Atonement: Neptune (4)

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date="2020-11-09"

title="Atonement: Neptune (4)"

weight="103792"

series = ["Falling into the Abyss"]

mode = "manual"

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The first half an hour was the most tense, but nothing happened, and all the equipment in the space station were operating normally, so after the second communication, the atmosphere gradually relaxed.

Some non-humans asked Lime to serve them some beer. Lime persuaded them that drinking in this situation might not be a good choice, but they did not listen and insisted on the point. Lime had to give instructions to the service robots, and they quickly synthesized beer with a lower degree. Other inhumans played horror games in the game room, slashing zombies with an invisible machete in their hands in a dazzling flame, and there were constant scalp screams and tears of flesh and blood. . There are also non-human retro rock band compilations from other star countries in the music library. This kind of music that has been banned in the Earth Alliance according to the regulations of the Cultural Affairs Bureau has appeared in the army. It is really ironic and exciting. Soon, the hysterical singing of death rock resounded through the silent corridors of the space station.

Only Ethan couldn't relax. The person who contacted them just now was an ordinary researcher, and told them that non-humans did not have the ability to actively contact them.

Ethan couldn't help but began to suspect that if those researchers plan to get rid of them after they get the observation report they want, just stop the communication, and they have no way to stop it. This thought turned his entire portrait into a tight rubber band, his eyes kept staring out of the skylight, unable to do anything else to divert his attention.

He thought of the crew members who were fused with the ship in the Philadelphia experiment, thought of the terrifying tinnitus, and imagined the sudden collapse of his body, and all the things that were grouped together called "Ethan" changed It became a pool of meaningless atoms, floating in a dark and silent universe until eternity.

This is definitely not the way he wants to die.

Gawen was sitting on the other end of the soft sofa with a beer bottle in one hand, and Ethan moved aside without a trace. Gawen looked at him with a malicious sneer, "Why do you keep crying? Did you miss Samuel? If you are really so empty and lonely, I can barely comfort you."

Ethan glanced at him in disgust, "No, thank you."

"Seriously, you don’t have the smell of omega. Look at the Adam over there, how beautiful the face is. If you look at you, it’s not ugly, but it’s as lacking as a beta. It’s a waste of omega. Gene."

Seeing that the other party was very sorry, Ethan was also a little angry, "What's wrong with Beta? At least Beta has a brain, and he won't forget his surname when he hears omega's estrus."

Gawen who has never seen Ethan raised his eyebrows and smiled without anger, "Oh Yo? You have a little temper? You don't have a beta concubine or something, do you? Help them talk like that. Want me Say, if this world wants to continue, alpha and omega are enough, and beta is completely redundant gender."

"Huh, when the estrus without ga reaches the world, it will enter the paralyzed stage, right?"

"What's wrong? Isn't it normal to have three days off for three months?"

Ethan rolled his eyes, reached out and grabbed a bottle of beer that he didn't know who belonged on the table, and took two sips in his mouth. And the annoying Gawen next to him probably talked a lot more than usual through Jiujin, "Really, you follow Samuel, do you think he is a little weird?"

Ethan swallowed and looked at Gawen with questions.

"I always feel that something is wrong with him, and the smell on his body sometimes smells weird. I can't tell, I just think he is suspicious."

Ethan wanted to pretend to be relaxed, change the subject, and dispel the other person’s doubts, so he deliberately said with a little contempt, "You want to add to the crime, why don’t you just say that you are more jealous of his younger brother than you are. Hello there."

As soon as he said this, Gawen's smile disappeared, and he narrowed his eyes dangerously, and leaned forward slightly in a standard threatening posture, "Speak and pay attention to omega. Your backer is not by your side now."

a Instinctively felt a shivering when Alpha showed this predator's threatening posture, but he was beaten by the guards in the forbidden city during this period. He quickly stabilized his expression and tried to be calm." I am not interested in the grudge between you and Samuel, don't pull me in."

The atmosphere is tense, and the third contact has already begun. The expressionless face of the researcher I've seen before appeared on the front wall of every room in the space station, and asked in a non-emotional voice, "The third communication begins. Please report whether there are any abnormal conditions or mechanical failures in the space station. "

All the non-people looked at Gawen, as if they had treated him as a chief. Ethan finds this phenomenon very interesting. Whenever a group of people get together, no matter what kind of person they are, they always want to find a leader to help them make decisions. If the leader does not speak, no one dares to speak.

