mother of all races

At the end of this corridor, waiting for Lin Xi and the others is a metal door.

This door was thicker than the metal door at the entrance, and it was supposed to be locked - Lin Xi saw the disabled access control system beside the metal door.

But now, the door in front of Lin Xi has been severely damaged—God knows what happened to this door. In short, what Lin Xi saw was just a completely deformed metal plate.

There was a wide gap between the metal door that was supposed to be airtight and the door frame.

Xavier stuck his forelegs into the gap, and Lin Xi didn't know what she did. In the next second, he heard a harsh metal friction sound, and then the door fell heavily in front of him. On the ground, a thin layer of dust was stirred up.

"Cough-cough-"

Lin Xi coughed a few times.

"thanks……"

he said to Xavier, who gave him a slight nod.

"It's nothing troublesome."

It said that there was an involuntary rubbing of the forefoot.

Lin Xi waited for a moment outside the open metal door, and walked in with a vigilant mood after making sure that no danger was sensed inside.

The air here is as dull and cold as ever, with a faint smell of decay.

What surprised Lin Xi a little was that the lighting facilities in this area were still barely operating.

After Lin Xi, Xavier and Arthur walked into the large metal room, the white light tube on the ceiling lighted up with difficulty.

Lin Xi narrowed his eyes, then looked around.

Compared with the metal secret room they stayed in before, the area here is much wider. The whole room presents a soft circular shape, and there are two doors leading to unknown places on the other two sides of the room.

In the center of the room is a console with a curvature, and a row of neat lockers are located in the corner of the room, taking up a lot of space.It's just that whether it's the wall, the floor or the locker, there are a lot of splashes of black marks on the smooth and shiny metal panels.

Lin Xi glanced at those marks, and it was easy to see that they were the imprints left after the blood dried up.

And it's not surprising that these bloodstains appear here...

Under the cold light emitted by the extraordinarily dim lighting, the most striking thing is the skeletons scattered all over the room.

The moment she saw these skeletons, Lin Xi clearly sensed the tension around Xavier.

It's just that Xavier seemed a little more relaxed after discovering that these skeletons were already dead.

But even so, it did not take it lightly.Xavier forced Lin Xi to stand there for a while, and after examining the gray corpses, he returned to Lin Xi and nodded at Lin Xi.

"They're all dead... long dead."

Xavier said to Lin Xi.

Although Xavier's emotions could not be seen from that cold face, through the spiritual connection between Lin Xi and it, Lin Xi knew very well that Xavier's tense heart was only slightly relaxed until this time.

Lin Xi smiled reassuringly at Xavier, and then stepped forward to observe the corpses.

These corpses have different shapes, and most of them look like human beings... Just look at them a little bit, and Lin Xi will find that there are more or less alienations on their bodies, for example, the lower jaw has been transformed into a bone. straws, or the spine becomes thin and long, and finally puts together a thin bone plate behind it.

Of course, there are still some corpses, the same as what Lin Xi saw in the ruins of the Helios before, they have been completely transformed into another kind of creature, they lay quietly on the metal ground, and the wreckage has become Dull off-white.

This made the corpses of these alien species look like some kind of plaster work. Lin Xi held his breath, and he approached a corpse of an alien species with some hesitation.

This thing looks like a combination of a dragonfly and a centipede. It looks like it should have been shot to death. It just curled up in the corner of the room, with a few broken bones under its damaged abdomen.

Lin Xi took a look and determined that it was human remains.

It is conceivable that when this alien species died, there should still be some food in its belly, and the food of the alien species... naturally can only be human beings.

Up to now, the original humans and alien species have been completely reduced to skeletons and empty shells, but Lin Xi can still feel how tragic the struggle that took place here was when he looked around.

They devoured each other, killed each other, and finally died here together.

Thinking of this, Lin Xi couldn't help turning her head to look at the severely deformed door behind her.

He saw a human corpse next to the gate, with a heavy machine gun hanging on his arm, and he was in a half-sitting state, his head was tilted on his shoulders, his sternum had been shattered, and Two or three bones belonging to different species were lying in front of him, and the deformed arms stretched straight towards the door.

It can be seen that this old man risked everything to block the door.

"It seems that it was not peaceful here at first."

Lin Xi muttered, he stretched out his hand and gently touched the corpse of the alien species.

As a result, before he even exerted any force, the alien corpse that touched his finger instantly turned into gray-white fragile fragments and collapsed directly.

