Vol 2 Chapter 41: Atonement: Mars (1)

Ethan's memories are long, but in the simplest statement, he finished all the important events that happened in that year in less than five minutes. He avoided all the details that he thought was unnecessary and did not involve any of his own feelings, just like a robot narrating events.
"He said he chose me because I was easy to use. I pointed a gun at him and wanted to kill him, but he didn't succeed, so he took the gun over. He knocked me unconscious, and I woke up. Surrounded by robotic police.
Ethan ended his narration calmly. In the process, he never let his eyes go away from the retro pen in Hopkin's hand that was shaking with the writing motion. Only then did he finally lift it up. Eyes, glanced in the direction of Tanithel.
The priest was staring at him, no smile on his face, no other emotions.
Hopkin raised his eyebrows, "So you didn't take the initiative to betray the country. It's just that you had suspected him a long time ago, but you didn't take any action? Even after the incident was revealed, you lied to help him escape?"
Ethan said after a while, "Yes."
"Because he is the only Alpha who can see you, you don't even want your country or your own future?"
The obvious contempt and irony in the words made Ethan clenched his fists, and a burst of anger surged into his heart. What he obviously didn't want to say, these people forced him to say, forced him to tear the deepest scar in his happiness, and laughed at him after speaking. He sneered and said generally, "That's it, I'm so hungry. Why? Are you going to arrange for me an Alpha bed partner specifically to control me?"
The provocative words obviously made Hopkins very unhappy. The old man frowned and stared at him with fierce eyes like vultures. "Young man, I advise you to think before you speak."
Ethan knew that he shouldn't be rude, after all, he didn't know whether his behavior would affect his parents. He lowered his eyes and whispered, "Sorry."
"President Hopkins, I think it's enough to know this." Tanithel suddenly said, all eyes are on him, "His narration is basically the same as the results of the Intelligence Agency investigation. I believe he did not Lying. I am born and fall in love with one or two wrong people. I don’t think this is a problem."
"It's not a problem? Priest, maybe your Eve is different from the earth culture. But for us, loyalty is the most important thing. Sacrificing the interests of the country in order to satisfy personal desires is an intolerable behavior! This person only needs to be Alpha. He will accept it. How do you know that he will not be bewitched by Alpha agents sent by other hostile forces after he is allowed to participate in Project Zero again?"
Tanithel stood up slowly and nodded slightly to the president, "President Hopkin, I am willing to guarantee that he will never make the same mistake again."
"Guarantee? Once something goes wrong, no one can bear this responsibility."
"Perhaps this is the case, but without my Eve's Egg of Preface God, it is impossible for your Project Zero to continue. "Ethan's tone has undergone a subtle change, from the gentle and gentleness just now, and gradually transitions to hiding needles in cotton." When the president is furious, are you responsible for this responsibility again?"
Hopkin's brows wrinkled tightly, his eyes glaring at the alien priest with anger. However, he knew that Tanithel was right. If the priest must want this person, it would be useless for him to object. He sighed, took the paper in his hand and handed it to the assistant next to him, and then looked at the chief security officer and Hui Mao, "You two are responsible for assisting Priest Tanisel to take care of this person. Don't make trouble. If you are outside the forbidden city You have the right to punish him or even terminate his life if he does any suspicious behavior, including trying to contact ordinary people or other unauthorized government workers."
The guard and Gray Mao stood up, and the latter looked at Ethan with a chilling look.
Hopkin left the house with a few other companions, but Tanithel did not go, neither did the chief of guard and Gray Mao. Tanisel walked up to Ethan, looked down at him for a moment, "Do you have any luggage to take?"
Ethan shook his head, seemingly confused.
"Very well, come with me."
Tanisel was about to take Ethan out, but was stopped by the security chief and asked, "Are you going to take him away now?"
"Yes. Is there a problem?"
"I need to arrange someone to guard him. Next time if you want to raise him, please inform me in advance." The chief of guard seemed a little unhappy, probably because Tanithel was about to take Ethan away without prior notice, and asked for a guard temporarily. Some difficulties. Gray Mao said at this moment, "I can go with them."
Ethan heard his relaxed and smiling tone, and his back felt cold.
Grey Mao buttoned his familiar black collar around Ethan's neck, and rudely escorted him into a flying machine. Tanithel was in the same frame with them and was talking to an Eve through the screen projected by the respirator. The Eve language they used Ethan could not understand, but he could see that the priest with light blue hair and who looked a little older than Tanisir on the opposite side of the screen was saying something angrily, and Tanisir He absently supported his head with his hands, and occasionally responded lazily.
Hearing the sound of them coming in, Tanisel seemed to be prevarication, and hung up the communication without waiting for the blue-haired Eve to finish speaking. He turned his head to see Ethan, and smiled at him.
"Are you ready to go to Mars?"

The size of Mars is much smaller than that of the earth, and it reflects the color of glow in the lonely universe, hot and beautiful. However, the interior of this planet has been hollowed out, and the largest research base in the solar system is built there. Many of the confidential research of the Earth Alliance are carried out here. Their spacecraft landed in several mooring stations on the surface of Mars and glided to a building that was out of the ground and protruded with the excuse of eight trestle bridges. The hatch is tightly fastened with one of the plank roads. Through the glass corridors of the plank roads, you can see the boundless rust red, the towering craters in the distance solidified into a black shadow, which is very desolate and sad.
Such a magnificent scene made Ethan stop slightly, until Grey Mao pushed him from behind. Although I often see the name of the Mars base, it is the first time I have come to this deserted planet. In the past, people on Earth always thought that Mars was very suitable for being transformed into a second earth, but when the technology of curvature navigation became more mature, people turned their attention to the farther planet instead of paying attention to the one at their doorstep. The stars are out.
