deformed bone

"I can handle small situations like this, and you should know that."

Joyce said to Han with his expression unchanged.

Joyce's tone was quite calm, but for some reason, Han seemed to be irritated (considering Han's lazy and alienated attitude in front of Calvin all the time, this kind of overly intense emotion seemed particularly intense to him. eccentric).

"I only know that someone is looking for death again uncontrollably. What did you promise me? Joe, you—"

"That guy can't die, you heard what that Mister Angel said before, that man can trap Joshua. And we always have to face the outside world, no one can stay in this place forever, the defense of the basement The facilities are not complete enough to withstand a long-term external attack, I mean, if there is any in the future...”

Hearing his name appeared in the conversation between the two, Calvin couldn't help but look at Han and Joyce more.

Joyce waved at Calvin calmly.

"You can lay him flat on the couch, there's a rail under the cushion, pull it out and it'll be a bed...the blanket should be under the couch, I forgot to sanitize it last week, but I miss your friend Probably wouldn't mind that."

Calvin was sure that Joyce hesitated at the word "friend."

"Thank you."

Calvin said softly to Joyce.

He was very careful to keep his communication with them to a minimum, not wanting to be drawn into the other party's dispute.Considering that the reason for the other party's dispute came from himself and Moses, Calvin didn't want to cause more trouble.

Moreover, Han's attitude always made him feel a little uneasy. He felt that Han seemed to know something, but he couldn't discuss it with others because of his presence.

"You're frightened, Han, and it's made you lose your old...wisdom."

Joyce went back and started arguing with Han without any hindrance.

"I'm terrified?! You think I'm terrified—"

"And you're sad."

Joyce interrupted Han. He stared Han in the eyes and said word by word: "What I want to say is that I am too. I feel sorry for John and Johnny."

He was talking about the two companions in the van who were caught off guard by Joshua.

It has to be said that Joyce really knows Han very well.

Han was thoroughly hit by his words.

Han's lips parted and he stared at Joyce, looking like he was about to say something, but his throat was choked tightly.

"I just... I..."

Joyce took a step forward at this moment, stretched out his hand and hugged Han into his arms.

"We can get through it, man, I know we can."

Next, he seemed to lean into Han's ear and continued to say something, but Calvin had no way of knowing the content - as early as the moment Han suddenly stopped, Calvin took his eyes away from the two people.

That feeling was very subtle, but Calvin always felt that he should not be in the same room with Han and Joyce, under the background of the atmosphere around Han and Joyce.

But then again, this might just be an illusion caused by Calvin's own oversensitivity, at least Isaac, who was also in the room, didn't seem to be affected.

As soon as Calvin turned his head, he met his brother's sharp gaze.In the poorly lit room, Officer Isaac Holden looked like an owl in a stress response.

"When do you think you can explain what happened between you and him?"

Isaac stared at Calvin and said.

Then he glanced at Moses and began to grind his teeth.

Calvin sighed.Without saying a word, he hugged Moses and walked towards the sofa bed in the corner.

Just as Joyce said, Calvin pulled out the cot smoothly and found an old blanket under the sofa bed.

Calvin wrapped the blanket around Moses' body, hoping it would make him feel better -- but so far it didn't seem to be doing much.

Moses didn't show any signs of getting better, and Calvin had to put his hand on his chest from time to time to make sure the man's heart was still beating.

After the coma, Moses became less like Moses - he looked like the most ordinary human male.

Handsome, but unconscious.

Calvin stared blankly at the man's pale, weak and pained face.

He was a little surprised to realize that when he was awake, the other party would show completely different expressions and temperaments due to different personalities, but after losing consciousness, that "difference" gradually disappeared.

The man who appeared in front of him seemed so familiar, but also so strange.

For a moment, Mercer, Reid, Fogg, Virgil, Histu...even "Red Deer", their appearances and expressions merged into the person in front of him.

And this man didn't seem to have the suave, suave, youthful vigor in Calvin's memory, those overly distinct traits belonging to different personalities--Reed's sophisticated and worldly, Fogg's sternness, Virgil's youthful immaturity, Histo the tenderness of Moses, the innocent obedience of Moses...

