On Tuesday, nothing interesting happened. Only Zach listened for a while when Winston came to see Old Hank again, and found that the two of them did not mention anything about Old Hank's missing whereabouts and the injured Grand employees yesterday. Zach was deeply touched. Happy~
Nothing interesting happened on Wednesday, but 'Jian' started to complain, "When Louise is here, I can also watch the interaction between the two of you to understand the evil karma planted by love in the world. Louise is not here." Oh, your life is so boring."
Thursday.
While Zach was performing Human Lunch, he received a call from his dog brother.
"Should I be worried about Charlie?" Dog Brother's background sound on the other side of the receiver was noisy. It seemed to be among peers. Zach guessed, school? "After he was taken away, there was no one to protect me."
Zach didn't think Brother Dog was expressing selfishness, "Can you protect yourself?"
"It's very difficult." The dog brother answered quickly. It was obvious that the call was not made on the spur of the moment. He knew exactly what he wanted to achieve, just like he did every time he called Zach. "Lesembra called me several times. Taken out of public places, word has spread that I am a vampire candidate, and people around me are starting to look at me differently.”
"Malicious? Well-intentioned?"
"Asking for something." Dog Brother replied, "No one (ordinary people in the West) know the status of the new Toledo clan in the Sabbat. Everyone can only see it from the actions of the funeral industry in the West. Now Toledo is not comparable to the Toledo (Eli) who could only hold 'carnival' parties at night."
Zach felt a little more relieved when he heard this, "It sounds like you're pretty safe."
"But that doesn't meet your original intention of waiting for me to grow up, doesn't it?" Dog Brother answered quickly, "The purpose of waiting for me to become an adult is to make me physically and mentally sound, right? I can't After becoming immortal, I will deal with those so-called juvenile psychological problems. I can tell you right now that my growing environment is very bad. I can’t grow up at all. Every time there is someone around me who looks at me with a needy look, my My psychology is just twisted. If this continues, I will not grow into a Toledo who controls people's hearts. I will become a demon king who hates people's hearts."
Zach was holding the receiver, and the corner of his mouth was twitching... It was quite helpless to have a candidate for a descendant with an unusually far-sighted vision. Zach found that he couldn't refute the dog brother, "How is your documentary project going?" Change the topic .
"It's not that good. Ever since Lesembra stopped me from filming, I couldn't continue filming at all." We also know this fact. In order to conceal the situation of the civil war in Zmich, Root even burned Goudi's video tape. The only thing The backup was sent to Barton by the dog brother.
"If I find you a new documentary subject, can you get rid of the unhealthy environment you are in now?"
The receiver was quiet for a while, thinking. Zach waited patiently.
The dog brother spoke again, "Let's see if the things photographed in this new subject matter can overwhelm Lutresembra's power. If Zmich is like before, the material I photographed will only be destroyed again. It will have a greater impact on my healthy growth."
Zach's answer was, "No. What you are going to shoot this time is definitely the vampire ancestors, a subject that Root dare not touch." Zach paused, "Not only does Root dare not stop you, but he also wants to cooperate with you. Because you want to record the arrival of the vampire clan ancestors in the Federation in a new era. You go to Root and tell him your previous theory that human society will eventually regret that social resources are controlled by alien races (Gou Di originally filmed a funeral industry meeting held by alien races, Discovered by Zack), and then tell him that one day, he will regret that he set the precedent for the ancestors to come to the Federation." This is a fact, Root awakened Frank, and Moka, who was deliberately ignored by all parties Compared with Wei, Frank, the ancestor of the Lesenbra clan, was the first ancestor to be officially introduced into the country of the Federation under various motives. Root was the one who turned on the switch. "You tell Root that you want to help him record history."
The dog brother on the other side of the receiver was quiet for a while, "Wouldn't this make Root feel that I was provoking him on behalf of Toledo?"
"Whatever you do is provoking him on behalf of Toledo." Zach is also practical, "But he must accept this. In order to prove that his Lutresembra cannot be questioned, he will also let you record the ancestors. , allowing you to shoot the feeling that everything is under his control.”
"Then what I shoot is no longer a documentary. The content I shoot will be what Lutresembula hopes. What's the point?"
