mother of all races

Taran's fingers tapped lightly on the table.

He stared at the egg case on the table with a strange look.For a short moment, Lin Xi felt as if he saw a mixture of awe and fascination on Talan's face, but when he looked carefully, Talan Ida was still Talan Ida. Da, a total jerk.His face was pale and expressionless, making it impossible to see what was going on in his heart.

"The egg case of the star butterfly?"

I don't know how long it took, he said hoarsely.

"How can you be sure that this is the egg case of the star butterfly?"

Then he looked at Shizuo Ando.

"As you mentioned before, star butterflies are sacred, rare, and rarely recorded. We don't even know anything about it. Professor Ando, ​​I respect your knowledge, and I can swear that this is true Yes. However, if you insist that this is the egg case of the star butterfly, you should at least produce some evidence. Otherwise, considering the relationship between you and Dr. Lin Xi, it is hard for me to believe that the previous statement was not yours Made up nonsense to excuse your colleagues."

He said it as if he was sure it wasn't a star butterfly egg case.

Ando froze for a moment, and then a little anger appeared on the baby's face, as if he was a little offended by Talan's weird speculation.

"Yes, there is basically no record of this mysterious creature in the literature on the earth, but the reason why I made that immature speculation is because..." Ando's voice paused, and he He hesitated before continuing, "Actually, my wife Liz told me about the star butterfly egg case. When the picture of it was transmitted to my cabin, Liz saw what it looked like and sent Exclaimed, I couldn't help asking, and then I got the answer."

Ando said.

When Liz's name appeared, even Taran couldn't help but choked up, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, as if regretting that he couldn't find other words to continue to criticize.

Lin Xi and Alyssa looked at each other.

Well, since that guess is from Liz...

The true identity of the thing on the table has been determined in the minds of the two of them.

After all, Liz is nobody else.

Liz Chen is now the wife of Shizuo Ando, ​​but she is not just the wife of the earth researcher.

She is also a Sunu.

Of course, in a strict sense, she is not a pure-blooded Sunu (if so, she may have died in the madness of the Sunu), she is just a hybrid of Sunu and the earth.

Liz Chen's mother is a high-ranking government official stationed on Sunu, and her father was once a high-ranking person on Sunu, at least before those people were not so crazy.The identities of her parents allowed Liz to grow up normally on the Sunu planet and live up to the present—even the "material exchange" between the people on Earth and the Sunu planet is inseparable from the fact that her parents lived on that crazy planet. help and functioning.

And when the madness of the Sunu people became more and more serious, she took advantage of this scientific research mission to escape from the Sunu star on the Helios, as if she was also under the tacit approval of the government.

Of course, no one knows whether her falling in love with and marrying the earthling Shizuo Ando during the long voyage is also part of some ulterior plan.

Many people have this kind of speculation, but Shizuo Ando doesn't care about it. He loves his alien wife deeply like the hero in a romance novel, and his whole soul falls on the latter body.

But no matter what kind of conspiracy theories or rumors there are, no one can deny that Liz Chen's knowledge of Sunu is probably more convincing than the entire crew of the Helios put together.If she said it was the egg case of the star butterfly, then this thing was the egg case of the star butterfly.

"...If necessary, I can ask Liz to come to the captain's room. I think she will give us a more detailed explanation."

Shizuo Ando tightened his face and said.

The captain's room fell silent again.

Everyone was looking at Taran, waiting for his next response or making things difficult.

But at this moment, the egg case of the star butterfly suddenly squirmed in the life-support capsule.

It is now just a huge translucent "pod", the wriggling is definitely not violent, but it is very obvious under this situation.

"Well……"

Lin Xi jumped back uncontrollably, trembling with fright.

He knew that his behavior was a bit cowardly. If it was normal, he would never show his worthless appearance in front of outsiders, but at the moment when the egg case squirmed just now, he only felt that there seemed to be something under his skin. There was a twitch.This kind of nervous twitch in space is not uncommon, but the timing of its arrival was so coincidental that Lin Xi subconsciously connected the twitch with the wriggling of the egg case.

In his illusion, the egg case seemed to be wriggling in his body.

Fortunately, he wasn't the one with the most exaggerated reaction among the people present, so there's no need to feel ashamed about it now.

"boom--"

Taran, who was closest to the star butterfly egg case, was the one who caught everyone's attention.

He also looked a little startled, and the specific performance was that he accidentally swept the water glass on the ground.

This movement made Lin Xi look at him again, and then Lin Xi was a little surprised to find that Taran looked like he was really frightened rather than "a little frightened" - the pale bastard was staring at the table The egg sheath of the star butterfly on it is so strong that it seems that the pair of protruding eyeballs are about to fall out of the eye sockets.

Taran's eyes were trembling unnaturally, and Lin Xi even doubted whether he could still focus normally.

But as usual, it took only a short time for Taran to return to normal, his usual annoying look.

"No—don't bother Liz."

