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Izach Holden already had a bad feeling when he learned about his latest transfer, and when he saw Joyce and his Asian partner with the slender eyes, he was very nervous. Make it clear that you don't like your new co-workers.

And Isaac is very sure, and Joyce and Han probably can also vaguely sense this—Isaac's dislike for them is almost the same as their defense and suspicion of Izak.But on the surface, the three of them get along pretty well.

They told each other their names and shook hands.Han noticed Isaac's empty fingers at this moment and raised his eyebrows, and then he made a joke about a bachelor, to the effect that people like them would end up with his right hand.If this kind of obscene joke is told by other people, the person who tells the joke is the most stupid and insignificant, but the strange thing is that it will only make people feel quite funny when it comes from Han's mouth. And it's easy to have an inexplicable sense of intimacy.From this, Isaac was able to determine that Han probably had studied some kind of specialized language course.

By the time the first day of their first meeting had passed, the three of them seemed to have formed a rather intimate clique, of course, only on the surface.

After a few more days, they were able to spy on each other seemingly intimately.Isaac can bet his own words that his biography and past information (those not put on the official record) must have been researched many times by Joyce and Han in private.

He didn't know where he had gone wrong, but ever since the two men linked the body on the beach to the "masterpiece" in front of Calvin's apartment building, Isaac knew he had to pull himself together Dealing with these two bloody bastards.

He had to find a way to stand in front of that little bastard Calvin, trying to save him from being spied and pursued by the police—maybe the prying at the earliest start didn't have any malice, but Isaac would never Underestimating the seeds planted by the Adventists in various official systems.

"You look in a bad mood today."

Joyce sat in the driver's seat of the car, he said to Isaac.

Isaac glanced at the front seat, and Joyce's eyes were reflected in the rearview mirror of the patrol car. Contrary to his colleague's tone, his eyes were as indifferent and meticulous as a machine.

"Well, you know, if it were you, you came to such a beautiful seaside resort town from Los Angeles City, but you didn't want to enjoy the beach and sea and beauties in bikinis, but to deal with the broken ones. Corpses that look like minced beef and possible murderers, plus a dozen reporters buzzing around you like flies... Your mood will also become quite bad." Ai Zac showed a look of boredom Emoji, "Not to mention I'm still having bloody nightmares. This case is disgusting."

Han turned his head from the passenger seat, and he looked at Isaac with some concern.

"It's presumptuous to say this, but Officer Holden, are you in good health? Your complexion is very bad."

Isaac shrugged: "Well, I'm just trying to figure out how to quit smoking."

The eldest son of the Holden family knows that he looks really bad now. He has lost nearly twenty pounds in the past month. He always has huge dark circles under his eyes and his cheeks are slightly sunken. .Of course, he is not the kind of person who indulges himself. He will try his best to give himself protein powder every day, and then stay on the gym equipment until he is exhausted.His body fat percentage has now dropped to an all-time low.And all because he was worried that some bastard was going crazy with worry.

"Wow, I can tell you're going through a rough ride in life."

Han made a speechless sound.

He is indeed the kind of person who can't help but feel close to him. Isaac felt that if he hadn't been in the underground society with Doctor Holden for so long, he would not have noticed the spying under the friendly mask of that guy. And research, he probably really likes each other.

Thinking of this, Isaac couldn't help but fight a cold war secretly.

The intercom in the car crackled, and Joyce received a call from a police officer that they had a new lead near the hospital.

Han let out a wail of pain, "Come on, I was going to get myself an iced coffee with double cream and lots of nuts—"

"And spit it out at the crime scene."

Joyce took over Han's words, and he said coldly and sarcastically.

But Isaac noticed that when he talked with Han, the indifferent mechanical aura in Joyce's eyes faded instantly, and he finally looked like a formally existing human being.

Oh, how disgusting--

The moment he discovered this small detail, Ai Zac found that his mood had become worse.He didn't know how to express that terrible feeling... Well, if he had to describe it, he felt like he was in a movie theater, sitting in the middle of a loving couple who had been married for many years and had a good relationship watching a movie bachelor.

