Zach put down his wine glass, opened the document named 'Barton's Bottom', and looked directly at the last page. Just checking, it's 'Boisen'! That Boyson didn't convey 'Three Years'!
Indeed, it is a pity not to have known each other earlier! But will Zach show it? of course not. As mentioned before, the value of this 'Barton Bottom' is the old accounts that have happened and cannot be changed! No need to liquidate, just use the hidden chips left as Zach for planning!
Zach's eyebrows raised slightly and then retracted. He used the title to finalize the belated acquaintance, "Mr. Kuromon, you seem to know me very well. We have had any direct..." Zach gave the other party a way out, " Or an indirect intersection?”
"What a pity! Not at all!" This was the answer from the other side of the receiver.
"Oh, that's right." Zach narrowed his eyes and gently closed "Button's Bottom".
If the opportunity is given and the other party doesn't take it, there is no need for Zach to continue being a saint. After curling his lips slightly, Zach used a flat business tone, "Then Mr. Heimen, the reason for bothering you is because of my..." Zach hesitated for a moment, "Employee, tell me, our Grand Funeral Home's scheduled venue. The soul grass was forcibly purchased by a gentleman... "
Before Zach could finish speaking, the person on the receiver interrupted Zach, "Ah! Is this why you are looking for me? Toledo is looking for me just because of such a thing?!"
Zach frowned. Now Zach didn't quite understand whether the other party's way of talking was this way, or whether he was deliberately disrupting the rhythm. Please lean toward the latter.
"What else?" Zach, who was already a little impatient, decided to try following the opponent's rhythm first.
The reason is very passive. Now when the other party reveals Zach's true identity in one sentence, but Zach's understanding of this person is limited to a few sentences from "Button's Bottom", Zach needs to wait and see what happens. At this time, the other party has shown the ability to not be guided by Zach's words either intentionally or unintentionally. Zach can only find out what the other party wants to do first. React again.
"Ah—" the person in the receiver lengthened his voice, "That's right, otherwise what could it be!" Look, this guy ruined the rhythm of the conversation again!
While Zach's frown deepened, the person on the receiver continued, "Hey! We had all kinds of opportunities to get to know each other. We missed them all! This time, I shouldn't have had any hope! Ahaha! "
After frowning, Zach raised the corner of his mouth again. Our vampire wanted to know what the other party was laughing at, and what it means to 'miss all opportunities'.
But Zach didn't decide to ask, because it was obvious that Zach's rhythm was interrupted every time he opened his mouth. The feeling of repeated trials and setbacks is not good, and Zach does not want to test his cultivation in this situation that is already approaching the edge.
Zach said nothing. Wait for the other person to finish laughing, then continue to shake the wine glass, watching the bright red liquid swirl to distract from the mood. As the initiator of the call, Zach had already said everything he needed to say—identified his identity, stated the reason for the interruption, and waited for the other party to explain.
Feel the silence inside and outside the receiver, because after a while. Amidst the clanging sound, Zach dropped the receiver. hang up the phone.
If the purpose of this Boysen Heimen was to annoy Zach, he did it!
Don't think that Boysen said something to make Zach behave like this. The fact is that he didn't say anything! While Zach was waiting for the other party to speak in silence, Boyson's tone lost its previous high tone and returned to the attitude he had when he first answered the phone, low and impatient. "I have something to do now." Then he hung up the phone immediately.
Zach stared at the wine glass in his hand with a terrible look on his face, and was silent for a while, "Hank!"
Zach wanted to ask this Indian who was clearly written in "Patton's Bottom" and had contact with the previous generation Grande, who he was.
Old Hank came very slowly. The strange old man who just came back today spent the whole day cursing his showroom for being useless. While working on a new display piece in the carpentry shed. At dusk, he was still packing his tools outside, preparing to continue tomorrow. It seems that he wants to make up for the time lost in Skoll.
Old Hank's dilly-dallying made Zach calm down a little, and he began to seriously think about why he was so easily irritated.
As a result of this thought, Zach emptied his glass and served himself another glass. Zach figured out that the root cause was Ian, the abandoned descendant.
