go home. Vertex 23S. Updated 200 year old home.
Dale locked himself in the room. Even Nick knew that this was the time to give people space, but James knocked on the door hard outside, "Dale! Dale!"
James was so noisy that Nick and Zach had to enjoy the quiet in the basement.
Zach still didn't enter the swimming pool with the skeleton floating on the bottom, and sat on the edge of the pool reading the newspaper. Weijia's newspaper is really thick. It is a daily newspaper, but it is almost as long as a magazine. "Do you miss the past when you could really understand a place by reading newspapers?"
This probably means praise. Praising Vega as a big city with the complexity of a big city, a magazine-thick newspaper cannot allow readers to see the inside of this city.
The skeleton from the bottom of the water floated up, not answering Zach's exclamatory question, but, "What are you going to do? Zach."
"kindness?"
There's a strange thing about hair that gets darker when it's wet. Nick Giovanni's light blond hair was gone, it was still the same pale color that could easily be mistaken for white.
At this time, Nick pushed the long hair covering his face so that Zach could see his expression clearly, "Don't get me wrong. I'm glad you're here, and I don't want you to be mediocre in the Sabbat." He tilted his head slightly and said, "You It's Zachary Toledo, you can't be mediocre. But." The very serious face looked more like a skeleton, "You are not here to destroy the Sabbat."
"What? Haha." Zach smiled and waved his hands, "Why should I destroy the Sabbat? The secret is no longer in the Federation."
"Yes, the secrets are no longer in the Federation. Then, what are you doing." This is asking Zach to explain.
Zach looked at Nick, as if he thought of something interesting, and slightly curved his lips, "What do you think I'm doing?"
"I'm not good at guessing your thoughts. Remember, I've given you four centuries of disappointment."
"Then let's talk about the disappointment of these four centuries." Zach put down the newspaper, "Do you like the Sabbat? Nick."
If Zach had used other topics that were off-topic, Nick would not have followed it, but he followed this topic, "The only will that Giovanni upholds will not change. I don't like the Sabbat, I don't like anything." .”
Don't be too quick to point out that Nick said he liked Zach.
Zach nodded, "It's extremely common, world-weary ~ Giovanni's will, hating everything that exists in the world."
This kind of dialogue that follows each other's lines is a beautiful chord.
Nick, "The only thing that separates me from everything in this world is this skin."
Zach, “So it becomes absolute, an absolute defense that nothing can penetrate, break through, or penetrate, protecting the inner self.”
Nick, "But still, I have eyes, ears, mouth, and I still have to interact with this disgusting world inside."
Zach, "Erode each other. The world eats away at you, and you eat away at the world."
Nick seemed to be enjoying the beautiful chords and squinted his eyes slightly, "It's not the kind of literary erosion. I'm not an angry young man who just shouts, 'World, I hate you'. I'm invading the world physically."
Zach seemed to be caught up in 'good' memories, "Plague, pollution...disasters that make the creatures in this world painful even when they breathe the air." Zach made a show-off gesture to Giovanni.
Even in the water, Nick still completed a humble bow, "I, the great misanthrope, I, Nick Giovanni, live forever to destroy this disgusting world."
This chord is coming to an end.
Zach smiled, "But so far, you haven't destroyed anything."
Nick also frowned, "I've ruined a lot of things. Do you know how many creatures become extinct every year?" Nick was expressing his dissatisfaction, "Do you know that our temperatures are rising. Do you know that the ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is melting. You Do you know how many new fatal diseases are born every year? Me." Nick pointed at himself, "Me."
Now that Nick has said this, let’s introduce Giovanni’s main business, industry. Just in time, so as not to appear abrupt when Zach asked about the whereabouts of the illegal workers brought into the Federation from Barton later.
Zach raised his eyebrows, "Sorry, I really don't know."
"It doesn't matter." Nick lay on his back on the water. "The point is to take it slow~ Times have changed, and Giovanni is no longer the 'Necromancer' he once was~"
There is an allusion here. It was a long time ago, before the Federation was born. Ignorant humans believed that there was an evil in the world called necromancers, who would desecrate the bodies of the dead and bring disaster to towns. In fact, it was just Giovanni who teamed up to dig graves, and then brought various viruses and bacteria that living creatures could not resist, mixed them into places where people lived, and caused plagues.
