"May the God of peace, the God of our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the flock, raise from the dead by the blood of the everlasting covenant. ”

—Hebrews 13:20.

"Bang-"

The guards alternated a dozen strokes at the temples and throat of the "red deer" through the barbed wire fence with a long iron rod wrapped in rubber before knocking him down.

Imogen and Daniel grabbed Calvin's shoulders and dragged him out of the door of the confinement chamber.

The prison guards rushed in.

"Don't move! Don't- you bitch-"

"Hold him down!"

"God, hold him down—"

……

Calvin heard the police screaming in the confusion, and their extraordinarily shrill voices sounded like they contained fear...... Calvin wondered if it was because he was too scared to have this delusion.

In fear, the prison guards began to beat the "red deer" frantically.

The "angel's" body trembled uncontrollably, and for a moment he didn't even know where he was. Imogen grabbed his wings in the confusion, and he struggled violently.

"No, let go of me—"

"Shhhhh

Daniel warned sternly and restrainedly in his ear.

He and Imogen had taken Calvin to the corner of the room, and he had intentionally or unintentionally pushed Imogen away from Calvin, his face as pale as if he had found rat droppings mixed in his breakfast.

Then the gray-haired man stared at Calvin viciously, the latter's eyes were red, Violet's eyes were visibly watery, and his cheeks were bloodless and pale, a face that contained horror, and the boy bit his lip, his tiny white teeth sunk in the soft red flaps, and he looked weak and illusory, like a small piece of milk pudding trembling on a silver spoon. Daniel Wright stared at him intently for a moment, then his fingers rubbed over Calvin's wrist. He pinched the back of the boy's hand mercilessly.

Calvin struck a stir in that moment, and he jerked his head up at Daniel, who spoke silently at him—

(Watch your manners, Your Highness the Child of Light.) ）

Calvin's cheeks twitched slightly, his heart still beating wildly, the blood rushing wildly through his veins, and he felt his temples pounding, and his body still had no strength.

He knew what Daniel meant—now he was a "child of light," and as a spokesman of God, he was not allowed to reveal any human emotional defects to others—he was supposed to be graceful, cold, and nihilistic, and that he had been trained so much so that he could express these qualities. Calvin forced himself to straighten his back, as his physical teacher told him, "Imagine yourself as a swan, well, your cervical spine and back should be held up strongly", but he only moved a moment before gasping for air from the sharp pain in his shoulder blades. Daniel and Imogen had been so hard to drag him out of the demon's mouth that he twisted his wings, which were now hot and painful where they were connected to his back, as if someone had buried a hot charcoal fire in his flesh.

"I'm sorry......"

Calvin said sneeringly.

He realized he couldn't do it, he couldn't pretend to be that graceful anymore, he just wanted to curl up and press his knees against his chest to get through the sharp pain, and a little while later he received Daniel's increasingly cold gaze, he touched his face and found his fingertips wet.

Calvin put his hand down, he looked at his finger, there were some tears on it—even he didn't realize he had cried (he couldn't tell if it was because of the sudden attack of the "Red Deer" or because he realized that he couldn't do what Daniel had asked him to do), his index finger was red, there was a tooth mark on the joint, and blood was pouring out of the wound.

The moment he was dragged away, "Red Deer" tried to keep him with his teeth, and this was the mark that the madman left on Calvin.

"Oh, shit!"

Calvin heard Daniel curse in his ear, and now the Adventist Pope saw his wounds as well.

"I've got to take you to get vaccinated. ”

The man muttered with suppressed anger as he pulled Calvin's hand and pulled the limp "angel" from the ground.

"Bang-"

And at this time, the iron door of the confinement room made a muffled sound.

Both Calvin and Daniel's bodies were shocked, and they all looked in the direction where the sound came from, just in time to see the whole person of "Red Deer" being pressed against the door. "Red Deer"'s face was squeezed against the barbed wire, his muscles twisted, but his gaze pierced straight at Calvin, whose face was pale.

"Thou hast purified me once and thou hast purified me forever, my Lord, thou art my shepherd, and I am thy Lamb......

