mother of all races

who are you?

After hearing Lin Xi's question, the deformed monster with pale skin trembled slightly, and the tentacles on the top of its head shook rapidly.

Lin Xi looked at it suspiciously, always feeling that the monster looked happy.

"Lin Xi... Chirp..."

In the next second, the monster suddenly opened its mouth and let out a shrill and weak cry.

Lin Xi couldn't help frowning. This was the first time in his life that he had to deal with such a strange-looking creature (Lin Linxi suspected that it might be some kind of alien creature), but inexplicably, Lin Xi's intuition told him, For a monster like the one in front of him, the real voice shouldn't be like this.

The neighing of the alien species should be——

[Lin Xi——]

In a trance, Lin Xi seemed to hear a low voice with a strange tone but full of nostalgia.And that voice overlapped with some of the calls in his dream.

This is... who is calling him?

Lin Xi's eyes darkened slightly, and doubts rose in his heart again.

He swallowed dryly, and looked suspiciously at the white monster in front of him.

Because of his emotional agitation and extreme panic, Lin Xi had never looked at this monster carefully.Now, the two of them are looking at each other, but Lin Xi can see it carefully and thoroughly, but the more he looks at Lin Xi, the more bored he feels.

No, it shouldn't be like this.

There seemed to be a voice in his heart whispering to him.

failed product...

freak creature...

Waste that should be killed, devoured.

Useless family.

Wasted resources and nutrients.

……

"His-"

It wasn't until that low sound that didn't sound like a human voice came from inside her chest that Lin Xi realized that she seemed to be threatening the white monster.

Lin Xi was taken aback - of course, the other party's reaction was far more intense than Lin Xi's.

The little white monster let out a low whimper. It suddenly lowered its head, shrunk its neck and backed away quickly, and then sneaked back behind the stone where it had been hiding before.

"Damn..."

Lin Xi covered her mouth all of a sudden, and then shivered because of the new changes in her body.

Well, maybe it's not just his legs that are really problematic, but also other organs of his body. After all, Lin Xi didn't remember that his chest could still make a sound before he passed out.

The worst part is that at the same time Lin Xi was covering his mouth, his fingers accidentally touched something strange - Lin Xi's pupils constricted for a moment, and he stretched out a finger tremblingly , tentatively groping in his own mouth.

Immediately, Lin Xi was so frightened by the sharp mouthparts sticking out from under her tongue that her scalp went numb.

"What the hell."

With a pale face, Lin Xi retracted his hand, and he cursed.

Wasn't he secretly detained by some government department and then subjected to biological experiments?

Lin Xi thought a little out of control.

The lower body is an enlarged and deformed giant parasitic body, with wings growing on his back, various sounds can be produced inside the body without passing through the vocal cords, and a new pair of mouthparts has grown out of his mouth—what happened to him to become what he is today? This look? !

And while Lin Xi was stunned by his various discoveries, something that drove him even more crazy happened.

Perhaps it was because Lin Xi's previous threat made the white worm-shaped monster misunderstand something.The monster hid behind the stone and rustled busyly for a while. After a while, it slipped out from behind the stone very carefully, and then pushed the wet and soft thing towards Lin Xi. .

At the very beginning, Lin Xi didn't even figure out what it was.

And that white monster was so eager that its scythe-like sharp forelimb edge accidentally tore off the shell of the mass.

A strong blood gas rushed towards the face accompanied by a strong fishy smell.Along with the stench, there was also a rotting corpse that slid out of the white soft membrane.

The corpse also belonged to a monster.

Of course, Lin Xi still didn't recognize what it was, a centipede that had been magnified countless times?scorpion?Or something else—judging from its huge size, this guy must have been very difficult to mess with when he was alive, but now, all the muscles and internal organs of that terrible monster have been turned into balls of semi-solidified dark gray mucus , its shell is wrapped in these mucus, flickering.

There was only one deformed head inlaid with shriveled eyeballs, staring straight at Lin Xi's direction.

"My God..."

Lin Xi stepped back suddenly, because his body was not used to it, he almost fell to the ground.

This is very embarrassing, but Lin Xi can't take care of it now-he is scared out of his wits by this thing.

