Falling into the Abyss

The road to the Earth Alliance is not far away, but after waking up from dormancy, the atmosphere in the entire spacecraft is not quite right.

There were only Ethan and Samuel on the spaceship. Originally, Roland wanted to send someone to enter with them, but Ethan refused. The spacecraft given to them by the Ophiuchus Alliance has a strong anti-reconnaissance device. If it is only one, it should be no problem to walk the energy grid around the solar system through the Earth Alliance.

The two of them sat in the cockpit and watched the continuously jumping readings on the dashboard. No one spoke. Since entering this universe, an unspeakable depression has been pushed forward through the layers of the vacuum universe like ocean tides. This is the atmosphere that exists in the entire universe, like the entire galaxy is declining little by little.

Here will be the beginning of destruction.

Their ship did not reach the earth directly, but landed in a famous slum, where Samus was born-the seventh space station.

It was a huge city suspended in the vast universe. It looked like it was stacked by many rectangular parallelepipeds of different sizes, wrapped in a light yellow atmosphere. Coming out of the spaceship mooring, the crowded roads are clustered with stacked tall buildings on both sides. Even the top of the head is a huge building horizontally. There are countless neon signs, illegal vendors, random roofs, and hanging outside. The clothes crammed the entire space, almost occupying the tracks for dual-purpose vehicles or aircraft.

Ethan had never been to District 7 before, and he knew from an early age that this is not the place for people with identity to come. Apart from the Forbidden City, this is probably the most chaotic city. The narrow and complicated aerial streets are filled with gangsters, thugs, prostitutes, and drug dealers. He also saw the seventh district on TV. He only remembered that the streets were full of dirty water stains, trash and even excrement. People were wearing dirty and usually not well-fitting clothes, squatting on the side of the road and eating. The children of a synthetic rhizome that Ethan can't recognize are also hollow and blank in their eyes. Shooting battles are taking place every day, and wallets will also be stolen when shopping for food. In his impression, this is a chaotic place that cannot be inhabited at all.

But Samuel grew up in such a place. The streets he had seen frowning on TV when he was a child were Samuel's childhood home.

There was no expression on Samuel’s face, and he didn’t know what it was like to return to his hometown after so many years, whether it was nostalgia or embarrassment. But judging from his unhurried pace and a series of behaviors that he dodges the crowd freely, and swears back with dirty words after bumping into someone and being scolded, he has quickly re-adapted to the environment here.

Although the Earth Alliance government has always urged everyone not to go out as much as possible, there are not many people on the street in the slums. It may be because even at the risk of being infected with the plague, you must go out and continue to work to support your family. Many large factories are operating on the Seventh Space Station, and when many other space stations are under martial law and holidays, these factories will always operate tirelessly. People wear gas masks and isolation protective clothing on their faces, and they must continue to work for a meager salary.

Miraculously, the seventh space station has not yet been isolated. But I heard that people infected with the plague have also appeared.

When Ethan received this news before, he did not intuitively feel the impact of the plague. But now, walking on the street of the seventh space station, he still felt it. Many, many stern people who are wrapped up pass by, rarely hear the voice of conversation, and never talk to people when there is no need. People bowed their heads and hunched their waists, walking quickly through the narrow alleyways, their eyes filled with fear and numbness. It seems that everyone is gray, and all emotions are also gray.

Samus took Ethan into a crooked-looking tavern. There were few people in it, and the air was filled with the smell of heavy smoke and bad beer. Samus sat on the bar familiarly and raised his hand to the fat uncle who was lazily wiping the cup.

"What do you want?"

"Do you still have BlackSkull here?"

The fat uncle hmmed from his nose, picked up two dirty empty glasses and took two glasses of dark liquid from a wooden wine barrel, and placed them in front of Samuel and Ethan a little rudely.

Just as Ethan was about to drink, he suddenly heard a high-pitched cry from behind. He turned his head and saw an Omega, who was about fifty years old, all black, lying beside him, crying bitterly in the arms of an Alpha who was also black.

"Their daughter was infected with the plague and was quarantined. It seems to have died in the quarantine area yesterday, and the body is not allowed to be seen." The fat uncle said in a tone that lacked sympathy to state the facts.

Samuel seemed to be lacking in interest in this. "May I use your phone here?"

"Long distance or short distance?"

"Short distance."

"One dime per minute, the telephone is over there." The fat uncle pointed to an antique wireless phone on a faded white-painted cabinet in the corner. There is actually a cash collection machine next to it. Samus called, Ethan stayed there and waited.

He probably wants to call home. After the plague broke out, his father seemed to have returned to the seventh space station.

"Are you not locals?" The fat uncle asked.

Ethan said, "I am not."

"Isn't it escaping from the quarantine area?" The fat uncle grinned. "I don't want another group of special soldiers in protective suits to rush in, so I don't have to do business.

"This kind of thing has happened before?"

"Just two days ago. After the fifth space station was quarantined, some escaped. One of them was here."

When Ethan heard the words on the Fifth Space Station, he suddenly felt a little sweaty palms. He raised his head and looked at the fat man through the sunglasses. "The fifth space station is also isolated?"

"Yes. I heard that the quarantine areas are already like dead cities. The roads are full of black corpses that are turning into insects. If it is not the black insects that disgusting people turn into, they are all It is a patient who bites at the sight of a person like rabies at the initial stage of infection. The army simply cannot control it."

