deformed bone

"Moser...let go of that man, that's my brother."

Moses finally let go of Isaac under Calvin's order, probably because of the aggressiveness that Isaac showed before he recognized Calvin, he always seemed very reluctant when he returned to Calvin.And because of the previous violent actions, Moses' face looked even worse, which made Calvin feel even more anxious. He hoped that the other party's injuries had not become more serious due to the previous fight.

"Be good, Moses."

Calvin said.

He stroked Moses' hair and cheek comfortingly, and let the other party rub his shoulders coquettishly, hoping that this would make Moses feel better.

In a sense, among all of Reed's personalities, Calvin is the most helpless and soft-hearted towards Moses. When he faces the soul of this "dog", he will uncontrollably show something close to love. Mood.

Of course, it was impossible for Calvin at this time to notice such subtle emotions.

He's so confused right now, everything is so... ridiculous.

Isaac showed up at St. Mary's Mission Hospital.

He seems to have become a close partner with the other two police officers who have approached him (if it were not for Joyce and Han, Calvin and Reed would not have left that beach so hastily. small town, and that departure led to a series of things that followed).

Sister Triss committed suicide.

They're investigating Adventists... They even plan to kill Joshua?

All of these are superimposed together, and the familiar and unfamiliar people and things are intertwined, which makes Calvin feel a sense of dazed trance.

However, it was precisely because of Calvin's shock and trance that he casually stayed in front of other people in the room and had such an intimate interaction with Moses.

"Calvin, damn it—why are you here?!"

In a sense, the two Holdens in the room are brothers who grew up together.

Isaac Holden didn't look any calmer than Calvin, especially after he was stunned to see Calvin's interaction with the tall weird green-eyed man. Turned into a bluish gray.He looked as if he had swallowed a rotten egg out of thin air. The strong shock and self-doubt made the former police elite almost directly fell under Medusa's petrification magic.

Han raised his eyebrows, he glanced back and forth between Calvin and Isaac, and then exchanged a look with Joyce.

Joyce's muzzle slowly left Calvin's body.

The storm that the poor little angel had to face was cruel enough, and Joyce felt that the muzzle of a gun might be far less deterrent to him than Isaac.

"Hey, that guy—"

Isaac furiously pointed at Moses, who was a big bird, and roared angrily.

"What the hell are you dawdling on Calvin? You better stay away from him—Calvin? Calvin! What the hell is going on!"

Moses realized that Isaac's suddenly raised and completely unfriendly voice was aimed at him, and this instantly stimulated the hidden nerves of resistance in Moses.

He turned his head and stared at Isaac viciously, the vague whimpers rolling in his throat, faintly revealing a trace of bloodthirsty cruelty.

"Messer, no, don't do this, he didn't mean anything malicious, and you were injured, the situation is serious now, I hope you don't want to continue to be brave."

Calvin just felt dizzy. He looked at the two people whose auras did not match, and his temples throbbed in extreme anxiety.

"Isaac, don't yell at him, you scared him—"

Immediately afterwards, he protected Moses behind him, using his body to block Moses as much as possible.

"Wait, what? Calvin, were you 'teaching' me just now?"

Isaac's eyes widened, and he looked at Calvin in disbelief...and that damned man who was behaving so weirdly.

That man is still barking?

For the sake of his dead father, who is going to tell him what happened to Calvin after he left him? !

Isaac would not admit that countless terrifying thoughts flashed through his mind in an instant.

After realizing that Calvin didn't answer himself immediately, Isaac couldn't help shouting again.

He suspected that he heard the crunching sound of the nerves representing "reason" being stretched to the limit in his brain.

"This is a very complicated matter..."

Calvin looked at Isaac exhausted and desperately and said.

He's still a little out of shape.

"And I also want to know why you're here? And..."

Calvin bit the tip of his tongue vigorously, and a tingling pain came, which finally made him a little more awake.

