Even though she knew that Derek's ex-wife would not put all her children's two-day trip to Barton at a funeral home, she still insisted on going back to the hotel even though it was already lunch time. Vertex 23S. The fastest update. This behavior is really... rude. But considering that Derek's ex-wife didn't want to socialize with Grande at all, this rudeness didn't seem to matter.
I won’t repeat the specific process. Anyway, Derek said apologetically in the end, "She insisted on taking the children back. She will go shopping on Lister Street in the afternoon, and then go to the port and beach tomorrow." Derek actually didn't have to say What these trips tell Zach is, "You and Benjamin can come together if you want."
"You definitely don't want us together." Zach refused, knowing that Derek meant well, "Be safe."
However, Grande's lunch will not be canceled just now. Fitz and his gang came to help, so they naturally want to thank them. The hard part was for Zach and Louise, making a bunch of food they wouldn't eat. Mo, Grande's cook, went to meet the stars, don't you forget.
Zach didn't expect Benjamin to stay and help, "You don't have to stay in Grande, Derek has left."
"Then I'm leaving." Benjamin put down the ingredients and picked up the ingredients simply enough. But just after leaving the kitchen door, he walked around and came back again, "I read the manuscript of Madison's new volume. Don't you think you should say something to me? For example, I'm sorry?"
"Why?" Zach was really confused.
Sam reminded him, "It must be you who asked me to tell the story about him before he became Alpha, that part."
"Oh." Zach remembered and began to change the subject, "Did Madison write a new manuscript again? Why did you see it in front of me? And." Zach complained a little, "Is he still sending out manuscripts randomly? , casually leaking everyone’s secrets? Haha, isn’t James’ trouble enough?”
"Madison doesn't have it. James has had enough. He doesn't dare to do it anymore." Benjamin continued to pick up the ingredients he just put down. "He just gave me a commission. The reward I asked for was his book manuscript, but I didn't give it." The possibility of him rejecting it.”
"Why?" Still really confused.
"Although I left Grande, I still want to keep paying attention to what you are doing. Don't get too excited." Benjamin replied casually, "It's a loss-making transaction. At Madison's previous speed, at least one volume a week, some Everything you led happened within three or four days. But this time, it's been half a month, and he seems to have only started."
Zach read it right. Benjamin rolled his eyes at the ingredients in his hand and continued, "And you know Madison's bad habit. He always starts with stories about passers-by."
Hearing this, Zach wanted to laugh, "So this time, whose story is the opening book?" Do you still remember the explanation Madison gave him in this way before: Zachary Grande always used his charming The characteristic of speechlessness is inserted into the lives of ordinary people. This is the story of a city where there is a restless immortal, how people's lives should be, Zach, who takes away everyone's lives and turns it into his own.
"Dale Walker." Benjamin pointed to the living area through the back window of the kitchen.
"Oh~"
"You don't sound very surprised."
"Haha, what did Madison write?" Zach decided to ask first.
"Obviously Dale Walker has the habit of writing a diary." Benjamin seemed to be thinking as he said, "In his diary summary of his half-month life in Grande, he expressed his confusion about his future. Then... Benjamin scratched his chin, "His current identity as Dale Walker was bought from Steve."
"Really?" Zach was a little interested.
"Really, he wrote it in his diary. When Steve came to Grande, he was hiding to avoid being recognized by Steve." Benjamin shrugged, "Killing Susan was his first move in Barton. A job he blew."
It’s not like interrupting, Louise. “Does he want to ask me about Daisy’s whereabouts so that he can deal with the witnesses?”
Benjamin glanced at Louise and then at Zach, "You two are really suitable for each other." Well, regardless of the reason for Benjamin's comment, he continued, "Yes, but Grande's current differentiation did not give him What a chance to get information from you." Benjamin tilted his head, "This Dale seems to be aware that he belongs to the old Hank camp." Then Benjamin waved his hand, "During Mrs. Quinn's funeral. The employer, Ethela showed After becoming very familiar with you, he became very confused about his situation in Grande."
