Falling into the Abyss

The oversized baby worm about five or six meters long rushed out of the ground suddenly, with a thin baby-like grunt from its enlarged front end, and light yellow acid flowed down the skin folds that had just started to turn light gray.

When Tanithel and Samuel came back, they saw Ethan standing blankly in front of the terrifying giant worm, as if he would be swallowed at any moment.Tanithel's complexion changed drastically, and he immediately rushed towards Ethan's direction, and the third eye on his forehead was all opened.Samuel also rushed over, shouting loudly, "Ethan!!!"

But Ethan turned his head and looked at them calmly, raising a hand to signal them not to come over.

"It's okay, it knows me." Ethan said to the pale Tanithel and Samuel, and then slowly stretched out his hand in the direction of the worm.

I saw that the towering monster closed its huge mouth, lowered its head docilely, and rubbed against Ethan's palm...

Samuel looked at the extremely weird scene in front of him, and muttered, "It seems that I really think of him as my mother..."

Tanisel breathed a sigh of relief, and was surprised to find that he was in a cold sweat just now.He closed the eyes on his forehead, approaching one person and one insect cautiously.The little worm crawled docilely in front of Ethan, while the latter squatted down, stroking the skin folds that looked sticky and soft like a puppy, with a gentle smile on his face.

Tanithel squatted down beside Ethan, looking at the honest bug with great interest, "Do you know how to summon it?"

Ethan nodded.

"Give him a name?"

"Yeah." Ethan glanced at Samuel who was reluctant to approach the worm in the distance, and said in a low voice, "Little Rafal."

Hearing him call it by name, the worm on the ground suddenly raised its front end, shook twice in the air like a joy, and spit out a mouthful of sticky stuff that almost splashed on Ethan.

Tanisel laughed lowly, raised his head and waved his hand at the worm, "Hello, little Rafal, if the person next to you is your mother, I will be your father."

Ethan reached out and punched Tanisel in the waist, but he had no strength due to his weakness.Tanithel still fell to the ground in an exaggerated posture very cooperatively, and said to the little worm, blinking his gray eyes pitifully, "Look, your mother has committed domestic violence."

It's rare for Ethan to see Tanisel showing such a naive side, as if he just drank a bowl of hot tea in his chest, a touch of tenderness and happiness permeated.Although I know that this kind of emotion comes at a very wrong time and place, but after all, no one can control their emotions.

Seeing the two of them chattering, Samuel cursed in a low voice, and reluctantly walked in, "Hey! If you don't chase the soldiers, you'll be there!"

Ethan helped Tanisel stand up straight, looked at the worm that was still writhing happily, and said to it in his mind, "Little Rafal, take us out of here and go to the ground one kilometer away. "

Ethan has already considered that their current location is about south of the center of the Forbidden City, and they should be able to reach a distance outside the Forbidden City in one kilometer, which should be relatively safe.When the little worm received Mingli, it immediately turned over, turned around and burrowed into the ground again.In the flying sand and rocks, there was a big hole in the ground in an instant, and the worms had disappeared.

Samuel lay down on the edge of the pit and looked down, "It doesn't seem very deep." After he finished speaking, he jumped down first.

Sure enough, the pit was only about two meters deep, and then there was a gentle slope, which began to gently extend in a certain direction.It's just that the worm wasn't big enough, and the hole it dug could only accommodate one person.There was a narrow darkness ahead that could not be seen, and just looking at it gave people a deep sense of oppression.

"I said secretary." Samuel raised his head and looked at Ethan, "Your bug won't suddenly go crazy and give me a bite."

Ethan pursed his lips, "I can't tell. Otherwise, I'll be the first to go."

"You can do it. Later, if you faint in there again, you will block the road. I will go first, and the priest will take care of him." He ordered without any explanation, and then he lowered his head and got into the hole.

Tanithel looked at the place where Samuel disappeared at the entrance of the cave, and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Why do I feel that something is wrong with him?"

Ethan sighed, lowered his dim eyes, "The worm has hatched, you know what that means, don't you?"

"When I came here, they told me that there was an inhuman riot underground. The guard before the Forbidden City died, right? But what does this have to do with Samuel?"

"They are lovers."

Tanithel raised his eyebrows, "I thought he liked you?"

Ethan glanced at him strangely, "I thought he liked you too."

Tanisel shrugged and said in a factual tone, "From the perspective of appearance and physical needs, he should really like me. However, people like him who may have gender cognitive impairment are not able to use common sense to deduce .”

"narcissism……"

Tanithel let Ethan go in first, followed by himself.The narrow space is approaching from both sides, and if you raise your head up a little, your forehead will be smashed, and the thick earthy smell seems to be mixed with some kind of blood-like stench.Crawling on hands and feet in such places is slow and the oxygen is thin.After a while, Ethan's speed slowed down significantly.Tanithel, who was behind him, felt something strange, and opened his third eye a little bit calmly, looking for the thin golden thread that binds the soul in the endless sea of ​​spirits.He wrapped his thoughts around the golden thread and quickly spread towards Ethan.

