Bumi arrived, shortly after Sam left.
As soon as he arrived, he ran directly to the office and complained, "What's wrong with your Sam! You have no cooperative spirit at all! He disappeared as soon as he said it would disappear! I can't even keep up..." He was stopped by Zach's look.
Bumi sat obediently across from the desk and looked at Zach, who was holding the receiver, with a probing look. Bumi is a bit smart, can you understand why he came in with such complaints on purpose? It's very simple. With the topic of complaining about wizards, you don't have to talk to Zach about killing Georgina and cheating on Zach.
Yes, Dora and Zach did reach a consensus yesterday, but this did not prevent Bumi from still being nervous. He wanted to use this method to test whether Zach really forgives him. If Zach forgives, he will follow the complaint against Sam directly to the matter of Sam and Sibella, and will not mention Georgina and deception, and Bumi will be really relieved. Isn’t this logic~
But this plan was shattered after all. Zach was holding the phone receiver that had no sound at all, his expression expressionless as he didn't know what he was waiting for. Bumi looked at Zach, surrounded by silence, and became more and more panicked...
"I'm calling Madison." Zach was aware of Bumi's emotions. Nofiler, who was used to hiding in the shadows, didn't have Toledo's ability to disguise his emotions in front of others, so Zach Ke explained thoughtfully, "He is checking the fuel reserves of the incinerator as per my request."
Bumi seized this 'glimpse of hope' and said, "Have Sam told you? About the Ford incineration room! Sure enough! This guy came back faster than me! Ugh! This guy's witchcraft is better than Sibella's... "
Zach raised a finger to tell Bumi to be quiet.
After a slight noise, a suppressed breathing sound came from the receiver. Madison had already followed Zach's request and returned after checking, but he didn't speak, just breathing.
Zach curled his lips, "Madison? Do you want to tell me the result?"
"It's gone!" He said gloomily, "The fuel I just replenished last week is gone!"
So if Sissi is still here, she can laugh at Zach as much as she wants. The mill has either not arrived, or it has already suffered.
"All gone?" Zack frowned at the receiver.
A deep breath on the other side of the receiver was the focus of speechless Zach, "Not all! The ones that have been taken are still there, and the ones in stock are gone! All the ones in stock! If they are, they are all gone! I don't need you to remind you! Just look at it arrive!"
Zach shook his head, "Calm down Madison, there's no point in getting angry at me."
"Don't tell me to calm down! Tell me what's going on! What's going on?!"
Zach moved the receiver a little further away. Madison's howl was not pleasant to hear, "I don't know, I just heard that this happened to Ford and Allen, so take care of your own mill."
"Did you hear that?!" Madison seemed to predict Zach's actions, and her voice became louder, "Where did you hear that?!"
"That's right. I heard." Zach shrugged at Bumi, imagining Bumi as Madison, and expressed to this imaginary Madison, 'That's it, believe it or not'.
"Only a ghost will believe you!!" Who said that communication on a phone with only voice is incomplete? Isn't this good if you don't communicate
Zach said in a helpless tone, "Madison, occasionally, let me admit it, I care about the funeral industry? I heard some bad news..." Zach emphasized 'heard', "The first time I’m just telling you, how about being a little grateful to me as your boss?”
There was only a deep breath on the other side of the receiver.
Zach didn't want to continue teasing Madison, "Okay, I think you have work to do now. At least the missing inventory needs to be made up, right? I won't bother you. In addition, there are reports to be written, and there are financial matters. For the record, the city government will request Grande’s financial report from time to time. Don’t leave this kind of gap open to people... "
When Zach became more and more like a real funeral owner and chattered to no end, Madison took the initiative to hang up. Act wisely.
Zach glanced at the receiver where the hang-up sound came from, shook his head, and when he put it down, Bumi spoke again—
"You won't tell Madison the truth?"
"The truth?" Zach's head that had just stopped in the middle continued to shake, and he raised an eyebrow casually, "Then, let Madison look for Papa Midnight with a flashlight like Ford in the middle of the night, and then he was also knocked unconscious, and was given to the funeral industry. Overworked and one more person added?"
