Falling into the Abyss

"What's his current situation?" An elderly female voice came from the other side of the communicator.

While watching the screen in front of him, Roland said, "He had a conflict with the people from Eve and showed some mutant forms. Now the Third Reich no longer allows us to land on Black Gate. But he didn't say anything about it." protest."

"Is that Priest Eve sure dead?"

"Sure. Ethan Eldridge seems to accept that too. He refuses to talk to anyone now, and stays alone in the room."

The screen in front of him showed Ethan's suite, and pinpoint-sized cameras were installed everywhere in that luxurious cabin, and Ethan's every move was under his observation.At this moment, Ethan sat motionless by the bed, his eyes staring straight ahead, like a statue.Roland frowned, "He hasn't slept, he just sat on the bed in one position."

"Maybe he can use his companion." The female voice said, "Didn't you hear him say he was going to Earth?"

"You mean, let them go?"

"Not only let them go, but also help them go." The female voice said in a cold voice, "Since this kind of hot potato cannot be killed and cannot be controlled, let the Earth Alliance deal with it. Don't let him go." Bring it back to the Ophiuchus Alliance. We now have his DNA samples in our hands, and we may be able to develop a vaccine to treat the plague. Before that, be careful to contact him, and don’t do anything that may anger him.”

"Understood." After Roland finished speaking, the connection was cut off.Immediately afterwards, he sent an encrypted message to another Earth Alliance informant.

"Target No. 6 is about to return to Earth, which may facilitate his meeting with Target No. 4."

After sending this message, he looked up, only to find that Ethan on the screen moved.He slowly took off his coat, lifted the quilt, and lay down.

Is it time to sleep?

Roland had never seen Ethan sleep since he came out of the medical cabin. He thought that the mutated Ethan no longer needed sleep.But that doesn't seem to be the case?

Ethan pulled the quilt on his body and closed his eyes.Roland made himself a large cup of coffee, planning not to sleep tonight, and stared at the peacefully sleeping person on the screen seriously.

Ethan was sleeping very well, barely moving for the previous two hours.However, at the third hour, something strange happened.Many tentacles of different thicknesses protruded from under his quilt, spreading like black water on the bed.Those horrible barbs, scales, or worm-like soft tentacles grow in all directions like black blood vessels, even winding up the wall, covering and wrapping everything encountered on the road.The original snow-white walls are now almost covered in black. Even the peeping camera can only vaguely see a little bit of the scene in the room through the gap between the tentacles. Roland has to keep switching cameras to see the situation inside clearly.

It appears that this room, and even the ship, may need to be completely destroyed after Ethan leaves...

Ethan's sleep was no longer restful, his brows were slightly frowned, slightly raised, and his body had slight convulsions.He seemed to be afraid, his body curled up under the quilt, and even those tentacles shrank towards the middle for a moment.He turned over, and several tentacles lifted the quilt, revealing the nightmarish scene under the quilt.

Roland could hardly see Ethan's body anymore. All he could see were tentacles twisting and wriggling like snakes, and the tentacles-like organs shaking messily.In the distorted black, only Ethan's pale face was clearly discernible. He lay among these filthy tentacles, and continued to struggle in the dream without realizing it.Roland felt a little nauseous. He drank a big mouthful of cold coffee and turned his eyes away for a moment.

All this is so crazy, he actually lived with this man for a while before... Thinking of this, he felt sick even more...

At this moment, there was a scream from the monitor.

It was from Ethan.

He was still lying there, his eyes still closed, but he was screaming.It wasn't just a cry of fear, but a language Roland had never heard before.

As an Ophiuchus agent, Roland is proficient in dozens of interstellar lingua francas, and can basically recognize hundreds of them, but he has never even heard of this language.He listened carefully, and it seemed that the way of pronunciation was somewhat similar to the horned language of the Faun planet, but it was only a little bit, which was not helpful at all for understanding.He recorded as many voices as he could, intending to send them back to Ophiuchus for analysis by the linguists.

Suddenly, in those several screens shot from different angles, something is not quite right.

Something, something formless, was falling from above to below.It seemed to be some sort of transparent medium in which light was refracted and twisted in unusual ways.But suddenly, something slowly opened in that medium, like a mouth.Looking at it from the screen, it seemed that the space was twisted strangely above Ethan.

He moved closer to the display screen and rubbed his eyes to make sure it wasn't his own dazzled eyes.

What it is?

