Falling into the Abyss

The command center was in chaos, and Senator Sean had already set out to retreat, leaving only the younger Beta Senator. The sudden infection of the Second Law of the Universe approached from all directions at an incredible speed. People on the Fourth Space Station fled in all directions, but more people were trapped in the spacecraft ferry and unable to leave. The third space station was naturally panic, and people retreated to the second and first space stations.

Roland did not leave. Unexpectedly, Eve Star's High Priest of the Order God did not leave either. Now it is difficult for them to know the situation on the earth, because too much space turbulence and electromagnetic interference make it impossible for them to detect what is happening under the black fleshy cloud that almost envelops the entire earth.

Don't fire on Entropy, believe in Prologue, this is what the high priest said to them. The young councillor of the Earth Alliance chose to believe in the judgment of the high priest, and he himself thought this might be their best bet.

But now he is not so sure.

They had sent several unmanned spacecraft to rush towards the earth before, most of them disintegrated on their own around the black flesh, only one infiltrated through a gap. At this point, I finally got some trembling and fuzzy images.

What he saw was a hell.

There are collapsing mountains and cities everywhere, and magma rolls up from deep underground and gathers into a scarlet ocean, swallowing all the remaining creatures. In the smoke filled with gunpowder, countless huge, indescribable figures stood between heaven and earth, and nightmarish tentacles stretched towards the end of heaven and earth. Those things are the root of all human fears and nightmares, and the beginning and end of all materials. Wherever they passed, the mountains collapsed and the ground cracked, leaving no land.

Sometimes, you can see those huge creatures entangled with other huge creatures that don’t know whether they are between light blue or milky white, and it is difficult to distinguish whether it is gas or colloid. Every time they come into contact, a huge explosion will occur, generating enough radiation to survive for a hundred miles of grass, and the shock waves will ripple like water ripples.

No human being can survive on the present earth, and the civilized center of the Milky Way has been destroyed.

Then, the probe finally found Ethan.

At this moment, Ethan is already unrecognizable, and his whole body is wrapped in a whirlpool of black tentacles. Above his head, something indescribable is surging in the sky, like flesh and slime, and colors that are difficult for human eyes to rotate in it. Those substances and tentacles adhere to each other, forming a sinister and huge pillar. With this as the center, time and space distorted this as if out of control, attracting the Second Universe in all directions to spread here.

Near it, a gel-like creature that seemed to be full of eyes was wrapped in layers of tentacles, and it seemed to be injured. It was breaking free, tearing off a few tentacles, but behind it there appeared a vaguely humanoid giant with blood-red tentacles growing where it was supposed to be the head. The giant suddenly hugged the gelatinous creature, and a cold blue flame burst out where the two living bodies touched.

But in the end, the gelatinous creature seemed to have the upper hand, protruding countless thin objects from those eyes and piercing sharply into the giant's body.

When this gelatinous creature appeared, the high priest knelt down as if seeing a god, chanting. And Roland also noticed that even though the picture was blurry, when staring at those eyes for a long time, his heart that was originally rolling with fear and anxiety suddenly became calm, calm to the point that he was even somewhat calm and hopeless. But when he looked away, the vivid feeling of horror returned.

He was shocked, watching all this with wide eyes. No human being can maintain inner peace after seeing these creatures that are so much more than interstellar civilization. He is not even sure after all this, if he can survive by chance, whether he can still look at the universe as calmly as before. .

When human beings know that they are just a corner of countless universes, and that they are bugs living in the cracks of these super civilizations, can they still live peacefully and peacefully as a human as before?

Just when the gelatinous creature was downwind of the giant red tentacles again, Ethan's direction suddenly changed.

The black tentacles were twisted together as if suddenly out of control. At the same time, the chaotic spatiotemporal turbulence on the earth also has a strange peak at the same time.

The giant seemed to feel something and suddenly turned to Ethan's direction. However, this chaos only lasted for a while before returning to the previous state. At this time, the gelatinous creature slammed into the giant again. It triggered another terrible flash and explosion.

