deformed bone

That feeling of utter dread—but also of utter beauty—occupied Calvin again.

He felt as if he was looking down on the human world from a high sky, and it seemed that he was shattered from countless dust and soaked into other people's thinking.

He watches their lives, experiences their emotions, and also affects their every move in reality.

Calvin felt that he was so supreme, the "power" that was very jerky when he used it for the first time was now as natural and flexible as his right hand.

He had to restrain himself very hard to be able to keep himself sane and let go of those fragile souls.

A few more seconds later (perhaps even shorter), Calvin landed on the Tomorrow's Son exactly.

The captain, the first mate, the ordinary crew members, the senior Adventist members who were chosen to set foot on the Temple of the Rose...

For a moment, Calvin watched this expensive sea fortress with the eyes of countless people.

In reality, his lips parted slightly, and he read out a set of coordinates and a few dates smoothly and quickly.

Joyce and Han wrote down those words at the same time, while Isaac and Red Deer directly pressed a cold wet towel on Calvin's temple - this is a relatively gentler way of waking up.

But a few seconds passed, and Calvin remained motionless in his original position, his expression changed from the initial calm to bewildered.

His brows were slightly frowned, as if he was trapped in a certain predicament.

Red Deer narrowed his eyes, he suddenly lowered his head, and whispered his name in Calvin's ear.

"Calvin, come back."

Isaac gave him a nervous look, but Red Deer was expressionless and ignored him.

"Calvin."

The red deer yelled again.

His voice was so distant and weak to Calvin at this moment.

Calvin was actually about to come out of this illusory state when he stopped suddenly.

He heard a cry of pain, both in reality and consciousness.

Calvin involuntarily looked at the screaming soul.

……

"Well……"

At the farmhouse dining table, Calvin jumped up.

For a brief moment he looked completely out of his mind, his body shaking so badly that even Isaac couldn't hold him down.

Thankfully, Calvin was back to normal before scaring his companions.

"Calvin, are you okay—"

"I'm very good!"

Calvin rudely interrupted Isaac.

His face was pale and hard, like a winter slate.

"I'm just...a bit confused and dizzy."

He took a deep breath, and it took a long time before he slowly returned to normal.Then he looked at the others.

"Please tell me everything's going well...Jesus, I feel like I've been on a roller coaster for an hour straight."

Calvin rubbed his temples vigorously.

Han waved the note in his hand.

"You got the coordinates of the Rose Temple."

He said.

Immediately afterwards, he and Joyce confirmed each other's numbers written down by each other to avoid deviation.

Joyce also noted the same coordinates.

After finding a way to hack a certain Russian weather satellite, they finally identified the location of the Chapel of the Rose.

However, when the specific location appeared in front of their eyes, everyone frowned for a while.

"Los Angeles? Wait, you mean that ship is now parked in the sea near Los Angeles? I don't understand, what is that little monster doing there..."

"Los Angeles itself is the cause."

Calvin replied with an almost inappropriate coolness.

His eyes slowly slid across the faces of the others.

"Joshua wants to destroy everything. The riots we've been through before this are just practice for him. Los Angeles is his target, followed by San Francisco, and then he will find a way to reach New York and Washington..." Calvin's voice became dry little by little, "Only in densely populated places can Joshua cause the greatest possible disaster. What's more, that's where I have been. He wants me to see all this... ..."

"What the hell is that monster going crazy?!"

Isaac hammered the table hard.

After that, a dead silence fell in the family dining room of the small farmhouse, and for several minutes hardly anyone spoke until Joyce broke the silence.

"He's not going to succeed, no matter what he really wants to do."

He pushed the white paper with the coordinates to the center of the dining table so that everyone could see the numbers.

"Now that we know where he is, that's enough. Han and I are pretty good at blowing things up, you know."

Red Deer folded his arms around his chest, and the smile on his lips deepened slightly.

"What a coincidence, I also happen to be pretty good at breaking stuff..."

He turned his head and glanced at Calvin, his eyes were sticky and sweet.

"Isn't it? Calvin."

Isaac stood among the five of them, curling his lips impatiently.

He vaguely felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't find where this sudden unpleasant feeling came from.

