Chapter 30: Chapter 30 - The Bale Family Secret
Middendorffi first sent a message to Sally, asking her if she could contact Zhou Tianlin, and then briefly talked to Zhang Dao about Zhou Mage's performance at Bale's house.
Of course, the content was basically what Sally had said before. After Middendorffi's customary "simplification", in the end, there were only a few words left, and Middendorffi also described Zhou Tianlin's clothes, accessories, and demeanour when she saw him - all of which were not drawn on the painting. Zhang Dao sneered when he heard that Zhou Tianlin was still discarding walnuts and sharply commented that Zhou Tianlin was really sick.
Middendorffi didn't go into detail about the Bale family or reveal any new information about the case. Middendorffi only said that there was no evil spirit in Bale's house or Jennifer's body, but Zhou Tianlin insisted that there was something wrong and also made a bunch of crap. In the end, Middendorffi remembered one more thing and pulled out his mobile phone to open a photo, handing it to Zhang Dao to see.
"This was taken in Jennifer's room, and it should be hand drawn." Middendorffi said, "'Collector' didn't find out what this thing is, do you know?"
Zhang Dao scanned it and honestly replied, "It's not from the Cloud Hidden Sect or any other sect formations I know of. Did Zhou Tianlin draw it?"
"Not necessarily. It's not even if it's not." Middendorffi took back his phone and was about to put it away when he suddenly received a message alert.
Clicking it open, it was from Sari: [He's tossing around my grandpa's house right now, making a mess. Teacher Bear, are you looking for him? What's it for?"]
Middendorffi replies, [Someone wants to talk to him.]]
Sally: [When? Should we just come over now? It would be a great charity if we could take him now and give the house a clean slate].
So Middendorffi looked at Zhang Dao and said, "Zhou Tianlin is making a demon in someone's house. Are you going?"
"Yes." Zhang Dao also pulled out his mobile phone, "Could you please send the contact and address?"
Middendorffi thought about it, "What are you going to do with him?"
"He used to be a disciple of the Cloud Hidden Sect, and now he's using the Cloud Hidden Sect's name to woo people, so of course I'm going to take him back to 'ask him nicely'." Zhang Dao said, "Don't worry; as long as we find him, he'll never be able to come out and cheat again."
Middendorffi asked, "... lynching?"
Zhang Dao thought momentarily before guessing what Middendorffi wanted to say, "Could it be that Mr Brown still wants to hand him over to the police? With all due respect, if he has really sinned, the laws of this society may not be able to give the appropriate punishment. If the punishment is not enough, he won't feel enough pain and have no place to regret."
Henry, who had been silent for a long time, said in his heart: don't speak such lawless words in front of me!
Middendorffi didn't comment on Zhang Dao's approach and said, "Hand him over to the police, his property will be checked to the bottom, try to return it to the victim."
Henry picked up, "And continue to pay back after he gets out of jail."
Hearing them say this, Zhang Dao could only say, "Then we will follow up and hand him over to the police."
Middendorffi didn't care about the dispatch here and continued to ask, "Then what are you going to do with the brat on him?"
Zhang Dao was puzzled by this question, "What else? Just crush it casually and tell it not to plague others again."
Middendorffi said, "I want to come and take a look, so you capture it and collect it and give it to me?"
"Huh?" Zhang Dao was even more confused. He didn't know that Middendorffi's specific division of labour was the "information bit" and was only responsible for looking at it. He wondered how a ... person like Middendorffi would want to do this on his own. But this is just a handful of work for Zhang Dao; he was about to casually respond when he heard Eli say: "I'll grab it for you."
Middendorffi twisted his head to look at him, "Can you grab it out whole without splitting it?"
"Just yank it out. If you'd said you wanted to see it, I'd have ripped it out for you on the spot last time." Eli said, "In that case, we'll go together this time."
Middendorffi nodded.
