of mutual help between churches is often the case, but usually the captain is invited."

Hoy University ...... Angel listened to Roshan's words and turned her head to look at Klein on the side - he seemed to be a graduate of Hoy University?

"Does this murder involve extraordinary powers?" Klein didn't notice Angel's eyes, he was more interested in the case itself.

"Not necessarily, maybe there are some clues, or maybe the police are too nervous, and the cases they hand over are false positives and don't involve the occult, but each report still needs to be checked by the night watchman or other churches in the corresponding area." Bright replied.

"The police are also frightened now, and the murders that have occurred during this period are far higher than the city-wide average last year, and many of them do involve extraordinary forces, such as the son of the former banker McGovern and ...... Ah, Klein, sorry. ”

Roseanne suddenly covered her mouth in the middle of speaking.

"It's okay." Crane pulled a small smile.

Angel listened to the riddle-like conversation between the two, thinking back to what Captain Dunn had mentioned earlier, about why Klein Moretti joined the Nightwatch.

There was a brief silence in the reception room.

"Bang bang—"

There was a knock on the door, and before everyone could respond, the half-hidden door was squeezed open, and a young waiter dressed as a waiter and holding a stack of lunch boxes in both hands entered through the crack in the door.

Seeing that he couldn't free his hands, he should have "knocked on the door" with his feet just now.

Bright got up from the couch and expertly took the lunch box from the waiter's hand and put it on the coffee table.

"I'm sorry, but the delivery was a little slower than usual." The waiter apologized, but his expression didn't mean anything like this, only sweat and numbness after overwork hung on his face, "You can wait for the meal to come in the afternoon to collect the lunch box, you can use it slowly." ”

Seeing the waiter leave with a cigarette, several people looked at each other.

"It looks like Old Ville's restaurant is really busy." Bright shook his head and said with a smile, "I'll deliver food to Kornley and Old Neil first, they must be in a hurry, you eat first, don't worry about me." ”

He separated the stack of lunch boxes, took two of them, and walked through the partition in the reception room to the underground area of Blackthorn Security.

Old Neil is in the arsenal, so today it is Kornley who guards the "Chanis Gate"?

Angel recalls Kornley White, a "sleeplesser" who had only one side to him.

Klein and Roseanne had already taken their lunch boxes and lifted the lid to reveal the same set meal: a palm-sized piece of oatmeal bread, mushroom bisque, diced lamb cut into cubes, and a teaspoon of cream.

The faint smell of grease suddenly filled the entire reception room.

"Aha, I feel so hungry I can eat two servings." With a satisfied smile on her face, Roseanne sniffed as she took a large sip of the mushroom soup, expertly spreading the cream onto the bread with a spoon and eating the lamb quickly.

Appetite is contagious to each other, seeing that Roseanne ate so deliciously, the other two also felt a wriggling in their stomachs, Klein handed Angel the slightly larger lunch box that originally belonged to Dunn, who opened it and found that his lunch was slightly richer, with half a fried sausage in the box, and the soup was also a chowder, with richer ingredients.

As Roshan spread the cream, Angel was about to feast when there was a sudden knock at the door behind her.