Falling into the Abyss

Tanithel's body temperature seemed to be higher than that of ordinary humans. In his arms, Ethan finally felt less cold, and his whole body seemed to suddenly feel at ease.Although the muscles all over my body were sore, my throat was swollen and sore, my head was very dizzy, and there was no place in my body that was comfortable, but because of that person, I felt like I was coming home.He rested his forehead on Tanithel's shoulder and neck, and let out a comfortable sigh.

Tanithel was itched by his exhaled breath, his body shook, and he pretended to be angry and said, "Don't move around."

Ethan muffled a laugh on his neck, then gently pushed his shoulder, "Put me down, I can walk."

"What?" Tanithel tightened his hand on purpose, and said solemnly, "Other people can hug you, but I can't?"

Ethan looked up at Tanisel in disbelief, and said hoarsely, "It seems that I am the one who has a fever? Why are you talking nonsense?"

Samuel coughed heavily from behind, reminding the two people walking in front to pay attention that the situation they are in now is not suitable for flirting.Ethan then shut his mouth, feeling a little guilty in his heart.Tanithel just curled the corner of his mouth indistinctly.

"What's the matter with that worm you're talking about?" Samuel asked abruptly.

Ethan's heart skipped a beat, and his first reaction was that he must not let Samuel know that he also had a bug like that in his body, waiting to get out of his body after his death.Just as he was about to speak, Tanithel took the lead and said, "Yes, those worms seemed to have laid their eggs in some non-human clothing and brought them to the earth on the planet Faun. Ethan was in the sewer Found hatching worms while working."

"You mean those disgusting insects underground on the Faun planet have come to the earth now?" Samuel's expression lacked the tension it should have, and it was even a little too plain, "And Ethan, you didn't put it on the earth?" Kill it, but raise it?"

Ethan pursed his lips, "There is only one of them, and there is no way to reproduce. And I thought at the time, since they can dig so many tunnels underground, they might be able to dig out of the Forbidden City one day."

Samuel nodded, and suddenly laughed in a low voice, "It's a pity, it would be more interesting if one female and one male breed with each other."

Ethan was a little surprised that Samuel would say such a thing, but anyone who has experienced what Samuel has experienced, I am afraid that there will be some changes in personality.It's just that Ethan still doesn't know that Samuel has lost more than the lover he thought.I don't know that Omega finally found a tender lover who understands his painful past, which is his last hope of redemption.

At this time they had arrived at the other subway station. Tanithel put Ethan on a bench covered in dust, took off his robe and covered him, and gently stroked Ethan. cheek, "Be patient."

Ethan nodded, and smiled as he parted his chapped and dry lips.That smile made Tanisel feel a little pain in his heart.

During the time he was trapped in the Red Moon Temple, he didn't dare to use the soul binding between the two of them to establish a spiritual connection with Ethan, and he didn't know what Ethan had experienced.How could he become so skinny in such a short period of time?An inexplicable anger burned in his heart, and there was an urge to rush out and fight with Lionel.

"So how do we know where that bug is? Will that thing listen to us? Are you sure it won't eat us?" Samuel held a flashlight that was already a little weak, growing black mold impatiently looking for on the wall.The traces of mold hanging from the ceiling like water stains reminded him of the inner wall of the base that had begun to mildew under the influence of the genital goddess on the red earth. A desolate and primitive corruption was spreading deep in the earth.

"Giant worms are a species with advanced intelligence. Their history in the universe is much longer than that of human beings. Their social system is similar to bee colonies. Generally, a planet is a colony, and all eggs Born in the Queen's body. And all young worms are instinctively attached to the first life they perceive at the moment of hatching, because usually the first thing they see is the Queen." Tower A beam of light shot out from the top of Nissel's scepter, quickly scanning the entire subway station hall, his eyes fell on Ethan on the bench, "If I'm not mistaken, when it hatched, Ethan, you are Is it around?"

Ethan was wrapped in Tanithel's clothes, and nodded dully, "You mean, it has already regarded me as a mother?"

Tanithel laughed, "It looks like this."

Ethan smiled wryly and cursed, "Damn, I'm obviously a Beta, why am I always asked to do Omega work?"

Samuel snorted, "Who stipulated that Omega has to do this kind of work of raising children? Don't talk nonsense, if it treats you as a mother, it should listen to you. Call it, maybe it will coming."

Ethan gave Samuel a big white eye, "Why do you think I named it?"

"Then how did you direct it to drill through the wall leading to the subway station?"

Ethan frowned, but didn't quite understand.Maybe it's just a coincidence?Seeing that he was frowning and unable to answer, but suddenly coughed as if he had inhaled dust, Tanisel glanced at Samuel with a little blame, and went to Ethan's side and patted his back gently, "I can't figure it out." Don't think about it, I'll figure it out."

Samuel and Tanisel searched the hall first, but did not see any newly dug holes, so they followed the rails and entered the tunnel that Samuel had explored before.Like Samuel said, the end of the tunnel had been blown away long ago, and a mountain of rubble blocked all the necessary access to the rest of the subway system.

Perhaps on the other side of this rocky mountain lies beyond the Forbidden City.

Ethan sat alone in the subway lobby, and Samuel left him the flashlight.

