A hint of coolness tickled Benjamin's skin, and Benjamin sat up. Vertex 23S. The fastest update is pitch black.
There was a flickering fire in the corner of the room, accompanied by a faint trace of smoke. "Are you up?" Zach's voice said.
Benjamin's eyes had adapted to the darkness. He peeled off the scraps of cloth hanging on his body and saw the clean clothes placed beside the bed. He casually pulled off his pants and started to get dressed.
"You transformed once." Zach put out his cigarette and still sat in the corner of the room, "If you are curious."
"Did I hurt you?" Benjamin felt that the clothes Zach prepared were a bit too small, and complained in passing, "Where did you get the clothes? Have you forgotten my clothes size?"
"You didn't hurt me. You were just lying here, very quietly, turning into an unconscious wolf." Zach shook the snack can he just took out, which was empty. "I'm ready for a fight." , but~ it’s totally unnecessary.” Zach took back the snack can, “The clothes belong to a certain gentleman next door. You don’t think I would go too far to find clothes for you when I don’t know what is happening to you. "
Although it was a bit tight, Benjamin still managed to put it on and move his body, "Did I hurt anyone else?"
If you can keep up, the reason why Zach can't stay away can only be because he is worried that Benjamin will hurt innocent people.
"No," Zach replied, "Dead people can't hurt anyone." This was to connect the topic, "You're dead, Benjamin."
"I'm not dead." Benjamin frowned, walked to the window of the room, and drew the curtains. Through the reflection of light, the neon lights in Beqi District can leave a bit of color where Benjamin is now, "Are we still in Beqi?"
"You're dead, Benjamin." Zach directly ignored the following question, "Sem and I have both come to the conclusion that you are dead, and you only have a healthy body, the wolf body. But, no matter which body , completely losing all mobility. That means, you are dead."
"I'm not dead." Benjamin began to get annoyed with Zach's 'persistence'. Gee, what's there to insist on with an obviously wrong conclusion? Benjamin left the window and walked toward the door, seemingly ready to go out.
Zach followed.
There is nothing to describe this hourly hotel hidden in Beqi District. The two people quietly walked out of the hotel and dark alley, and stood again on Beqi Street, which was filled with all kinds of neon lights.
It was impossible to judge the time. Snowflakes and neon blocked the natural light source. Benjamin still remembered Zach's habit of wearing a watch, and consciously rummaged around Zach's body.
"You understand that if you maintain such a nonchalant attitude towards this kind of thing..." Zach didn't stop Benjamin from rummaging through his pockets, and said calmly, "I will naturally assume that this happened. "
Benjamin found Zach's pocket watch and looked at it. It was already midnight, tsk. "No, it didn't happen."
"Oh." Zach raised his eyebrows and took back the watch that Benjamin escaped but didn't put back. "So this is the first time."
Benjamin didn't answer and looked around. "Continue with the commission. You handle the two dancers and I'll handle the security key. In an hour." He pointed to a convenience store again and said, "We'll meet here."
"The money you had on you was torn into pieces when you transformed." Zach told Benjamin this fact calmly.
After all, the reason why Benjamin asked for another meeting was to pay Zach for this commission, right? And Benjamin has no money now.
Benjamin frowned and moved his mouth, "Then you can go home when you're done. I'll ask No. 2 to send the reward to Grande tomorrow." He turned around and left.
Zach stood there without moving, watching Benjamin awkwardly walk away with his really ill-fitting clothes...
Benjamin is back again. He left awkwardly and came back awkwardly. He stared at Zach with a sullen face, "When we were at the bar, in order to ask for information about the dancers and security guards, many people handed over many things! Alcohol! Cigarettes! Pills! Tsk, business cards!"
ah! Finally, Benjamin started to speak.
Zach nodded and motioned for Benjamin to continue, "Do you still remember those people who gave you various things?"
"No!" Benjamin's face was a little distorted, "It's a bunch of people! The manager of the bar, a few VIP customers, a few dancers, security guards..." Benjamin waved his hand.
