Falling into the Abyss

Ethan sat alone in another empty room similar to before, like yesterday.Immediately after the explosion, heavily armed soldiers came to surround him, Bolande was taken away, and he was blindfolded, stuffed into a windowless aircraft, and brought here directly.

He didn't see another person, and he never left the chair.

He found that he didn't want to sleep or eat.His right hand unconsciously rubbed the place where the emblem was on his left chest from time to time, his eyes were empty and lifeless.

Time seems to have lost its meaning to him, he is neither arrogant nor impetuous, nor bored.Even the guards who watched him through the camera hole hidden in the wall felt a little hairy.

Finally, the door opened, and this time it was Roland who came in.

Roland was also a little nervous. This was not the first time he saw Ethan, but since Ethan came out of that medical room, he could no longer regard him as the reserved secretary of the Energy Bureau.

It's just that the bosses think that he is the most suitable candidate for communicating with that terrifying and unpredictable mutant creature.

He stood in front of Ethan and showed him his still charming smile, "We meet again."

Ethan raised his eyes to look at him, lowered his eyes again, and carefully pulled out a barb on his index finger, "How long do I have to wait? My patience is almost exhausted."

Roland said, "The Ophiuchus Alliance can send you to Black Gate, and even help you find the priest named Tanithel. It's just that it will take some time to negotiate with the Third Reich."

"how much longer?"

"It will take another day or two."

"It's been too long." Ethan stood up and looked at Roland calmly. "I'm leaving now. If you don't want casualties, please don't stop me."

After he finished speaking, he went straight around Roland and walked towards the door, but the moment he passed by, his arm was grabbed.Roland stared at him with those deep eyes, and suddenly there was a bit of tenderness, "Ethan, I will help you. How would you go without the spaceship?"

I will help you, this is what Tanisel said to him time and time again.

Ethan looked back at him indifferently.

"So, you were sent by them to use beauty tricks?" Ethan's voice had a slight sarcasm.

Roland looked at him seriously and said, "I really want to help you."

Ethan sighed, and slowly withdrew his hand.Continue to stride towards the door.

"Whether you are sincere or not is meaningless to me. I am leaving now. If you don't help me, you are my enemy. Besides, you can't kill me."

As he spoke, he reached for the doorknob.That door is locked.However, many thin black threads emerged from Ethan's fingertips, twisted and penetrated into the gap between the door and the door frame. After a while, there was a friction sound of unlocking the door, and then it opened like this.

Facing the door outside the door were three giant microwave cannons, all of which were in the warm-up stage at the moment. The outrageous heat wave lifted the hair on Ethan's forehead, and Roland couldn't open his eyes because of the scorching light.Ethan's figure was like a grass in front of the three giant beasts, but he didn't show any signs of shrinking, and walked forward as if he hadn't seen anything.

Roland's face changed, and he rushed over and closed the door.

At that moment, three microwave cannons fired at the same time, and the invisible microwave beams burned the skin of the extremely small human being, and he didn't even use his tentacles to block it.His skin was constantly scorched and twisted, but the countless black wriggling things under the skin would immediately repair new muscles and skin.In the invisible burning fire, Ethan didn't even stop as if he couldn't feel the pain. When he stepped out of the range, half of his body was almost burned, leaving only some squirming black tentacles. On the other side was the familiar Ethan's face.The monster that seemed to have stepped out of the fire of hell only for a moment, through which fresh flesh quickly grew out, perfectly fitting together with the skin on the other side.All the clothes on Ethan's body were burned, but he didn't feel shy and kept walking forward.Suddenly, several extremely thick tentacles shot out behind him, like a fierce long whip flying across the sky, instantly cutting the three microwave cannons into two sections.

This is a barracks, and there are many heavily armed soldiers standing behind the microwave cannon. Seeing the naked Ethan walking in slowly, they all took a few steps back in fear.Ethan glanced around slowly, and said coldly, "Do you also want to be infected with the plague on Earth? Get out of the way!"

"Don't fire!" Roland had rushed out of the room at this time, blocking Ethan, "Get out of the way!"

After receiving orders from their superiors, those soldiers withdrew to both sides one after another.Ethan asked as he walked, "Where's Samuel? Bring him."

