Sign a contract with the devil

girl in portrait

Gabriel pulled Anthony's memory from his body.

Michael still stood motionless in front of the mirror, he saw the most horrific death scene, people running everywhere, screaming, terrified, desperate, helpless.This is God's punishment, and it is God's punishment for those who do not believe in good deeds and are dishonest and trustworthy.When faith gradually fades away in people's hearts, God shows no mercy.Is this the future?Is there no future for the Archangel Michael to save the world?Michael thought in his heart, and suddenly felt that he had a heavy responsibility.

There are white walls on all sides, a white marble floor underfoot, and in the center is a mirror on a white hexagonal tray shaped like an eye, an eye filled with flames.Anthony Warren grasped the ends of the mirror with both hands, and Michael stood next to him looking into the mirror.Gabriel held a blue bead in his hand and walked over to see what Michael was looking at. When he looked into the mirror curiously, a six-winged white-winged angel was killed by a black-winged fallen angel. screen.The angel with white wings is Gabriel, and the angel with black wings is also very familiar to him, that is Lucifer. Lucifer killed him because of Michael.

"This is An Luoxian's eyes. An Luoxian's eyes are full of flames. Anyone who looks into his eyes will see his own death from the flames." Beryl appeared beside Gabriel, preventing him from continuing to look. .Those who look into An Luoxian's eyes will lose their sight due to the strong shock after staring for a long time.

They came out from the 72 demon pillars and boarded the boat.The boat did not row a few meters, Michael turned his head, and Lucifer stood on the shore and looked at him.Lucifer could only stand on the shore, and he also looked at Michael, the two of them looked at each other, with longing in their eyes.

"Lord Lucifer?" Beryl asked.

"He's been standing here for a long time," said the boatman. "Just now he hid aside and didn't show up until you boarded the boat."

"He's been waiting here?" Michael asked.

"Always." The boatman slapped the water surface with his oars. "As long as he is in love, he stands there for as long as he is. This guest, there is a poem that says: love turns waiting into torment, turns a day into a year, makes a When the sun disappears, it becomes like winter and summer.”

Gabriel also saw Lucifer, and he wanted to blindfold Michael so that he could not see Lucifer.But he knew he couldn't do it, it was weird, but jealousy was burning in his heart.Belial took his hand to wake him up a little.The more sober he is, the more jealous he is. He is the one next to Michael, but why is it that Lucifer is the one Michael misses!Gabriel closed his eyes and began to meditate on the holy book of heaven, Lord, please guide me and make my heart pure and peaceful.

The boat continued to move forward, and the boatman said, "The lord asked me to ask you, do you have anything to say to him?"

"Please tell him that I have been looking forward to the day we meet again." Michael said.

Gabriel's heart trembled, and the smile on his face could hardly hold back.

"Okay." The boatman agreed.

It was already midnight when we returned to the bus station not far from where we lived.The evening wind blows a row of poplar trees and makes a rustling sound. The street is empty, and occasionally a few cars pass by, and the lights flicker, and the cars disappear.The shops were all closed, only the street lights were on.They were walking on the street, Gabriel was behind Michael, he hesitated, walked to the side of Michael, and held Michael's hand.

"What's wrong?" Michael asked him.

"It's nothing, I can't see the way." Gabriel said, "Look at the mirror of Mr. An Luo's eyes."

Michael looked into Gabriel's eyes worriedly, and led him forward by the hand.Belial was behind them, watching this scene, he clenched his fists and then loosened them, and did not step forward to disturb them.

The road was short, and though Gabriel wished it had been longer and longer, it had come to an end.At the end was the house where they lived. After opening the door, Michael led him to the bedside and said, "Go to bed early, you have worked hard, Gabriel."

Beryl sat on the sofa for a while, got up and opened the window, spread his wings and flew out.He stopped on the top of the bell tower of the church, looking at the city lights in the night, a trace of loneliness flashed in his eyes.Just a trace of loneliness, the wind blew through the hem of his clothes, blowing the black feathers on his wings.This lazy devil, he is usually lazy to think. Thinking is a waste of time and energy. There is only one answer to many things, and people are often unwilling to accept it, so they come up with many excuses to deny it.He didn't want to deny it, he liked Gabriel, and he already knew the answer.

