The funeral in the afternoon was kept simple. At the Church of the Holy Son, Father Dance came to the cemetery to say a blessing, and the burial ceremony began.
Zach was watching the ceremony and looked at Mother Teresa's expression. She didn't seem to know that Daisy was already in hell, so he was ready to remind her, "Sister, Daisy..."
"I've seen her in hell." This nun seemed to have the ability to predict things.
"Then you still look sad?"
"Should I be happy? Among the three girls, Daisy is the only one who has recited the holy scriptures seriously. Now that she is in hell, should I be happy?"
"Uh..." Zach decided not to disturb Mother Teresa and returned to Grande.
As soon as I got home, I saw a 'surprise'.
James and Wes are back.
"Newton's..." Zach wanted to talk about Newton's situation, but he was cut off from the conversation.
"What is this?!" James held today's newspaper and placed the social section in front of Zach, "What did you do again?!"
Zach lost the desire to chat with the two detectives, "You are free, I have something to do."
Zach is really in trouble. At noon, Thorin Rimmer called and said that something happened in the nightclub and asked Zach to come and take a look.
It was impossible for James and Wes to stop Zach from leaving.
Not to mention the moving process, when Zach arrived at the nightclub, he was a little surprised to find Benjamin there. Zach really had the urge to turn around and leave, but after being glanced at and tutted by Benjamin, he gave up the idea of turning around and walked into the nightclub swaggeringly.
"What happened?" Zach asked Thorin who greeted him.
It is far from the opening hours of the nightclub. The light source in the nightclub is sufficient, and the nightclub venue has an atmosphere only under the psychedelic lights. Now it looks like just a strangely landscaped... bar. "Follow me behind."
Zach and Benjamin followed side by side, neither looking at the other.
After passing through a heavy door that seemed to be intentionally designed to create sound insulation, the three of them came to a corridor lined with doors with room numbers on both sides. Thorin led the two of them deeper and deeper, "These rooms are places for guests to do things that are not suitable for public spaces."
"Huh, Yao-zi-." Benjamin snorted.
Zach is not as 'vulgar' as Benjamin. There are many places on Becky Street that meet this need, but the opening party of this nightclub has already shown that its target group is foreigners, and it is too low-level to do business.
Thorin continued to explain, "The predecessor of this nightclub, the underground club, used these rooms to conduct various transactions. For example, Xiaobai and the former Valmina all traded in these rooms. I have reused these rooms now. "Looking at Benjamin, "No, Yao Zi, it's still a transaction."
Thorin opened a door and motioned for Zach and Benjamin to enter.
Zach went straight in, but Benjamin looked at the door and pointed at the surveillance camera on the lower door frame. "Is this thing of yours useful?" in a mocking tone.
"It's useless." Thorin calmly accepted the ridicule, "I can't take any pictures. I have turned off all the surveillance cameras and saved a lot of budget." He said it with self-mockery and turned on the light, "You two Please see for yourself.”
The first thing Zach saw was a pile of rotten meat. For a moment, he couldn't tell what species it was, and then he saw an obviously fierce fighting scene. The tables, cabinets, and sofas were destroyed, and the walls were covered with stains of different shades. scratches.
While Zach was still observing, Benjamin had already said a name, "Isn't this Bill?" Looking at Zach as he prepared to check the rotten meat, "I advise you not to touch that thing, it's not easy to wash."
Zach stopped getting closer to the pile of rotten meat, "Bill? Is this piece of meat Bill?"
Benjamin shook his head, straightened the tattered sofa with a lazy look, and actually sat down, "A foreigner from Newton has entrusted me with it several times."
"Newton's alien race?" Zach looked at Thorin.
Thorin nodded, "On the second day after the opening, many strange aliens came, but they were all brought by the Barton aliens. As an entertainment venue, I have no reason to deny them entry. I thought they were all friends."
