Vol 2 Chapter 14: Atonement: Red Earth (12)

That was the last picture they saw. In the next instant, all screens and lights suddenly went out at the same time.
There were obviously backup generators installed in the pioneering base, but at this moment they were not activated for unknown reasons. Everyone suddenly fell into a darkness where they could not see their fingers, and screamed unexpectedly. Ethan's heartbeat was like a drum, shouting "Gina", but the computer fell silent with all other electronic devices and stopped responding.
The body was pushed and lost its direction. What I saw just now is almost other weak-conscious non-humans lose their minds, panic-stricken non-humans headless flies, and they don’t know where they are going. At this moment, he suddenly heard Chen Zeng's calm voice breaking through a barrier composed of screams, and said calmly and loudly, "Don't panic! Stand against the wall!"
He repeated his instructions over and over again, and there was a certain hypnotic power in his words, and the people who had been ramming like headless flies finally caught a trace of clarity. They clung to the only instruction, touched the nearest wall and stopped running. After a while, Ethan heard the heavy breathing and some crying that could not be controlled by everyone in the air, but all else fell silent.
Samuel scolded and searched for the lighter, and finally a small flame lit up in the dark. But the fire was too weak to dispel the thick darkness of black velvet.
Ethan felt that the uncomfortable tinnitus became louder and louder, so loud that he couldn't even hear the crying clearly. The high-frequency sound waves made his head hurt like it was about to split. He was anxiously trying to grab something, but the hand that opened and closed wildly in the air was suddenly caught by another hand.
He heard Tanisel's low voice flowing into his ear, "Come with me."
Stumbled, he was led by the other hand to run in the unknown darkness. Other inhuman voices gradually moved away, and there was no light at all, but the priest seemed to be able to see everything, carefully avoiding all obstacles. Tanisel's hands were delicate and warm, and Ethan thought of the sunlight on the earth in early summer. He had only felt that kind of sunlight when he was a child when he traveled to the surface of the earth, and there was a kind of comfort that was softly kissed by the sky.
At this moment, he unknowingly developed a similar dependence and trust in that hand, forgetting that he had been doubting the purpose of the priest coming to Red Earth not long ago.
Finally, they stopped. Ethan gasped and asked, "Where is this? What are we going to do?"
"Central control room." Tanithel released his hand, which made him feel inexplicably lost. He listened to the priest's footsteps and walked a few steps away, seeming to be fiddling with something, "Ethan, I need you to help me."
Every time Tanithel called him by his first name instead of his last name, he had a subtle feeling. It was probably the magical voice of the priest that made people calm down quickly. Every time he heard the other party calling his name, he suddenly thought that he could not refuse the other party's request.
"What do you want to do? What is happening outside now?"
"Her name in our Eve language is Shabunir, the mother goddess of entropy. She feeds on life and gives birth to eternal chaos." Tanisel's melodious tone seemed to be chanting Recite the verse, "She lives in the gap between parallel time and space. This planet may happen to be a time gap that can accommodate a part of her body."
"Part of the body?"
"Yes. The things that wrap the entire sky outside are only part of her. It probably includes one or more of her mouths, otherwise she can't eat." Tanithel's tone still couldn't hear fear. , There was only a deep exclamation, "My luck is good."
"Good luck?!" Ethan's voice rose a lot, "Are you the kidding? We are all going to die!"
Yes, they are all going to die. Ethan suddenly realized that this was the moment when the mother ship lost control of inhumans before the arrival of the entropy mentioned by Tanithel, and they were in the man-made building that was most easily spotted-Base 18, and Lost the shelter of Gina and the protective system.
They are like a flock of sheep, trapped lambs to be slaughtered. But Tanithel's voice was still so light, "We will not die."
As soon as the voice fell, a quiet blue light began to light up from one point, swiftly agitating like a tide, and illuminating the priest's face that looked very demon at the moment. The light came from his palm, and it shot as he opened his hand. It was vaguely visible that it was an oval-shaped thing, "Because I want to catch her... at least a piece of her body tissue."

