Film and Television] The time of death

Baton Rouge County, Louisiana.

The annual Christmas is coming soon, and the streets of Baton Rouge are crowded with people like in previous years.

Everyone rushed to buy the items they needed before Christmas Eve to prepare for this annual festival.Although there was no snow, the temperature was still very low.Unlike past mild winters, this year's Baton Rouge is colder than usual -- and, of course, across the United States this year.

People walking on the street, without exception, put on thick coats to keep the last bit of warmth in their bodies.All the people who came and went had their ears turned red from the cold. Although the ears would be very uncomfortable, everyone was not affected by this at all, and their faces were filled with happy smiles about the upcoming festival.

People come and go, whether they are adults or children, young or old, there will always be a few shopping bags in their hands or arms - filled with ingredients for Christmas Eve and various decorations for decorating the Christmas tree .The intertwined flow of people moved slowly and methodically, and the people of Baton Rouge were enjoying the pre-holiday atmosphere.

Like everyone else, Cotton took his wife and children shopping in the mall to prepare for tomorrow's Christmas Eve.However, they seemed to be a little late, and the meat in the freezer was all left over from picking.Although the freshness of the remaining apples is acceptable, but his son Justin doesn't like apples, so he had no choice but to give up.After turning around, the family also bought some accessories and cheese.

"I said to come early, you insisted that it was not fresh until today. And it came so late! It's okay now, basically there is nothing. If my mother didn't prepare in advance, I guess we don't even want to eat anything this Christmas. Come on!" Wife Shanna complained to Cotton, leading her son with one hand to the car parked in the parking lot, leaving Cotton far behind.

Cotton suddenly felt dizzy.It is not so easy for a wife who has always been gentle to lose her temper at herself.You must know that it is mainly his own fault this time. If he hadn’t been detained by his father because of a lot of things to do in the church a few days ago, he would not have kept his wife pushing the shopping plan until today. just came.The result of this is that the best shopping opportunity is missed, and basically no useful ingredients are bought.This directly led to Coton's current predicament-because there was nothing to use at home, he could only spend Christmas Eve with his father.The point was that Mom and Dad's house was right next to the church (Cotton's father was a missionary, as was Cotton), and there were a lot of people coming to visit on Christmas Eve.It is said that it is a visit at home, but it is actually listening to Dad’s sermon... Thinking of this, Cotton sighed with a sad face: Shanna dislikes a group of outsiders sitting there at this kind of family reunion and preaching the virtues of Christ-she thinks it is very annoying. Spoil the festive mood.

"It's really unlucky..." Thinking helplessly like this, Cotton trotted all the way to Shana who was about to open the trunk, took all the shopping bags from her and apologized with a smile: "Shanna, dear— —I sincerely apologize to you! Preaching, it’s good for everyone to listen to Dad sing about the virtues of the Lord... Oh, no, no, no, I’m not saying you have to put up with a bunch of outsiders, but it’s not like everyone hasn’t seen each other, it’s hilarious Lively is better, isn’t it? Neighbors are a family—” Seeing Shana’s brows bristling, Cotton yelled, I must have said something wrong!

"Uh, that's not what I meant...that's right, Shana, I'll help you drive and cook. What apple pie would you like to have tonight? I'll make yellow peach pudding!" After finishing the last sentence in one breath, Cotton looked at Shana expectantly, blushing.Of course it wasn't because he was holding back, but because he saw Shana holding back her laughter.

Shanna suppressed a smile and watched Coton blinking at herself, the same expression that Justin usually had when he asked her to eat.Such a big person... Shanna finally couldn't help laughing after seeing Coton put things into the trunk quickly: "I said you, why don't you enter the entertainment circle with such a good eloquence?"

Cotton was finally relieved to know Shanna wasn't angry anymore (or maybe she wasn't angry at all).He patted his son Justin's head, looked at Shanna grinning and said, "Of course it's because I'm responsible for spreading the gospel!"

When Cotton drove past the church, he glanced at the door inadvertently, and suddenly found a person sitting on the steps of the closed church door.In this way, he was taken aback: A few days ago, their small church had notified that there would be no public sermons during the Christmas holiday. Why would anyone still be sitting on the steps of the church door at this time of dinner?Cotton stopped the car quickly, and looked at the man sitting on the steps—it was a young man, and his clothes looked very cold.Because he lowered his head and couldn't see his face clearly, he seemed to be in a daze... No!Cotton suddenly realized that he didn't know this person.

Because the people who usually come to the church are regular nearby residents, everyone basically knows each other, and even if they don’t know each other, they have met each other.But this young man, he had no impression at all.From another state?After Cotton thought of this possibility, he immediately denied it.No kidding, who would go to another state at a time like this?

"Cotton, what's the matter? Is there anything over there?" Shanna looked behind her husband suddenly stopped the car, and she followed his gaze, but didn't find anything wrong, "You What are you doing staring at the church? It’s not like I haven’t seen it before.”

