Early in the morning, the old man opened the door of Anderson's house and was about to scold the visitors who ignored the closed sign! But seeing James with two dark circles under his eyes, he closed his mouth wide open, snorted heavily, and complained to the Great Dane next to Alice, "Kim! Your brother is here to see you!"
Unable to fight back against old Hank's taunts, James moved into the Anderson house, "Where's Ryan?"
"He's resting." Wiping the coffin in the display area with old Hank every morning is Alice's regular activity. Now she held a suede rag and answered James's question.
The misty light and shadow converged, and in the blink of an eye, the translucent Run, wearing a rugby jacket emblazoned with 'quarterback', with the appearance of Conor Herman, stood in front of James, facing Alice. Shouting: "Why did he come! He's a murderer! Let him go! I don't want to see him!"
Alice backed away with some timidity. Kim, the Great Dane, opened his mouth, pointed his teeth at the air, and howled menacingly.
"That new guy?" Old Hank looked at Alice, frowned, raised the fire tongs in his hand, and waved it in the air! The Great Dane raised its front paws and pointed forward. Old Hank made an "oh" sound, and the tongs in his hand reached forward, and finally stabbed the translucent Run. The light and shadow were scattered, and the Run disappeared.
Alice looked apologetically at the dazed James: "Ryan is in the basement."
James bowed his head without saying thank you and walked in quickly.
The basement of Anderson's house was much colder than that of ordinary people. For those who do not know here, they may think that there was a compartment here to collect and put the remains. However, in fact, there was a special basement staircase on the south side of Anderson's house. The basement for storing the remains was not connected with Ryan's residence, but directly below the coffin display area on the first floor.
James is naturally not someone who doesn't know about this place. He knows that this deliberate coldness is to relax the vampire's senses and make it easier to enter a dormant state.
"Ryan! Ryan! Wake up!" James kept his distance and shouted at the vampire lying on the wide stone platform.
"You are rude." Ryan lay flat on the stone platform: "interrupting other people's rest."
"We need to talk." James looked around, but couldn't find a chair. He moved a stack of old newspapers and didn't dislike the dust on it, so he sat on it.
Ryan sighed, got up helplessly, picked up the robe beside him, and put it on, "You can see Run because you are the one who recited the soul-inducing spell. If this is what you want to ask."
"I almost thought about it." James drooped his head, his voice was weak, obviously, he didn't get much rest last night: "I want to ask other things."
Ryan closed his eyes and carefully adjusted his heartbeat, "If you're bothered by him calling you a 'murderer,' don't have to. Death is an angry thing, he's just venting his anger, and this stage will pass. , although he was telling the truth."
"That's it!" James' drooping head was raised suddenly, and in the dark basement, his dark eye circles became more remarkable, "Why does he call me a murderer!"
Ryan opened his eyes, and the red in his eyes slowly faded. Vampires are at their most vulnerable in two moments. The first is naturally in dormancy. When a vampire's heart stops beating and blood stops flowing, they are no different from corpses. You can choose your favorite method slowly from the methods of 'how to kill vampires' recorded in my notes...
The second is when the blood rewashes and flows, which is when the vampire wakes up. At this time, the vampire has just recovered from the state of the corpse and re-adapted to his body. All the senses and control power must go through from nothing to chaos to the final control.
Ryan glanced at the excited James, "Don't you think you're a murderer?"
"Why do I think so!" James stood up and walked over to Ryan, who was still sitting.
Ryan felt the control of his body gradually regained and raised his hand to stop James' intention to continue approaching. With the vampire's superb sense of recovery comes the equally excellent hunger. In this respect, it is no different from ordinary people.
Ryan looked at James again: "Then why do you look like shit."
Uh, about getting up anger, vampires are also unusually similar to ordinary people...
James opened his mouth and sat back down on the pile of old newspapers. Last night, his sleep time probably didn't add up to an hour! The vampire said to him, 'Have a good dream! ' As if under a spell, he kept waking up from nightmares, then tossing and turning, images of Connor struggling in the flames, stuffed into the trunk, and trying to escape only to be caught by Revenge. Until he fell asleep in a daze and was awakened by the burning image of Connor, tossing and turning again...and so on!
So James hopped on the first bus to Porto South and came to the Anderson house. As for why the bus? Naturally, in order to prevent being tracked by Revenge, Anderson's house was exposed twice. Although James was tormented by something, his thoughts were clear.
