Zach slowly recovered from his dry state, and Louise was not around. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
After leaving the master bedroom, I took a look into the entertainment room. The vampires were still watching Dog Brother's documentary. Zach wasn't going to interrupt.
Zach went downstairs to the kitchen to prepare food for the humans who needed breakfast. Cyrus brought reports of the mill's work.
"Go ahead." Alice took over the breakfast job to free Zach, because today's work report included a new book manuscript
There is new progress in the story of the kidnapping that took place in Newton. West returned to writing after recovering from 'minor' surgery.
Unlike Zach, who is now concerned about the progress of the Newton incident, just for Logan's safety, there is someone in Grandry who is not willing to miss any progress in the Newton story for other reasons. This man is James.
Unable to stop James' eager approach, Zach sat down in the restaurant and started.
Zach has actually been hesitating about one thing, which is whether to tell James that Miley Lister is a scheming bitch.
The reason for hesitation is that Zach's only evaluation of Miley is really just scheming, bitch? It's just a suffix added for the occasion. the Avengers? Blackmailer? fraud? The leader of a sociopathic cult? Murderer? No, it's just scheming.
Everyone should understand what is being expressed here. In Zach's eyes, Miley is just a woman who has a motive (the Lister family was destroyed by vampires and wants revenge) and takes action. In the process, she may have deceived James, blackmailed Zach, established an antisocial cult, and killed one or two humans who were too close to aliens. But, overall, this is just a scheming woman.
Zach can give such an objective evaluation, but James cannot. Zach is worried that James will go crazy and arrest people after knowing the truth about Miley, and then the West will fall into complete control.
"This is good!" James was holding the first page of the manuscript, which read, "They sent Logan to investigate the situation of an alien-human family!"
"Very good?" What Zach was holding was the second page. The content did not progress much after the first page. After Logan accepted the task, he agreed to a secret meeting with Lily. What Zach was looking at was Logan. The process of approaching Russell for 'dating advice'. Don't complain, this is the story of West's control.
"'Apocalypse' has always paid attention to action planning. Every murder occurs like a random event without warning! Logan's participation in the target inspection this time can provide the Vega police with a great advantage!" James was serious, It's a pity that Zach didn't ask seriously.
"James, wake up, it's Logan who is undercover, not the Vega police. So no matter what advantage Logan gains, it has nothing to do with the Vega police. All of this is Lily's personal revenge. Drink more coffee , James." Zach put down the second page and asked Russell for dating advice? Logan is also hopeless. Zach only read half of it, decided to skip it, and picked up the third page.
James was obedient. He took a sip of coffee and then grabbed the second page that Zach had put down. Oh, look at his impatient look, as if someone is trying to rob him.
On the third page, the story took a strange turn.
Zach frowned, what he read was exactly what Russell asked Logan for a favor after providing some suggestions. Russell wanted to meet Lily.
Zach glanced at pages 4 and 5 which were still behind his hand. He did not loosen his brows and adjusted his mood to continue reading.
"What the hell?!" James grabbed the second page of the manuscript, "Why did Logan treat the secret information exchange meeting with Lily as a date?! And he went to see Russell..."
"Shut up, James," Zach interrupted. Oh, the people who haven't been saved by Logan are here. To be honest, if it weren't for James's aura of surname, and his young, pretty appearance and body, he wouldn't deserve a girlfriend!
James stared at Zach with a ferocious look on his face, and then thought he was very quick and grabbed the third page of the manuscript from Zach's hand.
Zach easily dodged it, but also gave James a little compensation, "Russell wants to see Root."
"What?!"
"Russell's blood business." Zach held the third page of the manuscript and summarized the progress of the story in the most concise words, "Russell didn't want to offend Vega's largest blood market holder, Vega, because of his blood business. The mayor is Lutre Sembula himself, so Russell wants to get the opportunity to contact Lut through Lily." Zach quickly glanced at the fourth and fifth pages, and folded them together with the third page, and his expression was a little... Weird James, "I want to show these to Frank."
