Falling into the Abyss

Just at this moment, the group of people brought by Chen Zeng came back first, everyone was carrying two or three water bottles, and a few people came back carrying a blue plant full of warts. Even now, bunches of rotten branches and leaves emitting a suffocating smell still spewed out from those tumors from time to time, and the whole room was filled with a disgusting smell in an instant.

Many of Chen Zeng's subordinates seemed reluctant and disgusted, complaining about why they didn't sleep and went out to make these things and came back.Apparently Chen Zeng followed Ethan's advice and didn't tell anyone else about the video.Tanithel smiled and said to Chen Zeng, "Thank you."

Chen Zeng sighed, "I hope it will be useful. However, we have brought back some other samples of plants and animals. Would you like to take a look?"

Tanithel readily agreed, followed Chen Zeng through those Ethans and noticed that many Alpha non-humans were staring at Tanithel with somewhat greedy eyes, whispering to each other, and making faint teasing sounds, I couldn't help being secretly surprised, and there was also a trace of inexplicable unhappiness.Although Tanisel is good-looking, he is also an Alpha after all. Are these people already so hungry?And they knew it was a very important task, but they didn't know how nervous they were, and they didn't know if they had any brains.If you let them know what kind of things they may face, see if they still have the mind to think about these messy things.

An inhuman probably saw the contempt in his expression, and became furious. He strode towards him and grabbed his collar, "What the hell are you looking at!"

Ethan shrank his body instinctively, trying to break free from the opponent's restraint, "I didn't look at you!"

Another non-human came over and advised, "Jeff, you'd better take it easy, he belongs to Samuel."

"Hmph, if Samuel really valued him so much, why didn't he have teeth marks on his neck? And Scott almost marked him, so he still looks like a normal person. If it was the old Samuel, Scott His teeth have been broken long ago." The man named Jeff stared at him disdainfully, as if he was looking at a worthless bitch, "Don't think it's a big deal for you to get close to Samuel, an Omega is like this It's dull, it's probably just a toy that Samuel found casually." Ethan's self-esteem was hit hard again, anger made his face heat up, and his teeth clenched tightly.

But he didn't dare to show it, he knew it would only make things worse.So he forced himself to suppress his anger, lowered his gaze, and murmured, "I shouldn't have looked at you just now, I'm sorry."

"Now you know you're afraid?" Jeff slammed him back hard before letting go. Ethan's center of gravity was unstable, he staggered two steps backwards, and accidentally kicked the wine glass with the bug upside down, making a crisp sound.He secretly thought that it was not good, and quickly lowered his head to check. Fortunately, the wine glass was not overturned, but moved with the worms inside.

The sound drew Jeff's attention to the ground, and his eyes straightened.

"What the hell is that!"

Ethan hurriedly stood in front of the wine glass and said hastily, "The priest said you can't touch it until you figure it out!"

However, he was rudely swept away, and the other party ignored his warning at all, and squatted straight in front of the monster, with a face of disgust and half curiosity, tilting his head and muttering, "This thing seems to have a human body. face?"

The other non-human also leaned over.Ethan watched as they put their hands on the glass and picked it up.

He knew that he should call Tanithel, the priest has a program that can control all inhuman collars, which can prevent the next behavior of these two people.

But he didn't speak, just stood aside quietly, watching them.In the depths of his eyes, there was a coldness that he never showed others.

Without the confinement of the glass, the originally motionless strange insect suddenly reacted.Its front end was slowly raised, bending out a flexible arc, as if it was also looking at two strange humans curiously.Its folds that seemed to be eyes were wriggling, and a tuft of black hair protruding from the hole-like mouth was also flying and wriggling in different directions. Jeff took a cigarette out of his pocket and poked the critter's limp body with it.

In an instant, a stream of beige mucus was sprayed out from the end of the strange insect. After meeting the air, the mucus condensed into a network as fine as a blood vessel, and all of it was sprayed on Jeff's face. The speed was breathtaking. There is simply no time to react or dodge. Jeff yelled and fell to the ground, reaching out to wipe his face, but wiped off a sticky thing with a vomit-like stench.He screamed in disgust, attracting everyone's attention.

Tanithel strode over, seeing this, he glanced at Ethan with a bit of reproach.Ethan shrugged his shoulders, feeling a little uncomfortable and guilty.They didn't know if there was any virus on this strange insect, and if it would be dangerous to touch it.At that moment, he thought it would be good to let Jeff be the experimental subject, but he himself refused to listen to it anyway.

His inner conscience woke up from a short dormancy, which made him feel as uncomfortable as swallowing a fly instead of any pleasure of revenge.

A few non-humans hurriedly found a napkin to wipe Jeff's face, and when Tanisel just bent down to pick up the wine glass, Jeff suddenly cursed angrily, "Damn bug!" past.

It was too late for everyone to stop his stupid behavior.

Hearing a puff, the limp body of the strange insect burst open under his feet. At the same time, countless beige and black mucus condensed into thin threads at the same time, like a rapidly spreading spider web exploding on the ground. A lot of it splashed onto the clothes of the people nearby, and Jeff was the first to bear the brunt. His trousers, clothes, and even the back of his hands were covered with that semi-sticky substance.

