Before lunch time, another foreigner from the Western funeral industry came to Louise to increase his presence. Vertex 23S. The fastest updated. Although everyone knows that they are just looking for a reason to impress their future boss, the reason they are looking for is not too boring.
This alien asked Louise about the unfair competition incident in the funeral industry that almost caused Barton to become a big boss. The reason why he is worried about this is that the city he lives in is a city where the mayor is rotated by the Zmich clan. No matter which party wins the internal coup in Zmich in the future, he does not think he will be easy, so he wants to prepare now All possible setbacks.
It was a bit unrealistic to tell how Grand dealt with on the phone. Zach conveniently asked Louise to reply to the other party, "We will send two specialists to help you prepare. One human, one descendant of Zach, ready meet."
Then it was time to tell Russell and Charlie to pack their things and get ready for, oh, a business trip.
lunch time…
Everyone knows that there is no need to match the eating time of humans in Grandzak. There must be a reason to use this as a mark of time again.
Here's why. Grandery has another visitor. Ha, a person, celebrity, or star who can be said to be a very 'famous' person in Barton now ~ Choose any of these haloed titles and feel the ridicule in them
Miss Miley List, who was wrapped like a zongzi when she suddenly wanted to make it, swept all the food that Zach brought to her, while criticizing Zach's cooking skills very critically.
This woman doesn't know why, but she has a natural attitude of, 'I hate you, I despise you, but you still have to satisfy my demands.' It's a pretty bad real character, but ~she's an actress, so personal truth probably doesn't mean anything to her.
The reason she came to Grande was because she heard that Zach was back, so she came to ask when James would be back. Darcy from the police station wouldn't tell her.
Zach may have some sympathy for the young lady, so he only replied that James had something to do and was delayed. Then, I was speechless and had to accept that this young lady had made her own decision to stay in Grande before James came back.
"Something happens in James's apartment every two days!" she was complaining, "either the water pipe is blocked or the electric meter suddenly burns out!" Hush, we just realized that Novel's boring prank is still going on, don't say Come out, "It's completely impossible for me to go out now! 'That's the woman in the 'toy' commercial' is everywhere! I can't even order takeout! A bunch of people come to watch me every time! Tsk! I hate small cities People! Don’t they have anything else to do in their lives?”
Let her be. Anyway, Zach seems to have nothing to do with this young lady.
After lunch time…
Wait a moment.
Some people must be curious whether the long-departed Grande beauties Riley and Fiona Falcon have brought any Grande employees home.
The answer is, yes. Evan was taken away.
The reason why Old Hank promised these two 'noble' women and reduced himself to the status of 'Old Madam' is because "every time I go to the public bathroom in the employee area, I can spit out all the food I ate the day before yesterday!"
Ask questions. Do these men who have come out of prison have any chance to vent the energy they have accumulated for more than ten years? No. The poor bathroom carries all the accumulated depravity...
But now, poor Evan, he doesn't know what he will face. Haha, let’s wait and see when he comes back.
Back to our narrative line.
After lunch time. Zach received a call again. At this point, Zach knew that the mind-reader Oz did what he suggested:
"Tori..."
"Call me Mr. Grand." Zach said to the person on the receiver. Yes, there was a slight clinking sound in the receiver as the glasses frame touched the subject.
"Ge, Mr. Grande..." There seemed to be a pang of regret in the other person's throat.
Zach would never make the mistake of being sentimental again. On the other side of the receiver was a stranger he had never met before, "Cozier told you everything." Because he was a stranger, Zach naturally called him Oz by his last name. . Sometimes perfect etiquette is to keep someone away from you.
"He, he said."
"Then you understand what a stupid thing your brother, Dale Walker, did." Zach didn't even intend to ask Dale's real name, which meant, 'You don't need to tell me your name.' Stranger, right
"I... understand..." The elongated ending was followed by an inexplicable turn, "No!" Still a little excited, "I don't understand!"
