It’s no wonder that human civilization needs to build transportation systems and invent means of transportation. If it weren’t for an immortal species like vampires, the time it takes to go back and forth to several fixed points would be a shameful waste of life. Vertex 23S. Fastest update
When Zach returned to Paisin, Wes was arguing with a few guys at the entrance of the wizard's laboratory.
Zach listened for a while.
"Let me in!"
"Humans are not allowed in."
"You're not human?"
"We are, but we are more than just humans."
"Let me in! Or get a search warrant!"
"Please, then confirm that the search location specified on your search warrant is the Tower of Babel."
"You!*! I need to investigate the work content of xx (the deceased) during his lifetime!"
"We've got everything you police need at his house."
"You might be missing something!"
"You, a mere human police officer, could have discovered what we all missed?"
"Are you so confident? Then remind me why you called the police?"
"Stop making any noise, I won't let you in."
"Let me in!"
"Humans, you can't go in."
"You're not human?!"
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Sounds familiar or not? It should. In addition to the rising emotions, the nonsense content is constantly repeated. If Zach hadn't intervened, probably... it would have turned into a new case.
"It's rare to see you getting so angry." Zach patted Wes. This is quite pertinent. Weiss has always been very, um, normal towards foreign races. This is the first time I'm anxious.
Wes glanced at Zach, "I know they are discriminating. I am half a Sabbat subordinate in the West, and they don't want me to enter their laboratory!"
"Knowing you're still here**..."
Zach raised his hand to interrupt the wizard's reply, and looked at the wizards who stopped Wes, "I've never seen any of you before."
Two wizards stepped forward and introduced themselves, "xxx Wizard of the Raging Wave Family" and "xxx Wizard of the Yinghuo Family."
Zach was too lazy to remember and looked at Wes, "Let's go to the West End and enter through the entrance of Rimmer (Bishop Manor)." Pulling Wes to leave.
"Toledo, that's not it." The wizard guarding the door seemed helpless.
Zach ignored it and pulled Wes further away.
"Okay, you can come in." He gave way to the entrance, not forgetting when Zach and Wes turned around and passed by, "If you see something that causes permanent psychological trauma to this human detective, don't blame us."
No need to pay attention.
Zach needed someone to lead the way, and just as Sibella came over by herself, she said, "Why did you come back just now! How are you at the police station..."
It was Wes who interrupted, "What happened at the police station?"
Zach could only explain his explanation to James again. It's a pity that Wes didn't have alcohol on hand, and neither did Sibella. He gave Zach a layer and lab number, and left two guys who belonged to the Sabbat... to find John? No, Sibella went home.
Yes, go home. Her son, Rui Wenqi, can come back. There is no problem with this priority.
"How do you know that the wizards in the middle are discriminating against you because you are a subordinate of the Sabbat..." Zach was not sure about the wording, but still quoted it, "discriminate against you?"
"Feeling." Anyway, we have to walk for a while in the tower that circulates down, and Weiss doesn't seem to mind chatting. It's just a distraction. He can't help but want to see what's going on behind the laboratory doors. "I felt it when I visited and interviewed. These wizards from the middle of the country have a bad attitude towards me and James."
"Oh." Zach responded. If anyone has a physique that is sensitive to discrimination, Wes should be the one. No explanation. Zach didn’t feel it at all. “Is there any malice?” He was asking whether there was any malice in the discrimination.
Wes frowned and glanced at Zach, "Discrimination is a malicious word!"
Zach shook his head, "No, when slavery was still there, all people with social status discriminated against slaves without status. But it was just discrimination. Most people had no ill intentions towards slaves. Some people even liked slaves very much. Half of their daily social life is showing off their slaves." Zach tilted his head, "Be proud of your slaves. Discrimination, but proud of them." Zach looked at the confused Wes, "You can understand me If so?"
"No." Weiss twitched his lips and waved his hands, a little annoyed, "It doesn't matter. Most people in the West also discriminate against Indians. I don't care."
Zach knew that under the control of the Sabbat, the living conditions of the Indians in the west were generally poor, which determined the Indians' social disadvantage in the west, and they were naturally discriminated against.
The reason why Zach asked maliciously was actually because he was worried about one thing. When the Sabbat and the wizards reached a peace agreement in Barton, the central wizard family had not yet appeared.