"Where do you want to go after leaving the Forbidden City?"

Ethan was taken aback for a moment, and the voice that suddenly appeared in his mind pulled him out of a certain dazed state.It took him a while to realize that the question was not a specific voice, but an idea that appeared directly in his mind.

He wanted to look back at Tanisel, but the space was too small to turn around.He then responded in his mind, "I don't know...I haven't thought about it yet..."

"Did you never think that you would leave here?"

"...It's not certain whether you can escape successfully."

"Then if you succeed, where do you want to go?"

Ethan moved his hands and knees silently, the sound of panting and heartbeat in the narrow space was so clear.Physical exhaustion was almost at its peak, but Tanithel's question seemed to divert his attention a little.

If you can really leave, where can you go?

He knew too much about Project Zero, and it was a mutated monster. The Earth Alliance wouldn't just let him go.The entire Earth Alliance might not be able to stay any longer. Even if they wanted to go home, it might not be realistic to take a look at their parents from afar.

The rest of the galaxy is vast and boundless, where should he go?What will the spreading mutations in his body turn into in the end?How long can he last?

Thinking about it this way, I feel that the road ahead is boundless, with no end in sight, and no hope in sight.

His despair penetrated into the consciousness of the priest through the fetters connected with Tanithel, and the dark and heavy feelings also affected the priest's heart.Tanithel controlled his emotions and conveyed his thoughts in the most pleasant form.

"Are you coming back to Eve Star with me?"

Ethan stopped suddenly, and Tanisel almost hit his ass... "Hey, don't brake suddenly." The priest's reprimanded voice was full of laughter, and there was no meaning of anger at all.

Ethan forced himself to continue crawling, but Tanithel's words had already disturbed his mind completely.

"E... Eve?" Ethan's thoughts were full of uncertainty... and a hint of surprise that was tried hard to hide.He didn't expect that Tanithel would propose to take him to his home planet. His face was already hot, but now it was so hot that he seemed to be on fire.

But when he thought about it again, the feasibility of this plan didn't seem to be very high... Eve Star and the Earth Alliance are in an alliance relationship, and they definitely wouldn't take the risk of hostilities with the Earth Alliance to accept him, a fugitive and mutant monster... Even if Tanithel seems to have an aristocratic background and is not an ordinary priest. There is no way to be willful when it comes to principled issues involving the interests of the star country?

His mood returned to gloom in an instant. Although nothing seemed to be visible on the surface, the violent ups and downs of emotions felt like riding a roller coaster in Tanithel.He couldn't help showing a silent smile. Such rich inner activities made him seem to have the uncontrollable primitive emotions of human beings. For priests like Eve who have been trained to control emotions like them Stimulating like a hallucinogen.

As he has described it before, it is a very delicious feeling.

"You don't have to worry, of course I will disguise you and take you back." Tanisel reassured.

"No matter how much I pretend I can't become an Eve."

"There are so many Eve people on Eve planet, and everyone will not specifically ask you to open your third eye to prove your identity or something." Tanithel's mind is still in control, "Don't worry, I will arrange it. You just need to say, would you like to come with me?"

Now Ethan actually wanted to turn around and look into the priest's eyes to answer this question.He also hoped that the place where the priest said this to him was not in this narrow corridor, nor in this predicament where he could only see his own buttocks.Thinking of this, Ethan felt a little stuffy.

Damn, you can't wait until you get out to ask such a question that should be very romantic!

Seeing that Ethan didn't answer for a long time, he even seemed a little angry. Tanithel was confused and a little frustrated. He didn't quite understand why an Alpha with a house and a car like himself was rejected, so he passed it on. The next ray of thought carried such a grievance, "Ah... don't you want to..."

Ethan yelled back angrily in his head, "Yes!!!"

"...Why do you want to be so fierce?" Still full of grievances.

Ethan gave Tanisel a blank stare in his mind, "Is my brain burnt out?"

"Okay, okay," Tanithel actually spoke this time, with a pampering voice in his voice, "You are a patient, you are the biggest."

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Of course, Samuel didn't know what the two flirting couples behind were doing. His speed was much faster than Ethan's, so when he finally got out of the narrow cave, he jumped into another wider cave. After being in the space, Ethan waited for 10 minutes before emerging from the hole.By then Samuel had checked the new "hole" with a flashlight.

However, one can tell at a glance that this is not an underground cave, but another subway station that has been abandoned for an unknown number of years.At first glance, I almost thought they were back to the starting point.But if you take a closer look, you will find that there are still many broken light boxes and billboards on the walls here, and there are also a lot of garbage on the ground, and there is a bedding against the corner of the wall and piles of unknowable shabby shopping. The car looks like someone lives.

