Falling into the Abyss

Chapter 114: Alliance of Ophiuchus (6)

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"What's his current condition?" An elderly female voice came from the other side of the communicator.

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

"Is that priest Eve sure dead?"

"Sure. Ethan Eldridge seems to have accepted that. He refuses to speak to anyone now and is alone in the room."

On the screen in front of him was Ethan's suite, and pinpoint-sized cameras were installed everywhere in the luxurious cabin, and Ethan's every move was under his observation. At this moment, Ethan sat motionless on the edge of the bed, his eyes looking straight ahead, like a statue. Roland frowned, "He has never slept, just sitting in one position on the bed."

"Maybe you can use his companion." The female voice said, "Didn't you hear him say he was going to Earth before?"

"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 can't be killed and can't be controlled, leave it to the Earth Alliance to deal with it. Never let him go. Bring back the Ophiuchus Alliance. We now have his DNA samples in our hands, and we may be able to develop a vaccine for the plague. Before that, be careful with him, and don't do anything that might provoke him."

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

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

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

Are you going to sleep

Roland had never seen Ethan sleeping since he came out of the medical warehouse. He thought that the mutated Ethan no longer needed sleep. But that doesn't seem to be the case

Ethan pulled the quilt on his body and closed his eyes. Roland made himself a big cup of coffee and planned not to sleep tonight, staring earnestly at the person who was sleeping peacefully on the screen.

Ethan slept well, barely moving for the first two hours. However, in the third hour, something strange happened. Many tentacles of different thicknesses protruded from under his quilt, spreading like black water on the bed as quickly as he fell asleep. Those terrifying, barbed, scaly, or worm-like tentacles grew like black blood vessels in all directions, even snaking up the walls, covering everything they encountered on the way. The originally snow-white walls were now almost covered with black, and even the peeping cameras could only vaguely see a little bit of the scene in the room from the gaps between the tentacles. Roland had to keep switching cameras to see what was inside.

It looks like this room, and even the ship, may need to be completely destroyed after Ethan leaves...

Ethan's sleep was no longer stable. The center of his brow was slightly frowned, slightly raised, and there was a slight spasm in his body. He seemed to be afraid, and his body curled up under the quilt, and even the tentacles shrank toward the middle for a moment. He turned over, and a few tentacles lifted the quilt, revealing a nightmarish scene under the quilt.

Roland could barely see Ethan's body. All he saw were tentacles, twisting and wriggling like snakes, and the tentacle-like organs swaying messily. In the twisted blackness, only Ethan's pale face was clearly discernible, and he lay in the midst of these filthy tentacles, unknowingly continuing to struggle in the dream. Roland felt nauseated and wanted to vomit. He took a big gulp of cold coffee and turned his eyes away for a moment.

All this is crazy, he even lived with this man for a while before... Thinking of this, he felt even more nauseated...

Just then, a scream came from the monitor.

It was from Ethan.

He was still lying, his eyes still closed, but he was screaming. It wasn't just a cry of fear, it was a language Roland had never heard before.

As an Ophiuchus agent, Roland is proficient in dozens of interstellar common languages and can basically recognize hundreds of them, but he has never even heard of this language. He listened carefully, and it seemed that the pronunciation was somewhat similar to the horned language of the Mussels, but it was only a little bit, and it didn't help at all to understand it. He tried to record those voices, intending to send them back to Ophiuchus for those linguists to analyze.

Suddenly, something wasn't quite right on those screens, shot from different angles.

Something, something shapeless, was descending little by little from top to bottom. It seemed to be some kind of transparent medium in which light was refracted and twisted in unusual ways. But suddenly, something in that medium opened slowly, like a mouth. From the screen, it's as if space is twisting oddly over Ethan.

He leaned closer to the screen and rubbed his eyes, only to be sure it wasn't his dazzling eyes.

What it is

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

Roland hesitated, wondering if he should send someone in to rescue. But he thought about it, now that in this unknown situation, if he rashly let people in, there might be unexpected consequences. Too risky.

Besides, Ethan was a threat.

He immediately ordered the entire corridor near Ethan's apartment to be blocked off and no one was allowed to approach. At this time, on the screen, that transparent thing seemed to stick out something, entangling Ethan's tentacles. Extreme heat erupted from the place where it was in contact, an explosion sounded in an instant, sparks scattered, flames ignited in the cabin, and a piercing alarm sounded, and the fire extinguishing device automatically lowered from the ceiling, spraying a large amount of water.

The astonishing explosion shook the entire spaceship, and Roland took a few steps back in shock. He nervously checked the damage with the main brain, but fortunately, the main brain reported that there was no fatal damage, and the repair robot has been dispatched to repair it.

And louder than the siren was Ethan's cry of pain. 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 he suddenly remembered something, hurriedly tore off his pajamas, and wiped the strange emblem on his chest with his hands.

After the emblem was completely removed, all the tentacles had also returned to the body. Ethan didn't dare to let out the air, and lay motionless on the bed, watching the distorted space above keep shaking. From time to time, some tongue-like bulges appeared from the mass of matter, rubbing around, as if looking for something.

After about an hour or so, all the fires were put out by automatic devices, and the entire suite was in a mess, but the strange transparent substance seemed to gradually dissipate, like qi, it disappeared like it never existed.

Ethan on the bed sighed, got up from the bed, and stumbled into the bathroom, holding onto the furniture.

Roland recorded it all. He leaned back in his chair, his mind racing.

