The sixth day after leaving Grande. The sunshine at noon was not very warm. On the road with no end in sight, Zach controlled the car and still accelerated.
A roadside sign saying 'You are leaving XX City, welcome back' was instantly left behind. Xiyun turned his body and head irritably, staring at the road sign until he could no longer see it. He sat back down in the passenger seat and looked ahead at the road leading to who knows where in the suburbs. Then he glanced at Zach who was driving steadily. He subconsciously checked the seat belt and pursed his lips tightly without saying a word. talk.
It's all so confusing. Let’s start from the beginning.
In the first five days of driving, Zach only stopped ten times, yes, twice a day, once at noon and once at midnight, to replenish and recuperate. If he missed it, he would just wait for the next time. There was no room for discussion.
From the next day, Xiyun and Miles began to realize something unusual. Except when Zach drove into the city when leaving Patton and entering Newton at the earliest, during the subsequent drive, they did not see any civilized settlements. There were traces of towns and villages, as if they had actively avoided Zach's car. All they saw in their eyes were roads, either winding or straight, who knew where they would lead.
On the third day, taking advantage of a gas station break at noon, Miles sacrificed his lunch money and bought a federal map. At midnight, when they stayed at a shabby roadside motel, Miles sacrificed his sleep time again and forced Xiyun to discuss Zach's driving route. Zach was very stingy and opened a separate car for himself. room, but only one room was given to Miles and Xiyun.
It was this night that two Grand employees came to the conclusion that Zach was not walking in a straight line. So what is the purpose of strictly limiting the time to stay and rest and keep moving forward? Moreover, Zach was definitely not taking the tourist route. Tsk, unless in a country like the Federation, even the road is considered scenic.
On the morning of the fourth day, Xiyun, with dark circles under his eyes, sold Miles, who also had dark circles under his eyes, "He secretly bought a map and has great opinions and dissatisfaction with your route of travel!"
Zach paid no attention.
Then, after parking once at noon, the map was confiscated, and once at midnight. The rooms Zach opened for Miles and Xiyun were single rooms, even though the guy at the front desk kept explaining that we had extra double rooms...
Day five. When a dog, a baby, and three grown men spend most of their time in a closed car for several days, you can imagine how... intoxicating the smell in the car is. Ah, it is someone else who is drunk, Zach's eternal 'fragrance'.
This uncomfortable situation was just a trigger, it ignited something.
"Tell that dog to stop grinding his teeth!" Xiyun gave an 'order' to Miles in the back seat from the passenger seat.
"It didn't have molars," Miles refused. "It was just biting Adam's collar."
Boom, boom, boom, boom...
"Then let him stop biting!!" Xiyun turned around and glared at Miles.
Miles's dark circles were worse than yesterday, and he stared at Xiyun the same way, "If I had the ability to stop dogs from chewing things, I wouldn't be here."
"I*you****! Say it again!!"
"Why, are you going to bite me?"
exploded.
In the passenger seat, Xiyun twisted his body forcefully, pulled on the seat belt and punched Miles behind him. In the back seat, Miles tried his best to lean back to avoid it, but he still got punched a few times. Miles screamed in pain several times, and then he saw Zach in the rearview mirror looking at the road ahead as if he didn't know what was happening in the car, and continued to drive intently...
Miles started to fight back. unstoppable.
Bang, bang, bang, bang, hey, "Ouch!" "Ah!" "Woo!" "Wow!"
At noon, Zach stopped the car by himself and filled up the gas. Seeing that the two people in the car still couldn't get out of the car due to the entanglement, he restarted the car with an indifferent expression and continued on the road.
Day six, today.
After what happened yesterday, the two employees at least reached a consensus that Zach didn't care about either of them.
What makes this situation even more inexplicable is that no matter how violent the situation was in the car, the two of them were beaten to the head with bloodshed, and the baby Adam was always "beeping~beeping~" watching the Great Dane bite. His safety lock. Even weirder than Zack who doesn't even blink.
Therefore, on the sixth day, Xiyun and Miles both stopped and waited honestly for the same process as the previous five days. Both physically and mentally exhausted, they couldn't afford to miss another stop to rest. They all thought they would go crazy.
But today, things have changed.
At the end of the morning, Zach drove calmly as usual. The road ahead was the same as the previous few days, with no sign of any town in sight.
Suddenly, "Alice's school starts today, and the opening ceremony should have been held by now." Zach suddenly spoke, "To celebrate my sister's admission to high school." What's there to celebrate about her promotion? ? Zach didn't explain, "We're going into town. What do you want to eat? Decide now."
