[Zhongyingmei] Goblin Detective

The church is quiet, and the sun shines through the stained glass into the ground, casting rich mottled patterns.The bride and groom have not yet entered the venue. Lindell and the others placed the flower pots in a suitable position in advance and watched the red carpet being laid out on the ground.

The married bride also lives in this neighborhood. Lindell has no impression of her, only remembering that the other party should also be one of the humans who plucked his hair.The concrete floor was flat, and it didn't make him feel particularly comfortable, nor was it as hot as Crowley described it, like stepping barefoot on a sandy beach in midsummer.

Essentially, the church is an occasion established by human beings unilaterally wanting to communicate with God, so even the ceremony of concluding marriage hopes to be witnessed by God.As an enclave controlled by God in the human world, the nature of atmospheric magic here will have a similar burning reaction to demonic creatures, but Lindell is a goblin, so he looks as normal as ordinary humans.

It's just that after going back, I probably have to take a good bath to prevent the strong "church smell" from being brought home.

"Speaking of... Mr. Crawley is fine, Mr. Aziraphale is not a Christian, is he?"

James lowered his voice. Discussing these in church is always a bit presumptuous.

"Well, he was, and should be, very religious."

Lindell thought for a while: "Crowley should have been."

Fallen angels are also fallen from angels, so even if it was only for a short time, Crowley should have lived as an angel... Such thoughts flashed in Lindell's mind for a moment and then disappeared. He will not take the initiative to ask about the past of those two people, and it is useless to know such things.

But the guys watching obviously understood something else.

"Because the love between them is higher than faith, it's so touching."

Steve clasped his hands in front of his chest and sighed, and even James said that he should be less prejudiced against Mr. Crawley in the future, even though he is notorious in the North District, he is essentially a person who can put all his eggs in one basket for love.

Lindell: "..."

He really didn't want to explain such a complicated issue, so he kept silent.

It's just that the young man's silence can't last long at all. After all, he has two familiar and over-enthusiastic human friends by his side. James held his chin to watch others adjust the camera, and asked, "So Lindell is the same? ? I never saw you pray."

The local population is generally Christian Baptists, so the sudden emergence of their family is indeed conspicuous.It's just that maybe the older generation will pay special attention to this, but in the eyes of these children, Lindell's not eating anything but fish and chips and chocolate is much more serious than not praying before meals.

And even fish and chips are a compromise.

As expected of a British...

"Anyway, no matter how hard you pray, God won't answer."

He said: "God will only cause trouble for mankind, let fathers kill their children as sacrifices to God, or send a great flood that wipes out a large number of Europeans."

"...Who said this?"

Steve couldn't help asking.

—It was Crowley, and he said that children should not be the property of their parents, and that any god who required parents to sacrifice children was not trustworthy.

Steve immediately thought of the description "One of my fathers was an angel and the other was a demon."He couldn't help turning his head to look at the other person's expression. The thin boy was sitting upright on the seat, as usual in the classroom, his waist was straight and motionless, and his eyelashes were so pale that they were so pale that they fell on his eyelids. A small patch of shadow.

Probably because of being adopted, he thought, that's why Mr. Crowley said that on purpose... Steve decided to invite Lindell to play at his home next time, at least to feel the warmth of the family. .

The wedding process was solemn and smooth. The pastor held a Bible in his hand, and under the gaze of God—even if God didn’t bother to look at it according to Lindell—the couple exchanged wedding rings.

Afterwards, the pastor began to pray, hoping that the couple would always keep their vows, and many spectators also began to pray together. On such an important occasion as a wedding, they were even a little more devout than usual.

Hope God can let Lindell eat something else, Bucky put his hands together: "Fruitcake or muffins are fine, and it would be even better if he and Steve could grow a little taller."

Steve: "..."

