Everyone else in Grandry, including Mo, went to Seme's funeral. Vertex 23S. There’s no deep reason for being the fastest updated, it’s just boring. The only person who accompanied Zach in Grandli was O'Neal, who came back and was like visiting relatives.
There's obviously something different about this guy, but I can't tell what it is. After Grande wandered around for a while, he floated back to Zach who was sitting in the office, "So. Where is Sam? Don't tell me he's really dead."
Sam was in Zach's pocket, staying quiet.
Zach glanced at O'Neal and was too lazy to answer. By the way, Kepler stayed in Alice's room for so long yesterday and didn't even know what they were doing. This girl is also big-hearted.
O'Neal waited for a long time, but received no reply. He drifted away again. When he came back, he looked excited, "Quick! Take it out and let me see!"
It was Ryan, and O'Neal only threatened a little, and the useless earthbinder said it all.
The thimble was placed on the table, not because Zach was willing to satisfy O'Neal's curiosity, but because he didn't want this guy to pester him. Zach is thinking about important things
Zmich. Zmich from the Northland.
The blood sent by Lu contained two parts. One part is the intelligence about Zmich who attacked Grande, and the other part is the Sabbat Zmich, yes, not Lesembula, it is the Sabbat Zmich's private deal with Zach.
Let’s talk about the first part first. The Zmich who attacked Grande really did not belong to the Sabbat. They were not even Federation members. However, it is similar to the souls of the Northerners that Jessica tortured before, who were instantly killed by Zach before the bus blew up, and were able to enter the soul state normally and were dragged into hell. Their memories show traces of being castrated.
The human souls who self-destructed did not remember anything other than their self-destruct order. The Zmich who attacked Grande had nothing in his blood that happened before Tam entered the Federation.
But just those parts where Zmich enters Patton reveal a lot.
First, identity.
Hamilton obtained a piece of information about the three Zmich's purchase of federal legal status in Patton. In this message emerges a man we know and one of the reasons Zach is now in his office thinking: the identity merchant, Mr. Steve Walker. Zach was thinking about whether to check with Steve.
Logically speaking, Zach should have nothing to hesitate and just call Steve and ask. But, tsk, I met No at Pixar’s house this morning. Zach’s sincere advice to Nou should not be forgotten so quickly. Everyone said that if Zach called, Noo was discussing the transfer of real estate with Steve, the scene would be very embarrassing.
Don't think this kind of thing is boring. Missing important things because of embarrassment? Well, let's ask ourselves with conscience, is confession important? Have you ever been afraid of embarrassment and have repeatedly negative thoughts about confession that may change your life? the same.
And in this piece of information about identity, the three who attacked Grandzmich were not buying legal identities for themselves! Those three Zmichs had already entered Barton before purchasing their identities. What does that mean? They are not trespassers. Mayor Anthony's Indian heritage doesn't come into play.
The conclusion that can be drawn is that they are trying to obtain the possibility of entering Barton for a vampire who does not have federal legal status!
This whole information is confusing. Is the quota for Northerners entering the Federation full? No matter who was behind the self-destruction, he could send three Zmich to Grande to attack, but he couldn't send a fourth person in
Then, the attack.
Among the information obtained by Hamilton were the three reasons why Zmich found Grande. 'General'.
The three Zmichs have located the locations of Barton's vampire forces in the open: Rimmer in Smith Manor in the West District, Toledo (General) in the southeast of the North District, and Gangro in the southeast of Ixton in the South District. , and the Sabbat at Allen Funeral Home.
Interesting information, they didn't seem to notice Novel and Grande hiding in the Paisying underground (activity center).
What's even more interesting is that instead of provoking Rimmer, Gangro, and Sabbat, these three Zmich went to provoke the 'General'.
Coulson of the Southern District Police Department didn't make any progress on the clues on 'The General', Zach has it here: the three Zmich seems to be very sure that the leader of Southeast Toledo, 'The General', is not the one they are looking for. People, so they blew up the 'general's' men.
This is why they later found Grande, a more specific explanation, below.
Finally, the human in Zmich's body.
The implementer of soul expansion, human beings, has a proper name in these Zmich vocabulary, Ban Lin.
