Falling into the Abyss

Ethan sat alone in another empty room similar to before, just like yesterday. Immediately after the explosion, heavily armed soldiers came to surround him. Balland was taken away, while he was blindfolded, stuffed into a windowless aircraft, and taken directly here.

He never saw another person, and he never left the chair.

He found that he did not want to sleep or eat. His right hand unconsciously rubbed the place with the emblem on his left chest from time to time, and his eyes were hollow.

Time seems to have lost its meaning to him, he is neither arrogant nor impatient, nor bored. Even the guards who watched him through the camera hole hidden in the wall felt a little stubborn.

Finally, the door opened, and this time Roland came in.

Roland was also a little nervous in his heart. This was not the first time he saw Ethan, but since Ethan came out of the medical room, he could no longer regard him as the introverted Secretary of the Energy Bureau.

It's just that the bosses thought that he was the best candidate for communication with that terrifying mutant creature.

He stood in front of Ethan and smiled at him still charmingly, "Meet again."

Ethan raised his eyes to look at him, then lowered his gaze, earnestly plucking a barb on his index finger, "How long shall I wait? My patience is almost exhausted."

Roland said, "The Ophiuchus Alliance can send you to Black Gate, and even help you find the priest named Tanithel. It's just that it will take some time to negotiate with the Third Reich."

"how much longer?"

"It will take another day or two."

"It's been too long." Ethan stood up and looked at Roland calmly, "I'm leaving now. If you don't want any casualties, please don't stop me."

After he finished speaking, he walked around Roland and walked towards the door, but just as he passed by, his arm was grabbed. Roland stared at him with deep eyes, suddenly feeling a little tender, "Ethan, I will help you. How do you go without a spaceship?"

I will help you, this is what Tanithel has said to him time and time again.

Ethan looked back at him indifferently.

"So, you were sent by them to use beautiful men?" There was a slight taunt in Ethan's voice.

Roland looked at him seriously and said, "I really want to help you."

Ethan sighed and slowly withdrew his hand. Continue to stride towards the door.

"Are you sincere, it doesn't make sense to me. I will leave now. If you don't help me, you will be my enemy. And you can't kill me."

As he spoke, he reached out and held the door handle. The door was locked. But Ethan's fingertips came out of a lot of black thin lines, twisting into the gap between the door and the door frame, a moment after the door made a sound of unlocking friction, and then opened like this.

Outside the door facing the door are three giant microwave cannons, all of which are in the preheating stage. The outrageous heat wave set off the hair on Ethan's forehead, and the scorching light pierced Roland's eyes a little. Ethan's figure looked like a grass in front of the three giant beasts, but he didn't show any signs of flinching, and walked forward as if he hadn't seen anything.

Roland's expression changed, and he hurriedly closed the door.

At that moment, the three microwave cannons fired at the same time, and the invisible microwave beam burned the seemingly small human skin, and he didn't even use his tentacles to block it. His skin keeps being scorched and twisted, but the countless black squirming things under that skin will immediately repair new muscles and skin. In the invisible fire burning, Ethan didn’t even stop as if he could not feel the pain. When he stepped out of the shooting range, half of his body was almost burned, leaving only some wriggling black tentacles. And on the other side was the familiar Ethan's face. The monster that seemed to have stepped out of the fire of **** only took a moment, and through the fresh flesh, it quickly grew out of it, perfectly blending with the skin on the other side. Ethan's clothes were all burned, but he didn't feel ashamed, he was still walking forward. Behind him suddenly shot out a number of extremely thick tentacles, like a stern whip over the sky, instantly cutting the three microwave cannons into two segments.

This is a military camp, and there are many heavily armed soldiers standing behind the microwave cannon. At this moment, seeing naked Ethan walk in slowly, they all take a few steps back in fear. Ethan glanced around slowly, and said in a cold voice, "Do you also want to be infected with the plague on the earth? Get out!"

"Don't open fire!" Roland had already rushed out of the room at this time and stood in front of Ethan, "Get out of the way!"

After being ordered by their superiors, the soldiers withdrew to both sides. Ethan asked as he walked, "Where is Samuel? Bring him."