The weird figure he saw here last time still makes his hair stand on end, but when he thinks about it carefully, he seems to be a monster too, so he doesn't feel so scary again.

From somewhere in the darkness came the sound of rolling stones.

Ethan immediately shone the flashlight, but saw nothing.

He thought that maybe he was too nervous, so he closed his eyes and continued to rest, but this time the sound of feet stepping on the ground sounded again, and it was closer than last time.

Ethan sat up straight suddenly, looked in the direction where the voice might have come from, and shouted, "Taniser?"

No echo.

Ethan was a little annoyed, and shouted again, "Who's there!"

Still silence answered him.

Ethan raised his hand and looked at his fingertips that had healed but left a few scars.Although he was extremely tired and his limbs were heavy, if something happened suddenly, he should be able to protect himself.He stabilized his mind and turned off the light of the flashlight.

The blood-thick darkness immediately surrounded him heavily.

It is only when one is in absolute darkness that one realizes how dependent a creature of sight one is.Losing the information that the eyes can receive, many originally ordinary small sounds are suddenly amplified several times, and the originally intelligible sounds and tactile sensations become strange and unfamiliar, making you unsure whether what you hear or touch is real Really those things you think.

He heard it again, the voice approaching him.It was the sound of footsteps, hesitant and slow, and very procrastinated, which was different from the pace of normal people.Ethan seemed to hear the sound of someone breathing in the dark, and the breathing was very sick, like the uncomfortable strange sound in the throat of a dying tuberculosis patient.

He remained motionless, and when the sound got closer and closer to the point where he could discern its position, he suddenly turned on the flashlight.A ray of light cut through the darkness and immediately locked onto the approaching thing.

It freezes, as if immobilized.

It was a human-like bipedal... thing. Due to the weak light, his face could not be seen clearly, but just judging from the distorted and disproportionate figure, he (it?) was by no means What a normal person looks like.

Its legs are very thin, and it seems that the two feet are of opposite length, one knee is bent back and the other is forward.Its torso is disproportionately long, and it looks like a gray linen sack. There are many small sarcoma like bunches of grapes growing on its waist, chest, abdomen and back, and it looks like it is bent from a distance.There are two thin arms on both sides of this ugly torso, and there is a strange palm with five fingers on the top of each arm.At this time, the four arms are hanging on both sides of the body, and it seems that there is no intention to use them.

And its head... seems a little too long and too thin compared to normal humans.

Seeing such a thing suddenly in the dark, even Ethan, who has seen the world, was so frightened that his heart skipped a beat.He stretched out one hand, and from each fingertip of his right hand protruded a thin tentacle with barbs and hooks.Those tentacles rushed towards the humanoid creature quickly and silently, but before it touched it, the thing suddenly turned around, and rushed back into the darkness with a very uncoordinated but astonishingly fast gesture.Ethan stood up wrapped in his clothes, and followed unwillingly.

He found that there was a leather-like thing where the monster was standing just now.He squatted down, retracted the tentacles to his fingertips, and picked up the thing.

It was indeed a piece of skin, but it was peeled off from some animal. It was very soft, with a faint pink color close to the skin, and there were a few black hairs on the back.He turned the piece of leather over, and found that a very asymmetrical strange pattern was drawn on it with some sharp corners, and some characters that Ethan had never seen were written between the lines, which looked a bit like an ancient Cuneiform.

Ethan frowned, a little suspicious that this thing fell from the monster.

But Samuel said that there is no exit here, so how did the monster survive here?And how could it have such a weird thing on it?

Ethan felt that this kind of characters looked very familiar. After thinking about it, he suddenly remembered that there seemed to be similar characters engraved on the stone pillars of the temple under the planet Faun.He remembered when he put his fingers on those words, and suddenly many images about those worms infiltrated into his mind. Samuel even said that he was like being possessed, and spoke out what he hadn't learned at all. language.

He further thought that when he first heard the sound of the giant worm, he didn't seem to really hear the sound, but perceived the "sound" in his mind.It is not so much a sound as a kind of communication at the level of thinking.It's like Tanithel and his spiritual connection.

Perhaps the reason why those so-called holy races are considered superior to humans by the horned people is because they can easily carry out this kind of spiritual communication without language?

Ethan suddenly thought of how to summon the little worm.He stood there, looking at the endless void, calling it over and over again in his heart.He hadn't given it a name yet, so he picked the first name he thought of to call it in his mind—Little Rafal.

Yes, Rafal is Schneider's name.People in the Forbidden City only use surnames to refer to each other, unless they are very close friends.So many times, including Samuel, they forget that Schneider is actually just the surname of the chief of the guard, and Rafal is the first name.

And Ethan always felt in his heart that this little worm was the continuation of Schneider's life.Maybe... there might be some connection between them.

"Little Rafal, I need you!" Ethan called out intently, not knowing that he actually said it out of his mouth.

At this moment, a loud bang suddenly came from the depths of the earth, as if there was a dark thunder rolling.The entire subway station was shaking, and the gravel on the ground kept bouncing.Suddenly, the ground in front of him cracked open, and a gray creature roughly as thick as an ancient tree shot out of the sky, shaking its front end happily in the dust and stone rain flying all over the sky, causing the acid to fly around.

Ethan opened his mouth slightly in front of it.It seems that the growth rate of this worm is several times faster than he imagined...