mother of all races

Xavier slowly raised his upper body and stood up - if it was Lin Xi back then, seeing Xavier now, he would definitely be surprised by Xavier's change.

Although Xavier's appearance can already be described by the word "horror" when he was on the Helios, compared with the current one, the previous "Star Butterfly" is like some kind of delicate and cute pet insect Generally slender and cute.

Counting from the day when he was dying and was thrown out of the Helios by the explosion, Xavier has experienced three painful transformations on this completely strange planet.Today, his figure is more than double that of before. As for the fragile human-like skin that evolved because of his attachment to Lin Xi, it has completely faded from his skin.Instead, it was as hard as metal, with a silver carapace glowing with cold light.

In fact, Xavier now has no human-related features at all.

It has completely returned to its original appearance, or...it has returned to its original appearance.

The forefoot erected like a jackknife has a slender and thick base joint, and the edge is as sharp as the top alloy knife. There is a layer of bluish iridescent thorns spreading on both sides of the leg joint. The magnificent color is actually From deadly toxins it ingests in food.

At the same time, this evolved forelimb can allow Xavier to easily tear his enemies into fine pieces.

Covering the back of Xavier's thick body were hard elytra, which looked more like armor than wings.One thing I have to admit is that Xavier was indeed seriously affected by the attack of mechanical soldiers inside the Helios. Even after such a long time, it still subconsciously armed itself into a walking machine during the transformation. Armor warrior.This special carapace is stronger than most metals.

Sometimes Xavier would stare at his now evolved limbs, and briefly recall the scenes that were still inside the Helios.

If it is the current one, when it encounters those mechanical warriors, it should be able to easily deal with those guys, right?

Xavier was very sure of this in his heart, but he seldom really thought about it, because it would make his body covered with a thick and hard breastplate feel an unbearable pain.

... If it was the strong and brutal self now, wouldn't he be abandoned?

Wouldn't Lin Xi be left on this strange planet?

It's just that from time to time, such thoughts will inevitably rush into its mind.

Thinking of this, Xavier involuntarily turned his head and looked at the extremely colorful sky outside the cave.

It has been so long, but every time Xavier sees this clear sky made of bright colors, he still feels that invisible cold hand is cruelly grasping and rubbing its soft heart that does not exist.

"Lin Xi...

When Xavier realized it, he realized that he was accidentally repeating the name again.

"His-"

Xavier immediately let out a violent neigh, and at the same time, an uncontrollable self-loathing surged in its heart.

It quickly turned its head, walked a few more steps into the cave, and then hid its now huge and hideous body in the shadow of the cave.

It's just that in the process, its overly rude movements made it accidentally overturn the sundries accumulated inside the cave.

Accompanied by a series of crackling sounds, those piled up debris slid down like a landslide and scattered all over the ground.

Xavier: "..."

If Lin Xi was here, he would definitely find that these dilapidated objects that made Xavier stand still angrily seemed familiar.Yes, that's right, all these sundries were collected by Xavier from the ruins of the Helios.

There are a lot of golden metal parts, some are still intact, but most of them are small fragments that fell around the spaceship in the explosion. This is Xavier's instinctive preference, and he can't control himself to collect these. The urge to play.

However, except for the metal fragments...the other things completely violated the instinct of the king worm.

That's a lot of books, toys, and all kinds of personal portable entertainment, and the storage media that goes with it.

According to common sense, Xavier should not have any unnecessary interest in these human cultural and entertainment products anyway.

But the reality is that Xavier involuntarily collected those things.It is indeed a very smart bug. During the time with Lin Xi, it allowed him to figure out how to use these things. He carefully took care of the things left by the crew in the ruins of the Helios Researched it again.With the help of some intelligent tools, Xavier became the first alien king worm who had read a lot of novels and watched a lot of movies.

Compared with the innocent and innocent monster insect, it now knows most of the common sense of love in the human world, but this does not make it happy.

