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After arriving at the safe house that Joyce mentioned exhaustedly, everyone understood why Joyce had never mentioned this place before.

"God, is the federal government really short of money?"

Han frowned and stared at the crumbling door and muttered.

The so-called safe house is really just the most typical tenement apartment imaginable, located in the heart of the most horrific crime in the city center.Probably only people who have completely failed in life would be willing to stay in such a ghostly place-in fact, in Han's view, even homeless people who sleep on the streets would not be willing to stay here.

It's hard not to walk in that unusually narrow and dimly lit hallway without picking up chewing gum and filth that other people have stuck to the walls.Not to mention the smell of high concentrations of illegal drugs and the strong smell of urine in the air.

Joyce curled his lips.

With a look of disgust on his face, he stopped in front of an ordinary door in the long corridor, then kicked away the garbage and syringes piled up at the door, and pressed the fingerprint recognition lock disguised as a doorbell.

The door was opened, and a musty smell mixed with dust came in, but it was even fresh compared to the smell in the hallway.

Calvin walked in with Isaac on his back, the soft light that diffused from under his skin had disappeared.

But that cold, alienated and sacred atmosphere has not completely faded away.

Along the way, Joyce and Han couldn't contain their admiration for him.

Joyce even felt a little ashamed for letting Calvin into such a humble room—he now vaguely understands why there would be people who were willing to use endless gems and gold to create all kinds of holy things hundreds of years ago. Dedicated to religion.

When you are actually face to face with an angel, you simply cannot control the urge to give it all.

On the contrary, Calvin himself seemed indifferent to everything around him.

He swept away the crumpled and strangely stained sheets, and then placed Isaac, who was still pale and in a deep coma, on the bed.

Calvin stood on Isaac's bedside for a long time, and the strength in his body was slowly fading like an ebb.

The strong sense of exhaustion and hunger made Calvin feel weak for a long time.

He saved Isaac.

He pulled the dead Isaac back from the hands of the god of death - using his own strength.

This delighted and alarmed Calvin at the same time.

He doesn't know how he did it...

Thinking of this, his vision suddenly became blurred, he staggered, and almost fell directly.

But a warm and strong embrace caught him.

"You need to relax, Calvin, you need to rest."

When Red Deer said this, it sounded even a little reproachful.

But his words seemed to have some kind of magical magic. As soon as he finished speaking, Calvin felt his whole body collapse, as if all his strength had been sucked out of him, and he fell limply into the embrace of the red deer.

Yes, temporarily, they are safe.

And Isaac is still alive.

It was not until this moment that Calvin finally had a sense of the reality of the rest of his life.

"Yeah, I think, I... I need to lie down for a while."

Calvin said he was exhausted.

Red Deer hugged him and led him to another corner of the room.

"No, I..."

Calvin struggled a bit, but his movements were so weak that the red deer didn't even need to exert any effort to completely control him.

"I know you want to stay by Isaac's side, but in that case, you will only focus all your attention on him, and you still won't be able to get any rest in the end." Hong Deer stretched out a finger to touch Gal Wen's lips stopped all his possible words, "Be quiet and rest for a while, I swear I will find a way to take care of him. Just like you always knew."

Calvin relaxed slumpedly, his vision was already a bit blurred, and he almost couldn't even see the face of the red deer clearly.

There was a dirty sofa in the corner. Red Deer took off his coat and put it on the sofa cover, and then let Calvin lie down. After a few minutes, Calvin closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep Go—or, he just slipped into a coma.

The "power" remaining in Calvin did not completely withdraw from him until this time.

Calvin was dreaming.

No, it's not so much a dream, it's better to say that an unusually long conversation slowly floated up from the deepest part of his memory.

It was a night.

It was already very late at night, and Calvin dreamed that his young self jumped out of bed in panic, probably because he had a nightmare or just wanted to go to the bathroom.

The little child stumbled out of his room with bare feet, rubbing his eyes, and on another bed in the room, Isaac, who was also just a child, was sleeping soundly.

In the dream, there was even the heaviness brought by the wings on his back.He could smell a strong potion emanating from the damned monstrosity.This is what happened to him just after he was taken in by Dr. Holden.

"He" walked through the corridor without a sound, step by step down the stairs that were unfamiliar to Calvin now.Doctor Holden's office was in the corner of the first floor, the door was not completely closed, and the light cast a thin line of light in the corridor.

"He" knew that Dr. Holden was not asleep, but just when "he" almost opened the door and walked in, he heard another man's voice.

"You're crazy, Holden, you're downright crazy."

The man's voice startled young Calvin.

Because of this, "he" stood stiffly in the shadow outside the door, motionless because of fright.

And the quarrel in Dr. Holden's office continued.

"Eric, calm down..."

Doctor Holden who made the next sound.

"Damn it, how do you make me calm down?! You let him survive, I thought even an idiot knew that what you should really do is kill him. Then there is no problem—"

"You know how unique he is. I can't do that, my friend, I can't do it, he's not a human creation, you can feel it just by looking at him."

"Fucking unique, don't tell me you don't know, test subject No. [-] is still staying in the sink, his development is very good, your successor is stupid and incompetent, but he still got what he wanted The desired result. Yes, you and I both know that we are about to have a clone that is exactly like him. As for him, you better get rid of it quickly, he has attracted the attention of the world! If there is Anyone who chases him and finds you, think about the terrible consequences, everything we have done before will be completely in vain!"

"Eric..."

Doctor Holden's voice seemed so weak, which Calvin had never imagined.

It seems that even he himself is hesitating whether he really wants to kill the "him" in the conversation.

As for the other person in the room, his will was as firm and scorching as a flame.

"Holden, don't go any further. Think of Isaac, what a lovely boy he is, what you really need to protect now is your son, not a monster that may destroy the world. Don't forget us How much work it took you to escape, escape from that damned research institute, escape from that terrifying and precarious experiment... Didn't you tell me? From now on, let those blasphemous experiments To hell with it! And now you're... God, I want to blow a gun out of your head and see what's in there."

"That's where I hesitated, Eric, I couldn't do it," Dr. Holden's voice paused, as if gathering strength, "...I was terrified. I thought I'd put the past Forget everything, I'm no longer Senior Research Director Holden, but just a regular 'Dr. Holden'. But even then, he showed up. Can you believe it's a coincidence? I can't. I feel like somewhere, there is something that wants me to bring everything back to normal. He is very important. I can feel that if there is a God in this world, I believe it is God who made him reappear. Before me, yes, it was the will of God."

With a bang, something seemed to shatter in the room.

Calvin didn't understand the quarrel in the room at all.

He was just worried that his appearance would offend Dr. Holden, and he was very scared because he sensed that Dr. Holden was arguing with other people.Any kid who grew up like him knows the dire consequences of pissing off a grown-up who is arguing with someone else (a swearing or a beating, and the child is always perfect for angry parents vent) so he quickly rubbed his eyes and slipped away from Dr. Holden's office door, and by the next day he had no memory of what he had heard the night before (Dr. So kind and kind.” By the third day, Calvin had completely forgotten about it—until now.

Calvin finally remembered that every detail in that ancient memory was so clear.

Even in his dream, Calvin still kept his composure.

At this age, he finally understood that quarrel. The other person in the room, that extremely violent man, fired a gun at Isaac several times today, almost beating him into a pile of rotten meat. red beard.

What he saw in Joshua's memory was not the false past, but the reality that had happened.

Eric the Red Beard did participate in the human trials that began many years ago. His father, who gave him a warm family and always told him to choose the right path...was also part of that evil trial. member.