Advent

The further a group of people walked, the worse the surrounding environment became.

In the end even Sakhir was almost a little bit overwhelmed.

Rafael's eyelashes were even covered with a thick layer of frost, his face was very pale, and his eyes were a little lax.

"Shouldn't we be dead already?"

In the process of moving forward, Rafael suddenly said to Sakhir in an illusory tone.

He didn't count on Sakhir's answer, after all, that guy has always been taciturn - this point may not change until his death.

As a result, Belian, who was walking in front of the team, unexpectedly turned around to look at Rafael after hearing Rafael's question as if he was talking to himself.

"No, no one is going to die, and the place we're going is the only place where we all have a chance to survive."

When he said this, he showed that kind of muttering and deep expression as always.

"I hope what you say is true."

——Unfortunately, Sakhir was obviously not impressed by Belian.

He barely supported Allen's body with one hand, but the other hand held the ion gun tightly, and the gun was aimed directly at Belian.

Even though the extreme cold and thin air attacked at the same time, this man still seemed not to give up his vigilance.

"You'll see."

Belian whispered to Sakhir.

At that moment, Rafael actually didn't understand what Belian meant, until Belian led them all the way down, and continued along the winding passage until the two humans reached the limit. An unusually bizarre place.

That is a hall.

Along the way, because of the complete breakdown of the system, the entire central axis area was shrouded in darkness. They were like deep-sea fish, relying on the built-in lighting on the wristband to see the road clearly.

After getting used to the darkness, when Belian opened the door to let the fluorescent world appear in front of Raphael and Sakhir, both of them had to blink hard to make their vision clearer .

The silver brilliance is like a galaxy, shining brilliantly in the hall.

And these bright, silver rays of light with a little blue tint are actually emanating from the swirling white branches that fill the entire hall.

If those extremely weird plants can be ignored, this place looks like an ordinary ruin, there are many collapsed metal structure supports and metal panels on the ground, and some monster limbs piled up on the ground... But the reality is , it is impossible for anyone to ignore those curly, rickety silver trees.

Those silver trees must have received strange impacts before. Most of their trunks have been broken, and their branches and leaves are entangled with each other and grow densely. The thick feathery leaves occupy almost all the space in the field of vision. It looks like Special weeds in the wild.

In all fairness, this silvery-glowing plant really made Sakhir feel a little sick, but even he had to admit that it was the curly branches and feathery leaves of this particular plant that held it firmly. Protect the hall so that it does not collapse in the structural tremors caused by the previous huge explosion like other large spaces.

"what is this?"

After entering the hall, Rafael looked around involuntarily. He even couldn't help reaching out his hand, wanting to touch the leaf of the silver tree.It's just that he didn't even have time to touch these silver blades, and Sakhir, who was standing behind him, knocked off his hand with the butt of his gun.

"Don't touch—you have no idea what the hell this is—"

Sakhir whispered harshly in Rafael's ear.

"This is our sacred tree."

Belian turned around and explained to Raphael and Sakhir.

Then, he stretched out his hand towards Sakhir... He and Sakhir stared at each other for a moment.

A boy like a monster, a security agent with a serious face.

The staring between the two of them didn't last long, and Sakhir simply and neatly put down the corpse that he had been carrying tightly on his shoulders.

Wu Jieyada, who had been guarding Belian's side all the time, raised his arm and solemnly took Alan's body from Sakhir's hand.

"What are you planning to do?"

Seeing that man, who looked weird from every aspect, just took Alan's body away, Raphael couldn't help asking.

"Just like I've been telling you all...we need to revive Allen."

Bellian said.

"He is the key to destiny."

He added.

"hiss……"

As if in response to his brother, Wujie Yada also groaned softly.

In the arms of that ugly, weird, half-human, half-bird man was Alan's corpse. The head of the corpse was tilted to one side weakly, just for Rafael to look directly at his face.

The face was lifeless, but still surprisingly beautiful.

And Wujie Yada looked even more terrifying.

The combination of extreme ugliness and Alan's gloomy beauty with a lifeless spirit makes it look unspeakably weird and mysterious...

