Falling into the Abyss

That was the last picture they saw.The next moment, all the screens and lights suddenly went out at the same time.

There are backup generators installed in the pioneering base, but at this moment they are not activated due to unknown reasons.Everyone suddenly fell into a darkness where they couldn't see their fingers, and they screamed out of surprise.Ethan's heart was beating like a drum, and he called "Gina" loudly, but the computer, along with all other electronic devices, fell silent and stopped responding.

The body was pushed and shoved, and lost its direction.What I saw just now is almost like some other weak-conscious non-humans losing their minds, and the panic-stricken non-humans are running around like headless chickens, and they don't know where they are going.At this time, Chen Zeng's steady voice suddenly broke through the barrier of screams, and he said calmly and loudly, "Don't panic! Stand against the wall!"

He repeated his instructions over and over again, and there was some kind of hypnotic power in the words, and the people who were running around like headless chickens finally caught a sliver of clarity.They clung to this only instruction, touched the nearest wall and stood still and stopped running around.After a while, Ethan heard everyone's heavy breathing and some uncontrollable crying in the air, but everything else was quiet.

Samuel cursed and rummaged for a lighter, and finally a small flame lit up in the darkness.But the fire was too weak, and there was no way to dispel the thick black velvet darkness.

Ethan felt the uncomfortable tinnitus getting louder and louder, so loud that he couldn't even hear those cries clearly, and the high-frequency sound waves made his skull hurt like it was about to crack.He wanted to grab something in panic, but the hand that was opening and closing in the air was suddenly grabbed by another hand.

He heard Tanithel's low voice flowing into his ears, "Come with me."

Stumbling on his feet, he was led by the other hand to run in the unknown darkness.The other inhuman voices gradually faded away, and there was no light at all, but the priest carefully avoided all obstacles as if he could see everything.The skin of Tanithel's hands is delicate and very warm, which reminds Ethan of the sunshine on the earth in early summer.He had only experienced that kind of sunshine when he traveled to the surface of the earth when he was a child, and he felt the comfort of being kissed gently by the sky.

At this moment, he unknowingly developed a similar dependence and trust in that hand, forgetting that not long ago he was still doubting the purpose of the priest's visit to the red earth this time.

Finally, they stopped.Ethan gasped and asked, "Where is this? What are we going to do?"

"Central control room." Tanisel let go of his hand, which made him feel inexplicably lost.Hearing the priest's footsteps, he walked a few steps away, as if he was fiddling with something, "Ethan, I need your help."

Every time Tanithel called him by his first name instead of his last name, it gave him a certain subtle feeling.Probably the priest's magical voice that could calm people down quickly affected him. Every time he heard the other party call his name, he suddenly thought that he could not refuse the other party's request.

"What are you trying to do? What's going on out there right now?"

"Her name in our Eve language is Shabnir, the goddess of reproduction among the gods of entropy. She feeds on life and gives birth to eternal chaos." Tanithel's melodious tone seemed to be chanting Reciting a poem, "She lives between the gaps in parallel time and space. This planet may just happen to be a gap in time and space that can accommodate a part of her body."

"A...part of the body?"

"Yes. Those things that wrap the entire sky outside are just a part of her. It probably includes one or several of her mouths, otherwise she can't eat." Tanithel still couldn't hear the fear in his tone , only deep amazement, "My luck is good."

"Good luck?!" Ethan raised his voice a lot, "Are you fucking kidding me? We're all going to die!"

Yes, they are all going to die.Ethan suddenly realized that this was the moment when the mother ship lost control of the non-humans before the entropy God mentioned by Tanithel, and they were in the most easily targeted man-made building - Base 18, and Lost the shelter of Gina and the protection system.

They are like a flock of sheep, trapped lambs waiting to be slaughtered.But Tanithel's voice was still so light, "We won't die."

