James is back on time today, and it seems that there will be no calls from the middle (Kate) to disturb his mood today. Vertex 23S. The fastest update but unfortunately, Zach has it, "Miley List called again and said that a TV station staff member is here to promote the Republic TV channel and asked you if you want to subscribe."
"Uh, whatever." James replied.
"It doesn't matter whether you order it or not." Zach asked for an accurate answer.
"My TV! Whether I subscribe to it or not is none of your business!" I miss those words so much~
"I want to order." Zach shook his head, "I'm a little curious about what the Republic is like now ~ I want to hear your opinion ~"
James stared at Zach, "Order!"
"Very good." Zac handed Zac a pile of forms, "When you go to subscribe, hand in Grande's form for me. Thank you."
okay. Putting this trivial matter aside, Zach and Louise were ready to go out. Go to Maggie's house, go to Walter's place~
"Should we bring something over?" Louise decided on her clothes. This is an activity that Zach and Louise, as a couple, go out for more often ~ and it's not the morning, Joe's kind of inexplicable trip, so Louise Silk wants to be taken seriously.
"We're not attending a party or anything like that." Zach looked at Louise's choice of clothes and said, "Just be casual." The clothes Louise chose were too 'pretentious', as if she was going to attend something. It seems like a ceremony.
"But~" Louise naturally had her own reasons, "Based on the tension between Walter and Maggie we saw yesterday, I guess~" Louise blinked, "There should be results today~"
What has come to fruition? Haha, should Walter propose to Maggie~
Louise smiled, "Because of the problems we caused, at least we can say congratulations there~"
"Huh." Zach was not as optimistic as Louise, "How do you know what you should say is 'congratulations'. What if it's regret?"
Louise blinked while getting dressed, "You said before that Walter was a liar who used his ability to deceive some widowed old women." Does anyone still remember, "If he was unwilling to make any promises to the woman at that time, I can understand . But now? He has a fixed job, a stable life, and both of them are living together, so why not take a step forward? "
"It's because of a stable life that people don't want to change, even if it's just to take a step forward." Zach made a point.
Louise glanced at Zach and was quiet for a while, "Is this your experience or some phenomenon you saw?"
The difference is that experience refers to oneself, while phenomena refers to others.
Before Zach could answer, the phone rang. Zach motioned to Louise and went to answer the phone.
If it was Miley who called to ask James for a reply, Zach was ready to hang up the phone directly. Everyone can understand that if Miley really wants to find James, she can call the police station during working hours. And think about this woman who knows very well that Zach is a vampire every time she calls Grande for a reason, heating? TV show? Well.
"Gina is dead."
Zach heard this as soon as he picked up the phone.
Zach reacted for a moment, "Did you kill him?"
"Is this the image of me in your mind, murderer?" Anthony on the other side of the receiver sounded impatient.
"This has nothing to do with your image. Gina is under your control, and now you say she is dead, what do you want me to think?" Zach was quite calm.
"I need the information from her mouth to control her. Will killing her help?" The tone of this conversation that started with each other's questions has been set.
"The fact is, yes." Zach was very objective. "People can lie and conceal. Souls can't, and soul marks can't whitewash anything."
"So you think I took a shortcut. Well, if I want to know something in the future, I'll kill that person and then look at his soul mark. Remind me, who does such a thing?"
"I believe this is the devil's trick."
"Then am I a devil?"
"No, you're human."
"Do you have any other questions?" Mayor Anthony continued to ask.
"Yes." Zach, a civilian, answered honestly, "Then who killed her?"
"Herself." The voice on the other side of the receiver returned to impatience, "She had no contact with the outside world. According to the surveillance, she ate something hidden in her hair and then died."
Zach frowned, "Anthony?" tentatively, "Do you know the cases currently being handled by the North District Police Department and the Smith family?"
"Is it some kind of illegal sleeping pills deal? Huh, don't go off topic. The reason I gave you this call is to tell you that my clues are broken and I need you to continue to get Gina's information..."