"The fourth space station has been swallowed! Please evacuate as soon as possible!" An officer reported hurriedly.

The soldiers who remained in the command center remained unmoved. They said that if they really wanted to die, they were willing to die here, at least they could understand the truth of the universe. The high priest also chose to stay because he believed that his preface would save them.

And Roland stayed too, there was no escape anyway, didn't he.

He still wants to know how all this will end.

Suddenly, the peak of time-space turbulence similar to the one just now appeared again, and at the same time, the tentacles vortex entangled with Ethan once again showed different turbulent movements from before. This time it lasted for nearly a minute before returning to the previous state.

The giant with the red tentacles seemed very angry and rushed in Ethan's direction. He plunged his hand into the swirling tentacles, seeming to be looking for something. But the milky white front end of the gel-like eye creature entangled him densely like a spider web, dragging him away abruptly.

About five minutes later, a similar turbulence reappeared, and it reappeared less than ten minutes after returning to normal. These turbulences lasted longer and longer, and finally began to affect the entire planet. They noticed that the black flesh cloud enveloping the earth seemed to be stung, and it shrank sharply around a certain point in the southern hemisphere, and when it retracted, it shrank in half, exposing a large area of ​​land in the northern hemisphere.

"It seems that Ethan Eldridge is trying to regain his body..." the priest murmured, "The God of Prologue gave him strength."

Roland looked at the black sky pillar, and suddenly recalled the first time he saw Ethan. When I remembered his most proud and charming smile at him with unpredictable purposes, the gentle man with glasses hurriedly looked away, and there was a heart-stirring panic and report.

Where he wanted to at that time, he would become the greatest threat to the galaxy and the last hope.

Turbulence appeared more and more frequently, and finally the time and space gaps that appeared everywhere on the earth began to close. They saw that many huge creatures seemed to be pushed into those gaps by some invisible force, as if they were being pushed in by space.

The spread of the second universe also seems to have slowed down, the entropy in the solar system is rapidly decreasing, the order is increasing, and it regains its own camp.

Obviously there was a problem with the arrival of Asathos, the black pillars disappeared, and the countless dense tentacles seemed to become mutual enemies, entangled in chaos. The heavens and the earth were filled with crazy drums and flutes, transmitted to the command center through the detector. Some of the weak-willed staff suddenly went into madness, yelled indiscriminately, rushed to the nearest wall and slammed into their heads until their heads bleed and they couldn't hold them. Others suddenly took off their clothes and ran out loudly and yelled; others shot themselves and others entered the cosmic deep diving capsule directly without wearing a space suit, jumping into the dark universe.

That crazy voice also filled Roland's mind with crazy thoughts. He suddenly felt that he was an existence that was not worth mentioning, that his whole life was meaningless, like dust, it didn't matter whether he lived or died. He thought that the tasks he had done for the country were of no value in the end, because his motherland would soon disappear and merge into eternal chaos. An impulse to end his life and return to nothingness occupied his consciousness, but before he took the gun, he hurriedly pulled cotton from the seat cushion under him to plug his ears. Some nearby officers reacted quickly, and they found all kinds of things that could be inserted into their ears to prevent the sound from entering.

The high priest was affected more profoundly, his eyes gradually became hollow, and his mouth was muttering Eve's language that no one understood. Fortunately, before he had time to do anything, Roland had already turned off the screen abruptly. But the strange thing is that the sounds have not stopped, they seem to have entered people's ears, and they are constantly hovering in their minds.

But the deceptive power has been reduced a lot, and the spiritual power of the high priest regained the upper hand, and his eyes gradually cleared.

In just a few minutes, many fewer people stayed in the command center. The ground is full of remnants of clothes, and the floor is full of chairs and furniture that people have knocked down indiscriminately.

The whole command hall was silent, and people looked at each other and could not speak.

However, after about ten minutes, the drum sound like earworms lingering in the head seemed to fade away. The congressman turned on the screen again with a certain amount of awe and caution, and everyone held their breath the moment he pressed the button.

