mother of all races

"Oops, it's Arthur—"

After hearing that call, Lin Xi immediately took her hand back from Xavier's body.

Immediately, he turned around quickly, and hurriedly ran towards the direction of the whisper.

Lin Xi could only pretend that she didn't see Xavier's stiffness at that moment at all... and the shock and disappointment on his hideous face.

He had to worry about Arthur.

On the one hand, it was because of that low cry, and on the other hand, it was because, at this moment, Xavier's killing intent towards Arthur was so strong that it could flow out of the air directly.

Lin Xi quickly found Arthur. This white alien was inadvertently separated from Lin Xi and the others because he was very familiar with the Helios. Now, it was standing vigilantly in a room at the end of the corridor. .

Before the Helios was in ruins, it should have been the office of some senior crew member, and the floor was even covered with thick earth fabrics and personal style office supplies, but now, there is only a sloping floor And a large pile of scrap copper and iron piled up against the wall.

...and a "ghost" mechanical warrior honored by Dell.

This is so fucking exciting.

Seeing the mechanical warrior's iconic jellyfish-shaped head and metal tentacles, as well as the shining fluorescent eyes under the arc cover, Lin Xi's pupils suddenly constricted.

Arthur was standing next to the mechanical warrior now, and it was staring at the mechanical warrior warily. Its wings and tentacles were tense, and its mouthparts protruded from its mouth, revealing its sharp fangs.

It seemed to be quite frightened by the thing in the room.And even if it is a stunted deformed mutant, when it shows a threat to other species, it looks very terrifying.

However, in the face of mechanical warriors, this kind of threat is extremely pitiful and fragile, and it is simply vulnerable.

The scene where Arthur and the mechanical warrior confronted each other almost made Lin Xi's heartbeat almost stop.

In an instant, countless bloody memories flooded into his mind like a flood that broke a bank.

At that moment, Lin Xi seemed to have returned to that day...

He seemed to have seen the scene of his family being strangled to death by those damn mechanical monsters again.

"Do not--"

Lin Xi let out a long hiss.

He issued a silent order, and almost at the moment when the order was conveyed with spiritual force, Xavier swept past him.

The huge and ferocious body of the alien species landed directly on the mechanical warrior, and the tip of the insect limb almost pierced the mechanical warrior's shell.

Under the huge impact, the mechanical warrior fell to the ground without the slightest resistance.

"boom--"

Its head hit the ground, making a loud and crisp sound.

"Hiss..."

Of course, Xavier couldn't just let it go. It neighed extraordinarily wildly, and then raised its sickle-like forelimbs high.

Seeing that Xavier is about to cut that mechanical warrior in half in the next second...

"No, Xavier, stop—"

At this moment, Lin Xi's intuition suddenly jumped heavily, and even before he could react, he raised his voice and stopped Xavier's slaughter of the mechanical warrior.

Xavier's forelimbs stopped firmly in mid-air.

Its other legs were firmly pressed against the mechanical warrior on the ground, and then it turned its head to look at Lin Xi.

"Lin Xi?"

Lin Xi could even see Xavier's confusion through those scarlet eyes.You know, Xavier has been waiting for this day for a long time—the reason why it evolved itself into this appearance (you know, it even gave up its pair of beautiful wings that it is proud of in order to increase its lethality) is to One day, he could easily kill these mechanical warriors who had made him suffer a lot.

It can't wait to show its new skills in front of Lin Xi.

"Don't touch it yet."

As a result, Xavier got a completely unexpected order.

Lin Xi bit his lip, took a deep breath, and approached the mechanical warrior vigilantly.

"This mechanical warrior..."

He stretched out a hand and grabbed the metal tentacles of the mechanical warrior.

In Lin Xi's memory, the mechanical warrior's tentacles were dexterous and sharp, but only when he held those long metal tubes in his hand would he realize that this thing was extremely heavy.

Lin Xi weighed the metal tentacles in his hands, and the electronic eyes of the mechanical warrior flashed rapidly under the mask.

But from the beginning to the end, its metal tentacles remained motionless.The thing fell into Lin Xi's palm, just like a dead snake

Arthur had seized the opportunity to rush to the wall the moment Xavier shot.Carefully hid.

Seeing Lin Xi playing with the metal tentacles of the mechanical soldier, its tentacles moved, and then ran over curiously.

It stretched out its worm limbs, followed Lin Xi's example, and shook those few metal tentacles.

