deformed bone

Let's turn back the clock a little bit, maybe a day, maybe two days.

Calvin has yet to meet Madeleine, is suffering from a wound to his back at the shabby motel... Red Deer is keen to play yet another young, goofy gay tourist.

Madeleine is still the crazy ninja that everyone avoids in the park. She wanders the streets, looking for her daughter who is still alive in her delusion...

When the three people in the simple holiday cottage by the lake hadn't met yet.

Hundreds of kilometers away from them, the seaside town that became world-famous because of the explosion of the Blue Diamond Crown Hotel.A man was sitting on the sofa, slowly wiping the Japanese-made table knife in his hand.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

A woman fell to the ground with her face bruised, her eyes wide open, staring at the intruder in front of her.Maybe it was because of being beaten, or maybe it was because of excessive panic, a dazed and dumb expression appeared on her face.

She didn't seem to have fully figured out the situation, she didn't understand why she suddenly fell into such a miserable situation, and she didn't understand why someone treated her like this.

"Don't be afraid," the man noticed the woman's gaze, and he grinned at her, showing his yellow teeth and crooked jaw, "I've pretty much understood everything I need to know, the rest is just for Making sure the information is correct. You know, the police thing... asking questions over and over again, reversing the order of events to make sure every piece of information is true. Oh man, their tricks are excruciating, But it worked, didn't it? My only regret is that I didn't play 'good cop, bad cop' with you this time. Because I accidentally killed my partner yesterday, hahahahahaha—"

The man seemed to think that what he said was really funny, he leaned forward and backward laughing, and it took a while before he stopped.

He only turned on a reading desk lamp in the sofa area. Under the light of that lamp, the knife in his hand looked extraordinarily sharp and cold.

"Come on, let's continue—that man, he called himself 'Mr. R' and walked through the VIP passage inside the hotel, right? The man next to him, you just think he is beautiful, you can see his hair clearly Is it the color or the pupil? As long as there is a little, tell me more about that young male partner."

The man grabbed the woman's hand, and he rubbed the woman's bloody fingers.

"I don't know...I swear...I didn't notice that man at all. All the rich people who come to the Blue Diamond Hotel are more or less eccentric. They are really too ordinary. I really don't know... "

The woman whimpered.

If Calvin or Red Deer were here, it might take a while for them to connect the bruised woman in front of them with the blond, blue-eyed, slim hotel housekeeper.

She was very lucky to avoid the horrific explosion - which happened when she was seriously ill and was forced to take leave to rest at home.After all, no rich man would like to see a woman with a pale face, red eyes and a snot hanging around them.

But this great luck seems to have turned into an equal amount of misfortune at this time.

A man, tall and impassive, broke into her home at night.

Then started pressing her about the gay couple.

Oh yes, of course she remembered those two.

That was the last guest of her career, the mysterious "Mr. R" and his elf-like slender but always evasive male companion.She even felt a faint pang of regret knowing that both of them had perished in the flames, and that pang was soon overwhelmed by the joy of her own survival.But now, she began to regret that she didn't pay more attention. She should try to remember more information about those two people so that she can survive...

"I'm sorry...give me a moment. I think I'll remember, please, I'll remember..."

She murmured as she wept.

"Oh, you'd better think more."

Hearing the lines he was already familiar with, the man murmured in distress.

Then he took out the needle-nose pliers he used to repair waste electrical appliances.

"No..." When the woman saw the familiar tool, she seemed to faint.

"I think I should give you a little motivation so that you can think more."

The man slowly grabbed the woman's fingers, and then put the needle-nose pliers on her nails...

……

After a while, the man wiped his fingers with a handkerchief.

He walked out of the woman's apartment very calmly.

Then he took out his mobile phone and reported a series of numbers to the person on the other end of the phone, which were the last digits of the credit card number.

"...Yes, congratulations, it is indeed a black card, and now the scope has been narrowed down a lot...Cross-compare the list of people who used this card in Sunset Town...It is very likely that they did not use the same card but There must be a connection between the accounts..."

The man made his way to his car, a nondescript Japanese Honda, black, with genuine license plates, but which would have been a stolen vehicle if he had been found.

Those are the people who always put everything in order.

"Oh, by the way, I forgot to say, I need you to check a license plate."

A man only thinks of the guy from the used car company when he sees his own car—now it's more accurate to call him a "corpse".

The man, with his little help, had easily remembered that a man had come to his little run-down business after the explosion at the Blue Diamond Crown Hotel to buy a car.

The man still remembered that the other was a young male.

