On Friday morning, Zach said long-windedly in the backyard, "Seat belts."
Alice put on her seat belt with a cry.
"The driver's license is in the saddlebag."
Alice opened the saddlebag and checked all the documents. She got her driver's license yesterday, remember. Unfortunately, Zach couldn't celebrate immediately because Alice was taken there by Laura.
"Have you remembered the formula?"
"Clutch, accelerator, gear, steering wheel..." Alice muttered silently.
Zach nodded and looked inside the car, always feeling paternalistically uneasy, "I should be with you..."
Alice gave Zach a reassuring smile, "No, I can do it." Then she gave a clear reason for Zach not to come together, "I have to pick up Laura. She will roll her eyes when she sees you. ”
Zach curled his lips and waved toward the back porch, "Maya."
Maya on the back porch curled her lips and repeated what she had repeated countless times, "Nothing, Alice, it's safe." Although she herself had clearly expressed her rejection of driving, if Zach continued If she kept going on like this, she was considering switching sides.
Zach finally nodded. If he didn't want Alice to be late on the first day of driving, he had to let the Grande sister go. "No more than 20 kilometers (speed)." Zach struggled for the last time.
"Yes." Alice agreed with a smile, "I only open it to 15."
When Zach twitches his lips, Alice will start to joke. If she only drives 15, and her car is covered in pink, she will probably be scolded by everyone passing by.
Zach patted the roof of the car, allowing Alice to leave, "Be safe." He still had to add something.
Alice smiled and started. Probably to show off to Zach, he drove slowly, not much faster than walking, and drove out of the backyard. He turned, and as soon as the car disappeared, the roar of the engine appeared, and after a while, the sound disappeared.
Zach stood in the backyard and could only keep shaking his head to express his helplessness.
"Yue Hua Bai Ying is right." Maya stood up on the back porch, "But, you are really a failed 'guardian.'" Maya's words were not malicious, she said with a smile, "That's what I saw about Ellie. Si, I really can’t imagine that before Yuehua and Baiying came, she was a girl who was afraid of everything.”
Zach tilted his head. If Maya meant that Zach had no role in Alice's growth, then Zach could not refute it. Yuehua did say that it was Grande who gave Alice a sense of security, but if Alice cannot establish her own sense of security, this sense of security will always be borrowed from elsewhere. Grande is indeed very important to Alice. But the most important thing is to finally let her establish her own sense of security. As a 'guardian', that's all Zach can do. There are some things that only the Banshee can teach the Banshee.
"You seem to have nothing to be afraid of." Zach began to walk underground on the east side, and Maya also stood up, heading in the same direction.
"I also had that stage~" Maya smiled, "But that stage passed quickly. Looking back now, it seems like it happened a lifetime ago."
Zach raised his eyebrows and became a little interested, "'Things in the previous life', where did this expression come from?"
"It's very vivid, isn't it? To describe long-distant memories, it's like something happened a lifetime ago." She repeated it again, shaking her head proudly, "Learned from Mo, she said, it is used to describe those things that happened very early." , both clear and fuzzy, completely unlike my own memories, the most suitable one, and all of them are passed on to the previous life~"
Zach continued to raise his eyebrows, "Previous life?"
"Oh, I don't quite understand this." Maya was indeed just a girl, waving her hand casually, "Go and ask Mo."
Zach wouldn't ask, he definitely wouldn't understand, and besides, there's something going on right now.
Entering the basement with Maya, Dora and Bumi were already inside. The two Nofils ignored the body on the stone platform in the middle and were randomly playing with the equipment in the basement.
The basement on the east side is used to store corpses and dress them up, remember. Dora was holding a piece of soft film and pulling it curiously. Bumi, Bumi tilted her head and was licking something columnar.
Zach didn't know what expression to put on and took away the thing in front of Bumi's mouth, "This is something used to support the chest of the corpse." Ignoring Bumi's darkened face, he took away the film in Bumi's hand, " This is used to mend some wounds." He looked at the corpse on the stone platform and got to the point, "Where is the corpse?"
