"I'm here." The porcelain doll on Grande's back porch had a helpless expression, as if she still hoped that the chat with Yuehua could continue for a while, "I'll chat with them first, and then I'll contact you later."
"Of course, we'll wait." Yuehua, who had been lying on the window sill the whole time, waved her hand, and the porcelain doll leaned against the wall, motionless.
Just wait.
Grande's backyard fell into a brief silence. The silence was broken by Sloan, who was still standing there. He looked at Zack, who was casually playing with the unresponsive porcelain doll on the bench, "You..." He frowned, "What are you going to do."
"What are you going to do?" Zach asked without looking at this guy.
"I'm threatening you." Sloan's voice was low, stating the fact of being interrupted.
"Do I look threatened?" Zach's tone was smiling, just like his attitude before being interrupted by the conversation between Porcelain Doll and Yuehua.
Sloan pursed his lips, glanced at the two banshees on the window sill, and turned away gloomily. Of course he understood that in Grande, threatening Zach was just a joke, "Tell me what you are going to do to us!" His tone was not good.
"'We'? What are you doing?" Zach shook his head and looked at this guy. Of course, the smile was still there, "You mean you and Lip, I seem to have been helping you since you came to me. Well, it will make me sad if you ask that."
"Stop it!" Sloan gave up the vampire politeness with us. "Obviously you are not satisfied with my answer to your question! What are you going to do? Send Lip's body to the mill to be burned now. …”
Zach still shook his head, "I said that I felt you were being false, so that's why you did this." Zach tilted his head and waved his hand easily, "Although I really don't like your answer, you are very true. Really. To the point of threatening me, haha." Zach really smiled, "I am a person who values words and deeds, so of course not, I will continue to provide help. Burn Lip's body. That's also after you rescue him. , destroy the tethering clues that could be traced by others, like this."
Sloan probably didn't believe it, "Are you serious?"
"Of course I'm serious." Zach nodded, "But you don't have to worry too much. Just like your answer just now, you just want to rescue Lip now. You don't know what you will do next. The same goes for me. Now I just help you rescue Lip, what will you do next, haha, I don’t know.”
"What do you mean!" Sloan's face turned sharp again after he had just relaxed.
"It's not interesting, I just don't know now." Zach shook the porcelain doll's head, "I will ask you this question (what Sloan plans to do after rescuing Lip) for a reason. I have some concerns. Yours The answer didn’t dispel my concerns, so, well, I’ll think about it later.”
"You don't have to beat around the bush here! Just say it! I know what you are thinking! Are you afraid that I will let Lip change the past again? You just said so many speculations about me - why in the original future, I am free Yes! Do you think I would let Lip restore that future! For my own selfish desires!"
"Yes." Zach affirmed casually, "Would you do this?" Then he asked the question without even caring enough to give the other party a chance to prepare.
Sloan's open mouth trembled and opened and closed, "I. I... don't know."
Zach shrugged, "Look, you don't know what to do, so of course I don't know how to deal with it. So, I'll think about it later. Once you make a move, I'll react."
"You, you..." Sloan's current mood can be described as angry, and he broke the pot, "If you really let Lip change the past, what will you do?!"
Zach glanced at this guy helplessly, "I told you, I'll think about this later, do you really want me to think about it now?" He let go of the porcelain doll and adjusted his sitting position, "Okay, let me think about it, um …”
After a long silence, Sloan already showed an impatient look, but fortunately, he didn't rush him, because what Zach said was: "Kill you two."
"you!"
"Is this surprising?" Zach still smiled, "Forgive me for being just a vampire. Living a long time does not mean that I can understand everything. For example, I am thinking now, if you change the past, now I What will happen? Doesn’t exist? Or do you simply not know what I’m going through now, and live to this moment unconsciously according to the history you changed?”
Well, this is a philosophical question.
Zach is definitely not a guy who likes philosophy. He continued, "The thing is, although I don't know what the original future you are talking about looks like at all, what I confirm now is that if the fire in the nursing home does not happen, Lip didn't make this change, and now many things will change, such as her." Zach's finger pointed upward, pointing at Yuehua.
"You have the right to know something. The one who is chasing Lip in the dream is Boyson. The boundaries between the south and north areas of Barton have made this wizard who was done by Papa Midnight some tricks we still don't know, and lost the chance to return. Possibility of South and North Districts…”
"What, what knot..."
