Near five o'clock, Anthony, the Mayor of Porto, was sitting in his car. Gina, the beautiful female secretary, bent over bitterly and massaged her heels. Anthony's eyes unconsciously looked down at a part of Gina exposed by bending down. The tiredness of this day seemed to have been reduced a lot
"Keep your eyes ahead! Watch the road!" Anthony found that the driver in the front seat was looking at the same place as him in the rearview mirror. He reminded the restless driver severely and put his hand in front of Gina.
Realizing her posture, Gina straightened up shyly, covered her chest, and smiled gratefully at the Mayor.
The Mayor of Porto nodded coldly, but he was happy in his heart, "take a small step at a time, build a good impression first, don't worry, don't worry..."
Let us not judge Mr. Mayor's philosophy of conquering women, but simply describe Mr. Mayor's busy day.
The Municipal Government recovered the cemetery and privatized the funeral industry. Up to Porto, which is located in the easternmost part of Massa state, has been implemented in the whole Massa state. But for the entire Federation, this is just a trial. So the governor and the two senators from Massachusetts attached great importance to it. What Anthony did all day today was to accompany the two senators to inspect each cemetery area and explain what projects would be carried out after the land was recovered.
Of course, in the process, the two senators who were destined to be opponents showed very different concerns. One was more concerned about the development direction of the funeral industry, so Anthony had to take the southern cemetery area under Ryan's control as an example to explain that Porto did not give up the tradition... While the other was more concerned about the land planning and commercial value.
Anthony was caught in the middle, with the illusion that the gubernatorial campaign had begun.
In short, Anthony was now free. He sent the two politicians away. Now he can finally go back to the city hall and have a rest. Then he will go to the birthday party of Cologne's niece!
"Gina, what is the name of the niece of cologne?" Anthony rubbed his temples and asked his secretary.
Gina replied, "Lisa, sir,the daughter of the youngest sister of director Cologne."
"How old is she?"
"Ten years old, sir."
Anthony sighed. If he didn't have a good personal relationship with Cologne, how could he need the Mayor to attend the birthday party of a 10-year-old girl! Anthony looked out the window and saw the city hall building.
The driver opened the door and Anthony got off. Gina followed him. Anthony decided to go back to the office quickly and get drunk. Then he could spend a ten-year-old's birthday party with a confused mind.
Anthony walked past the reception desk of the city hall and went straight in. No, Anthony turned back and looked at the two people sitting in the hall, Ryan and Benjamin!
Anthony reluctantly made a 'go to the office' gesture to the two, and then directly gave Gina a holiday.
Back in the Mayor's office, Anthony just opened the bottle of whisky, and the three pushed open the door of his office.
Three people?
Ryan smiled and put the lid back on the bottle. "Anthony, what we're going to say next is that you need to stay awake."
Anthony frowned and let Ryan take the bottle away and put it back in the wine cabinet. He looked at the third man: "who is this? Wait." Anthony rubbed his temples: "you are James Lance! The son of General Lance! Why are you with these two people?!"
"You see, I said, you need to stay awake." Ryan seemed to know the place very well. He had to move two chairs and all three of them sat down.
"Well." Anthony stared at Ryan: "what's the matter? He's James, isn't he? It's not a mess!"
James now fully believed that Anthony and Ryan had a profound friendship. James now didn't know whether to be happy or sad.
"Benjamin! You say, you are an honest guy. Why did you come here?" Anthony knew that vampires like to play with words. Compared with werewolves, they are more honest and straightforward. Anthony preferred to talk to werewolves.
Benjamin raised his eyebrows at Ryan. Anthony's "praise" was very useful: "this is James Lance, but Porto has two" James "in the past week. Please explain the details."
James looked at a vampire and a werewolf around him, and at the serious Mayor. He never thought that he would meet Mayor Porto in this way. The Mayor's behavior and words just now only expressed one thing. He believed in the other two 'people' more than General Lance's son.
Porto, James was just an outsider.
James took several deep breaths, put aside such feelings, and told the whole event: shapeshifter, disappearance, body, his meeting with Ryan Benjamin, David, communication, rumors... All.
Anthony's face changed several times during James' narration. Finally, he leaned against his desk with his hands on his face: "Ryan, go get my whisky. I need a drink now."
"No." Ryan shook his head. "I need you to stay awake and think like a Mayor."
