Falling into the Abyss

"We want you to take us to new worlds."

The sound was approaching from all directions, but the source could not be distinguished, nor could there be any vocal organs on the queen below.Ethan frowned, cleared his throat, and asked loudly again, "What new world? I don't understand what you mean."

"New world, your world." At the same time as the voice rippling, a huge worm tail suddenly rose from the ground, and the strong wind and waves almost swept Ethan off the cliff.However, the male worm climbing on the stone pillar closest to Ethan didn't seem to have any malicious intentions, just laying its giant tail on the edge of the cliff, as if waiting for Ethan to step on it.

Of course Ethan didn't want to touch that disgusting fat-like skin, but the other party didn't intend to move his tail away.He had no choice but to tentatively stretch out his foot to step on it, and the shoe quickly sank into the soft flesh.The giant tail moved again, hanging down straight, until it was only ten meters away from the worm queen in the abyss before stopping.From this angle, the queen's huge and hot body below is like a series of winding mountains, and the stench is getting stronger and stronger.He quickly covered his nose with his cuff, his whole face wrinkled.

Suddenly, Ethan saw a change in the scarlet and flickering body of the worm queen below.At the thickest part of its body, the thin skin began to stretch toward both sides, gradually torn from the middle like a mucous membrane.A ball of steam was quickly ejected from its body, and the jelly-like skin wriggling underneath separated to the two sides, revealing tens of thousands of bright green spherical objects densely packed.

If you look carefully, those balls are about the size of a tennis ball and look like frog eggs. The center of the fluorescent green translucent ball is surrounded by trembling black spots.They were soaked in blood-red mucus and fat, trembling and flowing as the giant worm's body rose and fell.

These are their eggs... No wonder they say the planet is overcrowded, if every egg ends up hatching into giant worms, then it's only natural for the planet to be hollowed out...

Ethan vaguely recalled the announcement they had seen at the entrance of the temple: the starting point of your nightmares.Are you really exaggerating?

If it was my former self, in front of such a disgusting and terrifying scene, I would probably faint from fright.

"Take our descendants to the earth to meet the coming of God." The childish voice sounded again, and now Ethan saw what organs would be in the translucent body in the distance when the giant worm queen was speaking It was shaking.Presumably that is its vocal organ.

Why doesn't it sound from the mouth of the front end like other males and giant worms or workers?Or... does it have no mouth at all?

Ethan sneered, "Take your eggs to the earth, and then hollow out the earth?"

"Your world is already barren. Your race destroyed your own world."

"Since it is already a world that is about to be destroyed, why do you still go?"

"We are devout believers in God, please do not question our faith."

Ethan raised his eyebrows strangely, when did he question these disgusting bugs' belief in their "god"?

"We are going to prepare, the gate of heaven is about to open..." A strange whisper came from the giant worm's body, as if many people were speaking at the same time, "We will assist you and prepare everything. Wait...wait ..."

"I don't understand what you're talking about. But if I refuse to take your eggs back to Earth, will you kill us?" Ethan asked.

The Worm Queen was silent for a while, as if she didn't quite understand what he meant, "Why did you refuse?"

Ethan almost wondered if these bugs were the so-called higher races... "Isn't the reason very simple, every time you go to a planet, you will hollow out that planet and accelerate its death. Although there is not much left on the earth to save things, but as a person on earth, I still have some nostalgia complex after all.”

The worm queen's body squirmed a bit, and the eggs also created a small wave in her body, "Eternity is about to end, and the sleeping king is about to wake up... everything will return to endless chaos, and that is the final home."

Ethan realized that the other party was actually reasoning with him. Could it be that he wanted to persuade him to believe in their religion?

This was really beyond his expectation.

Could it be that it can perceive the mutated genes in its own body?Could it be that it knows that it is not a true earthling, so it wants to win over itself?

But something was still wrong... These bugs were too polite to him.For all the brutality he'd seen them do to humans, they hadn't even touched a finger of his so far.

Eternity is about to end, and the sleeping king is about to wake up. This sentence is like a curse, and it can be heard no matter where you go.

"Sorry, I don't trust your great wise man. I don't want to be a sinner for the entire planet."

"You are already a sinner."

"..." The categorical assertion left Ethan speechless for a while, but he didn't expect that the other party would even know whether he was a human being...

A faint sigh came from the ear, as if an elder would sigh softly to an ignorant child, "If you don't help us expand, the four humans will become food."

Ethan didn't understand the lame words at first, but after thinking about it for a while, he understood.

If he disagrees, Samuel and the four of them will be eaten by its offspring.

To be honest, he wasn't surprised at all.It made him wonder why it didn't threaten him so much in the first place.

Ethan looked around calmly, looking at this huge underground wormhole.All the males stretched out their front ends in his direction, making some kind of threatening posture.

"Are you not afraid that although you force me to agree, I will destroy all your eggs after leaving here?" Ethan asked curiously.

"You won't." The voice said softly, "Because you don't kill your friends."

Ethan's expression changed suddenly, "What do you mean!"

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Samuel knew he lost consciousness for a brief moment, and the last thing he remembered was seeing the huge worm with its mouth open and its head on him and Schneider.However, when he opened his eyes, he found that the bugs around them were only surrounding them in the distance, and did not move forward.And the biggest horror worm was gone.

For a moment he was not sure whether he was alive or dead.

His body was very sticky. When he looked down, he found that his clothes were soaked and covered with a thick layer of mucus. When he raised his hand, he would even pull out silk thread, which was very disgusting.

