Ethan sat alone in another empty room similar to the one before, like yesterday. Immediately after the explosion, heavily armed soldiers came to surround him, and Berlander was taken away, while he was blindfolded, stuffed into a windowless aircraft, and brought directly here.
He didn't see anyone again, and he never left that chair.
He found that he didn't want to sleep, and he didn't want to eat. His right hand rubbed unconsciously at the place where the emblem was on his left chest, and his eyes were empty.
Time seems to have lost its meaning to him, he is neither arrogant nor impetuous, nor does he feel bored. Even the guards who watched him through the camera holes hidden in the walls felt their hair stand on end.
Finally, the door opened, and this time it was Roland who came in.
Roland was also a little nervous. This was not the first time he had seen Ethan, but since Ethan came out of the medical room, he could no longer regard him as the restrained Secretary of the Energy Bureau.
It's just that the boss thinks that he is the most suitable person to communicate with that terrifying and unpredictable mutant creature.
He stood in front of Ethan and gave him the still charming smile, "Meet again."
Ethan raised his eyes to look at him, lowered his eyes again, and pulled out a barb on his index finger earnestly, "How long do I have to wait? My patience is running out."
Roland said, "The Ophiuchus Alliance can send you to the Black Gate Star, and even help you find that priest named Taniser. It's just that it will take some time to negotiate with the Third Reich."
"how much longer?"
"Just 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 went straight around Roland and walked towards the door, but the moment he passed by, his arm was grabbed. Roland's deep eyes stared at him, suddenly feeling a little tender, "Ethan, I'll help you. How would you go without a spaceship?"
I'll help you, that's what Tanethel told him time and time again.
Ethan looked back at him indifferently.
"So, you were sent by them to use the handsome man's trick?" There was a slight mockery in Ethan's voice.
Roland looked at him seriously and said, "I really want to help you."
Ethan sighed and slowly drew back his hand. Continue to stride towards the door.
"It means nothing to me if you're sincere. I'm leaving now. If you don't help me, you're my enemy. Besides, you can't kill me."
As he spoke, he reached for the doorknob. That door has been locked. But a lot of black thin lines emerged from Ethan's fingertips, twisted and got into the gap between the door and the door frame. After a while, the door made a cracking sound of unlocking, and then it opened like this.
Outside the door facing the door are three giant microwave cannons, all of which are in the preheating stage at the moment. The brazen heat wave lifted the hair on Ethan's forehead, and the scorching light pierced Roland's eyes. Ethan's figure was like a grass in front of the three giant beasts, but he didn't flinch at all, and walked forward as if he didn't see anything.
Roland's expression changed, and he hurried over to close the door.
At that moment, three microwave cannons fired at the same time, and the invisible microwave beam burned the skin of the seemingly insignificant human, and he didn't even use his tentacles to block it. His skin was constantly scorched and twisted, but the countless black squirming things under that skin would soon repair new muscle and skin. In the invisible fire burning, Ethan didn't even stop as if he couldn't feel the pain. When he stepped out of the range, half of his body was almost burned, leaving only some wriggling black tentacles. On the other side is the familiar face of Ethan. The monster that seemed to have stepped out of the fire of hell was only for a moment, and through it, fresh flesh quickly grew out, perfectly stitching together with the skin on the other side. All the clothes on Ethan's body were burned, but he didn't feel shy, and was still walking forward. Suddenly, several incomparably thick tentacles shot out behind him, like a long whip whipping across the sky, instantly cutting the three microwave cannons into two pieces.
This is a military camp, and there are many fully armed soldiers standing behind the microwave cannon. At this moment, seeing the naked Ethan walking in slowly, they all took a few steps back in fear. Ethan glanced around slowly and said coldly, "Do you also want to infect the plague on Earth? Get out of the way!"
"Don't fire!" Roland had already rushed out of the room at this time, blocking Ethan, "Get out of the way!"
With orders from their superiors, the soldiers retreated to both sides. Ethan asked as he walked, "Where's Samuel? Bring him."
