The open-air party venue was rendered fiery red by the sunset and bonfires. Uneaten cakes were placed in front of the guests' tables. Under the light music, the guests were cheering and encouraging the two newlyweds before the sky darkened completely. Before, play a wedding game.
This is a cruel game. There are long tables on both sides isolated by the bonfire, with all kinds of messy items on the tables - watches, vases, **, snacks...
Eric finished collecting the guests' questions and stood in front of the bonfire, "Please choose the bride's favorite snack!"
Cliff took out the potato chips and Linda on the other side took out the puffs.
Eric continued, "Please choose the groom's favorite style..."
Cliff took out the triangle and Linda took out the four corners.
"Please, please choose the things you must bring with you when you go out..." The sweat on Eric's forehead was stirred by the bonfire.
Cliff hesitantly picked up his watch and Linda lifted her wallet.
…
Look, a cruel game.
Let’s stop focusing on this horrific situation and look at Zach.
Zach finally got his chance and nodded to someone at the other end of the long party table. It was Bishop. This guy with a somewhat pale face has been in a state of boredom. Riley is the bridesmaid and doesn't have much time to spend with him.
However, it was just a nod. Neither Bishop nor Zach had any intention of talking on this occasion. It is understandable that their intersection was an employment relationship in a gray profession and was not so visible to the public.
However, someone seemed to notice Zach's actions, dispersed the people talking around him, and came closer, "Corden has already told me about Bishop in the West End." It was Sibella.
Sibella's original direction was towards Benjamin, but our Alpha gave him a 'don't come near me look', so Sbella had no choice but to stop next to Zach. He said, "I'm surprised you and Charismatic still gave Bishop some freedom."
Zach smiled and didn't respond. This is a basic rule in the social scene. When a person with high popularity approaches to talk to a person with low popularity, the less popular person needs to. Well, posture.
Sibella frowned and patted the shoulder of Louise, who was sitting next to Zach, "How about giving us some space."
Louise glanced at Zach and received a nod. She pulled Mo and stood up, "Let's go to the 'General' and ask Mr. Morelin about women's clothing."
Sibella was able to sit next to Zach. "You don't need this attitude. Benjamin is back safely. There is no bad blood between us..."
"I can't step into Gale's front door yet." Zach didn't look at Sibella, he just raised his eyebrows and said this while shaking the wine glass. Oh, the red wine in it was brought by Zach himself.
Sibella frowned and said, "You have been re-invited."
"That's it. We didn't have any grudges before." Zach looked at Sibella and raised his wine glass. Then he narrowed his eyes and said, "Don't take advantage of Bishop." This was what Sibella said at the beginning.
"Even if I wanted to, there is no way. Corden said that he did not find the remains of the evil spirit." Sibella was honest.
Zach tilted his head and smiled, "Then please restrain yourself and the Indian hunters around you. Don't touch the evil spirits in Bishop Manor. In exchange, I will not interfere with what you created in the North and South Districts." ..." Zach raised his eyebrows, gesture, eh. Our vampire postulated, "What do you call it? Oh, wards."
"Whether we don't care about the barrier, or what happens next." Sibera was asking for the vampire's promise, "I told you, there will be many other people coming to Barton in the near future, you can't..."
"Are you talking about a guy like Max?" Zach continued to sway the glass and kept smiling, but the corners of his mouth curved further, "Do you think I will care."
Sibella tugged on her shawl, "There are others."
"The Black Witch Group?" Zach raised his eyebrows and glanced at Alice who was feeding the Great Dane cake, "As long as they don't set a bad example for Alice, again, I don't care."
"So what Benjamin said is right." Sibella looked at Zach with complicated eyes, "I am right too, you really don't care about anything." When did Benjamin say this to Sibella? The morning when Benjamin came back (the end of the first volume).
"You're wrong." Zach smiled and shook his head. "I still care about one thing. For those who come here, you'd better let them find legal jobs in Barton." Zach chuckled. , "You know our mayor doesn't like his citizens to be idle." Of course, both vampires and alphas were hired by Anthony to manage the funeral home, so what else is needed to prove it.
