deformed bone

"I always feel that bars should have some music."

Calvin muttered.

He taps a very, very old song, and returns to Red Deer with the music slightly out of key (presumably because the internals of the jukebox are more or less damaged as well).

"Redbeard will come," he said to Red Deer. "He knows me and Isaac too well."

When talking about the red beard, Calvin's expression became sad again.

"You know...sometimes you just have that guy in your life who watches you grow up, who sees your life, no matter how time goes by but he's always there. When you think about your past, you think Your own home...you will think of him."

Calvin gulped down the weird liquor.

"Redbeard is that kind of person. He even knew that Isaac would take us to the former underground clinic, and then he stood there with a gun in his hand, and the moment the door opened—" His voice was abrupt Knowing, after a few seconds, he continued, "He will come, I know."

The red deer stared at Calvin with unpredictable expressions, bent down, and kissed Calvin's hair.

"Okay darling, don't be sad, I've been here with you...although I'm feeling kind of weird right now. The wine, the music, and the burning bar, damn I'm feeling more and more like this It's like the end of a movie." He deliberately whispered a childish complaint in Calvin's ear.

Calvin laughed.

"I'd rather leave the finale to Joshua."

He said.

Then his laughter slowly died away.

"...I just want to know the truth today."

Calvin added.

After his words fell, the red beard walked slowly from the door into the burnt bar.

Calvin was not wrong in his prediction of Redbeard, and Redbeard did find him accurately.

He held a rather scary submachine gun in his hand, and looked quite tired.

He raised his eyes to look at Calvin in the depths of the bar, the rays of the setting sun hit the edges of his facial contours, making him look older than Calvin's impression.

"Hey Calvin."

The red beard greeted Calvin.

"I'm sorry about Isaac—I didn't mean to hurt him."

He said.

"I know, the person you really want to kill is me."

Calvin replied.

His voice was dark and cold like never before.

The red beard looked at Calvin, he let out a long sigh, and then he did something unexpected for Calvin - he put down the gun in his hand.

And almost at the same time, the red deer moved.

He rushed to the side of the red beard with a speed that seemed inhuman, and kicked the old man's weapon far away with one kick.

The muzzle of his gun was also attached to the temple of the red beard at the same moment.

The red beard has always been calm and calm, not even raising his eyebrows.

"Actually, if there is still a chance... I will never hurt you and Isaac anyway. You are Holden's child, and I promised him that I will take good care of you."

Redbeard didn't seem to notice the cold muzzle from Red Deer at all, he stared straight at Calvin and said calmly.There was a sense of despair and weakness in his tone that made Calvin feel extremely uncomfortable all over his body.

As a person who has been immersed in the underground world for so many years, the old red beard always has a cold and severe sense of authority.But in front of him, he has completely lost that special quality. Now he is like an ordinary old man who just walked out of the doctor's office, holding a terminal illness notice in his hand...

Calvin even felt a little familiar with him like this.

A hidden uneasiness slowly crawled through his heart.

He thought about it for a while, and soon realized that the red beard in front of him was so similar to the dying Doctor Holden.

"Ai Zac..." Redbeard even mentioned Ai Zac in front of Calvin.

"He's still alive."

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Calvin replied.

A relieved expression immediately appeared on the face of the red beard.

"Oh, thank God... thank God..."

His figure was even a little shaky.

Of course, no matter how weak and old he appeared, the red deer still calmly pointed the gun at the red beard's temple like a machine made of metal.

However, after the red beard learned that Ai Zac's life was not in danger, he seemed to completely abandon himself.

He directly showed all his cards in front of Calvin and Red Deer.

He pulled back his skirt—rows of bombs were sewn into the inner pockets of his coat, forming an ugly and terrifying scene.

"You've got a good mate, boy, but it's no use. Let him put the gun away."

While the red beard said to Calvin, he shook his hand and showed Calvin the hand he had been holding tightly.

