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Atonement: Red Earth (13)
When he hurried back, he saw some subtle scenes.
Fifty non-people sitting or standing, mostly leaning against the wall, holding a lighter in their hands, the flames illuminating the six people on the opposite side slightly. And the head of the Earthman with a gun, his face still cold, but a little panic in his eyes is their chief of guard.
He never knew the name of this Asian-faced security chief, only that he was the high-level security guard in charge of the forbidden city area where he was located, tall and unsmiling.
But his appearance is rare among the guards. But at this moment, he was obviously very embarrassed. The ground uniform on his body was stained with a lot of red herbaceous plants from the outside, and there were blood stains on his face, but he didn't know whether it was his blood or someone else's. His face was sweaty, his breathing was thick, but his waist was still straight.
Behind him, there are two terrestrial soldiers and three Eve soldiers. They were all clutching their weapons, embarrassed and horrified. A human soldier had a big wound on his leg, and it looked like something had bitten off a large piece of meat, gurgling blood.
In a squad of a dozen well-trained special forces, there were only six left in the blink of an eye.
Where did the other people go?
Is it alive or dead?
If you live, how do you live? Is it really dead again?
The people on both sides fell into a kind of weird silence, but in this silence the dark tide was raging. As long as any party shows hostility at this time, I'm afraid they will start killing each other without waiting for something outside to invade.
Ethan's forehead was sweating, and if they fought inwardly at this time, I'm afraid they would be dead.
Samuel stood between the two parties, staring at the captain on the opposite side, "put down your weapons."
The head of the guard's muzzle was still facing the inhuman, fully guarded, "Where is the Priest Tanisel?!"
The inhumans looked at each other, and they were all concerned about themselves in the chaos just now, who still had the mind to stare at the priest? And Ethan, the only person who knew where the priest was, weighed the current situation, and suddenly said, "He is currently safe."
All inhuman eyes stared at him. When he said this, the soldiers who could be on the other side thought that they had taken control of Tanisel, so that they did not dare to act easily on inhumans. On the other hand, it can prevent these out-of-control inhumans from doing anything to Tanisel.
Although he doesn’t know much about the priest, the other party does not seem to be a good person to deal with... But Tanisel is one of the people who have helped him many times since he became an inhuman, and he seems to have a high status in Eve Star. A friendly relationship with him is only good for him.
Sure enough, the chief guard frowned slightly and looked at Samuel hesitantly. The latter said, "If we want to rebel, we don't need to let you in. Put down our weapons!"
However, an earth soldier suddenly shouted, "Who would believe what you scumbags say! You should be outside! You human maggots, living only waste food!"
His words caused a burst of angry curses among inhumans, and Gawen said coldly, "Tell you early that you shouldn't let these government minions in! Get them out!"
The two sides were in a quarrel, Ethan stared at the guns in the hands of the soldiers, watching their black holes sway in their excited body language, and couldn't tell when they would go off. He was frightened and couldn't bear it, and finally clenched his fists and yelled with an angry face that didn't match the image of the peace day. The voice suddenly overwhelmed the uproar of a large group of people. What is the noise!!! The outside stuff is coming in soon, can't tell the priority!!! Do you guys have any fucking brains!!!"
Never before had the cowardly beta look so fierce, and Samuel was stunned for a while. Ethan just suffocated this breath, and recovered the courage he had taught his subordinates when he was the secretary of the Energy Bureau. After venting it, his momentum went back weaker. However, his words succeeded in reminding everyone present that outside the thin walls of the base is the entire planet that has fallen into madness and terror. Compared with the huge piece of meat covering the entire sky, his own kind, whether inhuman or not, looked much more lovely. The chief of the guard gritted his teeth and finally dropped the gun in his hand. Seeing him move like this, the soldiers behind him hesitated. However, the soldiers of Eve Star took the lead to put away their weapons, and they had to reluctantly put them away.
Seeing that the soldiers gave in, a few alphas cursed inhumanly, and it was no longer a challenge. The chief of guard asked in a cold voice, "What are you all on?"
Ethan just wanted to answer, but heard Chen Zeng say, "You should also put on this thing. It is said that this may temporarily make us in the eyes of that thing in the sky-if that thing has eyes-'invisible'. I'm afraid this That's why it has not attacked here yet."
As soon as Samus tilted his head, some of his attendants moved the bottles and cans of the rancid liquid to the soldiers. The chief of guard looked at Samuel suspiciously, and finally bent down and picked up a bottle, twisted it and smelled it, showing a disgusting expression. However, he still poured the liquid on himself and wiped it on his face. The rest of the soldiers also took the bottles one after another when they saw it. Obviously, the sight they just saw outside had scared them, and they couldn't care how disgusting the liquid was.
Ethan noticed the injured person and immediately asked, "How did he get injured?"
The two human soldiers immediately stared at Ethan suspiciously, but did not speak. Ethan saw that the other party was so wary that he couldn't ask anything, but he became more worried...
He thought of Jeff.
He intuitively felt that the weird worm had some profound connection with the things in the sky, and if it was just stained with the weird worm, it would become that way...I can only hope that this person's wound was not bitten by something similar.
Samuel pulled him aside and asked in a low voice, "Where is that priest?"
Ethan was wondering whether to tell him or not, when the three Eve people suddenly stood up, the third eye on their foreheads opened almost at the same time, and there was something unprecedented on their faces. Just looking at them was scalp A numb face of extreme horror.
"Here... it's not clean here!" The Eve people said in a jerky earth language. The next second, the third eyes of the three Eve people suddenly looked in the same direction-the west wall.
But there is nothing there?
A female Beta Eve stretched her finger towards the wall, her voice and her finger trembling slightly, "It's inside... it's inside!"
