Falling into the Abyss

At daybreak, the three of them returned the keys and took the unmanned vehicle back to the spaceship management office in City A. After quickly signing the lease contract, the receptionist named Rice took them to the unmanned vehicle at the management office. The car drove to the spaceship parking lot outside the city.Rows of silver private spaceships are parked on the vast land. Although the sky is full of wind and sand, they are still properly maintained, shining with a fresh metallic luster.

Rice led them to one of the small spaceships that can accommodate five to ten people for long-distance flights, and roughly explained the usage specifications.Before leaving, I saw him muttering something to the priest at the side, with the spring tide and rain on his face, and he was so close that he was almost stuck to the priest. Seeing that Ethan wanted to rush over, the priest pulled him away impulse.Samuel looked at him from the side, his eyes a little gloomy.

Ethan felt the haze spreading from Samuel's body, he turned around and saw Samuel sitting on the swivel chair in the driver's seat, as if he had just turned away from the gaze that was staring at him before.Ethan asked, "Are you okay? Is there something wrong?"

Samuel replied perfunctorily, "No."

"Is your estrus coming soon?" Ethan suddenly became worried.This time it was time to fly on curvature again, and Ethan still remembered the critical situation on the spacecraft during the first mission after entering the Forbidden City.

"You are really lenient. When do I need you to help me count my estrus?" Samuel yelled at him impatiently.

Ethan was stunned, so he couldn't ask further questions.Of course he cared about Samuel, but there was a lot of selfishness in this caring.After all, there was only one Alpha on board this time, and he didn't want anything to happen between this Alpha and the only Omega on board...

Ethan suddenly felt worried about gains and losses.He turned his head and looked at the priest who was smiling charmingly at the male Omega receptionist, a worry he had never had before appeared in his mind.Although the Eves have a strong control over their instincts, Tanithel is an Alpha anyway, and his nature is to be attracted to Omega.And he would never be able to satisfy the strongest desire in his heart to possess an Omega.

He had never been possessive of a priest before, and even though he found himself in love with Tanithel, he never thought that he would be with him forever.That's because his wounded and guarded heart has been telling himself not to expect too much, and not to fall into it too easily.But now, he found that his bond with the priest was getting stronger and stronger, to the point where he even began to think about the future.

Which is weird because he's not even sure if he has a future.

Nales finally left reluctantly, and Tanisel locked the cabin and began to set the course of the spacecraft.Ethan knew nothing about flying a spaceship, so he could only sit in the back seat and watch the priest and Samuel busy silently.He was in a daze, absentmindedly touching the dense scars and bumps on the back of his neck with his hands, feeling that they had spread all the way to the shoulder blades, and seemed to be spreading down to the entire back.The occasional itching sensations distracted him and prevented him from concentrating.

"Ethan, go to the sleeping hall and wait for us first." Tanisel turned his head and saw that Ethan seemed to be in a bad mood, so he said to him.

With a maximum capacity of ten people, the sleeping hall was also smaller than any spaceship he had seen before.He took off his clothes in the dressing room, looked in the mirror at his body with ribs faintly visible, and was shocked to realize that he had become so thin at some point.The well-proportioned body that was trained in the gym in the past has long since disappeared, and the rosy and healthy complexion is gone.He touched his own body, becoming more and more disgusted with himself.

Ever since seeing his mother's haggard appearance as she entered adulthood, becoming the same appearance has been Ethan's nightmare.

When he came home to visit his mother after her illness, he used to sit by her hospital bed, hold her wrinkled hand, and listen to her tell him about what would happen as he entered adulthood.Because she wanted to give him enough time to prepare mentally so that he would not be ignorant of his fate.

She said entering adulthood there was a time when she was extremely tired, didn't want to see anyone, was constantly in a state of inexplicable fear and anxiety, just wanted to lock herself in a safe place and be alone, and completely lost her appetite.This period of time will last for about one to two weeks, after which there will be two to three days when you will suddenly feel very energetic, and your appearance will be extremely beautiful. However, after this period of time, people will rapidly age and die.Just like a butterfly, once it breaks out of the cocoon, although it can be beautiful for a moment, the rest is eternal withering and death.

Ethan remembers the time when his mother shut him in his room, and what his father told him about coming of age, and when his mother first came out of the room.At that time, she was as beautiful as the statue of the Virgin Mary in an ancient church. She was obviously the same person as before, but she seemed to be shining all over her body.But after just three days, the previous beauty disappeared like a bubble, wrinkles covered her once plump and beautiful cheeks like spider webs, and her skin also lost its brilliance.

Although the current self has not yet reached adulthood, his appearance is almost the same.

