Quest went to get cash for Grande, but No stayed behind.
"What kind of favor do you owe this guy?" Zach was expressing his helplessness, "I remember you said that the last time was the last time you helped him."
"Him? No, his father, old Mr. Quest."
Zach also went to Quest Manor. He didn’t remember seeing any old gentleman. He must have died, so he glanced at Nuo and said, "Okay, this is the most annoying. The creditor is no longer here, and you will never Know whether your favor has been repaid.”
Nuo looked at Zach with some surprise, "You seem to understand it very well~"
Zach shrugged, "I am immortal." Don't take it literally and think that Zach is showing off. What he wants to express is that other people are not immortal. "Of course I understand~"
"Haha, I smell a story." Nuo looked at Zach with raised eyebrows, "In exchange, I tell you mine, and you tell me yours, how about it?"
With a smile on his face, Zach watched the new customers being received by Louise, and pointed to the office - they were the customers of the mill who had made an appointment, and they arrived on time. On Zach's desk, there are detailed instructions from Madison's work report. Zach is trying to help Louise relax.
The office was occupied, so Zach simply sat on the back porch with Nuo, "Why not~ Hehe, you go first."
"Okay. Let me think about it." Nuozhen looked like he was thinking, "Forget the boring part, keep it simple." He started with a question, "You know, before, Big Q was just a small grocery store. What?"
"I've heard of it." Zach nodded, "If I remember correctly, the rise of 'Quest' seems to have started from this generation." He glanced at Nuo, "Although I don't like Quest. Man, but we must admit that he is a successful man.”
"Haha, yes, successful." Nuo shrugged. Although he smiled, his agreement was obviously not sincere. "I don't want to talk about the history of Quest's fortune. What I want to talk about is when I was young, full of passion, and Mr. Quest Sr. was the one who took care of my family while on the battlefield, fighting for our country."
Zach had known for a long time that Nuo had a military background. Nuo, the 'General', the boss of Saidil Security... Zach saw Nuo's face looking a little bad and asked, "Where is your family?" Zach The only person I have ever seen who is considered a member of Nuo's family is the fat maid Mina.
"Dead." Nuo said calmly, "I couldn't even attend the funeral because I didn't know. It was only a week after the funeral that I received a letter from Mr. Quest, and I got, huh, a relative. Leave, go back to Barton.”
Zach raised his eyebrows, now was probably not the time to mention that during the war, Nuo could still get such good luck during the holidays.
Nuo continued, "Of course, because I came back and my legal heir came back, old Mr. Quest convened a memorial ceremony for me again. It was very small." Probably because the subject of the story is Zach, the funeral industry The boss, so he had the following unnecessary explanation, "It's a bit like a memorial ceremony for a wake, just at home, inviting some, um, acquaintances, that kind of thing."
Zach nodded. This tradition is quite common, but it is not governed by the funeral industry. And Zach has grasped the change of tone in Nuo's words, and the key words have appeared.
"That's when I realized that those 'acquaintances' who came to my home, my family's home, to express their condolences were not acquaintances. Every 'I'm sorry for your loss' comfort was not meant for me. I was In that place where everyone was expressing their condolences, I was an outsider. The most words I got were, 'Oh, you are Rippert's son, well, you have grown up so much.' What those people could say to me Not as much as to old Mr. Quest’s two sons.”
Zach had no expression. He knew that the vampire also participated in the war in a slightly magical way. He watched the Anthony brothers on the battlefield grow from teenagers to young adults, and then grew into racially separated species. Therefore, Zach understood what Nuo meant without Nuo saying it more bluntly.
"To sum up, compared to me, the legal heir, my family's family is not me, but Mr. Quest, until the end. After realizing this, I was thinking about compensation." Nuo shrugged, "Maybe. To make it up to old Mr. Quest, maybe to make it up to my family who are already late, I don’t know.”
Nuo curled his lips, his face a little speechless, "You know, when Mr. Quest was still alive, he really didn't ask me to do anything. On the contrary, the two people who used to live in my family's home were more like their own. My child has grown up now, haha, Quest, who you and I don’t really like, is always asking me to do this or that.”