Harrison wanted to say something to himself at Emilia's birthday party. Later, Pochquin tortured the souls of wizards in the sanatorium because he insisted that the wizards in the middle were secretly planning something. At the same time, Murphy also revealed The central wizard is fishing for the central Assamaite clan.
Zach is willing to help Sibella deal with the relationship with the Sabbat because of Barton's ten years of peaceful coexistence and, of course, Alice's relationship. But looking at the wizard family objectively, Zach has no feelings for these people. If the central wizarding family had real ill intentions towards vampires, hey, including the Sabbat, Zach didn't want to let it go.
Wes didn't think much about it, so he just let it go, and Zach didn't ask any further questions.
The two of them came to the laboratory that Sibela told them about... It was said to be a laboratory, but it was more like a library.
The space that visually exceeds the specifications of the Barton City Library is filled with bookshelves and workbenches for sorting. Zach and Wes needed guidance, so they randomly pulled over a working Rimmer and said, "Which side is where xx (the deceased) works."
Rimmer pointed in the direction. Zach expressed his thanks and went over with Wes.
"They also said that all the needed things were sent to the deceased's home!" Weiss was a little angry, because there were a large number of books and the deceased's work notes on the deceased's workbench.
Zack wasn't as patient as Wes, so he would look through the work of the deceased, and once again asked Rimmer who was guiding him, "Can you describe the work process of the deceased?"
Riemer, who seemed to be a very easy-to-talk person, came over. "His job is very simple. He looks up books, finds out the content about the soul, records it, files it, and sends it to..." Riemer pointed in the direction, "I'm there."
I hope everyone can follow Zach's thinking, "So this is Riemer's research project?"
"That's right." Rimel nodded, then shook his head, "I'm the administrator here, and I keep these books." He glanced around at the bookshelves around him, "Rimel's research on the soul has never stopped, but For a long time, our research direction has been the coexistence of the soul and the body." Understandably, Rimmer's half-human and half-vampire characteristics, "We have never specifically studied the unilateral earth-bound world where the body has died. Spirit state. This project was proposed by the wizard. The way the earthbinders linger on the world, especially those bound to corpses, may give us a new perspective on the relationship between body and soul." Rimmer Er glanced at the deceased's workbench and said, "My role in the research on removing earthbound spiritualization is only a content consultant, and the specific research is conducted by wizards."
Rimmer pointed in another direction, which was to another laboratory location away from this library-like space. "My job is to send the knowledge compiled here to the wizards in the real experiment. The wizard in charge of the experiment will use it according to the instructions." The progress of the experiment has given rise to new knowledge requirements." Withdrew his hand, "I will transform it into knowledge points that may be helpful, come back here and continue to search and archive them, and then give them to me to pass on to the wizards, and so on." Smile, "Consultant work .”
It’s quite a long story, but to sum it up, it’s, “The work of the deceased, or the work that takes place in this library, is the theoretical support for practice in the research found here.” Zach concluded.
Rimmer nodded.
Zach continued to ask, "I can understand that you are the only person connecting practice and theory in this entire research?" The point is the only one. After all, from the process just now, you should have been able to see that obtaining theoretical support and specific experimental practice are separated. The only link is this consultant.
Rimmer nodded again.
Zach raised his eyebrows, "How did Novel find out that the deceased was collecting research information?"
"I discovered it." As if he was trying to grab the credit, Rimmer glanced at Weiss, who was looking through the deceased's work notes, but his attention was completely focused on him. "At first, I also thought that the wizards had taken advantage of this guy. He was arranged to work here, but he was annoying enough. So every time he complained to me that such a job was a waste of his talents, and applied to join the practice group composed of wizards, I refused directly." Rimmer shook his head, "After this continued for a while, I found that he no longer asked to change jobs, but he still did not change his bad attitude towards vampires and other wizards." Looking at Zach, "This is very suspicious."
It means that a person's behavior suddenly changes, but the accompanying attitude does not change at all. This can only mean that this person has not changed, he just has a secret.
"I asked Novel to keep an eye on him." Well, he can be credited. Riemer continued, "Nofele discovered that every time he finished work, he would secretly copy my project notes and take them out of the Tower of Babel." Looking at Weiss, "The wizard didn't lie to you, you need what you need." , It’s really not here.” As I just said, all the information about the deceased’s theft was taken out.