["I think he must be very handsome, yes, I... I didn't see his face... But, oh my god, I'm not lying, there is a certain temperament about him, just seeing his face You can tell he's different because of his body shape... I thought he was some star at first... He's hurt a bit, yes, I'm sure, I can smell that on him, my wife is very Worked in a coffee shop years ago and she got scalded by the steam from a malfunctioning commercial coffee machine, I know the smell of medicine...she's been dead for years but I can still smell her when I go into my bedroom and lie in bed That smell on him. I can swear sir, please, everything I said was true. I was worried about him, I asked him if he needed help and he said no, I believe when he drove the car away There was another guy in the car at the time... Please don't kill me, I have money, you can take all the money, I swear I won't call the police, I swear... God I don't know, I don't know where he's going, he paid in cash, I think, I mean I think he's driving inland..."]

The man sat in the car, and he listened to the questions and answers on the tape recorder before the death of the man from the used car company.

Then he pressed the playback button and listened to it again from the beginning.

"inland……"

he repeated mutteringly.

And when his car started and drove into the vast night, screams of panic erupted almost simultaneously in the woman's apartment and the owner's home of the second-hand car dealership.

………………

……

Adventism·Truth Town

"You got news about your brother."

Joshua sat on a huge stone seat of white marble and gold (this seat looked closer to an altar from a distance).

He was wrapped in a soft woolen blanket, and with unnaturally blue eyes, he looked at the former CIA member and now the core elder of Adventism, Kara, who just died a few seconds ago. phone.

But Joshua turned his head and said to him, using affirmative sentences instead of interrogative sentences.

"Tell me you found him."

Kara looked back at Joshua calmly.

"One of my puppies has found some clues and they're working on it," he said.

Joshua frowned.

His skin was paler than normal, his hair had just been bleached and dyed, and it was messy and lifeless behind him. It looked more like a pile of failed nylon filaments than long silver hair.

His pupils were darker than usual - also from a new round of pupil pigment injections, which had left his eyeballs so bloodshot that they looked almost entirely red, with dark blue irises that seemed to match the black. The pupils are glued together, presenting a frightening, black hole-like visual effect.

His whole body looks artificial, with flawless skin and overly delicate and symmetrical facial features. In the past, this artificial feeling was not as serious as it is now, so for most people, Joshua is still fit their aesthetics.

But as Joshua became harsh on his appearance and repaired more and more frequently, Joshua's face and body seemed to be alienated unconsciously...

Even for a person like Kara who has almost no mood swings, seeing Joshua from several special angles, he will still feel an instinctive palpitation.

It was a kind of fear and disgust out of physiological instinct.

No one dared to say it, but everyone vaguely noticed that Joshua was collapsing.

Both his form and mind are distorted to varying degrees - making him occasionally resemble some sort of alien creature rather than a human being.

"Just a clue?"

Joshua said dissatisfied.

"No matter who is the person who accompanied the first Lord Son, he must be very good at covering his tracks." Elder Kara replied calmly, "His existence has caused us a lot of trouble, until Blue Diamond After the strange explosion and fire at the Crown Hotel, we finally found some clues - we had found some things in Sunset Town before, but we didn't think that those clues might be related to the first Holy Son Calvin, It wasn't until the Blue Diamond incident that we reassembled and connected those fragments and information."

"One of them must have made a mistake."

Joshua gnawed on his fingers, and he whispered.

"Yes."

Kara bowed her head respectfully in front of Joshua.

It didn't surprise him that he heard Joshua's weird and menacing laugh afterwards.

Some goosebumps appeared on Kara's back, and Joshua's incomprehensible, even more difficult to explain logically, made him frightened no matter whether he was happy or dissatisfied.

"Give me your phone."

Suddenly, Joshua stretched out his hand towards Kara.

Kara handed her mobile phone to Joshua obediently, and Joshua rubbed the little miracle cube made of metal and plastic together curiously, his pupils became darker, and his fingers lightly Tapped on the phone's screen.

"Crack-"

At that moment, the glass on the surface of the phone cracked into a fine spider web centered on Joshua's fingertips under Joshua's touch. Immediately afterwards, the screen of the phone went black, and it made a small crackling sound. There was a sound of electric current, and then a white smoke mixed with a strange burnt smell came out from the charging port.

This mobile phone seems to have been completely turned into a piece of scrap metal.

But a man who was driving found himself on the phone.

He glanced at the screen and saw "unknown person" behind the number of the incoming call.

This is very weird, even a bit out of common sense, because this man can only receive calls from fixed numbers forever.

He hit the brakes and looked at the road.There was a strong intuition in his heart that made him not answer the phone number, but at the same time, an inexplicable desire filled his body...

He took that call.

"who is it?"

He said.

The man didn't hear any human speech...he only heard one, similar to the rustling of many arthropods crawling on smooth metal surfaces.

"I can't hear what you're saying."

The man kept the posture of answering the phone. He stared blankly at the front of the road, but his vision had become lax, and there was no expression in his eyes.

The microphone on his mobile phone gradually became quiet.

"I can't hear, you, are, say, what—"

The man's voice also became intermittent.

