I don’t know if anyone thinks there are other reasons for Zach not going out tonight, because it sounds like the reason to punish Murphy is very... boring. Vertex 23S. The fastest update But in fact, there is really no other reason.
Louise could tell that Zach and Murphy could start communicating normally, and so could Zach. You don't have to be a great guy to realize that this is not how a man should behave. And since Murphy originally believed that she was being punished by being thrown into that world, she might as well just go along with it.
After the dinner for the humans in Grande was over, Louise went out with a bottle of Grande's special food. The TV in the entertainment room was occupied by two girls whose friends were still grounded and had no nighttime activities. The office is occupied by James. Zach had nothing to do, so he sat on the back porch and watched the moon.
"I also spent a lot of time looking at the moon when I couldn't move around during the day."
The sudden appearance of human voices did not make Zach alert at all. His eyes were still in the sky, but he still had to ask, "How did you get here? Please don't tell me that Papa got another teleportation in Grande at midnight." witchcraft."
Ian stood in front of Zach with a smile on his face, "No~ it's at Poch's house."
Zach waved his hand and patted the seat next to him, "Sit down."
Ian sat down, "I've been waiting at Boqi's house for almost a week~waiting for the time when there is no descendant around you~"
This is interesting. Zach glanced at Ian, "Are you waiting for Louise to leave my side?"
"Yeah." Ian smiled, "Only in this way, the conversation we are going to have will always become a secret between you and me~"
Zach raised his eyebrows, nodded, and continued to look at the moon. Ian's words have made it very clear that there is only one thing that can become a secret between Zach and him: the choice of Toledo's messenger.
"I want to take this matter seriously." Ian looked at Zach's profile with a serious look on his face, "I should...well, recommend myself."
Zach didn't respond.
"First of all, I am your eldest son!" It is not surprising, this fact will definitely be put in front of everyone's mouth, "I am the eldest among your descendants, which is equivalent to, I am the most powerful!"
Zach turned away from Ian, with a smile on his lips, but still did not speak.
"Secondly, I am Ann (Anthony)'s brother." The emphasis is on the latter, "I am a soldier who died on the battlefield, so strictly speaking, I do not exist in this world! My existence itself is secret!"
Zach shrugged.
"Then, I am the descendant who is most like you!"
Zach raised his eyebrows and looked back at Ian again, encouraging the other person to tell him the reason.
"I work for Papa Midnight, and my co-worker is a werewolf, you know, Ravenclaw. Just like you and Benjamin! And I have other co-workers, like wizards, soul aliens, republic aliens, all kinds of Guy, just like your life in Grande!"
Okay, let’s consider this reason valid. Zach looked away, but Ian hadn't finished speaking yet.
"Finally! Since I have mentioned that I am working for Papa Midnight, the most important thing is that I am absolutely safe! The only two jobs of the vampire clan messenger are to keep themselves safe and to keep the clan ancestor's resting place safe. !" Then, "Of course I'm not suggesting that you go to 'sleep'. You can do whatever you want, but I can ensure my own safety and the safety of your movements!"
Zach had a smile on his face, but still said nothing.
Ian waited for a while and looked at Zach's profile seriously, "I'm done, what do you think?"
"I have a question." Zach spoke, in response to Ian's seriousness, Zach also gave a serious expression, "Please answer seriously. If I let you become the messenger of Toledo, as the Toledo clan Among them, the only descendant who has a channel to contact me. Then, answer me, how do you judge that the Toledo clan needs my clan? In other words, how do you judge when you need to contact me? "
Ian's answer was quick, "When the fate of the Toledo clan is in danger!" He must have thought about it in advance.
"Let's simulate a few scenarios." Zack didn't have anything else to do anyway. "If the Toledo clan offends the public and is attacked by other Sabbat clans, will you contact me?"
"Of course! I will contact you as soon as possible..."
