Falling into the Abyss

The oversized baby worm, about five or six meters long, suddenly rushed out of the ground. The wide front end made a thin baby-like grunt, and the pale yellow acid ran down the skin folds that had just begun to turn pale gray.

When Tanithel and Samus came back, they saw Ethan standing in front of the terrifying giant worm, seeming to be swallowed at any time. Tanithel's face changed, and he immediately rushed towards Ethan, and the third eye between his forehead was also opened. Samuel rushed over with him, shouting loudly, "Ethan!!!"

But Ethan turned his head to look at them calmly, and raised a hand to signal them not to come.

"It's okay, it knows me." Ethan said to Tanithel and Samuel who were pale, and then slowly stretched that hand in the direction of the worm.

I saw that the towering monster actually closed its mouth, lowered its head gently, and rubbed Ethan's palm...

Samuel looked at the weird scene in front of him, and muttered, "It looks like he really treats him as a mother..."

Tanithel breathed a sigh of relief, and realized that he had been in a cold sweat just now. He closed his forehead eyes and approached one person and one insect cautiously. The little worm crawled gently in front of Ethan, while the latter squatted down and touched the sticky and soft skin folds like a puppy, and there was a gentle smile on his face.

Tanithel squatted down beside Ethan and looked at the honest bug with interest, "Do you know how to summon it?"

Ethan nodded.

"Named him?"

"Yeah." Ethan looked at Samuel, who was reluctant to approach the worm in the distance, and whispered, "Little Rafael."

Hearing his name, the worm on the ground suddenly raised its front end, shaking in the air like Sahuan twice, and spit out a squishy thing that almost splashed on Ethan.

Tanithel laughed low, raised his head and waved at the worm, "Hello little Rafael, if this is your mother next to you, I will be your father."

Ethan stretched out his hand and gave Tanisel a punch to the waist, but he was weak because of his weakness. Tanithel still fell to the ground in an exaggerated posture very cooperatively, and blinked pitifully with gray eyes and said to the little worm, "Look, your mother has a domestic violence."

Ethan rarely saw Tanithel showing such a childish side, as if he had just drunk a bowl of hot tea in his chest, with a touch of tenderness and happiness diffused. Although I know that this kind of emotion comes at a very untimely and not a place, no one can control his emotions after all.

Samuel saw the two of them harp and cursed in a low voice, and walked in reluctantly, "Hey! You will be here if you don't go chasing!"

Ethan stood upright with Tanisel, looked at the worm that was still twisting happily, and said to it in his mind, "Little Rafael, take us out of here and go to the ground a kilometer away. "

Ethan has already considered that their current position is about south from the center of the forbidden city, and one kilometer should be able to reach a place some distance outside the forbidden city, which should be safer. Upon receiving Mingli, the little worm immediately turned around, turned his head and burrowed into the ground again. In the flying sand and rocks, there was a big pit on the ground in an instant, and the worm was gone.

Samuel lay on the edge of the pit and looked down. "It doesn't seem to be very deep." After he finished speaking, he jumped down first.

Sure enough, the pit was no more than two meters deep, and then a gentle **** began to extend gently in a certain direction. It's just that the worm is not big enough, and the hole dug out can only accommodate one person through. The narrow darkness ahead can't be seen to the end, just looking at it gives people a deep sense of oppression.

"I said the secretary," Samus raised his head and looked at Ethan, "Your bug won't suddenly go crazy and turn around and give me a bite."

Ethan pursed his lips, "I'm not good. Otherwise, I'll be the first to go."

"Come on, when you turn around, you will be dizzy and block the road again. I am the first to go, and the priest will take care of him." He finished involuntarily and went into the hole.

Tanithel looked at the place where Samuel disappeared from the hole, and narrowed his eyes slightly. "Why do I think he's not right?"

Ethan sighed, lowering his dim eyes, "The worm has hatched, do you know what it means?"

"When they came, they told me that there was an inhuman riot in the underground. It was the chief guard who died before the forbidden city? But what does this have to do with Samuel?"

"They are lovers."

Tanithel raised his eyebrows. "I thought he liked you?"

Ethan glanced at him strangely, "I also thought he liked you."

Tanithel shrugged and said in a statement of fact, "From the aspect of appearance and physical needs, he really should like me. But people like him who may have gender cognitive impairment can't use common sense. ."

"narcissism……"

Tanithel let Ethan go in first, and he himself followed closely behind. The narrow space is approaching from both sides, and the forehead will be smashed when you lift your head slightly. The thick smell of soil seems to be mixed with a **** stench. Crawling with hands and feet in such a place is slow, and oxygen is thin. After a while, Ethan's speed slowed down noticeably. Tanithel, who was behind him, felt the abnormality, opened his third eye slightly quietly, and found the thin golden thread bound to the soul in the endless sea of ​​spirit. He wrapped his thoughts on the golden thread and quickly spread in the direction of Ethan.

