In the office of Vega, the funeral home in the southern suburbs, where Zach, the ancestor of the Toledo family, sat, the discussion among the relatives of the tree people came to fruition.
"Mr. Toledo, thank you for being willing to accept our request and actually being here to explore possible options for us. We have no words to express our gratitude."
Zach smiled and said, "Don't thank me. I'm just doing what the funeral industry should do. You just need to pay all the required fees." This sentence was originally intended as a joke to adjust the atmosphere. But whether this joke is appropriate is something Zach is testing now.
The funeral industry is ultimately a service industry, especially after privatization. But the vampire clan is the powerful one in Sabbat society. It is awkward for a powerful person to serve. Zach tries to find a balance between the two, not making it awkward for his customers or making himself awkward.
Thanks to the Sabbat society for setting the tone, everything can be priced.
Using money to achieve this balance is Zach's current attempt.
The human relatives of the tree people were stunned for a moment. They probably understood the literal meaning. After exchanging glances with each other, "We... did not pay the money entrusted to Cappadocia."
Of the processes Zach proposed, the desert death land in Cappadocia was the most expensive.
Zach's playful test was successful, at least the other party accepted the balance point where money could solve the problem. But in actual operation, Zach failed.
Zach used his personal needs to find a Cappadocia to put the Breath of Corruption in the desert, which was quite easy. But a bunch of humans need Cappadocia to go out into the desert and put the Breath of Corruption, and that's pretty expensive...
One thing, two subjects, cannot be mixed together.
Because if Zach does this, he will create a loophole in the vampire power system, allowing humans to take advantage of the service nature of the Toledo industry and abuse other vampire clans in a clever way!
If you need a simple example to understand this situation... In the convenience store downstairs of your house, the girl with a sweet smile can eat snacks all day long without any worries because she has a good relationship with the boss. But if you want to eat, you have to pay. Even if you collect the sweet smiles of 1,000 girls, you still can't exchange them for a free bag of potato chips.
My little sister is in the service industry. She does not make potato chips. It is her business to eat free potato chips. It has nothing to do with you. You only have money. Use money to exchange for the sweetness of the little sister. Use money to exchange for the potatoes that the little sister recommends to you. piece~
Corresponding to the current situation, Zach has already provided "sweet and smiling service", but Zach cannot just give the potato chips to the relatives of the tree people for free!
Success means 'everything can be calibrated by price', failure means 'everything can be calibrated by price'.
Zach was a little stuck.
Thinking of solutions…
"There are already several places of death in the desert."
The one who spoke was Dog Brother, who had been filming his documentary at the funeral home in the southern suburbs. He is quite suitable for this hobby. He stays quiet most of the time and occasionally makes one or two unexplained off-screen narrations.
But this time, it was obviously not a narration. He intervened in the filming, turned the camera around, showed his own face, and then returned to the tree people’s family members to capture their expectant expressions, "Frank and Cam (Lesembra) When he was bored, he would go to the desert to look for... well, certain projects that Lutrecenbula left in the desert before." The dog brother glanced at Zach, obviously there was something hidden in his words. The content is not what a group of humans need to know. "When he doesn't want to be disturbed, Xiaoka will use the breath of corruption to surround some locations. I followed him several times and know a few abandoned places."
"Can we use those abandoned places?" When Zach asked, he saw that the camera was already facing him.
"Strictly speaking, those lands belong to Rutelesombra, and they were inherited to Frank after his death." How strange it sounds to say that the son's inheritance was inherited by his father ~ Hahaha, "Can you use it? Ask Frank.”
The camera turned to the tree man's family members, "Who, who is Frank?"
Don't be surprised. We know that in order to give full play to his instrumental attributes as a father (to bully Zach, who has no father above him), Lutre Sembula did not give Frank an identity with the surname Lesembra! In addition, the title of Goudi deliberately does not include a surname, so it is normal for ordinary people not to recognize him.
Zach had no intention of explaining, "I can rent the land in the name of the Southern Suburbs Funeral Home." Zach raised his eyebrows and looked at Joey, "We may encounter special funerals from foreign races in the future, like yours That being said, we cannot spend money every time planning interracial funerals under different faiths, we need a long-term sustainable solution.”