Zach felt that showing disappointment to strangers was a waste, so he didn't interrupt at all and listened to the man with glasses on the other side of the receiver freely express his unstable emotions.
"You, you! Toledo! The real owner of Moriarty Manor exists! The stories my father told are true! My brother has no reason to resent our family! Why? Why would he still do such a thing??"
Zach recalled what Dale said in the west. He ran away from home very early and never went back for more than ten years. He hated that place.
So, what do you expect? When the tree that has grown crookedly finds that there is nothing blocking it in the space where it grows, will it turn another corner? Grow back?
Angry from shame. Zach has a more suitable vocabulary to describe this irredeemable 'crooking'. The tree can only continue to grow crookedly and cannot go back.
Of course, Zach didn't say it, all he said was, "So Dale Walker did something stupid. You have to help stop him, you understand."
"I, I understand..." The accumulated regret is still there.
Zach believed that Oz had already made arrangements and he didn't need to say anything. Zach just regarded this call as a request for instructions that was a hundred years late. The human bloodline that once served Toledo met his 'master' again and was about to act for Toledo. A self-consoling request.
Zach was about to hang up after saying "Save the general's son, and then stop contacting me...".
But, I haven’t finished yet. As soon as the meaning of the sentence was expressed, he was excitedly interrupted by the voice on the other side of the receiver, "Why?! I finally know the meaning of the responsibilities that our family has always adhered to! Why can't I contact you?!"
Zach opened his mouth. There were some things that even Zach, a vampire, could not imagine.
Vampires live forever, and vampires do not iterate. Therefore, vampires do not have a concept called 'xx (anything) passed down from generation to generation'.
Zach couldn't imagine how this family could continue to stay at Moriarty Manor for a hundred years, passing on the responsibilities they thought they insisted on...
Yes. Zach may have been slightly touched, but more importantly, he didn't understand Toledo and didn't let humans take care of his house.
"Kid." Zach spoke again using a peculiar title.
This is probably the first time in this story that Zach calls anyone 'kid'. Although in Zach's reality, he could call anyone in Barton a 'child', he doesn't. Do you know the reason
here.
This is a title that implies superiority. No matter what kind of emotions it contains, including contempt, pampering, advice... superiority is the starting point of these emotions. Zach, on the other hand, has never distinguished the people he encountered in his life from his own level. Zach, not Fanzhuo, Zach does not feel that he is naturally superior to others. All the conversations that Zach completes, even if he often ridicules others, are based on the fact that you and I are equal beings living in this world at this moment. He never uses such primitive titles of superiority and inferiority to communicate with himself. Base.
But now he uses it now.
It was not Zach's intention, but for some reason he thought that this was the best way to communicate, "Child. Toledo is destroyed." Zach really couldn't say, 'The responsibilities you have persisted in for a hundred years are meaningless.' .
"But you're alive!"
"Because I left the Federation, I ran away, I disappeared, for a hundred years." Oh, at this time Zach admitted that he was 'escaping', "You understand, leaving, escaping, disappearing, plus a hundred years Does this time limit mean anything?"
A simple question: if a person makes an irreversible mistake and then has to escape by disappearing completely, the deadline is that everyone in the original place will die of old age. What does this mean? Let us part in life and then wait to see each other again in death.
Zach could almost hear the words that kept rising up his throat on the other side of the receiver before being swallowed.
Zach shook his head in the air and prepared to hang up the phone again. I don’t even want to say goodbye.
"You can get up again!" A voice came from the receiver again, "Torido! You can be brilliant again!"
Zach shook his head and put down the receiver.
""Noblesse"! That book about the ancestors of the Toledo family who became nobility, obtained class privileges, and expanded the clan's living space on the restored continent!" Oh, it was Dale who showed up at his house with James tied up. He saw The book that fascinated me, "You joined that Sabbat, right! You can make Toledo again... "
The microphone in Zach's hand was just above the hang-up button. He frowned and brought it back to his mouth, "Even if I did this, why are you so excited?" Zach's tone was hard to describe.