"After leaving the forbidden city, where do you want to go?"

Ethan was taken aback for a moment, and the voice that suddenly appeared in his mind suddenly pulled him out of a certain state of confusion. It took him a while to realize that this question was not a specific voice, but an idea that appeared directly in his mind.

He wanted to look back at Tanithel, but the space was too small to turn around. He responded in his head, "I don't know... I haven't thought about..."

"Have you ever thought that you will leave here?"

"... Whether it can escape successfully is not certain."

"Then if it succeeds, where do you want to go?"

Ethan moved his hands and knees silently, breathing and heartbeat as clear in the narrow space. The exhaustion of his body was almost extreme, but Tanithel's problem seemed to divert his attention slightly.

If you can really leave, where can you go?

He knew that Project Zero had too much inside information, and it was still a monster that had mutated, and the Earth Alliance would not just let him go. The entire Earth Alliance might not be able to stay any longer. Even if you want to go home, it might be unrealistic to look at your parents from a distance.

The remaining Milky Way is vast, where should he go? What will the spreading mutation in the body eventually turn him into? How long can he support?

Thinking about it this way, I feel that there is no end in sight, no hope in sight.

His despair penetrated into the priest's consciousness through the bond connected with Tanithel, and the dim and heavy feelings also affected the priest's heart. Tanithel controlled his emotions and conveyed his thoughts in the lightest form.

"You come back to Eve Star with me?"

Ethan stopped abruptly, and Tanithel nearly hit his ass... "Hey, don't brake suddenly." The priest's reproaching voice was full of smiles, and there was no anger at all.

Ethan forced himself to continue crawling, but Tanithel's words had completely disturbed his mind.

"E...Eve?" Ethan's thoughts passed by were full of uncertainty... and a hint of surprise that was hidden as hard as possible. He didn't expect that Tanithel would even offer to take him to his home planet. His face was already hot, but now it was as if it was about to burn.

But he changed his mind, the feasibility of this plan does not seem to be high...Eve Star and the Earth Alliance are in an alliance relationship, and he definitely won't take the risk of fighting with the Earth Alliance to accept him as a fugitive and mutant monster... Tanithel seems to have a noble background and is not an ordinary priest, and there is no way to be willful when it comes to the principle of star country interests?

His mood returned to bleakness in an instant, although on the surface it seemed that nothing could be seen, the intense emotional ups and downs felt like a roller coaster ride in Tanisel. He couldn't help showing a silent smile. Such rich inner activities made him seem to have the uncontrolled primitive emotions of human beings. For priests of Eve who have been trained to control emotions like them Stimulating like a hallucinogen.

As he described it before, it was a very delicious feeling.

"Don't worry, of course I will disguise you and take you back." Tanithel soothed.

"No matter how you pretend, I can't become an Eve."

"There are so many Eve people on the Eve star, and everyone will not ask you to open your third eye to prove your identity or something." Tanithel's mind is still in his grasp, "Don't worry, I will arrange it. You just have to say, would you like to follow me?"

The current Ethan actually wanted to turn around, looking into the priest's eyes to answer this question. He also hoped that the place where the priest said these words to him was not in this narrow corridor, nor was he in such a dilemma that he could only see his **** one after the other. Thinking about this, Ethan felt a little dull.

Damn, you can't wait to go out and ask such a question that should be very romantic!

Seeing that Ethan did not answer for a long time, he even seemed to be a little angry. Tanisel was confused and a little bit frustrated. He didn't quite understand why Alpha, who had such a beautiful appearance, a house and a car, was rejected, so he almost passed it. The next ray of thought came with such a sense of grievance, "Ah... don't you want to..."

Ethan yelled back angrily in his head, "Yes!!!"

"...Why would you be so fierce?" Still full of grievances.

Ethan gave Tanisel a roll of eyes in his head, "Can I burn my mind?"

"Good, good," Tanisel actually spoke this time, with a pampering voice in his voice, "You are the patient, you are the biggest."

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Of course Samuel didn’t know what the latter two husbands who flirted and cursed mentally were doing. He was much faster than Ethan, so when he finally got out of the narrow cave, he jumped down into another, wider space. After being in the space, Ethan waited ten minutes before he emerged from the hole. By then Samuel had raised his torch and probed the new "hole".

However, at first glance, it is obvious that this is not an underground cave, but another subway station that has been abandoned for many years. At first glance, I almost thought they were back to the starting point. But a closer look reveals that there are still many broken light boxes and billboards on the walls here, there are also a lot of garbage on the ground, and there is a bedding on the corner of the wall and it is full of shattered shopping. The car, it seems like someone lives.

