Vol 10 Chapter 4: Fat Joe

Due to the particularity of the case-non-Barton, alien-related reasons, Zack can not formally enter the Barton police station to complete the normal evidence collection process.
On the east side of the police station, it is considered to enter the street of the Noor district, there is a small bar, ‘Police’. It ’s not a bar. It ’s more like a family restaurant. It ’s like a positive role model for all consumer occasions in Barton. Unfortunately, such a place will never be imitated by any place ...
Zac hasn't been here for a long time-at least in our story, he hasn't been. But the boss recognized Zac at the moment Zac entered, "Hey! Enthusiastic Mr. Citizen ~~" The boss is a fat man, part-time service, chef ... Such a model can't afford any fancy staff.
James was instantly alert to the boss' enthusiasm for Zac. Zac could only whisper, "Anthony will come here when he is a policeman." That means Zac will also come, hey.
"I haven't seen you in a few years?" The fat man left the essential food aside, and let the "customer" take it by himself.
"It's been a few years ~" Zac responded with a smile, while whispering, "James, name, I don't remember."
James glanced at Zach speechlessly, "Joe."
Zac immediately used it, "Hey Joe, how have you been in the past few years?"
"The old look ~" has approached Zac, "and you ~" looked at it with a smile, "the same as before ~"
We should be grateful for the time now. There are not many people in the bar. Only a few uniformed policemen are having breakfast. It should be a normal routine trip, such as patrols to get food. So, nobody pays attention here.
James naturally didn't want to be disturbed. "We want the location inside, close to the phone."
Fat Joe let James blink nervously, "I know ~ go here ~"
Arranged a seat and looked at James, "Coffee?"
"Add milk, please." James answered Zac after he answered.
Zac took out his snack jar and smiled at Fatty Joe, "It's exactly the same as before ~" It seemed like an internal joke.
Fatty Joe smiled and nodded and walked away.
James immediately laid on the table, staring at Zac, "He knows you are ..."
"He doesn't know." Zac waved his hand. "But he knows that Anthony is the mayor now."
James froze for a moment and didn't immediately understand what Zac meant. He soon understood. The food came quickly. Fat Joe dropped James' order and said, "I'll invite you today ~" and left.
James reacted a little somberly, "Does he know your name?"
"Of course I don't know." Zach turned his head. "When he knew me, I was not Zachary Grande. Benjamin and I were just illegal nomads."
James's face was wrinkled. When he first came in, Fatty Joe called Zac's name "Enthusiastic Mr. Citizen", uh, how ironic ...
Zac and James are here to do something serious. James suffocated his drink and forcibly adjusted his emotions. The document was opened in front of him, "A sketch of the murderer who murdered the secretary of the Mayor of Vega." To be honest, the person drawn on this sketch can be anyone, and there is no point of reference. We ca n’t expect the victim to observe what the killer looks like in the event of a sudden death.
Description and sketch of the weapon used by the murderer.
Passed a copy to Zac.
The picture is actually not clear, faxed. And because the case is related to aliens, the transmission of these materials can not leave traces in the Patton Police Station, so it is the machine that reported for repair in the official record. Zac just took the ink and used it.
Putting his mouth on the James clothes, "A very common hunter traps against aliens." Zac was looking at a weapon spraying a net-like thing, next to the protruding spikes on the net unfolding in the picture. , There is a 'silver spike' marked by the sketcher.
"Trap?" James glanced at Zac. "So be prepared in advance." James quickly turned to the description of the case at the back of the file. "The murder happened in the garage ..."
Zac interrupted. "Normally, it is necessary to prepare." Zac narrowed his eyes and looked at the weapon that sprayed the silver net in the picture. "But the person who clearly attacked Secretary Rut, the things used can be carried everywhere." It's a bit like an old gun.
James frowned, "Made in the Republic ..."
