Falling into the Abyss

"What is his current situation?" An elderly female voice came from the other side of the communicator.

Roland said while observing the screen in front of him, "He had a conflict with the people from Eve, showing some mutated forms. Now the Third Reich no longer allows us to land on Black Gate. But he didn't say anything about it. protest."

"Is that priest Eve sure to die?"

"OK. Ethan Eldridge seems to accept this. He refuses to talk to anyone now and stays alone in the room."

The screen in front of him shows Ethan's suite, and needle-sized cameras are installed everywhere in the luxurious cabin, and Ethan's every move is under his observation. At this time Ethan sat motionless on the edge of the bed, his eyes looking straight ahead, almost like a statue. Roland frowned. "He has not slept, just sat on the bed in a posture."

"Maybe you can use his companion." The female voice said, "Didn't you hear him say that he is going to earth?"

"You mean, let them go?"

"Not only let them go, but also help them go." The female voice said in a cold voice, "Since such a hot potato cannot be killed and cannot be controlled, let it be handled by the Earth Alliance. Don't let him go. Bring it back to the Ophiuchus Alliance. We now have his DNA samples in our hands, and maybe we can develop a vaccine to treat the plague. Before that, we must be careful with him and don't have any behavior that may irritate him."

"Understood." After Roland finished speaking, the connection was cut off. Then, he sent an encrypted message to another Earth Alliance informant.

"Target No. 6 is about to return to Earth, which may enable him to meet Target No. 4."

After sending this message, he looked up, but found Ethan on the screen moved. He slowly took off his coat, opened the quilt, and lay down.

Is it going to sleep?

Since coming out of the medical warehouse, Roland has never seen Ethan sleep. He thought that the mutated Ethan no longer needed sleep. But it doesn't seem to be the case?

Ethan pulled the quilt on his body and closed his eyes. Roland made a large cup of coffee for himself, planning not to sleep tonight, and stared at the peacefully sleeping person on the screen.

Ethan's sleeping face is very good, and he has barely moved for more than two hours. However, in the third hour, something strange happened. Many tentacles of different thicknesses stretched out from under his quilt, and they fell asleep like black water and spread across the bed. Those terrible, barbed, scaled, or worm-like soft tentacles grow like black blood vessels in all directions, even winding up the walls, covering everything encountered on the road. The original snow-white walls are now almost covered in black, and even the peeping camera can only vaguely see the scene in the room from the gap between the tentacles. Roland has to switch cameras constantly to see the situation inside.

It seems that this room and even this ship may need to be completely destroyed after Ethan leaves...

Ethan's sleep was no longer stable, the center of his brow furrowed slightly, and his body was slightly convulsed. He seemed to be scared, his body curled up under the quilt, and even the tentacles contracted towards the middle for a moment. He turned over, and a few tentacles opened the quilt, revealing a nightmare view under the quilt.

Roland could hardly see Ethan's body. What he saw were all tentacles, twisting and wriggling like snakes, and the tentacled organs swayed messily. Only Ethan's pale face was clearly discernible in the distorted black. He was lying among these filthy tentacles, unconsciously continuing to struggle in his dreams. Roland was a little nauseous and wanted to vomit. He took a big sip of cold coffee and looked away for a moment.

All this is crazy. He actually lived with this man for a while... Thinking of this, he felt like vomiting even more...

At this moment, there was a scream from the monitor.

That was from Ethan.

He was still lying, his eyes still closed, but he was yelling. It was not just a cry of fear, but a language Roland had never heard before.

As an Ophiuchus agent, Roland is proficient in dozens of lingua franca among the stars, and can basically recognize hundreds of them, but he has never even heard this language. He listened carefully, and it seemed that the pronunciation method was somewhat similar to the horned language of Faun, but it was only a little bit, which was not helpful at all to be able to understand. He recorded those voices as much as possible, intending to send them back to Ophiuchus for the linguists to analyze.

Suddenly, in those screens shot from different angles, something was not quite right.

Something, something without shape, is falling from top to bottom. It seems to be some kind of transparent medium, in which light has undergone unusual refraction and distortion. But suddenly, something in that medium slowly opened, like a mouth. Looking through the screen, it was as if the space was weirdly distorted above Ethan.

He leaned close to the display and rubbed his eyes before he was sure that it was not his dazzling.

What it is?

