Falling into the Abyss

Ethan and Samuel had just run a few steps towards the lobby when they heard several gunshots.They trembled and quickened their pace.However, the ground under their feet became sticky for some reason, as if it was melting.They could hear the tearing and tearing of the soles of their shoes as they were forcibly pulled away from the ground with every step they took.Ethan noticed that there were large and large black spots on the wall swept by the electric light, as if it was rotting a little bit, and it seemed that the ink was smudged a little bit through the paper.

The base is being infected, they are already surrounded, Ethan thought so, a burst of despair suddenly swept over for no reason.

He was not a pessimistic person, but the annoying tinnitus kept stimulating a tight nerve in his mind.The dark surroundings, incomprehensible creatures and environments, and inexplicable phantoms that flashed into his mind from time to time, all were pulling him into madness.

He seemed to hear a speechless voice telling him in the gap between the tinnitus: Give up, give up, surrender, accept, merge...

Merge, merge with eternal chaos, merge with everyone and all creatures of the universe, never feel alone, never be afraid, never be sad...

It's like returning to the state before birth...

Ethan suddenly realized that he had stopped.

He didn't even know when he stopped.He stood in the darkness, holding a completely extinguished flashlight in his hand.

"Samuel?" He called tentatively, but his voice seemed to be absorbed by the darkness, it didn't spread far, and he didn't receive an echo.

Intuition told him that he was no longer following Samuel.

Where is Samuel?Where is he himself?

Is he alone?

He frantically shook the flashlight with trembling hands. In the darkness, except for the friction of the gears of the flashlight, all he could hear was his rapid and irregular breathing.The faint light was like a life-saving straw, he never knew that he would be overjoyed by this little bit of brightness.His wrist was sore, but he didn't dare to stop until the light was finally strong enough to illuminate a distance of three or two steps in front of him.

He stood at a crossroads, with corridors stretching silently on all sides.He didn't know this place, and he didn't remember passing it from the medical warehouse to the lobby.

Did it go wrong?When did you get separated from Samuel?Why can't I remember it at all?

Questions popped up and burst in his mind like bubbles. He couldn't concentrate on thinking. Anxiety and panic made his palms break out in cold sweat. He could hardly hold the flashlight. It's as if you can figure out your situation by looking around.

There are still many places in the main building of the base that he has not been to, especially the corridors connected to other cultivation sheds or buildings in the residential area are very complicated, and it is really easy to get lost without lighting.He told himself over and over again to calm down and not to panic, not realizing that he was muttering out the thoughts in his head.The four forks all looked exactly the same, with no sense of direction at all.Ethan swallowed his dry throat, and chose the fork on his left.

The sticky feeling under the feet is still there, and the air seems to be getting more humid.He saw that the black mold spots at the joints between the ceiling and the wall were getting denser and denser, and traces of water stains were still spreading downward.The doors of each room are tightly closed. When they first arrived, the doors that were dusty but still in good condition now seemed to be remnants from ancient times, with dark red and dark green rust on the edges. Ethan tried I pulled a few of the doors without combination locks, and found that they couldn't be pulled at all, as if they had been rusted to death.

The surroundings were eerily quiet, as if he was the only one left in the entire base.

"Samuel!!! Otto!!!" Ethan shouted all the names he remembered in vain, choosing among the forked roads that kept appearing.The corridors are literally endless, and they all look the same.He felt as if he had fallen into a vortex of decaying corridors, from which he could not climb out.

Then he walked into a dead end.

At the end of the cul-de-sac there is a gate that is different from all the others.It is a double-opening mahogany door with classic carvings and brass handles on it. It is calm and clean, as if it was still in use not long ago.

Ethan felt that this door was very familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.It's just that the door gave him an extremely evil feeling, as if there was a pair of empty eyes behind the door, peeping at him through the crack without blinking.He took a few steps back, and when he turned around, he froze.

A human-shaped black figure was standing motionless at the entrance of this dead end, looking at him with its head tilted.

Ethan's whole body was cold, and his heart jumped into his throat.

"Who?"

The other party didn't answer, but still tilted his head and looked at him motionless.

Ethan looked around in panic, instinctively wanting to ask for help.But now, deep in this maze of dark corridors, he was alone.

The other party still tilted his head, looking at him motionless.

"Who the hell are you! I have a gun in my hand!" Ethan didn't know that his voice was trembling, without any deterrent force.He put one hand into his pocket on purpose, trying to scare him.

Suddenly, the man moved.

To be precise, it wasn't the man who moved, but the surface of his body suddenly moved.In the meager light of the flashlight, the black image suddenly became frizzy, and countless tiny hair-like things quickly grew out of its surface, dancing in the air like the strange insects I had seen before, and like coral polyps in the sea .The human figure quickly turned into a human-shaped hairball, but still tilted its head, looking at Ethan curiously.Although Ethan couldn't see his eyes, he just knew that he, or it, was looking at him.

Ethan suddenly understood that the God of Entropy had found him.He was caught in its snare and was about to be eaten.

He started to back away, but when he moved, the thing moved suddenly.It came running towards him!

