Falling into the Abyss

Tanisel's body temperature seemed to be higher than that of ordinary human beings. In his arms, Ethan finally felt not so cold, and the whole person seemed to be relieved suddenly. Although the muscles all over the body are sore, the throat is severely swollen and painful, and the head is very dizzy. There is no place in the body that is comfortable, but because of that person, it feels like home. He put his forehead against Tanisel's shoulder and neck and let out a comfortable sigh.

Tanisel was itchy by the breath he exhaled, shaking his body, pretending to be angrily, "Don't move."

Ethan gave a muffled laugh on his neck, then gently pushed his shoulder, "Let me down, I can walk."

"What?" Tanithel held his hand tightly, and said solemnly, "If others can hug you, can I not?"

Ethan looked up at Tanisel in disbelief, and said dumbly, "It seems that I have a fever? Why are you talking nonsense?"

Samus coughed hard from behind, reminding the two people walking in front that the situation they were in was not suitable for flirting. Ethan shut his mouth, feeling a little guilty in his heart. Tanithel just bends his mouth without a trace.

"What's the matter with that worm you are talking about?" Samuel asked abruptly.

Ethan had a sudden heart attack. The first reaction was to never let Samus know that there was a bug like that in his body, waiting to come out of his body after he died. Just as he was about to speak, Tanithel said, "Yes, in Faun before, those worms seemed to lay their eggs in some inhuman clothing and brought the earth. Ethan was in the sewers. I found hatching worms while working."

"You mean the disgusting bugs under the Faun star have come to earth now?" Samuel's expression lacked the necessary sense of tension, even a little too flat, "And Ethan, you didn't take it Kill it, but raise it?"

Ethan pursed his lips, "It has only one, and there is no way to reproduce. And I thought at the time, since they can dig so many tunnels underground, maybe one day they can dig out of the forbidden city."

Samuel nodded, and suddenly laughed in a low voice, "It's a pity, it would be more interesting if there were one male and one male breeding each other."

Ethan was a little surprised that Samuel would say such things, but anyone who experienced what Samuel had experienced would probably change his personality. It's just that Ethan doesn't know that Samuel has lost more than just the lover he thought. I don't know if Omega finally finds a gentle lover who understands his painful past, which is his last hope of redemption.

At this moment they had arrived at the other subway station. Tanithel placed Ethan on a dust-covered bench, took off his robe and covered him, and gently stroked Ethan. Cheeks, "Be patient."

Ethan nodded, opened his torn and dry lips and smiled. The smile made Tanithel feel a little pain in his heart.

During the time he was trapped in the Red Moon Temple, he did not dare to use the soul binding between the two of them to establish a spiritual connection with Ethan, and he did not know what Ethan had experienced. How could it be consumed in such a short time as this skinny look? An inexplicable anger burned in his heart, and there was an urge to rush out to fight The O'Neill.

"So how do we know where the bug is? Will that thing listen to us? Are you sure it won't eat us?" Samus took a flashlight that was already a little low on electricity, impatiently growing black mold Looking on the wall. The traces of mold hanging from the ceiling like water stains reminded him of the inner walls of the base that began to mold on the red earth under the influence of the goddess. A desolate and primitive corruption is spreading deep in the earth.

"Giant worms are a species with high intelligence. They have existed in the universe much longer than human beings. Their social system is similar to that of bees. Generally, a planet is a community, and all eggs are Born in the queen’s body. All the young worms have an instinctive attachment to the life they first perceive as soon as they hatch, because usually the first thing they see is the queen." Tower Nisel’s scepter shot out a beam of light, quickly scanning the entire subway station hall, his eyes fell on Ethan on the bench, "If I’m right, Ethan, you were there when it hatched. Beside it?"

Ethan was wrapped in Tanisel's clothes and nodded calmly, "You mean, does it treat me as a mother?"

Tanisel laughed, "It looks like this."

Ethan smiled bitterly and cursed an swear word, "Damn, I'm obviously a Beta, why am I always asked to do Omega work?"

Samus snorted, "Who stipulated that Omega must do this kind of childbearing job? Don't talk nonsense, if it treats you as a mother, it should listen to you. You call it, maybe it just coming."

Ethan gave Samuel a big glance, "Why do you think I named it?"

"Then how did you command it to drill through the wall leading to the subway station?"

Ethan frowned, but didn't quite understand. Maybe just a coincidence? Seeing that he was frowning and unable to answer, but suddenly coughing as if inhaling dust, Tanithel glanced at Samus reproachfully, and came to Ethan and patted his back lightly, "I can't think of it. Don't think about it, I will find a way."

Samuel and Tanithel searched the hall first, and did not see any freshly dug openings, so they followed the tracks into the tunnel that Samuel had explored before. As Samuel said, the end of the tunnel was bombed long ago, and mountain-like rubble blocked the only way to the rest of the subway system.

Perhaps on the other side of this stone mountain is outside the forbidden city.

Ethan was sitting alone in the subway hall, and Samus left him the flashlight.

