018 New entrustment from Mr. Qwest

"Ryan, phone." Louise knocked on the door of the kitchen and said to Ryan.

These days, the calls in Ryan's office usually stop after the ringing, and then the phone on Louise's desk will ring. If the other party's request cannot be resolved by Louise, the telephone will be transferred to Ryan.

Because the answer book has stated that the original phone is a private phone, please call the new number for funeral matters.

But this time, the caller seemed unusually persistent.

Ryan went back to the office and picked up the phone.

"What are you doing, why are you taking so long to answer the phone!" it was James' voice.

"Make lunch." Ryan was also quite used to the impatient tone of this human being. "Detective Lance, everyone in the Anderson House needs to eat." And The vampire also knew what to say, which could stir James' most fragile nerves. From the receiver came the sound of James taking a deep breath.

"I just called to tell you that Neil and Daphne woke up!" said viciously, "you better get ready!"

"I heard, it's a good thing, congratulations to Mr. Qwest." Today's newspapers had reported the incident. The best way to wait for the funeral to be over is to read the newspapers to pass the time. However, Ryan's 'congratulations' was obviously not sincere, but he was a little confused, what does it have to do with him? "Prepare? Prepare for what?"

James on the other side of the receiver seemed to be organizing the language, speaking several times but saying nothing.

Ryan frowned and decided to ask himself, "Did you go to the Qwest?"

"It's Mr. Qwest looking for me again!" James' tone was very resentful, "He thought I would know something!"

"Know what?" Ryan was even more puzzled. "How did the two of them disappear? Why ask you, isn't it faster to ask the person involved?"

"That's the problem!" James was excited. "Those two don't know anything! Ever since they woke up, they've been in a state of madness, like crazy! Keep shouting 'don't hurt me' or something. The police can't ask anything useful at all!"

Ryan chuckled, "So, you must think that's not crazy, right?"

"Yes! Something attacked them!"

Ryan frowned. "Be specific."

"Nothing to be specific!" James said angrily. "I said, the two of them are insane. Something beyond what they can describe with words attacked them, that's the only way to be sure!"

Ryan thought for a while, "James, did you leave this to us again?"

"Of course! What else can I do?! It was started by you, I just told him who he was looking for and who he was looking for again!" James was obviously irritable, "Mr. Qwest kept persecuting the police, imposing Pressure, but what can we do?! The police can't force two mentally ill people!"

"You're transferring responsibility." Ryan sighed, "I should tell you that there is no news from Daniel so far, even if Mr. Qwest entrusts me to find the 'murderer', I haven't done it..."

Ryan paused abruptly. "Wait. James, what's going on."

James Lance said to the victim's family, "the police can't solve it, go find someone else", which is not in line with the vampire's perception of James' character. At most, James asked Anderson to help him investigate, and he would never leave the job to Ryan!

Ryan tentatively said, "You're avoiding Mr. Qwest, you want to get rid of him."

Listening to the rapid breathing in the receiver, Ryan's temptation came to fruition, "You're investigating Mr. Qwest, and you find some clues, right?"

After a moment of silence, James over there responded in a low voice, "Yes, but it has nothing to do with you!"

Ryan pondered for a while, then smiled, "You must have discovered something important, enough to fit our previous guess and constitute the motive for the disappearance to reappear..."

"Stop! I said it! I won't tell you! At least not now!" James raised his voice over the receiver, interrupting Ryan, "Anyway, get ready! And, you can't cross the line! I'll do my job, you'll do yours to find the real perpetrator!"

Ryan smiled and understood what James meant, "Okay, Detective Lance."

Hanging up the phone, the vampire was in a good mood and pulled out a wine glass. Vampires are probably the easiest creatures to prepare food in this world.

"What are you laughing at?" Benjamin, who entered the office, looked at Ryan and sat down at the desk, fiddling with the pen holder on the table. The werewolf came here to wait for lunch when there was nothing to do. As a werewolf who can only knead the dough, Alice doesn't expect Benjamin to contribute to the kitchen, but Matthew seems to know everything and was helping in the kitchen.

"James' phone," Ryan replied.

"Oh." Benjamin smiled. "What did he say?"

"He said 'Don't cross the line, I'll do my job, you'll do yours.'" Ryan squinted.

