Falling into the Abyss

The command center was in chaos, Senator Sean had already retreated with his subordinates, leaving only another younger Senator Beta.The sudden infection of the law of the second universe approached from all directions at an incredible speed. People on the fourth space station fled in all directions, but more people were trapped at the ferry of the spaceship and could not leave.Naturally, the third space station was in panic, and people retreated towards the second and first space stations.

Roland did not leave, and unexpectedly, the High Priest of the Prologue God Sect of Eve Star did not leave either.Now it is difficult for them to know the situation on the earth, because too much space turbulence and electromagnetic interference make it impossible for them to detect what is going on under the black meaty cloud that almost envelopes the entire earth.

Don't fire at the entropy gods, trust the preface gods, that's what the High Priest told them.The young member of the Earth Alliance chose to trust the judgment of the High Priest, and he himself believed that this might be their best bet.

But now he wasn't so sure.

They sent several unmanned exploration spacecraft to the earth before, most of them disintegrated on the periphery of the black mass of meat, and only one penetrated through a certain gap.At this point finally got some wobbly and blurry images.

What he saw was hell.

Collapsed mountains and cities are everywhere, and magma rolls up from the deep underground, converging into a scarlet sea, devouring all remaining creatures.Amidst the gunpowder smoke, countless gigantic and indescribable figures stood between the sky and the earth, with nightmarish tentacles extending to the end of the sky and the earth.Those things are the root of all human fears and nightmares, the beginning and end of all matter.Wherever they pass, landslides and ground cracks, not leaving an inch of ground.

Sometimes, those huge creatures can be seen wrestling with other huge creatures that emit light blue or milky white, and it is difficult to distinguish whether it is gas or jelly.Every time they come into contact, there will be a huge explosion, producing enough radiation that no grass can grow within a hundred miles, and the shock waves ripple like water ripples.

No human being can survive on the present Earth, and the center of civilization in the galaxy has been destroyed.

Then, the detector finally found Ethan.

At this moment, Ethan was already unrecognizable, his whole body was wrapped in a swirl of black tentacles.Above his head, some indescribable substance surged in the sky, like flesh or mucus, in which colors that were difficult to discern by the human eye swirled endlessly.Those substances and tentacles stick to each other, forming a sinister and huge sky pillar.With this place as the center, time and space are distorted like out of control, attracting the second universe in all directions to spread here.

Near it, a gelatinous creature with what appeared to be eyes all over its body was wrapped in layers of its tentacles and seemed to be seriously injured.It was trying to break free, tearing off a few tentacles, but behind it appeared a giant with a vaguely human shape and a blood-red tentacle growing where its head should be.The giant hugged the gelatinous creature violently, and a cold blue flame erupted where the two life forms touched.

But in the end the gelatinous creature seemed to gain the upper hand, and countless thin things protruded from those eyes, piercing sharply into the giant's body.

When this gelatinous creature appeared, the high priest fell to his knees as if seeing a god, muttering in his mouth.And Roland also noticed that even though the picture was blurry, when he stared at those eyes for a long time, his heart, which was originally churning with fear and anxiety, suddenly became calm, so calm that it was even a little calm and hopeless.But when he looked away, the living terror returned.

Shocked, he stared at all this with wide eyes.No human being can maintain peace of mind after seeing these creatures that surpass too many interstellar civilizations. He is not even sure that after all this, if he can survive by chance, whether he can still look at the universe as calmly as before .

When human beings know that they are just living in a corner of countless universes, that they are bedbugs living in the cracks of these super civilizations, can they still live peacefully and peacefully as a human being like before?

Just when the gelatinous creature was at the disadvantage of the red tentacle giant again, Ethan's direction suddenly changed.

Those black tentacles were in a mess as if suddenly out of control, twisting together.At the same time, the chaotic space-time turbulence on the earth also had a weird peak at the same time.

The giant seemed to sense something, and suddenly turned in Ethan's direction.However, the chaos only lasted for a while, before returning to the previous state.At this moment, the gelatinous creature slammed into the giant again.Another horrific flash and explosion was set off.

