But some words have an impact once they are said—
Although Sid said oh, as if he understood that Zach was being stupid, but... he stopped there.
Before he finished speaking, Zach was still waiting for the follow-up, "Continue, what next? This... is no longer a human corpse, why does it automatically heal the vampire's body? What about human ones? Other creatures in this world What? No abnormalities found on the human side?"
"Uh..." Sid shook his head vigorously to get rid of the thoughts in his mind. After reorganizing his emotions, he said, "This Zmich's side industry is not perfect. When the first corpse of this kind flowed into the outside world, it swallowed up an unlucky Giovanni. At that time, Roy Zmich was at the Sabbat meeting. He explained that the self-healing ability of this kind of creature is designed to be activated by vampires, but the final result of the product does not seem to be able to distinguish between vampires of different clans... "
Zach had to interrupt, "Wait a minute, it was designed like this?? Why?"
"You were attacked by Roy Zmich. Didn't you see his fighting style?"
"I have seen that if Giorgio Giovanni had not stood in front of me, I would not have died, but at least I would no longer have the ability to move."
Remember, the human weapon firepower that instantly blew half the office into powder was all hidden in Roy Zmich's own body thanks to Zmich's self-healing ability.
Zach was instantly alert, yes, alert, staring at Sid, "Zimich wants to weaponize humans."
Sid frowned, "Weaponizing humans is too... extreme."
But just like the phrase 'vampire' just now, it seemed to have planted something in Sid's mind. Sid began to stall again.
Zach didn't say he was stupid this time. Let some ideas ferment.
Huh, because Zach doesn't feel like he was wrong this time.
The fact that Roy Zmich is obsessed with human weapons and firepower has already led by example. This is probably the result of this era. Human attack methods have evolved so amazingly. The only reason Zak could come up with for putting Zmich's ability to heal foreign objects on humans is to expand the weapons that Zmich himself can insert into his body.
Isn't this weaponizing human beings? Or, to put it more extreme, it is not a weapon, but a tool! Treat humans as weapons safes that Zmich can access at any time!
Roy Zmich might be able to use 'the ultimate expression of Zmich's self-healing ability' to fool those Sabbat vampires in the Sabbat who don't regard humans as humans in the first place, but don't try to fool Zach.
Zach is already mentally planning to contact Craig and Bob (Zimich messenger and clan ancestor) who are currently in the west and have no news. This information may be beneficial to their situation in the west.
This time Zach gave Sid time to think, until Sid's face darkened and he glanced at Zach, "Why do I feel like everything becomes difficult to accept when it comes to you?"
"It was you who reminded me not to touch this body." Zach continued to advance the topic without looking at Sid, "So how did this body become activated? 'It' is still the job of Grande Funeral Home. I can't not touch 'it'."
Zach didn't even confirm whether the word 'touch' was accurate here, because strictly speaking, even though Sid had a finger in the corpse's head, he didn't touch the corpse, and it was through gloves. Although the gloves used by Grande were thin, their quality was definitely good. Zach would not have real contact with any corpses. Zach cherished his immortality.
"If you insist on touching it." Sid frowned, "There's no point in covering yourself. You have to cover it."
Zach reacted for a moment and understood. Just like if you don't want an uncontrolled puddle of water to spread everywhere, the effective way is not to wrap yourself up, but to surround the puddle of water.
While Zach moved to pull back the opened body bag, he continued to ask questions. Zach's question just now has not been completely answered, right? "Are vampires the only ones that need attention? What about other creatures? Haven't humans discovered this kind of inconvenience?" Is it an anomaly of human things again?”
"Only vampires need attention." Sid seemed a little irritable. He must be cursing Zimich infinitely in his heart. "While this kind of non-human being is still alive, although it has begun to get sick, at least it is still alive. Is it capable of self-healing?" It is still under control after being activated." Add another sentence, "Under Zmich's control. Only after death will it become so uncontrollable."
Zach had already closed the body bag again, holding the tape measure, and nodded while measuring the data for Old Hank, "What about humans? Doesn't anyone question the abnormality of this way of death?"
As described before, it seems that all the diseases in the world have been visited on this corpse during its lifetime, and it is decayed from the inside out.
"Fortunately, among humans, there is a disease whose symptoms are similar to this - the soul imprint begins to disappear while the body is still alive, resulting in the same result. Human beings have not noticed anything."
Zach turned his head and glanced at Sid. Did he dislike his choice of words, 'lucky', lucky
Sid didn't notice Zach's eyes, "I remember Nenad mentioned once that when Sires was looking for food for you, the Ancestor of the Lesenbra clan (Frank), he gave Grandri an immune system. The blood of disease patients." What the disease was, everyone was left to guess at that time. It is the same now. Just guess, as long as it is distinguished from the cancer that was said to be like a vampire before. "Humans with that kind of blood, their own body resists The ability is attacked by a certain virus until it disappears completely, causing any disease to appear in the body. This gives the blood a special 'taste', I don't know if you have tasted it."
"I didn't." Very simply.
For a moment, Sid had the expression that Zach missed something, just for a moment, and then repeated the words that Zach didn't like very much—
"Fortunately, that disease has a very bad reputation among humans, and humans themselves avoid it. The thing Zmich created is just covered up under that disease. When humans see this kind of patient, Even further than us vampires can hide.”
Zach had no problem and wrote down the dimensions. Before leaving, "Does this kind of corpse have any special smell?"
Sid ran down on his own, didn't he? As a funeral director who needed work, Zach didn't find anything special about the body. How did Sid find out
"It's the smell." Sid answered seriously, "Calm down and smell it carefully. There are differences in the degree of decay of various organs in normal human corpses."
Zach took a serious sniff of the smell in the air that made the vampire uncomfortable, "I know, the degree of decay of the organs of this corpse is exactly the same."
Sid nodded, "Since the soul mark began to disappear contrary to human characteristics, this body has begun to corrupt. It is the corruption of the body that makes its own resistance disappear, allowing various diseases to manifest in the body, and in the soul The last mark of the body also disappears, the soul completely disappears from the body, and it is completely dead. Under normal circumstances, you don’t have to wait until it completely turns into a corpse. You can detect it when you touch it while it is still alive. .”
Zach nodded and asked a very important question, "There are many such corpses. It seems that you noticed the difference as soon as the corpse was delivered. This situation has become so frequent that... No, it is very common in the West. Is it common?”
"No... no." Sid hesitated for a moment, "It was the notice sent by the Sabbat a few days ago. The messengers and clans of Zmich are now sorting out some information left by the Cmich clan. They found that because of the With the massive reduction in personnel, a lot of management information on the sideline business of this medical experiment has been lost. This means..." Sid pouted, "Many of these 'people' who were originally controlled by the Zmich clan are now living outside. The Sabbat reminds us to be careful not to be swallowed by such corpses, no one will come to rescue us."
"And I." Zach shook his head, because - "Obviously I didn't receive such an important notice." Tsk. Zach was thinking about passing the information to Craig and Bob before, but now, forget it. The other party didn't even think of reminding him.
Why. Let’s be objective. Since Craig and Bob haven’t actively contacted Zach for such a long time since they returned to the Sabbat, it should be possible to guess that their situation is not free and they should not be able to contact the outside world. Then there is no need for Zach to make the other party's situation more dangerous for a little bit of information.
"Weren't you in Barton..." Sid defended the Western Sabbat's decision-making, but it was obvious that the defense was not sincere, "But we were indeed told that the Western Conference would notify you separately without us sending a message. Until just now, I realized that you were This corpse didn't show any alertness at all, so he guessed that no one informed you at all... "
Zach didn't want to talk. (To be continued)