Zach looked back at the person who came in, "Leo, long time no see."
"Not long enough." The guy named Leo held the chain in his hand and held up the metal cone at the end of the chain with an unnatural expression. "I don't want to be the first to come down."
"You're not the first." Zach shook the alien list he had taken out. On the unfolded part, the last name was crossed out, Tam. Zach put the list aside first, randomly found a piece of cloth of unknown purpose, put it on his hand, and took the chain from Leo's hand, meaning he didn't want to come into contact with it directly, "Where did you find this? ?”
"Your phantom was taken from the warehouse on the south side."
Zach smiled and said, "And you helped him get it down. How nice of you~ Help me?"
Regardless of Zach's familiar way of speaking, this is the first time we meet Leo as a 'person'. And we should be used to some of Zach's little tricks. He is good at using this kind of control method to bring others into what he is doing. So we often see Zach talking and doing unrelated things.
But it's not about controlling the field now, Zack just doesn't want to waste manpower.
Leo frowned, but still followed Zach to Charlie on the stone platform. As if he knew exactly what he was going to do, he held down Charlie's arm that was trying to move, "Who is he?"
"I, I am Charlie..." When Charlie noticed that his arms being held down seemed to be poured on a stone platform, unable to move at all, he spoke, "I, I am from the middle, I, I am now Outside Bruch…”
"I know what you are." Leo's eyes glanced at Charlie, and then returned to Zach, "So, what Sibella said, it is true that you are giving away your last name like a potato. "
"Potatoes?" Zach asked with a raised eyebrow while grabbing the metal cone and rubbing it on the edge of the stone platform to remove the rust.
"Its weight and value far exceed its cheap price."
Zach curled his lips, deciding to ignore the ridicule in this metaphor and directly take it as a compliment, "Thank you."
Maybe it was the sound of friction between metal and stone that broke Charlie's nerves, and he began to struggle, "I, I..."
The struggle stopped when Leo's shoulders began to squirm and expand in a circle connected to his latissimus dorsi, and then his clothes began to be stretched weirdly from the inside.
Fortunately, Leo was wearing a jacket—his fingers began to poke out the front seam of the jacket and unbuttoned the buttons. After pushing the coat open, two new arms stretched out from the side of the guy's body like a stone sculpture, respectively. Charlie's neck and abdomen were held down. Leo also glanced at Charlie's raised leg, pouted, stepped up and sat directly on it. It was impossible for Charlie to move an inch.
"Doesn't he have the artistic beauty of artificial carving~" Zach tilted his head towards Charlie with a smile on his face, "Do you know what he is? Charlie?"
Charlie was lying on his back with staring eyes. He could see the sculpture-like hard body and the four thick arms extending out. He felt the mountain-like weight pressing on his lower body, fixing him like a cage, so he could not answer this question. .
Zach continued rubbing the metal cone, "Leo is the gatekeeper of Purgatory."
"I don't need an introduction! Toledo!" Leo frowned.
Zach shrugged and continued to Charlie, "But since Purgatory has disappeared with the former god, Leo is not too proud of his identity."
Charlie wants to know this kind of information? No! He did not want! It was like he was staring with his eyes at this moment, not wanting the smooth and sharp metal cone that Zach was holding to come close to him!
But what Charlie wants is really beyond his control.
Zach's hand holding the metal awl indicated the position on Charlie's chest, "This is going to hurt a little." Snap, it went in.
There was no room for Charlie's instinctive struggle to be used. The four thick arms turned into afterimages. The metal awl chain thrown by Zach was pulled off by Leo and almost instantly, it wrapped around Charlie on the stone platform. .
Zach seemed very satisfied with Leo's binding skills. He patted Charlie, who had completely lost the possibility of movement and was nailed upright on the stone platform. He lifted the prepared empty can and placed it on the stone platform that started to bleed. On the side of the stage, "You should relax, otherwise this will last for a long time, and the blood-forming ability of our vampires will exceed your imagination. You don't want to let this thing stick in your heart for a week..."
"Ah-" Charlie started howling. Zach stuffed the cloth wrapped around his hand into Charlie's mouth, making the basement quiet again.