"Then I died." Zach looked at Ian who was interrupted and kept his mouth open. "This has already happened. A century ago, the Toledo clan was attacked by the clans of the Secret Alliance. My The brothers went and woke our father, and then we all died together.”
Ian's face started to look bad.
Zach didn't stop, "Next scene. If your Toledo brothers and sisters are oppressed by other clan masters of the Sabbat. Well, let me think about it, for example, Charlie, he became Toledo through blood exchange, I He was also given the standard authority to judge the descendants of Toledor. You can imagine the pressure he faced in the Sabbat. Then, if he was coerced by, well, for example, Lesembra, he could not choose for the Toledor clan. A suitable descendant of Toledor. Would you like to contact me in this situation?"
With the colossal failure to answer the previous scene, Ian is noticeably cautious. After thinking seriously for a long time, "I will contact you..." Ian stared at every little change on Zach's face, "As long as things are not so bad that the Toledo clan is attacked, you can stay safe. "
Zach nodded, but said, "So you just pointlessly brought a troublesome thing that I can't solve to me who was living a comfortable and free life outside."
What
"The Toledo clan will always be oppressed." Zach looked at Ian and said this, "No one can change this fact. Every descendant of the Toledo clan has to live under this pressure." Therefore, this scene is a trap, and Ian jumps out of it very innocently.
Ian's face can be said to be very ugly. If this was an interview, he was completely hopeless.
But Zach didn't stop, "Let's do one more scene." He smiled and waved his hand, "This should be very simple. If Papa needs me to appear somewhere at midnight to do something that has nothing to do with the Toledo clan, Will you obey him?"
Ian spent a longer time thinking... 'thinking' was just a pitiful way of saying it. His current state was more like being constipated for a week. And Zach said it was a simple scene, haha.
"I... I will try to contact you... because, at least Papa Midnight is the reason why your things and mine are safe. If he needs you to do something, you should at least, at least consider it..." Ian's voice became more and more serious. Small, automatic quiet until the end.
Zach nodded again, but we understood, "So what you're basically saying is that if I asked you to be a messenger for Toledo, you would contact me for all the wrong reasons."
Today’s moon is not round~
Ian stood up and said in a low voice, "I should leave..." He was conscious, hum, just like he had left Zach and Anthony on the battlefield, just like he had left Zach and Anthony here a year ago, in Grandry. , left Zach.
Zach ignored the farewell, "I'm curious, who gave you the confidence to become the messenger of Toledo from my recommendation? Did Papa ask you to come at midnight?"
"No... it's my son."
Well.
"I have another grandchild?" Zach didn't know what expression to put on.
"You don't have to worry." Ian stood on the stairs of the back porch, still looking like he was about to leave, "I will not continue to insult the standards of Toledo descendants. He is a very Toledo person. Smart and sharp..." He curled his lips and said, "He's good-looking, has good taste, and it's hard not to like him, even if everyone else actually hates him." Observing Zach's expression, "Same as you."
Oh, isn't it? We all know that Zach is as likable as he is disliked. Ian seems to have understood the standards of the Descendants of Toledo.
"Really?" Zach spread his hands, "Are you going to formally introduce me to him one day?" Zach is asking to meet his new grandson
"He..." Ian frowned, "He probably doesn't want to see you."
"Why?" Zach was just curious.
"He has met Zagel." Everyone focused a little more. The current conversation contained potentially important information, "He doesn't like Zagel." Continued to observe Zach, "That means, he doesn't like you… "
Zach was very focused, so Zach extracted the information in the words, "Is he a republican?" Is it just so that everyone can understand where Zager is? In republic.
Ian suddenly avoided Zach's sight and nodded.
"Identity?" Zach looked at the back of Ian's head.
"Civilians." was the answer, but
Zach showed no mercy. "That's why I can hear the blood flow in your body speeding up. Don't lie to me, Ian. I've always believed that honesty is the only relationship we have, don't ruin it."
Ian returned to the back porch, looked at Zach, and spoke, "He works in a very special government agency in the Republic. To the outside world, he is just a civilian. I didn't lie."