"What's so confusing about this?" Zach knew that Benjamin had tried his best to clarify the narrative, but Benjamin was Benjamin. In this case, it would be better to show Madison's original manuscript to Zach.
"He is just confused." Benjamin curled his lips, "Anyway, he began to understand that Grande's social relationship is with you, but Old Hank wants you to leave." Benjamin was trying hard, "If Grande's social relationship is with you, Germany's biggest resource, if you are squeezed out of Grande, then his presence in Grande will be meaningless. He is a new comer to Barton and has a special occupation, which requires resources. But if he does not continue to stay in Grande, his reputation will have already been lost. Asela's work was screwed up and she had no room for survival. That's what happened. Understand?"
"Got it." Zach looked at Benjamin with a smile, "You've become smarter."
"I didn't, No. 2 analyzed it."
"No. 2." Then Zach waved his hand. I almost forgot about this person. Tam's follower became Toledo on the 'General' side, but because Zach didn't pay enough attention to the 'General', Tam sent him to Benjamin for protection. Now that it was mentioned, Zach said smoothly, "How is he?"
"It's not bad. It's quite convenient to go out and run some errands." Benjamin's words took a turn, and he felt carefully, "It's just that although he is a Toledo, there is always something missing."
Toledo of the 'General' type has not obtained Zac's true inheritance and cannot use the Charming Eye.
Zach wouldn't be Zach if he couldn't even hear this. He chuckled without looking at Benjamin and didn't bother to answer.
Benjamin probably didn't expect anything. After being quiet for a while, he spoke again, "Dale Walker wrote his diary on a full-moon night. What else did you do after that?" He brought the topic back to 'pay attention to what Zach is doing' . There was no skill at all, it was just a chance given by Zach.
"Nothing done." The stall hand gestured to the kitchen full of ingredients, "These, Derek." It means that Derek brought the children to meet his 'uncles', "If Madison writes this part in the future, you can Skip it." The irony was buried deep. Benjamin came to Grande today. It was Zach who invited him, right? So participating in it personally and reading Madison's book manuscript afterwards, haha, can the feeling be the same
Benjamin probably didn't realize the deep irony, "Skip? No." Benjamin moved his body, but the work in his hands was too boring, so he changed his position, "Today was different from what I expected. I thought We will go to Cliff's farm." Benjamin's voice had no special emotion. "I still don't know why you changed your plan. So, when Madison writes it, I will read it carefully. Then, this morning, there are I still don’t know the reasons for a few things. For example, the woman who came with her daughter on the way, you and Derek both ran down and stayed with her in the basement for almost half an hour. Louise clearly said that the funeral was next week, and I I completely don’t understand why you and Derek are so active in grooming the body.”
Zach is ready to explain some of the problems that humans face with civilization. Just as he opened his mouth, he closed his mouth, but Benjamin didn't finish.
"Dora came once in the middle. Don't think I didn't notice. Although she blocked her perception, Mokawi still sensed her. She told you something."
Okay, Zach was about to open his mouth to explain again, and he wasn’t going to hide it anyway. Still close it, Benjamin, not finished yet.
"Also, Lu (Lutzmihilesembra) is here to give you orders for the Sabbat." Benjamin glanced at Zach, "But you used blood to transmit it, and even Mokawi didn't know about you. What information was exchanged.”
Thanks to Benjamin for laying out everything we skipped this morning. I think we only need to care about the last one. After all, what the first two are is too obvious and needs no further explanation. It just so happens that Zach also has this intention, but it is just to clarify
"Blood exchange is the Sabbat's method of communication." Zach also glanced at Benjamin, "Nothing else. I'm not trying to hide anything. You want to know? Just ask." Can anyone feel the dissatisfaction in Zach's tone? . It's the way Benjamin talks.
"Okay." Benjamin said simply, "Then tell me what order the Sabbat gave you."
"I need to get on the transportation to the west before tomorrow." Zach said.