Then he looked at the two police officers again, with cautious and defensive eyes.Yes, Isaac is a cop, and of course he could form a team with other cops.But Calvin will never forget that the three of them were pressing Sister Triss for clues about the Church of the Rose in Ward 22 just now—according to Isaac’s personality, he would only be on guard to avoid any possible arousal of Adventists. things, instead of acting recklessly as they are doing now.

The cold evening wind blows into the room along the broken glass windows, but this wind is completely different from the past, mixed with thick burning smoke and bloody smell.

What also cannot be ignored is the continuous sound of sirens, the screams of the crowd and the occasional crash.

The horror caused by Joshua did not subside with the passage of time, on the contrary, the madness of the crowd seemed to become more serious.

With these in mind, Joyce immediately stepped between Calvin and Isaac to prevent such an untimely family struggle.

"This is not a place to talk, we have to find a way to get out of here first."

Joyce said.

While speaking, he was actually looking carefully at Calvin without any trace, and Calvin could feel that his eyes were full of naked evaluation.

I am afraid that Joyce will not be less wary of him than he is of Joyce and the two of them.

But even so, Calvin still nodded.

"There are also many crazy people wandering in the fire escape. I was forced to come to this floor by them."

Calvin said that he then shared with Joyce the information about doctors and patients killing each other in the hallway downstairs.But at the same time, the crazy face and eyes of the dying old man in the examination room lingered like a ghost in the depths of his brain.

Calvin himself knew that the reason why he himself came here was probably not just because of the group of zombie-like unconscious actions going back and forth in the fire escape.

But looking at Ai Zac, Joyce and Han, Calvin frowned and didn't say anything.

He couldn't even judge whether the three people in front of him were the same as himself, and it was because of some people's manipulation behind the scenes that they came here.

Based on this uncontrollable defensiveness, Calvin remained quite silent for the next period of time.

The five of them "cleaned" Sister Triss' ward together, swept away all the things that might have clues to the Temple of the Rose, and brought them to themselves.

(They even made a concerted effort to turn over Sister Triss' hospital bed and inspect it, but sadly they found nothing).

Presumably because Sister Triss has been playing the vegetative role very dedicatedly for the past few years, her hospital room has very little stuff.

In the end, all they took away was a novel they had read, some old newspapers, a few medical records, and empty medicines of unknown medicines.

During this process, the sky has completely darkened.

Misfortunes never come singly, and the electricity was suddenly cut off at this time.

The shrill and sharp siren that had been lingering in everyone's ears before disappeared suddenly.

For a moment, Calvin only felt that his ears were so quiet, so quiet that he could almost hear the sound of his blood rushing to his heart.

But that's just an illusion.

Calvin immediately reacted, no, his surroundings are far from being quiet.Because the cover of the siren was lost, the weird sounds coming from around became louder.It was the sound of sparse footsteps, strange screams and laughter, and a chorus of hell composed of explosions one after another.

After a while, a golden-red light dimly entered their eyelids.

Calvin and everyone else looked at the window together at this moment.

That light came from the fire... the fire of the whole city.

Even at such a long distance, Calvin could still clearly see the terrifying flames burning in the building area of ​​the city center not far away.

"They didn't put out the fire."

Calvin murmured something stupid.

Yes, the people in the city center didn't even think about fighting the fire, or there was no one in the city who could call the fire alarm at this time.

That group of lunatics just wandered on the street that had been scorched by the raging fire, watching the flames spread from room to room, and then they shouted and sang and danced around the wreckage of the rolling car, dripping terrible tears from the corners of their mouths. saliva.

Everyone present didn't say any other stupid words.

"Walk."

Joyce turned his gaze back from the window expressionlessly, and his face became more serious.

The group of them finally left from the outdoor fire escape.

The night was so dark that Calvin held his breath, not peeking into the grass below the old hospital building as he climbed the outdoor fire escape.

There were countless deformed hospital bed frames, corpses, and sundries scattered here and there.

There was a dead body hanging from the top of a bottle support frame. The legs and limbs were limp, like dried Italian jerky.