The fifth space station, a prosperous and beautiful sky garden. Most of the people living here are the middle class or even the upper class gentlemen and ladies. Many important government departments were also located here, even including the residence of the President. But when the plague broke out, this area was the first to suffer. It was only because several celebrities who contracted the disease while traveling on Earth cleared the relationship and escaped from the quarantine area, bringing the epidemic to this former paradise. .
The big president is the first to be transferred, and then the major government officials. People are scrambling to abandon their homes in an attempt to escape to a safer space station. Those who had no time to escape were completely sealed inside and monitored by the military to prevent anyone from escaping from it. Any ships that tried to leave after the blockade were destroyed.
No reports, no photos, no one knows what's going on inside the fifth space station now. Tens of thousands of people just evaporated out of thin air, and no one knows what happened to them.
At this critical moment, there are too many such things, everyone is in danger and can only hope that they are not the unlucky person trapped in the quarantine area.
Ethan's spaceship slowly entered the field of the fifth space station without encountering any obstacles. Yet he knew he was being watched.
It is a spherical space station with a central core of a rotating diamond in the middle, from which many super-long channels protrude, weaving a honeycomb-like building network on the outer layer. The pale blue atmosphere that wraps the entire space station is still quietly rotating with the autobiography of the space station. It seems that the life support system in the core that drives the entire space station has not been damaged.
Looking at the quiet blue, Ethan slowly exhaled from his chest. A faint sourness churned in his throat, and nostalgia mixed with a bit of timidity tangled in his heart.
It's been too long since he came home, his dream home, but he didn't expect to come back in such a situation.
He was suddenly a little scared.
He originally thought that this feeling of fear would die with his past self after he awakened, but now it seems that he still retains the emotions of many people.
Cowardly, he was afraid of what he was about to see.
And all of this was caused by himself.
His spaceship slowly entered the once extremely prosperous international spaceport that he knew well, but at this moment only one of his spaceships entered the empty terminal building through several routes. There were several ships at the mooring that were covered in dust and some kind of sticky oil, and were asleep. There seemed to be something wrong with the gravity system. Many sundries and repair tools were quietly suspended in the air and were taken out by Ethan's spaceship. cyclone disturbance.
The calm pale blue air made everything seem very empty and quiet, and Ethan got out of the spaceship, took a deep breath of the air of his hometown, and frowned.
Although it is a unique smell of the fifth space station, it is mixed with a thick dank and rancid smell, like the smell of some kind of sticky amphibian carcass rotting in a tree hole covered with moss lichen, greasy and greasy of.
In the empty terminal building, all the food and beverage stalls quietly peeped at him, and those huge fast food signs were still hanging flamboyantly, covered with thick dust, and some kind of sadness that he was familiar with. of black ointment. There was still a plate or two on the table, with drink cups and disposable plates covered in thick mold. As he walks the wide walkway littered with snack packs and discarded salutes, the sights are both familiar and unfamiliar.
I still remember that I used to work in the Energy Bureau, and when I needed to travel to other space stations, I used to board the ship here. He likes to eat fried noodles and drink milk tea at the Chinese restaurant on the left, then slowly carry his suitcase to wait for boarding. But now the tables and chairs in the restaurant are messy, the kitchen is empty, and the plaster lions used for decoration at the entrance of the hall are also broken into powder.
Leaving the spaceport, there is a desolate doomsday scene in front of you. Many dual-purpose vehicles and aircrafts that have been here for an unknown period of time are piled up in the middle of the road, and the bodies of many vehicles are seriously deformed, and apparently they collided with each other in the air and crashed. The middle of the road is a mess, covered with many parts and gravel of roadblocks. The empty buildings on both sides were buried in the light mist, looking desolate and desolate.
Ethan stayed in place for a while, staring blankly at everything in front of him, and vaguely still had the impression of the past here in his mind. But in just a few months, this place has become like this.
He walked slowly along the oil-stained road and found a still intact aircraft along the way. The driver was still sitting in the driver's seat, but the head and limbs seemed to be torn off by something, and the rotting torso had a large hole in the stomach, and intestines flowed out of it. Ethan stretched out his hand and dragged the broken body out, and sat in it himself, without disliking the mucus spreading on the seat. He found a physical spare key from the drawer in front of the passenger and inserted it into the groove next to the console. A series of buttons immediately appeared on the screen, and a steering wheel was projected in front of him.
Fortunately, this aircraft has lighting panels that rely on solar energy to charge, otherwise it will definitely not be able to operate even if the electricity has not been drained for so many months.
Driving the broken spaceship, he flew quickly and directly towards the direction of home. Not the apartment he rented himself, but the beautiful cottage surrounded by wormwood where he grew up. He landed a few blocks from home, because that point of sunlight-generated electricity had also been exhausted. He was walking down the street in the former high-end residential area that led to his home. Weeds sprang up from the connected courtyards, raging on the otherwise straight and tidy roads. There were uplifted cracks on the road, and more than half of the houses had collapsed. Both the plants and the ruins were covered with a layer of black ointment-like substance, with colorful oil colors flickering and changing in the light. Plants are withering and decaying, giving off a stench. The metal or cement of the cast house also swelled with a black blister-like substance, twisting and deforming a little.
