Falling into the Abyss

If it was a day ago someone asked Ethan: Will you kill? Ethan would definitely answer without thinking: No. He doesn't even believe that he has the ability to kill others.

So people never know what they will do under the pressure of circumstances in the next second.

Samus grabbed the dazed Ethan by the shoulders and shook it twice, "Don't be dumbfounded, go and hide behind the tree!"

Ethan was pushed to the edge of the battlefield by Samuel, but he was forced back to the middle by two rushing corner men within two steps. Ethan noticed that the horns were skillfully driving all humans in the middle. He wanted to warn everyone, but his voice was drowned in the screams and screams, and he couldn't hear him.

When non-people were led to a certain place, they suddenly shot out from the forest a thin line that was barely visible with the naked eye, and quickly intertwined into a giant net in the air and pressed down. It was a "cobweb" that was newly developed by the Ophiuchus Alliance in recent years to capture captives made of a material that mimics spider silk. Where those fine spider silks contact the skin, some abnormal numbness spread quickly. Obviously, the tiny water droplets condensed on the spider silk have a certain anesthetic function.

Ethan soon felt that his legs were weak, his limbs were out of control, and he didn't even feel pain when he fell on the ground. He opened his mouth but could only make a whining sound, and his consciousness began to sink.

The last scene he saw was those horned people gathered from all directions, silver-white hair gleaming in the dark, and purple eyes staring at them coldly with the characteristic numbness.

In the abyss of coma, he was dreaming.

In his dream, he met Tanithel.

It was a shallow, smooth, mirror-like pool. The water was blue, with some burgundy ring-shaped leaves occasionally floating on it. There are many plants that Ethan has never seen before. There are bushes of different heights, and translucent blue and purple leaves are intertwined and overlapped. The most conspicuous giant tree, the trunk needs about ten people to hug, and there are rose-red heart-shaped leaves about the size of a human hand, like a vast sunset fairy cloud, from which many light white silk ribbons hang, with The breeze style floats.

Just under this majestic giant tree, Tanisel was wearing a plain white robe, standing barefoot in the middle of the pool. A gust of wind blew, and a layer of ripples was blown on the water of the lake, and it also blew the hair of Tanisir's forehead. He looked at Ethan on the shore and waved at him.

Ethan looked down at himself. He was barefoot, wearing a robe similar to Tanithel, but the color was the opposite, and it was as black as ink. He stepped his feet into the clear pool water, and an indescribable joy spread from his feet to his whole body.

He walked faster and faster, regardless of whether his actions disturbed the spring water. He was thinking of rushing over to hug Tanisir, but when he was two or three steps away, he felt that Tanisir's expression was quite serious, so he couldn't help slowing down and just stood still in front of the priest.

"where am I?"

"You are in a coma. This is the illusion that I temporarily created in your dream." Tanithel reached out and put his palm on the back of his neck, gently stroking, and his voice was low, "This time... I don't know me. Can you make it in time."

Ethan asked in a daze, "Will we die?"

Tanisel remained silent for a while, but stared at him with clear eyes that seemed to penetrate the soul, and then said in a calm but heavy voice, "I want you to remember every word I said next, necessary At that time, you must remember this passage." His tone suddenly seemed a bit distant, with a sense of seduction and hypnosis. Then he leaned down and whispered a word in Ethan's ear.

Ethan's eyes suddenly widened, and his whole body trembled, as if he had heard the most terrible story. He shook his head vigorously and whispered, "No...I can't..."

"Remember my words!" Tanithel held his cheeks in both hands, staring at him with unprecedented stern eyes, "You must remember!"

The hot sight seemed to leave a mark in his mind. However, when Ethan was awakened by the cold air, he only remembered Tanisel's almost obsessive gaze. However, what the other party whispered in his ear seemed to be separated by a layer of fuzzy ground glass, which felt very familiar and within reach, but he couldn't remember it anymore.