"You should be grateful." Ryan stood up and began to move his limbs. "At least he's using the third person, otherwise you'll feel more guilty."
"You! You are deliberately disturbing my mind!" James stared at the vampire. "You are just trying to use this to make a line between me and the hunters!"
"I agree with your last sentence." Ryan stopped and sat back on the stone platform, returning to his usual appearance, smiling and looking at James: "But I didn't disturb your thinking, I didn't even know you would be there." Ryan undid the robes he had tied at random and started experimenting with fancy knotting techniques. "What you should be thinking about is why Revenge took you there. Anyway, he's going to commit murder, and you're a detective. "
"No!" James shook his head, but there was already a trace of doubt in his eyes. Ryan's question caught his attention, but now he wanted to confute Ryan's statement: "He didn't kill, he just wanted to..." James frowned and thought his words deeply, "He just wants to clear an 'Earthbound Spirit', even if it's his younger brother!"
"Oh?" Ryan chuckled, "Are you moved by this kind of 'righteousness'?"
James kept his mouth shut. Regarding the Earthbound Spirit, he had already asked Anthony on the phone last night. This is a process that all life will go through after death. Some exist for a long time, several years, until the remains return to dust, while others are short-lived and only fleeting.
They don't have the ability to affect anything, that is, Run doesn't harm anyone, including the body he used afterward. His possession was just luckily encountering an empty shell in the place of his bound death.
"Then let me ask you a question, Detective Lance." Ryan raised his eyebrows: "When William Herman reported the disappearance of his son Conor Herman, who had just become a football star. You knew the truth, what will you do?"
James' palms curled into fists, knuckles turning white with the force. The vampire's question answered his doubts about the purpose of the Revenge!
Will he hide the truth because Connor is an alien possessed by earthbound spirits, or will he report the crimes of Revenge Gust like a real detective?
"No!" James, who had entered a dead end, repeated his previous words! "He didn't kill, he just cleared an Earthbound spirit! Conor Herman has already dead, he just pushed the event back on track!"
"Yeah." The translucent Run condensed and appeared in the cold basement: "By kidnapping me to an uninhabited basement, nailing rotten planks, and finally burning me."
James' eyes flickered on the sudden appearance of the Earthbound spirit, still Connor's appearance.
"And the only thing I do is to be a good quarterback!"
"No!" James suddenly stood up and stared at Run! "You're not a quarterback, you died three years ago! You just stole another poor man's identity!"
"Look at me!" The light and shadow of Run's whole body trembled like a broken TV screen, "I am Conor Herman!"
"Okay." The smile on Ryan's face disappeared, and he realized what James really meant, the meaning of making the vampire lose his smile, "James Lance, look." Ryan walked towards James. Ignoring his resisting, Ryan pulled out the police badge from his waist and held it up in front of the 'bad as shit' detective's face.
"You're protecting Porto, so you have this." Ryan put the badge back into James' hands: "What I'm asking is, if one day, I, Benjamin, and Alice, were attacked, would you protect us? Or, will you let us be attacked and only protect old Hank?"
James opened his mouth, only to be interrupted by Ryan before he could make a sound.
"Perhaps I should put it another way if we at the Anderson House were attacked. Only old Hank's report will be accepted. And you will refuse to go and arrest our attacker?"
James opened his mouth again, interrupted again by Ryan.
"Maybe I should put it another way if we at the Anderson House were attacked. Would you only put the people who hurt old Hank in jail as punishment, not the people who hurt us?"
James widened his eyes, opened his mouth, and was interrupted again.
"Yeah." Ryan shook his head, "Neither of it. It should be said that if someone hurts someone in the Anderson House, only the one who attacked old Hank is the one who committed the murder and the others." Ryan turned his head sideways: " They're not guilty, are they?"
"In fact, Detective Lance, you know very well that such a thing has already happened." Only the vampire said coldly in the basement, "If I was burned to dust in the flames, and Benjamin was pierced by a steel cone and became a corpse, Alice And Kim were pinned to the wall and breathless, only old Hank was alive. Are you going to make excuses for our murderer like you are now?"
"You will, I have heard it." The vampire turned, turned his back on James, "you would say: 'That's just a vampire, a werewolf, a banshee, and a dog, old Hank, you should thank those people who put your life on the right track.'" The vampire turned his head and looked at James with light green eyes: "Is that so?"
The vampire took off his robe and lay back on the stone platform, "You should leave. I should remind you that I am not only angry but also hungry."