The thing separated above Ethan, as if the entire space including Ethan was being sucked into the gap, and all the images became distorted. At this moment, Ethan suddenly opened his eyes, and all of the tentacles suddenly danced at the same time, shaking wildly in the air, as if they were struggling. He saw Ethan raising his hands in front of him, as if he was afraid of being touched by something. His struggle was so intense that the entire hull was trembling faintly.

Roland hesitated, wondering if someone should be sent in for rescue. But he changed his mind to think about it, now in this unknown situation, if someone rushes in, there may be unexpected consequences. Too risky.

Besides, Ethan was originally a threat.

He immediately ordered the blockade of the entire corridor near the apartment where Ethan lived, and no one was allowed to approach it. At this time, on the screen, the transparent thing seemed to stretch out something, entwining Ethan's tentacles. Strong heat erupted from the contact area, an explosion sounded, sparks splashed everywhere, a fire ignited in the cabin, a harsh alarm sounded, and the fire extinguishing device automatically lowered from the ceiling, spraying a lot of water.

The shocking explosion made the entire spacecraft sway, and Roland stepped back in shock. He nervously checked the damage to the main brain. Fortunately, the main brain reported that there was no fatal damage. The repair robot has been dispatched for repairs.

And louder than the alarm was Ethan's painful cry. I saw that his tentacles that were touched seemed to be scorched, and the long sections turned into smoke and scattered. He quickly put away the tentacles that had not been caught, as if suddenly remembering something, hurriedly tore open his pajamas and rubbed the strange emblem on his chest with his hand.

After the emblem was completely erased, all the tentacles had returned to the body. Ethan didn't dare to get out of the air, lying motionless on the bed, watching the twisted space in the sky constantly swaying, and from time to time some tongue-like protrusions appeared from the mass of matter, rubbing around, as if looking for something.

After about an hour, all the fires were extinguished by the automatic device, and the whole suite was in a mess, but the weird transparent substance seemed to gradually dissipate, disappearing like qi, never existed.

Ethan on the bed sighed and got up from the bed, staggering a little while holding the furniture into the bathroom.

Roland recorded all this. He leaned back on the chair, his head spinning fast.

So... Ethan is not invincible. That kind of transparency...seems to hurt him?

And the emblem that he wiped off in a hurry...I saw it on him after saving him...

Who gave him the emblem? What is the relationship with that transparent substance? Is Ethan's sleeplessness related to this?

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Ethan sat in the bathtub, letting the cold water drip on him. He was hot all over, as if he was about to burn...

His breathing hasn't calmed down, and his heartbeat is still fast enough to burn his remaining life. He trembled with his hands and lifted his forehead wet with water. A sharp pain made him realize that the nails of his **** and ring finger had fallen off, and the flesh of his fingertips had been blackened and carbonized and had not healed as quickly as before.

It turns out that this is what happens after Entropy comes into contact with Xu... He will be severely burned, and the other... The huge creatures with various eyes that appear in the dream will also vaporize a little where they come in contact with him. .

He is not even a completely entropy individual. If the Entropy God and the Prologue God collide, the power produced would be even more terrifying than the energy released by the encounter between positive and negative matter. Moreover, both sides will be annihilated in such a collision, and the two energies will be mixed together. What will happen next... he can't think of it.

So, if he is now injected with the solution of the Order God’s Egg... it is equivalent to injecting sulfuric acid into his blood vessels...

He might die...

When you die, do you no longer have to live like this, and can you finally rest? Is that a better choice?

He put his hand on his left chest, where the emblem should have been painted. Now Tanithel had no last thing left to him.

"Live well, go and see for me."

This is Tanithel's last request.

Live well.

Ethan hugged his body in the cold water and let out a tired sigh.

After taking a shower and changing clothes, Ethan left the room. When the heavily armed soldiers saw him coming out, they all retreated in fear, and no one dared to move forward. Fortunately, Roland's order came at this time: the martial law was lifted.

Obviously Samuel also felt the previous explosion, but was stopped by the soldiers. He saw Ethan come out with a relieved expression.

"What are you doing!" Samuel looked at him up and down, and quickly found the blackened middle and ring fingers of his right hand. "How did you get your hands?"

"Nothing big," Ethan said.

"It's scorched and nothing serious! Hey! Do you have a doctor here!" Samuel yelled to the soldiers, but everyone looked at them with an expression like a big enemy. No one answered, but all Going away quickly.

