When the South Enders went to bed, Alice and Maya said good night to Zach...
Are you confused? The girls who attended the dinner party at Stone Manor in the West End are back.
There's no rush, just in time, Zach also doesn't know how to control the conflict between Jason and Police Chief Darcy in the Grand Restaurant. Let's take this time to talk about why the girls are back.
The dinner was interrupted midway because a very bad incident occurred. The adults of Stone Manor were waiting for the protagonist Blake, who was truly ready to show his ability as a political figure, and gathered important figures in the municipal circles of the West End and the North End. (Including Mayor Anthony himself) After discussing some of the subsequent developments of Barton, this occasion prepared for social interaction began to truly free activities.
Is anyone curious about what these big figures in Barton City discussed
Mention it
As the most wealthy of the Barton West End families, the Bishop family will act as Barton's representatives in acquiring real estate in Newton. On the one hand, this is helping Newton's city government solve its funding problem. Yes, Barton's West End people are sending money to Newton's regime. On the other hand, the Barton side will continue to confuse the Newton people's sense of regional belonging: using headhunters, policies, and welfare to get the Newton people to settle in Barton is something we know and have already implemented, right, now , West Enders are about to start the next stage. Newtonians don’t come to Barton, the land you live on belongs to Barton! (Land purchased by Bishop).
You may have questions again, why these big shots are discussing Bishop's plan for the annexation of Newton, and Blake is the protagonist.
The answer is here
Bishop's acquisition cannot be made suddenly, but must be well planned. This arrangement is not the kind of boring propaganda to the world that Bishop has nowhere to spend his money, but allows the Bishop family, which has been silent for more than half a year, to become the representative of Barton again, making this acquisition not just for a rich man. Consumption has completely become a political event.
Yes, it means that before Bishop starts the acquisition, Barton needs to bring Bishop back into the public eye, and there is only one representative of Barton in Bishop's image.
So, who can complete this task? Blake.
Patton's circle of power has been told to everyone for a long time and is divided into two parts. One is the West District family that founded the city and continues to influence the development of the city in various aspects, and the other is the North District Municipal Government that is purely controlled by political power.
Aside from Blake, who plays a pivotal role on both sides
Then let's combine the conversation between 'Mr. Bishop' and Blake in Blake's boyhood room.
A clear operating route emerged like this
Blake was involved in the night market incident that happened last night. Now all media information has been blocked (Zach didn't see any news about the night market when he read the newspaper today). What he is waiting for is for the real owner to come forward. All the trends and rhythms of public opinion are... Leave it to the rightful owner to control.
As soon as Blake stood up and pulled out the city government, at the same time, Bishop, who had been silent for more than half a year, followed up. The West District and the North District completed the meeting, and the public opinion and rhythm that could cover the entire Barton were spread. Bishop and the city government joined forces. Once established, hello Newton, I'm here to buy you.
It's almost time to finish talking about the big shots.
During the free social time, due to the special decoration characteristics of Stone Manor (there are glass walls everywhere that cannot provide privacy), guests scattered in various spaces of the manor to communicate. Under such guest coverage...a young couple who had disappeared from the dinner party earlier...well, it wasn't Alice and Maya who went to solve physical problems, but Kepler and Jimmy. Yes, Alice and Maya saw the two people when they were looking for the bathroom.
They are, in... can't say.
Kepler and Jimmy were doing unspeakable things. I don't know if they were lucky or bad. The people who discovered that they were doing this kind of thing were Mr. Smith and Mr. Uri who deliberately wanted to stay away from other people. The two fathers of the young lovers.
Socializing was forcibly terminated, and the parents of the West End family were furious: "Are we too indulgent of you?! Are you doing this kind of thing every time you get together to have fun?!!"
All third generations in the West End, grounded. Alice and Maya? Was returned to Grande.
Alice and Maya are back, and of course... God is also back.
