Falling into the Abyss

Tanithel's words sent a chill down Ethan's back.As if he suddenly thought of something, he rushed to the medical room next door, turned on the computer and called up the medical files of all the previous staff members, and randomly selected a few people to browse through them quickly.As expected, many people complained to the psychiatrist in the week before the disappearance of insomnia, anxiety, difficulty concentrating, and hearing non-existent voices, among other symptoms. Even those who did not report psychological problems showed some physical symptoms. Problems, such as feeling extremely tired, headaches, dizziness, and nausea, and injuries on the job have also increased significantly.Every one of the dozen or so files he opened at random had some problems that week.

"Ethan! What are you doing here? Go away!" Samuel shouted outside, "There's not even a ghost here."

Hearing the word ghost shadow, Ethan felt his hairs stand on end more and more.

Back in the previous lobby, the others didn't find anyone either.At this time, it was already evening, and the three moons, different in size and different in size, drew faint outlines in the indigo night sky.Behind the strangely shaped mountain shadows outside the horizon is a bright violet color, and the oblique light elongates the conical plant shadows not far away, and the angle always makes people feel a little inexplicable.

The mother ship ordered them to rest overnight in the base.Many of the non-humans proposed to disperse and find the bedrooms of the former pioneers to sleep well, but Ethan didn't think it was a good idea.He said to Samuel in a low voice but eagerly, "Now the people on the mother ship are resting, we'd better find the plant that Tanithel said as soon as possible."

"Don't worry, we are still waiting to explain the situation after we show everyone that video tonight, so that everyone understands what happened."

Ethan immediately said urgently, "Don't! Most of the fifty of us were forcibly pulled here, and many of them are mentally unstable. Showing them that video at a time like this will only cause trouble !"

Samuel frowned, turned around and looked at Ethan, "You mean, don't tell them, let them fend for themselves?"

Hearing the obvious displeasure in Samuel's tone, Ethan was speechless.I wonder how you, a non-human in the Forbidden City, are still so sympathetic.So he slowed down his tone and persuaded, "There is no need to explain everything clearly? You and the other nine people are the leaders of this operation, and they will obey whatever you ask them to do. But our action must be as soon as possible. I have read it Before the medical reports of the missing persons, everyone’s spirits were very unstable before that thing appeared. If it takes too long, I’m worried that our people will also have problems.”

At this moment, there was a commotion not far away.The female Beta, who had been crying all the time before, covered her ears with her hands, huddled in a seat in panic, shook her body back and forth, and kept shouting "Stop! Stop! Shut up!!!" An age and her Beta, a similar male, tried to comfort her, but she didn't stop at all. She just kept yelling words like "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! I don't want to die!" with wide-eyed eyes.Her voice was hoarse and shrill, like a cuckoo weeping blood, and it became even more strange in the overly gorgeous twilight of the red earth.

Ethan walked over quickly and asked the male Beta what happened.He said she asked them who was talking to her just now, but none of us spoke to her.Then suddenly she started screaming.

Ethan's heart sank, recalling that in those mental state records, some people also claimed to hear non-existent voices speaking to them.He squatted in front of her, trying to break her hands covering her ears to communicate with her, but he couldn't call her at all.

At this moment, Tanithel pushed aside the crowd and came over, and put his palm on the woman's forehead, and the third eye on the forehead opened a little bit, and Ethan felt a subtle change in his surroundings in an instant. It was as if the originally chaotic air suddenly settled down, and the invisible force absorbed the palpitating scream, and suppressed the inexplicable anxiety hovering in the hearts of everyone around.Tanithel chanted something in Eve in a low voice, probably something like a prayer.The woman finally calmed down, stopped screaming, and half-raised her head to stare at the priest who was staring down at her with a certain expression of pity.

Tanithel slowly closed the eyes on his forehead, and stroked the woman's cheek with his white palm, his movements were filled with endless pity and tenderness.Ethan stared blankly, suddenly wishing that it was himself who was being caressed by that hand at this moment.He was taken aback by the thought of his sudden intrusion, and quickly bit his tongue secretly to wake himself up.

"Tell me, what did you hear?" Tanithel asked softly.

The woman flinched a bit, as if she was still in shock.She wiped the tears of fear from her face with her sleeve, hesitated for a while, and then said in a gnat-like voice, "It's so big...so big...we're all going to die...no...it's worse than death Horrible...we'll be eaten by it and become part of it...I'll never see my daughter again...I haven't seen her in four years!" She was sobbing again.

"It?" an Alpha next to him asked, "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Tanithel glanced at the speaker, his gaze was extremely sharp at that moment, and the other Alpha, who was much taller and stronger than him, felt a chill.When Tanisel turned back, he had once again put on a gentle and compassionate expression, and the speed made Ethan dumbfounded.

"It speaks to you in Earth language?"

"I don't know... I can't tell..." The woman's voice trembled, her hands kept twisting her clothes, "I've heard it since I arrived on this planet. It was very vague at first, like tinnitus, but after I came here You can hear it more clearly."

