The crowd shouted and scolded, and went southeast along the street. Ethan also followed from a distance through the nearby alley, daring not to let himself appear on the main road to attract attention. He couldn't see who was the leader among those people, but it didn't seem to be Chen Zeng, who was a little stouter than Chen Zeng. There were Alphas, Betas, and even Omegas among the people who followed him. They were enthusiastic and strode, as if they were about to do a grand event. Ethan tried throwing things like sticks and rocks at the silent robo-cops, trying to make some noise to scare away the crowd of believers.
The robocop, however, seemed unresponsive to his attacks.
It's quite possible that someone has modified the programming of these robocops...and that they ignore any violations when the Benefactors show up. But if this is the case, as long as the whole city becomes believers, wouldn't the forbidden city mean that there are no guards
Why would Vasilev agree to do such a thing? Does he not want to live? Once the non-people know this secret and everyone wears the logo of the Benefactor Association, the forbidden city is really just an empty wall to keep a city of vicious criminals, even if the guards have guns in their hands, It's impossible to do a hundred times as many as them, right
Or... is it only part of the robocops set up this way
Ethan couldn't understand, but probably all he could do now was inform the guards. Although this would expose his infractions of sneaking into the Eastside, it seemed that Samuel and Schneider were likely to be in danger, and he couldn't think of anything else.
He ran for several streets before finally finding the three patrolling guards, and rushed over immediately, out of breath, "It's going to kill people!!! There's a riot over there!!!"
The leading guard was a blond Alpha in his thirties. When he saw him rushing over, he immediately raised his gun and said, "Report your identity!"
"I'm Ethan Eldridge, number 252!"
"You said there was a riot?" another guard asked.
Ethan nodded hurriedly, "Yes! They're heading southeast through Sixteenth Avenue now! Hundreds of them!"
"Hundreds of people wandering outside in violation of the curfew?" the blonde guard tutted, "These fukers are getting more and more courageous?"
Seeing that the three guards didn't seem nervous at all, Ethan suddenly became suspicious. But the next moment the blond guard said, "You did a great job, now show us."
"Don't you need to call backup?" Ethan frowned, "There are hundreds of them!"
"Mike, call the guard hall." The blond guard turned his head and ordered casually, then raised his head at Ethan, "Let's go."
Ethan saw that the guard called Mike was indeed using a capsule to contact the guard hall, so he turned around with confidence and led the way as the blond guard ordered. However, just as he turned his back, he felt that something hard hit the back of his head, and the darkness quickly swallowed him.
The pale and emaciated body fell to the ground, and the blond guard slowly put away the butt of his gun, with a mocking smile on his mouth, and said to the other three, "It seems that they have already started, do you want to go to the fun?"
"Of course it depends. Maybe I can give my brothers a few treats before hanging those two sluts."
"Seriously, don't you think that Samuel's body is a little stronger, but he must have a different flavor when pressed?"
"I'd rather try Schneider's ass. Damn, I used to look at his high-profile look. I have to do it to make him cry and let him taste the real Alpha." Smiling, he carried Ethan on the ground on his shoulders, and walked into the dark alley with the other two guards.
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Samuel could only feel the cries of the people around him buzzing in his head, the pain spreading from the wound near his temple to the depths of his brain. His right eye was swollen, he could only see with his left eye, a tooth was knocked out, and his ribs were probably broken, and it hurt badly when he breathed in.
Schneider next to him was no better than him. He limped when he walked, was pushed and fell to the ground several times in the middle, and his clothes were torn and tattered. He was silent, only glanced at him occasionally, and the depths of those two-way calm eyes were now occupied by an unconcealed fear.
The last time Samuel saw him show this kind of hopeless fear was when he was on a mission to the Red Earth. Even if he encountered those disgusting bugs on Muscle Star, he never despaired, and he always maintained the calmness and composure of a soldier. But this time, this time in the hands of humans, it made him show such a desperate expression.
