Atonement: Red Earth (4)

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date="2020-11-09"

title="Atonement: Red Earth (4)"

weight="103767"

series = ["Falling into the Abyss"]

mode = "manual"

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"That's...what's that..." Ethan didn't realize that his voice was much weaker than before. A kind of coldness rushed from the heel to the back.

The video I just saw didn't know why, it made him look like a desperate horror of leaning down into the abyss.

Tanisel retracted the relentless ball and played it between his fingers, "You can feel it too, the kind of trembling that saw the extreme evil and chaos. You are only a human being. We Eve people perceive it several times as much as you. When I first saw this video, many priests were so horrified that they had insomnia for a month. Such pure horror, we have never seen it before."

"You don't know what it is?" Ethan felt the muscles in his chest tighten, so that his breathing was a little quick, "So you plan to use non-human beings for the experiment?"

"Don't count us Eve people among'you', this is the decision of the Earth Alliance." Tanisel's understatement made Ethan more frightened and angry. Through the lens, his fiery eyes stared at the priest's ice-carved face, his cheeks were flushed, his fists were tightly clenched, and his body, which was taller than the other betas, trembled slightly. In the eyes of the priest, it looked a bit like a rabbit who was going to be anxious.

Rabbits will bite when they are anxious. I don't know what this gentleman will look like when they bite. Tanisel thought with interest.

But after a while, the man who seemed to be hovering on the edge of panic and collapse in front of him gradually relaxed his body and let his fists loose slightly. Ethan took a step back, took a deep breath, and returned to calm when he looked up at the priest again.

In other words, it is to force composure.

"You took the initiative to show our favor and told me these secrets. It seems that you don't want us, at least you don't want Samuel to die? What do you want us to do?" Ethan asked.

Tanisel curled his eyes and smiled brightly. "I do have a guess. If you are willing to cooperate and try, you might be able to survive."

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It was the end of the day when Samuel woke up, and it was dim all around, the sweet and greasy scent from him had not yet dissipated, and there was a sense of nausea. A heavy dull pain kept hitting one of his temples, making him wish he could stay in the drowsiness he had before.

Ethan fell asleep leaning on the box on the other side of the small space, his whole body curled up and his glasses tilted to one side. There are two obvious bruises under the eyes, and I have been exhausted to take care of him for two days. Samuel sat up, fumbled for a bottle of water in the dark and drank it clean. He vaguely remembered seeing a golden-haired Eve man whose incomparable alpha smell still lingers in his mind.

It is a completely different smell from the Forbidden City and other alphas on the earth. It is not so aggressive, but it is still full of power and authority.

He checked his body for some time and confirmed that he was not related to the alpha. In that state, he didn't take the initiative to throw in his arms, and his strong omega scent that had been accumulated for three years didn't cause the alpha to lose his mind. It was a miracle.

It's just... why is that Eve man here? After he discovered his identity, he didn't know what would happen.

He looked at Ethan thoughtfully. He brought that Eve man? What is this kid doing?

Probably after hearing his noise, Ethan also opened his eyes. Seeing Samuel's calm eyes, coupled with the smell that was gradually dissipating, he finally sighed back and paralyzed, "Ancestor, you are finally normal. Even when my mother was in menopause, it was not as difficult as yours. ..."

Samuel was very dissatisfied with this analogy, not to mention the inexplicable alpha that popped out before, so he leaned in front of Ethan, and the distance was so close that the latter tilted his neck back slightly uncomfortably. Samuel's voice was hoarse, sounding a strong deterrent, "Did you find the Eve alpha before?"

Ethan swallowed and hesitated to say, "Yes..." and immediately explained, "But don't worry, he won't leak your affairs!"

"Really? You know him well?" The tone became more dangerous, and the tips of the two people's noses almost touched each other. Ethan shook his head hurriedly, "Unfamiliar! Unfamiliar! I just met him!"

"Don't you dare to believe him if you are not familiar with you?! Maybe now the whole ship knows that there is an omega on board this time!"

This accusatory tone made Ethan feel uncomfortable. He thought I would take care of you day and night, but he would dominate as soon as he woke up. Is there any conscience? He closed his eyes and shouted, "Otherwise, what should I do! At that time, an inhumane smelled of you on my body and almost marked me as an omega. If he hadn't saved me, I would have I can’t come back! Besides, other people’s priests, can you be guilty of disturbing the whole boat for you? People kindly help you, can you stop being persecuted for paranoia!" The small medicine bottle was stuffed into Samuel's hand, and he said angrily, "I also brought you medicine for side effects. I like to eat it or not."

Samuel had never heard the secretary speak so loudly before, and he was shocked that he hadn't found the word for a few seconds.

Ethan turned around and began to sort out the sleeping bags on the ground. "If it is afraid, it should be me. After the bearded man returns, the world will say that I am an omega. What if someone sexually harasss me in the future?"