The non-people staying in the lobby did not notice the departure of Tanithel and Ethan. At this time, ten leading non-humans, including Samuel, had barely stabilized the crowd who was almost out of control. Everyone found out the lighters used to make fires from their backpacks. The faint flames barely dispelled a trace of it. The opened darkness illuminates a pair of eyes wet with tears of fear.
At this moment, there was a violent knocking sound from not far away, as if someone was kicking the metal door at the entrance. The timid Betas huddled together and shivered, almost crying again. Samus yelled irritably, "Don't cry! That's the rescue of the mother ship!" After saying that, he ran to the door to open the door to the hapless people who had encountered it just after landing.
But Derek suddenly blocked his way, his big eyes were very dark at the moment, "We don't need to open the door for them."
Samuel stared at him inexplicably. "What do you mean?"
"Now all electronic devices are malfunctioning, including this." He reached out and touched the collar on his neck. "We don't need to be controlled by them."
The young, innocent eyes were filled with malice. He even smiled, showing a childish tiger tooth, "Let them in will only drag your legs back, it is better to keep them outside and attract that thing. Attention, maybe we have a chance to grab their spaceship."
Grab the spaceship, and then fly away, never going back to that ghost place in the forbidden city. Samuel was startled, he had never thought of this possibility...
Only three years later, has he gradually smoothed out the edges and corners?
He raised his eyes and looked at the other eight people. None of them, including Otto, seemed to dispute Derek's words. It seemed that they had already discussed it.
Samus frowned. When did they start discussing things behind his back?
At this time, the knocking outside the door became more and more rapid. It can be imagined that the survivors outside must be shouting hysterically at this moment, but the shouting is blocked by the heavy gate and cannot be heard inside the building. But just by listening to the crashing sound like raindrops, they knew how fear and despair they were.
"You haven't thought about it. Maybe they have a better chance of helping us survive?" Samuel didn't intend to give in. "Do you really think that the few people outside will stop after eating that thing?"
Jarvan also stood up, confronting Samuel with anger in his eyes, "Don't forget that they have weapons in their hands. If you let them in, I'm afraid we will be let out as bait!"
"There are only a dozen of them, and now I don't know how many are left, but we have fifty people. What are we afraid of!" Samuel knew that he was lacking in confidence, and even he himself felt bad for this reason...
But...what if that person is still alive...
In the dim light of the fire, Jarvan walked in his direction step by step and stopped very close to him. His threatening and provocative gaze clashed with the cold eyes of Samuel Wolf. Both of them spread their shoulders and set off on their own. The muscles stretched, revealing an angry posture ready to attack, like two lions hovering and facing each other.
"I heard that you have a good relationship with the chief security officer?" Jarvan's voice was hoarse, as if from deep in his throat, "Did you give him any benefit, or did he give you any benefit?"
Samuel squinted his eyes, the muscles on both sides of his nose were slightly lifted, and the anger radiated from his body unabashedly. Among non-human beings, especially among those who are considered to have a good head, the most taboo behaviors deliberately to please the guards, it will be considered a shameless betrayal. By saying this, Jarvan is directly challenging his authority, calling him a traitor, a gangster, and a dirty "rat." Samuel was about to throw his fist to teach him, but Chen Zeng stood up in time and said, "I think Samuel's words are reasonable. Now the base protection system is gone, if they bombed the gate with weapons, they would come in. If we If you take the initiative to open the door, you will get a head start."
Chen Zeng, the leader of the cult, is now very prestigious among the more timid inhumans. Once he finished speaking, many inhumans agreed. Regardless of whether Jarvan agreed or not, Samus strode towards the door, while Jarvan clenched his fist and glared at Chen Zeng, "He must have a problem! You believe him so, sooner or later you will regret it!"