"I..." This seemed to completely stop the other party from asking, and what Zach heard was his breathing completely freezing in an instant.
Zach pursed his lips, "Do you understand one thing?" Zach's voice was very soft, a bit like gentleness, but not, "You go to stop your brother for yourself and your family, not for me. I can understand that I would like to tell you that you have found me. But this is the end. You and me, we really have nothing to do with each other... "
"No!" The frozen thoughts started to move. "What our father is most proud of is that our ancestors were the first batch of freed slaves in the Federation! The first batch! It happened at Moriarty Manor!"
Zach lowered his head and closed his eyes, with very complicated emotions.
Toledo saw the trend of the times. Toledo followed the times and liberated the slaves of the clan. Not to mention the artificial man Earl, he mentioned that he was here on the phone with Zach at this time, forcing Zach's emotions into a certain state. Humanity in unknown space.
This conforming liberation was hated by the members of the Alliance. Everything ends with the destruction of Toledo.
The tragic fact that Zach is here to be the only Toledo, in the mouth of this human being, is the cusp of such a glorious age, the first freed slaves.
"The blood flowing in my body! I will always remember this pride! I will also remember this gratitude!" The person on the other side of the receiver became even more excited, "Masters of Moriarty Manor, you, Toledo, give us This pride! I will not throw it away! Starting from my ancestors, it is our duty to guard this manor that has given us this pride! The only thing we can do!" He yelled on the other side of the receiver, probably It is to express emotions, "We may not remember the Toledo in a hundred years..." Sure enough, Oz is right, this is a smart man with glasses, "I can understand! We are human beings and can easily Humans controlled by alien races! After the Toledo gave us freedom, we must take some measures to prevent us from being controlled by other alien races and obtaining the secrets of Toledo! You asked us to forget you, but we don't want to forget!" Is it an accident? It's not worth it, "We kept the only thing we remember! This manor! Now I finally 'remember' you, Toledo! You! I don't count you as forgetting! I want you to be glorious again! I think so, but I'm wrong ?!"
Zach opened his eyes again, "You are right." What else could he say to this person, "Then, thank you for your heartfelt blessings." Zach still did not give up his persistence, "But, don't contact me Me."
"Why, why..."
Zach knew that if he didn't give the other party a convincing reason, it would be impossible to give up with the other party's vigorous mood. Then, "Zachary Grande's identity is about to expire. When I change my identity, Do you expect me to report to you what my new identity is?”
Since the other party is grateful to me and can't let it go, then let's use this.
"You, of course you don't have to report anything to me..."
"That's it. I have liberated your ancestors and made you proud. I don't owe you anything. If your gratitude and blessings are as sincere as your expression, I believe you will not ask for anything in return. So, don't Expect and require me to do anything unnecessary, do you understand?"
"I… "
"Good. Goodbye." Zach said goodbye this time and hung up the phone without any pause.
"Who is it?" There was someone standing at the door of the office, Miley Lister, who was still wrapped up tightly. "You look like you were beaten up." Her tone, hum, was predictably annoying. People are annoying.
"Didn't your parents teach you that it's rude to listen to other people talking on the phone?" Zach was not in the mood to teach this young lady how to behave, so, "Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot, your father is in prison and your mother is missing. "Gone." Zach walked past Miley, "You, your family has been destroyed, and you are the only one left."
"What's the benefit of stimulating me?" Miley was calm.
"Yes." Zach raised his eyebrows, "Comparison creates a sense of superiority. Some people are so narrow-minded and only think about revenge. But some people are very advanced and look forward and know that it is a waste of life to be entangled in the past, even if it is Eternal life." Zach waved his hand, "Still, a waste."
"Hmph. It's too profound. As a human, I don't understand."
"A sense of superiority." Zach looked back with a bewildering smile.