Raphael looked at the scene in front of him tangled.For a moment, he couldn't help but wanted to step forward to prevent the monster brothers in front of him from taking Alan's body away.

Because at this moment no one knows what they are going to do.

In this world...is it really possible for someone to resurrect another life?

Rafael actually didn't quite believe it.

But out of some intuition that even he couldn't explain, he didn't stop Alan's body in the end.His heart was beating much faster than normal, and the moment he entered this hall full of silver trees, he always felt creepy.

And at this moment, he was so frightened by this physical fear that he couldn't move. He could only stare blankly at the two people with feathers holding Alan's body devoutly, walking towards the silver trees step by step.

Where the roots of the silver tree meet, even the hard metal floor is bumpy.

There seems to be a pool in that place, but now, the water source has long since disappeared, only the roots of the trees are intertwined at that position.

Belian didn't seem to mind the dry spring water at the bottom of the pool. He stepped forward and laid Alan's body flat where the pool was originally.

Several silver branches are intertwined at inconceivable angles, forming a platform similar to an altar.

Allen was carefully placed there, lying flat under the radiance from the silver tree.

Those halos enveloped his quiet face and perfect body like a veil, and when he looked over suddenly, even the blood on his chest became less obvious.

Then, things that completely violated Rafael's common sense began again (well, now that he has developed a sense of fatigue, he will not be surprised even if he is told that the universe is destroyed tomorrow).

The silver branches that looked like plants trembled like animals. They rustled under the cover of the leaves, like snakes or unknown molluscs, approaching Allen little by little.

The originally curly branches stretched out, and the fleshy flowers quickly produced buds on the top of the vines, and then bloomed, and the thick juice dripped down along the thick and sticky petals.After touching Allen, the liquid immediately formed a thin film shining with pearls...

One, two, three...

It didn't take long for those films to form an egg-shaped translucent cocoon on Allen's body.

"Ellen..."

Raphael rubbed the tip of his nose worriedly, his eyes fixed on the cocoon.

Even if it is wrapped in mucus, the ubiquitous bright silver light is enough for Sakhir and Raphael to see clearly the situation inside the cocoon.

Trembling.

Is it trembling?

Allen's body... the body that had been identified countless times, slowly trembled like that.

Raphael trembled slightly in fright, and squeezed Sakhir's hand tightly.

"Oh, God."

He gasped and muttered.

However, after careful observation, it will be discovered that the trembling is not Alan's own movement... but some slender branches grow out of the pouch and penetrate Alan's body bit by bit.

Arms, spine, legs...

When those branches grew, Allen also began to move slowly like a marionette.

Although it has been told that this is to revive Alan, but... But the scene in front of him still makes Rafael feel a little uncomfortable, and the urge to snatch Alan back from Belian's hands surges again It fell into Rafael's heart.

He didn't even realize it, he unconsciously approached the cocoon slowly, and the silver light was reflected in Raphael's pupils.

"Calm down!"

In the end, it was Sakhir who held him tightly.

"I think they're just treating..."

Sakhir said—except that his tone was a little stiff when it came to the word "treatment."

Sakhir stared at the scene in front of him without blinking, Rafael turned his face to look at him, and then he gritted his teeth.

Rafael can bet that Sakhir's guys must be carefully observing all the details.Just wait to go back and report to the senior officials of the Security Bureau.

Perhaps this is the attitude that a qualified Security Bureau official should have.

But Rafael can't do this no matter what.

Just looking at the scene in front of him, Rafael felt like he was about to vomit...

However, neither Sakhir's incomparably sharp scrutiny nor Raphael's disgusted observation had any effect on Belian.

Since that cocoon wrapped Allen, the expression on his face seemed to relax a little.

He crawled forward, then slowly knelt and sat in front of the cocoon.

A beautiful singing sound came out of his throat.

It was a distant, ethereal and weird humming, sweet but creepy.

Under the agitation of that song, the silver tree that almost filled the entire space also showed signs of living things. They rustled in a windless environment, and the sound of friction catered to the song invisible melody.

