Falling into the Abyss

After rushing out of the lavender atmosphere of Eve Star, several spaceships appeared from all directions to intercept them, apparently they had received the order to take off when they left the castle.Tanithel couldn't get rid of them no matter what, and it was difficult to break through the encirclement no matter which direction he went.He gritted his teeth and decided to take the risk, regardless of the mastermind's dissuasion, and rushed to the ring belt densely packed with meteorites.

He ordered the Mastermind to focus most of its energy on the shield, sweat dripping from his palms.Lionel's call request floated in the air again, flashing an urgent red light.He thought for a moment and agreed to the request.

When Xi'onier saw him, his first words were: Tanithel!Are you crazy!Come back immediately, I can not hold you accountable for this stupid action!

Tanithel tightened his lips and shook his head firmly.

Lionel's eyes gradually turned cold from anger.He seemed infinitely disappointed and sad, lowering his head slightly, rubbing his eyebrows with his hands, feeling like he was suffering from a terrible headache.When he raised his eyes again, he looked a little tired and old.

"Are you in love with him?"

Tanithel didn't know how to answer.He has never loved anyone, and he doesn't know what it's like to like someone.He was lonely since he was a child, but he became a priest when he first fell in love.Although he learned a lot of ways to use his unique personal charm to guide believers in the following years, he never thought that he would have such a thing as love.

He feels that what he has now should not be love, love should be pure and clean, it should be ready to move and full of passion, it should not be deceitful and exploited from the beginning, and it should not be full of some kind of faint sadness.So he didn't answer Lionel's question.

The instructor said, "I have taught you for so many years, love is such an unstable thing, any disturbance, even time alone will destroy it. You are just an illusion of pity for him, and the so-called liking may also be It is the guilt in your heart that is causing the trouble. Are you really willing to break the blood contract with the crouching chaos for this illusion that you don’t know when it will dissipate? You will regret it in a short time, but it will be too late! "Theoni paused, and there was some threat in the coercive eyes, "What happened to the last person who dared to fool the crouching chaos, have you forgotten?"

Of course, Tanithel remembered that there was once a priest sent by the Entropy God whose god was the king in yellow—Nyarlathotep’s mortal enemy—who tried to use the power of the king in yellow to trap a As an Eve person, he haunted the crouching chaos on the planet Eve, but as a result, his main god failed to protect him.That night, someone in the village living on the edge of the mountain forest heard his howling that was so shrill that it was not human. No one knew what Creeping Chaos had done to him.When people found him in the forest, all he had left was a piece of skin, and his internal organs had turned into stinking corpse water. Thousands of maggots were wriggling in the filthy liquid, devouring the fragmentary pieces of meat.

Tanithel lowered his eyes, as if he was a little uncertain.Lionel continued to follow the temptation, "Even without you, it is his inescapable destiny to merge with the spirit of Azathoth, and he was born for this. You don't have to bear any burden at all. Child, I have always regarded you as my own Son, I don't want to watch you send yourself to a place of eternal doom!"

Tanithel closed his eyes, looking like he was struggling in pain.Just when Xi'onier thought he had finally convinced Tanithel, he saw the blond priest move his hand and cut off the contact suddenly.

Then, on his screen, Tanithel's spaceship rushed towards the planetary ring at an extreme speed of [-] percent of the speed of light.

Numerous stardust storms hit the outer cover of the spacecraft, the entire spacecraft shook violently, and the damaged alarm lights dazzled people.Tanithel stood up staggeringly, and walked towards the sleeping chamber.

He stumbled and had to keep his hands on the wall to barely stabilize his figure.He felt strong anxiety fluctuations in Ethan's heart, he seemed to wake up from a coma, and was worried about him.He heard Ethan calling his name over and over again uneasily in his heart, that calling was not even conscious, but an instinct.Even though he already knew that he was betrayed, Ethan's subconscious still trusted him, which made Tanisel's heart ache.

He finally came to the sleeping room, Samuel seemed to be persuading Ethan to lie down in the cabin, but Ethan was anxiously looking in the direction of the entrance.Seeing Tanisel, he seemed relieved.

"Okay! Let me come! Aren't you going to lie down for me?" Samuel pushed Ethan into the cabin, and some floating golden words of Eve appeared, making him a little helpless.Tanithel came over and pressed his shoulder, "I'll do it."

Samuel snorted coldly, stepped aside, took off his shirt and got into his sleeping cabin.Tanithel helped him set the sleep time, and the countdown began.Seeing that Samuel had closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep, Tanithel turned and walked towards Ethan.

Ethan looked at him with a very complicated look, and asked in a low voice, "Where are you taking me this time?"

"Go to the end of the galaxy." Tanithel put his index finger into his mouth and bit it hard, then gently took off the coat that Samuel put on Ethan's shoulder, and drew a strange emblem on his left chest.It appeared to be a branch with five branches, three on the left and two on the right.After finishing the painting, he gently pressed his palm against Ethan's chest, feeling the beating of the heart obviously much faster than that of ordinary people.

Ethan looked into his lowered eyes, and there was a dark tide surging in the middle of the silver gray.The priest is not the same as before. He is no longer sure about his life, and he has lost a certain confidence in winning.But the smile at this moment is more real than ever, with an indescribable sadness.

"This ElderSign may protect you. It is said that this is the emblem of Nodens, one of the most powerful gods in the preface. With it, Azathoth can't hurt you. But I don't know how true this statement is. Sex..." He said, and he laughed, how could the omnipotent core of the universe be afraid of a small emblem.

