The command center was in chaos, Senator Sean had already retreated with his subordinates, leaving only another relatively young Senator Beta. The sudden infection of the second law of the universe is approaching from all directions at an incredible speed, and the people of the fourth space station are running away, but more people are trapped in the ferry ferry and cannot leave. Naturally, the third space station was also in panic, and people retreated towards the second and first space stations.
Roland didn't leave. Unexpectedly, the high priest of the Preface of Eve also didn't leave. Now it is difficult for them to know what is going on on the earth, because too much space turbulence and electromagnetic interference make it impossible for them to detect what is going on under the black fleshy cloud that covers almost the entire earth.
Don't fire at the entropy gods, trust the order gods, that's what the high priest said to them. The young councilor of the Earth Alliance chose to trust the judgment of the High Priest, and he himself thought it might be their best bet.
But now he is not so sure.
They sent several unmanned spacecraft to rush to the earth before, most of them disintegrated on the periphery of the black flesh, and only one penetrated through a certain gap. Finally got some shaky and blurry images at this point.
What he saw was hell.
Collapsing mountains and cities were everywhere, and magma rolled up from the deep underground, converging into a scarlet ocean, devouring all remaining creatures. In the smoke of gunpowder, countless huge and indescribable figures stand between heaven and earth, and their nightmarish tentacles stretch to the end of heaven and earth. Those things are the source of all human fears and nightmares, the beginning and end of all matter. Wherever they passed, landslides and fissures, leaving no soil behind.
Sometimes, you can see those giant creatures fighting with other giant creatures that emit a gas or colloid that is not known to be between light blue or milky white. Every time they make contact, there will be a huge explosion, generating radiation that is enough for a hundred miles to grow, and the shock wave ripples like water ripples.
No human beings can survive on the present Earth, and the civilizational center of the galaxy has been destroyed.
Then, the probe finally found Ethan.
At this moment, Ethan was already unrecognizable, and his whole body was wrapped in a vortex of black tentacles. Above his head, something indescribable was surging in the sky, like flesh and mucus, and colors that were difficult to recognize by the human eye were spinning endlessly. Those substances and tentacles adhered to each other, forming a sinister and huge pillar. With this as the center, time and space are twisted like a runaway, attracting the second universe from all directions to spread here.
Near it, a gelatinous creature whose whole body seemed to be covered with eyes was wrapped in layers by its tentacles, and it seemed to be seriously injured. It was trying to break free, tore off a few tentacles, but behind it appeared a vaguely human-shaped giant with a blood-red tentacle where it should have been a head. The giant hugged the gelatinous creature violently, and icy blue flames erupted where the two lifeforms touched.
But in the end, the gelatinous creature seemed to have the upper hand, protruding countless thin things from those eyes and piercing the giant's body sharply.
When this gelatinous creature appeared, the high priest fell to his knees as if he had seen a god, chanting in his mouth. And Roland also found that even though the picture was blurry, when he stared at those eyes for a long time, his heart that was tumbling with fear and anxiety suddenly became calm, even to the point where his heart was still like water, and he had no desires. But when he looked away, the feeling of living horror returned.
He was shocked, watching it all with wide eyes. No human being can maintain peace of mind after seeing these creatures that surpassed the interstellar civilization. He is not even sure that after all this, if he can survive by chance, he can still look at the universe as calmly as before. .
When human beings know that they are just a corner of countless universes, and they are bed bugs living in the cracks of these super civilizations, can they live as peacefully and peacefully as a human as before
Just when the gelatinous creature was at the disadvantage of the red tentacle giant again, Ethan's direction suddenly changed.
Those black tentacles cluttered and twisted together as if they were suddenly out of control. At the same time, there was a bizarre spike in the chaotic space-time turbulence on Earth.
The giant seemed to sense something and suddenly turned in Ethan's direction. However, the chaos only lasted for a while before returning to its previous state. At this time, the gelatinous creature slammed into the giant again. Another horrific flash and explosion was triggered.
