Because the office was to be given to Wells, who would come at any time, James was taken to Benjamin's warehouse. The werewolf who had just fallen asleep was woken up by the vampire, surrounded by a blanket, and sat on his bed. Scattered documents crowded the big werewolf into a corner. His half-awake eyes revealed a trace of confused grievances, looking at James who disturbed his rest.
Werewolves are not as good as vampires who can change their work and rest at will with a cup of 'wine'. Sleepy people are still sleepy even if they eat food, and so are werewolves.
"Let's start with the suicider in your Southern District, Chris Evan..." James wore two dark circles under his eyes, which was the result of two days and one night. These are far beyond the scope of his and Curson's real work, so he can only use his own time to investigate.
"age 32, live alone before. Recently, suddenly had a fiancee..."
James was interrupted by Ryan. Last night, the vampire had heard the private stories of all the suicides from the mouth of hundreds of walking corpses' teleprompters', and there was no need for James to continue wasting time on it. Ryan waved and said impatiently, "the point."
"Well, that's the point!" James' fatigue disappeared. When he started working, he had a kind of focused excitement. He pointed to the mark circled on the data, "he works in the construction industry. This is the project he is currently working on. At the junction of the North and South districts of Porto, it was the original tomb area of [Ford funeral home]
When James handed the information to Ryan and Benjamin, he looked at the confused werewolf and shoved it into his hands.: "then, look here," the detective pointed to another sign, "this is the building material used in their project!"
"Yuri building materials?" Ryan glanced. "And then?"
"And this!" James quickly pulled out another piece of marked material. Ryan had recognized the name on the information. It was another suicide. Papa Midnite cheated this guy with his promotion.
However, this has nothing to do with James' investigation. Ryan knows the benefits obtained by every suicider by breaking the rules. This is their 'story', but it is not the focus of James' investigation. James needed to find out the connections of these people, and then locate the person who recruited these speculators for Papa Midnite.
His position was written in the marked place on the information, and he is the shipper of Yuri building materials. Ryan combined the two materials together and seemed to see a connection buried in many lines.
"And then there's this!" James pulled out a document again. Ryan looked at his name. This is the object that James should investigate. The man who committed suicide in his kitchen, that is, the guy who was confirmed by his colleagues that he was hijacked during working hours: "he works in Massa port shipping! Look at the goods he took over recently!"
"Building materials." Ryan received the information from James and found 'Yuri building materials' marked with a marker in the list of callers. Ryan nodded. The clue became clearer and clearer.
These three people didn't live together, nor work together, or even didn't know each other at all. But it may be just a coincidence that they were linked together because of a project, but there were eight suicides in total, and James' achievement display was not over yet.
"And these!" James took out a few more documents, laid them out on the bed, and pointed to the marked place: "look, this man is not directly involved in the project, but he lives in Paisiying district near the construction site. This man is the warehouse manager of Massa port. I checked his workplace, and it is only two corridors away from Yuri building materials. This man is from Porto building materials Audit Bureau..."
James still didn't finish. He took out a piece of wrinkled paper and wrote these names on it.
"I've talked to the Gusts, and this is the list they gave." When James said this sentence, he was vague. It can be expected that there were several names on it, which would be listed in the list of suicides in the Porto daily.
James again took out some documents that were obviously not as formal as before. Obviously, it was not the police's record data, but his own investigation results. He overlapped the marked part of the document with the document on the bed. Just like under a trunk, the branches begin to spread. When the social attributes of all suicides were dispersed, it was indeed impossible to see the connection among them, but once there was this main line of James, all divisions appeared so uniform.
Perhaps Port is lucky. If the person connecting the three points is still alive, the main line cannot be connected, and all this is random sand.
Ryan looked at the information with satisfaction, but James frowned. These suicides were actually driven by the Gusts, and their actions were driven by the sixth sense of Sebella towards those who used witchcraft.
This sixth sense can be seen from the incident that the Gusts ran to James' house to attack him. It was unexpectedly reliable. But! If you put all the suicides together, you can see that the Gusts were casting a net at random, and then look for the hit point in the cast net, and then spread from the point to all around. Around the suicides being investigated by the police, they found James who had nothing to do with the incident. This can only prove that their actions were entirely based on luck and had no real clues.
