Chapter 22: Chapter 22 Jas
Translator: Doggotranslation
4:20 Pm.
“My little sweetheart! Here!” Coulson stopped the car and reached half of his body out of the window and waved at the little girls, who were looking around, seemingly waiting for soone.
“Daddy!”
Coulson turned back to Fitz and said, “wait here.” Then he pushed open the car’s door, got out of the car, squatted with open arms, and greeted a group of six or seven running Lolis.
One loli with two pigtails rushed directly into Coulson’s arms, “Daddy! Mommy said, Daddy will definitely forget it~ ”
Coulson wiped the sweat beads from his daughter’s forehead, “Well, she was wrong! How can I forget, I have already promised my sweetheart ~ ”
Loli smiled, revealing the two front teeth that were not yet fully grown, “I know! I believe daddy!”
Coulson wiped the sweat beads from his forehead, stood up, opened the back door of the car, and put on the expression of anticipation: “Now, who wants to go to Lisa’s birthday party!”
“Yeah! Yeah! ... ” children cheered.
“Lisa and my sweetheart, you two can sit in the front ~”
“Yeah! Yeah! ... ” children cheered again.
Watching a group of little children flood into the car, squeezing Fitz into the corner, Coulson took a few deep breaths, disguised his tired look as excitent, and sat back in the car, raising the tone: “Now, fasten your seat belt! Lisa! Where are we going?”
“My ho! My party! Uncle Coulson! Let’s go!”
“Yes, Madam! ” Coulson started the car.
...
An old truck was parked on the corner of the street where Detective Coulson’s house was located. Four people got out of the car and walked in the direction of Detective Coulson’s ho. Fortunately, today was not a weekend. The working people have not returned ho, and housewives were picking up the children at school, so no one noticed four slightly strange looking strangers.
Benjamin and Zach followed two Jas Rance, Er, or two Jim Grande. But don’t be confused by their faces, the two were very easy to distinguish. The man who held the food and wore Benjamin’s clothes was the shapeshifter. The person who wore custom-made formal wear, but there were countless oil marks on it, was the real Jas Rance.
Now, we could officially change the nas of the two people.
Arriving the door of Coulson’s house, Jas looked at the closed door, “you want us to break in?”
Jim swallowed the last egg roll, “the pocket on your left.”
Jas reached his pocket and pulled out a bunch of keys: “He gave you the keys to his ho? He never suspected you?!”
“Why would he suspect ? I never did anything wrong.” Jim replied coldly.
“I... You, you attacked ! You stole my identity!” Jas said angrily.
“You are still alive, and your identity has been given back to you. What else do you want?” Jim still said coldly.
Benjamin impatiently took the key from Jas, opened the door, and entered first, “Don’t waste ti, Jim, where is the clue wall?”
“Backyard.” Jim ignored Jas, who was still angry, walked into the house, walked through the living room, kitchen, and pushed open the backyard door. Of course, when passing the kitchen, one more fruit had prepared by Mrs. Coulson went missing.
Zach raised his eyebrows, patted Jas on the shoulder, and then stepped on the doorstep... Nothing happened. The corner of his lips slightly raised and entered Detective Coulson’s house.
The four ca to Coulson’s studio, and the first thing that caught their eyes was the clue wall filled with photos.
Jas temporarily kept his hostility towards Jim aside and carefully studied this information.
Zach glanced around and found a photo of Louise. Zach frowned, did the effect of hypnotizing eyes disappear?
A red line was drawn on Louise’s photo, connecting two other missing won. The red line was marked as “friendship”. According to the corresponding label, Zach found the report that Louise once filed in the Barton police station on the ssy table. Among Louise’s two friends, the note and photos of the body of one of them were kept at another place and linked by the red thread.
Zach was relieved. The essence of the effect of the hypnotizing eyes was to implant a false mory. Although it was an entire evening’s mory that was implanted into Coulson’s mind, before that, the vampire had just drunk blood, so it was not difficult to use the hypnotizing eyes.
Zach glanced at Louise’s report. Louise didn’t forget to ntion the detail about the body temperature, but the police officer who wrote the transcript only attributed this special detail to the cold weather.
“Hmm... Let go through it again.” Jas stared at the clue wall, his arms began to move in the order of the red line: “Everything started a month ago when prostitutes began to disappear. Half a month ago, Louise’s friends beca the victims, and then he started to target Louise. But it was obviously different from what he did previously. Previously all the victims belonged to different blocks. Although the victims were still prostitutes, from half a month ago to the following week, his targets were clearly concentrated in the neighborhood where Louise stayed.”
Jas seed to have the talent of being a detective, and soon noticed the first turning point of the change of the shapeshifter’s behaviour, from the wall of clues made by Coulson.
“My first question is, why prostitutes?” Jas said with a disgusted expression on his face, and asked, “does he have a special preference?”