In Zach's knowledge base, this is a special ancient alien race before the emergence of the Holy Lord faith. A belief system belonging to Tam and Leo. Specifically refers to a kind of 'human being' who sells his soul to the guard of purgatory (Leo) in exchange for continuing to have a body and move around in the world. The reason for the quotation marks is that Ban Lin is no longer a human being. According to today's alien system, they cannot be classified as any kind of alien race.
Ban Lin is a foreign soul with a body, this is what Zach knows. The only way to maintain the existence of such creatures in the world and prevent them from becoming hollow zombies with only bodies is to kill. Otherwise, the guards of Purgatory would take a portion of their soul every day.
From the knowledge that Zach remembers, Banlin is a creature that is alive but constantly decaying with the loss of its soul. Another reason Zach stayed in the office, Zach was waiting for a call from Leo, sometimes it was right to admit his lack of knowledge.
Among the information obtained by Hamilton was that Ban Lin, who was in Zmich's body, had obtained Patton's Toledo at the cost of part of his soul during the incident where the General's men were exploded, all of which came from Grande in the Southern District. Funeral home information.
End the first half of the information in Hamilton's blood
One, in addition to the three Zmich, there are also outsiders in Barton. Second, Zmich's purpose seems to be more focused on investigation. Smith of Rimmel, Saint of Gangro, Kozier and the North District Police Department who are implicated in the Sabbat all obtained information about Barton's vampire power through Zmich. Even if it was an attack on Grande, to be honest, if Bumi hadn't done it, it probably wouldn't have turned into... Third, new clues appeared in Ban Lin's soul expansion.
The second half of the information in Hamilton's blood, Sabbat Zmich himself and Zach's...
"It's not fair." O'Neill was talking to Thimble. "Why didn't you tell me there was this way to preserve the Earthbinder state before I turned myself into this."
Sam said, "I didn't know you at that time. I didn't know your origins, so why should I tell you." So direct, "I only got to know you later, but you were already addicted to being a 'ghost', and you The soul-inducing grass seeds have already been used, and the binding of the earth-binding spirit has been implemented, so it is useless to tell you."
Just as Zach was thinking seriously, the two disembodied wizards started chatting.
"Tsk, so my brother who has become a dead soul in heaven among the saints doesn't have a chance either."
Zach wanted them to continue chatting. He really didn't want to pay attention to the reason why O'Neal came here now, but O'Neal didn't let Zach get his wish. "Forget it, there's nothing good about you. Just stay in there forever." He couldn't get it. , he was disgusted with his very good attitude, and turned to Zach, "Why don't you ask me why I came back?"
"Does it count as 'coming back'?" Zach was about to cut off this unwanted exchange coldly, "Grand is not your home."
"Uh, don't be so cold, vampire. I brought information, important information."
Zach didn't want to respond. This 'please tell me' gesture is of no use to Zach.
"Hey!" Seeing Zach's disregard, O'Neal began to circle around Zach, "I'm here on behalf of Eve and Sibella, can you be a little more considerate?"
As soon as Zach's eyes moved to O'Neill, O'Neill stopped circling in cooperation, and his translucent face seemed to be proud, "How about it, not bad, I am also a somewhat important role in Barton."
The reason why Zach looked at O'Neal was that he actually had no good intentions. He still remembered that this guy once came to Barton and would rather die than fall into any force. Now he is not shy to say that his role is important. This guy is hopeless. Zach decided to just give him a look and let him feel it.
Soon, O'Neill's face became weird, "Tsk. I accepted your suggestion to learn the technology of soul control at the Babel Tower in Rimel, and then thanked Sam for it." The translucent hand pointed towards the thimble. After a while, "Sibela's laboratory has been merged here, in order to study the soul expansion." She began to give Zach a look, letting Zach feel it for himself, "Both sides don't want to send people to you, so I am the only one on the third side. Someone with some connections is here to tell you the research results. If you show a little gratitude, I will be very satisfied."
Don’t Eve and Sibella want to send people to Grande…
But now he couldn't ignore O'Neill. Zach looked away, but still didn't give him the gratitude that O'Neill expected, "The research results of soul expansion, say."
This is the limit O'Neal can get. He has the consciousness and stops talking nonsense, "Do you remember 0711?"