"The fourth space station has been swallowed! Please evacuate as soon as possible!" An officer reported hurriedly.

The few soldiers who stayed in the command center did not move. They said that if they really had to die, they would like to die here, at least they could understand the truth of this universe.The high priest also chose to stay because he believed that his preface would save them.

And Roland also stayed, anyway, there is no escape, isn't it.

He still wondered how it would all end.

Suddenly, the peak of space-time turbulence similar to the one just now appeared again, and at the same time, the tentacles vortex entangled with Ethan also showed a different chaotic movement from before.This time it lasted for nearly a minute before returning to the previous state.

The giant with red tentacles seemed very angry and rushed towards Ethan.He inserted his hand into the vortex of dancing tentacles, as if he was looking for something.But immediately the milky white front end of the gel-like creature wrapped around him densely like a spider web, dragging him away abruptly.

About 5 minutes later, similar turbulence reappeared, and it reappeared less than 10 minutes after returning to normal.These turbulences lasted longer each time, and finally began to affect the entire planet.They noticed that the black cloud of flesh surrounding the earth seemed to be stinging, and it shrank violently around a certain point in the southern hemisphere, shrinking in half, exposing a large piece of land in the northern hemisphere.

"It seems that Ethan Eldridge is trying to regain his body..." the priest murmured, "The God of Preface gave him strength."

Looking at the black pillar piercing the sky, Roland suddenly recalled the first time he saw Ethan.Thinking of the charming smile she was most proud of showing him with an ulterior motive, the gentle man wearing glasses looked away hastily, and there was a heart-warming fear and embarrassment in it.

How could he have imagined at that time that he would become the biggest threat and last hope of the Milky Way.

The turbulence appeared more and more frequently, and finally the gaps in time and space that appeared all over the earth began to close.They saw that many huge creatures seemed to be pushed into those gaps by some invisible force, as if they were pushed in by space.

The spread of the second universe also seems to be slowing down, the entropy in the solar system is decreasing rapidly, and the order is increasing, regaining its own camp.

Apparently, there was a problem with the arrival of Azathoth, the black sky pillar disappeared, and the countless dense tentacles seemed to have become mutual enemies, entangled in chaos.The crazy sound of drums and flutes filled the sky and earth, and it was transmitted to the command center through the detector.Some weak-willed workers suddenly fell into madness, roared indiscriminately, rushed to the nearest wall and hit their heads hard until their heads were bleeding and they couldn't pull them back.Others suddenly took off their clothes and ran out screaming loudly; others shot themselves, and some entered the space deep diving chamber directly without wearing a space suit, and jumped into the dark universe.

That crazy voice also filled Roland's mind with crazy thoughts.He suddenly felt that he was an existence worth mentioning, that his whole life was meaningless, like dust, it didn't matter whether he lived or died.All the tasks he thought he had done for his country turned out to be of no value, for his country would soon be lost and merged into eternal chaos.An urge to end his own life and return to nothingness took over his consciousness, but before he could reach for his gun, he hastily pulled cotton from the seat cushion beneath him to plug his ears.Some officers nearby also reacted quickly, and they found all kinds of things that could be plugged into their ears to prevent the sound from entering.

The high priest was deeply affected, his eyes gradually became hollow, and he muttered Eve's language that no one could understand.Fortunately, before he could do anything, Roland slammed the screen off.But the strange thing is that the sounds didn't stop, they seemed to have entered people's ears, lingering in their minds.

But the demagogic power has weakened a lot, the high priest's mental power regained the upper hand, and his eyes gradually became clearer.

In just a few minutes, there were many fewer people left in the command center.Clothes were left on the floor, chairs and furniture that people had knocked over indiscriminately.

The entire command hall was silent, and people looked at each other, speechless.

However, after about 10 minutes, the earworm-like drum sound that lingered in the head seemed to be gradually fading.The congressman turned on the screen again with a certain awe and caution, and everyone held their breath the moment he pressed the button.

