After so many days in Vega City, Zach was finally picked up early in the morning and stayed in the villa.
Xiyun was in the living room, sitting on one side of the sofa, watching the morning news with no expression.
"...Tourists have discovered a new oasis in the desert...but they can't get close to the oasis anyway... Experts call this a typical mirage, and remind tourists to pay attention to the scenery in their eyes, pay attention to safety when freely exploring the desert, and don't get lost. , too far away from the city... "
Xiyun turned his head to look at Zach on the other side of the sofa, and found that Zach was looking at him. His face turned red inexplicably, and he turned back and continued to watch the news.
"...Tourists have reported that protestors' marches and rallies in some cities have caused harassment to them-...Vega citizens are reminded not to violate city rules and laws. All behaviors that affect the normal functions of the city and the impression of foreign tourists will be punished. receive punishment… "
Xiyun turned his head again and looked at Zach. He found that Zach was still looking at him, his face darkened, he turned back and continued to watch the news.
"... The privatization of the funeral industry has been officially completed in Vega City. All funeral industries have jointly registered an industry union, officially named 'Torido'..."
Xiyun, looking at his neck, was about to turn his head to look at Zach again, but halfway through, he noticed from the corner of his eye that Zach was still looking at him, and turned back with a dark face, "Why are you staring at me!"
Zach adjusted his position on this side of the sofa without looking away, "I'm thinking about something."
"Then look elsewhere and think!" Xiyun pulled the cushion under his buttocks and blocked it from his side.
Zach stood up from the sofa, walked towards the curtains, and opened the closed curtains. Sunlight floods into the living room.
"*!" Xiyun Gui screamed, bouncing off the sofa and being forced to the corner of the living room by the light coming in from the window.
Zach glanced back at Xiyun and called to the housekeeper of the villa sideways, "Giovanni, make sure no one can close the curtains."
The butler stood by the curtain with a satisfied look on his face, "Okay, Toledo."
Zach left the living room.
I hope everyone can see that Xiyun has become a vampire.
Zach went upstairs, preparing to go to the third floor. Miles is on the third floor. Miles managed to enter the third floor yesterday, using threats. He threatens Giovanni, the villa's butler, to commit suicide if he doesn't let him into the third floor to read The History of Vampires.
It seemed like a funny threat, but it was just some vampire story. Why bother? The butler just let the human be.
Zach was stopped when he went upstairs. "Are you angry that I transformed your employees without your consent?" asked Zimich, the woman dragging the vacuum cleaner.
Zach looked at Roy's sister and said, "No."
The woman raised her eyebrows and looked back at Xiyun who was forced in the corner of the living room, "Then why punish him?"
"Are you playing the role of a mother protecting her cubs now?" Zach tilted his head and asked a strange question.
The woman may not have understood what Zak meant for a moment, but after a moment of confusion, she said, "Just take it as such." She put the vacuum cleaner aside, showing off her Zmich attitude and wanting to have a serious confrontation with Torredo. That makes sense.
Zach smiled and said, "Very good." Then he continued upstairs, "I hope you can take good care of your 'cub' during the impromptu Sabbat meeting later."
The woman was stunned for a moment, "Temporary Sabbat meeting? Toledo, what are you talking about?"
"Revro has the evidence that a certain second-generation Lesembra betrayed the Sabbat, and is about to convene a temporary Sabbat meeting to impose sanctions on that Lesembra. All clans need representatives to participate. The population of Tsimixi is declining, and the only one The person with status, Zimixi, is probably you, and you will go with me."
Zach had already reached the second floor, followed by the woman behind him.
"What?!" The woman was very surprised at what she heard. "Is this what you were busy with the past week, Toledo?!"
"No." Zach was relaxed, raising his hand and waving, "It was just last night~" and continued upstairs to the third floor.
"It doesn't matter. I've never been as concerned about clan struggles as my brother." The woman stopped following Zach and looked at his back as he continued to climb up. "I won't go, huh, those people probably Nor would he care that Zmich, who now has the lowest status, is absent from the meeting.”
"You have to go~" Zach leaned against the guardrail at the end of the stairs and gave the woman below a smile. "The evidence that Revro has is that Nina Lesembula colluded with the wizard family in the middle to deliver the goods to the Sabbat." Wizards, threatening the safety of the Sabbat." Zach paused deliberately, and the cliche emotions piled up, and finally, "That wizard family is, Xiyun."
He didn't wait for the woman below to react or explain. Zach disappeared down the stairs and entered his room on the third floor.
