Records Of Barton's Fantastical Events - Chapter 109

Chapter 109: Chapter 10 Results

The two cars arrived at the Grande Funeral Home at the same time. Benjamin had already been waiting at the door. He was a little surprised to see James and Zach were actually with the people from Telecom.

James didn’t get out of the car. After waving goodbye to Fitz, he watched Zach lead people into Grande Funeral Home and then left.

Fitz was familiar with James because the two detectives, Coulson and Rance, secretly protected him in David’s case. However, when facing the stranger who he had just met, although they were also friends of James, he who was socially Inept was still nervous, which was quite similar to Alice.

Seeing Zach came back, Benjamin simply left it for Zach to handle it.

The new phone still had to be installed in the office. Zach brought Fitz into the office with his big bag. Watching Fitz start to measure in the office, the vampire directly took a bottle of red wine from the bookcase and filled it up.

“Do you want some?” Zach looked at Fitz, raised the bottle, and asked.

“No, no need.” Fitz smiled nervously, “can’t drink it at work.”

Zach smiled and nodded, “how long will it take to install it?”

“It will be done tomorrow.” Fitz thought for a while and then said, “It’s just a bit troublesome to extend the line to this place.”

“Oh.” Zach nodded:

The Southern District was different from the Northern District. The buildings in the Southern District were very far apart, so it would indeed take some time to connect and extend the telephone line from other places. In particular, Grande Funeral Home was still on the edge of Barton. With just a ten-minute drive southward, it would be the woods at the junction of the two cities, which was Benjamin’s transformation site.

Zach left the office, leaving Fitz working alone inside. He himself sat in the dining room. After a while, Benjamin, who seemed to have nothing to do, also came into the dining room.

“Have I met this guy somewhere?” The werewolf was in good spirits after waking up.

“He is Fitz.” Zach answered.

“Oh.” Benjamin nodded in realization. He had seen Fitz’s picture on Coulson’s clue wall. He looked at Zach: “Did you find anything this morning?”

“Found a Tulpa,” if he was still suspicious when he was in Daniel’s apartment, then after seeing the state of his neighbor, he was sure about it, “but he has disappeared.” Zach took another sip, stretched his body comfortably, and looked at Benjamin who had a bored face. After sensing around, he couldn’t detect the scent of the young wolf, “Where is Matthew?”

Benjamin frowned, “I gave him a day off, his father was injured.”

“What happened?” Zach asked. To be honest, he didn’t care that much.

“He fell and the old injury on his back recurred.” Benjamin also answered casually.

“Poor guy.” Zach raised his eyebrows and squinted his eyes. “You can tell him that my blood can heal all injuries.”

“I said that.”

Zach almost spat out the food in his mouth. Benjamin’s education method was really special. It didn’t start from the knowledge of history but from very practical knowledge, which was very avant-garde.

Benjamin looked at Zach’s amusing complaining expression and smiled, “He refused.”

Zach was really surprised this time, “Why?”

Benjamin thought for a while, “His original words: ‘If my father gets better, he will want to work again, and then next time, he may not just be injured that lucky.'” Benjamin glanced at Zach, “So you’d better give him more extra money this time.”

Zach thought of Matthew’s words carefully for a while, and blinked, “I will.”

This topic was a bit heavy, Zach thought for a while, “How did his father fall?”

“The porch of the gospel church was rotten. It collapsed when people were trying to leave the church after praying.” Benjamin thought about what Matthew’s mother said when she came to Grande.

Zach frowned and was silent for a while, “The altar candle stands of the Church of God the Son to the west also collapsed. In the morning, the second floor of St Mary’s Church in the Northern District collapsed as well.”

“Not just those.” Benjamin smiled, “Before you come back, the client who was supposed to have a funeral this afternoon called back. It seemed that he wanted to use the church near our cemetery again.”

Zach detected a hint of reprimand in Benjamin’s tone. Apparently, because the vampire didn’t tell Benjamin that the afternoon schedule had changed. The werewolf had dragged out the frozen half-decomposed corpse in the basement ahead of time and put it in the coffin… It was not a pleasant job, especially for Benjamin, who had a good sense of smell.

“Hehe.” Zach let out hollow laughs, “I decided to go out with James last minute.”

Benjamin waved his hand. “Forget it, but the same accident also happened to the church in the Western District. What do you think it might be?” Obviously, the client’s complaint in the previous call revealed some information.

Zach frowned. “Did it happen to every church?”