Benjamin scratched his chin, "It sounds like there is still some prejudice, but it has been guided by you, and it has the meaning of real division of labor and cooperation of "one's own will"."

Ryan raised his eyebrows and sipped the 'wine' in his glass.

The phone rang, and it wasn't Louise who transferred in. Ryan raised an eyebrow at Benjamin and answered the phone, "Anderson House, what can I do for you?"

"It's me, Qwest." A male voice in his thirties came from the receiver, "I have a new commission for you."

"Mr. Qwest!"

Benjamin smiled and shook his head as he looked at Ryan's fake, helpless surprised expression.

"What does Mr. Qwest need?"

The voice over the receiver was cold and low, "I want someone, no matter who did this to my brother, I want that person! I don't care about 'truth' or 'process', I just want that person, whatever he is, I want him! It's not against your rules!"

Ryan didn't speak, giving the illusion of thinking, but in reality, he was just holding the microphone and exchanging glances with Benjamin. After a moment, Ryan made a thoughtful look, "No. We refuse."

"Why!" The other party seemed to have lost his calm! It was so loud that Benjamin could hear it clearly without Alpha skin.

Ryan pulled the receiver away from his ears, rubbed his ears sideways, and raised his eyebrows at Benjamin, "The police are paying too much attention to this matter." Ryan said in a regretful tone, "we do not want to be involved with the police."

Don't forget, Ryan basically asked Herman to 'I'll take care of the man who killed Connor', and the result? Except for one hunter who was waiting for the death sentence in the fall, the rest, those who surfaced, and those who didn't surface, all died! Of course, Herman didn't need to know that there was one person, Revenge, who became a Dead Apostle.

The other party was silent. Anyone would do such a simple reasoning. The actions of the Anderson House were not permitted by law.

"Especially that James Lance." Ryan winked at Benjamin. "Mr. Qwest should have heard from Mr. Herman about the last commission. Such a detective is good for Porto, but It seems too dangerous to us."

The other party was still silent, and Ryan had no choice but to continue, "I suggest that Mr. Qwest hand this over to Detective Lance. After all, he was involved in finding your brother."

"He won't mix in again!" This time, the other party's reply was quick.

"Oh?" Ryan continued to look puzzled. "Why? Detective Lance doesn't look like someone who gives up easily."

"My brother... Neil he..." The other party's voice was full of hatred, and the vampire could clearly hear the chaotic breath due to emotional agitation, which was transmitted to the vampire's ears through electronic conversion, "He, He's crazy!"

Ryan frowned. Now he's a little shaken, by the speculation that Mr. Qwest was the one responsible for his brother's disappearance. It seems that such a mood is not like a person who 'strongly hopes' that his brother will disappear.

"They say that... what people with mental instability say.... cannot be used as a testimony! The police ....have all been evacuated, including that one, Lance!" Overwhelmed by both sadness and anger, Qwest's speech was choppy, but his meaning was complete.

Ryan and Benjamin exchanged glances, "What did Neil say? Where's Daphne?"

"They say...I don't know! I don't want to know! It's your job!"

Ryan thought for a while, this time he was really thinking, but the content of his thinking was not whether to accept the commission. It doesn't matter if he accepts it or not, because the suspect in Ryan's mind was missing, and he can reply to the request directly with 'solved'.

To Quinn because Alice had a crush on Mrs. Quinn, to Mrs. Porto because Mrs. Quinn revealed some of Anderson's secrets, to Herman because Ryan wanted revenge.

To Qwest? Well, it seems like nothing. But now Ryan's judgment of himself is shaken, and that's what he's thinking about.

"Mr. Qwest, have the police dropped the case now?"

"Yes!"

"Okay, then we take it. But we can't guarantee an outcome."

"Ok!"

"Where are Neil and Daphne now?"

"Hospital."

"Bring them out. Mr. Qwest, I hope you understand, we don't want the public attention."

"Okay! this afternoon..."

Ryan hung up the phone before the other party finished speaking. Mr. Qwest is a man of control, and Ryan isn't ready to give the other a feeling of being in control, even though they both mean the same thing.

In the afternoon, avoiding the fierce midday sun, Benjamin's van pulled away from the Anderson house and drove on Route 27 to the Qwest estate in the West End.