deformed bone

Under the moonlight, amidst the blood and flesh, an undoubted blasphemy is unfolding.

On the inside and outside of the "door", the pros and cons of the same soul are still at a stalemate.

"you……"

Reed's eyes were red, and his breath was somewhat unstable.

All the parts under his arms have been integrated with the "door", and opposite to it is the figure inside the door, which is transforming into his appearance bit by bit.

Oh, of course, from the beginning, the two of them have almost the same appearance, but anyone who is familiar with Reed and his other personalities can clearly distinguish the difference between Reed and "him".

But now, this difference is gradually becoming smaller.

The face of the "Red Deer" inside the door became rosy and radiant little by little. His temperament was just like the real Reed's, and there was a little evil that could be detected under the disguised innocence.

【"I feel very happy."】

"He" whispered to Reed, panting.

【"Stop struggling—you can't close this door. You know why."】

Gradually, it seemed that the voice of "him" no longer came from inside the door, but from the depths of Reed's heart.

Of course Reed knew what "he" meant: precisely because he was originally one with that extremely evil thing.

Therefore, what must be said may be that he himself does not want to close the "door".

"Well……"

Behind Reed and the people inside the door, Calvin let out a distressed and scorching moan from time to time.

The tide-like throbbing came from those tentacles, washing Reed's incomplete soul.

The "gate" is eating up Calvin bit by bit.

Likewise, it was eating Reed.

For a moment, even Reed himself was shaken.

Maybe he should really give up all resistance completely as the monster said, and merge with him and Calvin...

"crunch-"

But at this moment, a piercing sound of the door shaft turning pierced through the thick fog.

A pair of old hands emerged from the void, firmly supported behind the door, and then closed the door inward little by little.

"It's you?"

After seeing the person coming, Reed's pupils shrank slightly, and he woke up suddenly.

……

……

Calvin felt as if he was dreaming.

It's a nightmare, but also a spring dream.

He felt extremely dirty and ashamed, but at the same time, he couldn't deny that he was losing control of his reason bit by bit in that extreme joy.

He felt as if he was about to melt.

Something very evil was hollowing out the inside of him.

He felt disoriented and weak, almost collapsing.

【"Calvin...right...Word..."】

Faintly, someone outside the light was whispering hoarsely.

Thanks to the voice, Calvin finally regained some sanity slowly.

Slowly, he became more sober.

Calvin exhaled slowly (he had just noticed that he hadn't breathed for a while).

As if slowly recovering from a half-dream, Calvin blinked, and the woods, moonlight, and bloody rotten flesh slowly emerged from the shadows.

An unlucky person's eyeball was hanging on the branch of an acacia tree, its shape had been shriveled, and the gray iris happened to meet Calvin's gaze at this moment.

And Calvin felt his body was very hot, and the strong foreign body sensation made him even faintly nauseous.

Calvin's consciousness became more blurred, and he faintly felt that something was wrong.

Is it normal to be floating and glowing like now?

Unknowingly, Calvin raised his hands, his skin became as if transparent under the hazy light, Calvin saw his own blood vessels and the "things" surging in the blood vessels, which were not blood.

Because blood doesn't glow like the tungsten filament of a dimmed light.

In fact, Calvin is also very clear that what really makes him float in mid-air is not the airflow caused by the wings, but another thing that cannot be explained by science—just like the door and the thing behind the door. same.

The moment he thought of that door, the tremors and emotions coming from behind the red door became more obvious and clear.

Calvin was a little dazed to discover that, in fact, even if the five senses of human beings were completely closed, he could still feel the door very clearly... and...

【Calvin】

Suddenly, a sharp cry pierced the fog that shrouded Calvin's thoughts.

It was the voice of an old man, containing severe panic and pain.

There was no way Calvin could have mistook the voice. It was Dr. Holden's shout.

Calvin lowered his head and looked towards the place where the sound came from, and then his pupils shrank suddenly.

Dr. Holden, who had died long ago, was shriveled, covered in mud, and stood beside the door. His complexion was very bad, and his sallow, dull skin covered his collapsed skeleton.And his fingertips and arms were already bloody.

【You have to choose... the correct... path...】

Doctor Holden stared at Calvin in mid-air, and then said word by word, painfully.

