30 Tales of the Northland
A hint of coolness was tickling Benjamin's skin, and Benjamin sat up. It's pitch black.
There was a flickering fire in the corner of the room, accompanied by a faint trace of green smoke, "Up?" Zack's voice said.
Benjamin's eyes had adjusted to the darkness, and he peeled off the rags hanging from his body, saw the clean clothes placed next to the bed, and casually pulled his pants and began to dress.
"You transformed once. Zach extinguished his cigarette and sat still in the corner of the room, "If you're curious." ”
"Did I hurt you? Benjamin felt that Zack's clothes were a little small, and complained casually, "Where did you get the clothes?
"You didn't hurt me, you just lay here, very quietly turned into an unconscious wolf. Zach shook the snack jar he had just touched, empty, "I'm ready for a fight, but ~ it's completely unnecessary." Zach withdrew the snack jar, "The clothes belong to a gentleman next door, you don't think I'm too far away to find you clothes without knowing what is happening to you." ”
Although it was a little tight, Benjamin still managed to put it on and move his body, "Did I hurt anyone else?"
If you can keep up, the reason why Zach can't stay away can only be because he is afraid that Benjamin will hurt the innocent.
"Nope. Zach replied, "Dead people can't hurt anyone." It's for the sake of the conversation, "You're dead, Benjamin." ”
"I'm not dead. Benjamin frowned, walked to the window of the room, and drew the curtains. The neon of the Betch Zone can leave a little color through the reflection of light, where Benjamin is now, "Are we still in Betsy?"
"You're dead, Benjamin. Zach ignored the following question, "Sem and I both came to this conclusion - you are dead, and you are left with a healthy body, a wolf body." However, no matter which body it is, it completely loses all mobility. Meaning, you're dead. ”
"I'm not dead. "Benjamin is starting to get irritated with Zack's 'insistence,' tsk, what's there to cling to a conclusion that's obviously wrong. Benjamin stepped out of the window and walked towards the door, apparently ready to go out.
Zach followed.
There is nothing to describe this kind of hourly hotel hidden in the Betch district. The two of them quietly walked out of the hotel and the dark alley, and re-established themselves in the street of Becky, which was filled with all kinds of neon.
It is impossible to judge the time, snowflakes and neon block the natural light source, Benjamin still remembers that Zach has a habit of carrying a watch, and consciously rummages on Zack.
"You know if you keep this kind of nonchalant attitude towards this kind of thing...... Zach didn't stop Benjamin from rummaging through his pockets, and said in a casual tone, "I would naturally think that this happened." ”
Benjamin found Zack's pocket watch, looked at it, and it was midnight, tsk. "No, it didn't happen. ”
"Oh. Zach raised an eyebrow and retrieved the watch that Benjamin had escaped from but didn't put back, "So this is the first time." ”
Benjamin didn't answer, and looked around, "The commission continues, you deal with the two dancers, and I handle the keys to the security guard." An hour later. He casually pointed to a convenience store again, "Here we will meet." ”
"The money on you was shredded while you transformed. Zach calmly informed Benjamin of this fact.
After all, the reason Benjamin asked to meet again was to pay Zach for this commission. And Benjamin has no money on him now.
Benjamin frowned, his mouth moved, "Then you can go home when you're done, and I'll let Number 2 send the pay to Grande tomorrow." "Turn around and leave.
Zach stood still, watching Benjamin pull his ill-fitting clothes awkwardly away......
Benjamin is back again, how awkward to go, how awkward to come back. He stared at Zach with a gloomy face, "When I was in Boboba, in order to ask for information about the dancers and the security guards, many people handed over a lot of things! wine, cigarettes, pills! tsk, business cards!"
Finally, Benjamin began to speak.
Zach nodded, motioning for Benjamin to continue, "Do you remember the people who gave you all sorts of things? ”
"No!" Benjamin's face twisted slightly, "It's a bunch of people!" Boboba's manager, a few VIP customers, a few dancers, a security guard, ......" Benjamin waved his hand.
