The idea conveyed by Tanissell gradually dissipated, and Ethan was pulled back to reality by the increasingly pungent smell in his nose. He coughed softly and returned his gaze to the wall in front of him. He closed his eyes and wanted to let the tentacles on the back of his neck grow, but the strange thing was that the feeling of fullness that was always throbbing in his body disappeared now, as if a cavity of strength had nowhere to exert itself like a void. There was cold sweat on his forehead, and a strong sense of exhaustion pushed towards him layer by layer. He really wanted to go to sleep now.
Samuel let out a groan at this moment and woke up Yoyo. The sword eyebrows were tied together, and it seemed that he was not quite sure where he was.
Ethan didn't hold him steady, and the two fell to the ground, and he unfortunately became Samuel's human flesh cushion, and was crushed to the point of vomiting. Samuel heard the pain under him, and Ethan's face wrinkled into a ball, and his consciousness gradually returned to reality.
Ethan's cheeks were sunken, bloodless, very haggard, and he looked as if he was going to be exhausted.
"They're smoking us with tear gas, maybe we can get out of this wall." Ethan reluctantly pointed his finger at the concrete wall.
Samuel quickly got up from Ethan and went up to check the wall. In fact, Samuel was still a little confused at this moment. He was a little unsure whether Schneider's death was his hallucination. Maybe the man was still alive somewhere as the captain of the guard. Maybe he just confused the dream with reality. .
He was clearly experiencing the deepest pain and despair, but he still had to work hard to live, and he didn't even have time to figure out the situation.
"I can't open it without the tools." Samuel turned around and hugged Ethan from the ground. He was shocked to realize that the other party's body was so light, it was completely different from the ruddy, healthy and even muscular appearance of a year ago.
Something was eating Ethan bit by bit, making him thinner and thinner.
Ethan seemed to be on the verge of losing consciousness, and he didn't struggle to protest the weird posture, with his head resting on Samuel's shoulders, his eyes slightly closed, and he didn't know if he had fallen asleep. Samuel led him all the way along the wall, looking for possible breakthrough points, his feet dipped in the stinky dirty water and slippery. In the distance, the billowing and approaching smoke had already been seen, and the disgusting pungent smell had already struck first, and Samuel coughed violently.
The desperate situation was approaching, but suddenly I heard an indescribable rumbling sound from the wall. Suddenly, the stone collapsed, the smoke and dust flew out, and a flesh-pink thing about the thickness of a human waist suddenly rushed out from behind the wall. Viscous acid drips from the wide open front end. Samuel jumped back in fright, leaning against the wall on the other side of the corridor. He never expected to see the giant worms found only on the Muscle Star. Although this one looks relatively small, he will never mistake the front end dripping with hissing acid.
"Don't be afraid..." Ethan in his arms suddenly said weakly, "It won't hurt us."
Samuel looked at the person in his arms in shock, and when he looked up again, he found that the worm was slowly retreating into the wall, leaving only a hole in the wall that could probably fit a person through. He hesitantly walked to the dark hole and looked inside. The light from the flashlight was on the ground covered with dust and gravel, and there was indeed a thick column a little further away. It seems that this is the ancient subway station that Ethan entered by mistake last time.
The rapidly approaching smoke didn't give him time to hesitate, so Samuel had no choice but to shove Ethan in, and bent down to get in. After going in, he immediately took off his shirt and stuffed it into the hole. Seeing that it wasn't enough, he even tore off Ethan's shirt to plug the hole, and then picked up some gravel to fill it in. The wisps of smoke penetrated through the gap, but it finally blocked most of the foul irritating gas.
Samuel gasped and turned around, only to find that Ethan had fallen asleep leaning against the nearest pillar.
Samuel was a little stunned, and slowly slid down with his back against the wall. There was silence in the darkness, only his own heavy breathing could be heard, and the weak yellow light of the flashlight could not drive out the darkness two feet away. He raised his head and looked at the empty void, not knowing where he was, and didn't seem to care that much.
