When the sky was dawn, the three returned the keys and took the unmanned vehicle back to the spaceship management office in City A. After quickly signing the lease contract, the receptionist named Les took them to the unmanned flight management office. The car drove to the spaceship parking lot outside the city. Rows of silver private spaceships are parked on the vast land. Although the sky is windy, they are still properly maintained, shining with a fresh metallic luster.
Rice led them to one of the small spaceships that could accommodate about five to ten people for long-distance flights, and briefly explained the usage rules. Before leaving, I saw him muttering something to the priest, with a spring tide and rain on his face, and he was so close that he was close to the priest. It seemed that Ethan wanted to rush over. The priest pulled it away. impulse. Samuel looked at him beside him, his eyes gloomy.
Ethan felt the haze spreading over Samuel, and he turned around to see Samuel sitting in the swivel seat in the driver's seat, as if he had just turned his gaze away from him. Ethan asked, "Are you okay? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Samuel replied perfunctorily, "No."
"Is your estrus coming soon?" Ethan suddenly became a little worried. This time, the curvature flight was to be carried out again, and Ethan remembered the critical situation that occurred on the spacecraft on the first mission after entering the forbidden city.
"You're so lenient. When will I need you to help me count my estrus?" Samuel scolded him impatiently.
Ethan was stumped, and it's not easy to ask any further questions. Of course he cared about Samuel, but there was a lot of selfishness in that caring too. After all, there is only one Alpha on the ship this time, and he doesn't want this Alpha to happen to the only Omega on the ship...
Ethan was suddenly worried about gains and losses. He turned his head to look at the priest who was smiling charmingly at the male Omega receptionist, and a worry he had never had before appeared in his mind. Although the Eves have strong control over their instincts, Tanethel is an Alpha anyway, and his nature is to be attracted to Omegas. And he could never satisfy his innermost desire to possess an Omega.
He had never been possessive of a priest before, and even when he found out that he had fallen in love with Tanithel, he never thought that he would be with him forever. That's because his wounded, guarded heart has been admonishing himself not to expect too much and not to fall into it too easily. But now, he found that his bond with the priest became stronger and stronger, even to the point where he began to think about the future.
It was so strange because he wasn't even sure if he had a future.
Nales finally bid farewell to him, and Tanissell locked the cabin and began to set the ship's route. Ethan didn't know anything about piloting a spaceship, so he sat in the back seat and silently watched the priest and Samuel busy. In a daze, he lightly touched the dense scars and bulges on the back of his neck with his absent hands, feeling that they had spread all the way to the shoulder blades, and seemed to spread down to the entire back. The infrequent itching made him distracted and unable to concentrate.
"Ethan, wait for us in the sleeping hall first." Tanisel turned to see that Ethan didn't seem to be in good spirits, so he said to him.
Since it can accommodate up to ten people, the sleeping hall is also smaller than any spaceship he has seen before. He took off his clothes in the dressing room, looked at himself in the mirror and could faintly see his rib cage, and was surprised that he had become so thin at some point. The well-proportioned body that used to be exercised in the gym has long since disappeared, and the ruddy and healthy complexion is gone. He touched his own body, growing disgusted with himself.
Ever since seeing his mother's haggard appearance in adulthood, it has been Ethan's nightmare to become the same.
When he came home to visit after his mother was ill, he used to sit at his mother's hospital bed, holding her wrinkled hand, and listening to her tell him what would happen when he entered adulthood. Because she wanted to give him enough time to prepare himself mentally, so as not to be ignorant of his own destiny.
She said going into adulthood would be a period of extreme exhaustion, not wanting to see anyone, being in a constant state of inexplicable fear and anxiety, just wanting to be alone in a safe place, and losing all appetite. This period of time will probably last for one to two weeks, and after two to three days, you will suddenly become particularly refreshed, and the appearance of the whole person will be beautiful to the extreme. However, after this period of time, the person will quickly age and die. Just like a butterfly, once it emerges from its cocoon, it can get a moment of beauty, but the rest is eternal withering and death.
Ethan remembers the time when his mother locked him in the room, remembers what his father told him about adulthood, and remembers how his mother had just come out of the room. At that time, she was as beautiful as the Madonna in the ancient church. She was obviously the same person as before, but she seemed to glow all over her body. But after just three days, the previous beauty disappeared like a bubble, wrinkles like cobwebs covered her once plump and beautiful cheeks, and her skin lost its luster.
Although the current self has not yet reached adulthood, it is almost the same in appearance.
