At dawn, the red fireball clearly shows only the top edge, but it looks like it has been completely exposed. This is the difference between watching the sunrise on the horizon and on the sea level. Vertex 23S. The fastest updated sea will be dyed. A large swath of red spreads as far as the eye can see, and as the real sun rises, it shrinks little by little toward where it disappears into the sea.
Zach was able to watch the whole process, not that he wanted to appreciate it too much. In the four worlds of life, he has seen all kinds of sunrises. Unless there is something new in the way the sun appears, he is tired of seeing it. But he still watched the whole thing.
Anyone wonder where Zach watched the sunrise? It couldn't be Grande anyway, it had to be on the east coast, with only the sea in sight.
The place on the eastern border of Barton. In the North District, Anthony lives in the Upper North District, Noel Beach, and Southeast. Ixton in the South District, the original cemetery where Allen was buried and now the construction area of the new port (where Zach found Mokavi before), and the rest of the South District, no one cares about it, and occasionally lost children of Coastline (grandson of Mel Sr.).
Where will Zach watch the sunrise
Honestly, it's possible everywhere. But all, it should be! impossible. Because Zach was supposed to stay in Grande now, and he was not allowed to go to Seris who was working in Grande early as promised to look for his traces inside and outside. Then, there must be a reason why Zach made a promise but then unilaterally broke the promise to watch the sunrise here.
All right.
One of the neglected fourth-generation Toledos died. As the ancestor of the family, Zach came to attend the memorial ceremony for his grandson, not to mention the grandson he didn't care about.
Zach's location has been revealed, it is in the southeast, with 'General' and Bumi beside him, standing on the easternmost embankment in the southeast.
The thrown dust smeared Zach's face. Zach wiped the gray on his face expressionlessly, "It's just dust." He moved behind Bumi and held down when Bumi tried to dodge. Zach just wanted someone to keep the ashes for him. He glanced at an urn and held a handful of gray-black 'General' in his hand. "Are you sure these are his remains, and you are not just sweeping them up on the ground?" The ashes?"
'The General' glared at Zach. Deliberately, throwing gray and black in Zach's direction.
"Hey!" Bumi was unhappy, tugging on his hood and complaining, but didn't say much.
Zach didn't say anything, and waited expressionlessly for the 'general' to spread the ashes.
Zach was actually a little impatient. Before dawn, he was waiting for Sires to go to work, and suddenly he received this call to express his condolences. The 'General' said that xx was dead and asked Zach, a grandfather, to come over. Well, Zach doesn't even know who xx is, he's probably one of the people who was resurrected by the Kraken. Although he knew that the 'general' probably valued these 'companions' who had the same revenge goal, Zach really didn't care.
But when Bumi declined Zach's request without hurting the General's heart, Bumi interrupted on the phone, "You should come over. You may need to pay attention to the way he died."
The way a vampire dies. Why. Madison has a notebook full of ways to kill vampires. I know that if you want to label a vampire, the most representative one is definitely the immortality that vampires themselves are proud of, that is, immortality. However, there are really many things that can allow them to meet death.
In fact, it is very similar to humans. Drinking something of unknown origin, putting something sharp through your head, wondering if you can heal a tree, playing with fire...
Too much.
So don't think that Zach is so indifferent to his descendants. When Zeng Tuo Rui was prosperous... When any vampire clan was prosperous, there would be thousands of new vampires who died accidentally in the light. Zach doesn't care, that's the mentality a clan ancestor should have.
But in the end, Zach came. Waiting for Bumi or the 'General' to explain what kind of death this requires him to be concerned about.
Because the purpose was so clear, Zach simply didn't stop the ceremony that the 'general' insisted on performing. He kept the poker face that a clan ancestor should have and waited.
This is really a ceremony, except for the 'General', Zach, and Bumi standing on the embankment, and behind them are the guys in black. It was a complete farewell.
The 'General' took out two handfuls of the ashes from the urn in his arms, and it was probably the last time he threw them away. Raise your hands in the air, close your eyes ritually, and open your hands.
