When Zach came back, the funeral at Holy Child Church was almost over—the one that didn’t require a burial, just a farewell ceremony, Madison’s business.
Zach walked around the Grand. The employees working on it—Matthew, Louise, and even Sam—were not there. They were probably watching the funeral from the church. He glanced at the notes and tapes on the desk, and picked out He raised his eyebrows, remembering something and picked up the suitcase that had been left next to the desk the day before yesterday, weighed it, curled his lips, and put it back again. I went straight to the basement without doing anything.
Zach just came back to replenish food and pack a few clothes. The clothes provided by Cliff were too big. Zach looked like a jellyfish when wearing them. The bag would bulge when he moved a little, which was uncomfortable.
As soon as he entered the basement, Zach was stunned for a moment. Charlie was sitting in the corner, looking at the two dots of red in the mirror. When he noticed Zach coming in, he stood up nervously, "Zach! I, I'm practicing..."
Zach waved his hand, glanced at the iron chain that was collected next to the stone platform, raised his eyebrows, picked up a bottle of wine, and wandered to the mirror in the corner, looking at the butterfly standing on the frame, "Good morning?" It's Eve.
Charlie continued, looking at the two dots of red in the mirror with a constipated look on his face. You should know what this is practicing. Toledo's imaging ability, as the saint Sissi gave Toledo the same ability as the saint once gave him to walk in the sun - Charlie is preparing to start Toledo's life. .
Zach ignored Charlie, looked at the butterfly with its wings slowly flapping, curled his lips, "I said good morning."
"I heard it." The butterfly said in an impatient tone, "It's too late, it's almost noon."
"Good afternoon then." Zach was very cooperative, raising his head and gulping down the food, "What are you doing in Grande?"
"Enjoy the pastoral air of the South District." The butterfly said this, and then it circled its forked tentacles in two directions, and rolled its eyes in a mimicry manner, "Tsk, I'm looking for you, what else can it be!"
Zach chuckled lightly and took another mouthful of food, "Do you have to ask me a little bit? Well then, why are you looking for me?"
"You didn't reply to my call." The butterfly flew up and landed on Charlie's hair. "Concentrate." Looking at myself hanging on the two red lights in the mirror, "Remember that your image is in the mirror. It's just blocked by the laws of the world. Push it aside and let your appearance reappear in this world."
Zach raised his eyebrows, "Uh... are you helping me teach my descendants? Eve?"
"No." He replied untruthfully, "I am purely misleading him, letting the descendants of Toledo go astray, and making this bloodline disappear from this world."
"Zach, Zach..." Charlie turned his head uneasily.
Zach pushed Charlie's head back, "Eve is joking. Although she used magic to fake the image, she is right. You continue." Then he looked at the butterfly on Charlie's head curiously, "Mood Isn't that good, Eve? Then you're in the wrong place, you know I'll only make you feel worse. You don't like me, remember?" Zach is very self-aware.
"You didn't reply to my call!" Butterfly emphasized again.
Zach shrugged, "I didn't get any, if that makes you comfortable, nor did I get any calls from the mayor or my clients."
The butterfly's wings flapped, and as the lines on its wings turned red, it flew onto the wine bottle that Zach had just lifted.
Zach watched speechlessly as the half-full bottle of food was drained. The red butterfly standing on the mouth of the bottle began to disintegrate when it came into contact with the air. Thin red lines twisted, outlined, and fell to the ground in front of Zach...
A human-shaped thing like a stick figure held down Charlie's head as he turned around with wide eyes, "Huh, haven't you seen Rimel's clone?" When he pushed Charlie's head back to face the mirror, the stick figure became plump, and he Fu appeared, "Remember you are the third generation Toledo now, be careful about your image."
Zach raised his eyebrows again, "Thank you?" This is still Eve helping Zach teach the descendants, so thank you is appropriate. As for the question mark, uh, why
Wait a minute, now is not the time to care about cross-clan education. Zach looked at Eve and asked, "Are you nearby?" Eve herself said that there is a distance limit for clones. Didn't she forget that
"School outdoor activities." Eve pouted and sat down directly on the stone platform. She fiddled with a blood bottle placed next to the stone platform with her raised feet. "We must cultivate children's gratitude for crops." Xin, I rented a farm in the South District and am visiting."
Zach was about to say something when Eve glanced at him and said, "You'd better get ready. Charlotte and Judy are discussing how to get rid of the teacher and come to Grande."