"Okay." Zach remained calm, "Now you know what else to get besides the commission when you get the surveillance video." You want to get the video of Benjamin's contact with everyone in Barry. Zach tilted his mouth and said, "I'm just curious. When someone gives you something, you accept it?"
Sort it out. Now it is obvious that Benjamin collected something while working in the barracks, which led to his 'drunkness' and final 'death'. There is nothing wrong with collecting things. After all, Benjamin probably used this strategy of getting close to each other to obtain information. However, it doesn’t mean that if someone gives you a cigarette, you should smoke it, or if someone gives you a drink, you should drink it. Someone else who can explain the problem better gives you a pill, and you just take it? ? Does Benjamin have no sense of safety
Benjamin could hear the sarcasm in Zach's words. He deserved it, but, "Why don't I accept it? They are all human beings. Even if something bad happens, it won't be me."
Zach couldn't refute this. Think about it, even if Benjamin threw himself on the street, Zach would not carry him away, and he would still be on Becky Street. The last people to see the monster appear were humans, humans who would probably never dare to step out of their homes at night in the future.
Things could have gone worse, for example, Benjamin didn't 'die' and lose mobility...
"You really love the purpose of your ancestors' firm." Zach looked at Benjamin and sighed. Can you listen to the alien race? The core is.
Benjamin pouted, turned around and walked away without responding, which was equally awkward.
Zack didn't wait any longer and headed towards the address of the two dancers... No, he found a dark alley to avoid the artificial light source. The decision to solve it in three minutes was just three minutes, maybe less. Because of this unexpected episode, Zach felt even more unhappy.
Jumping between buildings, being slapped in the face by cold air and water crystals that scientists say are never the same is never a good experience.
What's worse is that when Zach passed two buildings, he saw a black shadow that violated the rules of nature, wrapped in a squirming mass of flesh...
How to explain this.
I keep saying Patton is not safe. I think everyone can understand this conclusion. On the one hand, it is because of the expansion of the soul, that is, the police, the Patton terrorist attack, and the self-destruction case. The ending is unclear. What we get in the course of this story is only Dell’s. In the fifteen-day diary, the closure statement jointly issued by the chiefs of the southern and northern police stations.
On the other hand, it was the information that Zach revealed at the Sabbat. The reason why Zmich's messenger came to the Federation from the North Country was to seek allies, and this ally was not Zach, but the Sabbat. The reason why Zmich's messenger Craig stayed in Barton was just to protect Zach from Zmich's attack in the North.
Other than these two very vague facts, we really don't know much more about the incident.
It's time to explain the situation.
First of all, we need to know that the information Zach showed at the Sabbat is true. Craig is indeed being studied by the wizard and Rimmer now, and more specifically how Zmich's healing power created Baelin with the ability to expand his soul.
Then, Craig did meet Zach. In Dell's fifteen-day diary, before the North and South District Police Stations 'solved the case', the two chiefs came to Grande to meet Zach.
Don't pretend to be surprised, Dell's diary contains records of two directors coming to see Zach. But of course, Dale, who was working for Hank Sr. at the time, couldn't see past the Grand's backyard and learn what Zach and the two chiefs talked about. Likewise, Dale could not have known that Craig had visited just before that moment.
Finally, Zach told Nick Giovanni at the Sabbat that Craig, the Zmich messenger, had a Toledor eye.
You need to understand the reason why Zach saw Nofil (shadow) and Zmich (meat ball) fighting when he crossed the building at this time. We have to explain it from the beginning.
North.
We already know that Zach enjoyed life in the Northland before appearing on the battlefield, but Zach is not the only vampire from the Thirteen Clan who hid in the Northland from the Federation. The other one is the Zmich messenger Craig.
In Craig's original words, 'Your father knows you too well. He said that if you would choose a place to live, it must be the North Country in the north, a real country of immigrants. Go there and find my son. '
As above, Craig is chasing Zach to the Northland.