An old woman in the seat next door suddenly put her hands together and started praying, placing a simple lunch in front of her. Ethan noticed that the pamphlet she put on her lap was the pamphlet that had been circulated in the Forbidden City before by the Benefactor.

Ethan felt his chest was firmly grasped by something, "What does the person who escaped, what does he look like?"

"It's a very thin woman, dark skinned, and she looks about thirty or forty years old."

It seems it wasn't his father... Ethan took a big sip of BlackSkull, the bitter taste choked him a few times. He wants to go to the Fifth Space Station to see, he wants to go now.

Samuel came back now, his expression a bit solemn, "No one is picking up at home, let's go straight."

Just when they checked out and stood up and planned to leave, suddenly a person rushed in from outside. He saw his hair disheveled, his body was swollen, his face that had begun to rot and turn green, and his bloodshot eyes glowed with hungry and bloodthirsty beasts. His clothes were stained with blood, his hands were so swollen that he could barely see the shape, and he was covered with a layer of slimy liquid.

The people in the tavern screamed in fear, and panicked people ran away from their seats, trying to stay away from the man who was obviously infected with the plague. The originally quiet tavern exploded in an instant, and the fat uncle turned out of the bar with a dexterity that didn't fit his size, and rushed to the back door. The infected man was like a mad dog and pounced on seeing people. Fortunately, he was clumsy and couldn't catch people for a while. It's just that the two couples who lost their beloved daughter seemed unlucky, and he was forced into a dead end. Alpha worked hard to protect his lover, but he also dared not touch the body of the infected patient. After all, the mucus is said to be highly contagious, and it is very likely to be infected by contact. He pretended to be fierce and threatened the infected person with loud anger, but his hands were shaking. His Omega partner was crying in a trembling and pleading voice: Help! Help! Who will help us! Who can help me!

His poor pleading touched a string of memory in Ethan's mind. He remembered when he was taken to the forbidden city by the robotic police, when he was shut by everyone on the other side of the door on the Neptune Space Station, and when he was left in the dark by Samuel and others after the sudden mutation of Faun. He begged like this in those times, but no one came to save him...

Until Tanithel appeared...

He stood up, ignored Samuel's pulling, and strode straight towards the infected person. He grabbed the back collar of the infected person who was about to pounce, and the black tentacles on his fingertips spread along the collar of the infected person to his neck, and then tightened suddenly.

The infected person uttered a painful whimper, but was unable to make a sound because the throat was constricted. Ethan jerked back, his huge and swollen body fell out like this, knocking over several tables and chairs. The infected person convulsed for a while, struggling to get up from the ground, and let out an angry roar. But when the bloodthirsty eyes met Ethan's eyes, who were looking at the edge of the frame from the edge of the frame by pulling down his sunglasses, he was a little bit timid, and even his body shrank slightly.

There was also a lot of commotion in the street. It seems that people from the epidemic control station have arrived after hearing the news. Knowing that he could not be seen by the people at the epidemic control station, Ethan quickly turned around and rushed out the back door with Samuel.

But even for a moment, Ethan felt that the infected person seemed to be afraid of him.

Is it because... I am the initiator of all this?

Ethan originally didn't have any intuitive feelings about the terrifying cataclysm after he mutated, but now he felt it. How many people who might be really innocent are suffering from fear and the pain of watching their loved ones turn into monsters because of him. Originally thought he had no heart and liver long ago, but at this time, his heart was still aching, and his guilt hit his mind, making him hate himself more and more.

At that time, in the underground of the forbidden city, he mutated because of anger, and followed his instinct to pour the mucus contaminated with his DNA into the mouth of the blond guard who tried to attack him. That is a kind of instinct, wanting to expand the instinct of one's own race, and contaminate what is originally part of the order.

At that time, he obeyed his instincts, thinking about how nasty and dirty people are. They are hypocritical, stupid and fanatical, and they really need to be purified.

But after seeing the sight of the seventh dimension, he began to doubt himself.

They ran to an alley a few blocks away before stopping. Samuel glared at him reproachfully. "Are you **** trying to get caught? Nosy?"

"It's not a matter for me." Ethan lowered his head and said in a depressed voice, "And, isn't this the result you want? Otherwise, you won't keep in touch with the Earth Alliance.

Samus seemed to have been punched by him, and then said for a while, "I didn't plan to hand you over to them. I just want you... to get you back..."

"What do you come back for? Help you kill all the believers of the benefactor society? Or whether it is the benefactor society or the government, you hate all of them and want to destroy everything?" Ethan said, gently placing his hands on On his left chest, where the emblem was originally painted, "If that is what you want, I am afraid that day will not be far away."

Without the emblem, his so-called "real" father is afraid that he will come to him soon. By then, even in adulthood, he might not be able to compete with an ancient "god" with a lifespan of hundreds of millions.

Moreover, he did not intend to resist.

Ethan's words left Samus speechless. He did betray Ethan, and he couldn't refute what the other party said.

So he stopped saying anything, lowered the hood on his clothes, and hurried toward his home. They didn't dare to take a taxi, after all, things like cars were too swagger at the seventh space station. They must traverse half of the space station on foot.

However, when they finally stood in the narrow stairwell before dark and pried open the door of Samuel's house with a thin wire, they found that Samuel's father was not at home.