Crowley's phone hung up. It feels like you ask your friend why he suddenly slapped himself, and your friend replies that he saw two dogs biting each other on the street yesterday. Do you still expect answers from this friend
Crowley felt this way, so she hung up. Zach was also happy that he no longer needed to explain. He put down the phone and decided to wait for the call from the 'General'.
Didn't wait. The 'General' didn't think of Zach as someone he could turn to when he needed answers. Happy? regret? It was probably mixed emotions anyway. Zach didn’t wait any longer and went back to the bedroom.
After raising his hand in front of the mirror and kissing his thumb, "It turns out that Toledo's body contains the key to the door of heaven."
"I heard it." The image in the mirror seemed to have accepted Zach's arbitrary communication code. "The barrier between us seems to have completely disappeared. I know everything you have been through."
Zach blinked, "Even if there is no reflection, do you know what I am going through?" There is no mirror in Zach's office.
"I know. Well... I don't know how to describe it, but before, it seemed that I could only be in certain places, waiting for you to appear. Now, I am always there, but you need a certain place to see me."
Zach looked around.
The word image is taken literally. The so-called specific places are naturally mirrors and image preservation technologies created by humans. It is also common sense that images will only be seen by the subject under certain conditions.
But if you think about it carefully, you will find the strange thing about this statement - the image does not always exist, only the subject only exists. When we walk on the street, we occasionally look at ourselves in the mirror when we pass by reflective objects, adjust our hairstyle, check our makeup, etc. The image is not always there, it only appears because we pass by it.
But now, what the image tells Zach is that I have always been there. I don't appear when you pass by, but you can only see me when you pass by.
So Zach's question is, "So where are you when I can't see you?"
"Wherever you are, I am."
Zach closed his eyes for a moment, "Yes, you said, you have everything in this world."
To translate the answer at this time, it is - when you walk towards a mirror on the roadside on the street, your image is also walking until you meet inside and outside the mirror and fix your hair together.
Zach frowned again, "You just said that there are golden things around you that block the black fog." What Zach means is that where I can't see you, it's you who walked into the black fog. Hit
"I know what you are thinking, and you are right. When you went to answer the phone and leave just now, I already tried it. When I got out of the range of this mirror, I walked out of the circle of gold and stepped into the black mist. You won’t be able to see me.”
"But the reality is that I just left the reflection of the mirror."
"Yes." The image nodded, "It's just that we have entered a range that you can't see. I'm not worried about this golden film breaking now."
"Why?"
The image looked at Zach for a while and said, "Why don't you look at your ID card." After saying that, he stepped out of the scope of the mirror.
Looking at the empty mirror, Zach moved his mouth, took out his wallet, took out his only valid ID card for federal citizens, and stared at his photo, "Are you there?"
"I'm here." Zach moved in the photo. Remember, this photo was taken by Zach after he gained the imaging ability. Because the mayor is Anthony, Zach didn't worry about his identity being leaked and dared to record his appearance into the federation so casually. citizen system.
Don't worry because I know where we can meet again.
"Let me guess, the golden film now is the edge of the photo."
"As worthy of my Zachary Toledo, you are very smart." This can be said even more bizarrely - 'As worthy of my subject'.
Zach began to make tentative requests, "Can you exist in the mirror and in the photo at the same time?"
"Of course, otherwise you think your ID card was blank just now?" He actually mocked Zach.
"What I mean is that everyone can talk to me." Zach pouted - this habit of livening up the atmosphere when the topic is serious is really his characteristic.
The image in the mirror came back, "No." Then, "But if you develop a hundred pictures of that photo, I can talk to you in a hundred pictures at the same time."
Ha, it seems that the person who is exploring is not just Zach alone, but the image is also exploring simultaneously.
"How did you know?"
"Because this photo is backed up in Patton's citizen archives, I just tried it." He seemed a little hesitant, "At the same time, there is an electronic archive in the central federal government's citizen archives, and I can also act at the same time."
“What is an electronic archive?”
"I don't know." He replied simply, "I'm just telling you that your files are not only in Barton. Don't ask me about human technology. I can't possibly understand what you don't understand."
Well.
This is self-deprecating, and Zach wouldn't mind. Frank's guess was correct again. It was Zach's image. Due to today's human civilization and science and technology, it can be copied into tens of millions, and these tens of millions of Zachs are all Zachs.
Toledo, in this era, is indeed taking off.
Zach began to try for the first time to use this ability that Frank said was 'being treated favorably by the world'. "Can you make that unknown electronic file disappear?"
"Don't you want to be Zachary Grande and get out of Barton-Anthony's control?"
"Yes." Zach nodded seriously.
Zach's image in the mirror disappeared.
It didn't take long, just a few seconds, and he came back, "It's solved. I hope you don't mind that I found someone more handsome than me to replace my original position."
Something blossomed inside Zach and spilled out into words. The most difficult problem of vampires living forever in the human social system was solved so easily, "You don't mind, I don't mind~"
Looking at each other and smiling inside and outside the mirror. why are you laughing? Haha, you will understand why you don't find someone uglier than Zach inside and outside the mirror.
"What I need to confirm now is." Zach became serious again, "These are the changes you only had after Sissi took out the key to the door of heaven from Toledo's body, and you still have them all the time."
Zack has already discovered the autonomous consciousness of images, hasn't he? Eliminating the threat of citizen files outside Barton was just an application that Zach tried based on Frank's speculation. The ultimate goal of this conversation about this mirror is to understand what Sissi did.