Zach could already tell from Benjamin's lazy expression that, alas, this Alpha was already ahead of him. Zach didn't want to catch up on his own, so he asked Thorin directly, "It sounds like you know what's going on."
"I know part of it, but not completely." Since Benjamin had no intention of having a conversation, Thorin naturally turned to Zack who asked the question, "The person who entered this room with Bill was Barton's purgatory gatekeeper, Leo. But According to my doorman, Leo left before midnight last night, and Bill was still here after that." Thorin added, "He went out to the bar to strike up a conversation with others, and was seen by many people, so at least last night When Ou left, Bill was not what he is now."
"What is Bill?" Zach didn't want to guess and asked Benjamin directly.
"Slime."
Zach raised an eyebrow, so what's here now is not a piece of rotten flesh, but a part of Bill.
Zach motioned for Thorin to continue.
Thorin: "Then Bill entered the room with someone again." Thorin shook his head, "No one noticed who it was." Helplessly, he pointed at the surveillance camera that was not working, which meant that those high-tech objects were all Decoration is useless.
Zach probably heard that a case had occurred here in Solin, but the people involved in the case were all... inhumane. So calling the police was not something Thorin considered at all, so he invited the two people he felt could best help him deal with the matter, Zach and Benjamin.
Although he understood the reason why Thorin called him here, Zach still had some doubts, "So, Thorin, what do you want me and Benjamin to do? Find out the truth, or something else?"
"It's something else." Thorin was very direct. "My store is located in Barton, and its main customers are also Barton's foreigners. I don't really care what happens to 'outsiders' here." It's a bit too direct. , Thorin looked at Benjamin, "I just hope that my guests, since they regard my place and this nightclub as a place where they can relax after their daily lives, I hope that they will be a little considerate of my work."
Benjamin was also transparent, "Understood." He snapped his fingers, "You want me, as the Lord of Barton, to stop the aliens in Barton from doing such things here, such as dismembering slimes, right? .”
Thorin nodded, hesitated, and finally took a step back, "It's not that you don't want to do it, but even if you do, at least you will only hear from me. I am a vampire after all, and I am the only Rimmer clan that has mastered magic. , I don’t mind helping you with what you can do for your guests.” Showing the dilapidated room, “Renovation will be included in Smith’s industrial financial records.”
"Understood." Benjamin snapped his fingers again.
"Then what else do you need from me?" Zach frowned beside him. Zach actually figured it out. When Thorin invited Zach to the nightclub opening party on Saturday, Zach realized that the Rimmer clan was using the nightclub to attract Barton's aliens, who were competitors of Benjamin, the city lord. Then looking at Thorin's words to Benjamin, it is obvious that Thorin is showing his kindness, saying that Rimmer has no intention of competing with Alpha. "You are the boss, and any rules related to the alien lifestyle in Barton are your job, boss." , we will never overstep our bounds, we are just a small business relying on your breath.'
If Zach went to deal with it just to watch Rimmer kneel and lick Alpha... Zach would rather be harassed by James at home.
Thorin watched Zach be quiet for a while. The silence made Zach feel a little uncomfortable.
"I just said, I have continued to use these rooms for their previous functions, providing them to my guests to complete some transactions that are not suitable for public disclosure." He continued to look at Zach, "For transactions between alien races, we used to be a secret alliance. I also know a lot about the members..."
Zach frowned. This is a fact. The former Secret Alliance did not require the foreign races in the central region to follow the rules of the Secret Alliance, or, to use the Sabbat as an analogy, the laws of the Sabbat.
In essence, the Secret Alliance, like any alien group in the central region, is an inhuman group that obtains resources in the same human society.
Transactions between different races refer to resources in human society.
For example, living space, identity, necessities of human life...
There are many such transactions between alien groups. To give a simple example, an alien who is tired of one identity can sell his identity to another, which is a serious violation of human law.