Then, like an illusion, the city appeared, and the roadside sign "Welcome to xx City" flashed past.
At noon, in a busy restaurant... a real restaurant, not a prison cafeteria. Xiyun and Miles had all the food they wanted placed in front of them. Zach, Zach was not here, Zach hugged Adam and called Alice in the roadside phone booth outside the restaurant.
Xiyun and Miles were nervous, even a little scared. They couldn’t understand much of the conversation being spoken by the people at the tables around them…
It’s not just that ex-offenders haven’t lived in a real society for too long, but also that this society…
Sitting at the table in front were two middle-aged, respectable-looking men. They were chatting about municipal affairs, but the mayor they were talking about was not Anthony of Barton. There was a couple sitting at the table on the left, who were really discussing going to a cultural exhibition in the afternoon, and this cultural exhibition was not the Indian culture that had become popular in Barton in the past few years. A group of young people are sitting at the table on the right, sharing their future plans, saying that they plan to leave this city and go to another city to find opportunities instead of the one in Barton where Barton is the best. Sitting at the table in the back is...
Of course, it had been six days. Although Zach had been taking strange routes, they had been away from the Barton society that they were still relatively familiar with for six days. Xiyun and Miles, two ex-convicts who have forgotten what true freedom feels like, are in a completely unfamiliar environment. So, uneasy.
What continued to add to the uneasiness was the fact that the Great Dane left with them had jumped on the dining table and was about to finish Zach's food...
"Don't! Don't eat! Get off!!" Xiyun tried to protect Zach's food.
Without success, Xiyun tried to get Miles to join him, "You've been sitting with it for a few days, you tell him to get off! Stop eating the boss's food!!" This probably means that Miles is at least familiar with the Great Dane. .
Miles kept stuffing food into his mouth to cover up his uneasiness, and at the same time, "You have been sitting with the boss for a few days. Have you ever seen the boss eat?"
The Great Dane licked Zach's plate while Xiyun was stunned.
When Xiyun came to his senses, when he went to see Zach at the phone booth on the roadside, Zach was gone.
"Old, where's the boss?"
This question was not answered. The Great Dane licked his nose, jumped off the table, swung his butt out of the restaurant under Xiyun's blank gaze, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Xiyun and Miles were left in the restaurant.
Abandoned
It seems like this. Anyway, Zach doesn't care about them, right
Just when both of them thought Zach would not appear again, Zach appeared alone, without the baby Adam or the Great Dane King. "Have you finished eating?" Zach looked at the two people who seemed to have experienced the end of the world. The employee said, "Let's get on the road." Check out, leave the restaurant, get in the car, and leave the city.
Now, Xiyun watched the road sign leaving the city disappear. When he looked back, he glanced at Miles, who had just finished dazing, looking at the empty back seat next to him, and then looked at the driver who was driving smoothly without any emotion. Zach, who was in the car, both of them agreed on the same thing, keep quiet.
Enough with the confusing stuff, now it’s time for Q&A.
Ah~ Let’s make sure first, Zach didn’t sell Benjamin’s son. Zach is just temporarily entrusting the person to someone he can absolutely trust~
Same, starting from the beginning.
The first day after leaving Barton. Zach drove into Newton. There’s not much to say. If you want to get to Barton, unless you take the water route, you have to pass through the city of Newton. This is the geographical legacy caused by Barton being a city born in Newton’s arms~
Zach can arrange the rest of his journey as he pleases. The first goal is to get rid of the demons that have followed Zach since Newton. Gee, some demons just don't have long memories. Last time Zach was harassed by demons on his way to the west. Remember, Zach also killed them all the way. This time Zach didn't give him a chance at all.
Zach doesn't go to populated areas at all, and there are no demons possessed by humans. Haha, for vampires, he is just a more advanced earthbinder~ It may be worse, because Sam wants to show off. He always cared about how good he was at soul witchcraft in front of Zach, but he never had the chance to show it. After all, the effect of witchcraft on demons was limited, Sam brought the soul-sucking monster Manfield to perform together~ By the way, he used some ghost skills to let the soul-sucking monster know more about the foreign races of the Republic.
Zach was very satisfied with the 'communication' between the spirit sucker and Sam, and deliberately took a detour to seduce the surrounding demons. When Miles and Xiyun realized that Zach's route was strange, they didn't know that behind them, there was a trail of demonic debris~
This took two days.
On the third day, Zach knew that he was close to the border of the central federation and signaled the Great Dane to start taking action. So, from this day on, the Great Dane stopped licking the ink lock and started chewing it.
Bang, bang, bang.
