Falling into the Abyss

The scream of the horned man pierced the hustle and bustle above the square, and the originally cheerful drumming stopped suddenly.I saw that the horn was talking vaguely, and his knees were trembling as if they couldn't bear the weight of his body.Ethan got goosebumps all over his body when he called him, and his heart constricted.He probably guessed that the terrified horned man probably escaped from the altar, and he must have seen everything he did during the period of unconsciousness.

The realization made him tense, the urge to flee made him sweat and his chest tighten.Tanithel secretly grabbed his wrist under the table, the firm strength seemed to give him psychological support.

"What should I do..." Ethan asked in a low voice.

Tanithel glanced at him, shook his head, "Don't panic."

The chief shouted an order impatiently, and the horned man finally stopped screaming, looked at the chief with nervous frenzy, and murmured something.Ethan couldn't understand, but the language analysis program in Tanithel's scepter could translate those words into Earth language.

Horned Man: "The Holy Key Sacrifice went smoothly until the human being was brought up on the altar. Behind him grew endless evil things, some were like the mouth of a giant worm, some were like eyes, and some were like paint. Spikes that were poisoned. Those things were covered in acid, and anyone who touched the skin would quickly rot. We thought it was a manifestation of the wise man at first, but he didn't care who the believers were, and killed everyone! He is Devil! It's a monster!"

Everyone present, including the three Ophiuchus human beings who could understand Horn's language, were too shocked to speak.The great chief glanced at Ethan with eyes that were numb and distressed by the years, and then asked in a stern tone, "You mean, that human over there killed everyone?"

"It's absolutely true! He's not human! He's not human!" the horned man shouted hoarsely, leaning his body in the opposite direction to Ethan's. If he hadn't been caught by the other two horned men, he might have escaped long ago.Many tall horned soldiers on both sides of the banquet stood up one after another, and all kinds of suspicious and hostile eyes swept towards Ethan and Tanithel like a wave.

"You read it right?" the chief's eldest son asked viciously.The horned man was so frightened that he knelt down, pointed at Ethan and cried, "My wife and brother were killed by him! I watched him tear my brother in half!"

Ethan's body trembled, and his mind was a little dazed.It's as if what the person said is someone else's business and has nothing to do with him.

He really couldn't remember... his mind went blank.

The atmosphere on the field suddenly became tense, and the horned people nearby pulled out their cold weapons one after another, or took out their guns and pointed them at Ethan and Tanithel.The joyful and friendly atmosphere just now disappeared, and pairs of vigilant and suspicious purple eyes stared at the two of them, with a secret murderous intent lurking endlessly.

Tanithel suddenly laughed. At first, he just lowered his head, his shoulders trembled slightly, and then the laughter gradually became stronger, as if he had heard something so funny.

"I've heard long ago that the Horn people are a very xenophobic nation. It really lives up to their reputation. You usually interrogate prisoners in this way and convict them based on one side of the story?" The priest suddenly stretched out his scepter and pointed at the man with scars all over his body trembling like the wind. The horned man of Remnant Leaf said, "Can't you see that this man has been frightened out of his wits? If my friend Ethan is the terrifying monster he said, why did you leave him alive and come back to inform? Why are you still Stand here properly? Not to mention, take a closer look at the human next to me." He stretched out his hand and pulled Ethan up, shaking his shoulder vigorously, "A scholar who has no strength to restrain a chicken, can Kill any of you here? May I ask how he will kill nearly [-] horned people who participated in the sacrifice?"

The priest's words became more and more harsh in the end, like a sharpened knife piercing the hostility that surrounded them tightly.The horned people also seemed to be dubious, their eyes wandering back and forth between Ethan, the priest, and the horned man who was shouting at the priest angrily.

At this time Roland also stood up, and said to the chief, "Is there some misunderstanding here?"

"Father, Dami will not make up such a story out of thin air!" The chief's eldest son stared at Tanisel with unfriendly eyes.

Everyone is waiting for the chief's decision.The cold but unfathomable eyes of the old horned man lingered on Ethan and the priest for a while, and finally he waved his hand as if tired, "Take him to the end hole and keep him under surveillance, and let Healer Solo examine him , to see if he is human.”

As soon as the words fell, two tall horned men who were as high as Ethan's head stood behind him, pointing their black muzzles at him.Ethan looked at Tanisel helplessly, and the latter grabbed his hand reassuringly.

"Keep calm." Tanithel urged earnestly.

Ethan understood what he meant.Now the solution of the Egg of the Prologue has been used up, and no one knows how long his body will be stable now.

He had to control his emotions, make sure he was no longer dominated by fear, and make sure he remained conscious.

