The dim candlelight deepened the shadows on the faces of every person standing in front of Ethan, all of them in black cloaks and hoods, holding a delicate candlestick in both hands, with a black candle burning on it, emitting a Slightly scented with myrrh.
Ethan slowly sat up and looked down at himself. He had no shirt on, and all the bullet holes had almost healed, leaving only a faint scar. There are still many black lines on the side of his body and on his arms, and there is still some kind of burning pain lingering in his body, but it is obvious that the influence of the Sequence God's egg on him has been greatly weakened.
His mind was throbbing with pain, and he couldn't tell the difference between dream and reality for a while.
"You are injured." Chen Zeng said in a soothing tone, "But now you are safe."
"Where is this?" Ethan asked.
"We are on our way to Earth." Chen Zeng looked around, "This is our spaceship, the Apocalypse."
"Then... why am I on your boat?"
"We saved you. There are members of the Benefactor Society in the seventh space station. They informed me about the situation of you going to the fifth space station alone, so we took you out before the Earth Alliance blew up the fifth space station."
Ethan slowly looked around at every face with drooping eyes and a look of pious awe, his voice was cold, "Your followers are widely distributed."
Suddenly, a circle of people around him headed by Chen Zeng knelt down at the same time, holding the candle high with both hands. Just listen to Chen Zeng recite reverently, "The prophet Gad once said for God to David, the king of Israel who disobeyed God: 'I have three plagues, as you choose, I will come upon you. Or three years of famine; Either you will be defeated before your enemies, and you will be hunted down by the sword of your enemies for three months; or you will have the sword of the LORD in your kingdom, that is, a plague for three days, and the angel of the LORD will destroy all the borders of Israel.' David to Gad Said, 'I am so distressed. I want to fall into the hand of the LORD, because of his abundant mercy, but I do not want to fall into the hands of men.' So the LORD sent a plague on the children of Israel, and from the morning to the appointed time, Israel Seventy thousand people died." (Note: This passage is quoted from the Bible, 2 Samuel, chapter 24)
Ethan was unmoved and looked at the few people who worshipped him with an indifferent expression. Most of the faces he recognized were faces in the Forbidden City. It seems that now that the Earth has been occupied by the plague, the Earth Alliance has abandoned the Forbidden City.
Chen Zeng continued to recite: "When David saw the angel who destroyed the people, he prayed to the Lord and said: I have sinned and committed evil, but what have these sheep done? May your hand be against me and my father's house. On that day Gad came to David and said to him, Go up, and build an altar to the LORD on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. So David went up, just as Gad said to the LORD. David built an altar there to the LORD, and offered burnt offerings and sacrifices. So the LORD heard the petition of the nation, and the plague was stopped among the children of Israel." (Note: This passage is quoted from the Bible, 2 Samuel, chapter 1. twenty four)
Ethan interrupted him, "Don't you think I'm your god?"
"You are the angel of the Lord, the angel of destruction. Just as Jesus Christ brought forgiveness and redemption to mankind, you bring God's wrath and final judgment."
Ethan had a splitting headache, and the terrible memory of his father's death in his arms was returning to his mind little by little. Looking at the pious and ignorant expressions of the group of people around him, he felt a wave of nausea.
"We know that human beings have long deviated from the teachings of God, and have forgotten to fear and love God. We deserve what is happening now. We are willing to sacrifice to you and follow in your footsteps, only begging God to forgive those who still follow him The people." Chen Zeng stared into his eyes, his eyes had a quiet and distant power, with a depth of comfort. Ethan was looking at him with this look, and somehow he thought of Tanisel. Do people who are good at bewitching people with their beliefs have this serene look in their eyes, or are they born with this ability
"Do you think I exist to serve you and punish you for your so-called sins?" He chuckled softly, closed his eyes, took a deep breath and then exhaled again, slowly turning a dull pain in the air. Skull, "You are really arrogant."
As soon as the voice fell, several tentacles shot out from behind him, wrapping the throats of several people around at lightning speed. The men were defenseless, their eyes widened, their mouths open, their hands clutching at his tentacles to relieve the force of the throat. The others also fell to the ground in fright. One or two seemed to want to escape, but they were hesitant and finally just ran a little farther away.
But Chen Zeng still stayed where he was, looking up at Ethan who was standing up from the iron bed made of some kind of metal with a calm and pious look. Behind his body, black tentacles fluttered like wings, and there was a bit of contempt and disgust in his contemptuous eyes. Chen Zeng smiled, this is exactly the angel of death he needs, with him, no one will question the arrival of the end.
"I hate you believers." Ethan looked down at him and said, "If you want to stop the spread of the plague, you shouldn't save me."
After he finished speaking, he threw those people out. Those people were not strangled to death, but they were also quite frightened, and shrank to the ground and shivered. Ethan jumped off the bed, bypassed Chen Zeng and the shivering believers on the ground, and walked towards the circular gate of the place that looked like some kind of sacrifice.
This is indeed a spaceship, and looking at the interior design and decoration, it is a bit of the style of the Ophiuchus Alliance.
Sure enough, behind Chen Zeng is the support of the Ophiuchus Alliance.
The light in the entire spaceship was dim, and it seemed that someone deliberately made the lights ambiguous, exuding a mysterious and quiet meaning. The corridor was also crowded with believers, all of them wearing similar black hooded robes, with the emblem of the Benefactor Society hanging on their chests, and kneeling outside with low eyebrows. Seeing him come out, they seemed quite frightened, and shrank back almost at the same time.
Ethan hated the group and they killed Schneider.
They are a group of idiots who have been brainwashed by Chen Zeng, feared, and their own ignorance.
