Like a fish out of water, it opens and closes its lips and gills, hoping that the air surrounding itself will keep it alive. Vertex 23S. The fastest update, but a fish is a fish after all, and evolution does not happen at the moment when the fish is pulled out of the water by the fisherman. Despair does not happen at the moment when the fisherman's net begins to shrink, but when the fish thinks it can live in the water forever.
"Is this why Dale started killing hostages?!" Wes yelled at Oz, the mind-reader. Right after Oz explains what he read from Dale's head.
Oz stopped responding to Wes and looked out the car window.
Obviously, this is not Barton. It is probably a highway between two cities in the central part of the Federation. On both sides are the common scenery of the winter countryside, a bit like Highway 27 in Barton in the South District. But there will never be such an armed military convoy on Route 27 in Patton.
As if he 'heard' some uneasiness, the mind-reader Oz looked away from the scenery outside the window, and his eyes fell on the bespectacled man sitting with a bunch of soldiers, "But he will never hurt you."
"Because I'm his younger brother?" The bespectacled man's voice... was trembling.
"No, but it is. Because in "Cain of God's Punishment", the first vampire Cain was punished by the Holy Lord for killing his brother and became a vampire." Oz continued to look at the scenery, "We have Success forced Dell to start killing people. The psychological balance that Dell and James maintained all the way has been successfully broken by us. Both of them are on the verge of collapse, and you. Haha, Dell's younger brother is Dell who finally distinguishes himself as a human being. The monster’s final line.”
Oz’s last words were, “Wes, I know you called Grande, but since Zach believes in me, you should believe in me too.” Laughs.
The convoy continues.
As for our story, after this interruption in the progress of non-Patton, it is time to return to Patton's side. I just hope everyone sees the point: "We have successfully forced Dale to start killing people, and the psychological balance that Dale and James maintained along the way has been successfully broken by us." This is how mind readers behave, don't judge.
Grandry, well, pretty calm. The snow is still falling, and the weather forecast says that the snow will not stop for another two days. This will be the last snow of the year. Believe me, this is a snow that symbolizes hope~ because after the weather of white flakes falling all over the sky is over, everyone can start to welcome the new year of spring~
During human lunch time, Emilia ran back to Grande. Just when Zach and Louise thought Grande would no longer need to prepare food for humans after Miley left.
Of course Amelia's reason was very convincing, "I don't want to have lunch with a bunch of criminals."
As everyone thought, Emilia's treatment encountered a bottleneck. Before eating the lunch made by Zach, she borrowed Grande's phone and canceled her afternoon schedule.
"You don't have to be so active." Zach said sincerely, "If you can't cure Evan today, you can continue next time..."
This good intention was interrupted, "I don't want to run to you again! Since we are here today, let's solve it once and for all!!"
All right. Since professional doctors have said so. Haha, if all mental illnesses could be solved at once, the world would be a much better place~
Then Zach discovered that Emilia was even more difficult to maintain than Miley. This psychiatrist was a vegetarian, eh.
Zach had nothing to complain about except accepting his bad luck and re-preparing Amelia's lunch. Louise, on the other hand, was very curious, "Why~" She sat at the dining table with Amelia and waited for lunch, "How do you usually distribute food with Harrison at home? Isn't it inconvenient?"
"No." Emilia probably needed this so-called 'homely' conversation to relax from the intense treatment. "This is convenient. His food is his food, and my food is mine. We won't take it." Wrong." His tone was extremely relaxed, with a little smile on his face, "Can you believe that I ate his food, haha~ The same goes for the other way around~ So it's best to separate like this."
"Oh." Louise nodded, "Then have you asked? Why doesn't Harrison eat anything alive?"
"Well, I asked once." Emilia curled her lips, "Sometimes I am curious. But." She shrugged, "His answer was very evasive, and then I knew it was not the only time he and I met. I won’t ask about the conversation that happened.” How wonderful it is to have a girlfriend who majors in psychology.
"Oh." Louise nodded again, "I find that I have never thought about why vampires can only..." Blinking with distracted eyes, "Sucking blood. I just..." Focused her eyes, "I thought 'that's it'. "
"This is normal." Emilia was still professional, "When people find something completely different from themselves, there will be this normal psychological acceptance process." Emilia tilted her head, "Of course, here It’s the kind of sincere recognition that the other person is different from me. It’s not the hypocritical way of saying, ‘Oh, you and I are different.’”
Louise nodded quickly, "I understand this." She motioned for Emilia to continue, "You tell me."
"Just like when we buy something we have never seen before, we will first look at the instruction manual, such as, uh, a camera." Emilia gave an analogy, "If the instruction manual says that you can take a picture by pressing a button, , we will only remember that that button is for taking pictures, and we will not have any questions about why that button can be used for taking pictures.”
Louise thought for a moment, "It's equivalent to, in front of something completely unknown, we belong to, well, just remember it? Like a baby remembering that one plus one equals two."
Emilia smiled, "Yes~" She turned her head and looked at Zach who was in the kitchen with salad, "I like Louise~" This probably means 'you? Not so much'. Emilia continued chatting with Louise, "Remembering what we don't know is the beginning of accepting an unknown thing. Then, very later, we will realize the question 'why one plus one equals two' ." Emilia shrugged, "And most of the time, most people will never realize the question 'why'. This is very normal and very healthy." Emilia raised a finger, " Because most of the time, questioning 'why' too soon can only cause harm."
Louise smiled, "It's like a one or two-year-old child chasing his parents and asking why one plus one equals two~haha~"
"That's it~" Emilia smiled, "The standard of health is the indicator for most people~ Not everyone is the tiny minority of 'truth seekers', the vast majority of people are just 'remembering' 'The stage… ”
Zach came out with a bowl of salad, "No, most people know the truth." Zach actually wanted to refute that Amelia was just his girlfriend and he was having a good time with someone, but as his boyfriend, he felt a sense of crisis. Childish behavior.
