Vega is not a place where people can live without worries. Zach has been working very hard!
The reason is that Barton's experience in privatizing the funeral industry can no longer meet the social needs of the West. For example, in today's work, Zach was dragged to this funeral home in the southern suburbs in the middle of the night to discuss with a group of humans... the funeral of an alien race.
See, that's never going to happen in Barton's Grande. And this funeral did not appear suddenly, but started from the first day Zach came to Vega. After the progress of different events and a series of changes, it came to the current stage.
The entire incident, or rather the entire sequence of events, is not a pretty story. It begins with an alien living in Vega who is murdered by extreme anti-alien elements.
This series of events began on the first day Zach came to Vega. We are not in a hurry and will make it up slowly.
Republic Toledo in the southern suburbs came to Vega before Zach, and she had been handling the takeover of power for the Sabbat clan for some time. The work that takes up most of her time is to collect the information of the funeral industry personnel in the jurisdiction, and review the applications to join the funeral industry that come to her like snowflakes!
Toledo has already made a name for himself in the Sabbat. Toledo advocates that aliens and humans enjoy completely equal treatment in society.
Zach has never said such a thing. We should be clear. Hey, in Patton's education, Detective James Lance's human solution at the human level and the interracial solution at the alien level are called equality? If we have to sum it up in political terms, it should be that no matter where you are in society, you must bear the responsibilities assigned by society to that position! The responsibility is on top, and then we will discuss the solutions for different races!
But the aliens under the Sabbat seemed unable to understand Zachary Toledo's "political views" so deeply. They only knew that Toledo did not treat them as labor slaves that could be exploited.
This may be the result of overkill. On the premise that Eli's replacement Toledo did not bring a good reputation to Toledo, the real Toledo of the Sabbat, Charlie, excessively promoted certain aspects of Toledo. These deeds... Forget it, it's not a bad thing anyway.
In short, under the pressure of the anti-interracial movement in the general environment, just like when Toledo posted a job and a bunch of aliens rushed to compete, now Toledo has finally come to take over the power of the funeral industry, and more aliens are applying for the job. . As a policeman said, the funeral home is now so popular that the police need to clear the way for entry and exit~
Now at the Republican Toredo at the South Suburban Funeral Home, her name is Joy. She said she got the literal translation of her Republican name, which means joy and beauty.
Zach loved it.
On the first day of coming to Vega, Joey went to Villa Toledo to invite Zach to the funeral home to inspect her work progress. It was at that time that Joy gave Zach a list of interracial people that she thought could be accepted into the funeral industry in the area where Vega City was located.
Joey told Zach that the Republican Toledo in other areas were doing almost the same thing. However, Vega is the center of the west, because Lutresembra, who once lived, has long regarded Vega as his centralized place of power, and the social ecology here is the most complex. The other areas in the west are fine, but the personnel decisions around Vega are best left to Zach himself.
Zach agreed, so on the second day after coming to Vega, the owner of the southern suburbs funeral home, the ghoul of Dog Brother's adoptive father, came to pick Zach up to work at the funeral home to review and interview foreigners who applied for jobs.
The personnel arrangement plan was almost made. On the third day, Ben was waiting for Joey or the ghoul to pick up his Zach, but the police arrived. A foreigner who was successfully interviewed by Zach died.
According to the previous behavior of the Vega Police Department, interracial cases were usually delayed. Anyway, there would be no pressure from above to delay them until they disappear. Isn't it? If Lily was attacked once, if Root hadn't put pressure on the police station, it would not have been investigated, and it would have involved the Apocalypse Sect who was trying to tear apart the social foundation of the Sabbat!
But this case, although different from the attack on the mayor’s secretary, concerns Toledo, a new power upstart who has just established a good impression! So Vega's police took the initiative to find Zach.
After enjoying the high-standard treatment of the completely different Barton Police Department, Zach gradually discovered the strangeness of this case. First, it was murder, but it was not an event created by the anti-interracial movement. Of course, the Apocalypse Sect is secretly controlled by Miley and Murphy Assamat, and Zach doesn’t think they will do anything to the aliens Toredo likes.