"The desert land with the breath of corruption can theoretically handle any corpse." Joey already understood what Zach meant. "I will contact Lesemblés right away..." Joey's reaction was very quick, and he still didn't understand after looking at it. The humans who knew who Frank was, "Frank." Then before leaving, he gave these humans a smile, "According to the land price market in Vega City over the desert, plus this is the long-term business plan of our southern suburbs funeral home. , the cost will be borne by us, so the final cost you need to pay must be within your tolerance~"
The relatives were relieved. Zach also relaxed a little and smiled at Dog Brother's camera, giving Dog Brother an ending to today's shooting. Dog Brother was pulled away by Joey. Obviously to increase the success rate of negotiating a land deal with Frank.
Zach continued the funeral discussion, "So, it's about the public funeral after the tomb is moved. I think you don't need the set of procedures of the Holy Lord Faith, right?"
Ah. What kind of beliefs does the Holy Lord have? It’s heaven~
The family members shook their heads together, "No need."
The next step is also difficult. Zach asked, "How much do you know about the origin of the tree people's belief?"
Those who shook their heads sporadically, and those who didn't, all had helpless faces. It seems necessary to explain the identities of this group of relatives. They are all adopted sons and daughters of tree people, ranging in age from young children to old men and women! Weird family.
The guy who has been communicating with Zach is a middle-aged man. "He doesn't even remember it. He has lived too long, longer than the history of the Federation." When he said this, he avoided Zach's gaze.
Zach didn't mind. There were many things that were longer than the history of the Federation. "He came to the Federation as an immigrant?"
"Well. He said that he has been alone since he became conscious. He didn't know where he came from. He heard that the new country (Federation) was established, and that the Sabbat of the Federation was collecting various alien races. He thought he could I saw 'people' like him, so I came to the Federation, came to the west and entered the Sabbat. Then I couldn't get out." The speaker lowered his head.
"He found a kindred spirit..." Zach changed his words, "Is he the same person?" Zach could only hope that there were still tree people in the Sabbat who could provide some reference for the funeral.
The other party shook his head, "No."
The atmosphere among relatives became depressing.
Zach will not let this depression continue. After all, funerals are for the living. "Then let's not speculate about unknown beliefs and make something that can express our feelings." There is no other way. Well, as Joey said, the cost does not allow Toledo to trace the origins of each alien race. It is a blessing to be able to rely on the death land of Cappadocia to find a way to bury the alien remains according to local conditions. Don't abuse this luck." The farewell ceremony and the burial ceremony after moving the tomb." Zach crossed out all the conventional religious content in the standard funeral process, such as priests, blessings, and so on, and handed it to the other party.
Relatives passed it around for a while and had nothing to say.
The work on foreign funerals has come to an end.
Zach was very good at this kind of work. He used all the etiquette of the funeral industry that he had become proficient in in Grande, and the tree people's family members began to leave the southern suburbs funeral home.
When sending the last person away, "Mr. Toledo. The death of our father..."
Zach put his hand on the other person's shoulder, "It's not over. Believe me, I will let the murderer face justice. This is Toledo's promise."
The other party left the funeral home without saying anything.
After sending away all the outsiders, Zach's face became gloomy. As he said, the tree man's murder was not over. Is there an unidentified wizard at the center of the Sabbat in Vega, trying to stop the aliens that Toledo is interested in
From what perspective can this matter be easily let go? !
Zach returned to his office and went straight to the phone. After coming to Vega for a week, Toledo's real power and the takeover of the funeral industry have been stabilized. Zach also set the direction for Toledo's use of power in the Sabbat as Toledo's ancestry. It's time to... cause trouble.
Without even touching the phone, Zach's hand rang. Zach picked it up speechlessly, "South Suburban Funeral Home."
"It's me." It was Nick Giovanni's voice. "I calmed down and I apologize for my rude request to ask you to go back to the villa immediately to support my brother. I'm sorry."
Such a sensible opening... still doesn't change the fact that Zach hung up the phone right away!
Zach doesn't accept the apology!
Do you think it was rude that Zach hung up on Nick twice in a row today and was not in line with Toledo’s way of doing things? Maybe. But this doesn’t fit in, and it didn’t just happen today. Zach has hung up on countless calls from Nick and Roy this week!
Zach is angry! Zach was set up by these two guys!
