Falling into the Abyss

On the Apocalypse, Ethan didn't expect to meet Taifeng.

He hardly needs to sleep now, and when the people in the spaceship go to sleep, he will wander alone in the light and shadow corridor, sniffing the unique smell that permeates the air and emanates from every human being.

Humans don't know that when they have different emotions, their tastes are also different.But in this spacecraft, it seems that the smell of people is contagious, and the difference between each person is much smaller than that of the previous seventh space station.It was a unique mix of intensity, dependence, a sense of power, intense happiness and hatred, and the helplessness and fear that dominated all of the above under cover.This is probably the taste of the so-called human faith, right?

If the worship of Entropy God by the Eve people in Western Neil is the real crazy belief, the belief here is the drug used to paralyze oneself in the face of unknown fear and despair.

But the smell of this airtight belief is not static either.Occasionally he smells suspicious, too.That's how he found Tae-fung.

Probably the most important place in the Apocalypse is the chapel in the middle of the spacecraft.There is a crucifix under the big Benefactor's cross at the front, but behind the crucifix stands a black octopus-like figure, which is probably the image of the great evil god in their imagination.Looking at the tentacles and the human-like body in the center, Ethan had to suspect that it was an image based on him.

There are no chairs in the chapel, and everyone kneels on a square cushion to worship.There were usually no people in the chapel at that time, but Ethan smelled a familiar smell inside.

Omega's unique scent.

At that time, Taifeng stood motionless in front of the statue, as if in a daze.Ethan walked slowly behind him.

"I didn't expect that you also joined the Benefactor's Association." Ethan's voice was a little cold.

Taifeng turned around slowly, with a calm expression on his beautiful face, as if he had expected to see him long ago, "Nowadays, anyone who wants to survive can only join them, and I just want to survive."

"What about the rest of the Forbidden City?"

Taifeng lowered his eyes, "Since you had an accident underground, the plague first broke out in the Forbidden City. The government decided to isolate the Forbidden City, and Vasiliev began massacring people who might be infected in the city. Everyone was afraid that they would be infected, Even people with a simple cold will be reported. Only the Benefactors received preferential treatment and were given a period of observation period. So most of the people converted to the Benefactors. Later, the plague spread throughout the earth, and the earth In order to control the epidemic, the Alliance has put the entire planet into a quarantine area, and almost no one is in charge of the Forbidden City. Now it is already the headquarters of the Benefactor Association."

"All the guards are gone?"

"No, there are still many guards stationed in the Forbidden City, but most of them are believers of the Benefactor Church, and even Vasiliev is with Chen Zeng."

Recalling the chaotic and dirty place in the Forbidden City, Ethan had mixed feelings in his heart.He paced to the altar, and casually picked up the silver wine cup enshrined on it, which was filled with blood-like red wine.He shook the liquor and asked, "Did you betray Samuel and the chief of the guard because you were tortured to extract a confession?"

A bit of sadness and shame finally appeared on Taifeng's face.He lowered his head, "Vasilev had already obtained the DNA of the chief of the guard, even if I didn't tell him, he would be finished... They said that as long as I was willing to testify, they could give me fifty points of moral value..."

fifty points……

Even if it is a mission with no return like the red earth, it is only ten minutes.

Ethan laughed softly, and the laughter was a bit sad, "Fifty points, so the friendship between us helping each other is worth so much."

Taifeng murmured "I just want to live, I can't stay in the Forbidden City anymore", I don't know whether to say it to Ethan or to myself.Ethan raised his head and drank the red wine, and the red color flowed down the corner of his mouth, as if he was drinking blood.He drank the whole glass in one go, threw the silver wine glass on the ground, turned around and stared at Tai Feng, "You know I'm on the boat, why don't you hide? Do you think I'll miss your old love and forget your betrayal?"

Taifeng looked at him not without fear, but more tiredness.He looked older and thinner than before, and he could no longer see the proud light in his eyes when he was in the Energy Bureau.

He said, "I'm not that naive. I also heard what you did, and I know that you are not the same now as you were before. I just want to say to you... to say sorry to you."

Ethan stared at him with an unwavering gaze.

If it hadn't been for him to inform, the identities of Schneider and Samuel would not have been exposed, they would not have been arrested, they would not have been arrested and lynched by their benefactors, and they would not have become like that, and there would have been no plague. There will be no everything that happened on Eve, no adulthood, no loss of Tanithel, no infection of the father, no shooting...

But on the other hand, if Vasiliev really had Schneider's DNA long ago, then his whistleblowing would be just icing on the cake, and whether he had it or not would not change the outcome.

But even so, such a betrayal cannot be forgiven.

A huge black shadow rose up behind Ethan, and the powerful tentacles wrapped around Taifeng's waist. Omega's heart beat so fast, his body trembled in the fear of dying, but he didn't struggle.

