Falling into the Abyss

A month ago, Ethan was still wearing a well-tailored gray suit, his hair neatly fixed with hair gel, and a decorative mechanical watch on his wrist. He strode past the tall and magnificent Finance Council Building behind the Secretary of Energy corridor.His life is busy and orderly. He goes to work at the Secretary’s Office of the Energy Bureau at [-] o’clock every day, and leaves work on time at [-] o’clock in the afternoon. He drives a car and flies through the steel forest-like city of the space station, goes to his favorite Italian restaurant for dinner, and exercises after returning home. One hour, on Friday night, I go to the bar or club with my colleagues for a few drinks.Day after day, everything went according to plan except for some trivial troubles.

On that ordinary Wednesday, when he received distinguished guests from the Third Reich as the representative of the director general, he would not have imagined that when the charming man with a pair of beautiful blue eyes smiled at him in the sun, he would weave a The snare that made him fall.

Roland, an ore researcher, is a male Alpha with deep facial features and a thin layer of stubble on his chin. He has an unruly smile.Ethan, who yearns for some exciting waves in his ordinary life, can't parry the opponent's offensive at all.

Ethan originally thought that this time he had found his destined man, and he was ready to love that man with all his strength, but in the end when all the lies were exposed in the cold moral court, all the feelings he had given turned into sharp knives, and he was inserted back into his heart. In his own heart.

He opened his eyes with the harsh siren, and saw the filthy ceiling.Five o'clock in the morning is the time for all non-human beings in the Forbidden City to wake up, and this sharp sound that pierces the eardrum will echo across the entire Forbidden City.Ethan couldn't remember where he was in a trance, his brain was buzzing and aching.

"Get up, secretary, or I won't be in time for dinner."

The sudden unfamiliar voice made Ethan wake up immediately, and sat up suddenly from the bed.With trembling hands, he touched the glasses on the low cabinet and put them on. Seeing Samuel holding a toothbrush cup, he put a towel on his shoulder and opened the door to go out.The corridor was full of voices, scolding and footsteps.Ethan had the urge to lie back and continue to sleep, because maybe when he woke up again, it would no longer be the nightmare in front of him.

Thinking of everything he had lost, and thinking that he would spend the rest of his life here, Ethan suddenly wondered if he still had to live with the slim hope of saving up [-]%.

There is only one bathroom on a floor, but it has to provide convenience for about a hundred people to wash in the morning, and only a dozen people can enter at a time, so it is naturally blocked.Everyone was groaning and queuing up in the narrow corridor. As far as the eye could see, they were all men, ranging in age from just grown-ups to over a hundred years old.There was a muddy smell of sweat in the air. Ethan lowered his head and blended in the crowd without being conspicuous for a while. He looked up and looked around, but he didn't see Samuel.

The walls of the simple bathroom are full of black mold and yellow water stains. All the non-humans flock into the bathroom like sheep, and wash quickly in a long row of sinks. They have to be tidied up within 1 minute, even if they are in a queen size It can't be more than 3 minutes, so that the seat can be given to the next person, otherwise the people in the queue behind will start cursing.It used to take fifteen to twenty-ten minutes for Ethan to straighten his appearance, but now someone started cursing after halfway through brushing his teeth.He hurriedly rinsed off the toothpaste foam in his mouth, and was pushed out of the bathroom again.

At 05:30, all non-humans have to go to the nearest cafeteria to collect their morning and noon rations, and there will be nothing left after that.The whole gloomy city suddenly woke up at this point, leaving the small building where he lived, he saw a long queue lined up on the narrow and dirty street, all non-human beings were leaving the place of residence, marching in a certain direction, the queue was orderly orderly.Sleeping robot policemen are parked everywhere on the streets. They look harmless and even clumsy, but they are actually equipped with high-energy laser weapons that can vaporize the human body in a few seconds. The camera with red light is under surveillance.Because of these killing machines, these dangerous elements judged by human society have to abide by the rules, wear uniform clothes, and walk slowly forward in the team, just like rows of worker ants.