Roland glanced at him, and suddenly took off his long coat and put it on Ethan, "Give me an hour, and I will persuade them to take you to Black Gate Star!"

Ethan rolled his eyes slightly, and looked at him contemptuously, "Are you making me believe in you, a person who betrayed me three times?"

Roland seemed to be speechless for a moment, and then said, "I know, you don't really want to spread that kind of plague on the earth, and you don't even want that terrible thing to kill thousands of innocent people in another country." people."

"Innocent?" Ethan chuckled, "I haven't seen many innocent people in my life."

Maybe there is, he can only think of one Schneider, but he has also been killed by other people who are not innocent.

Look at the people of the Earth Alliance, each of them has their own dark stories, but they are all deeply buried, and those who deceive others and themselves do not exist.They cheat on their partners, quietly report their jealous friends who live better than themselves, put on another layer of identity in the Internet domain, wantonly attack and abuse others, and even encourage someone to die when they want to commit suicide. He didn't dare to go out and go home, but he started beating and scolding his wife and children.They are full of hostility, give them a belief they can rely on, and they will immediately become the most brutal executioners, killing everything they don't understand under the guise of "morality".

All this happened around Ethan every day, but before he entered the Forbidden City and experienced everything that followed, he thought everything was normal.

Now, he's just bored.

"Roland, you don't understand me." Ethan said, "I've killed a lot of people, I'm not a good person, I'm not even a human being. So, I can do anything."

The tone in which he stated the facts, as well as the way he spoke without blinking his eyes, made Roland feel a little cold in his heart.Ethan has changed, changed a lot, maybe this is all caused by him.

Roland said, "One hour, I only need one hour!"

Ethan looked at him for a while, finally sighed, and said, "Okay, I'll give you an hour."

An hour later, Ethan and Samuel got on the spaceship to Black Gate.Under the intensive negotiation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Third Reich has agreed to the entry of a small number of soldiers from the Ophiuchus Alliance, and is willing to assist in providing information about the crashed spaceship.

Ethan put on clean and comfortable clothes, sat on the edge of the soft and wide bed on the second floor of the luxurious room arranged for him, and looked at the galaxy spinning in the distance through the transparent wall opposite.He held a glass of vodka with ice cubes in his hand, and took a sip from time to time, letting the high-purity alcohol sting the skin in his mouth.He remembered that Tanithel once said that he should ask him to taste Eve's wine, because the wine on Earth is too bad to drink.But in the end, there was no chance.

Someone asked to go into the suite, and Ethan agreed.From him, he could directly see the door of the suite on the first floor, and the person who entered was Roland.

He raised the whiskey bottle in his hand at Ethan, his smile was as calm and charming as ever, but Ethan knew that it was just a mask on his face.Ethan put down the cup in his hand and slowly walked down the stairs.

"what's up?"

Looking carefully at Roland's smile, one could see that he was cautious. He put the wine bottle on the bar and took two glasses casually. "Before arriving at Black Gate, I think it would be better to tell you in advance."

Ethan stood where he was, "Go ahead."

Roland handed him a glass of wine, Ethan looked at his smile, and suddenly wanted to ask, "Are you tired?"

Roland was taken aback.

"It's tiring to wear a mask every day, isn't it?"

Roland suddenly felt that those green eyes staring at him seemed to be able to pierce his flesh, making him feel uncomfortable all over.He still maintains his expression, unwilling to be easily underestimated by the "task target" that he took down so easily in the past, "Fortunately, in my line of work, I have long wondered if there is any real self besides the mask gone."

Ethan took the wine glass and shook the ice cubes in the glass.He turned around and sat down on the sofa, "What are you going to tell me?"

"After your ship crashed, the Third Reich sent people to investigate. They said that the spaceship had disintegrated and scattered parts everywhere. It is impossible for people to survive under such circumstances."

"Where's the corpse?"

"I didn't find it. Eve also knows about it, and is sending people to negotiate with the Third Reich, and wants to go to Black Gate Star to find it." Roland paused, "You guys escaped from Eve Star, right?"

Ethan nodded.

"If they know that you have gone this time, I'm afraid..."

"I'm not afraid of them." A glint of light flashed in Ethan's eyes, "It's fine if I can meet them. I still have something to ask them."

