Before the piercing siren rang out in the early morning, Ethan sent Taifeng to the Eastside Clinic. The small building was very close to the first layer of the city wall of the Forbidden City, and it was full of robotic policemen. When Ethan helped Tai Feng in, there were several guards with guns staring at them from a distance, and Sen Leng's eyes were still like thorns on the back.
It can be considered that Taifeng is lucky. There is a doctor in the clinic who is doing free services. He happens to be an Omega. When he sees Taifeng's weak appearance, he immediately arranges a series of examinations, and it is likely that he will have to rest in the clinic for a few days for observation. . After Ethan settled down, Tai Feng planned to leave, but Tai Feng suddenly grabbed the hem of his clothes.
He turned around, but saw Tai Feng looking at him seriously, "Be careful."
Ethan didn't know what to say, so he nodded and hurried to the cafeteria. However, after all, it has been delayed for too long. Non-people have gone to different factories and construction sites to work, and the door of the canteen has been tightly closed. He was about to leave while rubbing his gurgling stomach, when he suddenly heard a stiff and cold voice behind him, "Ethan Eldridge?"
Ethan turned and saw a guard. Fortunately it wasn't gray hair, he breathed a sigh of relief.
The young guard came over with a baton in his hand, and glanced at him impatiently, "What are you doing, why didn't you eat on time?"
"Wake up late..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the police baton gave him a heavy blow to his stomach. His stomach, which was already empty, seemed to be suddenly knotted together. He couldn't even scream. He bent down like a shrimp with a wrinkled face. come together. The guard was not relieved, and kicked him on the knee again. Ethan knelt down unsteadily, listening to the guard's stern tone that was still a bit rusty and contrived, "Do you know how long I've been waiting here? Next time you're late, just get ready to go into the darkroom."
Darkroom is what people in the Forbidden City call a confinement room. Generally, non-humans who make mistakes will be locked in. There was no light there, it was completely soundproofed, and there was nothing in the house. It is said that three days in solitary confinement is as long as three years have passed. Strangely, some fierce-looking non-humans were frightened when they mentioned the darkroom, and even those who were stabbed with a knife didn't change their faces, and they cried and confessed their mistakes after staying in a completely closed state for less than a week. The taste is unimaginable for those who have not tried it themselves.
It is only then that one realizes how much human beings need to communicate.
Of course Ethan hasn't tried it yet, so he doesn't know what kind of threat this is. Judging purely by his tone, the guard seemed to want to trouble him, and judging by the exaggeration and deliberateness in his tone and movements, it was likely that he was asked to do so.
"I'm sorry." Without hesitation, he bowed his head to admit his mistake, and made a submissive gesture to avoid further angering the other party.
This guard has just come to the Forbidden City on duty. In the past, he would never have imagined that one day he would treat another person so viciously, but three months after coming to the Forbidden City, everything has changed. The people in the forbidden city are not human, but scumbags who have committed murder, arson, rape, robbery, etc., no matter how you treat them. When drinking in bars outside the city, those pretty Omega girls liked to hear him brag about how he taught the scum who should be hanged in the city, they said it was for heaven, and they should applaud. Over time, he became more and more used to the Forbidden City, and he gradually understood the erotic jokes about inhumans told by the seniors.
Moreover, the person who was beaten today is said to have been a government official before. Those high-ranking people don't know how many immoral things they have done or how much they have exploited. Now that they are in the hands of these little people, they should really give them some color.
Thinking like this, he kicked Ethan a few more times. Ethan let out a series of coughing noises, and fell to the ground while clutching his stomach, looking ashamed.
Enough to vent, the young guard brushed his hair and straightened his clothes, as if the hysterical beating was not him. He threw a number plate in front of Ethan, and "reported to the plumbing maintenance department of Building 11 East in ten minutes."
Ten minutes... Ethan didn't even know where the eleventh building was.
Holding his aching stomach, he shuttled through the intricate alleys like a headless fly, jogging in search of the number upstairs, and found his destination in about fifteen minutes. As soon as he entered the door, he saw a guard with his feet on the table playing a handheld game, and glanced at him, "I'm five minutes late, go out and run around the building thirty laps for me before coming in."