Zach also chuckled, "You should realize that the current Quest is just taking advantage of the kindness of the previous generation to use you."
"Of course I know." Nuo shook his head, "But every time I want to say 'no', I will remember that a long time ago, at that small memorial service, I was the one sitting on the sofa looking at the room. The stranger was in a daze, and the Quest brothers, who were still cute and innocent at that time, were being comforted." He shook his head with helplessness, "I deserve this, I will never know if I have any kindness. Once it’s paid off, it can only be used.”
Zach patted Nuo as a consolation.
"It's your turn." Nuo regained his smile, not hiding his strong curiosity at all, "Your story."
"Too many." Zach gave him a look that saw everything, and waved his hand, "I have lived for more than four centuries, and I have about half a hundred identities. Others have died half a hundred times, but I am still alive. , I wonder if I have finished all the favors I should repay this round, that is half a hundred stories." He smiled cunningly at Nuo Yi, "There are endless stories~"
Nuo squinted his eyes, "That's not fair. Well..." Nuo's smiling eyes began to twinkle, "I began to think that you just wanted to trick me into telling my story, and then reasonably ask if I went to the central part for another reason. A favor from Quest.”
"It's been discovered~" Zach didn't hide any more, "Haha, that's exactly it. You don't like this entry point? Then I have other transitional topics to choose from, such as Charlie~"
Nuo Yi raised his eyebrows and smiled silently, "You can't get away that easily. Just say whatever you want, for the sake of fairness."
Zach looked at Nuo, "Okay, you didn't refuse." He refused to explain to Zac why he went to the central part and was in danger and needed Zac and Constantine's help. "Then I will tell you one thing. It just happened." Give you time to prepare."
Nuo made a gesture of invitation.
Zach showed a thoughtful look, "Let's talk about the farthest thing. You know, the farthest thing is the easiest to talk about and there will be no psychological burden."
Nuo smiled and curled his lips in agreement.
"I used to be an introverted, taciturn, and clumsy guy." This opening, uh, why is it a bit familiar? After all, Zach only described himself as taciturn - "the kind of person who would definitely wait to die silently if there was a famine. That kind of thing.”
"When you were still a human?" Nuo's reaction was quick.
Zach nodded. It was like what he just said. There will be no psychological burden on long-lasting things. Zach's face still maintained a smile, "But I survived because someone saved me." He waved his hand. "I can't remember who this person was, maybe it was my neighbor? I don't know. Anyway, he saved me. If he had a potato, I would have half. He found a job and I I can get half of the salary.”
As Zach spoke, he automatically raised his eyebrows and glanced at Nuo, "I'm just defending myself. It's not that I don't want to go out to work, it's that I can't. If I go out for two days, someone will kidnap me and sell him." When ********* Nuo's eyes widened, he stared at Zach's face and obviously asked if this was a joke.
Zach shook his head, "It's a pity, I'm not joking. You can go find stories from four centuries ago. If you can't survive, there are only two ways out for untouchables. If you have a skin that can be sold, or if you have a share that you can sell, Soul. It’s all a way to sell something.”
"Well, the feudal era, the era of aristocrats and non-aristocratic people, I understand. You can continue." Nuo waved his hand.
"I'm the guy who has a good skin and tries to keep his soul, so I shouldn't be able to survive, but that guy saved me."
Nuo frowned and hesitated, "Did he betray anything..."
"No, so our life was very difficult until we met Tori. I finally sold something..." Looking at Nuo's awkward eyes, "Don't think wrongly, I'm talking about my loyalty, Tori." Duo's ancestor chose me to be his direct descendant. Even though I was clumsy at the time, I could understand what it meant to be a direct descendant of an eternal noble. Therefore, I gave up my human blood and accepted the Toledo blood. , became the second generation of Toledo. My suffering as a human being ended from now on."
Nuo pursed his lips, "So, it's time to return the favor."