"We still have business to talk about, right?" Zach picked up the list and pen he had just put down, and wrote Leo's name on the corner of the stone table. While Leo's extra arm began to retract, Zach also made a little joke, "Based on the few people I already know, haha, I won't make random guesses. Anyway, it will definitely surprise me."
"I don't want to be the first one down." Leo put on his clothes again and repeated what he said at the beginning.
"You are not the first." Zach tilted his head, "Sheila is ahead of you." Zach would use Sheila as an example because Sheila is an ancient alien race. You could use Moorman, but Moorman is too harmless and unconvincing...
Leo frowned, seemingly dissatisfied with Zach's ability to understand, "I don't want to be the first one out of this bunch of 'people'!"
"Oh!" Zach raised his eyebrows, "You have something you want to talk to me about?" He glanced towards the stairs, "Who else is up there?"
"Winchester's brothers, Nemo, Chloe, Fury..." After naming a bunch of names, he clicked his tongue, "Tam."
Zach understood something, "Then you will be disappointed. I promised Tam that he would be the last one. No matter how long you wait, he will be there."
What needs to be understood from this back-and-forth is this - Tam and Leo have a 'difference'.
"Uh." He looked irritably at Charlie who was being bled on the stone platform, "I can help, I can stay in Grande."
"Oh?" Zach was a little unsure. This guy's response to Zach's "long time no see" was "not long enough," right? No matter what he wanted to talk to Zach, it should be limited to a one-time conversation, not a permanent conversation. Grande, "Are you sure? Tam will probably always be in Grande."
"Isn't he following your 'general'? Let him do his own thing!"
"'General' has nothing to do lately." Zach continued to shrug and glanced at Charlie, "And I, haha, I don't need help. I've done this kind of thing many times, and I'm very experienced." Be clear. One point, Zach's experience is not to give foreign surnames, but to the time when this was still a punishment for the thirteen clans to expel internal members.
Leo did something that left Zach speechless. He walked directly to Charlie and pulled off the cloth in his mouth, "You may die. Before the blood in your body is emptied and Toledo's blood has not entered, you may die? Do you want to die? Charlie ?”
"His name is Charlie." Zach corrected, not bothering to stop him.
"I, I don't want to die..."
"I can help you, Charlie, without letting you die, Charlie. Do you want me to help you? Charlie."
You all know the talking technique of constantly saying the other person's name during a conversation to control the rhythm. It is above, but it is not necessary. Charlie really has no rhythm that needs to be controlled now - "I, I don't want to die..."
Busey went back, and Leo looked at Zach without any expression, "He asked me for help."
Zach curled his lips and waved his hand, crossing out Leo who had just written down the list, "Call the next one in."
"Next is Tam." Leo said this without expression, turned around and walked up.
Zach was too lazy to say anything, "It's up to you."
When Leo went up, Zach looked at Charlie and hesitated speechlessly, "You caused trouble for Grande. He is a 'vampire' from the past. Our Holy Lord is not an imaginative god. , he borrowed from the gatekeepers of purgatory and created us, vampires.”
Again, does Charlie want to hear this information? No!
Tam was the same. As soon as he came down from the stairs, he had a gloomy face and said, "That's nonsense! A vampire is completely different from that guy!" That guy was of course referring to Leo, "He's just a cold-hearted stone!"
"And the stone will always exist." Zach glanced at Tam, "In terms of creating something that will live forever somewhere, there is no difference in the attributes of vampires and Leo." He shook his head, "Vampires are even more humble. We were punished for eternity here, and Leo was given the duty of guard. He was God's employee, and we were prisoners."
Did Zach never say that he was humble before? This sentence should be framed!
"Then where is his god now?!" Tam became inexplicably excited, "He is just a stone that cannot be corrupted even if he wants to! There is nothing!"
Zach didn't want to talk more about the vanished faith and God, so he said something incomprehensible, "I'm sorry for your loss, Tam."
Ah, yes, Tam and Leo once had the same god.
Sure enough, Zach knew what to say to make people shut up, and Tam's face was as wrinkled as Charlie's mouth, and he stopped talking.