The nondescript Honda he was driving was getting slower and slower on the backcountry road, and then suddenly, the engine let out a whine, and the car picked up at breakneck speed before crashing hard into the road side of a tree.

"boom--"

There was a loud bang from the car, and black smoke billowed up.

A few minutes later, the deformed car door was pushed open from the inside of the car.

"Well……"

The man's face and the top of his shirt were drenched in blood, and a long twig stuck from his neck pierced directly into his body through the shattered windshield.

No one doubted that the branch would kill the man.

But at this moment, the man stood beside the car that had been smashed into scrap iron as if he didn't feel any pain at all.He even lowered his head amusedly, looking at his bloody hands.

"Hahahaha……"

His eyeballs turned an ominous red due to blood congestion, and the black eyeballs trembled in different directions and frequencies in the widening eye sockets.

Behind him, the car made a disturbing sound.

A ball of orange flame suddenly lit up at the part where the front cover of the car was sunken.

But the man didn't even look back.

"Wrong direction."

The man raised his head, looked at the dark starry sky and murmured.

【"The direction is wrong."】

In the Adventist church thousands of kilometers away, Joshua uttered illusory whispers at the same time.

"He's by the... lake..."

The man, and Joshua, continued to whisper.

"A true angel, he's by the lake."

They said at the same time.

On the road where the accident happened, a recreational vehicle gradually slowed down, and a well-meaning young couple stopped the car on the side of the road and ran towards the man.

"Dude, you need help!" they yelled anxiously at the man.

One of them took the opportunity to pick up the mobile phone and planned to make an emergency call, but before the call was dialed, the man's wet and cold palm covered the back of the man's hand, which became extremely sticky due to blood.

"I need your help."

He opened his blood red eyes and said to the person in front of him.

...............

……

Time: [-]:[-] a.m.

When Dr. Sarah came out of the emergency room, the first thing she saw was the man sitting in the waiting area.

Just by looking at the man, you could see the horror and despair in his pale, tormented face.

People always say that people should not be judged by their appearance, but after working in the hospital for so many years, Sara felt that this sentence was not true.At least someone like her: female, more experience dealing with people, plus a little good observation ability - these combined, enough to make Sara a doctor who can keenly perceive the good and bad of others.

In her opinion, the man sitting in the waiting area was actually a good husband and probably a good father as well.One person's care and love for another can always be seen from the seats in the waiting area of ​​the hospital.

"Mr. John Bambura?"

she called softly.

The man named John looked up at Sarah in horror.

"Your wife has gone through a dangerous period..." Sara said, looking at the other person's face that suddenly brightened, she could hardly speak the next paragraph, "But, we are on your wife's body Found a lot of artificial abuse, you may need to explain the origin of those wounds to the police..."

Speaking of this, a sense of disobedience floated in Sarah's mind.

The woman lying in the emergency room was scrawny, bruised and severely malnourished.Just seeing the body, Sarah could almost understand why those two decisive suicide marks appeared on her arms.This world is indeed hell for some people...

but……

The man standing in front of Sarah had a ruddy complexion and was well-nourished. He was the most typical and ordinary male member of a middle-class family. Sarah couldn't even catch the slightest bit of something wrong with him.

Those who abuse their wives no matter how well they hide, they are not normal human beings after all—but John in front of him is not like that...

Sarah subconsciously looked back at the emergency room, and at this moment, a man came out of the emergency room slowly.

"you--"

Sarah's nerves tensed suddenly, but the man looked up just in time and smiled at her.

"Thank you, Doctor, I've finished talking to her."

The red deer stretched out its finger and shook it slightly in front of Dr. Sarah's eyes.

"I appreciate you allowing me to go into the emergency room to be with her through this dangerous time, and thank you for allowing me a little alone time with her."

"No...no...thanks..."

Sara murmured blankly.

"Then, for your own good, for the sake of world peace—I think it's better for you not to remember me, don't you?"

Red Deer continued frivolously, and then he turned his gaze to John.

"I am also very grateful for your cooperation, really," he waved his finger in front of John with the same gesture, "you will forget me, and then you will spend the rest of your life lovingly and beautifully with your real wife .I seldom bless others, so you should cherish it."

After saying this, he ignored the two people standing blankly at the door of the emergency room.

He kept walking with a relaxed and happy pace towards the outside of the hospital.

…………

【"Why did you commit suicide? Is it because of pain?"】

【"Otherwise? Why did you save me? To make me continue to suffer like this? Or to continue to be crazy like this? Didn't you and that guy tell me those things to see my pain? You untie my tape and tell Isn’t the position of the razor on my sink just to let me die there?”]

【"Oh, please, I'm just kind. To be honest, I don't think it's good for you to commit suicide lightly like this, so please don't get me wrong."】

【"Suicide... the benefit? The benefit is probably that there is finally one less incompetent and stupid mother in this world..."】

【"So why can't you make your suicide more useful? Madeleine, you can obviously make your death more... meaningful."】