Falling into the Abyss

Ethan didn't expect Tanithel to appear. Did he find himself early in the morning?

He was suddenly a little unsure whether the man in front of him whose face could not be seen clearly was the Tanithel he knew, so he took a step back nervously, and his body hit the tombstone.

Tanithel slowly took a few steps forward, and the candlelight lit up his face covered with a layer of sadness.He walked slowly around the huge tombstone, his white fingers brushing over the rough stone surface.

"He was very scared in his last moments, saying that he didn't want to be locked up in a strange tomb and eaten by maggots. So I promised him that he would not be thrown into the royal tombs in Sen Leng..."

It was hard for Ethan to imagine that Tanithel, who was only 17 years old at the time, would comfort his dying father like this.When I was 17 years old, I seemed to be still in high school, worrying about my grades in math class, and occasionally sad because of my crush on Alpha class grass.But the priest is already facing the life and death of his closest relatives.

He turned around and looked at the priest on the opposite side of the tombstone, and he just met the priest's eyes.

"My Beta mother passed away after giving birth to me, and I haven't even met her face. The royal family is indifferent. For me, my father is all my relatives. He used to be a very handsome and noble nobleman. People say that Eve is more like a king than King Eve. You should have seen his portrait, right?"

Ethan nodded.

"But at the last moment, he was so emaciated that he was inhuman and humble enough to make people feel frightened. Can you imagine? The person you love the most stares at you with the most horrified eyes before dying, clutching Your hand, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, told me that he was very scared, and begged my son, who was only 17 years old at the time, to save him." Tanisel paused and sighed, "Look at me as a god The seemingly omnipotent father gradually turned into that frightening appearance. Even the egg of the preface god, which contains endless energy of the extreme order, could not save him. At that time, I knew that the most terrifying man in the world There is nothing stronger than death."

Ethan looked at the sadness condensed in the depths of Tanithel's eyes, and suddenly understood, "So you gave up your belief in the God of Preface and worshiped the God of Entropy instead?"

"Yes, order is short-lived, and chaos is eternal." Tanithel slowly walked around from the other side of the tombstone, "In the ultimate chaos, people no longer have individual distinctions from each other, and everything in the world will Turned into a mass of surging and colliding molecules, time and space no longer exist. You and the dead you have lost forever will be reunited at that moment, and you will never feel incomplete and lonely again. Eternal life. Isn't this the heaven promised to you in your human religion?"

Ethan smiled wryly, "So in your paradise, will people gather together and become a monster like Shabu Nicholas? Or will they all become monsters like me?"

"You are not Ethan the monster. On the contrary, you are now just a transitional form between an entropy-dominant and order-dominant organism, and it is a very successful form. This may be because you have the bloodline of Tianzheng Star , which in itself determines that you have more entropy than ordinary people. Because although the Tianzheng people look like the descendants of the order gods like the earth people or our Eve people, they are actually the same as the people we have seen on the Faun planet. Like the giant worm, it is the descendant of the God of Entropy left in this universe of the God of Prologue."

"...What? The Celestials and the giant worms...how is this possible?" Ethan recalled his mother, and recalled the photos he had seen of his grandmother who was completely purebred Celestials, except for the pair of his own The inherited green eyes are almost indistinguishable from ordinary earthlings.How could they be the same type as giant worms and those disgusting monsters with long tentacles?

"If you think about it carefully, isn't the metamorphosis cycle brought about by the bloodline of Tianzheng Star, which is so long that it seems to last for half a life, and the short and terrifying "adulthood", isn't it similar to a worm? And after entering adulthood , In just three days, your appearance and physical condition will reach the peak, just like breaking out of a cocoon. But after three days, you will quickly age and die, isn't this the same as many butterflies and moths?"

"So? Does that mean I'm a bug?" Ethan almost laughed.Everything Tanithel said to him was too absurd.

"No, you are not a bug, you are just a human being with the blood of the Entropy God. If you want, I can give you all the research reports that my mentor and I have made on the Tianzheng Stars and the descendants of the Entropy God in recent years. But there is one thing that you may be interested to know, and that is why the Tianzheng star will age quickly once they enter an adult." Tanisel stood in front of him, looking at him with burning eyes.

He was right, this is indeed Ethan's biggest heart disease.

He always wanted to know why, because he was afraid that one day he would become like his mother...

