Falling into the Abyss

What is the highest level of pain in the world?

Some say it was burnt by fire, some say it was childbirth, and some say it was bitten by wild beasts.But compared to what Ethan feels at this moment, I'm afraid it won't be more painful.He felt as if sulfuric acid had been injected into his body, the blood vessels and nerves were dissolved one by one, and the muscles and bones were also stripped away.The problem was that it wasn't just pain, it was also accompanied by an unbearable itching, and he felt like he was being dissolved, being cut into pieces.It's nothing more than a thousand cuts.

However, it wasn't all the pain, because Tanithel helped him share it, as always.This was the first time he heard such a piercing scream from the priest. His beautiful face twisted and twitched due to the extreme pain, and his body was also tensed and curled up due to the violent contraction of muscles.If you look carefully, you will see some black lines similar to those on Ethan's body quickly passing over his fair skin and disappearing quickly.

Ethan felt in a daze that the back of his neck was torn, and something was pushing hard into his wound.The invisible force squeezed him from all directions, crushed his bones, and made him unable to breathe.The entangled tentacles behind him were shrinking little by little, retracting into his body, his voice was already hoarse, his panting was rapid and irregular, and every muscle was tense and almost broken.This severe pain made him dizzy, and finally completely lost consciousness.

He and the priest lost consciousness almost at the same time.

After about 10 minutes, Ethan woke up first.His vision was somewhat blurred, and the surroundings were pitch black, only a small faint blue ball of light swirled around a dormant body not far away.

Ethan looked down at his hands, and he could no longer see the black lines that had spread on the back of his hands. He was short of breath, and quickly reached out to touch the back of his neck.

The touch of a rolling scar, but without the disgusting extra limbs.

There was an ecstatic sob in his throat, and tears flowed down his cheeks, which were dirty but no longer had black thin lines.He had never felt so happy, as if he had regained his life.

Wiping away the tears that kept pouring out with his hands, he crawled towards the figure not far away on hands and feet.The priest lay prone on the blood-stained ground, his blond hair was blackened, covering his graceful side face.Ethan gently brushed his hair back, feeling guilty and moved in his heart.Tanithel saved him again and helped him bear such terrible pain.There is no one in the world who treats him as well as he does.

He is his light, the only light in the darkness.

He gently stroked the priest's cheek, then reached out and shook the priest's shoulder, "Taniser? Taniser?"

The priest let out a low murmur, his brows furrowed slightly, as if he was unhappy at being forcibly pulled out of the darkness.His slender golden eyelashes fluttered a few times and opened slowly.

Ethan let out a breath of relief, "Are you okay?"

Tanithel's whole body was sore, as if it had been torn apart by a car and put back together again.He rubbed his unharmed neck and sat up, seemingly unable to remember where he was for a moment.He looked around, and his eyes finally fell on Ethan's face.

"Reagent..." He stretched out his hand and touched the finely intertwined scar on the back of Ethan's neck, "Successful?"

Ethan nodded vigorously, and suddenly hugged Tanisel.

The priest was stunned, and after a while, he slowly raised his hand and hugged Ethan's body that seemed to have lost a lot of weight.It seems that the mutation consumed a lot of energy. Although he ate a lot of horned people, the energy replenishment was far from enough, especially in the last few days when he barely ate any fresh life other than carrion corpses.The power of the entropy god is really not something that any person's body can bear.

Ethan greedily inhaled the bitter sandalwood smell from Taniser's body, and tightly grasped the clothes on the other's back, unwilling to let go, fearing that if he let go, he would find that everything was just a dream.

"How did you find me? Didn't you say that our soul binding can't help you pinpoint it?" Ethan closed his eyes and buried his head on the side of the priest's neck.

"After I came to this planet, I first found Samuel who was rescued. He told me that you are in this forest. As long as I get here, I can perceive your specific location."

Ethan was silent for a moment, and said in a muffled voice, "I'm sorry..."

"Sorry for what?" asked a little confused.

"I screwed up. I got you involved. Did you come to the planet Faun secretly?" He understands that in the Earth Alliance, all foreign personnel will only be granted a pass in a certain area, and it is obviously impossible for Tanithel Possess a Passport to Faun.

Tanithel shrugged indifferently, "It's nothing, if you are caught, you will be sent back to Eve Star at most."

"But then, I'll never see you again."

Tanithel gently separated the two bodies, lowered his head and looked at Ethan seriously with a slight smile, "I chose you, and I will definitely find a way to come to you, no matter where you are. You escape Don't open mine."