From morning to now, Ethan has been in a state of daze, not knowing what to do next, just blindly doing what everyone else is doing.This feeling made him very at a loss, and the tip of his nose was sweating from tension.He carefully looked around, and found that men and women were no longer separated outside, and Alpha, Beta, and Omega were hard to tell at a glance.But when you look carefully, you can often find a thin and thin Omega behind some tall and strong Alphas, and these Omegas, regardless of gender, have obvious bloody bite marks on the Omega glands in the neck, and some are even bleeding. Marked by Alpha ahead.Ethan thought of Samuel's tall back, the invisible Omega glands on his neck were clean.Once his identity is leaked, he might become the target of countless Alphas... It's hard to imagine how Samuel survived in such an environment.

Probably out of Beta's nature of wanting to protect Omega, he had some kind of deep sympathy for Samuel.

But after thinking about it, now that I can't protect myself, I still have the leisure to sympathize with others...

The cafeteria is a single-storey gray building laid flat on the ground, and countless teams converge into this tombstone-like cuboid from all directions.The lobby was lined with long oil-stained tables, exuding a foul smell of food residue.Everyone lined up to receive food at the front row of food distribution stations.Breakfast is a piece of compressed nutritious bread with condensed milk. The bread is as hard as a rock, and the milk has a rancid smell, but the nutrition and calories are enough to last for half a day.Lunch is a canned soup, which is also compressed food.Ethan turned around with his food, and saw that non-people had automatically divided into groups, sitting in twos and threes to eat.Obviously, most non-humans have their own circles, and even those who are too old to walk have their "elderly people's club", gathering at a long table far away.

He was overwhelmed and wanted to find Samuel.But in the vast sea of ​​people, there is no trace of that Omega, so I had to find an empty table and sit down. I tore off the bread package and took a bite, but I couldn’t eat it anymore. The smell of foam.A month ago, he ate fresh beef and vegetables, drank wine made from real grapes, and sometimes even worried because he didn't know what to eat.But from now on, these are the only things he can eat three meals a day.

While complaining about himself, suddenly the broadcast in the cafeteria rang like a bell, and a cold female voice said, "All the non-humans numbered 250, 251, and 252, gather at the gate of District 10 within [-] minutes."

Ethan glanced at the number printed on the left chest of his clothes, 252.

After hearing the notice, many people stood up and walked towards the cafeteria exit, presumably it was the three mentioned numbers.He saw a female Beta was being dragged out by another female Beta while crying, yelling "I don't want to die!"

Another girl reassured loudly, "It will be fine! Be good! Otherwise we will all die!"

"I don't want to! I don't want to die! Help!"

The girl's shrill cry lowered the temperature in the entire cafeteria by a few degrees, and the people whose numbers were not read seemed to be used to it, and continued to eat their breakfast.

Ethan felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up, and the piece of bread he swallowed just now seemed to be stuck in the middle of his esophagus, making it difficult for him to breathe.He tried to stand up, but couldn't move.

What exactly do these numbers mean?

At this moment, his arm hurt and was pulled up violently by a strong force.Turning around, he saw Samuel's icy face.

"What... what's wrong?" Ethan asked in a panic.

Samuel pushed him towards the exit, with a heavy expression on his face, "I don't know if you are lucky or unlucky, anyway, the chance of redemption has come."

"Atonement? You mean those dangerous missions performed by non-humans?"

"Otherwise, do you think that the government is so kind and raises human garbage like us for nothing?" Samuel sneered, his tone full of sarcasm, "As long as you can survive, you will be closer to the day you go out If you can’t survive, at least you won’t have to eat the shitty food here.”

Ethan's nose was sweating, his thoughts were messed up, "But... But I haven't received any training at all? What kind of mission is it? I haven't even taken a gun!"

"How the hell do I know. Stop talking nonsense, those who refuse to report will be neutralized by those killing machines."

Ethan followed the other ninety or so people out of the cafeteria. There were several armed guards waiting for them outside. After quickly counting the number of people, he stuffed everyone into several military trucks.In the darkness, Ethan huddled together with the stranger whose face could not be seen clearly, swaying with the bumps of the road.There were suppressed sobs, low curses, and whispered conversations floating in the oppressive air, but more of it was silence.