"Hiss..."

Seeing the scene in front of him, Arthur, who was closely behind Lin Xi, let out a cry of panic, until Xavier gave it a cold look.

Arthur shook his wings and slowly retreated to the corner.

At this time, Lin Xi's attention was entirely on the shattered bones. He looked at the gray and white debris that had fallen, and was taken aback for a moment, then withdrew his hand.

"Sorry, man, I didn't mean to."

Lin Xi said.

It seemed that he couldn't find too many clues from the bones of these creatures.

He didn't do useless work on these corpses, but focused on those lockers.

According to Lin Xi's guess, the vast space they entered now should be the equipment room used by the crew of the Providence when they initially explored the outside world after disembarking.

Assuming that the customs of human beings 300 years ago are not much different from the present, the cabinets standing on the edge of the preparation room are usually places where the crew members put their personal belongings.

Lin Xi felt that she should be able to find some useful clues.

At this time, Lin Xi couldn't care less about respecting other people's privacy, so he walked to those metal cabinets.Xavier's exceptionally sharp forelimbs played a huge role at this time. Lin Xi didn't take much effort to dismantle the doors of those metal cabinets.

And the things left in the lockers by those who had died long ago were completely displayed in front of Lin Xi.

The outdoor clothes hanging inside the metal cabinet even looked brand new. Only when Lin Xi checked and touched those outdoor clothes did he find that the insulating material on the surface of these outdoor clothes was full of tiny cracks.

Fortunately, the identity plate and work card on the chest of the out-of-town clothes have not faded due to 300 years.

Lin Xi even saw the person blocking the door and blocking all the escape routes of the alien species on the identity plate of a certain go-out suit.

Andre Quinn.

The name was engraved on the heavy machine gun in the skeleton's hand.

Lin Xi immediately put the focus of the inspection on him. He carefully looked at the name tag on the outfit, which showed that Andre Quinn's identity was——[Senior Security Guard of the Seventh Division of the Providence] team leader]

Lin Xi glanced at the other people's nameplates, and was sure that Quinn's identity was the tallest among the staff in this room.

That's probably the case. Compared with other well-behaved crew members, Andre's cupboard is full of various personal items

Lin Xi saw his picture posted there on the door of his locker.

That photo has faded long ago, but it can still be vaguely seen that Andre was a handsome man before his death, with a beautiful woman nestled in his arms.

That kind of happiness and warmth can be revealed even through faded photos

In the corner of the photo, there is a line of fancy handwriting...

(Happy anniversary, I will always love you)

Signed by Anna Tally

"Happy wedding anniversary."

At this moment, Lin Xi suddenly felt a weight on his shoulders, and when he turned his head, he happened to see Xavier's face.

This hideous alien was staring blankly at the photo in Lin Xi's hand, his eyes very focused.

"I will love you forever……"

Xavier continued.

Obviously knowing that the other party was just reading that line of handwriting, but hearing the last sentence, Lin Xi still felt a little warm in his ears.

"You know this line?!"

Lin Xi suppressed the strange thoughts that popped up in his mind, and then quickly changed the topic.

Xavier shook his tentacles at him with some pride, so that it would not tell Lin Xi that it had really worked hard to learn human language in order to watch TV dramas.

"This man seems to love his wife..."

Xavier said pretending to be calm, pretending that he didn't care much about Lin Xi's surprise at all.

"Yeah, you can see it."

When Lin Xi said this, she couldn't help but look back at the corpse lying near the metal door.

His mood is a little subtle.

The deep affection between Andre and his wife, in the eyes of 300 years later, is more or less tainted with some tragic colors.

Lin Xi couldn't help sighing after she came to her senses. I'm afraid even Andre himself didn't think that when he set foot on the Providence, he had already set foot on a road leading to darkness. the way……

Just like himself at the beginning, you must know that until the Helios took off from Sunu, he thought that he could return to his normal life soon.

After sighing, Lin Xi forced herself to calm down.

Lin Xi didn't want to put too much energy on the past of the dead.He quickly pasted the photo back on the door of the locker, and then turned over Andre's locker again.

If the other party is indeed the captain responsible for the safety of the ship, there should be an identification card in his locker leading to other directions of this underground facility.

In this way of thinking, Lin Xi's search did pay off.

It's just that what he harvested was not an identification card, but a diary.

When she took out the very fragile notebook from the depths of the cabinet, Lin Xi was stunned.