Ethan looked at Tanithel's charming ethereal eyes, all kinds of emotions were surging, and he was almost about to say the words that he would lose.

But he finally controlled himself.

He slowly let go of the hand holding Tanisel's waist, and suddenly realized how dirty he was.He wrapped his arms around his chilly upper body and asked, "What should we do next?"

"elopement."

"what?"

"Samuel reported to the top that you died with the others and were eaten by worms that came out of the ground. I see that your collar is also missing, so you can escape with me now," Tanith said Er dropped a bombshell on Ethan in a relaxed tone, and kissed him lightly on the forehead, "As long as you leave the Earth Alliance, you will no longer be inhuman."

Not human anymore.

Ethan knew he should be happy, but all he had in his mind was blank.

Why is there no sense of reality at all?

"My spaceship is parked at the edge of the forest, and there is still some way to go. We must be careful, we must not let the people of the Earth Alliance find you." Tanithel stood up and pulled Ethan up, "Come on , there is still a lot to do.”

The two hurriedly left the foul-smelling cave, but the choking smell outside the cave was worse than inside the cave, and it could almost turn into a stylish smoke that would smoke people over.The corpses were rotten and dilapidated everywhere, and maggots writhed among the blackened muscles.

Ethan looked at this scene, which was more disgusting and cruel than any horror movie, and threw up with his head down.

Such a scene turned out to be caused by him alone.

Wouldn't it be better for such a terrible self to die?

Tanithel caressed his back, and suddenly tore a piece of fabric from the hem of his clothes, and tied it to Ethan's eyes to cover his sight.

"Don't think about anything, try to hold your breath, just follow me."

He took Ethan's hand, opened half of the eyes on his forehead, and used his mental power to guide Ethan to temporarily block his sense of smell.Ethan was dragged by the priest, and walked staggeringly.Occasionally, he would guess something very soft and sticky, and he didn't dare to imagine what it was.The blue lake and the huge red ancient wood reappeared in his consciousness, and the soothing sandalwood smell carried in the warm wind.He began to understand that this illusion was built for him by Tanithel, and he could hide there whenever he felt unbearable pain, so as to avoid complete madness.

Tanithel untied the cloth on his head, and a shallow stream appeared in front of his eyes.The melted snow water from the high mountains wanders down, with a little bit of blue, it quickly flows through the riverbed paved with five-colored pebbles, and some fungi with glowing spots protrude from the two sides to the middle, quiet and gentle like night lights.Here, Ethan took off his dirty trousers, soaked his whole body in the cold water, and scrubbed vigorously the mud and blood that had solidified for many days.He tried his best not to think about what was washed away by the stream, but he just wanted to wash himself clean and clean what he had done, as if as long as he washed clean, he could start again.

Since there was no change of clothes, but Ethan really didn't want to wear the dirty military trousers, so he put on Tanithel's robe, wrapped his naked body tightly, and then Tanithel put Ethan on. He sprinkled a powder produced by Fu on the wood, built a fire, and asked him to dry the trousers he had just washed in the stream.Tanithel gave Ethan some compressed beef jerky that he carried with him, and the two ate quietly in the firelight.

"When I was young, I went camping with my classmates. I tried putting marshmallows on wooden sticks and roasting them over the fire. The outer layer of marshmallows was burnt and brittle, and the melted candy heart filled the air when I bit into it. In my mouth, it's really a nostalgic taste." The fireworks jumped in Ethan's green eyes, looking a little charming.

"Marshmallow?" Tanithel looked blank, obviously not knowing what it was.

Seeing his rare blank expression, Ethan laughed lowly, "It's a traditional dessert on Earth, usually in the shape of a white cylinder, very soft and elastic when pinched. You have been on Earth for so long, and you haven't eaten it yet. ?”

Tanithel shook his head, "There are only those kinds of desserts in the Mars base. I have eaten them all, and I have never eaten the cotton you mentioned."

"It's cotton candy." Ethan corrected his pronunciation solemnly, and then laughed, "I'll bake it for you when I get a chance."

"Okay, I'll eat you if it doesn't taste good. I suspect you'd taste better, especially when tied up."

"...Don't always say such unofficial things all of a sudden!" Ethan stretched out his leg and kicked Tanithel's knee.

Lying by the fire at night, Ethan was tightly wrapped in Tanithel's robe and locked into a ball.The icy air of Faun star made him shiver until another warm embrace embraced him from behind.