"So humans no longer stigmatize Giovanni~" Zach cooperated with Nick's complacency.
"Of course, we are entrepreneurs and manufacturers, and we are the backbone of this country's prosperity~"
"You have a descendant who works as a DJ in a nightclub." Zack couldn't control himself and answered.
Nick's flow in the water also stopped for a moment, and he continued to float smoothly in an instant, "You can kill that one."
"It's a men-only nightclub," Zach added.
"Oh~ No need to kill~"
Whatever you think, I won’t explain this.
"So your plan to destroy the world is comprehensive." Zack has a theme, isn't it? Nick has let him down for 4 centuries, "The environment of the world, the races of the world, the only one ignored is the vampire. To be specific, it's The Sabbat around you.”
Perhaps the swimming pool is a closed environment after all, and the rippling water can only push back and forth in one place. Nick, who was floating on his back, began to be surrounded by his own hair. This picture is even more 'pretty'. A skeleton is lying on the tangled white hair, being pushed around by the water.
Nick spoke. This will show the reason why Nick likes Zach. Please connect to the necromancer allusion just now, "When the reputation of a vampire is tarnished, vampires who protect this reputation will appear and punish those vampires who have given vampires a bad reputation." ." Oh, I also think of Zach's work before the Thirteen Clans were assembled, "You remember how you introduced yourself to me at the time, and you also said that vampires cannot be a popular species in this world. , but we don’t need to have the world turn against us, vampires, and we don’t need to be hated by the world.”
Zach said nothing. Because Zach may not remember what happened when he was a human, haha, but he remembers these. He hadn't finished what he had said to Nick.
"The food wasted by the nobles in one meal is enough to feed a commoner for a year." Nick also counted his fingers and pointed at the ceiling that was touched by the water. "In one year, Toledo (nobles) let a whole town of humans die." It's all gone. Giovanni, if you really want to kill humans, walking through the streets covered in the stench of corpses is the worst way to do it."
Zach could understand the meaning of these words, and shook his head helplessly, "You listened to my suggestion. You understand the destructiveness that the privileged class of human society can cause." It is already obvious, "And for the West It is said that the Sabbat who are forced to open up wasteland are the natural privileged class. This is why you can accept that I gave up my job and disgusted Lesembula, but you are rejecting me here because I may have come to destroy the Sabbat. You I am very concerned about the Sabbat’s social status in the Federation.”
"Yes. In the original continent, Giovanni's reputation can no longer allow us to do anything. But in the Federation, we can start over. The only regret I have is that I did not start in the Secret Alliance." Nick stood up from the level. He stood up and became vertical. He swiped his skinny arms in the water a few times and lay on the edge of the pool. He looked at Zach and said, "I now understand why I disappointed you. Do you think Giovanni still wants to be in the original place?" Just like the mainland, they continue to tarnish the reputation of vampires and become a burden or even an enemy to the Sabbat."
"I said, you are not my friend, you are just someone I don't want to be my enemy." Zach was really straightforward. But there's nothing to sugarcoat it, it's all been exposed.
"I know." Nick was also very straightforward, "I always knew that you didn't punish me before, not because I was 'older' and stronger than you, but because you didn't want to be with someone who exuded 'toxicity' all over his body. Angry vampires are hostile." The poison of vampires and the blood of the dead cannot be forgotten. "I have experienced many vampires who overestimate their abilities, and you are the first one to understand and realize the value of Giovanni."
Zach pursed his lips and said, "'Poison' cannot harm Giovanni." This expression is not accurate, but everyone understands the meaning. Giovanni's skin is an absolute defense that isolates the internal and external world.
Giovanni stroked his knotted hair, "It was you who recommended Giovanni to become the Thirteen Clan. I will never forget this."
Zach nodded, responding to these past events, and then shook his head, "Then to answer your question, what am I doing." It's time. The reason why Nick didn't become a cancer for the Sabbat has been solved in this old conversation. It's time. Back to the original question that started this conversation.