Ethan only felt that the whole body was coming back little by little, and his numb body gave off an uncomfortable itching. When I felt it carefully, it turned out to be a biting cold. He opened his eyes and found that his hands and feet were all locked with heavy shackles, making a rattling noise when he moved. His body was squeezed, and he turned his head to find that Samuel was looking at him. Looking further afield, Taefeng, Jarvan, and Wilson were also there. There were also A and a few inhumans whose numbers were 252 like Ethan Samuel, and two other soldiers. Everyone was squeezed into a small space, and it was pitch black all around, with only a little faint light projecting in from outside a rough metal fence. The touch of the wall behind him felt like rock, and Ethan guessed that they were in a cave somewhere.

Not far away came the voice of the horns. The horned people on this planet have many different languages, and the language used by the two people who are currently talking does not sound like a fluctuating tone, and is dry like chanting. After listening for a long time, it makes people a little drowsy.

"Where are we?" Ethan asked.

Samuel shook his head.

I don’t know who is crying in the dark, Wilson yelled irritably, "Don’t **** cry!"

The cry was so scared that he paused for a few seconds, and then turned into a self-depressing sob. But the room stopped. I never knew where there were still sobbing and crying, and it seemed that there were other prisoners of war.

Originally, he came to arrest people, but he was attacked by others. Ethan couldn't help feeling that he was the one who brought bad luck to this eternal night planet, right?

"They arrested us, they should want to use us as hostages to negotiate with the Earth Alliance." Tai Feng's voice seemed a little erratic, there is a kind of indifferent that has lost the will to survive, "but when they found that we are just inhuman, probably Will kill us all."

Samuel frowned, glared at him, and motioned for him to shut up. Sure enough, someone cried even louder when he heard this. Ethan was so quarreled that he raised his hands and pinched his sore neck.

"Does Chief Security Officer Chen Zeng still have gray hair?" Ethan asked Samuel in a low voice. The latter shrugged, "I don't know, it may have escaped, or it may be dead."

"……Sorry."

"I'm sorry? I'm afraid we're not very far away from them anyway." Samuel leaned back and sighed, "Damn, I'm just a little too close to get out..."

Ethan knew that when he said going out, he was not leaving this cell, but about leaving the forbidden city.

Suddenly, two tall horned men appeared in the field of vision. Each of them had a laser gun in their hands, and their slender purple eyes scanned every human in the dark. Then, one of the horned men appeared. He took out the key and unlocked the iron fence.

Another horned man came in and rudely pulled Wilson, Samuel, Ethan, Typhoon, Jarvan, and Little A, and other inhumans, and pushed them out. The horned man outside quickly locked the door and connected the handcuffs and shackles of several of them together, like a string of grasshoppers. The horned man thrust his gun against the back of the last Tai Feng, motioning them to follow the horned man in front.

The cave is very deep, with many traces of artificial excavation. They walked for a while and caught up with another team in a huge cave with a high dome. Looking around, the team was walking towards the end of the cave with a thin strip of white light.

In twilight, Ethan thought of the ghosts who lined up on Huangquan Road in Asian spiritual legends. He tried to suppress the tremor in his heart and tried to stay calm. But he knew he was reaching the limit step by step.

Where did the body start to itch, about to move.

Out of the cave, they were stunned. A large open space surrounded by the dark forest in front of me is now full of people, at least two to three thousand people, one by one covered in white hair, holding primitive torches in his hands, illuminating the deep blue Eternal night over the planet. They raised their huge horns and cheered at the tall conical stone platform built along the mountain in the front of the crowd. The countless steps were covered with red carpet, which spread to the top three X-shaped torture frames.

There was a strong smell of blood in the air.

The cheering horns were separated by two hundred, and the long road for non-people passed through this small road. Along the way, the people on both sides of the horns shouted at them like animals, throwing some strange flowers at them, just like the heroes who welcomed the triumphant return to the city. However, the closer you get to the high platform, the clearer Ethan can see. The one on the steps is not a red carpet at all.

That is human blood!