"Anthony." Zach interrupted Anthony, "Where is Gina now?"
There was silence on the other side of the receiver for a while, "Haili."
Well.
"Anthony. The illegal sleeping pill that the North District Police Department is currently investigating is not a sleeping pill. It can make living things die for a period of time."
There is no sound from the receiver.
Zach went on to add, "Death for a while and then resurrected."
Still no sound from the receiver.
"Tsk." Zach held the receiver, "Anthony, are you sure Gina is dead? Have you gone to Jessica to confirm the soul in hell?"
There was a voice on the other side of the receiver, "Didn't you just hear it? I am a human being, and I don't want to use the 'soul' method to get what I want to know! So I didn't go to the fallen angel to confirm whether there was more hell. A citizen of Barton!"
Zach twitched the corner of his mouth, "You don't want to use the 'soul' method, but you have no burden to ask me to go to another world to obtain information for you? Anthony, how did you form this double standard?" Zach did not wait for Anthony to respond. , "Forget it, now is not the time to talk about this. How sure are you that Gina is dead? Did her body get cold? Did it **? Does it smell?"
Well… …
There was silence on the other side of the receiver for a while, "I'm sure she wasn't breathing and had no heartbeat when I had her taken care of. Isn't that enough?!" Anthony was angry, "You want to ask me to stay in a body and serve me for four years?" Next to the corpse of a young person, waiting for her to become cold and smelly?"
"Not enough." Zach shook his head in the air. "The only criterion that can accurately confirm that a person is dead is whether his soul has left the body." Zach said sarcastically, "Obviously, I can't ask you to do this. Right, then, the changes after the soul leaves the body, and the body enters the normal sexual process, are the only things you can confirm Gina's death."
The receiver was quiet again. Why.
Zach spoke again, "You should let Jessica help you monitor the souls going to hell. If Gina's soul never appears, then you will know that you have been tricked by Gina."
"She can be my secretary because she is just a vase!"
"Obviously not." Zach was not going to comfort Anthony. Zach would only care about more practical things. "Your secretary is 'missing'. Will this affect your work and campaign?"
"No." Then, Anthony on the other side of the receiver became gloomy, "But since she's going to play with death, huh, I'm going to call the police. My secretary hasn't shown up for work all day, and this won't be a small thing."
Zach thought for a moment, "Okay, this can force her not to show up again. You might want to talk to Wes, maybe give him the surveillance camera, so he can determine whether what Gina took is sleeping pills. "
There is no sound from the receiver.
Zach was also quiet for a while, "Is there anything else? Anthony."
"Why didn't you tell me your vote wasn't cast?" The tone of the call changed.
Zach frowned, "Who told you? Benjamin?"
"I saw him on the morning news. Maybe you didn't record the time when he appeared in wolf form, but I did. So, I knew there was no reason for Benjamin to be in the North End so early in the morning, so I called him, Asked what his wolf body was doing outside. Guess what he answered."
Zach was suspicious that this was why Anthony called Benjamin. We have all seen how Benjamin answered reporters' questions. It is normal for Anthony to feel unhappy, and it is reasonable to complain.
Then Zach didn’t think that Benjamin could give a fancy answer after being approached by Anthony, that is, “He is doing my commission to find people with expanded souls.”
"Why didn't you tell me that you got nothing after the time reset."
"It's just a few dollars for travel expenses and a badge. Anthony, I don't think those things are very important."
Anthony's next words are a bit...feel it
"Then what is important? It is important for you to give others eternal life, but it is not important for me to give you a proof that you have lived here?"
Zach opened his mouth, closed it, and then spoke again, "Anthony, I don't understand the meaning of comparing these two things in relative terms. You rejected the eternal life I gave you, on the battlefield. It's just me. It seems that eternal life is not important to you either.”
"So this is your sincerity. I don't take what you give me seriously, and then you don't take what I give you seriously?"