Sibella frowned tightly. She would not let Zach bring the topic to the boring daily life of ordinary humans. "If this is what you care about, I would like to ask, Riemer of your secret alliance, where are you?" Does Barton have any legal profession?" Sibella probably wanted to fight back.
Zach looked at Benjamin helplessly at first, "Uh, did you tell her?"
"What does it matter?" Benjamin turned his head indifferently, "If Rimel is really interested in witchcraft as you said, sooner or later he will find her." (Same, end of the first volume)
"That's true." Zach nodded, turned back to Sibella, and gave a rogue expression that made people want to punch him, "I need to correct you, it's not 'our secret alliance', I don't belong to any alliance. So. , you don’t have to ask me about Rimmer.” Zach raised his eyebrows, “I don’t know.” Lying, coupled with a scoundrel expression, is the best way to end the topic, learn from it.
Sibella twitched the corner of her mouth and said, "Whatever you say." After giving up, she adjusted her sitting posture and continued to the next topic, "How much have you listened to the conversations between me and other people?"
Of course, there is no one to harass the Grande family here, and all our vampires can do is eavesdrop on others. And will our vampire listen to the chatter of ordinary guests? Of course not. If you want to listen, naturally listen to the alien side. Who else is worthy of Zach's listening except Sibera's side
"I'm not interested in listening to your conversation." Naturally, he had to deny it first, and then, "But there are some doubts that Mollman shared."
We know this, the mermaid Mollman has long expressed that he wants to ask Sibella something. It was just that Zach caught Grande halfway and went to explain to James.
Zach continued, "I did hear that in the fire of world punishment, the dead siren was a male siren who was suspected to be transformed by Papa Midnight. Haha, you shouldn't come to me, you should go talk to Mrs. Sheila. "
Zach looked at the winged ugly woman who was on the other side of the mind-reader Morelin. Mrs. Sheila was talking to Eli. Oh, by the way, you may still remember that Aili worked in the West End. From their conversation, it seems that Aili is half of Mrs. Sheila’s employee (manor swimming pool cleaner).
"She doesn't care about anything." Sibella looked in the same direction as Zach, and then turned to the seductress Riley who was accompanying the bride and trying to cheat in the game, "Her name is Riley. Right. Maybe more useful."
"Don't forget what we just said so quickly." Zach smiled and waved his hand, "Don't touch the Bishop Manor, even if it distracts the charming demon. Please solve the problems caused by you Indians yourself." After this and the direct refusal to help, our vampire tilted his head, "But if you want to express your gratitude to Grande for helping you divert attention from the truth about the fire, please feel free, and I accept it."
"Huh!" Sibella finally couldn't help it. "Thank you?! If it weren't for your meddlesome intervention, the fire would never have been discovered!"
This is true. No one paid attention to the fire in the North District. It was Grand who accepted the commission from New Herman, and because of the coincidence of Coulson's visit to Grand, it was discovered by the police and became a well-known terrorist attack. .
"Really." Zach smiled and shrugged, "It will definitely be revealed. Do you hope that Grande will not participate and let the interpretation of things develop in an uncontrollable direction?"
Sibella stopped talking. After a moment of silence, he shook his head helplessly, "I need a favor." The wizard changed the subject again! What else could he do? Zach has already made his position clear, and it is useless to say more. "After the corpses of the Indian werewolves are taken away by the police, I hope you will find a way to help me get them out. Your Grande mill does not have a cooperative relationship with the police. Well, you can..."
You know what Sibella is talking about. Those corpses that John and she wanted to study, under James' prompt, they could only let the police take them away temporarily.
"The South District police who cooperated with the mill." Zach interrupted directly, "The bodies that were taken away were -?" The last word of the question was elongated, waiting for the other party to complete it.
"Northern District." Sibella added with a frown.
Zach chuckled lightly, "Then why are you looking for me?" Zach raised his chin and faced James, who had been standing at the window of the farm since the party started, silently watching everything outside. That's right, Zach hasn't exchanged a word with James yet, "The guy you need a favor is over there."