"..."

In the end, even the white monster was frightened by Lin Xi's reaction, its body stood upright, its wings and tentacles were stretched tightly.Under the gaze of the monster's scorching gaze, it took a while for Lin Xi to slowly come back to his senses.

Taking a deep breath, and then another deep breath, Lin Xi adjusted her breathing rate, trying to calm herself down.

It's just that the deep breath that always works so well this time just made him smell more stench...

God, why is he so familiar with this stench?

Lin Xi couldn't help thinking, he watched in amazement at the white monster dropping that terrifying thing... Well, he had to admit that even this thing was very familiar to him.

During this process, Lin Xi vaguely recalled some vague pictures.Of course, from his point of view, he would rather he never thought of those things—he remembered that he had eaten these things.

It should have been when his body was extremely weak and his consciousness was blurred, the sharp mouthparts that frightened him enough to protrude from his mouth like a straw directly pierced the soft membrane covering the carrion, And just like that, he sucked the juices of the maddening monster in it with all his might and greed.

"vomit--"

After thinking of this scene, Lin Xi turned pale and retched.

And at that time, the person who provided him with these foods seemed to be the white monster in front of him.

No, no... not just that...

In Lin Xi's memory, there seemed to be some more terrifying pictures.

Not only did he see himself devouring these corpses like a devil, but he also almost "added food" to himself with the little white monster countless times.

Tentacles—thorns—counterattack—

Lin Xi suddenly turned his head and looked at the thick fleshy membrane that he had ignored before. Sure enough, he saw those thorny tentacles at the root of those fleshy membranes.

"No way……"

Lin Xi muttered to himself in disbelief. He turned his head and looked at the white monster again. He was not surprised to find those horrible long and narrow scars on the naked body of the white monster. He didn't notice those wounds at all for that terrible appearance.And if he remembers correctly, these scars seem to be left when he tried to kill and eat the other party when he was unconscious...

Lin Xi was frightened by herself.

He lowered his head in disbelief, looking at his human hands——

How could he have such a terrifying, terrifying side?

In comparison, even the white monster looked weak and pitiful.

Lin Xi couldn't accept this reality.

No matter how you tell yourself to calm down, but... what a pity, Lin Xi just can't be calm.

After all, not everyone could accept that he ate so many rotten corpses with his own mouth when his consciousness was blurred, and that he wanted to swallow another monster with his own mouth.

Before this, Lin Xi had only seen similar things in those horror movies about Martian leeches, but that was just a boring human imagination, but now Lin Xi had to face an extremely real and cold reality.

"What the hell am I doing?"

Lin Xi asked herself softly.

There was a moment of chaos in his consciousness.

[Don't give in to instinct]

But at this moment, Lin Xi's mind suddenly appeared the words that the man in the dream repeated to him.

A wonderful thing happened, and at this moment, Lin Xi finally calmed down slowly.

All right--

Lin Xi forced himself to move his gaze to his lower body. He stared at the terrifyingly bulging abdomen and the thick worm limbs that obviously belonged to another species, and gritted his teeth and said to himself.

First of all, he has to accept one thing, that is, he has indeed become another monster now.

Maybe the strangeness he showed before was all related to this change in him, but now, panic, despair, and panic are all useless here.

The first thing to do is to figure out what's going on, and then figure out how to fix the problem.By the way, maybe Bryce can help him find a way, after all, his brother is a medical officer...

Yes, that's right, people like Bryce who have traveled countless times in the interstellar must have seen many strange cases. Perhaps, the changes in him now are just some kind of illness that is common in interstellar travel... …

Lin Xi knew how pale his comforting words were, but at this moment he could only force himself not to think carefully.

However, at the same time when Lin Xi became extremely flustered because of his mutation, he didn't realize that his mood swings were strongly affecting another giant not far from him - a real monster , a fully developed and strong xenomorph.

In the end what happened?

Questions also lingered in Xavier's mind.

It has been asking this question during the time it jumped off the cliff and rushed to the vicinity of the wreck of the Helios.

Xavier thought he would find a new human aircraft here: if Lin Xi really came from the earth, it should be able to find the trace.

