Falling into the Abyss

The Ophiuchus Confederation is a great power of two neighboring galaxies.More than 60.00% of the population are Earthlings. Their ancestors escaped from the long nuclear war that almost destroyed the Earth before the establishment of the Earth Alliance. Hundreds of years later, their descendants settled in distant galaxies.Since they were sailing in the direction of Alpha Ophiuchus at that time, they also called the two galaxies they chose to make their homes the Ophiuchus Alliance.Perhaps those ancestors would not have imagined that one day their descendants would regard the earth as an enemy.

Starwind is parked in the space port near Dominic [-], which is the most suitable environment for human survival in the Dominic galaxy. Everyone is required to wear isolation protective clothing on board, and a special person will take a short-distance spacecraft to fly to the largest part of the [-]th star in the northern hemisphere. A city on the mainland near the ocean.There is the heart of the entire galaxy - the seat of the Ophiuchus Alliance's presidential palace and major government agencies - Lanhu.

Ethan was completely isolated and brought into an empty room. First, he went through a series of disinfection procedures. He put on a simple white shirt and black trousers. Officers drew his blood, took his blood pressure and pulse, and even took him into a room for X-rays.Now he sits alone in that room, surrounded by concrete walls and ceiling except for the same chair in front of him.He sat upright, with his hands on his knees, his eyes looking into the space in front of him, as if he didn't see anything.

The door in the room was so simple that it was almost integrated with the wall, and a middle-aged man Beta in a suit came in.He gave Ethan a friendly smile and sat on the chair opposite him.Ethan noticed a small pin pinned to his suit collar, and what was probably a round earphone plugged into his ear.

It seemed that someone was watching them from outside this room.Although I don't know where the camera is hidden, or these walls are actually single-sided glass with a projection function.

The man held a small folded paper-like thing in his hand, and when he unfolded it, it turned out to be a thin transparent board—this is the portable information storage tool of the Ophiuchus Alliance. Text.He said to Ethan, "Mr. Eldridge, hello, I am Vincent Boland, Special Operations Commissioner of the Ophiuchus Alliance."

Ethan said, "Just call me Ethan."

"Ethan, I'm sorry for making you wait here for so long. It's just that the Earth Alliance's epidemic situation is serious now, and we have to take more precautions."

Ethan nodded and said nothing.

"We learned from Commissioner Sean Di Canio that you had some accidents on the spaceship?" Ballander seemed to be looking at the information in his hand, but actually raised his eyes to see Ethan's reaction.

Sean Di Canio... It took Ethan a few seconds to remember that it seemed to be Roland's real name... He remembered that he heard the female agent call Roland "Sean" on the Faun planet.

Ethan shrugged and said, "It's not an accident, it's just me in the cocooning period."

"Cocooning period?"

"I have the ancestry of the Tianzhen star, and your Ophiuchus is so advanced in intelligence, so you haven't heard of the physical characteristics of the Tianzhen star?"

Bo Lande laughed sincerely, "We know that the development of Tianzheng Stars is a little different from that of ordinary people, and they will age rapidly after entering adulthood. But we don't know the details so clearly. After all, Tianzheng Stars are very rare. Moreover, he kept secret about his physical changes, and it was difficult to find written records."

"The average person does age, but I probably don't," Ethan said.

Bolande looked at him in surprise, "Why?"

"I already have enough things in my body to keep me alive." Ethan said, and suddenly the corner of his mouth slightly curved, "Don't you have my blood? Can't you find out what's inside?"

Of course they've got results.It's just that the result is a little unbelievable.

The plague of the Earth Alliance is not a virus, but some kind of strange parasitic eggs. These eggs, like fungi, will quickly multiply in the human body, turning people into things like Cordyceps sinensis.It's just that Cordyceps is a plant, and those who are infected become a kind of bug.

There are no such eggs in Ethan's blood, but his genetic makeup is surprisingly similar to that kind of insect, which means that it is not a human genetic sequence at all.At the same time, they found that the gene sequence contained in Ethan's blood was not even stable, and mutations may appear in each copy. It is reasonable to say that such a person should have cancer all over his body. I am afraid that even with the current medical level Can't save him.

But he sat here, looking like a normal person.His body scan didn't reveal any shadowy areas, he was healthier than average, and he couldn't find a single scar on his body.

The rumor seems likely to be true, Ethan is the maker of the plague.It now appears that he may not belong to this universe at all.

So far, Ethan didn't have any aggressive behavior, but the tragedy that happened in the Forbidden City still made the senior officials of the special agency very nervous.They have ordered dozens of No. 3 robots known as "killing machines" to surround the room where Ethan is located. If there is any abnormality, they will fire at the same time, and there will be no ashes left in the entire room.In order not to arouse his aggression, they originally wanted to find the Omega who voluntarily went in to talk to him, but no one wanted to lose their lives even if the bonus was huge.In the end, Boland, who was a Beta, voluntarily went in, on the condition that the government must be responsible for providing sufficient medical expenses for his mother who was bedridden all the year round, hiring experts to take care of him, subsidizing his children to enter the highest institutions of learning, and guaranteeing their All family members have no worries about food and clothing for life.

Bolande smiled a little embarrassedly, "We do have your blood sample, but we are not sure how to interpret it."

"Which part don't know how to interpret?"

"The information says that you are born on Earth, your father is Adrian Eldridge, and your mother is Liliana Shael'zas, and your previous blood test results were normal."

