Vol 10 Chapter 22: Joe

"! I'm starting to get nervous!" Evan Uchin pulled a ring around his eye in the lobby of the Yuri Hotel with his eyes closed.
As he said, his body language is explaining his emotional tension. As for the Wu Qing on his face, it was the way Old Hank told him to shut up in the morning. It happened when Zac went to vote. Anyway, we don't care about this kind of thing anymore, so we won't repeat it.
Before coming out, Zach suggested that Evan treat the wound on his face. At least don't let the auditor who is about to give him true freedom make a bad impression on his appearance. But Evan refused to apply any feminine products to his face, so ...
Zac ignored Evan and did not answer the call.
"They will let me go, right!" Evan confirmed, "Now just go through the process! Right !!"
Zac continued to ignore Evan.
"! I swear that if I don't get my freedom, neither me nor you ..."
Zac stood up suddenly, also mentioned Evan who was still shouting, and pushed forward, "Go, the one who picked you up." Zac pointed to Ethela who was walking down here.
Evan finally glared at Zac and walked to Esra. Ysera indicated the direction to get off the elevator, and continued to Zac's side. The first sentence that came closer was, "Are you serious, there is a trace of a brawl on the guy's face."
"That's his proof of popularity in Grande, your Halfway House project." Understand Zac's meaning, don't explain it, "So you want your Halfway House to continue to exist healthy, not out What scandal you do n’t want to appear, give him freedom, let him go, let him leave Grande. "
Ysera chuckled, "Translate, get rid of the troublemaker early, right?"
"Exactly." While talking, Zack touched his pocket and took out a gift box with a very simple packaging. "Your."
Ysera froze for a moment, then smiled, "How many generations?"
"Four generations. You will be Hamilton's daughter." It's so easy and simple to talk to smart people.
"Okay, a little disappointed ~" Glancing at Zac, intentionally, "It's a little bit different from my initial expectation ~" Remember, Esra's initial request was to become Toledo, to be a descendant of Zac, " But the result may be worse, so I can accept this ~ "
"A little reminder of friendship." Zach was not interested in Esra's winking. "The ancestor of Lesenbla may appear in Barton. You may want to use this later. Just a reminder, when to think about Joining the Eternal Life Club, the decision is still up to you. "Zac said very gently.
Ethela raised her eyebrows, apparently a little surprised when she heard the ancestors, but she didn't ask much, and it wasn't the time to ask now-Evan was rudely clamoring in the elevator, urging here. "Thank you for reminding me, I will pay attention." Nodded toward Zac. "Aren't you going up, I called a few people with some interesting rights in Barton, you might want to meet."
Another piece of evidence proves that Esra doesn't know what is peace. Just like Murphy's evaluation, Ethera was a very special female character even in this era.
"No." Zack refused. "I'm a little bit wrong."
"Not strange ~" Esera finally gave our vampire a smile and went to the elevator.
Zac watched the elevator doors that took Evan and Ethella closed, and then turned away from the Yuri Hotel, heading southwest.
Judging simply, Zac went to the North District Police Station. In fact, Zac went to Joe's bar.
Regarding witnessing a traffic accident when going out of the house, the disgusting thing is that it happened at your doorstep. You can pretend that you did not go out and did not witness anything. Unfortunately, it is there. The tattered human body is dragging a red mark on the road at your door.
The follow-up of the accident will not find you as you wish. For example, the police knocked on your door and asked if you knew the poor man who was hit, or, the car that caused the accident.
In theory, Zac has been asked these two questions in Grande's office. Just one minute after Zac hung up, Zac received a call from Chapman. Ask Zac if he called just now.
Can Zac say no?
Hey, even without saying how easy it is for the police to obtain phone records, Zac already mentioned the fact that Evan had been on the previous call. As if the name wouldn't make Chapman think of Grandry's most troublesome former criminal!
What happened in front of your house happened in front of your house. Accept it.