Seeing that Ethan didn't speak, but the anxious and uncertain eyes were obviously moved by him.Taniser reached out to another huge manuscript placed on the stone platform, which seemed to be the lost Arabic language on Earth.Tanisel carefully turned the fragile paper over to the page with the drawing.

It was a naked human figure, but that person's body was covered with black threads, his feet looked like goat's hooves, and behind his back, four tentacles dragged on the ground like a cloak...

"This is..." Ethan stretched out his trembling hands to touch the paper, as if he couldn't believe what he saw with his eyes.

"This is likely to be the original appearance of the Tianzheng people. Later, in order to survive better in the Xushen universe, they began to mate and intermarry with the earth people in a planned way, and gradually became the familiar Tianzheng people." Taniser pointed to the name written in Arabic on the page of the book, "Here it is said that this kind of person lives in the Centaur galaxy. According to his description, it happens to be the location where the Tianzheng star used to be."

So...is this what he should be like?

But if the bloodline of the Tianzheng star has been impure from the beginning, isn't the real blood of the Tianzheng star in him now less than a quarter?Can this little gene really make him produce the current cruel mutation?

"It's just that intermarriage also has disadvantages. Things like rapid aging and death after entering adulthood did not exist in the period of purebred Celestials. After our verification and research, we found that this is likely to be the case. After intermarriage Temporarily suppress the entropy force in the body of the Tianzhen star, but when the adulthood comes, there will be an explosion of entropy force, and then the sequence force can no longer be suppressed, and the body that has been completely transformed by the sequence force is no longer The way to adapt to the completely opposite entropy force, so the rapid aging and collapse. Therefore, the Tianzheng people have an ancient custom that other planets do not understand at all, that is, to go to a certain sacred mountain on the planet within three days after entering adulthood Go live for a while, there is a holy lake in that mountain, it is said that if you take a bath there, you can avoid entering the state of aging, and you can survive for a long time. According to our research, the holy lake probably contains some entropy gods, For example, the bodily fluids of the reproductive mother god. Because several manuscripts mention that they trekked to distant planets to fetch the "divine blood" and sprinkled it in that lake. If a foreigner accidentally enters that holy lake, They usually disappear mysteriously. If it turns out that there are entropy gods’ body fluids in them as we guessed, then they are likely to have undergone a strange mutation and have been eliminated.”

"So...after their own planet was destroyed in a supernova explosion, the Tianzheng Stars lost their holy lake, and their lifespan was shortened sharply, to the point of almost extinction."

"good."

Ethan lowered his head and looked at his hands, "Then... since I've been infected... that means I don't have to worry about aging and dying when I reach adulthood?"

"Yes..." Tanithel slowly closed the copy.

"That is to say... there is no way for me to be cured?" Ethan suddenly laughed, "Should I be that disgusting? Or do I have to die?"

No wonder the priest changed the subject when he asked Tanisel if he would cure him.

Although Ethan's tone was calm and even smiling, Tanisel could hear the uneasiness and despair in that tone.Thinking about it, I should be very scared. I suddenly became not like myself, with disgusting organs growing out of my body, and I also had a bloodthirsty urge.

In fact, Tanithel had always wanted to find an opportunity to tell him about the bloodline of Tianzhengxing, but today when he felt that Ethan was quietly following him, he suddenly decided that today was the day.

"I can't cure you, I can only find a way to suppress it. And the medicine I gave you is also to slow down your metabolism and delay your 'adulthood'."

Ethan's mind was in a mess, as if he still lacked some information.

He has so little blood in his body, why do he have so many tentacles on his back after the mutation?Even a pure-blood Tianzheng star has only four tentacles.And what about the strong desire for killing and blood after the mutation?

Does that mean he can never go back to Earth, never see his family again...

By the way...if his mother really passed away, he wouldn't be able to count as a family anymore...and regardless of whether his father is his real father or not, even if he is, he has already severed ties with him...

Ethan leaned against the stone platform without saying a word, with his head slightly lowered, his loneliness reflected the dimness of the ground.Tanithel reached out and pressed Ethan's shoulder and neck to comfort him, "Don't give up, I will continue to find a way. Tomorrow, I will take you into the temple."

The author has something to say:

Near the end of the period, various final projects and exams have to be handed in. I stay up until three o'clock every day. It is really difficult to keep updated recently. I am sorry for the slow speed...