Gawen said impatiently, "Nothing."

"Please report whether any abnormal conditions outside the space station have been observed."

"No, nothing, you can't even see the fucking stars."

"Received." After finishing speaking, the researcher did not immediately cut off the contact like the last time, but continued, "Now, we will send a microwave signal to the Second Universe. We will contact you again in half an hour."

Ethan stood up abruptly, "Send a signal?! What are you going to do!"

However, the researcher was disconnected, and Ethan quickly picked up a chair and rushed under a skylight.

Through the light blue glass, he found that their space station had rotated to a new angle. From this angle, he could see a bright star shining in the field of vision. He asked if there was a telescope in the Lyme Space Station, and after getting a positive answer, he rushed to the observation room without saying a word.

He could see clearly through the high-powered binoculars. It was a red giant star, but it was not an ordinary red giant star like Hera, but a strange star that was close to a cone but not a cone. It leaned slightly, with uncomfortable sharp corners facing him. His eyes were burning with great pain, but he could still see a few bright planets floating near and far in the orbit around the weird cone-shaped sun. And those planets also seem to have some strangely twisted sharp or obtuse angles, depressions or protrusions, almost none of them are spherical, and they all give people an uncomfortable dazzling feeling, and it is difficult to distinguish the distance between them.

Dr. Xu said that the spatial structure of this universe is abnormal and cannot be inferred by common sense. But even if we know this theoretically, seeing these non-existent forms in their universe arranged in a strange and chaotic manner, and unattainable by imagination, will still produce some disgusting discomfort.

Why do they emit microwave signals? Could it be that they think there are intelligent creatures nearby?

But this is impossible. In such a chaotic universe, it is even a question of whether life forms, not to mention intelligent creatures. In any case, he couldn't believe that there would be any creatures on those twisted planets.

However, at this moment, the entire space station suddenly began to shake violently, like an earthquake. The beer bottles crackled and fell to the ground, and unfixed furniture also bounced on the ground. Even the lights flickered, flickering, adding to the apocalyptic atmosphere. Non-people stand unsteady, panic, and quick-reacting hands hold their heads hiding under the fixed table or next to the furniture. The timid can only scream on the ground. Ethan also fell from the chair and slammed his head against the sharp edge of a nearby electronic table, knocking him dizzy. He hid under the table, clutching the corner of the flat table connected to the ground.

After this terrifying earthquake ended, the light stabilized again, and the reassuring milky white light again quietly and softly transmitted from behind the wall. Non-people got up from the ground after waiting for a while and looked at the scattered glass ballast and the projectors, coffee machines and other small machines that fell on the ground. Lime's voice immediately sounded, "We encountered an abnormal spatial distortion just now, but we have not found any major losses so far. All systems operate as usual."

After listening to the mastermind's words, the dazed and panicked expressions on non-people's faces calmed slightly. However, the atmosphere of drinking and cursing lightly just now disappeared in an instant. Several non-human beings were afraid to sit down on the nearest shaken sofa. One non-human suddenly tremblingly said, "Chen Zeng said that the great evil god is Coming from a different space... Did we accidentally enter the universe of those great evil gods?"

What he said was silence and a few uneasy eyes. Although Gawen was also taken aback, he looked calm, "Don't frighten yourself. I have seen the evil god you talk about, it's just a monster in another world." He was obviously thinking about this. To appease the panic factor, because it is an understatement to describe Shab Nicholas as a "monster of another world".

Ethan is actually a little scared. Although according to the theory that there are infinite parallel universes, and according to Eve's legend, the entropy god and the preface god of the universe are inaccessible, the probability of them entering the universe where the super wisdom is located is very low. But now that even breaking the space barrier has been done, who knows what else will happen?

The atmosphere then turned into a tight string, and finally got to the fourth contact. Gawen went up and shouted at the researcher, "We ask to end the experiment!!!"

However, the researcher didn't seem to hear him at all, and just asked routinely, "The fourth communication starts, please report whether there are any abnormal conditions or mechanical failures in the space station."

