At dinner time, when Sirise came home from get off work, Frank came. As everyone knows, Frank didn't want to embarrass his acting skills, so it was better to avoid Sirise.
But Zach couldn't accommodate him for the time being, and Derek also came. Bringing the medical experiment data of Sabbat Zmich.
"Do you like Republican food?" Zach asked, seeing that Derek had always been attracted to the restaurant.
"Yes! Your original God of the Republic cook is back?" The God of the Republic that Derek mentioned was Mo.
"No, another god." Zach didn't want to elaborate.
When it comes to the term "God of the Republic", Mo is claiming to be the God of the Republic, while "Jian" is certified by the official government officials of the Republic. It's just that 'Jian' hasn't said that he is a god.
Zach is now going to start acting, "Why are you here all of a sudden? What's in your bag?" Don't forget, the scene at this time is that old Hank once again involved Derek in a troublesome incident, and Zach He is a moral white lotus who knows nothing.
"Oh! This!" Derek reacted very quickly and was immediately confused, "Don't you know? I... didn't Old Hank tell you?"
"Did Old Hank tell me something?" Zach waved his hands and looked blank. His acting skills were beyond words.
Derek's face wrinkled, "I thought... forget it, old Hank is doing it for your own good this time." He started to look through his briefcase.
Zach was still as calm as ever, "Yeah." Let's see what Derek would come up with first.
Derek didn't explain any more. The documents in the bag were spread out in front of Zach, and he specially selected one and pushed it to Zach, "This is the information on the body that you collected a few days ago."
Zach gave a surprised expression. After all, in Old Hank's phone call, he described Zach as someone who would not bother to tell humans even if something happened. Zach naturally wanted to act out his surprise at this time, "How did Old Hank know?" There's something wrong with that body." Of course Zach knew the answer, and Old Hank's call was made in front of Zach. But I still have to ask, I want Derek to say it.
This is not a simple show where old Hank is the bad guy and Zack pretends to be the good guy. Reality is never that simple. What Zach wants to achieve is to make Derek clearly realize that there is nothing to do with good or bad here, but the insurmountable gap between aliens and humans.
The events that Old Hank involved with Derek out of Grande's selfish motives were not all bad things, they just became dangerous because they were related to aliens. This is where Zach wants Derek to make a distinction.
"Of course he knows, he is family." Derek said seriously.
What Zach wanted was this sentence. He took the document naturally, opened it, and said: "He is not. He and I are not, you and I are not, and you and him are not." He answered equally seriously.
Derek pursed his lips, as if he didn't want to continue the topic, and diverted his attention with business, "The body was suffering from a very malignant infectious disease."
"One?" Zach still pretended to be ignorant. Although he had learned from Sid that the symptoms of the corpse were the same as some kind of malignant human disease, he naturally wanted to hear a professional explanation from Derek.
"Yes, although it seems that she suffered a lot of diseases at the same time and eventually died, it was actually her autoimmune system that was initially attacked by a virus and lost its function, and then..." Derek made all the moves. , “All diseases are coming to us.”
"Virus." See, Sid didn't mention any virus. "What kind of virus? Was this virus found on her body?"
Derek looked troubled, "Here's the problem. The reputation of this virus itself... no, it should be said that the reputation of patients suffering from it is very bad. Under normal circumstances, no one would be willing to get close to such a patient. ..." He glanced at Zach and lowered his voice inexplicably, "The way the virus spreads is very..." He seemed to be unable to find the right words for a moment, "It is unacceptable to some people."
Although Zach wanted to ask more questions, Zach was also a gentleman and would not ask about things that would arouse strong objections to some people. We can only conclude from Derek's words that this disease seems to be related to some people's private lives. Otherwise, the term reputation would not be used.
Zach gave up the question, "Are you saying that no one has confirmed the pathogen in the remains?"
"Under normal circumstances, the pathogen being treated has been identified, but no one will be willing to continue treating this patient in the future. But this case is very special. Her pathological test was not done by Barton's hospital, but... " Pointing to the document in Zach's hand, "It was completed by the medical experiment project team she belongs to. They have written the conclusions on it. In addition, the symptoms are in line with everyone's understanding, so the medical staff in our hospital did not ask any more questions. ."
