At noon, the snow stopped, leaving no snow, only the pitted, translucent wet adhesion mixed with various kinds of mud on the ground. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
This kind of thing needs to be said in a derogatory way, at least no one in Grande likes it. A year ago, Grande encountered such bad weather that she basically stayed at home and didn't go out. No one cares about the squeaky and squeaky pavement outside, and no one brings the wet mud indoors.
This year, the courtyard is full of people walking around outdoors, with dirty footsteps of all sizes walking in and out of the Grande.
Zach tried to get Charlie to clean up, but eventually gave up because Zach realized something about this guy who wasn't going to complain. Zach didn't think this was a good thing. At least Charlie could completely stop anyone who wanted to enter Grande with dirty feet. But Charlie didn't. He followed anyone walking around Grande like a fool, waving the mop diligently. There is also a tendency that the more you work, the more you like this 'job'.
I know this feeling is difficult to describe with facts, but Zach has the feeling that Charlie is deliberately making himself busy, and this busyness is what Zach ordered him to do... Well, it's hard to describe, just Like... like... you receive a job from your boss, and then you do it in the stupidest and most inefficient way, and then you still enjoy it, like 'Hey, boss~ I'll be diligent~'
If this was a 'positive' quality that Zach hadn't sensed in Charlie before, Zach would rather not have it. Seeing that he was distracted, Charlie went to the Grand's front door to help Matthew clear the way.
And this is not the only reason why Zach is in inexplicable mood right now, there is another one.
Old Hank didn't have lunch at Grande. He went to the employee living area to have lunch.
Well, if anything it's predictable, this is one. We know that Zach either pretended to be dead or lost his memory some time ago. Anyway, he didn’t pay much attention to the internal affairs of Grand. This gave old Hank’s little idea a chance to sprout, and now Zach is preparing to return to Grand. This is already the case in life.
Helpless, yes, but Zach had nothing to blame Old Hank. This is how things have developed. What else can we do but accept it? This is not a factor that affects Zach's mood.
Originally, it would have been fine if Old Hank didn't attend Grand's lunch without saying a word, but Old Hank made a special trip to Mo and said, "Come on, follow me to the employee area to cook. No one here has good food. It’s a waste of time, let’s go get it over there.”
This made Zach unhappy, "Are you serious? Old Hank? Uh. Matthew also wants to eat, and Kim!"
"If you don't pick between these two, you can solve it. We have a Republican chef, but our employees have never eaten Republican cuisine. This is not fair." Old Hank actually said to Zach that it was fair.
"Wow." Zach was speechless. Went to the kitchen to cook.
Old Hank was right, Matthew and Kim are not picky. Matthew never expresses negative opinions on food. Great Dane, he only cares about the taste.
But really, really lonely. I believe that every time Zach appears in the kitchen to help in this story, he is there to help and chat casually. This time, Zach was alone there peeling potatoes that he wouldn't even eat with an expressionless face.
Fortunately, someone came to accompany him.
It is James in the naked body, so we should understand that this is not James, but gold. By the way, this guy really likes James' skin. He threw Zach's peeled potatoes into the pot and boiled them, and said something special, "Next time Arthur goes to contact Eli, I will go."
Zach didn't think there was anything wrong, so he said, "Okay."
Very simply, "I like softer things." Lying down on the ground, what appeared from behind the desk had returned to the form of a Great Dane, swaying its butt and turning around in the corner, curling up and lying down. .
Loneliness, technically speaking, continued after a brief interruption.
The second interruption occurred. Sires who was in the barn on the west side came back. Now there was no one everywhere. Grandry walked around before coming to the kitchen and glanced at Zach who was peeling potatoes. He was stunned for a moment, "Can you cook?"
There was a feeling of almost being offended, "Is this surprising?" But Zach was well-educated, so he didn't have a tone.
"Mokawi won't." Sires answered quickly and walked towards the stove. Without the following sentence, Zach could still maintain his calm. "Benjamin said the only thing he missed about Grande was." But Sires Not noticing the change in Zach's expression, he glanced at the potatoes in the pot and said, "It's ripe." He had a tendency to fish them out.
