Falling into the Abyss

Chapter 90: The Way of the Worm (1)

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Tanisel's body temperature seemed to be higher than that of ordinary humans. In his arms, Ethan finally felt less cold, and the whole person seemed to suddenly feel calm. Although the muscles all over the body are sore, the throat is sorely swollen, and the head is very dizzy, and there is no place in the body that is comfortable, but because of that person, it feels like home. He put his forehead on Tanisel's shoulder and neck and let out a comfortable sigh.

Taniseer was tickled by his exhalation, his body trembled, and feigned anger, "Don't move."

Ethan smirked on his neck, then gently nudged his shoulder, "Put me down, I can walk."

"What?" Tanisel held his hand tightly and said solemnly, "If someone else can hold you, can I not?"

Ethan looked up at Tanissell in disbelief, and said in a hoarse voice, "It seems like it's me who has a fever? Why are you talking nonsense?"

Samuel coughed heavily in the back, reminding the two walking ahead to note that the situation they were in was not suitable for flirting. Ethan closed his mouth and felt a little guilt in his heart. Tanissell just curved the corners of his mouth without a trace.

"What's the matter with the worm you're talking about?" Samuel asked suddenly.

Ethan's heart skipped a beat, and his first reaction was to never let Samuel know that he also had a bug like that in his body, waiting to emerge from his body when he died. He was about to speak, but Tanithel took the lead and said, "Yes, before on Muscle, those worms seemed to have brought their eggs to Earth by laying their eggs in some inhuman clothing. Ethan was in the sewers. There were hatching worms found while working."

"Are you saying that those disgusting bugs under the Muscles have also come to Earth now?" Samuel's expression lacked the tension it should have, and was even a little too dull, "And Ethan, you didn't put it Kill it, but raise it?"

Ethan pursed his lips, "It only has one, and there is no way to reproduce. And I thought at the time, since they can dig so many tunnels underground, maybe they can dig out the forbidden city one day."

Samuel nodded and suddenly laughed in a low voice, "Unfortunately, it would be more interesting if there was a male and a male breeding each other."

Ethan was a little surprised that Samuel would say such a thing, but anyone who has experienced what Samuel has experienced will probably have some changes in character. It's just that Ethan didn't know that Samuel had lost more than the lover he thought he had. I don't know that Omega finally found a gentle lover who understood his painful past and was his last hope of redemption.

At this time, they had come to the other subway station. Taniser put Ethan on a dusty bench, took off his robe and covered him, and gently stroked Ethan cheeks, "Be patient."

Ethan nodded, pulled away his parched lips and smiled. That smile made Tanisel feel a little pain in his heart.

During the time he was trapped in the Red Moon Temple, he did not dare to use the soul binding between the two of them to establish a spiritual connection with Ethan, and he did not know what Ethan had experienced. How could it have been consumed in such a short period of time into this skinny look? An inexplicable anger burned in his heart, and there was an urge to rush out to fight Theonier.

"So how do we know where the bug is? Will that thing listen to us? Are you sure it won't eat us?" Samuel took the flashlight, which was running out of power, impatiently growing black mold. looking on the wall. The traces of mildew hanging from the ceiling like water stains reminded him of the interior walls of the base that began to mold under the influence of the goddess on the red earth, and a desolate and primitive corruption was spreading in the depths of the earth.

"Giant worms are a species with high intelligence. They have existed in the universe much longer than humans. Their social system is similar to that of a bee colony. Generally, a planet is a colony, and all eggs are Born in the Queen's body. And all the juvenile worms have an instinctive attachment to the first life they perceive as soon as they hatch, because usually the first thing they see is the Queen." Tower A beam of light shot from the tip of Nissel's scepter, quickly scanning the entire subway station hall, his eyes fell on Ethan on the bench, "If I'm not mistaken, when it hatched, Ethan you were there. Is it around?"

Ethan was wrapped in Tanisel's clothes and nodded, "You mean, has it treated me as a mother?"

Tanissell laughed, "It looks like this."

Ethan smiled wryly and cursed, "Damn, I'm obviously a Beta, why am I always being asked to do Omega work?"

Samuel snorted, "Who said Omega has to do this kind of child-rearing work? Don't talk nonsense, if it treats you as a mother, it should listen to you. If you call it, maybe it will coming."

Ethan gave Samuel a wide-eyed, "Why do you think I named it?"

"Then how did you instruct it to drill through the wall leading to the subway station?"

Ethan frowned, but didn't quite understand. Maybe just a coincidence? Seeing that he was frowning and couldn't answer, but suddenly coughed as if he had inhaled dust, Tanissell glanced at Samuel with a slight reproach, and went to Ethan and patted his back lightly, "I can't think of it. Don't think about it, I'll find a way."

Samuel and Tanissell searched the hall first, but did not see any freshly dug holes, so they followed the rails into the tunnel that Samuel had explored before. As Samuel said, the end of the tunnel had been blown away long ago, and a mountain of rubble had blocked the only way to the rest of the subway system.

Perhaps on the other side of this rocky mountain is beyond the Forbidden City.

Ethan sat alone in the subway hall, and Samuel left him the flashlight.

