"Uh, Tam, you don't have to hang around me." Zach was driving away Tam, who was in the way. "You want to be the last one to tell me what Papa Midnight took from you, okay, I have no objection." He waved with a bit of disgust. Start, which means walk away!
Zach was getting down to business—helping Benjamin rock the hammock while asking what he and Sam had been talking about all morning. The result is that Sam now dares not approach Benjamin at all, and has to follow Louise to act as a real employee of the Grande Funeral Home and deal with the staff from the Allen Funeral Home.
"Did you see those 'puppy eyes'?" Benjamin, while enjoying the sunshine, squinted in the direction of the back porch. Inside the door of the stairwell, behind the shadow on the slanting side of the sun, a pair of eyes were looking here, "You have other things to worry about." One leg set up a hammock, making Zach's shaking useless, "Slut -Trouble others."
Fortunately, Benjamin didn't let his disgusted expression be too obvious, and Zach felt that he could still hold on for a while longer...
Zach glanced at the 'puppy eyes' that belonged to Charlie, kicked Benjamin's legs away, and continued to shake, "I told you, I don't like Bruch."
"No." Benjamin responded quickly, "And I don't care."
"You know that as a race that can easily arouse public outrage around the world - vampires..." Zach withdrew his gaze and pointed at himself, "After all, we live on the blood of other creatures and live forever. You can't find it easier than this. Reason for public outrage.”
Benjamin glanced at Zach and said, "You are quite self-aware, but trust me, if one day you cause public outrage, it will definitely not be because of your eating habits." Yes, Benjamin has begun to master the ultimate art of language - sarcasm.
Still, Benjamin was responding, so Zack left immediately and continued his confession, "Most of the vampires in the thirteen clans have ways to avoid disputes, which reduces the possibility of hatred among our species. This is the reason why vampires can continue. "
"Oh, really, it turns out it's not about fighting for class status and occupying the upper echelons of society." Benjamin had already turned around and spoke to Zach with his butt. But after only facing each other for two seconds, Benjamin turned over with a look of discomfort on his face and faced Zach with his front face—perhaps Benjamin was starting to have a shadow of his back to Zach.
"That's the result, at least the result of the Secret, Sabbat, or earlier vampires." Zach pretended not to know the reason for Benjamin's little move, which was too embarrassing. "After all, the Holy Lord gave us an advantage when he created us, and He gave us such an obvious disadvantage, look at him." Zach glanced in Charlie's direction again and shook his head, "Can you believe that before coming to the Federation, we all lived like this. Hiding in the shadows."
"Tsk." Benjamin twitched his lips, "I don't know about you, but when I still had a pack of wolves, I often encountered foreign vampires who didn't walk in the daytime. Their lives were so bad..." Benjamin himself Shut up, I don't know where in his words made his face look ugly.
Zach waved his hands, "I'm saying I don't like Bruh."
"Yes, you don't like Bruh."
This is when the two of them agreed not to continue to expand on the possible directions of the topic just now, and to focus on the main topic. How thoughtful Zach.
"They don't have the ability to avoid disputes." Zach shook his head again, still looking in the direction of Charlie, and his eyes retreated little by little. Oh, our vampires and Alphas are very aware that the other party can hear their conversations, "They don't have Nophele's ability to hide, they don't have Gangro's self-awareness to avoid everything, and they don't have Rimel's at least half of humanity. Of course, there is no Toledo... you know. Bruch's only ability is to escalate the dispute to an irreversible situation. "Fight."
"Hmph, so they are soldiers who only know how to use force. Isn't that what you colonists need?"
"But I still lost the colonial war." From the alien side, "Do you think the peace brought about by the independence of the Federation is due to Bruch?"
"Look, the reason for your public outrage is definitely not 'food.'" Benjamin naturally thought that Zach was going to show off Toledo's important role in the establishment of the Federation.
But Zach really wasn't ready to show off, "The only role Bruch provided in the peace of the Federation was that they followed Van Zhuo, who had the smallest number among the thirteen clans and could not afford to continue to consume the Sabbat."
Benjamin raised his eyebrows at this time. This was a secret of vampire history that he could not possibly know. "You are saying that the key reason for the truce between the Secret Alliance and the Sabbat was Bruch, the strongest fighter among the thirteen clans. Belonging to the Secret Alliance?"
Zach moved his lips, "The key reason is that Van Zhuo chose Toledo between Toledo's eyes and Lesembra's blood."
