"You...... What are you going to do?"

The muscles at the corners of Calvin's mouth tensed, and he forced himself not to look away from the gaze of those green eyes, instead he looked straight at Reed...... What he saw was a handsome, sly face, as if it had been an illusion that had been devouring Calvin a few seconds before.

"Hmm, can you guess?"

Reed leaned forward slightly, whispering, his pupils glowing like a river of emerald gems.

Calvin's throat rolled for a moment, and the subtle tugging sensation raced through his body, and he paused, then stepped back a little in an imperceptible way.

"I don't like guessing games, especially at times like these. ”

Calvin looked at the time on the car, it was three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was really the hottest, although the air conditioning was on, the car was still filled with that heat under the strong light, Calvin's cheekbones were slightly red.

"I'm sorry. ”

Reed shrugged and sat back, his chin slightly raised to stare ahead of him, and a new vehicle appeared in the shadow of the road heading towards the angel.

"Excuse me. ”

Reed spoke briefly to Calvin, who opened the door and got out of the car before he could react.

"Reed?"

Calvin watched with some surprise as Reed crossed the street quickly, waved his hand at Calvin through the window, and then gave a thumbs up to the oncoming car in that direction and made a hitchhiking gesture.

Normally, few people would pull over on such a deserted road to pick up a young, muscular man – but Reed was clearly an exception. Probably because of his face comparable to that of an advertising model and his outfit that was expensive at first glance, the oncoming car began to slow down dozens of meters away from Reed, and finally stopped slowly with a "creak".

It was a yellow Beetle sedan that could be described as "shabby", Reed could hear the creaking sound of the car just standing next to it, the dusty windows fell, and a woman with tortoiseshell platform glasses poked out her face, her face as if it had been rubbed in the palm of her hand by a doctor when she was born, her cheeks were only half as wide as they were, and the two eyes that were narrowed by the lenses of highly myopic glasses were nervously pinned to Reed's body. After seeing Reed's face, the small insect-like eyes suddenly burst into a sharp light.

"Oh, may the Children of Light bless you...... Sir, you look like you're in trouble?"

Reed glanced at the sticker on the woman's windshield, which read "Welcome to the □□ of Light" and "May the glory of the Child of Light be forever in you."

"Thank you for the glory of the Children of Light. Reed leaned down and carried his arm to the edge of the Beetle's window, which was a little easier to do considering his height and the size of the Beetle's car, but Reed clearly had the ability to make the scene look like a fashion shoot, and he frowned a little distressed and said to the woman, "Actually, my brother and I want to attend the □□...... I swear we had stickers on the windshield before we went out, but ......"

He shrugged his shoulders and turned his face slightly to the side so that the woman could see his face, a handsome face full of annoyance, and even the most hard-hearted person would want to smooth out the folds between his brows.

"You lost the invitation?"

The woman didn't even wait for Reed to finish speaking before she interrupted him.

"I should be ashamed, but...... Yes, that's right, we lost the invitation. "You know we drove a long car to get here, and the terrible weather, the terrible sunshine, and of course, the terrible anticipation of this feast that we had been in our hearts before we went out, but now it's all in vain...... I just want to...... Maybe ......"

"You can go in my car!"

The woman stared at Reed's face in fascination and said impatiently.

"Oh my God, I can't believe it...... I actually met Angel ...... in Angel Town" Reed's face suddenly brightened and cheerful, "I can't believe my brother and I have such good luck!"

"Your brother ......"

The muscles next to the woman's eyes bounced, and she said with some hesitation: "This car is a little ......"

Her car was indeed quite cramped, perhaps as the rumor said, the Beetle was built for a family of two, the two people in the front seat and the dog in the back seat just happened to be evenly distributed, and the woman's back seat was full of all kinds of miscellaneous items, including countless Adventist lecture leaflets and various study materials, and of course, most importantly - she really didn't mind letting a handsome man sit in her car - God knows how long it will be before a man is willing to squeeze into this shit-yellow tin can, but this man's brother? please......

Reed, of course, took the woman's resistance to it, but his expression didn't betray it at all, and he waved happily at the carriage across the road like any cheerful, enthusiastic, and slightly unintelligent silly boy.

"Good luck for today, my dear, this lady is willing to take us—"

Hearing Reed's deliberate change of tone, Calvin silently slung his luggage on his back, and then he quickly got out of the car and ran towards Reed.

The woman's faint resistance was instantly wiped out by the scorching sun at the sight of Calvin's face, and her eyes purred and rolled as she looked at Calvin's face, which was more delicate and beautiful than Reed's. Calvin bowed his head slightly, his cocked collar slightly obscuring his chin. He seriously thought back to the disguises he had put on his face before going out......

May God bless those foundations and shades that are as useful as ever.

