The super-sized baby worm, about five or six meters long, suddenly rushed out of the ground, with a shrill baby-like grunting sound from the front end of the slack, and the pale yellow acid flowed down the folds of the skin that had just begun to turn pale gray.
When Tanisel and Samuel came back, what they saw was Ethan standing blankly in front of the terrifying giant worm, as if he would be swallowed up at any time. Tanisel's face changed, and he rushed towards Ethan's direction immediately, and the third eyes between his foreheads were all opened. Samuel also rushed over, shouting loudly, "Ethan!!!"
But Ethan turned his head and looked at them calmly, raising a hand to signal them not to come.
"It's alright, it knows me." Ethan said to the pale-faced Tanisel and Samuel, and then slowly stretched the hand in the direction of the worm.
I saw that the towering monster closed its huge mouth, lowered its head tamely, and rubbed Ethan's palm...
Samuel looked at the extremely bizarre scene in front of him and muttered, "It seems that he really treats him as a mother..."
Tanissell breathed a sigh of relief, realizing that he had just broken out in a cold sweat. He closed his eyes on his forehead and approached one person and one worm cautiously. The little worm tamely crawled in front of Ethan, while the latter squatted down and touched the folds of skin that looked sticky and soft like a puppy, with a gentle smile on his face.
Tanisel crouched down beside Ethan, looking at the honest bug with interest, "Do you know how to summon it?"
Ethan nodded.
"Did you name him?"
"Well." Ethan glanced at Samuel, who was reluctant to approach the worm in the distance, and said in a low voice, "Little Rafal."
Hearing him call it by its name, the worm on the ground suddenly raised its front end, shaking twice in the air like Sa Huan, and spat out a mouthful of sticky stuff that almost splashed on Ethan.
Tanisel laughed lowly, raised his head and waved at the worm, "Hello little Rafal, if this is your mother next to me, I will be your father."
Ethan stretched out his hand and punched Tanisel in the waist, but he had no strength due to his weakness. Tanissell still cooperated and fell to the ground in an exaggerated posture, and blinked his gray eyes pitifully and said to the little worm, "Look, your mother is domestic violence."
Ethan seldom saw Tanisel showing such a childish side, as if he had just drank a bowl of hot tea in his chest, a touch of tenderness and happiness permeated. Although I know that this kind of emotion comes at a very wrong time and place, after all, no one can control their emotions.
Seeing the two of them chattering, Samuel cursed in a low voice and walked in reluctantly, "Hey! If you don't leave the pursuers, you'll be here!"
Ethan supported Tanisel to stand up straight, looked at the worm that was still wriggling happily, and focused on saying to it in his mind, "Little Rafal, take us out of here and go to the ground one kilometer away. "
Ethan has already thought about it. Their current position is about south of the center of the Forbidden City, and they should be able to reach a distance outside the Forbidden City by another kilometer. It should be relatively safe. When the little worm received Mingli, he immediately turned over, turned his head and rumbled into the ground again. In the flying sand and stone, there was a big hole on the ground in an instant, and the worm was gone.
Samuel lay on the edge of the pit and looked down, "It doesn't seem to be very deep." After he finished speaking, he jumped down first.
Sure enough, the pit was only about two meters deep, and then a gentle slope began to gently extend in a certain direction. It's just that the worm is not big enough, and the hole dug can only accommodate one person to pass through. There was no end to the narrow darkness ahead, and just looking at it gave people a deep sense of oppression.
"I said secretary," Samuel raised his head to look at Ethan. "You don't suddenly go crazy and turn around and give me a sip."
Ethan pursed his lips, "I can't tell. Otherwise, I'll be the first to go."
"Come on, you'll faint again and block the road. I'll be the first to go. Priest, you take care of him."
Tanissell looked at the hole where Samuel disappeared, and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Why do I think something is wrong with him?"
Ethan sighed and lowered his dim eyes, "The worm hatched, you know what that means, don't you?"
"When they came, they told me that there was an inhuman riot in the underground. Was it the death of the chief guard before the forbidden city? But what does this have to do with Samuel?"
"They are lovers."
Tanisel raised his eyebrows, "I thought he liked you?"
Ethan glanced at him strangely, "I thought he liked you too."
Tanissell shrugged and said in a factual tone, "He should really like me in terms of appearance and physical needs. But someone like him, who may have gender cognitive impairment, can't easily infer with common sense. ."
"narcissist..."
Tanithel let Ethan go first, followed by himself. The narrow space was approaching from both sides, and a little raised his head would break his forehead, and the thick earthy smell seemed to be mixed with some kind of blood-like stench. Crawling on both hands and feet in such a place is slow and oxygen is scarce. After a while, Ethan's speed slowed down noticeably. Taniser, who was behind him, felt the strangeness, and calmly opened his third eye slightly, and found the thin golden thread bound to his soul in the endless sea of spirits. He wrapped his thoughts around the golden thread and quickly spread in the direction of Ethan.
