Falling into the Abyss

As soon as the old woman screamed out, the scavengers in the entire subway station immediately became alert, and clusters of horrified eyes focused on Tanisel and the other three. The old woman hurriedly took her grandson to hide away, as if she had seen a ghost.

Tanithel hesitated to pick up the piece of skin on the ground, while Samus looked at the scavengers around him who were suddenly hostile to them, "Hey, what's wrong with you?"

The old woman asked with a trembling voice, "Why do you have something like a ghost!"

"What the **** are you talking about, what are you talking about?" Samuel was confused and looked back, only to see Tanithel's brow frowning, staring at the thing in his hand.

"Ethan? Ethan?" Tanithel gently shook the shoulder of Ethan, who was dizzy. Seeing that he barely opened his eyes, he asked, "Where did you get this?"

"...I found it in the subway."

The grandson of the old woman yelled at them, "That's the human skin peeled off by the ghosts underground! They ate people, leaving the skin to dry and draw some strange things on it!"

Another scavenger, who was in his fifties and lost a leg, also said, "The reason why no one dared to go to the 17th line is because there are such skins everywhere, and many people who have picked up have disappeared inexplicably. Yes, and some went crazy. One of our beggars here is like that. He just lays on the ground and stares at the thing without picking it up all day long, talking nonsense, saying that a geocentric ghost is about to catch him. Guess what? He really disappeared after a while!"

"This thing will bring misfortune!" The old woman shook her head, trying to stay away from them, "You have to go quickly!"

"We just stayed for a while, and we will leave when he gets better." Tanithel silently took the leather into the pocket of his shirt and took out a few golden coins. Solid currency is no longer used in most places in the universe today, but in some slums, gold coins are treasures that will never depreciate. He handed the two gold coins to the old woman. In an instant, his hostile eyes lit up, and the wrinkled and callused hands hesitated to take the gold coins.

Tanithel looked around again, looked at the scavengers who stared at the gold coins in his hand with the same eager eyes, and asked, "Have you ever seen that kind of ‘earth-centered ghost’?"

Under the temptation of gold coins, several scavengers scrambled to say which of their friends and relatives had seen them in a certain subway line, but it seemed that those who had actually seen them in person were not among these people. The geocentric ghosts they believe are long and slender, walking on two legs like humans, but their legs are deformed, their feet are reversed, they have four hands, a long head, and the shape of their torso. The rule, from a distance, looks like an elongated black shadow standing silently in a corner, usually hidden in the dark without noticing it. They come and go without a trace, and sometimes seem to appear suddenly, pulling people into the crevices of the rocks silently.

Samuel felt a chill in his back listening to the description. When looking for a way out in the subway system in the Forbidden City before, could the figure that I saw was what they said?

Could there be such a monster under the forbidden city? This kind of thing... has it been living silently under their feet for a long time?

Tanisel said, "It sounds... it may be a species that has existed on earth for a long time. I thought they were extinct."

"Why haven't I heard that there is still this thing on earth?"

"They are descendants of Ngyr-Korath, the **** of distortion. There was a prosperous era on earth when human civilization was still in ignorance. There are two forms of them. If they appear in a solid state, they are what you describe. It looks like, but if it exists in a viscous liquid, it can penetrate into very narrow spaces, such as places such as rock cracks. Their natural enemy is a kind of higher creature that exists in the universe as a supersolid, called Halfidal This descendant of the Prologue God once descended on the earth in ancient times, swallowed up these so-called'earth-centered ghosts' and left. Unexpectedly, they were not extinct, they just went underground."

Tanithel finished the explanation, but it was obvious that everyone was still confused. Samus sorted out his thoughts and summarized the central idea, "You mean that thing is not a ghost, it is the descendants of your disgusting gods, and has always been on earth?"

"It can be explained almost like that."

"Didn't you say that entropy gods cannot enter the Prologue God universe? How come there are so many kinds left?"

"Just like most of the races in the galaxy, including humans, are descendants of the gods, when the original entropy order of the universe is undecided, there are naturally many descendants of the entropy gods in this universe, but the entropy power is great later. As the vice disappears, the descendants of the Order God increase, and the descendants of the Entropy God decrease. The giant worms you saw on Faun believe that they are descendants of the Entropy God Yugsothos."

Listening to Tanithel's words, Samuel's face was a mixture of two emotions, "What a disgusting" and "Not at all strange", and he obviously despised the descendants of Entropy. Tanithel suddenly smiled, and continued, "It is not impossible to say that the descendants of the Entropy God pretend to be the descendants of the Preface God in order to survive, and there are not no races that have developed. The almost extinct celestial man."