He just wanted to say that it's not good to talk about it at someone else's wedding scene, but when he turned around, he found that the person next to him had disappeared.Steve searched among the crowd for a long time, and his vision locked on the baptismal stand near the door, which was filled with holy water. Lindell was holding a thermos, trying to scoop holy water from the baptismal stand.

...not even a Baptist!

The juvenile cat with a sense of justice lowered his waist and walked out of the crowd. Just as he was about to stop Lindell, he saw him put away the thermos and replaced it with a transparent water gun the size of a palm—a retail store in a nearby block There are sales here, and children younger than them often use such water guns to fight each other on the street.

Steve: "...Lindell what are you doing?"

As soon as the words fell, a stream of water came out of the water gun and hit his forehead.

The other party kept the action as if holding a real gun: "Well, I roughly understand the attack range..."

"Hey, if you are found out like this..."

"If found out?"

Steve turned his head to look at the people who were praying, and decisively grabbed the other person's arm: "Anyway, hide first... Everyone is praying now, and you will cause trouble for Mr. Aziraphale!"

Humans have limited arm strength. In order to prevent him from having another asthma attack, Lindell was dragged away from the holy water pool like a real teenager, and explained with a straight face while running: "The mystical nature of praying means letting go. Opening up your own spiritual domain and allowing others to invade, I think this is a dangerous practice, and I don't recommend you to do this..."

Oh, although he didn’t quite understand, this family seemed to have some problems. Steve thought pitifully, it must be because they had traveled across the ocean and suffered persecution, so they had such deep resistance to Christianity.

Demons are troublesome creatures, and all demons except Crowley are difficult to deal with.

There was a period of time after the wedding, during which Steve ran into twice Lindell privately admonishing the robbers who came to the North End to rob.No matter if they are adults or those out-of-school teenagers who are too strong, they are not enough in his eyes. The gentle and harmless young boy brushed the dust off his trousers, and more and more skillfully packed these people into the garbage in the streets and alleys recycle bin.

It stands to reason that he shouldn't get involved with human affairs too much, but it seems to have become a habit to maintain the law and order of this block now.

"This is too great..."

Even James, who has good physical fitness, was shocked. He didn't expect that he would be the most capable of the three of them.

Steve also felt that with such a majestic appearance, the protagonist of "The Adventures of Rogers" should probably change his name, and maybe after changing the protagonist, the thickness of this adventure may double.Bucky put forward a different view on this. He felt that if all the opponents were killed at once, the story would not be able to unfold at all, so it is best for him to play the protagonist.

"It's like a soldier game. If the two of us are assault infantry, you, Steve, will be the commander."

Bucky stretched out his arms, embracing the two people one by one with his elbows in a warm manner. Lindell frowned, but finally didn't dodge.

"Speaking of which, have you ever noticed a particularly good-looking girl appearing in the neighborhood recently? Big blonde curly hair wearing glasses..."

Young people at this age have already begun to turn their attention to the opposite sex. Bucky introduced his latest discovery to his two friends, but unfortunately he didn't get any effective response at all.

"Sorry, didn't notice."

Here is Steve's answer.

"Human beings look about the same to me."

This is Lindell's... violent theory.

However, everyone is used to him being a riot maker. Just as Bucky was about to tease the two of them for being "unsuitable", he saw Lindell slightly bent his knees as if facing a big enemy, and held the two of them with one hand. Standing behind him, he made a gesture of confrontation.

——This kind of action has never happened before.No matter what kind of opponent he has faced so far, no matter whether the opponent has broken bricks, wine bottles or steel pipes, this guy has never shown the slightest embarrassment.

"Back off."

The blond-haired elf boy said with difficulty: "No... run away now."

"How could we run away without you—"

This sentence was cut in half, and the picture in front of him easily broke through Steve's cognitive range so far.

Sludge gushed out of nowhere on the ground in front of them, and slowly emerged from the muddy water three pale-faced men with unfriendly expressions... I don't know what it was.

It's definitely not human anyway.