This period of time has been like hell, and the mask he has been working hard to maintain for more than 30 years has finally been completely disintegrated. He was forced to be publicly tested for his gender in the ethics court, stripped naked and displayed in a pair of malicious eyes, and his dignity was shattered and stepped on the ground. He watched helplessly as Tai Feng identified him and Schneider on the witness stand, and watched his former subordinates and partners betray him one by one. Later, he began to become numb, and the only good thing was that Ethan was not seen on the witness stand.
He grew up in the filth and chaos of the seventh space station, the largest slum in the Earth Alliance, which can only be described as poor. He doesn't know who his Alpha father is, only that his Omega father who gave birth to him has been bullied to survive, and even needs to sell his body in exchange for his rations. No matter how people in other bright and rich space stations preach Omega equal rights, no matter whether Omegas in other star countries have obtained the same rights as Alpha, in any backward and remote places, Omegas are still lowly existences like goods. His father was afraid that he would be bullied, so he kept lying about him as an Alpha. Even after he began to enter his first heat during puberty, his father refused to let his child become an Omega who was bullied as much as himself.
But Samuel didn't want to say his gender, because he always thought he was an Alpha, and even if he was in heat, he never thought he was an Omega. He loves boxing and has been hooked since he first saw a videotape of a title fight at the age of seven. But there will be no Omega in the boxing circle, even if there is no explicit rule, but this is an unspoken unspoken rule. He entered the boxing club with the identity of Alpha, and he rose to prominence with fierce punching style in each match, and climbed to the throne of boxing champion little by little. No one would doubt his Alpha's gender. He took his father out of the rotten mouse hole and connected it to the beautiful mansion of the fifth space station. Life became better and better and full of hope.
He has been hiding this for more than thirty years.
Now, in the ethics court, everything he has worked so hard to maintain for three decades has come to nothing. He changed from a respected Alpha to an Omega in a split second, everyone pointed at him and judged him, even his comrades who had been born and died casted contempt or thirst for him. look.
After returning to the forbidden city, the nightmare has just begun. Apparently Ethan had been taken elsewhere by Vasilev, and he had also been forcibly moved to another unfamiliar residential area. The whole building was full of Alphas, and all of them were Alphas who had been with him before. They tried to swarm, vying to tag him. The fact that he seemed to be an Omega made those Alphas forget the pain of being beaten to the ground by him, and no longer admit defeat easily, even if they were beaten with blood on their faces, they had to pounce again. Just when Samuel was about to be exhausted, an unexpected person appeared to save him.
Jarvan, a former opponent, unexpectedly scolded those who tried to attack him: Whoever dares to force the mark on his territory, he will do it.
Samuel had thought that Jarvan was trying to get in the way and shot himself. Unexpectedly, the other party just glanced at him with a complex and pitying look, and said, "Although I hate you, you are also a respectable opponent after all." Then he left.
Fearing Jarvan's power, most Alphas did not dare to act openly, but they obviously did not intend to give up. Samuel was ambushed several times in the dark alley, one of which was so severe that he was beaten to the stomach. But he finally withstood, and did not succumb to an Alpha like this.
Then Schneider was also sent to the forbidden city.
Not only was he deducted 50% of his points for falsifying his identity, but he was also guilty of having an affair with him, an Omega. He was deducted 90 points of morality and was thrown into the forbidden city.
Schneider's situation is even worse than his. Although it is only half an Omega, he was once the "king" of the entire forbidden city after all. Now the king has been dragged from his throne and has been advertised as a toy that even an Omega can play with. Are you eager to try it
On the first day he entered the city, Schneider was almost forcibly marked by a group of thugs. If it hadn't been stopped by the conscientious young guard, I'm afraid the tragedy would have already happened. When Samuel saw Schneider, he was naked, and there was blood slapped on his cheek, but he did not look decadent, his eyes were still cold and firm, and the first thing he asked when he saw him was, "Are you? It's alright."
Samuel wanted to hug and reassure him, but Schneider's body trembled, obviously some conditioned fear. He imagined that Schneider must have experienced a lot of humiliation in the prison awaiting trial these days, and when he came back, he fell into chaos again. He must have had a shadow in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a sharp pain in his heart.
