Vol 2 Chapter 15: Atonement: Red Earth (13)

When he hurried back, he saw some subtle scenes.
Fifty non-people sitting or standing, mostly leaning against the wall, holding a lighter in their hands, the flames illuminating the six people on the opposite side slightly. And the head of the earthling with a gun, his face still stern, but a bit of panic in his eyes is their chief of guard.
He never knew the name of this Asian-faced security chief, only that he was the high-level security guard in charge of the forbidden city area where he was located, tall and unsmiling.
The appearance is a rare beauty among the guards. But at this moment, he was obviously very embarrassed. The ground uniform on his body was stained with a lot of red herbaceous plants from the outside, and there were blood stains on his face, but he didn't know whether it was his blood or someone else's. His face was sweaty, his breathing was thick, but his waist was still straight.
Behind him, there are two terrestrial soldiers and three Eve soldiers. They were all clutching their weapons, embarrassed and horrified. A human soldier had a big wound on his leg, and it looked like something had bitten off a large piece of meat, gurgling blood.
In a squad of a dozen well-trained special forces, there were only six left in the blink of an eye.
Where did the other people go?
Is it alive or dead?
If you live, how do you live? Is it really dead again?
The people on both sides fell into a strange silence, but in this silence the dark tide was raging. As long as any party shows hostility at this time, I'm afraid they will start killing each other without waiting for something outside to invade.
Ethan's forehead was sweating, and if they fought inwardly at this time, I'm afraid they would be dead.
Samuel stood between the two parties, staring at the captain on the opposite side, "Let down your weapons."
The head of the guard's muzzle was still facing the inhuman, fully guarded, "Where is the Priest Tanisel?!"
The inhumans stared at each other, and they could only care about themselves in the chaos just now, who still had the mind to stare at the priest? And Ethan, the only one who knew where the priest was, weighed the current situation, and suddenly said, "He is currently safe."
All inhuman eyes stared at him. He said that the soldiers who could be on the other side thought that they had taken control of Tanithel, so that they did not dare to do anything to inhumans easily. On the other hand, it can prevent these out-of-control inhumans from doing anything to Tanithel.
Although he didn't know much about the priest, the other party seemed to be not a good person to deal with... But Tanithel was one of the people who helped him many times since he became an inhuman. It’s only good for him to maintain a friendly relationship with him.
Sure enough, the chief guard frowned and looked at Samuel hesitantly. The latter said, "If we want to rebel, we don't need to let you in. Put down our weapons!"
However, an earth soldier suddenly shouted, "Who would believe what you scumbags say! You should be outside! You human maggots, living only waste food!"
His words caused a burst of angry curses among the inhumans, and Jarvan said coldly, "Tell you that you shouldn't let these government lackeys in! Get them out!"
The two sides were in a quarrel. Ethan stared at the guns in the hands of the soldiers, watching their black holes sway in their excited body language, and couldn't tell when they would go off. He was frightened and couldn't bear it, and finally clenched his fists and yelled with an angry face that didn't match the image of the day. The voice suddenly overwhelmed a large group of people. What is the noise!!! The outside stuff is coming in soon, can't tell the priority!!! Do you guys have any brains!!!"
I had never seen the cowardly Beta look so fierce, and Samuel was stunned for a while. Ethan just suffocated this breath, and recovered the courage that he had taught his subordinates when he was the secretary of the Energy Bureau. After venting it, his momentum was weak again. However, his words succeeded in reminding everyone present that outside the thin walls of the base, it was the entire planet plunged into madness and terror. Compared with the huge chunk of meat covering the entire sky, his own kind, whether inhuman or not, looked much more lovely. The chief of guard gritted his teeth and finally dropped the gun in his hand. Seeing him move like this, the soldiers behind him hesitated. But the soldiers of Eve Star took the lead to put away their weapons, and they had to reluctantly put them away.
Seeing that the soldiers gave in, several Alpha cursed inhumanly, it was no longer a challenge. The chief of guard asked in a cold voice, "What are you all on?"
Ethan just wanted to answer, but heard Chen Zeng say, "You should also put on this thing. It is said that this may temporarily make us in the eyes of the thing in the sky-if the thing has eyes-'invisible'. I'm afraid this That's why it hasn't attacked here yet."
Samuel tilted his head, and some of his attendants moved the bottles and cans of the rancid liquid to the soldiers. The chief of guard looked at Samuel suspiciously, and finally bent over and picked up a bottle, twisted it and smelled it, showing a disgusting expression. However, he still poured the liquid on himself and wiped it with his hands on his face. The rest of the soldiers also took the bottles one after another when they saw it. Obviously, they were scared by the sight they had just seen outside, and they couldn't care how disgusting the liquid was.
Ethan noticed the injured person and immediately asked, "How did he get injured?"
The two human soldiers immediately stared at Ethan suspiciously, but did not speak. Ethan saw that the other party was so wary and couldn't ask anything, but he became more worried...
He thought of Jeff.
He intuitively felt that the weird worm had some profound connection with things in the sky. If it was just stained with the weird worm, it would become that way...I can only hope that this person's wound was not bitten by something similar.
Samus pulled him aside and asked in a low voice, "Where is that priest?"
Ethan was wondering whether to tell him or not, when the three Eve people suddenly stood up, the third eye on their foreheads opened almost at the same time, and there was something unprecedented on their faces. Just looking at them was scalp A numb expression of extreme horror.
"Here...It's not clean here!" The Eve people said in jerky earth language. The next second, the third eyes of the three Eve people suddenly looked in the same direction-the western wall.
But there is nothing there?
A female Beta Eve stretched her finger to the wall, her voice and her finger were trembling slightly, "It's inside... it's inside!"
