Advent

"Alan...Alan Morecambe...how do you feel?"

"Ellen..."

……

When Allen woke up, he found himself lying on a medical bed.

He was fixed in a capsule-shaped glass coffin, with electrodes attached to his body, and needles stuck in his blood vessels... He turned his head sideways and saw translucent liquid flowing from the transparent infusion tube.

The K2-1 biological preparation produced by Orff Company is mainly used to calm and relieve the frenzy and anxiety of mental patients-Alan recognized the unique translucent milky color of the medicine at a glance.

It's just that the eyes were fixed for a moment, and then another burst of dizziness struck.

Allen was a little dizzy, and his vision was blurred.

At the same time, his brain seemed to be shrouded in a thick fog, as if it no longer belonged to him.

Sensing his awakening, the man who had been sitting by the bed calling him since just now stretched out his hand and pressed a button.The glass cover of the medical bed let out a low beep, and then lifted up automatically.

The air was slightly cool, which washed away the comfortable warmth in the medical bed.

Allen shuddered and felt that he seemed to be a little more awake.

"...All the patient's signs are stable, sir, you can start talking to him."

A few medical officers in white uniforms came over to take the needles and tubing from Alan's body. Alan vaguely heard them talking to the man beside the bed, and then those people packed up all the medical equipment, Quietly left the treatment room.

"Alan Morecambe. How are you feeling?"

Immediately afterwards, Allen felt his medical bed lift up, and he sat up halfway.

A man's voice came from beside the bed.

Allen turned his head and stared blankly at the man beside him, the man's face in his vision was gradually becoming clearer.

He paused for a few seconds before he managed to remember that the man was called Rafael...that man...brought him from the earth to the Tianmao human military base...

"La... Raphael..."

Allen called out the other person's name hoarsely.

"I... had a nightmare."

Then, Allen said vaguely.

There was endless darkness in that nightmare, and something incomparably cold wet his chest, and mucus... Gradually melted, gradually enveloping his whole body in the mucus...

No, wait, no.

The effects of the sedatives are wearing off.

"...There is something."

Allen's voice became flustered for a moment.

As the effect of the medicine faded, the scenes before he fell into a coma gradually came to his mind.

His breathing suddenly became extremely rapid.

Slime in the dark...something trying to drag him into the abyss...

Allen woke up trembling, and he suddenly realized that the scenes in his mind were not dreams, but real.

He almost fell straight off the medical bed.

"There's a monster masquerading as you! It attacked me—yes, it attacked me—"

"Hey, Alan..."

Seeing Allen getting emotional, Rafael had to stretch out his hand to control Allen.

He tried to interrupt Allen, but the latter had already fallen deeply into the nightmare memory.

"I was attacked, right? A monster attacked me in the dark, it...it had a lot of slime on it...it even tried to crawl into my brain..."

Allen said to Raphael incoherently.

"Hey Alan, calm down, don't get excited. No monsters, Alan, you're fine, you're just spooked! You're having a panic attack—"

Rafael said in Alan's ear.

"What did you say?"

Allen's voice paused, and he looked at Rafael in surprise.

"You're frightened, there's no slime, there's no such thing here, I swear to you—"

In Rafael's narration, Allen realized that this was not the first time he woke up.

He woke up not long after being sent to the treatment room, but at that time he was so frightened that he lost his mind.

He kept screaming and repeating the story of the dark monster, no matter how others explained it, he couldn't hear it, and eventually the therapist had to give him a sedative to calm him down.

Allen's face gradually turned pale with Rafael's explanation.

"But I can clearly feel..."

"The pipeline at the base had a problem because of the energy failure. The pressure relief equipment lost power and the pipeline ruptured, and then some slow release fluid and antifreeze leaked out."

Rafael explained to Allen seriously.

"...Of course, it's not your fault. We shouldn't have used so many biological pipelines in the base. After they broke and drooped, they really looked like the internal organs of some monster. Don't talk about you, even I Was taken aback."

Rafael said while observing Allen's expression.

He didn't lie about that last sentence.

When he picked up Alan at the end of the corridor, and then was dripped all over his head with that strange green mucus, he was almost scared out of his wits.

That's right, everyone in the Tianmao base knows that most of the pipelines above their heads are made of soft biological materials, but few people have seen the scene of the pipeline being tangled after it broke.

That was disgusting, especially considering the thick goo bubbling from those pipes was that unpleasant grey-green color.

Rafael told Allen everything he had learned.

"It's all just..."

"It's just an illusion created by you in a panic. You were quite frightened. Considering that you just went through such a long space transition before, your reaction is normal."

Rafael looked at Alan whose expression was gradually becoming tranced with some distress, and repeated again.

