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When Calvin was jostled awake that night, he was still dreaming.

A nightmare, the one he had told others about before, a nightmare he had almost become accustomed to.

In the dream, he returned to the dark and old hospital ward area of ​​St. Mary's Church Hospital again. He stood at the door and watched Sister Triss's small body standing in front of the window.

Outside the window was not the sunset in his memory, but a darkness so thick that it couldn't be melted away.

"do not……"

Calvin murmured softly in his dream, but he couldn't make a sound.

Sister Triss suddenly turned her head to look at him, her whole face distorted as if she was no longer human.

【Ah, ah, ah, he's here, he's here, he's here——】

The next second, Sister Triss opened her jaw, revealing her black and red throat.

A terrible scream gushed out from the dead man's throat, and then Sister Triss shattered the glass with a slam, as if being held by her neck by an invisible rope, and was pulled straight into the darkness outside the window.

"Do not……"

Calvin groaned in pain.

"Calvin, wake up."

"Well……"

"Calvin, it's time to wake up."

Calvin opened his eyes with difficulty, and he met a pair of emerald green eyes as deep as a swamp.

"Red deer?"

The next moment, Calvin frowned, and he heard quite noisy screams and roars——

The sound came from outside, very close to the basement.

"Calvin, I really don't want to disturb your sleep."

Red Deer put his hand on Calvin's shoulder and said softly.

"what happened?"

Calvin asked.

Red Deer opened his mouth, but before he had time to explain, the outside noise suddenly turned into a call of inflection, answering Calvin's question in a disguised form from another aspect.

【"Our great and noble holy son El, may your name be praised by billions of people, and may your kingdom of God come..."】

【"I implore you to grant us glory, I implore you to grant us eternal life..."】

【"Ire who walks in the world, the only angel in the world, the light of truth, the son of glory, please forgive our sins and lead us to your garden..."】

……

"This is……"

For a moment, Calvin stared at the emerald green pupils of the red deer, almost thinking that he had not really woken up, but was trapped in some extremely terrifying nightmare.

He didn't want to believe it, and he couldn't believe the voices he heard.

But he had to face reality.

"Hey, man, things aren't going well—those lunatics found it here."

Ai Zac was fully armed, holding a polished machete in his hand, smashed open the door with his shoulder and rushed in.

Rather forcefully, he pushed the red deer away from Calvin's mattress.

"They... found this place?"

Calvin felt as if his soul was still far away, and he was the only one trapped in such a haunted nightmare.

Suddenly, the wings that he accidentally revealed in front of the group of people appeared in his mind.

His heartbeat suddenly became extremely slow, and his body also became cold in an instant.

"sky……"

Calvin spoke tremulously.

"It's because of me, damn it..."

He heard his own voice shift, into that of a wretch who was so weak.

"Joshua's spirit is always in their heads, he can see it, why didn't I think of it? I completely ignored this thing! God, it's my fault - those crazy people saw me as Joshua Saw me!"

Calvin covered his mouth so hard that he was almost out of breath.

He felt as if his heart had been pierced by something, and he should have jumped up immediately, quickly followed Isaac and the others, and escaped before things got even worse.

But he couldn't move.

The group of people during the day kept appearing in his mind.

The frenzied expressions on their faces, the irrational eyeballs gleamed like children's marbles in the sun.

Calvin always thought that was the expression that every lunatic would have after being controlled by Joshua, but now he knew, it wasn't—it was Joshua.

There were multiple Joshuas, gazing at him through the hollow shells of different people, calling to him.

"God—"

Intense fear and remorse turned into poisonous snakes, entangled and biting in every blood vessel and nerve in him, almost destroying what little sanity he had left.

"We'll talk about this in the car, but now we have to figure out a way to get out of this place first."

Isaac glanced at Red Deer, and the two men reached an inexplicable consensus at this moment.

From left to right, they lifted Calvin off the bed and walked towards the door.

But after finishing the last sentence, Isaac suddenly glanced at Calvin intently.

Isaac felt that Calvin suddenly returned to his childhood, so pale and fragile.

This made him instantly attacked by distress and pity.

He stretched out his hand suddenly, and rubbed Calvin's hair vigorously.

