Falling into the Abyss

Ethan was groggy, feeling like he was lying somewhere.

He couldn't open his eyes, but somehow he could sense his surroundings.The body floats on a strange medium between liquid and gas, ups and downs, swaying, as if flowing in an unknown direction.This is an endless primordial sea, with shining molecules wandering around his elbow like stars all over the sky, the surroundings are vast and boundless, covered by a blue mist emanating from nowhere.

Ethan intuited that this was an incomparably holy and distant place, not only in terms of distance, but also in terms of time.Perhaps as ancient as the city he had visited, with its emerald sun and strangely pointed buildings.Peace and tranquility permeated between his limbs and bones, making him feel so comfortable that he wanted to sigh.

He slowly opened his eyes, and through the translucent blue mist, he saw many swirling galaxies.They are filled with the gorgeous glow of neon clothes, and the cantilevers are intertwined and winding. Hundreds of millions of stars span the sky, and countless civilizations are born and die in the blink of an eye.

And beside him, in the endless sea of ​​eternity, there were many translucent creatures that were huge enough to be as high as a hundred stories moving slowly.There are great differences in their shapes and sizes. Some are like a ball of suffocated basketballs, with tiny hands all over their bodies beating each other in the air, making a clacking sound; The neurons are intertwined and twisted like long synaptic snakes, and there are large pieces of bag-shaped weight and black dots trembling in them; some are like hard rocky mountains, and the heavy bodies are surging on the sea surface. There are high waves, but there are many soft flesh-colored substances stretched out, wrapping those hard bodies, changing their shapes occasionally.Something flowing in their bodies is unknown whether it is liquid or solid, and the strange streamer wanders back and forth among the life forms of unknown material.They looked weird and old and heavy, and Ethan was as small as a grain of sand in the midst of them.

He didn't know what those things were, whether they could sense his presence, whether they were kind or malicious to him.He just felt that his hands and feet were filled with lead, and he couldn't move an inch.

About 100 meters away from him, a creature that looked like a slug as tall as a mountain was slowly swimming past, with many winding tentacles growing on its head, and on the top of each tentacle was a melting Something in the shape of a human head.Through the translucent skin, one can even vaguely see the internal organs pushing each other inside, the internal organs as big as a large aircraft.However, on the smooth surface of the skin, there seemed to be several large opaque lumps like psoriasis, wriggling along with its slow movements, and sometimes oozing out thick yellow-brown juice.Ethan felt it was sick.

What are these things?Why does it give people a feeling of fear and uneasiness in the face of super-creatures that are too much beyond themselves.

A feeling of insignificance in which one's destiny is completely controlled.

"Dirty..." A voice, no, to be precise, it was a strong thought that suddenly captured his entire consciousness.He turned his head suddenly, and found that at some point, at a distance of less than 50 meters from him, stood the oblate life body covered in hands just now.Even if Ethan raised his head like this, he couldn't see its whole picture, it was silent, just like an arrogant building suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Dirty...corruption...destruction..." Such thoughts burst into Ethan's mind one after another. The severe pain made him want to scream, but he couldn't make a sound when he opened his mouth.

He opened his eyes wide, watching the dense hand-like organs all over its body suddenly and violently waved at the same time, as if hundreds of people were clapping their hands.One of the hands suddenly extended forward, enlarged, and rapidly inflated like a balloon.Then it slapped Ethan down like a fly!Ethan couldn't move, watching the huge hand like a small house approaching him quickly.

He woke up suddenly from the coma, and there was a choking sound like an asthmatic patient in his throat due to the violent inhalation.His eyes were wide open, and his hands were scratching in the air.Suddenly, his hand was tightly held by another pair of hands, and the familiar faint scent of sandalwood suddenly filled the air.

Ethan's struggling movements stagnated, but he didn't want to blink his eyes wide open.His lips began to tremble, his body began to tremble, and he said, "I'm not dreaming, am I?"

"Unfortunately, you are dreaming." Tanithel gently bent his gray eyes, soft and curly blond hair hanging down his brows, "Your consciousness just went to a very dangerous place, fortunately, I Pulled you back just in time."

The priest rubbed the back of Ethan's hand lightly with his thumb. The touch was so real, how could it be a dream?

Ethan suddenly pulled the hand that Taniser was still holding with him, and wrapped his arms around Taniser's body as if he was afraid that someone would run away.The priest didn't struggle either, except for the initial exclamation, he only let out a series of low muffled laughter.Tanithel was lying on Ethan's chest like this, his blond hair rubbing against his chin with a light beard.Feeling the real weight in his chest, Ethan took a deep breath nostalgicly.

"Miss me that much?" Tanithel turned his face sideways, his moist light red lips rubbing against Ethan's Adam's apple.

