Winston crawled out of the dug grave covered in sweat and mud. He hesitated when approaching Zach, but turned around and cleaned himself up before approaching Zach, "The Sabbat, uh, Is it really that bad?”
Roy had already told Hank many stories about the Sabbat, such as how Root deceived travelers with gold mining during the founding of the Federation and forced them to stay in the west for construction. For example, how Root used the blood that heals everything and has eternal life to lure humans into submission, and has always been entrenched at the top of the human social structure. For example, how Root promoted racial superiority and used comprehensive social discrimination to keep Indians at the bottom of society. For example, Root...
Winston had been listening so much that he suddenly felt inspired and ran over to find Zach.
"You've never lived in the West, right?" Zach glanced at Winston and asked.
"No."
"Then I guess you can only trust a vampire who has lived in the West for four centuries, right?" Erlian asked. Everyone can learn this speaking skill, but don’t abuse it, as it may make people hate you.
Zach felt it was almost done and walked towards Hank and Roy.
"... You would think that since I have done so much for Rut Lesembra, he would have a hint of revolutionary feelings and stand by me, but he does not! He..."
"That's it, Roy." Zach waved his hand, indicating that Roy could leave.
Roy looked dissatisfied with desire, "I haven't finished yet!" He actually laughed there, very cheerfully, "Ha! I just realized that this feeling is so good! For so long! All of this My true thoughts towards Lute Lesembra! Those... resentments! I want to say it once and for all! I want to..."
It wasn't Zach who interrupted, it was Hank's look. He looked at Roy with a turbid, sympathetic look that only an elderly human being who had lived long enough would have wrinkled skin on his face, embedded in the cracks of the wrinkled skin.
Roy froze for a moment, "Why are you looking at me like that??" He also glanced at Zach, "I'm not the one who should be pitied here! No! There is no one who needs to be pitied here at all! It’s Root! We should criticize Root together! How disgusting his existence is! Instead of looking at me with sympathy here!!”
Oh, someone is broken.
Based on the fact that Roy was damaged by Hank's human eyes, Zach also sighed in an anthropomorphic manner, "Roy, go cry over there." Then he really didn't care about Roy and held his hand. Hank, before Hank could say anything, "Let's go for a walk."
Hank neither agreed nor refused. It's just that Winston over there has already taken the initiative to find Roy. "Do you have any more stories? From the Sabbat, I'm a little curious..." Leave them alone.
Zach spoke first, "What do you think?"
Hank didn't ask what he thought, but said, "A waste of life." Commenting on Roy Zmich's four world lives, "Being loyal to a dictator."
"You also have to understand the situation of the Tsimich clan." If he had ever talked about vampires with the human old Hank and Zach, "The Tsmish clan after the colonial war was very bad. They were responsible for almost all vampires." Fang's loss. And the secret alliance I initiated has stated that it will not allow the Tsimishi clan to be compensated for the loss. The Sabbat of Lesembula is his only home."
"So he made the right choice at the moment." Hank seemed to agree with Zach's judgment about Roy - Roy was good at making decisions. "But now that he has so much resentment for his four centuries of life, huh, come to think of it, if you give him another chance to choose, he won't be so 'right'."
"Now is his second chance." Zach no longer defended Roy, "Everyone knows what Toledo is and what kind of person I am. When I speak, I have a purpose. "Now is not Zach's time for introspection, it is, "Roy came to Barton, came to Grande, knowing that I would twist his heart and manipulate him into doing things that went against what he had always insisted on. But he still came. "
Hank glanced at Zach. He didn't let out an energetic 'Hmph!' like the old Hank did. '
This is the best proof that Hank is not disgusted with Zach yet. Zach continued, "I don't regard myself as a 'master', thinking that I really changed Roy's attitude toward Root Lesenbra with just a few words." Loyalty. The fact is, he has made a new choice, and I just said those words when the time was right."
"Huh." Hank didn't hum, and said, "For you, all events controlled by you are like this. Say certain things at the right time." It was a mockery, and it was also a summary of reality.
