Falling into the Abyss

General Muller decided to divide the remaining non-humans into six groups, bring heavy weapons, and attack the last three main tribes of the Faun rebels.Their main task is to assassinate the chief of the horned people. As long as they lose their leader, this rebellion will soon fall apart, and all terrorist attacks against the city will stop.

Ethan and Samuel were still divided into a group and joined the team led by the Chief of Security Schneider himself.Although most of the other non-human Ethans have met, they don't have deep friendships and can't speak.What worried him more was that Tai Feng was assigned to the group led by Gray Hair.

But obviously it's no use worrying at this time.Fortunately, each team has some real soldiers following them, so Vasiliev should not be too out of line.Before leaving, Samuel gave Tai Feng a small knife transformed from a razor, and asked him to hide it in his close pocket, and use it for self-defense if it was really a last resort.

Anyway, on the battlefield, even if one or two guards are killed, they can still be evaded on the horned man.Samuel said in a low voice to the Omega who was so frightened that he was about to cry.

Thirty people, together with Schneider and another small group of soldiers, took a military transport plane and landed on a bare rocky mountaintop. There was a low-lying basin at their feet. In the dense copper plum grove, clusters of glowing copper plum fruits shone with a faint green light in the dark.

It is said that in this forest is hidden the "mouth of the earth" that the two captured horned chiefs said could swallow all the earth's troops.Many of the horned captives of different tribes tortured by the earth army mentioned this place, so General Muller thought that some kind of secret weapon of the horned people might be hidden here.Although he was dubious, but now that the war is drawing to a close, in order to prevent the horned rebels from resurging in the future, he decided to send a team of non-humans to search here.

The forest is very lonely, the air is stagnant and lacks circulation.The damp smell floats in the air, and occasionally swarms of luminous flying insects can be seen rising from the depths of the forest, as brilliant as scattered sparks.

If it weren't for worrying about the horned men lurking in the darkness, this kind of scenery could be called very moving.Ethan imprinted this picture in his mind, hoping that if Tanisel happened to be perceiving his thoughts, he would also be able to see this beautiful scene.

Since he parted from Tanithel, he has never felt the priest's voice again.He began to worry a little, would Tanisel be in danger?Will it be caught by Roland?He was fidgeting, but he couldn't take the initiative to find out where Tanithel was.He was absent-minded all day, and even tripped over a tangled tree root on the ground a few times on the road, causing Schneider to stare at him several times.

At night, everyone slept in the open under the dense copper plum trees, silently eating the canned food in their bags.Samuel suddenly stuffed something into Ethan's hand as if nothing had happened. Ethan looked down and saw that it was a pair of glasses.

Ethan looked at him in surprise, "Where did you get it?"

"Torschneider bought it at the Earthman's supermarket. I'm not sure about your prescription, but that guy should be able to check it." Samuel lowered his head and said while munching on the meat sauce in the can.

Ethan raised his head and glanced at Schneider who was talking to a military sergeant not far away. The other party frowned habitually, always looking serious and tense.

"Thank him for me." Ethan said to Samuel.

"Hey, don't you want to thank me?" Samuel elbowed him in dissatisfaction, "I begged him for a long time."

"You're just talking. Isn't it because people like you?" Ethan sighed and shook his head quietly.

Samuel's eyes widened suddenly, "Can you fucking stop making such scary jokes. I have goosebumps."

Ethan glanced at him sarcastically, "You didn't seem so scary when you were pressing on him?"

"I was just helping!"

"Well, it's fine if you're happy." Ethan shrugged, "But don't tell me that you really don't see how much the chief guard takes care of you. If you say a word, people will talk to him at all for me. An unfamiliar stranger brought back a pair of glasses specially. He also smuggled inhibitors for you before. Haven’t you ever wondered why he takes care of you like this?”

"Because I helped him maintain order in the Forbidden City! Do you think he could manage so many thugs so easily without my people? Besides, I gave him a lot of money from selling things in the Forbidden City. ah."

"Hahaha..." Ethan chuckled as if he had heard the innocent words of a child, "We are not human, and they have plenty of ways to control us. No matter how much they try to make trouble, they will kill us all at worst. It will affect their moral value. Why does he need you, the so-called 'big brother', to maintain stability? As for the money, it is even more ridiculous. Will he, the dignified chief of the guard, value your little bribe?"

Samuel stared at him, but for a moment there was nothing to say in response.Of course he had doubted this possibility, but Schneider had always acted coldly and business-like in front of him, so he thought he was being overwhelmed.Maybe the other party is just sympathizing with each other, overflowing with sympathy?

But if Ethan thinks so too...

Ethan put on his glasses and glanced at him, "There is nothing in this world that doesn't ask for anything in return. You'd better think about what he wants from you. Isn't that what you warned me back then?"

His words made Samuel silent, and looked in the direction of Schneider thoughtfully.Then, he shook his head, as if trying to deny himself.