Roland glanced at him, and suddenly took off his long coat and put it on Ethan, "Give me an hour, and I'll convince them to take you to Black Gate Star!"
Ethan rolled his eyes slightly and glared at him, "Are you trying to make me believe in you, a person who 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 innocent people in another country. people."
"Innocent?" Ethan chuckled, "I have never seen a few innocent people in my life."
Maybe there is, he can only think of one Schneider, but he has also been killed by other innocent people.
Look at the people of the Earth Alliance, each of them has their own dark stories, but they are deeply buried, and those who deceive others and deceive themselves do not exist. They cheated on their partners behind their backs, quietly reported friends who were better off than they hated, put on another layer of identity in the domain to attack and abuse others, and even encouraged people to die when they wanted to commit suicide. He didn't even dare to go home, but he started beating and scolding his wife and children. They are full of hostility, give them a belief they can rely on, and they will immediately become the most tyrannical executioners, using the guise of "morality" to wantonly slaughter everything they don't understand.
All this happened around Ethan every day, but before he entered the forbidden city and experienced everything that followed, he thought that everything was normal.
Now, he's just getting bored.
"Roland, you don't know me." Ethan said, "I've killed a lot of people, I'm not a good person, I'm not even a person. So, I can do anything."
The tone of stating the facts, and the way he kept his eyes unblinking when he spoke, made Roland's heart feel slightly cold. Ethan has changed, changed a lot, maybe this is all caused by him.
Roland said, "One hour, I only need one hour!"
Ethan looked at him for a while, then finally sighed and said, "Okay, I'll give you an hour."
An hour later, Ethan and Samuel really got on the spaceship to Heimon. Under the intensive negotiation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Third Reich has agreed to enter a small number of soldiers from the Ophiuchus Alliance, and is willing to assist in providing information on the crashed spacecraft.
Ethan put on clean and comfortable clothes and sat on the edge of the soft and wide bed on the second floor of the luxurious guest room that was arranged for him, his eyes looking at the spinning galaxy in the distance through the transparent wall opposite. He held a glass of vodka with ice cubes in his hand, and from time to time he took a sip, letting the high-purity alcoholic drink sting the skin in his mouth. He remembered that Tanithel had said that he would be invited to taste Eve's wine, because Earth's wine was too bad. But in the end, no chance was found.
Someone asked to enter the suite, and Ethan agreed. From him, he could directly see the door of the suite on the first floor, and the person who entered was Roland.
He raised the whisky bottle in his hand to Ethan, his smile as calm and charming as always, but Ethan knew that it was just a mask on his face. Ethan put down the glass in his hand and slowly walked down the stairs.
"what's up?"
A careful look at Roland's smile reveals a bit of caution. He put the wine bottle on the bar and took two glasses, "Before arriving at Black Gate Star, I think it might be better to tell you in advance."
Ethan stood on the spot, "Go ahead."
Roland handed him a glass of wine. Ethan looked at his smile and suddenly wanted to ask, "Are you tired?"
Roland was stunned.
"Is it tiring to wear a mask every day?"
Roland suddenly felt that the green eyes staring at him seemed to be able to pierce his flesh, making him uncomfortable. He still maintained his expression, unwilling to be easily looked down upon by the "mission target" that he had so easily won in the past, "Fortunately, in my line of work, I didn't know if there was any real me other than the mask accident. already."
Ethan took the glass and shook the ice in it. He turned around and sat down on the sofa, "What are you going to tell me."
"After your ship crashed, the Third Reich sent people to investigate. They said that the ship had disintegrated and parts were scattered everywhere. It is impossible for people to survive in this situation."
"Where's the corpse?"
"I didn't find it. Eve also knows about it, and is sending someone to negotiate with the Third Empire, and wants to go to Black Gate Star to find it." Roland paused, "Did you escape from Eve Star?"
Ethan nodded.
"This time if they know you've gone too, I'm afraid..."
