Vol 2 Chapter 57: Atonement: Faun (6)

Samuel turned around and shouted at all the non-people: "Fight with them!" At his call, the non-people began to struggle and resist, after all, no one wanted to die like that. They slammed their fists at the surrounding corner men, trying to get out of the encirclement. Ethan also rushed right and left with the others, but he knew deep in his heart that it was impossible to escape. After all, they were surrounded by 3,000 horns, and there were so many guns around. People are here, and they are tied together like grasshoppers, even their actions are restricted.
Their resistance was quickly defeated by the swelling horns. The chains that bound their hands and feet made them look like dominoes, one fell and one piece fell. The horned soldiers seemed to be angry, yelling at something and grabbing Wilson, Little A, and another female Alpha. The three of them scolded and struggled, but were still dragged onto the altar by force.
Although Wilson scolded loudly, when his hands and feet were tied to the wooden frame, Ethan still saw the tall man trembling, and his eyes were full of panic. When the horne priest danced towards him with a knife, his pants were obviously wet with urine.
The same goes for Little A and the other soldiers. If it weren't for the chains to lock him, I'm afraid he would have collapsed into a ball. Soldiers like Sergeant Wilson are soldiers who have been stationed in Faun for quite some time. They are the strongest warriors among mankind, but no one can blame them for becoming weak in the face of the cruelest death. People shouldn't die like this, it's crazy, so crazy that people have the kind of numbness in a dream after the extreme horror.
Ethan was in this numbness, he couldn't even feel scared. He watched as the two priests lifted the skulls of the three men one by one, saw Sergeant Wilson's brain exposed to the air, saw his eyeballs roll back, his mouth opened unnaturally, as if already I couldn’t control my face anymore, and I saw those giant worms, lured by the call of the bell and the sweet smell of the brain, protruding from the deep ground like a pillar-like body, swallowing three living creatures with that ugly mouth People who sucked their flesh and blood, shattered their bones and internal organs. Ethan couldn't imagine what it would be like when the body was wrapped in that mouth, when the skin was peeled off the body, and when the brain was shattered.
The two priests were still singing, Ethan could not understand their language, but they kept repeating the same word: Yog-Sothoth, Yog-Sothoth, Yog-Sothoth.
He, Samuel and Derek are the next to be pulled up to the altar. At this moment, even Derek, who had always been looking indifferent to anything, shook his head in horror, and struggling with the last of his strength, but was still resisted by the horned man on his shoulders and stepped on the torture frame at the top of the altar.
Ethan didn't struggle, he was just pushing himself up and obedient unexpectedly. He thought of Tanisir, and kept calling Tanisir in his heart, begging the priest to save him. He will definitely come, just like every time in the past.
Because he needs him, he will definitely save himself.
But when he was fixed on the torture rack, when the cold red flesh and blood on the rack soaked his clothes, when the chain with human skin tissue locked his wrist, he suddenly remembered the tower in his dream What Nisel told him.
"This time... I don't know if I can make it in time."
He is too late to save him.
Realizing this, Ethan realized that in fact, he had not been completely desperate. Deep down in his consciousness, he still believed that Tanithel would suddenly appear, rescuing him again like a god. Unknowingly, Tanithel had become his subconscious salvation, and he had completely surrendered to the feet of the priest unknowingly.
But now, this ultimate hope is shattered.
He is really dying, no one can save him. That weird short knife is about to slash his scalp and cut his skull. His brain will be exposed to the cold air. Before he dies, he will feel the pain of being torn to pieces by countless sharp teeth. Then he will Return to nothingness and never exist again. His short, boring and sad life came to an end, and there was not even a slight ripple in the long river of time.
Next to him Samus kept talking to him, repeating the sentence, "It's okay! It's okay! It will be over soon!" Hearing the trembling in the voice, I am afraid that Samus himself didn't know what he wanted. To comfort Ethan or to comfort yourself. But no matter who it was, it didn't work.
The purple dagger was so similar to the one that Ethan used to kill. The horned priest's face was slightly longer than the human face with an exaggerated smile that made him shudder. It was a smile belonging to the of death.
At the same time Ethan remembered, remembered everything, Tanithel whispered cursively in his ear in his dream.
"If there is no way to overcome fear, embrace it."
Die miserably now, or embrace it...
Then, live as a monster.
Somewhere in his mind seemed to be suddenly resuscitated. A tingling and itching quickly turned into a cracking pain spreading from the black bulge on the back of his neck, and many black thin lines were rapidly winding and growing, like the veins of a tattoo. Spread to his back, several other black lines twisted and spread to the sides of his cheeks, two thicker black lines stretched out to the corners of his eyes, and his pupils elongated and the green of his iris became More pure.
