deformed bone

Brightly colored billboards appeared one after another a few kilometers away from the town. The former red light district has now been renamed "Angel Town." Calvin looked out the window at the conspicuous ribbons on more and more posters. , the balloons and the happy family portraits of the American Dream sneered. In Calvin's vision, the town where the Adventists are located should be filled with a horrible and dark atmosphere just like in his dream, and it should be visible from a distance. Seeing the dark clouds of smoke hanging over the small town, the nests of poisonous insects that seem to be opening their mouths are eager to devour those hapless prey...

However, in fact, after being led by intuition to that small town, Calvin was a little surprised to find that it looked exactly the opposite of what he had imagined.

The gray road has cut to the end, and the town of Angel, let's call it, stands not far away, looking like a jeweled music box given to a child for Christmas.All the dilapidated houses were wrapped in a large number of colorful balloons, and one banner after another was erected on both sides of the town, each with a quote from the Bible.

The town that was once barren enough to be called a ghost town seems to have regained the glory of its heyday. At the entrance of the town, there is a long queue of cars one after another, including many sightseeing buses.Reed poked his head out of the car window to look ahead, then sat back.

He whistled once.

"Looks like we just ran into one of their celebrations."

He looked at Calvin and said, unlike his relaxed tone, his green eyes flashed with concern.

There are far more people here than Calvin expected, which is not good news for their upcoming "illegal kidnapping" activities.

"...Maybe we should find the girl's mother directly, she should know what happened to her daughter." Reed suggested "kindly".

Calvin looked forward blankly, and he repeatedly wiped a dagger in his hand with a soft cloth.

Reed tried his best to look frightened, but his body trembled intermittently because of Calvin's current appearance.

"It's useless." After mentioning Madeleine, Calvin's expression became even colder. "Isa was brought to this place for Madeleine...not all mothers know how to love their children."

When he said the last sentence, Calvin's eyes were in a trance for a moment.

At this moment, several Adventist priests in black robes walked along both sides of the blocked road.As if they were checking something, they watched the vehicles blocking the road along the road.When he came to Calvin and Reed's car, a pastor stopped and knocked on the car window. Calvin's hand trembled, and the dagger slipped into his cuff under the cover of the soft cloth.

Reed shot him a quick glance, and pressed the window.

"Good day, may the Sons of Light bless you..." A very young face appeared out of the car window, with light brown eyes and a sunburnt face, with tiny freckles on the cheekbones. Calvin doubted whether he was an adult .

"Where are your stickers?"

The young pastor asked with the drake voice unique to the voice-changing period, and he pointed to the front windshield of the car.

"Stickers?" Reed narrowed his eyes, "What kind of stickers are you talking about?"

Hearing Reed's answer, the pastor subconsciously took a step back, and he looked at Reed and Calvin again, this time his gaze was far sharper and more severe than before.

"Invitation stickers, we sent them along with the invitation letter... Wait, are you Adventist believers?" The pastor asked with a frown.

Reed and Calvin exchanged glances, then Reed turned to the pastor, who shook his head.

"No, we just want to find a place to rest, my friend is a little car sick but he forgets to tell me this when he goes out, I'm really getting tired of putting him down on the side of the road every three kilometers Spit all over the floor..." Reid said worriedly.

Calvin was slightly taken aback, but he quickly showed a weak look to the pastor. Of course, his ugly face really made Reed's lie very convincing.

The pastor turned his head slightly to look at Calvin, and a look of confusion flashed across his face.

"You are not Adventists? Then how did you come here? Someone should have told you a few kilometers ago that only Adventist believers can enter here—"

Reed raised his brows: "We didn't meet anyone to tell us this... We used the congestion avoidance function of the map and took a slight detour to come to this road. This is not a very short road. I My friend really can't hold it anymore."

"I'm sorry, but you can't enter the town." The pastor pointed to the other side of the road, "You can turn around and take Highway 7, there is a motel not far away—"

"Wait, why?"

"This is the internal activity place of the Adventists. Uninvited pagans are not allowed to enter."

The priest said calmly, with an exasperating certainty in his tone.

Reed tapped his fingers on the steering wheel, and he looked a little annoyed.

"Wait, we just want to go in and take a break, find a comfortable and beautiful town hotel for a while, I can guarantee that we won't leave the room—"

"I thought I'd made it very clear that Angel Town is an inner sanctuary for the Adventists, and uninvited heretics are not allowed in."