Ethan said, "Yes, I was infected, no, it should be said that I was 'purified'. The genital goddess purified my body disguised under the sequence force and gave me a new life."

He said it without emotion, and even with a hint of imperceptible mockery in his tone.

"What is your so-called genital goddess?"

"Sab Nicholas."

"Is that the belief of the Eve people?"

"It's not just Eve's. Many planets have worshiped her, and there have been beliefs about her on Earth, but we have all forgotten it."

Bolande didn't show whether he believed it or not, but just nodded thoughtfully.He asked again seemingly casually, "After you were purified...were you asked to do anything?"

Ethan suddenly smiled, "You want to ask, did I do the Earth Alliance's plague?"

Bolande was surprised, "Do you know about the Earth Alliance's plague?"

According to Sean, that is, Roland's information, Ethan was brought to Eve before the plague started, and even if he escaped, he remained in a dormant state until he was intercepted by the Starwind two months later.How did he know about the plague of the Earth Alliance?

Ethan said, "When I was in the cocooning period, I perceived a lot of things. Plus I remember that I did something to a guard on Earth... I wasn't sure what I was doing at the time, but now I knew."

"So...you admit it's you?"

Ethan kept smiling, and said frankly, "It's me."

At this moment, beads of sweat appeared on Bo Lande's forehead.He knew that as soon as such an answer came out, someone might order to destroy this room at any time, and burn himself to ashes.

Yet he had to ask the question.

For a few seconds, no one spoke in the room, and a suffocating silence enveloped everything.Bo Lande realized that he was still alive, and apparently the upper echelons were still watching.

He then cleared his throat and continued to ask, "How do you do it?"

Ethan tilted his head slightly, and asked back, "What you want to ask is, do I plan to do something like this in the Ophiuchus Alliance?"

This sentence was obviously more threatening than the sentence "It's me" just now, and Bolande felt that cold sweat had soaked his back.

"Don't worry, I have no such plan." Ethan said, "I want to go somewhere, if you can help me, I will be very grateful."

"Where to go?"

"On the border of the Third Reich, an asteroid. Your Commissioner Sean should know where I want to go."

Bo Lande naturally also has this information in his hand.Obviously, this Ethan Eldridge has a close relationship with the special priest of Tanithel on Eve Star, who has repeatedly intervened to rescue Ethan, who was previously an inhuman in the Forbidden City.According to Sean Di Canio's report, Ethan and the other Omega named Joe Samuel were rescued by them from a severely damaged Eve spaceship that was on the verge of crashing. Samuel knew that there was another person in the boat, that is, Tanithel.But at that time, the spacecraft had already crashed into the atmosphere of a desolate planet called "Black Gate" on the border of the Third Reich, and it was almost impossible to survive.

"Are you talking about Black Gate? The place where your spaceship crashed?"

"good."

"You should know that the person you are looking for is likely already..."

"Even if there is only a corpse, I still want to find him." There was no room for change in Ethan's tone, but soon, he smiled again.The smile looked a little cold, "Of course, I know, you won't let me go easily. And, now your president may be ordering me to end."

"You worry too much..."

Ethan interrupted the poor negotiator on the opposite side, stood up slowly, slowly opened his arms to some peeping people in the void, and said, "Come on, let's fire."

Boland suddenly stood up, his face pale, "Mr. Eldridge, please calm down, we have no intention to terminate you!"

Ethan glanced at him nonchalantly, and said to him, "Don't be afraid, you won't die."

The people observing them seemed to be still hesitating, Ethan said with a smile, "If I want to leave, you can't stop me." After finishing speaking, he stretched out his hand, and a long hair stretched out from his fingertips. , black tentacles...

Suddenly, scorching flames rushed from all directions, and the flames ignited soaring into the sky. The center of the room was as high as [-] degrees Celsius, and the temperature at the center of the atomic bomb explosion was no more than this. Any living thing would be gasified in an instant.

Seen from a distance, a terrible explosion occurred on the wasteland where this room was located, and the smoke and dust soared into the sky, covering the sky and the sun, as if the end of the world was coming.

After the smoke cleared, the people behind the scenes immediately sent drones to check, but what they saw surprised them.

The surface where the room was originally located has been blasted into a large crater, just like a crater on the moon.But in the middle of the big pit, there is a black ball.

If you get closer, you will find that it is not a "ball", but a thing woven by many thick and terrifying black tentacles with barbs and dripping mucus.They are so tightly woven that no gaps can be seen, but some exposed mouth-like organs and eye-like organs are still turning and opening and closing slightly, spitting out streams of mucus and air bubbles, which makes people feel sick to their stomachs. churn.

The Alliance President, who was sitting in front of the screen with other senior officials, was also dumbfounded, and murmured, "What is that?"

No one could answer him, because neither the Minister of Defense nor the Chief of the Special Service was equally speechless.

Those filthy and terrifying compound eyes seemed to see the approaching drone. The next moment, the ball suddenly loosened, and countless tentacles were lifted into the air, and then all retracted behind a person.

Ethan still stood where he was, without any dust on his body, looked at them with some disappointment and sighed, as if regretting that they failed to kill him.At his feet, Bolande was already limp on the ground, his pants were wet.Even the two chairs remained in place unscathed.

"Look, I said it, you can't stop me." Ethan looked at the still wriggling tentacles on his fingertips in a daze, and muttered to himself, not knowing who he was talking to.

The author has something to say:

The life of the tentacles being blackened and hacked has begun...

Modified a detail that I forgot to explain