……

……

And a few hours later, when night fell again.

After confirming the location of the Rose Temple, everyone seemed a lot more relaxed.

They even decided to spend the night in the farmhouse so everyone could get some rest.

But Joyce, Han, and Isaac didn't know.

After Calvin closed the door, the barely maintained calm was instantly replaced by fear and distortion.

He fumbled and took out the orange-red plastic medicine bottle from his backpack, then hid in the bathroom and poured himself twice or three times the normal dose again.

He also took a small bottle of cheap vodka, which he found in a hidden corner of the kitchen closet, and then he hid the bottle from everyone else and carried it to his room.

His hands trembled so much when he touched the wine bottle that he couldn't open the bottle cap for a long time.

【laugh……】

In a trance, Calvin seemed to hear a sneer, which was coming from the mirror above the sink.

Calvin suddenly raised his head, and met his hideous face in the mirror.

He almost smashed the glass, but fortunately he restrained his impulse at the last moment, he really didn't want to squeeze out any energy to pretend to be normal, and then deal with Isaac and others.

"To shut up."

He said viciously to the shadow in the mirror.

The reflection looked normal now, as if what Calvin had seen before was just his fantasy.

Oh sure, maybe that was some kind of hallucination.

Calvin gulped down the vodka until the bottle was empty.

But not long after, he suddenly jumped up and rushed to the toilet, vomiting all the contents of his stomach.

His mental tension was so extreme that his body seemed to have spontaneously rejected everything else, even if it was the sharp weapon Calvin had used to stabilize his emotions for many years.

Calvin felt extremely weak, and after emptying his stomach, he slowly sat down leaning against a corner of the wall.

The scene he saw in the sea of ​​consciousness before came to his mind again.

He didn't tell others that when he was investigating the Son of Tomorrow, he saw more than just the coordinates of that ship.

He also saw something else...

He "saw" Joshua again.

Only this time, what he saw was a more pure Joshua.

Calvin's previous merciless attack on Joshua had severely traumatized this "monster" as others called it.Probably because of this, he didn't even notice that Calvin was spying on him.

His pain and soul are presented without reservation.

Calvin was horrified to find that Joshua's real appearance was so similar to himself.

Before that, when Joyce told him that Joshua was his clone, Calvin only felt a little weird, but he didn't really touch his heart.Because the Joshua he saw several times before perfectly fit the word "monster". His appearance, his spirit, and his vicious and twisted soul... could not see the slightest similarity with Calvin. .

It wasn't until Calvin finally saw Joshua's "truth" that he had to admit one thing, if he hadn't escaped on that rainy night, if he hadn't been brought up by Dr. Holden, then he would have changed almost [-]%. Be what Joshua is now.

In fact, even Calvin himself didn't know why he was still normal until now...

"Calvin..."

Suddenly someone knocked lightly on the bathroom door.

Calvin snapped out of his own thoughts, and then heard the voice of the red stag.

Before Calvin could sort out his emotions, he saw the red deer walking in slowly.

When Red Deer saw the tearful and pale Calvin, he didn't show any strange expression, as if he already knew something was wrong with Calvin.

He squatted down beside Calvin, stretched out his hand and slowly brought Calvin into his arms.

"What do you see?"

He bit Calvin's ear and asked vaguely.

There was a very faint smell of soap on Red Deer's body, and there was a faint trace of moisture. He must have taken a bath before coming to find Calvin.

"I……"

"Is it Joshua?"

The red deer pressed Calvin's neck, and his fingertips gently pressed Calvin's neck bone.

After many days of running around, Calvin was extremely thin, even skinny, and his bones became particularly obvious.

Calvin was forcibly pressed into the latter's arms by the red deer, and he seemed to suddenly lose the strength to break free.

"I think..." Calvin pondered his words, he didn't know how to sum up the things he noticed in his consciousness, "I feel like Joshua is my mirror image."

Calvin said dryly.

"His soul really looks like me. I always feel that he is like a backup of me. And the connection between us seems to be more than just the mutual borrowing of stupid supernatural abilities... When When I was in his head, I felt like I was him."

Calvin's wings drooped slowly.