All the earthlings looked at the three Eve people who suddenly raised their guns and kept retreating with inexplicable expressions. Their performance at the moment was too different from the calmness they had just now, and no one could figure it out. Just when everyone thought that the Eve, who was known for being a god, was mad again, Ethan suddenly thought of a question.
If you go around from the corridor where he came just now, a few sample analysis rooms are behind that wall, and there is a medical warehouse. The medical warehouse of Jeff whose life and death is unknown.
The medical warehouse should have been blocked by Gina, but the problem is that Gina has stopped working.
Ethan looked around and grabbed Samuel, "Where is the Beta who keeps crying?"
Samuel was taken aback, looked around, but didn't find it, "What's the matter?"
It seems that in the darkness just now, it was not just him and the priest who slipped away, but also the mentally unstable female Beta inhuman. She had been talking about her ears before she disappeared, and no one knew what she was talking about.
If she was the first to perceive the power of entropy, would she be the first to be controlled?
Ethan lowered his voice, and only one word made Samuel pale, "Jeff!"
Samus hurriedly told Otto a few words and ran to the medical room with Ethan. The faint electric light in Ethan's hand swept across the darkness, but it did not illuminate the metal door that should have been closed tightly. The light moved down, and a wrench was seen on the ground. The door locks here are controlled by the artificial intelligence Gina. When Gina fails, the originally set locking program also fails. Ethan and Samuel looked at each other, and both saw deep anxiety in each other's eyes.
There was a dead darkness behind the door. Because the space was too large, the light from the flashlight projected in as if being sucked into a black hole, and nothing could be seen. A icy prestige rubbed the skin of the neck, and the ghost was silent, as if it were a breath of darkness slowly spitting out.
Ethan shook the flashlight a few times, carefully shining it toward the ground in front of him but did not dare to take a step. Seeing him hesitate, Samus grabbed his flashlight and walked in first. Ethan followed you step by step, passing by the isolation and intensive care beds, suddenly felt that there were corpses lying in the boxes like coffins. His gaze fell on an isolation hospital bed that seemed to be crooked, and a few sticky yellow-white liquids were left on the transparent cover. Looking along the trail, on the ground not far away, there was also something sticky like a nose, reflecting a disgusting blue light in the faint light.
There was a sigh in my heart, the most feared thing might have happened.
Samuel's footsteps stopped abruptly, and his flashlight found the bed they used to hold Jeff. The cover of the bed was opened, and Jeff was gone, only clumps of light brown human hair and some pieces of clothes were left. The mattress and cover were covered with yellow, white and black mucus, which even trickled down the edge and foot of the bed. Ethan heard Samuel's panting, and wanted to look closer, but he tripped under his feet. He quickly grabbed the nearest bed to stabilize his figure, and at the same time heard a low sound.
Samuel heard the movement and immediately shone the beam of light in his hand, and then Ethan saw clearly what was under his feet...
It's the missing female Beta.
Her face was gray and her eyes opened wide without blinking. They were covered with dense bumps similar to Jeff, swollen like a floating corpse that had been soaked in water for a week. If you look closely, you can find the thin. There was something squirming under the skin. Her legs also became very strange, some slime-like things permeated through the cloth, and even dissolved some fabric. The two legs stick together like batter, leaving wet marks on the ground.
Ethan yelled in fright and quickly stepped back, his heart rate jumping out of his chest. My feet are sticky, probably because I accidentally stepped on the unknown mucus secreted by Beta. Thinking that as long as a little bit of that kind of mucus touches the skin, it will turn into that horrible look, and he feels itchy all over, and he is frightened.
"Really contagious..." Samuel was also startled, his face pale. A good person turns into this disgusting look, no matter how many times he sees it, he can’t get used to it. His brows curled together, and he looked at the opposite Ethan, "Where did Jeff go? Is he... alive or dead?"
Ethan thought of the fleeting figure he saw on the fork road when he walked around from the central control room to the lobby.
He didn't dare to say whether Jeff was alive or dead, but he knew he would never want to see Jeff now.
"We have to find him right away!" Samuel looked around, as if he was being watched. This base is no longer safe. In fact, it was not safe from the beginning, but the thick walls and the rancid liquid on the body gave them the illusion of safety.
Ethan looked at the Beta, who didn't know whether it was alive or dead. "What would she do?"
Now that there is no electricity, all isolation systems are no longer insured. Ethan thought of the egg in the priest's hand, but Tanithel was using it... Maybe he could persuade Tanithel to activate Gina with the Egg of Order God?
Samus looked at the human figure on the ground occasionally twitching and making a strange sound, and suddenly took out the lighter. "You go to the door and wait for me."
Ethan probably guessed what he was going to do, and quickly turned around and ran out. Stumbled all the way in the dark, when he just arrived at the door, he suddenly heard a harsh scream, as if not just a person, but dozens of people at the same time making a hoarse hoarse that is enough to tear the eardrum. Scream sharply. A strange blue flame ignited in the darkness, and in the most dazzling flame there was a huge black worm, not a person, wriggling and rolling.
Ethan suddenly understood why Tanithel didn't let him hurt the monster in the first place. Why after Jeff stepped on the bug, Tanithel said to him, "Maybe you are just a bug".
Isn't it... not only does countless weird worms grow out of the body, but humans themselves will eventually become that worm? How many of those who disappeared before have become worms? Where are those bugs?
The next moment Samuel rushed to him, pulled him up and ran. Ethan's heart is numb, and problems continue to surface. The last thing he was thinking was: Is that female Beta really dead? If you didn't die... wouldn't it mean being burned to death by Samuel?
And he... didn't even have any thoughts to stop...