"Okay. Zach remained calm, "You now know what to take when you take the surveillance footage, in addition to commissioning." "To get the video of Benjamin touching everybody in Boboba. Zach tilted his mouth, "I'm just curious, you accept something when someone else gives it?"
Sort it out. Now it is clear that Benjamin received something while working in Boboba, which led to his 'drunkenness' and eventual 'death'. There is nothing wrong with collecting things, after all, Benjamin probably uses this kind of tactic to obtain information. However, it is not that if someone gives you a cigarette, you have to smoke it, and if someone gives you a drink, you have to drink it. Even more revealing - if someone gives you a pill, you knock it?? Benjamin doesn't have a sense of security?
Benjamin could hear the sarcasm in Zack's words, he deserved it, but, "Why don't I accept it, they're all human, and even if something bad happens, it won't be me." ”
Zach couldn't refute that—think about it, even if Benjamin was on the street, he didn't carry him away, and he was always on Becky Street. The last people to see the monster appear were humans, humans who would probably never dare to step out of their homes at night in the future.
Things could have gotten worse, for example, Benjamin didn't 'die' – he lost mobility......
"You truly love the purpose of your ancestors' office. Zach looked at Benjamin and exclaimed. Can you have an earpiece - interracial is the core.
Benjamin pursed his lips and turned away without responding, equally awkward.
Zach didn't wait any longer, and headed for the two dancers' addresses...... No, I found a dark alley to avoid artificial light sources. It was decided to solve it in three minutes, that is, three minutes, maybe less, because of this unexpected episode, Zach's mood was even more unhappy.
Jumping from building to building, being whipped in the face by cold air and, according to scientists, water crystals that don't duplicate the same, are never a good experience.
To make matters worse, as Zach crossed the two buildings, he saw a black shadow that defied the laws of nature, wrapping around a wriggling lump of flesh......
How to explain this.
I've been saying that Barton isn't safe. I think you can understand this conclusion, in one way, because of the expansion of the soul - that is, the police, the terrorist attack on Patton, the suicide case, the end of the case is not clear, and all we get in the course of this story is the closing statement issued by the chief of the North and South police in Dale's fifteen-day diary.
On the other hand, it is the information that Zach revealed at the Feast, and the reason why Tsmich's messenger came to the Federation from the North was to seek an ally, and this ally was not Zack, but the Feast. The reason why Craig stayed at Barton was only to keep Zack under the attack of Tsmig in the Northland.
Other than these two very vague facts, we really don't know much about this incident.
It's time to shed light on the situation.
First of all, we need to know that the information that Zach showed at the Magic Banquet is true. Craig is indeed being studied by wizards and Reimer right now, more specifically - how Tsmich's healing powers created a banlin with the ability to expand souls.
Then, Craig did meet Zach as well, just before Dale's fifteen-day diary and before the North and South Police Department 'solved the case', the two chiefs both came to Grande to see Zack.
Don't be surprised, Dale's diary has a record of two bureau chiefs coming to see Zack. But of course, Dale, who was under Hank Sr. at the time, couldn't get past Grande's backyard to find out what Zach had talked to the two chiefs. Similarly, Dale could not have known that Craig had visited just before that.
Finally, Zach tells Nick Giovanni at the Feast that Craig, the Tsmich Courier, has a Torredo Eye.
To understand the reason why Zach saw Nophile (Shadow) and Tsmich (Meat Mass) fighting at this time when he crossed the building. We have to explain from the beginning.
Northland.
We already know that Zach enjoyed his life in the North before he appeared on the battlefield, but Zack is not the only vampire of the Thirteen Clans who hid in the North from the Federation, the other is Craig the Tsmich messenger.
In Craig's exact words, 'Your father knows you too well, and he said that if you would choose a place to live, it would be the northern country of the north, a real country of immigrants, go there, find my son.' ’
As above, Craig is chasing Zach to the Northlands.