"Red Deer" giggled and spoke incoherently, a gleaw of blood from the corner of his mouth, a piercing red - it was Calvin's blood. The moment he realized this, Calvin's injured index finger ached as if it had been burned by fire.

Calvin felt a deep sense of fear.

*, passion and adoration, or something purer than these emotions, something intangible, was creeping down the Red Deer's direct, unabashedly fanatical gaze all the way into the depths of Calvin's soul. As if he had been hit by an electric current, goosebumps rose on the back of the "Angel", and his breathing seemed to freeze in his nasal cavity, obviously the "Red Deer" had been subdued by the prison guards, and there was an iron door between him and Calvin, a distance that was not close, Calvin was still so afraid that he was so scared that even his internal organs cramped.

"Shut up!"

A pitch-shifting, strange angry voice suddenly sounded.

A black shadow slammed down on the Red Deer, and the cheeks of the old prison priest Imojin turned purple red with resentment, and the thin blood vessels of earthworms floated under the skin of his forehead.

He raised the heavy Bible with a cowhide cover in his hand and slapped the head of the "red deer" through the iron door.

"How dare you—how dare you tarnish my light—"

He uttered something that was hard to imagine that a man of his age could utter, and his lips were lifted outward, revealing his teeth, like a mad dog that had lost his mind.

“…… You stole His Blood, how dare you...... How dare a demon like you ......"

It must be said that the insane Imogen deepened Calvin's horror.

If Daniel hadn't forcibly lifted him, he would have fallen to the ground, and after a few seconds, Daniel reached out and covered Calvin's eyes. The gray-haired man keenly noticed that Imojin was not normal, and this only relieved him...... After all, Calvin's reaction just now was too out of level, and Daniel really didn't want the negative image of the "angel" he had so hard created to show in the eyes of a sober and calm believer.

There was a jumble of footsteps from outside the room, Daniel Wright's ears moved, the movement of the "Red Deer" set off an alarm, and now the officers who had come to increase the number of officers were about to arrive at the scene. Daniel decisively set up Calvin, and walked quickly towards the door with a calm step as the reinforcements opened the door.

When he opened the door, he saw a face soaked in cold sweat and eyes overflowing with fear, which belonged to the warden.

"The 'Child of Light' has been attacked - where is the medical room?"

Daniel said.

Someone came over, and they left the room with Daniel Wright and Calvin—

"Red Deer" is getting farther and farther away from them.

And at this time, Calvin suddenly heard a voice from the "Red Deer".

"I will come to your side and serve you, I will, my lord. ”

Calvin's body stiffened suddenly.

The voice didn't seem like it was coming from afar, it was low, fanatical, hoarse, it was a whisper full of enthusiasm...... It was as if someone was on his shoulder, biting his ear and whispering.

"Calvin?!"

Daniel felt Calvin's momentary pause, and he issued a warning with a frosty face.

Calvin did not dare to look back, he trembled and looked up at his guardian with tears in his eyes.

"That person ......"

"He's going to pay the price. ”

Daniel interrupted Calvin's words with a frown, as if he had not heard the horrible words at all.

He's more angry about "Red Deer" — the damn, disgusting death row inmate, whose last act ruined everything, Calvin's confession turned into a complete joke under his aggressive behavior, and Daniel still hasn't figured out how to defuse the negative impression it might bring.

Thinking of this, the anger in his heart began to swell.

He couldn't help but glare at the boy beside him again, whose neck was hanging low, leaning against his body in fear.

The heat of the boy's body was transmitted through the fabric to Daniel's skin, and his breathing was imperceptibly heavier.

- This goddamn freak.

Daniel's anger suddenly began to ferment for some reason, and a voice in his heart said to him through gritted teeth.

It always turned out that no matter how much he warned Calvin, the boy still put on that weak and delicious appearance, and got into a lot of trouble.

"Calvin, when we get back, I think we should have a good talk. ”

Daniel said coldly.

Calvin pursed his lips tightly.

He couldn't say a word, just the fist at his side was clenched all at once.

A drop of red blood slowly seeped out of his fingers and landed silently on the cold floor of the prison.