"Can't forget." Zach thought of Louise being angry with him because of his behavior after taking 0711, and curled his lips, "In terms of expression, 0711 is the opposite of soul expansion." Isn't this Sibella? Is there any reason for merging the laboratory with Eve? "In principle, is there anything you can figure out?"
"Yes." O'Neal began to move, with strange movements, his translucent body began to tremble, and bright red, flashing soul marks and tangled ribbons began to appear inside the body.
This is a very dangerous move for the Earthbinder. O'Neill is revealing everything about his existence to a vampire.
Uh, but this is the first time Zach has seen an Earthbinder capable of such a thing. Bands and soul marks are like the blood vessels and organs of the human body. Do you usually see people leaving these things outside for people to see
"0711." O'Neill began to explain, "The principle of shrinking the soul is to eliminate the binding." He actually demonstrated it. Zach could clearly see that the ribbon in the transparent arm was cut off in an instant, free and unbound. The bright red flashing mark began to squeeze into O'Neal's body after a momentary shock. The result was that O'Neal's arm collapsed.
Zach glanced at O'Neal's face in a confirming manner. There was no sign of pain.
"Oh, don't worry about me." Zach's mood at this moment was noticed by O'Neal, "Just think of it as showing off the abilities you learned from Eve~" It was hopeless.
Zach curled his lips and didn't want to speak.
"The reason for this phenomenon is very simple. When the binding band is eliminated, the soul imprint will eagerly look for new binding bands to continue to exist in order not to dissipate in the world. Therefore, they will flow inside and complete the contraction."
Sure enough, after a while, the collapsed arm began to stick out again, and the bright red inside filled the translucent body with the reconnected straps, restoring O'Neal's arm.
Zach didn't have time to think about the impact of 0711 on him, O'Neal continued.
"Soul expansion." He still used his arms to show it, and said to Zach, "See clearly." A cluster of red flashing marks disappeared after intense brightness and destruction. O'Neill actually destroyed his soul mark.
Zach was stunned for a moment, and Jin frowned and stared at O'Neill, "You don't have to commit suicide to demonstrate to me, just say..."
In the transparent arm, the binding that lost the soul mark condensed for a short time and went crazy. They begin to look like gutter maggots, twisting, squirming, and lunging like crazy.
O'Neal's arm has no shape at all, more like a balloon stuffed with a mouse that is about to die, frantically hitting, pulling, and piercing the soul body from the inside to the boundary of reality.
"This is expansion." O'Neal's face still showed no trace of pain. Instead, after seeing Zach's strange expression, he felt an inexplicable pleasure. "How about my demonstration? It's intuitive and easy to understand."
Zach stared at O'Neal's arm that was deformed due to the constant collision of the straps, and first determined the life-or-death issue, "You won't explode."
"Of course not~" O'Neill shook his body, and the previously extinguished soul mark reappeared. The crazy bindings stagnated again, wrapping around the mark again and wrapping tightly around it. O'Neill's arm came back again, and the explanation continued, "Whether it is 0711 or soul expansion, they are all utilizing the characteristics of the soul. Losing the band, the soul mark will look for a band that can catch itself. Losing the soul mark, the band will Will look for new things to grab.”
How did the Earthbinder come about? Isn't it the latter? The two ends of the band are the soul mark and the material. The band that loses the soul mark will go crazy, and the band that loses the material is almost the same. Do you think Ryan wanted to stay in the high school locker room for three years? Does Ms. Sher want to turn into an immovable manor...
Sam suddenly interrupted, "So the essence of soul expansion is to erase the soul mark."
"Yes." Affirmed.
"Zach, I told you about death reappearing before."
Zach was already thinking, "I know. The reappearance of death in the bus case and the self-destruction in Back Bay was because the soul mark was not completely destroyed and entered the normal consciousness of the earth-bound spirit..." This theory is still there. On the way to shaping.
"What are you talking about?" O'Neill asked.
"Go back. The research direction is in the direction of what kind of soul mark can be freely controlled to destroy and cause the band to be abnormal."
"Uh, are you urging me to go back so soon? I still want to wait for Mo to come back and show off my achievements~ Haha, it turns out that ghost is not my only choice..."
Zach, I really don’t want to deal with this guy anymore.