The already dark basement became darker as Dora and Bumi entered, and the dark shadows seemed to deepen in all directions.
"You don't need to do this." Louise's voice was low. "The basement is very well insulated. Unless you yell, you won't be heard outside." This is a verified fact. They are all adults. How can it be verified? It's good that everyone understands, but Louise shouldn't be in the mood to reflect on this kind of thing right now. She made it clear, "Zach can't hear it."
"We know." Dora sat down on the stone platform next to Louise. "In the past few days, Zach has taken us to know every corner of Grande. We know that he can't hear." motioning Bumi to sit down. Going to the other side of Louise, "This is for you, to give you some peace of mind."
Plainly, "Peace of mind." Louise didn't mind being sandwiched between the two Nofiles, and she didn't mind. Regardless of her seniority or age, Louise couldn't resist these two Nofiles, "One It's just a shadow, why should I feel at ease?"
Dora tilted her head, "Nofele's shadow is the capital of Nofele's power, just like your Toledo's eyes. You should feel at ease." Dora probably wanted to lighten the atmosphere, "Now you are here No matter how random you yell, no one outside will hear you."
Louise glanced at Dora and said, "I won't bark."
Dora pursed her lips, realizing that she had expressed something wrong, she frowned and looked at Bumi.
Bumi should not be more eloquent than Dora, curling his lips, "Louise, that's about it. Zach will get suspicious sooner or later if you do this..."
"Bumi!" Dora twitched the corner of her mouth and simply interrupted, deciding to do it herself, "Louise, you know what we want to say."
"I know." Louise lowered her head, "I just want to be alone for a while now. You don't have to worry about me leaking anything." Louise turned her head and glanced at Dora. She knew that looking at Bumi was useless. He didn't want to look at Bumi, "I think I have proven myself. When Zach asked about it today at the Hermann factory, I thought I was very round." (This volume, 9)
"It's very complete." Dora nodded. To be honest, she wasn't cute. Although she looked like a little girl, she didn't wear a hood or cover her body now. Her big head matched with her abnormally weak body, which was very pretty. Weirdly, "To be honest, I was a little nervous, but I felt relieved after hearing your answer so smoothly."
Louise's cheeks pulled at her upper lip, and she didn't feel any joy at being praised, so she didn't speak.
Dora frowned and looked at Bumi, who looked back at Dora unconsciously. Dora shook her head, "I apologize for Bumi. Regardless of seniority, parties, or various angles, when Zach asked questions, he should have stood in front of you to answer..."
was interrupted, "Uh, do I need to stand in front?..."
The interruption was interrupted, "Shut up!" Dora glared at Bumi, and continued to Louise, "I'm sorry for asking you to deal with Zach in that situation. And a certain senior, person involved." Squinting at Bumi, "I will only join in a few nonsense words after the crisis is over!"
"I tried my best, okay? You joined later than me, so you have no right to criticize me." Bumi countered with curled lips.
"I was still thinking about vampire wizards, so I didn't react for a moment!" Dora defended herself.
"Me too! Who can react? Zach always speaks like that, and he gets to the point inexplicably and cleverly. Who can react?"
"Can you two be quiet for a while?" Knowing that she shouldn't say such words to two seniors with different surnames, Louise closed her eyes, typical of hiding her ears. When he opened it, the seniors on both sides of his field of vision did not disappear. "Don't mention this again. I lied to Zach. I have the right to be in a bad mood now. Let me be quiet for a while."
"Okay." Dora glanced sideways at Bumi and really stopped talking.
But it didn't last long.
"Zach thought you were in a bad mood because of the Republic ghost."
Louise sighed, her voice was much weaker, she had completely given up on 'reasoning' with these two seniors, "Of course he will think so, the last words I said were not said casually. I just want him to think so. .”
"That makes sense." Bumi would not be willing to remain silent. "You rarely accompany Mo these days. You feel guilty because you would do things that would make him sorry for Mo, so you avoid it, and because of this The guilt is that Zach wants to help that Mayor Barton, but ignores Zach and avoids him as well. Very good, very smart."
