Vol 2 Chapter 44: Atonement: Mars (4)

The test tube fell on the ground and made a crisp crashing sound. Fortunately, the material of the container only looked like glass, but it was actually an exceptionally strong tempered material, so it wouldn't fall apart.
However, Ethan didn't care about worrying about whether the Entropy God's body fluid in the test tube would leak out. He suddenly backed away until he shrank into a small ball in the corner. He grabbed his hair with his hands, and babbled nervously.
I was seen, I was seen, I was seen... He didn't know what happened just now, but he knew that he was seen by that huge green eye, and could never escape.
He didn't even understand what he saw, or who the black man that appeared last was, but he knew that the images of those cities came from an extremely ancient past, so old that even the universe has not yet been born. Those weird buildings cannot be built on any planet in the existing universe. They are all unreasonable shapes, which make people dizzy and confused. The huge emerald-colored sun in the sky looked like the green eyes, glowing with dirty light, looking down at everything in the universe.
That is a long lost universe that humans cannot understand.
And the things in the cone-shaped tower, emptiness and chaos, are the purest madness. He will be swallowed and absorbed completely. He will no longer exist in the endless time in the future, as if he never existed.
He don't want to be like this...it's too scary, it doesn't exist anymore, never existed, only a void...
Suddenly, his body was surrounded by the familiar gentle force, a faint scent of sandalwood wrapped him like a gentle cloud, and the tranquil power accompanied by the pale blue light of the Egg of the God of Order penetrated into his boundless fear. Among.
Tanithel hugged him and noticed that Ethan's exposed back neck wound from holding his head in both hands was covered with black blood vessels that spread to the shoulders and necks, or lines like branching branches. The skin where fine lines touched is dry and cracked, even bleeding. At the moment when Ethan was most frightened just now, he even felt that he saw something under the skin move a bit, supporting the skin slightly.
Fear... Fear is the catalyst for mutation. A voice in Tanisel's mind said so.
He raised his spiritual power to the extreme, and the brilliance in the silver eyes of his forehead became more and more dazzling. While working hard to bring Ethan's mind back to reality, the dark power in the opponent's mind is constantly dragging his mind, scattered pictures are also invading his mind, and the sudden flashing green eyes and dark human form make Tani Thrall felt the hairs all over his body stand up. He did not expect to see the illusion of the foolish he has always believed in and its messenger-the black of chaos, and he did not expect that things would evolve to this point... he couldn't tell whether he should feel joy or fear. .
He began to wonder whether the decisions he made before, and whether his unrevealed goals were not his own thoughts, but were formed under the influence of the suppressed and mysterious power of the core of the chaotic universe he admired. ?
Is everything he has experienced in his life as a trap set by the treacherous and slippery God of Chaos?
He tried to stabilize his tumbling mood, whispering in Ethan's ear, his voice piercing into the ear canal like a spell.
"Ethan, come back, come back to me."
Tanithel's voice was the last straw that Ethan's nearly frantic consciousness could grasp. He grabbed the sentence desperately, pulling himself out of the chaotic images little by little. He found that he was being held from behind by Tanithel, his hand was firmly grasping Tanithel's wrist, and due to too much force he even pinched a trace of blood on the white wrist. The blood of the Eve people is slightly different from that of the earth people. The purple liquid stained the fingertips, like rose juice accidentally stained.
Ethan relaxed his grip on Tanisel, but still refused to let go of his hand completely. He kept blinking, as if trying to determine whether the place he was now was reality.
Ethan asked in an unsteady voice, "Where is that? I saw... a green sun, and a big city with a lot of bugs... I don't want to go there!"
"Shhh..." Tanithel soothed, "It's just that some of the memory of the population that exists in the body tissue of the Entropy God resonates with you. You are safe."
"Population memory?"
"It is a kind of memory that is recorded in the genetic information of a race. It is usually not felt, but it will be affected by them. Generally speaking, people should not experience this when indirectly contacting the entropy body sample. The big reaction, because humans are mainly evolving under the power of the Order God, so there is no population memory of the Entropy God." Tanithel said slowly, seemingly worried that Ethan's confused thoughts could not understand what he said. He turned Ethan’s body and looked at him directly,
The reason why you have such a big reaction is because you are likely to be infected by the entropy in the red earth, but this infection was affected by the preface in the early stage. Radiation is suppressed, until you enter the second universe dominated by the power of the Entropy God, the power of the Egg of Order God is greatly weakened, and the mutation begins to occur."
Hearing the words Entropy God Infect, the first thing Ethan remembered in his mind was the sight of Jeff's body full of moving pustules, and a layer of goose bumps formed on his arm. He asked desperately, "Will I become the kind of bug on the red earth?"
