New Gods of North America.

Chapter 398 Back to school
No one from the detective agency came to attack in the middle of the night.

The next morning, Wayne got up from the sofa in his office and tossed a coin. Unexpectedly, the coin actually rolled into the cracks between the bricks and stopped there.

So Wayne accepted the bet and took out today's textbook from the pile of books that Seth had helped him organize, and then took a carriage to class.

After finishing the theology and philosophy class in the afternoon, Wayne went to the small building temporarily used by the exorcism department to visit a few unfortunate people who had not yet fully recovered.
Then Wayne realized that he had been letting himself go too much recently. He had not given up on self-study even though he was still lying in bed.

Each bedside table is piled like a bookshelf, and some textbooks are old books obtained through requests for help.

But when they saw Wayne coming, they put down their books and chatted with him for a while.

Nowadays, male college students don't pay much attention to things other than their studies.

But everyone has a gossipy heart. They first asked and praised the battle between "Daddy Wayne" and Cohen Pharmaceuticals, and then reminded Wayne to be careful of his "rival in love."

It was said that the "building manager" Macon Reeve had been getting close to the young lady from the Fisk family recently. He had come to visit him two or three times before, but he had not come since he moved to the new dormitory.
Wayne didn't expect that he could eat such a melon, and he also felt that this development was amazing just by hearing it.

Then I thought about it and felt that it was not very scientific. Miss Olivia and the "building director" were not very good at home and could donate the library and gold antiques to the college, while the other could only barely meet the passing standard for admission.

If these two people succeed, it will probably be considered "front-page news" in the local newspaper.

It turns out that some people cannot be remembered.
Not long after coming out of the small building, Wayne saw the "building manager" Macon Reeve on the road on campus.
Thinking that he would not live in the dormitory in the future and it would not be easy for him to meet him often, Wayne stopped the carriage on the side of the road, got off to say hello to the other party, and told him that if he wanted to contact him in the future, he could go to the detective agency.

As soon as the two looked at each other,

Macon Reeve raised his eyebrows slightly, with a playful smile on his face, "Long time no see, Wayne."

"Who are you?" Wayne asked.

Oh no, I was so busy with Cohen Pharmaceuticals that I almost forgot about the "Building Manager"'s affairs.

"You don't recognize me? I'm 'York'."

Wayne's eyes narrowed slightly, "Are you the one who killed the cat before?"

"McKenn Reeve" shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands:
"I don't know what you're talking about. I'm just 'York'. Or I'm just Macon Reeve."

In the perspective of simple lines, "McCan Reeve" is no different from ordinary people.

Wayne thought for a moment, "You are the only personality left now?"

Macken Reeve hunched his body slightly, and tried to avoid other people's gazes. He looked almost the same as the "building manager" Wayne met at the beginning. "Maybe you are just more accustomed to talking to me like this?"

Then he stood up straight again, chest and head held high, "Please, people change, we just got back together."

Well……

Then you and I may not be "acquaintances" anymore. ...

Back in the carriage, Wayne thought it was still not right, so he asked Doug to go to the girls' dormitory to see if he could contact Miss Olivia.
This aspect is easy to handle. Before, when Inissa and Lina came to the college for classes, they would come here to rest during lunch. When the lunch Willy brought to them arrived, he would release the parrot to call people.

The parrot was an experienced man now. After Miss Olivia, who looked relatively plain and conservative in the academy, came down, it teased Wayne:
"I thought you would return to the academy after fighting several duels."

"After Mr. Baker lost, it seems that Cohen Pharmaceuticals has no other person in charge in Richmond."

Wayne explained briefly and then asked, "Our 'building manager' Macon Reeve, what's his current situation? I heard that you visited him several times recently."

After hearing this, Miss Olivia's expression became a little more serious:
"I went to check on him several times, but the collapse of his inner 'house' was getting worse and worse.

"When he was last examined last week, only two rooms of his 'house' were still intact. One looked like a gentleman's quarters, and the other looked like a 'slaughterhouse'."

Wayne quickly recalled the situation when he just met "McKen Reeve".
The "reunion" of the personalities turned out to be fake, and the personalities "disappeared" one by one, which was more in line with what Wayne had learned before.

Considering the "cat killing" scene he had witnessed,
Wayne would rather suspect that this personality that just appeared now "eliminated" the other personalities.

But the problem now is,
What kind of thing is it when a person's several "personalities" kill each other?

If we judge by the terms of the law,
Should this be considered "suicide" or "homicide"?
We can't just hang Mackenzie Reeve for this... Miss Olivia said that he still has "two" houses that are intact, so "buy one and get one" is not very scientific.

Let's take a step back and talk about it, even if we don't talk about the law.
Assuming that "McChan Reeve" is an indivisible whole,

So, does the gradual disappearance of his several personalities mean that he is almost "cured" or "hopeless"?
Wayne suddenly felt that

The theology and philosophy class I just took this afternoon didn’t seem to be this complicated…

Considering that the other party was once his "building manager", after Wayne said goodbye to Miss Olivia, he first went to look for David Mills.

People in the exorcism department might be more knowledgeable in this area.

David Mills happened to be in a meeting at the time, so Wayne waited for him for a while and then talked about the matter with someone he knew in the exorcism department.
It turned out that the local church had never encountered such a thing before, and several exorcists soon began a discussion.

One of them believes that each "personality" is actually a part of the person himself, and there should not be a problem of "who replaces whom". If touching your partner with your left hand is considered affectionate, does touching him with your right hand count as "harassment"?

Another person thought that this matter was easy to handle. Since there was a problem, they could be sent for purification. Those who were left at the end must be the ones the Holy Spirit considered most suitable. If no one survived, that was also the decision of the Holy Spirit.

Another person's personal opinion is closer to Wayne's. He believes that if someone deliberately destroys other people's "independent consciousness", it may be considered "murder" in a sense, but in terms of sentencing and handling, it is indeed troublesome to think about it...

Fortunately, David Mills happened to be a barely qualified lawyer.

Wayne himself is a private detective. In theory, a detective only needs to find the criminal. If he were not so responsible, the case could have been "closed" by now.

(End of this chapter)