Then, the scars on the body of the deceased as a foreigner showed that this was witchcraft. This alien at the center of the Sabbat died at the hands of a wizard.
Zach knew very little about the Indian and wizard ecology in the west. In order to supplement his knowledge, he bought a bunch of Indian-themed movies that day and went back to the villa to watch them all night. As an art form, film and television comes from life, doesn’t it? Zach now has no time to experience life in the West, so he can only rely on these concentrated things to make up for it. Well, it would be nice to have the spirit flayer around.
On the fourth day, Charlie and Russell came to pick up Zach. Among these two friends, one was a descendant of Toledo who had stayed in the Sabbat and had been exposed to the Sabbat ecosystem, and the other was a member of the once secret alliance who held the secret alliance in his hands through blood trading. A businessman with vampire ties left behind in the middle of nowhere. They are all people whom Zach trusts, and what they bring to Zach are clues and information.
What Charlie brings to Zach is that he also encountered wizards while working to expand the population of descendants of Toledo. There have even been bad incidents where selected descendants of Toledo died of witchcraft. Then, since wizards are the common enemy of the Sabbat society and the deceased is a human being, the result is good. The entire Sabbat, from vampires to law enforcers, worked together to punish the murderer.
The clues Russell brought to Zach had nothing to do with the orphans of the Secret Alliance. It's related to the vampire blood market. You may remember that part of Russell's blood market overlapped with the blood trade of Benjamin's ancestors' firm in the Midlands. Especially after the blood market in the Sabbat society itself changed (vampires no longer sold blood to humans) and Giovanni's redundant population began to rely on external blood supply, Russell's low-end blood market was getting mixed up. .
Under this premise, Russell provided Zach with some hidden dangers worth paying attention to in his business of obtaining blood reserves in the central part. In addition to the known blood trading channels, there seems to be a rumor in the central part that some wizards have control over A secret channel into and out of the Sabbat.
On the fifth and sixth days, Zach continued to meet with these people, Joey, the ghoul, the police, and Charlie Russell, exchange information, and advance the case... With the joint efforts of everyone, Zach gradually learned from each fact. From the loopholes, a clear path to the case was pieced together.
a week has passed. Interracial murder, disappeared.
If Toledo had not disclosed that the deceased had been drafted into the funeral industry, no one would have known it had happened. Similarly, if the police department does not disclose that a Vega citizen has been murdered, then it is just an insignificant person missing in this bustling city.
Don't worry, this incident is not over, it is still advancing, but the direction of advancement is back to the funeral industry.
The family members of the deceased requested a funeral that was different from ordinary human funerals and that could truly commemorate a foreigner in human society.
It is worth mentioning that these family members are all human beings, pure human beings.
The anti-alien movement has never caused real social destruction, and the credit should not be given entirely to powerful vampires, or to these human beings who frankly and sincerely accept aliens in their lives!
Zach was interested in accommodating the families' requests.
That's what Zach is busy with now. Incineration by cremation was an unacceptable punishment for all aliens, and was first thrown out of the discussion. Alas, then, traditional burial is not very suitable for this specific race of the deceased.
Traditional burial is because the body will remain in this world to decay after death. The essence is to plan a place where the body can complete its final interaction with the world.
Putting aside those memorial ceremonies that represent ethics, this is actually an environmentally friendly move. You must know that countless plague tragedies have occurred in human history due to errors in corpse handling. Giovanni once loved the misanthropy.
But the remains of this foreign race were somewhat like the one Ripken who died in Grande before. After Ripken's death, the South District of Barton was enveloped in a milky fragrance for several days. This was the result of the decay of Ripken's body. Way. And if this foreign body is placed in the soil, it will turn the entire cemetery into a forest! He is a tree man.
If we think of the process of corruption as a life returning everything to the world in which it lived after it ends. When the life accumulated by this tree man is returned, it will inspire seeds that have been buried underground for who knows how many years!
Zach must come up with a creative way for these human families to say goodbye to this alien.
And this work has been extremely difficult from the beginning.
