Falling into the Abyss

The idea conveyed by Tanithel gradually dissipated, and Ethan was brought back to reality by the increasingly pungent smell in his nose.He coughed in a low voice, and returned his gaze to the wall in front of him.He closed his eyes, trying to let the tentacles on the back of his neck grow out, but the strange thing was that the sense of fullness that was always throbbing in his body was nowhere to be seen now, as if all the strength was hitting the void, and there was nowhere to go.Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and a strong sense of exhaustion pushed towards him layer by layer.He really wanted to go to sleep now.

Samuel let out a groan at this moment and woke up leisurely.The sword eyebrows were knotted together, and it seemed that he was a little unsure of his position.

Ethan didn't support him, and both of them fell to the ground, and unfortunately he became Samuel's human body cushion, and he almost vomited out of the pressure.Samuel heard Ethan's face wrinkled in pain under him, and his consciousness gradually returned to reality.

Ethan's cheeks were sunken, lacking in color, and very haggard, looking as if he was going to be exhausted.

"They're fuming us with tear gas, maybe we can avoid it by going out from this wall." Ethan reluctantly pointed at the concrete wall.

Samuel quickly got up from Ethan and went to check the wall.In fact, at this moment, Samuel was still a little confused. For a while, he was not sure whether Schneider's death was his hallucination. Maybe that person was still alive somewhere as the chief of guards, or maybe he just confused his dream with reality. .

He is clearly experiencing the deepest pain and despair, but he still has to work hard to live, and he doesn't even have time to figure out the situation.

"I can't open it without tools." Samuel turned around and picked Ethan up from the ground.He was shocked to find that the other party's body was so light, and it was completely different from the rosy, healthy and even muscular one a year ago.

Something was devouring Ethan little by little, making him thinner and thinner.

Ethan seemed to be on the verge of losing consciousness, and he didn't struggle to protest this weird posture. His head rested on Samuel's shoulder, his eyes were slightly closed, and he didn't know if he was asleep.Samuel led him all the way along the wall looking for a possible breakthrough point, his feet were slippery and difficult to walk in the smelly dirty water.The approaching smoke could be seen in the distance, and the disgusting pungent smell had hit first, causing Samuel to cough violently.

The desperate situation was approaching, but suddenly there was an indescribable rumbling sound from the wall. Suddenly, the stones collapsed, the smoke and dust flew out, and a flesh-pink thing about the thickness of a person's waist rushed out from behind the wall. Viscous acid dripped from the wide-open front end.Samuel backed away in fright, and his whole body was stuck to the wall on the other side of the corridor.He never expected to see the giant worms that are only found on the planet Faun. Although this one looks relatively small, he will never recognize the front end dripping with hissing acid.

"Don't be afraid..." Ethan in his arms suddenly said weakly, "It won't hurt us."

Samuel looked at the person in his arms in shock, and when he looked up again, he found that the worm was slowly retracting into the wall, leaving only a hole in the wall that could probably allow a person to pass through.He hesitantly walked to the dark hole and looked in. The place where the flashlight illuminated was the ground covered with dust and gravel, and there was indeed a thick pillar a little further away.It seems that this is the ancient subway station that Ethan strayed into last time.

The smoke that was approaching rapidly like a tide did not give him time to hesitate, so Samuel had no choice but to stuff Ethan in, and bent down to get in too.After entering, he immediately took off his jacket and stuffed it into the hole. Seeing that it was not enough, he even tore off Ethan's jacket to plug the hole, and picked up some gravel to fill and fix it.Wisps of smoke seeped in through the gaps, but they managed to block most of the foul-smelling irritating gas.

Panting heavily, Samuel turned around, only to find that Ethan had fallen asleep leaning against the nearest pillar.

Samuel was a little dazed, and slowly slid down with his back against the wall.There was silence in the darkness, only his own heavy breathing could be heard, and the faint yellow light of the flashlight could not drive out the darkness two feet away.He raised his head and looked into the empty void, not knowing where he was, and he didn't seem to care that much.

His eyes fell on Ethan, and he couldn't tell what it was like in his heart.At this time, Ethan looked so pale and thin. No one could have imagined that just a short time ago, countless tentacles were flying all over the sky behind him, and there was a strange smile on his face amidst the flying flesh. It seemed that those who died around him were not human beings. Rather, they are utterly insignificant livestock.Such a sight made Samuel feel a chill in his heart, and for a moment he even felt that Ethan would kill him together.