Against the background of the two people around him, he was so out of tune with the whole world.

Isaac shuddered in the chill, pulling himself back from his thoughts that were getting more and more strange.

For concentration, he crossed his arms and watched the passing scenery outside the car window.The seaside town, which was originally sold as a beautiful scenery and suitable for vacation, was mostly empty after the serial murders. Most of the people who are still here are reporters who came here after seeing the news, and there are some sick-minded curiosity-seeking hobbies. By.It is precisely because of this that the air of the whole town is filled with an unpleasant and heavy atmosphere.Even the tropical palm trees on the side of the road looked indescribably ominous at this moment.

Then, while waiting for the red light at the small intersection in Sunset Town, Isaac was a little surprised to see the huge black dog sitting upright at the intersection.

Isaac's pupils shrank instantly, and his heartbeat quickened.

"Officer Holden?"

God knows how long Han has been watching him secretly, but Ai Zac's unusually subtle reaction still caught his attention.

Han leaned back slightly, turned his head and looked out following Ai Zac's line of sight.

"You don't like dogs?"

he asked nonchalantly, his tone almost sounding like a joke.

Ai Zac turned his head, his eyes lightly touched Han in the air.

"I just don't like black dogs very much." He pouted, "Speaking of superstition, seeing such a big black dog is not an auspicious omen."

A young woman came to the intersection, and she untied the black dog from the rope on the railing at the side of the road.It could be seen that she just left temporarily, and in order to make up for it, she bent down and gave her pet a bite of ice cream.

The sun fell on both of them, the light was very bright, but the shadows were very thick.

The patrol car passed the intersection quickly, and inside the car, Han laughed softly.

"Is that what you LAPD say? I thought no one hated Big Black Dog since Harry Potter came out..."

"Harry Potter?"

Isaac frowned in confusion, not knowing that there was any connection between the black dog and Harry Potter.

Han noticed his confusion, and the disgusting smile on his face subsided a bit: "In that book, Harry's godfather, Sirius, also appeared as a black dog when he first appeared on the scene—— "

"Han!"

Joyce finally interrupted Han's chatter with a warning call.

Isaac pretended not to notice the momentary awkwardness in the car, though his odd feeling of a bachelor sitting between a loving couple intensified again.

Moreover, the black dog...

Isaac couldn't help but think of the nightmare that always haunted him.

Growing up, if any nightmare could really scare him, it was that dream.

His younger brother, Calvin, sometimes has the appearance of a child, and sometimes has the image of an adult man, but without exception, they are all pale, standing in the distance of Isaac in panic.

And a big black dog suddenly appeared behind Calvin with blood-red eyes open.

Afterwards, no matter how wildly Isaac ran and shouted, he was still unable to do anything. In that nightmare, he could only watch the black dog bite Calvin with its bloody mouth, and then dragged him into the Beyond the thick darkness—

No matter how many times he told himself that it was just a nightmare, Isaac couldn't overcome that deep fear.

Somewhere in his heart, there was a voice that was persistently repeating.

someday...

His nightmare will become reality.

After arriving at the destination, Joyce, Han, and Izak all got out of the car. The new discovery of the police officers was indeed very exciting. They found several illegally installed pinhole cameras near the morgue where the victims were released.

It was a young man who loved blood and strange things, in order to increase the click-through rate of his channel, he secretly set up a hidden pinhole camera under completely illegal circumstances.His lover used to be the cleaner in charge of cleaning the area, and with the assistance of the other party, the young man completed the installation of the cameras.

"What did he capture?!"

Joyce asked the police officer as he walked.

"There's very little content for a gore stream, the cameras are cheap ebay, poor signal from the walls - and no footage of the inside of the mortuary, his lovers don't want to do that , so the cameras are only distributed in the corridors and doorways..."

Isaac followed behind them, listening carefully to their conversation.

And at this moment, the phone in his pocket vibrated.Ai Zac frowned, he took out his mobile phone and took a quick look, it showed an unknown number.

And almost at the moment of seeing that word, Ai Zac's almost beast-like mysterious intuition took effect.

