While Zach was preparing lunch for Old Hank, the phone rang. It was Benjamin calling from Sibella.
"I won't be back at noon."
Zach was quite prophetic, "You guessed it, my thing can't be eliminated in a short while."
"No. Max invited us to dinner."
"Why?"
"Katie (Max's girlfriend and the maker of monkshood soup) suffered from mental breakdown after the barrier was removed. Max asked me to comfort her."
Zach raised his eyebrows. Katie, the witch, seemed to have said that monkshood soup was her greatest achievement. Relying on this thing, the Alpha she once served allowed her to survive. It was also because of this monkshood soup that she was... Curse', if this thing that makes other wolves powerful is brought to other wolves, she will die ugly (xxviii, 3).
"How are you going to comfort me?" Zach just asked casually.
"I don't know, do you have any suggestions?"
"Let her be your wizard?" Zach said randomly.
"another."
Zach had already digressed, "Come to think of it, I don't even know why you are so persistent in rejecting Alpha's wizards."
"Betrayed." Benjamin answered simply.
"Oh." Zach raised his eyebrows and returned to the topic, "Tell her, well, you will not allow any other wolves to enter your city, regardless of whether there is an Indian barrier or not." Zach paused, He added a question, "What do you think?"
"Yeah." Hang up.
Zach curled his lips, not knowing what Benjamin was answering.
Let's put it this way, Zach and Benjamin's friendship is based on the fact that both of them met when they were alone. In the past battlefield, there were two guys, one was regarded as the only hope of survival by the soldiers and was worshiped in the rear; the other was regarded as an absolute shield, blocking all the enemy's offensive and providing protection for the rear. .
In that situation, the two guys looked at each other from a distance, and both temporarily suppressed their instinctive impulses, saving these fragile humans first.
This wolf-ghost friendship is relatively lucky. Alpha Benjamin, who does not have a pack of wolves, and Tori Dozak, who is regarded as an enemy by all vampires, have never encountered other werewolves or vampires. So the bottom line hasn't come up yet, what should they do if they encounter other werewolves and vampires.
But now, the bottom line on the vampire side has become obvious. If it is possible that Gangelo's blood is the origin of werewolves, and Benjamin has no intention of confronting Gangero, then Rimmel Eve's active surrender , accepted by Benjamin, regardless of whether there was Zach's influence or not, he accepted it anyway. Now it is basically accepted that Georgina has been hiding in Grandry.
On the other hand, Zack still doesn't know the bottom line on the werewolf side. If other werewolves enter Barton, it's up to Benjamin to decide what attitude Zach will take and resolutely kill them. The werewolf of Newton cannot be used as a reference for Zach, because the reason why the werewolf of Newton and Benjamin fought was to take away Sibella, who they thought was Benjamin's wizard. It was a battle for resources among the wolves.
Zach didn't know much about Benjamin's past, and he didn't know if Benjamin had any friends of the same race in his past life. This little question was just a test. It was still a failed trial, and Benjamin almost didn’t answer.
After putting down the phone, Zach was about to go back to the kitchen to peel potatoes, but unexpectedly the phone rang again and he picked it up.
"Zach?"
Zach raised his eyebrows again. It was Harrison, the ghoul. "Harrison?" To be honest, after Emilia came and made a long 'declaration' last time, Zach didn't expect to hear it again. Harrison's voice. Oh, although Harrison insisted on wanting to be Grande's insider, it turned out that his persistence was no match for the honesty required by Emilia, so...
"Well, yes, well..." Harrison seemed very hesitant, "Can you do me a favor? Zach."
"Are you in any trouble?" Zach frowned, naturally thinking of the shelter that now belongs to the Quinn Group. Harrison has been reinstated, remember, but the latest news is that Poch is out. There's no problem with Zach's thinking direction, "Is there any pressure on you from Quinn?"
The person on the receiver was stunned for a moment, and then said, "Uh, it's nothing. The shelter is very nice, no trouble."
Zach blinked and curled his lips, "Pretend I didn't say anything, what's the matter with you?"