But obviously Ethan still recognized him, that is to say, he was in a fully awake state for killing like that.

If it is said that Ethan was dominated by a strange force on the planet Mushen before, how can he explain it this time?Is it true that Ethan is no longer the Ethan he knew?

Everyone he cares about is away from him, why is Ethan excluded?

Samuel turned off the flashlight, and opened a pair of lifeless eyes in the darkness, as if gradually melting into nothingness.

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"Your time is coming soon." Tanisel stood in front of Ethan and smiled, but his skin was black, and his whole body was black, like a thick and unmelted shadow.

Ethan seemed to be kneeling in front of him, trying to move his body, but couldn't.He raised his head, looking at the black Tanithel as if worshiping a god.It was clearly a familiar face, but why did it give him a faint sense of awe?Why do I always feel that the face belonging to Tanisel is not the face of this black man, but just a mask to relax him?

The black Tanithel stretched out a skinny hand, gently stroking Ethan's hair, as if he was very loving, "Our believers used to be all over the galaxy, but now they are dying day by day, but the moment of awakening is It's coming. When order crumbles, worms groan in empty lands, and shadows consume entire galaxies, you will be the god's extradition."

Ethan's whole body was cold under his touch. On the one hand, he felt an indescribable sense of disgust that made him want to avoid it, but on the other hand, he had a different sense of belonging and intimacy, "Who are you?"

"When the gods fell into a deep sleep, I was the only one who walked alone on the earth and in this universe for tens of millions of years. You have seen me and remembered me." The black Tanithel gently raised his jaw, Looking down at his white eyes without irises, ordered, "Say my name."

There are countless gears in Ethan's mind, and a name is jumping on the tip of his tongue, but there is no way to turn it into words.

This black "man" appeared in his weird and twisted dreams again and again, sometimes without a face, sometimes with Tanithel's face, and getting closer and closer to him.Up to now, she has actually stood in front of him and put her hand on top of his head.He suddenly realized that he was dreaming, and hurriedly backed away, trying to stay away from the black "man".

"You are...you are the messenger of the god of ignorance!" Ethan roared loudly, but he still couldn't remember the name, "What exactly do you want? Why do you keep pestering me!"

"I'm not entangled with you." The corner of the black Tanisel's mouth drew an elegant arc. In an instant, his face suddenly blurred, and his facial features continued to deform, distorted into the faces of different people, and finally froze. on his father's face.The black Adrian smiled lovingly, and uttered a disturbing answer, "You were born to return to the original, to return to my side."

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Ethan woke up from the cold.He slowly opened his eyes and felt dizzy, his limbs were weak, and his whole body was shaking.

He has a fever.

As soon as he moved, Samuel appeared in his field of vision, looking at him with concern.

"Are you cold?" Samuel asked.

Ethan nodded, curled up on the ground, his teeth chattering.Samuel sighed, lifted him up, and let him lean into his arms. The heat from Omega's body made Ethan feel a little better, and his tense muscles finally relaxed a little.

"Where are we..." Ethan asked.

"I don't know, it seems to be a subway station."

"Ah... how long have I been asleep?"

"About an hour or two."

"It's been so long..." Ethan swallowed his saliva, but felt a dry pain, "We have to leave quickly, they will send someone down..."

"It's useless." Samuel said in a low voice, "I tried to find it when you were asleep. You can go to other platforms along the passage, but you will end up in a dead end. The tunnel has been bombed It collapsed, and..." Samuel's voice was somewhat uncertain, "You seemed to be frightened when you were rescued from the other platform last time, did you see something?"

Ethan noticed the word "also" in Samuel's words, and he looked up at Samuel's face, "You saw that too?"

Xiwei's flashlight couldn't see Samuel's expression clearly, but he felt that the other party's arm holding him was slightly tighter, "I'm not sure if it's my hallucination. I seem to see a figure on the other platform."

