Nina appeared in Duncan's sight - the girl ran along with a happy smile on her face. After seeing her uncle sitting in a daze at the door of the antique store, she quickened her pace. At the same time, she raised her hand and said hello: "Uncle, I'll be back.
La!"
Duncan woke up from his meditation. He put his thoughts aside for the time being and stood up to greet his "niece". After seeing the girl's panting appearance, he was stunned for a moment and frowned slightly: "I didn't give you a ride in the car.
Money? Why did you come back after school?"
After Nina stopped in front of Duncan, she took a few breaths and scratched her hair in embarrassment. Then she reached out and rummaged through the schoolbag she had picked up. After a long time, she took out a small paper bag and handed it over: "I'll be back.
I passed Dr. Albert’s clinic when I was there.”
Duncan took the paper bag and squeezed it, realizing that it contained several pills.
Dr. Albert said: "You have been using alcohol for pain relief for a long time. Although your physical condition has improved now and you have successfully quit drinking, people who have been drinking for a long time will easily have adverse reactions if they forcibly quit alcohol!" Nina explained in a low voice.
He said, "This is a medicine used to reduce alcohol withdrawal reactions. If you feel unwell, you can take one tablet. In addition, Dr. Albert also said that if your health has not deteriorated recently, you can completely stop taking the medicine before."
However, it is still recommended that you go to his clinic for a thorough check-up when you have time."
Duncan listened silently to Nina's explanation in a low voice and even a little cautiously. He didn't speak for a long time. It wasn't until Nina finished speaking that he silently and carefully put the small packet of pills away close to his body.
Then he reached out his hand, pressed it on Nina's body, and rubbed it gently.
"Uncle?" Nina raised her head in confusion, but saw an indescribable seriousness on Duncan's face. There was even a little worry in the seriousness, which made her sensitive mind feel a little uneasy.
"What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell? Or..."
"I'm fine." Duncan suddenly laughed and bent down slightly to look into Nina's eyes, "But don't use your car money to buy me medicine in the future. The family is not short of money now, and you can always have more.
Bring some pocket money, if you don’t have enough, ask me for it.”
Nina looked at Duncan in a daze. She always felt that her uncle suddenly became a little strange, but she couldn't tell what was wrong. She was stunned for a long time before she nodded hesitantly: "Oh."
Then she thought for a moment, then looked into the store, and then her face showed an expression of anticipation and hesitation: "Uncle... you said you would teach me how to ride a bicycle when I come back from school."
"The weather is not good now," Duncan raised his eyebrows, "It might rain."
"We're right at the door." Nina grabbed Duncan's arm and whispered expectantly, "You can go back immediately if it rains."
"Okay, you put your schoolbag away first, and I'll teach you how to ride a bicycle, but I can only practice for a while. I haven't made dinner yet."
"Great!"
Nina suddenly cheered a little, then ran into the antique store like a charge, threw her schoolbag on the counter and pushed out the new bicycle.
The posture of the cart was crooked, and it took a long time to struggle with the door frame before successfully pushing the cart in front of Duncan...
"Actually, I think you have to learn to push a stroller from scratch." Duncan looked at Nina's clumsy appearance and sighed in confusion, then stepped forward to hold the handlebars, "But looking at your expectant look, it's better to start with
Come on up - I'll help you hold the bike, and you can experience the balance of pedaling and walking on it."
Nina nodded obediently, and after Duncan held the car, she grabbed the handle with all her strength, stepped on the pedals, and climbed onto the seat. While exerting her strength, she repeatedly emphasized: "Uncle, you must hold on! Don't let go."
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"Okay, okay, just trust me." The slightly salty and cold wind blew through the old streets of Xiacheng District, picking up fallen leaves and flying dust among the low and dilapidated buildings.
The dark clouds were very low, but the rain that I didn't know when would fall still seemed to linger in the sky for a long time without falling to the earth.
In the small open space in front of the antique store, the girl's excited and nervous exclamations sounded, as did the car bell, jingling from time to time, and mixed in with Duncan's occasional guidance and teasing.
A pure black old-fashioned private car stopped in the open space near the antique store. An old man wearing an old-school scholar's woolen coat, holding a cane in his hand, and wearing a low hat opened the door and looked up at the antique store.
direction.