There were eight churches in Barton. There were two churches in the Northern District. One was the largest church, St. Mary’s church, and a smaller memorial church. There were two churches in the southern district, the popular Gospel Church in the east, and the Expiatory Church of God the Son. To the west of this expiatory church was Barton Prison, so although it was a church that nobody cared about, it bore a very heavy theme.

The western district had the smallest area compared to the other districts, but because of the peculiar composition of social classes, the Western District had the most churches. There are four churches, but they were all ordinary gospel churches. They were located in different locations and in different sizes.

Of course, apart from these truly independent churches, in hospitals and some special occasions, there were small prayer rooms, which were reduced according to the size of the church and were not really considered as churches.

“We should be able to see it in the newspaper tomorrow.” Benjamin did not want to discuss the number of churches that had been affected. He carried on, “I am asking you what you think it might be?”

“I don’t know.” Zach pouted, “Who would want to touch the churches?” The vampire shook his head, he had no clue.

Fitz knocked on the door of the dining room and said to the two, “Mr. Grande, there is a phone call.”

Zach nodded and walked to the office, while Fitz stayed outside and waited. He was a very thoughtful guy. Regarding this, the Great Dane and Coulson knew the best.

Benjamin beckoned to Fitz, “Come here.”

Fitz approached timidly. To be honest, he had never seen such a muscular man. If he put on the skin-tight clothes in the comics, he would be like those muscular superheroes.

“Mr. Grande, what’s the matter?” Fitz asked nervously.

“Nothing, I just want to talk to you.” Benjamin smiled while thinking of the scene when he broke the throat of his friend, “I heard James say that you like to play Dungeons and Dragons. What role do you like to play?”

Fitz breathed a sigh of relief. He already knew that James and the brothers of the Grande family were friends. So when Benjamin asked about what he was interested in again, he became relaxed a little…

In Zach’s office, some tools and small parts were placed underground. Half of the carpet had been lifted. The new line had been placed beside the original telephone line, extending to the wall.

Zach answered the phone that kept ringing, “Grande Funeral Home, how can I help you?”

“Quest.” The voice of a 30-year-old man came from the receiver, “My brother hasn’t woken up! Where did you find him? ! Was he injured? !”

Zach pursed his lips and took a sip of the ‘wine’, “Mr. Quest forgot that we don’t answer these kinds of questions? You want to find Neil and Tiffany, we’ve already found them for you.”

“No!” The person over the receiver suddenly became irritated, “This is too irresponsible! What is this? ! I don’t even know what happened to them!”

Zach didn’t want to admit that he also didn’t know, and calmly said, “Then Mr. Quest, do you have a new request?”

The person behind the receiver seemed to take a deep breath, as if Zach had said something incredulous. It was really incredible, at this time Zach was like an unscrupulous businessman. You think the packaging of biscuits looks good, so you want to buy it. However, after you paid for it, he only gave you the box and said, ‘didn’t you just want to buy the box? There you go. This is your box.’

Zach did not wait for the other party to respond, and began to ask: “Did Mr. Quest perform a physical examination for your younger brother and his wife?”

“Yes.” The other party calmed down a bit.

“The results of it?” Zach asked.

“Everything is very normal, and there is no physical injury. But they are still unconscious!” The other party became irritated again.

“I can tell you something.” Zach thought for a while, “The process of finding them was very accidental. When we found them, they were like this. I am surprised that they haven’t woken up yet, but I am not a doctor. If Mr. Quest wants them to wake up, you should follow the doctor’s instructions instead of coming to vent to us.”

There was silence on the receiver side for a while, “I want to know what happened to them!”

Zach raised his eyebrows, “I am curious too, but I really have nothing that I can tell you.”

“Then where did you find him? !”

“If I said that they appeared out of thin air, would you believe it?” Zach smiled.

“Bullshit!” The other party cursed, and after a big gasp: “Fine! You win! I have a new request! Keep investigating! I need to know everything!”

This was a ‘beautiful’ misunderstanding, and Quest obviously thought that Zach wanted to use the clues that he already had to prevent him from looking for other private investigators.

Zach frowned, Grande was not a private investigation agency, Grande was a special ‘organization’ that only provided results. The other party wanted to know ‘everything’, which was not in line with Grande’s principle.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Quest, I can’t accept this request.” Zach said calmly, “I’m not hiding any clues, I’m telling the truth. Regarding the credibility of what I said, you can consult Detective James Rance of the Barton Police Department. This is a responsible detective who was also there when I found them last night.”

“Who!?”

“James Rance.” Zach repeated, “If Mr. Quest still has other requests for us after finding out the truth, we still welcome it. However, we do not accept investigations that require us to provide progress information.”

“What? What do you mean?…”

Zach hung up.