At the end of the plank road, there are several small elevators next to the giant elevator that is large enough to accommodate several aircraft. Tanithel came to one of the elevators and scanned the pupil pattern on the door lock, and soon a perfect to distortion appeared on the small screen. Male virtual artificial intelligence face-Leo, the mastermind of the Mars base.
"Welcome back, Priest Tanithel. Please confirm the identities of the other two entourage."
"Ethan Eldridge, this is his pass." Tanithel called out a bar code from the ball and scanned it in front of the code lock. "As for the other guard in the forbidden city, Maxim Corporal Ivanovich Vasilev."
Hui Mao took out his security card and scanned it. Leo smiled, "Welcome." Then he opened the elevator door.
The transparent elevator sank rapidly like a bullet, straight into the heart of the red planet. Approximately ten kilometers below the surface, the eyes suddenly opened up. The entire underground was hollowed out, and countless sky-pillar-like huge tall buildings were filled with bright lights, rising from the distant abyss to the top of the earth's crust. There are countless criss-crossing channels between these huge columns like ropes of different thickness. Many aircrafts flowed endlessly around the huge buildings in accordance with the established orbit, exuding various neon lights.
The entire underground space was illuminated by high-rise buildings, passages, and many spotlights embedded in the rock wall as if it were daylight, almost as if it were on the ground.
The elevator sank quickly against the rock wall and finally stopped at the end of a passage. After the door was opened, there was a welcome robot outside saying hello to them, leading them to stand on the escalator through the long corridor, and turned a few turns in the air, and drove to the tallest building in the middle. There are spiraling floors inside the high building, and the walls of each floor show different wallpapers. Many staff walk through the aisles. Many people will nod and smile when they see Tanisel, and then bet their curious eyes. On Ethan.
Ethan has read many reports on this research base, but now he sees it with his own eyes and knows how magnificent it is.
"Each building here has a different research project. The Antimatter Research Center is in this building, and the other buildings are not allowed to be involved unless you get permission."
Gray Mao seemed to be amazed at the huge size of this research center, and sighed secretly how much research the Earth Alliance is conducting in secret? If research at this level of antimatter only occupies one building, what is there in the other buildings?
Ethan was arranged to live in a well-equipped staff dormitory, while Hui Mao was arranged to live next door to him. It was a staff member who led them to settle down, and Tanithel disappeared after handing them to that person.
It seemed that the staff member didn't want to talk to Ethan, and all the necessary communication was with Hui Mao. Even when Ethan asked him, "Is there a limit for the hot water here," he just turned his head and looked at Gray Mao and replied, "The water consumption here is 150L per person per day. Please use it sparingly."
Ethan was relieved to learn that he didn't need to live in a room with Hui Mao. However, obviously he was not allowed to leave his house at will. The staff member only told Gray Mao the password, which meant that Gray Mao could enter and leave his house at will.
This made Ethan a little uneasy, because he always felt that the gray fur wanted to kill him.
However, Hui Mao seemed to have no intention of embarrassing him at the moment, and after giving him a warning glance, he went to his room. After the door closed, Ethan finally lay down on the single bed as if discouraged. There was an uncomfortable smell wafting from this place, some resembling melted plastic, which made him feel a little nauseous.
He thought of his rush out, and he didn't say a word to Samuel.
But I think Samuel's character probably won't worry him too much... just let him know that he came out with Tanithel, I'm afraid it will be another quarrel. I feel a headache after thinking about it.
This time the mission did not tell the score, but it was the mission that made him feel the most relaxing since entering the forbidden city. After all, Tanithel had saved him so many times, it was unlikely to harm him.
I wanted to sleep in a daze, but suddenly there was the sound of unlocking at the door. Ethan woke up suddenly and bounced off the bed like a rubber band, but he was relieved when he saw someone coming.
Tanithel had taken off his lock-up priest's clothes and walked closer in a simple white suit and white pants. The door slammed shut behind him.
"So..." Tanisel turned his back on the guest and bluntly pushed Ethan on the bed, then put his hands on both sides of Beta's cheeks, tilted his head slightly and looked at him with a wicked smile on his lips, "Finally, I have the opportunity to be alone with you. From listening to you telling about your past... love history, I have been feeling your emotional changes. Although you speak plainly, your inner activities are really... very letting The smell of excitement!"
Ethan was caught off guard by him, frowning. There was no excitement about that memory for him. Tanithel's reaction made him a little confused and angry, so he tried to push the priest away, "Really? But I'm not interested now!"
Tanithel didn't intend to let him go just like that. He leaned down and asked in his ear, "Who do you think is more attractive than Roland?"
Ethan couldn't bear it, pushed hard and finally escaped from under the priest. He stared angrily with a pair of green eyes, "You are also a priest anyway, can you look like a priest!"
"What does the priest look like?" Tanithel looked innocent.
Ethan angered, "How do I know! Probably it's just... a little bit less eager!"
"Last time on the Neptune Space Station, and also on the Magic Flute, you don't seem to want me to be pure-hearted?"
Ethan blushed, "That's not you..." He couldn't say the words "seduce me", he always felt that it was not a suitable word to describe Alpha.
The priest laughed in a low voice, and his body trembled with laughter. It was a bit different from the solemn and kind look before the others, "You are like a rabbit with fried hair now. It's so...cute."
When Ethan saw him being so unrefined, his anger suddenly vented. I probably felt that only he could see the priest, and he felt a little bit happy. He sat back on the bed and sighed as if he was defeated, "So what are you here for? Why do you want me to help you?"
Tanithel then smiled slightly, and sat upright, "Tomorrow I will take some blood samples from you, and then I will let you try to contact the Egg of Order God again. If this experiment goes well, you may be Become the first human in the galaxy to have direct contact with antimatter."