To interrupt, the word "immigration country" appears here, but this word is not actually used to label the North Country for the first time in this story. I don’t know if you still remember, but when Zach was telling stories about the past in the Secret Alliance, he mentioned an incident about preventing members of the Sabbat from approaching the messenger from the North at a federal state banquet.
Of course, this story is different from Zach's other feats of saving the banshee and driving a wedge between werewolves and wizards. At that time, this past story seemed to be just used to illustrate that Zach liked political communication... What is important is the ending of this story. Under Zach's actions, the secret alliance in the middle defeated the Sabbat, interrupted the Federal State, and intervened on the same continent. The development of the emerging country Northland.
The interruption ends.
While Zach is enjoying life as a comedian, teacher, pretty boy, and bodyguard in the North Country, Craig is looking for the last trace of Toledo. I think it goes without saying how difficult this process is. How do you find a bird flying freely in the sky
So recall that the only policy Zack showed us about his life in the North was to reduce the possibility of being discovered and avoid contact with the upper class in the North.
In order to find Zach, Craig took the completely opposite approach. He needed to control the upper levels of the country and find the little bird flying in the sky.
Do you remember that Zach once expressed his views on the war that ended ten years ago? He is a vampire who flies freely in various lives and doesn't know how the war happened. Zach doesn’t know, Craig does. Keep some suspense, the focus here is not the war, but what happened after Zach appeared on the battlefield.
Zach did not return to the Northern Kingdom. Instead, he followed an Alpha and an ordinary human soldier to the small city in the easternmost part of the Federation. A free bird, isn't it
After nearly a century of searching, the guy Craig was looking for returned to the Federation. Afterwards, it didn’t matter how much time it took for Craig to realize that Zach had left. Anyway, this fact had been before Craig for nearly a century. In search of it, he had infiltrated the upper-class Zmich bloodline in the North Country. Can't take it back.
How does a creature judge its sense of belonging to a hometown that does not accept its own value: a federation full of its own brothers; a country that it built from scratch, accommodates its own bloodline, and is filled with its descendants: the Northland.
Craig actually didn't know his choice. When he realized in Northland that he had to make a choice, things were out of his control.
The North wants more vampires. Except for one: Zachary Toredo.
Is this result inexplicable? It is quite inexplicable, but just like the reason why the war happened, to retain some suspense, I can tell you why the North Kingdom's Zmich is attacking Zachary Toledo.
This goes back to the communication story that we don’t pay attention to. Zach once blocked an international agreement between the Federation and Northland.
Take a look at the history of the continent where the Confederation is located. This was once the continent of the Indians until the arrival of the colonists. After the colonial war, an independent federation of countries was born on this continent. It is not a colonial country, not an immigrant country, the point is: it is an independent country.
War doesn't need to be packaged. Return to its essence. This is a way of consuming the population. The depletion of the population was two-sided, including the Indians and the colonists at that time. Therefore, although the Federation is the only country on this continent, this only country is unable to manage the entire continent.
Remember the envoys from various countries when the Federation was established? We had aliens like Jin who came to this continent, and we also had humans who came to this continent. Let's just treat it as, uh, population replenishment.
The Sabbat, which can be considered to have completely failed the mission of the Holy Lord, was driven to the desolate west. The repressive secrets settled in the rich central part. The east was used as an entrance to replenish the population. Of course, it was not a random development that was allowed to flow. The heroes who founded the country at that time were watching secretly.
So, what about other parts of this continent? No one goes there? some.
There are many more.
When the vampires were busy building new countries, the New World was a huge temptation for the explorers of that era. There is no need to discuss the details. We are all human beings, and we know what we are best at. What does that sentence say? Road, when there are more people walking, there will be a road, just like a dry dirt road will eventually appear on a green lawn. Well, as for the country, there are many people coming.
The Northland appears.
Then time moved to the story of Zach blocking the Sabbat from interfering in the politics of the North. What Zach was blocking was actually the North's request for the Federation...
The story will be next time, Zach went to the dancer's house.