Ethan is still in a daze.When he was in the Energy Bureau, he also heard people talk about the atonement mission in the Forbidden City. It is said that it is some extremely dangerous jobs, including mining some extremely radioactive mineral deposits, investigating volcanic activities, going to remote planets to build bases, and serving as vaccines or medicines. Experimental subjects, or perform death-defying missions.According to the degree of difficulty of the task, the moral value of different scores is rewarded. The more dangerous the moral value is, the higher the moral value is. The problem is that the probability of death is also higher.There are rumors that no one in the Forbidden City can accumulate [-] points and survive.After he got the result of the trial, he kept thinking that in order to get out alive, he should try his best to take a job that is not so dangerous. After accumulating bit by bit, he will definitely be able to get out in the end.

But he forgot that maybe as a non-human he couldn't choose at all.

Five minutes later, the car stopped and got out of the dark compartment. In front of it was a tall steel wall, which was used to divide different areas in the Forbidden City.There was a piercing hiss from the huge loudspeaker on the gate, and then the same mechanical female voice as in the cafeteria said: "Atonement mission code name: Qingfeng, score: 5."

Hearing the score part, the crowd was in an uproar.Samuel whistled beside him, "It looks like it's going to be a hard job."

Ethan asked in a low voice, "Is 10 high?"

"It's already one-tenth of a hundred. How high do you think it is? The last time there was a tenth mission was three months ago."

Ethan's heart began to sink.

"Mission content: Go to the red earth in the 930 star field to search for the pioneers of the Earth Alliance and Eve Star. Departure time: Immediately." After the female voice ended, a handsome male Beta guard said through a loudspeaker, "We need five Ten people, old rules, are there any volunteers?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and after a while, a few rather fierce-looking people stood up.Samuel hesitated for a moment, and was about to stand up, but was suddenly pulled back by Ethan.

"If the score is so high, it must be very dangerous. Are you dying?" Ethan said in a low voice.

Samuel slapped his hand away and glared at him, "I still use your fresh fish to teach me? Get lost." After speaking, he strode out of the team.The volunteers seemed to know each other, and they even briefly greeted each other.One of them, a tall man with red hair, put his arm around Samuel's shoulders like a good buddy.

However, there are only nine volunteers, and there are 41 left. What should we do?

I saw the handsome guard with black hair and black eyes walking slowly past non-people with a baton in his hand, pointing casually, "You, come out."

The male Beta who was picked looked dull and trembling, but he had no choice but to step out of the queue.The guard walked all the way, pointing at random with his baton, and soon a dozen people left the queue, including the crying female Beta.Most of the people who have not been pointed out look relaxed and escaped.When the guard walked towards Ethan, he deliberately shrugged his shoulders and lowered his head, wishing he could get under the ground.The guard's high boots made a crackling sound when they stepped on the ground, which made his heart tremble non-stop.

However, the sky failed, and the baton still poked his chest vigorously, "You."

Ethan's throat was dry and his legs were weak. He followed the order and stepped out, but his mind was blank.

Fifty people were selected quickly, and several guards came over and put a black collar on everyone's neck.The cold touch touched the skin, and Ethan shivered.These collars can emit electrical currents ranging from warning to lethal, and anyone who tries to escape or disobeys orders will be shocked.They were driven into the truck again, and after half an hour of bumps, they were driven into a transport plane.Ethan was in a trance during the whole process, wondering if his brain refused to digest more information because he was too afraid of the possible death.

Ethan had heard the name Red Earth before when he was in the Energy Bureau. It was the newly discovered habitable planet on the edge of the Milky Way. It was discovered by astronomers of the Earth Alliance and observers of Eve Star at the same time, so it was classified as a shared star by both parties. area.Both sides sent a lot of development and pioneers to investigate and build bases above, and found a large number of copper mines on it.It's been reported in the news.

Ethan also tried to observe the beautiful red planet with a high-powered telescope, but he never thought that one day he would go there.

After flying for more than ten hours, they landed at a military airport, surrounded by the Gobi Desert, and in the distance there was a huge wreckage of the city standing in the wind and sand.This is not an ordinary airport, but an airport for space navigation spacecraft.There are tall and bright spaceships lined up on the wide and flat ground, most of which are graceful and smooth disc-shaped, with pearl-like silver-gray flowing on the surface.