Believe me, it would be a good thing for Zach to have 'Jian' back together. Because Alice and Maya have been hesitating since they came back, not knowing what to say about what happened at the dinner.
It's like this. When the powerful man Barton was talking about business, the two girls who went to Stone Manor for the first time were looking for the bathroom and missed it. When they had some free social time, they were too shy to speak out about what happened.
As a result, everything was told by the God of the Republic who unexpectedly fit in the specific architectural environment of Stone Manor. 'Jian' explained to Zach everything that happened in Stone Manor.
When Zach listened to the future plans reached by the West End and Anthony city officials in the North End, Zach, who was in a good mood, agreed with such a plan. Zach is looking forward to the exchanges between the guests during the free socializing. Smith and Yuri get together to avoid other people's conversations. Aren't you curious~~ Don't forget the love-hate entanglement between these two families. ~
Pity.
Kepler and Jimmy... forget it. Young love is impulsive and reckless... Zach could only comment like this.
Instead, 'Jian' said something that made Zach somewhat unsure of its meaning, "The impulse of young love? No, that girl deliberately designed it."
Zach could only confirm that the girl in Jian's mouth was referring to Kepler, but, design? Designing to lose their virginity in a social setting where all the important people were present, including their parents... Zach didn't quite understand.
Zach can't understand, we can't. We are God's perspective, so I know. Kepler's love has long been impure. The ghost knows on which glass Jian saw the whole process, so Jian used its appraisal essence to draw this conclusion that only God's perspective can know.
Forget it, let’s not talk about it anymore, I’m in a bad mood.
Anyway, this is the result. The boys and girls in the high school group are banned. It can be expected that for a long time in the future, Alice and Maya will not be able to get together with their friends except going to school.
Back to the present.
After Alice and Maya go to bed, Zach begins to worry about the heated confrontation in the restaurant.
We've only seen the beginning.
Yes, that beginning where Darcy said Jason was a suspect.
Is Jason a suspect? No, of course we who know the whole story know that Jason is not a suspect, he is a victim, a poor man who was injured by violence.
snort. But in the mouth of a police chief who is a successor, is it surprising that he becomes a suspect of causing harm
During the day, our 'little cute guy' Jason also gave another inheritor a reason, saying that it was normal for an inheritor to hate people like him~
Since you think it's normal for others to hate you, don't get angry here and let others treat you as a villain.
Yes, that's why Zack doesn't know how to control an outbreak in a restaurant. Zach's understanding of the human heart fails here. Zach was a little confused about how Jason understood himself. Therefore, Zach didn't know how to mediate directly between Jason and Darcy.
Let's be objective.
There is a reason why Zach's grasp of people's hearts has such a deviation.
First of all, we mentioned it early this morning. Zach didn't see the news about the nightclub in the newspaper. I told everyone at the time that Toledo's pride in adapting to the times was somewhat frustrated by Zach's inability to see the development of the times from an event that no one discussed and had no public opinion.
What Zach can feel is just his subjective feeling. For example, according to empirical morality, it is wrong to use violence against vulnerable groups without meaning. But this is just empiricist morality, isn't it? How the times develop cannot be determined by the experience of a four-century-old vampire. The human life span of a hundred years is not enough to accumulate the same amount of experience as a vampire. This has been fully proven in history. Yes, violence against vulnerable people is the normal state of human beings in every era.
Name a time in humanity when no vulnerable people were harmed? There is no such time.
Even though Toledo’s unforgettable slave era is over, sorry, slaves have gained equal rights, but a new bottom class has also emerged, right? When the feudal era turned into the capital era, new suppressed, exploited, and harmed classes also emerged.
Who knows that in this era of capital, which is slightly superior to the one that just emerged, are these people represented by Jason the new bottom class
Zach doesn’t know anyway. Again, without anyone discussing or public opinion, Zach cannot judge the direction of the times.
Therefore, Zach could not accurately grasp the future direction of the perpetrator and victim in the nightclub incident at this moment.