Samuel woke up suddenly during the night, and he heard a strange cry.

Like a person moaning in pain, tossing and turning, in the deep dark night, there is a quiet terror.

Schneider also woke up, and the eyes of the two met.Schneider looked away quickly, waking up a nearby soldier.

Ethan was also awakened by the cry at this time, and he suddenly felt his scalp tingling.

This voice, they have heard.I heard such a sound before when I got lost in the woods outside Anas City.Not long after, they were ambushed by head-eating worms and horned men that descended suddenly from the trees.After a while, the chief of guard hesitated, called Ethan, Samuel and two other Alpha non-humans, and followed the two soldiers to search for the sound deep in the woods.

This time, non-people have an extra laser gun in their hands, which is much more confident than last time.They walked cautiously in the dense forest, the sultry humidity seemed to be sticky on the skin, and the scene ten steps away from the thick fog was empty, and the spotlights could only illuminate a straight line. There is water vapor lingering and rippling.

The mist gradually closed behind them, and they seemed to be swallowed by it.The two soldiers stared at the thermal sensor and GPS locator in their hands to barely confirm that they were not lost.In the damp, Ethan smelled a disgusting rotten smell, reminiscent of the filthy smell of maggots wriggling on a rotting corpse.He paused in his footsteps, hesitating whether he should go any further.

Samuel almost bumped into him, "What's wrong?"

"It smells bad."

"Is there?" Samuel sniffed vigorously, "Although it is a little damp and smelly, it is easy to smell like this in the forest."

"Every time I smell this smell, nothing good happens." Ethan's green eyes looked around, with animal-like vigilance.

"You two, keep up!" Schneider warned in front.

Ethan couldn't, so he had no choice but to continue to follow them through the luxuriant bushes.The cry became more and more clear, and the two soldiers in front suddenly made a stop gesture, asking everyone to lower their bodies and look for vegetation cover.

In the thick fog, a black shadow could be seen swaying leisurely in the light.

Is it a horned person?

Two soldiers held their guns and walked towards the shadow step by step.Samuel, Schneider, and the other two non-humans also followed a little bit forward, only Ethan stood behind, his brows were tightly frowned, and a nightmarish memory flickered deep in his eyes.

Altars, blood, blue, red...

Suddenly, the movements of the two soldiers stopped.They lay on the spot and didn't move for a long time.Samuel and Schneider came to them and heard them whispering, although the tone was subtle, there was a trace of confusion.

"What it is……"

At this moment, the fog just faded a little, and Samuel took out a binoculars with night vision function from his pocket, and looked towards the shadow.

A grunt of indistinguishable emotion escaped his throat.

He saw that the person making strange human-like screams in the dark forest was not a human being, but a fleshy worm coiled on the ground like a thick water pipe, with the top hanging high Then, the small mouth will suddenly expand in a disgusting way, revealing the sharp teeth that are still hanging with flesh and blood.Then from that mouth came the hiss they had heard.

The worm was just like the one that suddenly descended from the tree and ate a few inhuman heads near the city of Anas before, and now it looked very similar to those huge worms that rushed out of the ground near the altar. It's only one-tenth the size of the big worm.

Could it be that these little worms are the descendants of those big worms?Samuel suddenly thought of the fleshy worms covered in white flowers and ashes entangled and curled up, like a spread of intestines spouting hot acid from inside.He shivered and felt a little nauseous.

Does the presence of such small worms mean that those big worms are nearby?

The worm screamed a few more times, then stopped suddenly.Its head swung twice in the air, then twisted suddenly, and crawled towards a depression on the ground not far away.

It was a section of steps, a stone step sunken into the ground, covered heavily with moss and rotting grass leaves, leaving only some places in the middle clean and abnormal, as if something was often dragged past there.

In the depths of this uninhabited forest valley, a section of artificial steps suddenly appeared... The two soldiers said excitedly that this must be the entrance of the so-called "Mouth of the Earth" by the Horns.

Samuel swallowed, and said in a low voice, "I don't want to go in... Maybe it's full of disgusting meat worms."

Their mission, however, is to investigate the Earth's Mouth, destroying what they find if necessary.They even brought back enough explosives to blow down a small building, and of course they couldn't stop here.

Schneider said, "Let's go back and call the others, and it won't be too late to go down."

The two soldiers agreed with him, and the group of seven hurried back, but when they returned to the camp, they all stood there in a daze.

The rest, whether non-human or military, all fell to the ground without their heads.The crimson blood, which looked black at night, gurgled from the bowl-mouthed neck, blackening the ground too.The thick bloody smell turned into a crimson mist, permeating the seven bloodless faces.

One of the Inhuman Betas screamed.

However, Ethan, Samuel, and Schneider were no strangers to such scenes, but everything happened so quickly and so quietly, it still made people feel a chill from the bottom of their hearts.

Ethan's eyes seemed to be floating into distant memories, and he murmured absently, "The cry just now is an invitation, they are waiting for us underground..."