"Yes! What space was distorted just now, like an earthquake!" a beta shouted.

The researcher quickly entered some characters on the desktop, "According to our records, it was a small-scale spatial turbulence common in the Second Universe. There is no danger. The experiment continues.

Ethan listened to the opponent's indifferent tone, but his mind was spinning quickly. Space is abnormally distorted... Such things should happen often in this ever-changing universe, right? Their alien space station is like a small fishing boat, bumping in the vast ocean of the Second Universe. If there are more space distortions like the one just now, there might even be a large-scale space storm, that is, a large-scale intense space distortion. At such a moment, can the temporary force field barrier that surrounds their space station really be able to support it?

"The experiment is too dangerous! We request a timeout!" Ethan stepped forward and shouted, "This is not a five-point mission at all!"

The researcher showed an expression of indescribable disgust for an instant, seeming to dislike them in trouble, "The order we received is for the experiment to continue. I will contact you again in half an hour."

Amidst the shouts of inhumanity, the researcher turned off the communicator.

In the next hour, similar spatial turbulence occurred three more times, and each time became stronger. However, the researcher kept repeating the words "Experiment Continue" without expression. After the third turbulence, Lyme's report finally brought complete panic, "Due to the abnormal distortion of the space and the failure of the gravity system on the west wing, I have been sealed off. Please do not approach the weightless zone. "

For the first time, the space station failed. In other words, the so-called force field barrier is not that strong, and the space station has begun to be twisted and damaged by the Second Universe Law.

The military seems to have no intention of pulling them back.

At the moment when this damage report appeared, no one in the room spoke, and the hollow silence was suppressed to the point of screaming.

After a while, the beautiful omega Adam who had been crying silently raised his head suddenly, stretched out a hand, and pointed at Ethan.

"It's all you, it's all the proposals submitted by your Energy Bureau. It was you who caused the gray hair that we got here!"

Ethan opened his eyes slightly, and seemed a little uncertain about the accusations he faced.

Gawen said something beside him, "Okay, don't say it's useless."

However, Adam stood up slowly. He had always been shy and timid, and he had never even dared to say anything. At this moment in the face of the unknown destruction, the burning despair and resentment poured out to Ethan. . This hatred came suddenly and was overwhelming. It was like a voice in his mind saying that it was all that person's fault, that it was all that person's fault, and that it was all that person's fault.

It was the running dog of the Energy Bureau who had calculated them. He was not inhuman at all, but the government was planted in the forbidden city! He is the demon who came to choose the victim of this experiment!

He shouted out what was in his mind, even saying it well. Ethan is a member of the Energy Bureau. After he came, he was constantly selected to participate in some Energy Bureau-related missions. Moreover, the last Red Earth mission was so dangerous, but he was able to retreat. Even the priest Eve walked up to him that day and said something to him. Doesn't all of this mean that this seemingly gentle man is actually an unfathomable spy?

Although this argument is full of loopholes, at such a moment dominated by fear, unexpected power has been generated. The first to echo Adam turned out to be the African-American alpha, "Yes! He knew about the Philadelphia experiment and the parallel universe in this laboratory from the beginning! He is just a rat!"

Such a strong assertion produced some mysterious deceiving power among other inhumans, perhaps because of fear, perhaps because of despair, or perhaps because of the need for an object to vent resentment and censure, one after another someone stood up, Staring at Ethan with the same chilling eyes.

Ethan couldn't help standing up straight, his back stiff. He had thought that at the moment of panic, someone would always fall victim to fear. He just didn't expect this person to become him. He took a step back and reasoned in a voice that was as calm as possible with a little trembling, "I have committed a crime like you. I committed a crime of treason, which is more than many of you. To be serious. For this matter, I have only experienced events on the Red Earth, and have dealt with the Energy Bureau’s parallel universe proposal before, so there is such a guess that I am a victim just like you!"

Adam curled up his mouth mockingly, smiling beautifully and viciously, "Guess? Can guesses be so accurate? The military is doing so many experiments, so you know it is the Philadelphia experiment! I think you are theirs. You shameless traitor! Dog of the Energy Bureau!"