But what Gabriel likes is Michael, and he is willing to fulfill them, just like what he said to Gabriel: I will help you fulfill your wishes.But today he tasted the sourness he had never experienced before. It turned out that the sad feeling was so uncomfortable.Beryl blew on the wind, thinking that this would blow away the bitterness in his heart, but failed.A heart that has been moved cannot be taken back, even if he is a lazy king, he still has to drink the bitter water of love.

That night, Beryl sat on the clock tower, listening to the ticking sound of the hands on the clock, silently in a daze.The stars in the distance have all returned home, the night is gradually receding, and the gray sky is gradually brightening.

Belial returned to the house in the early morning sun.

"Good morning." Michael greeted with a smile.

"Where's Gabriel?" Beryl asked.

"He's inside, in the room. I'm going to prepare breakfast, you call him out." Michael said.

Beryl walked to the door of the room, held the handle, and opened the door.Gabriel was in the room, lying on the bed with a blue glow in his chest.Gabriel put the blue glowing bead into his chest, and he was looking for Anthony Warren's most precious thing in Anthony Warren's memory.Beryl stood in the room watching him for about five minutes.Belial moved, walked to the bed and covered Gabriel's quilt, looked at him for a few more minutes, and then went out.

Gabriel is in the memory of Anthony Warren. He is facing a house full of collections, counting from the statue of Phidias on the left to the portrait of Van Gogh on the right, there are fourteen pieces in total.Gabriel was currently counting the crystallization of these great arts. He put his hand on the frame of a picture of a girl picking flowers, took out a white handkerchief from his pocket, and slowly wiped the frame.The flaxen-haired girl in the picture of a girl picking flowers is wearing a blue dress. She has a pure and beautiful smile and holds a basket of colorful flowers in her hand.Gabriel finished wiping the frame, stood in front of the picture, and said in a deep, middle-aged voice, "It's so beautiful! It's so beautiful, it's almost real." Gabriel's eyes were full of emotion.

Here is Anthony Warren's memory, and Gabriel can only come in and read his memory.That voice was Anthony Warren's voice, and Gabriel did what Anthony Warren did.In Anthony Warren's memory, Gabriel would come to clean the photo frame every day, and then stare obsessively at the girl inside the portrait.After a week like this, the owner of the gallery sold the painting to a businessman.

After the painting was sold to a businessman, Anthony Warren fell ill. He lay in bed without eating or drinking, and only talked about the painting. "I would give anything for that painting," Anthony Warren said.

The memory goes backwards again, and childhood Anthony Warren followed his father, who was a wandering painter, and what Anthony Warren likes to do most every day is to sit on a small stool and watch his father paint.They often go to the central square of the city, set up easels, and their father will paint for the guests. A painting can only be sold for a little money, which is their family's income.

Anthony Warren was interested in painting after being influenced by his father when he was a child.He became the dean of an art academy and managed countless works of art.He worked around the clock and gradually alienated his family.He didn't expect his second daughter to suffer from a heart attack. He could do nothing but watch her get thinner and thinner before his eyes.

After his daughter died, he regretted it too much.Unexpectedly, at this time, this painting came to the courtyard. The girl in the painting looked very much like his daughter who died of a heart attack, his most beloved second daughter.So he liked the painting very much and wanted to keep it for himself.To get the painting, Anthony Warren made a deal with the devil.

"Ella, Ella..." These were the last words Anthony Warren said looking at An Luoxian's mirror.

It was mid-afternoon when Gabriel awoke, and blue beams of Anthony Warren's beads flew through the window into the sky.He gave the bead to Belial, and Belial drew a ball of flame in his hand holding the bead. The flame penetrated into the bead, and soon became smaller and longer, like a thin thread melting into the blue color of the bead. in the beam.Beryl closed his eyes to sense the direction of the flame in the bead, and after about a quarter of an hour, Beryl opened his eyes.

"Somewhere in Rome," Beryl said.

Gabriel booked the earliest flight ticket and departed only the day after tomorrow.Their destination was Fiumicino Airport in Rome. Gabriel had been to Rome once, and he was looking for Michael. He remembered that when he was in the sky, he asked Michael if he was going on a date in the human world. where to go.Michael's answer was Rome.Because the building there is most like the Hall of Glory before Lucifer fell into heaven. The Hall of Glory was renovated later, and it was no longer the same when Michael became the archangel.

When Archangel Michael built the church in Rome, he went down to earth to guide them in building the building.Whether it was intentional or not, the church in this city resembled the main hall of the original Temple of Glory, where the God of the Morning Star once lived.