"Your mutation seems to be different from them. To be honest, I don't know what will happen." Tanithel looked at Ethan's expression and knew that if he said yes, this Beta didn't know if it would be straightforward. suicide. But he did not lie to him, because the lines on the back of Ethan's neck were obviously not seen by anyone who was infected on the red earth before. He saw that Ethan did not get any comfort, so he sighed and said, "I can try to suppress the mutation in your body with the radiation of the Egg of Order God, but I don't know if I can succeed."
Ethan clung to his shirt tightly, his eyes full of begging from the dead, almost saying in a forced tone, "Help me, I don't want to be like that anyway!"
Tanithel turned his head to look at the egg of the Order God, feeling a little embarrassed. He took an egg of Order God to the Red Earth without authorization, completely consumed the precious things, and after returning to Eve, he was almost sent to the religious court by the priests who saw him unpleasantly. It is not the pope and his uncle who are protecting him, and he cannot get away safely. Part of the reason why he was sent secretly to the earth to assist in the development of antimatter was also to let him escape the limelight.
If he abused the Egg of Order God for the sake of this humanity this time, he would probably cause a lot of trouble again.
But if you don't save him...
Tanithel patted Ethan's back comfortably, and made up his mind, "Okay, I'll help you. But you can't let anyone know about this, not even Samuel."
Ethan nodded quickly. As long as the mutation can be stopped, I am afraid he will agree to anything.
Tanithel lightly grabbed Ethan's wrist, made him loosen his shirt, and then stood up and walked towards the altar carrying the egg of the of order. He first picked up the bottle containing the genital mother god’s body fluid on the ground and took it back into the altar. Then he looked at the little blue thing carefully for a while, took it off the altar with both hands, and leaped his fingers gently on it, as if Playing the piano is a series of smart and complicated movements. The blue brilliance of Preface God's Egg dimmed suddenly and even went out completely.
Ethan saw that Tanithel took a small piece of blue from the egg, and then he gently tapped the surface of the egg of Order God as before, with a very focused and careful expression, even a little like walking on thin ice. .
When the Preface God's egg exudes a charming blue halo again, Tanithel breathed a sigh of relief, and held the blue fragment tightly in his hand, walked to the door and pulled Ethan. let's go."
Tanisel was in a hurry, and Ethan followed suit. He noticed that the floor button that Tanisel pressed was not the floor he lived in before, but a place about three floors lower than that. Before leaving the elevator, Tanithel reached out and pulled Ethan's collar up, covering the inhuman collar around his neck.
There are few people in the clear corridors, but occasionally well-dressed senior researchers pass by them, or say hello to the priest, or just nod their heads. No one pays too much attention to the ordinary Beta betting behind the priest. Tanithel took Ethan into a very luxurious suite, obviously an apartment specially arranged for him. The priest motioned Ethan to sit on the sofa, and he himself entered the bedroom.
Ethan sat anxiously on the sofa, took off his glasses and wiped them with his sleeves, rubbing his feet against the soft carpet on the ground.
After about thirty minutes, Tanithel finally came out. The blue fragment in his hand was gone, replaced by a pen-like transparent thin tube, with brass-colored metal rings on both ends, covered with Eve planet-style patterns. In the transparent part of the test tube, there is some liquid with blue sediment.
"This is a small piece I removed from the Egg of the God of Sequence. I mashed it and divided it into five parts to make this injection. I will inject the first part into the back of your neck later. Take a look at the effect before deciding whether to continue the injection." Tanisel squatted down in front of Ethan and looked at him seriously, "Excessive exposure to the power of Prologue will also cause problems. I dare not do it all at once. Give you too much."
Ethan's lips were pressed tightly, and he nodded vigorously, "I believe you."
Tanisel was slightly surprised, as if he wanted to enliven the atmosphere, and smiled at him, "Don't believe me so quickly, we are..."
"Mutual utilization." Ethan caught him nonchalantly, and gave him a bitter smile, "Just knowing that I'm still useful to you, so you won't let me get into trouble, right? ?"
At that moment, Tanithel's seldom turbulent heart finally rose with a bit of long-lost sorrow, and the pale smile of the other party reminded him of the smile his father wanted to comfort him before he died. His brows frowned inadvertently, and he stood up and gently supported Ethan's shoulders. Ethan also lowered his head along with pulling down the collar, revealing a neck with many thin black lines spreading.
Tanithel noticed that some fine lines had begun to spread into the hair. He activated the syringe and pressed it at the densest part of the back of the neck.