Zach opened his mouth again, closed it again, and spoke again, "Anthony. It's just a badge. What do you want to express?"
"Why did you give me eternal life on the battlefield??" Anthony's tone was demanding an answer.
"Because you meet Toledo's standards."
"That's it?" sarcastically.
"Okay. And because you are a soldier of the Federation. If I want to return to the Federation, I may need descendants. After all, I am no longer as free as I was in the North." The topic... seemed to be deviating, "And, you He could die at any time. It was a battlefield. If I didn’t pay attention, the person in front of me would die. I don’t like death, you know.”
"So you proposed to me what you are most proud of, right!"
"Yes." Fortunately, the topic was not far-fetched.
"So tell me, what am I most proud of right now? If I had to give you something, what could I give you? Zachary Toredo?"
"You..." Zach's first reaction was, 'You don't need to give me anything. 'But what came out was, "Okay, I understand. It's my fault, I'm sorry Anthony, that's more than just a badge. I want one." Zach shook his head in the air, "What should I do now? , I am no longer qualified to get that badge.”
"Huh." As if he was satisfied, "You are lucky. I am the mayor. I am the most powerful person in this city. I have erased your registration to vote yesterday. Come vote tomorrow, the last day."
"I'll be there."
As soon as Zach finished speaking, the other party hung up.
Zach put down the phone with his lips curled up and glanced sideways at Louise at the door of the office. "Can you believe it? Anthony just compared the power system in the human social system to the immortality of a vampire."
You see, Zach can give a soldier immortality on the battlefield, and the mayor of a city can give a citizen a badge. The two, without analogies, are the same thing! The key word is pride.
Louise glanced at Zach, "You look happy."
Zach touched the corner of his mouth, and sure enough, it was curved, "Oh, it's Anthony's 'insight' that makes me think he can become Toledo." Then, Zach raised his eyebrows and looked at Louise's face curiously. As for clothes, the dress she had chosen before seemed to have been abandoned, and Louise was wearing ordinary clothes.
Zach was quite perceptive, "Louise, are you okay?"
Louise waved her hand, "I was just thinking about what you just said." Of course it wasn't the phone call with Anthony, it was the conversation between Zach and Louise, something Zach didn't have time to answer. Louise started to go downstairs, "I suddenly realized that you and I are always in a state of 'living together and not taking a step forward'. So, you didn't answer just now." Experience is still a phenomenon, "This should be your experience."
Zach frowned, "Vampires have marriages. Not all vampire marriages are accessories to human status. Sometimes, they represent the vampires themselves." Zach also has another example, "For example, Cyrus and Briar.”
Louise looked back at Zach, "Then let me ask you, what is the meaning of our marriage? Can we save property together or can we accumulate family resources together? We don't care about those things. You said it yourself, you We don’t want to create a family, so vampire marriage is meaningless to us.”
Zach blinked, "It has emotional significance."
Louise smiled, "You mean the relationship between you and Murphy now..." Louise looked back and gave Zach a wink, "Haha~"
"Uh..." Zach had an epiphany, which was quite bad. "Louise, are you telling me now that I will never, ever propose to you?"
"It's good now~ It'll be good if we keep it like this~"
*!
Zach silently followed Louise out of the back porch and met Alice.
Alice was busy today. She was summoned by Old Hank in the afternoon. After returning, she went to Wes to cooperate with the investigation.
Zach obliged and asked how Alice was doing, "How's it going at the police station?"
"Detective Weiss used my description to issue a wanted warrant." Alice looked uninspired, "But I don't think they can catch anyone."
"Why?"
It was Maya who answered, "We saw that Detective Weiss died before we even started describing the faces of the murderers. So, we blindly described the individuals and let the police catch them." Uh...
Alice looked at Zach apologetically, "Detective Weiss has been urging us, and we haven't had the chance to try out various possibilities. I'm sorry."
Zach patted Alice and said, "It's okay, just tell James."
"kindness."