Republic... no, Confederation.
It was almost time for the people of South Barton to go to bed, and Zach received a call from James, asking Zach: "Where is my wife who is pregnant with the child?!"
Yes, James was not happy. This negative emotion has probably been accumulating for a long time. There are no cases in Barton. James, who commutes to get off work during normal hours, only called to ask about Kate's whereabouts at this time. We can imagine that James' patience has been exhausted.
Zach's response was, "She's here, do you want to talk to her?"
There seemed to be stagnant silence on the other side of the receiver, and Zach handed the receiver to Kate...
Well, Kate is in Grande. In fact, she had just returned to Grande from Newton and said she had something to discuss with Zach, so Zach brought someone into the office. As soon as they sat down, James' call came.
Zach didn't want to be questioned by James about things he didn't know, so he simply let Kate speak for herself.
Kate gave Zach a roll of her eyes, but still took the receiver, "What are you doing?" She looked so impatient.
Zach actually wanted to avoid it and gave the office to Kate and James... However, they were all so hypocritical. Everyone knew that whether Zach wanted it or not, the content of the phone call would reach Zach's ears. So, it doesn't matter. Zach crossed his arms and sat peacefully on the chair, waiting for the call to end.
James on the other side of the receiver was also too easily stimulated, "You are my wife. You haven't come home so late. I can't find you?"
"Late?" Kate rolled her eyes at the air, "Are you treating me like a minor?" It's very objective. We all know how early people in the South District go to bed. This is because there is really no nightlife in the South District.
"I treat you like my wife!"
"Then change the way you treat your wife." Kate said politely, "Is there anything else? I'll see you later." After that, she really hung up the phone.
Zach raised his eyebrows. It seemed that James's married life had big problems... Forget it, it wasn't something that Zach needed to evaluate.
But Zach looked at Kate and said bitterly, "You know if you have this attitude, James will blame me."
Not surprisingly, James has a habit of blaming Zach for everything that is beyond his control. Under the general circumstances, Zach admitted it, which was considered a fact. But Zach really doesn’t want to take the blame for this kind of family feud. At least Kate can explain to James that she is not with him all day! Knowing that James was just worried about what she had done during the day, the smart reporter didn't say anything and hung up the phone on purpose.
Just as Kate was about to speak, the phone rang again.
Zach looked at the ringing phone, "It's him." It was James. Zach didn't want to answer, crossed his arms and looked at Kate.
Kate continued to roll her eyes, and like Zach, she crossed her arms and stared at the ringing phone without making any move.
The two of them waited until the phone stopped ringing. After a two-second pause, the ringer remembered again that someone had no intention of giving Grande's answering machine a chance to work.
Perseverance is James's strength.
Zach shook his head and answered the phone. Kate didn't explain herself, so Zach could only speak by himself, and kept making sounds from the receiver, "I don't know what your wife did today. She just came to Georgia." Rand, you said you had something to talk to me about, and you called right after we sat down. So, you can continue to call to interrupt us, or wait patiently for a while, and I will personally send your wife back. How about home?"
After Zach finished speaking, a "Tsk!" came from the receiver, followed by a 'beep beep beep' hang-up sound. James is decisive enough.
In short, Zach replenished James' patience meter, put down the phone, looked at Kate, and made a 'please start talking' gesture.
Kate still didn't speak, but started to rummage through her bag. Now Zach already knows that Kate carries many inexplicable things with her, such as voice recorders and cameras that Zach knew about before, and the eavesdropping devices that he knows about today. Who knows what Kate will uncover now.
It's nothing special, just a notebook. Kate spoke while flipping through her notebook, "I interviewed Richie, the Phantom Man in Newton." She glanced at Zach, "What he said was not suitable for recording and preservation, so I wrote it down by hand."
This tells Zach that the nature of this interview is interracial.
"What are the people's plans for the city of Newton?" Zach followed closely. Based on the special nature of Fantasy Richie, Zach knew that Kate's interview must be related to the future development of Newton, and this development is The desires of Newton citizens that Fantasy Richie received!
"Well." Kate nodded, directly showed the notebook to Zach, pointing to a few places that needed Zach's attention, "The desires of most Newton people have shown their disapproval of the several crises faced by the Newton government. Disappointment, favorability for Patton City’s support increases each time.”
As expected, Zach nodded as he watched, "The people of the West End will be very happy with these."