That thing separated above Ethan, as if the entire space including Ethan was being sucked into that gap, and all images became distorted.At this moment, Ethan suddenly opened his eyes, and all the tentacles suddenly danced at the same time, frantically swinging in the air, as if they were struggling.He saw Ethan raised his hands in front of him, as if afraid of being touched by something.His struggle was so violent that the entire hull was trembling faintly.

Roland hesitated, wondering if he should send someone in for rescue.But he thought about it again, in this unknown situation, if he let people in rashly, there might be some unexpected consequences.It's too risky.

Besides, Ethan was already a threat.

He immediately ordered the entire corridor near the apartment where Ethan lived to be blocked, and no one was allowed to approach.But at this time, on the screen, something seemed to stick out from that transparent thing, entangled Ethan's tentacles one after another.There was an explosion of intense heat at the point of contact, and there was an explosion sound instantly, sparks splashed, flames ignited in the cabin, and a piercing alarm sounded. The fire extinguishing device automatically lowered from the ceiling and sprayed a large amount of water.

The astonishing explosion shook the entire spaceship, and Roland took a few steps back in shock.He nervously checked the damage to the mastermind, but luckily the mastermind reported that there was no fatal damage, and the repair robot has already dispatched for repairs.

Louder than the siren was Ethan's cry of pain.I saw his tentacles that were touched seemed to be scorched, and the long lengths turned into smoke and scattered in all directions.He quickly put away the tentacles that hadn't been caught, as if he suddenly remembered something, hurriedly tore off his pajamas, and wiped the strange emblem on his chest with his hands.

After the emblem is completely removed, all tentacles have returned to the body.Ethan didn't dare to vent his breath, and lay motionless on the bed, watching the twisted space above constantly shaking, and some tongue-like protrusions appeared from the middle of the mass of matter from time to time, rubbing around, as if looking for something.

After about an hour or so, all the fires were extinguished by the automatic device, and the whole apartment was in a mess, but the strange transparent substance seemed to gradually dissipate, just like the air, as if it had never existed.

Ethan on the bed sighed, got up from the bed, and staggered into the bathroom while holding onto the furniture.

Roland recorded all of this.He leaned back in his chair, his mind spinning rapidly.

So... Ethan is not invincible.That kind of transparent thing... seems to be able to hurt him?

And the emblem that he hastily wiped off... I saw it on him after saving him...

Who gave him that emblem?What is the relationship with that transparent substance?Does Ethan's lack of sleep have something to do with it?

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Ethan sat in the bathtub, letting the cold water pour over him.His whole body was burning hot, as if he was about to burn...

His breathing has not yet calmed down, and his heart is still beating so fast that it seems to be burning out the rest of his life.With trembling hands, he brushed away the wet hair on his forehead. It was only after a severe pain that he realized that the nails of his middle finger and ring finger had fallen off, and the flesh at the fingertips had already turned black and carbonized, and they had not healed themselves as quickly as before.

It turns out that this is what happens when Entropy comes into contact with Sequence...he will be severely burned, and the other person...that huge creature full of various eyes that appeared in the dream will also vaporize a small amount where it comes into contact with. .

He is not even a completely entropic individual. If the Entropy God and the Order God collide, the power produced may be more terrifying than the energy released by the meeting of pros and cons.And, both sides would be annihilated in that collision, and the two energies would mix together.What would happen after that... He couldn't think of it either.

Well, if he is now injected with the Egg Solution of the Preface God... it is equivalent to injecting sulfuric acid into his blood vessels...

he might die...

If you die, will you no longer have to live like this, will you finally be able to rest?Is that a better option?

He put his hand on his left chest, where the emblem should have been painted.Now the last thing Tanisel left him was gone.

"Live well, go and see for me."

This is Tanithel's last request.

Live well.

Ethan hugged his body in the icy water and let out a tired sigh.

After taking a shower and changing clothes, Ethan left the room.When the heavily armed soldiers saw him coming out, they all backed away in fear, and no one dared to step forward.Fortunately, Roland's order came at this time: the martial law was lifted.

Apparently Samuel also felt the previous explosion, but was stopped by soldiers.When he saw Ethan come out, he showed a relieved expression.

"What the hell are you doing!" Samuel looked him up and down, and soon found the blackened middle finger and ring finger of his right hand, "How did you do it?"

"No big deal," Ethan said.

"It's all burnt and it's no big deal! Hey! Do you have a doctor here!" Samuel shouted at the soldiers, but everyone looked at them with an expression like an enemy on the verge of death. Quickly walked away.

