What happened to Isaac?

The next day, they didn't eat the pigeons stuffed with apples, because Xavier was called away early in the morning by an urgent message.

"Where are you going?"

"Mount Gonhili."

"That's a long way to go."

Gonhili Mountain is one of the few long-distance exchange stations in the solar system, which is convenient for working angels to go to places that cannot be reached immediately after opening the door—usually the destination is not on the planet where the exchange station is located.

"It's okay, it's just a business trip in another place. I don't work on Earth at all." Xavier put on his coat, stepped out with an umbrella in his hand, and reminded him, "I'll leave the housework to you, and sweep the spider webs in the corners." , I don't want to see limescale in the shower, don't let the pigeons fly around."

There was another reluctant gurgling in Isaac's throat.

Xavier raised his eyebrows: "You can raise your opinion now, and I will give you 10 seconds."

The whining in Isaac's stomach could be at least 10 parsecs away from here, so in the end he thought about it and didn't have time to say anything.

Just before Xavier pushed the door to leave, Isaac hurriedly called him: "Wait! How long are you going? You see, it's almost the end of the year, and my performance is still a little bit worse. If I'm locked up all the time In the house..."

"Oh, if there are bad things that are not claimed, I will remember them and bring them to you," Xavier turned his head and smiled, showing his canine teeth. He didn't look like an angel, but he was exactly the same as the wild boys running around in the market , "Don't try to make excuses to sneak out, devil."

After saying this, Xavier hurried away, his shoulder-length blond hair not tied up fluttering slightly as he walked.Isaac just looked at him like this, without saying a word for a while, and he stood there until Xavier disappeared behind the door.

**

It was evening when Xavier came back, so that the landlord would not be frightened, he was walking up the stairs dignifiedly.

As soon as the door was opened, there was a "chacha" sound coming from the room. At the same time, the white pigeon walking around the table stopped, tilted its head and looked at Xavier.

The room was pitch black, and Isaac was sitting at the table with his head in his arms, forming a huge shadow.Isaac seemed to be asleep.Xavier took off his coat and wanted to put it on his shoulders, but he just stretched out his hand when he was slapped on the wrist by the long tail.

"Crack!" The piercing sound rolled over the flesh, leaving red and swollen marks immediately, with blood oozing from the bottom.

The white dove fluttered in horror, but Isaac and Xavier who jumped up were stunned at the same time.The two looked at each other, and Xavier felt that this was not an illusion: Isaac looked at him as if he were looking at a stranger.

It took a while for Isaac to come back to his senses, the tail that had just been used as a murder weapon entangled it flatteringly, and was thrown away by Xavier before it touched it.He hurriedly dug out yesterday's medicine again and handed it to Xavier, who just took it silently.

"Uh...uh, I'm sorry." Isaac's tail seemed to have suddenly become a superfluous thing, and it didn't fit right where it was placed. It slapped the ground anxiously, making a slapping sound, and was pinched by himself within a few slaps. up.

What’s wrong with you?Not everyone likes this question all the time.

For a moment, Xavier did feel pissed off, but he decided to put it on the books for now and instead said that it was raining a lot today.

Seeing that the devil's shoulders relaxed a little, he continued to chatter: If a certain devil is smart enough, he should have taken in the clothes hanging out, oh, too bad, obviously not; besides, he is going to have a drink now After tea, we will start to check the sanitation situation. If there is anything missing, you can take advantage of this moment to rescue it.

"Just watch," amidst the angel's ramblings, Isaac grinned for the first time today, "The places you mentioned didn't clean up my last name and yours."

"That's not necessary," Xavier said seriously, "just my wife and my last name."

"you dislike me?"

"I despise you."

"But I think you are powerless." Isaac sneered.

Xavier felt offended again, and the most annoying thing was that Isaac was really good at doing housework, so he couldn't find the wrong place.Xavier's face suddenly brightened.

With a few words, Isaac quickly adjusted his mood. Although Xavier didn't know what happened, he was relieved.

"When I was writing the report, I wrote down some bad things for you. If you don't have much, it should be enough." Xavier took out a stack of paper from his arms. Sit down after dinner and make up for it."

When it comes to dinner, because Isaac still can't and Xavier is too tired, the meal is very simple, only bread and tea.Xavier sighed resentfully. He read the newspaper while drinking tea. He spread the newspaper on the table, and Isaac read it backwards and knew that it was the most popular (because it was the only) current affairs newspaper in heaven:

"The Celestial Science Monitor, described as "sometimes not necessarily so scientific" with a truly scientific attitude, Ministry of Earth? Issue 23333 of this century.

——If there are omissions, reflect on yourself.

And the front page of every newspaper has a description of the unspeakable adult above:

Faith is what you see

The next step is the normal headline with the main text of the current affairs. The content in order of priority from top to bottom is roughly as follows:

Hell declares war again!The first and second days are on high alert.God (here you can replace it according to the belief of the newspaper reader) revealed: Don't panic.

The auditions for the "No Need Cup" Debate Competition of Angels began this Sunday.

The duel between the capable angel (anonymous) and the lazy demon (anonymous) ended regrettably because laziness has not shown up once in ten years.

……

Then there are some paintings and a full-page article section, in which the geoscientist sage Woucher A. Gast Wake Up (whatsI?just?wake?up) takes up a full page of I disagree with the popular science term "the relationship between heaven and hell is like a company", and think that if the earth is compared to a field - after thinking about it, I think a herd is better - no, considering the complexity of the earth, just As a whole farm, then heaven is like the farmer.We use scientific methods to intervene to make crops and creatures develop in the right direction. Then, we might as well set hell as an organization of idle hunters. On the one hand, they barter with the heavens by protecting the farms. On the one hand, they are themselves a threat to the farm. Poachers often destroy the environment, steal crops, and even seduce innocent creatures (especially succubi)

After reading this, Xavier couldn't help raising his eyes and glanced at Isaac who was sitting opposite, and then he continued to read under Isaac's puzzled eyes:

"...Cooperation where both parties are vigilant is desirable, but some angels are not considered wise to make friends with demons without authorization. Following the analogy above, communicating with demons is like sharing the same bed with poachers. Undoubtedly, it is to lure wolves into the house. Besides..."

