Vol 2 Chapter 6: Atonement: Red Earth (4)

"That's...what's that..." Ethan didn't realize that his voice was much weaker than before. A kind of coldness rushed from the heel to the back.
I don't know why the video I just saw made him look like a desperate horror of leaning down into the abyss.
Tanithel took the remnant ball back and played it between his fingers, "You can feel it too, the kind of trembling that saw the extreme evil and chaos. You are only a human being, and what we Eve people perceive is yours. Several times, when I first saw this video, many priests were so terrified that they had insomnia for a month. Such pure horror, we have never seen it before."
"You don't know what it is?" Ethan felt the muscles in his chest tighten, so that his breathing was a little quick, "So you plan to use non-human beings for the experiment?"
"Don't count us Eve people among'you', this is the decision of the Earth Alliance." Tanithel's understatement made Ethan even more frightened and angry. Through the lens, his fiery eyes stared at the priest's ice-carved jade face, his cheeks were flushed, his fists were tightly clenched, and the taller body was trembling slightly compared to other Betas. In the eyes of the priest, it looked a bit like a rabbit who was going to be anxious.
Rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry. I don't know what this gentleman will look like when they bite. Tanithel thought with interest.
But after a while, the man who seemed to be on the verge of panic and collapse in front of him gradually relaxed his body, and his fists were also loosened a little. Ethan took a step back, took a deep breath, and returned to calm when he looked up at the priest again.
In other words, it is to force composure.
"You took the initiative to show our favor to us and told me these secrets. It seems that you don't want us, at least you don't want Samuel to die? What do you want us to do?" Ethan asked.
Tanithel curled his eyes and smiled brightly. "I do have a guess. If you are willing to cooperate and try, maybe you can survive."
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It was the end of the day when Samus woke up, and it was dim all around. The sweet and greasy smell from him had not yet dissipated, and he smelled a sense of nausea. A heavy dull pain kept hitting one of his temples, making him wish he could stay in the drowsiness he had before.
Ethan fell asleep leaning on the box on the other side of the small space, his whole body curled up and his glasses tilted to one side. There are two obvious bruises under the eyes, and I have been exhausted for two days to take care of him. Samus sat up, fumbled for a bottle of water in the dark and drank it clean. He vaguely remembered seeing a golden-haired Eve, whose incomparable Alpha smell still lingers in his mind.
It was a completely different smell from the Forbidden City and other Alphas on Earth. It was not so aggressive, but it was still full of power and authority.
He checked his body for some time and confirmed that he was not involved in that Alpha. In that state, he didn't take the initiative to throw in his arms. His strong Omega scent that had been accumulated for three years didn't cause Alpha to lose his mind. It was a miracle.
It's just... why is that Eve man here? After he discovered his identity, he didn't know what would happen.
He looked at Ethan thoughtfully. He brought that Eve man? What is this kid doing?
Probably after hearing his noise, Ethan also opened his eyes. Seeing Samus’s calm eyes, coupled with the odor that was gradually dissipating, he finally sighed backward and paralyzed, "Ancestor, you are finally normal. Even when my mother was in menopause, it was not as difficult as you. Do..."
Samus was very dissatisfied with this analogy, not to mention the inexplicable Alpha that popped out before, so he leaned in front of Ethan, and the distance was so close that the latter leaned back slightly uncomfortably. Samuel's voice was hoarse, sounding with a strong deterrent, "Did you find the Eve Alpha before?"
Ethan swallowed and hesitated to say, "Yes..." Then immediately explained, "But don't worry, he won't leak your affairs!"
"Really? You know him well?" The tone became more dangerous, and the tips of the two people's noses almost touched. Ethan shook his head hurriedly, "Unfamiliar! Unfamiliar! I just met him!"
"Don't you dare to believe him if you don't know you?! Maybe now the entire ship knows that there is an Omega on board this time!"
This accusatory tone made Ethan uncomfortable. He thought I would take care of you day and night, but he would be domineering when he woke up. Is there any conscience? He closed his eyes and shouted, "Otherwise, what should I do! At that time, an inhumane smelled you on my body and almost marked me as an Omega. If he didn't save me, I would probably I can’t come back! Besides, other people’s priests, are you guilty of disturbing the whole ship and restless for you? People kindly help you, can you stop being persecuted for paranoia all day long!" The small medicine bottle was stuffed into Samuel's hand, and he said angrily, "I also brought you medicine for side effects. I like to eat it or not."
Samuel had never heard the secretary speak so loudly before, and he was shocked that he hadn't found the word for a few seconds before replying.
Ethan turned around and began to sort out the sleeping bags on the ground. "If it is afraid, it should be me. After the bearded man goes back, the world will say that I am an Omega. What if someone sexually harasss me in the future?"
