Falling into the Abyss

Samuel looked at Ethan suspiciously.This suspicion was not aimed at Ethan, but at Priest Eve who "helped" them for some unknown purpose.So he asked Ethan, "You mean we might get eaten by what you're talking about?"

"I'm not sure, but everyone who was on that planet before disappeared." Ethan raised his eyes, looked at Samuel seriously, and the fear in his voice from the memory had not subsided, "I don't want to die, especially Don't want to die on an inexplicable planet."

Seeing his nervousness when he mentioned this matter, Samuel felt baffled.He has participated in five redemption missions, and one tenth mission. Wearing a heavy heat-insulating suit, he sat in a crowded and narrow underground submarine and entered a more than 30-kilometer underground recovery mantle generator.At that time, the small submarine they were riding in was severely damaged by a group of rocks that flowed in with the magma flow during the dive. Across the cracked outer shell and several inner shells, the outside was hot and thick enough to melt the hardest Rocky dark sea of ​​fire.Three of the five of them panicked, fainted, or even died of suffocation due to the unbearable heat or extreme terror. Only he and the other Alpha barely maintained consciousness, enduring the burning pain of the skin and the thin air. , communicated with the command post on the ground by intermittent radio, and repaired the submarine under their command.They didn't dare to think about what would happen if the machine couldn't be repaired within an hour. Afterwards, he knew that once the damage exceeded the critical value, before they were swallowed by the magma, the terrifying underground pressure would instantly crush them into human form. meat pie.

I have survived such a horrible situation. Even if I encounter some strange alien creatures, it is better than being locked in that dark and narrow lava hell.

So he asked half-perfunctorily, "Then what do you think we should do?"

"Among the fifty people this time, a few of you volunteered to join the atonement. When the time comes to the red earth, the few of you will probably be the leaders. Tanisel said that if you can call a few of them to join him meet up."

"Taniser? That priest?" Samuel raised his eyebrows, "You agreed?"

Ethan pursed his lips, "It's not bad anyway, is it? After you watch that video, you will understand that he will come down quietly tonight."

Samuel rubbed his forehead as if he had a headache, then stretched out a finger and pointed at Ethan fiercely, "If you make decisions for me on your own again in the future, be careful, I'll fuck you to death."

Ethan shrugged.If it was a few days ago, he would probably be scared to pee by Samuel's expression, but after these three days, he has become indifferent.

Sure enough, Samuel had already talked to the other eight volunteers before dark, and two of them were reluctant to cooperate, but in the end they agreed to meet at night with the mentality of giving Samuel some face.The nine people included the red-haired Otto, who had a good relationship with Samuel. It is said that he was a legendary thief in the past, and he could open no matter how complicated a personal identification lock, encrypted lock, mechanical lock or smart lock was.Later, when he sneaked into the home of a famous wealthy businessman to steal a famous painting left over from the ancient earth period, he was caught by mistake.Because he committed countless crimes, his moral value was finally completely confiscated, and he was finally thrown into the Forbidden City.

The other two who have a good relationship with Samuel are "Priest" Chen Zeng and Sidian Derek.Chen Zeng was originally a fanatical believer in ancient Christianity, until one day he suddenly believed that he heard the voice of God, and God told him that the world is collapsing and people lose their faith, and he is sent by God to spread the old The angel of the Gospel of the Day, shouldering the mission of saving mankind from the abyss of blasphemy.So he began to preach on the Internet, and miraculously won the support of a considerable number of rebellious teenagers or people at the bottom of their lives.He had a complete set of theories, and even claimed that the interpretations of the Bible by people in the past were all wrong, and that the Bible itself had various deviations in the process of spreading, so he simply wrote a book himself and spread it among believers.There are quite a few very violent and bloody contents in this "New Bible", including the belief that all those who want to have children who only want Beta or Alpha and deliberately do not want Omega should be forcibly transsexualized into Omega, because they have caused the gender of today's interstellar society Unbalanced, all religions that claim to have the end of the world in the interstellar era are hooligans and should be punished, and people who have never had homosexual sex in their lives may be ancient humans with insufficient evolution and should be locked up and sterilized. extreme content.Later, the Earth Alliance government realized that his power had developed too fast and had caused several small-scale bloody terrorist incidents, so he was arrested and thrown into the Forbidden City.