Bumi opened his mouth, "Uh... Even if you insist on saying that it was just 'heard', now that he knows that the fuel will disappear inexplicably, he will be on guard, and he will still run into Papa Midnight."
"Madison is not that stupid." Zach waved his hand, "As long as I don't tell him the source of the information clearly, he will always maintain the attitude of considering the alien factors. If he has to take precautions, he won't be the one to do it himself, it will be Leon. The devil of the mill.”
Zach couldn't stop shaking his head, and said in a tone that said clearly, "It's useless to be prepared. Sissi found out about Papa Midnight because Papa Midnight let her find out." Still remember the words he said accidentally Well, Papa Midnight is also a 'just' person. He can't stand two high school students flirting... "I was discovered at the Ford. It was Sam who happened to go there with me. He is a wizard. If not at the mill, I was reminded that no one knows that this happened, so." Zach's point of view has been expressed. None of the three cremation and funeral industries could have discovered this incident on their own. How to prevent it? Useless.
Bumi thought for a while with her mouth open, her expression showing that she agreed with Zach's analysis, but also helpless, "Then, what are you going to do?"
"Nothing to do." Zach's head finally settled in the center and he no longer shook his head, but his eyes began to wander, and he didn't know where to focus. "It turns out that every time something related to Papa Midnight, no matter what Even to the last step, I couldn’t possibly figure out what he wanted to do.”
Living examples include the earliest Ian, later Mel's grandson, Brian with two personalities, and you can also add the one who harassed Grande's sister Alice in the "Cook's Kitchen Treasures" tape...
When did Zach have an advantage over Papa Midnight? zero.
Zach's eyes drifted to the table in front of him, and he raised his hand, "So, why waste energy on making yourself doubt yourself, and then lose completely and destroy your self-esteem."
What is worth thinking about is that Zach did not tell Sissy in such detail~ Bumi can rest assured that Zach has really forgiven him. Four centuries of friendship still has some weight.
Bumi looked at Zach for a while and nodded, with interpretable regret on his face - if Zach said there was nothing he could do, then there really was nothing he could do.
Then don't mention this matter. Bumi looked at Zach again, with a more serious face, "Last night's cargo ship, Fisher's cargo..." This is to report the news about Massa Port last night. Zach has been waiting all morning "Same as last time, everyone disappeared."
Zach crossed his arms and leaned against the back of the chair, expressionless, "Are there any traces?"
"No." Bumi shook his head, "This time not only did Jessica let the devil obtain information, we also sneaked into the ship and read the private records of some informed crew members..." This private record should be for Fisher to see. , "Even in the middle of the night, Sibella took the wizard over to check..."
"Sibella helped?" Zach raised an eyebrow. Zach thought that Sibella would match the toughness on the phone, and even his ally Nofeile was cold for a while.
"Yeah." Bumi nodded and looked at Zach's face. "After seeing the corpse with a missing heart in Grande last time, although she said she didn't care about it at the time, she actually still cared about it."
"continue."
"The last one is the Kraken." Bumi frowned, "Last night, the Kraken arrived with the cargo ship. They insisted that they didn't find any abnormalities along the way, and the time and distance can be traced back to the records of the crew members who knew about it. , the last time I insisted that everything was normal with the 'cargo'." Bumi pursed her lips, "But I don't trust them."
This is a question left over from history. Do you still remember Zach mentioned when he first saw the Kraken as a 'predator'? It was during the colonial period, when the Thirteen Clans crossed the ocean and came to this continent... on the sea. 'Predator' is not a true, good or beautiful title, so—
Zach waved his hands, "You can trust them, they are not the sea monsters we know. They are asking for help from me, Sibella, and Eve." Zach rescued them from Boyson, Sbella and Eve. Fu is helping them find a way to return to normal sirens, although it's all done casually and not too seriously...
Bumi pursed her lips, "Okay, then..." He looked at Zach helplessly, "This matter is the same as the disappearing incineration fuel. We have no clue at all... No, it's even worse. Even Sibella's A group of wizards searched for Papa Midnight's traces but found no results." He scratched his chin unconsciously, "At least regarding the fuel, we still know that it was Papa Midnight, and Fisher asked you to help. Hey, I guess it will be commissioned soon. On Fisher's side, we have already heard that he is preparing to come over to make a formal commission. By then, this commission will be..." Before he could finish his sentence, his eyes averted for a moment.