At that time, he explored the tunnel along the road that Ethan had walked, and saw the abandoned carriage, the strange five-fingered child's handprint on the window, and the mummified corpse lying on the ground.This empty and ancient subway system is creepy, and there is a kind of quiet weirdness everywhere, but at this moment, he doesn't really care about what he will encounter.He walked through the long tunnel and came to another subway station.Thick dust is covered everywhere, but on the ground, there are clearly many rows of messy footprints, as if they were printed only recently.

Those footprints looked very strange, the sole of one foot looked normal, but the sole of the other seemed to grow backwards.And looking at the size and shape, it seems that there is more than one "person".

What is hidden in this dusty darkness?Does anyone still live here?

Listening to Samuel's narration, Ethan thought of the black figure at the end of the stairs he saw last time when he escaped from here.

In a filthy place like the Forbidden City, will it attract some strange things?The black man in the dream said that he has walked alone on the earth for tens of thousands of years, so at the end of endless time, when those huge monsters in the dream have not yet "sleeped", are there any believers on the earth?

If there were believers like giant worms on the planet Faun, what would believers on Earth look like?Could it be some humanoid creature with five fingers at the same level?

Is the current self considered a deformed creature like them?

Ethan's mind was full of frantic imaginations. At this moment, he seemed to have completely merged into the darkness, and the light was getting farther and farther away from him.

He felt himself falling, falling forever.The great loneliness made him even colder, so he shrank into Samuel's arms.

However, Samuel's body froze suddenly, and Ethan heard him ask, "Who!"

The empty footsteps were getting closer, and Ethan wanted to see who it was, but he could only distinguish an approaching figure in his blurred vision.He heard some vigilance and hostility in Samuel's voice, "Why are you?"

When the man finally approached, the blond hair reflected the bright light from the scepter in the other party's hand, and the delicate and handsome facial features gradually became clear from the mist, and Ethan's breathing quickened.He opened his mouth, but no words came out.

Tanithel saw Samuel and Ethan hugging each other without their shirts on, the corners of their mouths twitched indistinctly, and their brows frowned quickly.

"What's the matter with him?" Tanithel came to the two of them and squatted down, pulled Ethan out of Samuel's arms almost immediately, let him lean on his shoulder instead, reached out and probed Ethan's forehead.His brows frowned even more, but he lowered his head to meet Ethan's silly eyes.

"Didn't I tell you not to act rashly..." Tanisel sighed, but there was a sense of pity in his reproachful tone.

"He did it to save us." Samuel said next to him, his eyes lowered to hide the pain, "I don't know why he became like that... Anyway, what happened on the Faun planet happened again , He was in a bad state afterwards."

"His body can't bear so much entropy right now, and if it continues like this, his body will collapse...I have to take him out of here as soon as possible." Tanithel looked down at Ethan, and gently rubbed his red with his hand He softly comforted his abnormally swollen cheeks, "You will be fine."

Ethan, on the other hand, was still blinking and looking at him almost greedily, not sure if he was burned out.

"Leave? How did you leave? How did you get in?" Samuel asked.

"They were afraid that the mutation in Ethan's body would be contagious, so they didn't dare to send people down easily. So I told them that only I can take him out."

Samuel's eyes suddenly became dangerous, and his hands were already touching the stones around him to use as weapons.Tanithel rolled his eyes, "If I didn't say that, how could they let me in?"

"Why do you help us like this?" Samuel stared at him holding Ethan's hand, and asked a series of questions, "You are a prominent priest of Eve Star, what kind of consequences will you do if you do such a thing? Why take this risk? What are your plans for Ethan?"

Tanithel also raised his eyes, met Samuel's aggressive gaze without hesitation, and said word by word, "I saved him because I wanted to save him. He is more important to me than anything else."

Samuel frowned, not sure if such a reason was worth believing.But Tanithel had already hugged Ethan, "There is no time, and if we continue, they will really send someone down."

Samuel then stood up unwillingly, "But obviously we can't go out through the subway exit you came in, and the tunnel is blocked, there is no other way out."

"Yes." Ethan in Tanithel's arms suddenly said, and pointed to the nearby wall, "I didn't kill it... I don't know where it is now, but it grows very fast and has begun to grow There's a hole in the ground."

The priest looked down at the person with closed eyes in his arms, but as if he suddenly understood something, his expression changed.

"Has the egg of a giant worm... hatched?"