Focus. What do we think of when we hear 'republican special government agency'
"Special." Zach repeated, and looked up at the office window on the second floor. There was a faint light transmitted through it, and it was James working. Zach withdrew his gaze and looked northeast of Grande, "The hunter's weapons that should be in the evidence office of the South District Police Station now are the weapons that you suddenly appeared before and planted in the Northland immigrants' house in the North District. Isn't that right? Provided by your son."
Have you thought about it? As a country that has completely abandoned or, in Mo’s words, betrayed its native alien races, the republican government is manufacturing weapons against alien races.
Ian frowned, "Yes."
Zach shook his head, "So he became Toledo because Papa gave you the job at midnight, not because you found someone who met Toledo's standards."
We already know that the weapons in the evidence office of the Barton South District Police Station are being circulated on the market by people from the wizard family. Isn't it Benjamin's commission? The Barton aliens are nervous about the new weapons.
So Zach's inference is that it is natural that Papa will provide weapons to the wizard family in the Federation at midnight. Just guess, another wizard family made a wish to their god, haha. So Ian, who worked for Papa Midnight, gave eternal life to a person in the Republic who had access to these weapons.
"It's not like that..." It doesn't take any special ability to hear that this is just Ian's instinctive retort, "It's me, I really think he is suitable to be..." He was automatically quiet again.
Zach waved his hand, "Don't worry, I don't mean to blame you." Zach said that if he didn't blame you, he didn't blame you. Don't question it, "He is already Toledo, and this fact will not change. I'm a little curious. , why would he encourage you to come to see me." Zach tilted his head, "As a republican, I guess he hates Grande for taking in aliens from the republic, why would he want you to be my messenger... "Zach blinked and abandoned his original curiosity, "Why would he want to become a vampire? Did you and Papa Midnight force him to become a vampire?"
"No! No one forced him, he did it voluntarily!"
"Why?" What Zach didn't understand was, "Republicans hate their own alien races, but they long for alien races with foreign whey?" This makes no sense!
"He doesn't hate alien races..." It could be seen that Ian was feeling uncomfortable, as if he didn't fully understand what he said, "Republicans don't hate alien races, but..." Ian shook his head, "If you really If you have been to the Republic, you will find that the Republic people are actually very accepting of foreign races!" Probably he himself knew that he could not explain clearly, so he could only give an example, "If you go to the Republic cities and take a look, you will see Temples, ancestral halls, statues of alien races...all kinds of things that represent alien races!"
Zach curled his lips, this was something that Zach's brain could not imagine. Even in Vega City, there is no statue of a vampire.
"Well, I don't know how to explain it. I can only say that the Republic people just don't want to waste time on those alien races. The venues dedicated to the alien races need to be turned into factories, and the statues representing some super creatures need to be turned into city landmarks. , hotels, squares, whatever... The Republicans just don't have the energy to care about foreigners." Ian thought of a good analogy, "It's like people in our federation are too lazy to go to church to pray anymore!" In fact, this analogy is very bad. The federal church There is only one God in the world, the God of the Republic...
"But they still have the energy to set up a government agency specifically for foreigners." Zach didn't think this was ridicule, it was a statement of facts.
"Uh." The corner of Ian's mouth narrowed, "That's because the alien races in the Republic are all gods..." He glanced at Zach, "They have been worshiped by the Republic for thousands of years, and now suddenly, those gods have not been worshiped by the Republic." They were enshrined, and they were angry. The gods of the Republic, tsk, the alien races of the Republic, the current situation was caused by the aliens themselves, and they thought it was natural for the republicans to enshrine them. I hate to say this, but the alien races of the Republic were abandoned in their own country. , they deserve to be excluded, they stand in the way of the advancement of republican humanity, they! They are a burden to the country!"
Zach was quiet for a while, "You can go, I need to think about what you said."
"Zha..."
"Let's go." Zach pointed in the direction of Boqi's house. Why.