As soon as the words were finished, a quiet blue light started to light up from a certain point, and quickly surged like a tide, illuminating the priest's very demonic face at the moment.The light came from the palm of his hand, and as he opened his hand, it could be vaguely seen as an oval object, "Because I want to catch her...at least a piece of her body tissue."

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The non-people staying in the lobby did not notice the departure of Tanisel and Ethan.At this time, the ten leading non-humans including Samuel had barely stabilized the crowd that was almost out of control. Everyone found the lighters used to start the fire from their backpacks. The open darkness illuminates pairs of eyes wet with tears of fear.

At this moment, there was a violent knocking sound not far away, as if someone was kicking hard at the metal door at the entrance.The timid Betas huddled together and shivered, almost crying again.Samuel yelled irritably, "Don't fucking cry! That's the rescue sent by the mother ship!" After speaking, he ran to the door to open the door for those unlucky people who encountered that thing just after landing.

But Derek suddenly blocked his way, his big eyes were very dark at the moment, "We don't need to open the door for them."

Samuel stared at him inexplicably, "What do you mean?"

"Now all the electronic devices are out of order, including this one." He reached out and touched the collar around his neck, "We don't have to be controlled by them anymore."

The young, supposedly innocent eyes were filled with deep malice, and he even smiled, showing a childish canine tooth, "Letting them in will only slow you down, it's better to keep them outside and attract that thing attention, maybe we have a chance to snatch their spaceship."

Grab the spaceship, then fly away, and never return to that ghost place in the Forbidden City.Samuel was taken aback, he hadn't thought about this possibility at all...

It's only been three years, but has he been gradually smoothed out?

He raised his eyes and looked at the other eight people. None of them, including Otto, seemed to raise any objections to Derek's words. It seemed that they had already discussed it.

Samuel frowned, when did they start discussing things behind his back?

At this time, the knocking sound outside the door became more and more urgent. It was conceivable that the survivors outside must be shouting hysterically at this moment, but the shouting was blocked by the thick gate and could not be heard inside the building.But just listening to the rain-like crashing sound, one can also know how frightened and desperate they are.

"Haven't you ever thought that maybe with their help we have a better chance of surviving?" Samuel didn't intend to give in, "Do you really think that the thing will stop after eating a few people outside?"

Jiawen also stood up, and confronted Samuel with anger in his eyes, "Don't forget that they have weapons in their hands. If we let them in, we may be the ones who will be released as bait!"

"There are only a dozen of them, and now I don't know how many are left, but we have fifty people. What are you afraid of!" Samuel knew that he lacked confidence, and even he himself felt that such an excuse was lame...

But... what if that person is still alive...

In the dim light of the fire, Jiawen walked towards him step by step, and stopped very close to him, his menacing and provocative eyes met Samuel's wolf-like gloomy eyes, both of them spread their shoulders, and their own The muscles are stretched, showing an angry posture ready to attack, like two male lions hovering and facing each other.

"I heard that you have a good relationship with the chief of the guard?" Jiawen's voice was hoarse, as if it came from deep in his throat, "Did you give him some favors, or did he give you some favors?"

Samuel squinted his eyes, the muscles on both sides of his nose lifted slightly, and the anger radiated from his body unabashedly.Among non-human beings, especially among respectable leaders like them, the most taboo behavior is to curry favor with the guards, it will be considered a despicable and shameless betrayal.By saying this, Jiawen was directly challenging his authority, calling him a traitor, a coward, and a nasty "rat".Samuel was about to throw his fist at him, but Chen Zeng stood up in time and said, "I think what Samuel said makes sense. Now that the defense system of the base is gone, if they bomb the gate with weapons, they can come in. If we If you take the initiative to open the door, you will seize the opportunity."

The leader of the cult, Chen Zeng, now has a high prestige among those timid non-human beings. As soon as he finished speaking, many non-human beings agreed with him.Samuel didn't care whether Jiawen agreed or not, and strode towards the door, while Jiawen clenched his fists and glared at Chen Zeng, "There must be something wrong with him! If you trust him so much, you will regret it sooner or later!"