Interrupted, the term 'immigrant country' appears here, but this word is not actually used to label the northern country in this story. I don't know if you remember, but when Zack told a story about his past in the Hidden Alliance, he mentioned an incident about preventing members of the Demon Feast from approaching the Northern Emissary at a federal state banquet.
Of course, this story is different from Zach saving the Banshee and dividing the relationship between werewolves and wizards...... Other feats. At the time, this past story seemed to be used only to illustrate Zach's penchant for political communication...... What matters is how the story ends, where the Hidden Alliance in the Middle defeated the Feast under Zack's actions, interrupting the Confederations and interfering in the development of the Northland, an emerging nation on the same continent.
End of Interrupt.
While Zach is enjoying the life of a cross talk actor, teacher, little white face, and bodyguard in the Northland, Craig is looking for the last trace of Toredo. How difficult is this process, I guess I don't need to say much - how do you find a free-flying bird in the sky?
So recall that Zach is the only way to show us about his life in the Northland—to reduce the chance of his own discovery and to avoid touching the upper classes of the Northland.
And in order to find Zack, Craig takes the exact opposite approach - he needs to control the upper echelons of the country to find the bird flying in the sky.
Remember when Zach once expressed his thoughts on the war that ended ten years ago - he was a vampire who flew freely in all kinds of lives, and he didn't know how the war happened? Zach doesn't know, Craig knows. Keeping a bit of suspense, the focus here is not on the war, but on what happened after Zach appeared on the battlefield.
Zach did not return to the Northland, but followed an alpha and an ordinary human soldier to a small city in the easternmost part of the Federation. Free bird, isn't it~
After nearly a century of searching, Craig is looking for the guy and is back in the Federation. After that, how much time did it take for Craig to realize that Zach had left, it didn't matter, anyway, a fact was in front of Craig - nearly a century, in order to find it, and infiltrated the upper echelons of the North Tsmich bloodline, which could not be recovered.
How can a creature judge its sense of belonging—a homeland that does not accept its own worth: a federation full of its own brothers, and a country that it has built from scratch, accommodating its own bloodline, and populating its own descendants: the Northland.
Craig didn't really know his choice, and by the time he realized he had to make a choice in the Northland, things were out of his control-
The Northland wants, more vampires. Except for one: Zachary Torredo.
It's inexplicable, it's inexplicable, but just like the reason for the war, I can tell you why Tsmich of the North is attacking Zachary Toredo.
This comes back to the story of communication that we didn't pay attention to. Zach, who once thwarted an international agreement between the Union and the Northland.
Take a look at the history of the continent where the Federation is located, which was once the continent of the Indoans until the arrival of the colonists. After the end of the colonial war, an independent state was born on the continent, the Federation. Not a colonial country, not a country of immigrants, the point: an independent country.
War, there is no need to package this kind of thing, return to the essence, this is a kind of ...... that consumes the population Manner. The attrition of the population was two-sided, including the Indoans and the colonists of the time. Therefore, although the Federation is the only country on this continent, this only country is unable to govern the entire continent.
Remember the envoys of the first countries when the Federation was founded, we had alien races like Jin who came to this continent, and there were also humans who came to this continent. We're like, uh, population replenishment.
The Demon Banquet, which can be considered to be a complete failure of the Holy Lord's mission, was driven to the desolate west, and the repressive secrets made their home in the rich central part, and the eastern part was used as an entrance to population replenishment.
So, what about the rest of the continent, no one goes? Yes.
And a lot.
While the vampires were busy building new nations, the New World, for the explorers of that era, was a great temptation, and there was nothing to discuss in detail, we were all human beings, and we knew what we were best at. How do you say that road, the more people walk, there will be a road, just like a dry dirt road will eventually appear on a green lawn. Then, what about the country, there are more people coming.
The northern kingdom appeared.
Then the time is set to the story of Zach blocking the Demon Banquet from interfering in the politics of the Northland, and what Zack is obstructing is actually the Northland's request for the Federation......
The story is going to be next time, and Zach is at the dancer's house.