deformed bone

The fall of the old man did not cause any unnecessary ripples—even if his status in the mortal world is so important, if he can be more cautious today and never commit such serious crimes, maybe in ten years or so he will to the presidency.

But there is no if, at least, with the "present" Son of Adventists (of course they will not admit that he is a false Son), there has never been an "if".

It has to be said that, unlike Calvin, who escaped from the Adventists by accident when he was young, Joshua Wright's fate was more fortunate-of course, if you want, you can call this so-called luck It is a tragedy.

He was born half a year after Calvin's "departure".

Yes,

On that rainy night, when Calvin accidentally cracked Daniel Wright's skull like an egg, his mother Rosa already had a thriving embryo in her womb.

Joshua is quite tenacious, and he never left his mother's womb even when Rosa had a mental breakdown and drug addiction continued.

... At least that's what Rosa declared.But in fact where this child came from, there is no one who can say clearly.

Joshua is just the right "gospel", and his existence undoubtedly gave Rosa and other Adventists a glimmer of hope.

It is more or less a miracle that he survived such a bad situation.Well, everyone knows that this kind of miracle is nothing compared to Rosa's first son, the winged son Calvin.But who made the Adventists develop quite well at that time? Daniel Wright was not the only one who promoted a crooked denomination that had no advantages other than a deformed child to most of the United States in such a short period of time. The eloquent and cheap Chicken Soup for the Soul speech.He brought in a lot of smart and cunning people before his head was smashed, and when you leave the original thinking and run a sect that already has a lot of initial members as a business project, it is really difficult for you unsuccessful.

And they had Calvin, the freak, the freak with the face of an angel, the wings of an angel, the boy who formed the basis of Adventist existence.

The above paragraph may be overly complicated, but it is actually quite simple.

Adventists need miracles, and they need angels.

So Joshua appeared (Adventists and some people even really think that this is a gift from a higher level god to them in the dark).

And Joshua was good looking, he was a pretty sweet kid, at least for the first two or three years of his life.

He has snow-white skin, beautiful curly blond hair, and a pair of crystal-clear light blue eyes.He looked like the kind of kid who would be in a baby diaper ad, cute, pure, sweet.

If he was just a child of an ordinary couple in an ordinary family, he would have enjoyed a fairly happy childhood, and maybe he could earn a little more pocket money for his future by taking pictures of baby advertisements.

But everyone knows that from the beginning of his life, there was no "if" in Joshua.

In order to maintain huge interests, the Advent faction, which was almost falling apart, began to operate quickly after Daniel Wright's head was smashed.

Joshua became the new Son of God.

Everything looks so perfect, except that he is too ugly.

Isn't that a bit of a logic error?He's obviously a cute kid, isn't he?

When Joshua was young, he also had the same confusion.

The young nanny who took care of him kissed his soft little face more than once, and called him "Little Bread" with a smile.She said Joshua was the cutest kid she had ever seen—it was a long time before Joshua understood what it was called a well-intentioned deception.

You must know that the Adventist faction possessed real miracles, real angels after all.

His elder brother whom he has never met, Son of God, Son of Light, El.

……

Recalling the hallucinations he saw when his body was extremely weak, Joshua's face suddenly burst into bright light, and his heart was filled with admiration and joy that made his chest ache.

"elder brother……"

He pressed his chest and let out a sweet call, and a flush of joy appeared on his sickly pale cheekbones.

"I'm going to see my father."

Joshua murmured, "I want to share this vast joy with him."

His voice was very weak and small, but the waiters around him never missed his breath.

An attendant crawled to Joshua's feet, and he reached out and grabbed the old man's body.Like a huge boa constrictor in the forest dragging away its prey, he dragged the corpse to the other side of the room. The marble that was cleaned and polished by hand every day made his behavior silent.

"Great Son of Light, may you allow me."

The waiter raised his head and looked at Joshua frantically.

"I allow."

Joshua faltered vaguely.

More waiters walked over on their knees, and they used their robes to wipe the place where the old man's body had been.Joshua walked forward slowly.

Behind him, the waiter who dragged away the old man's body before took off the old man's clothes and costumes in ecstasy, and put all those things on his body.The waiters who stayed by his side stopped their work briefly, and they saluted the lucky guy and kissed his fingers and toes lightly.

That person was blessed by the Son of God——

The opposite is the corpse.No matter how much time and energy he spent before finally climbing to his current position, after the clothes representing his status were taken off, his status and power in this world and in this sect have been reduced to dust.

His body will be quickly removed, and the very fact of his death will be sold on the black market as a commodity - a fact that rival parties, or their own competitors, will be delighted to see. A rival died in a most dishonorable manner.

Oh, what do you mean by "disgraceful ways"?Once you have the corpse and the intel, a lot of interesting scenarios can be arranged.

after a long time……

A scholar who studies Adventism believes that this cruel and cold operating mechanism may be the reason why Adventism has become so large, dark and impenetrable.

No matter how strong a person's mind is, once they enter it, they will be involuntarily captured by the terrifying law of the jungle.