“You can’t figure it out?” Zach looked through Louise’s transcript, “Jim, tell Detective Rance how shapeshifters generally choose food.”
“Those people that no one would pay attention to.” Jim chewed the apple in his hand, “vagrants, prostitutes, bottom-level workers, migrants.”
Jas frowned, “okay, so prostitutes were the easiest targets at first. You said that shapeshifters were very ‘goal-oriented’ monste... creatures that would not give up on hunting their prey,... Why is Louise is alive?”
“Because she is smart enough.” Zach ignored the awkward change in Jas’s words. He was able to change it, it ant that he was already working hard to improve it. Zach turned to the last page of the transcript, “After the second escape, Louise went into hiding until the body was found four days ago, and then the Barton Police Departnt launched an investigation. After taking a transcript, she realized that the police were already paying attention to this case, then she went back to work again.”
Zach handed the transcript to Jas with an expression of appreciation on his face. He looked at Jas and said with a joking tone, “You see, she actually went to the police to file a report.”
Jas took over the transcript and roughly glanced at it. He knew that Zach was mocking that he had insisted Louise contact the police before.
Jas put down the transcript, found the location of the clue where he left before, and sumd it up, “before the second turning point, a total of twelve prostitutes disappeared and only three bodies were found.” The clue wall showed the mutilated bodies of three won, and the latest one was the one that Zach saw in the barton daily yesterday.
“What about other bodies?” Jas seed to realize sothing bad, and his lips beca pale.
Zach looked at Jim, signaling him to explain to Mr. Detective.
“In Barton city, there are places with special environntal characteristics,” Jim flatly explained.
“You know the location?!” Jas stared at Jim: “Why didn’t you report it?” !”
“Why should I? Detective Coulson never asked .” Jim frowned. He didn’t understand why Jas would suddenly get angry. What he had taken away from him was now returned to him intact. but he was still not satisfied. Humans were really strange creatures.
A shadow suddenly flashed past! Zach was already in front of Jas, pressing his hand on Jas’ hand, which was already on the holster, and staring at Jas: “Jas Rance, you should know that now we are trying to help you. Benjamin and I need to prepare Mr. Quinn’s funeral. As for Jim, he can beco anyone and then simply leave, and we will not stop him if he wants to leave. The only reason the three of us are here is because of your surna and your current identity!”
Jas’s eyes glared at Zach indignantly, his hand was caught by the vampire, and it was impossible for him to even move his finger, let alone draw the gun to shoot! He breathed in and out intensely, and his chest also moved ups and downs, but soon he forcibly suppressed his anger.
Zach was right, the vampire didn’t use the “hypnotizing eyes” to change his will, nor did he make him disappear in this world, because the vampire listened to the shapeshifter Jim’s word. The vampire always only paid attention to the upper class of human society, Anthony was an ally of Zach in the upper class, but now he needed soone, who would pay attention to the people in the lower class, and this person was Jas Rance.
And Jas Rance must be a humane person, not a shapeshifter, who was obsessed with eating.
Zach repeated what he did to Anthony a long ti ago. He saved him, and then reached an agreent with him and then beca an ally, but now, this new alliance was still very fragile.
“Have you cald down already?” Zach looked at Jas’s gradually calming chest, let go of his hand, and turned to Jim, “Please continue.”
Jim glanced at Zach and continued, “I don’t know the exact location, but I can guess it. This is just a test conducted by the first shapechanger who ca to Barton city.”
“A test?” Jas asked as calmly as possible.
“To test whether there are other nonhumans in Barton City.” Jim said flatly, “Werewolves prefer mountain forests, Nicors like wet environnts, Witches like the places filled with creatures from different races, Hellhound often appear near churches, and Tulpas will beco more powerful near the place where comrce is flourishing... Vampires.” Jim glanced at Zach and then said,” Vampires cannot stay in the sunlight.”
Jas looked at Zach and frowned, “but he can.”
“Because I’m nobler.” Zach smiled, sorted his tie, and changed the topic, “Jas, you should now realize that such a test, he has already got the result.” After sorting the tie, Zach began to fiddle with his hat, “It is foreseeable that in the future, a large number of nonhumans will enter Barton city. You don’t want that, neither do I. We can help each other.” Zach’s eyes looked at Jas.
This proposal was made by Zach when they were still at Grande Funeral Ho. It was that at that ti, Jas did not have much sincerity, but now, Jas began to think about it seriously.
“You said before that the Mayor of Barton also knows your identity?” Jas asked.
“You can ask him personally,” Zach replied unconcernedly.
“Mhm.” Jas nodded. “Now, at least, in this case, we can work together. After that, I can’t guarantee, I will discuss it with the mayor in person first!”
“I can accept such a reply.” Zach smiled and looked at Benjamin, who also smiled.
They were very satisfied with Jas’s reply. With prudence, a sense of justice, and an attitude to confirm everything personally, he would be a perfect ally like Anthony.
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