Falling into the Abyss

Samus looked at Ethan suspiciously. This suspicion was not directed at Ethan, but at the priest Eve who "helped" them for some unknown purpose. He asked Ethan, "You mean we might be eaten by what you said?"

"I'm not sure, but all the people on that planet before have disappeared." Ethan raised his eyes and looked at Samuel seriously. The fear in his voice because of the memory has not subsided, "I don't want to die, especially I don’t want to die on an inexplicable planet."

Samuel looked at his neurotic behavior when he brought up the matter, and he only found it inexplicable. He has participated in atonement five times, and once in a very mission, wearing a heavy thermal insulation suit, sitting in a crowded and narrow underground submarine into the underground mantle generator more than 30 kilometers. At that time, the small submarine they were riding in was severely damaged by a rock group that was flowing with magma during the dive. Between the cracked outer shell and several layers of inner shell, the outside is hot and thick enough to melt the hardest. Dark fire on the rocks. Three of the five of them suffered from panic, fainting or even suffocation due to unbearable heat or extreme horror. Only he and the other Alpha barely maintained consciousness, enduring the burning pain of the skin and the thin air. , Through intermittent radio contact with the command station on the ground, repairing the submarine under their command. They did not dare to think about what would happen if the machine could not be repaired within an hour. Afterwards, he knew that once the damage exceeded the critical value, before being swallowed by magma, the terrifying underground pressure would instantly crush them into human form. meat pie.

All survived under such terrible circumstances, even if they encounter some strange alien creatures, it is better than being locked in that dark and narrow lava hell.

He asked half-heartedly, "Then what do you say we should do?"

"This time, several of the fifty people joined you voluntarily to join in the atonement. When the time comes on the Red Earth, you will probably be the dominant ones. Tanithel said that if you can summon some of them to join him meet up."

"Tanithel? Is that priest?" Samuel raised his eyebrows. "You agreed?"

Ethan pursed his lips, "It doesn't hurt anyway, isn't it? You will understand when you watch that video. He will quietly come down tonight."

Samus rubbed his forehead like a headache, then stretched out a finger and pointed at Ethan fiercely, "If you make decisions like this for me in the future, be careful that I **** kill you."

Ethan shrugged. If it were a few days ago, he would have been frightened by Samuel's expression, but after these three days, he would have been indifferent.

Samuel had already spoken to the other eight volunteers before it got dark. Two of them didn't want to cooperate, but in the end they agreed to meet up at night with the mentality of giving Samuel a bit of face. These nine people include Otto, the red-haired redhead who has a good relationship with Samuel. It is said that he was a legendary thief before. No matter how complicated the personal identification lock, encryption lock, mechanical lock or smart lock is, he can open it. Later, when he sneaked into the home of a well-known rich businessman and stole a famous painting from the ancient earth period, he was caught by mistake. Because of his numerous crimes, his moral value was finally completely deducted, and he was finally thrown into the forbidden city.

The other two good relations with Samuel are "Priest" Chen Zeng and Stein Derek. Chen Zeng was originally an ardent believer in ancient Christianity, until one day later he suddenly believed that he heard the voice of God, and God told him that the world is now falling apart and people lose faith, and he was sent by God to spread the old The angels of the Japanese Gospel shoulder the mission of saving mankind from the abyss of blasphemy. So he began to preach on the Internet, and magically received a considerable number of rebellious teenagers or people at the bottom of the unsatisfactory life. He has a complete set of theories, and even claims that the previous interpretations of the Bible were wrong, and the Bible itself had various deviations in the process of dissemination, so he simply wrote a book of his own and spread it widely among believers. There are quite a few very violent and **** content in this "new bible", including the belief that all people who have children who only want Beta or Alpha and deliberately don’t want Omega should be forcibly transformed into Omega, because they have created the gender of today’s interstellar society. Unbalanced, all religions that claimed to have the end of the world in the interstellar age are hooliganism and should be punished, and people who have never had same-sex sexual behavior in their lives may be ancient humans who have not evolved enough to be completely sterilized. Extreme content. Later, the Earth Alliance government realized that his power had developed too fast and had caused several small-scale bloodshed and terrorist incidents, so it arrested him and threw him into the forbidden city.

Derek is the youngest of the nine people, only in his early twenties, but he has a clever mind and is obsessed with researching the technology of network consciousness merging that is banned by the Earth Alliance government, thinking that this can merge the best human consciousness together to create A new and more advanced species comes out. Later, he tried to merge his brother's consciousness with his robot dog's consciousness, causing his brother's moderate brain damage, so he was imprisoned in the forbidden city.

Ethan heard Samus briefly introduce these three better people, and suddenly felt that his reason for coming in was really not cool...

Especially that Chen Zeng, an Asian Beta man in his forties, looks plain and shorter than himself. He smiles very friendly when he sees people, and he is a little shy. He can't tell that it was a while ago. The leader of the cult reported by the full channel.

When the agreed time came, most of the other non-persons lay down, and the nine people and Ethan climbed onto a wider iron bridge at the height of the warehouse. There are many behemoth machines around, swallowing mist like monsters. A thin and tall figure gradually emerged from the fog. Tanithel still wore a normal sailing uniform, but with his scepter in his hand, he walked easily.

Facing the ten "very wicked" inhumans, he didn't even show any dread, still smiling politely, standing still a few steps away from them.

Samuel hugged his arms and said impatiently, "What the **** do you want to do? Let's talk. We are very busy."

"Go straight to the subject, I like it." Tanithel didn't say much, and directly took out his own life ball and played the ten-second video again.

After the video, the scene was silent. After about ten seconds, Chen Zeng suddenly stretched out his hand and drew a cross on his chest, and started mumbling in prayer.