"Don't interrupt me." Zach stopped Sloan's question, "But the fire in the sanatorium was not the only thing that Lip changed. There was also a trip to the Republic of Barton's fallen angels, wizards, and saints. Inspired by Lip Because of the 'warning', I canceled Grande's trip..." Zach curled his lips, "Benjamin and I got angry and went to Newton to participate in the Comic Con, thus helping Sibella and the others complete this barrier. .”
We who read the story may have forgotten how these things are connected and advanced little by little. But, fortunately, our vampire in the story did not forget.
"The wizard came to Barton, and the Banshee of Salem came to Barton." Zach took back his hand, "Yuehua and Baiying lived in Grande, and were able to teach Alice things that Benjamin and I couldn't teach her. This is my reality now. Let this reality be erased, changed, and developed again? I don’t know what it will be like. So, of course, I would rather keep my current reality and cut off the possibility of you changing this reality. , can you understand what I said?"
Okay, and try to refute it. But how could Zach let him speak.
"Bo Yisen and Yuehua are just two examples. There are more. I can talk about it all day long. What I think is good, what I think is bad, everything in this reality. You expect me to watch you do everything for your own selfish desires. Now wipe out what I know and replace it with a new one? I’m not that tolerant yet.”
Zach glanced at Sloan with a gloomy face again, "You have free selfish desires. With my life, naturally my life comes first here, and I don't allow anyone to manipulate it." Is it to give a glimmer of hope - "To change, to change what I don't know. Something other than Grande, Patton, the present, the past, something other than what gives shape to my present reality."
"Don't understand?" Finding the gloomy Sloan a little confused, Zach kindly gave a summary, "If you are going to let Lip change the things before here and now - the past here, I will erase you. Because I love my Life, in my eyes, has no original version. The current version is my life, the only one. But if you insist on changing something, do it out of my sight and don’t touch my life. You want to be free. Take it. Stay with Lip and be free elsewhere."
"You. You are driving me away..."
"Really?" Zach raised his eyebrows, "Are you admitting that you rescued Lip because you wanted to use the Dream Demon to change something?"
"I… "
"That's expulsion." Zach stopped looking at each other and his smile disappeared. Sloan asked for it. He was the one who insisted that Zach think about things now that he could think about later. He was the one who pushed the topic to this point and got such a dark answer. He deserved it—
"Deported to a place where it will not interfere with my life at all. Now that you have my answer, leave my sight. I have given you all the ways to save Lip. Think about it after you rescue Lip. Where can I go?"
Zach, the center of this story said this, Sloan may never appear in this story again, then, "Goodbye, Sloan." Zach waved his hand in the air, raised it casually, and knocked The wall reminds me that on the windowsill on the second floor, the porcelain doll that was taken away by these words moved.
"Yuehua, are you still there?" The porcelain doll groped its way along the corridor as before, "I'm sorry it took me a while. The Siren is more stubborn than I expected. I also fell in love with Toledo's Charming Demon." I guess." This is looking for the bottom of the stairs. Don't expose her. "Now, I really need your Alpha position. Yuehua, are you there?"
"Uh... I'm here." Yuehua moved her shoulders on the window sill, looking away from someone who was walking towards the east with her head lowered, adjusting her emotions, "Tell me about the current situation."
"It's not good." Porcelain Doll found the bench and sat next to Zach. "You shouldn't believe in the ability of the Tome Demon. After all, the Siren is a foreign race that lives in groups. Now it seems that it is no longer a Siren but a returnee." Our Rimmel is still the Toledo of the Mei Demon. It is the Sirens who choose one between Rimmel and Toledo and present it to their Boysen."
"Oh." Yuehua's mind was still a little wandering, "It's so bad."
"Yes." Porcelain Doll blinked his eyes blankly, "Yuehua, if you don't want to participate, you can ignore it. I won't blame you. Although it may not be too easy, there should be no problem for us to escape."
"How could that be?" Yuehua concentrated on Zac's prompting, "I said we will help, let me talk to them."