The scene in front of me is full of mystery, weirdness, and even solemnity that cannot be described in words.

Raphael didn't know exactly what Belian was singing at this time, but...but he could still clearly feel his spirit gradually becoming loose under the influence of the singing.

And with that special melody, the light on Alan's body became more and more brilliant. In contrast, those silver trees that were so lush that they were almost turning the entire hall into a jungle of alien stars changed a little bit from normal A little withered down.

The silver light seemed to be gathered into the cocoon.

After losing its light, the branches of those silver trees began to wither at a speed visible to the naked eye.

They die and wither.

The top of the hall and the places on the walls that were hard to see with the naked eye were exposed—the abandoned ventilation ducts and air filtration ducts in the hall, there are still a lot of monster meatballs and tentacles, but at this time they are just like the Like those silver leaves, they have been dead for a long time.

Bellian's singing grew louder.

The light in the cocoon is also brighter.

The cocoon enclosing Alan began to become transparent, and through the dazzling light, now Rafael and Sakhir could clearly see Alan's current appearance inside the cocoon.

The young, thin, extremely beautiful Omega curled up her body like a newborn fetus.The slender silver vines directly pierced into his body from the inner wall of the cocoon, especially lush at the wound on his chest.

However, a large area of ​​withering eventually spread from the edge of the bush to the cocoon——

The silver light was gone, and so was Balian's singing.

The little child shook in pain, then swayed to one side.

That terrifying-looking weirdo, the former chief of the Sioux clan, suddenly stepped forward and hugged his younger brother.

After losing the bewitchment of the singing, Rafael shivered, and then he woke up. He stared at the scene in front of him, and then asked tentatively.

"Is this over?"

Belian didn't respond to him, but this didn't prevent Rafael from rushing to the front of the cocoon that had lost its light.

He couldn't wait to stretch out his hand towards the weird and disgusting egg-shaped thing. After being touched, the seemingly soft and moist cocoon shell burst suddenly, and the mucus had turned into thin water, which gushed out and wet the ground.

And Allen was still lying in the "altar" with his eyes closed.

He looks the same as before, but...

But Rafael noticed with sharp eyes that Alan's chest was heaving.

"My God..."

Rafael obviously watched all this happening in front of him, but when he really put his hand under Alan's nose and felt the soft breathing, he still felt extremely incredible.

"Ellen..."

Unconsciously, Raphael stretched out his hand and gently touched Alan's cheek, he called out tentatively.

I always feel like I'm still dreaming.

Alan's face was still so cold, but after touching it, Rafael immediately felt that there seemed to be a vague temperature belonging to a living person under the former's skin.

Amidst Rafael's low cry, Allen's eyelashes moved slightly.

He really came back to life!

Rafael is very sure of this (although he still feels unbelievable so far) Allen has definitely heard his call.

His breathing became obvious, his body temperature was also rising, and even his complexion turned from pale to rosy.

After a while, Allen slowly opened his eyes

……

……

When he was awakened by Rafael, Allen was still in a trance, as if he had just fallen asleep on an extremely tired night, and then was awakened urgently.

Allen felt as if he had floated up from the deep seabed. He woke up consciously, but his body was extremely heavy.

"Alan, my God, Alan, are you alive? Tell me, you must be alive..."

Familiar voices chattered in his ears, bit by bit pulling him out of the dream full of pain, screams, white wriggling tentacles and his own mother's wild laughter.

Then Allen opened his eyes.

His first feeling was that the light was very glaring, and the second was...the silver light seemed somewhat familiar.

He tried to figure out the current situation, but several familiar figures surrounded him, blocking his sight.

Allen stared at the young man closest to him, and a familiar name popped up.

"Raphael..."

Allen called out the young man's name, then moved his eyes slightly, and looked at another man, cold, tall and silent, and now he was examining himself with suspicious eyes...

"Sakhir."

he shouted again.

Finally, he lowered his head and saw the young boy staring at him burningly in front of him and... that man...

Without the slightest hesitation, Allen also called out their names.

Although at this time, they looked very different from when they were parted from them.