"Hey, don't be scared, man," he said roughly, in that brotherly tone Calvin hadn't heard in ages, "I'll be there for you, remember that, and I'll protect you. "

"And you and me."

Red Deer followed behind Isaac and said.

He turned his head and kissed Calvin's palm, then he gnawed a small tooth mark on Calvin's fingertips with his canines.

It worked, Calvin gave a jerk in pain.

"Thank you—sorry, I couldn't control my emotions just now."

Calvin said, his eyes became sober for a moment.

At this moment, a violent explosion exploded above their heads, bringing a shock like an earthquake.

The lights went out in an instant, and darkness and a large amount of dust rushed to the three people side by side at the same time.

"Fuck!"

Isaac started swearing.

"That group of people wanted to blow up the entrance to the basement!"

As he spoke, he forcibly pulled Calvin towards the door.

"Hey, here!"

A dim fluorescent light appeared in the darkness, and Han's face appeared behind the blue light.

"Don't worry, Joyce says the entrance will hold up."

He flicked the emergency flashlight in his hand.

Under his leadership, Calvin and others soon met Joyce at the vent.

Joyce motioned for Han to turn off the fluorescent lights.

"I checked, and the lunatics are still dealing with those layers of steel plates at the entrance, thank God, the group of lunatics have not yet learned to check the surrounding entrances and exits. We go out through the vent, and the spare car is a block away outside."

He spoke smoothly and quickly.

"Wait, why is the spare car a block away?!"

Han murmured in a low voice.

"Because it was a spare vehicle, the one we were supposed to parked on the lawn, I used the bushes for cover, and hoped the guys wouldn't find it—"

"Boom—"

There was a loud explosion.

Joyce's voice paused visibly.

"Well, it looks like that little guy has been bombed."

"Sorry for the change, man."

Han muttered.

"Don't remind me of this again..."

Joyce grabbed Han while speaking.Over the years of tacit understanding, there is almost no need for redundant communication between the two people. Han stepped on Joyce's palm directly, and then was pushed by the latter to the corridor of the air vent.

Han's cooperation with him was so smooth that Calvin didn't even see clearly how Han was moving. The thin Asian police officer stepped on Joyce's shoulder again with his strength, and then rushed into the down the tunnel.

Behind Han was Isaac, followed by Red Deer, and finally Joyce.

The location of the vent is hidden behind a large clump of seemingly incomparably dense succulents.

After everyone filed out, Isaac and Joyce worked together to put the cast iron carved vent back - Joyce professionally locked the iron gate.

"Boom—"

Almost at the same time, the blinding white light from the explosion briefly tore through the night sky.

Although it was also an explosion, the sound of the explosion this time was as loud as all the previous explosions combined. In the astonishing roar, there was also the characteristic sharp vibration when metal was blown apart.

What followed was a stupid and frantic cry.

"Calvin the Son! Calvin the Son—"

And the call didn't last long before it began to change tone.

Finally, everyone heard that weird, hollow, piercing scream.

"Brother Calvin! Brother Calvin!"

……

"Let's go."

Joyce paused slightly, but then he pulled the strong iron lock on the ground, stood up and said to the others as if he hadn't heard anything.

At this moment, no one said much to Calvin.

Calvin thanked them so deeply.

Red Deer was not so peaceful as usual.

He reached out his hand through the night, grabbed Calvin's hand, and squeezed his palm hard.

When Calvin turned his head, he could only see the hazy outline of the red deer and two eyes that shimmered slightly in the dark night.Unknowingly, next to the red deer was Isaac's stern and silent face - the latter had always seemed a little yelling and overly nervous before, but once the situation was really serious, he became calmer than anyone else.

This makes Isaac's image gradually overlap with that of Doctor Holden in Calvin's memory.

"I am fine."

Calvin didn't know how to explain it, but when he saw Red Deer and Isaac beside him, he relaxed a little uncontrollably.

Thankfully, he's better equipped to deal with the troubles that follow—

The spare vehicle that Joyce mentioned was only one block away. Normally, this distance would not be a big deal to these men, but tonight, Joshua's madness was clearly beyond normal.