The next moment, he even fiddled with the mechanical claws on the top of the metal tentacles, and the tips of those claws were obviously worn... But even so, seeing the scene of Arthur fiddling with the claws of the tentacles still made Lin Xi's heart stopped beating.

This naive little bug had no idea how many of its companions were directly cut into bloody pieces by this mechanical claw.

"Stop playing..."

Lin Xi pushed Arthur aside, then turned his head to look at Xavier.

"Don't be too nervous, you can get off it. It's malfunctioning."

Only then did Lin Xi murmur in a low voice.

This can explain why Lin Xi didn't find the existence of this mechanical warrior when he manipulated the little bug to investigate the environment inside the Helios.

This mechanical warrior was malfunctioning quite badly. The blinking electronic eyes proved that he had been activated all the time, but the motionless metal tentacles proved that it had completely lost its ability to move.

In a sense, although this mechanical warrior is still active, in essence, it is no different from the metal wreckage that fell in the monster's corpse.

Lin Xizai looked at the mechanical warrior carefully, and after a while, a trace of deep doubt appeared in his eyes.

He didn't find any extra damage on the mechanical warrior's shell. This thing was almost brand new, which meant that it hadn't experienced the last battle with aliens.

However, why did a brand new mechanical warrior trigger such a serious mechanical failure?

Is it a coincidence... But this kind of coincidence does not make people feel at ease.

"Lin...Lin Xi...look..."

At this moment, Lin Xi felt his sleeve being pulled.

He turned his head to look at Arthur.

Arthur tugged on his cuff while looking curiously at the wall beside him.

Finding that Lin Xi had noticed it, it raised its worm limb and pointed to the wall.

"Look."

Lin Xi followed its directions and looked towards the wall.

In the next second, Lin Xi was stunned.

The light in this room is very dark (in fact, if it weren't for Lin Xi's current mutation, it could almost be said that he could not see his fingers here), and the Helios was in disrepair, and the office and the interior of the room had not been renovated. There are some signs of oxidation on the decorative metal panels.Combining several reasons, Lin Xi didn't notice at all that the mottled marks on the metal wall next to him turned out to be scratches on the entire wall.

It would be more correct to say that there was a whole wall of scrawled information.

And the content of those nicks is definitely not unfamiliar to Lin Xi, after all, in his dream, he has heard it countless times from the mouth of a man with a haggard face who looks like a ghost.

[I beg you, find me, you must find me, and then kill me, I need help, let me free first, please kill me...]

【Help me, save me. 】

【kill me. 】

【Find me, and let me go, find me, find me, find me. 】

……

These handwritings are very scribbled, it looks like a child who just went to school barely wrote it, even just looking at those handwritings, you can feel how desperate and fearful the person who wrote these words was.

That thick dark emotion almost turned into sticky and smelly black blood, seeping directly from the scratches of these writings.

Lin Xi's breathing gradually became heavy. He stared at the wall, and suddenly felt a feeling of being out of breath. Even the beating of his heart became extremely difficult at this moment.

If Lin Xi was not shocked enough by these words of pleading for help, then the last few lines on the bottom of the metal wall completely broke his calmness.

[Dr. Lin Xi, help me. 】

【Dr. Lin Xi...】

……

Lin Xi shook his head, as if in this way, he could shake the metal lettering on the wall in front of him out of his sight.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and slowly stood up.

Lin Xi approached the metal wall with great vigilance, as if something on the wall would bite his hand.

But even with this.When he really came in front of the metal wall, he still couldn't help stretching out his hand, tracing those incomparably fresh scratches with his fingertips.

There was even residual heat from friction on those nicks.

After researching for a few seconds, Lin Xi suddenly turned around. He rushed back to the side of the mechanical warrior, stretched out his hand and touched the claws on the tips of the metal tentacles that Arthur had played with before. On those claws, the same There is still some heat remaining.

Just like the one on the metal panel.

"What the hell is going on..."

Lin Xi didn't hold back, and swears loudly.

Obviously, this message for help was completed just now.

The individual who left the message was the motionless mechanical warrior in front of them who was seriously malfunctioning.

Considering where they are now, it's more frightening than any ghost story on Earth.

Regardless of the identity of this mechanical warrior, or the person who manipulated the mechanical warrior to write this line... He knew Lin Xi's name.

Ah, why doubt that?

In the next second, Lin Xi suddenly reacted.