Since all three of them were going, Henry decided to tag along as well, and by the way, he could drive people around. In the car, Zhang Dao didn't know his thoughts and started to move again, wanting to add Middendorffi and Eli's friends to the social software. I don't know if it was because he was honestly scared by Eli before or if it was just his personality, but he was talking a lot better at this moment. He also said that after he went down the mountain to practice, he might encounter all kinds of demons and monsters and that if he had the contact information of Bear and Jones, he might ask the two of them to save his life in the future.
Later, Henry and Middendorffi chatted about this by chance, and Henry said that he had caught a glimpse of Zhang Dao sending messages on the passenger seat. Maybe it was because Zhang Dao was reporting to the Cloud Hidden Sect about Middendorffi and Eli, and the Cloud Hidden Sect asked him to keep in touch with the two of them, so Zhang Dao changed his attitude and asked for the contact information.
Anyway, in the end, Zhang Dao really did add a friend - Eli's alone.
At first glance, it seems strange; after all, the one with a more easy-going attitude should be Middendorffi, but when Middendorffi was about to pull out his mobile phone, Eli suddenly took it out first and intervened horizontally, "Add mine."
When Zhang Dao added his mobile phone and was about to add Middendorffi, Eli said, "No need to add him. He has no hands, so it's unlikely that you'll be able to find him to ask for help."
Henry and Zhang Dao were slightly confused; adding a friend was just a matter of not looking for Middendorffi to ask for help. But Middendorffi matched Eli's words and didn't take out his mobile phone, so Zhang Dao had to give up. How does he know? This is because he left Eli with the impression that "coming up to Middendorffi is not polite"; Eli will not let him have the opportunity to contact Middendorffi alone.
It took a little while for the group of four to arrive at Sally's grandfather's house.
This place is more significant than her brother-in-law's house, villa and garden; Bale's family is really quite wealthy. Sally had got the news earlier and was waiting at the door to receive them. When all four people exited the car, Sally welcomed them and asked, "Who are these two?"
"Our friends." Because Henry said he didn't want to get involved, Middendorffi only introduced him as a friend and gestured in Zhang Dao's direction, "This one, on the other hand, is really from the Green Mountain Cloud Hidden Sect."
When Sally heard him use the word "real", a brilliant light appeared in her eyes, "In that case, Zhou doesn't actually come from the Castle Peak Cloud Hidden Sect at all? Is this mage here to clean him up? May I ask how mage is addressed?"
"Surname Zhang." Zhang Dao seemed used to people calling themselves this way and returned calmly, "Where is he?"
"He's dancing at home. Oh no, this moment should be sitting there, beautifully called 'meditation' 'induction'." After knowing that Zhou Tianlin was beckoning, Sally's description of him became increasingly nonchalant, "Everyone, please follow me."
The group walked into the home from the villa's main entrance, and they were greeted by the smell of something burning again, which was very strong. Sally looked at Zhang Dao frowning and explained, "Just now, that surnamed Zhou burnt a big handful of incense here, circling the house, smouldering. That incense is not cheap, said ninety-nine to eighty-eight thousand!"
Zhang Dao is to this "ghost" angry and happy. A foot on the ashes of the incense fell to the ground and sneered: "I have never smelled such poor quality incense."
Sally picked up: "But it is not? If this were real, it would be just that, but it's an impostor ..."
Talking, a few people arrived at the door of a room on the ground floor. Sally was about to open the door when a housekeeper rushed over and said, "Sally, Peter won't let you open the door, saying you can't disturb it!"
"Aunt Wu, don't mind that Zhou mage is cheating." Sally said, "These VIPs are here to clean him up; Peter's brain is fuzzy; it's time to wake up!"
As she said that, her hand was already on the door handle. But before she could press it down, the doorknob automatically turned downwards, opening the door.
"Sally, why do you always come to bad things?" Peter stood in the doorway, glanced at the four men behind Sally, and taunted, "What, and bring four men home; what are you doing? Fighting?"
Sally wasn't afraid of him then and said straight away, "Where's Zhou Tianlin? Let him come out!"