Zach watched the gray and black flying away in the morning light with the wind... After all, he couldn't hold it back, and he took care of the mood of the group of black clothes behind him. He lowered his voice and said to Bumi, "I saw a peanut shell. This is it." He probably swept the ashes off the bar floor."
Bumi still pulled on his hood and said in a low voice, "Uh, don't worry about these little things."
The 'General' heard it recently, and turned his head to look at Zach, his eyes twitching. He vented his emotions on the urn in his arms, crunched it into an iron ball, and threw it into the sea. Then he turned to face the people in black who were keeping their distance, "It's over. Everyone, thank you to the ancestors of the Toledo clan for participating."
Zach cooperated with the end of the ceremony. He nodded solemnly towards a group of black men, then turned to Bumi and lowered his voice, "Talk to me. I don't want anyone to come and talk to me." Zach also avoided social interaction. When, uh, it's still against people of his own blood.
Bumi was very cooperative, "I heard that one of the descendants of Cappadocia settled in Grande..."
It doesn't really matter what you say, just let those who want to express something to their ancestors know that their ancestors have more important things to do. For example, Toledo's diplomacy with other clans.
"Well, Siris." Zach naturally would not mention the 'low-level things' like farmers at this time, but wanted to be 'high-level', "Cappadocia needs someone who has a good impression of me to come to Grande, for them My position in the Sabbat..."
The conversation is with Bumi, so don't expect Zach to say anything interesting here. Anyway, it’s enough to be so tall that people don’t dare to approach him.
The 'General' was quite self-conscious and sent away anyone who wanted to get close to Zach. When Zach could no longer pull anything out, the area was clean.
Formal communication is about to begin.
Starting with 'General', "Do you have anything to say."
"For example?" Zach asked.
"Tsk." The 'General' frowned, "Since the last time you came to the southeast, the number of vampires under my command has increased!"
"You want to ask me if I care?" Zach continued to ask.
"if not?!"
"I don't care." Zach didn't look at the 'general', "They are your descendants." The implication was that they were not descendants of Toledo.
The 'General' has always been aware of his identity. This is the best feedback he can get from his mouth. That's enough. He waved his hand and got to the point, "The way xx died, he starved to death."
Zach glanced at Bumi, not prepared to make any guesses in advance, waiting for the 'General' to explain.
"He is the person I arranged in the Aix Security Company." The 'General' twitched his lips, "Fiona helped, you know this."
I know, Bumi told me when I came to the southeast last time. Zach just nodded.
"Fiona has some connections to help me with activities and arrange these people into various departments in the company..." 'General' has a tendency to go off topic. It may be that he deliberately wants Zach to pay more attention to what he is doing. .
"What does he do?" Zach didn't give him a chance.
"Client discovery." The 'General' curled his lips, "He is great. Bishop Manor was closed for such a long time, and he was the one who finally hired Aix security guards."
Zach's mouth moved. Forget it, everyone is dead, so the credit will not be taken away. We all know that the security company of Bishop Manor should be something that Riley, Fiona, and Eve jointly do for the common good. Definitely not the ability of a subordinate of 'General'.
"Just tell me how he starved to death." Zach did not hide his disdain here.
There is no need to say more about how shameful it is for a vampire to starve to death. For details, see how Zack, trapped in a time loop, lost his composure.
"He seems to have been out of contact for three days." The 'General' became gloomy. "My people in Aix will contact each other at a fixed time every day, combine the intelligence in Aix Company, and finally hand it over to me. So I The time can be determined.”
Three days is enough to starve a vampire to death. Zach, who can control blood, only has the confidence to last for a week, and what is being discussed here, hey, are the descendants of the 'General'!
The 'General' was about to elaborate, but was interrupted by Bumi, "Just tell me what happened last night."
The 'General' didn't have any resistance, but he looked at Zach, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, as if to adjust his mood, "To be specific, it should be at midnight, someone with the same aura as me appeared, with xx."
Zach felt that he was not prepared to describe it other than 'general', so he looked at Bumi with a questioning expression.
"Your direct descendant. I don't know him." Bumi replied without any particular emotion.
