Falling into the Abyss

If someone asked Ethan one day ago: Would you kill someone?Ethan definitely answered without thinking: No.He doesn't even believe that he has the ability to kill others.

So people never know what they will do under the pressure of the situation in the next second.

Samuel grabbed the stunned Ethan's shoulder and shook it twice, "Don't be dazed, go hide behind the tree!"

Ethan was pushed to the edge of the battlefield by Samuel, but he was forced back to the center by two horned men who rushed over after only two steps.Ethan noticed that the horned people were skillfully driving all the humans into the middle.He wanted to warn everyone, but his voice was drowned in the screams and screams, and he couldn't hear it at all.

When the non-people were led to a certain place, thin lines that were barely visible to the naked eye suddenly shot out from the forest, and quickly intertwined into a giant net in the air to press down.It was a "spider web" newly developed by the Ophiuchus Alliance in recent years to imitate the material of spider silk to capture captives. Where the fine spider silk came into contact with the skin, a certain kind of abnormal numbness spread rapidly.Apparently the tiny drops of water condensed on the spider silk have some kind of anesthesia function.

Ethan soon felt his legs go weak, his limbs lost control, and he didn't even feel pain when he fell to the ground.When he opened his mouth, he could only make a whining sound, and then his consciousness became dizzy.

The last thing he saw was the horned men gathering from all directions, their silver-white hair gleaming in the dark night, and their purple eyes staring at them with that characteristic numbness and coldness.

In the abyss of coma, he was dreaming.

In the dream, he saw Tanithel.

It was a flat and light pool like a mirror, the water was blue, with some wine-red ring-shaped leaves occasionally floating on it.Around the pool, there are many plants that Ethan has never seen before. Shrubs of different heights are overgrown, with translucent blue and purple leaves intertwined and overlapping.One of the most conspicuous giant trees, the trunk needs to be embraced by about ten people, with rose-red heart-shaped leaves about the size of a human hand, like a sunset fairy cloud that spreads vastly, from which hang many light white silk ribbons, as The breeze flutters.

Just under this gorgeous and beautiful giant tree, Tanisel was wearing a plain and simple white robe, standing barefoot in the middle of the pool.A gust of wind blew past, creating a layer of ripples on the pool water, and also blowing the hair on Tanithel's forehead.He looked at Ethan on the shore and waved to him.

Ethan looked down at himself, and he was actually barefoot, wearing a robe similar to Tanithel's, but the color was the opposite, as black as ink.He stepped into the clear pool, and an indescribable joy spread from his feet to his whole body.

He walked faster and faster, regardless of whether his actions disturbed a pool of spring water.He originally wanted to rush over and hug Taniser, but when he was two or three steps away from him, he felt that Taniser's expression was quite serious, so he couldn't help but slow down his pace, and just stood still in front of the priest.

"where am I?"

"You are unconscious, this is an illusion I temporarily created in your dream." Tanisel reached out, put his palm on the back of his neck, stroked it gently, and said in a low voice, "This time... I don't know if I Can you make it in time?"

Ethan asked in a daze, "Are we going to die?"

Tanithel remained silent for a while, just stared at him with clear eyes that seemed to be able to penetrate the soul, and then said in a calm but heavy voice, "I want you to remember every word I said next, necessary You must remember this passage." His tone of voice suddenly seemed distant, with a sense of seduction and hypnosis.Then he leaned down and whispered something in Ethan's ear.

Ethan's eyes suddenly widened, and his whole body trembled, as if he had heard the most terrifying story.He shook his head vigorously and whispered, "No...I can't..."

"Remember my words!" Tanithel held his cheeks with both hands, staring at him with unprecedented stern eyes, "You must remember it firmly!"

The scorching gaze seemed to leave an imprint on his mind.However, when Ethan was awakened by the cold air, he only remembered Tanisel's almost obsessive gaze.However, what the other party whispered in his ear seemed to be separated by a layer of hazy frosted glass. It felt very familiar and within reach, but he just couldn't remember it.