Unexpectedly, the drum no longer sounded. The tentacles around Ethan gradually scattered, and the human figure in the center could be vaguely seen.

The last thing they saw was that the giant hissed and was swallowed by a black hole that appeared out of thin air.

And the gel-like creature suddenly opened.

They couldn't see how it opened. A hot and dazzling blue light swallowed everything. It was a terrible polarizing force, rushing to where Ethan was with the force that shook the world.

Even at such a distance from the earth, the blue color still rises from the surface of the earth like a sharp sword, piercing into the deep universe. The terrible shock wave swelled on the surface of the riddled earth, and the radiation continued in all directions of time and space.

It turns out that this is Xu Shen's plan.

Use Tanithel to regain Ethan's hope of living, and then, when his spirit is entangled with Asathos, give Asathos a fatal blow.

That kind of shock wave even reached their observation point. The entire space station shook the ground, and people were afraid to move on the ground.

Ten minutes after the explosion, people slowly stood up from the ground.

In front of them, the battered earth was spinning silently, and the black flesh cloud was gone, and there was no turbulence in time and space. The distant sun was still burning fuel that had lasted for hundreds of billions of years and dropped on one side of the earth. Golden light.

For a while, no one dared to speak, no one even dared to breathe. It seems that as soon as they make a sound, the solar system will explode immediately, and no one can escape.

But nothing happened.

The probe has been destroyed and they have no way of knowing the situation on Earth. However, the Second Universe seemed to have suddenly lost some kind of power, and was forced to retreat by the laws of the First Universe. It even retreated to the vicinity of the Ninth Space Station within a day and was still shrinking.

However, the solar system has been devastated. Some planets that have existed since the beginning of the universe are gone, and those space stations that once inhabited tens of millions of people are gone, not even a piece of dust remains. They were taken away by the Second Universe.

For the first week, no one believed that the disaster was over. People are anxious and ready to escape at any time.

But a week later, President Abia of the Earth Alliance gave the first speech in person, telling all her people that the crisis has passed and that the Earth Alliance has controlled the expansion of the second universe and the invaders on Earth. Has also disappeared.

The Earth Alliance, who has experienced a series of major blows, began to repair its wounds bit by bit in tears and grief. People have moved their homes to star regions outside the solar system, and the Ophiuchus Alliance and the Third Reich have also put aside their previous gaps and helped the Earth Alliance rebuild the space station.

The Benefactor Association did not disappear because of the death of its leader Chen Zeng, on the contrary, it became more and more powerful. Although the Earth Alliance is still struggling against this faith, in some poor and miserable places, faith can always find the soil to take root.

Roland resigned soon after returning to the Ophiuchus League. After seeing everything on Earth, he was often awakened by nightmares and suffered from severe anxiety.

In Eve, Sionier was forced to resign from his position as the priest of the Red Moon Temple, and was assigned to a remote planet to be the priest of an Entropy Temple.

After this major change, the moral value system also temporarily collapsed. People have short-term behavior and freedom of thought, but at the same time, all kinds of crimes such as theft, robbery, and fighting have suddenly increased. The forbidden city has disappeared, but it is said that the moral council is planning to build a new forbidden city on the first space station.

The earth is no longer suitable for human habitation. In that terrible chaos, most of the ocean evaporated, and 80% of the land received too much radiation. Even if it entered, it would cause damage to the human body, let alone re-grow plants. Only in the underground, a sharp neigh can be heard occasionally, not knowing where it came from.

However, a secret agency of the Earth Alliance sent a small group of special forces to land on the earth wearing thick radiation protection suits.

They brought back the same...or two things...

In the depths of the surviving Mars base, a wide laboratory in a heavily guarded underground mansion is full of pure white. Even the staff there are wearing pure white isolation gowns and doing their jobs carefully.