At first, it thought that it could find the reason why Lin Xi abandoned itself in these human creations, but now... it found that Lin Xi abandoned it seemed to be a natural thing.

After all, Lin Xi felt that he was a human from the beginning to the end, and it... no matter how much it tried to pretend to be another male human, there was no way to change its nature.

It, Xavier, is just a monster.

Even the tenderness it first learned from Lin Xi was a luxury gift.

It and Lin Xi...

Thinking of this, Xavier trembled heavily, and the flustered, even manic feeling came again.

It can barely breathe.The elytra were about to move, and the sharp claws were involuntarily embedded deeply into the hard rock.

etc--

At this moment, Xavier suddenly realized something was wrong.

He suddenly tensed the two slender tentacles on the top of his head.

The sharp thorns on the body are even more upside down.

Something is not quite right.

Xavier realized this belatedly.

It felt the most primitive and instinctive drive, and it was burning like a flame in its body.

"Lin Xi?"

It was a call from the mother of all species.

Xavier involuntarily stretched out his sharp forelimbs, and exposed the skin on the inner side of the forelimbs, that piece of skin is now turning into a bright purple red with its emotions.

After carefully understanding his physical condition, Xavier's entire worm was shrouded in incredible emotions.

Is that an illusion, or does it really exist!

After such a long time, the close spiritual connection between it and the worm mother...and Lin Xi was once again connected.

But Lin Xi had obviously abandoned it, left this planet, and returned to Earth, right? !

Is he coming back here again?

Did he come to find himself?

Xavier forced himself not to think too much, it had had enough of heartbreak.

But even so, it still walked out of the cave uncontrollably.

It doesn't need any positioning or observation. The moment it walks out of the cave, it directly faces somewhere in the distance.

It knew that that was the place where the Helios made an emergency landing and crashed completely. At the same time, the call from Lin Xi was also projected from that direction.

Xavier stood on the cliff in pain for a moment. As the king worm's instinct, it wanted to gallop in that direction recklessly, but on the other hand, Xavier's soul told it not to Have too many hopes, don't have strange delusions, Lin Xi has already...

However, when Xavier tried hard to convince himself, through the connection between hearts, the emotions of the mother of alien species clearly permeated.

fear.

weak.

In desperate need of protection.

"Hula..."

A resounding sound of spreading wings suddenly resounded.

Obviously, the instinct of the body has been suppressed in the depths of the soul, but Xavier found that in the end, it still has no way to reject the strong instinct and emotional drive.

It just like that suddenly spread the thick and powerful elytra behind it.

The carapace, which was as heavy as a metal plate, opened obliquely, revealing the translucent membrane wings vibrating at high speed below.

Immediately afterwards, Xavier jumped from a high cliff.

Like some kind of large aircraft, it flew towards the wreckage of the Helios at an astonishing speed, and a fierce air wave was stirred up where it passed.Countless distorted forests with bright colors slowly fell down in the sudden fierce wind, revealing those alien creatures hiding in the lush forests, who dare not move because of Xavier's breath.

……

Lin Xi was dreaming again.

This dream is weird and bizarre, and there is a sense of beauty and weirdness that cannot be described in words.

In the dream he seemed to have turned into a strange... thing.

Lin Xi didn't know if he could use the word "something" to describe him.

He is more like some kind of spiritual body or... soul.

From the very beginning of the birth of the universe, He has existed in this world, and every long period of time, He will completely transform his original form under some kind of opportunity and become something else.

Sometimes he is a monstrous humanoid, and other times he is a monster with a hideous appearance.He is constantly reincarnated in countless times and spaces, and has experienced countless unimaginable worlds and lives.Of course, all the emotions derived in different organisms will eventually be melted into the most primitive instinct-reproduction.