Unexpectedly, the drum beat stopped.The tentacles around Ethan gradually scattered, and the human figure in the center could be vaguely seen.

The last thing they saw was the giant hissing, swallowed by a black hole that appeared out of nowhere.

And the gelatinous creature suddenly opened.

They couldn't see how it opened, a hot and dazzling blue light engulfed everything, it was a terrifying polarized force, rushing towards the place where Ethan was with the power to shake the world.

Even at such a distance from the earth, the blue color still rises from the surface of the earth like a sharp sword, piercing into the deep universe.The terrible shock wave raged on the riddled earth's surface, and the radiation continued in all directions of time and space.

It turned out that this was the plan of the preface.

Use Tanithel to regain Ethan's hope of living, and then give Azathoth a fatal blow when his spirit is entangled with Azathoth.

That shock wave even reached the observation point where they were.The entire space station was shaken, and people lay on the ground and dared not move.

Ten minutes after the explosion, people slowly stood up from the ground.

In front of them, the riddled earth rotated silently, the black flesh cloud disappeared, and the turbulence of time and space disappeared. The sun in the distance was still burning fuel that lasted for hundreds of billions of years, casting golden light.

For a while, no one dared to speak, or even breathe.It seems that as soon as they make a sound, the solar system will explode immediately, and no one can escape.

But nothing happens.

The probe has been destroyed, and they have no way of knowing what's going on on Earth.But the second universe seems to have suddenly lost some kind of power, and was forced to retreat by the laws of the first universe. It even retreated to the vicinity of the ninth space station within a day, and it was still shrinking.

However, the solar system has been devastated.Some planets that existed since the beginning of the universe disappeared, and those space stations that once housed tens of millions of people disappeared, not even a speck of dust remained.They were taken away by the second universe.

For the first week, no one believed the disaster was over.People panicked and were ready to flee at any moment.

But a week later, President Abia of the Earth Alliance delivered the first speech in person, telling all her people that the crisis has passed, the Earth Alliance has controlled the expansion of the second universe, and the invaders on Earth has also disappeared.

The Earth Alliance, which has experienced a series of major blows, began to mend its wounds bit by bit in tears and sorrow.People moved their homes to star fields outside the solar system one after another, and the Ophiuchus Alliance and the Third Reich also let go of their previous barriers and helped the Earth Alliance rebuild the space station.

The Benefactors Association did not disappear because of the death of the leader Chen Zeng, on the contrary, it became stronger and stronger.Although the Earth Alliance is still fighting against this belief, in some poor and miserable places, the belief can always find the soil to take root.

Roland resigned shortly after returning to the Ophiuchus Alliance.After seeing everything on earth, he was often awakened by nightmares and suffered from severe anxiety.

On Eve Star, Lionel was forced to resign from his position as the chief priest of the Red Moon Temple, and was dispatched to a remote planet to become the chief priest of a temple of the Entropy God Sect.

After experiencing this major change, the moral value system also temporarily collapsed.People had short-term freedom of behavior and thought, but at the same time, all kinds of crimes such as theft, robbery, and fighting suddenly increased.The Forbidden City is gone, but it is said that the Morality Council is planning to build a new Forbidden City on the first space station.

The earth is no longer suitable for human habitation.During that terrible chaos, most of the ocean evaporated, and [-]% of the land suffered too much radiation. Even if it entered it, it might cause damage to the human body, let alone re-grow plants.Only in the ground, occasionally, a sharp hissing can be heard, and it is not known where it came from.

However, a secret agency of the Earth Alliance still sent a small team of special forces to land on Earth wearing thick anti-radiation suits.

They brought back one... or two things from Earth...

In the depths of the surviving Mars base, in a certain spacious laboratory in a heavily guarded underground building, pure white is everywhere.Even the staff there are wearing pure white isolation suits, doing their jobs carefully.

The young doctor checked his clothes and made sure there were no damages before walking into the mysterious laboratory.The place is very empty, and in the middle of the circular hall, there is an operating table like an altar.