"Okay." The response was really quick, "Thank you. Let me tell you the situation. The meeting between Sirens and Mei Yao was because the Sirens thought Mei Yao had hope of freeing them from Boyson's control. Do you remember that? At the nursery press conference, I asked why the undead (Jackson), the son of the evil spirit in Bishop Manor, was in Alpha Grande?" (xxiv, 21)
Zach was smiling, and Yuehua simply responded, "Remember."
The porcelain doll continued, "You said that Alpha listened to my warning and was wary of Toledo's power. I think Alpha has gone in the right direction. Do you feel that there is something special about Blake from the Jackson and Stone families? The contract exists, no matter who casts this contract, it is very powerful, and such a powerful wizard is in the hands of Toledo... "
Also, do you still remember what Blake said to Zach when he came to pick up Jackson? The reason why Blake was seduced by the Siren (this volume, 3). Do you feel something? Zach’s web.
"... The Sirens seemed to think that this wizard had the ability to help them get rid of Boyson. When I came, they and the Mei Demon seemed to be reaching an agreement. Of course, as soon as I appeared, they stopped the negotiations, so I guess I was in time. "The porcelain doll's tone was helpless. Eve would not admit that she wanted to know more information about Toledo, so she could only cover it up by pretending that she had successfully prevented the collusion between Siren and Toledo. Everyone understands.
Then he continued, "I'm going to ask Flender later what he heard. Alas, he seemed to have no effect at all. He looked like he was stimulated and said nothing, letting the siren take control. I think, I He still needs to cheer up his mood for a while, and I don’t know what’s wrong with him. Okay, that’s about it, I’ll give you a view... "
"Well, wait a minute." Yuehua received Zach's signal, "Can you let me talk to the sirens alone? Let me control your magic and give me all your authority. Well, Alice just I'm worried about bringing trouble to Alpha, so my identity is more convenient, otherwise Alice will speak out again."
This time the response was a little slow, "Okay. Yuehua, don't force it. Yes, but I can avoid it. After all, they can't control me, but Flanders, they are not ready to let go yet."
"It's okay." Yuehua confirmed Zach's signal and responded, "You want the Sirens to negotiate with you and get rid of Toledo's side (Mesmerizing Riley). It's just polite at first. The relationship between Alpha and you Rimmer is just a formal avoidance of suspicion. We don’t really want to avoid you. It doesn’t matter if Flanders listens. The Siren’s needs are for witchcraft, right? Then gather you Rimmer and me, Seile. Muhei Witch, if you can’t convince them, then the Alpha position will have another meaning when it appears with you.”
The porcelain doll thought for a moment, nodded, and shook its head up and down next to Zach, "You are right." The red light circulated on the porcelain doll, "It's yours, Yuehua."
"Received." Yuehua clicked her finger. The porcelain doll seemed to have changed. It seemed like there was nothing... No, changes happened around the porcelain doll. Light and shadow gathered and merged. Trees, ground, embankments, swimming was prohibited. The signage…
The voice magic and witchcraft, which were in the hands of mages and wizards respectively, are now completely controlled by Yuehua. She replicated the vision. For whom? Of course Zach.
"First." Zach sat on the bench on the back porch of Grande, but he was already on a section of the Charles River far to the north of the West End. Zach's eyes fell on Flanders, who was still bound by the tree. "Flanders, before you say 'Long time no see', should you say something to me first?"
"Whose voice is this..." the strange siren asked, who cares!
"Zach, is it you?" Flender's eyes were not focused on anywhere. "Haha, what was I thinking? Of course it's you." Eve just said that Flender looked stimulated? It’s obviously a smile! "Ah, yes, yes, on behalf of Eve, I'm sorry."
"Yeah." Zach's response was also a smile. Although it was not him, it felt much better than letting Yuehua control a porcelain doll and dryly say a thousand times, "Well, long time no see."
You should know what Flender is apologizing for on behalf of Eve, right? Quickly remember, at a breakfast at Grande, Zach happily took the letter from Eve Rimmer from Laura, opened it with anticipation, and read it in front of everyone in Grande. out the content.
Yes, does Zach like hiding his identity from Rimmer like this? No. So why is it so troublesome to hide? Because it was wrong, at Eve Rimmer's place. Zach couldn't bear to let the porcelain doll-like Eve face this mistake, and Zach felt bitter. Zach deserves this sorry. (.)