"Damn! They want us to sacrifice!" Wilson's always tough voice finally began to tremble.

Beside the scaffold, two people with horns born much larger than ordinary horns were dancing. One man and one woman. The man has his upper body, muscular knots, unafraid of the cold, his lower body is wearing a gorgeous loincloth, and his face is wearing a vicious black gold mask. The woman, on the other hand, wore a light gauze skirt, fluttering with her spinning posture, like a snake in the forest, with a red mask on her face.

The closer you go, the heavier the smell of blood. It seems that they were not the first group to be brought here, but no bodies were seen at the scene.

Ethan also noticed that the circle around the high platform was very empty and no one was standing. There are several potholes on the ground, each with a radius of approximately two meters.

A sharp cry suddenly pulled Ethan's line of sight, and the three inhumans at the front of the team had been forcibly dragged onto the cone. The three of them were screaming and struggling all the way, but they couldn't help themselves under the powerful force of the horns. Their hands and feet were quickly locked on the X-shaped torture frame, just like the Vitruvians described by Leonardo da Vinci.

I saw the priestess twisting her pliable waist and approaching the first inhuman on the right. A purple light raised in her hand and suddenly pierced the inhuman's forehead.

The inhuman screamed.

But the action of the priestess did not stop. The amethyst knife in her hand is extremely sharp, her slender hand is extremely precise, and she gracefully circled half a circle, and used the knife to draw a "red line" on the head of the inhuman.

The blood gurgled out like a spring, immediately covering the inhuman face that was distorted by pain and fear.

Then, I saw the male priest walking solemnly behind the non-human, reaching out his hand and carefully lifting the skull up.

Many inhumans were so scared that they covered their eyes, and the whole empty field echoed with terrible and terrible crying.

Yes, that non-human was still alive at that time.

Ethan couldn't imagine what it was like when his brain was exposed to the air when he was alive. He thought of a very cruel and expensive dish that had existed on the earth a long time ago-monkey brain. Hiding a live monkey under the table, only showing the top of the head, lifted the skull, sprinkled the seasoning on the brain, and let the diners use a spoon to eat. At that time, the monkey was still alive.

Is this some kind of retribution?

Just like this, one by one, the other three non-human brains that are still active are exposed to the air. Amidst the three hissing noises that were not knowing whether it was pain or panic, the male and female priests sang loud ceremonies together. At the same time they raised the bell in their hands and shook them one after another.

Suddenly, a rumbling, low sound came from the ground under their feet, as if the thunder in the sky was born underground. There was a strong tremor, almost thought it was an earthquake, but then, a sudden evil aura spewed out from the hole around the cone-shaped altar, an ancient, ignorant, and crazy roar.

Then, from the three caves, three worms with a height of tens of meters rose at the same time. Just like the worms they saw in the woods, except that they were too big, like huge pillars soaring into the sky. The three huge fleshy gray worms bent over in mid-air, and the small mouths buried in the folds quickly opened wide, revealing circles of meat grinder-like teeth hovering upward.

The three mouths held three people in them.

The screams of the three people were muffled in the mouth of the giant worm, they did not immediately retract, but sucked and squirmed in place for a while. Ethan felt that he heard the crunch of bones and flesh.

The male and female priests on the altar knelt in front of the three giant worms, their hands spread out, and their faces were ecstatic.

When the three worms finally raised their heads again and prepared to retract into the hole, they also spat out three wooden torture frames that were firmly fixed on the ground. But there was no one on the torture frame, only the crimson crimson flowing across the ground and the flesh and blood caught on the chains.

This is why no human body can be seen.

It turns out that this is why when they first landed on Faun, the soldiers were depressed and looked terrified. Because they saw the scene of the living sacrifice and saw something more terrifying than death.

The non-people and the soldiers and captives were screaming in the sudden cheers of the people. Ethan wanted to scream like other terrified people, but he couldn't.

The author has something to say:

Hmm...this time the taste is heavy...Don't beat me...