Roland glanced at him, then suddenly took off his long coat and put it on Ethan, "Give me an hour and I will persuade them to take you to Black Door!"

Ethan rolled his eyes slightly, and stared at him, "Are you making me believe in you, someone who has betrayed me three times?"

Roland seemed to be speechless for a moment, and then said, "I know, you don't really want to spread that kind of plague on the earth, and you don't want that terrible thing to kill thousands of innocents in another country. People."

"Innocent?" Ethan chuckled, "I haven't seen a few innocent people in my life."

Maybe there is, he can only think of a Schneider, but he has also been killed by other innocent people.

Looking at the people of the Earth Alliance, each of them has their own dark story, but they are deeply buried, deceiving others and deceiving themselves, those that do not exist. They cheat on their partners behind their backs, quietly report friends who they hate better than themselves, put on another layer of identity in the domain, wantonly attack and abuse others, and even encourage them to die when someone wants to commit suicide, and in the company. She didn't dare to go home but began to beat his wife and children. They are full of hostility, give them a belief that they can rely on, and they will immediately become the most brutal executioners, under the guise of "morality" to slaughter everything they don't understand.

All this happened every day around Ethan, but before he entered the forbidden city, before he experienced everything afterwards, he thought that everything was normal.

Now, he just felt bored.

"Roland, you don't know me." Ethan said, "I have killed a lot of people. I'm not a good person. I'm not even a person. So, I can do everything."

The tone of the facts, and the way his eyes didn't blink when he spoke, made Roland feel a little cold. Ethan has changed, changed a lot, maybe this was caused by him alone.

Roland said, "One hour, I only need one hour!"

Ethan looked at him for a while, finally sighed and said, "Okay, I'll give you an hour."

An hour later, Ethan and Samuel really got on the spaceship to Black Gate. Under the intensive negotiations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Third Reich has agreed to a small number of soldiers from the Ophiuchus alliance to enter the country together, and is willing to assist in providing information about the crashed spacecraft.

Ethan changed into clean and comfortable clothes and sat on the soft and wide bed on the second floor of the luxurious room arranged for him, looking at the rotating galaxy in the distance through the opposite transparent wall. He held a glass of vodka with ice in his hand, and sometimes took a sip, letting the high-purity alcoholic drink sting the skin in his mouth. He remembered that Tanithel had said that he should be invited to taste Eve's wine, because the wine of the earth was too bad to drink. But in the end there was no chance.

Someone asked to enter the suite, and Ethan agreed. From here, you can directly see the door of the suite on the first floor, and the person entering is Roland.

He raised the whiskey bottle in his hand to Ethan, smiling as calmly and charmingly as before, but Ethan knew that it was just a mask on his face. Ethan put down the cup in his hand and walked slowly down the stairs.

"what's up?"

Roland’s smile can be seen carefully. He put the bottle on the bar and took two cups. “Before reaching the Black Gate Star, I think it’s better to tell you in advance.”

Ethan stood in place, "You speak."

Roland handed him a glass of wine, Ethan looked at his smile, and suddenly wanted to ask, "Are you tired?"

Roland was taken aback.

"Is it tiring to wear a mask every day?"

Roland suddenly felt that those green eyes staring at him seemed to be able to pierce his flesh, making him uncomfortable. He still maintains his expression, unwilling to be easily despised by the "task goal" he had taken so easily before, "Fortunately, sitting in my line, I have not known for a long time if there is a real self apart from the mask accident. Up."

Ethan took the glass and shook the ice cubes in it. He turned around and sat down on the sofa without hesitation, "What are you going to tell me."

"After your ship crashed, the Third Reich sent people to investigate. They said that the spacecraft had disintegrated and the parts were scattered everywhere. In this case, it is impossible for people to survive."

"What about the corpse?"

"I didn't find it. Eve also knows, and is sending someone to negotiate with the Third Reich, and want to go to Black Gate to find it." Roland paused, "You escaped from Eve?"

Ethan nodded.

"This time, if they know you've gone too, I'm afraid..."

"I'm not afraid of them." Ethan's eyes flashed with a sharp light, "If I can meet it, it will happen, I still have something to ask them."

Roland originally wanted to show good, saying that the Ophiuchus Alliance would protect him, but he didn't expect that Ethan would not care at all. He hesitated, and said, "Don't worry, we won't let them move you."