Derek paused for a moment, "What she has is not that kind of disease at all, right? It's something alien that would hurt you, right?" Here he did not demonstrate his concern for Zach.
Zach accepted the concern, "I don't know. Maybe it's that disease with a bad reputation that has the ability to harm vampires, or maybe it's not that disease, but something else." Zach didn't want to confuse anything, Zimi No one knows what happened to Xi's medical experiment now, so there is no need to take other people's incomplete information as the truth. Zack preferred to make his own judgment, closed the file, and looked at other information, "Are these the information on other patients in that medical experiment?"
"Yeah." Derek nodded, "Old Hank asked me to check the body. Apart from this disease, the only special thing about her is that she participated in this medical experiment. Fortunately, Amanda..." The inappropriate smile made Zach slightly He glanced sideways, "I have a good relationship with the higher-ups at the hospital and helped me get these materials. I brought them all over."
Although the appearance of the name of Mrs. Quinn's former caregiver, Amanda, made Zach a little concerned, there seemed to be no reason to ask about Derek's personal life. He collected all the documents without questioning, and then looked at Derek very firmly. Grams, "Your involvement in this matter ends here."
Derek was stunned for a moment and immediately said, "But old Hank..."
Interrupted, "Whatever old Hank asked you to do before, at least when you look back, I will be there." Look at what he said, "Vampire blood can repair everything, right. But this time, I won't be there." Pick you up.”
The nature must be clear - Derek has made it very clear that human beings should avoid the remains of this incident, and even vampires can harm them. Therefore, the nature determines that Zach can no longer be the same as before. When Derek realizes that Old Hank has a problem with his motives and wants to escape, he can rely on Zach to leave easily. In this matter, Zach can't even guarantee his own safety.
Derek's face began to wrinkle, and Zach didn't give Derek any chance, "I don't know what Old Hank said to you, now, it's over. I suggest you never answer the phone from Old Hank in the future." It must be He added, "You don't know what incident you will be involved in, no one knows. The name Grande can't help you, don't expect it."
This is a bit serious. But isn't it the fact? Combined with what Zach said just now that he is not a family member, in the final analysis, the real surname is Grande, only Derek.
Zach had ruined Derek's idea of having a republican dinner at the Grand. He stopped going to say hello to Old Hank and left the Grand in a dull tone.
Frank took over appropriately, "You're a little harsh on your human brothers, don't you think~"
Zach didn't hide it, "It's all fake. I want the things, but I don't want to be the one who gets him involved in the alien incident. Old Hank took the blame."
Frank had a kind smile on his face, "That's it~" Soon, his attention was on the information in front of Zach, "Speaking of which, what are these?"
Zach read some of the documents to Frank and narrated the matter. There was an emphasis on that phone call with Craig.
After hearing this, Frank began to shake his head, but kept his smile, "Haha, I guess my dear son doesn't want me to know about Zmich's medical experiments~" Everyone should be aware of this, Root Le It was already obvious that Sembra wanted to hide it from Zach, but he apparently also hid it from his father, who was also in Barton.
Zach had no intention of speaking for Root, he was just stating the facts, "Root must consider your position towards Bob. You were sent to Barton to suppress me, the new ancestor, but you are the same as you originally." The attitude of Bob, who is also the ancestor of the clan, is beyond Root's control. When it comes to the Sabbat Zmich, Root must consider the relationship between the clan ancestors, so it is not a big deal for him to hide it like this. I’m so distraught.”
Frank let these words go through his mind for a while, nodded, and then smiled even more, "As expected, it would be good to have Toledo by my side~" This was Zach's judgment of the situation, "Now that I think about it, Root once said I don’t want Craig to go back to the west with Bob, probably because I want to put aside the unstable factors around Bob and try to control the Tsimichy ancestors.”
Zach also nodded, because he didn't know the reason for Frank's sudden return to Grande. Now he asked, but it didn't affect them from looking through the documents together, "What happened to Sissi?"
"Ha." Frank waved his hand, "Originally, something strange happened. It wasn't Sissi, Thomas Gangello, but after I came to your place. Haha." He laughed twice and said no more.