But... He painted it with the blood of his servant of Azathoth, which should attract the attention of some preface gods.Perhaps, they will help Ethan block Nyarlathotep, but it is also possible that they will hurt Ethan, who is the heir of Nyarlathotep.

He put his hands on Ethan's shoulders and said seriously, "This emblem may help you block Nyarlathotep, but at the same time it is also very dangerous. If you see the preface in your dream, it feels like they are going to hurt you , wipe it off immediately!"

"Um……"

Tanithel suddenly leaned over and kissed him lightly on the forehead, "I heard that the sunset on Moanaia is beautiful, live well, and take a look for me."

Ethan suddenly had an ominous premonition, why did he feel that Tanisel was telling his last words?

But he didn't ask any questions.

Time was running out, Tanithel pressed Ethan to lie down, closed the cover of the sleep cabin, and set the program.But he himself turned and walked out of the cabin.

When all the energy is used on the protective cover to resist the stars, the mastermind of the spaceship will definitely refuse to enter the curvature flight mode, which is the safety lock on every spaceship to prevent the intelligent mastermind from going out of control and committing suicide. After all, after entering the curvature At the moment of flight, there is a certain probability that the spaceship will be penetrated by stars.

So he had to temporarily shut down the main brain with his master's authority, and manually control the spaceship to enter the curvature flight mode.In other words, he will enter the curvature flight mode in a conscious state.

Even for human beings with relatively weak mental strength, it is a suicide-like behavior to enter the curvature flight soberly, and it is expressly prohibited by all star countries.Last time on the red earth, the non-human who was punished by Samuel for bullying Ethan and entered the curvature flight mode in a sober state seemed to have died when he was found. The walls were fused together, and after dissection, it was found that the brain was severely liquefied. I don't know what kind of horror he experienced during that process.

Compressing the space and then making the spacecraft pass through the vast universe at a speed exceeding the speed of light, which is equivalent to briefly entering the universe of another frequency, and anything that happens outside the sleep cabin is possible.

It's not that Tanisel is not afraid, but even if he doesn't die now, if he falls into Nyarlathotep's hands in the future, he will probably feel worse than death.

He didn't even know if he regretted making such a crazy choice, just like he didn't know if he regretted it when he chose to be Azathoth's servant.He never thought about what would happen to him if he didn't make those choices, it didn't make sense.

He can only go down this dark and bumpy road to meet the possible end.

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The consciousness returned to his body little by little. Ethan tried a few times, and lifted his eyelids that were heavily pressed by sleepiness. A strong cold made his whole body convulse uncontrollably.

The cold cut his skin, and a wave of extreme discomfort and panic rushed over him like an overwhelming wave.The glare of the light made him nauseous, and any external stimuli made him even more uncomfortable.He wanted to curl up his body, but his body, which had just awakened from hibernation, was uncontrollable and stayed stiff in place.

In the chaos, he realized that his cocooning period had not yet passed.

When he finally opened his eyes, he was shocked to find that he was not in the sleeping cabin, but lying on a medical bed.The ground is clean, the walls are white, and there is a faint smell of disinfectant in the air.

How is this going?

He was very sad, and he couldn't explain the sadness that he didn't understand.A certain place in the heart is empty, like a hole, like losing the most important thing, even every breath hurts so much.He struggled to sit up, wanted to find someone, he couldn't even remember the name of that person for a while, he just remembered that he had golden hair, remembered his gray eyes that always hid secrets, remembered His saving hand stretched out from the darkness.

He clutched his heart and rolled over from the bed, his body fell heavily on the ground, making a heavy noise.Although the light is bright and the surroundings are clean and tidy, he feels that there are unknowns and dangers everywhere. He feels that something that has always been in him is missing, and he has become a lonely person, drifting in this dark and boundless universe.He was crawling, but he couldn't use his hands. He rolled on the ground like a fish, looking helpless and pitiful.

At this time, he heard a familiar voice, "Ethan!" Immediately after a pair of strong hands picked him up from the ground, Ethan opened his eyes slightly, and looked into another pair of deep eyes.

Roland?

Why is this person here?

Ethan hesitated for a moment, but Roland picked him up and put him on the bed.He tried his best to ask with a somewhat unclear articulation, "Where's Samuel?"

"He is safe, but your spaceship was seriously damaged and was intercepted by our spaceship. Samuel has almost recovered, and will come to see you in a while."

As if in response to his words, there was a rush of footsteps as soon as he finished speaking, and the door was kicked open.Samuel rushed over, pushing Roland away from the hospital bed in a protective gesture, and blocked Ethan.

"Ethan! How are you!" Samuel asked.

Ethan blinked slowly, and asked with difficulty, "Ta... Tanithel...?"

Samuel seemed to have suddenly become dumb, his mouth was tightly closed, and it took a while before he said, "Let's talk about it when you recover."

Ethan suddenly grabbed Samuel's arm tightly, with strength that was beyond what his current body could produce, and the slender pupils in a pair of amazing green eyes stared at him, "He... ……where?"

Samuel hesitated for a while, but Roland behind him said, "He's dead."

Ethan's body trembled, but he still didn't let go of Samuel, "Impossible..."

"Your ship was too damaged, jumped out of curvature flight mode and lost all power, was pulled into the orbit of a planet, we only had time to rescue you and Samuel, and didn't even know there was a third person in the ship .that ship has now crashed on an asteroid on the border of the Third Reich."

Ethan stared at him blankly, as if he couldn't understand what he said.Slowly, two lines of black things flowed out from his unblinking eyes.The black tears of blood spread across his face, making his sadness look even more eerie.

Ethan finally knew what he was missing.

The soul bond between him and the priest was broken.