Vol 2 Chapter 58: Atonement: Faun (7)

After Ethan woke up sober, the first thing he smelled was a smell that was so heavy that it choked people. His gaze gradually focused, and the first thing he saw was a piece of blue, overlapping in deep and shallow, covering everything in his sight. Then he saw corpses and limbs everywhere.
At first, he couldn't see the human body at all, until he noticed that there were mixed hairs stained with blue liquid and some hands sticking out of the corpse. Overwhelmingly, the limbs of the horned man were soaked in blue blood, attracting many strange birds with red feathers, pecking at the eyes that couldn't be looked at in their sockets.
There was a grunt in Ethan's throat and a whimper that he didn't even hear. He saw that there was also a lot of red blood mixed in the blue everywhere. The human limbs scattered on the ground, the heads that were cut in half, and those who were cut off by the lazy waist seemed to be trying to crawl far away. Upper body. Everything in sight is death.
There was a pain in the back of his neck, and there was a strange touch floating in the air. What a strange feeling... the body seems to stretch out... why can he see so many strange colors, completely incomprehensible colors all over the night sky, why he can see the forest behind him, why can he be longer than his height What height looks down the entire empty field?
The shelf beside him was empty, and the chain seemed to be melted by some force.
What about the rest? Where is Samuel?
what is the problem? Is this hell? Why did so many people die?
The visual impact made him leaned over and vomited. However, when he saw the filth he was vomiting, he couldn't stop vomiting more, coughing embarrassedly, and occasionally frightened hiss in his throat.
There was a lot of flesh and blood in the filth, and he saw a purple eyeball in it.
Something was moving at the back of his neck, and he turned his head slightly, and the blood in his body froze.
It was an extremely ugly black tentacle, with more small tentacles growing at the end, dripping translucent mucus continuously. Those mucus dripped on his still locked left hand, and the iron chain made a hissing sound, braving the ominous blue smoke, and was quickly dissolved. But his skin didn't react to the mucus, but the sticky touch like saliva made him shudder.
Soon his left hand was liberated, and then his first thing was to reach out to touch the back of his neck.
Then he let out an unhuman scream.
His coat had been broken, starting from the back of the neck and spreading to the back of the shoulders and necks, countless smooth but hard tentacles crowded out and grew out of them, it was not like the amount and volume his body could bear. Every time he touches a tentacle, he feels it, and he even instinctively knows how to stretch and wave the limbs that suddenly appear. The eyes at the ends of the limbs allow him to see a wide field of vision that humans can’t see at all. The other ends are open. The combined terrifying giant mouth can swallow and digest the human body that his body cannot.
Those tentacles are part of his body.
Ethan kept screaming, as if he couldn't do anything other than scream.
Finally, he stopped and looked around blankly. He inhales deeply and exhales slowly, telling himself: calm, calm, calm.
He used the same method to corrode the chains of his hands and feet with acid, but once he lost the support, he found that his body could not support so many heavy tentacles behind him. He was almost pressed down on the altar, his sore limbs warmed up in numbness, and he waited a long time before he could stand up a little bit. He felt like he was carrying a huge boulder on his back. He had to use his best to drag so many limbs down the steps. His feet have been dyed red, red and blue, and the heavy fishy air made him unable to breathe. He painstakingly opened a path from the countless stacked corpses, half-walking and half-crawling out of the hell.
"Samuel! Samuel!" he yelled, searching for the familiar face in the body with fear. But he did not find, nor did he find Derek, Jarvan and others.
So many horns before, there is no one alive at this moment.
Did he kill everyone?
Ethan was dizzy and confused, unable to distinguish reality from dreams. He didn't remember anything, there was a terrible blank in his mind, like the empty eye sockets of a dead man.
If you can’t overcome fear, embrace it...
Tanithel's words suddenly came to mind, and a severe headache accompanied by dizziness made him almost fall to the ground. Some fragments of sensory memories are like chaotic movie clips, tearing internal organs, sucking bone marrow, screaming like the sound of heaven, endless power, the body seems to stretch to the sky, and people tremble and bow before him...
His knees were weak, and he knelt on the ground...what did he become?
The cold night wind of a foreign planet blew his thin body, making him tremble. The boundless loneliness, like a heavy shackle, bound this bewildered soul. His eye sockets were dry, his body was numb, and the unclear new limbs behind him overwhelmed him. For a moment, he thought it might be better to die.
But when I saw those pieces of meat on the ground that couldn't tell what they were, I felt death was too disgusting.
The headache gradually eased, and the feeling of vomiting finally subsided. He gradually calmed down and decided to go to the cave where they had been held before to see if he could find Samuel and the others. He tried to control the tentacles behind him, but he was a little to no avail, and finally had to drag the black and twisting thing behind him slowly to the direction of the cave.
Just when he finally approached the entrance of the torch-lit cave, a figure rushed out.
It's Samuel.
Ethan breathed a sigh of relief, and just about to raise a smile, the smile froze halfway. Because Samuel's first reaction was not joy, but he immediately picked up the Ophiuchus laser gun used by the horns that he didn't know where to find and pointed it at him. What was revealed in those dark eyes was no longer the familiar trust, but the boundless fear.
Ethan suddenly realized how he looked in his eyes. He took a step back timidly and cried, "Samuel? It's me..."
Samuel was still staring at him nervously, his hand holding the gun trying to stabilize, but still slightly shaking up and down, "You...what are you..."
At this time, another person rushed over, Tai Feng. Tai Feng, a former colleague and friend who once grasped him as a life-saving straw, screamed when he saw him, and immediately hid behind Samuel, followed by Jarvan and Derek. When Derek saw him, he shot at him without hesitation.