How could Tanisel like him like this? It was just like the withered look that my mother had when she entered adulthood. If it wasn't for the infection left by the God of Entropy in his body, I'm afraid the priest wouldn't even look at him at all, right
He hates himself who has to worry about gains and losses like this, and it seems that he has fallen into the vicious circle of falling in love with Roland again.
Leaving from the field of the Earth Alliance and entering the star field of Eve Star has to pass through an automatic detection barrier. If the spacecraft master does not show legal documents, it will trigger an alarm and be blocked by an electromagnetic network. Fortunately, Tanissell seemed to have prepared another fake identity before coming to Earth, allowing them to pass the level smoothly without even interrupting their dormancy. The main brain did not start the wake-up procedure until the spacecraft entered the Eve Star Field.
Ethan took a shower, sat in his room in a comfortable bathrobe and watched a movie, slowly sipping a glass of red wine, the light and shadow projected an alien desert around him. Suddenly the master said that someone asked to enter, Ethan opened the door, and what he saw was Samuel.
He was taken aback, "Samuel? What happened?"
"Can't you come if you have nothing to do?" Samuel looked a little gloomy and went straight past Ethan. Ethan noticed a few cans of beer in his hand.
Samuel unceremoniously sat down on Ethan's bed, which was the center of the desert, and shook his head from side to side as if exhausted, making a rattling sound in his neck. Next to him, a samurai in black iron armor was slowly raising a rusty knife dripping with blood, as if he was about to slash Samuel. Ethan made a quick gesture to turn off the movie.
"Your priest said we'll be on Eve in three days." Samuel opened a can of beer, took a big sip, and let out a comfortable sigh.
Ethan nodded, sat down on the edge of the bed next to Samuel, and reached for a jar too.
"You think he can protect you?" Samuel asked.
Ethan swallowed the bitter liquor, "Well, I believe him."
"And then, do you hide in Eve for the rest of your life?" Samuel snorted, "Your father seems to be still in the Earth Alliance. If they threaten you with your father's safety, what will you do?"
"...I don't know... I'll talk about it later." Ethan smiled at him, "I'm not sure if I can live to that time."
"What do you mean?"
"You should see it too, do I look like someone who can live for a long time?"
"Didn't Tanisel say he has a way to heal you?"
"Samuel." Ethan raised his green eyes and looked at him faintly, "I'm not even a person anymore, how can he save me?"
"What do you mean? Nobody counts. Aren't you all right?"
"Have you forgotten what I looked like when I became that way?" Ethan's smile became more and more ghostly. "You were so afraid of me back then that you didn't dare to approach me, you forgot all about it?"
"I wasn't mentally prepared! It's all temporary, you'll get better."
"No..." Ethan rubbed between his brows, and when he opened his eyes again, his pupils became longer, and the green was even thicker, "because, the second time I became that way, I would do Everything in my heart is what I really want to do." He said, grinning, his teeth were neat and white, but for some reason the other face looked a little strange, "It's not so much that I can't control myself, but It’s better to say that I can no longer suppress my true self…”
Samuel was silent, gulping down the whole can, and then opening another, "Don't be too harsh on yourself." He hoarsely added, "Those people, damn it."
Ethan heard the pain condensed in his voice, and felt sad, and put a hand on Samuel's shoulder.
"You know what, I've never said anything like that to him about love or liking." Samuel looked up at the slowly spinning star projection on the ceiling.
Endless regrets and remorse spread in silence, Ethan didn't know how to comfort, "It's too late to say, maybe he just exists in this universe in a different way?"
"Tanisel said that in the ultimate chaos, the boundaries of time and space are blurred, maybe we will have the opportunity to meet the deceased." Samuel turned to look at Ethan, and suddenly put his hand on the On the back of Ethan's hand, he firmly held his hand, "If I really can, I'm willing to do anything."
Samuel's eyes burned with a kind of frenzy that made Ethan a little inconsistent, but he didn't understand what Samuel meant.
But at this moment, there was a soft but slightly prolonged voice from the unclosed door, "Am I disturbing something?"
Ethan quickly withdrew his hand and stood up as if he had not noticed it, "Why are you both running towards me?"
Tanissell walked straight over, and suddenly grabbed Ethan's waist in front of Samuel's face, and raised his chin for a deep kiss. Ethan was unable to react at all by his series of natural movements, and after being kissed for three seconds, he hurriedly struggled, "Can you pay attention to the occasion!"
"What does it matter, there are only the three of us in this ship. Samuel, do you mind?"