Where there is an instant detonation button.

Of course, Calvin had no doubts that Redbeard might have hidden other detonators.

Red Deer's pupils shrank slightly when he saw the bombs, but before he could make a move, Calvin categorically stopped him.

"Come back, Red Deer."

Red Deer narrowed his eyes, he put down the gun very naturally, and returned to Calvin's side obediently.

"You have a good boyfriend."

The red beard watched the interaction between Calvin and the red deer, he sighed and said: "This makes me a little regretful, after all, we will die here together in the end."

"But you're going to tell me the whole truth before you detonate that bomb and die with me, the so-called culprit, right?"

Calvin took up the conversation with the red beard.

The red beard nodded at him: "Yes, of course, although sometimes I think that perhaps dying in a state of ignorance is the most merciful for you... That's what I planned before..."

The old man said softly.

Calvin noticed that there was actually something wrong with his eyes. The red beard was completely immersed in his own world like a brainwashed fanatic, but at the same time he looked extraordinarily depressed and desperate, as if his belief in life had been lost. Completely shattered.

This could explain why he would make such a frenzied ambush during the day.

The red deer held Calvin's hand seemingly casually, and he pressed Calvin's palm silently, and Calvin knew that the man beside him already had a way to lead the two to escape from the bomb.

But for Calvin now, the most important thing is to find out the truth from the red beard—the old man in front of Calvin's intuition can give him the answer.

"You and your father have participated in human experiments related to me before, right?"

Calvin recounted what he saw in Joshua's memory.

The red beard's face was a little contorted.

"As expected, you know, I knew that there is no way to hide this kind of thing... Yes, that idiot Holden and I have participated in that damn experiment... The government discovered the ability of monsters like you, they I thought that some kind of biological weapon could be produced through you, but that test subject quickly escaped. Oh, yes, that test subject, physiologically speaking, is your father..."

When Redbeard talked about the past, it seemed that he was about to be completely destroyed by strong disgust and fear.

"At that time, we didn't know that you had appeared in the belly of a lowly woman, but this did not prevent us from noticing that the situation was wrong. That experimental subject could control human minds, and... and he claimed that he was God-given to human beings The Destroying Angel...he calls himself...Apocalypse...some people believe him, and some people think he just peeped into the researcher's mind about the concept of religion, and used it to hit us who bound him. Whatever How, he succeeded, and more and more people died. And Holden and I decided to escape, we planned for a long time, and then, we also succeeded. Holden left first, and then I..."

Redbeard's voice gradually lowered.

"Just when we thought this incident was completely over, you appeared. A deformed child, an angel."

"However, are you just an ordinary deformity, or are you a real angel of the apocalypse as your last body said... We always thought that you would be killed by the group of government people, but they let you escape. God, then you just showed up at Holden's door like that. I don't know what method you used to control Holden, you made my friends think of you as a divine revelation ...you made it impossible for either of us to kill you..."

Calvin's lips trembled, and a vicious flame burst into his heart.

He wanted to shout, at least in childhood he never discovered his special ability, and he never controlled anyone.

Doctor Holden finally decided to raise Calvin because of his inherent kindness and compassion.

But facing the red beard's apparently half-crazed gaze, Calvin remained silent.

In the ruin-like bar, there was only the husky whisper of the red beard.

"...Even I was convinced that you were just an ordinary, weird kid. After the government's ostensible experiments were disbanded, a new, unofficially recognized research team was formed, and at that In the research institute, your clone was born. Pfft, how naive I was at the time... I thought that if you were really that kind of holy thing, you would never be cloned at all. Look, this is what I committed The first mistake I made."

"My cut off wings..."

"I took your wings, and then tried to give it to my dark thread who is still in the research team." The red beard said tremblingly, "Second mistake."

He gasped heavily.

"It's also the deadliest mistake. They didn't tell me what your wings represent. I personally released the doomsday that God bestowed on mankind..."