Falling into the Abyss

"In this way, it's a bit like the curse written at the entrance of the tomb of the ancient monarch." Ethan looked at the translated words floating on the wall, and murmured, "For example, someone disturbed the tomb of Tutankhamun Pharaoh's rest, deathwing will descend on his head, etc. But such a strange curse has never been heard."

There is no curse of death, but only the beginning of nightmares.

But for some reason, it seemed more strange and dangerous than the death curse.

The Alpha soldier who was hurriedly helping the sergeant disinfect his burned arm cursed in a low voice, "So this is a mausoleum? What the hell is that holy race?"

Ethan shrugged, "Maybe it's the kind of bugs outside, or the bigger bugs we've seen."

Schneider scolded, "Don't talk nonsense. Why don't you come over and help open the door!"

Except for the injured sergeant, the remaining five pushed the stone door together, but the door remained motionless as expected.The six people were panting in the dim light, and then at the same time, they extended their sights to the stairs not far away that spread deeper into the ground.

"We can also blow the door open with a bomb."

"But what if those bugs are still outside? And the bomb was so powerful that it killed us too?"

"But if you go down, there will be no bugs. Didn't the four eyes over there say that the holy race might be bugs?"

The six people argued for a long time, and finally Schneider decided to try to blow up the door with a bomb.

Because they instinctively felt that there was a cold and evil smell in the surging darkness under the stairs.No one knows what kind of ancient secrets are buried under the land of this alien planet. The countless ancient inscriptions carved on the rock walls, whether they are curses or prophecies, make people shudder.

They set the time for the bomb, and then everyone rushed down the steps and took cover deep in the hole.With a bang, the ground shook, and countless dust roared like a storm and engulfed them.Ethan was lying next to Samuel, only hearing loud rumbling noises in his ears, a stone fell and hit his finger sharply, and he could vaguely hear the exclamation of other people.

Immediately, his forehead was concentrated by a falling rock, and he fell into a brief faint.When he woke up, it was pitch black all around, so dark that for a moment he began to question his own existence.Ethan opened his eyes wide and couldn't see anything. He didn't know where he was, and there was a strong choking earthy smell spreading from his mouth and nose.The sound of coughing sounded from an uncertain direction.

Ethan touched his glasses and put them on his face in vain, but he still couldn't see anything.He groped to the side, just in time to be grabbed by another strong arm.Samuel pulled him in front of him, groped his face with his big hands, "Ethan?"

"It's me, it's me, what happened?" Ethan found that his voice was choked by the dust, his throat was itchy, and he coughed embarrassingly.There was a smell of blood in the soil, which made him nauseated, but at the same time felt a little sweet.

Samuel said uncertainly, "Maybe the cave has collapsed..." As if he suddenly remembered something, the hand holding Ethan tightened suddenly.He yelled, "Snyder? Schneider??"

It took a long time before a hoarse voice came from not far in front of them, "I'm here."

Samuel was visibly relieved.I'm afraid even he himself didn't realize how panicked his voice sounded just now.

Soon Schneider's voice rang again, "Where are the others? Answer!"

"Here I am!" The sergeant's voice was weak but clearly alive.

"My leg is pinned down!" Another non-human Stan's voice was filled with unbearable pain and trembling with imperceptible fear, "I can't move!"

Samuel fumbled for the original machine gun in his hand, trying to use the light on the gun to illuminate it.But Schneider found his weapon before him, a beam of light finally tore through the dark curtain, and everyone couldn't help but stretch out their hands to cover the too bright stimulus.

They were still lying on the steps, and a large rock from the top of the cave fell down and scattered around. Just a few steps away from Ethan, there was a huge rock. A way to survive.

Ethan faintly felt scared, his legs were a little weak.He struggled, stumbled after Samuel, and found Schneider in the light, and the latter was hastily putting the laser gun aside, trying to move the huge stone slab that was pressing on Stan's legs.Apparently the stone slab was also dropped from the top of the tunnel, and some engraved horned characters could still be vaguely discerned.

Ethan lowered his head to look carefully, and saw the red blood splattered under the boulder.He lowered his body even more, and saw that the skin and flesh of the pressed leg had been broken, and the bones protruded from it.

These legs are useless, and I'm afraid I won't be able to walk again in this life.

Obviously Schneider should also know this truth, but he was still beckoning Samuel to try his best to lift the stone with him.But the sergeant on the other side stood stiffly on the other side, staring fixedly at something on the ground.Ethan stepped closer to take a look, only to find a lifeless arm sticking out from under a stone slab.

It was the soldier who silently followed the sergeant...

So now it's just the five of them left, and Stan's leg...

Ethan groped for the direction towards the entrance of the cave, but after tripping a few times, all he could touch were piles of rocks.

Not only did the bomb fail to help them escape, but it also blocked the way out even more.