Ethan squeezed Samuel's shoulder reassuringly, and said in a patient tone like coaxing his girlfriend, "It's really fine, it will probably be fine in two days. Don't make a big fuss about a small injury."

"Is this a small injury? How can you let me go with confidence like this?"

But Ethan suddenly raised the corners of his mouth, and tilted his head slightly to look at Samuel, "Since you care about me so much, I'll go with you."

Samuel didn't realize it for a while, "Huh?" He looked at Ethan carefully for a while, but couldn't tell whether the other party was serious or joking, "Hey, are you kidding me?"

Ethan shook his head, "I'm serious."

"How can you do that! You are looking for death if you go to the earth now! Do you know that the earth now regards you as the number one dangerous person!"

Ethan replied calmly, "But didn't you always plan to bring me back to Earth?"

Samuel froze for a moment, and frowned in confusion, "What are you talking about? Why should I take you back?"

"I don't know why you want me to go back, but I guess it's because you want revenge." Ethan passed by him and walked towards the public lounge not far away.His eyes were slightly lowered, and when he turned his back to Samuel, he showed a little sadness, "When I was in the cocooning period, my range of perception widened a lot. I heard you use the words that Tanithel gave you. The Wanxi Ball is talking to the people of the Earth Alliance...it seems to be Derek, right? I know you have already planned it when you were on Eve Star, otherwise you would not be able to break into Tanithel on your own The basement of the castle, save me. Also, our spaceship was originally headed in the direction of the star of Amonia, but in the end it deviated from the course and reached the border of the Third Reich and the Ophiuchus Alliance. I don’t know how you It was done, but based on your conversation with Derek, it is basically certain that you did it."

His tone was calm and gentle, without any hint of anger, just stating the facts.He sat on the sofa with his back to Samuel, poured himself a glass of water and took a few sips, without seeing Omega behind him with a slightly stiff expression.

"What I don't understand is." Ethan looked back at him, "Why do I have to go back to Earth? Just leave me alone and let them perform the séance ceremony, and in the end all those people you hate will also be destroyed of."

"No, you must return to Earth." Samuel said in a low voice, "If you complete the seance on Eve, those eggs of the Prologue will explode immediately, and it will also attract the counterattack of the Prologue. In the end The important thing is that you are destined to come to earth and destroy that evil country."

Samuel looked at Ethan, "Don't you understand?" When order collapses, worms scream in the hollow earth, and shadows swallow the entire galaxy, the extradition of God will open the gate of chaos.' Now the collapse of order is the most severe The only thing is the Earth Alliance messed up by the plague, second universe infection, and the rising of the Benefactors. And you brought the worm to the earth, then the first two are in line. The last shadow consumes the entire galaxy It may be related to the infection expansion of the second universe, at least according to the news from Derek."

Ethan frowned slightly. He couldn't imagine when Samuel knew so many things, including tasks like the second universe that he didn't participate in.Could it be that people from the Earth Alliance told him?But wasn't the passage he said read by Lionel during the holy spirit sacrifice?

"Since Schneider's death, I have started to have some strange dreams." Samuel's expression was a bit wrong at this time, as empty as a daze, which was completely opposite to the vivid one just now, "I dreamed of blood, and there was blood all over the place , and I stepped on the dead bodies of those people. All the people who killed Schneider, the people who bullied my father, the people who drove James crazy, the people who forced me to disguise my gender, all the people who said I killed a scum Those who committed crimes and threw me into that ghostly place in the Forbidden City... They were all dead, and even those who were not completely dead were trampled to pieces by me, and even their faces were blurred. There was blood on my hands, but It wasn't my blood. That dream was so real and terrifying, I could even feel the touch when I crushed those people's skulls, listening to their screams at that time...I felt so happy...so satisfied..."

When the love he loved was taken away from him again and again, when he saw his lover's throat cut with his own eyes, Samuel finally fell into darkness again.Only this time his depravity was more thorough.

His almost intoxicated expression made Ethan's heart sink gradually.He remembered that during that time, he always felt that there was something wrong with Samuel.But he always thought it was because the sudden loss of Schneider hit him too hard, so he didn't go into it.

But Samuel's narration is not over yet, "Then... a man with a whole body in black will appear. He told me that if you want revenge, if you want your dreams to become reality, you have to find a way to bring you back to Earth."

The author has something to say:

So Samuel also blackened a little~ Of course it was all under the training of Ethan's father...