"Yes, I'm really happy that you want my blood." It was not a tender moment, "We have lived together for so many years, and you are willing to get to know me."
Hank stared at Zach and said, "Are you going to disgust me and leave, or do you have something else to say?"
The tone told Zach that he could no longer wear down Hank's patience. Zach was quite conscious, "Lute Lesembra will not ignore your existence forever."
Hank tilted his head, as if he didn't want to continue listening. However, everyone remembers that if you really don’t want to talk to a person, the right thing to do is to walk away and never have contact with that annoying chatterbox. Just starting from the side? People will think that you are trying to refuse but still welcome.
Zach continued, "Now more and more vampires in the Sabbat are beginning to accept the opposition between Root and me. All the secrets of our performance in Grande will one day be known to everyone." Zach paused. , "As Frank, the ancestor of Root who thought he was still under his control, you deliberately stayed in Grande to disgust me, and you are still free to choose how you want to use your eternal life. But when the truth unfolds in all Grande , you have no choice. Rut Lesembula will not allow one of his second-generation brothers to live 'peacefully' beside me."
Hank answered, "Haha, is it because you successfully won over all the people sent from the Sabbat? Haha, no wonder Lute Lesembra hates you."
"It's not my fault. I'm not the guy with pathological obsessions (Zager's creation). I never meant to compete with him." Zach waved his hand and said in a natural and teasing tone, "The Thirteen Clan Convocation I didn't know him before. After I came to this continent, I realized that among all the second-generation vampires valued by the ancestors of the Thirteenth Clan, I was the youngest. If I were to say one thing about Lute... What I want to say is that the fact that Lesembra recognized was that he was the one who showed malice from the beginning, and he was the one who disliked the young me.”
Hank glanced at Zach again and continued to taunt, "Lute is the only one who is dissatisfied with you, a young and promising young man."
"Okay, everyone is upset with me." Zach admitted, and there's nothing to sugarcoat, the facts are here, "But no one crosses the line like Lute Lesembra." Zach shook his head, "You I know that if it weren’t for Root’s personal ill will towards me, there would be no secrets and Sabbats in the Federation, and the thirteen clans would work together to build the country of the Federation. None of what we are facing now would have happened.”
Maybe it was because Zach rarely spoke in such a positive tone, Hank was quiet for a while, "I thought the difference between the Secret and the Sabbat was the attitude towards faith."
"Yes, but no matter how different the differences are, it is a fact that vampires will lose to werewolves. Stopping the losses of the vampire race is the result that every vampire needs." Zach suddenly stood still and looked at Hank, "Give up the name of winning or losing the war. (the victory of the human side, the defeat of the alien side), and the establishment of a new country together with the Indians. The reason for the extermination war is the only way for us to end the war and protect everyone. Everyone knows this fact, but Root ·Lesenbra insisted on opposing the solution proposed by the youngest Toledo."
Hank took two steps before stopping, and was forced to look at Zach's unusually serious eyes. He stood with a wrinkled face for a while before speaking, "So you mean that for Root, faith is just an excuse? "
"I'm not saying that faith is completely an excuse. What I mean is that it was the only bargaining chip that Root could use against me in the situation at that time." Zach maintained a serious expression, "Lute Lesembula is a coward. , knowing that I had successfully stopped the war and the vampires were safe, then I picked up the flag of faith and pretended to be a loyal believer."
Hank opened his mouth, then closed it, and was quiet for a while again. He looked up at Zach and said, "You really want me to hate Lute Lesembra, right? I don't care if you ask Roy to vomit so much." The bitterness is not enough, we also need to mention the origin of the Thirteen Clans and the origin of the Vampire Alliance to disparage the personality of Lute Lesembra."
Hank is a sensible man. As the saying goes, experience does matter.
Zach didn't deny it, and spread his hands, "Besides me, is there anyone better suited to say these things?"
