Advent

The memory of that day is incoherent for Allen.

Yes, he remembered how he staggered back, away from the closed passage door.He also remembered how he was panting, slowly leaning on the wall, and walking towards his living cabin.He even remembered that on the way he met several soldiers from the base, they were complaining to each other about the sudden energy failure, and Allen heard "naga", "attack", "storm" from their intermittent whispers. ", those soldiers looked worried, and when they saw Allen, they seemed to be taken aback.

One of the soldiers kept looking at Alan. He blushed, hesitated for a moment, and then stepped forward to ask Alan if he needed help.

Allen could feel the other party's kindness, but he still ran away from the soldiers uncontrollably——

Then, from this moment on, his memory began to appear blank.

If you think about it carefully, the only thing that fills the blank space in your memory is that strange melody, that kind of strange melody that seems to come from a dream.

Allen has already felt his abnormality: his auditory hallucinations are getting worse, and hallucinations are also coming...

Yes, that is hallucination.

The only sliver of reason in his heart muttered deep in his body.

If it wasn't a hallucination, how could he feel that the fanatical "staff" was following him closely on the other side of the passage wall through a thick metal plate?

Swish, swish, wet, soft, huge things are constantly moving against the metal plate, Allen can even see the gray-green slime oozing out from the connection of the base aisle.

Something was chasing him—the part of Alan's mind that had gone mad was clamoring.

As for those peeping eyes cast on him from the vents and the gaps in the metal structure, it is even more part of the delusion of being persecuted.

Even... When Allen stepped through the airtight door with a pale face, he was still in the gap between the air pressure, and saw a series of chattering and rolling eyeballs.

Allen almost forgot to breathe at that moment, he stared at them, and they stared at Allen.The eyeballs looked a little familiar, and Allen quickly realized this. The light that shot out from those eyeballs squeezed in the narrow metal gap was exactly the same as the man who caught him in the dark corridor. .It's all so frenetic, so hot, so... crazy.

"no no……"

Allen bit his lips tightly, sucking the blood and pain seeping from the wound he gnawed out, and staggered away quickly.

"It's all fake. It's all fake."

He kept saying to himself.

Everything he saw showed that his mental state had deteriorated to the extreme.

Just like his current physical condition.

But whether it was an auditory hallucination or his hallucination, it was unbelievably real.

The only thing Allen can do is to try to empty his brain like he did when he was a child, and enter a state where he doesn't care about everything around him and is unconscious.

……

【"Warning, your passcode has expired——"】

What brought Alan back to his senses was repeated, monotonous electronic sounds.

The world slowly took shape around him... Allen opened his eyes wide and looked around him in confusion. He found himself standing at the door of his cabin.

In front of him was a smooth and neat metal gate.

The memory began to recover bit by bit, and Allen slowly remembered that he was planning to enter the room, but the passcode he entered was not the one that should be used in the Tianmao human military base at all, but the password he entered in the central area of ​​the earth. The numbers used in that dilapidated but peaceful slum apartment—after several failures, the stupid AI on the other side of the base control panel sounded an alarm.

["Sorry, your password was entered incorrectly, please check your password again, this door will be temporarily locked..."]

Allen stared blankly at the digital screen with a faint green glow under his fingers.

For a moment, Alan couldn't even understand the words repeated by Ai-the words sounded more like some kind of noise to him, and the melody that kept ringing in his ears was the real meaningful whisper...

【Alan...】

【Alan, sorry... Alan...】

……

Allen was in a trance again, until not long after someone came up, grabbed his shoulders, and shook him, forcing him back to reality.

"Alan... What's wrong with you, Alan... What happened?"

Allen turned his head slowly, and an anxious and panicked face appeared in his vision.

The man looked terrified, with panic all over his face.

Allen could feel his concern for himself.

The human temperature slowly spread from the man's palm to Alan's skin. With that trace of body temperature, Alan finally woke up from the nightmare of the day.

"Raphael..."

Allen tremblingly called out the opponent's name.

"Ellen!"

Raphael immediately raised his voice.

"Sakhir - he answered me!"

The young Beta officer seemed almost weeping with joy, he turned his head and shouted excitedly to his companions behind him.

It wasn't until this moment that Allen noticed that Sakhir was behind Rafael.

The other party is an Alpha-this thought made Allen shiver, but soon Allen realized that he did not smell the pheromone of the other party being an Alpha.

Only then did Allen stop trembling, and then he took half a step back a little, putting a little distance from Sakhir.

Rafael didn't realize this, he was still in anxiety.

"Oh, thank God, Allen is back to his senses! What the hell happened? What the hell happened..."

He hurriedly said to Allen.

Allen's absence really frightened Rafael severely.

God knows how worried Rafael is—after belatedly realizing that it is impossible for the military to send only one cleaner to complete all the work, and that Alan may also be threatened with his life, Rafael did not hesitate at all. He rushed out of the cabin with Sakhir directly.