How could Tanisel like him like this?It's almost like the haggard look of my mother when she entered adulthood.If it wasn't for the infection left by the God of Entropy in his body, the priest probably wouldn't even look at him, would he?

He hates himself who is so concerned about gains and losses, and seems to have fallen into the strange circle that he was infatuated with Roland back then.

Leaving from the territory of the Earth Alliance and entering the starfield of Eve Star requires passing through an automatic detection barrier. If the mastermind of the spaceship does not show a legal certificate, it will trigger an alarm and be stopped by an electromagnetic net.Fortunately, Tanithel seemed to have prepared another false identity before coming to Earth, allowing them to pass the test without even interrupting their dormancy.The main brain didn't start the wake-up procedure until the spaceship entered the Eve star field.

Ethan took a shower, sat in his room wearing a comfortable bathrobe and watched a movie, slowly sipping a glass of red wine, the light and shadow projected a desert of an alien planet around him.Suddenly the mastermind said that someone asked to enter, Ethan opened the door, and it was Samuel he saw.

He froze, "Samuel? What happened?"

"Can't you come if you have nothing to do?" Samuel walked past Ethan with a gloomy expression.Ethan noticed that he was carrying several cans of beer in his hand.

Samuel unceremoniously sat down on Ethan's bed, which was the center of the desert, shaking his head from side to side as if he was very tired, and there was a crackling sound in his neck.A warrior in black iron armor next to him was slowly raising a rusty knife dripping with blood, as if he wanted to chop Samuel off.Ethan quickly made a gesture to turn off the movie.

"Your priest said that we will arrive at Eve Star in three days." Samuel opened a can of beer, took a big sip, and let out a comfortable sigh.

Ethan nodded, sat down on the edge of the bed next to Samuel, and reached out for a can.

"You think he can protect you?" Samuel asked.

Ethan swallowed a mouthful of bitter wine, "Well, I believe him."

"Then, will you stay in Eve Star for the rest of your life?" Samuel snorted, "Your father seems to be still in the Earth Alliance. If they threaten you with your father's safety, what will you do?"

"...I don't know either...let's talk about it when the time comes." Ethan smiled at him, "Whether I can live to that time is not certain."

"What do you mean?"

"You should have seen it too. Do I look like someone who can live for a long time?"

"Didn't Tanithel say that he has a way to treat you?"

"Samuel." Ethan raised his green eyes and looked at him quietly, "I'm no longer a human being, how can he save me?"

"What do you mean? No one counts. Aren't you doing well?"

"Did you forget what I looked like when I became that way?" Ethan's smile became more and more ghostly, "You were so afraid of me at that time, you were so afraid to approach me, you forgot all about it?"

"I was not mentally prepared! This is all temporary, and you will be fine."

"No more..." Ethan rubbed his eyebrows, and when he opened his eyes again, his pupils became longer and the green color became thicker, "Because, after the second time I became like that Everything I do is what I really want to do in my heart." He said, grinning, showing neat and white teeth, but for some reason the other whole face looked a little weird, "It's not so much that I can't control myself, It would be better to say that I can no longer suppress my true self..."

Samuel remained silent, drank the whole can, and then opened another, "Don't be too hard on yourself." With a hoarse voice, he suddenly added lightly, "Those people, they should all be damned."

Ethan could hear the pain condensed in his tone, felt sad, and stretched out a hand to press Samuel's shoulder.

"You know, I've never said anything like love or liking to him." Samuel raised his head and looked at the slowly rotating star projection on the ceiling.

Endless regret and remorse spread in the silence, and Ethan didn't know how to comfort him, "It's too late to say it now, maybe he just exists in this universe in a different way?"

"Taniser said that in the extreme chaos, the boundaries of time and space are blurred, maybe we will have the opportunity to meet the dead." Samuel turned his head to look at Ethan, and suddenly put his hand on the On the back of Ethan's hand, he held his hand firmly, "If it's really possible, I'm willing to do anything."

In the depths of Samuel's eyes burned a kind of fanaticism that was somewhat contrary to Ethan, but he didn't understand what Samuel meant.

But at this moment, there was a light but somewhat deliberately protracted voice from the unclosed door, "Am I disturbing something?"

Ethan quickly withdrew his hand and stood up pretending to be casual, "Why are you both running towards me?"

Tanithel walked straight over, and suddenly grabbed Ethan's waist in front of Samuel, raised his jaw and kissed him deeply.Ethan couldn't react at all to his series of natural movements like flowing clouds and flowing water. After being kissed for three seconds, he struggled quickly, "Can you pay attention to the occasion!"

"It doesn't matter, there are only three of us in this spaceship. Samuel, do you mind?"