Derek is the youngest of the nine, only in his early twenties, but he has a clever mind and is obsessed with researching the network consciousness merging technology that is banned by the Earth Alliance government, thinking that in this way the best human consciousness can be combined to create Create a new and more advanced species.Later, he tried to merge his younger brother's consciousness with that of his robot dog, causing moderate brain damage to his younger brother, and he was imprisoned in the Forbidden City.

After listening to Samuel's brief introduction to these three people who are better friends, Ethan suddenly felt that his reason for coming here was really not cool...

Especially that Chen Zeng, an Asian Beta man in his 40s. The cult leader reported by the channel.

At the appointed time, most of the other non-human beings lay down, and the nine people plus Ethan climbed onto a relatively wide iron bridge at the height of the warehouse floor.There are many huge machine rings around, breathing out mist like water vapor like monsters.A tall and thin figure gradually emerged from the mist. Tanisel was still wearing an ordinary sailing uniform, but with his scepter in his hand, he appeared with ease.

Facing the ten "heinous" inhumans, he didn't show any fear, and still smiled politely, standing still a few steps away from them.

Samuel crossed his arms and said impatiently, "What do you want to do, tell me. We are very busy."

"Go straight to the point, I like it." Tanisel didn't say much, and directly took out his Wanxi Ball, and played the ten-second video again.

After the video ended, the scene was silent.After about ten seconds, Chen Zeng suddenly stretched out his hand and made a sign of the cross on his chest, and began to pray in a low voice.

Others started whispering too, most likely swearing at the government.Samuel suddenly raised his hand and shouted, "Don't be so fucking noisy!" Then he looked at Tanithel, "We understand what you mean, you said there is a way to keep us alive?"

"It's not a foolproof method, but it may save the lives of some of you." Tanithel waved his hand in front of the Wanxi sphere, and the image suddenly changed, forming a rotating galaxy nebula, "Our Eve Due to the strong perception ability of human beings, they can perceive some energy fluctuations that are invisible to the naked eye. After entering the interstellar period, space travel makes this perception more intense. This kind of fluctuation often comes from the balance and competition of two kinds of energy in the universe, one Power is to maintain the subtle balance order formed by all stars and celestial bodies in time and space. Another kind of power is the chaos from accidents and variables. Just like the opposite balance between the spirit of Apollo and the spirit of Dionysus that you humans say. We Faith also reflects the perception of these two aspects. Our God of Preface, like your God of Apollo and Jehovah, is the source of all order and restraint, and promotes and maintains all the balance that has been formed. And our God of Entropy , is your Dionysus..."

Tanithel's tone paused, and he suddenly said, "Maybe another god is more suitable than the metaphor of Dionysus. I wonder how many of you know the evil god that was passed down on the ancient earth—Cthulhu?"

Most people looked blank and cleared their throats, "Yes, it is an evil god fabricated by a man named Lovecraft in ancient times, with an octopus-like head and bat-like wings."

All the non-humans glared at him with expressions like looking at creatures outside the galaxy.

Tanithel smiled at him approvingly, and Ethan was secretly happy about this rare limelight, but on the surface he still pushed his glasses very calmly.

"I have always believed that ancient myths and legends are not completely fabricated. Some people on Earth thousands of years ago may have better perception than ordinary people on Earth, or they may have perceived the God of Entropy from some other channel. Watch this time in the video The thing that appeared in it may be a god of entropy, a source of chaos beyond all our races."

"You said that thing is a god? You Eve people believe in this thing? The taste is really strong." Otto asked in disbelief.