The young doctor checked his clothes, confirmed that there was no damage, and walked into the mysterious research room slowly. It is very empty here, and in the middle of the circular hall, there is an operating table like an altar.

Lying on the operating table, it is difficult to describe whether it is one person or two people.

Suddenly, they seemed to be two people, a Beta human and an Alpha Eve, naked and hugging each other tightly. However, a lot of black, extremely hard things grew out of that human body, entwining the two of them tightly. And after fluoroscopy, they found that these two people were not only entangled with these black things, but also their internal organs and even their brains were entangled with similar things. The two of them are like two symbiotic trees, growing tightly together, unable to separate at all.

The doctor walked slowly to the operating table and looked at the two human figures growing together with a complicated look. He had seen both of them. He had done blood tests for that human before, and this Eve was also there. The result of the blood test was unexpected, and he still remembers it still.

This Beta is not a human being.

The two men now seem to be in a vegetative-like state, not responding at all to external stimuli, and even breathing is very weak. However, by testing their brain activity, it can be found that their brain waves are in a strange and harmonious state.

In other words, the two of them are dreaming, and they are in the same dream.

The doctor didn't know what the relationship was between the two of them. In fact, no one knew how the Eve appeared on the earth, and why he merged with Ethan Eldridge.

The priest Eve who came to see them said that this dream may be the prison of the terrifying, legendary monster in another world—Asathos. Asathos didn't have time to fully enter Ethan's body in the future, and he was resisted by Ethan, and was hit by Xu Shen's full force. A part of it was imprisoned in Ethan's body and in Ethan's spirit, while the other part was retracted into its original universe.

In other words, Ethan's spirit is its cage, and they cannot harm Ethan's body, because it is very likely to break a certain balance, and it may even release the devil that is dormant in Ethan.

However, even if they tried to harm Ethan Eldridge's body, they couldn't do so. First of all, those black things are tougher than any materials they can make and cannot be cut off. Secondly, any scars they make on Ethan will heal quickly.

The doctor felt inexplicably that these two human figures were very romantic.

A second spent in reality may be a year for the person in the dream. The doctor does not know whether the two people have spent their entire life together in the dream?

The tissue and blood extracted from Ethan's body have helped them create a serum that inhibits the plague infection, and Evestar has formally requested the Earth Alliance to return Tanisel's body.

Since the two cannot be separated, they had to be transported to Eve together. The high priest of the Prologue Sect promised to place the two of them in the surrounding of all remaining Prologue's eggs to prevent the awakening of Asathos.

The doctor sighed. During this period, he has developed some inexplicable feelings for these two people. He envied them and sympathized with them.

He will get married next month. He hopes that he and his bride can spend their lives together like this, of course, in the real world.

But who said that a life in a dream is not a life?

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Ethan woke up less than six in the morning, getting older and sleeping less and less. He put on his fancy glasses, turned his head, and saw Tanisel still asleep, his whitish hair reflecting crystal light in the sun.

With a gentle smile at the corner of his mouth, he helped Tanisel pull the quilt, then stood up and stretched his body. The weather is good today, there are some clouds floating in the sky, and it is not too hot. He put on his nightgown, opened the window, took a deep breath of the salty air, then turned around and walked to the bathroom to perform the usual washing procedure, shaved off the sparse beard on his chin in recent years. Hearing his movement, his cat followed up into the bathroom and rubbed his feet. He patted its head and served him cat food all night.

Watered the flowers raised in front of the door. Tanisel got up while making coffee. They have been together for thirty years, but every time he sees this man, he still marvels. Sure enough, the Eve people age very slowly, and he still looks so beautiful.

"What do you have for breakfast?" Tanithel yawned and asked, his hair standing messy, his sleepy eyes seemed to have a small **** hanging from the corners of his sleepy eyes, not at all the fluttering that he usually did when he was teaching in college. elegant. Ethan laughed secretly. If it was the Omega students who admired him, he didn't know how disillusioned it would be.

"Fried eggs and bacon."

"Eating bacon again..." Tanisel curled his lips in dissatisfaction, looking like a child at an age.