Oddly enough, the mucus is not acidic at all, and there is nothing uncomfortable about it.He raised his head, and found that Schneider next to him still had his eyes closed, and his whole body was sticky, with his broken hair sticking to his cheeks, showing a little more fragility that he couldn't usually see.Not far from them, both Sergeant and Stan stared at them in horror.

"You're not dead?" Stan asked unexpectedly.

"What happened?" Samuel asked.

The sergeant said weakly, "You were swallowed by that very big bug, and then spit it out again... We thought you were dead."

Samuel turned around and shook Schneider, who groaned and woke up slowly.Junma, whose eyes became clearer, also showed the same confusion as Samuel.

"We... are not dead?" Schneider asked uncertainly.

"It doesn't look like..."

Samuel helped Schneider stand up cautiously. The four of them were still surrounded by countless intertwined and twisted worms on a small island in the middle, but they seemed to be unable to see them, twisting their front ends, Intertwined into a mess.But when Samuel tried to get close to them, those front ends suddenly raised up, and his mouth opened wide in demonstration to Samuel, revealing rows of fangs that spread deep into the throat like a whirlpool.

The light on the laser gun was as weak as a flame that would be extinguished by the wind at any time, flickering and lingering.In addition, their heartbeats also fluctuated with the light.

"Now...what the hell is going on?" Samuel asked Schneider in a low voice.The latter did not speak, probably because he had no answer either.

But at this moment, the overwhelming worms suddenly started to move at the same time.Samuel thought they were finally going to attack, but he didn't expect the worms to writhe and recede like a tide.They crawled along the stone pillars to the dome, or climbed up the high wall and drilled into the wormhole, and they disappeared completely in a few minutes.

Then, about 10 minutes later, just as the four of them were undecided, not knowing what would happen, a cry suddenly came from the darkness.

"Samuel!"

Samuel quickly picked up the laser gun and irradiated it in the direction of the sound. The faint light vaguely illuminated a black figure at the entrance of the huge cave.

Listen to that voice, is it Ethan?

Schneider also became nervous, holding a dagger in his hand, "Be careful...we can't be sure if it's Ethan."

Samuel nodded, and walked slowly towards the figure with a gun in his hand, "Ethan? Is that you?"

The figure also climbed down from the hole a little clumsily, and walked quickly towards them.A pale face gradually entered into the light, the lens reflected the light, and the eyes could not be seen clearly.

"Samuel, it's me."

Samuel breathed a sigh of relief, lowered the gun a little, went up and punched Ethan on the shoulder, "Where the hell did you go!!! I thought you had turned into a bug shit!"

When he got closer, he could see Ethan's concerned green eyes looking him up and down, and then looked at Schneider who was a step behind him, "Are you all right?"

"Except for being eaten and spit out by a disgusting big bug, and then the soldier's arm over there was rotten and maggots cut off by us, everything else is fine." Samuel said dryly, grabbing He looked up and down Ethan's shoulder.

Unexpectedly, Ethan's condition turned out to be the best among them, not even a scratch.

Schneider narrowed his eyes slightly suspiciously.

Ethan pursed his lips, did not make any unnecessary comments, but said in a calm voice, "Come on, get out of here first."

Samuel was taken aback, "Leave? Have you found your way?"

Ethan nodded.

Schneider frowned even deeper, "Did you find a way out of that hole? Didn't you encounter bugs?"

"There is a fork in that hole, maybe I'm lucky." Ethan said shortly with a blank expression, "Are you coming or not?"

So Schneider carried Stan on his back again, and Samuel supported the sergeant, and followed Ethan into the cave infested by giant worms.The light on the laser gun illuminates horizontal stripes that spread layer by layer on the ground, walls, and roof of the cave. Occasionally, the smooth reflection of rocks makes the entire cave look sinister and secluded.Ethan led the way and walked at the forefront, talking very little along the way, only turning around occasionally to confirm that Samuel was still following him.

And Samuel looked at the erratic back in front of him, and felt that Ethan had become a little mysterious.

Where had he been, six hours?Why didn't he meet the big worm, why did those worms retreat before Ethan appeared?

Is this person who looks like Ethan really Ethan?

Could it be that in the dark, some monster put on Ethan's skin to lure them?

There are indeed many forks in the dark cave, but Ethan walks very skillfully, as if he has already walked this road.They gradually felt that they were climbing a slope, and their breathing became heavier and heavier.Especially Schneider, with Stan's weight on his body, his face pale with exhaustion.

Samuel looked at him and suddenly felt a little distressed, so he asked, "Do you want me to trade with you?"

"...No need."

It wasn't until they saw the light that their doubts about Ethan completely disappeared.Samuel cheered, and the whole person jumped up.They got out from a narrow space hidden under the roots of trees. Outside was a cluster of shrubs emitting a faint purple light in the dark night. Although the cold air was still very damp, compared to the underground The lingering rancid smell is already very open and fresh.The few of them lay limp on the ground covered with thick moss, greedily breathing the flowing air.

And the communicator, which had no signal, suddenly seemed to wake up at this moment, and resumed working.

The sergeant quickly reported their approximate location, and soon a rescue plane would come to the nearby hill to pick them up.They are about to be saved.

Only Ethan didn't have a smile on his face, his lips were tightly pressed, and his eyes switched between Samuel and Schneider.

The words of the Worm Queen still echoed in his head.

"My eggs are parasitic in your friend's body."

The author has something to say:

The Star of the Faun is finally over~ The collection has hardly increased in the days when there is no list... Blue thin shiitake mushrooms...

Then I will be very, very busy in the next week (the jet lag party does not have a holiday), the update may be slow, hope everyone understands...