In the eyes of Rafael and others, Allen was in a serious panic because of the sudden power outage. He came out of the corridor by accident, and then happened to fall into the pipeline that was also broken due to the accident. go.

The slippery and soft texture of those pipelines and the continuous extravasation of the buffer further aroused Allen's panic, and finally caused him a complete mental breakdown.

In Rafael's words, Alan's body finally gradually relaxed.

He rubbed his temples, gradually becoming dazed.

The illusion brought on by a panic attack...

Allen chewed this sentence in his heart, and then even he himself became uncertain.

When he was still young, he occasionally had similar symptoms—for example, he saw many wriggling pieces of flesh in the corner... or felt that the water in the bath suddenly began to surge like a living thing ...

According to the family doctor, all kinds of hallucinations he had were just due to mental instability in adolescence, and his excessive neuroticism inherited from the madman's mother made his condition worse.

After learning that Raymond was still alive yesterday, he was indeed seriously stimulated.

Is this why he's hallucinating...?

Alan unconsciously rubbed his arms around his chest with his hands, as if this could drive away the illusion that there was mucus wrapped around his body.

"Ellen...I'm sorry."

Raphael has been observing Allen, and when he saw that the "sea monster" he admired and was obsessed with in the past became so weak and desperate, an indescribable sorrow suddenly surged in his heart.

He reached out his hand almost uncontrollably, and then held Alan's fingers tightly.

Allen's face turned pale, and he tried to withdraw his hand, but found that Rafael's strength was incredible.

"Don't be afraid, Alan, no matter what happens, I..."

And Rafael seemed completely unaware of Alan's memories of him. His face flushed slightly from excitement, and the special ring-shaped skin lesion near the collar suddenly became a little conspicuous.

A strong urge surged through his body, almost like wildfire.

Rafael felt a desire, a strong desire, he wanted to be close to Allen, he wanted...

"Rafael Weitz? What are you doing?"

A cold question suddenly shattered Rafael's impulse.

Rafael shuddered suddenly, then turned around, just in time to see the colleague at the door of the treatment room.

Sakhir Kluen's face was quite ugly.

After sending Alan to the Tianmao base with Rafael, Sakhir left soon.Rafael thought he had returned to Earth, but he didn't expect that the other party was still stranded in the base.

But at this moment, he was staring at Raphael extremely sternly, his icy aura was like a blade, as if the temperature in the area around him had dropped a lot.

But Rafael didn't even know when Sakhir, who had such a strong sense of presence, arrived - at that moment just now, he seemed to be completely caught in some kind of delusion, so that even the most basic perception of the outside world are completely cut off.

This realization made Rafael sweat down his back. He didn't know what happened to him at all. At that moment just now, he was no longer like himself. It was as if another person had sneaked into his soul and manipulated him. his body...

"I was just explaining the situation to Mr. Alan Morecambe, who had been a bit... panicked."

Raphael withdrew his hand, and then stood up from the chair like a junior soldier seeing the officer, and then he explained.

"Oh, really?"

Sakhir's sharp gaze cut across Rafael's body like a knife, and his eyes seemed to say "I don't fucking believe your nonsense".

Then he turned his head to look at Allen.

Allen understood and put away all expressions after Sakhir's arrival.

He hid all his emotions behind his mask-like pale face...just like he did in the car.

"I hope Rafael's explanation just now can cheer you up, Mr. Morecambe," Sarkil paused, and then continued, "...we hope you can go to the 'ward' again this afternoon , help us wake up Colonel Raymond."

"what?"

Raphael couldn't help raising his voice.

"Alan just woke up from a coma—"

"I have consulted the medical officer, and Mr Alan Morecambe is in good health."

Sakhir cut off Rafael's words, and he showed a smirk at the latter... A strong alpha aura emerged from his body.

Rafael's face suddenly turned pale.

"We haven't found out the cause of the previous energy accident. Maybe it's an explosion of particle energy or a strange star is exploding... This is close to the outer star field, and anything can happen. But as long as this kind of accident happens again, Perhaps our Colonel Raymond Morecambe will never wake up again. There is no guarantee that his life support will not be affected in the next accident."

Sakhir looked indifferent, and spoke word by word.

"So, we have no time to waste. Mr. Alan Morecambe, we need your help more urgently than ever... You are Colonel Raymond's Omega, if anyone in this universe is most likely to Wake him up..."

"I understand."

Allen interrupted Sakhir's words in a flat tone.

"I'll be there."

He said indifferently, it seemed that he was not the one being persecuted.

In the same way, under the strong oppressive force of an Alpha like Sakhir, no matter how much dissatisfaction Rafael had, he could only silently accept that order in the end.