Sibella also glanced over there and then retracted, "Like this, you ask him to help..."
"I don't think I can make him do anything." Zach interrupted again, without the deliberate chuckle, he looked calmly in the direction of James and said this.
Sibella pursed her lips and looked in the direction of James, then looked at the bride, her eyes flickering, as if she was also thinking about something. Both of them were quiet for a while, and then Sibella spoke again, "This is probably a 'surprise' for us. Are you ready to find out the relationship between James and this Linda?"
At the top of the Barton race, two guys who were divided by their belief systems actually agreed on something.
Zach took a sip of wine and withdrew his gaze, "I'm a gentleman, and I don't intend to go against what I said." Don't worry, continue listening, "I once said I wouldn't use the Charming Eyes on him. So, no, I’m not going to take the initiative to do anything to explore his relationship with this inheritor from the west.”
Sibella curled her lips and said, "Aren't you going to take the initiative?" She shook her head and looked away, "I should remind you that he is the one who pronounced the Soul-inducing Curse of Ryan (Volume 2) after all. I won't Do anything to him, so don’t expect me to do anything.”
Zach smiled, "You said it as if I had expected something from you." Zach raised the glass again and took a sip, putting aside unnecessary thoughts and boosting his mood.
"Haha, you should." Sibella also smiled, "Don't you think that I don't know about the little conflict between you and Boyson?"
Our vampire's face stiffened for a moment, but he immediately recovered his smile, "I didn't think anything happened. You..." Zach carefully observed Sibella's expression, "Do you have anything to say about him? "
"Don't you ask me how I know this?" Sibella squinted her eyes and looked back at Zach, also observing.
"Are you going to tell me?" Zach asked.
"Benjamin told you that we sent him back to Grande at a warehouse site at the junction of the West and North Districts." Sibella was quite direct, and Zach just nodded to express his understanding. Sibella continued, "When While we were still there, he came to me and made a request that might be of interest to you." Sibella deliberately slowed down her speech, still wanting Zach to take the initiative to ask. Haha, wizards are also naive. when.
So our vampire responded more childishly—
"Then, quickly verify whether I am really interested."
"Tsk." Sibera curled her lips. She had found the wrong opponent. "He asked me to invite him to the South and North Districts."
Zach's eyebrows raised, the corners of his mouth slowly lengthened and curved, and he said with a full smile, "Say it again."
"Boisen." Sibella fulfilled Zach's wish, "Let me invite him to enter the south and north areas protected by the barrier."
This shows one thing - Boyson is the creation of Papa Midnight!
The most wonderful thing in the world, when opposing 'enemies' stand in a row, must count. Otherwise, it would not be possible to explain Zach's behavior of bending the corners of his mouth to drink from the glass.
Oh, Papa Midnight is the enemy? In the incident where his Dead Apostles disrupted the security of Barton and plotted against Grande to 'cheat' Ian away, Zach may have retained a trace of respect for the powerful alien race for this ancestor of witchcraft. But after Teddy disappeared, Grande was deceived into making plans and caused the incident involving Gonghe and his party. Enemy, Papa Midnight has managed to gain such a definition for herself.
As for Boyson, let’s not talk about it.
Zach put down the empty wine glass, took out his own snack jar, and continued to pour wine. Happy mood needs to be expressed.
Colorful dots of light gathered around Zach without warning. Danny the Fantasy Man missed the wedding, but still caught up with the party.
"Zach, Coulson is coming this way."
Zach's movement of pouring the wine stalled slightly, and he looked at Danny suspiciously, "What is he here for?"
Danny's eyes had turned to the surrounding guests, and Barton's alien also turned his eyes to the late phantom, expressing goodwill in his gestures, "I don't know, what I saw halfway is almost here."
Zach pursed his lips and said, "Go to the 'General' and remind him. Then, just over there, let Rita help introduce you to everyone."
Danny nodded, turned into a point of light, gathered entities in a deserted corner, and then walked towards the direction of the mind reader. (.)