"How dare you call mage by his first name?" Peter coldly lowered his face, "I think you owe it to yourself!"
"You're the one ..."
"Ms Sally, what are you looking for me?" A voice interrupted the cousins' quarrel; Peter turned to look, and just in time to make way - Zhou Tianlin came over.
Sally said, "It's not me looking for you; someone else is looking for you."
"Who?"
"Me."
Sally also moved from the doorway, and Zhang Dao finally stepped forward. He had one hand in his pocket, and his eyes behind his light yellow sunglasses were slightly squinted, instead looking more like a second generation than Peter. However, his cold and stern aura was much sharper than Peter's.
When Zhou Tianlin saw him, he was instantly confused, his expression frozen on his face.
"Zhou Tianlin, you're competent." Zhang Dao took two steps forward and stared at Zhou Tianlin, laughing coldly, "Sweeping the floor in my sect for twenty years, and after being thrown out and transformed, you've even become a disciple of my Cloud Hidden Sect?"
Peter also listened dumbfounded, "Sweeping the floor?!"
Zhou Tianlin could not speak, but his face gradually turned white. Obviously, Zhang Dao's appearance was two words to him - over.
He mumbled for a long time and finally stifled half a sentence, "Big young ..."
"Don't call me; I can't afford this 'big young' of yours." Zhang Dao said in a cold voice, "Still not rolling out? Want me to treat you?"
Zhou Tianlin only had to move out, "Big Young, it's me who is blind, please ..."
"Don't beg me; my father asked me to carry you back; you better not make me bother." Zhang Dao pushed his sunglasses and glanced above his left shoulder, "You're pretty good; you even made a whole brat; you think your life is too long, right?"
Zhou Tianlin was now white as a sheet and did not dare to reply.
Zhang Dao looked towards Eli, "Mr Jones."
Eli stepped forward and pulled out a small bottle from his pocket with one hand while the other hand grabbed the brat's neck and pulled harder-
"Ah!!!"
Zhou Tianlin screamed miserably and immediately went limp. This form of rawly pulling out the little ghost was almost equal to ripping out his intestines raw from his abdomen, and it hurt so much that he couldn't open his eyes or faint. But Eli didn't distract him; he put the kid into the bottle and handed it to Middendorffi, to a group of ordinary people. Eli just grabbed a hand above Zhou Tianlin's shoulder. Zhou Tianlin collapsed, and Eli went back to Middendorffi as if nothing had happened. The entire process was baffling, and only Zhou Tianlin's miserable screams echoed throughout the villa.
"What happened? What are you guys doing?!"
An old voice came from upstairs, and the crowd looked up, only to see an old man in his seventies walking down, his tone serious: "Peter, Sally, what are you guys doing? Where did this big bunch of people come from?"
"Grandpa, this Zhou mage is a liar!" Sally took the lead, pointing at Zhou Tianlin, who was curled up on the ground, "He's still here touching the ground now that he's been exposed!"
"Liar?" The old man walked over and frowned, "What did you guys do?"
"We didn't even touch him." Sally said, "Grandpa, those amulets Peter gave you earlier, don't keep them; they must be fake!"
Peter heard her mocking himself and couldn't help but argue, "What do you mean? It's not like I did it on purpose!"
"Then who told you to be stupid enough to mess around and find someone to go home and fool around with?" Sally said, "If it wasn't for me inviting all the teachers to discern, not only would you have been screwed out of your trousers, but your whole family would have been left in peace!"
"You ..."
"Peter!" The old man drank Peter's retort, swept a glance, or spoke to a few strange men first, "All of you ... teachers, I've made you laugh. I am Peter and Sally's grandfather, Joseph Gordon Bale."
Henry looked at the situation and was about to open his mouth to socialise when Zhang Dao suddenly said, "You are their grandfather?"
He looked back and forth twice and finally glanced at Peter, "He doesn't seem to have much blood with you guys."
Joseph Bale, Sally and Peter, "... What?!"
Henry: You have the "meet and offend" buff, don't you!
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