Unexpectedly, Ethan saw that the substances that came into contact with the skin shrank rapidly, as if they had been absorbed.The mucus that had been sprayed all over his face just now also disappeared from the skin, only those that fell on the cloth and hair were still there.He was the only one who noticed this abnormality, and even Jeff himself didn't seem to feel anything.

Tanithel stared at Jeff, a pair of gray eyes shot out a cluster of astonishing anger, and the tightly pursed corners of his mouth made him suddenly majestic, and those Alphas who were originally about the same height as him also lost their momentum. Seeing him like this, Jeff restrained his arrogance a little bit, and explained, "It's just a bug anyway."

"It's just a bug?" Tanithel's words carried a disturbing meaning, "Maybe you're just a bug too."

After finishing speaking, he ignored the inhuman, and did not give him any electric shock as punishment. He just squatted down, carefully sucked up the mucus with a siphon, and put it into an empty tube he had just found in the laboratory. In the test tube, be careful not to get those things on your skin.Ethan calls the base computer Gina to find a cleaning robot to clean up the dirt on the ground.Although Jeff seemed to be fine, he had an intuition that it was better not to touch too many people with this thing.

After a while Samuel came back too.The rest of the teams arrived gradually.The rancid smell of those black sap quickly filled the entire main base building, and Ethan stuffed two tissues in his nose to barely hold back the feeling of nausea.After a whole night of tossing around, it was almost dawn, and everyone found the empty dormitory rooms, and all went to the sleeping cabins to catch up on sleep.

Ethan didn't want to sleep, he was afraid that the terrible entropy god would come while he was sleeping.He stayed in the pale hall, sliding his hand on the transparent tabletop, and quickly browsed all the development materials about Base 18.

He remembered that when the Red Earth development plan was implemented back then, many people opposed it, and the first to bear the brunt was a famous female Doctor Alpha named Bai Luoshan.She is a well-known expert in the study of species in the star field on the edge of the Milky Way. She has at least two doctoral titles and a researcher title, and was even personally received by President Abia.She strongly opposed the development of the Red Earth, and even personally wrote several letters to the President, persuading her to stop the plan to develop the Hera galaxy.

Bai Luoshan believes that the star field where the red earth is located is too barren, and some nearby planets that should have formed civilizations in theory are all barren and withered, so that the red earth is deeply trapped in what they once thought was the "death star field". "The center has never been found.Why there is such a vast sea of ​​death in that corner of the Milky Way has always been a mystery, and in the lonely sea of ​​death stars, why there are signs of life activities on the red earth alone.She thinks this is no accident, just like a mirage in the desert, even a bit like a trap.

In recent years, Bai Luoshan has been obsessed with studying the primitive wisdom civilizations in remote star fields, so much so that people are a little bit demonic.Always talking about the collective memory of the universe, what five-dimensional space creatures, what super-intelligent species and so on.She has been leading her followers on the Internet to warn the Energy Bureau, saying that this planet is regarded as a place similar to "hell" in many marginal civilizations, and rashly stepping in will only bring unprecedented disasters to earth civilization.However, she never explained what the specific disaster was, and she did not produce any substantive evidence. She just kept citing the murals, poems, myths and legends of those marginal civilizations to confuse the public.

At that time, the Energy Bureau was extremely disgusted with Bai Luoshan, because for the Energy Bureau, which had not discovered a new resource station for many years, the Red Earth was a rare opportunity.Before that, the rare earth metals and water reserves of the Earth Alliance were running out, and it would cost too much to buy them from alien countries, so the President gave them a one-year deadline to find new resources.In that year, the Energy Bureau was like a deep purgatory, and everyone's head was pinned to the waistband of their trousers.They searched for habitable planets in remote areas almost desperately, and finally found this miracle at the end of the year, but the doctor who stood and talked without back pain told them they couldn't go?

Just because of some barbarian songs and legends, should the director of the Energy Bureau lose his head?

Because of Bai Luoshan's great influence, Ethan followed Director Abel around, lobbying members of the three major councils, and even alerted the president himself.

That was the only time Ethan saw the most honored person in the Earth Alliance—President Abia.At that time, he was waiting in the clear, tall and spacious Victorian-style corridor, looking through the tall floor-to-ceiling windows and mottled tree shadows, he saw Abia who was joking with her second wife, Bo Huang, in the garden.She has a well-proportioned figure and is considered tall for women. She has neat but feminine short hair and is wearing simple dark clothes. She seems to be lying leisurely on a deck chair by the artificial lake, listening to his voice The chief said something eagerly.

If you don't know her noble status, you will think that she is just an ordinary female Alpha with better looks, not at all like the expression that is praised in the songs that are always played on the street, as if she can emit thousands of lights. .

Later, the president seemed tired of listening, waved his hand casually, stood up, pulled up his wife and left.Ethan saw the director walking back quickly, but his tense face finally seemed to relax a little.

Ethan then heaved a sigh of relief.

With the special approval of the President, the first batch of pioneer spacecraft were launched.Although there was a little trouble in the middle because the Eve people also tried to log in, fortunately, it was resolved satisfactorily in the end, and no unnecessary disputes were caused.

But now, Ethan began to suspect that Bai Luoshan might be right.

He doesn't understand her complicated theories, but he just remembers what she said, we think we have the ability to conquer the universe, but we don't know that in the face of real chaos, human beings and all other interstellar civilizations have done all kinds of things to survive for thousands of years. Struggling hard is actually meaningless.