Ethan raised his eyebrows at him, "I'm not satisfied with going out to eat."

Tanithel then stood up, moved to Ethan's side, and kissed him on the cheek, "Can't I be wrong when I was wrong? Whatever you do is delicious."

Ethan pushed his face away, "Are you sick, can you speak well?"

"Didn't you like me the most before?"

"Don't look at you, who are in your 50s."

"Aren't there many young people who are thinking about your husband and me?"

Ethan puts the plates on the table while Tanisel is adding sugar to the coffee. His unrelenting energy when he added sugar has surprised Ethan even now.

How can this guy not get fat?

The two of them ate breakfast quietly, and occasionally said a few words or two. With so many years of company, silence has become a tacit understanding instead of embarrassment. After breakfast, Tanisel flipped through the latest news and saw an interesting one just like the one in Ethan’s report. But Ethan was busy preparing the documents he had to bring to work, and it was rare to return to the last sentence.

Tanisel has no classes today, so you don't need to go to school. He leaned back in the chair and looked at Ethan with a smile.

"I said, when will you retire?"

Ethan was almost choked by his saliva and glared at Tanisel, "Why are you retiring? Sixty-seven is the retirement age?"

"You see that you are so busy every day, I'm afraid you are working hard." Tanithel tilted his head and smiled, "I can raise you."

Ethan rolled his eyes. He has said this for more than 20 years, and now he doesn't bother to return to him. He put on his coat quickly and looked at the mirror at the door to tidy his hair neatly fixed with hair cream. Unexpectedly, he found a few more white strands.

Tanithel unknowingly walked behind him, "You know what? I have been having a dream recently."

"Ok?"

"I dreamed that we hugged each other and lay in a dark place."

Ethan paused while putting on his shoes, and looked up at him, "Hey? Did you dream about it too?"

Tanithel was also a little surprised now, "So are you?"

"Right." Ethan shrugged and laughed. "So we both had the same dream? Is there anything to say?"

"I remember a long time ago there was a saying on the earth that a person dreamed that he became a butterfly, but after waking up, he didn't know whether he dreamed of becoming a butterfly or a butterfly dreamed of becoming a person. ."

"Um..." Ethan thought for a while, "It's interesting."

"Maybe..." Tanithel's expression was a little bit confused. "Maybe we are dreaming now, and the dream is the reality?"

"You have watched too many movies." Ethan rolled his eyes, but somewhere in his heart, a strange anxiety has become more and more serious recently.

He didn't know what was going on, he was busy sometimes, and suddenly raised his head to look at the peaceful blue sky, and he felt it was not real.

There is an illusion that everything is set.

But maybe he thinks too much...

Ethan shook his head, intending to temporarily forget these abnormal thoughts, and went to catch the car to work. Before leaving, Tanithel lightly kissed his lips as usual.

"come back earlier."

"Ok."

"Shall we go out to eat tonight?"

"Okay."

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On the spacecraft leading to Eve, everyone was asleep in the dormant cabin. This spacecraft is flying in curvature, passing through the vast sea of ​​stars at a speed exceeding the speed of light.

In a sealed cabin, in a transparent glass cabinet, there are two bodies hug each other. They are motionless, like sculptures.

Until, the right index fingers of the two people moved at the same time.

The author has something to say: I feel that it is more appropriate to end here. Is it possible that I have written one of the most successful endings?

There may be more bugs, because you always rush to update in the middle of the night, and sometimes you make mistakes when your brain is not clear or your hands tremble. After seeing the bugs, you may change them one after another. If you have update reminders, please bear with me.

In short, this article has been written for half a year, thank you little angels for staying with me. During the period, the schoolwork became very onerous, but at any rate I persisted, largely because of the encouragement of the little angels. Although the text is very cold, but I am very happy to write, thank you~

I'm still working on the next article, and I'm considering whether or not to start with the old style. After all, I have written two future articles in succession. I will continue to work hard and strive to write better works.

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