Ethan was stunned for two seconds, and he hurried out the door until the other party narrowed his eyes dangerously at him. This building covers a small area, but after ten laps, he was sweating profusely. In addition, he had been beaten before, and his lower abdomen hurt every step of the way.
After finally finishing thirty laps, Ethan was already dizzy, and his mouth was full of fishy and salty taste. Re-entering the door with trembling legs, the guard casually threw him a steel helmet with a headlamp and led him around the back door, pointing to an uncovered wellhead and saying, "The tools for clearing the silt are below, you It's my job to follow others to clean up the silt from the drains."
Ethan looked at the narrow hole and didn't move. The pipe was so thin that it didn't look like a place where people could drill into it
The guard poked his back with a baton from behind, "What are you doing standing still, go."
As he climbed down a row of patina ladders nailed into the cracks of the bricks, he was almost certain that Grayfur had taken care of all the guards, not to give him good fruit. The narrow space made it difficult to even turn around. The opening above was gradually shrunk into a small dot, and the bottom was pitch black. He could only hear his own increasingly rapid breathing, and he had the illusion that he was about to be buried alive.
At the bottom of the shaft was a horizontal circular pipe. As soon as he landed, he felt his feet sink into a muddy water that was nowhere near his knees, and his shoes and socks were soaked. The rancid stench of the yin tide wafted over his face, reminding him of a bloated corpse that had been soaked in water for a month. He turned on the light on his helmet, and a beam of light shot into the darkness, illuminating the entire drain pipe made of some ancient material. It was most likely masonry, but the walls of the pipes were already covered with thick, greasy stains and moss, with occasional flocs of unknown origin hanging down, inexplicably reminiscent of an indigested bowel.
Ethan could only hear the uproar of water when he was walking, and no one responded after shouting a few words. He stumbled forward in the sewage, his feet were soft, and he didn't know what he stepped on. The smell made him want to vomit for a long time, but he couldn't vomit anything in the morning without eating, and he could only retched occasionally.
After walking for a while, there is a fork in the road, and there are three forks in one minute. Ethanon stopped and did not dare to go forward.
He has heard before that some ancient cities on the earth have extremely intricate drainage systems, such as the original Paris, France, so that some rich people who like to explore will pay people to be tour guides to take them to explore the sewers. Those pipes are like a maze, and if you lose your guide, you're likely to get trapped inside. He remembered a similar incident last year, when a rich second generation starved to death with his girlfriend inside, with an expression of extreme horror on his face.
He wondered if this was Grayfur's plan to trap him in it
He won't be fooled.
He waited anxiously for a while, and finally heard voices coming from the side road.
"I still believe what Chen Zeng said, because Johnny saw it too. They said that the evil god looks like an octopus, but it has many more claws than an octopus, and it has hundreds of floors. high."
"Che, that might really be an oversized octopus."
"How can an octopus talk? She said she was going to come to Earth. Alas... There are too few people with faith on the earth now, and they are all sinners who only know pleasure. Isn't this just like that city of sin... Oh yes Is it the same as Sodom? Sooner or later, the Lord will punish us, and the Great Evil God is the killing angel he sent."
Ethan listened to the other party and seemed to be discussing Shabu Nicholas on the red earth
But what octopus, what hundreds of stories high? What are these things? This is obviously not what Shab Nicholas looks like
What strange remarks did Chen Zeng spread among inhumans
"Hmph, it should have come a long time ago. People these days are really capable of doing anything for money. They are simply morally corrupt. There are also those Omegas, who are originally few in number, so they don't have to mess with other Omegas. Fuck, I think all these people who don't think about the future of mankind should be damned."
Ethan just wanted to roll his eyes. He was curious about what kind of crime the person who said this committed was imprisoned in the forbidden city. It didn't take long for someone to appear, two skinny inhumans with dark bodies.
No wonder, in such an environment, even he struggled to squeeze in, and Samuel might get stuck.
"Hey!" Ethan shouted first.
The two non-humans saw him immediately, "Who are you?"
"They asked me to help with the plumbing."
"Damn, why did you get a nerd down again." An inhuman scolded and spit into the stagnant water on the ground.
For the next day, Ethan basically carried a lot of shovels, a large box with strong acid corrosive liquid containers and many other tools on his back and followed the two inhumans to investigate. Only then did he know that the Forbidden City was originally a prosperous and ancient city on Earth, and that 80 percent of these drainage pipes were left over from ancient times. Nearly half of them are no longer usable and have been built with masonry.
