Vol 2 Chapter 87: Scarlet City (4)

At three o'clock in the morning, a harsh alarm sounded in the forbidden city. The sharp long sound echoed under the gray firmament, and the black windows lit up one after another. Thousands of robotic police surrounded all the blocks, repeating all the prohibitions on non-persons not allowed to leave the room over and over. The guards were also urgently recalled, all sewer entrances were heavily guarded, and even military aircraft appeared over the forbidden city.
Non-people stood in front of the window, watching the roaring aircraft in the sky leaving long and thin cloud marks, and no one spoke. The tense atmosphere spread amidst the shouts from the guards in the distance.
No one knows what happened, only in the small buildings closest to the sewer entrance somewhere in the southeast, there are inhumans who vaguely saw something black from the ground, which seemed to be human shadows. Rolled down, the screams of those people could still be faintly heard in the dark night.
"What's that?" A young inhuman who was probably just an adult rubbed his eyes vigorously. "Am I dazzled?"
The older non-human next to him knelt aside and murmured in prayer, chanting nervously over and over again, "The Great Evil God is coming... What the Great Teacher said is not bad... The end of the earth is coming. Now, the end of the galaxy is coming!"
Vasilev waited in front of the gate, watching several aircraft slowly land on the open space in front of the guard hall. At this time, a muffled thunder rolled across the horizon, causing the earth to rumbling. The guards looked at the sky anxiously, as if they were afraid of something coming.
A few bodyguards took the lead to jump off the aircraft, and then the Chairman of the Forbidden City Committee Hopkin and the Secretary General. The old man with a gloomy expression frowned and strode up the steps. When passing by Vasilev, he didn't stop at all, but asked in a cold voice, "How is the situation?"
"All sewer entrances have been sealed. The survivors who escaped have been quarantined for observation, and no signs of mutation have been seen so far."
"How many survivors?"
"A total of thirty-five people. Five of them are guards."
Hopkin's footsteps stopped, and the leopard's sharp gaze shot towards Vasilev, "Guard? So you know that so many people gather in the sewer in the middle of the night?"
Vasilev smiled very softly, "They are assemblies that have gone through normal procedures and have never had trouble before. This time... According to the survivors, an inhuman has suddenly undergone serious mutation."
"What gathering! People gather together will cause trouble, and private gatherings of more than 20 people are not allowed outside the forbidden city. In such a place, you actually approve the gathering of these criminals?! I really doubt the promotion. Are you a correct decision."
Vasilev showed a humble and compliant face, who was different from his usual gloomy and domineering appearance, "What you taught me."
Hopkin snorted heavily, turned his head and asked the secretary impatiently, "Has the military arrived?"
"It has arrived, and the Mars side has also sent someone." The portable capsule worn on the secretary's wrist shot out a screen with some information scrolling on it, "It seems that the mutation is a test subject of Project Zero."
The corners of Hopkin's mouth twitched, and things seemed to be getting worse.
I just hope it doesn’t reach the president...

An hour ago.
The intricate sewers echoed with screams like hell, a lot of blood poured into the originally black sewage, and the smell filled the air molecules. The base camp of the Benefactor's Association is already a sea of ​​blood at this moment. The walls seem to be covered with a crimson tapestry, the ground is layered with stumps and broken arms, and the eyes are turbid and unwilling to look towards the dark dome.
The eyes of Ethan in the dark center flashed with crazy satisfaction and charm. He pressed his hand on top of John's head. Suddenly, every fingertip had thin barbed black tentacles piercing the skin, screaming. The inhuman head is wrapped in layers. Suddenly, all the tentacles closed toward the middle at the same time, only hearing the creak of bones being crushed, blood sprayed out from the gaps in the tentacles like a waterfall. Ethan seemed to be very satisfied with a moan that resembled an orgasm. His thin lips, which had always lacked blood, were stained with blood at the moment. His tongue quickly licked his lips with an expression that was still unfinished.
He felt that a lot of vitality was pouring into his body with the blood and internal organs. The unprecedented sense of fullness made him realize how exhausted and dry his body was and was on the verge of collapse. He needs blood, he needs food, these people are his food, and all will become part of him.
The black lines on his face became denser, and the thoughts that belonged to Ethan in his brain also retreated into the subconscious. He is now dominated by desire, and the countless hungry and unsatisfied desires burn in his body, urging him to plunder and demand more.
Schneider, who had lost support and fell to the ground, looked at what was happening before him in horror. I can’t believe that the gentle and even cowardly Ethan turned into this demonic and terrifying appearance in an instant...No, the use of a devil is not even enough to describe what he saw, it is pure Evil and chaos.
And Samuel was equally stunned, even though he had seen it once, but he intuitively felt that this time was different from the last time.
This time, Ethan voluntarily chose to become like this.
In order to save them, I chose to become like this.