In a few hours, Allen will go to the "ward" again and have a second contact with Raymond Morecambe.

Both Allen and Rafael knew very well that no one had the right to refuse.

……

When Alan returned to the "ward" again, he noticed that the atmosphere here had become much more depressed.

Even Dr. Duran looked haggard and tired.

When he saw Alan, he didn't even have the energy to make any sarcasm or sarcasm, but waved at Alan absent-mindedly, signaling him to enter the ward.

Allen gave him a suspicious look, then frowned.

"What should I do after I get in?"

he asks.

Allen has not forgotten the detailed guidance that Duran gave him before.

Duran shrugged.

"up to you."

He said.

Of course, the reason why Duran became like this is definitely not because he has any other changes to Allen, but because he is... desperate.

After the energy accident, all the instruments were re-adjusted and brought back online, and the data sent back seemed to be fine—but Duran was still sensitive to a clue.

He always felt that Raymond Morecambe was losing his vitality...

No matter how his assistants comfort him with data, Duran knows very well that his intuition is never wrong.

If it was said that when Raymond was first sent to the base, the vitality surging in that mummy-like body was as weak as a candle in the wind... Now, with that good-looking body lying there, Duran could only feel ashes.

Ashes that have been completely cooled.

Raymond Morecambe was about to die.

Duran was more sure of this than anyone.

To make matters worse, in the meeting before the energy accident, Raymond's lack of response to Alan's arrival aroused Duran's strong desire to explore.He obtained Raymond Morecambe's real matching record with Alan Bracewell through his own channels, and the result almost made him swear.

Raymond Morecambe matches Alan Bracewell under 20.00%.

It's impossible for the two of them to match up.

It is even more impossible to be a destined partner.

It is absolutely impossible for Allen to wake up Raymond.

However, the upper echelons of the military didn't seem to care about this, they were completely terrified by this incident.

Thinking of this, Dulan's tongue suddenly felt bitter.

The emperors of the Naga had better die in the time vesicle... If they also escaped the time vesicle like the Black Stork, then...

Allen didn't notice Duran's depression and despair.

He walked into the "ward" step by step, approached the disgusting and terrifying rescue capsule, and stared at the "husband" in the rescue capsule for a while.

Is it his delusion?

Or was it because the sedative injections given to him by the group of medical officers before had a special soothing effect.

Allen always felt that Raymond's body floating in the dark green mucus this time didn't seem as disgusting as before.

Of course, the body is still shriveled and terrifying...

But his expression seems to have softened a lot, and his monster-like aura in my impression has become extraordinarily nihilistic.

Raymond no longer looks like that kind of scary monster, more like... more like sleeping...

"Raymond?"

Allen shouted dryly beside Raymond.

Then he stopped and continued to look at the "mummy".

Raymond remained motionless.

This made Alan relax a little.

"...I don't know if you can still hear my voice, and there seems to be nothing to say between you and me."

Alan didn't know why he suddenly spoke to Raymond like this. He felt a little stupid, and couldn't help but look back.

The researchers seemed to be focusing on recording Raymond's physiological values. It could be seen that Raymond's values ​​hadn't changed much this time, and the frustration and frustration on them could be seen with the naked eye.

"Keep talking."

Someone spoke over the loudspeaker.

Allen turned his head indifferently.

"Actually, I still remember what you were like before. At that time, you were not so... bad." Allen considered his words, and then said mechanically, "And I also know that you hate me, and you hope that I can got punished... and I got punished..."

Alan's eyes were a little dazed while speaking.

He didn't intend to really say the truth in front of other people, but for some reason, when he stood in front of Raymond's body this time, he seemed to be in a special mood involuntarily.

He couldn't help recalling the past.

Back then, if it wasn't for that accident...

Allen was caught in the memory, he was so focused that he didn't notice that while he was muttering, changes were happening in the rescue cabin in front of him.

"Zizi-"

The old drain made a somewhat difficult noise.With the discharge of a large amount of liquid, the metamorphic liquid that had previously covered the "Raymond"'s shell, the water level was slowly descending.The words on the electronic screen of the rescue cabin changed silently.

【Hibernate system running】

[Hibernate system terminated]

[Start the wake-up procedure]

[Awakening program running progress: 20%]

[Awakening program running progress: 30%]

[Awakening program running progress: 40%]

……

[Awakening program running progress: 100%]

"Ai... Lun..."

Allen suddenly heard an extremely vague whisper.

He shuddered a bit, recovering from his own memories.

"Ai..."

Then, there was another call.

Allen followed the prestige, and then involuntarily opened his eyes wide in shock, looking in front of him.

A pair of scarlet eyes were staring straight at him through the curved glass of the rescue cabin.

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