Samuel glanced at him coldly, stood up without speaking, and wanted to leave.But the priest stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "Wait a minute, I have something to discuss with you first."

Omega had no choice but to stay where he was.The priest threw his Ten Thousand Breath Ball into the air, and several beams of light projected in mid-air to form some boxes and characters, which were quickly arranged and combined into a shape similar to a pyramid.

"Before entering the field of Eve Star, I think it is necessary for you to have a general understanding of our social structure and customs, otherwise, you may encounter many incomprehensible things." Tanithel faced the two people in front of him like a teacher. A student showed a "kind" smile.

The Eves are the few remaining religious and cultural star countries in the current Milky Way civilization.Their religion is collectively known as the Eve Cult, but it is divided into two opposing but inclusive branches-Sequence God or Entropy God.In the history of Eve, these two factions have been fighting openly and secretly, and even broke out bloody wars. Each faction once occupied a dominant position in history.In the era of interstellar civilization, using war as a means of solving problems is obviously outdated, and because it is influenced by the liberalism of some relatively powerful star countries such as the Ophiuchus Alliance and the Third Reich, it is also for the benefit of the entire Eve Temple system , the priests began to promote balanceism, that is, there is no orthodox or unorthodox difference between the belief in the order god and the belief in the entropy god, but they represent two mutually equal energies in the universe, putting order and entropy on an equal footing.But in fact, today's Eve Star is still a society dominated by the belief in the gods.

Due to the high religious status, it is a unique temple system that manages the Eve Star Kingdom centered on Eve Star.The two highest-ranking temples are the Nameless Temple of the Preface God Sect and the Abyss Temple of the Entropy God Sect.These two holy temples are not independent. Whenever they want to issue a command, they must obtain the consent of the other party.And the high priests above the silver-clothed priests of both sides have to meet once a month to maintain the close cooperative relationship between the two temples.

Under the two major temples, there are four first-level temples. The function is to assist the highest temple to formulate some canon regulations, and supervise the implementation of the lower-level temples.There are a series of complex monasteries under the first-level temple, which are responsible for supervising some more specific and trivial details, such as the formulation of educational regulations, cultural dissemination, and commercial trade.Below these first-level temples are continent-level temples, which generally govern the eight continents on Eve and temples of other stars.They are responsible for overseeing the order of entire continents, including some divided planets.Further down there are domain-level temples, city-level temples and even the most basic fifth-level temples.They are responsible for the formulation of regulations in their respective jurisdictions, and bear the responsibility of being the spiritual and soul teachers of the local Eve people.

The Red Moon Temple where Tanithel is located is a continent-level temple, but the continent they manage is rather special. It is the continent where the royal family of the Eve planet is located, and it is also considered to be the land where Eve's civilization originated.Although they are continent-level temples, they have great power, and in many cases can even directly affect the decision-making of first-level temples and even the highest temple.The Red Moon Temple was built in the capital of the Eve Star Country—Xilian City. It is nominally a temple of the Sequence God, but in fact, in recent years, due to the highest priest of the Temple of the Officer—Purple Cloaked Priest Xi’oniel, he has gradually turned to the God of Entropy. Therefore, there have been rumors about the entropy faction tendency of the Red Moon Temple.

Such news annoyed the Nameless Temple, and even once considered assigning Xi'onier to another continent-level Entropy Temple.It's a pity that Lionel is very popular, has many connections in the royal family, and even has noble blood, plus the pressure from the Abyss Temple, so he didn't do anything.

As for the royal nobles of Eve, they are responsible for controlling some more secular government departments, such as police, schools, hospitals and other institutions.Therefore, their power should not be underestimated. Although they also obey the management of the temple, they are more often in a complementary relationship with the temple, fearing each other and relying on each other.Especially in recent years, some important members of the Wang family have joined the ranks of priests, making this relationship even more delicate.

When talking about this, Ethan suddenly asked, "I remember you told me before that you seem to be a nobleman?"

His question interrupted Tanisel's narration, and he also woke up slightly after hearing Samuel who was dozing off, "Ah? What nobleman?"

"Yes, my father's title before his death was Grand Duke Xichuan. If I hadn't become a priest, I should have inherited this title." The priest replied.

"What? Are you a nobleman?" Samuel was obviously not on the same frequency as the two of them.Ethan pushed his head aside impatiently, and continued to ask: "So... what is the status of Grand Duke Xichuan?"

Although Ethan has read about the status of the Grand Duke on Earth, he can't believe it... Maybe Eve's system is different from that on Earth?

Tanithel just shrugged normally, "He is the younger brother of the current King Eve."

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