"I'm not afraid of them." A ray of light flashed in Ethan's eyes, "It's good if we can meet, I still have something to ask them."
Roland originally wanted to show his favor, saying that the Ophiuchus Alliance would protect him, but he didn't expect that Ethan wouldn't care at all. He hesitated, but said, "Don't worry, we won't let them touch you."
Ethan drank all the wine in the glass in one gulp, and put the glass on the coffee table in front of him at will, "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 bug. If I'm not mistaken, I'm afraid there may be some extras in the glass of wine just now."
His words made Roland's face pale.
Indeed, there is a newly developed neurotoxin in the wine, which, although not dead, can be paralyzing. Roland had an antidote in his pocket, just in case he had to drink it, he had half an hour to take the antidote, so that he would be saved.
But looking at Ethan's appearance of nothing now, it seems that he has failed again.
Fortunately, the spaceship has left the fifth star now. If Ethan decides to infect the whole ship in a rage, he still has time to notify the headquarters to start the self-destruction procedure of the spaceship.
It's 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 doesn't make sense to me. You can continue if you want to try, as long as you don't get in my way. It's fine." After he finished speaking, he turned around and planned to go upstairs.
Roland felt that he had never suffered such a blow in his life.
Although he had already made plans to die generously, he was easily "pardoned" by the unworthy person in front of him.
He felt that he was not facing a single person, but a being that was too much beyond him who didn't take him seriously at all. He finally gave up all his calm, and the smile fell apart on his face. He grabbed Ethan's wrist and stopped Beta so easily. He obviously still looks like a scholar who has no power, how could it be...
"You... what the hell are you!" Roland asked almost gritted his teeth.
Ethan didn't even try to break free, just in this position he lowered his eyes slightly, thinking seriously, "I don't know what I am either."
"What are you going to do! Infect the entire galaxy with that disease?!"
"I said it," Ethan said with the patience of a childish child. "There is only one person I want, Tanisel."
"He is dead!"
"Dead..." Ethan said, with a layer of sadness slowly closing his eyes. He slowly closed his eyes, "Even if he goes to hell, I will pull him back."
But at this moment, the master suddenly heard that Samuel was coming in, and there was a loud kicking sound from outside the door. Even through the soundproof door, Ethan could hear Samuel yelling from outside, "Ethan! Ethan! Are you all right! I heard the guy named Sean is here!"
Just as Ethan agreed to let him in, Samuel rushed in like a whirlwind. Seeing that Roland was holding Ethan's arm, he immediately flew over. Roland let go of Ethan and rolled on the spot to avoid him.
"Ethan! Did he do anything to you!" Samuel glared at the man on the ground. And Roland also stared back with a pair of sharp eyes. Damn, why is this Omega tougher than any Alpha he's ever seen...
Ethan pressed Samuel's shoulders and gave a mild smile, "It's alright. We're chatting."
Roland got up from the ground, but was too embarrassed to take this sentence. Ethan didn't even say anything about the poison in the wine, which made him even more embarrassed. He clenched his fists and turned to leave, but heard Ethan say behind him, "Commissioner Sean, don't forget your wine."
Seeing the man's dejected back, Samuel also felt a little strange. He turned to Ethan, looking up and down.
Since he came out of that medical warehouse, he hadn't had a chance to take a closer look at Ethan, but now that he looked at it, it really changed a lot.
He seemed to have become more calm, and the slender pupils in those green eyes also made people feel a little uneasy.
"Samuel, do you have anything to do with me?"
Samuel nodded. He lowered his eyes and hesitated before saying, "I want to say goodbye to you in advance. After I have been to Black Gate Star with you this time, I plan to return to Earth. I am afraid that I will be in a hurry and won't have a chance 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 irritably, "I want to make sure he is safe."
"But the Earth Alliance is looking for you now. Going back is a dead end."
"Now that the plague is so bad, I just need to be careful and I should be fine."
Ethan looked at him and squeezed his shoulder. He laughed, although it was a little sad, "You're right, it's time to go back and have a look."