Even 300 years ago, keeping a diary was a bit too old-fashioned, but now Lin Xi should thank Andre Quinn for his conservativeness in this respect.

Lin Xi almost couldn't wait to open the diary.

Andre's diary is densely written, full of what he saw and heard on the Providence, and his gradual collapse.

Lin Xi quickly flipped through the previous part, most of which were about things before taking off from the earth to the transition gate.From Andre's steady diary, it can be seen that this journey is as smooth and smooth as human scientists first thought.

However, when the Providence spacecraft began the famous "vanishing transition", Andre's diary began to have something more.

2711. 11, 12

weather……

Well, there probably isn't much weather to speak of here either.

After all, we've been stuck in this damn cabin all this time.And the weather created by artificial projections is always very bright.

Today is the 15th day of successfully surviving the jump and landing.

Thankfully, I always have to force myself to tell myself that.

After all, before this, there has never been such a large-scale artificial object in human history, which has passed through the transition gate and reached the outer universe.

We have not been shattered by the space fault in that place, which is enough to prove that we are lucky.

However, the communication with the earth is still not restored. I asked Chris once today. This is about the 15th time I have asked in 2000 days, but the answer they gave me is still as boring as ever.

The Providence spacecraft was so massive that it caused particle oscillations inside the Slip Fault when it passed through the Slip Gate.Well, this means that we have completely lost contact with the other side of the earth, and if we want to regain contact with that side, at least we have to wait for the transition gate to stabilize.

Chris said it would probably take months to years, and God, I hope it turns out to be the former.I couldn't believe what Ana would think of me if I actually lost contact with Earth for a few years.

I can feel that other people on the spaceship have the same concerns as I do, and the atmosphere here is a bit sluggish now.Same with the guys on my team, oh my god, I wish this had passed sooner.

2711. 11, 29

I still haven't got in touch with the Earth today. I don't know what the damn navigator is doing. In short, the transition gate is still in chaos today.

This is not good news.

I have to say this.

The jump gate is a problem, and disconnection is also a problem.

To make matters worse, something might be wrong with the vaccine we brought over from Earth.

Yesterday my team mates and I went through the latest batch of vaccinations and it just sucked.

The idiots in the infirmary said the vaccine was to get me used to alien life faster, but in reality, the vaccine just made me allergic to everything.

I was having a headache, sneezing and coughing like I had a bad cold.

The only thing I can be thankful for is that everyone else on board is also weak like us, so no one has the strength to make trouble.

Otherwise, with the sick lads in this team alone, I don't have the confidence to control the situation.

After all, we are now disconnected from the earth, and there will always be some people who will feel extremely panic because of this matter.

Thank God, at least we still have brains... Howl was a sweet butler indeed.

It took good care of us all.

For three days, we've been relying on this guy to organize our lives.I admit that before doing this task, I have always been biased against artificial intelligence, and now I'm afraid I have to take my thoughts back, Hal did a good job.

2712. 1, 12

The weather is a little rough, we just had an alien storm.For God's sake, it was a nightmare experience.

Now I understand why the people in the engineering department are so eager to dig underground bunkers. Without underground bunkers, even the Providence would not be able to survive such a storm for too long.

I admit, I'm doubting myself now why I came to settle in such a ghost place.

The government guys are a bunch of fucking liars.

2712. 1, 15

The subsequent allergic reaction caused by the vaccine has not subsided.

The progress of the underground bunker is much faster than expected.I gotta say, those guys at Dell were really good.Although the batch of robots they brought on board always gave me a creepy feeling.

2712. 1, 22

Still coughing and cold.

I don't know what went wrong, at least the others on board...

Most of those people have recovered from the effects of the vaccine.

On earth I was as strong as a bull, but now I feel as weak as a bird.

I hate this damn planet more and more.

And I'm sure that Anna won't like it here, there are too many bugs here, she will be scared crazy by the bugs here.

Damn I miss him so much, I wish I could get in touch with Earth sooner.

2712. 1, 28

The situation is terrible, I don't know how to write it, I will talk about it tomorrow.

2712. 1, 29

Thanks to the sleep and the alcohol, at least I feel better now.

The current situation on the ship is not good. Just yesterday, a monster appeared inside the cabin.

How should I put it, if I hadn't met that monster, I probably would never have known, I'm actually an insect phobia.

That guy was completely beyond my imagination.I had no idea that a bug would be so scary when it was magnified thousands of times and became bigger than a horse

We are almost out of ammunition.