"Well..." He continued to hesitate, "Um, is there a body in your place, um, Grande now?"
Zach didn't respond for the time being, but it was already clear.
"I, uh, need some 'real food.'" Harrison's voice automatically dropped so Zach could hear it anyway.
"How long has it been since you replenished..." Zach quoted the other party's exact words, "'real food'?"
"It's been more than a month." Harrison replied, a little anxiously. "In Grande, after the blood of the dead in Sabbat Toledo ran out, I didn't replenish it."
Zach counted the days and found that it was almost the same. He frowned and said, "You have been back for more than half a month. I thought you had your own food channels."
Don't draw any conclusions yet. As I said before, don't think that Harrison's food is for the homeless people in his shelter that no one cares about. Otherwise, the poor hunter in the middle will not be hungry enough to go to Grande after entering Barton. Completed One death. Now that the shelter is taken over by Quinn, and Harrison is starving at this time, please just treat it as a coincidence.
"I did." Harrison answered quickly, "But now it's gone..." He hesitated, and then roughly made a decision, "I used to have a dealer at Ford Funeral Home, and he was my channel, but Now, he, um, he no longer accepts my business, he, um, has new important business... "
"Ford Funeral Home?" Zach raised his eyebrows in disbelief, "What kind of underground business are you doing (?)..."
He was interrupted in time, "No, no, he, uh, is now a devil's contractor. He has completed the contract and became a low-level devil. He was ordered by the devil to block all business outside the funeral home and make Ford exclusive to the devil. "
Zach touched his chin, and he remembered that Wales had once asked Wales to help Sibella get out the werewolf body, and he had asked a certain contractor in Ford to work overload. It seems to be the same guy.
"This is not the only channel you have." Zach curled his lips.
"Also, Allen Funeral Home, but I just found out yesterday that Allen is closed and will be sold...
Zach pursed his lips, "Okay, I understand. You are two days late. There was a funeral in Grande just yesterday, and now we don't have a body here." There is no need to wait for the other party to be disappointed, "Wait a minute, I'll ask Over there at the mill.”
"oh."
After hanging up, Zach dialed, a little slowly, because he was thinking about how to tell Madison about this.
Du-du-
"Zach! Where's my lunch?!" Old Hank came back, not noticing our vampire in the kitchen, and started shouting.
"I'm trying to find food for the ghouls." Zach turned his head and answered loudly, deliberately to block Old Hank's next complaint.
The effect is remarkable. Old Hank was silent and went to the kitchen to tinker with food.
The phone was picked up, "Grand Funeral..."
"It's me. Madison." Zach decided to get straight to the point. If he was lucky, he wouldn't need to explain, "Do you have any corpses there now?"
"Uh, yes." Madison replied, his tone was a little weird, "Why do you ask?"
Apparently Zach was out of luck. Now Zach has an explanation.
Zach curled his lips and asked, "What kind of corpse?" He asked for some information first and delayed it for a while.
"Well, it was sent from the hospital. I've been waiting for two days. If no one comes to pick it up today, it will be cremated directly."
Zach felt a little more confident, "If I said, send it here and I will handle it, will you accept it calmly?"
There was silence on the other side of the receiver for a long time.
"Leon has taken away this man's soul." Madison answered the question, "He is a homeless man with no faith..."
"All I need is the body." Zach interrupted, a little helpless. It was obvious that Madison was testing, although he didn't get the point, "Can you accept the body being sent here, and then don't ask about how it will be handled here."
There was another period of silence, but this time it was quite short, and the tone was quite calm. "Just say it directly. If you wanted to arouse my complete curiosity, you succeeded."
Zach smiled and shook his head, "Not really, I just wanted to give you a chance to ignore it. It's obviously impossible. Okay, let me put it bluntly. Harrison, you need 'real food'." "
This time there was silence, not even the sound of breathing could be heard.
Zach felt it was necessary to comfort Madison's mind, "So it's always better to either have it ready-made with a dead body, or to make it right now."