But Chen Zeng just shook his head and said something to Otto in a low voice.

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Ethan thought he must be crazy.

At this moment, he was entering his identity verification code and encryption key into the main computer in the central control room, and connected them to the three wireless signal transmitters around Base 18.The computer, which should have been out of power, still shoots a cluster of blue light from the projection hole at this moment, with densely packed characters on it, things that only Ethan can understand.And the source of this energy is actually something in Tanisel's hand.

While operating the human computer with astonishing proficiency, Tanithel explained succinctly that it was something he smuggled out of their temple, and it was a newly born planet from some remote star field for thousands of years. The collected treasures have the ability to convert elements and isotopes that cannot be understood at the current level of interstellar technology. If used properly, they can be used to obtain a steady stream of energy, and can even be used to extend the space of the star surrounded by the Eve galaxy. The lifespan of a red giant star - Savarga.It's a pity that Evestar's technological level has not yet fully developed its capabilities.The priests called them the eggs of the preface gods.

Ethan didn't think it was really the egg of the so-called "Xu Shen". If you ignored the somewhat mysterious blue light, it would look like a quail egg.I don't know if it's some sophisticated computer and artificial intelligence program, or some dangerous radioactive substance... But it really gave the main computer a little bit of power under the current weird situation where even the generator stopped working. A little energy.This is not much energy, because Tanithel doesn't want Gina to wake up, and he doesn't want the mother ship to see what they are doing.

Tanithel was really fascinated by the god of entropy to the point of horror, he even said that this little egg can catch the thing that blocks the sky outside.

But why would I agree to help him...

The key input is complete. Although the status of the transmitter says it is seriously damaged, Taniser insists that it doesn't matter.He watched as the priest connected the egg carefully to the oscillator, quickly and skillfully performed a series of modulations, and then activated the signal transmitter.Ethan looked at the strings of rapidly and automatically generated characters on the computer, showing the progress of the message transmission.He didn't know what Fatanisel was launching, was it the thing in that egg?

At this time, there was a noise in the distance, which seemed to come from the lobby.Tanithel was unmoved and focused on the egg.Ethan couldn't ignore it, he looked at the darkness outside the central control room, and quickly found a few flashlights from the drawer.He shook it vigorously for a long time until his hands were sore, but the flashlight only gave off a little lingering light.Seems like since that thing came along, everything to do with electricity has gone out of order.It is not a physical failure, but the two substances themselves, electricity and light, have been greatly weakened.

But why only that egg can continue to operate, and even drive three huge wireless transmitters?

Ethan held the flashlight that was about to go out at any time, and kept shaking it as he walked briskly.Darkness was approaching from all directions, constantly squeezing the small circle of light around him.This section of the road was very tortuous, and he couldn't understand how Tanisel took him so far in the dark.

His footsteps suddenly paused, and the light from the flashlight shone on a wall at the top of the corridor.

There was a large black spot there, as if mold had grown on it.

Is it damp?Although the material used to build the corridor is not suitable for mold growth, it should not be impossible, right?But... why does he feel that the black spot is expanding a little bit?

Maybe it was the illusion caused by the flickering of the flashlight?

There was also the tinnitus, which still continued at this moment.He had a strong sense of depression, as if he was about to be crushed by something.

The light of the flashlight flickered, and he shook it violently a few times, finally stabilizing the light.He suddenly felt a chill on the back of his neck, and suddenly shone the beam of the flashlight on the forked road on the right.The thin beam of light revealed a vague human figure at the end of the fork.

A chill suddenly hit his spine.He immediately blinked his eyes and looked over harder, but the end of the corridor was empty again.

Another burst of noise mixed with roars sounded, Ethan didn't have time to look, and continued to rush in the direction of the lobby.

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The homework load of this new major is really not a joke. I do it at two or three o'clock in the night every day. Hey, I stay up all night and stay up all day long.