Joey: "I understand that the ancestor (Zach) has good intentions, but I hope that the ancestor will consider this and not open his head." Joey's federal language was so standard that Zach even felt ashamed. He is worthy of being a republic. The elite said, "There are too many alien races in the Sabbat society. Too many!" emphasized, "There are also many types of alien races in the Republic, but the alien system in the Republic can be classified into four types: elves and ghosts. Regardless of each individual alien race Whatever the form, it will never leave the alien nature of everyone under the belief system that has been spread in the Republic since ancient times as the 'birth of all things'." This Republican Toledo, who has devoted himself to the funeral industry in the west, is not homesick, but To illustrate his point, "If the funeral business of foreign races is to be opened in the Republic, the workload of the funeral industry will only be to find a ceremony that caters to the belief in 'the birth of all things'. Although it will increase the social burden out of thin air, it is feasible and the cost is not high. But The clan ancestors, the Federation cannot, and the Sabbat society cannot. The cost is too great. The aliens accommodated in the entire Sabbat society come from various faiths." Joey frowned, "I personally think this is determined by the history of the Federation, and this country does not A belief that lasts forever. Originally a witchcraft belief in this land, Papa Midnight, as a god, did not manage his land well."
Joey actually curled his lips and joked, "Papa Midnight's hobby as a god determines that he likes to introduce alien races from other faiths and then create new alien races. The Republic benefits from Papa Midnight's hobby, because the Republic does not We no longer care about foreign races and beliefs. But in the Federation, after the Holy Lord Faith brought the colonists four centuries ago, it directly turned this land into an immigration place. All kinds of beliefs, existing and outdated, are gathered here. A piece of land and a country. They were created by Papa at midnight, immigrants came here, and then they were looted one by one by the Sabbat and included in this western society."
The final summary, "Ancestor." He said respectfully, "If we start a special funeral process for aliens, I can't see the end of this work. Do we have to trace the origins of each alien in the Sabbat and find out Their faith and then satisfy it?”
This is one Toledo showing her vision to another Toledo. Zack can't argue with that.
"Then, go and explain to the families that we are unable to meet their request to say goodbye to the deceased due to cost issues."
Joey went and then came back, "I just heard that the tree people have a very long life, almost eternal life. We should use this in the ceremony to reflect the emotion of grief."
Joey joins Zach in thinking about a suitable burial for the tree people.
What can I say, Toledo likes humans too much. This is the weakness that runs in Toledo's blood...
Joey wasn't the only disapproval Zach faced.
Another objection came from Charlie.
Needless to say how Charlie became Toledo, he couldn't say anything about Toledo. However, he describes a very pragmatic view
"Although I understand that the anti-alien movement will not threaten vampires, including us Toledo. But the news that we are accepting aliens has spread. If we prepare an alien funeral in such a grand way, will it be criticized by some people? Hold a grudge?"
Zach's response was, "That will test Miley and Murphy's control over their Apocalypse Society. Murphy has long said that Miley has never thought about how to end this anti-alien movement. The Sabbat society cannot Maybe if the division continues like this, it's impossible for vampires to give in." Well, don't even think about destroying the class society you have established. "It can only be the human side that retreats. Should the anti-alien movement continue to be fierce, or should we find an opportunity? It is Miley and Murphy’s consideration to withdraw from the show, not me.” Zach’s response was, “Then it will test Miley and Murphy’s control over their Apocalypse Society. Murphy has long said that Mai Li Nong's anti-foreign movement has never thought about how it will end. The Sabbat society cannot continue to be so divided, and the vampires cannot give in." Well, don't even think about destroying the class society you established. "It can only be The human side is stepping back. Whether the anti-interracial movement continues to be fierce or finds an opportunity to withdraw on its own is a consideration for Miley and Murphy, not me."
Zach has a goal, "Now, our goal in Toledo is to gain as much social recognition as possible from the Sabbat. We do not have the four-century foundation of the other Sabbat clans in this land. What is falling into our arms now is Alien, then we can’t close this door. Agreed?”
The clan ancestor is the clan ancestor.
"agree."