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Alliance of Ophiuchus (6)
"How is his current situation?" An elderly female voice came from the other side of the communicator.
Roland said while observing the screen in front of him, "He had a conflict with the people from Eve, showing some mutated forms, and now Third Empire no longer allows us to land on Black Gate. But he did not protest. "
"Is that priest Eve sure to die?"
"OK. Ethan Eldridge seems to accept this. He refuses to talk to anyone now and stays in the room by himself."
The screen in front of him shows Ethan's suite, and needle-sized cameras are installed everywhere in the luxurious cabin, and Ethan's every move is under his observation. At this moment Ethan sat motionless on the edge of the bed, his eyes looking straight ahead, almost like a statue. Roland frowned. "He hasn't slept before, just sitting on the bed in a posture."
"Maybe you can use his companion." The female voice said, "Didn't you hear him say that he is going to earth?"
"You mean, let them go?"
"Not just let them go, but also help them go." The female voice said in a cold voice, "Since such a hot potato cannot be killed and cannot be controlled, let it be handled by the Earth Alliance. Don't let him go. Bring it back to the Ophiuchus Alliance. We now have his DNA samples in our hands, and maybe we can develop a vaccine to treat the plague. Before that, we must be careful in contact with him and don't have any behavior that may irritate him."
"Understood." When Roland finished speaking, the connection was cut off. Immediately afterwards, he sent an encrypted message to another Earth Alliance informant.
"Target 6 is about to return to Earth, or it may cause him to meet with Target 4."
After sending this message, he looked up, but found Ethan on the screen moved. He slowly took off his coat, opened the quilt, and lay down.
Is it going to sleep?
Since coming out of the medical warehouse, Roland has never seen Ethan sleep. He thought that the mutated Ethan no longer needed sleep. But it does not seem to be the case?
Ethan pulled the quilt on his body and closed his eyes. Roland made a large cup of coffee for himself, planning not to sleep tonight, and stared at the peacefully sleeping person on the screen.
Ethan's sleeping face was very good, and he had barely moved for more than two hours. However, in the third hour, something strange happened. Many tentacles of different thicknesses stretched out from under his quilt, and he fell asleep quickly over the bed like black water. Those terrible, barbed, scaled, or worm-like soft tentacles grow like black blood vessels in all directions, even winding up the walls, covering everything encountered on the road. The original snow-white walls are now almost covered in black, and even the peeping camera can only vaguely see the scene in the room from the gap between the tentacles. Roland has to switch the camera constantly to see the situation inside.
It seems that this room and even this ship may need to be completely destroyed after Ethan leaves...
Ethan's sleep is no longer stable, the center of his brows is slightly frowned, slightly raised, and his body has slight spasms. He seemed to be scared, his body curled up under the quilt, and even the tentacles contracted towards the middle for a moment. He turned over, and a few tentacles opened the quilt, revealing a nightmare view under the quilt.
Roland could hardly see Ethan's body. All he saw were tentacles, twisting and wriggling like snakes, and the tentacled organs swayed messily. Only Ethan's pale face was clearly discernible in the distorted black. He was lying among these filthy tentacles, unconsciously continuing to struggle in his dreams. Roland felt nauseous and wanted to vomit. He took a big sip of cold coffee and looked away for a moment.
All this is crazy. He actually lived with this man for a while... Thinking of this, he felt even more vomiting...
At this moment, there was a scream from the monitor.
That was sent by Ethan.
He was still lying, eyes still closed, but he was yelling. It was not just a cry of fear, but a language that Roland had never heard before.
As an Ophiuchus agent, Roland is proficient in dozens of interstellar lingua franca and can basically recognize hundreds of them, but he has never even heard this language. He listened carefully, and it seemed that the pronunciation method was similar to Faun Star's horned language, but only a little bit, which was not helpful at all to be able to understand. He tried his best to record those voices, intending to send them back to Ophiuchus for the linguists to analyze.
Suddenly, in those screens shot from different angles, something was not right.
Something, something without shape, is falling from top to bottom. It seems to be some kind of transparent medium, in which light has undergone unusual refraction and distortion. But suddenly, something in that medium slowly opened, like a mouth slowly opened. Looking through the screen, it was as if the space was weirdly distorted above Ethan.
He leaned close to the display screen and rubbed his eyes before he was sure it was not his dazzling.
What it is?