The breath came back into the receiver, along with Madison's gloomy reply, "So you're telling me that the real food of ghouls is human corpses, this little bit of alien knowledge."
"No." Zach felt that Maddison was still joking, "Any dead creature can be used as food for ghouls. Human corpses are only necessary for ghouls to maintain their human form. Well, nutrition Elements? You can think so. Otherwise, the ghoul's body will begin to mature and return to the way it was when he was born."
There was silence again, because Madison didn't expect Zach to really explain seriously. Then, Madison took a few deep breaths on the other side of the receiver, "Anyway, you explained it, so I just have some questions, so let's ask them together."
Zach smiled, holding the receiver, and listened to the voice of Madison taking out a pen and paper to record. Since the last time Madison came to ask Mei Yao questions, Zach has discovered Madison's studious side.
"I remember that there was a ghoul invasion in Barton before. James was almost attacked by a ghoul, and then, well, Ravenci's hunter team got rid of it. (ii)" Madison finished speaking about the time, "I still have the impression that the ghoul at that time had a huge appetite. The homeless people in Barton disappeared frequently. Why? Didn't you say they only ate... human corpses?"
"At the beginning of the year, I haven't seen the ghoul you mentioned, and I didn't pay much attention to Barton's current affairs at that time." Zach recalled that this was indeed the case, "But if that guy frequently preys on humans, he should It’s the birthing period, he’s going to breed.”
"He, give birth." Take a deep breath and repeat the two key words at the same time.
"Sorry, the reproduction of ghouls is a process of division. It is different from humans. It is similar to some lower creatures. Part of the body breaks away to form a new individual. There is no need to distinguish between him and her, it is just their external performance. .”
"I was supposed to be answering your call after lunch."
"No." Zach smiled, "You should be glad you didn't have lunch." Looking at the time, he guessed that Harrison was already waiting anxiously, "Is there any problem?"
"No more." Knowledge is never acquired overnight and needs to be digested.
"Then give me an answer. Are you willing to send it over? Take that body."
After a moment of silence, "The whole thing? Well..." Madison's humanity was obviously still rejecting something, "Harrison is just so... big." What Madison wanted to express should be that Harrison is the size of an ordinary human being. How big can the stomach be? "Uh." Madison realized that he was stupid. Who knows if ghouls have such a thing as a stomach.
Zach understands Maddison's thoughts very well. Our vampire is so 'caring', "He doesn't need to be whole, and the amount of food he eats at one time is the amount of a normal person, but." He is very "caring" to everyone, "He He just told me that his food sources are temporarily gone, so it would be a good thing if I could give him the whole thing so that he doesn't have to worry about it for a while."
There were some weird sounds on the other side of the receiver. It was Madison suppressing nausea. Regardless of whether Zach meant it or not, he printed a certain image into Madison's mind.
"You, you are the boss of Grande, whatever you want to do is your business." What can Madison say
"Okay, then I'll let him go to the mill..."
"Don't, don't..." Madison interrupted directly, "Let Leon send him to Grande, don't let the corpse... Harrison come over. I, I have to go out, and the mill will be temporarily closed for a rest soon."
"Going out?"
"Uh..." He was obviously thinking on the spur of the moment, "Send, send letters, reply to letters from magazine readers, um, I need to go to the magazine."
Zach went off topic, bear with me, this is the virtue of our vampires, "Reader's letter? About this week, the story about Louise and I getting to know each other? Has anyone written to you for this story?"
"Uh, yes." His tone instantly turned impatient. Madison was also a fickle guy, "But it has nothing to do with you."
"Haha." Zach let Madison go, "Okay, then I'll wait. Let Leon hurry up. There can be more than one person lunching at Grande's table today." Zach was talking about today's loneliness, and at the same time , and brought the topic back to a place that Madison, no, any normal person would find difficult to accept. Ghoul's Lunch.
Only a low "Yes" came from the receiver. Then he hung up.
Zach dialed again and Harrison was waiting.
As soon as I got through, I was picked up, "Zach?" with an anxious and expectant tone.
"Come over to Grande, you're in luck." In every sense of the word. (.)