What Zach was looking at was not the corpse he needed now. What was on the stone platform was the corpse of a client who had just been delivered and would have a farewell ceremony tomorrow. What Zach wants is the body brought back from Port Massa.
Dora pointed to the corpse cabinet and said, "Put it in."
Zach motioned for Maya to come over, and he put on his gloves. Anyway, he came down, finished his work as the owner of the funeral home, and started to arrange the appearance of the corpse on the stone platform.
Maya did not move. In fact, no one moved except Zach. She watched curiously as Zach put on his gloves and began to drag the clothes of the corpse on the stone platform.
"Uh." Bumi was the first to speak, his face still dark, "You're not going to stuff it with the thing I just licked."
Dora interjected, "I asked you to stop licking."
"It's not licking!" Bumi argued pointlessly, "I'm biting! That thing is hard and soft at the same time, I don't know what it is!"
"So you want to bite it?" Dora rolled her eyes, "Your explanation doesn't make you look any smarter!"
Zach glanced at Bumi and didn't answer. He opened the front of the corpse's chest, opened the chest, answered with action, and stuffed what Bumi had licked into the chest cavity where the heart was missing.
Bumi's face was as wrinkled as a rag, "It's so cruel. This guy's internal organs are gone. How did he die?"
The answer was Maya, who had countless images flashing in her eyes, "It's not cruel. To be honest, he died a great man. This man donated his organs."
As Zach stuffed the corpse's body, he turned his head and asked, "Can you see these?"
"Well, sure." Maya nodded, "Some organ donors, those who are unlikely to regain consciousness, need to stay alive until the last moment, so I can see the last moment."
"Wait a minute, organ donation?" Dora frowned, "What do you mean, organ donation." She separated the two words and said them again. Probably I don’t understand why these two words can be used together.
It was Zach's turn to be surprised. He looked at Dora and Bumi. They both looked puzzled and pursed their lips, "Organ transplant? Haven't you heard of it?"
"Organs, transplant." Bumi was replaced, but his face was still dark.
Zach opened his mouth and shook his head, "I still remember that once, when I was still in the Secret Alliance, if any new technologies or things appeared in humans, we would gather together to discuss the impact on the future of vampires and formulate the future of the alliance. direction." Zach glanced at Dora, and his tone was disappointed, not for the individual, but for the secret alliance, "And you, Nophele, are usually the clan that discovers new things. Now, you don't know about organ transplantation. ." Continued to shake his head. Dora was right in her previous comments about the decline of the Secret Alliance after the disappearance of Toledo.
Dora and Bumi looked at each other, their expressions were not very good, and they shook their heads together, not wanting to speak. They were probably aware of it, but they could no longer say exactly when the alliance that once controlled the central part of the country began to lose touch with the world.
"It's like what happened in my last life~" It couldn't be said that it was inappropriate, but it actually made the atmosphere better. Maya said this with a smile, and then, "Is this gentleman's farewell ceremony tomorrow? Can I attend?" She just said great, so she probably just wanted to express respect.
"You can go help Matthew." Bai found free manpower for Matthew, and Zach was also realistic enough.
"Yes." Maya had no objection and opened the corpse cabinet that Zach had indicated before. This was the main thing for her to come down.
The black plastic tape revealed the human shape. Dora was not tall enough, so Bumi went to help. After opening the plastic bag, the male Republican appeared in front of Maya with a pale and swollen face.
Although she was a girl, Maya didn't react at all, as if she was used to it. She looked at the other person's face and her eyes flickered. Before she could say anything, Bumi got there first and looked into Maya's eyes. "Did you see something?"
Maya blinked, did not answer, and looked at the body in the black plastic bag again. Likewise, something seemed to flash in her eyes quickly and then disappear, and confusion began to appear on Maya's face.
Bumi glanced at Dora, pursed his lips, and began to open other cupboard doors. "I was afraid of bad luck, and the ones I fished out were those who died normally. So I fished out a few more corpses." The cupboard door was opened. Black plastic tapes were exposed one after another, and Bumi began to pull them apart one by one to show Maya.
