When they returned to Grand, Mr. Smith was waiting for Zack in Grand. Judging from their expressions, it was clear that the researchers who had left Zach a message to blame him had already thrown the blame away. Smith completely ignored Annabel, the new person in Grande, and directly called Zach to the office.
"You have to tell me your sources of intelligence in the Republic!" the demand started.
Zach hadn't spoken out about Lois before and wouldn't now. But now that Smith has begun to explicitly request Zach's intelligence resources, it means that the internal brother-sister negotiation within Smith has reached a bad stage. The brother and sister can no longer talk to each other well and start to compete with each other to see who has the bigger fist.
So Zach's response was, "Don't worry about the vaccine experiment. Although your sister Lydia is already ahead of you on the Republican channel, you will only be led by her in pursuit. Instead of competing with her. In order to gain more control over the resources of the Republic, it is better to abolish her smuggling channels."
Zach actually didn't care much about the details of Smith's negotiation with Lydia. As long as Smith still didn't know that his sister was a vampire, Smith would have no advantage as a human. Zach has too many obstacles in front of a person who is unaware of the real problems within his family.
Zack had hesitated many times before to tell Smith about vampires, but he finally decided to remain silent and leave the matter of vampires to Rimmer.
On a certain level, this is not about how 'gentleman' Zach is and does not deprive others of the opportunity for internal communication within the family. It’s Zach’s maintenance of the status quo.
Think about it, the logic is actually very simple. For Smith, his sister Lydia and his important 'helper' Zach are both non-human beings and vampires with their own selfish motives. Then, whoever reveals his inhumanity to Smith first will be the first to hit Smith's suspicious muzzle.
If Rimmer first says that he is a vampire, Smith will begin to doubt the reason why his sister has been trying to share the power of the Smith family with him.
Zach will talk about his vampire first, and Smith will examine everything Zach did in Barton, and finally come to the conclusion that 'this vampire wants to rule this city'... Okay, that's an exaggeration, but everyone just understands the meaning. Don't be too optimistic about human nature.
To be clear, in this situation, Smith is the passive player anyway. Whoever gives his worldview a greater impact will be his first priority target of malice!
Zach, on the other hand, didn't want to be the target of Smith's malice. Emotionally and objectively. Not to mention Zach’s admiration for Smith, not to mention the status and influence of the Smith family in Barton.
So now there is Zach’s proposal. Rimmer was hiding out in Smith's 0711 Pharmacy and with the support of the Federal-Republic trade, which is the city of Patton, to obtain illegally smuggled drugs from Republic. What Smith needs to do is not to create a competition to 'condone' Lidya's behavior, but to curb it.
Smith didn't seem to have thought of this, watching Zach fall into thinking.
Zach let Smith think, and he was not idle either.
On the way back to Grande, Zach, under the deliberate guidance of Annabelle, understood the reason why Papa Midnight and the Republic God Pucci cooperated. Now it is time to use this knowledge.
Zach started making phone calls in front of Smith.
"Porky." When Zach called out the name of the person on the other end of the phone, Smith raised his eyes and glanced at Zach.
Zach didn't react at all, and he didn't treat Smith as an outsider at all. "I want to thank your wife, Moon, for helping Grande's guest, Lily, introduce Paisin Park Elementary School and help arrange things for Nana's school. In the evening I I’d like to invite your family to Grande for dinner, is that okay?”
Smith looked away. Lily and Nana were not guests of Grande who were completely strangers to Smith, right
Through Lily's adoption procedures at the Barton Orphanage, everyone in the West End found out the details of Grande's new guest.
Including Smith, everyone was waiting to see how Grande established a relationship with such a former secretary to the mayor of Vega City in the West. Huh, they didn't expect that a certain Grande neighbor would actually establish a relationship first.
When Smith thought that Zach was deliberately releasing Pochiquin's actions in front of him, what Zach was actually doing was to find Papa Midnight through Pochi and start a plan to save Sam. Toledo has always been so 'smart' in what he does, so there's no surprise there.
Pochi on the other side of the receiver didn't know there was Smith on Zack's side, "Huh, no need."
"No, I insist. If you mind the atmosphere in Grande, we can also be at your house. Alice left some recipes before she went to the Republic. I can prepare them and take them over. I think I also have a few bottles of good wine. , take us there together. It’s so close anyway.”
"Uh, it's up to you." The phone was hung up.
Zach also put down the phone and did not explain his phone call, haha, nor did he explain that he mentioned Alice going to the Republic on the phone.
In the brief exchange with Pochi on the phone, the social interaction between the two families, these words sounded reasonable, right? But to Smith, a third party observer...
Smith's headstrong and rebellious baby daughter, Kepler, is also in the Republic.
Smith's face suddenly darkened. He looked at Zach and said something a little 'jumping', "No, Lydia is also Capet's aunt. She will not be involved in the dispute between us two adults. Get in kid!”
To Zach, Smith didn't jump at all, "The only way to know for sure that a child won't get involved in an adult fight is if there is no fight. Cut your sister Lydia off from Republic, Smith."
That's right, Zach is pushing forward his proposal, and is promoting Rimmel and Yu Republic on an inhuman level. Is there only one thing about the vaccine that kills people? No, there is also Sibera's wizard ghost arguing with Rimel about the republican cultural theory in the Tower of Babel!
Zach has long been prepared to realize that he should not confuse his identity as a human and a vampire. Zach will never again use his human identity to do vampire things, or use his vampire identity to do human things. Toledo and Grande are unified into one person, Zach. Everything Zach does, he only needs a stance.
Now, Zach's position is clear and Rimmer does not need to make any further progress in republican research. In the conflict between Rimmer and Wizard Ghost in the North District, Zach sided with Wizard Ghost. In the conflict between Rimmer and the Smith family in the office at this time, Zach sided with the Smith family.
Relax, Zach doesn’t want to stand against Rimmer. Need to say more about Zach’s ‘infatuation’ for Rimmer. Zach has given Rimmer so much care overtly and secretly. He just begs Rimmer not to repeat it. Follow the same path as in the Secret Alliance. Zach's stance is called: Rimmer, self-improvement does not mean causing trouble.