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"You...what are you going to do?"

The muscles at the corners of Calvin's mouth tightened, and he forced himself not to look away under the gaze of the pair of green eyes. Instead, he looked straight at Reed... what he saw was a handsome and sly The face, the ferocity that seemed to swallow Calvin's whole body a few seconds ago was like an illusion imagined by him.

"Well, can you guess?"

Reed leaned forward slightly, and said softly, his pupils were as bright as a flowing emerald river.

Calvin's throat rolled, and the subtle feeling of being pulled quickly passed through his body. He paused, and then stepped back a little in an imperceptible way.

"I don't like guessing games, especially at times like this."

Calvin looked at the time in the car. It was three o'clock in the afternoon. The sun was at its hottest. Even though the air conditioner was on, the car was still filled with the heat under the strong light. Calvin's cheekbones were slightly redness.

"Feel sorry."

Reed shrugged his shoulders and sat back. He raised his chin slightly and stared at the front of him. On the other side of the road, there appeared a new vehicle heading towards the angel.

"excuse me."

Reed said briefly to Calvin, before the latter had time to react, he had already opened the car door and got out of the car.

"Reed?"

Calvin was a little surprised to see Reed crossing the road quickly. He waved his hand to Calvin through the car window, and then raised his thumb towards the car coming in that direction, making a gesture of hitchhiking.

Under normal circumstances, few people would stop to pick up a young and strong man on such a deserted road-but Reed was obviously an exception.Probably because of his face, which is comparable to an advertising model, and the expensive outdoor sports clothes on his body, the oncoming car started to slow down a few tens of meters away from Reid, and finally made a "creak" Slowly stopped.

This is a yellow Beetle car that can be described as "worn out". Reid can hear the creaking sound of the car body just standing next to the car, the dusty windows fell down, a A woman wearing thick-bottomed tortoise-shell glasses poked her face out. Her face seemed to have been stretched by a doctor's palm at birth. The width of her cheeks was only half of the length, and her face was narrowed by the lenses of highly myopic glasses. The small two eyes were pinned nervously on Reed's body.After seeing Reed's face, a pair of small insect-like eyes suddenly shot out a sharp light.

"Oh, may the Son of Light bless you... Sir, you seem to be in trouble?"

Reed glanced subtly at the sticker on the woman's windshield, which read "Welcome to the Parade of Light" and "May the glory of the children of the light be upon you forever."

"Thank you for the glory of the Son of Light." Reed lowered his body and put his arms on the edge of the Beetle window. Considering his height and the size of the Beetle, this action was not easy to do, but Reed obviously had the ability to make this scene It became like a fashion shoot, and he frowned at the woman with some distress and said, "Actually, my brother and I want to go to the parade... I swear we put stickers on the barriers before we went out." On the windshield but..."

He shrugged and turned his face slightly so that the woman could see his face. That handsome face was full of troubles, and even the most hard-hearted man would want to smooth the wrinkles between his brows.

"You lost your invitation?"

The woman didn't even wait for Reed to finish before interrupting him.

"I should really be ashamed, but... yes, yes, we lost the invitation." Reed sighed a long time, "You know we drove a long time to find this place, so terrible The weather, the horrific sunshine here, and what's even more horrific, the anticipation of this feast that we've been overflowing with before going out, but now it's all gone...I just thought...maybe..."

"You can go in my car!"

The woman stared at Reed's face in fascination, and said impatiently.

"Oh my God, I can't believe it... I actually met an angel in Angel Town..." Reed's face suddenly became bright and cheerful, "I can't believe my brother and I have such good luck! "

"Your brother..."

The muscles next to the woman's eyes bounced, and she said hesitantly: "This car is a bit..."

Her car is indeed quite small, maybe just like the rumor said, the Beetle was made for a family of two, the two people in the front seat and the dog in the back seat can be evenly distributed, and the woman in the back seat It is full of all kinds of sundries, including countless Adventist lecture leaflets and various learning materials. Of course, the most important thing is-she really doesn't mind letting a handsome man sit in her car-God knows How long will it be before a man will squeeze into this shit yellow tin can, but the man's brother?please...

Of course Reed saw the woman's resistance, but his expression didn't reveal it at all. He was like any cheerful, enthusiastic, and a little iq-deficient fool who happily rushed towards the woman on the other side of the road. Carriage waved.

"Honey! We've had good luck today, this lady is willing to take us—"

Hearing Reed deliberately changing his tone of voice, Calvin put the luggage on his back in silence, and then he quickly got out of the car and ran towards Reed.

The woman's weak resistance was instantly evaporated by the venomous sun after seeing Calvin's face. Her eyes rolled around, looking quite openly at Calvin's more delicate and beautiful face than Reed's.Calvin lowered his head slightly, and his raised collar slightly blocked his chin.He seriously thought about the disguises he made on his face before going out...