And Lin Xi can only look at "self", which is constantly expanding and multiplying in countless universes, and even devours all the matter in the entire universe.Sometimes, he will be wiped out by other protozoa.That might have been his death, but Lin Xi knew that death only allowed him to return to that eternal original form.

In this way, in this weird dream, Lin Xi kept repeating her own destiny in endless time and space.

The dream has been going on for a long time, and sometimes, Lin Xi can't even tell whether he is dreaming or whether he has really experienced so many worlds...

This dream is endless, as if it can continue to the end of the universe.

And in the last dream, Lin Xi, who was already mentally exhausted, found that she had returned to her original identity—an ordinary teaching assistant of botany on earth, and because of a mistake, she set foot on the He took the spaceship named Helios and set off for a distant alien planet inhabited by lunatics and monsters.

Lin Xi thought that in this dream, he could see the long-lost Bryce and Alyssa again. After all, these two are the people he misses the most now, but he did not expect that in this dream, he kept repeating What I dreamed was a butterfly.

Or, more correctly, an alien creature resembling a butterfly.

The "butterfly" waved its soft, magnificent wings like clouds, dancing towards him continuously.

Its appearance seemed familiar, and it made Lin Xi's heart slowly feel sad for no reason.

In the dream, Lin Xi stared blankly at the dancing butterfly—he didn’t even realize that everything that haunted him, including the greenhouse, including the Helios, was slowly blurring and melting, and finally into a chaotic gray mist.

"Please remember it."

Suddenly, Lin Xi heard a voice.

His mind seemed clearer.

Lin Xi turned around abruptly, and he looked behind him, only to realize that at some point, another person appeared in his dream.

"who are you?"

Lin Xi couldn't help trembling because of the tragic appearance of this man who suddenly appeared in the dream.

The man stood there, his body was extremely thin, like a living corpse.He gave Lin Xi a wonderful sense of familiarity (of course, many things in this dream made him feel familiar), the man was firmly fixed in countless wires, his eyes were empty, and his body was covered with signs of decay.

At this moment, he was looking straight at Lin Xi.

"what are you saying?"

Lin Xi couldn't help asking.

He has a vague feeling that what he is experiencing now may not be just a dream, but...

"You can't succumb to the void, you can't succumb to instinct."

The terrifying man said to him word by word.

"Once you lose your individual consciousness, this long dark fate will reincarnate again, endlessly, never ending. This is too sad, this is too terrifying...don't give up...even if it's for yourself... ..."

"Wait, what the hell are you talking about?"

Lin Xi couldn't help asking.

However, the man seemed to be unable to hear Lin Xi's words. He kept repeating his previous words like a machine. Then, he turned around slowly and staggered towards the thick fog.

"Hey, wait, tell me, what the hell happened here? What the hell happened to me?"

Lin Xi subconsciously rushed over.

It's just that Lin Xi regretted it the moment he entered the dense fog.

That layer of fog is not the ordinary fog that Lin Xi thought it was, but another kind... something that Lin Xi couldn't describe. They are wet and sticky, with a unique temperature and smell. Its existence made Lin Xi Xi felt familiar and comfortable, but at the same time felt a kind of instinctive disgust and fear.

"Don't be defeated by it, remember your heart, remember all you love..."

Lin Xi heard the man muttering to himself again.

In the thick fog, the man's figure flickered, as if he was about to be melted by the thick fog, several times.Lin Xi even thought that he and he would get lost in the thick and wet fog like this, but in the end he still passed through the thick fog.

It's just that Lin Xi stopped involuntarily at the moment when he passed through the fog.

He frowned at the scene before him.

Then he shuddered at what he had seen and heard.

He saw himself.

Although, the shadow in front of him is quite different from his current appearance.

Lin Xi originally thought that his deformed body was terrifying enough, but compared with the figure he saw now, he could almost be said to be a normal person.

"Oh, God..."

Lin Xi covered his mouth, he almost spit it out.