Either use all means to express your piety and heartfeltness to the Son, in order to get a little favor and great privileges.

Either... or fall into the hell where the weak prey on the strong, everything will be deprived of everything by the competitors around, and the great fear and awe that the latter brings to human beings is enough to make people lose control of their minds unconsciously control.

But the undercurrents simmering among the waiters, and the bloody rivalry, were mundane matters that Joshua didn't care about.

At this moment, the only thing in his mind is to meet his "father"—oh, yes, he actually loves his mother very much, after all, his favorite elder brother was born in that person's womb.But his mother is just a mortal after all, even though she once gave birth to a real angel, those human sins and filth still remain in her body and confuse her mind.

Thinking of his mother's unconcealed fear and loathing of his brother, Joshua felt a faint disturbance.This was his original sin as a usurper and pretender, and no amount of whipping or penance in the chamber could remove it.Even though he has a certain degree of blessing, he still has that weak and hypocritical emotion.

Maybe he should find a way to extend the time of penance.

While Joshua was thinking, he walked slowly accompanied by the waiter, and some of the wounds on his body opened again.Those scrapes and scratches are actually quite serious, and they cannot be dealt with by ordinary wiping and cleaning.Even wearing the softest and smoothest silk robe, the friction between the fabric and the wound would still cause severe pain, but it was that pain that made Joshua feel relieved.

Pain was always reassuring to him.

Joshua's fingertips were itching slightly. He wanted to dig open his wound bit by bit like he did many times, suck the blood gushing out of his body, and feel the pain that seemed to burn his nerves. of severe pain.

The senior elders in charge of caring for Joshua were actually quite troubled by Joshua's increasing self-harm.They used various methods to try to slow down his kind of crazy self-harm.

But those persuasions often have little effect.It can be said that if Joshua did not have some kind of mysterious power, this young man who was keen on self-cutting and self-injury should have died long ago.

Joshua never told those stupid ugly old guys the real reason why he was so obsessed with blood and wounds.

Actually—

In that agony he could always see white light.

Behind the light curtain is the shadow of his brother, his angel, whom he has never met.

"Crack-"

One door after another opened slowly as he passed by.Joshua slowly regained his senses, and everything around him returned to his vision.

Thinking of seeing "Father" soon, the desire to self-mutilate in his body finally faded a little bit.

The dome of the whole church is raised very high, showing a carefully calculated and graceful arc. The material of the ceiling is quite special, showing a soft translucent state. The violent sunlight outside is filtered by a soft milky white layer. The halo is projected to the very bottom of the building.

On both sides of the building, there are oval arches with a strong classical orientation, silk curtains hang down softly, and the outdoor scenery... those flowers and green lawns that require a lot of manpower and resources to maintain blooming are all beautiful. become hazy.Most of the walls are painted with golden patterns - not made of paint or cheap gold leaf, but real gold that has been polished and inlaid on a jade plate to form a mosaic pattern.

If there are flowers in the painting (this is an element that Joshua likes), then the stamens should be round pearls, and the petals should be composed of rubies, emeralds, corals and other precious stones.

This Adventist church is exceptionally grand and luxurious.

It has to be said that this Adventist main church seems to be a building from a long time ago - only in the most ignorant era, the church that absorbed a lot of wealth through religion could build such a grand and gorgeous, almost called A building worthy of a work of art.

Who would have thought that such a building would reappear in a modern society where technology is developing day by day?Hundreds of millions of tributes were remitted to the accounts of the Adventists, and then turned into the noble and exquisite brick walls of the church.But money alone is actually not enough. Such a building rising from the ground in a desert needs more piety and worship.

Countless curved corridors are centered on the penance hall where the penance room is located, linking large and small rooms and meeting halls inside the church.If you look down from the sky of the building, you will find that the corridors and rooms form a line drawing of a huge rosebud.

Of course, from another angle, the flower bud looks like a human heart.

But everything in the world is not what Joshua will care about.

Resisting the urge to cut himself, he walked unsteadily in the unusually complicated corridors, and the attendants and monks who passed by all bowed down in awe.

They didn't say a word, because the people who could enter this exquisite building were carefully selected, and they kept in mind all the preferences and details about the Son of God as if they were breathing.

The God Son, who was born with delicate and sensitive nerves, hated noise and sound, and more importantly, he was always wearing shackles around his neck—it was said that it was his proof to God that he was his meek lamb.

And the pendant hanging under that shackle would make a faint bell when he walked.No one knew what the ringtone really represented, but Joshua seemed to care about the sound very much.Once there is too much sound covering the small bell, the person who made the sound will attract Joshua's fury and disgust.

In a normal society, Joshua's behavior would only make people think that he is not insane, but this is the core area of ​​Adventism.

No rules, no explanation needed - where Joshua passed, people would bow in awe and do their best to keep silent.Only the most favored have the privilege of making a sound, and unfortunately, those people only operate within the confines of the Hall of Suffering.

And the room of the "Father" is located in the west of the church.

