Samuels ho was very small and had two narrow rooms, one of which was obviously inhabited. On the neat bedding, there was a sweater that had not been folded up. In the kitchen sink, there was a dish and a pair of knives and forks that had not yet been cleaned. On the dining table, there was a cup of tea that had already cooled, with a teabag quietly soaking in it. The room was still tidy, and there was no sign of struggle, but his father did not answer the call to his capsule. After Ethan discussed with Samuel, they decided to wait at his ho. Maybe Samuels father had just gone out due to so business and would return later at night.
Ethan walked across the damp, moldy floor and heard a creak. He asked Samuel, This is where you grew up?
Samuel went to the cabinet where the TV set was placed, picked up a rarely seen electronic photo fra, and looked at the photos rotating every ten seconds. Yes.
Although it was clean and tidy, it could be seen that everything was very old, as if everything was frozen by ti many centuries ago. Even the thick antique TV set, which had long since been obsolete, was still standing on the cabinet with pride. Ethan squatted in front of the TV and studied it for a while before finding the switch and turning it on. He was also surprised by the remote control. He pressed it randomly. Most of the stations displayed snowflakes without signal, but after switching to a few of them, surprisingly, they could see the news when they were connected to the current TV broadcasting system.
On it was an announcent to report anyone with a cold or fever, especially relatives or friends. The ads showed the clean corridors and wards in the isolation area. The patients were lying on the dazzling white beds one by one with smiles. The doctors and nurses said hello to the patients with friendly smiles on their faces. There were flowers on the tables beside them. The food was so rich that it was like breakfast in a hotel. No one showed any negative expression, as if they were not in a hospital but on holiday.
The isolation area is absolutely safe and comfortable, and even if you are not sick, you will still want to live here~ The female Beta with a sweet smile said in the advertisent, but Ethan thought it was all ironic. Would anyone really believe such a shaless lie?
But even if you didnt believe it, you had no choice but to do as they say. The road was full of robot policen scanning human body temperature. Once they found that soones temperature exceeded the normal range, blood would be taken imdiately for testing.
Samuel was obviously a little uneasy, pacing around the room anxiously. The ti was getting late, and it was way past the ti to have dinner. Even if his father went out to work, it should be ti for him to return. Seeing this, Ethan saw a scarf on the armrest of the sofa, so he went to pick it up and hold it in front of his nose. The scarf has a lot of Samuels fathers sll, a slightly astringent hormonal sll, sowhat like persimmon.
Samuel noticed his movents and asked, What are you doing?
Tracking your dads scent. Ethan put down his scarf and closed his eyes. A few thin black tentacles sprang out of the back of his neck. On the tips of the tentacles grew the noses of star-nosed moles, which opened in the air like the petals of a sea anemone. These tentacles were densely covered with protrusions the size of needle tips, which seed to be so kind of organ used to sense slls. These thin tentacles stretched out so long that they almost filled the whole apartnt. They danced leisurely in the air like ribbons, while Ethan stood in the center silently, like a statue. Even if Samuel spoke to him, he didnt seem to hear.
Ethan focused and felt his sense of sll leave his body and float over the chaotic and crowded Seventh Space Station. This city in the vast cosmos was filled with all kinds of odors, such as the sll of sweat, fishy scents, the scent of a rotten rat in the wastewater, rotten wood, rusty iron, the sll of hot water pipes used for bathing, the sll of cheap perfu, and inferior artificial skin. The slls gathered in a big river and flowed slowly around Ethan.
Among these odors, Ethan sensitively caught onto a scent similar to what he just slled. The direction of the scent, which had almost faded away, led him in a direction full of the sll of death and decay.
Ethan opened his eyes, and his pair of green eyes looked anxiously at Samuel.
Samuel clenched his fists tightly, grabbing the coat on the back of the chair and wearing it before going to the door. Ill go myself. Dont follow .
However, Ethan did not intend to listen to him. He picked up his coat, pulled up the hood, and used the high collar to cover his face. Ill go with you.
Didnt you say it was a trap? Why send yourself to their doorsteps? Samuel pushed him back, deliberately using a vicious tone to frighten him, Didnt you co to Earth to find your father? Dont wait for . Lets say goodbye.
Samuel always thought that the father Ethan was looking for was Adrian Eldridge. Ethan did not correct him. After all, he really wanted to find Adrian and ask him. Ethan was no longer afraid of Samuels tone and took a firm step forward. Maybe its not a bad thing to be found by the governnts people. Since they captured your father, Im not sure they havent put my father under house arrest.
Do you think you will be able to see your father if you fall into their hands? Samuel irritably blocked the door and said, They will just dismber you imdiately and try to use your blood to make an antidote or sothing. Is it interesting to waste your life?
Ethan laughed, as if he heard Samuel say a joke. Do you really think they can catch so easily?
Samuel was stunned. He didnt know what had happened in Ophiuchus Alliance, but he also heard the guards murmuring sothing about it. They seem to be saying that Starwind was carrying a monster that could never die and also carried a terrifying plague that caused the whole military base to panic. He thought it was Ethan at that ti. After all, Ethans terrifying appearance when he mutated was still fresh in his mory.
Even now, there was an impulse that made him want to stay away from the innocuous Beta in front of him. But the other half of him could not help being attracted to the man in front of him who ca out of the dical room with a subtle evil vibe. His feelings for Ethan were difficult for him to say clearly. At first, he was attracted to Ethan because he was similar to his lover during the first half of his life. Later, when he learned about his relationship with the priest, it gradually turned into friendship. This friendship wavered in Pales after he saw Ethans mutation, but it was still going strong.
