Vol 10 Chapter 12: phone

When we returned to Grande, it was past zero. Zac went straight to the office and picked up the receiver to dial. If nothing goes wrong, Zac will leave a message on the answering machine ... know who Zac is calling.
"Alice made me a supper." James was holding the plate ... meat, standing at the door of the office.
"Oh, did you say thank you?" Zach's phone was connected, and the waiting tone should soon become a message prompt.
James stepped into the office, holding the meat with one hand, "Alice seldom cooks food now, why did she deliberately make me a supper?"
"Because everyone likes you and wants to be nice to you." Zac bent the corner of James's mouth, the kind with extremely symmetrical corners on both sides, and then withdrew his expression, waiting for the message in the receiver with no emotion.
James frowned and sat across from the desk, looking at Zac, "Who are you calling?"
"Anthony." Zack replied, and at the same time, a message prompt appeared, ‘you are connected, speak. 'Zac said, "It's me. Two things, there is a secret channel made of silver in the city government, Gina replaced the vote for the election. Back to my call ..." Zac glanced at the time, "In ten minutes , Otherwise I will knock on your door within ten minutes. "
Zac put down the phone and looked at James. James was in a solidified state. Zac watched it for a while before swallowing the food in his mouth. "What did you just say?"
Zac is not going to repeat it, "You have ten minutes."
"Uh." James nodded and pushed away his supper. "Is it Murphy's exploration in that world?" James's thinking turned fast enough.
"That's right." The answer is okay, "No one knows what will happen to this, so I'll discuss it with Anthony first, you detective, no opinion."
James frowned, thinking for a moment, "No opinion."
Understand James. As a detective, he just learned that there are secret facilities in the city government, and the voting results of the mayoral election were destroyed by someone. If the previous James, it should have been exploded. Now James's "no opinion" really needs psychological construction.
Zac nodded, "So how are you doing today." Strictly speaking, it was yesterday.
James shook his head and changed his mood quickly. "After you separated from Joe's bar, I was waiting for Vega's progress at the police station. Weiss conducted a staff review of the club in the West End and Lydia. "It sounds like James spent his working hours bored at the police station.
Zac waited a while, but James seemed to have finished speaking. So he shook his head, "No, it's very late when Louise and I went out. You haven't returned yet. You must have done something, not just wait."
James's lips twitched, "Kate contacted me."
Zac raised his eyebrows and considered for a moment, without putting a gossip expression, but with a serious face taken seriously, "Is she safe?"
"She is safe now, for now." James glanced at Zac, and his eyes quickly withdrew, not knowing where to focus, "she said she was kidnapped, detained somewhere, and then suddenly Released. "
"Kidnapped." Zac maintained a stern look, and wouldn't let James glance at him to collapse, "Who?"
"Kate said to release her ..." James shook his head and reorganized his words. "The car that left her on the roadside had no license, but the model was a military vehicle." Sure enough, James glanced at Zac His face quickly withdrew, "So she contacted me."
"Did you say anything to her?"
"I told her the truth." James's eyes fixed on his fingers wrestling between his legs. "80% of my father's people kidnapped her, and then after my threat, my father let her go again." "
Zac collapsed his expression. 80%? Ha ha. "Then how did she respond?"
"She's scared of creatures that can change her memory, change shape, fly, and create things out of thin air." Uh, isn't it aliens, "she's not afraid of people." James looked at her fingers writhing inextricably, "She is a reporter. This is her response."
"Okay." Zachillo thought. "So she, your girlfriend, will continue to investigate in the central part what your father did with military privileges to save you. Bad things."
James will respond. Zac leaned forward slightly and looked over the desk to see the battle between James' hands ... It seemed impossible to tell the difference.
Zac withdrew his gaze. "You know—" Zac took a grim expression and turned into comfort. "If Kate insists on investigating your father in the middle, you should feel at ease. At least, her safety has been completely guaranteed. . "
"Why." James is still watching his body fighting.
"Because your initial request was fulfilled, if Kate continued to chase the military, she would be with Oz Kozier, at least on the surface who are still executing the magic banquet orders, will be. After all, the goal is the same . And your father will not continue ... "Zac tried to whitewash the words, but did not get the powder," Persecuting Kate, then the only threat to Kate in the middle is the alien. Then with Oz, the alien is no longer a threat Now. "
The effect of this comfort is very significant-
James fingers, stopped fighting, and separated peacefully. But do n’t be mistaken. The victory or defeat has not yet been divided. This battle will happen again sooner or later. Now it is just a truce.
James looked at Zac and was quiet for a while, "I think I finally understand your" trick "."
"What trick?" Zac raised an eyebrow.
"You just never stop, right? You are turned around and you turn around and continue to move forward. So no matter what, when you come to you, you always ..." James's eyes twitched, " 'successful'."
Zac tilted his head, "You can say that, as long as I face the front, I'm 'smoothly moving forward.'"
When it was over, James began to be spiritual, and Zac was talking about these obscure things here.
James took a deep breath and looked at the phone. In a few minutes, if the phone does not ring, Zac should be leaving. So, "Why don't you go directly to Anthony's house to find him." Whether the city government has secrets against aliens or the vote is destroyed, it is not a trivial matter. Telephone notification, too polite.
"I don't want to run into situations that I don't want to run into." Zack shrugged his shoulders and didn't resist James's topical changes. "For example, Ethella was at Anthony."
"Humph." James snorted. "You're the guy involved in the marriage between Anthony and Ethella. Would you mind this kind of thing?" Yes, James would laugh at Zac.
"Mind." Zac didn't hide, "I received the blood that Lesenbra gave Esera. If I were to meet Esera, I would prefer to be private, without Anthony present."
James's face was dark, "You once said that Esera will never stand on the side of the feast." Remember, Zac said that the plan of the feast ruined Esra's political career— —Using the Liszt family to superficially support the Esra election, and actually use the republican illegal labor business to secretly draw the magic banquet to the family that is reluctant to let Barton continue to survive. Later, Zac realized that Smith was jointly planted by the West End family. So James said that when he was in a complicated mood, we cannot ignore Miley Liszt still living in James's house, "What does it mean that she wants to be a member of the Devil Banquet like this."
"Pursue longer-term goals." Zack can only give Esera such a comment, "For example, now, Esera will become Barton's new Lesenbla-with the Mayor of Barton Anthony to maintain the relationship you know. Rosembra. This means that Esera ’s influence can continue on you, because Anthony is your template. So this is the stage of the event for at least a dozen years. "Zack shrugged." A dozen Years are already too long for human women. If Ethula ’s political activity before you did n’t appear, her career cycle is over, but for Ethula Lesenbull, this It ’s just the beginning. Understand, she is not joining the feast, she is using the feast-now the only powerful alien force in the Federation to start her own eternal life, everything is for her. I would not say that she will Become a poisonous tumor in the magic banquet, but she is definitely the moth that exhausts the nutrition of the magic banquet. "
This explanation can only make James more gloomy. However, it is also a fact that cannot be resisted. This is the character of Ysera. Oh, speaking of it, I suggest that Esera be the guy in Lesenbra, or Zac ~ everyone is restless guy.
James was quiet for a while, and picked up his supper again. In the office waiting for the call, only the sound of chewing.
With his tail stuck for ten minutes, Zac had already got up and was ready to change his clothes for easy movement, and the phone rang.
Pick up.
"The secret chamber was made by me." Anthony's voice, "I am the mayor. My city government has the effect of prohibiting the control of ordinary human citizens, but not for some citizens. I built a place for such citizens. There is no problem in maintaining the absolute authority of the municipal government among all citizens of Patton. "
Zac held the earpiece and only listened.
"Vote." There was a pause over the receiver. "Blake has told me the results of the first day of voting at the discretion of his family. The rate of voting for my re-election as mayor is only 20%." After a while, "Now I know why." I didn't thank Zac. Hey, forget it. He has always had this attitude towards Zac, and it is considered to be a certain degree of absolute equality. "I should ask how you know. Is Gina doing this kind of thing? "
Zac can speak, "The soul swells in the morning, Walter." Zac didn't talk about inheritance, and used the most concise summary.
"Keep on the phone." Anthony gave the order without responding to Zac's explanation. Zach heard Anthony speak to others—
"I know, burn the ballot box, seal the passage, Gina ..." Hesitated briefly, "Close it."
Therefore, this is why Anthony dragged the limit of ten minutes before returning the call. The mayor has made the actual action with the fastest speed.
"Don't worry about the result of the voting." Anthony returned to Zac's earpiece. "The number of voters counted today is one-half of the total number of votes in previous years, normal data, but this year's voter estimate is expected to be the past two. Times, the result of a single day ’s voting will not be announced, only the final sum will be kept secret. In the next two days of voting, no one ’s voting intention will be affected, so in the end, I will still be re-elected.

