Vol 2 Chapter 29: Atonement: Neptune (2)

Through the slender window of the military dormitory, you can see the blue lustre of the Neptune ring across the sky. The huge planet's surface obscures most of the starry sky, and the atmosphere of hydrogen, helium, and methane spirals slowly. He still remembered that his father had been to Base 10 to help the government design and build a new type of military spacecraft. After returning home, he told him that there was a large diamond sea on the sea-blue planet. The little one looked at the same small blue light spot through the astronomical telescope, and imagined in his mind a huge ocean of brilliance, piled up by countless cone-shaped diamonds of different sizes covering half of the planet.
After he grew up, he knew that the diamond sea was liquid, and it seemed to be no different from an ordinary ocean. But he still has a dreamlike affection for this planet. It's just that I didn't expect to meet it so close for the first time, but in an inhuman identity.
The other non-humans were not asleep either. They gathered around Jarvan, guessing what the so-called experiment was. Obviously Gray Mao's last words scared many people. The experiment that sent them to was simply scary and scary words.
"He said that we just need to stay in that mini space station. Will it be to test the defensive capabilities of the space station?"
"So there is no need to use living people? So many cheap bionic robots."
"Don't forget that we are not people at all in their eyes."
Jarvan suddenly said aloud, staring straight at Ethan who was in a daze by the window, "Hey, that Omega like Beta over there, you weren't an official in the government before? Do you know what experiments are going on here? "
Ethan sighed and looked away, "I belong to the Energy Bureau and I don't have much contact with the military."
"Shit, we sent troops to suppress the Tiangang rebellion a while ago. Didn't we dig back more rare earth resources for your Energy Bureau?" Jarvan sneered, tilted his head and asked him, "I have been a running dog for a lifetime. Still thinking of keeping your master secret?"
The aggressive and contemptuous tone ignited a fire in Ethan's heart, thinking that if he confessed at this moment, he would probably be ashamed of Samuel. So he raised the corners of his mouth slightly and held his glasses, "I have a guess. In ancient times, there was a country on the earth that conducted a military experiment. Some people called it the Rainbow Project, and some people called it the Philadelphia Experiment. For the first time, humans tried to create a temporary strong magnetic field to bend the space, and another ship entered another time and space together with people. Of course, the experiment failed, and many crew members disappeared mysteriously, and some of them merged with the ship. After that, it was quite. For a long time, the Rainbow Project was shelved and even officially denied, saying that everything was a rumor. However, with the arrival of the interstellar age, perhaps the military has rekindled interest in it."
No one answered him for a while, and no one looked at each other, and didn't know if he understood what he meant.
The reason why Ethan was impressed by the legend about this experiment at the time was because the name of the deportation ship was the same as his family name, both of which were Eldridge. And this time, after listening to the "hell" that Gray Mao said, I inexplicably think of the mother on the red earth squeezed out of the cracks in time and space, the remote experiment, and the parallel universe exploration proposal submitted by the Energy Administration.
"You mean...we will be teleported to other parallel spaces?" a pale Omega asked.
Ethan nodded approvingly, thinking that Omega has a higher IQ than Alpha. "It's just a guess. The population of the Earth Alliance has been increasing, but the per capita share of resources has been declining. The Bureau of Energy has indeed been looking for possible new energy input channels. Of course it’s best not to get it through war. So we submitted an application for parallel universe research, but it was rejected. Later, it was rumored that the rejection was only obvious. In fact, the army has secretly started collecting ancient Philadelphia experiments. Information. I don’t know if I was named this time or if it was for this reason."
"Huh, isn't it because you provoke the second-in-command?" Jarvan's face was blue and white, probably because I didn't expect Ethan to actually tell a lot of specious inside information.
Ethan shrugged, "He has all the detailed personal information that is not human, maybe he took the initiative to mention me above. This is not a contradiction." After all, judging from the last time, everyone was selected to participate in a task. There is a reason. Even the actions of volunteers may be counted.
Another Beta asked, "Is this experiment dangerous?"
"It's never more dangerous than the ancient Rainbow Project." Ethan actually didn't have a bottom in his heart, but he must be clear at this time. Otherwise, more than 20 panicked inhumans will be locked in a closed space station. Panic may cause devastating consequences.
Besides, his guess is not necessarily correct. He hoped he was wrong.
However, it turns out that his premonition is surprisingly accurate.
The mini space station is a spinning wheel-shaped building independent of the tenth space station, floating in the ocean of stars and slowly rotating. After they were sent into the mid-term, the spacecraft flew away. The entire space station has complete facilities and there are many service robots. The main computer's name is "Lime", and it is a very peaceful baritone. As soon as he comes in, he prepares them a great meal.
Ethan, who is accustomed to eating compressed bread, looked at the table full of roast geese, stews, soups, mashed potatoes, and even bottles of wine. He had an inexplicable premonition of eating his last meal. Other non-people cheered, and took their seats on both sides of the long table while whistling. They have not entered the water for a day and night, devouring them one by one, and kept stuffing their mouths. Probably because of the habit of eating in the forbidden city, if you do not eat well within the specified time, you will probably be punished by the guards who are in a bad mood.