Zach nodded again, "Yes." Then he shook his head helplessly, "But I was still clumsy. I probably used the most questionable way to repay this favor - I couldn't do it during the day. Oh, I was thirteen at that time. The clan does not yet have the ability to walk during the day. I cannot visit the guy who kept me alive during the day, so I can only carefully skip him when choosing food for the loyal Toledo clan ancestor who offered me. He lives, and then hunts at night, secretly sending him food, so that he can live a little better... "
Nuo frowned, "Then it must be..." Looking at Zach, "It's very difficult."
"Very much." Zach shrugged. "So I screwed up." Zach paused, conveniently skipping the part of the story we'd already heard - Zach admitting to this man that he was no longer The human part, "He, uh, let me just say he, uh, left."
"died?"
"Of course, in the end, I should have died, but no, I left." Zach tilted his head, "I promised the Toledo ancestors that I would forever abandon everything I had as a human being and embrace the immortality of a vampire in exchange for the Zubu went after a slave who escaped." Zach was quiet for a while, "I want to believe that he let me live, and I also let him live. When I really became Toledo, I had already paid off I owe him a favor." He smiled, "But, who knows? I have never heard from him again. In ten, twenty, half a century, after becoming a colonist and coming to a new continent, I will never I can’t confirm whether I have repaid the favor.”
Nuo watched Zac being silent for a while, and the corner of his eye twitched, "Cunning, too cunning. With the age difference between me and Quest, I can't survive him. Your story has no reference at all."
"Haha, you shouldn't look to me for reference in life." Zach narrowed his eyes, "It's your turn again, the central issue."
Nuo smiled and started to look around, which was obviously a delay.
But this delay is pointless. "you… "
Just as Zach spoke, Louise pushed the door open, "James called. I'll transfer you to the next floor. He seems to be in a bad mood."
Zach curled his lips and said, "When is he in a good mood?" He glanced at Nuo who relaxedly spread his hands and said, "Wait here." He stood up and walked into the showroom and answered the phone on the counter.
"Nate was blackmailed by Darcy to spread 0711!" the person on the receiver said and went straight to the point.
Zach didn't want to talk.
"Nate is a fan of that Sabbat Toledo band! He is a candidate descendant of Sabbat Toledo!"
Zach still didn't want to talk.
"The Sabbat is using Nate to set up a plan against Quinn and Smith!"
There was no words spoken on the other side of the receiver, only the gasps after the excited words.
After waiting for a while, Zach spoke, "Is that all?"
It was the receiver's turn to be silent.
Although James can't see it, we know that Zach, even if he is making a phone call, his expression must be adequate, for fear that the emotion he wants to express cannot be conveyed through the slender phone line, "I'm too Disappointed, James, tell me something I don’t know.”
The receiver exploded, "You can just look at others and ask whatever questions you want! Can I? Can I?? You think I can ask these very easy things from Darcy's mouth... "
"Director, Director Darcy." Well, at this moment, Zach actually had the thought to remind this thing... And, "James, where are you? Why did I hear the horn, are you in a public phone box?"
"Of course! Otherwise I would have said this to you?!" Perhaps he realized that it would be embarrassing to go crazy in a phone booth, so he calmed down a little, "Darcy can't ask anything else, I'm going to find Oz... "
"Why? Keep asking about the Sabbat's plan?"
"if not… "
"Oz doesn't know, can you use your brain? James and Cozier are being watched by the people in the West End because of their open cooperation with Lister. Well, at least in the eyes of Director Darcy. Even if it is to avoid suspicion, I will not tell Oz about the Sabbat's splitting of routes to deal with the West End people. Do you still need me to tell you this point?"
"Well… "
"James, don't do meaningless things. Oz also has Liszt's affairs to deal with now. Do you think it's easy for him to be a two-faced person between the West End and the Sabbat? Don't add to his burden. Staring at you The director..."
Zach was also interrupted once. He raised his eyebrows, listened to the hang-up tone, shook his head speechlessly, put down the phone, and was about to continue questioning No—
"You look very busy~ I won't disturb you. I'm leaving first. Goodbye." Nuo said goodbye.
Well, Zach gave up. His consciousness prevented him from asking the same thing for the third time, "Well, bye." (.)