His heartbeat quickened instantly, and his back was sweating slightly.

It seemed as if someone whispered in his ear, telling him that this call was very important.because this is……

Isaac quickly glanced at Joyce and Han who were focusing on the new development of the case.

Then at the corner of the corridor a few steps away, he dodged and hid in.

His fingers were trembling slightly when he pressed the answer button. He was really worried that the other party had given up on dialing the moment he answered the call.

Fortunately, the other party did not.

"Hey--"

"..."

After the first greeting, he and the people on the other side of the microphone fell into silence.

Isaac heard a very restrained, weak breathing, and his palms became even more moist in an instant.

"I should text you, but I don't want to leave any traceable information."

A strange voice came from the other side of the microphone, the voice was high-pitched and sharp, like a poor version of Donald Duck.

But Isaac felt his whole body go limp.

No matter how the voice changes, he will not mistake the tone of his younger brother who grew up with him.

He almost wanted to grab his phone and send out a machine-gun question—are you okay?are you safe nowHow are you doing now?Is the dead body in Sunset related to you?Is that damn pervert still chasing you...

But in reality, he just forcibly suppressed the strong worry and fear in his heart, and said a thousand words with no ups and downs.

"uh-huh--"

He motioned for Calvin to continue.

"It's not safe where you're staying, I know it sounds ridiculous but trust me, everything I say is true. Devils, demons, monsters, you name it, there's that thing out there and it will Want to hurt humans—if possible, get out of there, don’t get to the bottom of it—you can’t catch the criminal, that thing is not punished by human laws or guns. Only God can..." Calvin's voice paused, "If there is a God."

"..."

Isaac's brows were tightly furrowed, and he desperately caught every tone of Calvin's voice, trying to figure out the current situation of the other party.

It must be admitted that at the very beginning of hearing what Calvin said, Isaac almost thought that he was being controlled by someone, a cult or some other brainwashing group or something.

But there was something inexplicable in Calvin's voice that made Calvin's warning all the more solemn and true.

"And you? How are you doing?"

Isaac lowered his voice and asked hastily, he could no longer control his emotions—especially after realizing what Calvin might have really experienced to take the risk of speaking to him like this, he felt strongly. The worries almost swallowed Isaac's whole body.

"I'm fine now, I'm going to die... Take care of yourself, Isaac."

Calvin replied on the phone.

Then he decisively cut off the call.

Isaac couldn't help but look at his watch, just as he expected, it was 45 seconds.This is the method that Dr. Holden once personally instructed. Hanging up the phone within this time period can ensure that the location of your call will not be searched and located.

Ai Zac knew this very well, but when he heard the disconnection sound from his mobile phone, he still felt extremely painful and anxious.

"Did something happen?"

Suddenly, a gentle inquiry came from not far from Isaac.

Isaac turned his head suddenly, and Han's figure appeared at the other end of the corridor. Because of the backlight, his expression was a bit blurred.

damn it--

Isaac cursed in his heart.

He didn't even know how long Han had been standing there.Theoretically speaking, with his vigilance, no one could approach him so silently.But maybe it's because Calvin's sudden call today disturbed his mind, or because Han really has special talents in some aspects (maybe he really has gongfu), in short, when he appeared there Like a ghost, and Isaac didn't notice at all.

Isaac's hand holding the phone trembled slightly, but then stabilized.

"An informant."

He waved his phone and answered Han calmly.

"Wow..." Han slowly approached a few steps, and he looked at Isaac a little more strangely, "That must be a very important informant. Is he in any trouble? You look A little nervous."

Isaac didn't know how he forced that smile to Han.

"As you said, he is my very important informant."

He didn't say much.And on the surface, Han didn't seem to want to delve into the meaning of Isaac's weird informant call——

"Joyce is looking for you, I think our lovely social network poisoner left us with something very interesting. You should come and see."

Han said so.

…………

……

At the moment when Isaac and Han started the conversation, Calvin in another city put the disposable mobile phone in his hand into the cup full of Coke.