You can imagine that after a long journey of almost two weeks, Zach finally arrived in front of his villa, opened the door, and wanted to relax after a long period of fatigue, when he saw a second-generation Giovanni. How does it feel to be in your own home with a second-generation Zimich
In Barton, forget it about Nick and Roy competing against each other, you won't even let Zach come to the Sabbat! Putting the same configuration next to Zach, do you think Zach's difficulties in Sabbat are not enough? Do you want to continue to be sandwiched between your two clans and help you plan your future
Tsk, why? !
What's even more disgusting is that these two guys didn't even remind Zach at all in Barton! When Zach came up, he saw the second-generation Giovanni in the villa, taking advantage of Zimich's lowest status, and assigned the most troublesome cleaning work to the second-generation Zimich! (In the past, this job was done by Cappadocia, who had the lowest status at the time)
In Barton, Zach can also take advantage of the fact that there are only two people, Roy and Nick, to balance the attitudes of the two clan heads. At the Sabbat? Oh, no! Zach doesn't want to participate in this kind of class struggle that Zach despises from the bottom of his heart. You can do whatever you want, I don't care...
Zach certainly knows why this happens
Nick used to live in the villa in Toledo, so he sent a second-generation Giovanni to come over as a housekeeper and stay close to Zach to enjoy the influence of Toledo. In Nick's eyes, it was probably a matter of course!
As for the second-generation Zmich, well, Roy's abacus was pretty good. Roy ran to Barton with nothing at the time and came to Zach for political asylum. Zach forcibly saved him from the persecution of Lesembula, and then began his current revival. Roy got mixed up in Barton and wanted to copy it in Sabbat! While Zach went to the Sabbat, he forced himself on a second-generation Zmich and put him next to Zach for the same reason. What else do you think? !
The status of these two second-generation vampires is also noble, one brother and one sister, huh, they are replicas of Nick and Roy in the same proportion!
Zach finally took advantage of Barton's situation to separate the two of them in Grande. In Sabbat, will Zach have to go through this again
Zach was angry. And there is no way to relieve the intense work required by the Toledo funeral industry itself. Then continue to be angry. How long it lasts depends on Zach's mood. Not now anyway.
Zach hung up the phone and immediately started dialing. The call was to Revro.
The Revro clan is now responsible for the entire Sabbat's intelligence system. Zach has important information about the Sabbat's security and needs the assistance of the Revro clan... No, it's mutual help.
The phone call came through, "What do you want, Toledo." It was very direct. Zach was not surprised. The southern suburbs funeral home had complete security monitoring when it was privatized according to Grande's specifications, and because of the society of Sabbat Features, there is no need to worry about upgrading. There is surveillance in the office where Zach is now, and Zach knows that Revro's surveillance network knows all his actions in the Sabbat these days.
"I want to help you, Revro, close the security holes in Western society."
The other side of the receiver was still direct, "You want us Revro to help you punish the real culprit who murdered the tree people."
Mutual help is a mutually beneficial behavior, and the most annoying thing is that both parties want to be the benefactor when entering this situation. It's amazing that the situation turned into this situation right after the phone call started.
"If I ignore the wizard who murdered the tree people, I will only let down several civilian human families." Zach was very calm. "The police have withdrawn the case at my suggestion, and I can easily ignore it. And after I have While I spent all my efforts to complete the funeral for them, the negative impact of this incident on Toledo has been reduced to almost zero." This is of course a negotiation skill, and Zach's kindness to Revro was not enough. Zach awakens Revro and lets them sneak behind the scenes of society and focus on using the clan's abilities to build a network that can monitor the entire world! Zach just didn’t want Revro to think that this incident would equalize the favor Zach had given to Revro! "But for you Revro, there is a security loophole in the Sabbat society, and the wizard can actually commit murder in Vega. This responsibility lies with you, and you cannot escape."
After a brief silence, "Tsk, I finally understand what the hell happened to Sid (Revero, who was previously sent to the eastern part of the Federation) and the others in Barton! Speaking of which, you may be very powerful, but I don't like you!" Toledo!”
Hey, the last time Zach came to the Sabbat, he knew that the head of the Refro family didn't like Zach. Forget it, at least he recognized Zach's abilities and was a realistic guy. That was enough.
"Same." Zach curled his lips, "You are not my type either." I still have to make my position clear, "So do we want to cooperate or not? Give me an accurate answer."
"Cooperate!" and the key sentence, "I have also seen that some people in Lesembra have been unhappy for a long time!"
The truth about the tree man's murder is about to unfold, and Revro revealed that the 'real murderer' is now one of the power contenders within the Lesembra clan.