Falling into the Abyss

Time passed by every minute and every second, and only a few beams of flashlights were left in the dark corridor, pouring on the blood-stained ground, and only the faint sound of water could be heard in the silence. Some creatures were churning and soaking in the darkness. The sewage of dead bodies.

Ethan felt extremely tired, and the tentacles behind him seemed to weigh heavily on him.He felt as if he hadn't slept for three days and three nights. His eyelids seemed to be made of lead, and they kept closing downwards.He told himself he couldn't sleep, and bit his tongue hard, the pain finally made his consciousness clearer.

He began to let out extremely painful moans, just like the low pain he would only make when he was suffering from severe appendicitis pain.At the same time, those tentacles that spread from his neck, shoulders and neck to his entire back also began to slowly "crawl" back under his pale skin.That scene was weird and unreasonable. No one could explain how so many huge tentacles covered with thorns squeezed into the body that was a little too thin even by the standards of a male Beta.The black lines on his face began to recede, and the pupils gradually returned to their original shape.

His sanity returned to his consciousness, and the wanton killing just now seemed as far away as a nightmare.But on the other hand, he clearly remembers everything that happened, how he manipulated those disgusting and powerful black tentacles to devour the flesh and blood of those inhumans and guards, how he looked at the man named John The inhuman pleaded at his feet, then crushed his head, remembering how he poured something strange down the throat of the blond Alpha.

He killed people, consciously, using the most brutal and terrifying means to kill hundreds of people.He absorbed them with his tentacles, drank their blood, and smiled at their howls and screams.

Ethan was a little scared, not anything outside, but himself.He was afraid of why he was so calm at this time, why he didn't feel much regret, why he even felt a little bit relieved, as if he had thrown off a burden.

Lionel was right, the mutation not only happened to his body, but also to his spirit...

What kind of terrifying thing would he...be turned into?

Ethan suddenly felt a little cold in his body, the back of his clothes had been completely torn, and it was no longer able to protect him from the cold.He hugged his body, stood up slowly, and walked towards Samuel who was still holding Schneider's body blankly and sitting under the gallows made of two hemp ropes.

Ethan looked at Schneider's eyes that were not closed, but the pupils that were always clear and firm were now covered with a layer of deadly gray, and his lips were slightly opened, as if he wanted to say something.He felt a little illusory, as if separated by a thick layer of cotton, he couldn't understand what he saw in his mind.

Why didn't he save Schneider?He's obviously mutated, and he's killed so many people, why can't he be saved?Why didn't you notice that Alpha, why did you focus on that blond guard?If only he had been more careful...

Ethan lowered his head, the inexplicable guilt made his throat bitter, and he didn't know how to face Samuel's gaze.

But he knew they didn't have much time.

Samuel's expression was empty, his eye sockets were dry, as if he had lost his soul, and became a statue.He had been in this position for a long time, and he didn't respond to Ethan's approach.

Ethan carefully put his hand on Samuel's shoulder, "We... can't stay here for long..."

Samuel shrank back suddenly as if he had been touched by something sharp.He still hugged Schneider tightly, as if he didn't hear Ethan's words.

Ethan felt sour and regretful in his heart, as if a stone was choked in his throat.He whispered, "Someone will be down for us soon. We need to get out of here."

"I don't want to leave him." Samuel's voice was hoarse, tired and hollow.

Ethan looked anxiously at Schneider's motionless body.The Queen of Worms said that the parasitic eggs hatched only after the person died.If there are really giant worm eggs in Schneider's body, they may emerge from Schneider's body at any time.

He didn't want Samuel to be further stimulated.

So Ethan stood up, picked up a laser gun from the ground, and walked behind Samuel, who was still in a state of insanity, and imitated the guards' usual methods of beating people he had observed before, and slammed towards Omega. Knocked off the back of the neck.Samuel probably reached his limit because he had experienced too much chaos and was stimulated.Although Ethan was weak, he still managed to knock the man unconscious.He supported Samuel's fallen body, and it took a lot of effort to drag him aside.

He was sweating profusely, out of breath, and felt like he was going to pass out at any moment.But rationality supported his body, telling him that if he fell down now, it would be completely over.

He didn't know that his desire to survive was so strong, even though he had turned into a monster, he still didn't want to die.

Ethan knelt beside Schneider's body, pursed his lips, and then reached out to untie Schneider's clothes.The former chief of guard's strong body was covered with bruises from kicks, and now the color became darker due to the lack of blood circulation.Ethan spent a lot of energy, turning over and over carefully examining his stripped body, but he couldn't see where the worm would come out of.Ethan hated himself a little, everyone was dead, but he still wanted to desecrate Schneider's body like this.Guilt surged over him, forcing him to put the unfolded clothes back on Schneider again.It's just that the corpse had already started to stiffen at this time, and it took a lot of his strength.After finally fastening the last button, Ethan collapsed and sat beside him.

"I'm sorry..." Ethan whispered to Schneider, his nose was a little sore, so he had to rub it vigorously with his hands, "I... couldn't save you..."

He and Samuel... It seems that they have only been together for a long time, right?He has loved Samuel for so long, and he could die in the arms of his beloved at the last moment, but is there any unfinished grudge?