His eyes fell on Ethan, and he couldn't tell what it was like in his heart. At this time, Ethan looked so pale and thin. No one could imagine that just a short period of time ago, countless tentacles were flying behind him, and there was a strange smile on his face. It seemed that those who died around him were not human. It's a completely unremarkable animal. The sight gave Samuel a chill, and for a moment he even thought that Ethan would kill him with him.
But obviously Ethan still recognized him, that is to say, he started killing like that in a state of complete sobriety.
If it was said that Ethan was dominated by a strange force in the past on Muscle, how to explain it this time? Is it true that Ethan is no longer the Ethan he knew
All the people he values are moving away from him, why should Ethan be excluded
Samuel turned off his flashlight and opened his eyes in the darkness, as if he was gradually dissolving into nothingness.
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"Your time is almost here." Tanisel stood in front of Ethan and smiled, but his skin was black and his whole body was black, like a thick shadow.
Ethan seemed to be kneeling in front of him, trying to move his body, but couldn't. He raised his head, looking at the black Tanithel as if he were worshipping a god. It was a familiar face, but why did it give him a faint sense of awe? Why do I always feel that the face that belongs to Tanisel is not the face of the black man, but just a mask to relax him
The black Tanithel stretched out a thin hand and stroked Ethan's hair lightly, as if he was very affectionate, "Our believers were once all over the galaxy, but now they are fading away, but the moment of awakening is It's coming. When order collapses, worms wailing in the hollow earth, and shadows engulf the galaxy, you will be the extradition of the gods."
Ethan's body was cold under his touch. On the one hand, an unspeakable feeling of nausea made him want to avoid it, but on the other hand, he had an alternative sense of belonging and intimacy, "Who are you?"
"When the gods fell asleep, I was the only one who walked alone on earth and in this universe for thousands of years. You have seen me, and you remember me." The black Tanithel gently raised his jaw, Looking down at his white eyes without irises, he ordered, "Say my name."
Ethan's mind seemed to have countless gears spinning, and a name jumped on the tip of his tongue, but there was no way to turn it into words anyway.
The black "man" appeared again and again in his eccentric, twisted dreams, sometimes without a face, sometimes with Tanisel's face, and came closer and closer to him. By now, he had actually stood in front of him and put his hand on top of his head. He suddenly realized that he was dreaming, and hurriedly stepped back, trying to get away from the black "man".
"You are... you are the messenger of the foolish god!" Ethan shouted loudly, but he still couldn't remember the name. "What do you want? Why do you keep pestering me!"
"I'm not entangled in you." The corner of the black Tanisel's mouth drew an elegant arc. In an instant, his face suddenly blurred. on his father's face. The black Adrian smiled lovingly, and uttered a disturbing answer in his mouth, "You were born destined to return to your source, to come back to me."
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Ethan was frozen awake. He slowly opened his eyes, feeling dizzy, weak in his limbs, and trembling all over.
He has a fever.
As soon as he moved, Samuel appeared in his field of vision, looking at him with concern.
"You're cold?" Samuel asked.
Ethan nodded, curled up on the ground, teeth chattering. With a sigh, Samuel lifted him up and put him in his arms. The heat radiating from Omega made Ethan feel a little better, and the tense muscles finally relaxed a little.
"Where are we..." Ethan asked.
"I don't know, it seems to be a subway station."
"Ah... how long have I slept?"
"About an hour or two."
"It's been so long..." Ethan swallowed in his throat, but felt a dry pain, "We have to hurry, they'll send someone down..."
"It's useless," Samuel whispered. "I tried to find you when you were asleep. You can walk down the passage to other platforms, but you'll end up in a dead end. The tunnel has been bombed. It collapsed, and..." Samuel's voice was a little uncertain, "the last time you were rescued from the other platform, you seemed to be frightened, did you also see something?"
Ethan noticed the word "also" in Samuel's words, and he looked up at Samuel's face, "Did you see that too?"
In Xiwei's flashlight, he couldn't see Samuel's expression clearly, but he felt that the other person's arm was holding him a little tighter, "I'm not sure if it's my hallucination. I seem to have seen a figure on the other platform."
