Just after dawn, Zach rubbed his still stiff face and walked out of the Grand with the shirt he had not yet put on on his arm, heading straight to Benjamin's warehouse.
He stood directly in front of Benjamin's bed and said, "Wake up, Benjamin, wake up." Just like Benjamin was never gentle when he woke up Zach, Zach grabbed the corner of the bed and shook it irregularly.
Benjamin was shaken awake. He sunk deeply into the soft pillow and turned his face to face Zach with slightly opened eyes. "Do you want to die?"
"No." Zach sat down on the edge of the bed and began to adjust his collar, "Are you Benjamin, not another Benjamin?"
Benjamin's head turned back, and his body on the bed moved away from Zach.
A vampire who has just woken up from sleep is cold. Well, you know what I mean. It takes some time for the blood to wake up the vampire's body. The stiff movements that Zach can't straighten his collar now are one of the proofs.
"Are you Benjamin?" Zach asked again, this time with an expression, but because his face was still stiff, the expression was stuck at a strange angle.
It felt like Benjamin sighed into the pillow, made a confession on the bed, then stood up and looked at Zach's face like a half-melted and then solidified wax figure, "Are you okay?" It was impossible to continue sleeping. , Benjamin knew this very well.
"No." Zach answered, "I just wanted to wake you up."
Benjamin watched expressionlessly as Zach kept trying to use stiff fingers to button the buttons between the collars. With a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth, he took the T-shirt beside the bed and put it on easily. Continue watching Zach's clumsy buttons.
There is no need for Benjamin to speak now, the vampire will speak for himself.
really.
"I always feel like I missed something yesterday. I was reminded by Louise just now." Zach successfully buttoned the first button, and the stiffness on his face eased a little, "So I came to see you."
Benjamin was still too lazy to speak, so he passed Zach and stood directly in the trouser hole spread out beside the bed. I bent down, lifted it up, zipped it up, and put my pants on. Looking back at Zach, the vampire was working on the third button. Benjamin shook his head, put on his boots, put his feet on the spot, stretched a little, and jumped downstairs.
Zach jumped, "The other one, uh, 'you', didn't show up yesterday? Or did I miss it?" He temporarily gave up the buttons and straightened the turned-up shirt. Oh, yesterday was Wednesday.
While moving his body, Benjamin walked out of the door on the west side of the warehouse and entered the open-air bathroom. He glanced at Zach who followed him, twitched the corner of his mouth, gave up the shower, and grabbed his toothbrush.
"Is it because the game night was cancelled?" Zach occupied most of the mirror very 'consciously', gave up buttoning completely, and began to rub his face intently, "I thought the other you cherished this kind of 'window' opportunity. So as expected, he is more concerned about contacting Fitz and his gang..."
Zach temporarily shut up, because Benjamin tilted his head, grinned, and repeatedly brushed a canine that stuck out two or three centimeters from his mouth. Up, down, up, down, in the corner of the mirror the tooth was constantly displayed in Zach's eyes in the undulation of the bristles.
Zach smoothed his shirt, moved away from the mirror, and made a gesture of invitation with a still somewhat stiff movement, "The mirror is yours."
The canines were retracted, and the toothbrush in Benjamin's hand began to take care of other teeth.
"I want to say I'm sorry." Zach started buttoning his buttons again. "There were too many distractions yesterday, Nate's 'interrogation', the staff coming back from the hospital, Charlie's Bruch's serum being empty... If Louise hadn't just mentioned Phil I got a call yesterday afternoon saying that game night was cancelled, I forgot yesterday was Wednesday."
Benjamin didn't respond, staring at the mouth full of foam in the mirror.
Zach frowned with his face that had just regained its emotional expression, "And what I've been thinking about yesterday is that you have a little secret thing to do, Skoll's body, and I probably shouldn't bother you. Which caused me to completely forget about the other one. You'll be out on Wednesday..."
Zach shut up again for a moment. Because Benjamin glanced at him.
Then he shook his head in confusion, "Explain, why are you sorry for me?" This was Benjamin's first response to Zach.
Zach didn't show too much excitement, "Well, although I made it very clear that I don't like the other you, I think." Correction, "I thought that when the other you controlled your body, you I hope I will take good care of your body and don’t let him mess around.”
"Haha." Benjamin seemed to be amused by Zach and spat out a puddle of foam. "His mess is just hanging out in Beiqi for one night. Your, haha, 'taking care of' doesn't make any sense."
"That's the truth." Zach actually agreed. It seemed that he was sorry and didn't have much sincerity. "But at least I want to know where he went, not yesterday. I completely forgot to care about this." Say this While doing this, Zach patted Benjamin on the shoulder, which was a very specific expression of 'take care of this body'.