The laser beam penetrated Ethan's body instantly, and he didn't even feel the pain. He lowered his head in a daze, and saw that a small hole had been opened in his chest, and the black blood was viscously pulling a thin line.
Immediately afterwards, the flesh and blood scorched by the laser began to grow and heal rapidly. In the end, except for a black blood stain on his chest, not even a scar was visible.
"Monster..." Jarvin whispered, taking out a purple dagger from his waist that looked like a priest used. "I'm fighting with you!"
The strange and terrifying gazes of Samuel and Tai Feng made Ethan like falling into an ice cave, especially Samuel, who was probably the only friend Ethan believed in in the Forbidden City.
In order to prove that he was not a monster, Ethan stepped back quickly, but almost tripped over his tentacles. He hurriedly raised his hands to make a harmless gesture, "Samuel! It's me! I'm Ethan! Ethan who lives with you!"
Ethan's pleading call softened Samuel's guarded eyes. The creature in front of... the creature with terrifying tentacles on the back of its neck does indeed have Ethan's body and face. Although there are winding black lines on both sides of his cheeks, although the shape of his pupils is a bit different from before, although he has no glasses, his coat is torn, and his whole body is covered with that black lines, which looks like something A primitive beast with a certain dark beauty...
But his voice did belong to Ethan, and his eyes that were always cautious and timid also belonged to Ethan. Obviously it is the most harmless soul, but it abruptly blends with the nightmarish tentacles behind it.
Samuel saw the fear and helplessness in Ethan's eyes, and he suddenly realized that Ethan was back.
The unforgettable of killing an hour ago was not his Ethan, but a monster that temporarily occupied his body.
Samus lowered his muzzle slightly and took a tentative step forward, but was violently pulled by Tai Feng. Samuel asked, "Ethan? Is it really you?"
Ethan nodded desperately, "I don't know what happened! What the is going on?" He reached out and touched the flesh and blood limbs behind his neck. "What are these?"
"You don't remember anything?" Samuel stared at him suspiciously, and everyone else was unbelieving. Jarvan said next to him, "Don't be fooled! After returning from the second dimension before, some people have mutated. Adam is an example. He must have mutated too! He was infected by the law of the Second Universe..." He said nothing. After speaking, a black tentacle suddenly waved in the air, wrapped Jarvin's neck, and lifted the strong inhuman. I saw that his face quickly turned purple because of blood flow, and he kept making a gurgling noise because of lack of oxygen, and his feet kept kicking. The knife in his hand scratched the tentacles, but the powerful wrists seemed to feel no pain, but tightened.
Everyone took a breath of air and turned to look at Ethan, only to see that Beta, who was still pitiful just now, was burning with some kind of cold anger, and his green eyes were shining in the silent night.
"I didn't offend you, why do you always force me?" Ethan's voice was low, as if squeezed from the bottom of his throat, "In the second universe, you, like them, want me to die, not as good as yourself. Go and die first!"
"Ethan! Stop it!" Samuel yelled and leaped towards him, but was conditioned by Ethan's reflex and generally fanned open with a tentacle, and hit the rock wall heavily. Samuel's painful cry made Ethan suddenly awake, and he immediately let go of the tentacles that clamped Jarvan, as if he could not believe what he had just done.
The sudden cold anger, the anger that had been easily suppressed in the past, now completely dominates his actions. He almost killed Jarvan.
Just like he killed the three thousand horned people and a dozen inhumans outside...
"I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." Ethan wanted to apologize, but saw that the eyes of the four people looking at him were completely looking at a dangerous and unstable beast. Taefeng lifted up Samuel, who was beaten to his head, and said to Ethan, "Ethan...If you are still Ethan, let us make a living?"
Derek carefully aimed the laser gun at his head and said in a cautious tone, "We just want to leave here and let us go, okay? We swear that we will never mention you to anyone."
Ethan shook his head, vigorously. He heard what they meant and reached out to Samuel, "Don't... don't leave me..."
He can't stay on this planet, which is always in darkness, by himself.
But Samus stared at him with a sad look, and the hesitation in his eyes was gradually replaced by a trace of guilt.
At this time, the roar of the aircraft came from the sky, and smooth silver-gray lines hovered over the killing field. That is the Earth Alliance aircraft, it is likely to come to search and rescue or to bomb the secret stronghold of those horned people. This is a good opportunity for Samuel and others to escape from this dense forest. With Jarvan trying to get around Ethan, Derekla was cautious, as if he was a bomb that could explode at any time.
Ethan didn't stop them, he just whispered to Samuel, "Don't leave me here..."
But Samuel finally lowered his eyes, pushed Tai Feng away, and walked slowly in front of him.
"Ethan, you can't go back." Samuel's lips pressed tightly, and a deep sadness spread in the depths of his eyes, "They will kill you."
Ethan knew that Samuel was telling the truth, and once the troops of the Earth Alliance saw a monster like him, they would definitely open fire at him immediately. Although laser guns seem to be unable to harm him so far, who knows what kind of weapons they will use?
Even if they are not dead, they will be sent to the forgotten laboratories under Mars, where they will be cut and broken down a little bit, right?
But what should he do? Will you live in this forest forever as a monster?
Watching Ethan kneeling on the ground, with blank eyes open, watching the terrifying tentacles lying on the ground behind him. They look not as long as they were on the altar before, but they are still very disgusting. This was once introverted and gentle, and he protected and took care of the man who took care of him when he was most vulnerable, but now it has become something similar to a monster on the red earth. Samus felt his heart hurt. He thought he was in love with him. After that person is completely over, he will never feel that distressed again.
"I will find a way to find someone to save you." Samuel said in his ear, "but now, you have to hide it so that no one can see you."