At dinner time, Alice and Maya returned with a full load. The two girls actually bought Zach a gift.
"This is it?" Zach looked at what Alice had tied on his wrist.
"Watch~No one uses pocket watches now~This is an electronic watch~"
"Oh." Zach tried to appreciate this trendy thing, "What are these buttons for?" Zach was speechless. Why are the current trends in human technology products toward more and more buttons...
Alice pressed a button and demonstrated it to Zach.
Zach raised his eyebrows and watched as the display on the dial flickered for a moment, and then the time displayed changed.
Alice smiled, "Republic time~"
"I don't need to be in the Republic to know the current time in the Republic?!" Zach was shocked.
"Well~" Alice pressed a few more buttons, "All the time in the world is on your wrist~"
"Wow!" Zach was as surprised as a retard...
There is a reason for this mental retardation. Any vampire older than the Federation State knows a legend.
This age limit is very specific, it means vampires before the Thirteen Clan appeared. Vampires in the place where vampires originated.
The legend goes like this: As long as you can keep going west and run fast enough, you can do whatever you want in the darkness before dawn forever, keeping the sun under the horizon forever~
This legend has never been verified. Because no vampire can run fast enough. After the emergence of the Thirteen Clans, vampires and humans of thirteen bloodlines came to the new continent. The Thirteen Clan were the first vampires to know that the legend was true. Because vampires, who are extremely sensitive to the time when the sun appears, realized that the real day and night were deviating from their own physical time, it took Zach himself some time to adapt to the new time rotation.
It was reality that told the Thirteen Clan that the legend was true. A living thing can live forever in a place where the sun cannot shine~
Zach's surprise was not a surprise, uh, 'all the time in the world is on my wrist', but that being in Grande, he was able to intuitively realize that a place far away was experiencing a completely different time than here. If the vampires four centuries ago could clearly know this fact, the Holy Lord might not have the chance to separate the strongest vampire bloodlines and turn them into tools of colonial war. The vampires would go all the way west on their own, pursuing the eternal pursuit of eternal life. On the road at night, I conquer all the lands that have not yet been illuminated by the sun...
Maya laughed at Zach's surprise, and Zach didn't bother to explain his 'old' feelings to a young girl. I happily played with this great gift on the back porch for a long time.
Zach could have played all night if not interrupted.
The person who interrupted Zach's exclusive self-pleasure as a vampire was Nuo.
Zach's good mood completely disappeared when he saw Nuo walking into Grande. No should come to Grande again.
"Don't rush to preach." Nuo clearly saw the change in Zach's expression, and his tone was quite calm, "I'm not here to be your friend."
This cannot be understood literally. Nuo's "becoming friends with Zach" is equivalent to a human being with a strong purpose and leaning against a vampire. It was the wrong life choice that Zach tried so hard to get No to give up on.
So after hearing this, Zach looked a little better, "You were asked to drag me to the Bobo Bar party today, Sunday?"
Nuo leaned against the pillar and curled his lips, "You should be a little stupid. I hate stupid people the most." Nuo was also in trouble. He was telling Zach that Zach's smartness didn't make it easy to not be friends with you.
OK. Then Zach would try to be as stupid as possible, "Barton's gray professionals miss my beautiful skin."
Nuo actually rolled his eyes, looking dissatisfied with Zach's effort. "No, we need help. We need more professional people to solve some special problems."
Zach's eyes drifted for a moment and he said nothing. Because stupidity is just a pretense, the moment Nuo appeared, Zach knew why he was here. Barton's gray professionals encountered troubles they couldn't solve, so they remembered Grand Mighty, who had been absent from their group for a long time.
Moreover, Zach also knew what the 'special trouble' in Nuo's words meant.
Nuo frowned when Zach didn't speak, "Now is not the time to pretend to be stupid."
Zach shook his head helplessly and looked back at Nuo, "What do you need me to do?"
"I need you to hold down Detective James Lance." Nuo answered quickly. The conversation seemed to have skipped a very important explanation of the situation. "He is too difficult for us to deal with, but you can easily manage it." Live him..."
Nuo was distracted and looked back at the Grand backyard, because two guys who were unfamiliar to Nuo walked over from the living area. They are two new employees, Milo and Scott, who insist on staying in Grande from today on.
Zach also glanced at the two of them and threw a "What are you doing here?" ' look.
It was Scott who answered Zach's eyes, but he stared at Nori and said, "Hey, isn't this Noripet? Thank you so much for taking care of me this year." Scott's tone was not disturbed. Thanks for 'taking care'.
Zach understood that this was what Scott was telling him. Scott, an ex-convict, had done odd jobs to make a living in the previous year, and many of them came from No.