Samuel watched silently at the beta who was busy muttering, and he was really apologetic in his always domineering heart.

It seems that this time the secretary's face is really hurt.

He cleared his throat and pursed his lips, "Um... if you are really worried, it doesn't matter if you tell the truth. I have the ability to protect myself."

"Protect your uncle. I have worked so hard to hide your identity, and now I say it is not all for nothing?" Ethan took a deep breath, turned to look at Samuel helplessly, and asked uncertainly." Anyway, I just insist that you are my alpha. Seeing that you and Otto have a good relationship, no one should dare to touch me, right?"

Samuel reached out and grabbed his shoulders, squeezed hard, "Don't worry, no one dares to move you with me."

Listening to his calm and deep tone, his eyes focused and serious, there really is an alpha swearing to protect his omega. Ethan looked a little uncomfortable by him, lowered his head and pushed his glasses, and sighed, "As long as you don't do this stupid thing again, I will thank God."

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The two returned to the clearing where the non-people gathered while everyone was asleep. One or two non-people who were not asleep watched them come back, but didn't say much. Ethan saved everything he had to eat, and his stomach aches from hunger. Samuel gave him the last small piece of compressed bread, and said in a low voice, "Be patient and bear with me, I'll grab more food for you later."

Ethan was chewing on dry bread, and his head was full of charcoal grilled steak, French baked snails, seafood pasta, chocolate lava cake... the last meal I ate at the Greek restaurant near my home three months ago The remaining half of the roast leg of lamb left without eating it. Now that I think of it, I really regret it. Why didn't I eat the bone scum?

After finally staying up until morning, the robot that supplies food came down. Samuel really didn't break his promise, and rushed to the large boxes with food in a murderous manner. No one dared to stand in front of him along the way. Holding a full compressed food bag and squeezing it out, Otto smiled next to him, "I wondered where you went the other day. So I went to find a place to be happy with your Xinhuan?"

Samuel glanced at him, "What nonsense are you talking about."

"Don't pretend, because Scott told us when he came back yesterday, your secretary is actually an omega? Hey, he pretends to look like a beta, I didn't even see it."

Samuel grabbed Otto by the collar abruptly, seeing the latter in a cold sweat with wolf-like eyes.

"I said, don't hit his mind."

Although Otto can be considered a face-to-face figure in the forbidden city, he is still of Samuel's faction anyway. Everyone knows that you can't mess with Samuel, otherwise it's possible to be beaten to death. So at this moment Otto also quickly showed a weak smile, "Relax man, I'm just kidding, why are you so serious?"

Samuel also laughed suddenly, let go of his hand holding Otto, and thoughtfully helped him straighten out the folds on his collar, "I'm also joking with you, why are you so serious?"

After speaking, he turned and left. Otto just halfway through his breath, listened to Samuel asking, "You just said that it was Scott who tried to tag Eldridge yesterday?"

Otto shrugged, "I don't know, he didn't know where he told us after he came back in a panic."

Samuel finally walked away, and Otto exhaled and glanced sympathetically at Scott, who was asleep in the distance.

Ethan never knew that he could eat those compressed foods in bags to the point that he could eat the wind. One time, he almost choked. Suddenly a bottle of water appeared in front of him. Looking along the water bottle, he saw Samuel using something amazing Looking at him, "Don't choke."

Ethan realized how bad his eating was and his cheeks were a little hot. He took the water bottle and took a few sips, finally swallowing his mouthful.

"I thought your cultural people would be more elegant when you eat." Samuel teased.

"I thought your omega would be gentle." Ethan sighed contentedly, and leaned back on a machine that he didn't know what it was doing. "It's about to enter the orbit of the Red Earth in two days. Yesterday that helped us. Priest Eve told me something about that planet."

"Really?" Samuel was inexplicably upset when he thought of the alien, probably because his true gender was known by an alpha, which made him feel threatened. "He's really warmhearted."

"Listen, it's related to whether we can return to Earth alive." Ethan said sternly, "We will be transported to the Red Earth, fifty inhumans, and the other humans and Eve Star will stay on the mother ship. Command us to conduct a search operation from a distance. But they don’t expect us to find anything at all. In fact, they are just waiting for something... to appear."

Samuel frowned, unable to understand what he meant.

"That thing seems to appear on the Red Earth once every three years, and every time a person appears on that planet will disappear. The pioneering team and the search and rescue team that were sent before lost contact in this way. So this time they wanted to They should send us to the Red Earth as bait, while they themselves stay in safer space for remote observation."

"So what is it?"

"do not know……"

"do not know?!"

"You don't need to bring us if you know. But I know..." Ethan recalled the black masses that covered the sky and the sun, and the flagella that extended from the sky, causing him to produce a thick Strong disgust and panic, "I know that is definitely not a good thing."