Louise didn't want to return the compliment.
It was quiet for a while, "You are very..." Dora pursed her lips and said, "Toledo." She turned the noun into an adjective, "If you were two or three centuries ago, you would have become a very powerful Toledo."
Probably Dora mentioned that two or three centuries ago, the topic could be easily changed to distract Louise from her current mood, so Louise took the initiative to answer the conversation, "Does Zach have many descendants in the past?"
"Not many." Dora frowned, "He is very picky, no, it is Toledo himself who is very picky. The characteristics of Toledo candidates are not too outstanding, like me, Nofele, Mokawi , Gangro, etc., before we became vampires, we were people who could be labeled at a glance... "
Bumi insists on inserting himself, so let him go. "The outstanding external flaws of our Nophele, in terms of appearance, are very obvious, like Dora, who is born with no chance of growing up. I am like this." He pointed at himself and was filled with laughter. It's a pit face, "disfigured. In the past, the strict class society could not tolerate ugly things or people. If we were lucky enough to survive, we would need to hide in the dark to survive, the weirdo on the clock tower, the witch in the gloomy hut outside the village. To become Nophele, we inherit the essence of what once was human existence, and we keep ourselves in the darkness.”
Dora waved her hand, probably because she didn't want to add anything to Bumi's words, "Mokavi are all mentally ill. The strange thing is that society is more tolerant of people with such defects that are not obvious." Dora La shook his head, "It's not tolerance, it's difference. If we appear on the street, we will be stoned and scolded. Mokawi will be laughed at by the onlookers, which is not better, but, You should understand what I mean."
Louise nodded, "It's easy to identify, right?"
"Yes." Dora nodded with a complicated expression, "Our father, basically, if he can find us, it is destined that we will become members of a specific vampire clan. But Toledo is different, Toledo is not at all Easy to recognize. You have to understand a person and his or her way of thinking, whether it conforms to Toledo's code of conduct - speaking and doing. In the end, it can be boiled down to the way of thinking that can use the pupil of enchantment to complete the rewriting of a person's thoughts. .”
Louise frowned, thinking carefully about Dora's words, "You can rely on every bit of someone's behavior, and finally use facts to construct a false memory that can be real, and complete the replacement. People who can do this, Only then can one become Toledo.”
"Yes." Dora nodded, "Toledo must have foresight and the ability to see things from various angles in order to extract these bits and pieces of reality and complete the most solid false memory. And these abilities are not If you see a random passerby, you can tell whether he has such potential. Therefore, Toledo, there are not many descendants of Zach." It's a pity, "That's why a century ago, those who wanted to die dismissed the slaves. Losing so miserably.”
Louise pursed her lips and said, "I thought it would be enough as long as she looks good."
Dora opened her mouth, but before she could speak, Bumi jumped in first, "Being good-looking makes it easier to communicate, which is also one of the conditions. There once was a Toledo who did an experiment and created an artificial human descendant (artificial human, Ugly, like Earl), it turned out that the artificial man was..."
Louise happened to know this story, "At a banquet, I used my charming eyes to remind the guests that I don't look so embarrassing." The mood was a bit complicated, because from what Louise saw and felt, Toledo To socialize with people in order to make false memories look real, although it is to maximize the use of the Charming Eyes, the results and the purpose do not seem to match at all.
Isn't that right? How many times did Zach miss his ultimate move with Charming Eyes? Regardless of Georgina's performance, the most recent thing is that Susan-Zach pushed Susan's life forward for half a year and successfully sent this glamorous woman to a nursing home to be refrigerated.
I don’t think it takes too much effort and is unnecessary. From the moment I got to know Susan, I have been testing and extracting Susan's position and the information Susan has. Basically, everything that can be obtained has been squeezed out. Only the peak of the clan's ability has been exhausted. The woman who used it was sent to a nursing home.
Compared to just the past few days, walking with Bumidora, I found that the people around me disappeared in a cloud of shadows as I walked; Thomas Gangro would never use human form if he could maintain the animal form. They were almost always using their clan's symbolic power. As for Zach, he didn't look at anyone else with red eyes for ten and a half days. It's rare to become popular, but you still did unnecessary things.
