"Personally, I don't think the word 'madman' captures his danger in its entirety—" Han's voice unconsciously lowered, and the man lowered his eyes and pushed the picture of Joshua as a baby to the bottom of the other sources.

"I don't need to say more, do I? we've seen what he's capable of. ”

"Yes. ”

Calvin nodded.

As he recalled Joshua's special abilities, he couldn't help but think of the men in the Santa Maria Maggiore Hospital building with their eyes glazed over but their hands soaked in blood, the doctors who had just killed their patients, but the horror was not their atrocities at all, but their eyes.

Until now, once Calvin remembered those men's eyes, he would involuntarily give a cold war.

Then he would think of what it felt like to be invaded by Joshua's mind, like a cold, damp hand playing with the soft, warm brain of a human little by little, and then digging through the bottom of the gray-white protein mass to find the darkest and most unspeakable part of Calvin's thoughts......

A sharp feeling of discomfort rushed up Calvin's stomach, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on Calvin's back.

He felt as if he had thought of something, but the inspiration was as fast as a swimming fish, and it flew through his thoughts.

And in reality, Han's whispering continues.

"Yes, as we always knew, for a long time he was considered a complete failure, and it was only because of the huge struggle of interests within the Adventists that he was pushed to the fore as a 'holy son'......"

"As a substitute for me. ”

Calvin stared at the picture on the table that belonged to Joshua.

Was that madman so wicked and crazy in the beginning? Calvin could hear a voice whispering from within himself.

No, no, he was just forced like this by those people.

If Calvin hadn't run away, but had remained in Rosa's care, in that terrible place of Adventism, he would have been Joshua today...... In all likelihood, he could be even crazier than Joshua.

Han accidentally met Calvin's gaze, and he subconsciously looked away because Calvin was ...... It made him feel a little scary.

"It may have been like that at first, but the Adventists soon discovered that Joshua was not a very good puppet, and that his appearance did not meet Rosa's requirements, even after plastic surgery......

"It didn't take long for those guys to realize that Joshua had a lot more to than just his appearance......"

"In pre-adolescence, Joshua already had the power of superpowers, which is very rare, and what ordinary people call them. No one knew what was going on, but suddenly one day, the Son of Joshua was no longer a puppet or a vase in the Adventists. ”

Calvin was silent, and he suddenly didn't want to listen any further.

He could already guess what would happen next.

Homicide.

Kill people continuously.

Violence and bloodshed were used to build the throne of power.

……

At this time, Han unexpectedly handed a medical report to Calvin.

"Many people think that this ability is innate. But our guys managed to dig up something else. ”

He said.

Calvin waited for him to continue, but Han motioned for Calvin to look at it himself.

It was just a summary and record of routine surgeries in ordinary medical aesthetics, at least at first glance it was just that-

Accompanied by Rosa, Joshua, who was a minor at the time, traveled to Brazil and had some prostheses implanted into his body in a private cosmetic surgery hospital that was not well known. His young age made this surgery somewhat unusual, but considering that he had performed many similar surgeries before, this one seemed to be just an ordinary facelift.

Calvin frowned, was that really all there was to it? His gaze involuntarily rested on a few lines of record, and then his face became more and more ugly.

Joshua's surgery seemed extraordinarily redundant, and in any way it was difficult to explain why he underwent it.

If the surgical records are true, then Joshua had four ribs artificially removed......

Calvin knew that some female celebrities would use this method to achieve a slimmer waist, but that was a very old aesthetic, and he couldn't see why Joshua was so young that he had this kind of surgery. But then something even stranger happened, as it was clearly recorded in the records that after removing the original ribs, he put 4 new bone prostheses in his body.

"And here. ”

Han continued.

Calvin was reading the text of the rib replacement as another yellowed piece of paper was stamped over the previous record. It says that Joshua had a prosthesis eight months later, and the same few bones were removed, and then they were put in again—

"I don't understand, this kind of surgery doesn't make any sense, and it is impossible for ordinary cosmetic surgery hospitals to perform such difficult bone replacement surgery......"