Even now, after Zach knows the West End people and the city government's plans for the nightclub incident, Zach cannot confirm the direction.
Because the incident has not been reported or made public, Director Darcy, who controls law enforcement, obviously does not have the same ideas as the people of the West District and the city government.
right. The moment Darcy saw Jason, he labeled him a suspect. This can already explain Darcy's attitude.
In most cases, Zach will ignore Darcy's personal thoughts because Darcy is not important. He is just an airborne chess piece sent by the Sabbat. After the Sabbat has already had Hamilton, Frank, and other vampires who can truly represent the Sabbat, whatever Darcy does no longer has any weight in Zach's heart.
After the collapse of Darcy's secret connection with the Lister family in an attempt to influence the mayoral election, there's nothing to say about Zach's attitude. Darcy's parachute landing of Barton for the Sabbat has been defeated by Zach. Darcy is probably a useless person in the eyes of the Sabbat. Is it really possible for the Sabbat to support Darcy and let Darcy maintain law and order in Barton? Oh, when Louise knew that the Siren was harassing Noel Beach, did Louise forget about finding Darcy? How did Darcy answer Louise? Sabbat, huh, they don’t care about Barton’s security!
However, this is not the case in most cases now.
I don’t know if you still remember a bit about the simulated world that Zach explored with the company of Papa Midnight when he first fell into a time loop.
A little review. In order to obtain the secrets in Barton, Papa Midnight imprisoned Mayor Anthony in the simulated world, which had little impact on reality anyway. As a result, Barton's situation collapsed rapidly. Barton's various alien forces took sides, ushering in the destruction of the world (simulation) in the war.
During this whole process, several characters appeared that surprised Zach. One of them was Darcy, who immediately became a stranger.
At that time, Zach briefly speculated about the reason why Darcy would betray the Sabbat. Darcy's coming to Barton was originally a task arranged by the Sabbat. Darcy once said bluntly that this was his last chance to maintain the human life cycle. If he failed to obtain immortality in this life cycle, he would return to the random life cycle of the past, and he would be a low-level creature who knows what. Life begins a new cycle.
Zach's guess is that after Papa imprisoned Mayor Anthony at midnight, something directly led Darcy to believe that his mission had failed and that he could not obtain the immortality he must obtain in this life cycle from the Sabbat. Blood. So he turned to Zach, hoping to get the chance to become a vampire from Zach.
This speculation still holds true.
Because judging from some clues, the Sabbat has become increasingly distant from Darcy. In addition to the example of Louise, there are also the attitudes shown by the city law enforcers represented by Darcy and Hamilton represented by the Sabbat when the Sirens attacked Barton and caused Barton's social events.
You can feel it. It has been Barton's wizard and vampire (Novel) who cooperated with Barton's human police to deal with the incident and eliminate the threat. What are the representatives of the Sabbat doing? Selling blood.
Darcy has become increasingly disconnected from the Sabbat.
Zach didn't know what Darcy's current mental state was, or what Darcy would choose in such a situation.
Darcy might really lean towards Zach like he did in that simulated world, or he might seize a little hope and try to crawl back to the Sabbat... Or he might... completely indulge and give up on himself.
Don't take it as a joke to have a choice at the end.
You must know that Mayor Anthony in the simulation world was captured by Papa at midnight as an unexpected incident. You’ve all heard the story of the frog boiled in warm water. If you turn on the fire instantly, the big frog will jump out. If you simmer it slowly, the frog will swim slowly, swim around, roll its eyes, and die.
Isn't Darcy in reality a frog in warm water, being ignored by everyone bit by bit. If we hadn't occasionally paid attention to some of James' actions, I'm afraid we wouldn't remember this director, no? What
Isn't it strange that Darcy just wanders around in a state where no one loves him and gives up on himself
So, in this case, Zach has no way of judging Darcy's thoughts.