Lying on the operating table, it is hard to describe whether it is one person or two people.

At a glance, it seemed to be two people, a Beta human and an Alpha Eve, they were completely naked, hugging each other tightly.However, a lot of black, extremely hard things grew out of that human body, tightly entwining the two of them together.And after a perspective scan, they found that these two people were not only surrounded by these black things on the outside, but also their internal organs and even their brains were wrapped with similar things.The two of them are like two symbiotic trees, growing tightly together and cannot be separated at all.

The doctor walked slowly to the operating table, and looked at the two human figures growing together with complicated eyes.He had seen both of these people before. He had done a blood test for that human being before, and this Eve person was also present at that time.The results of the blood test were unexpected, and he still remembers them vividly.

This Beta is not human.

These two people seem to be in a state similar to a vegetative state. They have no reaction to external stimuli, and even their breathing is very weak.However, by examining their brain activity, it can be found that their brain waves are in a state of strange harmony.

In other words, the two of them are dreaming, and they are in the same dream.

The doctor didn't know the relationship between the two of them. In fact, no one knew how the Eve appeared on Earth, and why he merged with Ethan Eldridge.

The Eve priest who came to see them that time said that this dream might be the prison of Azathoth, the terrifying and legendary monster from another world.Azathoth was resisted by Ethan before he could fully enter Ethan's body, and then he was hit by the God of Preface with all his strength, and suffered a lot.Part of it was imprisoned in Ethan's body and in Ethan's spirit, while the other part retracted to its original universe.

In other words, Ethan's spirit is its cage, and they can't harm Ethan's body, because that is likely to break a certain balance, or even release the devil dormant in Ethan's body.

However, even if they tried to harm Ethan Eldridge's body, they couldn't do so.First of all, those black things are tougher than any materials they can make, and cannot be cut off. Secondly, any wounds they made on Ethan's body will heal quickly.

The doctor felt inexplicably that the posture of the two human figures was very romantic.

A second spent in reality may be a year for the person in the dream. The doctor does not know whether these two people have spent their whole lives together in the dream?

The tissue and blood extracted from Ethan's body have helped them create serum to suppress plague infection, and Eve has formally requested the Earth Alliance to return Tanithel's body.

Since the two could not be separated, they had to be transported to Eve together.The high priest of the Prologue Sect promised that they would definitely place the two of them surrounded by all the remaining eggs of the Preface to prevent Azathoth from awakening.

The doctor sighed.During these days, he has developed some inexplicable feelings for these two people.He envied them and sympathized with them.

He is going to get married next month, and he hopes that he and his bride can also spend their lives together like this, of course, in the real world.

But who said that a lifetime in a dream is not a lifetime?

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Ethan woke up before six o'clock in the morning, getting older and getting less and less sleep.He put on the glasses, turned his head, and saw that Tanisel was still asleep, and his slightly white hair reflected the crystal light in the sunlight.

There was a gentle smile on the corner of his mouth, and he helped Tanisel pull the quilt, then stood up and stretched his body.The weather is fine today, with some clouds floating in the sky, and it will not be too hot.He put on his nightgown, opened the window, took a deep breath of the sea-salty air, then turned around and walked to the bathroom, performed routine washing procedures, and shaved the thinning beard on his chin in recent years.His cat followed him into the bathroom when he heard him, and rubbed against his feet. He patted its head and served him cat food for the night.

I watered the flowers growing in front of the door.Tanithel got up while the coffee was being made.They have been together for 30 years, but every time he sees this man, he still marvels.As expected, Eve is aging very slowly, and he still looks so beautiful.

"What's for breakfast?" Tanithel asked with a yawn, his hair stood up in a mess, and there seemed to be a small eyeball hanging from the corner of his sleepy eyes, not at all as graceful as when he was teaching in a university grace.Ethan laughed secretly, if those Omega students who admired him saw it, they would be so disillusioned.

"Omelette and bacon."

"Eating bacon again..." Tanithel pouted dissatisfiedly, looking like a child despite his age.

