Falling into the Abyss

The road to the Earth Alliance is not too far away, but after waking up from hibernation, the atmosphere in the entire spaceship is not quite right.

There are only Ethan and Samuel on this spaceship. Originally, Roland wanted to send someone to enter with them, but Ethan refused.The spaceship sent to them by the Ophiuchus Alliance has strong anti-reconnaissance devices. If there is only one ship, there should be no problem with the energy network spreading around the solar system through the Earth Alliance.

The two of them sat in the cockpit, watching the jumping readings on the instrument panel, and no one spoke.Since entering this universe, an indescribable oppression has been advancing through the vacuum of the universe layer by layer like a sea tide.This is the atmosphere that exists throughout the universe, as if entire galaxies are slowly dying.

Here will be the beginning of destruction.

Their ship did not go directly to the earth, but landed in the famous slum, where Samuel was born - the seventh space station.

It was a huge city suspended in the vast universe. It looked like it was stacked by many cuboids of different sizes, wrapped in a light yellow atmosphere.Coming out of the spaceship berth, the crowded road is surrounded by layers of high-rise buildings, and even the overhead is a huge building horizontally, with countless neon signs, illegal vendors, messy roofs and open air. Clothes fill the space to the brim, almost taking up the track for a dual-purpose vehicle or flying vehicle.

Ethan had never been to District [-] before, and he knew from a young age that this was not a place for people with status to come.Apart from the Forbidden City, this is probably the most chaotic city. The narrow and complicated aerial streets are full of hooligans, thugs, prostitutes, and drug dealers.He has also seen District [-] on TV. He only remembers that the streets are full of dirty water, garbage and even excrement. The eyes of the children of some synthetic rhizome that Ethan couldn't recognize were all empty, numb and blank.Gun battles happen every day, and wallets are stolen when you go to the street to buy groceries. In his impression, this is a chaotic place that is simply uninhabitable.

But Samuel actually grew up in this kind of place.The streets that made him frown as he had seen on TV when he was a child were Samuel's childhood homes.

There was no expression on Samuel's face, and he didn't know what it was like to return to his hometown after so many years, whether it was nostalgia or embarrassment.But judging by his unhurried pace, dodging the crowd freely, and skillfully swearing back with more dirty words after bumping into someone and being scolded, he has quickly re-adapted to the environment here.

Although the Earth Alliance government has been urging everyone not to go out as much as possible, there are not many people on the streets in the slums.It may be because even at the risk of being infected with the plague, you must come out and continue to work in order to support your family.Many large factories are set up on the seventh space station. When many other space stations are under martial law, these factories are always running tirelessly.People wear gas masks on their faces and isolation protective clothing on their bodies, and they must continue to work for meager salaries.

Miraculously, Space Station Seven has not been quarantined.But I heard that people infected with the plague have also appeared.

When Ethan got the news, he didn't intuitively feel the impact of the plague.But now, walking on the streets of the Seventh Space Station, he still felt it.Many, many people who were wrapped up tightly passed by, and they seldom heard the voice of conversation, and never talked to others unless necessary.People bowed their heads and walked quickly through the narrow alleys, their eyes full of fear and numbness.As if all people are gray, all emotions are also gray.

Samuel led Ethan into a crooked-looking tavern. There were not many people in it, and the air was filled with the strong smell of smoke and bad-quality beer.Samuel sat down on the bar counter familiarly, and raised his hand to the fat man who was lazily wiping his glass.

"What do you want?"

"Do you still have Black Skull here?"

The fat uncle hummed from his nose, picked up two dirty empty glasses, took out two glasses of black liquid from a wooden barrel, and placed them rudely in front of Samuel and Ethan.

Just as Ethan was about to drink, he suddenly heard a high-pitched cry from behind him.He turned his head and saw a 50-year-old Omega in black, crying bitterly in the arms of an Alpha who was also in black beside him.

"Their daughter was infected with the plague and was quarantined. It seems that she died in the quarantine area yesterday. Even the corpse was not allowed to be seen." The fat uncle said in a tone that lacked sympathy to state the facts.

Samuel seemed to lack interest in this, "Can I borrow your phone?"

"Long distance or short distance?"

"Short distance."

"1 cent a minute, the phone is over there." The fat man pointed to an antique wireless phone on a faded white lacquer cabinet in the corner.There is even a cash machine next to it.Samuel went to make a call, while Ethan stayed where he was and waited.

He was probably going to call home.After the plague broke out, his father seemed to have returned to the seventh space station.

"Aren't you local?" the fat uncle asked.

Ethan said, "I'm not."

"He didn't escape from the quarantine area, did he?" The fat man snorted and said, "I don't want another group of special forces in protective suits to rush in, so I won't have to do business."

"Has this happened before?"

"Just two days ago. After the fifth space station was quarantined, some escaped. One of them came here."

When Ethan heard the words of the fifth space station, he suddenly felt a little sweaty in his palms.He raised his head and looked at the fat man through the sunglasses, "The fifth space station is also quarantined?"

"Yes. I heard that those quarantined areas are already like dead cities. The main roads are full of black corpses that are turning into worms. If the activities are not the black worms turned by disgusting people, they will also be dead. It is a patient who bites anyone at the beginning of the infection like rabies. The army can't control it at all."

