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Ophiuchus Alliance (5)
Hermon Star, located on the border of the Third Empire, is not a planet suitable for human survival. The atmosphere there is thin, there is too much sulfur dioxide, and there is no liquid water. Due to the distance from the star, the climate here is extremely cold, and you need to wear a spacesuit to walk out.
When the spacecraft of the Ophiuchus Alliance landed, there were already two other Third Empire spacecraft moored in orbit near the planet. Those were the search and rescue team sent by the Third Empire government. At the same time, an Eve Star spacecraft has also entered orbit, participating in search and rescue operations together.
Obviously, the Ophiuchus Alliance did not inform that Third Empire Ethan was also on board. Fortunately, the helmet of the spacesuit was hard to see from the outside. Ethan and Samuel were able to land on a small spacecraft together with several other Ophiuchus soldiers. On the door star. They skimmed across the thin, iron-blue sky, and ravines on the desolate and barren land, like deep wrinkles carved out by the years.
In a deep valley, lies the largest part of the Eve spacecraft. The steel elliptical remnant was inserted obliquely on the cliff, and the bare steel frame pointed to the sky, and it was impossible to tell which part of the spacecraft was originally. Metal fragments and burnt cloth seats were scattered all over the valley, dragging a long trace, looking shocking.
Some Third Empire search and rescue personnel are still searching for the main brain's hard disk fragments in the largest wreck, hoping to recover some of the information before the crash. There is a temporary search and rescue base on the edge of the wreckage area, where most of the analysis will be completed.
"The body was not found, but the degree of disintegration... It is possible that even the body was burned..." A rescuer shook his head regretfully.
"But we are trying to restore some of the latest hard drive information, and maybe we can get more information." Another Third Empire technician told Roland, "The central intelligent program of the main brain seems to have been shut down. According to the video record, there is one The individual entered the curvature flight mode in a sober state."
There was an uproar, and many soldiers looked at each other, whispering, how could anyone do such crazy things? Samuel looked at Ethan in front of him worriedly. Ethan was still standing quietly, unable to see his expression.
Roland asked, "Then what happened to this person?"
"The image records during the curvature flight are severely missing and seem to be disturbed. From what we find now, we seem to hear people screaming, and there are many vague...unexplainable images...if you want If you look at it, I can show it to you, but since it was restored later, it is very vague."
Then Ethan saw the image.
A shaky, fuzzy image. It can only be vaguely seen that it is in the cockpit of the spacecraft. It seems that a blond person is trying to get up from the ground, but then...and then Ethan is not sure what he saw...
Many black shadows emerged from the walls and from the ground...like a human shape, but not as if they were...many insect-like arms, tentacles, constantly changing shapes...
They surrounded the blond man in the middle from all directions, a painful scream penetrated through the harsh electric current, and Ethan's heart twitched fiercely. Then, it all fell to the shaking and chaotic snowflakes.
Ethan didn't notice that he had forgotten to breathe for a long time, nor did he notice that he had bitten his lips, and black blood stained the corners of his lips. He turned abruptly and walked out of the base. Samuel called him from behind and ran after him.
Ethan sprinted all the way, ignoring the Third Empire search and rescue personnel passing by, and walked straight to the wreckage stuck in the rock wall. He heard his heavy breathing and felt cold sweat oozing from the palm of his hand. He remembered that Tanisel touched his heart lightly at the end, remembered the last kiss Tanisel landed on his forehead, remembered Tanisel said to him: I heard that the sunset of Moaña is beautiful, live well, watch it for me one look.
And the scream that makes people tremble from the bones...
He had never heard such a painful sound from the priest, even when he was suffering from the battle between the order and entropy of his body, or when he was being pulled out of the cocoon by force, he had never screamed like that.
Those black shadows... are not things in this universe... What happened during the curvature flight?
Ethan put his hand on the metal wall that had been melted so badly that he pulled off the helmet with his other hand. The rescuers who saw him commit such suicidal behavior involuntarily took a breath of air-conditioning. In such a harsh atmosphere, people exposed to the air for less than three minutes would be poisoned by sulfur dioxide, which could lead to kidney failure and even death. Not to mention these, just the cold that is not suitable for human survival will cause frostbite in an instant.