"Wh... Shanna, didn't you see that young man sitting on the steps of the church?" Cotton was very surprised when he heard his wife's questioning.He pointed to the door of the church, turned his head to look at Shanna and asked, "The one sitting on the steps—"

After hearing his parents' conversation, Justin immediately climbed to the car window and looked in the direction his father pointed, but was disappointed to find that there was nothing there.Let alone a person, there is not even an animal.

"Father, you lied! How can there be anyone?"

After hearing his son's words, Cotton turned his head in disbelief, only to find that the steps where the person was sitting on were now empty.He opened his mouth wide in surprise, before he realized why a large living person disappeared as soon as he turned around.

"Your hallucinations? Well, don't worry about it, drive!" Shana impatiently straightened her husband's head, urging him to drive home quickly.

Cotton replied "Oh" unconsciously, and then started the car, but he was still thinking about the figure he saw just now in his head - he couldn't have read it wrong... But why did such a big living person disappear all of a sudden?Is it really my hallucination?strangeness.Shaking his head, Cotton refocused on driving the car and stopped thinking about that strange young man in thin clothes in the middle of winter.

Irvine Wood, Louisiana.

Schweizer drove the tractor to work in his farmland as usual that day. After he parked the tractor in the old place, he suddenly tripped over something and almost made him fall to the ground.He quickly maintained his balance and looked at his feet angrily.

No one is in a good mood when something happens early in the morning before work starts, and Swisher is no exception. He is about to kick the thing that is confusing him to the side, but finds that the thing that is confusing him is actually It's a leg!Startled, he looked up his leg and was surprised to see a young man who was unconscious - or so it seemed -.

In this cold winter, the young man who fell on the ground was wearing only a thin overcoat as a coat. The shirt inside looked very old, and the jeans he was wearing were even more whitish.Swisher knocked twice on the face of the person who fell on the ground, and found that the person was still pretty good-looking, and there was no mud rubbed on his face.

Although he looks good, he must be a poor boy.Swisher silently defined the unknown young man, and prepared to wake him up and drive him away from his farm.

Before Swisher bent down and patted the person lying on the ground to wake him up, the person woke up by himself.

He didn't seem to be in a coma, but he seemed to have been taking a nap just now, because his mind seemed very clear, and he didn't look like he had just woken up at all.Schweizer thought so, but still didn't speak.He watched the man stand up by himself, then smiled at himself and made an apologetic gesture: "Excuse me sir, I fell asleep here before. Didn't hinder you?"

Schweizer's face twitched when he heard this: Liar!Are you talking nonsense?But he still ordered the young man to evict him angrily: "This is my farm, no matter what the reason is, I accidentally passed out or fell asleep here, and it's none of my business—so, please leave quickly. "

What a strange tramp, who spent Christmas without a shelter and came to my small remote farm.Apparently Swisser took the young man for a bum, and he was looking for trouble.

The young man obviously didn't know that he was being treated as a homeless again-at least this time, it was better, no longer a dirty and dangerous homeless, but a homeless homeless person who usually lives in a shelter and has nothing to do.

That's right, this young man is Belian.After parting ways with Michael in the California desert, he headed east, wandering aimlessly.And on the second day after he separated from Michael and the others, he felt the breath of Michael and Gabriel, who had just appeared not long ago, suddenly disappeared, and Michael's angelic power seemed to have recovered.Because at the moment when their aura disappeared, Michael's liberated majestic power was wrapped in a sense of oppression, and Belian, who was still walking on the street, almost knelt in the middle of the road.

After leaving there in some embarrassment, Belian found that he had absorbed most of the power he had just absorbed.Regarding this, he could only smile helplessly: Can't even the vitality absorbed by this amount be retained for a long time?

Nearly half a month later, when he was walking to the border between Louisiana and Mississippi, he suddenly saw a soaring demonic energy coming from the direction of Louisiana—this made his gloomy mood suddenly change. Lighten up.This is the same kind!It is estimated that some unlucky guy who was sealed like himself was released.After Bellian unleashed his mental power to investigate this power carefully, the smile on his face became brighter and brighter.

I didn't expect it to be that guy...has he been sealed too?Thinking gloatingly, Belian decided to go there to take a look and find the owner of this power—his former friend.

Then he came to this farm, but he couldn't find the source of that power.After wandering around for two days, I ran into this... middle-aged man in front of me.It seemed that he didn't welcome himself very much.

Bellian patted his coat and asked Swisher with a smile, "Before I leave, I want to ask you—"

"Do you know Abalon? He's my friend, but I can't find him."

Seeing the terrified and respectful expression of the person opposite, Belian knew he had asked the right person.

Well, that fellow Abalon... seems to have developed himself into a sect.

The author has something to say: "Belian Takes You to Find a Gay Friend", "A Long Way to Find a (Gen) Friend" (what the hell (but it has nothing to do with the article)

Belian's good friend Abalon is the private demon of "The Last Exorcism". They know that it is my private design.

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