If a day ago someone asked Ethan: Would you kill someone? Ethan must have answered without even thinking: No. He doesn't even believe he has the ability to kill others.
Therefore, people never know what they will do in the next second under the pressure of circumstances.
Samuel grabbed the somewhat bewildered Ethan by the shoulder and shook it twice, "Don't be stunned, go hide behind the tree!"
Ethan was pushed to the edge of the battlefield by Samuel, but just two steps away, he was forced back to the middle by two horned men who rushed over. Ethan noticed that the Horned Men were skillfully driving all the humans in the middle. He wanted to warn everyone, but his voice was drowned out in the screams and screams, and could not be heard at all.
When the non-humans were led to a certain place, a thin line that was almost invisible to the naked eye suddenly shot out of the forest, and quickly intertwined in the air to form a huge net and pressed it down. It was the "cobweb" that was newly developed by the Ophiuchus Alliance in recent years, and was made of a material that imitated spider silk to capture the captives. Where the fine spider silk was in contact with the skin, an abnormal numbness spread rapidly. Apparently, those tiny water droplets condensed on the spider silk had some kind of anesthetic function.
Ethan quickly felt weak in his legs and lost control of his limbs, and he didn't even feel pain when he fell to the ground. He opened his mouth but could only make a whimpering sound, and then his consciousness began to faint.
The last sight he saw was those horned men gathered from all directions, their silver-white hair shimmered in the dark night, and their purple eyes stared at them coldly with that characteristic numbness.
In the abyss of coma, he had a dream.
In a dream, he saw Tanisel.
It was a flat and shallow pool like a mirror, the water was blue-blue, with some burgundy ring-shaped leaves floating on it. There were many plants that Ethan had never seen around the pool, bushes of different heights and squat, and translucent blue and purple leaves were intertwined and overlapped. One of the most conspicuous giant trees, the trunk needs to be hugged by about ten people, with rose-red heart-shaped leaves about the size of a human hand, like a vastly stretched sunset cloud, from which hangs many light white silk ribbons, along with Breeze styles flutter.
Right under this dreary giant tree, Tanisel was wearing a plain and simple white robe, standing barefoot in the middle of the pool. A gust of wind blew through, causing a layer of ripples on the water of the pool, as well as the strands of hair between Tanisel's forehead. He looked at Ethan on the shore and waved at him.
Ethan looked down at himself, and was actually barefoot, wearing a robe similar to Tanisel, but the color was the opposite, pitch black as ink. He put his feet into the clear water, and an indescribable joy spread from his feet to his whole body.
He walked faster and faster, regardless of whether his actions disturbed a pool of spring water. He thought of rushing over and hugging Tanisel, but when he was still two or three steps away, he felt that Tanisel was quite serious, so he couldn't help slowing down and just stood still in front of the priest.
"where am I?"
"You're in a coma, this is a fantasy I temporarily created in your dream." Tanisel reached out, put his palm on the back of his neck, and gently stroked his voice in a low voice, "This time... I don't know if I can Couldn't get there in time."
Ethan asked in a trance, "Are we going to die?"
Tanithel remained silent for a while, just stared at him with clear eyes that seemed to penetrate the soul, and then said in a calm but heavy voice, "I want you to remember every word I said next, if necessary. When the time comes, you must remember this sentence." His tone suddenly seemed a little distant, with a certain seduction and hypnosis. Then he leaned down and whispered something in Ethan's ear.
Ethan's eyes suddenly widened, and he trembled as if he had heard the most terrifying story. He shook his head vigorously and whispered, "No... I can't..."
"Remember my words!" Tanisel put his hands on his cheeks and stared at him with a stern look he had never seen before. "You must remember!"
The scorching gaze seemed to leave an imprint on his mind. However, when Ethan was awake by the cold air, he only remembered Tanisel's almost obsessive gaze. However, what the other party whispered in his ear seemed to be separated by a fuzzy layer of frosted glass. It felt very familiar and within reach, but he couldn't remember it.
