That night, when Calvin was jolted awake, he was still dreaming.

A nightmare, the same one he'd told the others before, a nightmare he'd become accustomed to.

In the dream, he returned to the dark and old ward of the Santa Maria Maggiore Hospital, and he stood in the doorway, watching Sister Trissy's tiny body stand in front of the window.

Outside the window was not the sunset he remembered, but a darkness that was so thick that it could not be dissolved.

"Don't ......"

Calvin whispered softly in his dream, and he couldn't make a sound.

Sister Triss looked back at him, her face contorted as if she were no longer human.

[Ahhhhhhhhh

In the next second, Sister Triss's jaw opened, revealing her black-red throat.

A terrible scream erupted from the throat of the deceased, and then Mother Triss shattered the glass with a thud as if she had been pulled by an invisible rope by the neck, and pulled straight into the darkness outside the window.

"No ......"

Calvin let out a wail of pain.

"Calvin, wake up. ”

"Hmm......"

"Calvin, it's time to wake up. ”

Calvin struggled to open his eyes, and he met them with a pair of green, swampy eyes.

"Red Deer?"

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

The sound was coming from outside, close to the basement.

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

Red Deer pressed his hand on Calvin's shoulder and whispered.

"What happened?"

Calvin asked.

Red Deer opened his mouth, but before he could explain, the noise from the outside world suddenly turned into a call to change tone, answering Calvin's question in another way.

["Our great and exalted Son Iel, may your name be blessed to millions of people, and may the kingdom of your God come ......"]

["I beg you to give us glory, and I beg you to grant us eternal life......]

["Elo, who walks in the world, the only angel on earth, the light of truth, the son of glory, forgive our sins and lead us to your garden......]

……

"It's ......"

For a moment, Calvin stared at the red deer's emerald green eyes, almost thinking that he hadn't really woken up, but had been trapped in some horrific nightmare.

He didn't want to believe it, and he couldn't believe what he was hearing.

But he had to face reality.

"Hey, man, things aren't going well - those crazy people found here. ”

Heavily armed and with a polished machete in his hand, Isaac slammed open the door with his shoulder and rushed in.

He squeezed Red Deer away from Calvin's mattress rather forcefully.

"They...... Found here?"

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

His mind suddenly appeared with the wings that he had accidentally revealed in front of the crowd during the day.

His heart suddenly became unusually slow, and his body became cold in an instant.

"Heavenly ......"

Calvin trembled.

"It's my sake, damn ......"

He heard his voice change pitch to the voice of a poor worm who was incomparably weak.

"Joshua's spirit was always in their heads, he could see it, why didn't I think of it? I completely ignored it! God, it's my fault - those madmen saw me as Joshua saw me!"

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

He felt as if something had pierced his heart, and he should have jumped up and quickly followed Isaac and the others to get out before things got worse.

But he couldn't move.

His mind kept coming back to the group of people during the day.

The frenzied expressions on their faces, their irrational eyes glittering in the sunlight like children's marbles.

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

It was Joshua in the plural, staring at him through the hollow shells of different people, calling to him.

"Oh my God—"

Intense fear and remorse turned into a poisonous snake, entwining and biting in every vein and nerve of his life, almost destroying what little sanity he had left.

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

Isaac glanced at Red Deer, and the two men inexplicably reached an agreement at this moment.

One to the left, one to the right, they lifted Calvin out of bed and walked out the door.

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

Isaac felt as if Calvin had suddenly returned to his childhood, so pale, so fragile.

This made him feel distressed and pitiful for a moment.

He reached out and rubbed Calvin's hair vigorously.

"Hey, don't be afraid, man. He said rudely, in the kind of brother's tone that Calvin hadn't heard for a long time, "I'll be there for you, remember that, and I'll protect you." ”

"And you still have me. ”

Red Deer said as he followed after Isack.

He turned his head sideways and kissed Calvin's palm, and then he used his canine teeth to gnaw a small tooth mark on Calvin's fingertips.

It was useful, and Calvin smacked a jitter in pain.

"Thanks—sorry, I didn't control my emotions just now. ”

Calvin said, his eyes cleared for a moment.

At that moment, a violent explosion exploded above their heads, sending a shock that sounded 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 it!"

Aysaac began to swear.

"The group wants to blow up the entrance to the basement!"

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

"Hey, here!"

A faint glow appeared in the darkness, followed by Han's face behind the cyan light.

"Don't worry, Joyce said the entrance still holds. ”

He shook the emergency flashlight in his hand.

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

Joyce motioned for Han to extinguish the fluorescent lights.

"I've checked, and the lunatics are still dealing with the layers of steel at the entrance, and thankfully, the lunatics haven't learned to check the entrances and exits around them. We went out through the vents and the spare car was just a block away. ”

He said smoothly and quickly.

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

Han let out a small grumble.

"Because it was a spare vehicle, the one we were supposed to have was parked on the lawn, and I covered it with bushes, hoping that the guys wouldn't find it-"

"Boom—"

A loud explosion was heard.

Joyce's voice paused visibly.

"Well, it looks like that little guy has been blown up. ”

"Condolences, man. ”

Han muttered.

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

Joyce grabbed Han as she spoke. Years of tacit understanding made there was almost no need for unnecessary communication between the two people, and Han stepped directly on Joyce's palm, and then was forcefully lifted by the latter towards the corridor of the vent.

Han's coordination with him was so fluid that Calvin didn't even see how Han moved, and the emaciated body of the Asian police officer stepped on Joyce's shoulder again, and then slammed into the hallway.

Han was followed by Izak, followed by Red Deer, and finally Joyce.

The location of the vents is hidden behind a large cluster of seemingly lush succulents.

Once everyone had come out, Isaac and Joyce worked together to put the cast-iron carved vents back in - Joyce had quite expertly locked the vents.

"Boom—"

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

It was the same explosion, but this time the explosion was as loud as all the previous explosions combined, and in the midst of the astonishing roar, there was a sharp rattle that was characteristic of the metal being blasted apart.

This was followed by a cry of stupidity and frenzy.

"Son Calvin! Son Calvin—"

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

Eventually, everyone heard the grotesque, hollow, oozing scream.

"Brother Calvin!

……

"Let's go. ”

Joyce's figure paused slightly, but then he tugged hard at the sturdy iron lock on the ground, then stood up and spoke to the others as if he hadn't heard anything.

At this moment, no one said anything to Calvin.

Calvin thanked them so deeply.

Red Deer, as always, is not so peaceful.

He reached out in the darkness of the night, grabbed Calvin's hand, and then shook his palm hard.

Calvin turned his head and saw only the hazy outline of the red deer and the eyes that shimmered in the darkness of the night. Next to the red deer was the grim and silent face of Isaac - the latter had always seemed a little shouting and overstrained, but once the situation was really serious, he became calmer and more composed than anyone else.

This point makes the image of Isaac overlap little by little with the Doctor Holden in Calvin's memory.

"I'm fine. ”

Calvin didn't know how to explain it, but he uncontrollably relaxed a little when he saw that Red Deer and Isaac were both by his side.

Thankfully, he's better able to handle the troubles that lie ahead—

The spare car Joyce had said was only a block away, a distance that would be nothing to the men on a normal day, but tonight, Joshua's madness was clearly a little more than usual.

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