The bombardment of phone calls came faster than Zach expected. The first call came from the mayor. Zach felt a little relieved. After all, the first call came from one of his own, so it was much easier to talk.
Anthony started by scolding, and then used an imperative tone, "Damn it! What are you doing!! You'd better give me an explanation!"
It's good to be on your own, at least you know how to give Zach a chance to explain.
Zach waited for the breathing on the receiver to calm down a bit, and instead of answering directly, he asked, "Did the luncheon continue after that?"
"It's going on!" His calm breathing became rapid again, "Herman just finished dealing with the reporters, and as soon as he came up, our place was blocked! Those old guys in the West District didn't know what they were going to do, so they blocked it forcibly. The whole of Lisi…”
Anthony stopped suddenly, and could clearly hear him inhaling and exhaling, and then still saying the commanding sentence, "Explain!"
"Someone drugged me," Zach said.
Anthony and Emilia's reaction was the same, only more intense and direct, "Toledo! You are telling a joke..."
"There is an Indian wizard in the banquet hall, who is from Pochi." Zach turned the receiver over, not wanting to listen to Anthony's angry words. Zack didn't need to be reminded of how ridiculous it was for a vampire to say that, let alone that it was the truth. This wasn't even an interruption, it was just Zach refusing to listen to Anthony and talking about his own.
With only one end of the microphone pressed to his lips, Zach continued clearly, "He was trying to complete the commission that was destroyed by Grande. I have tried my best to resolve the whole matter without disturbing you upper-class Barton people." Party, however.”
Zach heard Anthony lose his voice on the microphone, and it seemed that he heard what he said. Zach straightened the microphone again, but stopped talking. With some hesitation, "Should I say this on the phone?"
"Don't interrupt!" Anthony replied irritably, "I'm at home."
Zach raised his eyebrows. Since it was a private call, there was nothing to worry about. "Obviously I failed." Zach raised his eyebrows on the phone. "Fortunately, the failure is not too complete. Things could be worse."
"Oops?!" Anthony on the other side of the receiver was irritated again, "How can it be worse than now?!" The mayor seemed to be temporarily immersed in his anger and spoke more, "It's been twice! Hermann's two banquets were inexplicably interrupted! Isn't it bad? Haha! It's really not bad for those reporters! I just got Hermann's press conference, and here comes another big news! Hermann's luncheon , Barton’s senior executives were collectively banned…”
Anthony braked in time and inhaled and exhaled clearly again.
Zach was amused and shook his head. "Anthony, believe me, things could be worse. I saw your pale face at that time. What did you see? Did my pupils start to turn red? Did my teeth start to stick out?"
The question comes to the point, as Mayor Anthony, who knows Zach’s true identity, when everyone is terrified why someone suddenly goes crazy on such an occasion. His eyes were firmly fixed on the vampire's features!
While everyone is worried about crazy people, Anthony is worried about crazy people. There is a fundamental difference!
There was silence in the receiver for a while, "It's not obvious, but I can feel that you are on the verge of explosion!" An irritated tut came from the receiver, "But I don't know what it is, it doesn't look like prey. It's something else. what!"
The magical connection between friends made Zach suddenly feel warm, and Anthony had a vague sense that Zach, who did something crazy at the banquet, was not trying to get food.
"It's 'Valmina'." Zach said bluntly, "I fell into a dream and relived a certain incident on the battlefield thirteen years ago."
Remember, Anthony told Zach not to mention Ian's name again, so Zach didn't mention it.
Zach gave Anthony some time for silence, and the 'points' that could continue the conversation had been thrown out. After Anthony got rid of certain emotions, he could directly use them to continue the topic. Zach is very considerate.
"You said, 'Valmina.'" Look, Anthony took it. "I thought you and Smith had cleaned this thing up."
"Obviously, not." Zach frowned. Anthony was not a good person to say these things to, but as everyone has seen before, Grande had no one to talk to, so Zach could only say to the phone, "And , I don’t think it’s a ‘warmina’ from outside, it’s the one made by the Indian wizards in Patton themselves.”
Zach avoided Boysen's name for the same reason he avoided Ian's.
"Uh..." The long voice indicated that Anthony on the other side of the phone was thinking, "That makes sense." He murmured in a low voice, similar to a soliloquy, "At the scene after the blockade, Quinn has been talking to Smith and the others... "
Apparently he still remembered that the person he was talking to was Zach, a guy whose whispers couldn't escape the other person's ears. Anthony shut up again in time, "You said the wizard did it himself, in Barton?"
"Yes." Zach nodded into the air.
Do you know the basis for Zach? It's the kind of familiarity that makes Zach irresistible, the kind of thing that directly pulls Zach back to the time and space where the familiarity originated!
Don't forget, 'Valmina' is something made by a half-human, half-vampire mage like Rimel. During Alpha's personal experiment, Zach already knew about this hallucinogenic drug made for humans. It's similar to the little tricks and illusions created by Rimmer to make up for the Charming Eyes.
Rimmer would come to the current federation as the Thirteen Clan, just to learn from the indigenous Indians of this continent and their witchcraft that uses the same 'science'! Then, it is not surprising that Boyson, a wizard, can create 'Valmina'.
Then, the only gain from Zach's complete defeat this time was that Zach knew the material of 'Valmina'!
Yes! When he already knew from Old Hank that Boysen had Ian's blood, Zach didn't need to spend too much time thinking about it before he realized that the familiarity came from his own blood! It's Zachary Toledo, the one who gave Ian the certificate of immortality!
The 'Valmina' that Boysen gave to Zack used Ian's blood!
"Do you have a name?" Anthony clicked his tongue irritably, "Is this Indian wizard hired by Pochi? A guy from your professional circle? He does things too randomly! He's a trouble! Give me the name, and I'll ask 'Shooter' and the others to go …”
"No." Zach refused directly. The explanation is as follows -
"Anthony. I think you should be the busiest mayor." Zach said with a smile on his face, "In addition to the responsibilities of the mayor, you also need to pay attention to the gray professionals in this city and Alien." The ending sound had a strange twist.
"But, this time, I don't think you should care about this matter. Your energy should be on the more important things at hand, such as the reason why Herman wants to blow up his factory, such as the mayor's rival Aisela, What role did it play in this cause..."
The breathing in the receiver suddenly became rapid. Zach ignored it and waved his hand in the air pretending to be self-deprecating, "Did I say something I shouldn't have said? Ah, forget it."
Boysen disrupted all of Zach's plans at the banquet. It was not Zach's intention to tell Anthony Herman the truth about the factory explosion in such a ridiculous way. But Zach had no choice, because in Anthony's timely brakes, it could be heard that the direction of the Hermann incident was completely out of control (the two public banquets of Hermann were terminated inexplicably, and this second time there was a scandal)! Zach had no chance to continue to find a way around to remind Anthony.
"Just pretend you didn't hear. And, most importantly, Anthony, please be a dear old friend. Do you think I'll let go after this Indian wizard made me look bad in front of the entire Barton society?" Do you want to pass him? This is not a gray profession, a foreign race, or something that a mayor needs to take care of, it is just a private matter for me, Zachary Grande."
Zach concluded, "Since you also have important mayoral matters to deal with, I also have personal matters to deal with."
Falcon's commission, Emilia's matter, and now Boyson is included. Zach was very busy and really didn't have the energy to deal with Anthony's questioning of where he got the information about Herman. Therefore, Zach shamelessly blocked Anthony's mouth and said, "Let us do what we have always done without interfering with each other. Everyone’s done.”
Snapped! Anthony slammed the phone. The mayor is also very busy. (..)