Samuel watched silently at Beta, who was busy muttering, and he was really apologetic in his always domineering heart.
It seems that this time the secretary's face is really hurt.
He cleared his throat and pursed his lips, "Um... if you are really worried, it doesn't matter if you tell the truth. I have the ability to protect myself."
"Protect your uncle. I have worked so hard to hide your identity, and now I say it is not all for nothing?" Ethan took a deep breath, turned to look at Samuel helplessly, and asked uncertainly." Anyway, I insisted that you are my Alpha. Seeing that you have a good relationship with Otto, no one should dare to touch me, right?"
Samuel reached out and grabbed his shoulders, squeezed hard, "Don't worry, no one dares to move you with me."
Listening to his calm and deep tone, his eyes focused and serious, there really is a kind of Alpha who vowed to protect his Omega. Ethan looked a little uncomfortable by him, lowered his head and pushed his glasses, and sighed, "As long as you don't do this stupid thing again, I'll thank God."
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Two people returned to the clearing where the non-people gathered while everyone was asleep. One or two non-people who were not asleep watched them come back, but didn't say much. Ethan saved everything he had to eat, and his stomach aches from hunger. Samuel gave him the last remaining small piece of compressed bread, and said in a low voice, "Be patient and bear with me. I'll grab more food for you later."
Ethan was chewing on dry bread, and his mind was full of char-grilled steak, French baked snails, seafood pasta, chocolate lava cake... the last meal I ate at the Greek restaurant near my home three months ago The remaining half of the roast leg of lamb left without eating it. Now that I think of it, I really regret it. Why didn't I eat the bone dregs before?
After finally staying up until the morning, the food-supply robot came down. Samus didn't break his promise, and rushed to the large boxes with food in a murderous manner. No one dared to stand in front of him along the way. Holding a full compressed food bag and squeezing it out, Otto smiled next to him, "I wondered where you went the other day. So I went to find a place to be happy with your Xinhuan?"
Samuel glanced at him, "What nonsense are you talking about."
"Don't pretend, Scott told us when he came back yesterday, that your secretary is actually an Omega? Tsk tsk, pretends to look like Beta, I didn't even see it."
Samuel grabbed Otto by the collar abruptly, seeing the latter in a cold sweat with wolf-like eyes.
"I said, don't hit his mind."
Although Otto could be considered a face-to-face figure in the Forbidden City, he was still of Samuel's faction anyway. Everyone knows that you can't mess with Samuel, otherwise it's possible to be beaten to death. So at this moment Otto also quickly showed a weak smile, "Relax man, I'm just kidding, why are you so serious?"
Samuel also laughed suddenly, let go of his hand holding Otto, and thoughtfully helped him straighten out the folds on his collar, "I'm kidding you too, why are you so serious?"
When he finished speaking, he turned and left. Otto just halfway through his breath, listened to Samuel asking, "You just said that it was Scott who tried to tag Eldridge yesterday?"
Otto shrugged, "I don't know, he didn't know where he told us after he came back in a panic."
Samuel finally walked away, and Otto exhaled and glanced sympathetically at Scott, who was asleep in the distance.
Ethan never knew that he could eat those compressed foods in bags to the point that he could eat them. One time, he almost choked, and suddenly a bottle of water appeared in front of him. Looking along the bottle, he saw Samus using one. Looking at him with breathtaking eyes, "Don't choke."
Ethan realized how bad his eating was, and his cheeks were a little hot. He took a few sips from the water bottle and finally swallowed his mouthful.
"I thought your cultural people would be more elegant when eating." Samuel teased.
"I thought you Omega would be gentle." Ethan sighed contentedly, and leaned back on a machine that he didn't know what it was for. "It's about to enter the orbit of the Red Earth in two days. Yesterday the one helped us. Priest Eve told me something about that planet."
"Really?" Samus was inexplicably upset when he thought of the alien, probably because his true gender was known by an Alpha, which made him feel threatened. "He is really warmhearted."
"Listen, it's related to whether we can return to Earth alive." Ethan said sternly, "We will be transported to the Red Earth, and the other humans and Eve will stay on the mother ship. , Remotely command us to conduct a search operation. But they don’t expect us to find anything at all. In fact, they are just waiting for something... to appear."
Samuel frowned, unable to understand what he meant.
"That thing seems to appear on the Red Earth every three years, and every time a person appears on that planet will disappear. The pioneer team and the search and rescue team that were sent before lost contact in this way. So this time they wanted to They should send us to the Red Earth as bait, while they themselves stay in safer space for remote observation."
"So what is it?"
"do not know……"
"do not know?!"
"You don't need to bring us here if you know. But I know..." Ethan recalled the black lumps that covered the sky and the sun, and the flagella-like things that extended from the sky, causing him to produce a thick Strong disgust and panic, "I know that is definitely not a good thing."