On the Apocalypse, Ethan didn't expect to meet Tai Feng.
He hardly needs to sleep now. When the people in the spaceship enter the sleep period, he will wander alone in the corridors with interlaced lights and shadows, smelling the unique smell that permeates the air from each human being.
Humans don't know that when they have different emotions, they taste different. But in this spacecraft, it seems that people's odors are contagious, and the difference between each person is much smaller than that of the previous seventh space station. It was a peculiar mix of intensity, dependence, power, intense happiness and hatred, and the helplessness and fear that lurked behind it all. This is probably the taste of the so-called human beliefs, right
If the reverence of the Entropy God among the Eves in Theonier is the real crazy belief, the belief here is the drug used to paralyze oneself in the face of unknown fear and despair.
But the taste of this airtight faith is not set in stone either. Occasionally he also smelled suspicious. That's how he found Tai Feng.
The most important place in the Apocalypse is probably the chapel in the middle of the spacecraft. In the front, the great benefactor stood under the cross of the crucifix, but behind the crucifix there was a black octopus-like figure standing, probably the image of the great evil god they imagined. Looking at the tentacles and the seemingly human-shaped body in the center, Ethan had to suspect that it was an image based on him.
There were no chairs in the chapel, and everyone knelt on a square cushion to pray. The chapel was usually empty at that time, but Ethan could smell a familiar scent inside.
Unique smell belonging to Omega.
At that time, Taifeng stood motionless in front of the statue, as if in a daze. Ethan walked slowly behind him.
"I didn't expect that you also joined the Benefactor Association." Ethan's voice was a little cold.
Tai Feng turned around slowly, with a calm expression on his beautiful face, as if he had long expected to see him, "Now those who want to live can only join them, and I just want to live."
"What about the other people in the forbidden city?"
Taifeng lowered his eyes, "Since you had an accident underground, the plague first broke out in the forbidden city. The government decided to isolate the forbidden city, and Vasilev began to massacre people who might be infected in the city. Everyone was afraid of being infected. Even people with a simple cold will be reported. Only those of the Benefactor Society are given preferential treatment and given a period of observation. So most of the people converted to the Benefactor Society. Later, the plague spread all over the earth, the earth In order to control the epidemic, the alliance has placed the entire earth into a quarantine zone, and the Forbidden City has almost no one to control it. Now it is the base camp of the Benefactor Association."
"All the guards removed?"
"No, there are still many guards stationed in the forbidden city, but most of them are believers of the Benefactor Society, and even Vasilev is with Chen Zeng."
Recalling the chaotic and dirty place in the Forbidden City, Ethan had mixed feelings in his heart. Before he paced to the altar, he picked up the silver wine glass enshrined on it, filled with blood-like red wine. He shook the liquor and asked, "Did you betray Samuel and the head of the guard when you were tortured to get a confession?"
A bit of sadness and shame finally appeared on Tai Feng's face. He lowered his head, "Vasilev had already obtained the DNA of the chief of guards at that time, even if I didn't tell him it would be over... They said that as long as I was willing to testify, they could give me 50 points of morality... "
fifty points…
Even if it is a mission that has no return like the Red Earth, it is only very good.
Ethan laughed lowly, his laughter was a bit sad, "Fifty points, it turns out that the friendship between us to help each other is worth so much."
Taifeng murmured, "I just want to live, I can't stay in the forbidden city anymore", and he didn't know whether to tell Ethan or himself. Ethan looked up and drank the red wine, the red flowing down the corner of his mouth, as if he was drinking blood. He drank a whole glass in one go, threw the silver wine glass on the ground, turned around and stared at Tai Feng, "You know I'm on the boat, why don't you hide? Do you think I'll miss your old love and forget your betrayal?"
Tai Feng looked at him not without fear, but more tired. He looked older and thinner than before, and he could no longer see the proud light in his eyes when he was at the Energy Bureau.
He said, "I'm not that naive. I've heard what you've done too, and I know you're not the same you were before. I just wanted to tell you... I'm sorry to say to you."
Ethan stared at him with an old-fashioned look.
If it wasn't for his whistleblowing, the identities of Schneider and Samuel wouldn't be exposed, they wouldn't be caught, they wouldn't be caught and lynched by their benefactor, and they wouldn't be like that, and there wouldn't be a plague. There will be no Eve, no adulthood, no loss of Tanisel, no father infection, no shooting...
But on the other hand, if Vasilev really had Schneider's DNA long ago, then his whistleblower was just the icing on the cake, and it would not change the outcome whether it was there or not.
But even so, such a betrayal cannot be forgiven.
A huge black shadow rose up behind Ethan, and the powerful tentacles suddenly wrapped around Tai Feng's waist. Omega's heart was beating so fast, his body was shaking in fear of dying, but he didn't struggle.