Closing the door without letting anything outside affect him, Zach slowly glanced at the books scattered everywhere in the space. In the middle of a circle of scattered documents, I saw Miles in a daze.
Zach walked towards Miles, picked up a stack of documents closest to Miles, and flipped through the records. It recorded the process of Lutler Sembler's creation of Zagar, detailing the details of Luter's collection of Zach a century ago. Contents of the life of Rattorrido…
It seems that after Root died, some things were sent to Zach's villa, probably Frank's idea. This third floor has become Toledo's vampire history collection.
Zach held the document in his hand and looked around at the mess in the entire space again. He curled his lips and didn't know where to put it back. "I'll have to ask someone to clean it up later." He just said casually.
"I, I will clean up as before." Miles, who was sitting on the ground, spoke with a dull tone.
Zach glanced down at Miles, "Can you stand up?"
Miles moved, "No, you can't..." He kept this posture for who knows how long. His dull eyes were bloodshot. He probably reached the limit physically and mentally.
Zach shook his head, stretched out his hand to pull Miles up easily, and then put the document in Miles' hand back into Miles's hand, "Do you have any reflections?"
No matter how twisted his personality may be, there's no denying that Miles is a smart guy. A guy who can come up with a theory of the existence of vampires when he doesn't know about the existence of alien races is a talent. Zach was a little curious about what interesting things Miles would say after knowing the truth~
Miles spoke, looking at Zach, still blank, "You must think Xiyun and I are cute."
Stupid is self-deprecating, cute is self-praising. For a moment, Zach didn't realize what Miles was actually expressing. He was laughing at himself, but he really gave up.
Zach didn't want to think about it and shook his head, "Neither you nor Xiyun are stupid, nor cute." Zach observed Miles's reaction, but didn't notice anything, so he could only continue, "You know you shut yourself up In his own time, has Xiyun become Zimixi?"
The dullness on Miles's face disappeared instantly, but the brief surprise turned into a matter of course, "Of course, that guy finally seized an opportunity on his own, instead of following others."
Zach came to Miles for a reason
The corner of Zach's mouth raised slightly, "You lost Miles. Xiyun has successfully hugged the big tree of Zmixi through Grande, but you are still in my hands." Zach looked at Miles Erls, "What are your plans?" The smile gradually became obvious, "Do you still plan to follow Logan's path?"
Miles stared at Zach with his bloodshot eyes, stared at him, took two steps back, with a look of despair on his face, "You, you still treat me as a game..."
This despair is not an act. Now Miles thinks back to all his contacts with Zach in Grandry, and he has realized it! Zach discovered his true identity a long time ago!
Zach's smile did not continue to escalate. It stayed at a gentle smile that was just right and would not be dazzling. "You started this game. What can I do? Refuse you?"
Miles opened his mouth, lowered his head, and murmured, "Yes, it was me who was trying to negotiate a future in Grandry without knowing the meaning of it. I started it..." He does have some self-awareness.
Zach gave Miles time to examine himself, and then said, "But if we enlarge the game's structure a little bit, you, Xiyun, and I are not the only players~" Zach fiddled around for a while, using books and information He piled up a seat, sat down, and looked at Miles, "Someone has been doing this game since a long time ago. Miles, do you want to continue to broaden your knowledge?"
Miles didn't look at Zach, and gradually retreated to the bookshelf next to the wall. He slid down weakly and sat on the ground dejectedly, "Haha, think about it, the whole world I know is different now, what should I be afraid of?" .”
"This is the right mentality~"
Zach is up to something.
Don’t forget what Zach’s attitude towards Miles was before this, so he could ignore this two-faced guy! Why has it changed now? !
Zach's eyes drifted into the distance, "Barton's community improvement project and the first batch of employees of Grande's halfway house were cut in half. You people should be very clear about this, right?"
Zach said that someone was making plans earlier! It stands to reason that the time should be moved forward!
Miles remained sluggish, but still replied properly, "Well, it's clear. Otherwise, I wouldn't have tried my best to follow Logan's path."
"When you first left Barton, you told Xiyun that the news in the newspaper was ridiculous and would not tell you what really happened." Remember, Zach used an encouraging tone, "Tell me, what do you think is inappropriate?" Why were the first batch of Rand employees cut off in half?"
If you still remember the news about this in the newspaper, you will know that Grande employees beat up the reporter, which exposed the shortcomings of the city government's regulations on community improvement projects. The city government sent people to review and established a special team. The discussion ultimately resulted in the current halfway house, which completely cut off Grande's employee loyalty training, almost crippled Grande's future arrangements for employees, and resulted in several halfway houses for current employees. Rotation programs in business!
