Falling into the Abyss

The terrifying roar seemed to come from many monsters at the same time. The howl contained mania and anger, and the sound caused the floor to shake. All of the soldiers had unconcealed expressions of fear. They looked at each other as their palms were sweating. Colonel Sasha also showed an expression of surprise and panic, but soon recovered his calm. He grabbed a gun from a soldier nearby and pointed it at Ethan’s head. “What did you do?”

Ethan just looked at him, smiling innocently. “I’m in here. What can I do?”

The colonel said to the soldiers, “You go down to take a look.” Then, he contacted several others waiting outside the building via radio and told them to come in to back them up. In a mere ten minutes, one of the soldiers who went down to explore came back, covered with blood and mucus from numerous infected people. He panicked as he rolled and crawled on the ground, shouting, “The infected people all escaped! All of them!”

“How can it be!” Some of the less mentally stable young soldiers cried out in fear. Colonel Sasha’s expression also changed slightly. He didn’t understand what happened because all the iron doors could only be opened from the terminal in the central control room in the isolation area. Additionally, the electronic keys that the guards possessed could only open the cell doors for their own floor. How could all the monsters escape?

Ethan chuckled, and all eyes were focused on him. It was clear that he was the one who was caught, but the people around him seemed to be very afraid of him and didn’t dare to approach him. Ethan changed to a more comfortable position underneath the net, although the burning pain still made it difficult for him to move. “I had long since smelled the scent of Samuel’s father spreading down from a higher floor, but I purposely walked up floor by floor. Don’t you find that suspicious?”

When he passed by those iron bars previously, thin tentacles dripping with light yellow acid drilled out from the leg of his trousers. Under the cover of the oil stains on the ground, those tentacles climbed along the ground to the bars. As he made his way up, the tentacles smeared acid on every iron bar. Samuel, who was next to him, didn’t even look at the infected people because he was disgusted with them.

The people who were monitoring their actions were also unwilling to look at those bloated and disgusting infected people, so they didn’t realize that these infected people still possessed human intelligence, and they didn’t notice the things sticking out of Ethan’s trousers. The acid quickly dissolved through the iron bars. The reason why the infected people didn’t rush out of the prison door was because Ethan commanded them in a way only they could understand to wait for his orders when he passed through each cell. Then, he sent his command with that low roar.

It was probably because these infected people were Ethan’s creations, but they regarded Ethan as their king and obeyed him almost instinctively. They were like a black tide, possessing bloodthirsty desire and extreme hatred as they surged forth to rescue their king.

The soldiers were afraid of them because even soldiers who could kill without batting an eye didn’t want to become infected. Therefore, Ethan knew that once these infected people gathered together, humans would be no match for them at all.

Colonel Sasha seemed to understand what he was doing. His hand trembled slightly, but he still pointed a gun at Ethan and glared at him with a fierce expression. “Order them to stop!”

“Why?”

“Because I can blow your head off right now. You can’t repair yourself under the net!”

“Why don’t you try?” Ethan’s smile grew a little cold, and he no longer had any of his previous innocence.

The Colonel gritted his teeth. “Seize him, and we’ll retreat!”

However, no soldiers moved. They didn’t want to touch Ethan.

“Private Julian! I command you to take him away and retreat!”

A young soldier standing nearest to Ethan shivered and gazed at him in a trembling, rabbit-like manner. He took a few cautious steps forward, but Ethan just looked at him with pity.

“Hurry up!” the captain snapped as he commanded him.

Ethan laughed and said, “You’re the one who’s in a hurry, so why don’t you seize me yourself?”

The colonel had an expression as if Ethan had stepped on his wounded foot, and he shot Ethan again in the shoulder. Ethan’s body vibrated slightly due to the strength of the laser penetrating his body, but there wasn’t much pain shown on his face.

In fact, he could feel the pain. However, he didn’t know why but he seemed to have a strong tolerance to endure or even ignore the pain.

Maybe part of the reason was because his body had changed, while another part of it was because after he entered the Forbidden City, he had been punched and beaten for quite a period of time. The pain of enduring the battle between the forces of Order and Disorder in his body and the pain of being pulled out of his pupa state was far worse than these little injuries. He probably had gotten used to pain?

The soldier yanked Ethan up from the ground. As the net tightened around him, Ethan couldn’t help but suck in a cold breath of air and let out a hiss, like a snake spitting out its tongue. The soldier was so frightened that he immediately released his grip and hurriedly aimed his gun at him.

At this time, a heavy knock came from the other side of the door, accompanied by the purrs of wild beasts and the crawling sound of something wet and slimy. No one wanted to imagine the scene of countless huge black insects crawling on the walls and ceiling behind the door. Bang, bang, bang. The creatures pounded on the steel wall. An indent appeared on the door due to the massive force. The door began to distort, and the black tide surged in.