If you think about it this way, you can understand—whether it’s Brian who made Zach run back and forth without accomplishing anything today, or the phone call that Boyson just hung up on, they are all related to a person who is different from Zach and Grande in Barton now. It's relevant, it's Ian.
It can be thought that this is history entangled with people in the present, and the key to the emotional instability that makes people upset and disturbed by complicated emotions is that the history of the descendant Ian is entangled with the current father Zach.
"Hank." Zach pushed past "Patton's Bottom" and pointed to the content about Boyson on the last page, "Who is he?"
Old Hank didn't even look at it. He turned away and yelled as usual, "I just told you! Don't tell me about your affairs in the future! I don't want to know!"
Zach shook his head helplessly, "Can't you take a look first?"
Old Hank reluctantly winked, pulled the file, and read the last few paragraphs, "Which one are you asking? This Boyson?"
Zach nodded, "Many of the things written here are outdated." To be honest, "For example, in the current gray professional circle, I have never heard of this person at all, and I have never heard of it from Sibella. Who is he? ?”
"What are you asking him for?! What are you going to do again!" Old Hank did not answer directly, but this was not to interrupt the rhythm. It was Old Hank's style that he didn't like to be guided by others.
"Didn't you just say you didn't want to hear it?" Zach waved his hand in a relaxed mood and looked at this strange old man.
"Tsk!" Old Hank threw away the document and glanced sideways at Zach, but he still started to answer Zach's question, "His name is Boyson Heimen! He..." Just after finishing his sentence, Old Hank frowned. , hesitated, seeming to be recalling something.
"He-" Zach raised his eyebrows and lengthened his voice, trying to help Old Hank continue his sentence.
"He, he." Old Hank glared at Zach again, and said again, "Tsk! This guy has nothing to say! He was popular for a while. He had some status in the circle, and then he suddenly disappeared!"
Zach curled his lips, not satisfied with this general answer, "He didn't disappear." Zach shook his head, picked up the note, and pointed at the number on it. "Louise took down his number." This was to try to satisfy Old Hank's wish and make Old Hank aware of the urgency of the matter without revealing what Grande was doing now - Zach had to deal with it at this time. Learn more about this person!
"What on earth do you want me to say?!" Inexplicably, old Hank not only failed to accept the information released by Zach, but became angry, "You have his phone number, why don't you go find him yourself! Anyway, you have his phone number. Aren’t they all you inhuman ghosts!”
Zach blinked, this direction was completely unexpected. Even though he was called an 'inhuman ghost' in a disgusting manner, Zach still didn't lose his temper with Old Hank. This shows that Old Hank knows that Boysen is doing something that ordinary people can't do!
Zach frowned slightly, "Okay, Hank, forget it if you don't want to say it."
Zach's hand holding the note waved casually in front of the desk, turned his eyes away, and made a final attempt with a slightly helpless expression. "I'll figure this out myself."
This sentence sounds a bit lonely. Aggravated 'myself'. Of course it's intentional.
Benjamin is not here, not even James, Sibella, Crowley... these guys whose relative positions are ambiguous are not here, Zach is not 'myself'.
Moreover, as Old Hank himself said, 'inhuman ghosts', do you want Zack to drag Louise, a human woman, or Alice, who doesn't even dare to come out with Grande, to deal with it...
Old Hank wasn't so cold yet.
really. Old Hank, who had already stood up and was about to leave, sat back down, his wrinkled face staring at Zach, "Huh! Don't use your same tricks on me as others!" Naturally, this is the way a vampire would speak. , there is something in the words!
Zach smiled and shrugged. "As long as it works." Then he added, "Thank you."
"You're welcome!" Old Hank looked away and his tone was no longer so aggressive, but still not polite at all. "It won't be of any use if I tell you! This guy is very mysterious to begin with!"
"It doesn't matter." Zach raised his hand, "You can say as much as you want." Zach didn't know that he was tearing at old Hank's old wounds.
"At noon." Old Hank looked sideways, "Didn't I tell you about the first time I saw Ian?"
