Chapter XVII
"What the hell are you going to do?" said Michelle, holding two cups of tea in front of the two 'guests' who suddenly arrived. It's not that she doesn't have other thoughts, but she doesn't know what she can do?
When she sat down, she saw the stout guy swapping his teacup, and before she could express the tension that appeared for a moment, she was distracted by Zack's voice, "Find out who is threatening you, this is Smith's request." Getting you through this time safely, that's what Dylan is asking for. ”
Zach looked at Benjamin's redundant movements and shook his head, but he didn't say anything, "The latter is a public good, so you'd better cooperate, otherwise we're in a bad mood and can hand you over to Smith." ”
Michelle was nervous again, but her nervousness never went away, "You, who the hell are you, why would Dylan let you protect me?"
Zach had no intention of answering the latter question, saying that it was just to reassure Dylan as he floated in the air. Zach took out a business card and pushed it in front of Michelle, with a joking tone, "If you can get Dylan's family to hold a funeral at the Grande House, how about we turn the public welfare into a formal commission?"
No one laughed.
Zach pouted boredly, "Tell me what you know." All. ”
Michelle didn't have a choice, and after taking a deep breath, she began to narrate.
The same strange phone call as Dylan, then a threatening package. The difference is that Smith's list unfolds on the coffee table, and Dylan's name stimulates the woman who is going through pain and fear, and her narrative has something else.
"I told Dylan about the strange phone call. Michelle picked up the tea that Benjamin had exchanged and frowned when she drank it, but she didn't dare to do anything superfluous," and Dylan said he had received the same call. ”
"When I got the threatening package, I didn't know what to do. Michelle seems to have relived the scene. Nervous trembling.
You know, when a woman finds herself secretly photographed while sleeping, the fear is countless times higher than that of a man.
"And Dylan told you to do what the phone instructed, right?" Zach asked.
"Yes. Michelle nodded, "He said it was too dangerous to resist without knowing anything about the other party. Do what the other person tells you first, and then figure it out. ”
The moment is indeed the wisest decision, but looking at it now, not at all.
"He tried to comfort me!" said Michelle, a sad look on her face as tears began to blur her lenses, "He said that the other party didn't ask us to do anything other than let us record. That's a good thing, we didn't really betray Mr. Smith. There won't be any danger either......"
Zach has understood that Dylan is the spiritual support of this woman, and having Dylan's support makes her feel at ease.
Then things were a little different than Dylan's, and Michelle received instructions to stop when Smith received a threatening call, apparently for secrecy. And the vampire was not polite before, but it was very graceful to touch and look at it, and there was no trace of invasion. It seems from start to finish. None of them were exposed.
This means that the threatening phone call to Smith. There is no recording of the conversation involving the secret core. And Smith's list to Grande is not hiding anything. Forgive Zach for his distrust of Smith, and the first impression still serves some purpose.
"Dylan's home was burglarized. Zach began to use the timing of the event as a starting point, "and that was when Smith had already compiled a list of people to record and was on the move." Did you notice anything different?" Zach wondered if the other party had done anything to hide Michelle, other than the early termination of the recording command.
"Nope. Michelle shook her head. It seemed to touch something sad again, "Dylan didn't tell me about the theft of his house at all." And I always thought that his instructions had also stopped. ”
It seems that Michelle will not know anything. Zach stood up and pointed to the crumpled list, "We're going to get this back." ”
Michelle quickly picked up the list and handed it to Zach. "You, are you leaving?!Where are you going?!"
"Don't panic. The corners of Zach's mouth curled, and he glanced at Dylan, who had been floating in the air, "We'll arrange for someone to watch you, and in order not to make this visit look suspicious, we also need to go to Dylan's other relatives' homes to have a look." Zach smiled and looked at Michelle, "Do you understand?"
There was a clear flash of thought in Michelle's eyes, and then she nodded.
When Zach was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something, turned around and asked, "Has Smith sent someone here?"
"Yes. Michelle nodded, tears welling up in her eyes again, "They sent me back today to prepare a burial ...... for Dylan" There were words that she couldn't pick up after a name.
Zach nodded, and it could be seen from the photos that were held up in order not to touch the injuries that the relationship between the two was public. Naturally, Smith would also be concerned about Michelle's moves. It's not normal if you don't pay attention.