He was exploring the tunnel along the road that Ethan had walked, and he also saw the abandoned carriage, the strange five-fingered handprint of a child on the window, and the mummified corpse lying on the ground. This empty and ancient subway system is creepy, and there is a quiet weirdness everywhere, but at this moment he doesn't really care what he will encounter. He walked through the long tunnel and came to another subway station. Everywhere is covered with thick dust, but on the ground, there are clearly many rows of messy footprints, as if they were printed recently.
The footprints looked very strange, with the sole of the foot on one side looking normal, but the sole of the foot on the other side seemed to be reversed. And looking at the size and shape, it seems that there is more than one "person".
What is hidden in this dusty darkness? Does anyone still live here
Ethan listened to Samuel's narration and thought of the last black figure at the end of the stairs when he escaped from here last time.
In a filthy place like the Forbidden City, does something strange attract? The black man in the dream said that he has been alone on the earth for thousands of years, so at the end of endless time, when the huge monsters in the dream are not "sleeping", are there any believers on the earth
If there are believers like giant worms on Faun, what will believers on Earth look like? Could it be some humanoid creatures with flush five fingers
Is the current self a deformed creature like them
Ethan's mind was full of wild imagination. At this moment, he seemed to have completely integrated into this darkness, and the light was getting farther and farther away from him.
He felt himself falling, falling forever. The great loneliness made him even colder, and he shrank into Samuel's arms.
However, Samuel's body suddenly froze, and Ethan heard him ask, "Who!"
The sound of empty footsteps was getting closer and closer, and Ethan wanted to see who it was, but in the blurred vision, he could only distinguish an approaching figure. He heard some vigilance and hostility in Samuel's voice, "What about you?"
When the man finally approached, the blond hair reflected the bright light of the scepter in the other's hand, the delicate and handsome facial features gradually became clear from the mist, and Ethan's breathing quickened. He opened his mouth, but couldn't speak.
Tanisel saw Samuel and Ethan hugging each other without their shirts on, the corners of their mouths twitched indiscriminately, and their brows quickly wrinkled.
"What's wrong with him?" Tanisel came to the two of them and squatted down, almost immediately pulling Ethan out of Samuel's arms, making him lean on his shoulders, reaching out to probe Ethan's forehead. His brows furrowed even more, and he lowered his head to meet Ethan's silly gaze.
"Didn't I tell you not to act rashly..." Tanisel sighed, but there was a sense of pity in his reproachful tone.
"He's here to save us." Samuel said beside him, his lowered eyes covered with pain, "I don't know why he became like that... Anyway, what happened on Muscle happened again, He was in a very bad state afterward."
"His body can't bear that much entropy right now. If it goes on like this, his body will collapse... I have to get him out of here as soon as possible." Tanisel looked down at Ethan, and rubbed his hand lightly on him, which was red. Not normal cheeks, soothed softly, "You'll be fine."
And Ethan was still blinking at him almost greedily, not knowing if he was burned out.
"Leave? How? How did you get in?" Samuel asked.
"They were afraid that the mutation in Ethan would be contagious, and they dared not send people down easily. So I told them that only I could take him out."
Samuel's eyes suddenly became dangerous, and his hands were already touching the stones around him to use as weapons. Tanisel rolled his eyes, "If I don't say that, how could they let me in?"
"Why do you help us like this?" Samuel stared at the hand he held Ethan, and a series of questions threw out, "You are a high-profile priest of Eve, what are the consequences of doing such a thing, you Why take the risk? What are your plans for Ethan?"
Tanisel also raised his eyes, met Samuel's aggressive gaze without evading, and said word by word, "I saved him because I wanted to save him. He is more important to me than anything else."
Samuel frowned, not sure whether such a reason was worth believing. But Tanisel had already picked up Ethan, "There's no time. If we go on, they will really send someone down."
Samuel then stood up reluctantly, "But obviously we can't get out of the subway exit where you came in, and the tunnel is blocked, and there is no other way out."
"Yes." Ethan in Tanisel's arms suddenly said, and pointed to the nearby wall, "I didn't kill it... I don't know where it is now, but it has grown very fast and has begun to go underground. A hole was drilled."
The priest looked down at the person in his arms with his eyes closed, but it seemed that he suddenly understood something, showing a strange expression.
"A giant worm's egg...has hatched?"