Falling into the Abyss

The dim candlelight deepened the shadows on everyone standing in front of Ethan. They all wore black cloaks and hoods, holding a delicate candlestick in both hands, and a black candle was burning on it. With a faint fragrance of myrrh.

Ethan sat up slowly and looked down at himself. He was not wearing a shirt, all the bullet holes were almost healed, leaving only a faint scar. There are still a lot of black lines spreading on the side of his body and arms, and there is still a kind of burning pain in the body, but it is obvious that the influence of the Egg of Order on him has been greatly weakened.

There was pain in his mind, and he couldn't distinguish the difference between dream and reality.

"You are injured." Chen Zeng said in a calm and calm tone, "but now you are safe."

"Where is this?" Ethan asked.

"We are on the way to the earth." Chen Zeng looked around, "This is our spaceship, the Apocalypse."

"So... why am I on your boat?"

"We saved you. There are members of the Benefactor Society on the seventh space station. They notified me of your going to the fifth space station alone, so we rushed to bring you out before the Earth Alliance bombed the fifth space station."

Ethan slowly looked around at every face with downcast eyes and a pious and awe-inspiring face, and his voice was cold, "Your followers are very widely distributed."

Suddenly, a circle of people around him headed by Chen Zeng knelt down at the same time, holding the candle high with both hands. Just listen to Chen Zeng's pious recitation," The prophet Gad once said to the rebellious king of Israel David on behalf of God:'I have three plagues, as you choose, I will fall to you. Or a three-year famine; Or be defeated in front of your enemy and be chased by the enemy’s sword for three months; or you have the sword of the Lord in your kingdom, which is a three-day plague, and the angel of the Lord will destroy the four realms of Israel.' David to Gad Said: “I’m very troubled. I want to fall into the hands of the Lord, because of his abundance of mercy, I don’t want to fall into the hands of people.” So the Lord brought the plague on the Israelites, from the morning to the appointed time, Israel 70,000 people died.” (Note: This paragraph is quoted from the Bible in 2 Samuel, Chapter 24)

Ethan was unmoved, looking at the people who worshipped him with an indifferent expression. He recognized that most of them were faces in the forbidden city. It seemed that after the earth was occupied by the plague, the Earth Alliance had abandoned the forbidden city.

Chen Zeng continued to recite: “When David saw the angel destroying the people, he prayed to the Lord and said: I have sinned and done evil, but what have these sheep done? May your hand attack me and my father’s house . Gad came to David that day and said to him, “Go up and build an altar for the Lord on the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. David went up as Gad said to the Lord. David built an altar for the Lord there and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. So the Lord heard what the people asked, and the plague stopped among the Israelites.” (Note: This paragraph is quoted from the Bible, Chapter 2 Samuel, chapter twenty four)

Ethan interrupted him, "Could you be the **** you thought I was?"

"You are the angel that the Lord descends, and the angel of destruction. Just as **** Christ brought forgiveness and redemption to mankind, what you bring is the wrath and final judgment of God."

Ethan had a splitting headache, and the terrifying memory of his father's death in his arms was returning to his mind bit by bit. Seeing the pious and ignorant expressions of a group of people around him, he felt sick.

"We know that mankind has deviated from God's doctrine long ago, and forgot to fear God and love God. What's happening now is what we deserve. We are willing to sacrifice to you, follow in your footsteps, and only ask God to forgive those who still follow him. People." Chen Zeng stared into his eyes, his eyes had a peaceful and distant power, with a soothing depth. Ethan was looked at with this gaze, and somehow he thought of Tanithel. Do people who are good at bewitching people's hearts with beliefs have such tranquil and serene eyes? Do they have this ability innate?

"Do you think my existence is to serve you and to punish your so-called sin?" He chuckled softly, closed his eyes and took a deep breath, then exhaled, slowly turning around with dull pain. Head, "You guys are really arrogant."

As soon as the voice fell, several tentacles shot out from behind him suddenly, wrapping up the throats of several people around him at lightning speed. Those people were unprepared, their eyes widened, their mouths open, and their hands were tightly grasping his tentacles, trying to reduce the strength of the throat. The others fell on the ground one after another in shock. One or two seemed to want to escape, but they were hesitant and finally just ran a little far away.

But Chen Zeng stayed in place, looking up at Ethan, who was standing up from the iron bed made of some kind of metal, with a calm and pious appearance. Behind his body, the black tentacles danced like wings, and there was a bit of contempt and disgust in his sullen eyes. Chen Zeng smiled. This is exactly the angel of death he needs. With him, no one will question the arrival of the end.

"I hate you believers." Ethan looked down at him and said, "If you want to stop the spread of the plague, you shouldn't save me."

After speaking, he threw those people out casually. Those people were not strangled to death, but they were terrified and shrank and shivered on the ground. Ethan jumped off the bed and walked around Chen Zeng and the shivering believers on the ground toward the circular gate that looked like a place of worship.

This is indeed a spaceship, and looking at the interior design and decoration, it looks a bit like Ophiuchus.

Sure enough, behind Chen Zeng was the support of the Ophiuchus Alliance.

The light in the entire spacecraft is dim, it seems that someone deliberately made the lights ambiguous, exuding a sense of mystery and quiet. The corridors were also crowded with believers, all of them wearing similar black hooded robes, with the emblem of the Benefactory Association hanging on their chests, and kneeling outside with low eyebrows. Seeing him coming out, they seemed very scared, and they shrank back almost at the same time.

Ethan hated this group of people, they killed Schneider.

They are a group of fools who have been brainwashed by Chen Zeng, feared, and their own ignorance.