"That's it." Zach curled his lips and took action. He picked up two cans of blood and was about to go out. It was impossible to prepare to receive these two West End kids. Zach had no time and returned to Cliff's farm early to continue sparring with Bumi.
"Heh." He chuckled sarcastically, "One with the secret information that Falcon once controlled the southeast (Charlotte), and the other with the information of Fisher's recent dealings with the police in Port Massa (Zhi Di), you Just leave like this?”
Zach paused for a moment, then shook his head and looked at Eve speechlessly, "These are not my primary goals now."
"That's right." Eve bent down and picked up the blood bottle that she had been playing with for a long time, and looked at it, "Now the primary goal is to prepare to deal with the Sabbat Toledo, then..." The whole body froze for a moment, "It's done. Charlotte and Zeddy can't get rid of the teacher." Who knows what Eve's body is doing over there.
Zach's eyes avoided Eve's wandering for a while, then he put down the blood tank in his hand and walked away without any hurry. He leaned against the wall and crossed his arms. "How do you know?" Zach didn't think about what he was about to face. Let's talk nonsense about Sabbat Toledo Crisis. Darcy, Oz and Bumi? That was a member of the Sabbat and Nophele, who had a grudge against the Sabbat Toledo, and was a relevant person! Zach was not prepared to disturb Rimmer, who had no grievances with Sabbat Toledo.
We have watched Zach do so many things, and we must have discovered his hidden bad habit - Zach, who does things for others, does not care about how many lines he spreads, and after messing up a lot of people's lives, Enjoy the results quietly, with swagger. But once Zach thinks it's something he wants to do, he won't mess with anyone, and he will do whatever he wants regardless of other people's opinions...
"'I have some personal matters and I need to use the farm'?" Eve was still looking at the blood bottle in her hand, but she was clearly quoting someone's words on the phone yesterday, "Humph, it's a private matter. Is it difficult to ask Dora about it?" Eve rolled her eyes at Zach and said, "Forget about asking Dora, the Yuehua Hundred Shadows in Newton have begun to notice some unusual deaths in the city."
"Unusual death?" Zach raised his eyebrows, "Is it a party or carnival that went completely off the rails and everyone died."
Eve shrugged, "You know very well, mini concerts in bars, parties at clubs, and even family dinners." Eve weighed the blood bottle in her hand and continued, "The common denominator is the same place. , closed space, multiple human beings were drained to death." The corner of his mouth twitched, "The Sabbat Toledo seems to like this 'good habit' of eating a large amount at one time."
Zach frowned and pondered for a moment, "The information Darcy gave me included Eli Toledo's daily habits. This is his style, letting humans gather together and then eat." Zach looked at On the ground in front of him, "Bumi and I discussed it, and we haven't thought of a way to deal with it for the time being. After all, asking the mayor to implement a curfew and denying Barton people no nightlife is a bit impossible."
Now everyone knows why Zach didn't hear the message that Louise left a note on when he came back just now. Regardless of what Mayor Anthony left Zach, Zach doesn't want to talk to Anthony for the time being. As you all know, there are certain things that you have to mention when having a conversation, but there is no point in mentioning them, so why bother.
Eve suddenly went off topic, and finally took the blood bottle in her hand and asked, "Is this Bruch's blood?"
"Well." Zach frowned and gestured to Charlie, who was staring tensely at the mirror, "He used one bottle of the blood he replaced and gave it to Tam as a reward. This is the remaining bottle. I think Charlie would like to keep it as a souvenir." Speaking of Tam, I hope everyone still remembers that Tam was borrowed by Eve, and she didn't know what she was doing.
"To commemorate?" Eve tugged at the corner of her mouth with a look of speechless disgust, "Waste!" She grabbed the bottle and stuffed it directly into her body!
Don't be alarmed, this Eve is a clone...
Then came the imperative, "Give me the other bottle as well. I sent Tam out to do some work, and all his things were handed over to a guy named 'No. 2' for safekeeping." Rolling eyes, one is not enough, here's another one , "I'm not familiar with it, you go and ask for it back."
"What?" Zach frowned, he had a lot of questions, and he didn't understand the direction of this matter.
"What are you doing?" Eve actually asked. She stood up from the stone platform with the corner of her mouth twitching and looked at Zach impatiently. "Do I need to explain to you that Bruch has the strongest blood among us? It means the bloodline with the strongest healing, erosion, assimilation, replication, and proliferation." This is why Bruch is a fighting clan. Eve stared into Zach's eyes impatiently, "I don't think you and Bumi can discuss it. Let’s solve the problem of Sabbat Toledo’s ability to block bloodline perception.” Putting her hand on her chest, where she just inserted the blood bottle, “And this is the solution.” Eve’s face became serious, “I Bruch's blood can be used to corrode the blood of all living things in Barton. With the assimilation ability of Bruch's blood, you can't sense Sabbat Toledo, but you can sense Bruch."