Benjamin tilted his head and smiled at the corner of his mouth, "Oh, secret, hehe, Toledo attracted a blood noble among your vampires, and this noble brought a group of soldiers, hehehe..." The omitted part is Three centuries later, the nobles that Toledo won over led their soldiers to wipe out Toledo, and also led the Secret Alliance to decline to the point of seeking a republic to survive.
retribution.
"I'm saying, I don't like Bruch." Zach got to the point again.
"Haha, yes, you are talking about this." Consensus again. Benjamin is also very considerate~
Zach pursed his lips and shook his head, "Nuo Zhen gave me a problem." Either there will be real trouble with contradictions, or he will react to it. Whether it’s Zach’s views on Bruh’s way of survival, or Bruh’s old grudge against Toledo.
"Haha." Probably because the topic completely shifted from what Benjamin didn't want to answer to Zach's unhappiness, Benjamin was in a good mood now, "Relax a little, isn't that what Nuo requested, and besides, he's not Bruhl." , look at him, he is a foreigner. It may be just a tragedy that he was unlucky enough to appear at the wrong time and place. If anyone can help him, it is you."
Finally, he finally said something to make Zach feel comfortable. Zach glanced at Benjamin, looked at the thickest part of the flesh, everyone knows where it is, and gave him a slap. Consider it childish revenge. "I won't bother you anymore, but you know that if I ask Sam, he must answer the right question." Bar."
Benjamin immediately turned his face awkwardly and turned over, "It's up to you."
Zach headed to the back porch. The eyes hiding in the shadow blinked and began to drift around at a loss.
Directly past Charlie's shadowed body, Zach listened to the sounds of the showroom and the second floor.
Old Hank Semga was in the showroom discussing coffin quotations with Allen's employees, while Louise was in the office, dealing with the relatives of the deceased who came to choose a cemetery. The first cooperation between the two funeral homes did not go very smoothly. Both owners deliberately avoided contact due to legal and personal grudges.
May this funeral allow the deceased to rest in peace.
Zach walked directly to the basement, "Follow me."
Charlie followed up against the wall, "I have only been a vampire for five years. It was an accident." Everyone will understand what Charlie wants to say, "If other kind-hearted seniors hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known that I belonged to Bruch..." This is trying to tell Zach that you don’t like Bruhl and I don’t like him either.
Zach didn't reply. After entering the basement, he pointed to the stone platform and said, "Lie down on it."
Charlie was obedient, but didn't seem ready to shut up, "I've been living underground and working for a skinchanger. I'm fast and I'm very strong! I can do many things..."
Zach took off the guy's shirt and looked at a piece of soft white flowers - it's time to talk about Charlie's body shape. He has a pretty broad frame, but he doesn't have the muscles to match it. As Mo said, he didn't look like what a fighting clan should look like.
Zach started rummaging through the basement. In the past, things in the basement were easy to find, but after being packed away by Louise and Alice, Zach wasn't quite sure where the things he was looking for were.
"Uh..." Charlie, who was lying on the stone platform with his chest open, seemed to be nervous, and his eyes followed Zach, who was looking around, "He, they said, after becoming Toledo, I, I may not feel as fast as before. And strong, but, but I can control other people’s thoughts just by looking at them…”
Zach interrupted while flipping through boxes and cabinets in the corner, "They are wrong. You will feel faster and stronger. My bloodline is more than ten generations higher than the bloodline you have now." He looked back and looked at his face. A delighted Charlie began to appear, "But if you just, um, 'look' at anyone, I'll gouge out your eyeballs myself."
It's time to test Charlie's ingenuity.
"Uh... uh... right!" That's right~ "Vampires are the easiest race to attract hatred! I can't just attract hatred to myself!"
Zach nodded with satisfaction, yes, Charlie still has the potential to train, and he lived up to Zach's ridicule several times by Benjamin. Zach is actually a very good elder, if you can adapt to his weird education method...
Zach continued to look for what he was looking for.
"Well..." You should understand Charlie's mood. If you were lying bare-chested on the stone platform of a vampire - it turned out to be the stone platform of a funeral home where corpses are dressed, and you didn't dare to move, you would also say it with all your strength. Point your voice, "Well... you, can you tell me, give me your last name, um, what does it look like? I, I'm a little nervous... "
"It used to be a method of punishment for the Thirteen Clan." Zach continued to look for what he was looking for while answering. He already had the previous historical background explanation, so there was no need for any more foreshadowing. "When the colonists came to the federal continent, Before, there was a cleanup within the Thirteen Clans."