The movement in Benjamin's hand stopped for a while. When he moved again, the words appeared together, "Tsk." The words that made the atmosphere turn more bad, and the follow-up, "Another thing I don't understand." The target of the words was not Zach at all. "I think Madison needs some encouragement, or he hid a volume of manuscripts that have been written. These things." Benjamin was more specific, "Can't connect. Self-destruction case, Zimich from the Northland, Miley Lister who appeared inexplicably, James, you! Half a month ago, where the story ended, until now, too many things have been interrupted. I don’t understand. Tsk, why suddenly, the devil I want you to go to the West!" At the end of the sentence, Benjamin was obviously getting irritated.
Zach, on the other hand, remained expressionless while doing the work at hand, and said lightly, "If you were still here, you wouldn't have to rely on Madison's manuscript to connect to these things."
Benjamin took a very secretive deep breath, and the topic changed again inexplicably, "It will be a long journey from Barton to the West. Do you need a companion?"
Zach didn't say anything, but Louise laughed next to him. Well... Louise understands this topic. When Benjamin said that he wanted to pay attention to what Zach was doing, the tone had already been set, right? It's just that neither of them is honest. One is dull, and the other only puts his shrewdness on childish ridicule.
Zach glanced at Louise and curled his lips, not bothering to control her, "No need."
"You want to go alone?"
"Lou will follow me, Lesembra, who is only loyal to me." Zach answered, his eyes were inexplicably out of focus, and he didn't know what he thought of. "Perhaps, I will have a companion." He shook his head and looked again. focus. There was something that Zach wanted to tell Benjamin, but Benjamin interrupted him, didn't he
"who?"
"Nothing. We'll see when the time comes."
"Then when will you come back?"
"It's hard to say." It's entirely because the topic has reached this point and Zach is thinking about other things. It's better for Benjamin not to say a fond farewell. Zach can't afford it. Zach is also ready to come back in full force, and this won't be the last of Grande's 'brothers' contact.
Benjamin was quiet for a while, and then said something surprising, "You won't go." He just emphasized, "You can't go."
"Why?"
"There is a theory repeated many times in Maddison's manuscript. If the direction of a story points to one thing, that thing will not happen, because there are no surprises, and it is a bad story."
Now Louise was stunned, Zach smiled, "Are you sick, Benjamin? Look at Madison's story, you must have been brainwashed by him. Don't forget, this is not a story, there is no good or bad. Maddie Sen is just recording the facts. It happens that all the facts look like a story. Don't confuse the priorities. We are just characters in the story, but in life, we are who we are. It has nothing to do with Madison's good or bad stories. .”
Benjamin was arguing, "No. You won't go to the west. Just like you prepared for Eli's arrival before, you spent so much time preparing, but in the end you were 'killed' by Allen on improvisation." Benjamin looked at He glanced at Zach and said, "All the things you planned and prepared will not happen. Some new weird things will interrupt or turn..." Benjamin waved his hand, his vocabulary was limited, but his point of view was clear enough, " For example, today, we are not at Cliff's farm, right. This whole trip." He thanked Fitz and the others for lunch, "it all happened on the spur of the moment."
Zach blinked and looked at Louise for help.
Louise pursed her lips, "What Benjamin said seems to make sense. If you think about it, it seems that all the things you have prepared have not happened as planned." She didn't want to admit it, "No matter it's Madison's story, It’s still a fact of your life.”
Zach shook his head speechlessly. Now he felt... very isolated and helpless, "So, what do you mean? There is still an afternoon and an evening until tomorrow, and during this time, what will happen to prevent me from going to the West? matter??"
Quiet.
Sam broke, "Didn't think anything was going to happen."
Zach cherished this sudden help and said, "Let's talk and listen."
"Benjamin just said that Madison missed half a month of the story. Isn't that right?"
"uh-huh."
"So, um, if Madison wanted the story to not, um, go bad. He deliberately omitted the process of your preparation and planning. That's what Benjamin said, many things were broken..." Although Sam had a complete stage for him Said, but he didn't seem to be very confident, "Then, when things happened, it was a story full of surprises. Well, after all, Madison's ability is the future, right? He has the ability to make this kind of judgment, Right, I knew you would definitely go, so I deliberately skipped this half month. Well, think about it, is this the logic?"
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Sam, I love you.