Zach didn't say much and wrote 'Tam' on the list again with a colon. Then he picked up the blood tank that had been filled with Charlie's blood and pushed it towards Tam, "Your affairs in Grande are over. This is the reward you requested." The meaning was clear, Zach didn't want to get involved in Tower. Due to the personal conflict between Mu and Leo, only one of these two guys will continue to stay in Grande. Then because Leo found a valid reason for himself, Tam has lost.
As for Zach giving Charlie's blood to Tam, don't worry about this little thing. This is not the first time Zach has done this kind of thing of using other people's blood as a favor. Do you still remember how Zach taught the 'General' to control healing.
Tam stared at the colon written by Zach, his cheeks twitching constantly, as if he was engaged in a fierce psychological struggle.
"Just tell me." Zach tried his best to use a patient tone, "Believe me, I won't be surprised by anything." Pointing to the covered part, "There are already things here that I didn't expect. "Such as the 'little soldiers' of the inheritors. Zach didn't think there was anything more exotic.
"No," Tam said, "Papa didn't take anything from me at midnight!"
Zach raised his eyebrows, "No?"
"You heard me! No!" Tam's emotions were a little out of control. "After what happened three years ago, I started to hear other people discussing what Papa took at midnight, but no one refused to reveal it. Something was taken away from me, so I took advantage of the situation! I started pretending!"
"Pretending?" Zach's eyebrows rose a little higher.
"Yes! Pretend that something was taken away by Papa Midnight!" Staring at Zach, and then at the names already on Zach's list, the expression on his face became more gloomy, "You said you weren't surprised! "
Zach immediately pulled down his eyebrows, "Officially, from now on, I won't be surprised." Zach directly folded the colon after Tam's name, quite calmly, "So, this is what you want to end up with. Is that the reason why you think you are the only one who didn’t have anything taken away by Papa Midnight?”
"No!" He actually denied it and stared at Zach, "I don't think Papa took anything from Leo at midnight!" I don't know if it was due to excessive gloominess or ridicule, "Huh, he can be taken away. What, knock a stone off your head!"
"Then I guess I'll know in the end." Zach pointed to the blood tank pushed towards Tam, "You can go and call the next one."
"I have nowhere to go." Tam didn't move, staring at the blood tank that already belonged to him. "The last time the 'General' came over, he took away all the files stored here. Because of you, he is now suspending his investigation of Ike. There is nothing I can do to retaliate against the Sri Lankan security company!"
"Then go back to your old life." Zach didn't want to worry about it. The 'General' listened to the advice and stopped causing trouble with Falcon for the time being, maintaining the integrity of the West Side people at this special moment. Zach was very pleased, but the details were , for example, Tam has no purpose and is not within the scope of Zac's concern, "You have a 'legend' (in the world of thieving) to maintain, don't you. I believe that now that Number One is a vampire, you can rob Lis more easily Any store on Special Street.”
"Uh." Tam curled his lips irritably, "The only reason why I took those two followers around is because I like No. 2!" It's not obvious, really, it's not obvious at all, "Now No. 2 is here At home, I read all those ghost books about believing in yourself!" Inexplicably, he became angry again, "Because of you!"
"Me?" Zach shook his head helplessly, "You can't blame this kind of thing on me. It was you who actively introduced your No. 2 to Mo. It was you." Zach shrugged. , "Let her get in touch with those republican alien theories that 'believe they will be born'."
"Tsk! I want to stay in Grande!" Tam stared at Zach, "I want to stay here regardless of whether Leo is there or not! I won't leave because of him!" This is probably the point, it's quite childish.
Zach's eyes wandered around the basement, and finally fell on Charlie's face. He casually mentioned it, and it was as white as paper now. "Look, you have caused trouble for Grande. Now we have two people who hate each other." The guys on the other side have to stay in Grande.”
His pale face gave him an apologetic look with difficulty. Zach waved his hand, "Go and call the next one, Tam, and take it easy, Chloe. I need all the good, positive energy right now."
"Change another one." Tam took away his reward, the blood tank, "Mo got chatting with her. They are both fans of 'Sofia' (soap opera) and there is no way they would let her go."
"Those brothers." Zach waved his hands and didn't want to speak anymore. (.)