The weird figure that I saw here the last time still makes him feel cold when he thinks of it, but when I think about it carefully, it seems that he is also a monster, and he feels less terrible again.

From somewhere in the darkness came the sound of Shi Li rolling.

Ethan immediately shone the flashlight, but saw nothing.

He thought that he might be too nervous, so he closed his eyes and continued to rest, but this time the sound of the foot on the ground sounded again, and he was closer than last time.

Ethan sat up abruptly, shone in the direction where the sound might be coming from, and shouted, "Tanisel?"

There is no response.

Ethan was a little annoyed and shouted again, "Who is there!"

The answer to him was still silence.

Ethan raised his hand and looked at his fingertips that healed but left a few scars. Although he is extremely tired and his limbs are heavy, he should still be able to protect himself if something happens suddenly. He stabilized his mind and turned off the flashlight.

The thick **** darkness immediately surrounded him.

Only when in absolute darkness can one realize how much a creature that depends on vision. Losing the information that the eyes can receive, many of the usual small sounds are suddenly amplified several times, and the sounds and touches that you can understand have become strange and strange, making you not sure if what you hear or touch is Really what you think.

He heard it again, the voice approaching him. It was the sound of footsteps, hesitating slowly, and very procrastinated, not the same as the pace of normal people. Ethan seemed to hear the sound of someone breathing in the dark, and the breathing was very sick, just like the uncomfortable sound in the throat of a dying tuberculosis patient breathing.

He didn't move, and when the sound got closer, when he was so close that he could tell his direction, he suddenly turned on the flashlight. A ray of light split the darkness and immediately locked the approaching thing.

It froze, as if it had been given a fixation technique.

It was something standing on two legs like a human... because of the weak light, his face could not be seen clearly, but only from the distorted and distorted figure, I also know that he (it?) looks absolutely different What a normal person.

Its legs are very thin, and it seems that its two feet are opposite to each other, with one knee bent backward and the other forward. Its torso is disproportionately long, and it looks like a gray linen pocket. There are many small grape bunch-like sarcomas on its waist, chest, abdomen and back, and it looks like it is rickety from a distance. There are two thin arms on each side of this ugly torso, and a weird palm with five fingers on top of each arm. At this time, the four arms are hanging down on both sides of the body, and it seems that there is no plan to use them.

And its head... it seems too long and too thin compared to normal humans.

Seeing such a thing suddenly in the dark, even Ethan, who had seen the world, was frightened and missed a beat. He stretched out with one hand, and from each fingertip of his right hand stretched out a thin barbed and hooked tentacles. The tentacles rushed towards the humanoid creature quickly and silently, but before they touched it, the thing suddenly turned around and rushed back into the darkness with a very uncoordinated but amazing speed. Ethan stood up wrapped in his clothes and followed unwillingly.

He found that there was a leather-like thing where the monster stood just now. He knelt down, retracted his tentacles to his fingertips, and picked up the thing.

It was indeed a piece of skin, but it was peeled off from an animal. It was very soft, with a faint pink color close to the skin, and there were a few black hairs on the back. He turned the piece of leather over and found that a very asymmetrical strange pattern was drawn on it with some sharp corners, and the lines were filled with characters that Ethan had never seen before. It looked a bit old. Cuneiform writing.

Ethan frowned, a little suspicious that this thing had fallen from the monster.

But Samuel said there is no exit here, how did the monster survive here? And how could there be such a weird thing on it?

Ethan felt that this kind of character looked very familiar, he thought about it, and suddenly remembered that similar words were also engraved on the temple stone pillars under Mu Shenxing. He remembered that he put his finger on those words, and suddenly many images of those worms penetrated into his mind. Samus even said that he was possessed, and he said something he had never learned. Language.

He then thought that when he first heard the sound of the giant worm, it seemed that he did not really hear the sound, but felt the "sound" in his mind. It's not so much a voice, it's a kind of thinking communication. It's like Tanithel's spiritual connection with him.

Perhaps the reason why those so-called sacred races are considered superior to humans by horned people is because they can easily carry out this kind of spiritual communication without language?

Ethan suddenly thought of how to summon that little worm. He stood there, looking at the endless void, calling it over and over in his heart. Before he gave it a name, he chose the first name he thought of in his consciousness to call it-Little Rafael.

Yes, Rafael is Schneider's name. People in the Forbidden City only use their surnames to address each other, unless they are very close friends. So many times, including Samuel, they forget that Schneider is actually just the last name of the chief of guard, and Rafael is the first name.

Deep down in Ethan's heart, he always felt that this little worm was the continuation of Schneider's life. Maybe...they might have some kind of connection.

"Little Rafael, I need you!" Ethan called out intently, not knowing that he had actually said it.

At this moment, there was a loud bang from the depths of the earth, like a dark thunder rolling. The entire subway station was shaking, and the gravel on the ground kept bouncing. Suddenly, the ground in front of him cracked, and a gray creature about the size of an ancient tree rose to the sky, shook the front end happily in the dust and stone rain, and the acid was swayed.

Ethan opened his mouth slightly in front of it. It seems that the growth rate of this worm is several times faster than he thought...