"Belian, and Wujie Yada..."

it hurts.

At this time, Allen didn't know that he had died some time ago. Of course, his body still clearly protested.

Allen wanted to sit up from the altar-like platform, but the pain made him shake and almost fell down.

A strong sense of weakness, followed by an increased sense of uneasiness that something is not right, that something is missing.

Allen thought.

He looked at the people in front of him, Rafael, Sakhir, Belian and even Wu Jieyada, who else?Who else should be here, but is absent now.

"Raymond, is Raymond okay..."

Allen murmured

"........."

Everyone was silent, especially Rafael Sakhir. Their expressions became even weirder. After a moment of hesitation, Sakhir spoke first: "Raymond Morecambe is not a human being. In fact, this His identity is just his disguise, he is actually the leader of the Naga people - the enemy of mankind, the White Emperor."

He said.

"After you got shot, he seemed to be so stimulated that he couldn't maintain his human mimicry, so... so he turned into some kind of monster. We don't know what happened, but after you got shot During this time, all the naga, and the deformed monsters similar to the naga lost their vitality. I mean, they all looked like they were dying. And the monster that Raymond transformed into, in It's dead in the cabin, I think it's dead."

He paused, and finally added: "We left it inside the cabin of the Security Bureau's transport ship."

...And now, that guy has probably been completely pulverized with the complete explosion of the entire ring area.Out of rare thoughtfulness, Sakhir did not say the last sentence.

Rafael noticed this and glanced at Sakhir with satisfaction, but then he heard Sakhir continue to say:

"...Of course, we still took a sample of its body, and if you don't believe it, we can provide you with evidence."

After the words fell, Sakhir reached into his arms and took out several test tubes. In the translucent culture fluid, several thin pale translucent lumps of flesh were slowly floating, which looked like Devil's finger.

"Sakhir?!"

Rafael called out Sakhir's name in disbelief. He slammed Sakhir's shoulder hard, then turned his head and looked at Alan nervously.

Rafael was very worried that he would not be able to convince Allen. After all, this matter was too bizarre. Who could accept this?Not even the most fanciful of novels would write like this—a young Omega finally meets her long-dead Alpha husband, but the Alpha human is actually an alien in disguise.To make matters worse, Alan has clearly fallen in love with that person, no, the alien.

This love affair, which was enough to cause race wars and centuries-long ethical discussions, was over before it was eligible to face the judgment of everyone.

That mass of pale, lifeless flesh remaining in the cabin was the end.

"I know, what we're saying... might be a little unbelievable. But we're not crazy, I mean, the naga it was..."

"I know."

Allen spoke hoarsely, directly interrupting Rafael's somewhat nervous explanation.

His face was almost transparent white under the silver light.

For a moment, Rafael even felt that he saw tears in Alan's beautiful eyes.

But looking carefully, he found that there was no expression on Alan's face, nor did he shed tears, but this kind of Alan made Rafael feel more troublesome than the tearful Alan.

He could only observe Alan carefully with a little anxiety, unable to figure out what he was thinking about his favorite idol.

Well, in fact, Allen himself was a little confused.

The pain flowing in the bottom of my heart is sadness...sadness...and a trace of despair.

In fact, if it was under normal circumstances, what Rafael said, such as Raymond turning into an alien monster because of his death, would be absolutely impossible for him to believe.

But the "illusion" he saw when he was dying had already told him the truth.

Even before hearing Rafael's answer, he had given him the exact answer.

Raymond...was a monster.

And it died.

……

It wasn't a dream.

Allen said to himself in his heart, countless pictures appeared in his mind.

Among them was the half-melted Raymond that he saw before he died.

Of course, it also includes everything that Allen saw in the form of a soul "after death".

Those pale and hateful tentacles and pieces of meat, as well as the extremely mysterious scarlet altar, of course, it is impossible for Allen to forget the woman he saw in the altar.

Maria - his own mother.

He looked up and stared blankly at the lumps of meat that had once belonged to "Raymond Morecambe" stuck in the gaps and ventilation ducts.