Falling into the Abyss

Ethan didn't expect Tanithel to show up. Did he find himself in the morning?

Suddenly he was a little uncertain whether the man in front of him who couldn't see his face was the Tanithel he knew, so he took a step back nervously and hit the tombstone.

Tanithel took a few steps forward slowly, the candlelight illuminating his faintly sad face. He walked slowly around the huge tombstone, his white fingers brushed across the rough stone carving surface.

"He was very scared at the last moment, saying that he didn't want to be alone in a strange tomb and be swallowed by maggots. So I promised him that he would not be thrown into the royal tombs in Senleng..."

It was hard for Ethan to imagine that Tanithel, who was only seventeen years old at the time, would actually comfort his dying father like this. When I was seventeen, I seemed to be still in high school, worrying about my math class grades, and occasionally saddened by having a crush on Alpha. But the priest is already facing the life and death of his loved ones.

He turned to look at the priest on the opposite side of the tombstone, and met the priest's eyes.

"My Beta mother passed away after giving birth to me. I have never seen her face. The royal family is indifferent. For me, my father is all my relatives. He used to be a very handsome and noble nobleman. Eve people say that he is more like a king than King Eve. You should have seen his portrait, right?"

Ethan nodded.

"But at the last moment, he was so skinny that he was so humble that he was terrifying. Can you imagine? The one you love stares at you with the most horrified eyes before dying, clinging to you. Your hand, as if grabbing a life-saving straw, told me that he was scared, and beg my son, who was only seventeen years old at the time, to rescue him." Tani Thalton paused and sighed, "Look at me as The gods are like the omnipotent father, a little bit frightening, even the eggs of the Prologue God, which contains the endless energy of the order, can’t save him. At that time I knew that the most terrible in the world There is no more power than death."

Ethan looked at the sorrow condensed in the depths of Tanisel's eyes, and suddenly understood a little bit, "So you gave up the belief in the God of Prologue and worshipped the God of Entropy?"

"Yes, order is short-lived, chaos is eternal." Tanisir slowly walked around from the other side of the tombstone. "In the ultimate chaos, people no longer have individual distinctions, and everything in the world will Turning into a group of surging and impacting molecules, time and space no longer exist. You and the dead you have lost forever will be reunited at that moment, and you will never feel incomplete and lonely again. Everything is unified and gained. Eternal life. Isn't this the heaven that your human religion has promised you?"

Ethan smiled bitterly, "So in your heaven, will people gather together and become a monster like Sab Nicholas? Or will they all become monsters like me?"

"You are not a monster Ethan, on the contrary, you are just in an excessive form between an entropy-dominated and order-dominated organism, and it is a very successful form. This may be because you have the lineage of the Celestial Star. , In itself determines that you have more entropy than ordinary people. Because although the Celestials look like the descendants of the order gods like the earth people or our Eve people, they are actually the same as those we have seen on the Faun Like giant worms, they are the descendants of the Entropy God remaining in this Prologue God universe."

"...What? The Celestial Man and the Giant Worm...how is this possible?" Ethan thought of his mother, and recalled that he had seen photos of the grandmother of the Celestial Man, except for the pair of himself. The inherited emerald-green pupils are almost indistinguishable from ordinary earthlings. How could they be the same type as giant worms and disgusting monsters with long tentacles?

"If you think about it carefully, the transformation cycle brought about by the lineage of the Celestial Star, the'infancy' period that seems to last for half a lifetime and the short and terrifying'adult period' are not like insects? And after entering adulthood In just three days, your appearance and physical condition will reach its peak, as if you have emerged from a cocoon. But after three days, you will age rapidly and die. Isn’t all this the same as many butterflies and moths?"

"So? Does that mean I am a bug?" Ethan almost laughed. Everything Tanithel said to him was ridiculous.

"No, you are not a bug, you are just a human with the blood of the **** Entropy. If you want, I can give you all the research reports on the Celestial Man and the descendants of the **** Entropy by me and my supervisor in recent years. However, there is one thing you might be interested in knowing, that is why the Celestial Beings age quickly once they enter an adult." Tanithel stood in front of him, staring at him scorchingly.

He was right, this is indeed Ethan's biggest heart disease.

He always wanted to know why, because he was very afraid, afraid that one day he would become like a mother...