Ethan only felt the whole body come back little by little, and the numb body sent out an uncomfortable itching. When I felt it carefully, it turned out to be a biting cold. He opened his eyes and found that his hands and feet were locked with heavy shackles, and there was a clattering sound when he moved. The body was squeezed, and when he turned his head, he saw that Samuel was looking at him. Looking further afield, I found that Typhoon, Jarvan, and Wilson were also there, along with Little A and a few non-humans with the same number as Ethan Samuel, 252, and two other soldiers. Everyone was huddled in a small space, and it was pitch black all around, with only a faint light shining in from outside a rough metal fence. The wall behind them felt like rocks, and Ethan guessed they were in a cave somewhere.
Not far away came the voice of the horned man talking. The horned people on this planet speak many different languages, and the language currently used by the two people who are conversing sounds like a mantra without the rhythm of the tones. After listening to it for a long time, it makes me a little drowsy.
"Where are we?" Ethan asked.
Samuel shook his head.
I don't know who was crying in the dark, Wilson roared irritably, "Don't fucking cry!"
The crying stopped for a few seconds, then turned into a suppressed sob. But the car stopped, and there were still whimpering cries and shouts from nowhere, and it seemed that there were other prisoners of war.
Originally came to arrest people, but was attacked by others. Ethan couldn't help but think, could it be that he brought bad luck to this eternal night planet
"They arrested us, probably because they wanted to use us as hostages to negotiate with the Earth Alliance." Tai Feng's voice seemed a little erratic, a kind of indifference that he had lost his will to survive, "But when they found out that we were just inhumans, probably will kill us all."
Samuel frowned, glared at him, and motioned for him to shut up. Sure enough, someone heard this and cried even louder. Ethan got a headache from the noise, raised his hands and pinched his sore neck.
"Where is the head of the guard, Chen Zeng, and gray hair?" Ethan asked Samuel in a low voice. The latter shrugged, "I don't know, maybe he escaped, or maybe he died."
"… Feel sorry."
"Sorry for what? I'm afraid we're not very far from them anyway." Samuel leaned back and sighed, "Damn, it's only a short while before we can get out..."
Ethan knew that when he said going out, he didn't mean leaving the cell, but leaving the forbidden city.
Suddenly, two tall horned men appeared in the field of vision. Each of them had a laser gun in their hands, and their slender purple eyes swept across every human being in the darkness. Then, one of the horned men appeared. He took out the key and unlocked the door of the iron fence.
Another horned man came in, rudely grabbed Wilson, Samuel, Ethan, Typhoon, Jarvan, and Little A and several other inhumans, and pushed them out. The horned man outside quickly locked the door and connected their handcuffs and feet together, like a string of grasshoppers. The Horned Man hit the back of Tai Feng, who was standing at the end, with the muzzle, motioning them to follow the Horned Man in front.
The cave is very deep and there are many traces of artificial excavation. They walked for a while and caught up with another team in a huge cave with a high dome. Looking around, this team was walking towards a long thin white light at the end of the cave.
Suddenly, Ethan thought of the ghosts queuing up Huangquan Road in Asian supernatural legends. He tried his best to suppress the trembling in his heart, trying his best to remain calm. But he knew he was pushing his limits step by step.
Where does the body start to itch and move.
Out of the cave, they were stunned. A large open space surrounded by dark forests in front of him is crowded with people at the moment, at least two or three thousand people, one by one covered in white hair, holding primitive torches in their hands, illuminating this dark blue Eternal night over the planet. They raised their huge horns and cheered at the tall conical stone platform built along the mountain in front of the crowd. The countless steps were covered with a red carpet, which spread all the way to the top of the three X-shaped torture racks.
There was a strong smell of blood in the air.
The cheering horns parted toward the two hundred, and the long road of non-people passed through this path. All the way, the horns on both sides shouted at them like animals, and threw some strange flowers at them, just like heroes who welcomed the triumphant return to the city. However, the closer he got to the platform, the more clearly Ethan could see. It wasn't a red carpet at all that lay on the steps.
That's human blood!