Others also whispered, mostly swearing at the government. Samus suddenly raised his hand and drank, "Don't be damned!" Then he looked at Tanithel, "We understand what you mean, do you think there is a way for us to survive?"

"It's not a foolproof solution, but maybe it can save the lives of a few of you." Tanithel waved his hand in front of the Sphere, the image suddenly changed, forming a rotating Milky Way Nebula, "We Eve Humans can perceive some energy fluctuations that are invisible to the naked eye due to their strong perception ability. After entering the interstellar period, space travel makes this perception stronger. Such fluctuations often come from the balance and competition of two energies in the universe, one Power is to maintain the delicate balance order formed by all stars and celestial bodies in time and space. Another power is the chaos from accident and variables. Just like what you humans call the opposite balance between the spirit of Apollo and the spirit of Dionysus. We. Belief also reflects these two perceptions. Our Preface God is like your Apollo God and the Lord God. It is the source of all order and temperance, and promotes and maintains all the balances that have been formed. And our Entropy God , It's your Dionysus..."

Tanithel paused, and then suddenly said, "Perhaps another **** is more suitable than the metaphor of Dionysus. I don't know how many of you know Cthulhu, the evil **** that passed down the ancient earth?"

Most people looked blank and cleared their throats, "I know, it is an evil **** fabricated by a man named Lovecraft in ancient times. It has an octopus-like head and bat-like wings."

All the non-humans glared at him with the same expression as a creature outside the galaxy.

Tanithel smiled at him approvingly. Deep in his heart, Ethan was so cool for this rare limelight, but on the surface he still pushed his glasses calmly.

"I have always believed that ancient myths and legends are not completely fabricated. Some people on Earth thousands of years ago may have better perceptions than ordinary people on Earth, or perhaps they perceive God of Entropy through some other channel. Watch this video The thing that appears in it may be an entropy god, a source of chaos that transcends all our races."

"You said that thing is a god? You Eve people believe in this thing? The taste is really heavy." Otto asked incredulously.

Tanisir was insulted and believed in but not angry at all, but his smile was meaningful, "How would we know what God is like? Maybe the beautiful things in our eyes are just as disgusting in their eyes. And... so Come on, not all priests agree with me. Otherwise, I won't have to cooperate with you in private."

Everyone looked at each other and regretted volunteering to participate in this mission. Although very is not a small value, but if you want to face that kind of thing... it's better to stay in the Forbidden City for more than ten or twenty years.

"I'm not interested in your fairy tales. I just want to know how we can't be lost by this stuff."

"If it is really entropy, he will like some filthy things, such as rotting corpses, rancid smells, or dying people. If you smear some dead animals on your body when it appears, maybe you can Save your life." Tanithel's fingers twirled, and the scene in the breath changed again.

It was a vast wasteland traversing the field of vision, and the sky was filled with a red color similar to rust, smudging the entire land with a twilight red. A huge red sun occupies the upper left corner, and that is the sun of the red earth-Hera. On the slightly undulating ground grow densely densely packed weird dark blue plants, about one person tall. On the conical torso, there are countless stick-shaped branches that seem to have a certain degree of softness, and the roots grow huge. The bulge, occasionally sprayed black juice into the sky.

Ethan has also traveled to several planets in the Milky Way, most of which were originally not suitable for human habitation, but were transformed into residential areas. But even such a planet feels barren and desolate at best. On this so-called red earth suitable for human habitation, the ominous rust color and the disgusting-looking plants all seem to be creations in a nightmare. Inexplicably disgusted.

Tanithel turned the breath ball in his hand and switched several holographic photos. "According to the news sent back by the pioneers before, this plant is very common on the red earth, and the sap sprayed has a carrion-like smell. After you reach the Red Earth, you can collect their sap. When'that thing' appears, you can wipe it on your body. Also, be careful to stay away from everything that looks too neat and standard, such as the bases or fields left by the pioneers in front. Entropy God’s instinct is to disrupt order. If he hasn’t moved those bases until now, it’s likely that he has deliberately left behind bait to lure more humans into it."

Ethan interrupted suddenly, "What if those people in the mother ship order us to go in? Didn't they originally plan to observe what happens when the thing appears?" He said, pointing to the shock collar on his neck.

"According to the quality of the information received before, it seems that it will affect the microwave signal when it appears. So at least when it appears, you have a short time outside the control of the mother ship." Tanisel said Finished with a chuckle, "Oh, I seem to have accidentally disclosed some confidential information. If this is in your Earth Alliance, I'm afraid it will lose a lot of moral value?"

As soon as he said this, several inhuman eyes lit up. However, Derek sneered, "There is a shame, obviously they guessed that there is no need to control us when that thing appears, because no one can run away."

Everyone fell into deathly silence again. Ethan thought to himself, this child really hits his heart when he speaks... without even leaving any hope.

The pastor Chen Zeng, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly asked, "Do you need us to do anything for you to help us survive this way?"

Tanithel looked over with his ethereal and clear gray eyes, his face was pure and innocent, "As the servant of the goddess of mercy, I just can't bear to see you die in vain."

Chen Zeng's eyes curled, and he smiled harmlessly. "Everyone is a companion, so there is no need to bend around? I praise the name of my Lord because everything I have is given by him. My Lord still wants us. Thanks, how can you ask for nothing now that you help us?"

Tanisel pinched the index finger and thumb of his left hand, and put the other three fingers together near the heart, leaning forward slightly. This seems to be the way they salute. However, when he stood up straight again, his dignified smile was filled with a sly, "Being merciful to the shepherd, I just act according to the divine law, but... if you have a way to collect a little bit. I would be very grateful for the sample of "Things". Maybe you can negotiate with your foreign affairs department and give you an extra five points as a reward."