Zac interrupted directly and glanced at James. "Don't just make contact." It is a reminder that although James has opened up the world view and knows and understands many things in this world, there is no need to show everything. Things huddled together to think.
James grinned. "The thing used for killing is salt water. This is ..."
"Common sense." Zac didn't intend to listen to James' reasoning. The ghost knew what James was eager to express now, "especially in a social environment like the West. Most ordinary people know that aliens live among them. This knowledge is common sense. "Zac's idea for James to be eliminated is the hunter.
James pursed his lips. "The secretary's testimony also said that the perpetrators are not like hunters."
"The perpetrator and the secretary's daughter had a conversation." Zac motioned to James.
James rolled over for a moment, then whispered, "Useless conversation. The girl said that the stranger would call the police when he came to his house, and the other person answered" may try. "
"It's provocation." Zac said an objective judgment.
"Provocation? To a four-year-old girl? Uh." James shook his head.
"No, to an interracial daughter." Zack shrugged.
James pouted again.
Zac said again, "The murder I heard from the phone." Zac is going to play his role as a witness. "In the beginning, it was easy to think that when the murder was going on, the perpetrator did not care about hanging up. Drop the phone. "
Recall that Zac ‘eat the flies’ at four in the morning.
"But if the perpetrator is provoking." Zac tilted his head. "He kept the phone on purpose and confirmed that there was someone listening on the receiver, and I hung up after listening."
James was sullen and didn't want to talk. James is waiting for Zac's conclusion.
Zac took the file in James ’hands,
It says that the perpetrator told the girl that Rute ’s secretary is dead. It ’s the same as letting me hear the murder on the phone. The perpetrator, in Show his behavior to bystanders. "
"significance?"
"You asked me?" Zach was speechless. "You are a detective, you are a professional, and now you ask me about criminality?"
James pouted his head, not knowing what to say.
Zac continued, "continuous murders have a very special feature, which is the" sign "of the perpetrators. Normally, it is the pattern of perpetrators, such as the method of murder." Zac looked at James The warrior requires James to focus on-"But for the interracial, the tactics cannot be the same. To kill different aliens, you must use different methods. You understand that, the" sign "of the perpetrators here can What is it? "
"Uh, the victims are all aliens who have adopted humans?" James said something casually, or it was wrong.
"This is the perpetrator's criterion for selecting victims, not a sign." Zac began to doubt that James had been professionally trained. Okay, tolerate James, this is a complicated case.
"If you are right! The perpetrator is deliberately showing his actions, this is his sign, showing others that he committed the crime. So why are there only two witnesses to the murder? You and the girl!"
Zach pointed to the phone, "It's your turn to confirm."
"Confirm what ?!"
"You know the western attitude towards alien cases. The detective Luther made it very clear. Only when there is pressure, they will" resolve "the alien case." It means as a continuous murder case, the previous case has Much of the information was intentionally missed by the Vega Police Department.
James was silent for a while, "You mean, if the perpetrator has shown the pattern of killing aliens to others, there must be witnesses besides you."
Zac nodded, "This is how Vega opened the case."
James went to call.
Zac continued to read the documents, and every time he saw the "Mayor Secretary" above, there was a trace of inexplicable smile.
Is such that.
Zac uses his own knowledge of Rut-Rut will hire a curse call at four in the morning, and Rut will use Zac ’s image ability to try to murder Toledo ’s future (want to let Zac leave the Grand) , Rute will recall Oz, who reads the heart, Rute will create a situation where Zac and Eli will face each other, Rute will create Zage ... Rute will set up a secret alliance to fight against federal independence, Rute is not a broad-minded Guy.
Therefore, Zack did not feel that the case was reopened by the Vega Police Department because Lut ’s secretary was threatened with life.
Zac feels that as Mayor of Vega, Rute, despite his own race and social status, has been unpopular among law enforcement agencies, the reason why he still put pressure on the police station is entirely because of Zac-
Rute knew Zac was the witness of this murder.