He vaguely felt that none of this was accidental.There is a kind of power in the dark, forcing them to go to the depths of darkness.He involuntarily reached out to touch the back of his neck, where it was just a piece of rough and uneven skin covered with scars at the moment, nothing unusual.Relieved a little, he turned to Samuel and said, "There is no longer any delay, we must get out of here."

"Then come and help!" Schneider shouted irritably.

Ethan's expression was very indifferent. He looked at Stan, who was pale with pain on the ground, "Even if you remove the stone slab, he can't walk." The implication in Ethan's words was very clear, and Samuel was a little depressed. suddenly looked up at him.

The Ethan in Samuel's memory would never say such cold words in such an indifferent tone.

In fact, even Ethan himself was surprised when the words came out of his mouth. How could he say something that was just thought in his heart?

Yes, he didn't have much sympathy for Stan, after all, he was not familiar with him, and that person was one of the very devout believers in Chen Zeng's belief in the Great Evil God, which made him a little disgusted.But with his usual personality, he would not say such cruel words.

And Schneider's eyes widened even more, "It's a big deal, I'm carrying him behind my back!"

Ethan felt a little ashamed, and bent over to help without saying a word.The three of them tried their best to lift the slate a little, and the sergeant dragged Stan out.Seeing the appearance of his broken leg, Stan was stunned with ashes on his face.

Judging from the appearance of that leg, it is obviously impossible to be healed again, unless a new pair of legs is created using cloning technology.But who would spend so much money to make a pair of cloned legs for a non-human?

Much of their equipment was buried, worse than before the bombs were used.They searched as hard as they could and found only a rucksack with some compressed food and water in it.But five people are still too nervous.The only gun that can illuminate is the one in Schneider's hand. It doesn't know when it will run out of energy and completely lose its light source.

In this dark underground, if there is no light, it is basically a dead end.

Schneider put Stan on his back and let Samuel walk in the front with a gun in his hand.Ethan followed closely behind.They kept sinking down the stairs until their feet finally hit solid ground again.

In front of them are two thick and huge pointed arched stone gates, tens of meters high, standing majestically in front of them like giants, the top of the gates disappearing into the darkness high above.But those two doors were both open. Behind the door, a high and wide space formed a dome hundreds of feet above the head, and the towering stone pillars were lined up in two rows, full of a solemn solemnity with a religious meaning.However, these stone pillars have asymmetric sharp corners that have never been seen in other buildings, adding a sense of distortion and confusion to the solemnity. Standing between two rows of giant pillars and looking towards the end of the perspective, there will be a kind of The pillars are bending downwards, and I will be sucked into the inexplicable feeling in the distance.

They slowed down and stepped into the huge hall that was too tall and wide with some hesitation.There are no windows here, but there are indeed some unknown substances that emit fluorescence on the dome, perhaps plants, which light up the entire underground hall.It was empty and silent, but there were many vague reliefs and characters densely packed on the walls.Their footsteps echoed between the giant pillars, and every echo struck the hearts of everyone.

When was such a large project built?Why does the Earth Alliance know nothing about it?

Ethan noticed that there were also engravings on those pillars, densely packed from top to bottom.He leaned closer, and saw that it was not the language of the horned people.

It was a language he had never seen before, a twisted, bug-like language.They are densely packed, covering the field of vision, facing the hall that has been empty for countless centuries.

He touched it with his finger, and in an instant, many messy images, images that did not belong to his memory suddenly invaded his mind.

He saw that countless huge worms swarmed out from the core of the dying planet. They wriggled quickly, left their own huge underground palace that penetrated the entire planet, and crawled to the dark red, ever-expanding huge sun. Down.In the scorching sun, their plump bodies swelled and burst, their dark green blood gave off a stench, and the plants and trees wherever they went quickly turned black and withered, and those pink animals with strange shapes that Ethan had never seen before came into contact with them In an instant, the blood also turned gray quickly, and then remained motionless.

Immediately afterwards, many dark green translucent eggs spewed out from the bodies of those burst flesh worms.When those eggs were blown by a strange wind, they all floated up as if they had no weight, and floated towards the dying star.On the barren land criss-crossed by lava, countless eggs emitting fluorescent green light floated up, like the souls of the entire planet that were constantly evaporating.

Those seeds left the dying parent star and drifted into the dark and cold universe.They fell into the chaotic river of time and space, and through some rare wormholes, came to the Milky Way from the distant universe, and finally landed on a dark blue planet that is most suitable for them, only at night.

They hate sunlight, but here there is almost no sunlight.They used their wisdom to conquer the local horned people here, and they were regarded as the messengers of the gods.Then they burrowed into the ground and began to recreate their subterranean palaces, mating and laying eggs in the huge hollows in those abysses.Here they wait, until the arrival of their gods.

Ethan's hand left the stone pillar suddenly, and his trance consciousness was pulled back to reality in an instant.Samuel was holding his wrist half-compulsively, looking at him with concern.

He blinked blankly.

"What's the matter with you?" Samuel asked, frowning. "What language did you speak in just now? It sounds weird."