It was still a quarter of an hour before four o'clock in the morning, and Zach and Louise had already stopped the 'blood exchange'. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
Waiting for the result of something affected their interest. They ate flies at four o'clock yesterday morning and hoped to spit them out today. Therefore, low-quality 'blood exchange' is better than not doing it at all. Haha, aren’t you glad that our vampire at least still pursues quality in something in life~
Anyway, waiting, Louise turned over the pages of "Cain of Divine Punishment" and occasionally asked Zach a few questions. Part of it was about the questions in the book, part of it was just small talk.
"I can feel the resemblance." It was small talk, "The resemblance between Eli and Cain."
"Oh, you saw the part where he couldn't tell the difference between humans and his own descendants."
"Yeah~" Louise smiled and nodded, "Do you remember the practice of blood control? In addition to hunger, there is also gluttony that relies on the blood of the same race?"
"Very unfortunate, I remember." Zack shrugged.
"This part writes that Cain was tired and looking for food every day, so he raised a group of... lambs." He curled his lips and glanced at Zach, then shook his head with a bad expression, "And we already know that the lambs in this book refer to Humans. Sigh." Louise sighed, "Cain raised a group of humans in captivity and relied on these people for food. But day by day, he found that his food was getting less and less, until one day, only one of his food was still alive. , he was confused and asked the still-living Food, 'Why are all your friends dead.' His Food replied, 'Because I'm hungry.'"
Louise paused for a moment and looked at Zach, "This is when Cain realized that he had inadvertently created a descendant." Louise turned the pages of the book, "Then Cain said to the only living food, ' Oh, now I'm hungry.'" Louise paused for another moment, looking at the rest of the book, "Then Cain left and went to a new town to find a new lamb."
The two were quiet for a while.
"The life of a vampire has not changed since the beginning, right." This is a question. Louise looked at Zach waiting for an answer.
Zach thought for a moment, "If you mean vampires always go from one place to another, yes."
"Romantic." A strange comment came from Louise's mouth, "But so tired."
"It's quite tiring to stick to one place." Zach just smiled and shrugged, "I tried~"
Louise was interested, "When?"
"Haha, when I was in the North Country." Zach must have thought of some pretty good memories. "You can imagine that suddenly I was free. I don't belong to Toledo, which was still a noble family four centuries ago. . Nor is he a member of the secret alliance of thirteen clans that need to resolve various matters in the Federation." Zach tilted his head, "All the rules that once restricted me have disappeared. I don't need to fight for any race or clan. , the reason for the alliance is to maintain privileges and fight for living space~"
"So free~" Louise also smiled, "I was born in a moment without worries~"
"You can say that~" Zach nodded with a...comfortable look on his face, "And the wonderful thing at the same time is that I am not in the human system." Zach smiled and raised his hand so that Louise could lie in his arms, "After all, strictly speaking, I crossed the border from the Federation to the Northland illegally. To the population structure of the Northland, I don't exist~"
If you now think about the story about the North Kingdom that we told half way before, about the difficulty of the Zmich messenger Craig in finding Zach in the North Country, that’s great. But now is not the time to talk about how hard it was for Craig to find Zach. We don't care about Craig, Zach is our protagonist.
Louise leaned against Zach's side and drew circles on Zach's chest with her fingers, "So, you don't need to abide by the human population system? You don't need to create an identity when you appear, and you don't need to create an identity when you leave. Give society an explanation that 'this person is dead'?"
"Yeah~" Zach was in a good mood, "I just use, haha, casual~ I can be wherever I want, and go wherever I want. There is no need for any interests, I can be whoever I want, If I find a role-playing, haha, not fun, I'll just walk away and start a new life."
It sounds very desirable, doesn't it? It would be great if we could do the same thing. But don’t forget the beginning of this topic
"Then there is a life that you don't want to leave." Louise raised her head against Zach's chest and looked at Zach, matching the 'threat' in this scene. "If it's because of a woman, I will bite you." ~"
"Hahaha. In fact, it's about a man." Zach was very satisfied with Louise's weird eyes at that moment. This kind of joke between lovers is really interesting... Don't try it at home. Zach smoothed the hair from Louise's forehead with a gentle expression, "It's a boy. The first time I met him was at the school where I was a teacher at the time. It wasn't a, um, good school. It was, um, what we called at that time , ‘pre-reading’ schools.”
"Pre-reading?" Louise's expression became much more normal when she heard it was a boy. But here, there is only doubt.
"Northland is a country of immigrants, so many people from other continental countries go to live in the Northland. It's okay for adults. After all, it is the decision made by adults to leave the place where they originally lived and go to live in a completely unfamiliar place. But for children "This transition is very difficult. This kind of pre-reading school is prepared for these children who have no idea where to adapt to their new life."
After hearing the explanation, Louise had completely abandoned "Cain of God's Punishment" and looked at Zach with a smile on her face, "I guess you are very suitable for this kind of work ~ teaching children how to adapt to a new life ~ "
Look, how comfortable it is to chat with a lover who is connected to your soul~
"I'm very suitable~" Zach smiled and nodded, "It's very suitable." Then there was helplessness on his face, "So that for a while, this boy regarded me as his real family."
"Oh~~" Louise looked gentle, "What a warm boy~ I bet he is a very gentle child~"
"He is." Zach tilted his head, "And I have to admit that for a long time, I was a little addicted to this feeling of being relied on."
"This must feel good~"
Zach glanced at Louise, "I hosted his tenth birthday party, I attended his sixteenth-year-old coming-of-age ceremony, and I met his first girlfriend when he was twenty-six. At the first wedding, I was there..."