Samuel glanced at him coldly, said nothing, and got up to go. But the priest reached out and stopped in front of him and said, "Wait a minute, I have something to discuss with you first."
Omega had to reluctantly stay put. The priest threw his ten thousand breath ball into the air, and several beams of light were cast in the air to form some boxes and words, which were quickly arranged and assembled into a shape similar to a pyramid.
"Before entering the realm of Eve, I think it is necessary to give you a general understanding of our social structure and customs. Otherwise, you may encounter many things that you cannot understand." A student gave a "kind" smile.
The Eves are the few remaining religious and cultural star nations in the current galactic civilization. Their religion is collectively known as Eveism, but it is divided into two opposing but eclectic branches—Orthodox or Entropy. In Eve's history, these two factions have been fighting openly and secretly, and even bloody wars have broken out, and each faction has once occupied a dominant position in history. In the era of interstellar civilization, the use of war as a means of solving problems is obviously outdated, and because of the liberal influence of some relatively powerful star nations such as the Ophiuchus Alliance and the Third Reich, it is also for the benefit of the entire Eve Temple system. , the priests began to advocate equilibria, that is, there is no orthodox and unorthodox difference between the belief in the order of God and the belief in the god of entropy, but they represent two equal energies in the universe, placing order and entropy on an equal footing. But in fact, today's Eve is still a society dominated by the belief in the order of gods.
Due to the high religious status, the Eve star country centered on the Eve star is managed by a unique temple system. The two temples with the highest status are the Anonymous Temple of the Prelude Sect and the Abyss Temple of the Entropy Sect. These two temples are not independent. Whenever they want to issue an order, they must obtain the consent of the other party. In addition, the high priests above the silver-clothed priests from both sides meet once a month to maintain the close cooperation between the two temples.
Under the two major temples, there are four first-level temples. The function is to assist the highest temple to formulate some religious regulations, and to urge the lower-level temples to implement them. Under the first-level sanctuary, there are a series of complex monasteries, which are responsible for supervising some more specific and trivial details, such as those specializing in the formulation of educational regulations, some specializing in cultural dissemination, and some in charge of commercial trade. Below these first-level temples are the continent-level temples, which generally govern the eight continents on Eve and other temples belonging to the stars. They oversee the order of entire continents, including some divided planets. Further down, there are domain-level temples, city-level temples, and even the most basic fifth-level temples. They are responsible for the formulation of regulations within their respective jurisdictions and are responsible for serving as spiritual and spiritual teachers of the local Eves.
The Crimson Moon Temple where Tanisel is located is a continent-level temple, but the continent they manage is rather special. It is the continent where the royal family of Planet Eve is located, and it is also considered to be the land where the Eve civilization originated. Although it is a continent-level temple, they have great power, and in many cases they can even directly influence the decision-making of the first-level temple or even the highest temple. The Temple of the Red Moon was built in the capital of the Eve Star Kingdom - Siloan City. It is nominally the Temple of the Order God, but in fact, in recent years, because the highest priest of the Temple of the Chiefs - the purple-clothed priest Theonier has gradually tended to the God of Entropy. Therefore, rumors about the entropy tendencies of the Red Moon Temple have been raging.
This kind of news made the Temple of No Name very annoyed, and even considered deploying Theonier to another continent-level entropy temple. It's a pity that Theonier is very popular and has a lot of connections in the royal family, and even has aristocratic blood, plus the pressure of the Abyss Temple, so he didn't do it.
As for the royal family of Eve, they are responsible for controlling some of the more secular government departments, such as the police, schools, hospitals and other institutions. Therefore, their power should not be underestimated. Although they are also subject to the management of the temple, they are more often in a complementary relationship with the temple, and they are jealous and dependent on each other. Especially in recent years, some important members of the Wang family have joined the ranks of priests, which makes the relationship more delicate.
When he said this, Ethan suddenly asked, "I remember you told me before, you seem to be a noble?"
His question interrupted Tanissell's narration, and Samuel, who had already heard dozing off, woke up a little, "Ah? What aristocrat?"
"Yes, my father's title before his death was Grand Duke Xichuan. If I hadn't become a priest, I would have inherited this title too," the priest replied.
"What, what? Are you a noble?" Samuel was obviously not on the same frequency as the two of them. Ethan pushed his head aside impatiently, and continued to ask, "So... what kind of status does Grand Duke Xichuan hold?"
Although Ethan has read about the status of the Grand Duke on Earth, he can't believe it... Maybe Eve's system is different from Earth's
Tanissell just shrugged his shoulders normally, "It's the younger brother of the current King Eve."
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