Ethan felt his whole body come back bit by bit, and his numb body gave off an uncomfortable itching.When I felt it carefully, it turned out to be a biting cold.He opened his eyes and found that his hands and feet were locked up with heavy shackles, and there was a rattling sound when he moved.The body was squeezed, and when he turned his head, he found Samuel was looking at him.Looking further away, I found that Taifeng, Jiawen, and Wilson were also there, as well as Little A, a few non-humans whose number was 252 like Ethan Samuel, and two other soldiers.Everyone was crowded into a small space, and the surroundings were pitch black, with only a little bit of faint light coming in from a rough metal fence.The wall behind him felt like rocks, and Ethan guessed that they were in a cave somewhere.

The voice of the horned man was heard not far away.The horned people on this planet speak many different languages, and the language used by the two people who are currently talking to each other sounds flat and dry, like chanting.After listening to it for a long time, it makes people feel a little drowsy.

"Where are we?" Ethan asked.

Samuel shook his head.

Not knowing who was crying in the dark, Wilson roared irritably, "Stop fucking crying!"

The crying was frightened and paused for a few seconds, and then it turned into a forced sob.But this compartment stopped, and there were still whimpering and shouting from nowhere, as if there were other prisoners of war.

It was originally to arrest people, but it was attacked by others.Ethan couldn't help but think, could it be that he brought bad luck to this eternal night planet?

"They arrested us because they wanted to use us as hostages to negotiate with the Earth Alliance." Taifeng's voice seemed a little erratic, with a kind of indifference that had lost the will to survive, "But when they found out that we are nothing but inhumans, probably will kill us all."

Samuel frowned, glared at him, and signaled him to shut up.Sure enough, someone heard this and cried louder. Ethan had a headache from the noise, and raised his hands to pinch his sore neck.

"Where is the guard Chen Zeng and the gray hair?" Ethan asked Samuel in a low voice.The latter shrugged, "I don't know, he may have escaped, or he may have died."

"……Feel sorry."

"Sorry for what? I'm afraid we're not very far away from them anyway." Samuel leaned back and sighed, "Damn, it's just a little bit short of getting out..."

Ethan knew that when he said going out, he didn't mean leaving this cell, but meant leaving the Forbidden City.

Suddenly, two tall horned men appeared in the field of vision, each of them held a laser gun in their hands, and their slender purple eyes swept over every human being in the darkness. Then, one of the horned men He took out the key and opened the door lock of the iron fence.

Another cornerman came in, rudely picked up Wilson, Samuel, Ethan, Taifeng, Jiawen, and Little A and other inhumans, and pushed them out.The horned people outside quickly locked the door, and connected the handcuffs and shackles of several of them together, like a bunch of grasshoppers.The horned man pushed the back of Taifeng standing at the end with the muzzle of his gun, and motioned them to follow the horned man in front.

The cave is very deep and there are many traces of man-made excavation.They walked for a while, and caught up with another team in a huge cave with a high and wide dome. Looking around, this team was walking towards a long thin white light at the end of the cave.

Suddenly, Ethan thought of the ghosts lining up on Huangquan Road in Asian supernatural legends.He tried his best to suppress the trembling in his heart, and tried his best to remain calm.But he knew that he was going to the limit step by step.

Where the body began to itch, ready to move.

When they walked out of the cave, they were stunned.A large open space surrounded by dark forests is crowded with people at the moment. There are at least two to three thousand people, all covered in white hair, holding primitive torches in their hands, illuminating this dark blue planet. Eternal night above.Raising their huge horns, they were cheering towards a tall conical stone platform built along the mountain at the front of the crowd.The countless steps were covered with a red carpet, spreading all the way to the top three X-shaped torture racks.

There was a strong smell of blood in the air.

The cheering people parted towards the two hundred, and the long road of non-people passed through this small road.Walking along the way, the horned people on both sides uttered animal-like shouts at them, and threw some strange flowers on them, just like welcoming heroes returning to the city in triumph.However, the closer he was to the high platform, the clearer Ethan could see it.It wasn't a red carpet at all that was laid out on the steps.

That's human blood!