Zach filled him in, "Another thing I can't handle."
Bumi tilted her head, it was better not to make any sound.
Zach, on the other hand, sat quietly on the chair for a while, then pressed the summoning bell, "Mo."
Mo showed up within seconds and was in a good mood. The reason was that not long ago, he showed the police his federal legal ID card and Sam was taught a lesson.
"Look for me~"
"When we were still in the Republic." As soon as Zach spoke, Mo's good mood disappeared, "You, the alien race in the Republic, have an advantage between Papa Midnight and Holy Lord Faith Heaven, and, hmm, the Secret Alliance. Or is it a disadvantage?”
Mo's eyes rolled up to the ceiling and never came down. "What are advantages and what are disadvantages?" The tone was like that.
Zach thought about it seriously, "To put it simply, can you beat them?"
It was Bumi who answered with a crooked mouth, "She's here, I don't think there's any need to ask..."
He was interrupted. There is no doubt about any cultural or racial self-esteem. "I have nothing to do with you guys going to the Federation. At most, it just makes me upset." His eyes were still on the ceiling, and his body was directed at Zach. , "You know the reason why I am in the Federation is because of the human beings of the Republic. According to the thinking of your Federation, I am the god at the top of belief, but they stopped believing and it was humans who abandoned us, so I came."
"I didn't question you. So, answer my question."
Mo's eyes dropped and she pointed low at the ground. She was thinking, "Advantages." Her eyes raised to Zach, "But not all of them. The republic's spirits (born out of thin air), monsters (born in humans, lost their souls, Contrary to ghosts)' restrained by Papa Midnight's witchcraft, 'jin' is somewhat afraid of vampires." Mo frowned and added, "I told you that spirits are born from things, and the healing power in your blood seems to Let them return to their original form.”
Bumi's eyes widened and he said 'give me an example'.
Unfortunately, it was Zach who led the conversation, and we all know that Zach is not interested in the world view of the republic and alien races, "So, you are saying that you, the ghost, are not afraid of anyone?"
Mo's shoulders lifted up in reply. After being quiet for a while, he added with a frown, "Unless I'm besieged, you know I'm afraid of consumption."
Zach waved his hand, "All living things are afraid of consumption." Then he actually gave Mo a satisfied look, "Okay, I understand."
Mo curled his lips, "That's what you asked me to ask?"
Zach nodded. The reason for such a question was that Sam asked Zach to expel Mo. The answer Zach gave will not be repeated. The significance is that when what happened to Zach recently was beyond his ability, it was a comfort and preparation to know that there was something beyond all cognitive abilities - Mo. Just because you can't do anything now doesn't mean you can't do it forever. There will always be a moment when the ship reaches the bridge. When that moment comes, Zach expects Mo to play to her strengths.
"Uh..." Mo turned around as he slowly exited the office, "Although, that's what I said, but..." This tone made people unable to comfort him, "You also know, according to the thoughts of your alien race in the Federation, I It's God, but I don't have any followers... and I don't have many, um, powerful ones... If you want me to, um, do something, um, just like your friend (Bumi) said, I am, here, in the Federation, not the Republic... The advantages do not allow me to stay in the Republic... "
Bumping, but expressing a complete meaning.
Zach looked at Mo and was quiet for a while, "No believers, that's it, fine, keep it up."
"Oh." Mo pursed his lips and went out.
Then, there was no sound in this office. The vampires didn't need to breathe, and the two vampires here who had mastered the blood control skills of Sabbat Toledo didn't even need a heartbeat when necessary. Therefore, no sound means no sound at all.
"Zach?" The first voice came from Bumi who was a little worried...
"If Fisher comes," Zach affirmed, "I will still accept the commission." Without expression, "At least I will find out for Anthony who is receiving the goods and those workers."
Yes, when everything is beyond your ability, you can only redouble your efforts and grasp what you can do. Helpless, living, life. At least Zack didn't run away, so it's not too sad. (.)