"The fourth space station has been swallowed up! Please evacuate as soon as possible!" An officer reported in a hurried tone.
The few soldiers who stayed in the command center remained motionless. They said that if they really wanted to die, they were willing to die here, so that they could at least understand the truth of the universe. The high priest also chose to stay, because he believed that his prelude would save them.
And Roland also stayed, there was no way to escape anyway, wasn't he
He still wondered how it all ended.
Suddenly, a time-space turbulence peak like the one just now appeared again, and at the same time, the tentacle vortex entangled with Ethan also showed a different chaotic movement from before. This time it lasted for nearly a minute before returning to the way it was before.
The giant with red tentacles seemed very angry and rushed towards Ethan. He inserted his hand into the vortex of those fluttering tentacles, as if looking for something. But then the creamy white tip of the gel-eyed creature wrapped around him like a cobweb, pulling him away.
After about five minutes, similar turbulence reappeared, and less than ten minutes after returning to normal. These turbulence lasted longer and longer, and finally began to affect the entire planet. They noticed that the black cloud of flesh that enveloped the earth seemed to be stabbed. It shrank violently around a certain point in the southern hemisphere, and shrunk in half, revealing a large area of land in the northern hemisphere.
"It seems that Ethan Eldridge is trying to take back his body..." the priest murmured, "The Prelude gave him strength."
Roland looked at the black pillar that penetrated the sky, and suddenly recalled the first time he saw Ethan. Thinking of the charismatic smile that he was most proud of showing him with ulterior motives, the gentle man wearing glasses hurriedly looked away, and there was a heart-wrenching fear and remorse in it.
At that time, how could he have imagined that he would become the biggest threat to the galaxy, and the last hope.
The turbulence appeared more and more frequently, and finally the cracks in time and space that appeared all over the earth began to close. They saw that many huge creatures seemed to be pushed into those cracks by some invisible force, as if they were pushed in by space.
The spread of the second universe also seems to have slowed down, the entropy in the solar system is rapidly decreasing, the order is improving, and its own faction is regained.
Obviously there was a problem with Azathoth's arrival, the black pillar disappeared, and the countless dense tentacles seemed to be enemies of each other, entangled in chaos. Crazy drums and flutes filled the sky and the earth, transmitted through the detectors to the command center. Some weak-willed staff suddenly fell into madness, roaring wildly, and slammed into the nearest wall and slammed into their heads until their heads were bleeding and could not be pulled. Others suddenly took off their clothes and ran out screaming; others shot themselves, and some went directly into the deep space capsule without a space suit and plunged into the dark universe.
That crazy voice also filled Roland's mind with crazy thoughts. He suddenly felt that he was a worthless existence, that his entire life was meaningless, that it didn't matter whether he lived or died like dust. The tasks he thought he had done for his country turned out to be of no value, for his homeland would soon disappear into eternal chaos. An urge to end his life and return to nothingness took over his consciousness, but before he could reach for his gun, he hurriedly ripped cotton from the seat cushion under him to plug his ears. Some officers nearby also responded quickly, finding all kinds of things that could be inserted into their ears to prevent the sound from entering.
The influence of the high priest was far-reaching. His eyes gradually became empty and indifferent, and he murmured the language of Eve that no one could understand. Fortunately, before he had time to do anything, Roland had turned off the screen abruptly. But the strange thing is that the voices have not stopped, they seem to have entered people's ears, lingering in their minds.
But that demagogic power has weakened a lot, and the spiritual power of the high priest regained the upper hand, and his eyes gradually became clearer.
In just a few minutes, many fewer people remained in the command center. The ground is full of remnants of clothes, and the floor is full of chairs and furniture that people have knocked down indiscriminately.
The entire command hall was silent, and people looked at each other, speechless.
However, after about ten minutes, the sound of the earworm-like drums lingering in his mind seemed to be gradually fading. The congressman turned the screen on again with a certain awe and caution, and everyone held their breath as he pressed the button.
