That was the last picture they saw. The next moment, all the screens and lights suddenly went out at the same time.
There are backup generators installed in the pioneer base, but at this moment they are not activated for unknown reasons. Everyone suddenly fell into a darkness where they could not see five fingers, and they all screamed out of surprise. Ethan's heart was beating like a drum, and he shouted "Gina," but the computer fell silent along with all the other electronics, and stopped responding.
The body was shoved and lost its direction. What I saw just now, almost other non-humans with weak consciousness lost their minds, and the panicked non-humans were running around like flies without heads, and they didn't know where they were going. At this time, he suddenly heard Chen Zeng's steady voice breaking through the barrier of screams, and said calmly and loudly, "Don't panic! Stand against the wall!"
He repeated his instructions over and over again, and there was a certain hypnotic power in his words, and the people who were bumping around like headless flies finally caught a glimpse of clarity. They cling to the only instruction, and stop running when they touch the nearest wall. After a while, Ethan heard everyone's heavy breathing and some uncontrollable crying in the air, but everything else was quiet.
Samuel scolded and rummaged for the lighter, and a small flame finally lit up in the darkness. But the fire was too weak to dispel the black velvet darkness.
Ethan felt the uncomfortable tinnitus getting louder and louder, so loud that he couldn't even hear the cries, and the high-frequency sound waves made his head hurt like it was going to split open. He desperately wanted to grab something, but the hand that opened and closed randomly in the air was suddenly pulled by another hand.
He heard Tanisel's low voice flowing into his ear, "Follow me."
Staggering on his feet, he was led by the other hand to run in the unknown darkness. The other inhuman voices gradually drifted away, and there was no light at all, but the priest seemed to be able to see everything, carefully avoiding all obstacles. Tanissell's hands were delicate and warm, and Ethan thought of the sun on Earth in early summer. He only felt that kind of sunshine when he was traveling on the surface of the earth when he was a child, and he felt the comfort of being gently kissed by the sky.
At this moment, he unknowingly developed a similar dependence and trust in that hand, forgetting that he had doubted the purpose of the priest's visit to the red earth not long ago.
Finally, they stopped. Ethan gasped, "Where is this? What are we going to do?"
"Central control room." Tanissell let go of his hand, which made him feel an inexplicable loss. He listened to the footsteps of the priest and walked a few steps away, as if toying with something, "Ethan, I need you to help me."
Every time Tanithel addressed him by his first name instead of his last name, he felt something subtle. It was probably the priest's magical voice that could quickly calm people down. Every time he heard the other party calling his name, he suddenly thought that he could not refuse the other party's request.
"What do you want to do? What's going on outside now?"
"Her name in our Eve language is Shabnir, the goddess of fertility among the gods of entropy. She feeds on life and gives birth to eternal chaos." Tanisel's melodious tone seemed to be chanting Chanting the verse, "She lives between the gaps in parallel time and space, and this planet might just happen to be a space-time gap that can accommodate a part of her body."
"A... part of the body?"
"Yes. Those things that cover the whole sky are only part of her. It probably includes one or a few of her mouths, otherwise she can't eat." There was still no fear in Tanisel's tone. , only a deep exclamation, "I'm lucky."
"Good luck?!" Ethan's voice rose a lot. "Are you fucking kidding me? We're all going to die!"
Yes, they are all going to die. Ethan suddenly realized that this was the moment when the mother ship lost control of the inhumans before the arrival of the God of Entropy mentioned by Tanisel, and they were in the most easily targeted man-made building - Base 18, and lost. The shelter of Gina and the protective system.
They are like a flock of sheep, trapped lambs to be slaughtered. But Tanithel's voice was still so light, "We won't die."
As soon as the voice fell, a quiet blue light started to light up from a point, and it surged like a tide, illuminating the priest's very demonic face at the moment. The light came from the palm of his hand, and as he opened his hand, it could be seen that it was an oval object, "Because I want to catch her... At least a piece of her body tissue."
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The non-people who stayed in the lobby were unaware of Tanisel and Ethan's departure. At this time, the ten leading non-humans, including Samuel, had barely stabilized the crowd that was almost out of control. Everyone found a lighter for making a fire from their backpacks. The darkness opened, illuminating the eyes wet with tears of fear.
At this moment, there was a violent knocking sound from not far away, as if someone was kicking the metal door at the entrance. The timid Betas huddled together and shivered, almost crying again. Samuel roared irritably, "Don't fucking cry! That's the mother ship's rescue!" After speaking, he ran towards the door to open the door for those unlucky people who encountered that thing just after landing.
But Derek suddenly blocked his way, his big eyes were very dark at the moment, "We don't need to open the door for them."
Samuel stared at him inexplicably, "What do you mean?"
"All electronic devices are out of order now, including this one." He reached out and touched the collar around his neck, "We don't have to be controlled by them."
The young, supposedly innocent eyes were filled with deep malice, and he even smiled, revealing a childish tiger tooth, "Letting them in will only be a hindrance, it is better to keep them outside and attract that thing. attention, maybe we have a chance to grab their spaceship."
Grab the spaceship, then fly away, and never return to the ghostly place in the Forbidden City. Samuel was startled, he didn't even think about this possibility at all...
It's only been three years, has he gradually been smoothed out
He raised his eyes and looked at the other eight people. None of them, including Otto, seemed to object to Derek's words. It seemed that they had already discussed it.
Samuel frowned. When did they start discussing things behind his back
At this time, the knocking outside the door became more and more rapid. It is conceivable that the survivors outside must be shouting hysterically at this moment, but the shouting was blocked by the heavy gate and could not be heard inside the building. But just listening to the rain-like crash, they knew how terrified and desperate they were.