"Oh." Emilia's smile immediately turned impatient, "Tell me, what truth do most people know?" She picked up a fork and started to stir her lunch.
Zach pursed his lips, "Give me a hundred years and I'll tell you."
Emilia raised her eyebrows at Louise, "Proof of my point~" and started eating lunch.
Zach curled his lips speechlessly and looked at Louise, "I'll go take a look at the living area."
"Asking about Evan?" Louise raised her eyebrows, "Forget it, no one will thank you." To be honest, no one took Zach's concern as real concern. Although Zach didn't really care, more like Se.
"Actually, I wanted to go see Bain." Zach shook his head. "He seemed to blame himself yesterday. I was not in a good mood, so I ignored him."
"Bain?" Emilia still had food in her mouth, "The employee who has a wife and children living here?"
Zach looked at Amelia and nodded.
"He..." Emilia frowned, "You don't have to worry about him. He came to me while I was resting. We chatted for a while about his psychology." She rolled her eyes and said, "As for living as a vampire, The family's awareness is very high." Then he glanced at Zach and said, "I heard some information about the Bain family from Mu En. What agreement did you make with their family?"
Everyone should have probably noticed that the people on Zach's side of Grand left on their own, and Zach arranged to leave... There is almost no one around Zach now, only the Bain family is still here.
"There is no agreement." Zach shrugged. Since the psychiatrist said that Bain was fine, Zach was not going to find trouble. "It's just a labor contract and a housing contract."
"Humph, it's impossible." Emilia simply rolled her eyes. "Mo En told me that Bain's wife didn't know that aliens existed, but Bain knew. Bain doesn't look like a slow person, he must be related to What agreement did you make, otherwise I think he would be willing to stay in an environment like Grande."
"Well, we do have a..." Zach just didn't want to say the word 'promise' and brushed it off, "It's Bain's own decision. He is not prepared to leave Grande, even after I leave."
Louise answered, "Alice, Bain is willing to help Alice take over Grande in the future."
Emilia tilted her head and shrugged without commenting.
"Glendri needs some normal people." Zach took a bottle of wine and poured it for himself and Louise. I feel like Emilia is a woman who can make a reasonable food distribution plan with ghouls, and there should be no problem eating with vampires.
Emilia really didn't pay attention to the scene of the two vampires eating, she just chewed the food in her mouth. The long chewing time made Zach wonder if the food he made was really bad. Emilia spoke up, "Actually, I don't think Grande has a future."
"kindness?"
"This halfway house project." Emilia glanced at Zach and quickly looked away, "and what I heard in the living area today. In a few years, I believe Grande will only become a , uh, I don’t know, functional institutions of society.”
"mean?"
"Pretend I didn't say it." Emilia waved her fork, "I am a psychiatrist, not a prophet."
Suddenly, the dinner table, where the conversation was relatively lively, became quiet, and the atmosphere became awkward. There were only the sounds of vampires swallowing and humans chewing. You can imagine it.
Louise was really great, "So why do we only drink blood?" Picking up a question from a previous thread.
"I didn't put this information in the blood that transformed you?" Zach was a little doubtful about life. How derelict was he when he transformed Louise?
"Well, you put out probably hundreds of ways to tell whether a creature's blood is alive or dead, but, uh, there's no reason." Louise answered, casually alleviating Zach's self-doubt. Having said that, Louise is awesome.
"Okay." Zach had already seen Emilia's half-smiling sarcasm, "But you have read the Holy Scriptures. You grew up in the teaching academy. The story about Cain who killed his brother and was punished. ."
"No way. Are the stories in the Bible true?" Louise was surprised.
"No one knows whether it's true or not, but this is the story that all vampires know. The story of Cain being punished by the Holy Lord, abandoned by the world of faith, and can only exist in this world." Zach spread his hands helplessly, "Last time I Do you remember the book written by the saint I mentioned?"
"'Cain of Divine Punishment'?" Louise blinked, looking a little disappointed, "So it is the Holy Lord who stipulated that vampires can only live on blood." This answer is too, too, cliché. But soon, "But there is only one section about this story in the holy book. At least that book tells more. What does it say in the book? What does the complete story look like?"
"It's actually very boring. The books of that era were full of religious symbolism. The saint's book was even used for preaching, so the condensed story in today's version of the holy book is more in line with people's perception." Zach made an inexplicable comment. Knowing that Louise would not be satisfied with this response, "You know the scriptures say that Cain's brother was a shepherd, so the tribute given to the Holy Lord was meat, and Cain was the farmer, giving the vegetables, and then the Holy Lord Jealousy caused by preference leads to tragedy. Right?"
Louise nodded.
"Shepherds have a special symbolic meaning in the Holy Lord's faith. Can you think of it?" Zach looked at Louise.
Louise blinked and said nothing. It was Emilia, who stopped eating, "The shepherd is not symbolic." She looked at Zach, "What is symbolic is the lambs grazed by the shepherds, humans. Humans are the lambs in the Holy Lord's faith. "
Zach nodded, "The lamb is Cain's younger brother, a tribute to the Holy Lord. Cain killed the younger brother who gained the Holy Lord's favor."
Louise froze for a moment, then opened her mouth, and a breath of cold breath poured into her chest unexpectedly, "Cain! He protected mankind, and then was punished by the Holy Lord!"
Zach waved his hand, "I wouldn't say that Cain is protecting mankind. I will only say that Cain chose a profession that was destined not to be favored by the Holy Lord, a farmer, and then usurped the throne, but did not get the Holy Lord's favor. accept."