An old woman in the next seat suddenly put her hands together and began to pray, and a simple lunch was placed in front of her.Ethan noticed that the pamphlet she was putting on her lap was the pamphlet that the Benefactors had circulated in the Forbidden City before.

Ethan felt something firmly grasping his chest, "The man who escaped, what does he look like?"

"It's a very thin woman with dark skin and looks about 40 to [-] years old."

It doesn't look like his father... Ethan took a big gulp of BlackSkull, and the bitter taste made him cough a few times.He wanted to visit the fifth space station, and he wanted to go now.

Samuel came back now, with a serious expression on his face, "There is no answer at home, let's go directly."

Just as they paid their bills and stood up to leave, suddenly a person rushed in from the outside.His hair was disheveled, his body was swollen, his face had begun to rot and green, and his bloodshot eyes exuded a hungry and bloodthirsty animal light.The clothes on his body were stained with blood, and his hands were swollen almost out of shape and covered with a sticky liquid.

The people in the tavern screamed in fear, and some panicked people ran away from their seats, trying to stay away from the man who was obviously infected with the plague.The originally quiet tavern exploded in an instant, and the fat man turned over from the bar counter with a dexterity that didn't suit his body type, and rushed straight to the back door.The infected man was also like a mad dog jumping on anyone he saw. Fortunately, his movements were clumsy, so he couldn't catch anyone for a while.It's just that the two couples who lost their beloved daughters seemed to be unlucky, and they were forced into a corner by him. Alpha tried his best to protect his lover, but he also did not dare to touch the body of the infected patient. After all, the mucus is said to be highly contagious, and it is very likely to be infected just by touching it.He pretended to be fierce, yelling and threatening the infected person, but his hands were shaking.His Omega companion was shouting in a trembling and pleading voice: Help!Help!Who will help us!Who can help me!

His pitiful plea struck a memory chord in Ethan's mind.He remembered when he was taken to the Forbidden City by the robot police, when he was locked on the other side of the door by everyone in the Neptune space station, and when he was left in the dark by Samuel and others after the sudden mutation of the Faun planet.At that time, he also begged like this, but no one came to save him...

Until Tanithel appeared...

So he stood up, ignored Samuel's tugging, and strode straight towards the infected person.He grabbed the back collar of the infected person who was about to pounce, black tentacles on his fingertips spread along the infected person's collar to his neck, and then tightened suddenly.

The infected utters a painful whimper, but is unable to utter a sound due to the constriction of the throat.Ethan pulled back suddenly, his huge and swollen body fell out like this, knocking over several tables and chairs.The infected person convulsed for a while, struggled to get up from the ground, and let out an angry roar.But when those bloodthirsty eyes met the eyes of Ethan who slightly pulled down his sunglasses and looked over from the edge of the frame, he showed a bit of timidity, and even his body shrank slightly.

There was also quite a commotion on the street, and it seemed that people from the epidemic control station had heard the news and rushed over.Knowing that he could not be seen by the people at the epidemic control station, Ethan turned around quickly and rushed out through the back door together with Samuel.

But even for a moment, Ethan felt that the infected person seemed to be afraid of him.

Could it be because... I was the initiator of all this?

Ethan didn't have any intuitive feeling for such a terrifying catastrophe after his mutation, but now he feels it.How many perhaps truly innocent people are suffering because of him, suffering from fear and seeing their loved ones turned into monsters.Originally he thought that he had no heart, but at this moment his heart was still hurting badly, and the guilt impacted his sanity, making him hate himself even more.

At that time, in the underground of the Forbidden City, he mutated due to anger, followed his instinct, and poured the mucus contaminated with his DNA into the mouth of the blond guard who tried to sneak up on him.It was an instinct, an instinct to expand one's own race, to infect and dirty things that originally belonged to the sequence.

At that time he listened to his instincts, thinking that people are such a disgusting and dirty thing, they are hypocritical, stupid and fanatic, and they really need to be purified.

But after seeing the scene in the seventh space, he began to doubt himself.

They ran to an alley a few streets away before stopping.Samuel glared at him reproachfully. "Are you fucking trying to get caught? Mind your own business?"

"It's nothing to me." Ethan lowered his head and said in a decadent voice, "Besides, isn't this exactly what you want? Otherwise, you wouldn't have been secretly in touch with the Earth Alliance.

Samuel seemed to have been punched by him, and he was stunned for a while before saying, "I have no intention of handing you over to them. I just want you...to bring you back..."

"What are you doing when you come back? Help you kill all the believers of the Benevolent Society? Or do you hate all of them, whether it is the Benevolent Society or the government, and want to destroy everything?" Ethan said, gently placing his hands on the On my left chest, where the emblem was originally drawn, "If that's what you want, that day may not be far away."

Without that emblem, his so-called "real" father might come looking for him soon.At that time, even as an adult, he might not be able to compete with an ancient "god" with a lifespan of hundreds of millions.

What's more, he didn't intend to resist.

Ethan's words left Samuel speechless.He did betray Ethan, and he couldn't refute what the other party said.

So he didn't say anything, pulled down the hood on his clothes, and hurried towards his home.They didn't dare to take a taxi, after all, cars are too ostentatious in the seventh space station.They had to walk across half the space station.

However, when they finally stood in the narrow stairwell before dark and pried open the door of Samuel's house with a thin wire, they found that Samuel's father was not at home.