Nick's hair hadn't been completely smoothed yet, but he still quickly pushed his wet, light blond hair back and looked at Zach seriously.
"I'm protecting the Sabbat's status in the Federation." Zach started with a sentence that might make everyone laugh.
There is no need for us, Nick's eyes twitched, "Exposing Zmich's secret, causing him to almost commit suicide and committing the taboo of attacking his 'brothers', creating internal conflicts within the Sabbat, is this to protect the status of the Sabbat?"
"Yes." Zach looked very serious and spread his hands. "On one side is Roy, the Zmich who has no messenger. On the other side is Craig, the Zmich messenger who has an eye of the Toledo clan. You tell , which one should I choose for the Sabbat?"
Nick frowned, "Lesembra will decide." What he meant was, 'I don't know, don't ask me. 'That's enough to explain the problem.
Zach looked into Nick's eyes, "You think this is Zmich's secret? No, Lutresembula knows. He knew it a century ago, and he asked Jean Rozmich to look for Craig. "
Nick's fingers were playing with the thin water stains on the edge of the pool, rippling on the ground, "You can only make a choice after you find it..."
He was interrupted by Zach, "Do you know why Eli Toredo came to the Sabbat? Do you know how the war that ended ten years ago happened? And do you know why the trade with the Republic was initiated? .”
All happened within this century. At the same time, these are events that affect the Federation, the Sabbat, Zack, everything in this story. At the same time, we all know that Roy called Zac when he was still in Barton. This was all the result of the Sabbat's search for the missing Zmich messenger.
Nick's expression became a little unnatural, "Are you saying that in order to find a messenger for Zmich, Lesembula used the resources of the entire Sabbat?"
"That's what I'm saying." Zach looked at Nick, "Lesembra has already chosen. When no one knew that Craig had an Eye of Toledo, the identity of the messenger was Craig's only choice. A century’s worth of time ago. This choice was made.”
Nick looked at Zach's eyes turned away and his body left the edge of the pool, returning to the water, "Don't talk, let me think."
Right decision, no one knows how capable Toledo's tongue is.
However, Zach was not so cooperative.
"Now if you want to think about this problem, please add the conflict between Roy Zmich and the werewolf, as well as the fact that Alpha in Barton, Benjamin Grande, is helping us establish the eastern blood channel with the ancestors of the Mokavi family."
Nick turned back and glanced at Zach, then turned away and swam deeper into the pool.
Zach was not ready to let the other person go.
"Also, don't forget what I said about Ban Lin. Craig has the means to create Ban Lin, soul expansion, time loop, and attacks against vampires."
Nick dived.
It’s useless, it’s just a swimming pool, the water flow is so peaceful~ the sound transmitted can change the tone at most, and the words and sentences that should be clear will be clear.
One side has a disadvantage and one side has an advantage. That’s not all Zach’s argument is.
"Rutresembula is still playing this 'I'm silent, I'm childish, I'm disobedient, I'm an uncontrollable Toledo' game with me."
Nick's head came to the surface, "Are you saying that Lesembra wants to use you to be the 'bad guy'? Use you to expose Zmich's secrets, use you to anger Zmich, use you to... Toledo, who has never had a good reputation in the Sabbat, is doing this evil thing."
"Can you think of any other reason why Lutresembra would allow me to chat with you safely here?" Zach looked at Nick, "As you said, Roy wanted to kill me who told you the truth. I almost committed suicide." Zach spread his arms, "This is not my city. I only have one Grande employee, a human employee who is still mentally broken." Pointing to Nick, "And you were in the Sabbat for four centuries. 'Brother', how much are you willing to pay for my protection?"
Nick opened his mouth, closed it, and opened it again, "I'll block you once, and that's my limit." This must be the truth, because, "For a century, I thought you were dead." So, the limit.
Zach nodded, looking like I had said it all, "So yes, I am the evil person."
The light and shadow were pulled, and a face that was unfamiliar to us stood in front of Zach, "Lesembra is looking for you. The car is at the door, you have five minutes to prepare." It's Revro, forget the name, Destined to be soy sauce. The light and shadow were pulled again and disappeared.