“Say something, Officer. Everyone wants to know, what did you find along the Quileute River?”
“…”
Mike, who was truly gnawing on the beef burger in his hand, paused slightly, while Bella Swan’s father, Charlie, scanned the others in the restaurant.
Undoubtedly, after Mrs. Doris spoke, everyone else turned their gaze toward this side.
Forks is a small town.
The small town has both disadvantages and advantages.
The advantage is that the residents of the town are very united, helping each other like a big family.
They are somewhat xenophobic; it is similar to how if an outsider’s dog ran in, it would be noticed immediately and could never hide.
The disadvantage is that once something bad happens in the town, it spreads throughout the entire town at the fastest speed.
This is the case right now.
Someone was killed.
The manner of death was tragic, looking exactly like they had been mauled by a beast, and everyone is very worried that this might happen to them.
Sheriff Charlie was silent for a moment, and finally said, “Hmm, we found a person’s footprint there. Regardless of whose it is, it looks like he went east, so the officer from Kitsap County in the east will take over this case to continue the investigation.”
After speaking, Charlie looked at Mrs. Doris.
“Is that okay?”
Mrs. Doris nodded.
“We just hope to catch him as soon as possible.”
The next day.
Mike accepted the invitation from the Cullen family to play baseball.
Again, if it were before, Mike would firmly say that he would not go, no matter what.
But right now?
Let’s put it this way: when you don’t have strength, lying low is called trying every possible way to develop yourself as much as possible.
But after you have strength, lying low is certainly a good thing, but you can only lie low appropriately.
If you think about lying low in everything, then you lose the true meaning of lying low.
That is no longer called lying low, but being a coward.
The place for playing baseball is in the Olympic Mountains.
The weather today is very bad.
Starting from the morning, the whole sky has been gloomy.
It was a little better when in the town, but after Mike and Alice Cullen entered the Olympic Mountains one after the other, in an instant, everything around them was pitch black.
Soon, after bypassing a magnificent hemlock tree, today’s destination arrived.
This is located on the edge of a huge open space on the mountainside of the Olympic Mountains.
But its area is twice as large as any open-air baseball field.
It’s no wonder the Cullen family would choose to settle here in Forks.
After all, there is a natural open-air baseball field here.
Carlisle Cullen and Esme Cullen were chatting not far away, wearing baseball caps.
Edward Cullen and Bella had not arrived yet.
As for Jasper Hale?
He still didn’t appear again.
When Alice came to the house last night, she seemed to mention that this guy seemed to have left a note saying he went out to relax.
“Mr. Cullen.”
“Mike.”
“Thank you for inviting me to this gathering.”
Mike walked over and offered his thanks to the Cullen couple.
As a Mike who claims to be a righteous protagonist, he pays close attention to these polite details.
In a word, when the whole world thinks you are a polite gentleman, then, even if the things you do are things only a villain would do, they will habitually imagine various reasons for you.
Carlisle patted Mike’s shoulder and smiled.
“I can feel that we will be a family in the future, so this is a family gathering, and you should come.”
Rosalie on the boulder stood up elegantly and walked over, stood beside Alice, winked at Alice, and then looked at Mike with a teasing tone.
“Or are you saying you don’t treat us as family?”
Mike made a wronged expression and spread his hands to look at Rosalie.
“If I say yes, will I never be able to eat the salad you make again?”
Rosalie thought about it very seriously.
“Yes. I only make my salad for family members.”
Mike laughed.
“We are family, Rosalie. Then, since we are family, shouldn’t you call me brother?”
Rosalie was stunned for a moment.
Carlisle and Esme also laughed out loud.
Rosalie’s boyfriend, Emmett, also couldn’t help but purse his lips.
Rosalie couldn’t help but look at Alice.
The latter seemed to know what Rosalie wanted to say and directly raised her hand.
“Rosalie, you started it yourself. You are responsible for finishing it yourself.”
After speaking, a trace of a smile appeared on Alice’s face.
For Alice, she was very happy that Mike could have such a harmonious relationship with her family.
Just at this moment, Edward also held Bella’s small hand and appeared in everyone’s sight from the woods over there.
The smile on Rosalie’s face disappeared instantly.
Her smile was for family members.
Very obviously, Rosalie’s first impression of Bella was very bad, and this point could not be completely reversed just by eating a meal of her salad.
Bella was still a bit timid towards Rosalie, so much so that when she followed Edward over, her stomach reacted unconsciously, spasming uneasily.
Rosalie glanced at Bella and added, “It sounded like a bear choking.”
Bella, who looked very weak and bird-like, hesitated for a while, then smiled at Emmett.
“That was him.”
Edward made a gesture of being caught by you all.
But the Cullen family are all vampires with super hearing.
How could they not know whose body that stomach-churning sound just came from?
In an instant, Rosalie’s favorability towards Bella dropped again.
Are they scary?
Since you are so afraid, why are you still with Edward?
Just when Rosalie raised an eyebrow, Alice, who was standing beside Mike, suddenly looked up at the sky and said inexplicably, “The time has come.”
As the words fell, with a rumble, a dull, rumbling thunder exploded in the dense forest far away, and then the sound rolled towards the town in the west.
Emmett winked at Bella like he was familiar with her.
“Pretty scary, right?”
Bella shrank her neck and smiled reluctantly.
Esme, wearing a baseball cap and a white jacket, walked to Edward’s side, hugged Bella’s shoulder, and smiled.
“I’m glad you came. We need a referee.”
Emmett swung the baseball in his hand.
“She thinks we will cheat.”
Esme replied directly, “I knew you would cheat.”
Mike over there was at a loss.
Raising his hand, Mike said to Esme, “Esme, I also apply to be a referee.”
As the words fell, everyone’s expression instantly became strange.
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