Ethan held his hand even harder, answering silently.

"Sorry, I'm under house arrest now, so I couldn't come here. Have you... seen Xi'onier?" Tanithel also put his arms around Ethan's thinner waist.Ethan's body was being consumed, his cheeks became paler than before, and he lost the healthy rosiness. There was a layer of bruise under his eyes, and he looked very tired.

Ethan's voice was hoarse and staccato, "He told me something, and I think he's lying to me."

Tanithel propped up his body a little bit, stroking Ethan's cheek pitifully, "What did he say?"

"He said I was not my father's biological son."

Tanithel showed a sad expression as if he was very sad for him, and sighed softly through his nose, "No one can erase the past that you lived with your father. Not even DNA."

Ethan nodded, showing a wry smile.

"Listen, Ethan, I don't have much time. If I stay with you for too long, someone will find out the special connection between us. I need to tell you something." Tanithel looked at Ethan There seemed to be deep reluctance on the bloodless face, "I guess, the priest let you directly touch the egg of the preface, didn't you?"

Thinking of the severe pain, Ethan shuddered and nodded.

"Sionier has always had a conjecture. He thinks that the eggs of the Prologue God are not a gift from the Prologue God to us. On the contrary, he thinks they are a kind of trigger bomb." Tanithel briefly told Ethan A conjecture that the Egg of the Order God is used to detect and destroy the entropy in the universe, "So, he will want to use you to test the limits of the Egg of the Order God. Although you will not really change the Egg of the Order God now Explosive, but the entropy in your body will still be sensed by the egg of the god of order, that is to say..." Tanithel pressed Ethan's shoulder, "that is to say, the god of order may also sense it, There are things in this universe that shouldn't exist."

Ethan recalled the endless sea of ​​not only liquid but gas, the countless rotating galaxies, and the translucent giant creatures that moved past him.Could it be... is that the projection of Xu Shen's world in his consciousness?

"I'm...something that shouldn't exist..." Ethan covered his eyes with his hands, and smiled lowly.

"This kind of perception is obviously two-way. When you feel that you see them, they also see you." Tanithel said seriously, "This is very dangerous. But as long as you are not in a mutant state, They shouldn't be able to touch you yet."

"So I have to control my emotions and try not to show things that shouldn't be seen, right?" Ethan asked calmly, taking away his hands covering his eyes.

Tanithel nodded, "Many views of the priest and mine are different. You have to be careful with him. When talking to him, don't look into his eyes, especially don't look into his third eye."

"I understand."

Tanithel reached out and gently brushed away Ethan's long forehead hair, his eyes were soft and mellow, like intoxicating wine, "I already have a plan, and I will come to pick you up soon . Hold on a little longer, protect yourself, and don't let others notice you."

After finishing speaking, he leaned down, and his red lips were printed on Ethan's lips.

Then Tanithel disappeared, and Ethan opened his eyes again.

He was lying on the bed in the room he had been assigned to, with dim lights emitting from the ceiling, and silent furniture everywhere, without translucent monsters or Tanithel.

Ethan felt his legs go numb, and he didn't know how long he had been lying down.He hesitated for a moment, pulled the railing beside the bed and sat up, stretched out his right hand and lightly touched his lips.

The touch of kissing goodbye just now was so real, he could almost taste the taste of Tanithel's lips.

The moment he woke up, the sleep chamber monitoring his brainwaves had already sent a signal to the guards escorting Ethan and Xi'onier.The door opened not long after, and the guard held his gun and stared at him with downcast eyes, "Priest Eve asked me to take you to meet him, and prepare for the next stage of the experiment."

The experiment site is still in a strange building in the hinterland of Mars.There is white everywhere, even the clothes of all the researchers are white, looking at it for a long time will cause heavy psychological pressure.

Seeing that the space here is so large, Ethan suspects that the hadron collider used to create antimatter is here.

Ethan was brought into a hall, and this time it wasn't just Xi'onier facing him alone, Ethan also saw the doctor named Bruno introduced by Tanithel when he came to Mars last time—and also the current doctor. The main person in charge of Project Zero.

At this moment, the old man was looking at him with a mixture of curiosity, bewilderment and even rejection, as if he was not looking at a person, but a strange looking animal that he had never seen before.Ethan intuited that he probably knew that he had three sets of chromosomes in his genes, but he chose not to report them.

Because if the upper management knew that he was a mutant, they would have isolated him long ago, just like Adam before.

Ethan was pressed against the chair again, and even the collar was firmly attached to the back of the armchair.His heart beat faster, he didn't know what kind of torture this time would be.

Lionel smiled gracefully at Ethan, and in his open right hand was still the incomplete egg of the preface.

"Today, I will start to teach you how to activate the egg of the Prologue God without being vaporized."