Maya nodded uncertainly, looked up, and various images flashed across her eyes as she passed by the corpses. Then, "That's it." Maya closed her eyes and waved her hands, as if complaining, "Where did you get these corpses? They smell fishy."
As mentioned before, these corpses were considered by the vampires to be the normal deaths of people who had smuggled in. They were collected deliberately just to lure someone out. It was also very successful. Didn't Fisher come to Grande and admit that this was his business? What
But Port Marsa is not an inaccessible place, so there are not many hiding options. Zach learned from the mermaid Moorman and put it on the seabed.
Bumi waved her hand, "It's not important. What did you see, Maya?"
"The two people over there died normally." She opened her eyes with some irritation, "If you think it's normal to die from dehydration and starvation."
That's normal when you're holed up in a shipping container with a bunch of impossibly hungry cargo. This is what vampires consider to be normal losses in human transportation. Again, they have experienced it, so they have experience.
"This man." Maya pointed to a corpse, "died of infection, in the leg."
Bumi pulled the zipper down to the bottom, and sure enough he saw the festering wound on the other person's leg.
Maya continued, talking about a few different 'normal' ways to die, and finally, pointing to the body she looked at first, "This guy, I..." She frowned, "I don't know, the only one I saw, That’s it, he’s dead.” To supplement her statement, she raised her hand and snapped her fingers, “That’s it, he’s dead. There’s no process.”
"What do you mean there is no process?" Bumi looked at Maya.
Zakben was still completing the work in hand and continued to fill the body of the corpse on the stone platform. After all, there was a farewell ceremony, and the family members even sent the person's favorite clothes. As a funeral home, Zach needed to allow the deceased to wear those clothes decently.
But Zach had to join the conversation at this time and glanced at Maya, his eyes conveying a certain message, "Are you trying to say that you can't see his death?" Remember, Yuehua and Baiying once wanted to ask Zach The Banshees were disturbed to discover that they could not see the deaths caused by 'Colt'. Zach wanted to confirm if Maya was talking about this.
Maya received the meaning in Zach's eyes and shook her head, "No, I can see death, but I can't see the process." She pursed her lips and said, "I don't know why or how he died."
The basement was quiet for a while, and Maya spoke again, looking at Zach with an absolute tone, "I'm going to call Yuehua Baiying and ask. I've never seen anything like this."
Zach nodded and agreed. Maya ran to the stairs without saying a word and went up, leaving three vampires behind.
Zach glanced at the corpses in the opened cabinet door, and needed to be reminded that vampires are not creatures that love corpses very much, "Close it."
Bumi did as she was told, "Are we going to get some more bodies to show Maya?"
"No need." Zach shook his head, "That's all I can show to Fisher." Just like last night when Zach was going to Porto Massa to show off his private parts, what he said here is the same as showing Fisher. To prove to Fisher that "Grand is trying to help you," "Wait until Maya asks Yuehua and the others. In addition, you can wait for the news from Jessica."
If the death process cannot be seen on the corpse, isn't there still a way for the soul? Those hellhounds who ran to Port Massa did not run there out of boredom. The fallen angels had the souls of these republicans in their hands.
"Now, help me." Zach raised his hand to indicate his work. He was trying to straighten a few misaligned ribs.
Bumi uprightly reached out his hand, ready to help.
"Don't you want to live?" Zach reluctantly pushed Bumi's hand away, "Gloves."
"Oh." In Dora's speechless eyes, Bumi put on her gloves...
Soon, it turned into a scene of three vampires chatting casually, if anyone is curious.
Dora: "How can you sew so skillfully?"
Zach: “Practice, lots and lots of practice.”
Bumi: "What do you practice on? Don't tell me it's clothes. A century has passed and your clothing style has not changed much. Don't say it's to maintain your personal clothing preferences."
Zach: "You are overthinking. You are a soldier. I told you that I went to the battlefield. Did you forget? On the battlefield, I sewed wounds that were countless times worse than the incisions made by this kind of surgeon..." (.)