Unlike Joshua, who likes light, "father" prefers to stay in dark and humid places.

Considering his severe head injury, it's understandable that he has a lot of odd liking for it.According to the request of "father", Joshua set up his room underground.

The whole room is made of a special non-reflective black material, and the temperature is very low.Joshua could clearly see the whitish hot air rippling in the air when he was breathing.

In the very center of the room is an altar, which looks very old and simple, but still has a sacred atmosphere.

"Father" did not allow anyone to approach except Joshua, so when he walked down the steps step by step and entered the dark room, those obedient waiters and monks stopped at the top of the steps.

The atmosphere here is very peaceful.

Although the light was dim, it didn't make Joshua feel uncomfortable. On the contrary, he liked the place where "father" was.It was so quiet, dark and icy cold, like a tomb, calming down the restless blood in his body from time to time.

"Father, I have come to share my joy with you."

Joshua slowly approached the old man.

The man who founded the Advent faction had been seriously injured, but in Joshua's view, the other party was not debilitated by that serious injury.

Instead, he looked unusually young, almost the same as when he first set up the Adventists.His skin is still smooth, his eyes are sharp and shrewd, his former partners have to face the beer belly, fat meat, fatty liver and receding hairline given to them by fate, but Daniel Wright undoubtedly escaped that bad luck.

Perhaps this is God's gift to him for everything he has done.The only blemish on his whole body was the back of his head—the part that Calvin smashed was horribly sunken.

However, due to the extremely dim light in the room, the wound was not easy to see clearly, so Daniel Wright was still that handsome and wise middle-aged man.

"What joy do you want to share with me? My lovely child..."

Daniel Wright was sitting on a black altar in the middle of the room. He turned his head and looked softly at Joshua.

"Brother... my brother is coming back soon."

Thinking of his fantasy dream, Joshua trembled slightly with excitement.

That sweet joy ran through his body like an electric current again.

"Calvin is the only salvation God has given to us miserable human beings. He will return naturally, my child, I have already told you."

Daniel Wright grinned, and he whispered to Joshua.

"I'm so happy." Joshua rested his head on Daniel's lap.

"At last I can end this crime—I sit on the throne that belongs to my brother, usurping his divine splendor—every word I speak in his place is guilty, and probably because of that, those words burn My tongue is so painful. And every time I replace him for another day, the food I eat is so rotten, the wine I drink is like sulfuric acid eating my insides, and the clothes I wear , even the finest silk is as rough as sandpaper..."

Joshua's tears streamed down his cheeks, a lump in his throat.

"I want to be redeemed, father, you know that I have a sincere love for him..."

"Yes, you are the most devout child I have ever met. You are the most sincere believer in El."

Daniel whispered in the darkness.

Joshua felt as if someone was gently touching him, which made him feel slightly better.

"Will I be redeemed, Father?"

He asked tremblingly, with great uneasiness in his heart.

"He will—"

Daniel said.

"Even if it's me with such a deep sin?"

"Even if it's you who are deeply sinful—"

"Will my brother forgive me?"

"I think he will..." Daniel's voice became hoarse, and Joshua felt as if he was about to freeze, "He will punish you, but he will eventually forgive you. Joshua, no one will ignore You did all this for him."

After getting Daniel's affirmation, Joshua suddenly felt that pure happiness filled his heart.

"But, Joshua, my child." At this moment, Daniel suddenly spoke again, "I have also seen visions—your brother, your god, Calvin, and there is a shadow around him. "

"what?!"

Joshua screamed.

"Don't be nervous, this is normal... the devil will not want the light that God bestowed on us to return to the human world, so he will try to confuse him and lead him to the maze and the abyss." Unknowingly, Daniel's tone It seemed to have become weird, his sunken head became a little distorted under the dim light, and the expression on his face was full of mystery.

Joshua found goosebumps forming on his arms.

"Joshua, this is your mission—you need to help your brother get back on the right path—you need to find him and kill the devil around him."

"I'm going to find him and kill the devil."

Joshua muttered to himself.

"You will be rewarded for it."

Daniel whispered.

Then he fell silent.

Joshua knelt beside him, and it took him a long time to slowly leave the basement—as soon as he went out, many people rushed up in panic.

They wrapped Joshua in heavy clothes and wiped his hands, feet and cheeks with hot towels.

Joshua knew that it was because they were afraid that their limbs would be necrotic due to the long-term low temperature, but the temperature and the sound of breathing when these humans approached made him feel extremely irritated.

"Where's Elder Kara—call him over—"

He screamed, scratching his hair.

He had a pretty important job to give to the former agent.

The latter was once a top agent sent by the CIA to infiltrate the Advent faction as a spy, but after decades of immersion in the Advent faction, that former top agent finally came out of the fog.

He is now a very important part of the Adventist faction—not irreplaceable, but indeed quite important.

There are many very tricky jobs, jobs with darkness and blood that need to use his ability.

But Joshua knew that Carla had a more refined skill than assassination and coercion.

That man is very good at finding people.