The colonel couldn’t stay here anymore. He did not have time to think about what happened to the people who rushed into the building to back them up moments ago and why they hadn’t arrived yet. There were still two aircraft on the top of the building. The aircraft couldn’t hold all the people here, but it should be enough for him to escape. He ordered, “Bring him and follow me! The rest can stay here and cover me!”

Such an order was tantamount to ordering those soldiers to wait here to die. The aura of despair and panic intensified, but the colonel was already running to the ladder leading to the roof at the other end of the floor. The private carefully grasped Ethan’s arm again, intending to lift him onto his shoulders and follow the colonel. The rest of the soldiers froze in place, in a state of panic and at a loss.

Ethan suddenly said to the soldiers with a creepy smile, “I can get them to not hurt all of you, as long as you kill Colonel Sasha now.”

After he said that, many of the soldiers were stunned. Most of these soldiers were less than 30 years old and had wives, elderly, and children at home. Of course, they didn’t want to die here. Many of them joined the army to support their families with their military salary so that their children could go to a better school. But if they died, the Financial Support department would soon find a reason to stop the martyr allowance that their families should have received.

Ethan’s green eyes swept past the young faces. He stretched out his fingers through a hole in the net. From his fingertip, a small tentacle slowly broke through his skin and rapidly grew. Watching this strange scene, many of the soldiers immediately pointed their guns at him, but the tentacle quickly extended to the door and made an unclear sound by knocking twice on the door.

Almost instantly, the howling sounds ceased.

Silence fermented slowly in the gloomy space.

“What are you doing?” The colonel was near the iron ladder and yelled angrily at the private, “Bring him here!”

“If I leave here, all of you are dead meat. What did you do to those infected people outside? They will repay your deeds back,” Ethan said quickly but clearly, “But if you kill the colonel, they’ll think that everything was planned by me.”

“Private!” Impatient, the colonel turned around and walked back to their side. “What the hell are you doing?”

“I bear no grudge against all of you, and I can guarantee your safety,” Ethan’s calm, persuasive voice echoed in the soldiers’ ears, “I’ll let those outside eat up Colonel Sasha.”

The soldiers looked at Ethan, then at the colonel, and back at Ethan. Then, a soldier raised his gun and pointed it at the colonel.

The laser illuminated the side of Ethan’s face, shooting forth across a large distance straight through the colonel’s forehead. The Alpha’s body froze for about three or four seconds, and his feet were still in a posture about to take a step forward. Then, like an ordinary middle-aged man, he fell to the ground ungracefully.

There was a stifling silence, and the soldier who shot gasped. He was still in shock, seemingly unsure of what he had just done.

Ethan breathed a sigh of relief and raised the net towards the private next to him. The private soldier seemed to be stunned before he drew out his dagger and cut the net.

Initially, it was a very ordinary net, but after being affected by the God of Order’s radiation, it posed such a significant threat to him. Ethan quickly got rid of the net and shook off the remaining knots. He finally revealed an expression of pain and reached out for the wound on his neck.

It was somewhat itchy, but it seemed to have started healing again.

He breathed a sigh of relief and focused his eyes on the soldiers who were like lost lambs in front of him. He said, “Everyone should gather around me. No matter what you see later, don’t shoot, don’t run, and try not to move. Understand?”

A female Alpha soldier suddenly said in a deep voice, “You just said you would let us go.”

“Yes.” Ethan smiled at her confidently. “And I’m someone who keeps my word.”

Suddenly, he stretched out his hand, and black tentacles suddenly burst out from his five fingers, twisted around the handle of the door, and pulled the door open. And behind the door, the dark, originally motionless creatures suddenly wriggled, scrambling to get through the comparably narrow entrance. The swollen, huge, and meat-like humanoid worms wriggled on the ground with their extremely ugly bodies, leaving oil-like trails on the ground, and rushed into the open space at an incredible speed. They hissed hellishly as they surged forward, covering the skies and the ground.

There were two or three soldiers who peed their pants, but they all remembered what Ethan said and tried to stay still. The monsters rushed forth like a huge wave, but they all stopped when they saw Ethan. They raised their heads like clever dogs and looked up at the standing Beta, gazing at him with their unfocused eyes.

In the sky, on the ground, on the walls, and even on the pillars, there were humanoid insects covered in tentacles. They surrounded Ethan like children waiting to hear a story, and the scene resembled a strange ritual.

Ethan spoke. He said, “You are not allowed to eat the people behind me, but the one lying on the ground over there is for you.”

As soon as he was done speaking, all insects howled in an unpleasant to hear manner and grunted. The black tide moved again but divided into two streams around where the soldiers had gathered until they merged behind them, rushing straight towards Colonel Sasha’s body.

The soldiers turned pale amid the creepy sounds of bone being fragmented and chewing. Ethan, however, seemed very satisfied with the result and asked the private next to him in a relaxed tone, “Where is your central control room?”

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Thank you, all the little angels who have been throwing nutrient solution to me ~ ~ ~ love you ~ ~ ~ mwah ~ ~ (づ￣ 3 ￣) づ?╭