The two bodies are close to each other, so it is not so cold.

Faun has three moons, one is surprisingly large, one is like the moon on the earth, and the other is too small to be like a relatively large star.Three satellites face each other far away in the starry night sky.Ethan looked at them and asked quietly, "How long can I last?"

It took Tanithel behind him a while to reply, "I don't know either. The mutation has been successful, and even a three-fold dose of the Profound Egg solution may not be able to remain stable forever."

"...If one day I can't change back, can you kill me?"

"……Maybe……"

"If I really lose my mind, it's like last time..." Ethan turned over, faced Tanithel, and said as if he had made up his mind, "Kill me."

Tanithel frowned, didn't agree or object, just reached out and hugged him tightly.

They slept for about four hours, and then they buried the traces of the campfire while it was still early and continued on their way.However, when they finally came to open a clearing at the edge of the woodland where the Tanithel spaceship was parked, they found a few horned people standing near the plane, looking around.

Tanithel cursed in a low voice, turned around with Ethan and wanted to slip away.However, he soon sensed horned people approaching from every direction.

Obviously, the horned people are too familiar with this forest, and any slight changes cannot escape their slender eyes. They had a safe journey before, but the horned people were waiting for them to fall into the trap.

There was no other way, so Tanithel had no choice but to sacrifice the Ten Thousand Breath Ball, turning it into the shape of a scepter, standing up straight, and making a dignified and sacred posture—the standard expression of a priest he is best at.

Ethan was also so calm that he was close to numb.Although I don't want to see the race that was slaughtered by him.

A tall heroine Alpha held a gun and stared at them suspiciously, "An Eve, why did you come to the Faun planet?"

"I'm Tanithel, the white-clothed priest of the Eve Star Red Moon Temple. I'm here because I've heard of the 'great wise man' believed by the horned people, and I really want to learn more about him." Tanithel replied gracefully.

"Eves are rarely seen on this planet." The female Alpha seemed to be very curious about Tanithel, she tilted her head slightly to look at him carefully, and then turned her gaze to Ethan after a while, "What about him? Your servant ?”

Without waiting for Tanithel's answer, Ethan nodded proactively, his eyebrows lowered.

"Why are your servants wearing your clothes?" the heroine was still in doubt.

"He fell into the quagmire before, and his clothes were dirty, so I lent him mine. Is there any problem?" Tanithel smiled kindly at her, and the bright eyebrows and eyes made the Alpha girl a little dazzled. "Sorry, this forest is not peaceful recently, we need to be extra careful not to provoke the wise man anymore." There was a flash of fear in her eyes, and Ethan wondered if they had been to the sacrificial field where he was bloodbathed .

The heroine hesitated, "I have to take you back and let the chief decide how to deal with you."

So the two accidentally fell into the hands of the cornerman again.Fortunately, Tanisel was obviously an Eve, otherwise they might have been arrested again and sent to sacrifice.The horned man didn't seem to have much hostility towards the priest, but he had a lot more hostility towards Ethan.For example, the male character with a gun in the back would poke him in the back with a gun from time to time, using unnecessary force to signal him to hurry up.

Then they saw the village of the Horn people hidden in the mountains.

It is the stronghold of the rebels and the refuge of the fugitives.In the middle of the rolling hills of the two mountains, under the shade of thousands of blue trees, many unique oval-shaped houses are either located on the ground or hung among the branches of tall trees.Horned people like to blend in with the surrounding environment. If you fly an aircraft from above, it will be difficult to distinguish the buildings covered by plants of different heights.

Perhaps this is why the Earth Army has been unable to find these horned rebel strongholds.

Obviously, these horned rebels were indeed funded by the Ophiuchus Alliance. The armor on their bodies and the weapons in their hands were obviously not made in the local style. They seemed a bit too avant-garde and out of tune with the surrounding environment.They even saw some mountain armored vehicles, the ones with real wheels, and of course some transport aircraft.

Ethan followed Tanithel, and was escorted by these horned rebels across the complete avenue. There were many little horned men who were probably underage looking at them with curious big eyes.The horn people who were weaving things at the door and the horn people who hurried past carrying hunting tools also cast curious or disgusted eyes on them from time to time.It seems that despite the continuous war, at least the people here are still performing their duties.

Suddenly, Ethan's footsteps stopped and his heart skipped a beat.

He saw a human being.

A human being he had never expected.