Louise's gentle face began to develop in a weird direction
"I nannyed his child, a three-month-old baby, in the basement of his home while he was in court fighting for custody with his first wife. I built a treehouse in the woods for his child, who was six years old, to accompany Child play while he kept going to the local bar to meet single women. I was the one who spent his kid's tenth birthday with him in an abandoned mine because he was in the middle of a fight with his second wife and forgot about his kid's birthday. …”
"Stop." Louise stopped and looked at Zach, "How many years have you stayed with him?" Jumping directly to the end. "No." Louise changed her question, "How many years have you been hiding in his life?"
"Did you hear it?" Zach smiled.
"I heard that since his first wedding, you no longer appeared in a formal capacity. You..." Louise frowned, "always somewhere where others can't see."
Zach nodded, "After he got married, it was no longer possible for me to appear with this face. But I was still there because he said he needed me." Zach shook his head and looked at Louise, " He said he needed me, he was going to be a father, and he didn't know how to be a father, 'Please, help me,' he said. And then it was, 'I don't love her anymore, what am I going to do next?'" Zach Waving his hands, "Then it's, 'When I was little, was I like this? Did I talk back? Did I yell at my own father? Help me.', and then..."
"Stop." Louise stopped again, "He can't just throw the bad things in his life to you." There was inexplicable anger in his tone.
"Actually, he can." Zach's mood seemed a little weird, "Because I was the one who told him that I knew his troubles, that I had experienced it all, and that I knew everything. I told him to rely on me. "
"Yes! When he was a gentle little boy, not when he was already a man!" Louise's anger was still inexplicable.
Zach pursed his lips, "I guess I'm not a good teacher after all."
"He is not a good student." Louise concluded, "What time is it now? Is it four o'clock?" A good lover knows what topics can change the mood of his significant other.
Zach looked at the time and said, "There are three minutes left..."
the phone is ringing.
Zach and Louise looked at each other, wondering if the call had come too early. No matter what, you can't let the phone ring and keep thinking about it. It won't do anyone any good if Maya is woken up.
Very quickly, Zach had appeared in the office, and Louise was also beside him. Getting ready to spit out the flies we ate yesterday, we picked up the receiver. Zach didn't speak as usual, so he listened to the voice on the receiver.
"I need your help." James' voice said, "Are you awake?"
Zach and Louise looked at each other again, feeling slightly uncomfortable. Zach frowned at the phone, "I answered your call, didn't I."
"Okay, wait for me in 10 minutes."
Then the phone hung up.
"What's going on?" Louise looked at Zach slowly putting down the receiver.
Zach was as confused as Louise, "I don't know. But he definitely didn't call us from home." From James' loft apartment to the Grand Distance, come on, we are already very familiar with Barton's geography. Okay, at least 20 minutes.
Zach looked at the time, two minutes to four o'clock. He shook his head and waited in the office.
Louise also curled her lips. Considering that James was coming, Louise was not in the mood to wait here anymore. She waved her hand and went back to the master bedroom to read and 'worship' Cain's life.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes... ten minutes.
The fly they ate yesterday has inevitably become a part of Zach and Louise.
James arrived.
First of all, Zach was surprised. James looked like he was dressed for going out. His clothes were not complete, and he only had a set of pajamas under his coat.
As soon as he entered the Grande, he went straight to Zach's bedroom, searched Zach's closet in front of Louise, and wrapped it up like a ball before returning to the office and sitting across from Zach.
Then, what James said confused Zach even more: "I need you." Not this sentence, "Look for any contact you have in the middle of the country and find me, my girlfriend! Kate!"
Zach wasn't going to say anything proactively. Just looking at James, the anxious person would definitely start explaining on his own initiative.
really.
"You don't have to pretend you don't know!" It's so cliche. You should attack Zach first and then say, "You know Kate has returned to Barton, and she has come to see you! The Barton media is asking for peace with Grande's owner, huh, Miley told Me!"
"Oh!" Zach could speak, because a certain keyword had already come out. "Miley told you? Miley still lives at your place?"
James was irritated for a moment, "Of course she still lives at my place, otherwise where would she live!" He glared at Zach, "Is it interesting to do this to an innocent girl?!"
"Remind me what I did to Miss Miley Lister?" Zach asked sincerely.
"Hmph! You want me to make up for what happened to Barton when I go back! I will!" James glared at Zach, "It's just an advertisement! Is it necessary for everyone to know?! The last one in the List family Innocent person, do you need to be so forceful?"
"Oh." Zach raised his eyebrows, "It turns out I was forcing her. Hmm." He didn't want to argue about anything anymore. He was tired. "Did you just say Kate?" Reminding James not to forget the reason why he came.
"Yes! Kate!" James's face became more gloomy, and he looked away from Zach. He looked down at who knows what he was looking at. "Miley told me that Barton's local channel broadcast some scenes of the central military. After Kate came back, she saw Wes on the screen... "
"Oh~~" Zach didn't know what he was expecting. He was suppressing his...'laughter' at this time, "Miley said, Kate saw Wes in the picture."
"You don't have to repeat or interrupt me!!" James glared at Zach again, "Do you want to listen to me or not!!"
"I'm sorry." Zach apologized sincerely, "You continue."
"Miley never knew why I hadn't come back, and she couldn't find out. After Kate came back, she didn't know what happened to me. Miley stayed with Kate for a few days and told Kate that I was going to the west to see my father. Later, I don’t know, but then the picture on TV aroused Kate’s idea. Kate said she wanted to check, and then Kate disappeared. Miley went to the newspaper office to ask, only to find out that Kate ran to the central government... "James' expression softened. For a moment, "I know, I know Kate came to find me! But I'm back now! Where's Kate?!"