Ah. Yes, that's a good fit.
Hank shook his head, "What do you want from me?"
"Struggle for power with Lute Lethembra."
"It can't be done." Hank started to move forward again, "I'm here, he's in the west." Hank may have deliberately wanted to be funny, and also made a gesture of grabbing something from the air. After completing this sudden movement, he placed his hand full of air in front of Zack who was following.
"The point is that you are here." Zach didn't even look at the air that Hank grabbed. "Use Lute to not be wary of you yet. Hank, the aliens are abnormally migrating to the cities east of the Federation. This is no longer the case." There were rumors of an ownerless city here last year. It was because the entire federation knew about Newton and Barton’s situation, and there were aliens coming here.”
Hank thought, "So what, aliens are not human beings. Humans live in one place with families and jobs. Population migration is not that easy. What do aliens have? Who do they need to report to wherever they want to go?" Hank I probably didn't mean to belittle foreigners, but that's what I meant, and it was clearly expressed.
"It's not that simple." Zach didn't complain about the new vampire Hank's prejudice against alien life. "Well, for example, when aliens came to Barton at the beginning of last year, you know that Benjamin and I both judged those aliens as low-level aliens, right? Benjamin also made a very simple decision to kill whatever he could, without any problems."
Hank frowned.
"But you also know that during the seven or eight years that Benjamin and I lived in Barton, we did not kill all the aliens who settled in Barton. We reached a symbiotic agreement with each other."
Hank whispered, "I don't know about your life in Grande." This can only be regarded as a half-truth, because in fact, Zach and Benjamin cleaned up the aliens in Barton and made a republic agreement with the aliens. Period is when Zach and Anthony, who was still a police detective, lived together. Grande wasn't in Zach's life at that time.
But only this half is true, the other half is—
"You know, you drank my blood. I can understand that your first goal in wanting my blood is to understand the meaning of Grande to me. I completely believe that you have already analyzed it. I care about Grande very much, otherwise you Won’t move back to Grande.”
Hank pouted. This is the default.
Zach did not stop, "But I also believe that you have also analyzed my previous life. Although the blood cannot show my complete life in front of you, the life of the past ten years is definitely there. You know that I am in Ge Life before Rand.”
"Okay!" Hank was now a little irritated when someone revealed that he cared about something. "I know the symbiosis agreement between you and Benjamin and the Barton alien race, then!" urged the development.
"This is the difference between the aliens who have settled in one place and the aliens who migrated." Zach satisfied Hank, "No matter how the settled aliens settled, they have more or less established social relations in this city, and they have established social relations with human beings. , or with other foreign races. This is the meaning of foreign races settling in a place, and it is also the reason why Benjamin and I have established agreements everywhere. We don’t know how long we will live with Anthony in Barton. We are based on the presupposition that we will also settle. Others either respect our choices or disappear.”
Hank listened carefully to Zach's words, "So? Are you trying to say that the lives of settled aliens are more stable than those of wandering around? Do aliens also want to have a stable life? Humph, they are still the same as humans! What's your point? "
"That's what I mean. Now, the question is why those alien races feel that Newton or Barton in the east is more stable than the western part of the Sabbat. Why do they come? Because will Lord Alpha of Barton solve the troubles of life for the alien races? Because Newton's Will the fantasy people arrange a living position for aliens in society that is expected (desired) by humans?"
Zach gave Hank time to understand, and then said, "This is what you can figure out here. In the Sabbat, in Lute Lesembra in the West? There's no way he can touch, no, his His self-respect would not allow him to understand this - the society he created is being denied."
Hank got it. After thinking for a while, his eyes briefly flashed with light, "The reason why I became a vampire is still to compete with you!"
"Yes." Zach smiled and nodded, "I know, it's such a simple, random, and a little childish boring decision~ But you have to find something interesting to do for this eternal life, right~" Zach finished laughing and said, "I should go back and prepare dinner. What would Winston like to eat~"
"Ask Winston!" (To be continued)