"You are the mayor, you said that, then I believe you." Zac said this very sincerely, after all, Anthony said such a rare detail, if not for the sake of reassuring his vampire friend, Anthony has no reason to say so much.
"I will get the answer from Gina's mouth on my side." It was a pause, and then, "Monitoring, the location of the voting audit, and the time control for changing the voting. She really did a very comprehensive job." This explains how It was n’t Zac ’s notice. If Anthony did n’t know what happened, he still did n’t want to thank Zac, but,
If I ca n’t get an answer from her.

Zac simply connected, "I will continue to trouble Walter."
"Well." Thank you, it is impossible to appear.
However, Anthony did not hang up. The receiver was quiet for a while, and James' supper was almost over.
"You voted today, but you didn't vote either." Anthony broke the silence on the phone.
Zach smiled, "Yeah, it's a pity that Zachary Grande's identity can only be used this time." Contextually speaking, a legitimate citizen can only vote once. But, inexplicably, as if there are other meanings ...
"At least you received the voting certificate." Anthony smiled over there. "Oh, proof of the significance of the citizens of Barton. Do you like the badge, I designed it for the citizens of Barton."
Anthony, personally, designed a badge for the citizens of Barton.
We can think of it with our nails. Anthony, the mayor, won't ask other Patton citizens if they like this badge, right?
Zac opened his mouth. For a moment, the words came to his lips, and he didn't say, "Not bad." Is this a lie. Not counting, Zac just responded selectively to Anthony's second sentence.
"Humph." Humph with an unobvious smile, "Hang up."
"Good night." Zac put down the phone.
"Are you talking about that badge in the end?" Forgive James. Although he is "eavesdropping" hard, we understand human hearing.
Zac glanced at James. "Yes." Zac got up and was about to leave the office.
"Exactly, I want one. You let Anthony get us a few more."
Zac glanced at James, then moved his mouth, and the words of the exit were indeed, "Okay, what else do you want? Come and listen, I will ask the mayor together."
The corner of James's mouth twitched and he stopped talking.