The courtyard of his house was also deserted like other courtyards. Hemerocallis became a puddle of mud, and only some traces of the former rhizomes could be vaguely seen. The cobbled path was now unseen, and rotting plant leaves covered everything like a carpet. The several cement steps leading to the gate became very crisp for some reason, and as soon as they stepped on it, they scattered into a pile of gravel. The doorknob was thick with rust, the color of blood. He held his hand on it, and the bone-chilling cold flowed deep into his bones.
Ethan slammed the door open and saw everything in the house.
He suddenly remembered that this was the nightmare he had entered when he was in the forbidden city.
At that time, he didn't know that he was the culprit behind it all, and he didn't know what he would become.
This is his home, which originally carried all the memories from his birth to the age of eighteen, a place where he could come back no matter how painful things happened.
there is none left.
Wallpaper rotted and peeled, tables and chairs were covered with mold. A rotten stench made his eyes hurt. He walked into the room numbly, watching the familiar but unrecognizable furnishings and rotten furniture quietly watching him.
He saw the cotton in the armchair his father used to sit on was rotten to black, saw the robot model he made when he was a child scattered on the ground, and saw that the baking utensils that his mother had carefully maintained were covered with a thick layer of rust. All his memories are rotting here, with empty eyes laughing at the memory of his death.
Only at this time did he realize what he had given up when he accepted the terrifying darkness in his body.
"Making yourselves at home" came from outside the door with a hint of playful questioning, Ethan turned around abruptly, but what he saw was Senator Aguda who he had seen on the screen before. She was wearing a tightly wrapped protective suit, and her voice came from a loudspeaker on the jacket. Behind her, many heavily armed soldiers were pointing their guns at him.
Ethan asked, "Where's my father?"
Aguda curled the corners of his mouth coldly and pushed back two steps.
Two soldiers pointed guns at a man whose neck and hands were locked with steel locks. It was a male Alpha with gray hair, a sallow complexion, and a rickety figure. His eyes were bloodshot and he was breathing heavily. The skin on his arms was gradually turning black. Everything is telling him that this is a patient in the early stages of infection.
But the familiar facial features made Ethan like a thunderbolt.
His father, once tall, handsome and proud, was now staring at him with a pair of godless eyes. In those empty eyes, it was difficult to find the light that was once familiar and confident.
Ethan's Adam's apple slid up and down, his mouth opened, but nothing came out.
"Your father persisted here for a long time, and he was finally infected a few days ago." Aguda said slowly, "If the serum cannot be developed as soon as possible, he will soon become an infected person like other infected people. monster."
Ethan wanted to step forward, but the two soldiers immediately pressed their guns against Adrian's head, and the infrared dots of several other sniper rifles also floated at the fatal points of Adrian's body. Maybe his speed is fast enough to kill the two soldiers with guns in an instant, but how to deal with those snipers who don't know where to hide
Adrian's head was tilted slightly, but he didn't even struggle. Those eyes were fixed on Ethan, without even blinking.
Ethan had to stop, and his eyes were dry and painful. He took a deep breath and said as calmly as possible, "What do you want from me."
"We want you to inject this into your body yourself," Aguda said, throwing something on the ground. It made a crisp crash and rolled to Ethan's feet.
It was a familiar pale blue injection.
The solution of the egg of the order god.
Ethan was stunned. He didn't expect Eve to give such an extravagant gift to the Earth Alliance. Did you know that he was going to destroy him after he could not complete the seance
Is this what Nyarlathotep means? Or is there any other way for the Earth Alliance to get the Egg of the Order God
"Why do you have this?" Ethan asked.
Aguda raised his head slightly arrogantly, "All Eve's eggs of the gods were also found on the newborn planet. What they can do, our Earth Alliance can naturally do it. It's just that we couldn't control these things before. , but after the Mars experiment, we know that you can do it, so that is to say, any initial infected person can do it." She paused slightly and continued, "Well, maybe they can only do it. Half of you died because of the decomposition of your body, but they are not saved anyway, we just help them get rid of it earlier."
Ethan's fists were clenched tightly, his knuckles turned white, "My father... you infected him! Isn't it!"
"If you don't do this, how can you cooperate? What's more, only when someone important to you is infected can you realize how sinful what you have done, and you will cooperate with us to study the serum. Don't worry, we give you the sequence The God's Egg Solution is diluted, and based on your previous performance, it shouldn't kill you." Aguda said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Now, it's time for you to make a choice."
For MPs, this meeting was a very risky one. If Ethan decides to ignore Adrian's life, then all of them have to die. Even if the military had time to detonate the nuclear bomb that had been buried inside the space station to kill the human-looking monster in front of him, it also lost the opportunity to use the source of infection to study the serum.
Ethan looked at Adrian, who looked at him, suddenly opened his mouth, and said dully, "Go..."
It was just one word, but it made Ethan's eyes wet.
With this word, he knew that his trip was not in vain. He squatted down slowly and grabbed the injection...