"Have you never thought that maybe with their help we have a better chance of surviving?" Samuel didn't intend to give in. "Do you really think that if it eats a few people outside, it will stop?"
Jarvan also stood up, confronting Samuel with anger in his eyes, "Don't forget that they have weapons in their hands. If we let them in, I'm afraid it's us who will be let out as bait!"
"There are only a dozen of them, and now I don't know how many are left, but we have fifty people. What are you afraid of!" Samuel knew that he lacked confidence, and even he felt lame for such a reason...
But... what if that person is still alive...
In the dim light of the fire, Jarvan walked in his direction step by step, stopping very close to him, his threatening and provocative gaze met Samuel Wolf's gloomy gaze, both of them spread their shoulders, the other one's own. The muscles stretched, revealing an angry posture ready to attack, like two lions lingering and confronting each other.
"I heard that you have a good relationship with the chief of the guard?" Jarvan's voice was hoarse, as if it came from the depths of his throat, "Did you give him something, or did he give you something?"
Samuel narrowed his eyes, the muscles on either side of his nose lifted slightly, and anger radiated from his body unabashedly. Among non-human beings, especially among the bosses like them, it is the most taboo to deliberately please the guards, which will be regarded as a despicable and shameless betrayal. When Jarvan said this, he was directly challenging his authority, calling him a traitor, a coward, and an obscene "rat". Samuel was about to throw a fist at him, but Chen Zeng stood up in time and said, "I think what Samuel said is right. Now that the base's protection system is gone, if they bombard the gate with weapons, they will come in. If we Taking the initiative to open the door will give you a head start.”
The leader of the cult, Chen Zeng, now has a high prestige among the more timid non-humans, and as soon as he finished speaking, many non-humans agreed. Samuel didn't care if Jarvan agreed or not, he strode towards the door, while Jarvan clenched his fists and glared at Chen Zeng, "There must be something wrong with him! You will regret it sooner or later if you trust him so much!"
And Chen Zeng just shook his head and whispered something to Otto.
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Ethan thought he must be crazy.
At this moment, he is entering his authentication code and key in the main computer in the central control room, and connecting to the three wireless signal transmitters around Base 18. The computer, which should have been out of power, still shot a bunch of blue light from the projection hole at this moment, with dense characters on it, something only Ethan could understand. And the source of this energy is actually something in Tanisel's hands.
Taniser, while operating the human computer with amazing skill, explained succinctly that it was something he smuggled out of their temple, and it was the Eve people who had been born on some remote star fields for thousands of years. The treasures collected have a certain ability to convert elements and isotopes that the current level of interstellar technology is temporarily incomprehensible. If used properly, it can be used to obtain a steady stream of energy, and it can even be used to extend the space around the Eve galaxy. Red Giant - Lifespan of Savaga. It's a pity that the technology level of Eve Star has not been able to fully develop its capabilities. The priests called them the eggs of the order gods.
Ethan didn't think that it was really the egg of the so-called "preface". If you ignored the somewhat supernatural blue light, it looked like a quail egg. I don't know if it's some sophisticated computer and artificial intelligence program, or some dangerous radioactive material... But it does give the main computer a little bit in the current bizarre situation where even the generator stops working energy of. It wasn't much energy, because Tanethel didn't want Gina to wake up, nor the mother ship to see what they were doing.
Taniser was really fascinated by the God of Entropy to a terrifying level. He even said that this little egg could catch the obscuring things outside.
But why would he agree to help him...
The key entry is complete, although the transmitter status says badly damaged, but Taniser insists it doesn't matter. He watched as the priest plugged the egg discreetly into the oscillator, quickly and deftly making a series of modulations to activate the transmitter. Ethan looked at a string of rapidly and automatically generated characters on the computer, showing the progress of the information transmission. He didn't know what Fatanesser was launching, what was in that egg
At this moment, there was a commotion in the distance, which seemed to be coming from the lobby. Tanissell was unmoved, looking at the egg with all his attention. Ethan couldn't ignore it, he looked at the darkness outside the central control room, and quickly found a few hand-cranked flashlights from the drawer. He shook it so hard for a long time that his hands were sore, and the flashlight only gave out a little bit of lingering light. It seems that since that thing came out, everything related to electricity has failed. It wasn't a physical malfunction, but the two substances, electricity and light, themselves were greatly weakened.
But why is it that only the egg can keep running, even driving three huge wireless transmitters
Ethan held the flashlight that was going to go out at any time, and kept shaking it as he walked quickly. Darkness was approaching from all directions, constantly squeezing the small aperture around him. It was a twisty road, and he couldn't understand how Tanethel had taken him so far in the dark.
His footsteps suddenly paused, and the light of the flashlight shone on a wall at the top of the corridor.
There was a large black spot there, like mold.
Is it wet? Although the material for building the corridor is not suitable for mold growth, it should not be impossible, right? But... why does he feel that the dark spots are expanding a little bit
Perhaps the flashlight flickered, causing the illusion
And that tinnitus still persists. He had a strong sense of depression, like an ominous premonition that he was about to be crushed by something.
The light of the flashlight flickered, and he hurriedly shook it a few times, finally stabilizing the light. He suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, and suddenly shone the beam of the flashlight to the fork on the right. The thin beam of light revealed a vague human figure at the end of the fork in the road.
A chill suddenly hit his back. He immediately blinked his eyes and looked harder, but the end of the corridor was empty again.
There was another roar mixed with roars, Ethan didn't have time to look, and continued to rush towards the direction of the lobby.
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The amount of homework for this new major is really no joke. I do it at two or three o’clock every night. Hey, staying up late makes me feel in a trance all day long.