All the people on earth looked at the three Eve people who suddenly raised their guns and backed away inexplicably. Their performance at the moment was too different from the calmness they had just now, and no one could figure it out. Just when everyone thought that the Eve, who was known for being a god, was mad again, Ethan suddenly thought of a question.
If you go around from the corridor where he came just now, a few sample analysis rooms are behind that wall, and there is a medical warehouse. The medical warehouse of Jeff whose life and death is unknown.
The medical warehouse should have been blocked by Gina, but the problem is that Gina has stopped working.
Ethan looked around and grabbed Samuel. "Where is that beta who keeps crying?"
Samuel was taken aback, looked around, but didn't find it, "What's the matter?"
It seems that in the darkness just now, it was not just him and the priest who slipped away, but also the mentally unstable female beta inhuman. She had been talking about her ears before she disappeared, and no one knew what she was talking about.
If she was the first to perceive the power of entropy, would she be the first to be controlled?
Ethan lowered his voice, and only said one word to make Samuel pale, "Jeff!"
Samus hurriedly told Otto a few words and ran to the medical room with Ethan. The faint electric light in Ethan's hand swept across the darkness, but it did not illuminate the metal door that should have been closed tightly. The light moved down, and a wrench was seen on the ground. The door locks here are controlled by the artificial intelligence Gina. When Gina fails, the originally set lock program also fails. Ethan and Samuel looked at each other, and both saw deep anxiety in each other's eyes.
There was a dead darkness behind the door. Because the space was too large, the light from the flashlight projected in as if being sucked into a black hole, and nothing could be seen. A icy prestige glided across the skin of his neck, ghostly silent, like a breath of darkness slowly spitting out.
Ethan shook the flashlight violently, carefully shining it toward the ground ahead but did not dare to take a step. Seeing him hesitate, Samuel grabbed his flashlight and walked in first. Ethan followed you step by step, passing by the isolation and intensive care beds, and suddenly felt that there were corpses lying in the boxes like coffins. His gaze fell on an isolation hospital bed that seemed to be crooked, and a few sticky yellow-white liquids were left on the transparent cover. Looking along the trail, there was also something sticky like a nose on the ground not far away, reflecting a disgusting blue light in the faint light.
There was a squeak in my heart, the most feared thing might have happened.
Samuel's footsteps stopped abruptly, and his flashlight found the bed they used to hold Jeff. The cover of the bed was opened, and Jeff was gone, leaving only a cloud of light brown human hair and some pieces of clothing. The mattress and cover were covered with yellow, white, and black mucus, even dripping down the edges and feet of the bed. Ethan heard Samuel panting quickly and wanted to look closer, but he tripped under his feet. He quickly grabbed the nearest bed to stabilize his figure, and at the same time heard a low sound.
Samuel heard the movement and immediately shone the beam of light in his hand, and Ethan saw clearly what was under his feet...
It's the missing female beta.
Her face was gray and her eyes were wide open without blinking. They were covered with dense bumps similar to Jeff, swollen like a floating corpse that had been soaked in water for a week. If you look closely, you can find the thin. There was something squirming around under the skin. Her legs also became very strange, some slime-like things permeated through the clothes, and even dissolved some fabric. The two legs stick together like batter, leaving wet marks on the ground.
Ethan yelled in fright and quickly stepped back, his heart rate jumping out of his chest. The sticky underfoot, probably because I accidentally stepped on the unknown mucus secreted by beta. Thinking that as long as a little bit of that kind of mucus touches the skin, it will turn into that horrible look, and he feels itchy all over, and his heart beats.
"Really contagious..." Samuel was also startled, his face pale. A good person turns into this disgusting look, no matter how many times he sees it, he can’t get used to it. His brows curled together and he looked at Ethan opposite, "Where did Jeff go? Is he... alive or dead?"
Ethan thought of the fleeting figure he saw on the side road when he walked around from the central control room to the lobby.
He dare not say whether Jeff is alive or dead, but he knows that he will definitely not want to see Jeff now.
"We have to find him right away!" Samuel looked around, as if he was being watched. This base is no longer safe. In fact, it was not safe from the beginning, but the thick walls and the rancid liquid on the body gave them the illusion of safety.
Ethan looked at the ground and didn't know whether it was a live or dead beta. "What about her?"
Now that there is no electricity, all isolation systems are no longer insured. Ethan thought of the egg in the priest's hand, but Tanisel was using it... Maybe he could persuade Tanisel to start Gina with the Egg of Order God?
Samuel looked at the human figure that occasionally twitched on the ground and made a weird beeping sound, and suddenly took out the lighter. "You go to the door and wait for me."
Ethan probably guessed what he was going to do, and quickly turned around and ran out. Stumbled all the way in the dark, when he just arrived at the door, he suddenly heard a harsh scream, as if not just one person, but dozens of people at the same time making a hoarse hoarse that is enough to tear the eardrum. Scream sharply. A strange blue flame ignited in the darkness, and in the most dazzling flame there was a huge black worm, not a human being, wriggling and rolling.
Ethan suddenly understood why Tanisel didn't let him hurt the monster in the first place. Why did Tanisel say to him after Jeff trampled on that bug, "Maybe you are just a bug".
Isn't it... not only does countless weird worms grow out of the body, but humans themselves will eventually become that worm? How many of those who disappeared before have become worms? Where are those bugs?
The next instant Samuel rushed to him, pulled him up and ran. Ethan's heart is numb, and problems continue to surface. The last thing he was thinking was: Is that female beta really dead? If you didn't die... wouldn't it mean being burned to death by Samuel?
And he... didn't even have any thoughts to stop...