It was an extremely huge, swollen, and constantly wriggling deformed body. Round insect eggs were continuously expelled from the body by him, and then piled up sticky on his tail.Some eggs that were pushed to the outermost edge began to wriggle slowly not long after they were produced, and then the outer skin became transparent and wrinkled, and some small white shadows that seemed familiar came out of the eggs just like that .

What made Lin Xi feel sick even more was that his arms were still tightly hugging another body.

And the things they did were completely beyond any ethics or common sense that Lin Xi knew as a human being.

Lin Xi wanted to look away, but as if he had been hypnotized, he could only freeze there motionless.

At some point, the man standing beside him had disappeared.And Lin Xi himself gradually merged with the figure that he didn't even dare to look at.

Oh... come on, I'm just dreaming, I'm only dreaming... I know it's a dream even though I'm scared and sick right now.

Lin Xi kept saying to herself in extreme fear.

can't give up...

Lin Xi seemed to hear the words that the man said to him again.

I can't give up, I can never let myself become that kind of pathetic creature, I still have things to do, I still need...

At the moment when Lin Xi's consciousness was about to disappear, he suddenly remembered the little butterfly he had seen before.

The magnificent, soft wings danced in the air, and when Lin Xi looked at the little bug, there was a trace of warmth in Lin Xi's heart.

A scene suddenly appeared in Lin Xi's mind - he dreamed that he was kneeling weakly in front of a metal gate, and he was facing the other side of the gate, screaming in pain...

"I'll be back, I'll be back for you..."

The moment Lin Xi woke up, he found that he was constantly shouting such a sentence.

Such a realistic nightmare quickly dissipated in his mind like a mist, but no matter what, Lin Xi couldn't forget the terrifying feeling the dream brought him.

In the dark cave, he sat stiffly for a long time before he managed to regain his senses.

Then, Lin Xi found that he was still in the cave he saw before he fell into a coma. Even his position was exactly the same as before. The difference was that the flesh sac that trapped him before had lost its moisture. A layer of wet and soft meat film.The meat membranes were piled up on a high platform made of metal fragments and various strange stones and wood, and Lin Xi was now carefully placed in the middle of this pile of meat membranes.

Lin Xi held her breath and checked her physical condition, and found that she was exactly the same as before the coma, with no injuries.He couldn't help frowning, knowing that he still remembered the last scene he saw before he lost consciousness, the monster rushed towards him aggressively.

But now he's not only unscathed, but...

At this moment, a familiar rustling sound interrupted Lin Xi's contemplation, and he suddenly raised his head to look somewhere in the darkness, thanking him for his mutated vision now, under such dark conditions He can still see everything around him clearly

Similarly, he could clearly see those two tentacles.

The thin, feather-like white tentacles dangled on the edge of a huge stone.

Lin Xi still remembered that the monster that frightened him into unconsciousness also seemed to have such a pair of tentacles?

Lin Xi silently looked at the two dangling tentacles.

In such a weird and random situation, he should be afraid of this strange monster, but inexplicably after experiencing that dream, he found that his fear of this monster seemed to be reduced, and he even remembered The butterfly he saw in his dream——a moment of inappropriate softness rose from the bottom of his heart.

"I saw you." Lin Xi took a deep breath, and then he shouted towards the side of the stone with a straight face.

In his words, he saw the tentacle stand up suddenly.

It's strange, why does he have a familiar feeling, Lin Xi stared at the monster's savings, and then thought.

Slowly, slowly, I contacted the white monster I saw before, and slowly poked my body out from behind the stone.

Lin Xi stared at him for a long time, feeling a little puzzled in his heart. He didn't know why he was so afraid of such a monster before. After all, judging from the shivering he showed now, he seemed to be afraid. It was himself, not Lin Xi who was afraid of him. Thinking of this, Lin Xi couldn't help but turned his head to look at his current body, and then he frowned in disgust.

"who are you?"

Lin Xi looked at the monster and asked.