Falling into the Abyss

The fifth space station, a rich and beautiful sky garden.Most of the people living here are middle-class or even upper-class gentlemen and ladies. Many important departments of the government were once located here, even including the residence of the President.But when the plague broke out, this area was the first to suffer. It was only because a few celebrities who were infected with the disease while traveling on the earth cleared up their relationship, escaped from the quarantine area, and brought the epidemic to this former paradise. .

The big president was the first to be transferred, followed by the major government officials.People are scrambling to abandon their homes, trying to escape to a safer space station.Those who had no time to escape were completely sealed inside and monitored by the military to prevent anyone from escaping.All ships that attempted to leave after the blockade were destroyed.

No reports, no photos, no one knows what has become in the fifth space station.Tens of thousands of people just evaporated without anyone knowing what happened to them.

In this critical moment, there are too many such things, and everyone can only hope that they are not the unlucky ghost trapped in the quarantine area.

Ethan's spacecraft slowly entered the field of the fifth space station without encountering any obstacles.Yet he knew he was being watched.

This is a spherical space station with a constantly rotating diamond-shaped central core in the middle. Many super-long passages protrude from the core, weaving a honeycomb-like architectural network on the outer layer.The light blue atmosphere surrounding the entire space station is still quietly rotating with the space station's autobiography. It seems that the life support system in the core that drives the entire space station has not been damaged.

Looking at the quiet blue, Ethan slowly exhaled from his chest.A faint sourness surged in his throat, nostalgia mixed with a bit of timidity tangled in his heart.

It's been too long since he's been home, his dream home, but he didn't expect it to be in such a situation when he came back.

He was suddenly a little scared.

He originally thought that the feeling of fear would die with his past self after he awakened, but now it seems that he still retains many people's emotions after all.

Being close to his hometown, he was afraid of what he was about to see.

And all of this was caused by himself.

His spaceship slowly sailed into the once extremely prosperous international spaceport he knew well, but at this moment, he was the only spaceship that crossed several routes and entered the empty terminal building.There are several spaceships covered with dust and some kind of sticky oil stains sleeping at the berth. There seems to be something wrong with the gravity system. Many sundries and repair tools are quietly suspended in the air, and they are brought out by Ethan's spaceship. cyclone disturbance.

The quiet light blue air made everything look very empty and quiet. Ethan stepped out of the spaceship, took a deep breath of the air of his hometown, and frowned.

Although it is the unique smell of the fifth space station, it is mixed with a strong damp and rotten smell, like the smell of some kind of sticky amphibian corpse rotting in a tree hole covered with moss and lichen, greasy and greasy of.

In the empty terminal building, all the stalls selling food and beverages were silently watching him. The huge fast food signs were still hanging openly, covered with thick dust, and there was a kind of sadness that he was familiar with. black greasy substance.There was still a dinner plate or two on the table, with drink glasses and disposable saucers covered in thick mold.He walked down the wide aisle strewn with snack packages and discarded scattered salutes, and the sight before him was familiar and strange.

I still remember that I used to work in the Energy Bureau, and when I needed to travel to other space stations, I used to board the ship here.He likes to eat fried noodles and drink milk tea at the Chinese restaurant on the left, and then slowly carry his suitcase to wait for boarding.But now the tables and chairs in that restaurant are messy, the kitchen is empty, and the plaster lion used for decoration at the entrance of the hall has also been broken into powder.

Leaving the spaceport, in front of you is a desolate doomsday scene.Many dual-purpose vehicles and aircrafts that have been here for an unknown amount of time are piled up in the middle of the road. The bodies of many vehicles are seriously deformed. It is obvious that they have collided with each other in the air and crashed.The middle of the road is a mess, covered with many parts and rubble from the barricades.The empty buildings on both sides were buried in the faint mist, looking desolate and desolate.

Ethan stayed in place for a moment, staring at everything in front of him in a daze, with vague impressions of the past here in his mind.But in just a few months, this place has turned into this.

He walked slowly along the oil-stained road, and found a complete aircraft along the way.The driver was still in the driver's seat, but the head and limbs seemed to have been torn off by something, and the belly part of the rotting torso had a large hole through which intestines flowed out.Ethan stretched out his hand and dragged the broken body out, and sat in by himself, not disliking the slime spreading on the seat.He found a physical spare key from the drawer in front of the co-pilot and inserted it into the groove next to the console. A series of buttons appeared on the screen immediately, and a steering wheel was also projected in front of him.

Fortunately, this aircraft has a lighting panel that relies on solar energy to charge, otherwise, even if the power has not leaked out after so many months, it will definitely not be able to start.

Driving the broken spaceship, he flew quickly and directly to the direction of home.Not the apartment he rents himself, but the beautiful cottage surrounded by wormwood where he grew up.He landed a few blocks away from his home, because the little electricity generated by the sun had also been exhausted.He was walking down the once upscale street leading to his home.Weeds sprawl out from the connected courtyards and wreak havoc on the originally straight and tidy roads.The road was criss-crossed with raised cracks, and more than half of the houses had collapsed. Both the plants and the ruins were covered with a layer of black ointment-like substance, with colorful oil paints flickering and changing in the light.The plants were withering and rotting, giving off a foul stench.A black substance like blisters also bulged on the metal or cement of the cast house, slightly distorted and deformed.

