Atonement: Faun (19)

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date="2020-11-09"

title="Atonement: Faun (19)"

weight="103831"

series = ["Falling into the Abyss"]

mode = "manual"

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General Mueller decided to divide the remaining inhumans into six groups, bring heavy weapons, and attack the last three main tribes of the Faun Star rebels. Their main task is to assassinate the chieftain of the horns. As long as the leader is lost, this rebellion will soon fall apart and all terrorist attacks on the city will stop.

Ethan and Samuel were still divided into a group and joined the team personally led by Chief Security Officer Schneider. Although most of the other non-human Ethans have met, they don't have a deep friendship and can't speak. What's more worrying for him is that Taifeng was assigned to the group led by Gray Mao.

But it is obviously useless to worry at this time. Fortunately, each team has some real soldiers following them, so Vasilev shouldn't be too special. Before he left, Samuel gave Taifeng a small knife transformed from a razor, and told him to hide it in his personal pocket, and use it to defend himself if it was a last resort.

Anyway, on the battlefield, even if one or two guards were killed, they could still be pushed off the Horned Man. Samuel whispered to the omega who was crying with fear.

Thirty people, together with Schneider and a small group of soldiers, landed on a bare rocky mountain top by a military transport plane. Under them there was a low-lying basin. The mist formed a faint light curtain, which was faintly visible. In the dense copper plum forest covered under, clusters of luminous copper plums gleamed in the darkness.

It is said that the two captured horned chieftains hidden in this forest can swallow all the Earth’s “Mouth of the Earth”. Many of the horned captives of different tribes tortured by the Earth Army mentioned this place, so General Mueller believed that some kind of secret weapon of the horned might be hidden here. Although he was half-believing, but now the battle is coming to an end, in order to prevent the horned rebels from resurgence in the future, he decided to send a team of inhumans to search here.

Senlili is very quiet, the air is stagnant and lacks circulation. The damp smell floats in the air, and occasionally you can see swarms of glowing flying insects rising from the depths of the woods, as brilliant as scattered sparks.

If it weren't for worrying about the horns lurking in the darkness, such a scene would be very moving. Ethan printed this image in his mind, hoping that if Tanisel happened to perceive his thinking, he could also see the beauty.

Since he separated from Tanisel, he has never felt the priest's voice again. He started to worry a little, is Tanisel in danger? Will it be caught by Roland? He was fidgeting, but there was no way to proactively detect where Tanisel was. He was absent-minded all day, and even tripped on the tangled tree roots on the ground several times on the road, causing Schneider to stare at him severely.

At night, everyone was sleeping under the dense copper plum trees, silently eating the canned food in their bags. Samuel suddenly stuffed something into Ethan's hand silently, and Ethan looked down, it was a pair of glasses.

Ethan looked at him in surprise, "Where did you get it?"

"Toschneider bought it in a local supermarket. I'm not sure about your degree, but Schneider should check it." Samuel lowered his head and said while eating the meat sauce in the tin.

Ethan raised his head and glanced at Schneider who was talking to a military sergeant not far away. The opponent's brows were habitually frowned, always looking serious and tight.

"Thank him for me." Ethan said to Samuel.

"Hey, don't you thank me?" Samuel gave him an elbow in dissatisfaction. "I begged him for a long time."

"You just moved your lips. Didn't people like you?" Ethan sighed and shook his head quietly.

Samuel's eyes widened suddenly. "Can you fucking stop telling such scary jokes? I have goose bumps."

Ethan glanced at him sarcastically, "You didn't seem to be too scared when you were pressing on them?"

"I'm just helping!"

"Well, you can be happy." Ethan shrugged, "But, don't tell me you really didn't see how much care the chief security officer took to you. If you just say something, people will follow him for me. An unfamiliar stranger came back with a pair of glasses. He even smuggled you with inhibitors before. You never thought about why he takes care of you like this?"

"Because I helped him maintain order in the forbidden city! Do you think he can easily control so many thugs without me? Besides, the money I made from reselling things inside the forbidden city was also distributed to him. what."

"Hahaha..." Ethan chuckled as if he heard the child say innocent things. "We are inhuman, and they have the means to control us. No matter how much we want to make trouble, the big deal will kill us all. It will affect their moral value. Why does he want your so-called "big brother" to maintain stability? As for the money, it is even more ridiculous. Does his dignified guard commander deserve your bribe?"

Samuel glared at him, but didn't say anything to respond. Of course he had doubted this possibility, but Schneider had always looked cold and businesslike in front of him, so he thought he was over-hearted. Maybe the other person is just pitying the same sickness, and sympathy is overflowing?

But if Ethan thinks so too...

Ethan put on his glasses and glanced at him, "There is nothing in this world that does not ask for anything in return. You should think about what he wants from you. Didn't you warn me that way?"

His words silenced Samuel, looking thoughtfully in Schneider's direction. Then he shook his head, as if he wanted to deny himself.