Unexpectedly, the drums were gone. The tentacles around Ethan gradually scattered, and the human figure in the center could be vaguely seen.
The last thing they saw was the giant hissing, engulfed by a black hole that appeared out of nowhere.
And the gelatinous creature suddenly opened.
They couldn't see how it opened, and a blazing blue light engulfed everything, a terrifying polarizing force that charged where Ethan was with a force that shook the world.
Even at such a distance from the earth, the blue still rose from the surface of the earth like a sharp sword, stabbing into the deep universe. The terrifying shock wave stirred on the surface of the riddled earth, and the radiation continued in all directions of time and space.
It turned out that this was the plan of the God of Order.
Use Taniser to give Ethan the hope of living again, and then give Azathoth a fatal blow when his spirit is entangled with Azathoth.
That shock wave even reached their observation point. The entire space station was shaking, and people lay on the ground and dared not move.
Ten minutes after the explosion, people slowly stood up from the ground.
In front of them, the riddled earth turned silently, without the black cloud of flesh and the turbulent flow of time and space. The sun in the distance was still burning the fuel that lasted for hundreds of billions of years, casting down on the side of the earth. golden glow.
For a while, no one dared to speak, or even breathe. It seems that as soon as they make a sound, the solar system will explode immediately, and no one can escape.
But nothing happened.
The probes have been destroyed and they have no way of knowing what's going on on Earth. But the second universe seemed to have suddenly lost some kind of power, and was forced to retreat by the laws of the first universe. It even retreated to the vicinity of the ninth space station within a day, and was still shrinking.
Yet the solar system has been devastated. Some planets that have existed since the beginning of the universe are gone, those space stations that once inhabited tens of millions of people are gone, not even a speck of dust is left. They were taken away by the second universe.
For the first week, no one believed the disaster was over. People were panicking and ready to run away.
But a week later, the Earth Alliance's President Abiya personally delivered the first speech, telling all her people that the crisis is over, the Earth Alliance has controlled the expansion of the second universe, the invaders on Earth has also disappeared.
After a series of major blows, the Earth Alliance began to mend its wounds bit by bit in tears and grief. People have moved their homes to stars outside the solar system, and the Ophiuchus Alliance and the Third Reich have also put aside their previous barriers and helped the Earth Alliance rebuild the space station.
The Benefactor Association did not disappear because of the death of its leader Chen Zeng. On the contrary, it became stronger and stronger. Although the Earth Alliance is still vigorously attacking this belief, in some poor and miserable places, belief can always find the soil to take root.
Roland resigned shortly after returning to the Ophiuchus Alliance. After seeing everything on Earth, he is often awakened by nightmares and suffers from severe anxiety.
In Eve, Theonier was forced to resign as the priest of the Temple of the Red Moon, and was assigned to a remote planet to be the priest of an entropy temple.
After this major change, the moral value system also temporarily collapsed. People have a short-lived freedom of behavior and thought, but at the same time, all kinds of crimes such as theft, robbery, fights and fights have suddenly increased. The Forbidden City has disappeared, but the Moral Council is said to be planning to build a new Forbidden City on Space Station 1.
The earth is no longer suitable for human habitation. In that terrible chaos, most of the ocean evaporated, and 80% of the land was exposed to so much radiation that even entering it would cause damage to the human body, let alone regrowing plants. Only in the ground, can occasionally hear a high-pitched neighing, do not know where it comes from.
However, a secret agency of the Earth Alliance still sent a small team of special forces to land on Earth wearing thick radiation protection suits.
They brought back one... or two things from Earth...
Deep inside the surviving Mars base, in one of the expansive laboratories in a heavily guarded underground mansion, is pure white everywhere. Even the staff there are wearing pure white isolation suits and doing their jobs carefully.
The young doctor checked his clothes and confirmed that there was no damage before walking slowly into the mysterious research room. It is very empty, and in the middle of the circular hall, there is an altar-like operating table.