Tanisel suddenly reached out to touch the woman's collar, and the information stored in the collar was continuously transmitted from the place where his finger was connected to his private information database.The Wanxi ball spinning beside him immediately flew in front of him, projecting some materials written in Eve language.From the scattered Earth language words, Ethan recognized that it was a personal medical history.

"There is no medical history of schizophrenia," Taniser put away the Wanxi ball with a dignified expression.Ordinary human beings will have some kind of premonition before coming into contact with objects or relics related to the God of Entropy, and some people who are naturally sensitive or mentally fragile are more likely to be affected.

Ethan leaned towards him at this moment, "What did she say?"

Tanithel pondered, "Eat it... and regenerate it...it can't be her..." His eyes flickered, and there was a moment of joy, "I'm afraid we have less time than we thought."

Seeing all this happen, Samuel knew that Ethan's words were true.He immediately summoned nine other people, each of whom brought about ten people, to search for the conical blue creature Tanithel mentioned near the base.Ethan and Tanisel stayed at the base, continuing to search the computer system for the pioneering records left by the previous people.Everyone was puzzled, wondering why Samuel and the others had to go out in the middle of the night.But seeing that the nine leaders were all very nervous, they didn't dare to ask more questions and followed them out.

As soon as they left, Ethan asked the computer to call up a lot of information to check.The more he looked, the paler his face became, and he stood up abruptly and walked towards Tanithel, who was sitting comfortably on the couch in the middle of the rotunda.

Priest Eve got an unopened bottle of red wine from somewhere, poured it into the wine glass, and sipped it lightly.He adjusted the settings of the wall screens, and the snow-white walls projected the surrounding scenery of the base.The deep purple twilight on the plain has slowly unfolded, and three huge silver moons hang against each other in the hollow, and the red grassland is covered with a layer of silver frost and snow.

"All the plants on this planet are connected to each other!" Ethan ran to Tanisel and said, "The juice flowing out of the plant specimens collected by the previous people has been tested and compared with the plants on this planet. Animal blood is an ingredient! Those 'plants' out there are actually animals!"

Tanithel looked at the terrified Ethan, chuckled, and pointed to his side, "Sit down."

Seeing him so careless, Ethan almost went crazy.He didn't understand why Samuel and the priest were so calm. Did they know that they might soon face a situation that they couldn't understand?Ethan didn't want to die so soon at all, he still had so many things to do, 30 of the first 29 years of his life were boring and dead, and the last year of indulgence But sent him to a place like the Forbidden City.

He can't die here so soon.

"Why does the entropy god you mentioned appear only once every three years, and where did it hide during these three years? This planet is so strange..." Ethan paced back and forth in front of Tanithel, unable to calm down, "I When I was in the Energy Bureau, I visited many unexplored primitive planets. Even the remote and strange planets are not as strange as this place... Don’t you think? All the roots of the ‘plants’ are connected together , even the animals here will grow thin threads to connect with the underground rhizomes when they sleep... This planet itself seems to be a living animal!"

"Ethan." Tanithel raised his voice slightly, and there was a certain majesty in his tone, "Come here, sit down."

Ethan's footsteps stopped, and Tanithel's suddenly cold tone made him unable to refuse.He stood stiffly for a moment, then reluctantly walked to the other side of the sofa and sat down.

Tanithel handed him the wine glass in his hand, "This bottle of wine is hidden behind some rotten vegetables, and it doesn't seem to be polluted by the entropy god. It helps relieve anxiety."

Ethan took the wine glass hesitantly, the priest's lip marks remained on the edge of the glass, and the liquid inside was like blood, swaying and leaving a faint residual red on the glass wall.He frowned, "You priests can drink?"

"No more than one cup a day." Tanithel replied freely, "We believe that it is best to follow our instincts and have proper restraint. Any extreme behavior will not bring us closer to God."

"God?" Ethan smiled wryly, "If that thing is really your entropy god, are you going to become that kind of thing after practicing for a long time?"

"If you can transcend the constraints of the body, time and space, what's wrong with being like that?" Tanithel sighed, playing with his Ten Thousand Breath Ball, "You know, we priests of Eve are also divided into two factions. Yes. Most of the priests follow the orthodox path, believe in the God of Preface, and follow the teachings of the God of Preface. The other part, like me, respects the mysterious power of the God of Entropy even more. This is why I must participate in this event Rescue, and come to the red earth with you privately. The temple I belong to does not agree with my ideals."

Ethan stared in surprise at the man who was as exquisite as an antique doll in front of him. He didn't expect that such a person with a whole body of light would worship monsters. Isn't this worshiping evil spirits like Satan in the eyes of the earth people?Obviously, it should be a belief that is incompatible with the God of Order, why is it said by him as if it is just a different branch of a certain religion?

Their Eve people's world view is really special.

Ethan took a deep breath, then suddenly raised his head and took a big gulp of wine.The rich aroma of wine slid down the esophagus with a trace of blood-like smell, and the overflowing wine remained along the corners of his lips, winding along the contour of his jaw to his neck, as gorgeous as blood.Tanithel looked at him with an unpredictable expression, and his fingers calmly rubbed on his Wanxi ball, and the personal identity information about Ethan flowed into his mind.