Ethan raised his eyebrows at him, "I'm not satisfied with going out to eat by myself."

Tanithel then stood up, leaned close to Ethan, and kissed him on the cheek, "Can't I be wrong? Everything you do is delicious."

Ethan pushed his face away, "Are you disgusted, can you talk properly?"

"Didn't you like me the most before?"

"I don't even look at you are more than 50 people."

"Then there are still many young people thinking about your husband and me?"

Ethan put the plate on the table, and Tanisel was adding sugar to the coffee.His indomitable energy when adding sugar still amazes Ethan.

How can this guy not gain weight?

The two of them ate breakfast quietly, occasionally speaking a word or two.Accompanied for so many years, the silence has become a tacit understanding rather than embarrassment.After breakfast, Tanisel looked through the recent news, and when he saw an interesting article, he reported a few words to Ethan.Ethan, on the other hand, was busy preparing the documents to bring to work, so it was rare for him to reply.

Tanisel has no class today, so he doesn't have to go to school.He leaned back on the chair and looked at Ethan with a half-smile.

"I said, when will you retire?"

Ethan almost choked on his own saliva, and glared at Tanithel, "Why retire? 67 is the retirement age?"

"You see you are so busy every day, I'm afraid you're working hard." Tanisel tilted his head and smiled, "I'll just support you."

Ethan rolled his eyes, he has said this for more than 20 years, and now he is too lazy to answer him.He quickly put on his coat, facing the mirror at the door to straighten his neatly fixed hair with hair cream, not surprisingly, he found a few white strands.

Tanithel walked behind him unknowingly, "You know what? I've been having a dream recently."

"Ok?"

"I dreamed that we were hugging each other, lying in a dark place."

Ethan paused when he put on his shoes, and looked up at him, "Huh? Did you dream that too?"

Now Tanithel was also a little surprised, "You too?"

"That's right." Ethan shrugged and laughed, "So we both had the same dream? Is there any explanation for that?"

"I remember a long time ago on earth there was a saying that a person dreamed that he became a butterfly, but after waking up, he didn't know whether he dreamed that he became a butterfly or the butterfly dreamed that he became a human. .”

"Hmm..." Ethan thought for a while, "It's quite interesting."

"Maybe..." Tanithel's expression was a little bit confused at that moment, "Maybe we are just dreaming now, and the dream is reality?"

"You've watched too many movies." Ethan rolled his eyes, but somewhere in his heart, a strange uneasiness has become more and more intense recently.

He didn't know what was going on, sometimes when he was busy, when he suddenly raised his head to look at the peaceful blue sky, he felt unreal.

There is an illusion that everything is a set.

But maybe he's thinking too much...

Ethan shook his head, intending to temporarily forget these abnormal thoughts, and went to drive to work.Before leaving, Tanisel kissed him lightly on the lips as usual.

"come back earlier."

"Ah."

"Shall we go out to eat tonight?"

"Okay."

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On the spaceship leading to Eve Star, everyone was asleep in the dormancy cabin.This spacecraft is flying in curvature, passing through the vast sea of ​​stars at a speed exceeding the speed of light.

In a sealed cabin, inside a transparent glass cabinet, there are two tightly hugged bodies lying horizontally.They were motionless, like sculptures.

Until, the right index fingers of the two people moved at the same time.

The author has something to say: I feel that it is more appropriate to end here. It may be one of the articles I have written with the most satisfactory ending?

There may be a lot of bugs, because I always rush to update in the middle of the night. Sometimes I don’t know my mind or make a mistake when my hands tremble. I may change it one after another when I see bugs in the future. Please bear with me if there are update reminders.

In short, this article has been written for half a year, and I thank the little angels for always accompanying me.During this period, my studies became particularly heavy, but I persisted anyway, largely because of the encouragement of the little angels.Although the text is very cold, but I am very happy to write, thank you~

I'm still planning the next article, and I'm considering whether to open the ancient style, after all, I have written two future articles in a row.I will continue to work hard and strive to write better works.

Finally, I bow again and thank you~