Taran's throat rolled, he said hoarsely.

He ignored the water glass that had fallen on the ground, and did not look at Ando, ​​but stared straight at the egg case on the table.

"Since you all think it's an egg case of a star butterfly...In that case, Professor Ando, ​​can you take good care of it?"

Taran asked suddenly.

Ando Shizuo was stunned for a moment, and then an ecstatic expression appeared on his face.

"Captain, what do you mean, let me keep this egg case and take care of it?"

The baby-faced man was so excited that his voice trembled.

Taran had an impatient expression on his face, as if he was enduring something, his breathing gradually became heavy.

"Yes, of course, it's a living alien thing, and it's worth a lot of money, we can't just leave it in storage like this. And you're the only person on board who can take care of it—"

(What's more, the Sun is now stranded on a planet with no number or location. The other official crew members have their own things to do, and you free-spirited scientific researchers should also help me solve some troubles——)

This is the subtext that Lin Xi added to Taran from the bottom of her heart.

Of course, the slander is the slander, facing the overjoyed Shizuo Ando and the increasingly unstable Talan, he still kept silent obediently.

"In fact, Dr. Lin Xi also—" However, after hearing what Talan said, Ando subconsciously interfaced and mentioned Lin Xi.

However, after seeing Taran's instantly disgusted face, he quickly changed the subject: "I will take good care of it, I can assure you, sir, I will take good care of it!"

After getting permission, he carefully held the egg case in his arms.

"Of course I fucking know...Damn it..."

Taran was still staring at the egg case, and he looked like he wanted to say something more, but as soon as the egg case was in Ando's arms, Taran suddenly bent down and let out a cry of pain mixed with curses.

"captain?"

"Sir?"

Both Ando and Alyssa asked in a panic.

huh... huh...

A few heavy breaths.

After a long time, Taran rubbed his temples and straightened up with difficulty. His eyes were redder than before, and the slender fingers seemed to be trying to penetrate under the skin with force.

"Just a headache."

Taran gasped.

"Now that things are settled, you can all leave."

he said impatiently.

Of course, the other three people present could see that Taran's condition did not seem to be caused by ordinary headaches.However, Lin Xi really didn't care about Talan's safety, and Shizuo Ando had already focused all his attention on the egg case of the star butterfly in his arms, and the only person who showed concern about it was Alisa.

Moreover, Taran had already spoken, and they had to leave the captain's room quickly.

However, after Ando eagerly left with them outside the captain's room, Alyssa inexplicably talked about Talan with Lin Xi.

"...I thought you knew, I don't like that guy."

Lin Xi frowned and said, wondering why Alisa would start this topic.

Alisa pursed her lips.

She stopped and turned to face Lin Xi.

Her complexion was still very bad, and Lin Xi could tell that Alisa herself was hesitating whether she should say the next words.

"I don't know... Lin Xi, I don't know what's going on. Sometimes I feel that something is really wrong with me. After all, this ship, the pressure from this damn accident It's too big...I..." Alyssa looked very disturbed, "but the feeling was too strong, I couldn't convince myself. Lin Xi, Taran he's wrong, it's really, really wrong, but I can't tell other people, I'm afraid of affecting other people's morale..."

"I'm sure no one on this ship likes Taran."

Lin Xi comforted her.

Alisa shook her head vigorously.

"It has nothing to do with his popularity, but... I don't know how to put it...something terrible happened to him, and it's still happening to this day." Alisa suddenly Turning his head, he looked far away at the captain's cabin that had disappeared at the end of the corridor, "Did you know? Just today, before you and Ando were called over, only Taran and I stayed in the captain's cabin. And out of the blue he asked me 'Did you hear that guy screaming'."

"what?"

Lin Xi frowned even tighter.

"Sounds really bad. Maybe that guy was overwhelmed by the pressure too? Everyone knows that Taran Ida has suffered from mental problems before this, and everyone is saying that this voyage is probably his It's the last time, according to his previous appearance, he can't pass the next mental standard test. In short, it sounds to me that he just suffered from space paranoia."

Lin Xi pretended to be very relaxed and said to Alyssa.

But Alisa's eyes widened, and she looked terrified.

"Do not……"

Alisa murmured.

"When he insisted that I listen, I felt... I seemed to... hear voices."

Having said that, Alisa shuddered, her body went limp, and she almost fell to the ground.

"Alyssa!"

Lin Xi quickly hugged her.

Then he noticed that Alisa was trembling slightly.

"What happened? What did you hear?"

Alisa looked up at Lin Xi in a daze.

"You... you must be careful during this time, okay?" She tremblingly said, "I still can't tell what the hell it is, maybe I was just scared by Taran's appearance, maybe... maybe It's something else. I have a bad feeling, very bad."

Reminiscent of Alisa's intuition all along, Lin Xi's eyes became more dignified.

"A hunch about whom? Taran? Me? Or..."

"About Taran, and you."

Alisa murmured weakly.

"And all of us."

She added.