spaceship
crew
Sacrifice
These words passed through Alyssa's ears like blades, as if they could cut bloody scars in her soul.
Alyssa tried her best to control her body not to tremble.
Taran's crying continued, and even as a listener, Alyssa could still clearly feel his pain and despair.
"I have nothing left. I have dedicated all the most precious things in my life to you... Great God of the Void... You have obviously changed me... But why... Why do you still refuse to show up in front of me? body?"
Gradually, Taran's tone became more and more self-pitying.
"Is it that man? I have smelled that smell... the smell of God's favor... No, no, no, it's impossible... I know that guy... He is still human, and he has been trapped in that disgusting and fragile skin from beginning to end. ... It's impossible for him... It's impossible... No one on this ship has ever sensed the presence of God except me... Wait, maybe I should go see him, or... I can give him to the great Star God first - no! Are you crazy?! That guy, that abominable thief, he touched the Star God first, but God’s favor never fell on him..."
Taran's appearance became more and more strange.
Sometimes he seemed to be talking to himself, but other times it sounded like he was splitting off another personality and quarreling with himself.
"No, I didn't do anything wrong. I didn't, I didn't, I did it for their own good, and my crew was a good crew... That's why I graciously allowed them to drink the nectar God gave us... You see, they Soon I felt the call of God... They are gradually breaking away from the low-level and cumbersome monkey body and becoming a more noble and perfect existence... No one can steal my credit, and no one can take away God's blessings from me. Pampering... Just look at what we look like now to know this... "
Gradually, his voice became fainter.
Alyssa heard a humble, painful voice.
"No, I am... I am the queen of insects... I am... the mother of alien species... I have heard your inspiration, and I brought my people here without any hesitation... I even... There are already so many dependents... Yes, I am the chosen one... I will form a dark fetal sac in the void and get my king insect to give birth to my people... My body has already done this Get ready...I am..."
Alyssa really wanted to rush out, grab Taran's neck and scream at him to make him stop the horrible and harsh noise.
But the reality is that she dare not move and continue to nest in the broken ventilation duct left three hundred years ago.
Until Taran's constant twitching and squirming movements gradually subsided.
And the terrible crying stopped.
Alyssa watched Taran's every move with great fear.
She suspected that Taran had fainted (or fallen asleep?), which should have reassured Alyssa, but in fact, she felt increasingly tormented.
The smell of blood from the bodies of the young sailors mixed with the incense that was Sonu's specialty, creating a breathless and disgusting smell.
But at this special moment, Alyssa couldn't even take a big breath.
She had lost a lot of energy, and it was not easy to slowly exit the three-hundred-year-old ventilation duct without making any unnecessary noise. And she wasn't sure whether Taran would remain this crazy and delirious when he became active again.
At least, the last time Alyssa saw Taran, he was doing a good job of pretending to be human—if that was the case, his senses would only become more acute.
Want to escape.
I want to run away, I want to run away, I want to run away, I want to escape from this damn place, I want to get away from that maddening monster in the warehouse...
Alyssa could hear her "little inspiration" screaming in her skull.
However, as much as she wanted to escape from where she was now, she was afraid of moving her body.
Alyssa stared at Taran's body without blinking. She was not sure whether Taran had really fallen asleep.
Damn it.
Alyssa kept cursing all this in her heart.
When she arrived, Taran must have still been "dealing with" the young crew member, or perhaps he was in some kind of absent-minded state at the time. Otherwise, how could he not have noticed the movement
Alyssa felt like there was a crazy voice in her head mumbling and calculating.
No... maybe there are other possibilities. Maybe Taran had discovered her existence a long time ago, and everything she saw here was just Taran acting.
Now Taran was lying on the fresh corpse, pretending to be asleep, but in fact, he had been secretly observing her with evil indifference.
This thought simply drove Alyssa crazy with fear.
She curled up her index finger and inserted it into her teeth, barely stopping her upper and lower teeth from chattering.
A smell of blood came from the contact point between the teeth and finger joints, and it was only then that Alyssa discovered that she had been bitten unknowingly, and she didn't even feel the slightest pain. pain.
It became very quiet.
There wasn't even an ordinary little noise.
There was no sound of breathing, no scraping of cloth when the human body made small movements, and not even the buzzing noise of the old equipment inside the Helios.
The entire private warehouse seemed to have been cut off from the world by Taran and isolated.