The horned rebel army of the Great Chief has been hiding in the jungle and mountains around Anas for thousands of miles. The terrain is complex and changeable, and there are many caves in it.Horn people have a special emotional attachment to caves, and they are used to setting places with more important cultural significance in these caves that go straight into the mountainside.In addition to the Holy Blood Cave, which was specially used to hold living sacrifices, there are also caves specially used to store supplies, food and grass, caves for religious ceremonies, and caves for burying the dead.The so-called Modong is a cave used to detain criminals awaiting trial, like a vertical crack hidden between the junction of two mountains.The air inside is humid, and there is the sound of water flowing in the dark depths.As we walked deeper, we could see in the darkness one after another stone chambers dug out of the stone wall, surrounded by solid iron bars.There is simple furniture behind the fence, and silent figures sitting or lying in the dark can often be seen.

Casual talking is not allowed here, and violators may be beaten by guards, so the air is eerily quiet.

Ethan followed the guard in front of him whose shoulders were twice as wide as his. The only source of light was the round lamp in the horned man's hand that emitted a faint blue cold light.There is a similar lamp here every far away that emits a depressing cold light, which not only fails to dispel the darkness, but makes it even more weird.

Those horned people were still polite to Ethan and kept a distance from him.He was taken to a very spacious cave at the deepest point. Unlike the other cells, there was no furniture, but there were circles of strange runes on the floor, and twisted tadpole-like characters were written on the walls.There is a pair of iron rings in the center of the ring, which seem to be used to confine the feet.And a long chain was dragged down from both sides of the wall, with heavy shackles attached to the end of the chain.

Ethan looked at this strange prison, looked at those rusty shackles, hesitated for a moment and didn't want to go in.The horned man behind put his gun against his back and pushed him in.

The hands were pulled to the sides, and the feet could not move.Ethan felt his skin hurt from being rubbed, swallowed uneasily, and asked, "How long are you going to lock me up? What if I want to go to the bathroom?"

The horned people didn't seem to understand what he said, they glanced at him with disgust and went out.

Ethan sighed for a long time, why there is always no way to escape the fate of being locked up?He felt like there was a kind of power in the dark, trying to confine him all the time.

He didn't know what those horned people would do. By now, he had given up on himself a little bit.

Gradually he began to feel tired.The past few days of running around and too many things happened made his mind seem to be covered with a layer of fog.He is very tired and wants to rest...

No matter what, it doesn't matter if you die.Just to get him to rest...to catch his breath...or never to have to.

Then the door opened, and a tall, thin alpha male in a dark red robe with silver rubies wrapped around his horns walked in.His aura is different from the horned people he has seen before, his expression is too calm, his body lacks the bloody smell that horned people always have, and the eyes that look at people from his eyes are more mysterious and dark.He was holding a large rectangular box in his hand, and behind him were some juvenile-looking horned people who either carried incense or held some boxes in their hands.

The thin tall horned man came to Ethan, but he didn't stand still, but slowly circled Ethan like a wild beast pacing around its prey.

"My name is Solo, and I am the healer of the Anaslanto tribe. I was ordered to identify whether you are the messenger of the great wise man, or the minion of the abyssal ones." The horned man said in a correct earth language.

Ethan looked at him weakly.His legs were sore and his wrists seemed to be bleeding.The blood that flowed out was pure black.

Since when did his blood stop being red?

He was in a trance, as if he was slightly drunk.He felt hands ripping off his clothes, his body being touched and judged by cold, fuzzy palms, like buying meat at the grocery store.

"There are no obvious injuries, but there are many fresh scars on the back of the neck, and there are some black bloodshot traces on the back." The person who called himself Solo said this, and another person with a small horn was writing quickly on a transparent tablet computer.

They measured him and felt his bones, but apart from the suspicious scars on his back, there was nothing unusual about it.They even used rays to see through his whole body, and they couldn't see any abnormalities.

Solo took the blood from his fingertip and planned to take it away for testing.Although Ethan knew that they might see the extra set of chromosomes in his blood, he was very numb.He was even glad that it was finally over.

However, the horned man obviously has no intention of leaving.He opened the huge rectangular box he brought, and inside lay a very old-style parchment-covered paper book.There is no name on the cover, but some weird twisted triangles are printed on it.

Ancient manuscripts, yellowed and brittle paper, the thin fibers seem to turn into ashes and fly away as soon as they are touched.It was already a product of countless centuries ago, maybe it came from ancient times, or ancient times that were older than ancient times.

"If you are really an emissary sent by a wise man, then you should love the things written in this book very much. If you are a person from the abyss, you will be extremely painful. But if you are just an ordinary person." Solo said , the slender face twisted into a weird and dangerous smile, "Then you may become a lunatic."