"Hey." Anthony touched his face with both hands, and his expression was not very good. Anthony held out his right hand to James. "Sorry, I doubted your identity."
James stretched out his right hand and shook it forcefully with the normal human body temperature. James read Anthony and knew he was a soldier.
"Another shapeshifter, uh, Kim, where is he?" Anthony began to think.
"He's in my trunk." Benjamin replied, "we don't want him to walk around."
"The 'rumors' that Kim said are somewhat believable." Anthony frowned. "I mean, can we trust this guy?"
James breathed a sigh of relief. From this sentence, he felt that the Mayor did not want foreigners to enter Porto!
"Full marks." Ryan reluctantly replied, "he was the first one to come to Porto. He was very picky about his diet, and his sense of purpose was very weak." Ryan gLanced at James, meaning that he actually let James survive. "These oddities represent that he is the one who is excluded even in his own ethnic group. There is little difference between an alien ethnic group and ordinary people. People will not abandon their home because of a rumor, but he did so."
"In other words, he can no longer stay in his original place of residence. But you, you are a vampire who can walk in the sun, and his loyalty has shifted." Anthony nodded, sighed again, and then asked, "do you have any plans? I don't want my city to be invaded by aliens at the bottom!"
James noticed the words Anthony used to describe Ryan. It seemed that the 'noble' mentioned by Ryan in Curson studio had a special meaning!
"In the first step, I need to touch the body that was found before. I want to lock the smell of the shapeshifter that initiated the rumor." Benjamin said: "although the rumors have been released, we must at least end this source first."
"Then why did you come to me?" Anthony was puzzled and asked, "James, you have taken back your identity. You can take Benjamin with you..." Anthony suddenly thought of something and pressed his brow: "damn! The cemetery is recycled and the funeral is privatized!"
Benjamin shrugged. It seemed that the Mayor was aware of the problem.
After receiving the victim's body, the Porto police station will first go through the forensic examination and certificate storage, and then send it to the funeral owners who used to be public resources of the municipal government. If the body is unclaimed for a long time, it will be disposed of casually.
This process has not changed now, but in this case, two points need to be noted. First, when the body was found, it had been exposed to the outside world for too long and was seriously corrupted. It was sent to the funeral owner for medical examination. Second, the funeral industry has been privatized. The facilities that used to be public resources have been privatized. Any owner with a little sense of economy will not save these badly damaged bodies for too long.
This morning, Benjamin had already transferred all the funeral homes in Porto because of the purchase of stone materials. The privatization notice issued by the municipal government had been received by everyone, which means that the ownerless property now stored in them has become their private property. If it needs to be called, there must be a formal search warrant.
Moreover, if the funeral owners move fast enough, these bodies that occupy resources are estimated to be the first to be cremated!
Before coming here, Benjamin had gone to David's house and remembered David's smell. Now he still needed to compare the smell of the body before to separate the smell that can really determine the shapeshifter.
If you don't understand, let me explain. The smell of shapeshifter consists of two parts, one is the smell of shapeshifter's external image, and the other is the fixed smell of shapeshifter itself. This is a special phenomenon caused by two sets of digestive systems of shapeshifter.
What Benjamin gets now is a mixture of David's and shapeshifter's own smell. Even the real David is mixed with the mixed smell because of the eating of shapeshifter. So what Benjamin needs is another different mixed smell, which can be confirmed by comparison.
Werewolf's nose, isn't it amazing? I think so, too.
"I need to call Cologne!" Anthony picked up the phone. Even though the Mayor was very anxious, the dial of the phone still turned slowly. Anthony just hoped that the shapeshifter was not manipulating the phone line, or he was hoping that the other party was manipulating!
After the phone was connected, a busy tone came from the receiver. Yes, it was a busy tone. This voice, which was often heard only ten years ago, often sounded in Porto this week. A busy tone means that the other party is talking to someone else and cannot connect. In fact, after the popularity of answering machines, this voice has long been replaced by 'please leave a message after the beep'.
Now there was a busy tone instead of a message from the answering machine, which means that 'David' was controlling the communication!
"Busy tone, he is in Porto Telecom office now!" Anthony looked at Benjamin and said.
"Very good." Benjamin stood up. "It saved me a lot of trouble. I'll go first."
"be careful ~" Ryan said to Benjamin, who stood up and moved his arms. At the same time, he pulled James, who also wanted to leave together, "what are you doing? There are still important things left!"