Benjamin turned his head and watched as Zach's hand patted his shoulder twice, then stopped in mid-air and slowly took it back. After that, he nodded with satisfaction, "Do you have anything else boring to say?"
Zach's condition has been completely restored, and he quickly fixed his appearance, "Leo turned Charlie into a stone sculpture." A little disdainfully, "It's not necessary at all, but he has to help with this kind of trouble." He waved his hand, "So it's okay. I asked him to pull out the whole heart. It should have been done overnight. Do you want to see it?"
After rinsing his mouth, Benjamin pointed in the direction, this was what he wanted to see.
But the two aliens still took a detour, because the first cry of a baby after the sun appeared in the living area on the south side, which meant that Bain's wife was about to wake up, and Zach was not wearing pants. , it was unsightly, so I didn’t mention it. Now it’s just that I have to mention it—
Just taking a detour, Grande's two brothers discovered the ink hanging on a branch on the west side.
"Well, now you have discovered my 'secret'." The ink fell from the branches, with an impatient sarcastic look on his face, "I sleep here, in the wild, with the ground as my bed and the sky as my cover." The target of sarcasm is also unknown.
"I thought you weren't sleeping." Zach didn't look at Mo, but at O'Neill Fury, who was floating down with Mo.
Don't think too much, these are two souls from different races, and it is impossible for anything to happen that worries the Great Dane.
"Metaphoric! You and Louise occupy the master bedroom. I am also an employee of Grande, so I have to have a place to stay in name."
"The master bedroom belongs to me and Louise." Zach curled his lips, "Charlie occupied the basement, we just went back to the master bedroom."
"I'm just saying that." Mo shrugged, "But ordinary people are living in Grande now, and I need to have my own room!"
These words made Zach feel that Mo was waiting for him here on purpose, in order to express his needs for the room. Hey, that would satisfy him, "Even though we all know that Maya often sneaks into Alice's room, that guest room is still It belongs to Maya, I can’t give it to you. You can only choose a house in the living area like Sam.”
"No! I want to stay in the Grand! I don't want to buy my own furniture and appliances. I love the entertainment room in the Grand!"
"Do you want me to get you a bed in the recreation room?" Zach didn't hide his sarcasm. Mo was the one who came first, wasn't he
Before Mo could retort, Benjamin spoke, "You can stay in Matthew's room." Then he didn't give Zach a chance to say anything, "Let Matthew live with me. Anyway, he only spends the night in Grande occasionally."
Zach had nothing to say and changed the target, "O'Neal, you didn't waste your time at all. Is there any progress?"
Do I need to be reminded of the reason why O'Neill and Mo are together? O'Neill's choice after considering the earth-bound spirits, excluding ordinary soul aliens and undead spirits who believe in the Holy Lord, is the only foreign product like Mo.
"Unfortunately, no." O'Neill's face was not good, and he glanced at Mo, "Her existence violates all the knowledge I have learned." He shook his head helplessly, "I guess I will be in the Earth-Binding Spirit The state has stayed there for a long time.”
Zach responded with O'Neal's own words, "There will always be a way." He also used O'Neal's behavior, patting the opponent's shoulder one centimeter in the air, signaling Benjamin to ignore it.
When Benjamin went to the basement first, Zach perfected his clothes first. When he came to the basement, Benjamin was taking a realistic heart sculpture from Leo who looked sluggish.
"Cold as stone." Benjamin turned his heart over.
"Because it's a stone." Zach stepped onto the stone platform, half-crouched on top of the blue-gray stone sculpture Charlie, and looked at the heart-shaped opening on his chest, "I told you to pull out Charlie's heart. It's not like opening a hole in his chest." Zach pursed his lips, and his fingers went deep into Charlie's body, literally inside his body, touching the blood vessels and bone faults, which were very smooth.
"Uh... How can we take out the heart without making a hole?!" Although Leo looked very tired, he still tried his best to express his dissatisfaction with Zach's rude request.
"Simple." Zach pursed his lips, showing his disdain for Leo's so-called help. He looked at the odds and ends beside the stone platform, reached out and picked up a thin, shell-like thing, "Skin It can be cut." He shook his head, put it back, and picked up something that looked like a collection of tiny fibers. "Muscles can also be cut." He put it back, and finally picked up a few long flat sections, and continued to shake his head. "The bones can also be cut open. Then they can be sewn and reattached." He put down the things in his hands and looked at Leo, "How do you expect me to fill this hole? Use glue."
Yes, the thing Zach picked up just now was the hole in Charlie's chest, the skin, the chest muscles that were exercised, and the ribs. Of course, they were turned into stone under the petrifying touch of the gatekeeper of purgatory.
"When you put the heart back in, he'll heal on his own!" Leo wasn't going to let Zach belittle his 'help'.