Samuel woke up suddenly during the night, and he heard a strange cry.

It is like a person's pain, tossing and turning, in the deep dark night, there is a quiet terror.

Schneider also woke up, the two people's eyes met. Schneider quickly turned away and woke a nearby soldier.

Ethan was also awakened by the cry at this time, and he suddenly felt his scalp numb.

They have heard this sound. I heard this sound before when I got lost in the woods outside Anas. Soon after, they were ambushed by the head-eating worm and horned man that suddenly came down from the tree. After a while, the chief of guard hesitated, Ethan, Samuel, and two other inhumans on their feet, followed the two soldiers looking for their voices to search deep in the woods.

This time non-people have an extra laser gun in their hands, which is a lot more confident than the last time. They marched cautiously in the dense forest, the sultry humidity seemed to stick to the skin, the thick fog, and the scene ten steps away was empty, and the spotlight could only illuminate a straight line. There is water vapour lingering.

The mist gradually closed behind him, and they seemed to be swallowed. The two soldiers stared at the thermal sensor and gps locator in their hands to barely confirm that they were not lost. In the damp, Ethan smelled a disgusting smell of rotting, reminding one of the dirty smell of maggots wriggling on rotting corpses. He paused, hesitating whether he should go any further.

Samuel almost hit him. "What's the matter?"

"There is an unpleasant smell."

"Yes?" Samuel sniffed vigorously. "Although it's a bit humid and smelly, it's easy to smell in the forest."

"Every time I smell this kind of smell, there is no good thing." Ethan's green eyes looked around, and his eyes looked like a beast.

"You two, keep up!" Schneider warned in front.

Ethan couldn't, so he had to continue to follow them through the bushes. The call became clearer and clearer, and the two soldiers in front suddenly made a stop gesture, asking everyone to lower their bodies and look for plant cover.

In the thick fog, a black shadow was faintly swaying leisurely in the light.

Is it a horned person?

Two soldiers holding guns, step by step towards the dark shadow. Samuel and Schneider and two other non-humans followed a little bit forward. Only Ethan stood behind, frowning tightly, and nightmarish memories in his eyes.

Altar, blood, blue, red...

Suddenly, the movements of the two soldiers stopped. They lie on the ground and haven't moved for a long time. Samuel and Schneider approached them and heard them whispering, with a trace of confusion despite their subtle tone.

"What it is……"

At this moment, the fog just faded slightly, and Samuel took out a telescope with night vision from his pocket and looked towards the black shadow.

There was a grunt in his throat that couldn't distinguish his emotions.

He saw that it was not a person that made the strange sounds of people in the dark forest, but a fleshy worm that hung up on the ground like a thick pipe. Then, the small mouth would suddenly expand in a disgusting way, revealing the sharp teeth hovering downwards and still hung with flesh and blood. Then from that mouth, there was a hissing that they had heard.

The worm was just like the one that suddenly fell from a tree and ate a few inhuman heads near the city of Anas, and now it looks a lot like those giant worms that burst out of the ground, except that they are just big. Only one tenth of the big worm.

Could it be that these little worms are the offspring of those big worms? It suddenly occurred to Samuel that the fleshy insects entangled and curled around each other, like intestines spread out on the ground, the small round mouth on the top opened and closed, and hot acid was sprayed from it. He had a cold fight and felt a little nauseous.

Does this small worm mean that the big worms are nearby?

The worm called a few more times and suddenly stopped. Its head swayed twice in the air, then suddenly twisted, crawling towards a depression on the ground not far away.

It was a section of stairs, a stone stairway sunken into the ground, heavily covered by moss and rotting grass leaves, leaving only some places in the middle that were unusually clean, as if things were often dragged past there.

In the depths of this unmanned forest valley, an artificial step suddenly appeared... The two soldiers said excitedly that this must be the entrance to the so-called "Mouth of the Earth" by the Horned Man.

Samuel swallowed and said in a low voice, "I don't want to go in... Maybe it's full of disgusting meat bugs."

However, their task is to investigate the mouth of the earth and destroy what they find if necessary. They even carried explosives enough to blow up a small building, of course they couldn't just stop here.

Schneider said, "Let's go back and call others in, and it's never too late to go down."

The two soldiers agreed with him, and a group of seven hurried back, but when they returned to the camp, they all stayed in a daze.

The rest, whether inhuman or military, all fell to the ground without heads. The crimson blood looked black at night, gurgling from the mouth of the bowl, and stained the ground. The heavy smell of blood turned into a crimson mist, which filled the seven faces that lost their blood.

An inhuman beta screamed.

However, Ethan, Samuel, and Schneider are no strangers to such a scene, but everything happened so quickly and so quietly, it still makes people feel a chill from the bottom of my heart.

Ethan's eyes seemed to float into the distant memory, and he muttered blankly, "The cry just now is an invitation, they are waiting for us underground..."