The following passage made Xavier unable to swallow, as if it was stuck in his throat, he felt completely offended, and felt faintly uneasy.He remembered that when he was first in office, there were articles in the Monitor of "equal treatment of devils" and so on, and things changed too quickly.Maybe, Xavier thought, he did the wrong thing at the wrong time.

But if you don't buy him, let him be taken away by the man later...

There was a small fire in the house, but it was still cold, and the sound of rain knocking on the window added to the damp and cold feeling.

Xavier flipped through the rest of the page in a distraught manner, "Why do angels generally hate birds? Discuss the uncanny valley effect", and "Instructions for Wing Care"... He folded them into cubes and put them under the cup .

Then he pushed the cutlery and plates aside, brought the document bag to the table, picked out a few from the middle and handed them to Isaac, and the two immediately got busy facing each other.Xavier always had to stop writing, rub his hands, and take a breath before he could continue writing; Isaac's body temperature was very high, so he didn't have this kind of trouble, but he also stopped writing, during which he frequently looked at the angel.

How long is he going to keep me locked up?Is he going to help me sneak around for the rest of my life?

Perhaps because they were also thinking about this issue, their eyes suddenly collided.Xavier was dumb for a moment, reached out and tapped a column on the paper with his index finger: "Time."

"Didn't you write it on the previous page?"

"It's not the same thing anymore, be serious."

As he reached for it, Isaac noticed a plain silver ring on Xavier's ring finger.

"Show me your ring," Isaac demanded.

Xavier gave him a strange look.

"I beg you."

Xavier's expression was like eating a mosquito while yawning. Even if he spit it out in time, he was full of vigilance about everything: "It's just an ordinary ring. There are more impurities in it than silver. It's nothing to look at."

Isaac wanted to say something, opened his mouth twice, and finally shut up.He looked morose again, making Xavier irritable, like he'd done something wrong.

Although he felt that he could not be too accommodating to the devil, Xavier still gave in and said, "In exchange, show me what's in your pocket."

"You...!" Isaac subconsciously clutched his right pocket, where the small iron sign lay well, "No."

"Neither do I," Xavier said. "It's so weird that I don't even know you."

Isaac was a little disappointed: "You let me sleep on the bed, and we will get to know each other soon."

"No way."

The atmosphere froze for a moment.

"Hey, I hear you have a bit of an East End accent," Isaac asked after a while, "Where do you come from?"

Speaking of this, Xavier's pen paused, his eyes dodged for a while, and he didn't speak.Isaac was busy staring at the document in front of him, thinking he didn't hear clearly, so he asked again.

"If you must know, frankly, I am not a local god, not a man of high esteem, not a priest; no knowledge, no money, no power, no contribution. I was born in the solar system-Earth-Europe-England- The East End of London is just a trainee angel now, so there may not be any drama," Xavier finished in one breath without pausing, "What's the problem?"

Isaac looked up at him in a daze, and after a while he said "Ah", muttering as if to say, "Why are you angry with me?" But then he apologized.

"...Oh, okay, don't mention this." Xavier rubbed his temples wearily, his tone softened, and continued to distract and guide Isaac to write the document.He suspects that Isaac may have difficulty in spelling, or that he is not very literate-there are only two or three lines of blank lines on the page, and few words are written correctly.

"My God," Xavier asked, "can you write your own name?"

Isaac, who was already depressed, became even more depressed.He was silent for a while before hesitatingly said: "...Maybe?"

"You write it and I'll see."

So Isaac reluctantly wrote an E on the paper, thought about adding an s after it, it seemed wrong, crossed it out; he wrote Isac again, it seemed wrong, crossed it out; he pondered After a while, he wrote exactly the same one again, which felt really wrong, but he didn't know what was wrong.He dropped the pen and kept his head down, motionless. Even if Xavier couldn't see his face clearly, he knew that Isaac was starting to sulk.

"There is nothing wrong with the spelling, Isaac, I will write it for you." Xavier said in a rare gentle tone, like a big brother facing a sister who is much younger than him.He pushed away the chair and stood up, walked behind Isaac, put his palm on the back of his hand, hesitated for a moment, did not let go, but took Isaac's hand further and held the pen.The demon's hand was a bit bigger than his, and Xavier was struggling a bit, but he just took Isaac with him and wrote in another line crookedly: Issac.

Xavier paused for a moment and wrote another: Xavier, that's his last name.

"So the initials are X?" After a while, Xavier heard Isaac's awkward voice from below, "I see."

"It was about the same level when I first came here." Xavier was a little embarrassed. "Uh, it doesn't matter. I can teach you later."

"...Let's talk, I'm sleepy." Isaac gently pushed Xavier's hand away, pushed the chair and stood up, the tail hanging behind him, motionless, like a redundant dead thing.

Mount Gonhili: UK Satellite Earth Station.

Parsec: Astronomical unit. 1 parsec equals 3.26 light years (19 trillion miles)

"Jiligulu Science Monitor": Randomly edited, it has nothing to do with the American Christian Science Monitor.

East End accent: cockney, the accent with the lowest sexiness index, very earthy but cute.

There are a few easter eggs, but I think it's very clever to write them all in the comments!If you find something, you can smash eggs boldly, just like you think =v=