Originally, most of his attention was on Samuel, but the strength of this Beta's intuition was a bit beyond his expectation.His interest in Ethan also increased.

"It turned out to be treason, I really can't see it..."

Unprepared, Ethan choked on the liquor, covered his mouth with his sleeve and coughed awkwardly, and stammered, "You...what did you say?"

Tanithel tilted his head slightly, his expression was innocent, "It's nothing, I'm just curious."

The atmosphere between the two of them became a little awkward. To be precise, Ethan felt awkward and embarrassing unilaterally. His anger and anxiety were smoldering in his heart, but he was used to forbearance, so it was inconvenient to vent.Tanithel saw that he was avoiding his gaze, but the knuckles holding the cup were a little white, so he said with an apologetic and sincere smile, "Sorry, I read your personal information without your consent."

In fact, Ethan knew in his heart that non-humans have no privacy at all, and it is understandable for the other party to check his own information.It's just that he has just entered the Forbidden City, and he is not used to the feeling of being seen through.At this moment when the other party apologized so solemnly, he also knew that he had no right to be angry, so he slowly let out a breath of sullen breath, adjusted his emotions, and wanted to reply "it's okay".However, before he could speak, he noticed a thin and short line approaching in a detour on the white ground, which seemed to be a bug.

But isn't this base completely sealed?Why are there bugs?

Ethan narrowed his eyes, carefully staring at the hesitantly approaching line segment that gradually became larger as the perspective changed.However, when he really saw the bug clearly, the instinctive fear made his hairs stand on end.

It was a worm about twenty centimeters long, with a cylindrical body, thicker than ordinary centipedes, but the obvious legs were not visible.The gray-black body does not have the carapace that ordinary bugs would have, but it is a bit like the skin of a snail without a shell. There are some black blood vessels inside the body that are constantly winding and changing with the flexible twisting of the body.However, what is really frightening is that its front end is uneven, with a vague face.

A face with human features.

Ethan stood up suddenly and wanted to back away, but he forgot that there was a sofa behind him, and fell down on the soft cushion.He turned his head to look at Tanisel in horror, but saw that the other party was also slightly surprised, but not afraid, and even somewhat novel.The priest stood up, walked to a distance of only one or two steps from the bug, and squatted down.

The worm seemed to sense his gaze and stopped wriggling, and suddenly curled up into a spiral, staying motionless in place.From a distance, Ethan couldn't see if there was any expression on its human face, and he didn't know if it was conscious.He sat stiffly on the sofa, most of the wine in his hand had already been spilled, staining the white leather sofa.

Tanithel confronted the strange insect quietly.The weird front end is wrinkled and undulating, vaguely stacking the shape of human facial features, but also slightly distorted and deformed, swollen and ugly.Probably the eyes are closed into two lines of different lengths, while the mouth forms a round hole, and a bunch of strange black fluff protrudes from it, still writhing vaguely.And in its body as soft as a jelly, there is also something flowing and meandering.

What a disgusting thing.

Tanithel turned around and took the wine glass from Ethan's hand, spilled the wine on the ground, and then threw it upside down on the bug.The worm was suddenly locked in the transparent cell, but it didn't move, as if it was dead.

Only then did Ethan dare to take a few steps closer, his face wrinkled in disgust, "What the hell is this? How did you get in here? This place should have been sealed by Gina?"

Tanithel was still concentrating on staring at the strange insect, and after a while, the eyes on his forehead opened slightly.

This time the eyes opened wider than the previous two times, and Ethan could see clearly that there seemed to be no pupils in the third eye, only an empty silvery white.Tanithel's expression suddenly changed, he opened his eyes suddenly, the originally gray irises became blank, and the original delicate face suddenly became strange and solemn.

Ethan couldn't help but took half a step back, not knowing what to do for a while.He has heard that Eve people can see the "truth" of this world with all three eyes open, but no one can tell what the truth is.But he never knew that Eve, who had three eyes all open, had such a supernatural appearance.

This state lasted only for a moment, Tanisel suddenly closed three eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, the original gray eyes had been restored.Often he sighed and stood up.

Ethan immediately asked like a cannonball, "What did you see? What is it? Is it a native creature here? How did it get in?"

Tanithel glanced at him, shook his head, "You don't want to know."

Ethan almost went crazy when he heard such an answer, he hated the most when someone said something halfway.However, the people around him still like to play tricks, especially this priest who is a bit abnormal.

This kind of communication method, which is like guessing riddles, is not efficient at all. Why don't many Alphas and Omega understand it?

"So it has something to do with your entropy god? Shall we step on it quickly?" Ethan wanted to do it, but was stopped by Tanithel, "No. I want to keep it for observation for a while .Wait until the others come back and don't let them touch him."

Ethan was a little discouraged, but seeing Tanithel's unquestionable face, he couldn't say anything, so he could only respond.

It's just that Tanisel used "he" instead of "it" just now?

Is it wrong?

Note: "He", "She" and "It" are written differently in Earth language.

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Thank you to the old comrades who have been chasing after the first few chapters~~~ I was moved to tears~~