But they are right. This instinct of blind obedience to those who are stronger than them, this instinct of fearing and hating everything that is different from oneself, this instinct of wanting to use the power of the crowd to kill heretics who are weaker than them, is an instant in human genes. This gene allows humans to thrive beyond other species, build spaceships to conquer the universe, destroy planets with nuclear bombs, and have no problem with the decision to slaughter millions of people.
Anyone who was put in their life could be the same idiot who could agree that Schneider and Samuel should be hanged.
But Ethan still hated them, an urge of destruction churning inside him.
"The fifth space station has been blown up. The Earth Alliance most likely thinks you are dead inside." Chen Zeng came behind him unconsciously, his head half bowed, respectfully but not humbly.
"Did you bring back my father's body when you rescued me?" Ethan asked.
"We only have time to save you."
Ethan turned sideways, staring at him with green eyes, "I'm going to talk to you alone, and let your followers get out."
Chen Zeng looked around, raised his hand and stepped back. Those believers hurriedly turned around and retreated, like a black tide, just like the bugs who surrendered to Ethan.
You see, in fact, there are not that many differences between humans and worms.
After the people dispersed, Ethan turned to face the always calm Beta, raised his eyebrows slightly, "So, you want me to help you spread your great evil god speech?"
Chen Zeng clasped his hands in front of him with a respectful attitude, "It's not spreading, but proof. Your existence is proof."
"Aren't you afraid of being infected by me?"
"With your current physical condition, I'm afraid it's a little difficult, right?"
Ethan's fist clenched secretly. Indeed, he tried to catch those people just now, and also wanted to test his condition, but it was obviously a little difficult.
"You think you can coerce me now?" Ethan narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I know you must hate me because of what happened before you left the Forbidden City." Chen Zeng suddenly changed his words. Ethan notices that he's called him a different name, and knows it's time to get to the bottom of it from now on.
"Hate?" Ethan laughed, full of sarcasm.
"I just want you to know that it wasn't my intention. I don't know what happened to your friend."
"Of course you don't know, it's all your followers who are ignorant and misinterpreted what you mean?" Ethan seemed to have gritted his teeth by the end, and the tentacles behind him had unknowingly spread over Chen Zeng's body, wrapping around his The legs climbed upwards.
Chen Zeng obviously felt it, and his body was a little stiff, but he still kept a sincere apology on his face, "I'm not shirking responsibility, that's really my problem. In fact, I don't hate the relationship between Omegas, it's just me after all. is the preacher of the Lord, this is the doctrine of the Lord…”
"If you say one more word, I'll kill you right now." Ethan's tentacles climbed up Chen Zeng's neck, hovering around the corner of the Beta's mouth, "No, it's better to infect you, and then let your followers see See what you look like when you become a worm, and see if they will kneel down and kiss your feet?"
"I can help you." Chen Zeng said.
"How can you help me?"
"You don't really want to infect everyone, right?" Chen Zeng's rapid heartbeat was conveyed to Ethan through his tentacles, "If you wanted to, you would have done it already. Your relatives were killed by the Earth Alliance. Dead, they are the ones who put you in the forbidden city and lose everything. They use morality as a weapon to control anyone who dares to question them, and no one dares to express their thoughts. Anything they see as a threat is simply dismissed Throw it away in the forbidden city and do some tasks that are not done by humans at all! We have been oppressed by that tyrannical and cruel government for so long, and you are now like this because you have been sent to dangerous places again and again by them. Don't you want revenge?"
Ethan tilted his head to look at him, as if thinking, and said in a false dawning tone, "Retaliation? You mean overthrowing the Earth Alliance and you'll take over?"
Chen Zeng didn't dare to open his mouth at this moment, because the tentacle dripping with some unknown black mucus was rubbing against his mouth, he reluctantly said in a vague voice, "I don't deny that the country I want to create is indeed It is based on belief. Human beings are like a flock of blind sheep, they need a strong shepherd who can make decisions for them, and a set of rules of conduct that they can follow! There is no supreme faith to give them the so-called freedom They will fall apart, they will hate each other, and finally a few more terrible dictators than me will be elected. Have you forgotten the terrible world war before the establishment of the Earth Alliance?"
Ethan laughed, but the smile didn't reach his eyes, "What do you think is the difference between you and those members of the Earth Alliance? If you replace the current president, it will only be more brutal than her! You will formulate a so-called religion The law will suppress all people's desires, treat Omega as a reproductive machine, and kill everyone who doesn't believe in you or just doubts you, but also in the name of justice and benevolence, just like the god you believe in! "
"Do you care?" Chen Zeng didn't flinch before his sharp words, "This time the person who infected the plague is not the Lord, but you."
Ethan stared at him for a long time, before finally saying, "Yeah, I'm not even human. You are my enemies."
"We don't have to be enemies." Hearing the murderous intent in Ethan's tone, Chen Zeng said hurriedly, "We know the whereabouts of Samuel and his father, and we also know who you are looking for. My believers. Every corner of the Earth Alliance, I can help you!"
Ethan walked towards Chen Zeng, approaching a somewhat ambiguous distance. He pinched Chen Zeng's face and stared at him with a chilling gaze.
"You want to threaten me with Samuel?"
Under such a disadvantaged situation, Chen Zeng was able to remain calm and smiled reluctantly, "If I don't have a bargaining chip, how dare I save you?"
Ethan's slender pupils turned slightly, as if he was thinking about something, then he suddenly let go of Chen Zeng, clapped his hands as if he was dirty, and said, "Okay, I really want you to help me find someone. If If you haven't found this person after you arrive on Earth, prepare a coffin for yourself."
"Who are you looking for?"
"Former Director of Energy, Abel Ross."
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Sorry I should have written more yesterday, but I was addicted to an Australian drama (?) yesterday and couldn't extricate myself... The name is Please LIke Me