Morris saw the familiar and old shop, and also saw the uncle and nephew practicing riding bicycles in the open space in front of the shop.
The ordinary downtown street scene, the warm and ordinary family daily life, everything looks so normal. Even the scene not far away under the bleak street scene with low dark clouds and cold autumn wind seems particularly warm and peaceful.
However, Heidi only stayed in this antique shop for half a day, and she consumed the secondary protection of Lachem, the God of Wisdom, and this was even under the protection of a deep sea judge.
Afterwards, neither Heidi nor Judge Vanna noticed any abnormalities.~~
Morris took a deep breath, and despite looking at such an everyday scene, his heart slowly beat faster.
Then he gritted his teeth and did not rush to say hello to the uncle and nephew who were active in front of the antique store. Instead, he planned to complete the observation of the store first. If possible, he really did not want to involve irrelevant people in the extraordinary incident.
The old man groped in the pocket of his coat and took out a monocle with a thin gold chain. One end of the thin chain was clipped to the inside of the pocket, and the other end was connected to the frame. The frame was decorated with ancient Cree
The special text is engraved with the name of the God of Wisdom, Lachem, and many sacred symbols, while there is a faint glimmer of light floating in the transparent lens.
"May wisdom give me eyes, enlighten my mind, and enable me to see the truth clearly and break through the fog."
Morris prayed a few words in a low voice, then put the monocle in his eyes, and then "opened" his monocle that he had actively closed eleven years ago in the direction of the antique shop...
Morris paused for a moment and looked down at the monocle in his hand. He saw Rahm's name and many sacred symbols engraved on the frame, and there was a faint light floating in the transparent lens...
"May wisdom give me insight..."
He whispered a few blessings, put his monocle in his eyes and raised his head.
Morris paused for a moment and looked down at the monocle in his hand.
A gust of cold wind suddenly blew from across the street, carrying a low whisper in the wind. The old scholar suddenly stopped what he was about to do, and then suddenly raised his right wrist.
A bracelet made of colorful stones and silk threads was worn on his wrist. There were eight stones in total.
The cold wind blew over, carrying the fallen leaves on the roadside and the coldness of late autumn. The sounds in Morris's ears seemed to have faded away. The busy traffic on the street and the bells of the distant church all seemed to be coming from another world.
All the same, he only heard his own heart beating violently, and the sound of blood pumping was like thunder, but among the heartbeats, only the sound coming from one direction was still clear.
A girl's cheerful yet nervous voice said: "Uncle, hold on tight! Oh, it's crooked... it's crooked... the car is about to fall over!"
A middle-aged man had a gentle voice with a smile: "I can't fall if I hold on to it - if you straighten the handlebars, they won't tilt. Just push forward and keep walking. That's how bicycles are. As long as you push forward and hold the handlebars, they won't fall." You'll fall down."
"You must support me! I'm going forward!"
"Let's go, I'm behind you."
Morris suddenly heard another sound, which was the creaking sound of muscles and bones rubbing together, and along with this sound was the slight shift and rotation of his vision - it took him a second of thinking before he finally Realize what's going on.
He was slowly turning his neck and shifting his gaze from the antique store to the open space in front of the antique store.
A strong warning signal surged up from the soul, and the bracelet with eight stones still left made a low and strange sound like a throat. Every stone became hot, as if it was trying to pull a drowning person out of the water. , pulling his reason in vain, Morris can still think. He knows that the blessings he bestowed on himself before setting off have been activated and are working, but he can only carry out these basic thoughts. His neck was still turning, and his eyes were moving uncontrollably in the most dangerous direction.
Close your eyes, close your eyes, close your eyes!
Countless voices exploded in his mind, but Maurice's reason could not drive his muscles to complete even the simplest movement. He slowly turned his head, and then finally "opened" his once-opened eyes. With his blessed eyes, he saw the direction from which the sound came.
He saw a crazy squirming vortex of light and shadow, which seemed to reflect all of time and space at the same time...
The crushed mirror and other things were mixed together, and they were mixed into a giant that could barely maintain the outline of a human being, with stars all over its body. The giant bent slightly and carefully shifted its support... supporting a gushing arc. raging flames.
There was a roar in Morris's mind, and then the whole world fell silent.