Zac didn't continue thinking, he quickly closed the file he was turning, and turned his head, "Hey ~ Joe ~"
Fatty Joe carried a pot of coffee and smiled to fill James ’cup." Oh, still so enthusiastic ~ "Blinking to Zac, it was the cover of the file that Zac closed, on the police folder symbols of.
Enthusiastic Mr. citizen, isn't it ~
James's phone was connected, but I couldn't get through for the time being. Zac smiled, "Yeah ~ still enthusiastic ~"
Fatty Joe glanced at James's direction and smiled to continue Zach, "You really pick people, hehe, that's Detective James Lance. Hey, before, Detective Ann Anthony, hehe Mr. Mayor ~ "
In fact, these words are out of bounds, and the fool can hear them. But it doesn't need to be treated as malicious. Zac cope with it calmly. "Speaking of the mayor, our common old friend, have you voted?" It seems that friends who haven't seen each other ever tell each other.
"Ah, not yet." Fat Joe actually sat down opposite Zac. Anyway, James would not be able to come back in a while, "Isn't there three days, don't worry. What about you?"
"Just cast." Zack smiled. Looking at Zac's expression, I really can't see this as a lie ~
"Oh, you must have voted for your old friend, right ~"
"Must." Zac nodded. Zac doesn't mind such chats, everyday communication.
Fatty Joe nodded with a smile, as if everything had been expected, "What about the" less enthusiastic citizen "?" Benjamin.
"Oh, he's home." Zack replied casually.
"What about the girl who is always crying?" Asked Alice.
"Oh, she wouldn't be happy that you said her, they are now teenagers ~" Zac replied with a smile.
"Oh haha, too!" Fat Joe also seemed happy to be able to chat with 'Old Friends'.
Must be quoted, have you noticed that there is no name in this fat man's words? As Zac said to James, when they met, Zac and Benjamin had no identity.
So, this question will appear sooner or later, "Speaking of it, I don't even know who you are ~" Fatty Joe lowered his head and said this with a smile.
"No!" Zach's acting skills, there is nothing to say, "You don't know who I am? I thought 'Enthusiastic citizen' is the nickname you gave me, it turns out that you don't know me?"
"Don't do that." Fatty Joe still smiled and patted Zac intimately. "You know where I am, I dare not inquire who the guys brought here by these policemen are ~"
Good reality.
Zac's expression was wronged, "You don't think I am a criminal informant."
"Hey, I really think so ~" Fat Joe is so real. "It's just that most of this guy's identity will be in those police conversations ..." He lowered his voice and winked at Zach, "Leak out." Then it returned to normal, "It's just you ~ Hehe, it never happened ~ So the name" Mr. Enthusiastic Citizen "was tied to you ~"
"Okay." Zack nodded with a smile, to express his understanding, "Then, belatedly introduce himself." Zack touched his pocket and took out his business card, "Zacree Grande, friend Call me Zack. "
"Grand?" Fat Joe took Zac's business card very seriously and looked at the name above. "You are the owner of the Grand Funeral Home ?!"
"It's a fake replacement." Zac smiled.
"Wow!" Is the inexplicable fat Joe's reaction? do not. He glanced at Zac, as if looking at it seriously for the first time, "Since you and Detective Anthony are no longer here, he has become the mayor, and I know that you" Mr. Enthusiastic Citizen "is not easy. I just did n’t expect that you are so simple, you are the master of Grande! "
"Oh, why, am I famous?"
"Oh my god!" Fatty Joe lowered his voice again and glanced cautiously at the area in front of him, as a few patrols were eating. "You don't know how many of the topics here are about you!"
"Oh? Good or bad?"
Fatty Joe's expression hesitated, "Oh." Enthusiastic citizen "style." The strange answer. He carefully took Zac's business card and looked back at James. James' phone was finished and he was ready to return.
"There is time to contact." Fat Joe left.