But they are right. This kind of blind obedience to people who are stronger than themselves, this kind of fear that hates all instincts that are different from their own, this kind of instinct that wants to use the power of the group to kill heretics weaker than them is a moment. It's in human genes. This kind of gene can thrive beyond other species, can create spaceships to conquer the universe, can also use nuclear bombs to destroy the planet, and can have no objection to the decision to slaughter millions of people.

Anyone who is placed in their lives may become the same fool, and may agree that Schneider and Samuel should be hanged.

But Ethan still hated them, and an impulse of destruction was tumbling in him.

"The Fifth Space Station has been blown up. The Earth Alliance probably thinks that you have died inside." Chen Zeng came behind him unknowingly, with his head half hanging, and said respectfully but not humblely.

"Did you bring my father's body back when you rescued me?" Ethan asked.

"We only have time to save you."

Ethan turned to his side, staring at him with green eyes, "I want to talk to you alone and let your followers go."

Chen Zeng looked around for a while, raised his hand and made a retreat gesture. The believers hurriedly turned and retreated, like the black tide, like the bugs that surrendered to Ethan.

You see, there are not so many differences between humans and insects.

After the people dispersed, Ethan turned to face the always calm Beta, raising his eyebrows slightly, "So, do you want me to help you spread your evil god's remarks?"

Chen Zeng clasped his hands in front of him, with a respectful posture, "Not spreading, but proof. Your existence is proof."

"Are you afraid of being infected by me?"

"With your current physical condition, I am afraid it is a little difficult, right?"

Ethan's fist was secretly clenched. Indeed, he tried to catch those people just now, and also wanted to test his own condition, but it was obviously a bit difficult.

"Do you think you can bully me now?" Ethan narrowed his eyes slightly.

"I know you must hate me very much, because of what happened before you left the forbidden city." Chen Zeng suddenly changed. Ethan noticed that his title for him had changed, so he knew that from now on was the subject.

"Hate?" Ethan laughed, full of irony.

"I just want you to know that it was not my intention. I didn't know what happened to your friend."

"Of course you don't know. It's all your believers who are ignorant and misunderstood what you mean?" Ethan seemed to have gritted his teeth in the end, and the tentacles behind him had unknowingly spread to Chen Zeng's body, entwining him. The legs are climbing up.

Chen Zeng obviously felt that his body was a little stiff, but he still maintained a sincere apology on the face, "I am not shirking responsibility, that is indeed my problem. In fact, I don't hate the relationship between Omega, but I am after all. It is the preacher of the Lord, this is the doctrine of the Lord..."

"If you say one more word, I will kill you now." Ethan's tentacles crawled on Chen Zeng's neck and hovered at the corner of Beta's mouth, "No, it is better to infect you, and let your followers see See what you look like when you become a worm, and see if they still kneel down and kiss your feet?"

"I can help you." Chen Zeng said.

"How can I help?"

"Don't you really want to infect everyone, right?" Chen Zeng's rapid heartbeat was conveyed to Ethan through the tentacles, "If you wanted to, you would have done it long ago. Your relatives were killed by the Earth Alliance. They are dead. They are the ones who put you in the forbidden city and make you lose everything. They use moral values ​​as a weapon to control all those who dare to question them, and no one dares to express their thoughts. Anything they see as a threat is simply Throw it to the forbidden city and do some tasks that are not human at all! We have been bullied by that tyrannical and cruel government for so long, and you are now like this because you were sent to dangerous places one by one. Don't you want revenge?"

Ethan looked at him with his head tilted, as if thinking, and then said in a falsely enlightened tone, "Retaliation? You mean to overthrow the Earth Alliance, and then you will take over?"

Chen Zeng didn’t dare to open his mouth anymore, because the tentacles dripping with some kind of unknown black mucus rubbed his mouth. He reluctantly said in a vague voice, “I don’t deny that the kingdom I want to create is indeed It is based on faith. Human beings are like a group of blind sheep. They need a strong shepherd who can make decisions for them, and they need a code of conduct that they can follow! Without a supreme faith to give them so-called freedom They will fall apart, they will be hostile and hate each other, and finally select a few dictators more terrible than me. Have you forgotten the terrible world war before the establishment of the Earth Alliance?"

Ethan laughed, but did not reach his eyes. "What do you think is the difference between you and the members of the Earth Alliance? If you replace the current president, it will only be more brutal than her! You will develop the so-called religion The law suppresses all people's desires, treats Omega as a fertility machine, kills anyone who doesn't believe in you or just doubts you, and also under the banner of justice and benevolence, just like the **** you believe in! "

"Do you care?" Chen Zeng didn't even shrink from his sharp words, "This time the person who infected the plague is not the Lord, but you."

Ethan stared at him for a long time, and finally said, "Yes, I am not even a human being. You are my enemies."

"We don't have to be enemies." Hearing the killing intent in Ethan's tone, Chen Zeng said quickly, "We know where Samus and his father are now, and we also know who you are looking for. My believer In every corner of the Earth Alliance, I can help you!"

Ethan walked towards Chen Zeng, approaching an ambiguous distance. He squeezed Chen Zeng's face and stared at him with a chilling look.

"You want to threaten me with Samuel?"

In such a disadvantaged situation, Chen Zeng was able to remain calm and smiled reluctantly, "If there is no bargaining chip, how can I dare to save you?"

Ethan's slender pupils turned slightly, as if he was thinking about something, then he suddenly let go of Chen Zeng, clapped his hands as if he was dirty, and said, "Okay, I really want you to find someone for me. If you have not found this person after you arrive on Earth, you can prepare a coffin for yourself."

"Who are you looking for?"

"Former Director of the Bureau of Energy, Abel Rose."

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Sorry that I should have changed the text yesterday, but I was obsessed with an Australian hi(?) drama yesterday and couldn’t help myself... The name is PleaseLIkeMe