The secret alliance used to do this kind of thing a lot. If the family is big and the business is big, if other aliens are not willing to sell, then they will buy it by force, huh, otherwise, everyone thinks, how come an alien group that is essentially the same as other alien groups attracts so much hatred? As soon as the Secret Alliance left, the entire central region immediately celebrated with a chaotic fight for the lord...
Zach's frown was because he didn't want to mention the secret alliance. After all, Zach hadn't done such a bad thing for a long, long time. Zach wanted to interrupt and remind Thorin that the current Zach had nothing to do with this kind of thing.
There was no need for Zach to interrupt, Sorin continued, "There is a kind of deal, a deal that our former secret alliance deliberately turned a blind eye to." What Sorin wanted to say was something else entirely. "Vampire blood."
Zach changed his expression and frowned, looking at Thorin, "What did you say?"
"Hasn't the Secret Alliance done this kind of thing before?" Thorin pursed his lips, not quite understanding what Zack's question meant. "And I remember that most of this kind of thing was done silently by Toledo behind his back. Manipulated. You deliberately released some vampire blood into the alien races, and then instigated those alien races to compete for the omnipotent healing medicine, and made those alien races pay a large amount of resources in the transaction of robbing each other of vampire blood, and then keep our secret alliance occupied forever Maximum human resources, stay low.”
Zach opened his mouth... and instinctively glanced at Benjamin on the sofa.
Benjamin looked completely unsurprised, which made Zach sad.
Zach twitched his lips, "It's all in the past, what do you mean by bringing this up now."
Thorin felt Zach's displeasure and hesitated a little, "I, I guess, this Bill and Leo are trading your blood..."
"What?" Zach tilted his mouth.
"After Leo left, didn't Bill go outside to strike up a conversation with others? Several Barton aliens confirmed that he was asking who still had the blood of Barton Toledo, and he wanted to buy it." Thorin observed Zha carefully. Ke's face said, "My guess is that the transaction between him and Leo didn't succeed, and the transaction he came back to here later didn't succeed either, and then something happened to make the result of the transaction become like this."
Benjamin interjected. This Alpha probably couldn't help it, "Well! That should be it~ Haha, after all, you are the only one who has delivered blood in Barton. Remember Linda and Cliff's wedding? You delivered it all by hand. One bottle~~”
Zach glanced at Benjamin gloomily, "Those are the 'General's' blood." In fact, if anyone remembers it, Zach forcibly bled the 'General' on the grounds of teaching the 'General' to control self-healing. Zach glanced at Benjamin gloomily, "Those are the 'General's' blood." In fact, if anyone remembers it, Zach forcibly bled the 'General' on the grounds of teaching the 'General' to control self-healing.
"It's all the same~" Benjamin didn't hide his smile at all.
Zach didn't want to be in the same room with Benjamin anymore. Pulling Thorin out of the room, he adjusted his mood and said seriously, "You said that some of Barton's alien races are selling the gifts I gave them?"
Thorin knew that this fact would make people feel uncomfortable, "So I want to tell you this situation." He glanced at the room he had left, "As you can see, I don't care much about what happened inside. But I think you should know that there is such a thing.”
Zach pursed his lips and thought for a while, "Okay, now I know, thank you."
After saying that, Zach had no intention of saying hello to Benjamin and was about to leave.
"What do you want to do?" Thorindo asked, "Are you going to go find that Leo and ask him why he wanted to sell your blood?"
"No need to ask." Zach was straightforward, "He can't use it. If I have a gift that is of no use to me, I will exchange it for something practical." Zach waved his hand and left. He paused for a moment and turned to look at Thorin, "If possible, if there is another transaction of Toledo's blood here, can you help me buy it, or... inform me and I will buy it."
"You want to control Toledo's blood flow." Thorin was smart.
Zach nodded, "In the past, this kind of thing was not a consideration for me, and I didn't care if I had more sons for no reason. Now, I need to think about it, and even take precautions against this kind of thing."
Thorin nodded, "I will help you."
Zach also nodded, said no more, and left the nightclub. (To be continued)