Zach opened his mouth and said what Bumi said to him yesterday, "You can do this kind of thing?"
"Hmph, are you surprised? Do you think we, Rimer, only know magic tricks to please the powerful?"
"Uh..." Zach pursed his lips. Remember, in the past secret relationship, Zach thought Eve liked him, but in fact it was the reason why Eve hated Zach - Toledo always put it in for Rimmer. Rimmer was used as a performer to please the nobles and powerful people of the time and to gain material support for the Secret Alliance. The reason why Zach pursed his lips was, "Eve, don't go in this direction. Let us at least agree to let the past go. I don't want to mention anything about the secret alliance."
Eve lowered her head, and the corners of her eyes twitched twice. After being silent for a long time, she said, "Okay." It was no surprise. Now it seems that it doesn't matter whether Zach listened to her message or answered her call. Eve is here and orders Zach to get Bruch's blood back, which explains everything.
"Okay, I'll let No. 2 send the things over..."
"Don't send it to Smith Manor. Smith will check the items that Lydia and I have with the outside world." Such as letters, packages, etc. Eve sighed, "Send it to Parker Elementary School. I will find a way to follow Charlotte." They go to Parker Elementary School to volunteer."
Zach nodded, and it was time to understand some of the questions he just had, "Tam was sent out by you? Why did he put things at No. 2?" Regarding Tam, it's really hard to describe, none of us can Knowing how much Tam can hold in his belly. So Zach had to ask, what Eve asked Tam to do was very space-consuming.
"My laboratory." Eve looked like she didn't want to answer, "Rimmer's laboratory, in the middle, there are some sleeping Rimmers. I asked Tam to move Barton for me."
"Uh..." In Zach's mind, which had memorized so many things, the Rimel Laboratory, which he had visited once in his Secret Alliance career, appeared. How should I put it? It is as big as the Lister Hotel, the tallest building in Barton. Of course, it is the kind that extends underground.
But the focus was not on Rimmer's lab, but on the sleeping Rimmer, and Zach asked, "How much?"
Eve still looked like she didn't want to answer, "More than demons." Oh, I remember we once arranged that the demons with the largest number of Bartons were followed by Sibella's wizards, and then Nophele. Eve is really direct. Added, "Sleeping!"
This supplement successfully forced Zach back to what he was about to say, and changed his words, "Okay, this is a good thing. Van Zhuo has made the Secret Alliance like this, and I am very happy that you Rimmer still retain so many people."
"Huh, you don't need to be happy. If it weren't for the siege on the 'Valmina' channel that you launched by Barton and Smith, we had escaped the attacks of foreign races again and again, and were finally 'attacked' by our own country. , our tribe will have more people!”
Zach pursed his lips and said, "Stop joking, what impact can human power have on you? Even if you are not vampires, you are still human magicians. The previous 'Valmina' incident only cost you a way to make money." "
"Tsk. Do you think the federal anti-narcotics agencies in this country are just decorations? If we don't arrest some people, can Lydia and I get out of the middle and come to Barton clean?"
Zach frowned, "Wait a minute, are you trying to say that there is still a part of Rimmer that is in the federal prison system to take the blame for 'Valmina'?"
"Otherwise, why do you think other alien races, including the Novel who were in the middle before, couldn't find us." Eve actually looked proud at this time, "Because they can't think of where we are. Huh, Van Zhuo once despised us. Rimel's half-human, half-vampire bloodline, now, it turns out that we are the vampires more suitable for survival in this era, and we can live in various places as humans!"
Zach had nothing to say and waved his hands, "Okay, I know you still have a complete clan to lead, so I'm happy for you. But when Tam brings the laboratory, are you ready to..."
He was interrupted, "You don't have to worry about this anymore. Just worry about your own clan, Toledo." The surname was used to emphasize, "Even Thomas Gangero in the Saints is thirteen years older than you." The appearance of a clan." His eyes fell on Charlie, whose body continued to be stiff.
Zach opened his mouth and understood. This is why Eve kindly helped Zach educate Charlie. They are both from the Thirteen Clan, Toledo, hey, Toledo... (.)