Zach opened his mouth, "Ian." He looked back at 'General' with a complicated expression. On the one hand, Zach knew who his descendants were, and there were very few people who had the same aura as 'General'. "Don't beat around the bush. , I know you know Ian, that’s our mayor’s brother.”
This was the 'Barton Bottom' thirteen years ago. Do you have any impressions? The 'General', who didn't even know who Ian was, briefly came into contact with Ian.
The 'General's' face was clearly twitching, and it was obvious that if Zach hadn't been so straightforward, he would have been prepared to hide it for a while. But now, "his look hasn't changed at all."
Zach waved his hand, not intending to sigh with the 'General', but to Bumi, "Ian is Papa Midnight's man."
Bumi was as usual, "I know, he introduced himself. And, he apologized..." motioning to the 'General', "You say it."
'General' rubbed his face, it had no special meaning, it was just a small gesture, "Ian showed up with xx who was already dying. He said that Papa didn't realize something earlier and saved him too late. He said that he just A person who delivers people, Papa didn’t say he wanted to save people at midnight, so he didn’t do anything extra and was only responsible for delivering people.”
Zach began to feel that this explanation was getting more and more confusing, "So you said that this xx was still alive when you saw him?"
The 'general' looked a bit like he had eaten a cockroach. So, Bumi continued, "Live for 2 seconds. We didn't even react, and he turned to ashes in the bar. Then." Bumi still had no emotion, "Papa Midnight Ian said sorry, Gone away."
Zach looked back and forth between Bumi and the 'General', and finally frowned, "Are you trying to express that Ian did it on purpose?"
"I didn't say that." Bumi raised her hand and immediately denied it.
'General'? He looked at Zach with an expression as if he had eaten a cockroach and said nothing.
Zach frowned and simply didn't look at anyone. He turned his gaze to the sun, which was already a person's height away from the sea, and began to think.
The sun probably moved a few millimeters higher. Zach spoke, very constructive words, "Probably on purpose. No intention to belittle anything, 'General', but if this subordinate of yours survives, it may be better to die."
'General' now has the expression of eating a handful of cockroaches. Fortunately, he knew the tone was better than yelling at Zach and listening to an explanation.
"Soul expansion." Zach looked at Bumi, "You should have heard something about soul expansion from Sibella."
Bumi nodded, "Dora mentioned it." Then he was a little confused, "Both Sibella and John before leaving thought it was aimed at you..."
It's better to interrupt. Zach's focus is not here, but "what happens after the soul expansion occurs. The affected vampire will continue to fall into a period of time that has passed, resulting in amnesia for the time after that." Zach shook his head, "It's not amnesia, it's a complete disappearance of memory. It's like the real passage of time no longer exists." Zach has experienced it, so he is very sure.
Bumi was obviously more concerned about the topic of 'targeting Zack', so he didn't care about Zack's 'General' taking the lead. "What do you mean, do you mean to say that even if xx survives, he will be useless? You can't provide why he It turned into such information?!”
"That's what I mean." Zach confirmed, "Instead, let him die like this." Zach twitched the corner of his mouth, with a declarative tone like reading a news headline, "Toledo died in Barton."
There were chaotic thoughts going on in Zach's mind at the same time. The one that led Zach to say this was that Papa Midnight wanted a Toledo to die in Barton in this way.
This is not a bizarre idea, Papa Midnight is a bizarre guy. Zach couldn't explain how this thought appeared, but it just appeared and occupied a large enough proportion for Zach to speak out.
The 'general' was probably completely lost in his daze. Bumi, "Wait a minute, are you sure now that xx died from soul expansion?"
"Characteristics," Zach could only say, "hungry and missing."
"But the self-destruction at Back Bay Community College the day before yesterday was the only self-destruction that occurred recently. Was there another self-destruction that no one knew about three days ago?"
Zach looked at the 'General', "Why are you still stunned? The clues have appeared. Go check it out."
"where you go?!"
"Southern District Police Station." Zach had already walked away at an alarming speed, "He's dead, isn't he? General, do you think it's over with just a ridiculous ceremony? This is a case, so you should call the police."