Zach still hates hospitals, and as we've talked about before, it's a mixture of many emotions that feel repulsive. Vertex 23S. The fastest updated metaphysical point is the vampire's contempt for human medical treatment. To be more down-to-earth, why do humans put good food and rotten food together (the living and the dead in the same building), and then actively Sprinkle dirt on good food (medicine, surgery).
This made Zach nostalgic for the time when most humans still prayed for a cure for their injuries. Well, don’t overestimate the level of human civilization four centuries ago. That was an era when a good guy like Zach could exchange money~
The inherent rejection, coupled with a bit of reality, a cute-looking nurse told Zach with red eyes that Dr. Grande probably wouldn't leave the operating room all night. He left a message telling Derek that he had been here, and Zach's trip was in vain.
When leaving the hospital, Zach glanced at the sky and prepared to pick up Zager, but
"Steve?" Zach looked at the Indian who was about ten steps away from him, bending down in the flow of people, looking like he was avoiding him, "I saw you."
"Uh." He was mocking himself, "What was I thinking? I thought I could avoid you!"
Ten steps closer, "Are you hiding from me?" Zach raised his eyebrows to confirm, "Why?"
"Uh, my car is over there."
Zach nodded and followed, knowing that the other party was signaling to chat in the car, he did not forget to take a look at Steve Walker, "Except for your fast heartbeat due to nervousness, you don't have any health problems. So, come to the hospital. Do you have a job?" Zach was just guessing. Steve is an identity merchant. Under certain circumstances, the hospital can be regarded as his workplace. Imagine~ if the death certificate was not issued to a person who actually died. , then, this person needs a new identity ~ right? For example, we know Wales, such as the container of the angel Camille, Ike.
Steve glanced at Zach and said something like this, "You haven't been to our bar party for a long time."
Is this telling Zach that even if he is working, he will not tell Zach that he has 'left the organization'.
Zach tilted his head, unable to comment, remained quiet, and followed Steve to his car. At least Steve didn't send Zach away with "None of your business," right? Questions will be answered well.
"Do you have somewhere to go? I'll give you a ride." Steve suggested after getting in the car.
"Okay, Lister Street, Cozier's."
"Uh" Steve looked constipated.
"What's wrong? Do you have any problem with Kozier?"
"What do you think?" Steve shook his head and started his car. "You know my attitude towards you aliens." He curled his lips and said, "I just want to do my business properly. I can hide." The Indians that Silbera convened for nothing had nothing to do, but in the end, they still couldn’t escape this guy like you.”
There was a smile on Zach's face, "You don't have to be so nervous. Oz and Morelin are both human beings, and they are not so 'different'."
"I know, but reading minds? Well, just imagining it makes me uncomfortable!"
"Okay, then we can talk quickly, you can put me down halfway, I won't mind."
Steve pulled his lips and shook his head, and was quiet for a while, "Are you here to see Derek?"
Zach raised his eyebrows and immediately recalled the first time Derek found Grande because of Steve, "You came to find him too?"
"Yes." He looked unhappy and squinted at Zach, "He took the initiative to ask me out! He was vague, and he wanted to know what Grande was in Barton, and what exactly you do... Tsk! Then I rejected it temporarily! The more I thought about it, the weirder it became! So I ran over to take a look, wanting to secretly observe him! See if he knew anything!"
Zach was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud, "Ha, you don't have to worry, Derek doesn't know about aliens." Combined with Steve's statement just now, it's not difficult to understand what he is worried about, "He's looking for you. I probably want to know about Grande’s gray professional attributes.” Although he smiled on his face, he was actually irritated in his heart. Why should we be surprised that Zach’s appearance was not the same as his own? “I told him that Grande is not a pure The funeral home wanted him to leave Barton, but it seems to have had the opposite effect."
"Huh!" He exhaled a big breath, and Steve's uncomfortable face instantly relaxed, "Thank God." But immediately, his cheeks twitched, "What?!" Lu stopped looking and stared at Zach, "You What did you tell him?! What did you say to a private citizen who didn’t know anything about Patton?!”