When Ethan crawled out of the hole, he was sweating profusely and panting heavily. He leaned on the wall to stand firm, and looked around blankly, "This is...the subway station?"

"Well, but not the two in the Forbidden City." Samuel shined a flashlight on a subway map on a board, "Your worms may have dug through the subway lines outside the Forbidden City."

Tanithel also got out at this time, sniffing the smell in the air, "The air is very fresh, it seems that this place is not closed. Ethan, our baby is very caring, I am afraid that we will not be able to climb that far, So it took a little detour and put us in the subway system."

Ethan didn't bother to talk to the priest who was not reserved at all when he got in front of him, "How far is it from the Forbidden City?"

"From the route map, it's probably less than a kilometer outside the Forbidden City. It's still not safe." Samuel projected the light of his flashlight onto the rails under the platform. "It would be safer to walk a few more stops."

Ethan agreed with Samuel's words, pulled himself together, jumped off the platform after Omega, and walked deep into the tunnel.After two stops, they were surprised to see a lot of ragged scavengers cooking together on the third platform.The dry faces that had been tortured and lost their figure by the cruel environment outside the settlement stared faintly at the three of them as they passed by in the darkness, and some mice also ran and screamed at their feet.Turning to different lines, there are more and more scavengers. It seems that this subway system has become an underground city. Tents made of waste can be seen everywhere on the platform. in the air.

Ethan couldn't hold it anymore, he coughed violently, feeling like he was about to cough out his heart and lungs.Tanithel supported his crumbling body, and reached out to touch Ethan's forehead.

The heat seems to be even higher than before.

They had been walking for several hours without a break, and even healthy people would be exhausted, not to mention that Ethan's current body consumption was close to the limit, and it was really not suitable for such a hard journey.He said to Samuel, "Let's rest a little before we go."

Samuel looked warily at the scavengers who were sitting together in twos and threes, cooking or mending, or singing with an accordion they got somewhere. He also looked at the pale-faced Ethan, and nodded after hesitating.

The three of them intuitively felt that these scavengers probably had their own territory, and they didn't want to cause trouble, so they planned to find a place to rest in the tunnel, but an old woman who must have looked to be in her 80s suddenly said to them, "Come on." Let me stay here, that friend of yours is very sick."

Tanithel thanked the old woman for her kindness, and helped Ethan to go there.The old woman herself had a tent of torn canvas covered with dust and patches.Looking at the debris around her, she should have lived here for a long time.Beside her was a boy about fifteen or sixteen years old, looking at them with a pair of big black eyes.The old woman packed up a bunk and asked Taniser to help Ethan lie on it, then boiled a bowl of dark stuff made from some kind of plant, and brought it to Taniser to feed him Ethan drank it.

"This is a folk remedy for those of us, it can reduce inflammation and fever."

Samuel looked skeptical and frowned tightly. Seeing that Tanisel really wanted to bring the dirty bowl to Ethan's mouth, he hurriedly reached out to stop it.

"Don't worry." Tanithel whispered to him, "Now Ethan is not so easy to be poisoned to death. Why don't you give it a try."

Samuel pursed his lips, looked at the pale and thin face in the priest's arms, and reluctantly agreed.Tanithel helped Ethan up, let him lean in his arms, blew on the soup in the bowl, and coaxed Ethan, "Come on, drink it before going to sleep."

Ethan opened his heavy eyelids in a trance, and opened his mouth cooperatively.

While Ethan was drinking the medicine, the old woman asked Tanithel, "I haven't seen an alien for a long time. Why are you here?"

Tanithel focused on feeding Ethan the medicine and didn't hear the problem for a while.Samuel then shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Dodge debt."

"Tsk tsk, we do have one or two dodging debt here. How much do you owe?"

"A lot, and I won't be able to afford that in my next life."

"Hey... Is it because of gambling addiction? Tsk tsk, young people nowadays are really confused." The old lady shook her head regretfully, regardless of whether Samuel was denying it or not, she just turned around to let her little one The grandson poured the boiled hot water into the washbasin.

Ethan accidentally choked, Tanisel carefully wiped the corner of his mouth with his sleeve, and helped him to lie back a little bit.At this time, the old woman brought hot water, and a towel was soaked in it, "Wipe his body with hot water, I have a quilt here, cover it for a while and sweat will be fine."

The priest really felt that Ethan was wearing only his robe which was too thin, so he untied the robe and planned to scrub him.Unexpectedly, something like a piece of leather fell out of the skirt.

What's more, after seeing the words and patterns on the leather, the old woman screamed as if she saw something extremely terrifying, and she couldn't even hold the water basin steady, and the water spilled all over the floor.

"Earth... crypt ghost!!!"

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I didn’t change it yesterday, so I added a little more size today~