"In this case, it's a bit like a curse written at the entrance of the ancient monarch's tomb." Ethan looked at the translated words floating on the wall and murmured, "For example, someone disturbed Tutankhamun's tomb. The rest of the pharaoh, deathwing will fall on his head. But strange curses like this are never heard of."
Death is not cursed, but only the beginning of a nightmare.
But for some reason, it seems more bizarre and dangerous than the death curse.
The Alpha soldier, who was hurriedly helping the sergeant disinfect his burnt arm, whispered fuck, "So this is a mausoleum? What is that holy race?"
Ethan shrugged. "Maybe it's one of those bugs out there, or one of the bigger bugs we've seen."
Schneider scolded, "Don't talk nonsense. Come and help push the door!"
Except for the injured sergeant, the remaining five pushed the stone door together, but the door did not move as expected. The six people gasped in the dim light, and then invariably extended their sights to the stairs that spread deeper underground.
"We can also blow the door open with a bomb."
"But what if those bugs were still out there? And the bomb was so powerful that it killed us too?"
"But there will be no bugs if you go down. Didn't the four eyes over there say that the holy race might be bugs?"
The six people argued for a long time, and finally Schneider decided to try to blow up the door with a bomb.
Because they instinctively felt that there was a cold and evil smell in the surging darkness under the stairs. No one knows what ancient secrets are buried under the earth of this alien planet. The countless ancient inscriptions carved on the rock walls, whether they are curses or prophecies, make people shudder.
They set the bomb time, and then everyone rushed down the steps and took cover deep in the burrow. With a bang, the ground shook, and countless dust roared like a storm and swallowed them. Ethan was lying beside Samuel, and he could only hear a loud rumbling sound in his ears. A stone fell and smashed his fingers, and he could vaguely hear the exclamations of others.
Immediately, his forehead was concentrated by a falling rock, and he fell into a brief faint. When he woke up and turned around, it was pitch black, so dark that people began to question his existence for a moment. Ethan opened his eyes wide and couldn't see anything. He didn't know where he was, and there was a thick, choking, earthy smell spreading from his nose and mouth. The sound of coughing came from an uncertain direction.
Ethan touched his glasses and put them on his face in vain, but still couldn't see anything. He reached to the side and was caught by another strong arm. Samuel pulled him in front of him, groping his face with his big hands, "Ethan?"
"It's me, it's me, what happened?" Ethan found that his voice was choked by the dust, his throat was itchy, and he coughed in embarrassment. There was a smell of blood in the soil, which made him nauseous, but also felt a little sweet.
Samuel said uncertainly, "Maybe the cave has collapsed..." He seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and the hand holding Ethan suddenly tightened. He shouted, "Schneider? Schneider??"
After a long time, a hoarse voice came from not far in front of them, "I'm here."
Samuel was visibly relieved. I'm afraid even he himself didn't realize how panicked his voice sounded just now.
Soon Schneider's voice rang again, "Where are the others? Answer them all!"
"Here I am!" The sergeant's voice was weak, but clearly alive.
"My leg is crushed!" Another non-human Stan's voice was filled with unbearable pain, and a faint trembling of panic, "I can't move!"
Samuel fumbled for the original machine gun in his hand, trying to illuminate it with the light on the gun. However, Schneider found his weapon one step ahead of him, and a beam of light finally tore through the dark curtain, and everyone else could not help but reach out to block the too bright stimulus.
They were still lying on the steps, and a large rock from the top of the cave fell and scattered around. There was a huge rock just a few steps away from Ethan. If it hit him, it would definitely be dead. way to survive.
Ethan felt faintly afraid, and his legs were a little weak. He struggled a bit, stumbling after Samuel, looking for the light to find Schneider, who hurriedly put the laser gun aside, trying to remove the huge stone slab that was pressing on Stan's legs. Obviously, the stone slab was also smashed from the top of the tunnel, and some horned characters inscribed in seals could still be faintly discernible.
Ethan looked down and saw the red bloodstains smouldering under the boulder. He lowered his body a little more, and saw that the flesh of the pinched leg had been broken, and the bones were smashed and protruded from it.
These legs have been abolished, and I am afraid that I will not be able to walk again in this life.
Obviously Schneider should know this too, but he is still beckoning Samuel to try his best to lift the stone with him. The sergeant on the other side stood frozen on the other side, staring at something on the ground. Ethan came closer to take a look, only to find a lifeless arm sticking out from under a slate.
It was the soldier who silently followed the sergeant...
So now there are only five of them left, and Stan's legs are...
Ethan groped for the direction to the entrance of the cave, but after being stumbled a few times, all he could find was a pile of rubble.
Not only did the bomb fail to help them escape, but it blocked the way even further.