Ethan squeezed Samuel's shoulder soothingly, and said in a patient tone like coaxing his girlfriend, "It's really okay, it will be fine in two days. Don't make a fuss about a small injury."

"Is this a small injury? How can you let me go with confidence?"

Ethan suddenly curled up his mouth and tilted his head slightly to look at Samuel, "Since you care about me so much, I will go with you."

Samuel didn't react for a while, "Huh?" He looked at Ethan carefully for a while, and couldn't tell whether the other party was serious or joking. "Hey, are you kidding me?"

Ethan shook his head, "I'm serious."

"How can you do it! You are looking for death when you go to the earth now! Did you know that the earth now considers you the number one danger!"

Ethan replied calmly, "But haven't you always been planning to bring me back to Earth?"

Samuel was taken aback, frowning in confusion, "What are you talking about? Why am I taking you back?"

"I don't know why you want me to go back, but I guess, you probably want revenge." Ethan passed by him and walked to the public lounge not far away. His eyes drooped slightly, and when he turned his back to Samuel, he showed a little sadness, "When I was in the cocoon period, the range of perception became a lot wider. I heard you use Tanithel for you. Man Breath is talking to the people of the Earth League... It seems to be Derek, right? I know that you were planning when you were on Eve, otherwise it would be impossible for you to break into Tanithel alone. Save me in the basement of the castle. Also, our ship’s route was originally heading towards Armonia, but in the end it deviated and reached the border of the Third Reich and the Ophiuchus Alliance. Although I don’t know how you are Yes, but based on your conversation with Derek, you can basically be sure that you have the hands and feet."

His tone was calm and calm, without any sign of anger, just stating the facts. He sat on the sofa with his back turned to Samus, poured himself a glass of white water and sipped a few sips, but didn't see the stiff expression of Omega behind him.

"What I don't understand is." Ethan turned his head and looked at him, "Why do I have to go back to Earth? Just leave me alone and let them perform the descent ritual. In the end, all those people you hate will be destroyed. of."

"No, you must return to Earth." Samuel whispered, "If you complete the descent on Eve, the eggs of the Prologue God will probably explode immediately, and it will also attract a counterattack from the Prologue God. The important thing is that you are destined to descend on the earth and destroy that sinful kingdom."

Samus looked at Ethan and said, "Don't you understand? "When the order collapses, the worms mourn in the empty earth, the shadows swallow the entire galaxy, and the god's extradition will open the door of chaos." The collapse of order is the most severe now. It is the earth alliance that has been messed up by the plague, the second universe infection, and the rising of the Benefactor Society. And you brought the worm to the earth, then the first two are in line. The last shadow swallows the entire galaxy Perhaps it has something to do with the spread of infection in the Second Universe, at least from the news from Derek."

Ethan frowned slightly, he couldn't think of when Samus knew so many things, including the second universe, which he did not participate in. Did the people from the Earth Alliance tell him? But didn't the passage he said was read by Theo Neil during the holy spirit sacrifice?

"Since Schneider's death, I have started to have some strange dreams." Samuel's expression was a bit wrong at this time, as hollow as a daze, completely opposite to the vivid look just now, "I dreamed of blood, and there was blood everywhere. , And I stepped on the bodies of those people. All those who killed Schneider, those who bullied my father, those who drove James crazy, those who forced me to disguise my gender, those who said I killed a scumbag The people who threw me into that ghost place in the forbidden city guilty... They are all dead, even if they are not completely dead, I stepped on them. They were smashed and their faces were blurred. I have blood on my hands, but It’s not my blood. That dream is really terrifying. I can even feel the touch of smashing the skulls of those people. At that time, listening to their screams... I feel so happy... so satisfied..."

When his love was taken away from him time and time again, and when he saw his lover's throat cut, Samuel finally fell into darkness again. Only this time his fall was more thorough.

His almost intoxicated expression made Ethan's heart sink gradually. He remembered that during that time, he always felt something was wrong with Samuel. But he always thought that because the sudden loss of Schneider hit him too much, he didn't go into it.

But Samuel’s narrative is not over yet, "Then...a man with black all over will appear. He told me that if you want revenge, if your dream becomes a reality, you must find a way to bring you back to earth."

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Samuel also darkened a little bit~ Of course, all under Ethan's training...