Zach frowned, for no serious reason. He simply found an unfinished doll that Sam had put in the basement. After taking back the doll that represented his life, Sam said that he would find new ways to show loyalty, but it seems that this guy's imagination is too poor.
Zach put the unfinished puppet back into place, and at the same time decided that Sam could not use the basement as a witchcraft 'base', and that he had to live in the living area. Zach did not want to see these witchcraft things.
"Some members of the Thirteen Clan who are unwilling to accept the call of the Holy Lord are expelled." Zach continued to answer, "The method of expulsion is to deprive them of their surnames, and with them, deprive them of the rewards pre-given by the Holy Lord - they are under the sun The ability to walk.”
"The surname, the surname can be taken away..."
Very simple psychology - when you are about to get something, others tell you that what you get may still be taken away. Charlie twisted his body on the stone platform.
"Yes. But to be more precise, it is being replaced. The surname of the Thirteen Clan is replaced with the surname of the lower-ranking clan other than the Thirteen Clan." Zach paused and looked at Charlie, who was restless and tense on the stone platform. , "You have now understood that surname and lineage are one. Replacing the surname also means replacing the lineage. The same goes for giving a surname."
Without waiting for Charlie to answer, Zach continued to search and continued, "Then, the Thirteen Clans came to this continent and the Federation was established. This became the way for the Thirteen Clans to control foreign vampires." This is the same as Zach and Lu What Yi Si said about the past is relevant, "Whether it is the Secret Alliance or the Sabbat, we will no longer continue to hunt foreigners who are scattered around and may ruin the reputation of vampires. We give them a little hope. If they behave well, they will be rewarded. He will become a true member of the Thirteen Clan and will receive his surname.”
Charlie stared at the ceiling on the stone platform, and actually blinked, with a smile on his face, which was self-deprecating. Nuo was right, this guy had a very positive attitude - "Oh, I, I was probably too young and didn't catch up with that 'good' time, but, but it's very good now, Nuo said, you are a very good person." people… "
Zach glanced at Charlie and continued, "But foreigners are foreigners after all. There are various reasons for becoming a vampire, but they are definitely not 'selected inheritance objects'. Like you said, they are the product of accidents. No matter whether it is a secret or a Sabbat, I am not prepared to wrong my bloodline, so I gave it a surname later."
Zach had already searched the lockers on three walls, and walked to the last one with a frown, "Foreign races are the ones to be selected. The alliance will re-evaluate which clan the foreign vampires are suitable for. If you are lucky, you will be selected, and then you will be selected." The last vampire performs the ritual of giving a surname and officially receives descendants."
"Yi, ceremony..."
"Of course, just like when a vampire is born and receives vampire blood, you will experience the moment of death again..."
Before Zach could finish speaking, the colorful light of the phantom penetrated into the basement, "There are aliens coming. I felt at the door that there were too many humans here and I didn't want to come in."
"Let them come to the basement." Zach subconsciously touched his pocket and confirmed that he had the alien list and pen on him. This second wave of Barton aliens was still a little slow to arrive. But Zach had nothing to complain about. Before the Phantom Man disappeared, "Danny, ask Louise where she put the things that Hank used to seal Ian."
Seal Ian? Everyone still remembers that Ian was dug out of the cemetery with a metal cone inserted into his chest while being firmly tied. Zach was looking for this.
Danny deliberately gathered the human figures for unknown reasons, glanced at Charlie who was lying on the stone platform and stared, nodded, "Oh." and disappeared.
Zach simply stopped looking and waited for a reply. Carrying two empty cans, he walked towards Charlie and said, "Do you want to leave some of your Bruch's blood as a souvenir?" Zach shook the empty cans in his hand.
Like what, let me think about it, by the way, the kind where the doctor asks you before the operation, "Hey, do you want to put the tumor that I removed later as a souvenir? Haha, after all, after I finish the operation, this tumor will But I cut them all clean, and they are gone~" That's why we have to commemorate it, isn't it
Charlie looked at Zach and blinked, "Me, my blood?"
"Didn't you listen carefully? I said I wanted to change my bloodline." I just thought this guy could be trained. Hey, Zach shouldn't have any expectations. (.)