At midnight on this day, when Miles and Xiyun were discussing the outdated route of travel in their room, in Zach's room, Zach and the Great Dane were having a showdown with Mo.
Zach: "Mo, I'll give you a chance to leave Adam on your own initiative."
Mo: "No. Alpha's ancestors' office is our only chance to unite thousands of alien creatures!"
Great Dane facial paralysis.
Zach: "Benjamin's ancestors' office was not opened for you republicans and aliens."
Mo: "The purpose of our office is to help aliens live, isn't it? Or is this just another hypocritical political correctness of white men in your federation?" White men's hypocritical political correctness? Why does this sound so...
Great Dane facial paralysis.
Zach: "Okay. We are about to enter the central part. Mo, I want to remind you that in the central part there are weapons against the Republic and foreign races that the wizard family used to use Papa Midnight to circulate to ordinary families in the Indian community. Mo, you know me, guess what? What would I do to you if you persisted in threatening me with Adam? I really don't want us to get to that point."
Mo: "Hmph, it's as if you dare to stand out in the Indian community in the central part. If you dare, the wizard family will not let you leave the central part alive!" Threatening each other~ Who wouldn't
Great Dane facial paralysis.
Zach: "I don't have to stand out. I am not the one who needs to blend in with the Indian community in the middle to get weapons to deal with you. Mo, you have been away from Grande for too long and you can't keep up."
Mo, silent, thinking.
The Great Dane's face was paralyzed and he spoke in human words, "The merged clan of Toledo, the Asamat clan hidden in the central part of the Federation."
Mo is autistic and refuses to communicate anymore.
On the fourth day, they entered Federal Middle Road and confiscated Miles’ map. While the two employees were eating and drinking at noon, Zach studied Bai De’s map by himself. “Sem, forget about the devil and go find it for me. Asamat." Drawing a line on the map, "I'll take this road, and you go ahead and explore around the road. Come back and report the situation in the evening. With this route, we estimate that we can delay it in the middle for four days, as soon as possible Find Assamat.”
"Received~"
At midnight that day, Sam showed up as scheduled, "Sorry, I couldn't find it today. I'll cover a wider area tomorrow."
Zach was a little disappointed, but there was nothing he could do. I caught a glimpse of two employees. If these two guys weren't following me, there wouldn't be any time limit. Zach could drive the car on the middle road as he pleased. Humph, Zach said to the hotel front desk guy, "Two single rooms, one for me and my child, and one for the two of them... No, it's just a single room, thank you..."
After returning to the room, Zach held the baby in his arms and looked at the safety lock that had been chewed by the Great Dane for two days without leaving a trace. "Are you still stubborn, Mo? If you give up, we can still have a good talk. Anyway, If you can find a safe place for so many alien races in the Republic, don't rely on this most despicable method."
Mo didn't reply.
Zach said to the Great Dane, "Keep chewing tomorrow and use force. Don't lose strength after getting used to eating soft things. You are a skinchanger who has experienced the development of culture in two countries. You have some self-awareness."
Great Dane facial paralysis.
Day five. The sound of rattling became more intense, and then Miles and Xiyun got into a fight over something inexplicable. Well, Zach didn't have time to care. He looked at the road ahead, hoping that Sam, who was floating outside, would gain something.
At midnight, something was gained. Sam clicked on Zac Baide's map, "I found Assamat! Here!"
"We can arrive tomorrow." Zach was very happy.
The sixth day, today~
The atmosphere in the car today was a bit gloomy. A major issue related to the alien structure was settled. Zach finally had the time to care about his two employees. Well, did the two of them fight so fiercely yesterday? They were both bruised and swollen. Forget it, I have pity on them these days, so be nice to them. Think of a reason... "Alice starts school today..."
After finding a restaurant that looked good, Zach ordered a sumptuous lunch for the two of them, and then went to contact the people of the Asamat clan with Adam in his arms.
The Great Dane procrastinated for a while and gnawed on hard objects for a few days. It was uncomfortable. The Great Dane needed some food to compensate for his own preferences, so he emptied Zach's dinner plate.
Assamite came very quickly, no, it was not a vampire, it was a human, a human bound to Assamite! Zach was very satisfied and handed Adam over, "Safe lock."
"Sem has made it clear."
"Yes." The Great Dane also came, and Zach also handed the Great Dane over, "I have given you the representatives of the two republican alien races. A peaceful solution is the best. The number and capabilities of the republican alien race are not ours. The Federation can take it lightly, keep that in mind.”
The other party smiled, "Don't worry, objective and rational weighing is Asamat's specialty~"
Zach nodded and was in a good mood~ He went back to find two employees, "Have you finished eating? Let's go on our way~"