He always felt that he should not be the one who experienced these things, nor should it be the proud and solemn but gentle and righteous Schneider.
Why do the people he cares about always experience this kind of hurt? Is he really the personification of doom
Schneider thought that Samuel's painful expression was because of his own refusal, and lowered his eyes and said lightly, "Sorry, give me a little time. I'll be fine in a while."
That night, the two hugged each other carefully, listening to each other's heartbeats. The night is as deadly cold, and now in this sinister hell, all they have is probably each other.
Just this evening, before they were dragged out of the room, the two were hugging each other on the bed as before. Schneider asked him in a whisper-like low voice, "If we could get out of here one day, where would you like to go?"
Samuel stroked the other's angular face lightly and smiled softly, "Anywhere is fine, as long as you don't stay in the Earth Alliance."
"I want to go to Milo," Schneider's eyes were dark, and there seemed to be a bottomless sadness circling in it, "because I heard that it is very similar to the earth in ancient times, with blue sky and blue sea. "
"Do you like the sea?"
"I don't know, I haven't seen it."
"Okay, when you go out, I'll accompany you to see it."
This was their last conversation, and then their door was kicked open. They fought desperately, but after all, they couldn't resist the swarming crowd tactics, and were dragged out of the room abruptly.
At this moment, their hands and feet were tied, and they were kneeling on the ground. Over their heads hung two rough knots.
The stout Beta inhuman stood behind them, wearing some kind of weird robe, with a long and vertical deformed cross on his chest, holding Chen Zeng's booklet in his hand, and shouting to the passionate people around him talking.
"The Great Evil God came because the universe is already full of filthy sins. As an Omega, I shoulder the sacred mission of reproducing offspring, but I don't know how to love myself and do such filthy things! Their behavior is the whole human race. Shame, if you let it go, you will be punished by God's hatred! Only blood can wash away such sins and quell the wrath of God.
Those of you who don’t want to be burned by the hellfire of the great evil god, you must obey the Lord’s teachings, be grateful for the Lord’s blessings, and sacrifice everything for the Lord. Today we are going to follow the doctrine of the Lord and use the blood of these two blasphemers to quench the wrath of God! "
He preached softly, and the people below cheered and agreed with his words. Pairs of crazy eyes stared at them with bloodthirsty excitement, and just looking at those eyes made Samuel feel that he would rather go to the red earth and face the disgusting god of entropy or the cannibal head on Muscle. of bugs.
He didn't even understand that he was just hiding his identity and did not affect the interests of these people, why did they hate him so much? Just because he's not like them, just because he doesn't want to live by their rules
Why do people hate things that are different from themselves
At this time, there was a commotion in the crowd, and I saw three guards passing through the crowd and coming straight to the raised platform. The headed blond guard threw the unconscious person on his shoulders onto the stage and said with a smile, "John, we'll bring you another one. This person seems to be an accomplice with the two of them before, right?"
Samuel saw Ethan, who was moaning on the ground and seemed to be slowly waking up, his heart clenched together fiercely. He yelled at the crowd, "No! He has nothing to do with me! You got it wrong!"
"Shut up!" The chunky man known as John slapped him heavily, then walked up to Ethan and squatted down to take a look.
Ethan's eyes were slightly opened, and his brows were furrowed, seemingly in pain and confusion. That John laughed loudly, "Ha! The three of them happened to be together. It seems that it is God's will to punish them today!"
"Hang them! Hang them! Hang them!" the non-people and the guards shouted hoarsely, indistinguishable from each other, until their throats were broken and their throats hoarse. Their voices made the entire sewer system hum and vibrate, and they could even be heard on the ground.
Ethan struggles to wake up, only to find himself in the center of the storm. This is obviously on the wide river bank where the benefactor gathered in the past, and he was lying on the platform where Chen Zengping preached. And not far in front of him, Samuel and Schneider are kneeling side by side...