Zach asked no more questions, and Benjamin left Michelle's house. Of course, Dylan didn't follow.
The truck left the back bay and headed for the next person to visit.
The two brothers of the Grande House did a lot of play, visiting the sad man's house under the name of Smith. Of course, to these really innocent people, what Zach said was that Smith wanted to investigate whether the morning case was really an accident.
Dylan's family was cold enough to the two inexplicable guys because they weren't police officers.
After the play, Zach pulls out the list and the van starts driving towards the real target.
Smith's list is not simply a list of names, but is classified by industry. For example, security guards, doormen, that is, Dylan's position, is at the top. They have access to the most people, but they are also on the outskirts of Smith's secret industry, like the General Compendium.
Then there are the names of the people inside the warehouse, some of which are the warehouse management who died in an 'accident' for the first time, and the security personnel in the warehouse compartment. They have very limited contact with the people they have in contact with, and they will not intersect with the outer layer, and they will rarely intersect with the core technical personnel below.
Most of the people on the list are like that. Smith made a sufficiently detailed annotation.
It stands to reason that the following should be the core figures, such as Michelle. But the depth of the list ends here and begins to develop horizontally.
The rest of the names have nothing to do with the warehouse, and Smith uses the 'dealer' logo to mark it. In fact, by the time the list was put together, Smith had already lost, and all but the people who made the core 'products' had not been bought.
But the opponent didn't show up, which created the illusion that there was still room for manoeuvre.
After listening to Smith, Dylan, and Michelle, Zach didn't think there was anything else to discover. So, Zach asked Benjamin to visit the people who were labeled as 'dealers'. Smith was a businessman after all, and if this qiē was done by a competitor, then there was really no need to show control over core production. Because of the control of the core periphery, the product is produced, who is not to sell it?
Everybody is just a change of boss.
So it's better to operate and corrupt not a few people in the warehouse, but the outermost dealers.
In order to create a reasonable situation for Michelle, the truck circled around the city of Barton and even visited the family of the security guard, Ted. By the time the two finally reached the western border of the West Side, the sun was already on the horizon.
Smith's secret business isn't just in Barton. According to Zach's thinking, if you want to buy dealers, then the farther away from Barton City, where Smith is located, the weaker and most profitable the part. So, now the two of them are going to visit the dealers who will import the 'products' into Newton.
Zach and Benjamin stepped onto the porch of a certain house, Zach looked around, smiled and patted Benjamin on the shoulder, "Guess, before we came, did Old Grande and Old Hank help Smith transfer these products?"
Benjamin chuckled, and he and Zach thought to go together. Because not far away is the cemetery where Grande used to be in the West End.
The West End was originally part of Newton, but was eventually separated by Patton, Quinn, Smith, and Stone, giving birth to the current City of Barton.
So the cemetery in the West End used to be the west side of Newton, a place that most citizens would choose, and it would be strange if Smith didn't take advantage of such a convenient resource. Who's going to inspect the coffin? And according to the clues that old Hank has recently begun to show his true face, Zach thinks that the current Grande is probably a kindergarten compared to the Grande of the past.
Zach knocked on the door, listened to the voices inside, and waited patiently.
Then, unexpectedly, the owner seemed to stop at the door and did not move.
Zach and Benjamin looked at each other and frowned, "We're sent by Smith. Zach added.
The other party did not react. Zach frowned, held Smith's list in front of the cat's eyes, and pointed to a name, and the address behind it, "This is you, I'm sure you know the other people on this list." Zach pouted, "Don't worry, we're just here to ask about something." ”
The person at the door could be heard hesitating, and the sound of the rubbing of the palms on the handles was clear to vampires and werewolves.
"You promise...... "You won't hurt me," a voice finally came from behind the door. Guarantee. ”
Zach and Benjamin looked at each other again, and this guy was a little too bold for a businessman who dared to sell certain 'products'.
Zach shook his head and said helplessly, "Why do we want to hurt you......"
Before Zach could finish his sentence, the door opened.
The vampire and the werewolf raised their eyebrows at the same time, "Oh. Zach looked at the nervous man in front of him and opened his mouth, "You're a demon." ”
Grande's two brothers sighed.
"You're a demon. Zach repeated, shaking his head, looking at the guy in front of him, whose eyes were completely covered in ink black due to nervousness, and asked, "Why are you a demon?" (to be continued......)