Zach nodded, but was a little confused as to why he mentioned it again. Regarding this incident, which can only reflect the poor technology of Ian's Charming Eyes, we know that one of the three old men who were commissioned to clean up a certain site was in poor health ( Grande Sr.), a bad habit (Hardy Sr.'s Addiction). The only healthy old Hank easily immunized Ian from his red eyes...
Wait, Zack realized. Old Grande was already ill at that time! Thirteen years ago!
"When I saw Ian again for the second time, Ian was basically close to the look he had later dug up!" Old Hank didn't care what Zach realized. Now that he had started, he had already skipped a lot of selfish thoughts at noon. The hidden content, this time, will be explained in one go!
"Boisen told us that the blood of this kind of thing is very precious! It can..." We all know very well what it can do.
Old Hank paused and glanced at Zach. Zach also pursed his lips at this time, he didn't want to imagine that scene. "Then he sold some to us!" Here comes the key point. Old Hank turned away his eyes again and took a deep breath. "Then his 'Black Doctor' became popular due to our publicity!"
Even though what he heard was very distracting to Zach, Ian's 'father', Zach still grasped the important information and suppressed his emotions, "Black doctor, you say. This is his profession in the gray circle. ? Underground doctor?"
"Yes!" Hank nodded, "He sells medicines, works as a home doctor for rich people, and treats wounds that cannot go to the hospital. These things."
Old Hank continued, "He has always been tepid because there were several of his peers in Patton at that time, and they used methods that were more acceptable than him."
Zach thought for a moment, "Are you talking about the method of treatment? The Indian method he used."
Old Hank nodded again, "During the war, Barton hid a few military doctors who escaped from the battlefield. I don't understand the technology, but people in the circle said it was slower than Boyson's. It's much faster and more convenient to give medicine." Old Hank's tone began to become calmer, and he must have adjusted his mood.
"But." If possible, Zach really didn't want to bring the topic to this point again. "After Ian appeared and disappeared, Boyson obviously had a faster and more convenient treatment method." Zach emptied the wine glass, Up again.
"Hmph." It was not in line with Old Hank's usual heavy hum, but a very soft voice, "Everything can be cured." It was a statement full of helplessness, "During that time, Old Grande and I had the most common conversation in the circle. What they say is, ‘It really can cure anything’…”
This is why, as mentioned before, Boysen has been popular for a while, under the promotion of the older generation of Grande.
"Then he disappeared, you say." Zach calmed down and continued to ask.
"Once the disease is cured, it will come back again."
Unless your body has been flowing with this kind of blood that can cure all injuries, to put it simply, unless you are a vampire.
Old Grande eventually died of illness. This real history happened in front of Zach. At this time, Zach emptied the cup again, hesitated for a moment, and still asked, "So, what happened to you and the old man at that time?" Grande went to Boyson again to buy... "Vampire's blood, Ian's blood."
Old Hank took a deep breath, "Then we could no longer find him. Old Grande's deteriorating health forced us to give up our business in the West District and come to the South District to retire here."
"What's the time?" Zach was still in complicated emotions, trying to grasp the key points of the problem.
"Ten years ago." It was indeed the key. Old Hank answered, "When you came to Barton."
At this point, many things can be explained.
For example, why did Hank, who knew Zach's true identity from the time Zach and the others moved into the Grand, not ask Zach to save the old Grand? Because if he was cured, he would still be there, but it would be a refresh and try again. That’s all…
It's better not to worry about the affairs of the older generation Grande and focus on Boysen.
So, the thing is very simple. Thirteen years ago, Boysen relied on the vampire Ian. No, no, it was Ian who called himself Toledo, and he was indeed the same. Still wrong, it was Anthony who was Zach's 'father' and gave him the blood of eternal life. Brother Ian's blood is on fire. Then when Zach came to this city, he hid.
Zach already got what he wanted, and he already knew how to face Boyson. If there is another chance to have a conversation, ah no, when faced with it, Zach will control his own rhythm from beginning to end. The opening words are, "Black Gate, you should continue to hide." (...)