Kate didn't deny it, flipping through her notes, "But there are still some humans who don't care about the incompetence of the Newton city government, and hope that Barton will stop meddling in Newton's affairs."
Zach raised an eyebrow, "Is there really such a person?"
Because it sounds incredible, is there anyone in the world who wants their government to be incompetent
The fact is, "Yes." Kate still pointed out what Zach needed to read. The interview between Kate and Richie didn't seem to go smoothly. Zach saw a lot of blackened content and didn't know what was originally written there. . It’s true that the reading experience is poor anyway, and Zach needs Kate to tell him where to look.
Kate pointed to a piece of her handwriting, "And according to Richie, these people are not only using their desires to affect this fantasy man, but also affecting something bigger..." Kate's finger pointed at something added on the notebook. Thickly marked words are dotted.
Zach frowned. The word was, "Holy Lord Faith." Zach read it out.
Zach looked away from the notebook and looked at Kate, "The people in Newton who don't care about the Newton government are believers of the angel Crowley." Zach made a subtle distinction here, which was based on Newton's situation. The adjustment of Newton's Holy Lord faith is only half.
Kate continued to flip through the notebook and showed the content that Zach needed to read, "Rich believes that those people did not abandon human government because of religious pursuits. They did not abandon anything, they just simply and completely did not care. .”
Along with Kate's narration, Zach also saw Rich's original words in the notebook, 'Because the angels in Newton promised that no matter how unscrupulous your life is, you can still enter heaven. So, those who were persuaded by the angels, uh, believers, no longer took life in this world seriously, their own or that of others. '
Zach's brow furrowed. It seems that the situation has gotten worse since the last time I went to Newton and saw the angels completely abandoning the doctrine of the Holy Lord in order to expand heaven. Remember, an angel actually gave a murderer 'salvation' and gave him heaven!
Kate looked at Zach with an ugly face, "Do you understand why I don't want to talk to James about what I did today?"
Zach's ugly face became even more ugly. "I understand." He glanced at Kate and said, "James may explode."
Kate retracted her hand pointing on the notebook. Under the cover of the desk, her hands seemed to be placed on her stomach, without looking at Zach. "Some time ago, James and I were still worried about whether our child would be born. In a world where there are all kinds of alien races beyond human understanding. Now, we have to worry that our children will be born in a world where even our own race, humans, cannot feel at ease."
Zach wanted to say something comforting, but... tsk, what can I say? Look at this couple. The husband is a former soldier turned police detective, and the wife is a reporter who discovers the truth about society. These two men have seen a lot of terrible things humans do to themselves. When it comes to who knows best that this world is not a beautiful place, these two people can be the representatives!
Therefore, the point is not at all how many scary things there are in this world, but that this couple, tsk, has no awareness of being parents at all!
And Zach couldn't help them with this.
Zach closed Kate's notebook, hesitated for a moment, and did not push the notebook back to Kate, but said: "If you don't mind, I would like to give this interview of yours to Sissi, who is now the self-proclaimed master of the Holy Lord Faith. ." Zach said very truthfully, "Vampires have no position to directly interfere with the affairs of the Holy Lord's faith, especially angels. We can only hope that they will realize themselves."
Kate closed her eyes. She couldn't tell whether it was disappointment or something else. What she said was, "I also understand that it is necessary for Newton Angel to exist before the gate of hell is closed. This is a fact that everyone must accept."
Zach nodded and put away the note. It seemed that he had to find time to visit Sissi... Zach didn't want to visit Sissi, so there was no need to explain. Why.
The office was quiet for a while, and Zach felt that Kate had finished what she wanted to say. It would be better to fulfill his promise and send Kate back before James' patience was exhausted again...
"It's a girl." Kate suddenly said.
"What?"
"Me and James's name." Kate answered, "It's a girl."
Zach raised his body slightly and glanced at Kate's belly behind the table, which was being held by her hands. "Well, isn't it a little early to determine the gender?"
Thanks to the knowledge that Zach had gained from Alice's high school biology textbook for Mokavi's pregnancy, Zach knew about the human race and the certain stages that individuals go through when they are born. And Kate's current pregnancy is definitely not the stage where the gender of the fetus is determined.
Kate tilted her head, "You actually know that it's too early to determine the gender?" This is what Zach said to Kate in the morning. Vampires are ignorant of the pregnancy status of ordinary creatures because of their own special characteristics.
"Knowing some phenomena and understanding the process are two different concepts." To be honest, Zach still doesn't understand how Adam grew in Mokawei's belly... Zach didn't hide it, "I've seen some Alice textbook."