The corner of Nuo's mouth raised with disdain, "Scott, you finally found a stable job? Congratulations." Likewise, there was no congratulation in his tone.
Scott ignored the promise and stood next to Zach, standing stupidly as if he didn't know what to do.
Zach could understand that this was what Scott said when he was carrying out his interview. He just wanted to keep his job. Scott had no way of knowing what Zach was talking about with No, but he didn't want to miss anything that might cause him harm. Threatening situation, so I came over. His thoughts and actions are simple and a bit...stupid.
What Zach is really curious about is Milo. If this mummy doesn't take care of himself in his new apartment, why would he come over here
Milo noticed Zach looking at him, but he didn't respond to Zach's eyes. He actually sat down directly next to Zach, looked at Nuo, and then spoke, "I heard that the demons didn't want to deal with their containers. The ridiculous things they did when they left were entrusted to humans to solve. Are you the human they entrusted? It’s hard for you.” After saying that, the mummy crossed its legs and leaned against the wall, as if watching a show. "Those demons are really unkind. If they don't solve the problem themselves, they insist on making a commission. But even if it is a commission, they should entrust it to the ancestors' firm. But they don't want to and insist on entrusting it to humans. To put it bluntly, they are deliberately instigating Humans move closer to vampires. Look, you are indeed here."
Things that we felt we missed in Zach and No's conversation were filled in.
During the half hour that the demons were forced to return to hell, some of the freed humans did some things that they were not responsible for anyway. Yes, it was the next day when James came to Grande to find out about Zach.
Zach did solve it at that time. With the help of Annabell, he explained to James the truth that human life hijacked by aliens is no longer human life. James has no control over what those demon containers do.
But things did not pass so easily. Thanks to Milo's theatrical commentary, we now know that the demons who hijacked human life did not solve the bad things their vessels did in half an hour! Not only did they not solve it themselves, they also did not let the Ancestors Firm, which specializes in helping aliens live, take over. Instead, they entrusted Barton's gray professionals like crazy!
During this week, Zach was harassed by James more than once for this matter - "What do you mean by devil?? You just don't want to admit that they, the devil, are responsible for what those containers did?? Okay! They are not responsible, I am responsible!" !”
Therefore, the moment Zach saw Nora, he knew why he came. James had already captured several humans entrusted by the devil this week! James would not make the stupid mistake of catching demons into the police station, so he arrested these 'innocent' gray professionals...
The entire incident has turned into a joke. Knowing full well that neither Zach nor No wanted to discuss this ironic situation in depth, they simply skipped it.
It's better now, but it was said by Milo who had wandered in. His tone and demeanor were just like a casual passerby gossiping about other people's predicaments.
Wait a moment. The Grande's back porch might be the perfect place for this retired mummy to gossip, but...
"What kind of demon, what kind of container, what kind of vampire? What kind of human being??" Scott stood dumbfounded, his eyes turning back and forth on the three people, "What does 'it's really here' mean??!"
Zach sighed in an anthropomorphic manner, and raised his hand to push Milo up. "I will naturally stand in front of anything that threatens Grande, but I am not obligated to solve the troubles you have created for you." Pushed in front of Scott, whose face began to twitch.
Then Zach really didn't care about these two guys. He looked back at Nuo and said, "I can't control James this time. He's arresting people. He can really find a bunch of reasons to arrest him just by searching." Gray professionals. I can’t help you.”
Nuo was still a little distracted, because what happened next to him was too... distracting. Milo and Scott were wrestling. The two used the most primitive method to force each other to submit to their control.
No, it was Milo who took the initiative to control the other party, but Scott did not let Milo do so, and the two sides fell into a stalemate. Well.
"They..." Nuo had to ask, because although he didn't know Milo, Nuo could tell that Milo was not human.
"Don't worry, the mummy has no ability to harm any living creature. It's determined by species. He can't beat anything alive." Zach didn't want Nuo to be distracted. "Did you hear what I said? I can't help you this time."
"I heard it." Nuo frowned and pulled his eyes away from the 50-50 battle over there. "Then what can you do?" Nuo seemed not to let this trip to Grande be wasted. "The fundamental problem lies with the devil. I know enough information to allow me to avoid the devil's commission, but most of our colleagues in the gray profession do not have this information. They do not know that the commission given to them is the devil! Now one by one, James Silans is hunting and suppressing us. I can’t let this continue! You, you can’t let this continue!”
Zach also frowned, thought for a while, and then said, "No, actually I can." He waved his hand and said, "Let's go."
What Zach thought about was that for those gray professionals who didn't know about the alien race, being captured by James now might be the happiest thing in their lives. Barton has no room for these 'ignorant' gray professionals to survive.