In the course of Zach's march, there may be something to say-
Zac did not tell Evan Joe that he was dead. why? good question. Everyone find Zac. Zac needs to tell Evan before the process of Evan's freedom is about to happen-the "friend" he doesn't want to see, the reason why he really was free, Joe, dead, the reason for this matter Right. Come ~ don't be shy ~ eh? There's none? Ok. I guess everyone agrees with Zac's silence.
Zac stood in front of Joe ’s bar and saw the last person he wanted—James Lance.
The detectives of the homicide group are here. got it.
"Has the case been qualified so soon." Zac was not going to go in and asked James, who had come somberly.
"His body was stabbed a dozen times!" James lowered his voice a little, but he didn't want those police officers who were busy working to discover that he was leaking case information to a civilian, Qualitative! Gee! "Impatiently glanced at the police who were not here to work but just watched." If these guys delay, I should take over the case as soon as possible. "
What James meant was that when Zac called Joe, he should be picked up by him, not by any ordinary policeman.
"They just wanted to help." Zack didn't mean to defend himself-when Chapman called, he already explained part of the situation:
It was Joe ’s customers who discovered Joe ’s death and frequented the policemen here. The perennial habit makes them never expect any cases here. So when the police followed long-term habits, they ran to the kitchen to get food, but when Joe found that lying on the floor had started to stink, they ... were messy.
There is no need to question the professionalism of the police here. Their chaos is not that they destroyed the scene or the like, but that the entire case acceptance procedure was disrupted. The police who have been reporting crimes have become the reporters. The police who have been responsible for interviewing, interrogating, and looking for witnesses have become interviewees. To put it bluntly, most of the time, it is repeated in the corner of the crime scene, ‘Why does this happen! The person becomes the police himself.
Coupled with Joe's ... identity, although he is only a civilian, he can almost be regarded as a part of the North District Police Station. He is a person who can chat with all the policemen. He is a friend of everyone. So many policemen who shouldn't be here at all came running. All this makes this place confusing.
This is what James is complaining about. The normal procedure is dragged down by the victim's special redundancy.
Zac's eyes began to drift without aim. James noticed and continued to lower his voice a little nervously, "What are you looking at?"
"Joe ..." Zach's eyes fixed, "Here." Then he turned around and left the place with too much sight.
James froze for a moment and immediately followed.
Finding a place where there was no other line of sight, Zac stood still again, "Well?" Zac asked James.
"Still working on the" Xiaobai "case."
"Be careful." Zach is giving advice, "Although Weiss started the 'Xiaobai' case before you reinstated." The fact that this pair of partners did not handle the case together now, "He has no reason to go halfway Quit, but don't let this kind of thing become a reason for Darcy to re-sell you a partner. "
James opened his mouth, nodded, and said, "What about Joe? Is he here?"
"Give him some time." Where Zac's eyes focused, it seemed a little far away. "He's not sure I saw him yet."
James adjusted his emotions, and after a while, he saw that Zac's focus was rapidly drawing closer!
"Can you see me?" Is Joe, Bound Earth? No, he is an illusion! The colorful light spot is under the obese body inherited from the human body, and the shaking Zac wants to rub his eyes.
"I can see you." Zac pouted, "You don't want to touch me ..." The words didn't finish, the bright spot of light collapsed in front of Zac, then, the trembling light spot Slowly regrouped ...
"You, what are you ..."
Zac sighed.
James on the side looked anxious, "What ?! What happened ?! Is Joe coming? Is he talking to you ?! What is he talking about ?!"
"Hush—" Zach held James's mouth and explained, "Joe is here. But he probably thought I could see him, which is equivalent to he can touch me. So stop shouting and ask you to be a little considerate There is a problem that can be understood with a little empathy. Give Joe a little time to understand his current situation. "Zac released James." Is it possible? "
James shut his face in blush.
This is good.
Zac looked at the dimmed phantom man--Joe, as Zac just said, and gave the other person time to feel all this before speaking, "I am a vampire and have inherent restraint of the soul. And you, Joe , You understand what you are now. "
The weak voice came from the humanoid Joe gathered by the light spot, "Oh." Actually chuckled, "Vampire and soul ha. Oh. Hey ..."