Ethan found that he didn't know Schneider at all-their high-ranking chief of the guard.At this moment, seeing that once handsome and resolute face became strange and unfamiliar due to the loss of muscle support, Ethan felt his heart smoldering.

Can Samuel... survive such a loss?

He tried to put himself in the situation, if it was Tanisel lying here, what would happen to himself?

At this moment, Schneider's body suddenly began to tremble.It's like the shivering that people do when they are extremely cold.Ethan was so taken aback that he almost jumped up from the ground.

Is it a corpse?

Then, Schneider's mouth suddenly opened, so wide that it seemed as if the corners of the mouth would be torn apart.This scene was so eerie and eerie, Schneider's eyes were opened blankly, and his mouth was wide open like a black hole, as if his jaw had been removed. The next moment Ethan almost felt that he would let out a hiss that didn't belong to human beings.皞.

Not so.

From his mouth, something long and thick about the size of a human forearm crawled out.

Ethan stared blankly, the flesh-pink bug squirmed its soft and sticky body, and appeared bit by bit in the dim light.After it came out, its front end was raised high, spinning around, as if looking for something.At that time, the hole at the front end, which was enlarged and contracted at that time, was also being explored one after another.Its body has a circle of ring-shaped wrinkles, and the dense blood vessels under the still tender skin can be vaguely seen...

Not only did Ethan not feel scared, but he straightened up in surprise and leaned forward.The front end of the juvenile giant worm was aimed at him immediately, motionless, as if observing him.Although Ethan didn't think it had eyes.

A strange soft feeling rose in Ethan's heart, and he slowly stretched out a finger to the front of the little worm.Suddenly, the little worm opened its mouth wide, engulfed his finger, and sucked it hard like sucking milk.It has no teeth yet and feels soft and wet to the touch, as if being sucked by a real human child.It sucked like this for a while, then spit out Ethan's fingers, then rubbed the back of Ethan's hand with its soft body, and even coiled around his wrist and forearm, coiling up bit by bit.Ethan didn't stop it, just watched it finally come out of Schneider's mouth completely, and a long transparent and crystal-clear line was pulled out from the end.

Ethan tilted his head and observed it, with a fascinated expression on his face, "So... you are the one who was sent to hollow out the earth."

The little worm didn't respond to his words, and kept waving its front end.

"Are you male or female? Do you have sub-genders too?" Ethan reached out and touched the thin skin of the little worm, and suddenly smiled and said to himself, "Whether it's male or female, I'm afraid You're going to be alone forever."

He wouldn't let something happen to Samuel, that was the only friend he had left.

Should it be killed?Today's population on Earth is very sparse, and some important Earth Alliance government departments are still located here.But... After all, this is the place where the civilization of the galaxy originated, and there are more or less ordinary citizens living in several relatively large cities.

But if you kill it...

Ethan quietly looked at the arm that kept rubbing against him, as if the little worm who regarded him as his "mother", had another plan in mind.

He stood up and stepped off the high platform, and walked to the side of the river that exuded a strong smell of blood.He squatted down, pulled the small worm wrapped around his left arm with his right hand, and watched it curl up in the air uncomfortably because of the loss of support.Ethan put it into the river and watched it swim on the water surface, twisting and twisting like a huge pork tapeworm.

Ethan said to it, "The 'food' here is enough for you to eat for a while."

The little worm quickly disappeared in the middle of the black water. Ethan saw the corpse not far away violently ups and downs, and a pink thing flashed around its waist.

Ethan grinned and murmured quietly, "There is so much food, maybe it will grow up soon."

At this time, he asked, there was a trace of burnt and pungent smell in the air.Although the source of the smell was probably far away from them, it was as clear to Ethan as the Omega smell on Samuel's body.He knew immediately that people from outside were afraid to come in easily, so he wanted to smoke him and Samuel out of these drains.

He turned around quickly, and without knowing where the strength came from, he pulled up the drowsy Samuel on the ground, and half dragged and half dragged him off the high platform.He picked up a flashlight from the ground and tied it around his waist, and with a riveting effort, he put most of Samuel's weight on his shoulders, and led him to walk deep into the corridor.

He had never been so grateful that his previous work was related to the sewers, and he was more familiar with the terrain here than anyone in the Forbidden City.The last time he mistakenly broke into the old subway station, now thinking about it, it is a good place to hide.

Making up his mind, Ethan groped in the dark based on his memory.The pungent and choking smell became more and more pungent, so he held his breath most of the time. Samuel's heavy body made his shoulder hurt, but he still had to endure it.

The wall in memory has been sealed again, Ethan touched one wall after another, and finally touched a concrete wall that feels different from other walls.

"It's here." Ethan stretched out his feet and tried hard, but the wall didn't move at all.He then considered whether to use the acid from the tentacles to corrode the wall.

At this moment, Ethan's body froze suddenly.

Because a thought suddenly appeared in his mind, which did not belong to him.

There was a little sunshine-like heat in that thought, which made his cold body warm up in an instant.The string of soul shackles that had been silent for a long time was finally plucked again.

The idea from Tanithel was very simple, only three words: I am here.

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I forgot to explain one detail, thanks to the little angel reminding me~