Grande.
The girl Nana seemed to have temporarily forgotten to go home and was eating packed food in the restaurant.
Zach called Vega's Legacy detective in his office to explain Lily's situation.
"Uh, perfect!" This was a sarcastic remark, "Another case of an alien abducting a human child!"
The violent tone of his voice fully demonstrated Vega's current social situation. Well, 'again' is the point.
"Can it be solved?" Zach asked.
"I need to find some connections. After all, from the information you provided, this is not a simple child kidnapping case!" Detective Bell said, "This child is a child in the adoption system! So pursuing legal aid is not something Human parents are the government’s foster home agency!”
Zach heard it, "The government? The current Vega government is very chaotic, right?"
"Chaotic?" the detective continued to be angry, "It can't be described as chaotic! God knows what those vampires from Lesembra are doing! The city government is almost abolished!"
Let's fight for power in Lesembra.
"Will this have any impact on the case?" After all, Zach was not in Vega to experience the situation there personally, so some things cannot be relied on just by imagination.
"It's either very, very good, or very, very bad!" It was like nonsense, "If anyone wants to use this case as a model, hey, that Lily can't run away!"
typical? I'm afraid it's more than a typical meaning. How many children can be kidnapped by normal human parents? Haha, but if it were the government’s foster care system, there would be many children who could be kidnapped~~
Gee, maybe you shouldn't say this in a joking tone. But politics, everyone understands it.
"But similarly, if those Lesembras are worried that Lily's original identity as Lutresembra's secretary will affect their current struggle for power, this matter can probably be easily resolved!"
As expected, it's either good or bad at the extremes, with no in-between.
"Then please detective, please control the matter in a direction where we can all save trouble."
"*!" A meaningless swear word, a simple expression of emotion, "I'll try my best!" That's all I can say.
Before hanging up, "About Barton's Darcy..."
"You have full direction, Darcy is completely under Barton's control, and your secret is safe."
"kindness!"
The call ends.
Zach put down the phone and looked at Lily sitting across from the desk, "Are you relieved?"
Lily sat expressionless for a while, and started a new topic without expressing her position at all, "I need food. Is there any place in Barton where I can get real food?"
Corpses, human corpses.
There just happened to be a corpse in Grande... I took on the funeral work yesterday... But don't worry, everyone. Zach wouldn't do something so disgusting.
"There is also a ghoul in Barton, and his previous source of food was the three funeral homes in Barton that performed cremations." The point is that it used to be, but it is no longer possible. Ford Funeral Home has increased its price, and Mill and Allen Funeral Home have done so for their own reasons ( and the Southern District Police Department) will no longer provide food to Harrison. "Now this ghoul has opened a homeless shelter in Newtown..."
Before Zach could finish speaking, Lily's critical disgusted expression appeared again: "Buying a body from a funeral home? What a..." Her eyes flashed, "A sad way of life! We are not mice! We can only live in the dark. Survive in the sewers!”
Hey, I'm afraid this mentality can't be changed for a while. I really can’t blame Lily. After all, based on common sense, a society that allows a person to truly show his or her life is more advanced than a society that needs to hide oneself!
Alien Lily, who comes from an 'high-level' society like Vega, will naturally criticize Barton's 'low-level' society!
But the society built by the Sabbat is outside the scope of common sense! Is the Sabbat really 'advanced'? It does provide an environment in which any race can live with its true attributes, but at the same time, it also puts a price on these races!
advanced
Do we really think a society that puts a price on the forehead of every race is superior? What are we? An admirer of slave society
Lily's criticism wasn't over yet, "A homeless shelter?" She looked at Zach in disbelief, "Do I have to kill myself if I want to eat??"
There is nothing to say about this misunderstanding. After all, we once thought that Harrison opened the shelter to store his own food. It's just that our expression is not as 'advanced' as Lily's. Haha, go kill it yourself...
Zach waved his hands without giving any expression, "First of all, Harrison's shelter is a real shelter, used to help homeless people. Is there such a thing in the West? Or should we say that once a citizen is abandoned by society, Just throw them into the slums and let them fend for themselves." Zach was already very polite. At least the slums were a benevolent 'home' in a society that reified all values. "This is not the west. We have people who will help anyone who needs it. Help people, even aliens.”
From the beginning, Zach did not want to indulge Lily's contradictory sense of superiority. It was necessary to hit Lily at the right time. Of course, everything is still for the purpose of quickly letting the new ghoul understand the new environment. Zach will not have a meaningless civilized debate with Lily. In subjective opinions, no one can convince anyone.
The reason why Zach mentioned alien races is also very clear, "Harrison's shelter in Newton is mainly to accommodate alien races. If you have the ability to 'obtain' (kill yourself) food at the shelter, you can do whatever you want. , just bear the consequences."
There are many aliens from the West in Newton's asylum, and they are almost in the same situation as Lily, unable to stay in the West. If Lily really has the consciousness to start to have enough food and clothing and return to the barbaric alien life, Zach has nothing to say.
But Zach knew that Lily wouldn't, because if they were really those aliens who had completely given up on civilization, why bother coming to the east and just join the full-scale alien chaos in the middle, right
Therefore, Lily can be regarded as a typical example of these aliens who are undergoing population migration. She is a representative of those aliens who have become accustomed to living in human civilized society and are looking for any aliens who can retain a civilized way of life.
"Harrison's asylum has connections with various alien races, including Newton's former phantom lord Rich, Patton's Alpha (Benjamin)'s ancestors' office, and Papa Midnight's subordinate Pochquin's sanatorium. "We know this relationship very well, right? Harrison's asylum is a transit point for aliens who want to enter Barton. Zach didn't try to fill Lily with so much of Barton's social connections right from the start. Instead, he said, "The Ancestors Office is a place where aliens can solve life problems. You were Root's secret. You should know a lot about this." ." Provides Lily with a way to solve things that you can entrust. After all, this is the basic problem of alien life. But this is not Zach’s suggestion. “Newton Richie has been doing coordination work between humans and aliens.”
