Falling into the Abyss

After rushing out of the lavender atmosphere of Eve Star, several spacecraft appeared from all directions to intercept them, apparently they had already received the order to take off when they left the castle. Tanithel couldn't get rid of them, and it was difficult to break through the siege no matter which direction he went. He gritted his teeth, decided to take the risk, and rushed towards the ring of meteorites, regardless of his master's dissuasion.

He ordered the main brain to concentrate most of the energy on the shield, and sweat leaked from his palm. The call request of The O'Neill appeared in mid-air again, flashing an urgent red light. He thought for a moment and agreed to the request.

When The O'Neill saw him, the first sentence was: Tanithel! Are you crazy! Come back soon, I don’t need to pursue your stupid action!

Tanithel tightened his lips and shook his head firmly.

Theo'Neill's eyes gradually became cold from anger. He seemed to be infinitely disappointed and sad. He lowered his head slightly, rubbed his eyebrows, and had a terrible headache. When he raised his eyes again, he looked tired and old.

"Are you in love with him?"

Tanisel didn't know how to answer. He has never loved anyone, and he doesn't know how it feels to like someone. He was lonely since he was a child, but he became a priest at the age of his first love. Although he learned a lot about how to use his unique personal charm to guide believers in the following years, he never thought that he would have such a thing as love.

He felt that what he had now should not be love, love should be pure and clean, should be full of passion around the corner, should not be deceived and exploited from the beginning, nor should it be full of some kind of sorrow. So he didn't answer The O'Neill's question.

The instructor said, "I have taught you so many years in vain, love is such an unstable thing, any wind and grass, even time alone will destroy it. You are only an illusion of compassion to him, so-called likes are also possible. It is your inner guilt that is at fault. Are you really willing to break the blood contract with the chaos for this illusion that will dissipate when you don’t know? It won’t be long before you will regret it, but it’s too late! Theo Neilton paused, with a threatening look in his eyes, "What happened to the last person who dared to fool the chaos? Have you forgotten?"

Tanisir certainly remembers that there was once an entropy priest who was the king of yellow clothes—Nyarathotepu’s mortal enemy—they tried to use the power of the king of yellow clothes to trap it. The identity of the Eve was haunted in the Chaos on Eve Star, and the result was that his Lord God failed to protect him. Someone in the village on the edge of the forest that night heard him howling so terribly that it didn't sound like a human voice. No one knew what Fuxing Chaos did to him. When people found him in the forest, he was left with only one piece of skin. The internal organs turned into smelly corpse water. Thousands of maggots wriggled in the dirty liquid, devouring fragments of meat.

Tanithel lowered his eyes, as if a little uncertain. The O'Neill continued to follow the temptation, "Even without you, fusion with the spirit of Asathos is his unavoidable fate. He was born for this. You don't have to have any burden at all. Child, I always treat you as my own. Son, I don’t want to watch you send yourself to the end of the world!"

Tanithel closed his eyes, looking very painful and struggling. Just when The O'Neill thought he had finally touched Tanithel, he saw the blond priest move his hand and cut off the communication abruptly.

Then, on his screen, Tanisir's spacecraft rushed towards the planetary ring at an extreme speed of ten percent the speed of light.

Countless stardust storms hit the outer cover of the spacecraft, the entire spacecraft shook violently, and the damaged warning lights dazzled people. Tanisel staggered to his feet and walked to the sleeping cabin.

He stumbled and had to keep his hands against the wall to barely stabilize his figure. He felt the intense anxiety fluctuations in Ethan's heart, and he seemed to wake up from a coma and was worried about him. He heard Ethan calling his name over and over again in his heart, and that call was not even in his consciousness, but an instinct. Even if he knew he was betrayed, Ethan's subconscious still trusted him, which made Tanithel's heart sore.

He finally came to the sleeping room, Samuel seemed to be persuading Ethan to lie down in the cabin, but Ethan was looking anxiously in the direction of the entrance. Seeing Tanisel, he seemed relieved.

"Okay! Let's come! Don't you let me lie down?" Samus pressed Ethan into the cabin, and some floating golden Eve characters appeared, making him somewhat unable to start. Tanithel came over and held his shoulders, "I'll do it."

Samuel let out a cold snort, took off his shirt and went into his sleeping cabin. Tanithel helped him set his sleep time, and the countdown began. Seeing that Samuel closed his eyes and was ready to fall asleep, Tanithel turned and walked towards Ethan.

Ethan looked at him with a very complicated gaze and asked in a low voice, "Where are you taking me this time?"

"Go to the end of the galaxy." Tanithel put his index finger in his mouth and bit through his mouth, then gently took off the coat that Samuel had put on Ethan's shoulder, and drew a strange emblem on his left chest. It seemed to be a branch with five branches, three on the left and two on the right. After painting, he gently pressed his palm to Ethan's chest, feeling the heart beating much faster than ordinary people.

Ethan looked at his drooping eyes, a dark tide surging in the middle of the silver gray. The priest is not the same as before. He is no longer sure of his life, and he has lost a certain confidence in winning. But the smile at this moment is more real than ever, with a sadness that is not clear.

"This ElderSign may be able to protect you. It is said that this is the emblem of Nordens, one of the most powerful gods in the Prologue. With it, Asathos cannot hurt you. But I don’t know how true this statement is. Sex..." As he said, he laughed, how could the omnipotent core of the universe be afraid of a small emblem.

But... he used his blood as a servant of Asathos to paint, which should attract the attention of some Prologue God. Maybe they will help Ethan to block Nyarlatotep, but it is also possible that they will hurt Ethan, who is the heir of Nyarlatotep.