The strange figure he saw here last time still makes him feel cold when he thinks about it, but when he thinks about it carefully, it seems that he is also a monster, so he doesn't feel so scary anymore.

From somewhere in the darkness came the sound of rolling stones.

Ethan immediately flashed the flashlight, but saw nothing.

He thought that maybe he was too nervous, so he closed his eyes and continued to rest, but this time the sound of the foot on the ground sounded again, and it was closer than the last time.

Ethan suddenly sat up straight, pointed in the direction the voice might have come from, and shouted, "Tanither?"

No echo.

Ethan was a little annoyed, and shouted again, "Who's there!"

The answer to him was still silence.

Ethan raised his hand and looked at his fingertips that had healed but left a few scars. Although he is extremely tired and his limbs are heavy, he should be able to protect himself if something unexpected happens. He stabilized his mind and turned off the flashlight.

The blood-thick darkness immediately surrounded him.

It is only when one is in absolute darkness that one realizes what a vision-dependent creature he is. Losing the information that can be received by the eyes, many ordinary small sounds are suddenly amplified several times, and the originally understandable sounds and touches have become strange and unfamiliar, making you unsure whether what you hear or touch is not. Really what you thought.

He heard it again, the voice was approaching him. It was the sound of footsteps, hesitantly slow, and very procrastinated, different from the rhythm of a normal person's pace. Ethan seemed to hear the sound of someone breathing in the dark, and the breathing was sickly, like the unpleasant noise in the throat of a dying tuberculosis patient.

He didn't move, and when the sound was getting closer, so close that he could already tell the direction, he suddenly turned on the flashlight. A ray of light split the darkness and immediately locked the approaching thing.

It was immobilized, as if immobilized.

It was a person who stood on two legs like a man... Due to the weak light, his face could not be clearly seen, but just from the disproportionately distorted figure, we knew that he (it?) was anything but. The appearance of a normal person.

Its legs are slender and appear to be opposite feet, with one knee bent back and the other forward. Its torso was disproportionately long, and it looked like a gray burlap pocket. There were many small sarcomas like bunches of grapes on its waist, chest, abdomen, and back. From a distance, it looked like it was hunched over its waist. There are also two thin arms on either side of this ugly torso, and at the top of each arm is a strange palm with five even fingers. At this time, the four arms were hanging on the sides of the body, and it seemed that they had no intention of using them.

And its head... It seems to be a little too long and a little too thin compared to normal humans.

Seeing such a thing suddenly in the dark, even Ethan, who had seen the big world, was so frightened that his heart skipped a beat. He reached out with one hand, and from each fingertip of his right hand stretched a thin tentacle with barbs and hooks. Those tentacles rushed towards the humanoid creature quickly and silently, but before they touched it, the thing suddenly turned its head and rushed back into the darkness with a very uncoordinated but astonishing speed. Ethan stood up wrapped in his clothes and followed reluctantly.

He found that there was a piece of leather where the monster stood just now. He crouched down, retracted the tentacles to his fingertips, and picked up the thing.

It was indeed a piece of skin, but it was peeled from some animal, very soft, with a faint pink color close to the skin, and there were a few black hairs on the back. He turned the piece of leather over and found that it had drawn a very asymmetrical and strange pattern with some sharp corners, and the lines were filled with some characters that Ethan had never seen before, which looked a bit ancient. cuneiform.

Ethan frowned, suspicious that the thing had fallen from the monster.

But Samuel said there was no exit, so how did the monster survive here? And how could there be such a weird thing in it

Ethan felt that this type of character looked very familiar, and after thinking about it, he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be similar words engraved on the temple stone pillars under Muss. He remembered that when he put his finger on the words, suddenly many images of those worms infiltrated his mind. Samuel even said that he seemed to be possessed, and said something he had never learned. language.

He further thought that when he first heard the sound of the giant worm, it seemed that he did not really hear the sound, but perceived the "sound" in his mind. It is not so much a voice as it is a kind of communication at the level of thinking. It's like Tanithal and his spiritual connection.

Perhaps those so-called sacred races are considered superior to humans by the Horned because of the ease with which they can communicate without words

Ethan suddenly thought of how to summon the little worm. He stood there, looking at the endless void, calling it over and over again in his heart. Before he gave it a name, he chose the first name that came to his mind to call it—Little Rafal.

Yes, Rafal is Schneider's name. People in the Forbidden City only called each other by their surnames, unless they were close friends. So many times, including Samuel, they forget that Schneider is actually the surname of the chief of the guard, and Rafael is the first name.

And Ethan always felt in his heart that this little worm was the continuation of Schneider's life. Maybe... there might be some kind of connection between them.

"Little Rafael, I need you!" Ethan called intently, not knowing that he actually said it.

At this moment, a loud bang came from the depths of the earth, as if there was a dark thunder rolling. The entire subway station was shaking, and the gravel on the ground kept bouncing. Suddenly, the ground in front of him cracked open, and a gray creature roughly the size of an ancient tree shot out into the sky, shaking its front end happily amid the dust and stone rain flying in the sky, causing acid to fly.

Ethan opened his mouth slightly in front of it. It seems that the growth rate of this worm is several times faster than he imagined...