Those pipes were surprisingly complex, blocked in many places with yellow seals covered in stains. The older inhuman Kim Ki-joon told him that everything could be found in the sewer. Once he even found an inhuman corpse that had been dead for a long time, probably trying to escape from the sewer. The people who went to the city were trapped and died inside.
"Escape from the sewers to the outside of the city?" Ethan sharply grasped the point of the whole story.
"It's just rumors. The Forbidden City is impregnable, and since its establishment, no one has ever managed to escape. Anyone who enters the sewers is either captured back or died here."
At the end of the day, Ethan came home like a stinking clay figurine, and everyone shunned wherever he went. Even Samuel disliked him so much that he was not allowed to approach his own bed.
After a month like this, Ethan finally got used to the sludge, rat corpses, feces, feminine hygiene products, and the ubiquitous stench floating in the sewers, and no longer spit out the contents of his stomach. Once he actually picked up a harmonica, took it back and rinsed it with clean water, put it to his mouth and blew it. Except for a few notes that were slightly changed, it still worked. Samuel couldn't believe he put something he picked up from the sewer into his mouth, and immediately forced him to brush his teeth five times, even donating his own toothpaste. The reason is that his estrus season is approaching, and he can't bear to have a person in his nest that is dirtier than a mouse.
Adhering to the principle of keeping a low profile and not fighting back and scolding, Ethan seems to be gradually forgotten after being troubled by the guards two or three times. After being beaten for the last time until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, he sat on the bed and let Samuel apply medicine to the bruise on the corner of his mouth, and even laughed, "I am now a man who has fought with people."
"What kind of fight are you calling, it's just being beaten." Samuel frowned and poked his waist so hard that he gasped in pain.
Fortunately, there was no movement after that time. All the guards seem to be very busy recently, and the number of guards seems to have increased, and the number of prohibited items being checked is more frequent than before, and I don't know what happened. The non-people in the Forbidden City were discussing privately that some big man was going to visit the city.
Just when he thought that life was on the right track and his tense nerves began to relax a little, one day on the way back to the residential area after finishing the work, he felt that the atmosphere on the road was a bit weird, and the non-people who got off work did not go straight. Going back to the residence, we gathered towards the widest "central axis road" in the forbidden city that traverses the east and west areas.
There were so many cops standing on both sides of the central axis road, so many that Ethan wondered if all the cops in the city had been moved over. The non-people huddled around the side of the road and whistled, reminding him of the noises that nearly scared him to pee on his first day in the forbidden city blindfolded.
Now that I think about it, this is just a bluff.
With a little curiosity, he also walked over with a dirty body. The people around him were swept away by him one after another, but it was convenient for him to squeeze all the way to the front.
Then he froze.
Obviously, no newcomers entered the city, because in addition to the long-disappearing captain of the guard, Schneider, who led the way, there were also four soldiers escorting the man who was walking in the middle.
Four Eve soldiers with three eyes and pointed ears.
And the beautiful man walking in the middle, wearing a silver-white robe and holding a scepter, with a calm smile, is actually Tanisel who he thought he would never see again!
The third eye between Tanisel's forehead was slightly opened, as if he knew where Ethan was. While Ethan opened his eyes wide, those light gray eyes also looked at Ethan. . Then, he took a step, deviated from the original line of travel, and walked straight towards Ethan.
The clamor immediately rose to a height, and the four Eve soldiers obviously wanted to stop the priest's actions, but Tanissell just raised his hand slightly, and they retreated like obedient puppets. He looked so tall and holy, and the dim sunlight seemed to radiate a soft sheen on him. In contrast, Ethan suddenly understood how embarrassed he was now, and it was a miracle that Tanithel could recognize him.
He wanted to run a little, but couldn't move his feet.
After a while, the priest was already standing in front of him across the arms of the two mechanical policemen. He and Ethan looked at each other for a moment, and pulled out a slightly evil smile on his lips.
However, he didn't say anything, just glanced at the place on Ethan's neck where the bite mark had healed, turned and left again.
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These chapters are relatively bland, and the next redemption mission will start as soon as possible