Fifty non-humans were ordered to line up behind a pair of special forces soldiers and prepare to board the ship. Those soldiers turned their heads and looked at them with expressions mixed with mockery, contempt, playfulness, or indifference.A soldier sarcastically said, "I'm lucky to be working with a bunch of scum!"

A female Beta officer snapped, "Shut up Jason!"

Ethan has been on a spaceship a few times, and even took a special plane with the director a few times.But I have never been on such a large military spacecraft.Looking up, a person is like a fly facing such a behemoth, sailing in the dark and endless universe, it is hard not to feel fear.A platform at the bottom of the spaceship lowered slowly, and everyone stood on this platform and was sent into the belly of the spaceship.

Although it is for military use, the interior of the spaceship is very clean, giving people a smooth and smooth feeling everywhere.They were gathered in a bridge large enough to accommodate two hundred people, and Ethan noticed that besides them, there were also some Eve people.

Eve people, a race known for their mystery and beauty.They have the same six genders as humans, and their average height is a few centimeters taller than humans. They have pointed ears and a third eye that is usually closed on the forehead, showing only a red mark.Unlike most of the developed races in the Milky Way, the Eve Stars have very devout religious beliefs, and have a perception that is several times higher than that of humans.Some people say that they can perceive things that humans cannot perceive, and even communicate with the universe and the energy in the dark, and then understand many truths that are difficult for other races to understand.

Most of these Eve stars are soldiers similar to them, wearing straight white military uniforms.However, there is an Eve who seems to be a male Alpha. He is wearing a white silk robe with a high collar embroidered with gorgeous golden patterns. He looked a bit empty and beautiful, and the three-eye mark on his forehead was more obvious than that of ordinary people, like a cluster of flames burning between his eyebrows.He has a mysterious and noble temperament, which is slightly different from other soldiers.

That person is likely to be the priest of Eve Star.Since it is a race that values ​​faith, it is not surprising that there are often priests accompanying the army when marching and fighting, and they have a high status in the army.

It's just that the priest is really beautiful.

"Hey, keep your eyes straight." Samuel next to him squeezed out a teasing sentence from the corner of his mouth, which made Ethan look away in a hurry and pushed his glasses with his hands.

The Eve Stars have long heard that there are "inhumans" in the Earth Alliance, but this is the first time they have seen it with their own eyes, and they can't help but glance at the fifty humans from time to time with a curious mood.

The white-clothed priest Tanisel slightly turned his silver-gray eyes, and looked at those so-called heinous inhumans calmly.Unexpectedly, quite a few of these people do not look as tall and dangerous as imagined, and some of them are even thinner and more timid than ordinary people on earth.

Working with Earth Alliance humans has never been a pleasant experience.This is an ancient and closed country, and the whole country blindly worships their great president Aibia, even though she actually only inherited her father's seat, although she has some military achievements, she does not rely on elections at all. Her life is also very mysterious, rarely appearing in public.The moral value system of people on Earth is extremely harsh and oppressive, requiring all human beings to be the same, and anyone who violates some so-called moral traditions will always be deducted points.The problem is that these moral traditions are not necessarily reasonable. Some are just bad habits that have existed for a long time, while others are ridiculous means used by a small number of people to control the majority of others.For example, if you change jobs at work, if the reason is that other companies give higher wages, you will be branded as disloyal by your old employer.A few years ago, an old employer sued a former employee in a moral court for disloyalty, and successfully deducted three points of the employee's moral value.Since then, everyone has racked their brains to find some more noble reasons when they plan to change jobs, such as to comply with their parents' last wishes, to take care of their children more closely, so that employers have no excuse to blame themselves for infidelity.

Earthlings have always been considered rigid and fanatical, lacking the ability to think for themselves.And the scum among these earthlings must be a more barbaric existence, so everyone is not looking forward to this mission.Although those non-humans will be used as bait and test dangerous live meat, it is not a joy to live with such a group of people on the spaceship for a week.

However, Tanithel noticed the tall and handsome young man with the Hydra tattoo on his arm in the crowd.His body exudes a standard Alpha aura, and his appearance is also very consistent, but he can feel a trace of imperceptible temptation emanating from that man's body...

That is the breath of Omega...

In a chaotic and dirty place like the Forbidden City, an Omega disguised as an Alpha... seems like an interesting story.

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