He vaguely felt that all this was not accidental. There is some kind of power that is forcing them to the depths of darkness. He involuntarily reached out and touched the back of his neck, where at the moment it was just a rough patch of skin covered with scars, nothing unusual. He breathed a sigh of relief, turned to Samuel, and said, "No more delay, we have to get out of here."
"Then come and help!" Schneider roared irritably.
Ethan's expression was very indifferent, and he looked at Stan, whose face was pale in pain, "Even if you remove the slate, he will not be able to walk." He suddenly looked up at him.
Ethan in Samuel's memory would not have said such cold words in such an indifferent tone.
In fact, even Ethan himself was surprised when the words came out. How could he say what he thought about in his heart
Yes, he had no sympathy for Stan. After all, he was not familiar with him, and that person was one of the very devout followers of Chen Zeng's belief in the Great Evil God, which made him a little disgusted. But with his usual character, he wouldn't say such cruel words.
And Schneider rounded his eyes, "I'm carrying him!"
Ethan was faintly ashamed, and without saying a word, bent over to help. The three tried their best to suckle, and finally lifted the slate a little, while the sergeant dragged Stan out. Stan had a sullen look on his face when he saw the appearance of his stump.
From the look of that leg, it is clearly impossible to be healed again, unless cloning technology is used to create a new pair of legs. But who would spend so much money to make a pair of cloned legs for a non-human being
A lot of their gear was buried, and the situation was worse than it was before the bombs were used. They searched as hard as they could and found only a marching bag with some compressed food and water in it. But five people is still too nervous. The only gun that can illuminate is the one in Schneider's hand. I don't know when it will run out of energy and completely lose its light source.
In this underground where you can't see five fingers, if there is no light, it is basically a dead end.
Schneider put Stan on his back and let Samuel walk in front with a gun light. Ethan followed. They sank down the steps until their feet finally hit firm ground again.
In front of them were two huge, pointed arched stone gates, dozens of meters high, standing in front of them like giants, and the top of the gates disappeared into the darkness of the heights. And the two doors were actually open. Behind the doors, the high and wide space formed a dome on the top of the head several hundred feet high. The towering stone pillars were arranged in two rows, filled with some kind of religious solemnity. However, these stone pillars have asymmetric sharp corners that have not been seen in other buildings, adding a sense of distortion and confusion to the solemnity. Standing in the middle of the two rows of giant pillars and looking towards the end of the perspective, there will be a kind of The pillars are bending down and bending, and I will be sucked into the inexplicable feeling in the distance.
They slowed their pace and stepped into the huge hall that was unbelievably tall. There are no windows here, but there are some unknown substances that emit fluorescence on the dome, perhaps plants, which light up the entire underground hall. It was empty and silent, except that there were many vague reliefs and characters on the walls. Their footsteps echoed between the giant pillars, and every echo struck the hearts of everyone.
When was such a large project constructed? Why doesn't the Earth Alliance know anything about it
Ethan noticed that those pillars also had lettering, densely packed from top to bottom. He leaned closer and found that it was not the language of the Horned Man.
It was a language he had never seen before, a twisted, worm-like language. They are dense and dense, covering the field of vision, facing the hall that has been empty for many centuries.
He touched his fingers, and in an instant, many messy images, images that did not belong to his memory suddenly invaded his mind.
He saw that countless gigantic worms swarmed out from the core of the dying planet, and they squirmed quickly, leaving their huge underground palace that runs through the entire planet, and crawling to the dark red and expanding huge sun. Down. In the scorching sun, their plump bodies swelled and burst, their dark green blood stenched, and wherever they went, all the plants and trees quickly turned black and withered, and those strange pink animals Ethan had never seen were touching them. The moment of blood, it quickly turned gray, and then it didn't move.
Immediately afterwards, many dark green translucent eggs spewed out from the bodies of those exploding flesh worms. When the eggs were blown by a strange wind, they all floated up like they were weightless, towards the dying star of old age. On the barren land lined with lava, countless eggs emitting a glowing green streamer fluttered, like the evaporating souls of the entire planet.
Those seeds left the dying home planet and drifted into the dark and cold universe. They fell into the chaotic river of time and space, and through some rare wormholes, came from the distant universe to the Milky Way, and finally landed on a dark blue planet that was most suitable for them, only at night.
They hate sunlight, but there is hardly any sunlight here. Here they conquered the local horned people with their wits and were regarded as messengers of the gods. Immediately they burrowed underground and began to recreate their own underground palaces, mating and laying eggs in the huge hollows in those abyss. Here they wait, until the gods they worship come.
Ethan's hand suddenly left the stone pillar, and his trance consciousness was instantly pulled back to reality. Samuel was holding his wrist half-compulsively, looking at him with concern.
He blinked blankly.
"What's the matter with you?" Samuel asked, frowning. "What language did you speak just now? It sounds weird."