After we have seen Richie's fantasy agency, we can have doubts about Zach's statement that Richie, the fantasy man, is almost indulging the depraved desires of mankind. But there is no need to deny that fantasy people do use their abilities to build a bridge between human desires and alien lifestyles. Don’t judge whether this bridge is good or bad. It is human beings who have dark desires. Illusion People only provide an alien way to realize them. Similarly, humans also have bright desires, and Illusion People have also realized them, right? For example, Newton International exchange student program obtained by the university.
For Lily, what Zach expresses here is that "the social atmosphere in Newton is very... special, and your food problems can be solved easily."
What Zach is expressing is not only that Fantasy Richie intentionally or unintentionally condones the dark desires of some humans, but also that Angel Newton, as an angel, gives humans too much encouragement to do whatever they want in order to obtain souls to enrich the population of heaven. .
Lily's Food, in Newton, is plentiful. There is no need to sugarcoat this point for Newton, anyway, Newton is not Barton’s yet.
"I'll stay in Barton." Lily didn't know if she heard Zach's intention of introducing her to Newton, and suddenly interrupted Zach, "I'm not stupid, I know where it is for me. Safe!" Looking at Zach, "And now in the entire federation, hum, the entire world, you are the safest place!"
Zach blinked subconsciously, not because he was suddenly relieved by this 'praise' and had to control his expression, but instead, "You mean you want to rely on me, Grandri?"
rely?
Zach had no expectation of providing Lily with a permanent place to live.
When a fragile woman says, 'I need a place to live, do you have a place?'
Answer 'I have'. It's the behavior of a gentleman.
There is no need to talk about avoiding suspicion, we will not question Zach's character in this aspect. Four centuries and only two marriages, well, what proof do you need?
Zach's original intention was more to compensate, and to give Logan face... Logan actually didn't have much face, but Zach didn't want to let Logan down, so that was okay.
Giving Lily a temporary place to adjust was just what Zach had expected. You asked Zach to leave the person with the identity of the former secretary of Lutrecenbra outside to adapt to the environment of Barton and the environment of Toledo City?
Therefore, it is inevitable that Lily is destined to live in Grande for a period of time, expanding the meaning of the 'halfway house' that the human government threw to Grande to the alien level. But Lily pinched off the 'halfway' in her own consciousness.
Lily looked at Zach, "Lai? Why do you speak so harshly?" She looked confused.
Well, that was Zach's fault, poor choice of words, "Were you planning to stay in the Grand?"
Lily frowned and stopped looking at Zach, "I don't know if you have any presumptions about me." The words were incomprehensible, "But your image in my heart has been almost destroyed."
Zach tilted his head, "Huh?"
"Logan is your subordinate, Charlie is your subordinate, and Russell is your subordinate. A human who wants to become a foreign race, a descendant who has been exchanged for blood, and a person who found a friend who became a vampire and became a blood businessman." Lily shook her head, "They are not the marginalized people that the vampires I know would care about. I thought you could provide a future for such a person. You, a vampire, are different from all the vampires I know. You have..." Lily sipped her lips. Zui thought for a moment and waved his hand, "There is a reason why you are addicted to Root."
He looked at Zach, "But in such a short period of time when I really came into contact with you, I was so disappointed."
Zach could only say another "Huh??"
"There is no difference between you and the vampires I know. You have a natural sense of superiority and feel that others are inferior to you! All the arrangements you make for others are not based on the tolerance and empathy I originally thought you had. , just looking down on sympathy.”
Uh, how did this conclusion come to you
Lily explained: "Obviously you don't like the society created by the Sabbat, but you are also stubborn and refuse to admit the flaws in the city of Barton you created!" Lily stared at Zach, "Do you think that in your city of Barton? , there are some so-called people who understand foreign races, can this city be harmonious? While you are arrogantly mocking the social value of the Sabbat, in your own city, are these inhuman aliens valuable??" Lily's emotions seemed to be different. He began to vent, "Or do you think that all species have value if they put on a mask of human society on the outside?"
Zach blinked and seemed to understand a little bit of Lily's logic. The origin of these words is what Zach said to Lily in the restaurant.
"You have such a sense of superiority when you install aliens in the structure of human society? What do you mean, my target is just an ordinary citizen, so the city government and police in Barton will not trouble me? I am a ghoul, I don't need it I want to thrive like human beings, but in your Barton, will my life become a part of human society? What else can I say that there are people who understand me among the common people? Why should I let the common people understand me? I Do I need to care about what my neighbors are doing or what they think of me? I don’t need to, he doesn’t understand, I’m still alive there, stronger and longer than him as a human being!”
Lily's criticism was beyond Zach's understanding after all.
But... this can be considered a good thing. Zach collected these overflowing thoughts and broadened his knowledge.
Zach nodded, "I understand." Zach looked at Lily seriously, "This is my fault. No, I think it is the fault of both of us. You were the first to show resistance to Barton society. I can only be defensive. I want to apologize for expressing a presupposition about your attitude towards life."
Lily leaned back in the chair and tilted her head, already beginning to relax.
The office was quiet for a while, "I thought you were the kind of person who would understand every living creature. As long as it is a living creature, it has its own pursuit of life." Lily said.
Zach answered quickly, "I am." He expressed his opinion first, and then continued to apologize, "I don't think Barton is superior. It's true that I don't like the atmosphere of the Sabbat, but I don't think Barton is that good either." This is also true, For details, please see Zach’s journey in his heart a few days ago. "Let's start over."