The young pastor of the Adventist school repeated the sentence like a repeater, as if he had nothing in his mind but this sentence.

Reed let out a loud chuckle.

"Hey, come on, a whole town is an insider's house? I thought the place I was in was American territory? Also, what did you say, heathen? That's not a very nice word..."

"I hope you can respect our religious beliefs. You are not religious, so you cannot enter. If you want, I can explain it to you a thousand times here, but I am sorry, sir. The end result is the same. You can't go inside... For your friend's health, I think you might consider turning around and getting out of here, I can assure you that the motel on Route [-] is very comfortable, very suitable for couples... and friends .”

Reed glared at the Adventist priest, and a few seconds later he let out a clearly audible curse before he slammed on the gas pedal.Amidst the roar of the motor, the car rubbed against the pastor's body and turned a corner onto the reverse lane—the road in this direction was empty, and there was no car coming out of the town for a long time.

It wasn't until several kilometers later that Reed slowly stopped the car on the side of the road. Unlike the irritability he showed in front of the pastor, he looked quite calm now.

"It looks like we'll have to figure out a way to get into the town..."

Calvin also changed from his previous weak appearance. He frowned and stared in the direction of the town with a dignified expression.

Whether it was the fact that the Adventist faction had designated the entire town as a private domain, or the traffic on that road made him feel more and more serious about the situation.

"I don't understand," he murmured, "doesn't anyone realize that there's something wrong with this damn ghost sect..."

For the first time, Calvin felt the horror so personally—that the sect that preached from the base of the SUV 15 years ago had transformed into such a huge monster 15 years later.

"Did that brat think we were a couple just now? Hey, he did say the word 'couple'..."

It was Reed who spoke at the same time as Calvin. He stroked his chin with his hand and muttered earnestly.

Calvin shot him a cold glance.

"just kidding."

Reed immediately raised his hands in a gesture of surrender, but he obviously forgot to hide the secretly delighted smile on his face.

Calvin suddenly regretted the kiss he had given him earlier - obviously he gave Reed a wrong signal.You see, people turn over mistakes on impulse, and now Calvin didn't know what he was supposed to do to correct it.

"Maybe we can walk, park the car on the outskirts of the town, and then walk to find a gap to enter the town," he turned the topic to how to enter the town, "They can check the cars entering the town one by one, But it is impossible to check the people in the town one by one..." Once he turned his attention back to the Adventists, Calvin unconsciously felt anxious.

"Wait, on foot?"

"That celebration made me feel bad, and I hope that shit doesn't have anything to do with kids."

Calvin whispered, leaning over with great skill and pulling the phone out of Reed's pocket (he was clearly unaware of the intimacy implied in the gesture).His white neck was exposed in front of Reed defenselessly, and light blue blood vessels were faintly visible under the delicate skin.Reed took a deep breath, and from Calvin's body came the same aroma of body wash as his.

"Snapped--"

Reid seemed to hear the sound of something breaking deep in his heart.

Of course, he can also call that "something" "self-control". It was just such a second of closeness, his adrenaline suddenly soared to the peak, and he found himself almost hard like that, and the heat surged up His body was like his blood was replaced by God with vodka in an instant.At the same time, Calvin got the mobile phone without knowing it, he sat back, and then seriously opened the phone map and began to calculate the walking distance. Taking this opportunity, Reed began to lick Calvin with his eyes wantonly profile—oh, what an alluring tight line and lovely look.

Calvin's fingers snapped, and he turned his head to look at Reed.

"what happened?"

he asks.Reed's eyes that were so focused that they seemed to have substance made Calvin feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Reed opened his mouth and licked his lips with the bright red tip of his tongue.Then he stretched out his hand to cover the back of Calvin's hand, the hot palm made the latter's hand tremble uncontrollably, the phone fell straight on his knee, and then rolled to his feet.

"Reed?"

"Hey, listen, I think I have a better way."

He said to Calvin.

"any solution?"

"Hmm..." Reed pondered for a while, and didn't answer Calvin, he just stared at him deeply, deeply.

Calvin's heart beat faster. For some reason, Reed's gaze now made him a little overwhelmed. The deep and rich green in those eyes seemed to contain a storm composed of greed and tyranny...

In a trance, Calvin even felt that he was looking at a wild beast.