Lying on the operating table, it is difficult to describe whether it is one person or two.
At first glance it seemed to be two people, a Beta human and an Alpha Eve, naked and hugging each other tightly. However, a lot of black, extremely hard things grew out of that human body, entwining the two of them tightly. And after fluoroscopic scans, they found that the two men were not only surrounded by these black things on the outside, but even their internal organs, and even their brains, were surrounded by similar things. The two of them are like two symbiotic trees that grow tightly together and cannot be separated at all.
The doctor walked slowly to the operating table and looked at the two human figures growing together with a complex look. He had met both of them. He had done a blood test for that human before, and this Eve was also present at the time. The result of the blood test was unexpected, and he still remembers it vividly.
This Beta turned out not to be human.
The two people now seem to be in a state similar to a vegetative state, with no response to external stimuli, and even breathing is very weak. However, by examining their brain activity, their brain waves were found to be in a strange harmony.
That is to say, the two of them are dreaming, and they are in the same dream state.
This doctor doesn't know what is the relationship between the two of them. In fact, no one knows how the Eve appeared on Earth, and why it merged with Ethan Eldridge.
The priest Eve, who came to see them that time, said that the dream might be the prison of Azathoth, the terrifying and legendary monster of another world. Azathoth was not able to fully enter Ethan's body before he was resisted by Ethan, and then he was hit with the full force of the God of Order, and suffered a lot. Part of it was imprisoned in Ethan's body, and in Ethan's spirit, while another part retracted into its original universe.
That is to say, Ethan's spirit is its cage, and they cannot harm Ethan's body, because it is very likely to break a certain balance, or even release the devil dormant in Ethan's body.
However, even if they tried to hurt Ethan Eldridge's body, they couldn't do it. First those black things are tougher than any material they can make and cannot cut, and secondly any scars they make on Ethan will heal quickly.
The doctor inexplicably felt that the gestures of the two figures were very romantic.
One second spent in reality may be a year for the person in the dream. The doctor does not know whether the two people have been together for a lifetime in the dream
The tissue and blood extracted from Ethan's body have helped them to create a serum that inhibits the infection of the plague, and Eve has officially requested the Earth Alliance, hoping to return Taniser's body.
Since the two couldn't be separated, they had to be transported to Eve together. The High Priest of the Order God sect promised to place the two of them in the siege of all the remaining Order God eggs to prevent Azathoth from awakening.
The doctor sighed. Since these days, he has developed some inexplicable feelings for these two people. He envied them and sympathized with them.
He's getting married next month, and he hopes he and his bride can spend their entire lives together, in the real world, of course.
But who says a life in a dream isn't a lifetime
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Ethan woke up before six in the morning, getting older and sleeping less and less. He put on his reading glasses, turned his head, and saw that Tanisel was still asleep, and his hair, which was slightly white in the sunlight, reflected the crystal light.
With a gentle smile at the corner of his mouth, he helped Tanisel pull the quilt, then stood up and stretched. The weather is good today, there are some clouds floating in the sky, and it will not be too hot. He put on his nightgown, pushed open the window, took a deep breath of the air that smelled of salty sea water, then turned around and walked to the bathroom, went through the usual washing procedures, and shaved his chin, which has been sparse in recent years. His cat heard him and followed the bathroom, rubbing against his feet as he patted his head and fed him cat food for the night.
Watered the flowers that were growing in front of the door. While the coffee was being made, Tanissell got up. They have been together for thirty years, but every time he sees this man, he still marvels. The Eves are indeed aging very slowly, and he still looks so beautiful.
"What's for breakfast?" Tanissell asked, yawning, his hair was messy, and there seemed to be a small smear in the corner of his sleepy eyes, not at all the graceful elegance he used to teach in college. grace. Ethan smirked, if those Omega students who admired him watched it, I don't know how disillusioned it would be.
"Fried eggs and bacon."
"Eat bacon again..." Tanisel pouted in dissatisfaction, looking like a child at his age.