A rescuer rushed to rescue him, but saw Ethan gestured to them. The cold wind lifted his dark brown hair, and his green eyes gleamed in the dark. He closed his eyes, raised his head, sniffing in the air like an animal. He tried to settle his mind and calm himself down, trying to find a trace of Tanisel in the pungent atmosphere of this planet. At the same time, he was looking for the broken soul bond in his mind, hysterically allowing himself to perceive, to find the missing other half.
But I can't smell, there is nothing. There was also dead silence in his mind, and he couldn't feel anything.
In the cocoon before, he could already perceive some distant and ancient memories, and perceive some souls that did not belong to this universe. But now none of these extraordinary perceptions can help him. Tanisel seemed to have evaporated, leaving no trace, not even the body.
"This is the price of betraying faith. You made him deviate from the contract he made with Fuxing Chaos. He already knew his end."
Ethan suddenly turned around and saw an Eve wearing a lightweight spacesuit and a transparent helmet on his head. Handsome and elegant face, long brown hair tied behind his head, and the third eye between his forehead is open, apparently through that eye that directly communicated with him.
It's Sionier.
Ethan was about ten steps away from him, and a sharp cold wind whistled between them.
"You killed him." Ethan said coldly.
Sionier is probably the only person who has not shown fear of him so far. The chief priest looked at him with a half-sorrowful and half-hateful look, and responded, "No, you killed him. You. Confused his mind and made him forget his duty."
"I confused him?" Ethan laughed suddenly, the laughter from low to high, until the end he looked a little crippled. Obviously Tanisel confuses him with those charming gray eyes, with the gentle and soothing voice, with the clean and slender rescue hand, right? Why did it all become his fault to say it from these people?
Should he lie obediently on their altar, waiting for the core of the universe to burn his soul to ashes?
Is he born to be sacrificed?
Didn't he work hard to be an ordinary person and live without hard work?
Is it that only if he completely disappears is the best ending?
But after another thought, does he care what these people think? These trivial ants.
Now he doesn't need to be emotional for unrelated people. He only needs to get someone, this is the promise he made to himself.
So Ethan stopped laughing and stretched out his hand abruptly, shooting five barbed tentacles from the top of his five fingers at the same time, instantly wrapping around the head-neck junction of Sionier's outer spacesuit. At this moment, as long as he exerts a little effort, the spacesuit will be broken into pieces, and this hateful Eve person will die of sulfur dioxide poisoning.
Screams of horror sounded from all directions, and a soldier of Eve immediately took out a weapon and aimed at him not far away.
But Sionier was still calm, and even signaled the Eve soldiers behind him not to do anything. This makes Ethan very upset.
"I remember I heard Tanisel say that in the extreme chaos, time and space will be confused, and the dead can be reborn. It is for this that he signed a contract with Nyarlathotep, right?"
Sionier nodded slightly, "Yes."
"As long as Assatos comes, this can be done... right?"
"Not bad."
"What descent ritual did you originally want to perform to allow him to descend?"
"To open the spiritual channel between you and him, he can manipulate your body from another universe."
"But I won't die?"
"No. I just don't know if your consciousness will still exist. After all, there is no soul at the core of the universe that can withstand it." Sionier paused, then added, "But you are the chaos and the sky. Son of Star Descendants, maybe your consciousness will not disappear."
Ethan pursed his lips, and finally asked, "How did the sacrificing ceremony work?"
This time it was replaced by Sionier with a mocking sneer, but with a bleak smile, "It's too late. That ceremony should be performed within 72 hours before you are about to enter adulthood, but you have now entered Adulthood."
"……that's it?"
"that's it."
"I don't believe it!" Ethan applied force with his fingertips, and Sionier heard a crackle from the bottom of his helmet. The angry son of Chaos in front of him exuded a terrible black aura that was invisible to the naked eye of human beings. Those black auras covered the sky and the sun, like the black sun falling down, almost making him unable to suppress his inner fear. But on the surface, he still seemed calm, "Why don't you go to your father?"
Ethan was taken aback.
"I'm not talking about the poor earthling who raised you." Sionier's sharp gaze projected over ten steps away, "I'm talking about your real father."