"Of course, he will heal on his own." Zach jumped down from the stone platform and held down Benjamin's hand that kept throwing the stone heart. "Be careful, although it is a stone, it is still Charlie's heart. If it is broken, it will Dead." Then he continued to Leo, "But at the same time, he will be awake and see his naked heart being re-wrapped. Leo, tell me, do you think seeing the heart that provides you with the source of life is harmful to living things? Is it a 'beautiful experience'?"
People who don’t understand Zach’s question can look for videos of surgeries and get a feel for what doctors see when they disembowel someone. Then I lay down on the bed and imagined that I was the one being operated on. Then I woke up on the operating table and watched myself being disemboweled...
"I swear!! Vampires! If this is to emphasize that you vampires are 'creatures' and I am not a creature of this world! I swear I will..."
Zach looked away, "Thanks for reminding me, I didn't mean it originally. Now that you mentioned it, I understand. It's impossible for you to understand the thoughts of creatures like us. Forget it."
Have you ever heard the crisp sound of bones rubbing against each other? Sharpen the sound a little bit, make it crisper, make it more obvious without being covered in flesh and blood, and then add them together, and the final sound you get is Leo's whole body shaking over there. The sound coming from the body.
But in the end, nothing happened. Trembling, Leo walked to the corner and huddled up, holding his legs, and became motionless.
Benjamin changed his hand to hold the stone heart, frowned and looked at the red color in his palm, "Should this thing leak blood?" Benjamin squinted and turned the heart over, as if looking for where the blood leaked from.
Zach took the heart and felt it against his forehead. "It's empty. Finish this matter quickly." He threw a piece of cloth to Benjamin to wipe his hands, "You probably want to see what happens next. , the worst will happen to those vampires.”
Benjamin stepped back a little, "Well, I've heard something about vampire blood transfusion. You want to inject your blood into Charlie's heart?"
"Yeah." Zach's eyes turned red, he made a nasal noise, opened his mouth wide, and began to move his jaw.
"Don't tell you to bite that rock." Benjamin stepped back a little. He was already helping Zach whitewash it. He said that the stone was not the heart. A vampire who is naturally prone to hatred because of his blood, now he even wants to gnaw at his heart. Zack was right, vampires at their worst.
Not inferior to the length of the canines that Benjamin had taken special care of before, Zach's teeth began to grow. So much so that his voice had a special accent, "I don't want to either, but someone insists on helping, and there's nothing I can do."
This person shrank tighter in the corner.
Benjamin leaned against the wall and helped Zach paint it over for the last time, "I hope Charlie doesn't mind that you didn't brush your teeth."
Click.
Zach sat on the stone platform again, took his hands away from the thing he was holding in front of his mouth, pressed on the hollow on Charlie's chest, and touched every smooth incision.
I don't know if time stopped or if no one in the basement moved. It's the latter, there are still traces here that can reveal the passage of time -
what is it then? Is it the blue-grey, stone-carved heart that was forcibly embedded by the vampire's teeth? Or is it the tiny blood vessels that surround the heart that a healthy heart should have? No matter what it was, the thing in front of Zach's mouth was turning bright red. Like a slowly lit lamp.
Zach began to turn his head, adjusting the position of each smooth cut, nibbling? Dao? title? Just choose a word you like and adjust the position of the hanging 'light'.
artery? vein? Anyway, it is the thick tube openings that hang the heart in the chest, and supply the source of life to the whole body. Here, in front of Zach's mouth, is the incision, and bright red begins to flow down.
Zach was already very white, and now, he is even whiter. Because those bright reds that were plainly exposed and flowing into the air at the incisions that had no continuation of the pipeline were his blood, which was now overflowing from the 'light' in front of his mouth, flowing all over him against Zach's will. whole face.
"You are rapidly weakening, Zach, how much blood are you going to inject into that heart..." Benjamin frowned and could only say this.
Zach pounced on Charlie.
A sound that could not be heard by anyone... Hehe, there happened to be no one in the basement right now, only foreigners, so it was a very clear sound.
thump.
Pewter Charlie was lit. Starting from Zach's chest where he was finally able to close his chin and raise his head, crimson red spread across Charlie's body.
Zach's first sentence after regaining the ability to speak was to reply, "Enough blood to resuscitate Charlie in his first heartbeat." The second sentence, accompanied by movements, directly held down Charlie who had just been covered by Yin Hong. "Don't look down." When Charlie's gray eyeballs were dyed red and he gained the possibility to convey emotions, and the first emotion was clear pain, Zach firmly pressed against Charlie's chin, "No one likes the 'scenery' on your chest right now."
Then, with a red face and a smile that is really incomprehensible, he said, "Welcome back, Charlie Toredo." (.)