Zach had no clue and glanced at Frank, "What do you mean?"
The timing was perfect, 'Jian' appeared at the door of the office, "I had a little chat with Frank in the afternoon."
Zach frowned, "Afternoon, aren't you with me in the afternoon?"
'Jian' looked like he was too lazy to explain. He walked into the office and picked up the information on the table without permission. "There can be countless images." Without revealing its own abilities too deeply, it flipped through the documents. "It looks like we have someone who can verify my identification."
"Us?" Although Zach was questioning what Jian was saying, he still glanced at the document it was holding. 'Jian' was really lucky, he got the document that recorded the list of patients who were subject to the medical experiment.
Frank's eyes shifted back and forth between Zach and 'Jian' for a while, thinking for a moment, as if suppressing what he wanted to say, and instead asked, "What appraisal."
"The body, the god from the Republic, 'Jian', said that the body lying in Grande's basement is the body of a vampire." Zach answered, "And I promised Craig to keep the results of Barton's experiment. , cannot be verified."
"How to verify?"
"Bloodletting." Zach took the document in Jian's hand and began to look for someone who could be used to verify it. "Jian" said that once the blood that maintains the biological form is drained, the corpse will be the same as the vampire's. The wreckage turned to ashes."
Frank's focus was a bit strange, "So in your 'appraisal'." He said to the 'appraisal', "The function of vampire blood is to maintain the appearance of the creature?"
'Appraisal' has no expression, "It's not 'my appraisal'." In the tone of speaking to Frank, "It's a fact. This is my authority, to appraise the essence of things." The lack of expression is telling Frank, don't argue with me. I am the truth.
Frank snorted and said, "Are all the republics full of arrogant and self-righteous people like you?"
How can any creature regard what it sees as the truth? What is this but pride? Remember that we humans once took what we saw as a round sky and a square earth as the truth? How stupid it was.
Zach felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere between the two people and frowned, "What happened to you this afternoon?"
"nothing."
"nothing."
At this time, they actually answered at the same time with perfect understanding.
Zach glanced at Frank and saw 'Now is not the time to talk to you' on Frank's face. Looking at 'Jian' again, 'Jian''s expression was, 'I won't tell you even if you ask.'
Zach curled his lips and made some judgments. The person he was closer to was naturally Frank, "Don't argue with it. All republican 'things' are like this. They take certain rules as the essence of their lives. Remember that Maitreya? He He is still a human being, but the rule of his cultivation is "the perfection of life's encounters". Then there are people who worship every rule, so the republic that is created is like a god. Hum, 'Jian' says it is an appraisal, so we should take it as such. It's judgment. We don't have time to argue with a country."
This is a culture clash.
Frank raised his eyebrows and said, "Interesting country."
'Jian' glanced at Zach and said, "Your understanding of the Republic is deeper than I expected."
"No need to praise me." Rarely, Zach did not accept the praise. "I don't understand your republic at all. In your words, this is what I saw. I will treat what I saw as the truth." Zach Looking back at the document in his hand, I was a little disappointed and said, "There is no suitable person."
You should be able to understand what the so-called suitable people refer to. They are dead medical experiment participants like the corpses in Grande's basement.
The reason why people who are still alive cannot be used as verification is that Zach doesn't know how to judge the disappearance of whose soul marks have begun to violate human attributes.
"Who says no, these people." 'Jian' pointed to the documents in Zach's hand, "They are all possible verifiers." Looking at Zach, "You can't see things, but I can."
Zach pursed his lips and asked Jian to identify these people one by one? Zach didn't feel like asking the God of the Republic to do anything. The lesson lies ahead, who knows what Jian will ask Zach to do for him.
Sure enough, Zach hadn't even spoken yet. 'Jian' said, "I can do this little thing for you without asking for anything in return, but I have a request." He looked at Frank and said, "I want him to go visit these people with me."
"Okay~" Frank actually agreed, "Let's go~ I just have nothing to do tonight~"
Without really giving Zach a chance to react, the two guys disappeared in an instant. Chase? Who to chase? Can Zach's snail-like speed catch up with Frank or 'Jian'? Well. (To be continued)