"Damn it! They're going to sacrifice us!" Wilson's always strong voice finally began to tremble.

Beside the rack, there were two people dancing with horns much larger than ordinary horned people.A man and a woman.The man's upper body is muscular, unafraid of the cold, his lower body is wearing a gorgeous loincloth, and his face is wearing a sinister black gold mask.The woman, on the other hand, is wearing a thin gauze skirt, fluttering and moving with the spinning posture, like a spirit snake in the forest, with a red mask on her face.

The closer you get, the stronger the smell of blood.It seems that they were not the first people to be brought here, but no corpses were seen at the scene.

Ethan also noticed that the surrounding area of ​​the high platform was very empty, and there was no one standing there.There are several potholes distributed on the ground, each with a radius of about two meters.

A sharp cry suddenly pulled Ethan's gaze back. The three inhumans at the front of the team had been forcibly dragged onto the cone.The three of them screamed and struggled all the way, but they couldn't help themselves under the strong strength of the horned man.Their hands and feet were quickly locked on the X-shaped torture rack, just like the Vitruvian man described by Leonardo da Vinci.

I saw the priestess twisting her flexible waist and approaching the first inhuman on the right. A purple light rose from her hand and suddenly pierced the inhuman's forehead.

The non-human screamed.

But the movement of the priestess did not stop.The amethyst knife in her hand was extremely sharp, and her slender hands were extremely precise, and gracefully circled half a circle, using the knife to draw a "red line" on Inhuman's head.

Hot blood gushed out like a fountain, immediately covering that inhuman face distorted by pain and fear.

Then, the male priest walked up behind the non-human with solemn steps, stretched out his hand and lifted the skull carefully.

Many non-human beings were so frightened that they covered their eyes, and the entire empty field echoed with unbearably wailing and screaming.

Yes, that non-human was still alive at that time.

Ethan couldn't imagine what it would be like to have his brain exposed to the air while alive.He thought of an extremely cruel and expensive dish that had existed on Earth long, long ago—monkey brain.Hide a live monkey under the table, only the top of the head is exposed, lift the skull, sprinkle seasoning on the brain, and let the diners eat with a spoon.At that time, the monkey was still alive.

Is this some kind of retribution?

And so they were, one by one, with the still active brains of the other three inhumans exposed to the air.Amidst the hissing of the three inhumans who didn't know whether it was pain or panic, the male and female priests sang a loud sacrificial oration together.At the same time, they raised the bells in their hands and shook them once, once, and again.

Suddenly, there was a rumbling and deep sound from the ground under their feet, as if thunder from the sky was born on the ground.There was a strong tremor, almost considered an earthquake, but then, a sudden evil breath erupted from the hole around the conical altar, an ancient, ignorant, and crazy roar.

Then, from the three caves, three tens of meters high... worms rose up simultaneously.Just like those worms they saw in the woods, only they were so big that they were like giant pillars reaching the sky.The three huge flesh-gray worms bent in mid-air, and the originally small mouth buried in the folds opened rapidly, revealing a circle of upward spiraling teeth like a meat grinder.

Those three mouths held three people in them respectively.

The screams of the three people were muffled in the giant worm's mouth. Instead of retracting immediately, they sucked and wriggled in place for a while.Ethan felt that he heard the crisp sound of bones and flesh being smashed.

The priests and priestesses on the altar knelt in front of the three giant worms, with their hands outstretched, their faces showing ecstasy.

When the three worms finally raised their heads again and prepared to retract into the burrow, they also spit out three wooden torture racks that were firmly fixed on the ground.But there was no one on the rack, only the crimson blood flowing all over the place, and the flesh and blood caught on the chains.

That's why no human corpses can be seen.

It turned out that this was why when they first landed on the Mu Shen planet, the soldiers were depressed and their eyes were frightened.Because they saw the scene of the living sacrifice and saw something more terrible than death.

Amidst the sudden thunderous cheers of the Horns, non-people and soldier captives were screaming.Ethan wanted to scream like the rest of the terrified people, but he couldn't.

The author has something to say:

Hmm...the taste is stronger this time...don't hit me...