How is this going…
"Hang them! Hang them! Hang them!" Pairs of hateful eyes flashed and burned in the overlap of light and shadow, the air was hot and sticky, and the smell of madness was everywhere. Ethan propped up his body, ignoring the dizziness of his head, and shouted to John, "Are you all crazy!!!"
John looked at him with a false expression of pity, and put a hand on his head, "Lost Lamb, don't you repent? Don't you know what you've done is wrong?"
Ethan shook his hand and tried to stand up, but was kicked into the knee by a strong Alpha with a mask on his head standing on the platform, so his legs went weak and knelt down again. He stared at the applauding crowd below in disbelief, shouting something in vain. But his voice was too small to overwhelm more than a hundred crazy humans who wanted to see blood.
Amid repeated "hang them" cries, the two masked Alphas each took a stool and walked towards Samuel and Schneider, forcing them to stand on the stool. Ethan shook his head slowly when he saw Samus raising his empty eyes at him. And Schneider closed his eyes in despair, his body trembling faintly.
"Samuel." Schneider whispered when he was forcibly lifted up by the man, and suddenly raised his eyes to look at the person beside him, "I may have forgotten to tell you something, I love you."
Samuel's lips trembled, but nothing came out.
But at this moment, no one noticed that the eyes of Ethan, who was being forcibly pressed to the ground by John, changed.
His heart was burning.
However, this time it was no longer just fear, but more anger.
Maybe this anger has been in his heart for a long time, maybe when he was bullied by Tito's people, when Mars was used as a tool by the priest, when he was kidnapped by Roland on Muscle, when he was isolated by everyone on Neptune, when he was in Red. Seeds of anger and hatred when the earth was dying, when he was thrown into the forbidden city, when his father cut ties with him, when he was betrayed by Roland, even when he was very young, when he was locked in that closet has already been buried.
He didn't understand why in the face of this chaotic and dark universe, people still kill each other and do such meaningless stupid things? Why are people easily incited to attack strangers who have nothing to do with them whenever they face a crisis? Why is it not to understand, but to destroy, when faced with people and things that are different or unfamiliar with you
Do such people really have the value of being protected? Are they more worth living than Samuel and Schneider
In fact, he himself is no longer a human, isn't he, why is he still stubborn to be a member of this race? He has been taken away from everything, what is he still holding on
Look, those faces, distorted by an almost ecstatic excitement, are no longer of the same kind.
They are food.
The black lines quickly spread to the side of the face, and two long black lines extended from the back of the neck through the cheeks to the corners of the eyes. The green in the eyes became more intense, and the originally round pupils suddenly elongated. When that John noticed that the person he was pressing was not right, it was too late.
No one knew how those black tentacles suddenly burst out from the pale and thin body. The flower of death that bloomed like black fireworks fell from the sky in an instant, rapidly expanding and expanding. The huge mouth that opened at the tip of the tentacle shattered the head of the person, the venom hissing and smoking, and the flesh of the infected person melted like ice cream, and the barbed spikes made the strings of people like grasshoppers. strung together. Others were swept into the air by tentacles, abruptly broken in half by a powerful force, and blood poured down like rain.
In less than a minute, the arrogant and rejoicing believers just ran away in panic screaming, only to find that no matter which direction they ran, endless tentacles swarmed around them. Plasma splattered on the walls and fell into the sewage, staining everything red.
John's legs were weak and he had already knelt down in front of Ethan. At this time, Ethan lowered his head and stood up slowly. Behind him, the flower of death danced like a carnival, and the blood rain stained his cheeks that had become enchanting.
"Big... Great Evil God..." John looked up at Ethan, his fat body trembling like a face pocket, his pants were wet and smelled of urine, looking ridiculous and pitiful.
However, Ethan suddenly grinned, grinning with white teeth. He reached out and touched John's head, tilted his head slightly, imitating John's tone just now, and asked, "Lost lamb, don't you repent yet? Don't you know what you've done is wrong?"
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Many students have guessed that Ethan will break out in this chapter~ Yes, I have to relieve myself after I have been stumped for so long~