"Damn! They are going to sacrifice us!" Wilson's always tough voice finally began to tremble.
Beside the torture rack, two people with horns much larger than ordinary people were dancing. One male and one female. The man's upper body, with knotted muscles, is not afraid of the cold, he wears a gorgeous loincloth on his lower body, and a ferocious black and gold mask on his face. The woman, on the other hand, wore a thin gauze skirt, which fluttered and moved with her rotating posture, like a snake in the forest, with a red mask on her face.
The closer you got, the stronger the bloody smell. It seems that they were not the first people to be brought here, but no bodies were seen at the scene.
Ethan also noticed that the circle around the high platform was very empty, and no one was standing. There are several potholes on the ground, each about two meters in radius.
A sharp cry suddenly pulled Ethan's line of sight back, and the three non-humans at the front of the team had been forcibly dragged onto the cone. The three of them screamed and struggled all the way, but they couldn't help themselves under the powerful power of the Horned Man. Their hands and feet were quickly locked on the X-shaped rack, like the Vitruvian man in Leonardo da Vinci's writings.
I saw the priestess twisting her flexible waist and approaching the first inhuman on the right. A purple light raised in her hand and suddenly pierced into the inhuman's forehead.
The inhuman screamed.
But the priestess did not stop. The amethyst knife in her hand was extremely sharp, and her slender hand was incomparably precise, it went around gracefully in a half circle, and used the knife to draw a "red line" on the inhuman's head.
Hot blood gushed out like a spring, and immediately covered the inhuman face distorted by pain and fear.
Then, I saw the male priest walking solemnly behind the inhuman, reaching out and carefully lifting the skull.
Many inhumans were so scared that they covered their eyes, and the entire empty field echoed with unbearable screams.
Yes, the inhuman was alive at that time.
Ethan couldn't imagine what it would feel like to have his brain exposed to the air while he was alive. He thought of an extremely cruel and expensive dish that had been on Earth long, long ago - monkey brains. Hide a live monkey under a table with only the top of its head exposed, lift the skull off, sprinkle seasoning on the brain, and let those diners eat with a spoon. At that time, the monkey was still alive.
Is this some kind of retribution
And so, one by one, the other three non-human brains were exposed to the air. Amid those three inhuman hissing noises, whether it was pain or fear, the priests and priestesses sang a loud liturgy together. At the same time, they raised the bells in their hands, and they shook it, and then, and again.
Suddenly, there was a low rumbling sound from the ground under their feet, as if a thunder in the sky was accidentally born underground. There was a strong tremor that almost made one think it was an earthquake, but then, a sudden evil breath spurted out from the hole around the cone-shaped altar, an ancient, ignorant, and crazy roar.
Then, from the three caves, three worms with a height of several tens of meters rose at the same time. Just like the worms they had seen in the woods, only they were so big that they were like giant pillars soaring into the sky. The three huge flesh-grey worms bent over in mid-air, and the originally small mouths buried in the folds quickly opened, revealing circles of meat grinder-like teeth circling upwards.
The three mouths detained the three people respectively.
The screams of the three were muffled in the mouths of the giant worms. They did not retract immediately, but sucked and wriggled in place for a while. Ethan thought he heard the crunch of bones and flesh being shattered.
The priests and priestesses on the altar knelt in front of the three giant worms, their hands spread out, and ecstasy appeared on their faces.
When the three worms finally raised their heads again and prepared to withdraw into the hole, they also spit out three wooden torture racks that were firmly fixed to the ground. But there was no one on the rack, only the crimson flowing across the ground and the flesh and blood hooked on the chains.
That's why no human body can be seen.
It turned out that this was the reason why when they just landed on Muscle, those soldiers were in a low mood and looked terrified. Because they saw scenes of living sacrifices, and saw something more terrible than death.
The non-people and the captive soldiers were screaming amid the sudden roar of cheers from the horns. Ethan wanted to scream like the other terrified people, but he couldn't.
The author has something to say:
Hmm... This time the taste is heavier... Don't hit me...