With that said, Zach already stood up and went upstairs.
Zach had a very strange feeling and couldn't pinpoint the reason. However, now Lutrecenbra, the 'master' of western society, appears in the story that Westbourne deliberately wrote to mock the fantasy world written by Madison. Zach just felt that Frank needed to know.
Halfway up the stairs, Zach was stopped by Craig, "Can I tell you something?"
Zach looked at the manuscript in his hand and folded it first, "Okay."
Craig led the way, and Zach followed Craig out of Grande and onto the gravel road with some curiosity. It seemed that Craig just chose a random direction to walk, "Your neighbor is really worried early in the morning." Pochquin's house had a strong smell of blood that only vampires would be sensitive to. Note, it stinks. Whatever Pochi was doing was using the blood of dead creatures. A cautious guess is that he is summoning Papa Midnight and offering sacrifices in a very traditional human way.
Zach also glanced at the house on the roadside, and Andrew waved to Zach. Zach waved back.
We were almost on Route 27, but Craig didn't stop yet and continued walking. However, the topic started and he didn't let Zach wait any longer. "Zach, I should say first that I'm sorry."
coming. Yesterday, Maya's death was foretold.
Zach himself was not sure why there was a smile on his face, "What's the regret?"
Craig raised his hand and touched his forehead, "I never told you about my encounter with your father."
"It happened a century ago, so you don't need to tell me." Zach didn't know why he kept smiling.
"When I, as an investigator sent by the Sabbat and the sudden civil war in the Central Hidden Alliance, met your father and your Toledo messenger brothers..."
"I said you don't need to tell me."
Craig looked at Zach, who had stopped and continued to move forward on the side of Route 27. He also stopped and looked at Zach, just looking at it.
The two looked at each other for almost half a minute. Craig said, "The secret alliance team that besieged your father and your brother..."
The smile on Zach's face disappeared and he turned around and left.
"Zach, don't you want to know who murdered your father and your brother?"
"I don't want to." He said simply.
"It's not the Secret Alliance." Craig simply ignored Zach's answer, "It's not Fanzhuo, it's not Bruh, it's not Papa Midnight who later showed up and took possession of your brother's body..." Maybe I should remind everyone. , recalls Blood in Four Parts of Zager . Ozkozier told Zac that the 'empty shell' of the Toledo messenger that eventually fell into the hands of the Sabbat and existed only to provide Toledo's blood was obtained from Papa Midnight using money from the Sabbat. It was bought by "no one but your father himself."
Zach paused and looked back at Craig.
Craig did not continue to ask Zach if he wanted to listen. He directly said, "From the moment he was awakened, your father never wanted to return to the clan to help Toledo eliminate the crisis of genocide. He was waiting to die."
There is no muscle movement in Zach's face, just a color change. It's turning white, because it seems that all the redness associated with living things is gathering towards the eyes.
Craig asked again, "How did you survive? Zach."
Zach didn't answer.
Craig answered, "It's not because Novel helped you hide." Craig knew that the reason Zach survived was because Dora and Bumi, Zach's true friends, helped Zach? Haha, what did Craig just say? He is an investigator sent by the Sabbat. But, here, "It's because the Toledo ancestors appeared, and the Secret Alliance mobilized all its forces to kill the Toledo ancestors."
Zach... moved a step. The direction... is uncertain, the world is spinning in circles.
"You survived because your father saved you."
"Why are you telling this?" Zach asked, facing the ground beneath his feet.
It was impossible for Dadi to answer, so it was Craig again. "It was at that time that I discovered something that I should have discovered when the Federation was established and the thirteen clans split. The ancestors of the clan do not care about their own clan."
Zach looked up. His face was white, and his eyes were also white. The redness that had gathered just now was probably due to air leakage.
Craig walked towards Zach, "For your father, what he cares about is you."
Zach looked at Craig, specifically, the eyes on Craig's forehead that began to slowly open.