"It's normal to be confused." Zac glanced at James and continued to say to Joe, "You know Detective Lance, all the policemen over there, what are you trying to do." After the crack, the dimmed light spot is on James's, huh, lust, and light up again. This is the illusion. "You can feel it, right. But we can't talk about those, we don't care about what those humans want now. As the only creature here that can see you and communicate with you, me, you can ask me any questions. "
We have witnessed Zac again and again good, we should put a bold ‘good guy’ on Zac ’s head! Ha ha ha ha.
"Human ..." Joe is just repeating Zac's words, isn't it, Zac said, regardless of what humans want, "I, what am I?" This is the right question, what am I. Everyone should always ask themselves this question.
"You are an illusion." Zac just answered, holding down James who was about to shout again. Understand James, Joe isn't a terrestrial. Zac's answer continued, "You depend on the human desires in this world, the souls of this world are alien."
"I, I don't understand ..."
"People want wealth, people want attractive appearances, people want happy events." Zach is explaining illusions, "what everyone wants, but things that don't really happen to people." It's worth listening to. "I want to have it, but I will never get it. I can't be a part of human soul's soul mark." There is no need to explain that the soul mark is human experience. "It's you, the illusion living in this world."
"I, I ..." may be Zac's explanation, too essential, "I, I am not real?"
"No. You are very real." Zach looked at Joe. "You will understand. Now, is there any problem?"
"Me, how did I become like this?"
"Yeah." Zac glanced at James again, answering the question that James just wanted to shout, "You are dead." So straightforward, "Your body can't bear soul, so your soul ... "Zac used quite euphemistic words," Exposure in this world. "Zac found Joe's eyes in the light spot." You have passed a stage that we call the earth-bound spirit. "Zac has a description," You should remember that you grab things you are familiar with, such as your corpse, and repeat the scene of your death, trying to understand why you died. "
"I, I remember ..." Obviously it was not a good memory, the light was shaking, "I remember a bunch of disgusting animals suddenly appeared ... Dogs! They look like dogs! Want to attack me! I'm fighting them! I'm here……"
Zac interjected, "That's a dog. They're not part of your repeated death. They just want to drag you to hell."
"Uh, dog ... drag me to hell?"
"Don't go to your heart, in the future you will understand that and heaven are meaningless." Zac waved his hand.
"Okay, okay, then, and then they, they left, and suddenly left!" The light on Joe's body disappeared once, "I, I want to follow them to make sure they are really gone, I leave mine , I did n’t see those dogs, I started to go out ... Then I felt ... Broken ... What belongs to me ... Broken ... Then, then I felt that I was disappearing ... I, I became such……"
Zac frowned and summed it up, "Your death was interrupted by dogs, but they did not complete their work and dragged you into hell. Instead, they left suddenly, and then you chased them and left you. The scope of the spirit's movement, so because you cross the border, your instincts require you to continue to exist, and you become a phantom. "
"Uh ... I, I think ... that's it ... right." Can we blame Joe's uncertainty.
Zac nodded and pointed to James. "You heard it. Then I will hand it over to you."
"What are you going to do?" James asked Zac as he turned to leave.
"Go to the fallen angel, the dog will not drag the soul to half to leave. Unless you hope that in the future Barton will have many more people like Joe who become inexplicably soul souls, you should let me tell this to the fallen angel and let them Solve the problem of hellhound's idle work. "
"Uh." James has never been so easily satisfied, "What about here? What about the case? I can't see Joe at all! I can't ask him questions!"
"James, Joe is an illusionist." Zac shook his head and went further and further. "Trust me, if it wasn't that he touched me just now, this case has been solved."
"Oh." James blinked and watched Zac leave.
James still has problems. For example, what should I do if the case is resolved? I can't leave Joe who is already a phantom here. For example, what to do if the Illusionary Man appeared, although this is obviously not an easy skill, but considering Joe's adventures as an Illusionary Man, the ghost knows what miracles he might have done in the place where the police got together. such as……
But this is what James needs to be able to solve, isn't he? James Lance, the future mayor, this is his job. He knew he needed to be able to complete these tasks without Zac. from now on.