Maybe Lin Xi had other troubles at that time, maybe Lin Xi accidentally boarded the lifeboat at that time, but now he finally came to find himself——

When flying here from his current habitat, Xavier kept thinking about this matter in his mind.Its mood just kept swinging back and forth between extreme excitement and extreme depression.

And under the excitement, it was even more deeply disturbing.

Can Lin Xi still recognize it now?

Maybe it should be angry, it's always like that in those novels and movies—

It's just that these complicated thoughts quickly calmed down the moment Xavier arrived at the destination, and then turned into deep despair.

——The vicinity of the ruins of the Helios is still as desolate and peaceful as Xavier remembered.

There is no trace of any new human activity.

Reluctantly, Xavier searched in a large circle around the ruins of the Helios, and then it stopped and froze in place.

Everything is the same as before, no new detectors, no...

No, no—

Xavier's wings fluttered.

Although there are no new detectors, it is undeniable that Lin Xi's aura is here. Although the aura is so weak that it does not seem to exist, but...

Xavier realized that the spiritual connection between himself and Lin Xi was getting stronger.

The most instinctive drive from the heart, as well as the incomparable nostalgia for the mother of the heterogeneous... for Lin Xi, even made the surface of Xavier's gray-white body once again covered with a metallic neon-like luster.

And the extreme excitement made its wings stretched tightly outside the elytra.

Xavier impatiently turned around several times.

In the end, it succumbed to its own instinct and flew around the ruins of the Helios again, searching for Lin Xi's trace in vain and almost desperately.

And this time, Xavier didn't get nothing.Somewhere a few kilometers away from the ruins of the Helios, Xavier suddenly tightened his wings, and landed on the ground from midair.

Its tentacles stood up, feeling the flow of air.

The next second, it suddenly stretched out its claws straight towards somewhere on the ground.

Covering the ground is a layer of colorful, thick blanket-like plants. This kind of plant is very common on the AS192 star, and the plant that is covered in front of Xavier now looks like the one here. common vegetation.

But Xavier didn't stop his actions.

The sharp thorns all over the surface of the forelegs were very useful. It didn't take long for it to use its claws to push away the plants covering the golden-red soil, and then, a cave mouth was exposed.

In the eyes of an ordinary earthling, this cave might just be an ordinary rabbit hole, or it might be a habitat dug out by other small animals on this planet.

Of course Xavier didn't think so, he stared fixedly at the black hole, although it had never seen anything like it before, but the instinct that had settled inside the worm's body for hundreds of millions of years gave it an extremely clear vision. s answer.

This is not a nest dug by some small animal at all, but a huge and intricate underground king city built by its kind.

And what it found now was the vent of the underground lair.

There are other similar species on this planet—if Xavier was extremely unhappy about this, the next thing he discovered made him even more anxious.

It crouches down and stretches its tentacles forward,

Just like that, it passed through its own collector carefully, sniffing the breath sent from the vent.

In the process, the patterns on Xavier's body became more and more obvious, and the colors became more and more colorful.This shows that Xavier's emotions are becoming agitated.

It's a normal thing and it does get agitated because...

Because Xavier found himself in the vent, and faintly smelled the scent belonging to Lin Xi.

The smell is thin, and has a faint sense of weirdness, but as Lin Xi's king worm, it is never possible to mistake the smell of his lover.

……

"Ok?"

At the same time, in the deep underground, Lin Xi and the white monster trembled suddenly at the same moment...

It's just that at this moment, the emotions they feel are completely opposite.

The monster with a thin and deformed body showed fear and panic at that moment.

As if it was under some mortal threat, the monster raised its face, its red compound eyes stared straight at the top of the cave, and its tentacles trembled uncomfortably behind its head.

As for Lin Xi, what Lin Xi felt was an inexplicable peace of mind.

It was as if he had lost an extremely important part of his body when he didn't know it—but now, the most important part of him that he had lost suddenly returned to his body.

Lin Xi couldn't help pressing her chest with her hand, was that an illusion?At that moment just now, he felt as if his chest was filled with a warm and sweet emotion.