These extremely frightening and extremely painful distress messages seemed to be sent by his old acquaintance—the man who kept appearing in his dreams.

Lin Xi's brain became blank. Although he had some premonitions in his heart before, when he really faced this absurd reality...

The man who kept whining and moaning in his dream had left such a clear message in the real place.

Thinking of this, Lin Xi couldn't calm down anyway, not to mention that these traces were left by the metal tentacles of the mechanical warrior.

Just associating that man with the mechanical warrior made Lin Xi tremble uncontrollably.

For a moment, Lin Xi hoped in his heart that what he was facing was some kind of prank.

But in the next second, Lin Xi realized very sadly that no one would play pranks on him long ago. After all, the place where he is now is the planet AS192, which is extremely far away from the earth, and the place where he is standing now The location is the Helios, which has been completely abandoned and turned into ruins.

Here, no one would play tricks on him at all, because there were not even humans here.

Lin Xi returned to the side of the mechanical warrior, he stretched out his hand and patted the hemispherical head of the mechanical warrior.

"Hey, who are you? What are you going to do? Why are you in my dream all the time? What's going on here? What is looking for you? What is killing you? Why do you know my name... ..."

Lin Xi wanted to ask too many questions, but the mechanical warrior under him was as quiet and silent as ever.

They were born to kill, not to communicate with humans.

Even though Lin Xi was already trembling slightly due to over-excitement, the pile of metal structures in his hands never gave him any unnecessary response.Even the electronic eyes under the mask quickly dimmed after meeting Lin Xi

This mechanical warrior is gradually losing its function.

"Damn—answer me! Who the hell are you?!"

Lin Xi's voice suddenly rose.

At this moment, a slight sound came from the electronic brain covered by the mechanical warrior's hemispherical mask.

In the next second, Lin Xi felt that he was hit hard by something.

He flew up in mid-air and landed on the ground.Immediately afterwards, something airtightly enveloped his surroundings.

It took Lin Xi a moment to realize that it was Xavier...

At the moment when there was a light sound in the mechanical warrior's head, Xavier jumped up in mid-air, hugged Lin Xi tightly, and led him all the way back to the corner of the room.

"Xavier?!"

The soft sound just now is likely to be the sound of the self-detonation of the mechanical warrior.

Thinking of this, Lin Xi's back suddenly burst into a fine layer of cold sweat.

He could clearly feel that Xavier's firm body was tightly covering him.

And Xavier's elytra spread directly to both sides, covering Lin Xi's sides directly.This is a very protective pose.

If an explosion did occur, all impact and debris would be shielded by Xavier's back and wings.

It's just that when Xavier opened its elytra, it also exposed its relatively fragile back...

It should be said that Lin Xi was lucky. After waiting for a while, nothing happened in the room.

The mechanical warrior didn't explode.

Lin Xi's heart beat fast.

He lay there stiffly for a while before slowly sitting up with his hands and feet feeling weak.

"It's okay...thanks."

Lin Xi looked at Xavier who was protecting herself desperately, and said a little stiffly.Putting his hands on Xavier's chest, he slowly pushed the terrified and alert beast away from him.

"It was dangerous just now!"

For the first time, Xavier looked at Lin Xi with a little reproach.

It seemed completely unaware that there was anything special about what it had just done.

Instead, Lin Xi's own chest was slightly swollen and sore.

He opened his mouth, intending to say something, but in the middle of the sentence, he changed his mouth inexplicably.

"I know, I'll pay attention next time."

Lin Xi murmured to Xavier.He suddenly didn't know how to face Xavier like this.

Is it his illusion?At this moment, why did he feel that Xavier's eyes on him seemed to have warmth, almost naked him.The exposed skin was on fire.

"Crack clack..."

What broke the gaze between him and Xavier was a somewhat noisy metallic sound.

That was Arthur, who was curiously squeezing beside the mechanical warrior, pushing the mechanical warrior's body that had completely stopped moving with its front paws.

Under its pushing, the few metal tentacles made a piercing friction sound against the ground.

"Fault."

Sensing Lin Xi's gaze, Arthur turned his head suspiciously, then it picked up one of the mechanical warrior's tentacles and shook it.

Arthur imitated Lin Xi and learned a new word with great solemnity.

"It's a malfunction."

It said happily.

Well, in fact, Arthur didn't say anything wrong. The light noise made by the mechanical warrior's electronic brain was indeed just a malfunction.

The internal chip of its electronic brain was overloaded for unknown reasons, and then the entire electronic brain was burned down.