"The meaning is that Lute can't really control any clan ancestors, right?" Zach said seriously, "All he can control is you, the Toledo candidate. Dog brother, you are very smart, you know what to do Do."
The dog brother was quiet again for a while, "It is a fact that the clan ancestors have been awakened one after another (Lesenbula, Tsimihi, Cappadocia). The Sabbat vampire clans will need someone to clarify the meaning of the clan ancestors' return. . Lute also needs someone or something to stabilize the hearts of other clans, Yu Wu’s ancestor... I’m not talking about you, you know what I mean.” Dog Brother still took care of Zach’s feelings, and continued, “By It is best for Toledo to do this job without a clan ancestor, at least it is impossible for Toledo to imitate Cappadocia and continue to add a clan ancestor to the federation."
Zach was very pleased that the dog brother was on the right path, "That's it. Even if Lute was only a little irritated by the current situation of the ancestors, the only thing he could comfort was that Toledo would never cause anything like this. The new ancestor, this is the biggest motivation for him to support you."
The dog brother also became more obedient on the other side of the receiver, "So when I use the ancestor's arrival in the Federation as a provocation, he will be very happy to accept this provocation that is not worthy of Toledo at all. The current situation makes people arrogant. Root He would think that controlling Toledo means controlling the facts, and controlling the images I shoot means controlling the attitude I want to express. But he is wrong. I am just a photographer, Lutresembra, who controls the images in the camera. The clan ancestors in the camera have no control at all."
Even though he knew that Dog Brother couldn't see it, Zach still nodded here, "You can still shoot whatever you want to shoot, you can do the projects you want to do, and you can grow up healthily into an adult. "The problem is solved…
But there is another very embarrassing technical problem. We have also watched Gou Di’s documentary, which is almost just static pictures with narration. Well... I can only believe that Dog Brother can overcome it.
"I know." Dog Brother had already achieved the purpose of this call. Before hanging up, "If you have a way, you'd better save Charlie. I like him quite a lot."
"I will try my best." To the dog brother, Zach at least didn't say something like 'I'm not in the Sabbat, I can't care about it'.
Put down the phone.
Zach returns to his lunchtime show in the kitchen. Seeing that Grande was about to waste another human lunch, Detective Coulson arrived.
Just in time, Zach placed the full plate in front of Detective Coulson, "You're welcome, Detective~"
"I'm not going to be polite when I come to you at this point..." Detective Coulson began to devour the food.
Zach had time to put the cemetery album returned by the detective back to the office. Naturally, he would not go back to the restaurant after entering the office. Zach didn't want to dine with Detective Coulson.
Recording the family burial site chosen by Detective Coulson, Zach maintained his official appearance and shuffled through Grande's accounting records until Detective Coulson had processed all the food and came up to the office.
Just like Zach planned on Monday, as if just casually, "How did the case thrown at Ford that day go?"
It seemed that there was no need for Zach to ask. Coulson had planned to talk about this matter. He rubbed his belly and sat down opposite Zach. "I also want to talk to you about this matter." His eyes drifted outside the office because With the door open, you can directly see Grande's living area, "Where's Miss Louise?"
"Travel." Zach knew that Coulson had been blaming himself since the gossip about the James-Louise-Grande triangle came out (the person who gave reporters the initial information about Louise and James was Coulson) (Detective Detective Mori), but Zack didn’t want Coulson to dwell on such meaningless things, so he quickly concluded, “Let’s relax. What you want to say is...” and answered it for Coulson.
Coulson said oh and stopped asking Louise, "Things are a little strange. Originally, Chief Cologne and I were going to use some of our old connections in the North District Police Station to help you transfer the case to Ford Funeral Home, but Darcy The director’s side…”
These are processes we already know and can be skipped.
Zach didn't interrupt Coulson. After listening to Coulson explain Director Darcy's eagerness to please Grande again, he calmly said, "Of course Darcy will help me."
Coulson pursed his lips when he heard Zach's answer. He didn't say anything and had nothing to say. In the minds of Cologne and Coulson, Zach was hired by the Lance family in the west to help James. Darcy Likewise, it’s not surprising that these two guys with the same origin look out for each other.