Ethan also turned around and ran away, running at a speed he had never achieved in his life, and rushed to the mahogany gate in a few seconds.He slammed into it with his whole body, but the expected impact did not appear, the door was easily knocked open by him, and he fell in.

Behind the door turned out to be bright, warm and comfortable, with a little orange sunlight sprinkled on his skin, a long-lost kindness.

"Hahahahaha..." A series of low-pitched laughter stopped in Ethan's ears, but it made him feel like a thunderbolt.He raised his head and saw the man in a simple white shirt, barefoot, sitting on the wide window sill of the bay window reading a book.His eyes were the dark blue of the sky before dawn, his thick eyebrows slanted up, and the short beard on his chin gave him a rough but charming touch.

Ethan was dumbfounded, just laying on the ground, maintaining a embarrassed posture, staring at the other party in a daze.

"Why don't you get up? You like the floor of my house so much?" Roland's voice was mellow, and the low tone made him feel like flirting when he said something casually.Ethan has never been able to refuse him.

Ethan stood up slowly and smiled too.His laugh was a little forced, a little dry.

"I know, I'm probably dreaming." He raised his dark green eyes, his expression was a bit hollow, "It's so fucking far, why do I still see you? You son of a bitch!"

If he had known that it was him behind the door, he might as well have stayed outside and let himself be swallowed by that black shadow.

Roland closed the book and stepped on the wooden floor with his bare feet.He has always liked those nostalgic and fragile things, such as wooden floors, paper books, and old wine.He was wearing a loose white shirt and casual trousers, his hair was a little messy, and he had an unruly smile on his face, still looking so beautiful.

It was such a beautiful demon who pushed him into the Forbidden City with his own hands and ruined his life.

"I know you hate me, and I know you're having a bad time." Roland's steps were calm and graceful, unhurried, and his eyes were firmly locked on Ethan's. "So, I'm here to pick you up."

Ethan laughed nervously, "Pick me up? Pick me up to the Third Reich or the Ophiuchus Alliance? What an idiot do you think I am to believe you? Why are you here? Am I already dead? ?”

"No, you are not dead. If you are willing to come with me, you don't have to be afraid that you will die in the future." Roland stopped two steps in front of him, and his warm palm gently ran down his cheek It slid down, but it didn't touch his skin, only through a little bit of air, the warmth had already spread to Ethan's skin.Roland raised his brows slightly, and his deep eyes were full of apology and distress, "You don't belong to a place like the Forbidden City at all. You are such a gentle person, you have been silently taking care of your family and friends, and you acted responsibly. Beta. You're tired, no one understands how tired you are. But I know, I've always known."

Roland's words were like a spell, floating in the golden sunlight, "I know how boring and lonely your life is, and I also know that what you fear most is loneliness. Come and go with me, leave behind the forbidden city and death behind us, we will Never part again, you and me, and everything, we are one, never part."

The smell on Roland's body was faintly musky. His broad and strong arms beyond the average Alpha hugged him so tightly, and his full and sexy lips once kissed him so affectionately.Obviously, he has decided to hate him to the bone, but compared with the rot and death he just experienced, Ethan is confused.

Yes, what is there to miss?Even if they were lucky enough to survive from the darkness that covered the sky and the sun outside, they would have to face the boundless life in the Forbidden City when they returned.They say that the Forbidden City is like a black hole, and those who enter it cannot get out again.

Roland stretched out his hand to him. The hand had thick bones, but it was solid and warm.Compared with everything behind it, it is really beautiful.

Together forever, no fear, no death, no betrayal, no forbidden city.

Even if it was a dream, it would be nice if he could die in such a dream.

Just as Ethan's hand on the side moved slightly, trying to lift it up, his body was suddenly hugged tightly by another body.Those arms were also strong and warm, tightly encircling his body, and at the same time, a light and agile aura that did not belong to Roland also enveloped him, faintly exuding the holy smell of the setting sun and blue sea.

"Ethan! Be sober!" With a languid familiar voice in the clear, Priest Tanithel still wrapped his body around his body with one hand, and raised his other gloved hand, on which there was a small piece of faint blue Something irregular in shape that looks like a small piece of eggshell.

In an instant, "Roland" on the opposite side suddenly opened his mouth wide, his jaw opened to an impossible length, and his entire face became elongated and deformed.A blood-freezing scream came out from the black hole's mouth.In an instant, all sunlight was suddenly extinguished, darkness surrounded from all directions again, and everything was rapidly rotting. The body of "Roland" also quickly turned black and shriveled as if it had grown mold, and finally dissipated like smoke and dust.

Ethan gasped for breath, blinking blankly.In front of him was still a corridor, the difference was that he was still held tightly by the priest.He seemed to have just realized what happened, and tightly grasped the priest's arm around his waist, "That's...that's..."

Tanithel sighed softly in his ear, "You have been influenced by the power of Entropy God, she is calling you, using your own memory and complex, let you be absorbed by her voluntarily and become a part of her. Now Her power is gradually infiltrating this base. What you saw just now is the illusion created by the interaction of her infiltrated energy and your brain waves, and then the illusion is materialized in her limb cells. Once you touch it, what you just saw What you get will be infected by her."