Later, after Schneider died, everything changed. Hatred made him want to destroy the root cause of his pain, even if he used Ethan. As a result, Ethan said that he found out early on
Ethan clearly found out about it but still treated him the way he usually did. Even after speaking the truth, Ethan forgave him almost effortlessly.
However, Samuel could not let it go. He couldnt forgive his betrayal, but he also couldnt put down the hatred.
He needed Ethan to complete that ritual, to destroy this filthy galaxy. Even along with himself.
Seeing Samuels wavering expression, Ethan reached out and gently pressed against the back of his neck and said to him with a seemingly innocent smile, Dont worry, I know what Im doing.
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The quarantine zone of the Seventh Space Station had established a nano plastic wall on the opposite side of their area, which was used to separate the struggling life outside and the death area inside. All the usable rooms in the building behind the wall had been transford into temporary wards, but many of the so-called wards were better known as cages. Many patients in the early stage of infection were kept inside like wild animals. They were given a small amount of food and water every day, and they waited for them to mutate into a black worm with tentacles dripping mucus before they burned them to death with fire. Only those who had not yet gotten sick could get a little humane care, but sooner or later, they would be put into those dirty cages full of blood and mucus and would twist and curl up in the fire until they no longer have a human body.
There were not many dical staff in the quarantine zone, and almost 70% of the nurses were soldiers who were drafted here during the ergency. There was always a burnt sll in the city. Except for the ambulances and the patrolling troops, no one could walk around the streets here.
Ethan and Samuel had no symptoms of fever, so they could not mix into the facility this way. Instead, they thought of a way to sneak in. That was, to take advantage of the supply car parked near the hospital in the quarantine zone to quietly hide in the car.
The process of entering the facility was smooth, but they were t with an obstacle when so people suddenly decided to check the car. Ethan had to use so of the needles at the tips of his tentacles to secrete a temporarily paralyzing neurotoxin to put them down. In the dark, those people couldnt even see what was attacking them in the car. They just felt sothing whistling forward like a whip. As soon as they felt the back of their neck hurting, they lost consciousness.
They got out of the car and found a gray wasteland of a city spreading out in front of them. Amid the silence, an animal-like hiss could be heard occasionally. The city looked very terrifying and gloomy and was accompanied by the sight of the dilapidated skyscrapers.
At this ti, most of the nurses were off duty, and there were not many patrolling troops. Even if there were, they were detected by the olfactory tentacles spreading behind Ethans neck, so they had ample ti to avoid them.
This was the epicenter of the plague and even the air stank.
On both sides of the wide but dirty road, lots of large, sealed bags were piled together, which appeared to contain sothing black and shapeless. It seed to be a liquefied object. Samuel thought it was rubbish, but in so bags, he vaguely saw a structure similar to the head. The burned skin was shriveled on the skull, but the rest of the body that had grown tentacles had lted together, just like an insect.
The nightmare from Red Earth was replicated on a large scale right in front of him.
Samuel only swept his gaze around once, and his heart started seething. He silently begged for his father not to be in these bags, but he didnt know who he was praying to.
If father really died, would he hate Ethan?
However, Ethan mutated into that to save him and Schneider, didnt he?
He stopped himself from thinking about it. He just wanted to speed up his footsteps and find his father. But as soon as he turned around, he noticed Ethan hadnt kept up.
He only saw the Beta squatting beside a corpse, carrying so pity and sadness as he reached through the transparent body bag and touched the disgusting head.
What are you doing! There is not much ti. The people who have been knocked out will soon be discovered!
Ethan stood up, stretched out the thin tentacles from the back of his neck to track the scent, and continued to search for Samuels father as he walked through the dilapidated buildings. The sll brought him to a very tall building with empty windows overlooking them. In the silent night, cries of pain traveled out from so of the windows, causing goosebumps to surface on their skin.
It seems likeit ca from here, Ethan murmured. Sohow, hearing people howling in pain made him feel strange. He didnt feel it was terrifying. Instead, he felt strangely familiar with it.
He rembered the frightened look in the eyes of the early-stage infected patient in the hotel. He recalled that look of fear that person gave him. Ironically, he felt a subtle tinge of anticipation.
Ethan didnt know if they were replying to his feelings, but just as they stepped up the steps, the terrifying howls from the depths of the building suddenly beca several tis louder than before, sounding just like the wailing of animals. Samuel was startled and seed to be considering whether to retreat temporarily first. However, Ethan wrinkled his nose. For a mont, he looked like a wild animal. Suddenly, a very thick tentacle stretched out from behind him. At its tip, sothing similar to a mouth suddenly opened, and a ring of sharp rotating teeth opened and closed. From the dark throat ca a roar that could not be heard by human ears. The buzzing infrasound wave quickly spread in the air.
The roars of those infected people quickly died down, leaving only one or two shivering whimpers.
Samuel stared at Ethan beside him, watching the thick tentacle quickly retract into the skin of the Betas shoulder, and the wound that should have been left quickly healed under the surging of many black tentacles. Ethan looked at him with a shrug, along with a casual expression that seed to say: I also dont know whats going on.
What he didnt know, however, was that sothing more incredible would happen later.
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