He never knew what kind of infection happened to Ethan, he selectively wanted to forget everything he saw on the Faun Star Sacrificial Stage. But now, he can no longer deceive himself. He saw Ethan's cruel and evil face half-stained with blood and a contented smile, and saw that he lowered his head without hesitation and sucked the blood from the neck of John who had lost his head. He felt that Ethan was so strange and familiar, that he was above everyone else, and he was free from all the shackles that bound him.
He originally thought that Ethan must be unaware and uncontrollable about all this, but when Ethan looked at him, he was not so sure.
He saw Ethan slowly wipe the corners of his mouth, a tentacle on the back of his neck swung dexterously, and the sharp thorn at the top cut the hemp rope that bound his arm. Samuel shook his hands quickly to untie his feet, intending to untie himself before untie Schneider. It's just that he didn't expect that the knot was complicated and tight, and it couldn't be solved for a while, and there was no weapon that could be used nearby. He was about to call Ethan to help him untie the rope on his feet, but he almost stopped breathing when he looked up.
Several laser beams burst out suddenly, and Ethan suddenly felt hot and cold in his chest, lowered his head, but found that the heart was burned through by the laser beam. He heard Samuel yell in horror: "Ethan!!!"
Ethan slowly raised his head and saw the blond guard who was shooting at him under the cover of the corpse in the corner. Seeing that he didn't fall down immediately, the guard went out again, shouting and firing several shots at him. Ethan didn't evade, letting the brilliant laser beams penetrate his thin body, shaking with the force of the piercing.
But Ethan still didn't fall, he even curled his mouth at the guard. I saw that many black threads suddenly appeared in the blood hole in the mouth of the heart, woven layer by layer like fibers, and the flesh and blood healed quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye. More than that one wound, all wounds began to heal, and the blood he shed was as black as velvet, solidified on his dirty and shabby inhuman uniform.
Ethan calmly stretched out a tentacle and rolled up the blond guard, and rolled it up in front of him, looking at him with dark green eyes.
"Spare...Spare..." The blonde guard was already so scared that he was off, his hands gripping the thick tentacles around his waist.
Ethan’s expression was calm, and another tentacle behind him suddenly pierced into Alpha’s mouth. This tentacle was not the same as the others. It had no murderous spikes, sharp teeth or acid, but it had the same tube. Open up. Alpha whimpered, sliding his throat up and down, as if something was being poured in.
Then, Ethan suddenly released him, letting him fall on the layers of corpses below, and said coldly, "Go away."
He didn't know why he didn't kill the guard, let alone what he gave him a drink. He did all this out of animal instinct.
He just felt that he had absorbed a little more, and he felt a sense of fullness in his body, and wanted to release some excess energy. And he intuitively felt that these energies remained in the body of this blond human, and this human became a part of him. He doesn't want to kill him anymore.
However, just as Ethan focused on dealing with the blonde guard and Samus was hurriedly trying to untie his feet, no one noticed that one of the two masked Alpha executioners on the stage had a concurrent attack. Was not completely killed by Ethan, but was temporarily knocked out. The man had come to his senses, took off the mask on his face, revealing a nearly crazy face. He quietly approached Schneider, who was still unable to move, from behind, with a strange smile on his face and a nervous whisper in his mouth.
"Kill them... the punishment will end... the evil will be gone..."
After hearing Schneider's exclamation, Samuel and Ethan realized that the slippery fish was holding Schneider at the moment, with a homemade glass dagger lying across Schneider's neck.
"Stop it!!!" Samuel didn't care that his feet hadn't been completely out of the restraint, crawling and rushing over. And Ethan also raised his hand, and the tentacles of his fingertips flicked past like a whip. The inhuman head was split in half instantly and fell down.
However, it was still a step late, Schneider's eyes widened, and blood gurgled down from his neck.
"NO!!!" Samus crawled towards him, catching him as the body fell backwards. Samuel used his hand to press the wound on Schneider's neck in vain, but found that he couldn't hold it anyway. He didn't notice that he couldn't cry, he just kept shouting, "Don't don't don't, hold on! Please!" As if this could stop the blood flow.
Schneider's eyes were wide open, looking at him almost greedily, there were so many changing and crowded emotions, unbelief, nostalgia, reluctance, sadness, and regret. His life is flowing in front of his faint eyes, there are still so many things he wants to do, and so many places he wants to go. It has been two years since he went home to visit his grandmother, and there are still two books borrowed from the Earth Central Library at home that have not been returned. A month ago, he had an appointment with his comrades to go hiking in the summer. If you go to see the sea together, you can't see it.
He didn't have time to think about the worth of his life, and his last consciousness stayed in Samuel's eyes, blinded by tears. He wanted Samuel to kiss him, but he couldn't speak.
Then, the heartbeat trembled faintly at last, entering eternal silence.
Ethan looked a little stupid, watching Samus holding Schneider's corpse and howling desperately like a beast. His brain, dominated by instinct, suddenly felt a tearing pain.
All the tentacles suddenly became so heavy and fell from midair. The only remaining inhumans and guards who had not been dismembered took advantage of this opportunity to scream and fled. Ethan knelt on the high platform, black tentacles spreading behind him like a cloak, spreading all the way to the mountain-like ground.
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