Seeing that Ethan didn't speak, but his eyes with a little anxiety and uncertainty were obviously moved by him. Tanisel stretched his hand to another huge manuscript placed on the stone platform, which seemed to be an Arabic language that had been lost on earth. Tanisel carefully turned the fragile paper over to a page with a drawing.

It was a naked human figure, but the person was covered with black threads, and his feet looked like goat hooves. Behind him, four tentacles dragged on the ground like a cloak...

"This is..." Ethan stretched out a trembling hand to touch the paper, as if he couldn't believe what he saw with his eyes.

"This is likely to be the original appearance of the Celestial Man. Later, in order to better survive in the Preface God universe, they began to plan to mate and marry the Earthlings, gradually becoming the familiar form of the Celestial Man." Tanisel pointed to the Arabic name on the page, "Here it is said that this kind of person lives in the Centaur galaxy. Compare it according to his description. It happened to be the location of the previous day."

So... should this be what he is?

However, if the lineage of the Celestial Being has been impure from the beginning, isn't the true Celestial lineage in his body now less than a quarter? Can this little gene really allow him to produce the current brutal mutation?

"It's just that intermarriage also has its drawbacks. Things like rapid aging and death after entering adulthood did not exist during the purebred days of the Celestials. After our verification and research, we found that this is likely to be the case. Temporarily suppressed the entropy force in the body of the Tianqi star, but when adulthood comes, there will be an explosion of entropy force. At that time, the sequence force can no longer be suppressed, and the body that has been completely transformed by the sequence force is gone. The method adapts to the completely opposite entropy, so the rapid aging and collapse. Therefore, the Tianqi people have an ancient custom that other planets do not understand at all. That is to go to a certain mountain on the planet within three days of adulthood. Going to live for a period of time, there is a holy lake in that mountain. It is said that taking a bath there can avoid entering the aging state and can survive for a long time. According to our research, the holy lake is likely to contain some entropy gods, For example, the body fluid of the genital goddess. Because several manuscripts all mention that they had traveled to distant planets to fetch the'sacred blood' and sprinkled into the lake. If a foreigner accidentally enters the holy lake, They usually disappear mysteriously. If it is true that we suspect that there is entropy god's body fluid in it, then they may have undergone a strange mutation and be eliminated."

"So... after their planet was destroyed in a supernova explosion, the Celestial Man lost the holy lake, and his lifespan was shortened sharply to the point of almost extinction."

"Not bad."

Ethan lowered his head and looked at his hands, "Then...Since I have been infected...that is to say, I don't have to worry about aging and death when I enter adulthood?"

"Yes..." Tanithel slowly closed the transcript.

"In other words...I can't be cured?" Ethan laughed suddenly, "I should have looked that disgusting? Or I have to die?"

No wonder the priest changed the subject when he asked Tanithel if he would be cured.

Although Ethan's tone was calm and even smiling, Tanithel could hear the anxiety and despair in that tone. I should be very scared when I think about it. I suddenly became unlike myself, with disgusting organs growing out of my body, and a bloodthirsty impulse.

Tanithel had always wanted to find an opportunity to tell him about the lineage of the Celestial Star, but today when he felt Ethan was quietly following him, he suddenly decided that it was today.

"I can't cure you, I can only find a way to suppress it. And the kind of medicine I give you is also to slow down your metabolism and delay your'adulthood' arrival."

Ethan's mind is very confused, and he always feels that there is still some shortcoming of information.

There are so few Tiancha Star bloodlines in his body, why are there so many tentacles on his back after the mutation? Even the pure-blooded Celestial Star had only four tentacles. And what happened to the strong desire for killing and blood after the mutation?

Does this mean that he can no longer return to Earth, can no longer see his family...

By the way... If his mother really has passed away, he can no longer be considered as having a family... And whether his father is his real father or not, even if he is, he has already severed relations with him...

Ethan leaned on the stone platform without saying a word, his head slightly lowered, and his loneliness reflected the dim yellow on the floor. Tanithel stretched out his hand and touched Ethan's shoulders and neck to soothed, "Don't give up, I will continue to think of ways. Tomorrow, I will take you into the temple."

The author has something to say:

Towards the end of the semester, various final projects and exams have to be handed in. I stay up until three o’clock every day. It’s really hard to keep up to date recently. Sorry for the slow pace...