"Reed, you ......"

At the moment Calvin asked, he already knew the answer.

For at the same time as the words fell, the man in Calvin's face had changed.

In those emerald green eyes that once fascinated Calvin, a disturbing evil and darkness emerged blatantly. Distorted, nothing, mad, filthy, no human language can fully describe the breath that haunts Reed at this moment.

No......

That's not Reed.

That's the "door".

With Calvin's permission, the "door" was finally freed, and Calvin was freed from the shackles set by the Higher Power.

Calvin realized this immediately.

"My love—"

"Reed" abruptly reached out his hand, his hands as cold and terrifying as corpses, and then gripped Calvin's head heavily.

There was an old, cold smell of old in him, a mixture of dead and ashes and despair. In the moment of skin contact with him, Calvin's mind vividly conjured up countless disgusting images that made him sick. From the very beginning of the "human cake" to the female corpse given to him as a "gift" in the beach house......

The breath of Mori was like the sharp teeth of a beast, and it was heavily inserted into Calvin's body through skin contact.

"Oh God. ”

Calvin only had time to let out a weak mutter, and then his vision went black, and he fell heavily into Reed's arms.

“……”

There was silence in the bushes.

At this moment, the darkness grew darker, and the moonlight, which had been exceptionally bright, seemed unusually dim.

The air is stagnant and time is slow.

"Click-"

It is precisely because of the silence of this moment that the small sound of the surrounding bark cracking becomes extraordinarily crisp and loud.

Reed's dark eyes looked around him, only to see deep crosses appear out of thin air on the mottled bark of the trees that surrounded him.

The trees were like animals, and after the nicks appeared, beads of red blood oozed from the cracks in the yellowish wooden fibers.

The drops of blood soon pooled into a viscous, foul-smelling stream of blood that flowed through the notched grooves of the trees.

You can't stop it, old man. 】

"Reed" opened his mouth, he didn't even need to move his tongue and lips, an ancient hum that ordinary humans couldn't understand came from the depths of his throat.

"Whew-"

At the same time, a shrill sound rang out.

An even deeper claw mark appeared on the vertical line of the tree's original cross notch.

The traces of the cross turned into a reversed cross visible to the naked eye in an instant.

"Hee-hee-hee-hee..."

"Reed" held Calvin in his arms, and despite the fact that there was no one around him, he stuck out his tongue and licked Calvin's pale neck and cheeks as if he were demonstrating to someone.

His tongue is unusually elongated, more like the tongue of some ancient reptile than a human.

In the midst of his piercing and strange laughter, little by little, the once flourishing shrubs withered and turned black. As for the trees, they made a fragile click in Reed's cold gaze before slowly falling down.

"That's right, old thing...... That's right......"

"Reed" was a neurotic whisperer, his shadow falling at his feet, writhing slightly like a living thing.

"Poof—"

Reed looked down at his shadow, and let out a contemptuous sneer.

"Oh, so you're coming too...... Why do you have to struggle so uselessly, you poor wretch...... It was clear from the beginning that Calvin was mine, and always will be, mine. ”

His shadow trembled with a visceral amplitude, and in the unusually dark environment, the shadow that should have been flat boiled like melted asphalt.

And in the shadows, several hands slowly bulge outwards as if hidden under a black film.

But "Reed" just stepped down on the shadow as if nothing happened.

There was a wet sound between his feet and the ground, and black and red blood slowly seeped out from his feet.

As he walked away from the bushes, all that was left was a lifeless yellow plant and the indescribable smell of sulfur.

……

Calvin was well aware that he was being pulled into a dream again.

Of course, sometimes he can't say that where he is really a "dream", or another wonderful space that human science can't explain.

In front of him was a damp and dilapidated building. The weather-beaten red brick walls are already dense with graffiti, layer upon layer, completely covering the original color.

Between the towering and old buildings are narrow and dark alleys, and between the mountains of garbage and the homeless (or corpse) lying on the ground, some inconspicuous staircases lead to the basement door.

