Samuel looked at Ethan suspiciously. This suspicion was not directed against Ethan, but against the priest Eve who "helped" them for some unknown purpose. He then asked Ethan, "You mean we might be eaten by what you're talking about?"
"I'm not sure, but everyone on that planet has disappeared before." Ethan raised his eyes and looked at Samuel seriously, the fear in his voice from the memory had not subsided, "I don't want to die, especially Don't want to die on an inexplicable planet."
Samuel looked at his nervousness when he brought it up, and found it inexplicable. He has participated in atonement five times, and once in ten ten missions, wearing a heavy heat-insulating suit, sitting in a cramped and cramped underground submarine and entering more than 30 kilometers underground to recover the mantle generator. At that time, the small submarine they were riding in was severely damaged by a rock group that came along with the magma flow during the dive. Dark sea of fire of rocks. Three of the five of them all panicked, fainted or even suffocated to death because of the unbearable heat or extreme terror. Only he and the other Alpha were left to maintain consciousness, enduring the burning pain of the skin and the thinning of the air. , through intermittent radio contact with the podium on the ground to repair the submarine under their command. They didn't dare to think about what would happen if the machine couldn't be repaired within an hour. Later, he knew that once the damage exceeded the critical value, before being swallowed by the magma, the terrifying underground pressure would instantly crush them into human form. meat pie.
Surviving in such a terrifying situation, even if you encounter some strange alien creatures, it is better than being locked in that dark and narrow lava hell.
He then asked half perfunctorily, "Then what do you think we should do?"
"Some of the fifty people this time have volunteered to join the atonement with you. When the time comes to the red earth, you will probably be the dominant ones. Taniser said that if you can gather a few of them to join him meet up."
"Tanither? That priest?" Samuel raised his eyebrows. "You agreed?"
Ethan pursed his lips, "There's no harm anyway, isn't it? You'll understand when you watch that video, he'll be quietly coming down tonight."
Samuel rubbed his forehead like a headache, then stretched out a finger and pointed at Ethan fiercely, "If you make decisions for me in the future, be careful that I fucking fuck you."
Ethan shrugged. If it was a few days ago, he would probably have been frightened by Samuel's expression, but after these three days, he has been indifferent.
Sure enough, Samuel had already talked to the other eight volunteers before dark, and two of them didn't want to cooperate, but in the end they agreed to meet in the evening with the mentality of giving Samuel some face. The nine included the red-haired Otto, a close friend of Samuel, who was said to have been a legendary thief who could open any complex personal identification lock, encrypted lock, mechanical lock, or smart lock. Later, when he sneaked into the home of a famous wealthy businessman to steal a famous painting left over from the ancient earth period, he was caught by accident. Because of his numerous crimes, his moral value was finally completely deducted, and he was finally thrown into the forbidden city.
The other two who have a good relationship with Samuel are "Pastor" Chen Zeng and Sidian Derek. Chen Zeng was originally a fanatical believer in the ancient Christian faith, until one day he suddenly believed that he had heard the voice of God, and God told him that today's world is collapsing day by day, people have lost their faith, and he was sent by God to spread the old The angel of the Gospel of the Sun, with the mission of saving mankind from the abyss of blasphemy. So he started preaching on the Internet, and miraculously, he was sought after by a considerable number of rebellious teenagers or the people at the bottom who were unhappy in life. He has a complete set of theories, even claiming that people's interpretation of the Bible in the past was wrong, and that the Bible itself had various deviations in the process of dissemination, so he simply wrote a book himself, which was widely circulated among believers. There are quite a few very violent and bloody contents in this "new bible", including the belief that all people who have children who only want Beta or Alpha and deliberately don't want Omega should be forcibly transgendered into Omega, because they have created the gender of today's interstellar society Unbalanced, all religions that claim to have the end of the world in the interstellar age are hooligans and should be sacked, and people who have never had same-sex sex in their entire lives are probably not fully evolved ancient humans and should be locked up and sterilized. extreme content. Later, the Earth Alliance government noticed that his power was growing too fast and caused several small-scale bloodshed terrorist incidents, so they arrested him and threw him into the forbidden city.
Derek is the youngest of the nine people, only in his early twenties, but he is smart and obsessed with researching the technology of merging network consciousness that has been banned by the Earth Alliance government, thinking that it can merge the best human consciousness together to create A new and higher species came out. Later, he tried to merge his brother's consciousness with that of his robot dog, causing moderate brain damage to his brother, and was imprisoned in the forbidden city.
Ethan listened to Samuel's brief introduction to the three better people, and suddenly felt that his reason for coming in was really uncool...
Especially that Chen Zeng, an Asian Beta man in his forties, with a plain appearance and shorter than himself, he smiled very friendly when he saw people, and he was a little shy. The cult leader reported by the full channel.
At the appointed time, most of the other non-humans lay down, and these nine people and Ethan climbed to a wider iron bridge at the top of the warehouse floor. There are many huge machine rings around, like monsters, breathing fog like water vapor. A tall and thin figure gradually emerged from the fog. Tanisel was still wearing his ordinary sailing uniform, but with his scepter in his hand, he appeared with ease.
In the face of ten "extremely vicious" inhumans, he didn't show any fear, he still smiled politely, and stood a few steps away from them.
Samuel folded his arms and said impatiently, "What the hell are you trying to do, tell me. We're busy."
"Go straight to the topic, I like it." Tanisel didn't say much, just took out his own ten thousand breath ball and played the video of more than ten seconds.
After the video ended, the scene was silent. After about ten seconds, Chen Zeng suddenly stretched out his hand and drew a cross on his chest, murmured and began to pray.
Others whispered, too, mostly swearing at the government. Samuel suddenly raised his hand and snorted, "Don't fucking make a noise!" Then he looked at Tanisel, "We understand what you mean, do you think there is a way for us to survive?"