After speaking, he looked at Ethan who had fallen asleep with a gentle expression.

Samuel was stunned for a while, as if he didn't quite believe his ears, "What did you say?"

"Shhh." Tanithel put a finger to his lips. "Small it down. Ethan is sleeping."

Of course Samus couldn’t just let it go. He squatted next to Tanithel and said in a low voice, "Hey, you can make it clear!"

"This is just a hypothesis put forward by my instructor after collecting some ancient books and materials. Besides, what does it matter whether the Tianqi star people are descendants of Entropy? Their civilization has long been lost."

"But... but Ethan is one-quarter of the celestial beings!" Samus couldn't connect Ethan with the disgusting giant worms and the black tentacles that fell from the sky on the red earth. But on the other hand, when Ethan mutated, his image like a purgatory demon made him shudder like "it is so".

"You said it yourself, it's only a quarter." Tanisel shrugged and didn't care. "Besides, aren't you tired of this so-called orderly world? All People must live by the same rules, and if they are slightly different, they will be regarded as heretics, and they needlessly pursue so-called harmony and stability."

It seemed that the words were careless, but Samuel fell silent.

The priest's silver eyes, which always hovered with a trace of evil, looked at him, and the corners of his rosy lips stretched out a beautiful arc, "I haven't seen the beauty of chaos. I just locked myself in a cage of order because of fear of change. Isn’t it another kind of ignorance? Perhaps, in real chaos, even time and space will blur the boundaries. At that time, I can see the dead again and change some regrets."

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Ethan took a deep sleep, not knowing if the priest was doing something with mental energy beside him. In short, he didn't have any dreams this night. The long-lost peaceful and peaceful sleep almost made him reluctant to leave the place. Comfortable darkness. But the gentle and peaceful voice of the priest kept calling in his ears, so he had to reluctantly leave the sleeping place where he didn't need consciousness and no thinking, and returned to the cold and humid reality.

"Ethan? Ethan? We have to go now. Otherwise, I'm afraid that there will be problems."

The fever seems to have subsided, but there is still a low-grade fever, and my body trembles. Tanithel wrapped the priest's robe tightly for him, and continued to walk forward half-armed and half-supported. After about three more stops, they decided that it was far enough from the Forbidden City.

Before leaving the subway station along the abandoned steps, Ethan concentrated on the little Rafael who didn't know where to make a hole and said: "Oh, don't eat people outside the forbidden city, wait for me to come back." He didn't know if the giant worm could hear it. Ethan felt a little guilty of abandoning it to land.

But it is impossible to flee with such a big bug...

It's really strange, obviously one day ago, I was still thinking about whether to kill it, but now I start to feel reluctant. Is this the feeling of being a mother...

Ethan took a long breath when he saw the first ray of light yellow sunlight falling from a high place on the dilapidated and rugged stairs. After all, human beings are animals that face the light. After staying in the dark for too long, they realize how beautiful and precious the sunlight is.

He turned his head and saw the sunlight jumping on the priest's slightly curled blond hair, and the dirty white shirt and trousers seemed to be diffused with a faint brilliance.

Samuel was also quietly immersed in the light, his eyes slightly stinging. Finally escaped from the bottomless black hole of the forbidden city, and finally free. This is a dream for the rest of life. He should have jumped for joy, he should have jumped up like a child, but he couldn't even smile.

Schneider has been left forever in the darkness behind him. Even if he traveled all over the world, he would never see those black eyes that were sometimes sharp and sometimes gentle.

The forbidden city took away everything from him and took away his last chance of happiness. Even if he is free now, what remains in his heart is despair and hatred.

He hates, hates the forbidden city, hates the gray hair, hates the guards, hates the benefactor, hates all the orders that say he cannot be with anyone, hates the so-called friends who can betray at any time, hates, hates the sanctimonious hypocrites outside the city .

He hates himself even more, why didn't I even have time to say to Schneider in the end that I love you too. Why did he choose to escape when he could stay together for a few more days after confessing his heart?

Although he was free today, he only wants to live for one purpose every day for the rest of his life.

revenge.

He turned his head, but also happened to meet the unfathomable gaze of the priest.

Tanithel was slightly small and nodded at Samuel. Then he took the lead and ran forward a few steps, then turned around and reached out to Ethan. The golden sunlight shone from behind him, the scene was full of religious sacredness, but the smile was full of love words.

"Let's go, I will take you home."