So... Ethan is not invincible. That transparent thing... seems to be able to hurt him

And the emblem he hastily erased... I saw it on him after saving him...

Who gave him the emblem? What is the relationship with that transparent substance? Does Ethan's lack of sleep have something to do with this

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

His breathing has not yet calmed down, and his heartbeat is still fast enough to burn the rest of his life. With trembling hands, he lifted his wet forehead hair, and a sharp pain made him realize that the nails of his middle and ring fingers had fallen off.

It turned out that this is what will happen after Entropy and Xue come into contact... He will be severely burned, and the other party... The huge creature with all kinds of eyes that appeared in the dream will also vaporize a little where it comes in contact with him.

He is not even a fully entropy individual. If the Entropy God and the Sequence God collide, I am afraid the power generated will be more terrible than the energy released by the encounter between positive and negative matter. And, both sides would annihilate in that collision, and the two energies would mix. What would happen after that... He couldn't think of it either.

So, if he is now injected with the egg solution of the prelude... it is equivalent to injecting sulfuric acid into his veins...

he might die...

If I die, will I no longer have to live like this now, will I finally be able to rest? Is that a better option

He put his hand on his left chest, where the emblem should have been drawn. Now there is nothing left of Tanisel's possession.

"Live well and take a look for me."

This is Tanisel's last request.

Live well.

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

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

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

"What the hell are you doing!" Samuel looked him up and down, and quickly noticed the blackened middle and ring fingers of his right hand, "How did you do it with your hand?"

"No big deal," Ethan said.

"It's all scorched and it's no big deal! Hey! Do you have a doctor here?" Samuel shouted at the soldiers, but everyone looked at them with an expression like an enemy, no one answered, but all Go away quickly.

Ethan squeezed Samuel's shoulder reassuringly, and said in a patient tone like coaxing his girlfriend, "It's really okay, it'll be fine in two days. You don't want to make a fuss about a little injury."

"Is this a small injury? How can you let me go with peace of mind?"

However, Ethan suddenly raised his mouth, tilted his head slightly and looked at Samuel, "Since you care about me so much, I'll go with you."

Samuel didn't react for a while, "Huh?" He looked at Ethan 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."

"What's wrong with that! You go to the earth now to seek death! Do you know that the earth regards you as the number one danger now!"

Ethan replied calmly, "But didn't you always plan to bring me back to Earth?"

Samuel froze for a moment, 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 it's probably for revenge." Ethan passed by him and walked to the public lounge not far away. His eyes lowered slightly, and when he turned his back to Samuel, he showed a little sadness, "When I was in the cocooning period, the range of perception became much wider. I heard you use Tanisel for you. The Ball of Breath talked to the people of the Earth Alliance... It seems to be Derek, right? I know that you were already planning when you were on Eve, otherwise it would be impossible for you to break into the castle of Tanissell. Save me from the basement. Also, our spaceship route was originally heading in the direction of Amonia, but finally deviated from the route to the border of the Third Reich and the Ophiuchus Alliance, although I don't know how you did it Yes, but based on your conversations with Derek, it's almost certain that you have done something."

His tone was calm and calm, without any hint of anger, just as if he was stating the facts. He sat on the sofa with his back to Samuel, poured himself a glass of white water and sipped a few sips, not seeing the slightly stiff Omega behind him.

"What I don't understand is." Ethan looked back at him, "Why must I go back to Earth? Just leave me alone and let them perform that seance, and in the end all those people you hate will be destroyed. of."

"No, you must go back to Earth." Samuel whispered, "If you complete the seance on Eve, the eggs of the gods will probably explode immediately, and they will also attract the counterattacks of the gods. What matters is that you are destined to come down to earth and destroy that sinful kingdom."

Samuel looked at Ethan, "Don't you understand?" When order collapses, worms wailing in the hollow earth, and shadows devour the entire galaxy, the extradition of the gods will open the gates of chaos.' It's the Earth Alliance that's messed up by the plague, the second universe infection, and the rising rise of the Benefactors. And you bring the worms to Earth, then both of the first two fit. The final shadow engulfs the galaxy Maybe it has something to do with the expansion of the infection in the second universe, at least according to the news from Derek."

Ethan frowned slightly. He couldn't think of when Samuel knew so much, including missions like the Second Universe that he didn't take part in. Did the Earth Alliance tell him? But didn't Theonier read the words he said during the Holy Spirit Sacrifice

"Since Schneider died, I have started to have some strange dreams." Samuel's expression at this time was a little wrong, as empty as he was in a daze, completely opposite to the vivid appearance just now, "I dreamed of blood, and there was blood everywhere. , and I stepped on those corpses. All those who killed Schneider, those who bullied my father, those who drove James crazy, those who forced me to pretend to be my gender, those who said I killed a scumbag The guilty ones who threw me into that hellish place in the forbidden city... they were all dead, and even the ones that weren't dead were trampled underfoot by me, smashed to pieces, and their faces were blurred. I had blood on my hands, but not My blood. That dream was so real and terrifying, I could even feel the touch of crushing the skulls of those people, listening to their screams at that time... I felt so happy... so satisfied... "

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

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

But Samuel's account isn't over yet, "and then... a man in black will appear. He told me that if you want revenge, if you want your dreams to come true, you have to find a way to bring you back to Earth."

The author has something to say:

So Samuel also turned a little black~ Of course, it was all under the training of Ethan's father...