At that time, they were very anxious, and their only hope was to find Allen immediately. However, at this time, the area where Allen was located fell into a bizarre energy failure.That damn fault completely disabled all Rafael's positioning devices, and Allen seemed to have completely disappeared from the base.

After discovering this, Rafael fell into despair, and he even made the worst plan for Allen in his heart...

When the lights come on again, Alan's body will probably be discovered by some robot, right?Ralph couldn't help but think this way: the gang of assassins in the military department are just a bunch of scumbags, but this group of scumbags crawled out of the notorious place like the black skull, and each of them is a walking humanoid weapon.

However, Allen would never be able to find a flaw to escape like Sakhir.

Allen...will definitely die.

……

But Rafael never expected it anyway, he finally found Alan,

— Ellen alive.

It's just that Allen who appeared in front of him again didn't seem to be in a good condition. He even looked a little delirious...

But anyway, Rafael led Sakhir to find Allen.

Rafael could tell at a glance that there was a little blood on Alan's body, his shoulders and the top of his head were wet, soaked in a strange gray-green slime.

"Did someone attack you?"

Raphael looked at the blood on Allen's body in surprise, his tone panicked.

Allen trembled heavily in Rafael's hands.

"I met... I met a staff member, he said he was going to show me the way, but he actually just wanted to lead me into a dead end, he was very strange, I think he might be planning to..."

After being silent for a long time, Alan repeated his previous experience to Rafael and Sakhir stiffly.

However, until this time, he still simply regarded the strange staff member he encountered as a rapist with evil intentions.

Allen didn't notice that after hearing his narration, Rafael and Sakhir exchanged glances.

"We will take care of this matter, Alan. We will definitely give you an explanation, you are safe now..."

After turning his attention back to Allen, Rafael seemed to be extremely distressed. .

He opened the hatch for Allen, and then escorted him in.

"We're going to check on the staff member you mentioned."

Allen heard Rafael say this.

"...And we will send someone to guard your door in case you have any accidents, Alan, you are safe."

After Raphael, Sakhir repeated in a dull voice.

It was never a tone of gratitude, but what Sakhir said always worked.

Just as Sakhir promised, the next series of things proved that Allen's security measures had been upgraded.

Raphael added overlapping security measures to his cabin door, and sent several robot soldiers to guard Allen's door.

If Allen's physical condition is better at this time, he may have noticed that there is something wrong with the attitudes of Rafael and Sakhir at this time.After all...it was just an attempted obscenity.

Considering that the seriousness of the incident is not too high, it should be a very difficult thing in theory to protect another outsider in such a big way at the Tianmao human military base——Rafael and Saki It seems as if he used his privileges as an official of the Alliance Security Bureau to do this.

Something must have happened.

Allen should have realized this.

But Alan was just too tired, too weary, and too panicked...

After watching Rafael and Sakhir leave his room, Allen was exhausted, he didn't even have the energy to get up, and went to his suitcase to find the medicine he had been taking to stop the pain in his ears. A recurring auditory hallucination.

The melody is almost unbelievably loud now.

The emotions contained in it are so strong that Alan can't breathe...

It was intense self-hate and regret, and... strange anger and jealousy...

In the dark, Allen even felt that he heard something screaming.

From the outside of the wall, from the pipes, and from the vents, there was a thin chewing sound.

Allen covered his ears hard, curled up, and fell on the bed.

"Stop--stop--don't bark! Don't bark any more!"

He finally sobbed uncontrollably.

then……

Suddenly, his ears became quiet.

Allen's body shook, he panted, and tentatively let go of his palm.

The auditory hallucination that tormented him suddenly disappeared like this.

Allen supported his body in surprise, and slowly sat up from the bed.

"Ding--"

The next second, his doorbell rang.

Allen trembled in fright because of the synthesized electronic sound. God knows how much he hoped that the other party would let him go and let him take a good rest.But the person who rang the doorbell obviously didn't think so. He stood stubbornly at Allen's door, and then rang the doorbell over and over again.Allen finally had to grit his teeth and get up from the bed, and he opened the door exhausted——

"Rafael, I'm sorry, but please tomorrow no matter what-"

"Ellen?"

Allen's words were blocked in his throat because of the trembling voice of the visitor.

The man's shadow blocked the light on the porch, and a bold shadow fell on Alan's face.

Allen raised his head and looked in shock at the overly tall man, who was looking at him uneasily with worry on his face.

"Raymond?"

Allen murmured in disbelief.

No matter what he did, he never expected that it would be Raymond who suddenly came to his door.

Shouldn't this man be in his own hospital room under 24 hour surveillance?Alan still remembered how much the people in the medical team valued him.

But now, Raymond was disheveled and barefoot, standing pitifully at his door like a stray dog ​​driven out of the house in the middle of the night, looking at him with tearful eyes.

"Why are you in-"

Allen asked subconsciously, but he couldn't finish his sentence at all. Raymond had already opened his arms and threw himself into his arms.

"Wow woo woo woo Alan... woo woo woo I heard you were attacked woo woo woo..."

The eccentric, tall, and strong male Alpha put his head on Allen's shoulder and cried loudly.