"Where do you want to go after leaving the forbidden city?"
Ethan was stunned for a moment, and the voice that suddenly appeared in his mind suddenly pulled him out of some kind of dazed state. It took him a while to realize that the question was not a specific voice, but an idea that appeared directly in his mind.
He wanted to look back at Tanisel, but the space was too small to turn around. He then responded in his head, "I don't know... I haven't thought about it yet..."
"Didn't you think you'd leave here?"
"... It's not certain whether they can escape successfully."
"Then if it succeeds, where do you want to go?"
Ethan moved his hands and knees silently, gasping and heartbeat as clear in the narrow space. The physical exhaustion was reaching its peak, but Tanissell's question seemed to divert his attention slightly.
If you can leave, where can you go
He knew too much about Project Zero, and he was still a mutated monster, so the Earth Alliance would not let him go. The entire Earth Alliance may not be able to stay any longer. Even if you want to go home, it may not be realistic to take a look at your parents from a distance.
The rest of the galaxy is vast, where should he go? What will the spreading mutation in his body eventually turn into? How long can he support
Thinking like this, I feel that the road ahead is boundless, with no end in sight and no hope in sight.
His desperation penetrated into the priest's consciousness through the bond with Tanisel, and the dark and heavy feelings also affected the priest's heart. Tanisel controlled his emotions and conveyed his thoughts in the most light-hearted form.
"Will you go back to Eve with me?"
Ethan stopped abruptly, and Tanisel almost hit his ass... "Hey, don't brake suddenly." There was a smile in the priest's reproachful voice, and he didn't mean to be angry at all.
Ethan forced himself to continue crawling, but Tanethel's words had already confused him completely.
"Yi... Eve?" Ethan's thoughts were full of uncertainty... and a little surprise that was tried to hide. He didn't expect that Tanisel would actually offer to take him to his home planet. His face was already hot, and now it was so hot that he seemed to be burning.
But he thought about it, the feasibility of this plan does not seem to be high... Eve and the Earth Alliance are allied, and they will definitely not take the risk of fighting against the Earth Alliance to accept him as a fugitive and mutant monster... Even if Tani Sear seems to have a noble background and is not an ordinary priest, and he can't be willful when it comes to the principles of the interests of the star country
His mood returned to bleak in an instant, and although there seemed to be nothing on the surface, the violent emotional ups and downs felt like riding a roller coaster in Tanisel. He couldn't help showing a silent smile. Such rich inner activity brought him the uncontrollable primitive emotions of human beings. For priests like Eve, who have been trained to control emotions, it is very important. Thrilling like hallucinogens.
As he had described it before, it was a very palatable feeling.
"You don't have to worry, of course I will disguise you and take you back." Tanisel reassured.
"No matter how much I disguise, I can't become an Eve."
"There are so many Eve people on Eve Star, and everyone will not specifically ask you to open your third eye to prove your identity or something." Tanisel's thoughts were still in his grasp, "Don't worry, I'll make arrangements. Just say a word, would you like to come with me?"
The current Ethan actually wanted to turn around and answer the question by looking into the priest's eyes. He also hoped that the place where the priest said this to him was not in this narrow corridor, nor in such a predicament that he could only see his own buttocks one after the other. Thinking of this, Ethan felt a little annoyed.
Damn, you can't wait to go out to ask such a question that should be very romantic!
Seeing that Ethan didn't answer for a long time, he even seemed to be a little angry. Tanisel was confused and a little frustrated. He didn't quite understand why an Alpha who had a house and a car was rejected, so he passed it on. The next ray of thought carried such a sense of grievance, "Ah... don't you want to..."
Ethan then roared back angrily in his head, "Yes!!!"
"...Why do you want to be so fierce?" Still full of grievances.
Ethan gave Tanisel a roll of eyes in his mind, "I'm confused, can't I?"
"Okay," Tanisel actually spoke this time, with a pampering indulgence in his voice, "You are the patient, you are the biggest."
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Of course Samuel didn't know what the two psychic flirting husbands were doing. He was much faster than Ethan, so when he finally got out of the narrow cave and jumped into another wider one. After waiting in the space for a full ten minutes, Ethan emerged from the hole. By then Samuel had held up a flashlight to probe the new "hole".
However, at a glance, you can see that this is not an underground cave, but another subway station that has been abandoned for an unknown number of years. At first glance, I almost thought they were back at the starting point. But if you take a closer look, you will find that there are still many broken light boxes and billboards on the walls here, there are also a lot of rubbish on the ground, and there is a bed sheet in the corner of the wall, and there are piles of rubbish shopping. The car looks like someone lives.