"Oh." Kate shrugged, not caring about Zach's learning process, "Yuehua Baiying told me, you know they are studying this, right?"
Zach knew that the Black Witch's research on human embryos began with Trisha's conception. Remember, at that time, Zach and the Black Witch were trying to prevent the birth of Sean, the new god.
Now that Sean has been around for so long, I didn’t expect that the Black Witches would still keep this project.
Kate looked at Zach, as if she wanted to remind Zach of something beyond words, "The black witches have found something to determine the gender of the soul, which can confirm the gender of the child earlier than human medical science." Kate paused deliberately After a moment, "Yuehua Baiying said there will be a girl in my belly, then it will be a girl."
Zach almost thought wrong because in the morning, Kate had directly ridiculed James as the one who didn't believe the doctor's words and insisted on getting Zach to confirm that he and the child were fine. So Zach almost thought that now Kate just wanted to express Not only does she trust modern medicine, she also trusts the Black Witch.
But just a little bit, Zach's thinking took the right path. Zach's eyes widened slightly and he said the following words, "The black witch has found something that can confirm the birth of the Banshee!"
That thing in the soul that determines gender!
The mystery of how the Banshee was randomly born into the wizard's bloodline was solved by the Black Witch! !
A trace of satisfaction appeared on Kate's face, "Very good. Your understanding never disappoints. I don't need to think of words to say it." Kate stood up on her own and picked up her bag, looking serious. The way he left, "Take me home."
Zach also stood up and gestured to Kate to step forward in a gentlemanly manner.
Except for the office, Kate, who was walking in front, did not remain silent. "Yuehua and Baiying also want me to bring you something. Guess what it is." How lazy is Kate? As for the fate of the witch race, she asked Zach to figure it out on his own. She didn't even want to say anything about it now, so she let Zach guess?
But, this is too easy to guess. Zach said: "The black witch is going to collect the soul dagger, which means that the black witch is going to rob the same thing as the self-proclaimed master of the Holy Lord faith, Sissy."
It is still the conclusion that the black witch left behind the soul dagger before. The black witch wants to control the 'power' of the continuation of her race (whether it is to end the curse of Papa Midnight on the wizard's bloodline or allow it to continue to exist). In hand! And the soul dagger is a tool of power!
With a relaxed look on her face, Kate got into Zach's car and headed home.
Enough about the federation, let's go to the republic...forget it, it's still the federation.
Five minutes after Zach left, Annabell appeared in the office, took out Kate's interview notes that Zach had received, and put it into her pocket without knowing what she was thinking... Then, as the 'thief' was leaving the office, the phone rang.
Annabell hesitated and accepted.
"Zach!" Louise's irritable voice was on the other side of the receiver, "Please tell me, in addition to 'breathe-breathe-', we at Toledo also have a teaching method for teaching people daily walking!" Louise herself said She revealed the reason for her irritation, "Eli played suicide for me today! Can you believe it?! Ugh! Now I completely believe that he is the one who sold you in four centuries, gave you eternal life, and then himself He is still a stupid slave! He really doesn’t know what long-term planning is... "
Annabell was listening to Louise's complaints on the receiver. She didn't know when it would end, so she directly interrupted, "I'm not Zach."
The receiver was quiet for a while, "Where is Zach?" He asked without any emotion. The irritability just now? Annihilated.
"Send James' wife home."
"When will you come back?" Still emotionless.
"have no idea."
There was another period of silence on the other side of the receiver, and then there was a small rubbing sound. It was caused by the friction between the phone and her hair when Louise was about to hang up the phone. Only a vampire could pay attention to such a small movement.
"'Breathe-breathe-' is the best way to teach daily life." Annabel suddenly spoke.
Judging from the small sound that reappeared, the receiver on the other side of the phone was back to Louise's ear.
Annabell continued, "'Breathe-in-breath-' can remind vampires of the feeling when they were once a human being, a living creature in this world. Like Rikyo, this is something that vampires once had. Vampires have learned to be like living beings again. Breathe the same and learn to walk daily.”
After the silence continued, Louise spoke, "The problem now is that Eli can't remember how to breathe. He hasn't breathed in four centuries."
"Aren't you Tori?" Annabell...what are you talking about? ? "Whatever Eli has forgotten in his mind, you can just put it in for him. Is this a problem?"
After a long silence, "Oh." Louise hung up the phone.