Roland originally wanted to show his favor, saying that the Ophiuchus Alliance would protect him, but he didn't expect that Ethan didn't care at all.He hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Don't worry, we won't let them touch you."

Ethan drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and casually put the glass on the coffee table in front of him, "I know, you are so responsive because you can't kill me now, and you are afraid that I will infect you with that kind of bug. .If I'm not mistaken, the glass of wine just now might have some additives in it."

His words made Roland's face turn pale.

Indeed, there is a newly developed neurotoxin in the wine that, while not fatal, can paralyze.Roland had the antidote in his pocket, in case he had to drink it himself, he had half an hour to take the antidote, so that he could still be saved.

But judging by Ethan's appearance that he has nothing to do now, it seems that he has failed again.

Fortunately, the spaceship has left the fifth star. If Ethan decides to infect the entire ship in a fit of anger, he still has time to notify the headquarters to start the self-destruct procedure of the spaceship.

This is almost a must-do mission.

But Ethan just smiled slightly, with some pity on his face, "Don't worry, I won't kill you. Destroying the Ophiuchus alliance is meaningless to me. If you want to try, you can continue, as long as you don't hinder me It's fine." After he finished speaking, he turned around like this and planned to go upstairs.

Roland felt that he had never been hit so hard in his life.

He had clearly planned to die generously, but he was "pardoned" by the insignificant exploit in front of him with ease.

He felt that what he was facing was not a person, but an existence beyond too much that didn't take him seriously at all.He finally threw away all his calmness, and the smile on his face fell apart.He grabbed Ethan's wrist and stopped Beta so easily.He obviously still looks like a powerless scholar, how could he...

"You...what the hell are you!" Roland asked almost gnashing his teeth.

Ethan didn't even try to break free, just in this posture, he lowered his eyes slightly, thinking seriously, "I don't know what I am."

"What are you going to do! Spread that disease to the entire galaxy?!"

"I said it." Ethan said in a patient tone to an ignorant child, "I only want one person, Tanithel."

"He is dead!"

"Dead..." Ethan said, a layer of sadness slowly gathered between his brows.He slowly closed his eyes, "Even if he goes to hell, I will bring him back."

But at this moment, he suddenly heard the mastermind saying that Samuel was coming in, and there was a loud knock on the door from outside.Even through the sound-proof door panel, Ethan could still hear Samuel yelling outside, "Ethan! Ethan! Are you okay! I heard that the man named Sean is here!"

Just as Ethan agreed to let the mastermind let him in, Samuel rushed in like a whirlwind.Seeing that Roland was holding Ethan's arm, he immediately flew over with one kick.Roland let go of Ethan, and rolled to avoid him.

"Ethan! Did he do anything to you!" Samuel stared at the man on the ground.And Roland stared back with sharp eyes.Damn, why is this Omega more fierce than all the Alphas he has ever seen...

Ethan pressed Samuel's shoulder, showing a gentle smile, "It's okay. We're chatting."

Roland got up from the ground, but he was too embarrassed to answer this sentence.Ethan didn't say anything about the poison in the wine, which made him feel even more unbearable.He clenched his fists and turned to leave, but he heard Ethan say behind him, "Mr. Sean, don't forget your wine."

Seeing the man's seemingly dejected back, Samuel also felt a little strange.He turned to look at Ethan, and looked up and down.

Since he came out of that medical cabin, he hasn't had the chance to take a closer look at Ethan, but now that he looks at it, he really has changed a lot.

He seemed to have become more calm, and the slender pupils in the green eyes made people feel a little uneasy.

"Samuel, what can I do for you?"

Samuel nodded.He lowered his gaze and hesitated before saying, "I want to say goodbye to you in advance. After going to Black Gate Planet with you this time, I plan to return to Earth. I'm afraid that I will leave in a hurry and I won't have a chance to tell you. "

Ethan frowned, "Why?"

"My father is still on the earth, and the plague is raging now. I...I don't know what's wrong with him." Samuel pursed his lips and scratched his head annoyedly, "I want to make sure he's safe."

"But the Earth Alliance is looking for you now. Going back is a dead end."

"Now that the plague is raging so badly, as long as I'm careful, I should be fine."

Ethan looked at him, reached out and squeezed his shoulder.He laughed, although the smile was a little sad, "You are right, it is time to go back and have a look."