When Ethan climbed out of the hole, he was sweating heavily and panting heavily. He stood firm against the wall and looked around blankly, "This is... a subway station?"
"Well, it's not the two in the Forbidden City anymore." Samuel flashed the subway map on a signboard with a flashlight. "Your bug may have dug through the subway line outside the Forbidden City."
Tanisel also got out at this time and sniffed the smell in the air, "The air is very fresh, it seems that this place is not closed. Ethan, our baby is very caring, I'm afraid we can't climb that far, So it took a little detour and got us into the subway system."
Ethan has been too lazy to pay attention to the priest who is not at all reserved when he comes to him, "How far is this from the Forbidden City?"
"From the road map, it's probably less than a kilometer outside the forbidden city. It's still not safe." Samuel projected the light of the flashlight onto the rails under the platform. "It will be safer to walk a few stops."
Ethan agreed with Samuel's words, beat himself up, jumped off the platform behind Omega, and walked deep into the tunnel. After two stops, they were surprised to see many ragged scavengers gathered to cook at the third platform. The dry faces that had been tortured by the cruel environment outside the settlement and lost their bodies stared at the three of them in the dark, and some mice were running and squeaking at their feet. Turning to different lines, there are more and more scavengers. It seems that the subway system has become an underground city. There are tents made of waste everywhere on the platform. in the air.
Ethan couldn't hold it anymore, he coughed violently, feeling like he was going to cough out his heart and lungs. Tanisel supported his shaky body and reached out to touch Ethan's forehead.
The heat seems to be higher than before.
They have walked for several hours without rest. Even healthy people will be exhausted, not to mention that Ethan's current physical consumption is close to the limit, which is really not suitable for such a hard journey. He said to Samuel, "Let's take a break before we go."
Samuel watched vigilantly at the scavengers who were sitting together in twos and threes, cooking or sewing, or singing with an accordion he had obtained from somewhere.
The three of them intuited that these scavengers probably had their own territory. They didn't want to cause trouble, so they planned to go to the tunnel to find a place to rest, but an old woman who seemed to be in her 80s suddenly said to them, " Come to me, that friend of yours is very ill."
While thanking the old woman for her kindness, Tanissell helped Ethan to pass. The old woman herself had a tent made of ragged canvas, covered with dust and patches. Looking at the debris around, she should have lived here for a long time. Next to her was a boy of about fifteen or sixteen years old, staring at them with big black eyes. The old woman packed up a bunk and let Tanisel lie on it with Ethan, then boiled a bowl of black things cooked from some plant, and brought it to Tanisel to feed him Ethan drinks.
"This is a folk remedy for those of us, which can reduce inflammation and reduce fever."
Samuel looked suspicious and frowned, seeing that Tanisel really seemed to want to bring the dirty bowl to Ethan's mouth, and hurriedly reached out to stop it.
"Don't worry," Tanithel whispered to him. "Ethan is not so easy to be poisoned now. Why don't you give it a try."
Samuel pursed his lips, looked at the pale and thin face in the priest's arms, and reluctantly agreed. Tanissell helped Ethan up, let him lean against his arms, blew the soup medicine in the bowl, and put it to Ethan's mouth and coaxed, "Come on, go to sleep after drinking."
Ethan opened his heavy eyelids in a trance and opened his mouth cooperatively.
While Ethan was drinking the medicine, the old woman asked Tanisel, "I haven't seen an alien in a long time. How come you guys are here?"
Tanisel focused on giving Ethan the medicine, and didn't hear the question for a while. Samuel shrugged and replied, "Hidden debt."
"Tsk tsk, we do have one or two debtors here. How much do you owe?"
"A lot, I won't be able to afford that in my next life."
"Hey... Are you also addicted to gambling? Tsk tsk, the young people today are really confused." The old lady shook her head with a look of regret, regardless of whether Samuel was denying it or not, she just turned around to let her little grandson Pour the hot water into the washbasin.
Ethan choked accidentally, and Tanissell carefully wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, and helped him lie back a little bit. At this time, the old woman brought hot water with a towel soaked in it, "Wipe him with hot water, I have a quilt here, just cover it up and sweat it out."
The priest did feel that it was too thin for Ethan to wear only one of his robes, so he took off the robe and planned to scrub it for him. Unexpectedly, a piece of leather-like thing fell out from the placket.
I didn't even expect that after seeing the words and patterns on the leather, the old woman screamed as if she saw something extremely terrifying, and even the water basin was not steady, and the water spilled on the ground.
"Earth... Crypt ghost!!!"
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I didn't change it yesterday, so I added a little more today~