Miles was silent for a moment, but Zach knew that this smart guy would never stop thinking that the brain was how people like Miles survived. Just like Xiyun’s violence~
Myers spoke, "If in the past, I only had those stupid news in newspapers as a basis, I can only think that the Barton City Government is exploring the value of community improvement projects, and it cannot bring positive effects to the city government's policies in Grande. When the time came, we would punish Grande and curtail Grande’s rights.”
Good insight.
The privatization of Grande is the positive effect of the policies of the Barton City Government! Right. The topic of ex-convicts entering society is actually similar to the funeral industry. It’s okay and no one wants to discuss it, but when something goes wrong, it must be something bad!
Grande's privatization was so successful that it almost went against the current and became the only face-saving factor for the Patton City government in its funeral privatization policy! No one can refute it.
Putting aside the details we know about the community rehabilitation of ex-offenders in Grande’s case, on a political level it is the city government’s attempt to keep Grande’s face upstream!
But after it emerged that an employee of the halfway house injured a reporter, the city government obviously found that Grande could not handle such a thing! Help Grande block the knife? How can the city government block a face-saving project? Then it will punish and reduce Grande's rights. In the end, the city government can still be praised for actively responding to the plight of community renovation and making changes!
Zach looked at Miles and smiled broadly. There is no way, a talented person is talented ~ Zach continued, "What now?" After Miles knows Grande's true secret vampire, what new insights does Miles have about it
Miles shook his head, "Now, I don't know. You are a vampire, you are Toledo who has been making waves in the middle of the Federation for three centuries." Root collected the deeds of Zachary Toledo, "You Disappeared for a century, and then appeared as the boss of a funeral home..." Miles seemed to be tired of shaking his head, and tilted his head, "I don't know how to explain everything that happened around you." This guy really gave up. .
Zach was not ready to let Miles give up, "Barton Mayor An Anthony was a descendant I once had a crush on, but he refused eternal life, and we have maintained a long-term relationship as friends."
Miles raised his head and glanced at Zach, but said nothing. In his opinion, Zach was obviously filling in the missing information from Miles. Once the relationship between Zach and Mayor Barton is clear, it can explain that Grande has become the only front for the privatization of the funeral industry and an enterprise that the city government places high hopes on. The reason~ right
But this alone is not enough. There is still no explanation why the first employees of the halfway house were cut in half.
Zach continued, "Aisela, the mayor's ex-wife, lover, and secretary." Zach narrowed his eyes, "I have never liked this woman. I have never been able to make Anthony my descendant. This woman, Haha, she got her wish and became Lesembra."
Miles tilted his head and moved again, because Barton's information, and the news he learned here day and night, connected the woman next to Mayor Barton, and became the happy one when the genocide in the central part of the Toledo Federation was annihilated. Happy Lesembra~
Are Barton’s complicated interpersonal relationships needed here? No need~
Miles spoke up, "I remember that the person in charge of the city government's review of Grande's first batch of employees and formulating the rotation was Eisela."
Zach smiled, "Yes, that's her. That was the first decree she executed when she first became Lesembra~" Do you still remember the reasons Aisela herself gave at that time? Haha, she said, she was helpless. She had to face the pressure from the Lesenbra clan. She couldn't make Grande too comfortable. She could only destroy the loyalty of Grande employees to protect her own status~
Miles still didn't look at Zach, but his eyes were moving, "Then, the second group of employees, Xiyun and I, came to Grande."
"Yes, you are here in Grande." Zach looked at Miles, "Can you tell me any details, such as how you were selected into the second batch of halfway house projects?"
Miles finally looked at Zach again, "Yes! She reviewed all of us in the second batch on the grounds of preventing violence and preventing Grande employees from injuring members of the public (journalists)!" Miles It's the excited and angry kind.
reason? Looking at this sentence, Aisela originally reviewed the second batch of employees who entered Grande~ The reason is to avoid violence from happening again~
Then tell me? How did someone like Xiyun, who saw violent bullying as an opportunity, get in
Thin clouds, thin clouds, thin clouds~
Thin clouds in Grandery~
The evidence in Refro's possession, the thin cloud of Nina Lesembra's collusion~
Do you know who Zach was talking about when he said that someone had done this game a long time ago
The question now is whether Zach is still in this game! Is this game still going on in the plan of the mastermind behind the scenes
But the end is about to come to an impromptu Sabbat meeting...
What Zack is doing now, haha, get ready for all players~