Coulson adjusted his mood, "The blame is not that the North District Police Department forced Ford to act like (insurance), but that I heard news from people at the North District Police Department that, except for this case, the North District Police Department The police department also forcibly suppressed several similar cases.”
"What do you mean by a similar case?" Zach didn't quite understand. "Was Allen's Funeral Home also attacked?" The similar case that Zach thought was naturally based on 'the funeral home was attacked'.
Coulson opened his mouth and then quickly closed it. It was not a gesture of hesitation about what to say, but "The attack on the funeral home is just one of the recent public security cases." Coulson was just reorganizing his narrative. Frame, "This kind of thing where a bunch of civilians gather and violently attack specific facilities has happened a lot recently."
Coulson was a bit serious. As a result, Zach could only follow seriously, "Is it many? It seems that except for the attack in a nightclub last week, there is no one."
"Yes! You're on to the point." Coulson was inexplicably excited, "Last week's nightclub was attacked! It was like a beginning! But except for this beginning, nothing was reported by the media! Including this one here! "
This is true. Zach has also wanted to see in the newspapers and news in the past two days whether there is anything about funerals being attacked. After all, Ford's last threat sounds like he is seeking death, and his way of self-destruction cannot be predicted by Zach. . As a result, there was nothing related to the funeral industry in various news and reports.
Zach didn't want to think about something without any clue, "Then why is this happening?" In line with Coulson's surprise and excitement, he asked the question, and it was up to him to see Coulson's answer.
"These cases are actually the same in nature, they are all hate crimes!" Coulson said very understandingly, "A group of people cannot accept the lifestyle of a small group of people and decide to express their attitude through violence!"
This was a completely clueless answer, but because Coulson just said that the nightclub incident was the beginning, Zach had some ideas...
Zach raised his eyebrows, "The reason why Grande was attacked was because of the two corpses in Grande? Is it because of the infectious disease that indicates a problem with the lifestyle??"
"yes!"
Zach leaned back in his chair and shook his head, not knowing what to say.
What can be said
Derek used very vague terms when describing to Zach the symptoms displayed by people who underwent Zmich's medical experiments, and a certain disease that was discriminated against among humans.
But Zach is not stupid. Zach, who has lived long enough, knows that there are no diseases that have nothing to do with human lifestyles, just like people who smoke for a long time should not expect to have two healthy lungs. But we haven’t seen ordinary people gathering in groups to beat up smokers, right
Consider Derek's description of Zach. People's rejection of diseases has abnormally risen to the level of rejection of private lifestyles, and they are even malicious, and they do not hesitate to treat them with hatred and violence.
The violence of hate is the thread that now connects the two cases we have witnessed recently that were perpetrated by this violence. Then, we were aligned with Zach's current state of mind.
Zach understood why there were no reports about the attack on the funeral industry in Barton's news. The people in the West End would not allow it.
Because the nightclub case can be defined as a group of thugs maliciously attacking an innocent minority group enjoying themselves, and the victims and perpetrators are clear at a glance. The path to political manipulation is clear.
But the attacks on the funeral industry will serve as a public reminder that an innocent, self-indulgent minority is spreading a disgusting disease that can lead to disgusting deaths like the bodies lying in Grand Funeral Home.
The victims of political manipulation are no longer people worthy of sympathy, but disgusting spreaders of disease. West Enders don’t want this kind of publicity.
No wonder there have been no reports of attacks on the funeral industry in the past few days. There has also been no news from Blake and the Westsiders. It seems that these vicious events have been disrupted by these vicious incidents that must be forcibly suppressed.
Seeing that Zach didn't speak, Coulson hesitated and said, "I have to ask, when you bought those two corpses from Ford Funeral Home, did you know why those two corpses died?"
Zach glanced at Coulson and said, "You know?" Zach not only knew, but also knew that it was not a disease that humans hated at all, but an experiment by Zmich. Say you don’t know? It seems to save a lot of trouble of explanation.
That, "I don't know."
"Then why did you buy it..." Coulson interrupted his question, "Just pretend I didn't ask."
"Because..." Zach suddenly had an idea, "These two corpses are related to a certain, um, organization in the West. I can't tell you yet."
Coulson was stunned for a moment and did not ask further questions. (To be continued)