With Xavier's help, Lin Xi cut open the extremely hard shell of the mechanical warrior, and then checked its internal structure.

But after checking for a long time, he could only come to such a conclusion.

"I always feel that this failure mode is somewhat familiar..."

Lin Xi rubbed his temples, he sighed, and then muttered.

Although there is currently no suitable tool for further inspection of this mechanical monster, Lin Xi directed Xavier to disassemble the extremely heavy mechanical warrior, and finally took out the malfunctioning electronic brain.

In the following time, Lin Xi was a little absent-minded. He checked the ruins of the Helios again, and packed some supplies that Xavier had missed before.

It wasn't until the long days of this planet slowly faded away that Lin Xi suddenly realized that he had spent too much time in the ruins.

"...we'll check again in a few days."

Lin Xi said, and then he made the decision to leave with a full load of supplies.

But before leaving, Lin Xi returned to the office where the mechanical warrior was found. This time he was much calmer than before, and he carefully studied the writing on the wall.He firmly memorized every word of the information in his heart, so he was a little relieved.

find me…

Lin Xi focused on this word.

If that man really knew his name, he should be able to understand that Lin Xi is not on the earth now, but on a strange alien planet.

If this is the case, why does he keep emphasizing "find me"?

Could it be because that man is now trapped on this planet just like Lin Xi?

Thinking of this, a word has already appeared in Lin Xi's mind.

USS Providence.

There was a slight tingling in his head, and some vague memories were churning endlessly in the back of his mind.

This time Lin Xi did not succumb to the dizziness.

"The Providence...Scripps..."

He murmured the fragments that popped up in his mind, trying to recall those things that had been forgotten.

Amidst her worries, Lin Xi didn't feel any changes in her surroundings.

Because the group carried too many supplies, no matter how strong Xavier was, it was impossible for them to fly back to the cave with Lin Xi on their backs like before.So in the end they had to walk back through the alien jungle.

This undoubtedly slowed their speed down a lot.

And it was Arthur who first discovered that something was wrong, probably because of his deformity, his combat power was much weaker than that of ordinary alien species, but he had an outstanding talent in predicting danger.

Halfway through the journey, it stopped suddenly, then raised its body, and stared straight into the distance for a long time.

"Lin Xi..."

It called Lin Xi's name very disturbingly.

It took Lin Xi a moment to react. He raised his head and looked at Arthur, only to realize that the white alien in front of him had already spread his wings on guard.

"Arthur, what happened... what?"

Lin Xi's question was not yet complete, and the same premonition struck him instantly.

He turned abruptly, looking where Arthur had been looking.And at this moment, Xavier had come to Lin Xi's side silently.

The strong alien spread its wings slightly, hiding Lin Xi's figure behind him.

There is no need for redundant language communication between the three, the same emotions and feelings can be transmitted to each other through their unique spiritual connection.

Danger, great danger is coming...

The entire jungle was very quiet, as quiet as if even the air had turned into a solid.

It's just that Lin Xi knew very well that this quietness was just an appearance. He closed his eyes, and his spiritual power spread around like ripples. He soon discovered that all the creatures under the surface...from weird-shaped Lots of small creatures, insects...all extra busy.

They are all busy running for their lives.

Slightly smaller creatures, such as those insects, are using all their strength to drill deep into the ground.

And the small animals that couldn't hide themselves underground ran madly in a certain direction.

Something is coming.

Lin Xi felt his back itching slightly, it was his wings trembling unconsciously.

Both he and Xavier, including Arthur, could clearly feel that particularly ominous sign.

The premonition of danger is constantly expanding.

Without any order from Lin Xi, Xavier suddenly flapped his wings and flew up. It hovered in the air for a moment, its eyes staring straight into the distance, and its tentacles were fully opened.

It keenly captures some abnormal, particularly subtle air movement and a certain unsettling smell.

And in the distance, Xavier saw a particularly hazy gray smoke...

The smoke looks almost like mist, without any threat, and the mist is also very thin, if you don't look carefully, it is almost difficult to detect its arrival.

However, it was this mist that made the color of Xavier's back turn dark in an instant.

It fell quickly.

"It's the wind, a strong wind..."

Xavier said.

While speaking, it saw the extremely nervous Arthur who was huddled beside Lin Xi at a glance.

Xavier paused for a moment, then spoke again.

"storm.

It immediately changed to a more professional word.