But Chen Zeng just shook his head and said something to Otto in a low voice.

Ethan thought he must be crazy.
At this moment, he was inputting his identity verification code and key into the main computer in the central control room, and connected to the three wireless signal transmitters around Base 18. The computer, which should have been out of power, still shoots a cluster of blue light from the projection hole at this moment, with dense characters on it, something that only Ethan can understand. And the source of this energy was actually something in Tanithel's hands.
Tanithel was surprisingly skilled in manipulating a human computer, while concisely explaining that it was something he secretly brought out of their temple, and it was a newly born planet from some remote star realms by the Eve for thousands of years. The treasures collected have the ability to convert elements and isotopes that are temporarily incomprehensible with the current level of interstellar technology. If used properly, they can be used to obtain a steady flow of energy, and can even be used to extend the planet surrounding the Eve galaxy. Red giant star-Savaga's life span. It's a pity that until now, Evestar's technological level has not been able to fully develop its capabilities. The priests called them-the eggs of the gods.
Ethan didn't think it was really the egg of the so-called "Preface God". If you ignore the blue light, it looks like a quail egg. I don’t know if it’s a sophisticated computer and artificial intelligence program, or some dangerous radioactive material... But it really gave the main computer a piece of cake under the weird situation where even the generator stopped working. Little energy. This energy is not much, because Tanithel does not want Gina to wake up, nor does the mother ship see what they are doing.
Tanithel was really fascinated by the of entropy to the point of horror, he actually said that this little egg can catch the thing that shades the sky outside.
But why would I agree to help him...
The key input was completed. Although the transmitter status says severe damage, Tanithel insisted that it did not matter. He watched the priest carefully connect the egg to the oscillator, quickly and skillfully make a series of modulations and then activate the signal transmitter. Ethan looked at a series of characters that were quickly and automatically generated on the computer, showing the progress of the information transmission. He didn't know what Fatanisel was launching, what was in that egg?
At this time, there was a hustle and bustle in the distance, which seemed to be coming from the lobby. Tanithel was unmoved, staring at the egg with full concentration. Ethan couldn't ignore it. Looking at the darkness outside the central control room, he quickly found a few hand-cranked flashlights through the drawer. He shook it vigorously for a long time, until his hands were sore, the flashlight only gave out a little lingering light. It seems that since that thing appeared, everything related to electricity has failed. It is not a physical failure, but the two substances themselves, electricity and light, have been greatly weakened.
But why only that egg can continue to operate, and can even drive three huge wireless transmitters?
Ethan took the flashlight that was about to go out at any time, and walked quickly while shaking. Darkness is approaching from all directions, constantly squeezing the small aperture around him. The road was very tortuous, and he could hardly understand how Tanithel had taken him so far in the dark.
His footsteps suddenly paused, and the light from the flashlight shone on a wall at the top of the corridor.
There was a large black spot, as if mold had grown.
Is it damp? Although the materials used to construct the corridor are not suitable for mold growth, it shouldn't be impossible, right? But... why does he have the feeling that the dark spots are expanding a little bit?
Maybe the flashlight flickered, causing the illusion?
There is also that kind of tinnitus, which still continues at this moment. He had a strong sense of depression, as if he was about to be crushed by something foreboding.
The flashlight's light flickered, and he shook it violently, finally stabilizing the light. He suddenly felt cold on the back of his neck, and suddenly shone the beam of the flashlight toward the fork on the right. The thin beam of light showed a fuzzy human figure at the end of the fork.
A chill suddenly hit his back. He immediately blinked his eyes and looked over harder, but the end of the corridor was empty again.
There was another clamor mixed with roars, and Ethan didn't have time to look more, and continued to rush towards the lobby.
The author has something to say:
The amount of this new professional assignment is really no joke. I do it at two or three o’clock every night. Hey, staying up late makes me feel in a trance. I can’t stand it when I get older_(:з」∠)_