Life in the City (3)

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date="2020-11-09"

title="Life in the City (3)"

weight="103788"

series = ["Falling into the Abyss"]

mode = "manual"

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Ethan sent Taifeng to the Eastern District Clinic before the harsh alarm sounded when he got up early in the morning. The small building was very close to the first wall of the forbidden city, and there were robot police everywhere. When Ethan helped Taifeng in, there were several guards with guns staring at them from a distance. Sen Leng's eyes were still thorns on his back from far away.

It’s also considered Taifeng luck. As expected, there was a doctor who came to the clinic for free services, who also happened to be an omega. Seeing Taifeng’s weakness, he immediately arranged a series of examinations, and it was likely that he would have to rest in the clinic for a few days for observation. . Ethan settled down and Tai Feng planned to leave, but Tai Feng suddenly grabbed his clothes.

He turned his head, but saw Taifeng looking at him seriously, "Be careful."

Ethan didn't know what to say, so he nodded and hurried to the cafeteria. However, it has been delayed for too long after all. Non-people have gone to different factories and construction sites to work, and the cafeteria doors have been tightly closed. He was about to rub his grunting belly and leave, but suddenly heard a hard and cold voice behind him, "Ethan Eldridge?"

Ethan turned around and saw a guard. Fortunately, it wasn't Gray Mao, he was relieved.

The young guard walked over with the baton in his hand and glanced at him impatiently, "What did you do? Why didn't you eat on time."

"Get up late..."

The truncheon gave him a heavy stomach when he was finished speaking. The empty stomach seems to be suddenly knotted together at this time. He can't even call out. He bends down like a shrimp and wrinkles his face. Come together. The guard was still confused, and kicked him on the knee again. Ethan knelt down unsteadily, listening to the guard in his ears in a stern tone that was still a little unfamiliar and contrived, "Do you know how long I have been waiting here? Next time I'll be late, just prepare to go into the darkroom."

The darkroom is what people in the forbidden city call the confinement room, and generally non-persons who make mistakes will be locked in. There is no light, it is completely soundproofed, and there is nothing in the room. It is said that being kept alone for three days is as long as three years later. The strange thing is that some seemingly fierce inhumans are terrified when they mention the darkroom. Even people who are stabbed in their faces will cry and admit their mistakes after being in a completely closed state for less than a week. People who haven't tried it personally can't imagine it.

Only at that time will you realize how much human beings need to communicate.

Of course Ethan hasn't tried it yet, so he doesn't know what threat it is. He just judged from the tone of voice alone, the guard seemed to want to trouble him, and from the exaggeration and deliberate judgment in his tone and movements, it was likely that he was asked to do so.

"I'm sorry." Without hesitation, he lowered his head to admit his mistake and made a compliant posture to avoid further angering the other party.

This guard has just arrived in the forbidden city as a errand. He never thought that one day he would treat another person in such a vicious manner, but three months after coming to the forbidden city, everything changed. The people in the forbidden city are not humans, but the scum of murder and arson, robbery and so on. You can't overstate them. When going to a bar outside the city to drink, the beautiful omega girls like to hear him brag about how he taught the scum who should be hanged in the city. They said this was for the heavens, and they should clap their hands and cheer. Over time, he has become more and more used to this place of the Forbidden City, and he gradually understood the inhuman erotic jokes that the seniors said.

Moreover, this person is said to have been a government official before. Those high-minded people don't know how many wicked things they have done, how many people have been exploited, and now they are in the hands of these little people, they should really be shown some color.

Thinking about this, he kicked Ethan again. Ethan let out a series of coughs, and fell to the ground with his stomach covered, looking humiliated.

Enough venting, the young guard stroked his hair and straightened his clothes, as if he was not the one who beat him hysterically just now. He threw a number plate in front of Ethan, "Report to the pipeline maintenance department of Building 11 in the East within ten minutes."

Ten minutes...Ethan doesn't even know where the 11th building is.

He clutched his aching stomach and headless flies through the intricate lanes, looking for the number upstairs and trotting, and he found his destination in about fifteen minutes. As soon as I entered the door, I saw a guard with his feet on the table playing palm games, and glanced at him, "I was five minutes late, go out and run 30 laps around the building before coming in."