Being insulted for believing in Tanithel is not angry at all, but the smile is meaningful, "How do we know what God looks like, maybe what is beautiful in our eyes is also disgusting in their eyes. And... so Come on, not all priests agree with me. Otherwise, I wouldn't have to cooperate with you in private."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling a little regretful about voluntarily participating in this mission.Although ten points is not a small score, but if you want to face that kind of thing... it's better to stay in the Forbidden City for more than ten or twenty years.

"I'm not interested in your fairy tales, I just want to know how we won't be lost by this stuff."

"If that's really the god of entropy, he'll like something filthy, like rotting corpses, the smell of putrefaction, or dying people. If you smear some dead animal's cream on your body when it appears, maybe you can Save your life." Tanithel's fingers twirled, and the scene displayed in the Wanxi Ball changed again.

It was a vast wasteland across the field of vision, the sky was filled with a red color similar to rust, and the whole earth was also dyed a layer of red like dusk.A huge red sun occupies the upper left corner, which is the sun of the red earth—Hera.On the slightly undulating land, there are dense and strange dark blue plants, about a person's height, with countless rod-shaped branches that seem to have a certain degree of softness protruding from the conical trunk, and there are huge ones at the roots. Tumors, and occasionally spurt streaks of black juice into the sky.

Ethan has also been to several planets in the Milky Way for vacations, most of which were originally uninhabitable and were forcibly transformed into habitable places.But even that kind of planet can at best give people a barren and desolate feeling, and on this so-called red earth suitable for human habitation, the ominous rust color, and the disgusting-looking plants, all seem to be creations in nightmares, making people feel uneasy. Inexplicably disgusted.

Tanithel turned the Wanqi ball in his hand and switched several holographic photos, "According to the news sent back by the pioneers, this plant is very common on the red earth, and the juice it sprays has a rotting smell. After you reach the red earth, you can collect their juice. Wait until the 'thing' appears and wipe it on your body. Also, be careful to stay away from everything that looks too neat and standardized, such as the bases or fields left by the previous pioneers. The instinct of the God of Entropy is to destroy order, if he has not moved those bases until now, it is very likely that he deliberately left bait to lure more humans into it."

Ethan interrupted suddenly, "What if those people in the mother ship order us to go in? Didn't they intend to observe what would happen when that thing appeared?" He said, pointing to the electric shock collar around his neck.

"According to the quality of the information received before, it seems that it will affect the microwave signal when it appears. So at least when it appears, you have a short period of time out of the control of the mother ship." Taniser said Wan chuckled, "Oh, I seem to have accidentally revealed some confidential information. If this is in your Earth Alliance, I'm afraid it will lose a lot of moral value, right?"

As soon as these words came out, the eyes of several inhumans lit up.However, Derek sneered, "It's useless, obviously they guessed that there is no need to control us when that thing appears, because no one can run away."

Everyone fell into deathly silence once again.Ethan thought to himself, this kid's words really hit the heart with an arrow... He didn't even leave any hope.

Pastor Chen Zeng, who had been silent all this time, suddenly asked, "You help us survive like this, do you need us to do anything for you?"

Tanithel looked over with his ethereal and clear gray eyes, with a noble and innocent face, "As a servant of the goddess of mercy, I just can't bear to see you die in vain."

Chen Zeng rolled his eyes and smiled harmlessly, "Everyone is walking together, so there is no need to go around? I praise the name of my lord because everything I have is bestowed by him. My lord still wants us Thank you so much, now that you are helping us, how can you ask for nothing?"

Tanisel pinched the index finger and thumb of his left hand, put the other three fingers together, placed them near the heart, and leaned forward slightly.This seems to be their way of saluting.However, when he stood up straight again, there was more cunning in his dignified smile, "I should do merciful things for the shepherd, I am just doing things according to the laws of God, but... if you have a way to collect a little bit' then I would be very grateful for a sample of something'. Maybe I can negotiate with your foreign affairs department and give you an extra five points as a reward."