She might be trapped here for tens of millions of years, until she turns into a bone and cannot move.
Ridiculous thoughts popped up in Alyssa's mind again, and she felt like she was on the verge of collapse...
"Huh..."
Then she heard herself take a small breath.
This was a purely unconscious move. She had been holding her breath for too long... and when she breathed, the sound was deafening in the extraordinarily silent pipe.
And the next second, Taran started to move.
He turned around suddenly, and his protruding, mulberry-like eyes turned around for a few times before aiming straight at the vent.
Alyssa let out a low cry.
She suddenly shrank her body, and then used all her strength to escape in the direction she came from.
Alyssa was certain that she had never been so dexterous or agile in her life, and she had never worked so hard even when trying to pass the deputy captain's assessment.
And the force that drives her is not the fear of death, but... the fear of Taran.
She quickly distanced herself from Taran's warehouse.
But the ventilation duct under her body started to vibrate with a loud noise at this moment.
"who is it… "
A slow, vague, wet voice came from the other end of the dark pipe.
Then there was the gurgling, wet friction sound.
That's Taran.
Taran has crawled into the pipe—
Even though they were so far apart, Alyssa could still clearly feel the other person's presence.
His squirming body was struggling to squeeze into the narrow passage.
Alyssa's mind went blank.
She didn't even have time to think about it.
He crawled directly towards the nearest pipe opening.
"boom-"
Without enough time to dismantle the rusted railings one by one with her hands, Alyssa put her elbows on the wall of the pipe, kicked the railings open hard, and then rolled down with her head in her hands.
"I see you... I see you..."
And Taran's scream was still transmitted clearly from the other end of the vent.
Alyssa rushed to the warehouse door in panic.
Thanks to her authority as deputy captain, the metal door slid open to both sides lightly, and Alyssa rushed out without looking back.
"Zizzi..."
But behind her, the moist, scalp-numbing friction sound still didn't stop.
Alyssa didn't know how Taran did it, but his swollen and misshapen body didn't seem as sluggish as it looked.
What made her even more chilling was the small sounds that came vaguely from behind the metal wall.
Alyssa didn't even know if it was an illusion she had in extreme panic, but... her intuition was telling her that there was something behind the wall... something she would never want to see in her life.
Alyssa didn't stop, she gritted her teeth and ran towards the elevator.
She must escape.
She can face a spaceship accident calmly, and she can accept death.
However, there was no way she would allow herself to be caught by that monster and placed in front of the statue of the evil god like a lamb with its throat cut.
“Zi…ZiZi…”
Just as Alyssa rushed into the elevator, she huddled in the corner of the elevator and trembled.
Taran's deformed body has cast a thick shadow at the other end of the corridor.
The gastropods evenly distributed at the bottom of Taran's abdomen stepped on the ground wetly, leaving a long trail of fishy mucus.
And as Taran finished, the metal door of the elevator slid down so slowly.
"No… "
Alyssa slapped the button leading to the upper deck hard, but the elevator door seemed to be stuck and motionless.
In the end, Alyssa could only try her best to press her back against the elevator wall. She wished she could embed herself behind the elevator wall.
Tears slowly fell down her cheeks, and she sobbed uncontrollably.
She'll be caught—
She'll be caught by that monster—
She will—
"Click—"
The sound of the elevator doors closing together brought Alyssa back to her senses, which was on the verge of losing control.
Alyssa raised her head suddenly and realized that there was no malfunction in the elevator. It closed, the roar of mechanical operation sounded, and the elevator car was gradually moving upwards.
Taran didn't have time to catch her before the elevator doors closed.
It wasn't until this moment that Alyssa finally took a breath.
She sat softly on the ground and watched the elevator buttons that kept changing.
Then, when the elevator door opened again, she gritted her teeth and stood up again, then rushed out.
"Vice Captain Alyssa?"
"Hey, Alyssa?"
…
She met a few people in the hallway of the bright work area, and they all looked at her in shock.
Alyssa didn't stop because she didn't know at all whether these people would be the so-called "families" in Taran's mouth. The things she heard in the ventilation ducts completely destroyed her understanding of them. The sense of security on the ship and trust in other people.
And just as she turned down a certain corridor to avoid the others.
A pair of cold hands came out silently, then grabbed her and dragged her forcefully into the shadows.
The author has something to say: My sister-in-law’s san value is almost empty...
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