"I know what you are thinking, there is no need, right? It is enough that the Charming Eye has the ability to forcibly insert false memories. Even if it is a short moment of memory, it can work at the moment. Many things require a waste of time to communicate. There is no need to pursue the last false memory that completely replaced the real memory. Toledo's Charming Eye is a meaningless symbol ability, and Toledo also wasted a lot of time and energy because of this ability." Dora He glanced at Louise.
Louise pursed her lips and nodded sheepishly, she was Toledo.
"You should be somewhat aware by now. Things like what Bumi did in Grande." Uh, back to the thing that made Louise feel bad. "It happens all the time. Haha, you shouldn't have to think about it. You know, we are vampires, vampires that suck human blood. A breakdown in negotiations, an action that does not follow the will of the secret alliance... This kind of thing that can lead to a breakdown in friendship will happen at any time. Do you think that in the end, it will be up to the entire vampire community to clean up this mess? Who is the person?"
Louise opened her mouth, she understood.
"It's Toledo." Dora asked and answered herself, "Do you think Toledo himself is willing to attend every social gathering of the Alliance? No, they have to go and collect the 'facts' about everyone in the social gathering. Those bits and pieces, when reality turned to its worst in the end, Toledo used everything they collected to weave 'facts' that could be exchanged for the day, and stuffed them into the minds of those who would pose a threat to the alliance."
Bumi waited until Dora finished speaking this time, "Without Toledo's ability to bring the Charming Eyes to its extreme, either vampires would have been extinct for several reincarnations, or humans would have been extinct for several reincarnations. Now this balance The symbiotic relationship cannot be maintained."
Unexpectedly, Louise caught a loophole, "Toledo has disappeared for a century, and the world has not ended. Vampires and humans are all still here."
Dora shook her head, "Are they all still there? Louise, it's us. Here, we escaped miserably to this easternmost city from the middle of the country where the Secret Alliance once had an absolute advantage and is now in chaos. This Don’t you understand the difference between the two?”
Understood. Without the cooperation of Toledo's secret alliance, Success fell under the leadership of Vanzhuo and fled the Republic, leaving behind a group of alien vampires who could only make a living by buying blood underground. This fact is correct. On the contrary, there is also Barton of Toledo. The vampires have become prosperous and have become the mayor's 'men'.
"The Sabbat?" Louise asked, the question needed to be answered.
"The Sabbat is different. They used a different policy from the beginning. They don't have Toledo. They know that they must always occupy a social class advantage that cannot be resisted in order to survive, so they have persisted in this approach until Now. But." Dora narrowed her eyes, "I won't mention James. These days, I heard Zach talk about some things about Darcy and Ozzie Cozier. I noticed it, and you should too. Expected it. It won’t last long.”
Louise pondered for a moment, nodded, and then said, "Okay, Dora, I'm fine." Suddenly she took the initiative to return to the original topic, "I have no way out. I will replace Austin with the Charming Eyes." Remember, I was the one who lied to Zach." Louise still shook her head helplessly, "Don't worry about my part. As you said, I did what Toledo should do. Things. I, I used my own ability to save the fact that it developed into the worst situation. I am Toledo, I will sort out my mood. "
Bumi actually let out a long breath. He didn't know when he would be able to take it in. "It would have been better if I had done this earlier."
"Bumi!"
"What! I'm rest assured, isn't this okay?" He curled his lips, raised his hand and put his arm around Louise's shoulders, "You are good, I am optimistic about you. What I have always wanted to say, at that sudden moment, You had to replace the memory of Austin without being prepared. You did a really good job, and Eve even praised it silently... "
Louise took Bumi's hand away and reminded him of his self-respect with the eyes of a junior looking at his senior, "It's not that I'm unprepared. I understand Austin's psychology and work attitude very well." Like a qualified Toledo, "He decorated When he was in Grande, Zach always asked me to deal with him. We had enough exchanges with each other, and I knew what was the most reasonable memory in his heart... "(.)