His voice was covered with white noise. If Calvin hadn't been listening hard, he might not have heard Dr. Holden's words at all.

Dr. Holden slowly dragged his extremely weak body to the red door. He put his shoulders on the door of the door, panting heavily, trying to push the door shut.

Those incomprehensible disgusting "things" flowing out from the inside of the door rushed towards Holden with a bang, but as long as it was close to Dr. Holden's rotten flesh, a layer of lifeless paleness would appear in an instant.

"Father……"

Calvin snapped back to his senses.

With a thought, Calvin saw the things flowing on the ground shrank towards the back of the door like frightened hermit crabs.Under such circumstances, Dr. Holden slammed the red door shut.

The color of that door faded immediately, and so did Doctor Holden's figure.

But in an instant, he disappeared like that door.Only one handsome and tall young man remained in his original position. He was raising his head slightly, staring at Calvin with moist eyes.

Calvin followed his line of sight and slowly looked at himself. At this moment, the foreign body sensation that made him very uncomfortable instantly had an answer.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

Calvin screamed uncontrollably, his originally light body suddenly became extraordinarily heavy.His wings flapped violently in mid-air, but he still fell heavily from mid-air.

"Well--"

The coming of pain made Calvin let out a muffled groan, but he completely ignored the pain caused by falling from mid-air.

He screamed and pulled out the lifeless tentacles from his body.

Mucus and blood soaked his already tattered clothes.

And Calvin just kept screaming, even after those tentacles had been completely pulled out, he still desperately scratched at his wounds, making those wounds even more bloody.

"Calvin!"

Accompanied by a very worried voice, someone quickly helped Calvin up from the ground.Calvin almost attacked the other party, but the familiar aura on the latter finally calmed Calvin down a bit.

"Reed?"

Calvin looked at the familiar voice with green eyes in bewilderment, then he turned his gaze to look not far away.

He swore that he was not mistaken, the shadow standing in the bush also had a handsome face and deep outline, as well as those iconic green eyes.

If there was any difference between him and the real Reed, it was that he was far paler than Reed.

And of course, his eyes.

Calvin had never seen such extreme madness and twisted eyes in anyone.

"who are you?"

Calvin felt very cold and very weak.

His body was simply unprecedentedly heavy.

The man who looked exactly like Reed smiled at Calvin.

【I am your lover——】

At that moment, Calvin felt as if he had been dragged into a nightmare again.

His instinct, or in other words, the vague and mysterious connection between him and the "door" made him clearly aware that the evil and twisted shadow had a strong desire and desire for him.

And he has no way to separate that shadow from the real Reed.

Because just now, "he" got Calvin's permission.

The door was opened, and he could finally enter this world completely, bit by bit eroding the reality Calvin was familiar with.

He is gradually becoming Reed.

"What the hell did I do?"

Calvin couldn't help murmuring.

Dr. Holden's despairing eyes reappeared in his mind with uncanny clarity.

At this time, Calvin finally understood why the other party kept appearing in front of him in various ways, and repeated that sentence.

Do not open the door.

Don't go down the wrong path.

Perhaps from the very beginning, Dr. Holden had received mysterious revelations somewhere.That's why he was so worried and desperate, even after he died, he still couldn't find peace.

Even so, Calvin ignored his warning.

He allowed that kind of thing to come into this world...

"Do not……"

Calvin looked around.

The surrounding blood and messy vegetation are witnesses of a massacre.

But it was not until this time that Calvin finally realized all this as a human being.

Intense unease struck instantly, and Calvin almost couldn't even breathe.

And at this moment, Reed suddenly pulled Calvin into his arms.

When Calvin struggled to poke his head out of Reed's arms and look at him again, the place where the man was originally had become empty.

It would be a lie to say that Calvin didn't want to find out where the so-called "man" came from, but the reality is that he didn't have the time to pursue that weird and creepy man, and he didn't have the energy to deal with the situation in front of him. This terrible killing scene.

Because within a few seconds after Calvin broke free from his embrace, Reed's face suddenly lost all blood.

"sorry……"

Reed swayed violently, and he gritted his teeth and said to Calvin inexplicably.

"what?"

Calvin asked.