Ethan raised his eyebrows at him, "I'm not satisfied with going out to eat by myself."
Tanissell then stood up, leaned over to Ethan, and kissed him on the face, "I'm wrong, okay? You can do anything delicious."
Ethan pushed his face away, "Are you disgusting, can you speak well?"
"Didn't you like me the most before?"
"Don't even look at the fact that you are over fifty."
"Aren't there still many young people who miss your husband and me?"
Ethan puts the plate on the table, and Tanissell is adding sugar to the coffee. Ethan is still amazed by the way he kept going when he added the sugar.
How can this guy not get fat
The two of them ate breakfast quietly, only occasionally saying a word or two. Accompanying for so many years, the silence has become a tacit understanding rather than embarrassment. After breakfast, Tanisel looked through the recent news and reported something interesting to Ethan. Ethan, on the other hand, was busy preparing the documents to bring to work, and it was rare for him to reply.
Taniser has no classes today, so he doesn't have to go to school. He leaned back in his chair and looked at Ethan with a half-smile.
"I said, when are you going to retire?"
Ethan almost choked on his own saliva and glared at Tanisel, "What is retirement? Sixty-seven is the retirement age?"
"Look at how busy you are every day, I'm afraid you're working hard." Tanisel tilted his head and smiled, "I'll just take care of you."
Ethan rolled his eyes, he had said this for more than 20 years, and now he was too lazy to answer him. He put on his coat deftly, and looked at the mirror at the door to straighten his hair, which was neatly fixed with hair cream, and not surprisingly found a few more white strands.
Tanissell walked behind him unknowingly, "You know what? I've been having a dream lately."
"Um?"
"I dreamed that we were hugging and lying in a dark place."
Ethan paused when he put on his shoes, looked up at him, "Hey? You dreamed of it too?"
This time Tanisel was also a little surprised, "You too?"
"Yeah." Ethan shrugged and laughed. "So we both had the same dream? Does that make any sense?"
"I remember a long time ago on earth there was a saying that there was a person who dreamed that he had become a butterfly, but when he woke up, he didn't know whether he dreamed of becoming a butterfly or a butterfly dreamed of becoming a human being. ."
"Well..." Ethan thought for a while, "It's interesting."
"Maybe..." Tanisel's expression was a little confused for a moment, "Maybe we are dreaming now, and the dream is the reality?"
"You've watched too many movies." Ethan rolled his eyes, but somewhere in his heart, a strange unease has grown stronger recently.
He didn't know what was going on. Sometimes he was busy and suddenly raised his head to look at the peaceful blue sky, and it felt unreal.
There is an illusion that everything is set.
But maybe he thinks too much...
Ethan shook his head, intending to temporarily forget these abnormal thoughts and go to work. Before leaving, Tanissell kissed him lightly on the lips as usual.
"come back earlier."
"Um."
"Shall we go out to eat tonight?"
"OK."
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On the spacecraft leading to Eve, everyone was asleep in the dormant chamber. This spacecraft is in curvature flight, passing through the vast sea of stars at a speed exceeding the speed of light.
In a sealed cabin, in a transparent glass cabinet, there are two bodies hugged tightly. They were motionless, like sculptures.
Until, the two right index fingers moved at the same time.
The author has something to say: I feel that it is more appropriate to end here. Maybe it is one of the most satisfying endings I have written
There may be more bugs, because I always rush to update in the middle of the night. Sometimes my mind is unclear or my hands are shaking, and I make mistakes. I may change it one after another when I see bugs. If there is an update reminder, please bear with me.
In short, this article has been written for half a year, and I thank the little angels for always accompanying me. During this period, the schoolwork became particularly heavy, but I still persevered, largely because of the encouragement of the little angels. Although the text is very cold, but I am very happy to write, thank you~
The next article is still brewing, and I am considering whether to open the ancient style. After all, I have written two future articles in a row. I will continue to work hard and strive to write better works.
Finally, bow again and thank you~