Ethan was stunned for two seconds, until the opponent narrowed his eyes dangerously to look at him before he hurried out. This building does not occupy a lot of space, but after ten laps, he was already sweating. In addition, he had been beaten before, and his lower abdomen was painful with every step.

After 30 laps, Ethan was already dizzy and his mouth was full of fishy and salty taste. Walking with trembling legs and re-entered the door, the guard casually threw him a helmet with a headlamp and led him around the back door, pointing to an uncovered well and saying, "The tools for cleaning the silt are all down, you His job is to follow others to clean up the silt in the drainage pipe."

Ethan watched that the small hole didn't move. The pipe was so thin that it wasn't like a place where people could get in?

The guard poked his back with a truncheon from behind, "What are you doing in a daze, go."

When he climbed down a row of ladders nailed with patina in the cracks of the bricks, he was almost certain that Gray Mao had taken care of all the guards, not to give him good fruit. In the narrow space, even turning around is difficult. The hole above gradually shrunk into a small dot, and the bottom is also pitch black. He could only hear the sound of his breathing becoming more and more rapid, and he had the illusion of being buried alive.

At the bottom of the shaft was a horizontal circular pipe. As soon as he landed, he felt his feet sink into a piece of muddy water that did not reach his knees, and his shoes and socks were suddenly soaked. The rancid smell of the yin tide hit his face, reminding him of a swollen corpse soaked in water for a month. He turned on the lamp on the helmet, and a beam of light shot into the darkness, illuminating the entire drain pipe made of some ancient material. It is most likely to be masonry, but the pipe walls have been covered with thick and greasy stains and moss, and occasionally there are flocs hanging down from unknown sources, making people think of indigestion.

Ethan could only hear the sound of water in an uproar as he walked around, and he yelled a few words without hearing anyone respond. He stumbled forward in the sewage, his feet lying softly, and he didn't know what he was stepping on. The smell made him want to vomit for a long time, but he couldn't vomit when he hadn't eaten anything in the morning, so he could only retches occasionally.

After walking for a while, there was a fork in the road, and one minute was three forks. Ethan paused and dared not go forward.

He had heard before that some ancient cities on the earth have extremely intricate drainage systems, such as the original Paris of France on the earth, so that some wealthy people who like to be curious will spend money to hire people as guides to take them to the sewers to explore. Those pipes are like a maze. Once you lose your guide, you may be trapped in it. He remembered that a similar incident happened last year. A rich second generation starved to death with his girlfriend, with an expression of extreme horror on his face.

He wondered if this was Gray Mao's plan to trap him in it?

He will not be fooled.

He waited anxiously for a while, and finally heard a voice from the fork in the road on one side.

"I still believe what Chen Zeng said, because Johnny saw it too. They said that the evil god looks like an octopus, but has many more claws than an octopus, and it has hundreds of floors. high."

"Cut, that might be a really big octopus."

"How can the octopus speak? She said she is coming to earth. Alas...there are too few people who believe in the earth now, they are all sinners who only know pleasure, this is not the same as that evil city... Oh yes, is Sodom the same? Sooner or later the Lord will punish us, and the evil god is the killing angel he sent."

Ethan heard that the other party seemed to be discussing Sab Nicholas on the Red Earth?

But what octopus, what hundreds of stories high? What are these things? This is obviously not what Sab Nicholas looks like?

What strange remarks did Chen Zeng spread among inhumans?

"Huh, it should have been here long ago. People nowadays really, can do anything for money, it's morally degraded. There are also those omegas, which are already small in number, and put a good alpha and don't have to mess with other omegas. Fuck, I think all this kind of people who don’t think about the future of mankind deserve to die."

Ethan just wanted to roll his eyes when he heard it. He was curious what kind of crime the person who said this had committed and was imprisoned in the forbidden city. It didn't take long for someone to show up. They were two thin and black people.

No wonder, in such an environment, even if he had to squeeze in, Samuel might get stuck like that.

"Hello!" Ethan shouted first.

The two inhumans saw him immediately, "Who are you?"

"They asked me to help through the pipeline."

"Damn, why get a nerd down again?" An inhuman cursed, spitting into the standing water on the ground.

