Republic... no, Confederation.
Grande, Nenad stayed in Grande until sunset. Naturally, most of the time was spent explaining to Zach his plan to acquire Ford.
Among them was the acquisition offer mentioned by lawyer Harvey. Nenad's offer was a complete insult to Ford Funeral Home. I won’t enumerate the specific figures one by one, and I don’t care. To sum up, all the facilities of Ford Funeral Home were dismantled, packed into scraps, and sold for a higher price than Nenad’s quotation.
Why such an insulting offer, Zach naturally wanted to ask.
Nenad replied, "Because the Ford is only worth so much."
Nainard once again reiterated the argument that Barton did not need a third funeral home. "I bought Ford Funeral Home and I will not let that place continue to operate as a funeral home. His facilities and resources are of no use to me." They say they are all waste products, so of course they are only worth so much money.”
Even the most blatant hostile takeover in business would not be so straightforward, but Nenad said so and really planned to stick to it.
"Do you remember that Allen and Ford listened to your suggestion and gave up security and cooperated with insurance companies?" Nenad finally came up with some reasonable ways to advance, "I actually have preparations in my acquisition plan. What insurance regulations would apply to a 'subsidiary program' that could cover Ford's losses? If Ford is willing to give in and accept my acquisition proposal, I will use this subsidiary program to make him a profit as well."
Zach could probably guess that Nenad was talking about insurance fraud... Forget it, just whitewash it and take advantage of loopholes in certain insurance regulations to gain profits. Zach didn't feel like he wanted to hear the detailed plan, so he let Nenad continue without asking.
"Of course, the premise of all this is that Ford consciously cooperates with me. I will not pay a penny for his self-esteem as a human undertaker. I will only pay for the pile of waste, his losses, and let him find insurance. The company wants it.”
It's actually quite good, Nenad's purpose is to make the Ford Funeral Home disappear. With Nenad's ability, he has countless ways to create human tragedy to make this goal come true. But he still listened to Zach's suggestion and chose a way that would make everyone more or less compensated.
But Zach also grasped the good premise of all this and Ford wanted to cooperate.
From Nenad's words, it can already be seen whether Nenad's view of Ford is good or evil. Evil.
As Nenad said, he had no respect for Ford's "human mortician's pride." "Everything about Ford Funeral Home is trash to me," he said very aggressively and aggressively.
Let me ask, under such circumstances, would Ford cooperate with Nenad
So, this is where Zach once again gave Nenad the advice, "You can't insult Ford and expect him to sell his property honestly."
Unexpectedly, Nenad became unusually stubborn at this time, "Why not? Ford, a human being, has already played his trump card, right? And he failed."
Well, that's right, Ford's trump card has been revealed that he has murderous intentions towards vampires and is even willing to implicate humans!
There was a good reason for Nenad's stubbornness. "What else can Ford do? With the support of Hamilton, blow up my Allen Funeral? Humph." The sarcastic tone was not concealed at all.
Zach actually didn't know how to refute it, but, "If you keep pushing Ford, he might really be able to do it."
This is not Zach's casual assertion. Zach really thinks that there is a possibility that Ford wants to kill vampires, which has shown that Ford has a tendency to self-destruct...
Is not it? If the person in front of Ford today was not lawyer Harvey, but Nairnard, what do you think would be the result after Ford shot Nairnard
Nenad might die, depending on how accurate Ford's shooting skills were... but Ford would definitely die.
No one would protect the person who wanted to kill the leader of the Devil's Banquet's "Barton Office" to realize it. The political significance of this incident would completely change, and even Zach would not be willing to intervene.
He would die anyway, and blowing up the Allen Funeral Home might not be a bad choice for Ford. On the contrary, it would be a more 'clear and clear' decision for Hamilton LeSembre, who might be manipulating political intentions behind Ford's back. declaration.
Nenad was quiet for a while, thinking about what Zach was thinking, and his face turned a little ugly, "*! But there is no turning back now. Ford has already tried to murder my lawyer, Harvey. Ford has made his position clear , if I soften up, it will send a worse signal."
The signal would be that the Sabbat actually surrendered to a human. This is the opposite of all the principles of Nenad.
Zach also fell into thinking. It is a continuation of the above
Thinking that behind Ford, it was Hamilton LeSembre who encouraged Ford to kill vampires, Zach had some uncertain inferences.
The first thing to admit is that Hamilton is to understand Barton and understand this city under the influence of Zachary Toledo.
Hamilton knew that this city had a completely different atmosphere and racial relations from the Western Sabbat society.
Among the differences between the Sabbat society, the most prominent point is that vampires are not the absolute power in this city!
Every vampire in Barton has maintained a close relationship with one or more racial forces. Such as Nophele and Wizard Ghost, such as Rimmer and the Smith family. Like, Zach and all the creatures in this city!
The vampires in this city do not have their own power. All the seemingly arbitrary actions of the vampires in this city rely on the relationships around the vampires!
This sounds good, right? The vampires of Barton are more closely connected to all levels and aspects of the city than the vampires of the Sabbat. Everyone has achieved a true "we all live together" instead of the vampires of the Sabbat. All other creatures are slaves.
However, vampire Barton, in this city, has no power without power! There is no absolute superiority among Barton's vampires!
In other words, although on the surface, with the blessing of various relationships, Barton's vampires live a life no different from Sabbat vampires. They can do whatever they want, and perhaps more freely, because Barton's vampires have no class restrictions. .
but! Things that could never happen in Sabbat can happen in Barton! for example
A vampire will be defiled by the lowest human property owner!
For Ford to dare to take out a gun loaded with silver bullets and point it at a vampire is a stain on the vampire's sense of superiority!