At his feet is a deflated balloon, which Calvin bought for a few dollars from some punk teenagers on the side of the road.These helium balloons, which can be used to sharpen one's voice, are quite popular at parties, and Calvin used them to briefly alter his voice.

He was not able to accurately judge Ai Zac's current situation just through the news, but this did not mean that it was unnecessary to have an extra layer of insurance.

Thinking of Joyce and Han, a faint shadow appeared in Calvin's heart.

He took out the phone from the cup and crushed it, then lowered the brim of his hat, turned around and walked out of the dilapidated alley that was used to hide his figure.Compared with the laughing holiday crowd on the street, Calvin's pace was a little faster.Of course, he did not forget Moses who was left alone at the Sapphire Royal Hotel by himself.

Thinking of his actions, Calvin almost felt guilty.

At this moment, he desperately wanted to go back to the hotel...to Moses.

However, just as he was about to speed up his pace, a figure suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Excuse me, are you interested in learning about the Adventist Church?"

The sound that almost froze Calvin's blood rang out.

Only then did he notice that in order to take a shortcut, he had unknowingly walked away from the commercial street and stepped into a certain urban residential area.Compared with the luxury resort hotels, bars and specialty handicraft shops that can be seen everywhere on the street, this residential area where locals live looks a bit old and dilapidated.

There are many weeds on the lawn on the side of the road, and it can be seen that it has been neglected on weekdays, and green moss has grown in the pond in the swimming pool in front of a collective housing building.

The air was humid and stuffy, with a faint stench.

Calvin raised his head slowly, and he watched the preacher in front of him coldly from under the brim of his hat.

It was a rickety, skinny middle-aged man with a huge nose that was red and swollen, covered with yellow grease particles, and under the drooping eyebrows were loose bags under the eyes, barely covering the man's red eyes.

Judging from the texture and color of his robe, he was just a very novice initiate.

He held a stack of leaflets in his hand, and his expression was rather dazed. It could be seen that he did not have a pious belief, but left home for the benefits promoted by the Adventists.However, having to go to the street to preach after joining the church is obviously not his favorite activity.

It's just that all the slack and exhaustion on his body were swept away after seeing Calvin's handsome face exposed under the brim of Calvin's hat.

"It's a good sect, man, and I think you'd be a good fit in our big family—"

Calvin had his hands in his pockets, which he didn't reach out, while the newcomer to the Advent faction began to sell rather eagerly.

While talking about the sentences that were about to be memorized, he was distracted, and he looked up and down the young man in front of him with sticky and obscene eyes from an angle that he thought was inconspicuous.

He swore he'd never seen anything like it—not even in professional men's clubs that cost five hundred dollars a night.

He has already noticed the other party's indifference, but it doesn't matter, he just wants to get closer, and it's good to smell this little guy...

The man didn't realize that Calvin's face had gradually turned pale.

"Go away."

Calvin said bluntly.

He didn't want to be stuck here at all, because he was facing an unprecedented crisis.

He found that sometimes he couldn't control his wings.

For example, now, just hearing the name Adventist makes him want to vomit, but in order to cover his whereabouts, he has to hide his clenched fist in his pocket (God knows how much he wants to punch the person in front of him. man beats a mouth full of teeth falling out), which was not a big problem in the past.but now……

He felt that his wings were about to move.

Calvin desperately tightened his shoulder blades, but the unprecedented desire to spread his wings was so strong.

He cursed in his heart, bypassed the Adventist member and wanted to leave, but after only a few steps, his way was blocked again.

"Dude, at least you can read the flyer?"

The man pressed himself very deliberately in front of Calvin.

What he did was very secretive, in the eyes of ordinary people, it was almost a normal approach.

But Calvin was no ordinary man.

He knows how those perverts work...

"I'm not interested in."

Calvin lowered his voice and said.

His back muscles were already tensing from excessive tension.

"But--"

"No but. He's already said he's not interested. If you come over again, we'll call the police to deal with this matter."

A hoarse voice interrupted the man.

Then, someone hugged Calvin from behind.

The author has something to say: Isaac: I don't know what happened but I feel like I'm a light bulb.