"I'm sorry..." he whispered, closing his eyes slowly, "I'm tired of running away... I knew I wouldn't be able to get out of the Forbidden City, I wouldn't have done this... I'm willing to pay my life... "
"Loyalty without a choice is not loyalty at all." Ethan looked at him with pity, "Give you another chance, you will still betray us."
After he finished speaking, another weird pipe-like tentacle stretched out from behind him and slammed into Taifeng's mouth. Omega's body twitched uncontrollably in his confinement, and a thick black liquid was poured into the other's slender throat.
He heard the sound of Tai Feng being choked, and saw the fear gradually rising in the other's eyes.
He didn't intend to kill Tai Feng.
Since that Omega wants to live so much, he will fulfill him.
A minute later he finally let go of Tai Feng, who immediately fell to the ground like a puddle of mud, clutching his throat and retching on the ground. But nothing came out.
"You probably won't see any change in the first few days, and it probably won't be too good for a while." Ethan looked down at him and said, "You will leave the forbidden city, and in the future, you will no longer be able to betray me." He passed the poor man shivering like fallen leaves in the wind and left the chapel.
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Three days later, they were close to Earth.
Obviously, this Apocalypse has a strong stealth system, and it has not been discovered by several monitoring satellites scattered in the solar system and attracted chasing troops.
In the distance, the blue planet, still beautiful but no longer fertile, still revolves tirelessly in its orbit. Ethan looked at the cradle of civilization in the universe through the thick nano-glass, and a faint sense of unbearableness rose in his heart.
If the director is really found, if the director is really Nyarlathotep, if he really accepts the fate he has arranged for him.
All this will cease to exist.
Earth, Space Station, Eve, Milky Way…
It will become as dangerous and desolate as the second universe, where the stars are few and far away, and the universe is filled with nothing but endless darkness.
But what does it matter, he doesn't care. Is it better to exist than not to exist
"Eldridge." Chen Zeng walked to him slowly, with a polite smile on his face, "Good news, the person you are looking for has gone missing."
Ethan rolled his eyes and asked him with his eyes.
"Abel Ross. He was implicated in your affairs before and his position was frozen, but it seems that he still participated in some important decisions of the Energy Bureau. After you disappeared from the forbidden city, he also disappeared. Some people say that he was assassinated by the Earth Alliance. .But just a few days ago he was seen outside the isolation zone of the tenth space station, when he was aboard a ship that seemed to be trying to enter an area infected by the second law of the universe."
The tenth space station…
Ethan still remembers the horrific sight of watching space warp in front of him, watching people disintegrate into a puddle of flesh in front of him.
"Where is he now?"
"No one will see him after the tenth space station."
Ethan looked at him with a sharp look, "You call this found?"
"People who entered the isolation area of the tenth space station have never been able to come out." Chen Zeng said.
Ethan laughed, "The problem is, he's not human."
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When the spaceship landed, no one knew that the infection had begun to spread quietly among the believers.
What Ethan had injected into Taifeng wasn't as mutating as the one he'd injected into the blond guard earlier, on the contrary, the infection was more patient and more pervasive this time around. When he coughed, the parasitic spores would follow his breath and drift into the air, quietly burrowing into the bodies of every believer nearby.
Ethan also didn't know what this kind of thing would bring. He just relied on an almost primitive instinct to release the things that were quickly generated in his body and poured them into Taifeng's mouth.
He hoped that the spores would make more people his kind, and those who called him monsters his kind.
The spaceship landed in the desert near the forbidden city, and the black outline of the sinful city could be seen in the distance. There was a faint rancid smell in the air, which was disgusting in the past, but now it smells kind of friendly. It was as if he belonged to this taste in the first place.
The gates of the Forbidden City are wide open, like welcoming warriors who have returned in triumph. There were many former inhumans gathered under the once heavily guarded city walls. They stared at the returning people with a pair of fearful or empty eyes, and the air over the whole city was terribly silent.
The atmosphere in the Forbidden City changed. Obviously there is no more garrison guards of the Earth Alliance, but some kind of oppressive air is becoming more and more dignified. Ethan saw many faces he had seen on both sides. Those people were originally noisy hooligans who grew up on the street, but now they are also standing respectfully on both sides of the road, with a humble and cautious look.
But obviously, the fear for Ethan could not be concealed. They dared not look up at him, and even shrugged their shoulders as if they wanted to step back.
This feeling of being feared and respected is unexpectedly good.
No wonder people always want to step on other people to climb to the top of power. No wonder even a good-natured person will become a tyrant once he gains this power of life and death.
Ethan looked around at the people around him, and suddenly said to Chen Zeng, "Where's Vasilev?"
Chen Zeng seemed a little surprised that he asked Gray Mao, "Are you looking for him?"
"Well. I want you to tie him up and bring him to me. Also, right here, build a gallows for me." Ethan said with a dark and evil sneer, "You don't mean, I Is it the messenger who brought the doomsday judgment. Then I'm welcome."