The thing separated above Ethan, as if the entire space including Ethan was being sucked into the gap, and all the images became distorted. At this moment, Ethan suddenly opened his eyes, and all of the tentacles suddenly danced at the same time, shaking them wildly in the air, as if they were struggling. He saw Ethan raising his hands in front of him, as if he was afraid of being touched by something. His struggle was so intense that the entire hull was trembling faintly.
Roland hesitated, wondering whether someone should be sent in for rescue. But he then thought about it, now that this unknown situation, if someone rushes in, I'm afraid there will be some unexpected consequences. Too risky.
Besides, Ethan was originally a threat.
He immediately ordered the blockade of the entire corridor near the apartment where Ethan lived, and no one was allowed to approach it. At this time, in the screen, the transparent thing seemed to stretch out something, entwining Ethan's tentacles. Strong heat erupted from the contact area, an explosion sounded, sparks splashed, a flame was ignited in the cabin, a harsh alarm sounded, and the fire extinguishing device automatically lowered from the ceiling, spraying a lot of water.
The shocking explosion caused the entire spacecraft to shake, and Roland stepped back in shock. He nervously checked the damage to the main brain. Fortunately, the main brain reported that there was no fatal damage, and the repair robot has been dispatched for repairs.
And louder than the alarm was Ethan's painful cry. I saw that his tentacles that were touched seemed to be scorched, and the long sections turned into smoke and scattered. He quickly put away the tentacles that hadn't been caught, as if suddenly remembering something, hurriedly tore open his pajamas and rubbed the strange emblem on his chest with his hand.
After the emblem was completely erased, all the tentacles had returned to the body. Ethan didn't dare to get out of the air, lying motionless on the bed, watching the twisted space above constantly shaking, and from time to time some tongue-like protrusions appeared from the mass of matter, rubbing around, seeming to be looking for something.
After about an hour, all the fires were extinguished by automatic devices, and the whole suite was in a mess, but the strange transparent substance seemed to gradually dissipate, disappearing like qi, and it never existed.
Ethan on the bed sighed and got up from the bed, staggering a little while holding the furniture into the bathroom.
Roland recorded all this. He leaned back on the chair, his head spinning fast.
So... Ethan is not invincible. That kind of transparent thing...seems to hurt him?
And the emblem that was hurriedly wiped off by him...I saw it on him after saving him...
Who gave him the emblem? What is the relationship with that transparent substance? Is Ethan's sleeplessness related to this?
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Ethan sat in the bathtub, letting the cold water drip on him. He was hot all over, as if he was about to burn...
His breathing hasn't calmed down yet, and his heartbeat is still fast enough to burn the rest of his life. He trembling hands lifted his forehead wet with water, and a sharp pain made him realize that the nails of his middle finger and ring finger had fallen off, and the flesh of the fingertips had been blackened and carbonized, and he had not healed as quickly as before.
It turns out that this is what happens after Entropy comes into contact with Xu... He will be severely burned, and the other... The huge creatures with various eyes that appear in the dream will also vaporize a little where they come in contact with him. .
He is not even a completely entropy individual. If the Entropy God and the Prologue God collide, the power produced would be even more terrifying than the energy released by the encounter between positive and negative matter. Moreover, both parties will be annihilated in such a collision, and the two energies will mix together. What will happen next... he can't think of it.
So, if he is now injected with the solution of the Order God’s Egg... it is equivalent to injecting sulfuric acid into his blood vessels...
He might die...
When you die, do you no longer have to live like this, and can you finally rest? Is that a better choice?
He put his hand on his left chest, where the emblem should have been painted. Now the last thing Tanisel left him was gone.
"Live well, go and see for me."
This is Tanisel's last request.
Live well.
Ethan hugged his body in the cold water and let out a tired sigh.
After taking a shower and changing clothes, Ethan left the room. When the heavily armed soldiers saw him coming out, they all retreated in fear, and no one dared to move forward. Fortunately, Roland's order came at this time: the martial law was lifted.
Obviously Samuel also felt the previous explosion, but was stopped by the soldiers. He saw Ethan coming out with a relieved expression.
"What are you doing!" Samuel looked at him up and down, and soon found the scorched middle and ring fingers of his right hand. "How did you get your hands?"
"Nothing big," Ethan said.
"It's scorched and nothing serious! Hey! Do you have a doctor here!" Samuel yelled to the soldiers, but everyone looked at them with an expression like a big enemy. No one answered, but all Going away quickly.