Ethan was already sweating and panting heavily when he crawled out of the cave. He stood firmly on the wall and looked around blankly, "This is... a subway station?"

"Well, but it's not the two in the forbidden city." Samuel flashed a flashlight on the subway map on a billboard. "Your bug may have dug through the subway line outside the forbidden city."

Tanithel also came out at this time and sniffed the smell in the air, "The air is very fresh, it seems that this place is not closed. Ethan, our baby is very caring, I'm afraid we can't climb that far. So it took a small turn and got us into the subway system."

Ethan was already too lazy to care about the priest who was not reserved at all when he arrived in front of him, "How far is it from the Forbidden City?"

"From the route map, it's probably less than a kilometer outside the forbidden city. It's still not safe." Samuel projected the light of the flashlight onto the rails under the platform. "It will be safer to walk a few more stops."

Ethan agreed with Samuel's words, struggling hard, followed Omega, jumped off the platform, and walked deep into the tunnel. After two stops, they were surprised to see a lot of ragged scavengers gathering together to cook on the third platform. The dry faces that had been tortured by the cruel environment outside the colony stared at the three of them passing by in the dark, and some mice screamed at their feet. Turning to different lines, there are more and more scavengers. It seems that the subway system has become an underground city, and tents made of waste can be seen everywhere on the platform. The weak lights and the strange smell of food are scattered. In the air.

Ethan couldn't hold it anymore, he coughed violently, feeling like he was about to cough up his heart and lungs. Tanithel supported his shaky body and reached out to touch Ethan's forehead.

The heat seems to be higher than before.

They have been walking for several hours without rest. Even healthy people will be exhausted. Moreover, Ethan's current physical exhaustion is close to the limit, which is really not suitable for such a hard journey. He said to Samuel, "Let's take a break before leaving."

Samus watched warily at the scavengers who were sitting next to him in twos and threes, cooking or mending, or singing on the accordion he had gotten from somewhere. He looked at Ethan, who was pale, hesitated and nodded.

The three of them intuitively felt that these scavengers probably had their own turf, and they didn't want to cause trouble, so they planned to find a place to rest in the tunnel, but an old woman who seemed to be over 80 years old suddenly said to them, " Come to me, your friend is very sick."

Tanithel thanked the old woman for her kindness, while helping Ethan to pass. The old woman owns a tent made of torn canvas, covered with dust and patches. Looking at the debris around, she should have lived here for a long time. Next to her was a teenager who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, looking at them with **** eyes. The old woman cleaned up a bunk, let Tanisel lay on it with Ethan, and then boiled a bowl of dark stuff made out of unknown plants, and brought it to Tanisel for him to feed Ethan drank it.

"This is a folk remedy for those of us who can reduce inflammation and fever."

Samuel looked suspicious and frowned. Seeing that Tanithel seemed to really want to bring the dirty bowl to Ethan's mouth, he stretched out his hand to stop it.

"Don't worry." Tanithel whispered to him, "Ethan is not so easy to be poisoned now. It's better to give it a try."

Samuel pursed his lips, looked at the pale and thin face in the priest's arms, and reluctantly agreed. Tanithel helped Ethan up, let him lean in his arms, blew the soup medicine in the bowl, and leaned to Ethan's mouth to coax, "Come on, go to bed after drinking."

Ethan opened his heavy eyes in a daze, and opened his mouth in concert.

After Ethan was drinking the medicine, the old woman asked Tanisel, "I haven't seen an alien for a long time. Why are you here?"

Tanithel concentrated on feeding Ethan the medicine, but did not hear the problem for a while. Samus then shrugged his shoulders and replied, "Hide debt."

"Tsk tusk, we also have one or two hiding from debt. How much do you owe?"

"A lot, I won't be able to afford that in my next life."

"Hey...Is it too addicted to gambling? Tsk tsk, the young people now are really confused." The old lady shook her head with regret, regardless of whether Samus was denying it or not, but just turned around and let her little The grandson poured the hot water into the basin.

Ethan choked accidentally, and Tanithel carefully wiped the corners of his mouth with his sleeve, and helped him to lie back a little bit. The old woman brought in hot water at this time, with a towel dipped in it, "Give him a quilt with hot water. I have a quilt here. I will cover it for a while and sweat it."

The priest did feel that Ethan was too thin with only one of his robe, so he untied the robe and planned to scrub him. But I didn't expect a piece of leather to fall out of the skirt.

Even more unexpectedly, after seeing the words and patterns on the leather, the old woman screamed as if she saw something extremely terrifying, and even the basin was unsteady, and the water spilled all over the floor.

"Earth... Crypt Ghost!!!"

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I didn’t change it yesterday, so I have a bit more code today~