Ethan drank the wine in the glass in one sip, and put the glass on the coffee table in front of him casually, "I know, you are so responsive because you can't kill me at the moment, and you are afraid that I will infect you with that kind of bugs." . If I guessed correctly, I’m afraid there is some extra ingredients in the glass of wine just now."

His words made Roland's face pale.

Indeed, there is a newly developed neurotoxin in the wine. Although it is not dead, it can be paralyzed. There is an antidote in Roland's pocket, in case he has to take the antidote for half an hour if he has to drink it himself.

But looking at Ethan's appearance that nothing happened now, it seemed that he had failed again.

Fortunately, the spacecraft has already left the fifth star. If Ethan decides to infect the entire ship in a fit of anger, he still has time to notify the headquarters to start the self-detonation procedure of the spacecraft.

This is almost a mortal mission.

But Ethan just smiled slightly, with some pity in his expression, "Don't worry, I won't kill you. Destroying the Ophiuchus Alliance is meaningless to me. If you want to try, you can continue, as long as it doesn't interfere with me. That's fine." After he finished speaking, he turned around like this, planning to go upstairs.

Roland felt that he had never received such a blow in his life.

Obviously, he had made plans to go to death generously, but he was easily "pardoned" by the unworthy use object before him.

He felt that what he was facing was not a person, but an existence that did not take him seriously at all. He finally gave up all his calmness, and his smile fell apart on his face. He grabbed Ethan's wrist and stopped Beta so easily. Obviously he looks like a scholar with no hands, how could he...

"You...what are you!" Roland asked almost gritted teeth.

Ethan didn't even try to break free, in this position he lowered his eyes slightly, thinking seriously, "I don't know what I am."

"What are you going to do! Do you spread that disease to the entire galaxy?!"

"I said." Ethan said in a patient tone of a naive child. "All I want is one person, Tanithel."

"He is dead!"

"It's dead..." Ethan said, his eyebrows slowly gathered a layer of sadness. He slowly closed his eyes, "Even if he goes to hell, I will bring him back."

But at this moment, I suddenly heard the mastermind saying that Samus was going in, and there was a very noisy kicking from outside the door. Even through the soundproof door panel, Ethan can still hear Samus shouting outside, "Ethan! Ethan! Are you all right! I heard that the man named Sean is coming!"

Ethan had just agreed to let the mastermind let him in, and Samuel had rushed in like a whirlwind. Seeing that Roland was actually holding Ethan's arm, he flew over immediately. Roland let go of Ethan and dodged on the spot.

"Ethan! Did he do anything to you!" Samuel stared at the man on the ground. And Roland stared back with a pair of sharp eyes. Damn, why is this Omega more fierce than all Alphas he has seen...

Ethan pressed Samuel's shoulders and gave a gentle smile, "It's okay. We are chatting."

Roland got up from the ground, but was embarrassed to accept this sentence. Ethan didn't even mention the poison in the wine, which made him feel even more unbearable. He clenched his fists and turned around to leave, but heard Ethan say behind him, "Commissioner Sean, don't forget your drink."

Seeing that man seemed to be a little depressed, Samuel also felt a little strange. He turned to look at Ethan and looked up and down.

Since he came out of the medical warehouse, he hasn't had a chance to take a closer look at Ethan, but now, he has really changed a lot.

He seemed to have become more calm, and the slender pupils in those green eyes made people feel a little uneasy.

"Samuel, something to do with me?"

Samuel nodded. He lowered his gaze and hesitated for a while before he said, "I want to tell you in advance. After I went to Black Gate with you this time, I plan to go back to Earth. I'm afraid I will be too rushed to tell you. "

Ethan frowned, "Why?"

"My father is still on the earth, and now the plague is raging, I...I don't know what happened to him." Samuel said, pursing his lips, scratching his head very irritably, "I want to confirm his safety."

"But the Earth Alliance is now looking for you. Going back is a dead end."

"Now that the plague is so bad, I just need to be careful, and there should be nothing wrong."

Ethan looked at him and squeezed his shoulder. He laughed, although it was a little sad, "You are right, it is time to go back and take a look."