Although with the trunk drawn by James, the Gusts' action had a more specific goal, but from the time when the suicide occurred, it was impossible to judge which part of the three points this trunk was from derived!
Ryan patted Ryan on the shoulder. "You've done a good job."
"No, not enough!" James clenched his fists: "Curson has been investigating the place where the 'hijacking' took place. So far, he has no clue. What I have done has not helped the police in any way! We simply do not know which direction to continue! If the time is a little longer, we can only return to suicide and close the case. The police have no reason to continue the investigation!"
James was telling the truth. It was hard for the Porto police department to use this clue to file a case and spend the police force on investigation after finding that suicide was kidnapped. But if there is no result for a long time, it can only end and return to the conclusion of suicide. This reality obviously made the General's son impatient.
Ryan looked at James and thought for a while. The words that would deliberately stimulate James were changed into a hint: "you are right. Now you need to jump out of the detective's thinking and use our thinking to find clues."
"What?" James looked at Ryan and inquired. There was no rejection in his eyes, and Ryan was very satisfied.
"Dead man, James." Ryan continued to give the prompt, "you forgot that the employees under Papa Midnite, including the recruiter in the middle, died once."
James' eyes lit up after a moment of thinking. "Do you want to lend me Alice?"
Ryan was stunned for a moment. He never thought about 'lending' Alice to anyone!
James seemed to have been overcorrected by him!
"Do you want a 16-year-old girl to accompany you to catch the murderer?" Ryan accentuated and asked back.
James' question was very practical, but it also showed his prejudice against the Anderson family members once again. In his mind, Alice has the power to see death and can distinguish the dead from the dead. She is a tool that can be used! But what kind of detective would be willing to use a 16-year-old girl as a tool to put her in a dangerous situation?!
James put his hands on his face and rubbed his tired eyes. He fell into chaos again.
Ryan wasn't going to comfort James, who had a crooked thought, and he didn't want to guide him a little bit, so he gave the answer coldly: "you should investigate who was the first person who came back from death. You are a detective. I don't need to teach you. He is the intermediary recruiter you are looking for. Now, leave Anderson's house."
When Alice's name appeared, Benjamin, who was fully awake, gathered up the scattered information on the bed and handed it to James, who looked dispirited.
James received the information and frowned. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean that."
But the two of them were already unwilling to listen to him. Ryan waved and asked him to leave.
"At least, at least she can help the police look at those who committed suicide. If the police can find the location of the first death and the place where the hijacking took place, they will find more clues! At least let our investigation continue!" James made his last effort.
Ryan frowned and thought, this is the bottom line he can allow. Ryan looked at James' sincere face and finally nodded, which was a compromise. "Then you should go and ask her in person."
"Yes." James knew he had said the wrong thing, so he didn't ask for more. He walked up the stairs with a pile of information.
"You shouldn't promise him." Benjamin looked at Ryan sideways and said something faintly.
"It doesn't matter." Ryan shook his head, with a slight smile on his face, "Papa Midnite used the strictest contract of life and death for the dead. The Gusts were able to 'persuade' them to commit suicide, but they didn't get any information. Alice couldn't see anything. I just want James to stop using Alice."
"No, I didn't mean that." Benjamin turned over and the wide bed shook. "You gave James a wrong impression. He could use us to find a 'simple way'."
"Use" can be easily understood, but what is the 'simple way'?
If the vampire offers to help Anthony conquer his beautiful female secretary with the enchanting pupil, Anthony does not refuse, this is the simple way.
"If he's willing to pay, let's pretend I didn't say it." Benjamin, facing inward, said the last sentence and closed his eyes.
Ryan was stunned for a moment, patted Benjamin's broad shoulder, and smiled. He had understood the meaning of the werewolf. This was not the business of Anderson's family. Their participation was originally just to provide help. Now maybe Ryan had the idea to join because of the provocation of Papa Midnite, but still Anderson had no obligation to help James.
They can cooperate because of friendship, such as Anderson and Anthony. It can be because of interest transactions, such as Anderson and Quinn, Porto, and Herman.
Anderson's relationship with James Lance is not very strong. "We" are not his tool. We must let the human detective understand this.