Weiss pouted and dropped the work notes in his hand.
"Can you describe what you are doing in the research to remove the Earthbound Spiritualization?" Zach read James's notes and remembered that James also clearly said that the deceased's work was to sort out the Republic. history. If the logic is correct, the intelligence content that the deceased brought out of the Tower of Babel is all related to the history of the Republic. Zach is looking for connections to republican history and the research conducted here.
Rimmer suddenly smiled and looked at Zach, "I thought this day would never come."
Zach blinked, "What?"
"You, Toledo, finally asked Rimel seriously what kind of research he was doing." Rimel stretched out his right hand, apparently waiting for Zach to do the same.
Zach did, albeit a little confused.
"Thorin Rimmer." Rimmer, who had been answering Zach's questions attentively, introduced himself.
Zach copied, "Zachary Toredo."
"I know who you are." At least there was a very sincere smile on Thorin's face. "I have been curious for three centuries. Why do you fight for Rimmer every year despite the controversy in the alliance (secret)? I sent you a lot of resources, but you never seriously asked, 'What did you use these resources for?'"
Weiss turned around at this time and continued to look through the deceased's notes. Because Wes knew that this paragraph had nothing to do with the case and was Zach's personal matter.
Zach replied with a strange expression, "I asked, but Eve never bothered to explain it to me." Zach laughed at himself, "For a long time, I thought you were studying palace magic, and I don't blame Eve." Fu hates me."
"Oh." Thorin's face also looked strange, "I guess I should leave here more often and walk outside more." He seemed to be apologizing, "There won't be such a bad relationship between Toledo and Rimel. What a misunderstanding.”
Zach tilted his mouth. There was something Zach had to confirm, "Sorry, your age?" Zach could feel that Thorin was a second-generation vampire, but Zach had no impression of this person at all. Zach can visually detect the other person's human age (Rimmel has the same age-increasing characteristics as humans). Now he wants the other person to tell the age of a vampire to determine whether this guy exists since the thirteen clans gathered together, or whether he is a vampire. The guy who only became a vampire after the Secret Alliance emerged.
"I am Eve's son." Smile, "In terms of human biology and vampire aspect, I am her brother."
The book fell from Wes' hand. Zach also lowered his head.
"I know, it's an embarrassing identity." Thorin continued to smile, "So I rarely go out for activities, so most members of the Thirteen Clan don't know I exist." He didn't forget to answer Zach's question, "I'm much older than you. .”
Forget it, there are almost no second-generation vampires younger than Zach in the Federation, so Zach shouldn't have any hope and continue the interrupted topic, "Go to Earth-bound Spiritualization?"
"The reason why our research at Rimmer has never considered this aspect." He maintained a smile, "It is that we never knew that there are souls in this world that do not need to go through the earth-bound spirit state. During the time we have lived, The Earthbinder is always the first state that human souls take after death, and then various alien races are born that have escaped from the Earthbinder state. Including our eternal creator, the Holy Lord added the Trial of Faith to the Earthbinder stage. , to create demons and angels.”
"From the birth of the soul race after the Holy Lord controlled the Earthbound Spirit, we can at least draw one conclusion. God, whether he is from this world or not, has partial control over the state of the soul." Thorin, from The deceased picked up a book on the workbench, a federally translated version of "Five Thousand Years of Enlightenment Edition". "This is a republican children's book." Thorin looked at the book, "It is a fairy tale that deliberately confuses history and legend. story."
Zach was patient.
"The one who showed us the fact that the Earthbinder state is not the only way for the transformation of soul life is the alien race of the Republic." Handing the book to Zach, "The wizard believes that the answer lies in the history and legends of the Republic. In true republican God.”
Zack didn't pick up the book, and Thorin didn't force it. "From my personal point of view, the research on earth-binding spiritualization." Looking around the library-like space, "It's the work of searching for the True God of the Republic."
Let me mention it, although Zach hasn't realized it yet, I hope that everyone from God's perspective can think of researching earth-bound spiritualization. It is a wizard family in the middle of the country. In order to deal with vampires in the future, they intend to help federal people, but they want to The number one ghost (Tam's female follower).
Therefore, don’t think that just because Thorin cooperated throughout the whole process, kept smiling, and talked about the non-existent past with Zach, that he is a friend that you can completely trust. This Thorin is deliberately diverting Zach's focus.