But to that guy, our attack was like scratching an itch.

Fortunately, at the last minute, the ghost of Dell's company appeared.

Thanks for the jellyfish, we survived anyway, I'll never say those guys look spooky again.

2712. 2, 3

bad day

The fact that a monster broke into the cabin was suppressed.

But even so, I can still feel that everyone's emotions are not very good.

The captain gave direct orders to go over the containment systems of all the cabins, a colossal undertaking, and God knows how we ended up accomplishing it.

I feel like I almost died here, but you know that the most troublesome thing is not that there are many tasks, but that you still don't know what the problem is after you have gone through such an anti-human anomaly check.

Such a big monster, it is impossible for it to appear out of thin air.

But we've gone back and forth through all the airtight systems, and we haven't found any leaks in the system.

That monster really looks like it was brought here by a magician.

2712. 2, 9

I did something that might offend Angel

It's unwise, I know, but there's nothing I can do about it.

I don't think the monster entered the ship from the outside.

Why has no one ever suspected those biological laboratories?

Those so-called scientists have been studying those nasty little bugs since they landed on this planet.

Who knows what those mad scientists would do to the bugs, maybe they gave the bugs some potions and they turned into the monsters we saw before.

God, I really don't understand why anyone would want to build such a dangerous biological laboratory inside a spaceship with 25 people, they should be quarantined far away to the moon.

I wish Anna was here with me.

2712. 2, 13

My report took three days to write, but, looking at their receipts for me, it took maybe three seconds.

They didn't even bother to investigate that lab, damn it.

2712. 3, 15

I don't know how to write this anymore, I feel like I'm going crazy.

Yes, that's right, the damn monster appeared again, but this time the accident finally had a victim.

A medical officer named Johanson Lane disappeared, and his wife and children were all turned into food for the monster.

Anyone who has seen that scene will want to investigate the truth of the matter.

I don't know what exactly went wrong with HAL, why did it exclude humans from the accident investigation?It just doesn't make sense.In this way, it opened the first authority of the security robot.

We've only just arrived at the scene, and those damn robots have already dealt with those monsters ahead of time.

This is totally against the charter.Those robots were supposed to be used only as a supporting role, but now they have completely become the protagonists on the spacecraft.

2712. 3, 20

I suspect that there is a logical error in the smart number of the Providence.

2712. 4, 1

Yes, I think Hal might actually be crazy.

He seemed to be treating the humans on the ship as sub-animals, and it itself took full control.

I suspect it may have strayed from the logic of Regulation One, and if that were the case, we'd be in big trouble.

2712. 4, 6

I can't take it anymore, I have to see Scripps.

I had a very scary idea in my head, and of course no one would believe my guess, but my gut told me that something was going very badly.

Well, writing in my diary my assumptions might not look so ridiculous.

I suspect Hal had a consciousness of his own, and then, it imprisoned Captain Scripps.

2712. 4, 11

I finally got to meet Captain Scripps, and well, he did look pretty bad, and maybe Hal wasn't kidding me about that.

Scripps was very sick, and seeing him, I was even a little relieved that I wasn't the only person on this ship who had such a violent reaction to those vaccines.

Scripps assured me that Hal would be fine, and I wanted to believe him, and I hoped he was right.

2712. 4, 28

Anna, I wish you were here with me.

If that's the case, maybe I'll be able to last a little longer, the atmosphere on board is getting weirder and weirder.

There are more and more monsters.

If it weren't for those robotic jellyfish still helping to deal with the monsters on board, I doubt that most of the colonists on the Providence would have become bait for those bugs.

2712. 5, 2

am I crazy?

2712. 5, 16

I heard it today too.

The bugs were speaking in human voices.

And... they also have a human face? ?

I suspect that I'm really crazy, otherwise why would I see Johnson's face on the corpses dragged away by mechanical soldiers, shouldn't that guy be dead? ?

2712. 5, 19

As if I were really crazy, I suspect that the humans on this ship are turning into monsters.

And the artificial intelligence of our spaceship is crazy, I have to find a way to find Scripps, at this time only he has the authority to stop all this

And I'm not at all surprised Hal would try to keep me from seeing Scripps.

……

Lin Xi's hand trembled slightly.

After writing the diary that I was going to meet Scripps... the diary was blank.

In other words, from that day on, this man named Andre Quinn never wrote a diary again.

Lin Xi turned her head to look at the skeleton at the door, her face gradually gloomy.