Ethan didn't know what had happened to him, he just felt very comfortable, his vision became extremely clear, full of strange colors that he had never seen before. The horror, despair, and madness that have filled his body just now have not dissipated. They are still filled in every cell in his body, but they are no longer undesirable feelings. On the contrary, they become like joy and happiness. Feeling, like boundless ecstasy and peace, made him extremely comfortable. His consciousness seemed to be suddenly freed from his body, rising continuously, passing through the dim clouds and mist, and came to a beautiful fairyland.
That was the fairyland that Tanisel had woven for him, the green pools, burgundy duckweed, blue and purple shrubs, and the huge old tree with red leaves full of blood. He was lying on the water, empty and unworried.
And the other part of him, the other part, perhaps more real, still stayed in the bound body, and his trembling lips suddenly outlined a somewhat weird smile.
This part of him has been sleeping in his subconscious. From the moment of birth, occasionally a dark shadow spreads on his superficial consciousness, and is quickly pressed back to deep sleep by layers of consciousness until that The foreign DNA sequence changed the body that was born in the power of Xu Shen until this moment arrived.
The priestess had just raised the knife, and suddenly something penetrated her throat.
The priestess's eyes widened suddenly, as if she couldn't believe what had happened to her. Her body was rolled into the air, and she was thrown a few times like a puppet, and then she was lightly thrown under the altar. When she landed, her limbs were twisted to an impossible angle, her head turned one hundred and eighty degrees, and her purple eyes turned gray, still maintaining an expression of consternation.
There was a silent wave in the noisy empty field quickly spreading, the horns' slender eyes stared at everything that happened on the altar, and the non-people also showed the same blank expression.
Trapped on the torture frame, Ethan raised his black blood-stained face, and suddenly opened countless black tentacles on the back of his neck, like a black firework blooming in an instant. They stretch out endlessly, covering the sky and obscuring the sun. Some of them have green eyes at the ends, some are like worms in the depths of the cave with a mouth that keeps opening and closing, and some are full of greasy. The spikes of venom. They descended madly from the sky, where countless horns were swallowed, cut into two pieces, or the skin was melted by the suction cups on their tentacles, making a harsh scream.
The situation that turned over in an instant suddenly lost control on the scene, and the non-people were suddenly forgotten, and they were pushed into the crowd of people colliding with each other. Unexpectedly, a considerable number of horned people not only did not run away, but knelt down with their hands high, with an expression of ecstasy like seeing God on their faces, even tears streaming down their faces. They wow, wow, spoke their own words, and kept kowtow towards the high platform, and bowed to the pale figure in the black flower of death.
Above the altar at the center of the storm, there was peace. Samuel, who was next to Ethan, was stunned, as if he could not analyze the information his eyes received in his mind. Those terrifying black tentacles didn't hurt him, even bypassing him and Derek, who was also dumbfounded. But he watched how they entangled the male horned priest's body at the same time, the sound of the bone being strangled and the male priest's wailing made his scalp numb. When the tentacles let go of the male priest at will, the things that fell on the ground were no longer in human form, only a pool of meat sauce and a few pieces of scattered horns were left.
"Ethan..." Samuel's muttered whisper was submerged in the screams of the horns like a sea of ​​hell, but Ethan slowly turned his head and looked at him.
The same green eyes, but the darkness, evil, and madness in them made Samuel shudder.
"Ethan! Ethan!" Samuel called him aloud, but Ethan didn't seem to understand, and he just faced him with that weird and hollow smile, and then slowly turned his head back.
The pious gestures of the horns did not win the pardon, and a tentacle sprayed with acid, instantly melting their flesh and blood into a pool of flesh and water.
Not only the horns, but even many of their own people were not spared. Those non-humans he didn't know or were not familiar with were also rolled up by the tentacles and thrown into the air, falling down and breaking their brains.
This is a picture of in disguise blooming in the dark, and the eternal night sky echoes with a symphony of death woven by howling and screaming. Even the giant worm in the deep cave rushed out of the ground as if it had been summoned, opening the huge black hole-like mouth, and pressing it down towards the horns on the ground who had turned from hunters to prey.
"Don't stay alive." This was another sentence that Tanithel had whispered in his ear.
The author has something to say:
The long-awaited mutation...
In addition, Ethan's tentacles massacre refer to the image of Eliza in the Silent Hill movie version, the Snake Mother in the Tomb Note movie version, the Spider-Man Doctor Octopus, and the image of Naraku in Inuyasha.