May God bless those foundations and shadows to work as well as they did before.

Calvin prayed earnestly in his heart.

Reed squeezed over as if he knew nothing about Calvin's plight. His huge body almost blocked most of the car window. Calvin stepped back a little, and logically hid himself behind Reed's shoulder.

"My God... are you a model?"

However, the woman's gaze still followed Calvin obsessively. If she maintained a basic reserve when she saw Reed before, after seeing Calvin, she showed a blatant obsession like adolescent hormone poisoning.

"...Or a star? God, I always feel like I should have seen you somewhere!"

The woman spoke intermittently, her eyes were a little dazed, obviously trying to remember where she had seen Calvin.

At a place where Calvin could not reach, Reed's pupils dimmed, and he suddenly knocked hard on the car door, the loud noise of joints and metal startled the woman.But before the woman could react, Reed had already presented his most handsome face.

"Snapped--"

He snapped his fingers in front of the woman's face jokingly.

"So, can we get in the car?" he asked in a low voice.

In a short moment, the woman's cheeks relaxed, like a woman in sleepwalking, her facial muscles had begun to slowly sag, and she looked completely relaxed as if she had suddenly grown old. several years old.But fortunately, she recovered quickly, and she raised her head and smiled shyly at Reed.

"My God, yes... yes... of course, please get in the car."

She spoke incoherently, then hurriedly opened the car door.Calvin, who was much thinner than Reed, squeezed into the back seat from the gap behind the co-pilot, and then Reed got into the car.

Accompanied by a huge roar that seemed to blow up the moon, the Beetle carrying three people seemed to let out a painful moan, and slowly started to move after the woman stepped on the accelerator desperately.

Calvin curled his body tightly, trying to reduce his sense of existence.Fortunately, after driving, probably because of the location, the woman quickly ignored Calvin and focused all her attention on Reed.

"My name is Carmelita, Carmelita Crankshaw, you can call me Lil." Along the way, she chatted with Reid in that deliberately soft voice, "... I came from the middle of the country. Before I believed in the Adventists, you probably would never have believed how a failed life I had lived... If it wasn’t for the Adventists, I would probably have stayed in that ice iron box honestly at this time Here, sleeping with a name on her toes, hehehe..."

Calvin didn't understand what Lier was talking about until he heard Lier's roaring laughter like a frog—it meant that if there were no Adventists, would she have committed suicide at this time?Calvin lowered his head, hiding the contemptuous expression on his face.

This not funny sentence made Lier laugh all the time.

There is almost no need for extra probing, and Lil has been pouring out everything in her life to Reed before she sees the traffic flow again-how she was born in a boring rural town, is it true? How to go to university in a boring rural city, how to work as a music teacher in an even more boring rural middle school, divorced twice, and infertility after a miscarriage...

"...in a place like ours, you'd see your life screwed up if something like this happened to you, everyone, I mean, 'everyone', the cashier rushing to the supermarket... Of course I think you You can't call that place a supermarket at all... that freckled cash register piggy lured to the syphilitic beggar in front of the brothel...everyone knows your whole life. No one will take you in again..." Lil in a Ford She slammed on the brakes and stopped. There was a traffic jam in front of her. Her voice weakened. She turned her head to look at Reed. Ah, people from that kind of place, sorry, I just think you should be the type who lives in a big city, in short, people like you probably don’t know what life in a small town means..."

She spoke incoherently, and tremblingly took out a cigarette from the storage box, lit it, and stuffed it between her teeth.

The aroma of low-quality tobacco mixed with marijuana slowly spread in the compartment.

"I wanted to die every day at the time."

Lil said.

"I'm very sorry--"

"But it's okay," the woman's voice was suddenly tinged with excitement, a kind of disturbing, almost crazy excitement, "the light of the Son of Light didn't miss me, and I didn't miss me who was about to suffocate in that small town." . . . he saved my, my everything, my life, my soul—”

Li'er suddenly grabbed the pendant hanging from the rearview mirror, and viciously pressed her lips against the semicircular pendant glass.A photograph of Calvin as a young man gazes tenderly into the distance beneath the pane of glass.

"You should be able to feel it too, all believers are bathed in the ubiquitous love of the Son of Light—"

Lil's voice became sharp and hoarse, and she giggled and looked at Reed.

Feeling the craziness and weirdness gradually becoming irrepressible in Lier's body, Calvin unconsciously tightened his body.On the contrary, Reed was as gentle and happy as when he got in the car. His eyes stopped for a moment on the cut glass surface stained with Lil's saliva, and then he spoke slowly.

"Of course, my skin, my heart, my blood, and even my soul can feel his love...everytime, everywhere.",

Listening to Reed's unusually pious words, Calvin, who was sitting in the back seat, shuddered for no reason.