"I'm sorry..." he whispered, slowly closing his eyes, "I'm tired of running away... If I had known that I would never be able to leave the Forbidden City, I wouldn't have done it... I would pay for my life..."

"Loyalty without choice is not loyalty at all." Ethan looked at him with pity, "Give you another chance, and you will still betray us."

After finishing speaking, another weird tube-like tentacle protruded from behind him, and slammed into Taifeng's mouth forcefully. Omega's body twitched uncontrollably in his confinement, and the viscous black liquid was poured into the opponent's slender throat.

He heard the sound of Tai Feng being choked, and saw the fear gradually rising in the other party's eyes.

He doesn't intend to kill Tae Fung.

Since that Omega wants to live so much, he will fulfill him.

One minute later, he finally let go of Taifeng, who immediately fell to the ground like a puddle of mud, clutching his throat and retching on the ground.But nothing came out.

"You probably won't see any changes in the first few days, and it won't be very pleasant for a while later." Ethan looked down at him and said, "You will leave the Forbidden City, and in the future, you will never be able to betray me again." Then and left the chapel, passing the poor man, trembling like a leaf in the wind.

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Three days later, they were close to the earth.

Obviously, this Apocalypse has a strong stealth system, and it has not been discovered by several monitoring satellites scattered in the solar system, thus attracting pursuers.

In the distance, the still beautiful but no longer rich blue planet is still tirelessly rotating in its own orbit.Looking at the cradle of civilization in the universe through the thick nano-glass, Ethan felt a faint feeling of unbearability.

If the director is really found, if the director is really Nyarlathotep, if he really accepts the fate he arranged for him.

None of this will exist anymore.

Earth, space station, Eve star, galaxy...

This place will become as dangerous and barren as the second universe, with few and far away stars, and only endless darkness filling the universe.

But what did it matter, he didn't care.Is existence necessarily better than non-existence?

"Eldridge." Chen Zeng walked to him slowly, with a polite smile on his face, "Good news, the person you are looking for has been found."

Ethan rolled his eyes and asked him with his eyes.

"Abel Ross. He was implicated in your affairs before, and his position was frozen, but it seems that he still participated in some important decisions of the Energy Bureau. After you disappeared from the Forbidden City, he also disappeared. Some people said that he was assassinated by the Earth Alliance .But he was seen just a few days ago outside the Quarantine Zone of Space Station Ten, in a ship that seemed to be trying to enter a zone infected by the Second Law of the Universe."

The tenth space station...

Ethan still remembers watching the space distort in front of him, watching the terrifying sight of people disintegrating into a puddle of flesh and blood in front of him.

"Then where is he now?"

"No one has seen him since Station Ten."

Ethan looked at him with serious eyes, "You call this found?"

"People who entered the isolation area of ​​the tenth space station have never been able to come out." Chen Zeng said.

Ethan laughed, "The problem is, he's not human."

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When the spaceship landed, no one knew that the infection had begun to spread quietly among believers.

What Ethan injected into Taifeng didn't mutate people as quickly as what he injected into the blond guard before. On the contrary, this time the infection was more patient and more pervasive.When he coughed, those parasitic spores would float in the air along with his breath, silently drilling into the body of every believer nearby.

Ethan didn't know what this kind of thing would bring.He was just relying on an almost primitive instinct to release the rapidly generated things in his body and pour them into Tai Feng's mouth.

He hoped that the spores would turn more people into his kind, and make those who called him a monster his kind.

The spaceship landed in the desert near the Forbidden City, and the black outline of the sinful city could be seen from afar.There was a faint rancid smell in the air. It used to be a disgusting smell, but now it smelled kind.It's as if he belongs to this taste in the first place.

The gates of the Forbidden City opened wide, as if welcoming the returning warriors in triumph.Many former non-humans gathered under the once heavily guarded city walls.They stared at the people who came back with their eyes wide open in fear or emptiness, and the air above the entire city was terribly silent.

The atmosphere in the Forbidden City changed.Obviously there is no more garrison guards from the Earth Alliance, but a certain depressive atmosphere is becoming more and more dignified.Ethan saw many faces on both sides that he had seen before. Those people were originally noisy hooligans who grew up on the street, but now they are also respectfully standing on both sides of the road, with a humble and cautious expression.

But obviously, the fear of Ethan cannot be concealed.They didn't dare to look up at him, and even shrugged their shoulders, as if they wanted to back away.

This feeling of being feared and respected by others is unexpectedly good.

No wonder people always want to step on other people to climb to the top of power.No wonder even a kind-hearted person would become a tyrant once he got this power of life and death.

Ethan looked around at the people around him, and suddenly said to Chen Zeng, "Where's Vasiliev?"

Chen Zeng seemed a little surprised that he would ask Huimao, "You want to find him?"

"Well. I want you to tie him up and bring him in front of me. Also, right here, set up a gallows for me." Ethan said with a dark and evil sneer, "Didn't you say that I Is it the messenger who brought the Doomsday? Then I will not be polite."