So he held Ethan's shoulders with both hands and said seriously, "This emblem may help you block Nyarlatotepu, but at the same time it is also very dangerous. If you see Prologue in a dream, you feel that they are going to hurt you. , We must quickly wipe it off!"

"Ok……"

Tanisel suddenly leaned forward and kissed him lightly on his forehead, "I heard that the sunset of Moaña is beautiful. Stay alive, and take a look for me."

Ethan suddenly had an ominous premonition. Why did he feel that Tanithel was giving his last words?

But he didn't ask anything.

Time is running out, Tanisel lay down under Ethan, closed the cover of the sleeping cabin, and set the program. But he turned and walked out of the cabin.

When all the energy is used on the protective cover to resist the stars, the main brain of the spacecraft will definitely refuse to enter the curvature flight mode. That is the safety lock on every spacecraft to prevent the intelligent main brain from losing control and performing suicidal behaviors. After all, when entering the curvature At the moment of flight, there is a certain probability that the spacecraft will be penetrated by the stars.

Therefore, he must temporarily shut down the main brain with his own master's authority and manually control the spacecraft to enter the curvature flight mode. In other words, he will enter the curvature flight mode while awake.

Even for humans with relatively weak mental power, waking into a curvature flight is a suicidal behavior, which is explicitly prohibited by all star countries. The last time he was punished by Samuel for bullying Ethan on Red Earth, the inhuman who entered the curvature flight mode in a sober state seemed to have died when he was found. At that time, he remained in a curled up position, half of his body was in the same position. The walls merged into one, and after an autopsy, it was found that the brain was seriously liquefied. I don't know what kind of horror he experienced during that process.

The space is compressed and the spacecraft travels through the vast universe at a speed exceeding the speed of light, which is equivalent to briefly entering the universe of another frequency. Anything that happens outside the sleeping cabin is possible.

Tanithel was not afraid of fear in his heart, but even if he did not die now, in the future, he would fall into the hands of Nyarathotep, and he would probably only die.

He didn't even know whether he regretted making such a crazy choice, just as he didn't know whether he regretted it when he chose to become Asathos's slave. He never thought about what would happen to him if he didn't make those choices, it would be meaningless.

He can only walk along this dark and bumpy road to meet the possible end.

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Feeling returned to his body a little bit, Ethan tried a few times, lifted his trapped eyelids, and a strong cold made his whole body convulse uncontrollably.

The cold cut his skin, and extreme discomfort and panic rushed to him like an overwhelming wave. The dazzling light made him nauseous, and any external stimuli made him even more uncomfortable. He wanted to curl up, but the body that had just awakened from dormancy was uncontrollable and stayed in place stiffly.

In the chaos, he realized that his cocooning period had not passed.

When he finally opened his eyes, he was surprised to find that he was not in the sleeping cabin, but lying on a medical bed. The ground is clean everywhere, the walls are white, and a faint smell of disinfectant floats in the air.

How is this going?

He was extremely sad, unclearly sad. Somewhere in my heart is empty, like a hole, like losing the most important thing, even every breath hurts so much. He was struggling to sit up and find someone. He couldn't even remember that person's name for a while, but he remembered that he had blond hair, his gray eyes that always hid secrets, remember His saving hand stretched out from the darkness.

He clutched his heart and turned off the bed, his body fell heavily on the ground, making a heavy noise. Although the light is bright and the surroundings are clean and tidy, he feels that there are unknowns and dangers everywhere. He feels that what has always been on his body is missing, and he has become a lonely person, drifting in this dark and boundless universe. He crawled, but his hands couldn't get any strength. He rolled on the ground like a fish, looking helpless and pitiful.

At this time he heard a familiar voice, "Ethan!" Then a pair of powerful hands picked him up from the ground. Ethan opened his eyes slightly and looked into another pair of deep eyes.

Roland?

Why is this person here?

After Ethan hesitated for a moment, Roland had picked him up and put him on the bed. He tried to ask with some unclear words, "Where is Samuel?"

"He is safe, but your spacecraft was seriously damaged and intercepted by our spacecraft. Samuel has almost recovered. I will come to see you in a while."

As if to respond to his words, he heard a rush of footsteps as soon as he finished speaking, and the door was kicked open. Samuel rushed over and pushed Roland away from the hospital bed in a protective posture, blocking Ethan.

"Ethan! How are you!" Samuel asked.

Ethan blinked slowly and asked laboriously, "Where's Tower...Tanisel...?"

Samuel seemed to have suddenly become dumb, his mouth closed tightly, and he said after a long time, "Wait until you are better."

Ethan suddenly grabbed Samuel's arm, his strength was not as strong as his current body can emit, and the slender pupils in a pair of amazing green eyes stared at him, "He... ……where?"

Samuel struggled for a while, but Roland behind him said, "He is dead."

Ethan's body trembled, but he still didn't let go of Samus, "It's impossible..."

"Your ship was damaged too badly. It jumped out of the curvature flight mode and lost all power. It was pulled into the orbit of a planet. We only had time to rescue you and Samus. We didn’t even know there was a third person in the ship. The ship has now crashed on an asteroid on the border of the Third Reich."

Ethan stared at him blankly, as if he could not understand what he was saying. Slowly, two rows of black things came out of his unblinking eyes. The black blood and tears spread on his face, making his sadness look even stranger.

Ethan finally knew what he was missing.

The soul bond between him and the priest was broken.