Calvin whispered in confusion.

"Unless they implanted Joshua with a different prosthesis. ”

This time, the person who spoke in Han's place was Joyce.

"You had surgery to remove those wings shortly after you were adopted by Dr. Holden, right—"

Suddenly, Joyce turned the conversation in a direction that had nothing to do with Joshua.

"Hey, man, what do you want to say?"

Aysaac interrupted Joyce very unnaturally, and Calvin looked at him, somewhat surprised to find that his brother looked as if he had seen a ghost, and looked particularly bad inside and out.

Both members of the Holden family were as pale as death, and the look in their eyes was extremely panicked.

"Officer, we said before, he has the right to know about this. ”

Han patted Joyce on the back, and then he walked up to Isaac and stared straight into his eyes.

"Know what?"

Hearing this, Calvin felt even worse, and the cold sweat on his back almost penetrated his shirt.

"Calvin, listen, you can get out of the door a little bit, I think I should talk to Joyce and Han again-"

Aisaac said hurriedly.

But Han didn't give him and Calvin a chance to escape.

"They put the severed pair of wing cartilage into the body of your clone Joshua. ”

Han turned his head and said calmly to Calvin.

"He underwent the transplant very smoothly without any rejection, and shortly after the operation, Joshua had superpowers that were beyond the ordinary—"

Calvin looked at Han's lips, and the syllables drilled into his ears word by word, but he had the illusion that he couldn't understand what the other person was saying.

"Joshua is using your power right now, and while it's hard to explain all of this with science, it's the only possibility. The pair of wings, no matter how they worked, it all happened, and Joshua's transplanted wing bones didn't allow him to grow wings, but they succeeded in stealing your special abilities. ”

"It's a funny story. ”

It was a long time before Calvin uttered this sentence dryly.

Joyce pulled out a few pieces of paper from the pile and placed them in front of Calvin, who knew he shouldn't, but he couldn't help but lowered his head and read the reports and experiment logs hungrily......

……

The long-standing tension and weariness rushed through him like a sudden tsunami, and he wanted to scream, roar, or tore the damn table in front of him and tear the nonsense to shreds.

Calvin didn't even notice that the basement lights were flickering at a completely abnormal frequency with the huge mental blow and mood swings of his mind, the hanging lampshade swaying in the absence of wind, and the four legs of the metal table (which had originally served as a mechanical machine base) that Joyce had dragged home from the backyard auction for thirty dollars were more like they had been slightly lifted and then lowered as if they had been pranked by an invisible ghost, making a clicking sound on the floor.

"Crunch-crunch-"

The bolt groaned in pain against the wall, as if a monster hovering outside the door was squeezing the metal door. And on the sofa in the corner, the blanket covering Moser also floated slightly upwards under the control of the invisible force......

The power that had been completely annihilated in Calvin's body began to revive little by little, only this time, no other consciousness was attached to it.

At this moment, however, Calvin was actually completely unaware of the series of anomalies that were taking place in the basement.

His gaze was vacant, and he was still staring directly at the piece of paper in his hand. His thin body was shaking.

Han and Joyce had already distanced themselves from Calvin at the very beginning, and the two of them observed everything that happened around Calvin with a cold and serious attitude. Both of them were slightly paler than before, probably because of the mental tension and, of course, probably because of the obvious coldness in the room, which had dropped by twenty degrees Fahrenheit almost instantly. Calvin's wings stretched out unconsciously, a faint halo of blue-white light seeping out from the inside of each feather, but it was difficult to spot the self-glow of the feathers without looking closely.

Calvin Holden had been like an ordinary, beautiful young man with wings until then.

But at this moment...... He has only the breath of an "angel" in him.

The masseter muscles next to Joyce's cheeks became very obvious, and he and Han exchanged a look, and a secret consensus was reached simply by virtue of the tacit understanding between the two of them over the years, and no sound was made. 166 Reading Network