"'My youngest son.'" Craig was quoting, or the eyes on his forehead were speaking. Zach couldn't tell. "'The son who once gave up on life, he has not yet understood Toledo's Meaning, what he needs is a new beginning.'"
"I don't understand." Zach looked into the eyes on Craig's head.
His eyes couldn't speak, but it was Craig who opened and closed his lips. "Your father asked me to go to the North Country to find you. I told you this a long time ago."
Zach's eyes moved downwards with difficulty, moving to Craig's eyes, "Give it back to me."
"What?" Craig frowned.
"Give me my father's eyes." Zach didn't mean to joke.
Craig stared at Zach for a while, "No, I still need Toledo's eyes to complete the task of helping my father in the Northland..."
Zach disappeared, the speed was not too fast in Craig Zmich's eyes, but it was enough to surprise, and Craig froze in place.
An angry shout seemed to come from the basement of the Pochquin home.
The same hesitation caused by surprise, when Craig saw Zach rushing over again, he asked in confusion, "What are you going to do?"
According to our cautious speculation, it should be the blood of dead things used to summon Papa Midnight, covering Craig who had just finished the question.
"Zach! Are you crazy?!"
While Craig was lying on the ground, covering his forehead, Zach was sorting out the wrinkled clothes, "No." Zach's face looked very normal.
"*!" Craig's body on the ground was twitching. His body was shrinking rapidly. His wrinkled skin covered with black and white spots was peeling off and turned into gray on the ground. "No, no, no..." He raised his head and lost weight rapidly. On the face and forehead, there is an eyeball embedded in the forehead wrinkles and trembling desperately, covered in black spots. "No, no, no! I must keep this eye! I need blood!!"
Craig went to the left, Zach stood on the left, Craig went to the right, and Zach stood on the right, "You don't want to go anywhere." Zach looked at Craig's eyes, same as above, with a very normal expression , "Keep the eyes that don't belong to you, or keep your own life, your choice."
"I'm not your enemy! Zachary Toredo!!"
"But using my father's eyes to control my emotions is definitely not my friend." Zach's speed may not be anything compared to the second-generation vampires, haha, but intercepting a poisoned Zmich? Relaxedly, "You want me to help you? Say please, don't resort to tricks."
"You..." Craig, who was already as strong as a bamboo pole, had to make a choice. His dry hand sank into his forehead, and after a sticky sound that made people lose their appetite...
In Zach's field of vision, a spherical object turned into ashes at the top of the parabola.
"You're crazy!!" Craig was still lying on the ground, "You don't know what you did! You killed you..."
"I killed my father." Zach glanced at Craig, who looked like a clothes hanger, then stretched out his hand and pulled as if the attack just now didn't happen, "You just said it was me who killed me a century ago. Father, what are you so excited about now?"
Craig didn't stop Zach from helping him, and stared at Zach gloomily the whole time, "What I'm saying is that he gave up his life to save you! It wasn't you who killed..."
"Is there any difference?" Zach interrupted directly, "Listen, you should feel relaxed." Zach began to lead the way, walking back, "Last night at dinner, Maya reminded me of the death, using a very covert method. Way." Zach smiled, Zach actually smiled, "I've been worried for a while~" Why did Maya use a covert method to remind Zach that his death had occurred? Because I can’t let others know, what a simple logic. "Haha, I'm not worried at all now." Because the murderer who caused the death was Zach! You can't disturb the victim, right
Craig stared at the back of Zach's head, "I'm not trying to manipulate your emotions with these eyes!!"
Zach looked back at Craig, "It's a pity that my mood was shaken. So maybe you really don't plan to use it this time, but next time, if you are smart, you will remember to use it."
Is there a problem? No. Let’s applaud Zach for his vision.
A little conversation on the second floor of Grande on the way back.
"Aren't you going to get out of bed for your son?" Frank asked with a smile.
"No~" Bob replied with a smile, "He just did me a favor~" Bob twisted his chubby body, "Hey~ Now when Craig and I are together, there won't always be It’s a weird feeling being watched by that old Toledo~”