Ethan squeezed Samuel's shoulder soothingly, and said in a patient tone like coaxing his girlfriend, "It's really okay, it will be fine in two days. Don't make a fuss about a little injury."
"Is this a small injury? How can you let me go with confidence?"
Ethan suddenly curled up his mouth and tilted his head slightly to look at Samuel, "Since you care about me so much, I'll go with you."
Samuel didn't react for a while, "Huh?" He looked at Ethan carefully for a while, and couldn't tell whether the other party was serious or joking, "Hey, are you kidding me?"
Ethan shook his head, "I'm serious."
"How can you do it! You are looking for death when you go to the earth! Did you know that the earth now considers you the number one dangerous element!"
Ethan replied calmly, "But didn't you always plan to bring me back to Earth?"
Samuel was taken aback and frowned in confusion, "What are you talking about? Why am I taking you back?"
"I don't know why you want me to go back, but I guess, you probably want revenge." Ethan passed by him and walked to the public lounge not far away. His eyes drooped slightly, and when he turned his back to Samuel, he showed a little sadness, "When I was in the cocoon phase, the range of perception became a lot wider. I heard you use the breath ball that Tanisel gave you and The people of the Earth Alliance are calling... it seems to be Derek, right? I know you were planning it when you were at Eve Star, otherwise you would not be able to break into the basement of Tanisel Castle to save me. Also, Our ship’s route was originally heading towards Armonia, but in the end it deviated from the route to the border between the Third Empire and the Ophiuchus alliance. Although I don’t know how you did it, according to your and Derek’s Dialogue, you can basically be sure to have your hands and feet."
His tone was calm and calm, without any sign of anger, he was just stating the facts. He sat on the sofa with his back to Samuel, poured himself a glass of white water and sipped a few sips, but didn't see the stiff omega behind him.
"What I don't understand is." Ethan turned his head and looked at him, "Why do I have to go back to Earth? Just leave me alone and let them perform that descent ritual. In the end, all those people you hate will be destroyed. of."
"No, you must return to Earth." Samuel whispered, "If you complete the descent in Eve Star, the eggs of the Prologue God will probably erupt immediately, and it will also attract the Prologue God's counterattack. The most important thing is Yes, you are destined to descend on the earth and destroy that sinful kingdom."
Samuel looked at Ethan, "Don't you understand? "When the order collapses, the worms mourn in the empty earth, the shadows swallow the entire galaxy, and the god's extraditioner will open the door of chaos." The most powerful thing about order collapse now is The Earth Alliance is messed up by the plague, the second universe infection, and the rising of the Benefactor Society. And you brought the worm to the earth, then the first two are in line. The last shadow swallowing the entire galaxy may be related to The infection expansion of the Second Universe is related, at least from the news from Derek."
Ethan frowned slightly, he couldn't think of when Samuel knew so many things, including missions in the Second Universe that he didn't participate in. Did the people from the Earth Alliance tell him? But didn't Sionier read the passage he said during the holy spirit sacrifice?
"Since Schneider's death, I have started to have some strange dreams." Samuel's expression was a bit wrong at this time, as hollow as a daze, completely opposite to the vivid look just now, "I dreamed of blood, and there was blood everywhere. , And I stepped on the bodies of those people. All those who killed Schneider, those who bullied my father, those who drove James crazy, those who forced me to disguise my gender, those who said I killed a scumbag The people who threw me into that ghost place in the forbidden city guilty... They are all dead. Even if they are not completely dead, I stepped on them. They were so pulpy that their faces were blurred. I have blood on my hands, but It’s not my blood. That dream is really terrifying. I can even feel the touch of smashing the skulls of those people. At that time, listening to their screams... I feel so happy... so satisfied..."
When his love was taken away from him time and time again, and when he saw his lover's throat cut, Samuel finally fell into darkness again. Only this time his fall was more thorough.
His almost intoxicated expression made Ethan's heart sink gradually. He remembered that during that time, he always felt something was wrong with Samuel. But he always thought that because the sudden loss of Schneider hit him too much, he didn't go into it.
But Samuel's narration is not over yet, "Then... a man with black all over will appear. He told me that if you want revenge, if your dream becomes a reality, you must find a way to bring you back to earth."
The author has something to say: Samuel also darkened a little bit~Of course, they were all under Ethan's...