While the non-people’s mouths were full of food, expressionless gray faces appeared on the walls.
The door is now closed and will naturally reopen after the experiment is over. Someone will check with you every half an hour about the situation inside the space station. You can use the equipment in the space station at will, but no sabotage is allowed. Let me see who is deliberately destroying property, and just wait to be electrocuted to become a vegetative. In addition, I don't care whether you fight or mate. Otherwise, whoever stabbed the basket, I will make him more sad than death. Understand!"
The non-people's mouth had not had time to swallow, so I had to agree to it Ulu Ulu. Grey Mao sneered contemptuously, with a flash of excitement in his eyes. He likes to watch these inhumans like animals being used as experiments, especially when the other party can't figure out the situation. At this time, these animals often make unexpected and wonderful moves.
He especially wanted to see how the serious face of the man named Ethan was distorted in fear.
He turned off the communicator and leaned back comfortably in the chair. On the big screen in front of him, twenty inhumans were still gorging themselves like pigs. That Ethan didn't eat anything, but looked around, looking in the direction of the camera for a while.
The abnormal green eyes of that inhuman made him feel a strange impulse, a tyrannical impulse in his heart.
What an abominable pair of eyes.
Several soldiers who participated in the experiment chatted with him, asking what those non-humans usually do in the forbidden city, is it true that they kill each other and drink blood every day like the rumors outside? Beta is treated as slaves, and Omega was treated as a prostitute. Obviously these rumors are ridiculously wrong, but Grey Mao had no intention of correcting them, and he just pointed at Jarvan, who was obviously sitting at the leader of the long table, and said, "This man has also served as a soldier before and participated in the Tiangang Expedition. He found him after returning home from the army. Omega’s father was not caught in time due to a heart attack and died for a long time, while his Omega husband got in touch with his best friend before he became a soldier, and secretly transferred the inheritance left by his father to his own. The concubine under the name squandered. In anger, he lost control of his emotions. He took out the dagger he used in the army and stabbed it from the Omega." Gray Mao said, pointing to his eyeball, "and then His concubine was castrated and his throat was cut. He was covered with blood when he was caught, and he was still dismembering his Omega."
The two soldiers were stunned and surprised. At this moment, the correspondent on the other side received a call request from Red Earth. The object of the request was Vasilev.
Hui Mao switched on the video strangely, but saw that the priest Eve, who had visited the forbidden city a few days ago, appeared on the big screen.
"Corporal Vasilev," the priest frowned, with a serious expression, and asked straightforwardly, "Did you take Ethan Eldridge away?"
Gray Mao's fist clenched secretly, but he didn't expect that the green-eyed kid would still have friendship with the Eve. He replied coldly, "Yes. This is the decision of the upper echelons."
There was a moment of anger and irritation in the priest's eyes, but before he could see it clearly, the contact was severed. Looking at the empty screen, Vasilev's anger became more and more raging, snorted, and asked impatiently, "Why haven't it started yet?"
"There is one minute left." The operators are already in their positions, and the main brain starts the final countdown.
In the spinning wheel space station, non-people are not aware that the experiment is about to begin. It just suddenly felt like something passed through the body.
The unclear feeling is like electric current, but also like water waves. Everyone stopped eating and joking, and the air was momentarily silent and terrible.
Ethan also froze. He smelled a slight change in the smell in the air, adding a sour smell in the cold. The faint air vibration, with a familiar, weak tinnitus sound that made his blood freeze, pushed it from all directions.
The space station looks the same as before, without any changes, but he just knows that something is not right.
Is the swaying light of the entire space station a little bluer? Or is the ubiquitous cold a little deeper? Or... It seems that there are some ghosts on the corners of the walls? Is it dazzled?
Ethan took off his glasses, wiped them with his sleeves, and put them on again, but the ghost image still existed, making people feel dizzy. He looked back at the other non-human beings, who also grasped the table with their hands and blinked as if dizzy.
The tinnitus sound became more and more intense, and the floor seemed to tremble like ripples. The strangest thing was that his body also shook with it, dizzy. He hurriedly closed his eyes and held the wall beside him with his hand. The dizziness disappeared, but the tinnitus still existed, and even intensified.
Then suddenly, all the sounds were gone, and the tinnitus was gone, all fell silent.
Ethan opened his eyes and found that the other 19 companions were still there, but the food that was full of the table just now was gone.
Not even a bone or a drop of soup was left. It's like those foods never existed.
Non-people sat at the table in a daze, with their hands still holding a knife and fork, but the tableware was gone.
"This is... what's going on?" an inhumane asked. Of course, no one can answer his question.
Ethan stretched out his hand and pointed to the top of his head. There is a transparent nano-steel plate, through the skylight you can see the dreamlike blue light of Neptune, but now everyone has opened their mouths unconsciously, showing shocked and panic expressions.
It was supposed to be Neptune, it was pitch black and there was nothing.
The author has something to say:
Some students are guessing whether B will change to O. However, according to my current settings, I do not intend to change the of Ethan. He should stay B to the end.