The sight before him was a horrific sight to any good citizen, but for Calvin, it was all overshadowed by nostalgia.

It used to be Dr. Holden's underground clinic, where he spent some time with Dr. Holden and Isaac along.

In the minds of many, it was a place of darkness and filth, but for Calvin, it was a rare place in his life.

"My poor boy......"

The old voice sounded behind Calvin.

Calvin turned his head abruptly, and was not surprised to see Dr. Holden.

Like the apparition he had seen not long ago, Dr. Holden was now scrawny, weak, and emaciated—he looked even worse than he had died of illness.

"Father's ......"

Calvin had no control over his emotions at all.

The moment he spoke, tears were already slowly rolling down his cheeks.

"I have committed a sin, the worst, the most unforgivable sin......"

"I'm sorry, father, I don't know what to do, I still can't listen to your teachings in the end......"

Dr. Holden staggered over to Calvin.

He raised an index finger at Calvin to signal him to be quiet.

As he walked over, Calvin could clearly see that Dr. Holden's shoulders were covered in black marks like sludge.

"Don't be afraid, my child. ”

He whispered softly in Calvin's ear, and then he took Calvin's hand like an ordinary father, carrying Calvin step by step back to their former home like his own young child.

The old man's hands were dry and cold, the hands of a dead man.

Calvin shuddered involuntarily, and almost instinctively, struggled a little, but could not untie the old man's hand.

Dr. Holden led him step by step up the stairs.

After seeing the picture at the end of the stairs, Calvin's face suddenly turned pale.

At the end of the staircase, there are two identical old-fashioned gates.

"You have to choose one of the gates. ”

Dr. Holden said.

No, I don't want to choose.

Calvin almost wanted to scream, his instincts telling him that his choice would have terrible consequences, but his body felt like it had a will of its own.

Calvin walked straight to the door to his right, and he pushed open the door of the underground clinic.

Behind that door, he remembered, there should have been a rudimentary examination room. But at this moment, what he saw behind the door were countless gray-white, wriggling corpses.

His vision is gray, as if it has been artificially erased.

"You see, that's the wrong choice. ”

Dr. Holden's old voice rang out.

"This is the world behind the door......"

The old man turned back and said to Calvin.

"This is hell. ”

Calvin muttered.

Dr. Holden shook his head.

"No, it's just ...... The world behind the door is just that. ”

The old man looked at Calvin with an almost sad gaze.

"I'm sorry to have to make you face all this. It's not your fault, my child, it's not your fault that you open the door, it's that the other party is too strong. He looked at the "people" in the hall who were constantly struggling, and who were still in extreme pain even after death.

"Look at them, my children, look at them well, and then remember their pain and be firm in your convictions. This will be a particularly difficult proposition for you, but the fate of all people in this world is in your choices. Once you make the wrong choice, everyone will come to such a world. ”

"I ...... I don't understand ......."

Calvin felt a splitting headache, and the wrist that Dr. Holden was holding was cold as if it were about to freeze.

"The world is a huge chessboard. ”

Dr. Holden whispered suddenly.

"And you and he are pawns placed on this chessboard by darkness and light. ”

"What?"

"You are the only light left in this world...... It is also the only chess piece that God can use. ”

Dr. Holden's cloudy eyes were aimed at Calvin.

"The world you know is nothing but a chaotic battlefield, my child, for eons of darkness and order have been at war, consuming the matter of this universe. Eventually, they decided to decide the outcome in a simpler way. ”

……

"You are the light, and he is the darkness. ”

"You are order, and he is chaos. ”

"You are the representative of humanity, and he ...... It's a combination of nothingness and chaos......"

"The two of you are destined to be each other's rivals and to be attracted to each other. He will bewitch you, seduce you, and make you completely depraved...... And at that time..."

"The world behind the door will be flipped into reality. ”

It was as if a voice had automatically taken Calvin's place, responding to Dr. Holden's words.

Dr. Holden nodded.

"That's right, you have to destroy that door. ”

“……“

"The human form of that door is the man. ”

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