Zach still smiled and said, "Watch the road." and the necessary argument, "There is no need to be so excited. After all, he is the real son of Grande, and he has the right to know Grande's true expertise."
"Rights?! Oh my god, the only people who have the right to know the professions of us gray professionals are our clients!" Professional standards, right? "Have you seen any of us put up signs on the street to tell passers-by that we are People who twist, exploit, and violate the law?? No!! Because except for our customers! We don’t have any checks and balances on the ordinary people on the road!”
This is easy to understand. Gray professionals are breaking the law, and so are the clients who hire gray professionals. This is the so-called check and balance. If one party fails to keep it secret, then everyone is finished together. The point Steve is making is that Derek is not bound by this.
Steve seemed really angry and grabbed the steering wheel hard, "*! Now I need to find someone to kill Derek! Eliminate the threat!"
Zach knew that Steve was just venting his emotions, so he smiled and waved his hand, "Haha, if things really come to that, who are you going to find?" Kill Derek.
"Tsk." His expression actually showed that he was thinking about this problem seriously, "'General' has already quit, and Nuo has been out of shape recently. Well, there is no one in our group who can do the real dirty work! Over there with the skull... "I curled my lips irritably, "I might as well come to you! It's clean and there will be no future troubles!"
"Then, just treat it as a threat and eliminate it~" Zach still kept a smile on his face, "I will take care of Derek, don't worry." In fact? Zach was completely blank, he had no idea what to do with this brother.
Steve didn't continue talking. He drove quietly with an irritated look on his face, but his words and deeds were consistent. As soon as he entered the intersection of Lister Street, he stopped the car and signaled to Zach that he could get out.
A clear attitude has always been a quality that Zach likes about Steve, so naturally he won't mind at all.
Zach had already thanked him, "If Derek continues to ask me out, how should I respond? Go or not?!" Steve's head stuck out of the car window.
Zach thought for a while, "Just hold on." It was as if he hadn't said anything.
Steve curled his lips and stopped asking, turned around and left.
Zach now hopes that seeing Zagel will really make him feel better. However, as soon as he stepped into Kozier's apartment, Oz looked back at Zach, and with one glance, Zach realized that things were bad.
"What happened?" Zach stopped smiling and walked towards Oz and Morelin with a gloomy face.
"Zager was taken away."
"Explain and be taken away."
Oz, perhaps because he and Zach both belong to the same Sabbat status, could not let go. At least he had to mentally organize how to describe Zach. But that's all Maurelyn, the Barton native mind-reader, begins to perform.
"I'm Papa Midnight." Morelin walked towards Zach, who had his mouth closed and was waiting quietly for explanation. There was no expression or tone on his face, "You are the one beside Papa Midnight who doesn't speak, or even if you speak, we still listen. A strange republican who you don’t understand.” Morelin seemed to be very satisfied with the change in Zach’s face, “Very good, you look like him, he has such a bad face.” Then he pointed at Oz, “He is Zagel, Zagar who is finally willing to wear clothes and has decent taste.”
Then, Morelin took off the measuring tape that he always wore around his shoulders and waved it a few times, "I am Papa Midnight, so imagine this is a red witchcraft spell." Zi's body tightened, but he still said without a tone, "Wow, the three of us are disappearing."
The show is over.
The wordless silence was inevitable, and Zach said the first words, "Are you sick, Morelin, you have never been so 'lively'."
This short, expressionless and tone-less, but extremely vivid and concrete performance was not something the mind-reader Morelin would do.
Morelin maintained his tone, "Because the last moment, Oz was showing off to me on a daily basis. As a human partner of the Sabbat, he has many things that I, a self-reliant blood relative, don't have, and how much magic he enjoys. The strict security measures provided by the banquet. The next moment, this happened, right in front of our eyes." He took off the tightened measuring tape from Oz, who had a gloomier expression, and glanced at Zach, "This is how I mock him. ." The tape measure was hung back on his shoulder, "You guys chat." and walked away.