"I'm not sure." The image in the mirror showed a thoughtful look, "Before Sissi made that unexplained action on you and let the key to the door of heaven come out of you, I couldn't see..." Looking around again , the focus of sight is on Zach, the person outside the mirror, or the frame, "the black mist blocked by the golden film."
Zach didn't understand the meaning of this sentence.
The image in the mirror shook his head, "You wouldn't take off all your clothes, walk out of your house, and wander around in public."
"I don't have this habit." Zach said simply.
"Because home is a barrier and a boundary, you will naturally think that as long as you are in your own home, you can do whatever you want. When you go out of the house, you can't."
Zach frowned and processed the words of the image, "You mean, the golden circle that hinders the black mist lets you know the range of your abilities."
Feel it, essentially, these two sentences mean the same thing.
"Yes, I couldn't see the border before. The world I see here is exactly the same as yours. All the places where you don't appear (where there is no mirror reflection), but there is no place where you get along with and encounter you. Man. When you are not here, I cannot do anything, nor dare I do it. I can only wait in an empty world for you to appear again... "
Zach felt a little... uncomfortable. Zach didn't even know he had such a resentful side. But think about it, if you were trapped in a world in a time loop without the various people around you, Papa Midnight, Louise, Murphy... the same would be true for you.
The image in the mirror continues - "And when you appear, I only dare to copy your movements and do the only job that I think I should do and should perform it perfectly. Any behavior beyond this job, It will make me worry about whether it will have an impact on your world." Shaking his head, "My behavior will indeed have an impact." For example, when he walked away from Alice's mirror for the first time, remember, but the stabbing Ke was quite shocked.
Zach understood a little bit, "The current black mist and golden barrier are to separate you from the world."
The image nodded, "It's like a blindfold on a horse, allowing me to concentrate. I know that within this range, this is the range where I can exert my power." Looking at Zach, "When you are still in front of me, I won’t make the stupid mistake of stepping out of this range again. At the same time, when you and I are both in this range, as long as I know it’s what you want, I can make it. Hum, I don’t have to worry about the world in the black fog. What happened, because, that’s your world.”
Zach took a deep breath in an anthropomorphic manner, "You are right. The black mist blocked by gold is my world." Can you keep up? It may be necessary to use a slightly extreme example as a metaphor -
television. From our perspective, what does this contemporary human technological product represent? Does the real world outside the boundaries of the screen have anything to do with the love, hatred and resentment inside the screen? Whatever drama the audience wants on screen, it will and should be. The real world that the audience is in, what happens is for the audience to process. In the world on the screen, please focus on showing what the audience wants to see.
This is concentration. Let an image that has not seen Zach for four centuries, and tremble and doubt its own external world, be shrouded in black mist. Those things are not the image's concern, but Zach's business. What Zach needs is for his image to express itself well in that small golden frame that may be copied infinitely as human civilization progresses. Just like those magical plots we have seen on the TV screen, please try to be as exciting as possible.
"I don't think that I have such an ability because of what Sissi did. I should have always had it. It's just that I never knew to what extent I could use such an ability before. I didn't dare." The image was just there. To sum up what we have come to realize means, “Now I know.”
Zach nodded, "Then we can't ignore the fact that 'gold' is the color of the Holy Lord's heaven of faith."
"Do you know what is really weird? If I discovered this golden color before Sissi took out the key to the door of heaven, you and I probably wouldn't be surprised. We are the creations created by the Holy Lord's faith." The impact is indeed true. As he said, he has made up for all the 'Zacks' he left behind in the four centuries, "We won't be surprised if there are any traces of the Holy Lord left on our bodies."
Zach nodded silently. Let the image continue, "The weird thing is that this golden appearance happened after the key to the door to heaven was taken out. I think before that, without Toledo being aware of it, the key to the door to heaven was contained in his body. , is the moment when vampires are closest to heaven." This is just a small sigh. After the sigh, "Why do the traces of heaven appear on our bodies only after the key to the door of heaven leaves our bodies?"
There is no doubt that the reason why Zach nodded was because the question of the image was his question, "I think the only reasonable reason is that the reward from the Holy Lord is not what we imagined... No, it should be what we imagined, it is the Holy Lord The reward given.”
This is a bit convoluted. Fortunately, there are two Zacks inside and outside the mirror, helping us explain—
"It's an addition. Vampires, as souls abandoned by the Holy Lord's faith, should not have traces of heaven left. The Holy Lord's reward is to add elements of the Holy Lord's faith to the vampire."
"Sissi withdrew the key to the gate of heaven, which reduced part of the Holy Lord's faith element that was added to me, but exposed the golden film that originally came with the imaging ability."
"Now the only explanation is this. If this is what the vampire's imaging ability is supposed to be like, then the key to the door of heaven that Sissi originally put in the Toledo surname was just to hide the appearance of the ability itself."
Zach closed his eyes and went through everything about this conversation—from the image suddenly gaining four centuries of experience (the so-called mind change) to the image now easily changing the existing citizen files in the federal citizen system. —
This should give vampires the ultimate upgrade to become more powerful in this world, right? This is worthy of the name of reward. It's definitely not the confusing image that says "I haven't seen you in four centuries" resentfully as soon as it expresses its self-awareness!
Zach opened his eyes, "Then, the key to the door of heaven, while hindering the real effect of the imaging ability, what does it mean, what is Sissi's hidden selfishness..." Zach turned around from the mirror, shaking his head, "I don't really care. Let's talk when we have time."
"Agree." In the mirror, Zach's image, also facing away, expressed his agreement.
Zach is about to get to work when the funeral people arrive. (To be continued)