"Don't touch that!" From Siris's perspective, this was extremely inexplicable. Why was Zach so excited? Also, where did that disgust come from
"Okay." Siris took two steps back and raised his hand to show that he would never touch the pot again, "I won't touch it."
Fortunately, Zach had the consciousness, "Tsk, Jin likes soft food." This gave him a reason to step down.
This surprised Sires, a newcomer to Grande, and his eyes flickered back and forth between Zach and the Great Dane in the corner, "Are you, um, helping him cook?"
Zach had no intention of analyzing Sires's psychological activities, "There is also Matthew." He resumed his tone, "If you want to help, go handle the piece of meat." Zach pointed to the other side of the desk. steak.
It was because of the temperature that this piece of meat steak, which was the remains of an unknown creature, was still in a semi-frozen state. There is spreading scarlet on the bottom layer, while the surface of the upper layer is still covered with a faint white frost, making it difficult for people to intuitively judge the quality of this piece of meat.
"Good meat." Siris said this, already wiping off the white frost and starting to apply seasoning on the meat. When he said this, his throat rolled inexplicably twice.
Zach noticed this detail, mainly because Zach really didn't want to pay attention to the potatoes in his hand, "What is this? Do you want to eat it?"
Any meat that appears as human food is the corpse of a certain creature. This is easy to understand, and the blood of the dead is the poison of vampires. The blood of the dead has never been restricted to human blood, so Zach is always peeling potatoes, and he doesn't want to deal with meat ingredients.
To be clear, just like Zach occasionally guest-starring at the job of grooming the body, just because he doesn't want to do it doesn't mean he can't. Normal contact would not poison vampires, so this world would be too difficult for vampires to survive. Seriously, our time is filled with corpses. If you want to poison a vampire, you have to invade, just like Wales once did, insert it. But for vampires, it is always repulsive.
So Zach actually didn't understand Siris' physiological reaction, so he asked.
"No." Sires curled his lips, "I just realized that I haven't eaten such good meat yet."
There is a strange feeling in these words. Generally speaking, any sentence pattern with "I haven't..." as the main body is pessimistic on the surface and hopeful on the inside. The following can be followed immediately, 'Then let's go now/next moment...', regardless of whether the context and reality can make the following sentence 'just go' come true, but it can be said anyway, right? .
But here we are, in Grande's kitchen. The last sentence 'just go' is absolutely impossible to say.
This is a pessimistic statement.
Zach glanced at Siris and said, "You're kidding." Zach chose not to believe Siris. The main reason was that Zach didn't want the topic to become 'humans become vampires'. Do you understand? Who caused Sires to become like this? If someone is to be blamed, who must take the blame? Is Zach going to find trouble on his own? Zach is not that stupid, "You are a farmer. Have you never raised cattle? Are you telling me that you have never eaten them? I don't believe you."
"I'm very poor." Sires was quite calm. "Everything I raise is for sale, not for my own consumption." He glanced at Zach and said, "Brick's illness is very expensive." I don't know. What does it mean to look at Zach at this point, is it to express that there is no need to spend money now? Probably not. If Benjamin told Siris that vampires need human signs to mix in this world, then it is very reasonable that Brielle's human sign is that she will continue to be 'sick', which means that medicine is needed. Keep eating and keep spending money.
That's great, Zach doesn't want to talk about Brielle either.
Speaking of which, how do you decide how you feel about a person? Probably if you find that there are two or more points in a person that you don't want to touch, you will classify this person into a category that you don't want to get along with.
Zach has found a few of these points on Siris's body? Therefore, Zach was not exempt from the mundane and decided not to answer the call.
Sires seemed to have nothing to talk about anymore, and silently handled Matthew's food.
Loneliness is continued again.
He was interrupted again, it was Matthew and Charlie who came back. They didn't know what interesting things they were talking about, and they entered the kitchen talking and laughing. There is nothing surprising. Before Charlie lost his memory, this guy didn't dare to find Benjamin, so he pestered Matthew to remember.
"The road in front of our house has been cleared." It was Matthew who reported. "I also helped Mu En clear the road in front of their (Pochquin) house." Matthew took out a bag of something similar to tea bags. Son, "She gave this to express her gratitude and said that Sam should be able to use it."