Zach and Oz looked at each other. Zach was not going to continue to be the first one to speak. He turned away and saw the packed suitcases and gift boxes with the names of various members of Grande on them. . Zagel has prepared a gift for Grande.
Zach picked up a gift box with Alice's name on it and shook it. It sounded like a small accessory that a girl would like. Zach picked up the box with Louise's name on it again. It was a long and flat box, and when it shook, only the faint sound of cloth rubbing could be heard. But it doesn’t seem like the clothes are in line with the season, and the box is a bit too small.
Seeing Zach's tendency to open it directly again, Oz's expression changed once, and he spoke anxiously, "Zager chose it himself."
Zach glanced at Oz and continued to open the gift, "I believe in Zagel's taste." Because that was his own taste.
Oz frowned and actually came over and held Zach's hand to open the gift, "What are you doing? Zagel was taken away by Papa Midnight, but you are here to open the gift?"
Zach's movements stopped, and the half-opened gift box was thrown away. He didn't know where his eyes fell, "Listen to yourself, Zagel was taken away by Papa Midnight. Then, what can I do."
"Your wizard Sam was also taken away by Papa Midnight once. Get him back." It seemed to be building confidence in Zach.
"That's luck." Zach didn't mean to accept this confidence, "And Sam was taken away just because of Papa's whim at midnight." His eyes drifted back to Oz, "The scene that Morelin just demonstrated, I don’t think Zagar was taken away because of Papa’s whim at midnight.” He still frowned, “That republican stranger.” He raised his hand in front of his chest and tapped the other fingers one by one with his thumb, “Yes. Don't you like to look up at the sky and do this action?" "Do you know him?"
"He appeared when dealing with the Toledo messenger."
"What?! That was when you lived here! You didn't mention it! Well, there was a republican guy who didn't know whether he was a human or something who could come in and out of my house freely, but you didn't tell me!"
"I don't think it's necessary to tell you." Zach didn't want to argue with Oz on this issue. It was pointless. "He was the silver Jaggery who suddenly appeared on your roof." What he meant was that this guy was not afraid. Silver, "He ignored everything I did to him." It means that he is not afraid of vampires, no, he ignores vampires. "He has no ill intentions. Finally, Papa Midnight said that he is a god of the Republic."
Oz opened his mouth, but after all he couldn't continue to blame Zach, and turned into, "Then what should we do now? Maybe you can't accept it, but Zagar is still the property of the Sabbat! Papa Midnight and this republic, uh , God, we can’t just take Zagar away so casually!”
Zach frowned, "You should contact the Sabbat, then." Looking at the gift Zagel prepared, "I will think of a plan." Just like the Derek matter that was put aside before, Zach's My mind is actually blank. It is not suitable to show blankness in front of Oz, so a cover-up topic is needed, "Can I take these gifts away? Anyway, they are for everyone in Grande."
"No!" Oz grabbed Louise's gift that had been thrown away before Zach, "When we get Zager back, when he goes to Grande again, he will give it to you personally! "
"Okay." In Zach's mind, he already thought that he would never see what these gifts were.
go home. Nothing good has happened today, and it will probably continue. Wes will definitely come to Grande to discuss the case. The arguing high school group in the recreation room doesn't know what the situation is now.
Let's walk back again to freshen up our mood... Well, forget it, what's going on with the weather now? It was clearly clear during the day, but at this time, not a single star could be seen in the night. "Oz, did the Sabbat give you a lot of resources? Why didn't I? Give me a car."
Ignore Zach, who can only rely on small advantages to balance his psychology. Is anyone curious about the gift Zagel gave to Louise? It's underwear.
Realizing that something was unavoidable due to Zach's unexpected slowness, Zager decided to cause trouble and be destructive. reason? When Zagar appears again, he should give us a reasonable explanation. Oh yes, we will see Zagar again, even if he is taken away by Papa Midnight... no sugarcoating, kidnapped. But don’t underestimate Zagel, who is he? He is Zach, no longer the involuntary wooden model, an upgraded version.