Calvin prayed earnestly in his heart.

Reed squeezed over as if he didn't know anything about Calvin's predicament, his massive body almost blocking most of the car window, and Calvin stepped back slightly, naturally hiding himself behind Reed's shoulder.

"Oh my God...... Are you a model?"

However, the woman's gaze still follows Calvin with fascination, and if she had maintained a basic reserve when she saw Reed before, after seeing Calvin she showed a blatant infatuation as if she had been poisoned by adolescent hormones.

“…… Or is it a celebrity? Oh my God, I always feel like I've seen you somewhere!"

The woman said intermittently, her eyes a little dazed, apparently desperately trying to remember where she had seen Calvin.

Calvin's eyes darkened, and he knocked the door, startling the woman with a loud thud in the joints and metal. But before the woman could react, Reed had already sent her most handsome little face.

"Smack-"

He jokingly snapped his fingers in front of the woman's eyes.

"So, can we get in the car?" he asked in a low voice.

In a short moment, the woman's cheeks relaxed, like a woman sleepwalking, her facial muscles had begun to slowly collapse, and she looked as if she had suddenly aged several years. Thankfully, she was refreshed quickly, and she looked up at Reed and smiled sheepishly.

"Oh my God, okay...... Good...... Of course, please get in the car. ”

She said incoherently, and scrambled to open the door. Calvin, much thinner than Reed, squeezed into the back seat through the gap behind the passenger seat, and then Reed got into the car.

With a loud roar that seemed to be about to blow the moon off, the beetle carrying the three people seemed to let out a painful □□ and slowly started after the woman desperately stepped on the accelerator.

Calvin curled up tightly, trying to reduce his presence. Fortunately, after driving, presumably because of the location, the woman quickly ignored Calvin and focused her entire attention on Reed.

"My name is Carmelita, Carmelita Crankshaw, you can call me Lil. Along the way, she talked to Reed in that deliberately soft voice, "...... I'm from the middle, and you'll probably never believe what a failed life I lived before Adventism...... If it weren't for the Adventists, I would have stayed in that iron box honestly at this time, sleeping with my name on my toes......

Calvin had to hear Lil's frog-like laughter before he realized what she was talking about—did she mean that if it hadn't been for the Adventists, she would have killed herself by this time?" Calvin lowered his head, hiding the look of contempt on his face.

This not-so-funny sentence made Lil laugh all the time.

With little need for superfluous conversations, Lil was already pouring out all the things about her life to Reid before she could see the traffic again—how she was born in a boring country town, how she went to college in a boring country city, how she worked as an art teacher in an even more boring country middle school, how she was divorced twice, and how she had infertility after a miscarriage......

“…… In our kind of hellish place, when you encounter this kind of thing, you'll find that your life is over, everyone, I mean, 'everyone', rushing to the cashier of the supermarket...... Of course, I don't think you can call that place a supermarket at all...... The freckled cashier pig was the syphilis beggar before he went to the brothel...... Everyone knows your whole life. No one will accept you anymore......" Lil stepped on the brakes on the back of a Ford and stopped, there was a traffic jam ahead, her voice weakened, she turned her head to look at Reed, "like you from that kind of big city...... I'm talking about New York, Los Angeles, people who come out of those places, sorry, I just think you're the type to live in a big city, and people like you probably don't know what small-town life means......"

She said incoherently, shuddering as she pulled a cigarette out of the storage compartment and lit it and stuffed it between her teeth.

The aroma of inferior tobacco mixed with □□ slowly spread in the carriage.

"I wanted to die every day. ”

Lil said.

"I'm sorry—"

"But it's okay," the woman's voice suddenly tinged with excitement, a somewhat unsettling, almost maddening excitement, "the light of the Child of Light didn't miss me, it didn't miss me who was about to suffocate in that town...... He saved mine, my everything, my life, my soul—"

Lil suddenly grabbed the pendant hanging from the rearview mirror and pressed her lips viciously against the semicircular pendant glass. A photograph of Calvin as a young man gazes tenderly into the distance beneath the glass piece.

"You should be able to feel it too, all the believers are bathed in the ubiquitous love of the Children of Light—"

Lil's voice grew sharp and hoarse, and she looked at Reed with a smile and a smile.

Feeling the irrepressible madness and weirdness in Lil's body, Calvin unconsciously tensed his body. Contrary to him, Reed was as gentle and pleasant as he had been in the car, his gaze pausing for a moment on the glass cut stained with Lil's saliva, and then slowly speaking.

"Of course, my skin, my heart, my blood, and even my soul can feel His love...... All the time, everywhere. ”、

Listening to Reed's unusually reverent words, a chill ran behind Calvin, who was sitting in the back seat, for no reason. 166 Reading Network