Zach wouldn't pick it up and had already turned to the onions, chopping them up.
The monotone voice soon became an ensemble, and it was Charlie who took it upon himself to start copying what Zach was doing. Zach didn't even bother to tell the 'positive' guy that enough onions were enough.
Matthew also quickly realized that what Siris was dealing with was his own food and started to help.
Yes, loneliness actually continues.
This routine is already obvious.
The one who slightly interrupted this time was Sam who came back from the tomb area.
To be honest, the kitchen was already a little crowded, and Sam's entry visually filled the feeling of crowding again, because he also brought one more person back.
Only visually, because the person being brought back does not occupy physical space. Jackson.
Zach frowned and looked at Jackson, who looked blank, "What's going on?" Jackson looked like a guy who was too frightened to be stupid.
This is what Zach promised Blake last night to send Sam to check on Toby. Zach wasn't expecting 'a look' to have Jackson follow Sam back.
Sam glanced at Jackson, then at the creatures in the kitchen, and spoke, "The Trial of Faith appeared, and then something unexpected happened. Toby did not obey the results of the trial and left the Earthbinder state..." Paused. After a while, "He turned into a shadow man."
"What?" There are so many things worth asking, one by one, "Starting from the beginning, the judgment of faith appears? What is it? Heaven or hell?"
"Heaven." Sam glanced at Jackson again, wondering if he was revealing some information.
"He didn't go? Why?"
Sam stuck to his previous statement, "Accident." He didn't take his eyes off Jackson.
It would be ridiculous if Zach didn't realize what Sam was signaling, so Zach frowned and started thinking.
It is not that things like resisting the trial of faith have never happened. At least we have all seen that Mr. Gardner was kicked into the gate of heaven by the devil's horn. But an accident? The meaning is obviously not the individual’s own hesitation, but external forces!
Well, it's time to remind everyone of one thing. Jackson, as a hell undead, knows witchcraft.
Why remember this secret that Zach told Jackson to keep from anyone? Because, how did Jackson describe the Dead in Paradise to Toby? By the way, he said, 'Unless you have some connection in heaven that can bring you back, like me... Otherwise, you will disappear and we will never see you again. '
Zach only needs to ask a question to confirm whether what he is thinking of is correct. "Toby's trial of faith has been delayed for so long because..."
Yusem continued to respond to Jackson's gaze.
Zach ended the topic and continued to ask, "Why is it the Shadow Man?"
Sam withdrew his gaze from Jackson, "It's a bad life. Tsk, I don't know." Uh-huh.
"Where is Toby now?"
"Huddle behind his own tombstone." Sam raised his hand to draw a range. The small one was not as good as the meat in Matthew's hands. "He doesn't even know what he is, what he can and can't do. I spent the whole morning Explain to him what a Shadow Man is." Sam was not expressing how much he loved the new Shadow Man, he was telling Zach that when Zach sent him over to 'take a look', things were unstoppable and he could only Use the rest of your time to do this kind of thing. So Zach don't blame him.
Sam sighed, "He needs a similar person. I'm not sure he can understand what I tell him." It means something like a role model.
"Call Sibella..." Who else besides Wander? Zach dropped the ingredients in his hand mid-sentence, "I'll go by myself." Anyway, he didn't want to stay in this crowded and lonely kitchen. .
Sam didn't comment, but took the gift from Matthew and glanced at the kitchen, "Should I have potatoes for lunch?"
This simple question made Zach pause.
If anyone has any sympathy for Zach's loneliness, put it away. Zach deserves it.
Why did Zach forget Sam? There's no reason to sugarcoat it for Zach, he just forgot.
Just like all the loneliness he experienced in this kitchen, he just deserved it. Whatever he did to the world, the world would respond to him! How else are you going to explain him feeling lonely in an obviously crowded space? Isn't he Tori, isn't he a social butterfly, isn't he the best at establishing connections with others...
Zach turned around, "Guess what! Everyone, put down everything you are doing, let's go for a picnic."
"Uh, what?"
"Matthew! Bring the barbecue equipment, haha." Zach seemed to be excited, "With our team, we will not waste any ingredients..."