He is just him.

Years and time had already shown some traces of his true features, which, of course, could not detract from his extraordinary beauty, but it still surprised Calvin.

Looking at him like this, Calvin seemed to realize the real appearance of the other party for the first time—this was the real Reed.

"Calvin?"

Isaac, who was standing aside, suddenly called out Calvin's name.

He had been observing his younger brother, and at that moment just now, the look on Calvin's face made him feel a little uneasy.

"What is your relationship with him?"

Isaac knew this might irritate Calvin but he spoke up anyway.

Calvin turned his head and looked at him as if he had just woken up from a dream. After a moment of stunned, a trace of bewilderment appeared in his eyes.

"I don't know...I really don't know." Calvin paused, then continued, "But I know, I can't leave him and let him die. He is very important to me. Isaac , I can't tell you anything, the only thing I can be sure of is...he is very important to me. "

"..."

Every time Calvin said a word, Isaac's face turned even more livid.

The rebellious police officer Holden even felt a physical reaction similar to angina pectoris. He never thought in his life that his younger brother, who was cold and alienated to anyone, would have such misty eyes and illusory tone of voice.

"..."

Isaac couldn't say anything for a long while.

Others, however, don't have this problem.

"He does matter, assuming you didn't hide too much from us earlier."

At some point, Joyce and Han had reached a consensus on the other side of the room.

Joyce came to the sofa when Calvin didn't know, he seemed to have finally found the opportunity to look at Calvin carefully - Calvin noticed that his eyes were also resting on his snow-white wings, and there was a trace of unknown meaning in his eyes. deep.

Calvin tried his best to control his frown, and before he expressed his displeasure, Isaac had already stepped forward to block between Joyce and Calvin.

"The damn wings probably grew out later. When he was with me, he had nothing on his back. My father had already cut off those disgusting wings for him! All this time, he just wanted to be a The most ordinary person, that's all. The ones who don't let him go are Adventist, that shit cult that should go to hell."

Isaac said harshly.

"Take it easy, Isaac, we all know that."

Han lazily responded.

"However, we can all see that after leaving home, you probably have many encounters that Police Officer Isaac didn't know about?"

Joyce took Han's words as a matter of course and said.

After carefully observing Calvin's wings, he looked beyond Calvin and stared at the man on the sofa,

"I think we can probably talk a little bit about it now ... about a lot of things."

Joyce said.

……

A few minutes later, Calvin stood beside the table piled with various materials under a blanket.

The roar of the diesel generator came faintly through the wall, and the light flickered slightly due to the power problem, but this did not prevent Calvin from seeing clearly that Joyce and Han had chosen to lay it on the top of the table. those materials.

Most of the materials are paper, carefully sealed in yellow brown paper bags stamped "Top Secret".

Although it can be seen that they have been carefully preserved, most of the extracted materials have inevitably begun to turn yellow.What is even worse is that many key paragraphs and sentences in those materials have been completely blacked out with special black ink.

Calvin saw Joshua in several of the files—him as a baby, as a teenager, and there are a lot of pictures left over from the bloody plastic surgery.

Isaac was very anxious about the actions of Joyce and Han to take out these materials.

"If you don't want to watch it, you don't have to. It's all in the past—"

"Officer Holden, you are trying to teach your brother to be an ignorant ostrich."

Han said indifferently.

Afterwards, he crossed over to Aizhak, extracted a few separate documents from a large pile of intricate documents containing various information, and listed them before Calvin's eyes.

"Things are moving faster and worse than we thought, so let's save time and get right to the point - Joshua isn't your brother, he's just your clone."

Calvin's pupils suddenly constricted under the light.

He couldn't help but look at the photo of Joshua as a baby.

"Your mother hoped that the deformity in you would appear in Joshua again, but we all know you, she failed. According to our speculation, because Joshua is a clone, he has many Congenital physical defects and psychological barriers. And the extremely harsh environment inside the Adventist faction made his condition even worse."

"That's why he's turned into a complete lunatic."

Calvin murmured.