For the next day, Ethan basically followed the two inhumans with a pile of shovels, a large box containing a strong acid corrosive solution container, and many other tools. Only then did he know that the Forbidden City was originally a prosperous and ancient city on earth, and 80% of these drainage pipes were left over from ancient times. Nearly half of them could no longer be used and were built with masonry.

The structure of those pipes is surprisingly complex, and many places are blocked by yellow seals covered with stains. Among them, the older non-human Kim Ki-jun told him that everything can be found in the sewer. Once he even found a non-human corpse who did not know how long he had died. He probably wanted to try to escape from the drain. People who were trapped in the city were trapped and died.

"Can you escape from the sewer to the outside of the city?" Ethan keenly grasped the point of the whole story.

"It's just a rumor. The forbidden city is solid. No one has successfully escaped since its establishment. Anyone who entered the sewers was either caught back or died here."

At the end of the day, Ethan came home like a stinking clay figure, and everyone retreated wherever he passed. Even Samuel disliked him very much and would not allow him to approach his own bed.

After a month of this, Ethan finally got used to the sludge, rat carcasses, feces, feminine hygiene products, and ubiquitous odors floating around in the sewer, and he would no longer vomit everything in his stomach. Once he even picked up a harmonica, took it back and rinsed it with clean water, put it to his mouth and blew it, except for a few tones that were changed. Samuel couldn't believe that he actually put the things he picked up from the sewer into his mouth, and immediately forced him to brush his teeth five times, even at the expense of his own toothpaste. The reason is that his estrus is about to come, and he can't bear to have a man in his nest who is dirtier than a mouse.

Adhering to the principle of acting in a low-key manner, not beating back or cursing, Ethan seemed to be gradually forgotten after being troubled by the guards two or three times. After being beaten for the last time with a bruised nose and swollen face, he sat on the bed and let Samuel put medicine on the bruise on the corner of his mouth, and even laughed, "I am a man who has fought."

"What do you call a fight? It's pure beating." Samuel frowned and poked his waist hard, making him breathe in pain.

Fortunately, nothing happened after that time. All guards seem to be very busy in recent times, and the number of guards seems to have increased. The number of inspections of prohibited items is also more frequent than before. I don't know what happened. The non-people in the forbidden city talked privately, I'm afraid that some important person is going to inspect the city.

Just when he thought that life was on the right track and his tight nerves began to relax a little bit, one day after finishing the work on the way back to the residential area, he felt that the atmosphere on the road was a bit weird, and the non-people who got off work did not go straight. Back to the place of residence, but to gather towards the widest "central axis road" in the forbidden city that traverses the east and west areas.

There were many robotic policemen on both sides of the Central Axis Road, and Ethan wondered if the entire city's robotic policemen had been moved over. Non-people whistling around the sides of the road reminded him of the noises that almost scared him to pee when he came to the forbidden city blindfolded.

Thinking about it now, this is nothing more than a bluff.

With a bit of curiosity, he also leaned over with a dirt. The people around were evaded by him, but it was convenient for him to squeeze all the way to the front.

Then he was stunned.

Obviously it was not a newcomer entering the city, because in addition to the long-lost guard Schneider who led the way, there were four soldiers escorting the man walking in the middle.

Four Eve soldiers with three eyes and pointed ears.

And the beautiful man walking in the middle, wearing a silver-white robe, holding a scepter, smiling calmly, was the Tanisel that he thought he would never see again!

Tanisel's third eye slightly opened a slit, as if he had known where Ethan was long ago. As Ethan opened his eyes wide, the light gray eyes looked at Ethan. Then, he stepped forward, deviating from the original straight line, and walked straight to Ethan's side.

The noise immediately rose to a height. The four Eve soldiers obviously wanted to stop the priest's behavior, but Tanisel only raised his hand slightly, and they retreated like obedient puppets. He looked so tall and holy, and the dim sunlight reflected on him seemed to diffuse a soft luster. In contrast, Ethan suddenly understood how embarrassed he was now, and it was a miracle to be embarrassed until Tanisel could recognize him.

He wanted to run, but he couldn't move his feet.

After a while, the priest was already standing in front of him across the open arms of the two mechanical policemen. He and Ethan looked at each other for a moment, and a wicked smile appeared on his lips.

However, he didn't say anything, he just turned his eyes around where the bite marks on Ethan's neck had healed, then turned and left.