The courtyard of his house was also deserted like other courtyards. The daylilies had turned into a pool of mud, and only some traces of their former roots could be vaguely seen.The cobbled path was now barely visible, and rotting plant leaves covered everything like a carpet.For some reason, the concrete steps leading to the gate became very crisp, and when they stepped on it, they fell into a pile of gravel.There was a thick layer of rust on the doorknob that looked the color of blood.He held his hand on it, and the biting cold flowed deep into his bones.

Ethan slammed the door open and saw everything in the house.

He suddenly remembered that this was a nightmare he had entered when he was in the Forbidden City.

At that time, he didn't know that he was the culprit of all this, and he didn't know what he would become.

This is his home, which originally carried all the memories from his birth to where he could return no matter how painful things happened.

No more.

The wallpaper was rotting and peeling, and the tables and chairs were covered with mold.A putrid stench hurt his eyes.He walked into the room numbly, looking at the familiar but unrecognizable furnishings and rotten furniture quietly watching him.

He saw the cotton of the armchair his father used to sit in was rotten to black, he saw the robot models he made when he was a child scattered on the ground, and he saw a thick layer of pimples growing on the baking utensils that his mother had carefully maintained. rust.All his memories were rotting here, with those empty eyes that mocked his dead memories.

It was only at this time that he realized that when he accepted the terrible darkness in his body, he also gave up something at the same time.

"Making yourselves at home" came from outside the door with a hint of joking questioning, Ethan turned around abruptly, and saw Councilman Aguda who he had seen on the screen before.She was wearing a tightly wrapped protective suit, and her voice came from a loudspeaker on the jacket.Behind her, many heavily armed soldiers were pointing their guns at him.

Ethan asked, "Where's my father?"

Aguda curled the corner of his mouth coldly, and pushed back two steps.

Two soldiers pointed guns at a man whose neck and hands were shackled with steel chains.It was a male Alpha with gray hair, a sallow complexion, and a hunchback figure. His eyes were blood-colored and he was panting heavily. The skin on his arms was gradually turning black.Everything told him that this was a patient in the early stage of infection.

But those familiar facial features made Ethan feel like being struck by lightning.

His father, once tall, handsome and proud, stared at him with a pair of lifeless eyes.In those empty eyes, it was difficult to find the familiar and confident light.

Ethan's Adam's apple slid up and down, his mouth opened, but he couldn't speak.

"Your father has persisted here for a long time, and he was finally infected about a few days ago." Aguda said slowly, "If the serum cannot be developed as soon as possible, he will soon become an infected person like other infected people. monster."

Ethan wanted to go forward, but the two soldiers immediately put their guns against Adrian's head, and the infrared spots of several other sniper rifles also floated on Adrian's body at fatal points.Maybe his speed can kill those two soldiers with guns in an instant, but how to deal with those snipers who don't know where to hide?

Adrian's head was tilted slightly, but he didn't even struggle.Those eyes have been fixed on Ethan, without even blinking.

Ethan had no choice but to stop, his eyes felt dry and painful.He took a deep breath and said in as calm a voice as possible, "What do you want from me."

"We want you to inject this into your body yourself." Aguda said, throwing something to the ground.It made a crisp crash and rolled to Ethan's feet.

It is a familiar light blue injection.

The solution of the egg of the preface.

Ethan was stunned, he didn't expect Eve Star to present such a luxurious gift to the Earth Alliance.Do you know that after he can't complete the séance ceremony, he will be destroyed?

Is this what Nyarlathotep means?Or is there any other way for the Earth Alliance to obtain the Egg of the Order God?

"Why do you have this?" Ethan asked.

Aguda raised his head slightly arrogantly, "All of Eve's Prologue eggs were also found on the newborn planet. What they can do, our Earth Alliance can naturally do. It's just that we couldn't control these things before." , but after the Mars experiment, we know that you can do it, so in other words, any initial infected person can do it." She paused slightly, and continued, "Well, maybe they can only do it Half of you died because of the decomposition of the body, but they are hopeless anyway, we just help them get rid of it earlier."

Ethan's fists were tightly clenched, his joints turned white, "My father...you infected him! Didn't you!"

"If you don't do this, how can you cooperate? What's more, only when someone important to you is infected, you will realize how evil your actions are, and you will cooperate with us in researching serum. Don't worry, the sequence we gave you The God's Egg solution has been diluted, and judging from your previous performance, it should not kill you." Aguda said in a matter-of-fact tone, "Now, it's time for you to make a choice."

For MPs, this meeting is very risky.If Ethan decides to ignore Adrian's life, then all of them will have to die.Even if the military has time to detonate the nuclear bomb that has been buried inside the space station to kill the monster that looks like a human, it also loses the opportunity to use the source of infection to study serum.

Ethan looked at Adrian, who looked at him, opened his mouth suddenly, and said dully, "Go..."

Just one word, but it made Ethan's eyes wet.

With this word, he knew that his trip was not in vain.He slowly squatted down and grabbed the injection...