"It's not a foolproof solution, but it may save the lives of a few of you." Tanisel waved his hand in front of the Sphere of Breath, and the image suddenly changed, forming a rotating galaxy nebula, "We Eve Due to the strong ability of perception, people can perceive some energy fluctuations that are invisible to the naked eye. After entering the interstellar period, space travel makes this perception even stronger. This fluctuation often comes from the balance and competition of two energies in the universe. Power is the subtle balance order that maintains all the stars and celestial bodies in space and time, and the other power is the chaos from chance and variables. Just like the opposing balance between the Apollo spirit and the Dionysian spirit that you humans call it. We The beliefs of God also reflect the perception of these two aspects. Our God of Entropy, like your God of Apollo and God of Yahweh, is the source of all order and moderation, and promotes and maintains all the balance that has been formed. Our God of Entropy is the source of all order and moderation. , your Dionysus..."
Taniser's tone paused, and suddenly said, "Maybe another god is more suitable than the metaphor of Dionysus. I wonder how many of you know about the evil god Cthulhu that was passed down in the ancient earth?"
Most of them looked blank and cleared their throats, "You know, it's an evil god made up by a man named Lovecraft in ancient times, with an octopus-like head and bat-like wings."
All the non-humans glared at him with the same expressions on their faces as they looked at creatures outside the Milky Way.
Tanissell gave him a slight smile with an approving face. Ethan was sober in his heart for this rare limelight, but he still pushed his glasses calmly on the surface.
"I have always believed that the ancient myths and legends are not completely fabricated. Some people on Earth thousands of years ago may have better perception ability than ordinary people on Earth, or they may have sensed the God of Entropy from some other channel. Watch the video this time. The thing that appears in it may be an entropic god, a source of chaos that transcends all our species."
"You said that thing is a god? You Eves believe in this thing? The taste is really heavy." Otto asked in disbelief.
Being scolded for belief in Tanisel was not angry at all, but his smile was meaningful, "How do we know what God is like, maybe what is beautiful in our eyes is also disgusting in their eyes. And... so to speak Well, not all priests agree with me. Otherwise I wouldn't have to work with you in private."
Everyone looked at each other in dismay, and they all regretted volunteering to participate in this mission. Although ten points is not a small point, if you want to face that kind of thing... it is better to stay in the Forbidden City for more than ten or twenty years.
"I'm not interested in your mythology, I just want to know how we don't get lost by this thing."
"If that's really the entropy, he'd like something filthy, like a rotting corpse, a rancid smell, or a dying person. If you smear some dead animal dick on your body when it appears, maybe you can Save a life." Tanissell's fingers twirled, and the scene in the Sphere of Breath changed again.
It was a vast wasteland across the field of vision, the sky was filled with a red similar to rust, and the entire earth was also smudged with a twilight-like red. A huge red sun occupies the upper left corner, that is the sun of the red earth, Hera. On the slightly undulating ground, there are densely dense, strange dark blue plants, about one person tall, with countless stick-shaped branches that seem to have a certain degree of softness protruding from the conical torso. The tumor will occasionally spew black juice into the sky.
Ethan has also traveled to several planets in the Milky Way for vacations, most of which were originally uninhabitable and were transformed into places of residence. But even such a planet can at best feel barren and desolate, and on this so-called red earth suitable for human habitation, the ominous rust color and the disgusting-looking plants all seem to be creatures in a nightmare. Unexplainably disgusted.
Taniser turned the Wan-Bi Ball in his hand and switched several holograms, "According to the news sent back by the pioneers, this plant is very common on the red earth, and the sap it spews has a carrion-like stench. After you arrive on the red earth, you can collect their juice. Wait until the 'that thing' appears and rub it on your body. Also, keep away from anything that looks too neat and regulated, such as the base or fields left by the pioneers ahead. The God of Entropy’s instinct is to destroy order, and if he hasn’t moved those bases until now, it’s very likely that he’s deliberately leaving behind a bait to lure more humans into it.”
Ethan interrupted suddenly, "What if those people in the mother ship ordered us to go in? Didn't they plan to observe what would happen when that thing appeared?" He pointed to the electric shock collar on his neck.
"Based on the quality of the information received, it seems to affect the microwave signal when it appears. So at least when it appears, you have a short period of time outside the control of the mother ship." Taniser said After a chuckle, "Oh, I seem to have accidentally revealed some confidential information. If this is in your Earth Alliance, I'm afraid it will lose a lot of moral values, right?"
As soon as these words came out, the eyes of several inhumans lit up. However, Derek sneered, "There's something wrong, obviously they guessed that there was absolutely no need to control us when that thing appeared, because no one could run away."
The crowd fell into a dead silence once again. Ethan thought to himself, this kid's words really pierce the heart... not even a little hope is left.
Pastor Chen Zeng, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked, "You help us live like this, do you need us to do anything for you?"
Tanisel looked over with his ethereal and clear gray eyes, with a noble and innocent face, "As a servant of the Goddess of Mercy, I just can't bear to see you die in vain."
Chen Zeng rolled his eyes and smiled harmlessly, "Everyone is walking together, so there is no need to go around? I praise the name of my lord because everything I have is bestowed by him. My lord still wants us Thank you, now that you help us, how can you ask for nothing?"
Tanisel pinched the index finger and thumb of his left hand, and put the other three fingers close to his heart, leaning forward slightly. This seems to be the way they salute. However, when he stood up straight again, there was a hint of slyness in his dignified smile, "I should act merciful for the shepherd, I'm just doing things according to the law of God, but... If you have a way to collect a little of that" ' sample, I will be very grateful. Maybe I can negotiate with your foreign affairs department and give you an extra five points as a reward."