The panic and uneasiness that had been raging in his body since he woke up slowly faded away like an ebbing tide at this moment, replaced by a safety and tranquility that cannot be described in words.

This feeling of comfort and completeness made Lin Xi's body feel a little hot, and he didn't even realize that two thin, almost transparent wings protruded from under his shoulder blades.

Until he heard the slight sound of wind coming from behind, Lin Xi suddenly turned his head and saw the new abnormality on his body at a glance.

Lin Xi was frightened by herself again——

Well, it made him sober up a lot.

The strong disgust immediately overwhelmed the abnormal pleasure that came from within the body.

What the hell is going on?

Lin Xi let out a curse.

In such a situation, it feels far more wrong to suddenly feel happy and happy than to feel scared.

Thinking of this, Lin Xi bit the tip of her tongue forcefully.

Of course, he only felt a slight pain.

Well, maybe monsters are like that.

Lin Xi said to herself from the bottom of her heart.

What worries him is not only the abnormality in his body, but also Bryce... He can still remember Bryce standing beside him when he was lying in the hibernation cabin.Of course Lin Xi knew how much his brother who was prone to worrying too much valued him, but now, he has turned into a damn big bug, and was dragged by another monster to such a dark, silent, nowhere in the dark cave.

What about Bryce?What happened to him?Is it the same as him?And what about the others on the Helios?

Lin Xi forced himself to ignore the pleasure that was slowly filling deep in his body, he supported his body with difficulty, and wriggled slowly.

Just like that, he came to the front of the white monster step by step.

"You know where I'm from right? And you know where the ship is?"

Lin Xi stared at the white monster closely, and then asked.

After thinking of so many things, he can now be sure that although the monster in front of him looks terrifying, it has absolutely no malice towards him.

Then again, perhaps from the perspective of an outsider, he is no different from the monster in front of him now—no, compared to the white monster that looks like a big bug, the half-human, half-worm now I am probably the most disgusting existence.

Lin Xi whispered inwardly to herself.

The white monster in front of Lin Xi still looked very nervous.

It opened its mouth and let out a few weird hisses that made Lin Xi's obsessive-compulsive disorder attack.

"Please, stop, you're giving me a little headache"

Lin Xi muttered.

The tentacles on the top of the white monster's head suddenly drooped.

Lin Xi frowned looking at it like this, and that familiar sense of déjà vu reappeared.

Because of this, he felt a strange pity for the monster in front of him.

"Okay, let me figure out what to tell you...you know what's going on, right?"

Lin Xi calmed down, and then couldn't help but said to the white monster again.

His heart was pounding, and on the one hand he felt stupid.

Who would have thought that one day he would actually ask such a strange looking thing softly about his condition?

On the other hand, Lin Xi's intuition told him that maybe he could indeed get the answer from the little white monster in front of him... and this time Lin Xi's intuition was right.

Although there is no way to communicate with Lin Xi with words, this little white monster can answer him with actions.

From time to time, the white monster raised its head to look at the top of the cave. After hearing Lin Xi's last question, it turned around impatiently, and just like that, quickly waved the thin white wings behind it Quickly drilled into the passage connecting the cave.

After walking a few steps, it stopped again, its head turned back at a terrifying angle, and its red compound eyes flickered in the darkness for a moment, as if signaling Lin Xi to follow it.

"You mean let me follow you?"

Lin Xi paused for a moment standing at the door of the narrow passage.

He still has some hesitation.

For a moment, he felt as if his soul had been split in two, and one half was clamoring frantically for him to stay here.On the other hand, the rational part of his body was telling Lin Xi that he should follow the white monster and find answers to all the abnormalities in his body.

Lin Xi couldn't help but turn around and look at the place where she stayed before.

And at this moment, he heard the strange cry that gave him a headache.

That's what the white monster sent to him.

It could be seen that it didn't want to stay in the cave at all, maybe because he felt some danger?

Lin Xi thought in confusion.

The pleading and panic in the white monster's whisper still moved him after all.

Lin Xi gritted her teeth, then moved her body, followed closely behind the monster, and walked to the other end of the passage

However, he didn't know that shortly after he left, another shadow suddenly appeared in the originally dark and silent cave...