We have already discussed Ford's behavior as a potential political move. Now, this political move has become a symbol. Only a guy who knows enough about Barton and the vampires in Sabbat society can 'draw' 'Come out of contradiction! !
Zach's face turned gloomy while he was thinking.
Hamilton LeSembra, he hates Zach, it doesn’t need to be reiterated. Now this hatred has taken root and blossomed.
When Hamilton disappeared from Barton, Hamilton probably made it clear that he could not touch Zach, who had established deep connections with all the forces in Barton. So he chose to retreat temporarily and found a way to draw this symbol without touching Zach but hurting him!
Hamilton will use this symbol to tell all vampires in the Federation who still have a sense of superiority, look! This is the society created by Zachary Toredo. This is the society that Zachary Toredo has become after entering the Sabbat and trying to transform it! A society where lowly humans dare to harm vampires! !
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What would be the attitude of the vampires of the Federation when facing the republican gods who may not be well-intentioned, the Holy Lord faith that still needs to explore the future of good and evil, and the wizard family who are definitely not well-intentioned? It will be, tut, this is the fate of the Thirteen Clans. We vampires have to face these problems, and we will use our vampire self-esteem to face these with pride.
However, how will the vampires of the Federation face humans who point guns at them
Please don't imagine that scene, because it is destined to be a tragedy, an absolute tragedy!
The gloomy Zach gave Hamilton Lesembra a thumbs up in his heart... I didn't mean to complain, but it just showed one thing. Zach spent so much effort to guide Hamilton's efforts to broaden the world view, and It was not flushed away like feces in the toilet, but... Haha, as you can see, it was carefully gathered and polished by Hamilton to become a weapon that could be used to shoot back, piercing Zach's... tail vertebra.
Of the various parts of the body that are dotted with pain-sensing nerves, the last place you want it to start hurting is!
Time is passing, Zach and Nenad are not in a good mood, and neither of them has any feasible plan for the next course of events. This day was wasted.
As the sun set, Grande's employees who had also experienced an intensive day of work began to return one after another, and Nenad stayed for a while. It's not anything special. It's the wave of funerals caused by the demonic incident in Newton. Some of them come from the high-end funerals taken over by Allen Funeral Services. After Annabel returned to Grande, she saw Nenad here. She didn't ask Zach about his day's experience or why Nenad was here, and directly used Allen's funeral arrangements to keep Nnad.
Zach didn't want to interfere with Annabelle's work and let them go.
So much for the Commonwealth, now, the Republic.
Due to the geographical location, sunset in the Federation is the darkest time before dawn in the Republic... What we need to pay attention to is the two people, a man and a woman, standing on the roof of a certain tall building at this darkest moment.
It seems like some bloody idol drama.
Behind the woman is the security door on the roof of the building. She faces the back of a man standing on the edge of the tall building, with an eager look on his face, "Eli! No! Don't do anything stupid! Come here and go back with me!!"
The man was still standing on the edge of the tall building, completely ignoring the urgent call of the woman behind him. He opened his arms, looked at the still dark east, made a welcoming gesture, and said decisively, "No! Louise, give up! I won't go back!"
"Eli!!" The woman took two steps forward.
The man was alert, "Stop! Louise! You can't stop me!! If you take another step closer, I will..."
"Jump down?" the woman said eagerly, "This height is enough to crush your heart! You will really die!!"
"Then let's die like this!" The man seemed to have made up his mind.
"But you can't die!" The woman was anxious and took another step forward, but immediately thought of the man's threat and stopped, not daring to move forward.
In the darkness, the cool breeze on the high-rise building is whistling, and the relationship between men and women...
Let’s talk about the situation. This is not an idol drama, it is quite ironic reality.
Eli is greeting the sun, and he chooses to greet the sun with this "death" mentality because... Because after his "genius" mastered the Toledo clan's abilities within five minutes, his "genius" used All done. Eli Torrido, unable to travel day by day.
At least these few days of study have not allowed him to succeed.
Then, Eli showed his first flaw... probably not the first, but for a newcomer Eli Toledo, it was the first. He doesn't have much patience.
What Eli received was the teaching method that Louise inherited from Zach. Simply put, it was just saying "breathe, breathe" back and forth. '
God knows, Eli hasn't breathed for four centuries and he has no idea how to 'learn' this teaching. So, he jumped to the last step. Like Louise's experience of successfully walking under the sun, Eli chose to give up, be directly exposed to the sun, and then... look at fate.
Quite passive, but in Louise's personal experience, the results were good. Eli wanted to take a gamble. Live or die. Standing on the edge of a tall building? Just an embellishment... Of course, there are also practical reasons to avoid the sun being blocked here.
So the situation became like this.
Louise can be said to be... helpless. An almost manic-depressive attitude is forced into dealing with this problem.
Oh, it’s not like Louise didn’t use a Toledo-style method to convince Eli before things came to this. But, it’s useless.
Because... the above, breathing, is what Louise can teach Eli, and this is something Eli can't learn anyway. Do you see the contradiction here
"Louise, if I can't travel by day, I will be the same as before!" Eli is still facing the east, "And I gave up the fighting power of my original bloodline, what did I get in exchange? In exchange, I can still only hide. A life looking in the mirror in the dark??”
Well, Eli's state of mind is not very 'healthy' either, "I can't be immortal like this! I need..."
"Stay alive!" Louise interrupted, "Only if you survive can we find a way to solve this problem, right! It would be stupid for you to die without any preparation now!"
"What can I do? Breathe in another way?" Eli turned around and looked at Louise, "I don't remember how to breathe Louise! Toledo's teachings are of no use to me! You can't help it!"