mother of all races

Let's push back the time a bit...to the beginning of the separation between Xavier and Lin Xi.

Xavier found himself separated from Lin Xi at the end of a corridor.

It stopped like a screeching brake in an instant, and the whole worm froze in place.The pair of metal-colored wings behind it turned completely off-white due to excessive panic and shock.

"Lin Xi?!"

Xavier let out a low cry full of horror.

But the man who should have been beside it did not appear.

Even Arthur was gone.

"..."

So far, there is only silence around Xavier.

Absolute silence.

It was as if Xavier was the only one left in the whole world—only for a few very occasional moments, Xavier could hear something rustling in a narrow corner in the dark, and it could hear that it was Those embryonic strange creatures that made it and Lin Xi have to flee in embarrassment.

After entering this corridor, those strange creatures that were like locusts all over the sky disappeared in an instant.

It's like there is something else here that makes them feel very jealous.

Xavier walked back and forth around the corridor a few times, trying to find Lin Xi.

But its attempts have always failed.

This is unbelievable, because Xavier is more sensitive than any other creature, and Lin Xi's breath is so unforgettable for it.That is the breath that goes deep into the bone marrow and is almost directly connected to its soul.

And Xavier is convinced that he has always followed Lin Xi's breath. In fact, just a few minutes ago, Xavier still faintly felt that Lin Xi was by his side...

But that's how it happened, and Lin Xi disappeared.

Xavier felt as if something had dug a deep hole in his chest——

Once again it lost its most precious thing.

Clearly knowing that he should be calmer, Xavier still couldn't control himself and fell into a state of extreme anxiety.

It flew up directly in the narrow and intricate corridors, searching for Lin Xi's trail back and forth in countless silent passages.

This should have been an easy task for the alien species with exceptionally strong perception, but the development of the matter made Xavier feel more and more panicked.

It didn't lose Lin Xi's breath...

In fact, every section of the road that Xavier passed through, and every passageway lingered with that faint breath.This situation made Xavier completely lose his direction, and when Xavier realized it, he was already in a deep and dark room.

Here, the breath of "Lin Xi" is the strongest.

"Lin Xi..."

Xavier murmured.

It thought it could finally find Lin Xi, but after it eagerly pushed open the long-abandoned door, there was no sign of the gentle man in the room.

Only the faint breath of "Lin Xi" lingered in the depths of the deep and dark room.

Xavier stopped suddenly.

It stood upright, its red eyes flickering slightly in the dark environment.It just stared straight at a certain place in the room - that's where Lin Xi's breath came from.

According to Xavier's instinct, it should have rushed in that direction immediately.

But it didn't do that, the smell in the room was so strong, it made Xavier feel dazed and anxious...

That breath was so soul-stirring, it directly affected Xavier's unique physiological instinct.

But... But is that really Lin Xi's breath?

It was at this moment that Xavier suddenly became vigilant.

Those breaths permeating all the passages are actually not quite right.

Rather than saying that the familiar smell belongs to Lin Xi, it is better to say that this smell is more similar to another original smell.

That's the smell of "His".

And after discovering this, everything that was wrong suddenly became very obvious.

Xavier is not an ordinary alien, it has a unique talent to accurately distinguish the difference between Lin Xi and "Him".

And now, Xavier is the same as before, and quickly discerns that the strong aura permeating the darkness is completely different from the real Lin Xi's aura—this aura is distorted...abnormal.

If it hadn't been flustered by the unintentional separation from Lin Xi, it should have noticed the difference immediately.

Thinking of this, Sha Wei suddenly spread his wings, and the tentacles stood up on the top of his head, and the tentacles were tense.

It appears very vigilant.

"Lin Xi..."

At the end, Xavier still gave up his voice and called out in a low voice, but this time, it still didn't get a response from Lin Xi.

Xavier retreated towards the way he came without hesitation.

Its intuition tells it that something here is going to cause trouble.And Xavier didn't want to waste the precious time looking for Lin Xi on such troubles.

But at this moment, it caught a glimpse of a familiar shadow...

The white deformed body is so conspicuous, even if Xavier wants to comfort himself, it is impossible for him to see it wrong.

That's Arthur.

Arthur, who had been separated from Xavier before, did not know why he appeared here.

At this moment, Arthur was staggering towards the other end of the dark room, and it seemed that there was something forcefully attracting him... It didn't even notice Xavier who was not far away from him. .

There was a roar from Xavier's mouth.It tried to attract Arthur's attention, but the strange thing was that Arthur, who was always very obedient because he was always afraid of Xavier in the past, didn't seem to hear Xavier's call at this time.

It was still wriggling its frail body, moving slowly towards that corner.

According to Xavier's nature, it would abandon Arthur here without hesitation.After all, Xavier had never liked this deformed xenomorph. It was Xavier's brother, but it was also his competitor.

Well, Arthur's deformity also keeps it alive in some ways, because he wouldn't be a candidate for an overlord (otherwise, Xavier might not be able to control his instincts).

But not taking the initiative to kill Arthur does not mean that Xavier wants to save him.It has a hundred reasons to abandon Arthur...

However, Xavier is not an ordinary alien after all. He has watched so many human TV series, and thus knows many complex emotions that aliens should not know.

It is very clear that abnormalities that suddenly appear in this kind of place often mean great danger.

Those auras that are very similar to Lin Xi are the "abnormalities" at this moment.

If Xavier really left Arthur alone, the latter might die here.

This is good news for Xavier. After all, if Arthur is, there will be nothing else between him and Lin Xi.

Xavier said to himself.

however……

However, Xavier couldn't help but think of the smile on the corner of Lin Xi's mouth when Lin Xi named Arthur.

And Lin Xi said that Arthur saved him.

If Arthur died, Lin Xi would be sad, right?After all, he specially chose that name for Arthur, a weak and deformed alien.

Lucky Arthur.

Xavier moved his insect limbs.

Its mouthparts poked out, and then it sprayed some acid, which was an expression of its extreme displeasure, but it had never done such an impolite thing in front of Lin Xi.

Immediately afterwards, Xavier chased directly in Arthur's direction.

But the time Xavier spent on the psychological struggle was a bit too long, and when it finally set off, Arthur's voice had already disappeared on the other side of the room.

Xavier had to follow that guy all the way to the inside of the room.

It passed through one door after another. Before this underground facility was completely abandoned, there must have been quite strict security measures here, but now those thick isolation doors and sophisticated laser traps have fallen into permanent failure.

When Xavier finally saw Arthur's figure again, it had already reached the deepest part of darkness...

This is a place like a greenhouse.

Xavier, who had grown up in a greenhouse, was very familiar with the humid, warm, slightly stuffy atmosphere due to the lack of air circulation.

It's just that, in Lin Xi's greenhouse, all the mild and harmless Sunu plants that make people feel happy are cultivated, but in this "greenhouse", what thrives because of the warm air is a completely different thing.

Every muscle in Xavier's body was stretched to the limit, and he looked at everything around him vigilantly——

Numerous translucent circular cultivation tanks are placed one upon another on tall metal shelves, and the inside of those cultivation tanks is covered with thick and sticky things like asphalt.

Most of the cultivation tanks have been ruptured, and mucus exuding a faint fishy smell squeezed out from the damaged parts, dripping and splashing all over the floor.

And inside the slime, there are countless dense, translucent round eggs inlaid.

These eggs only have a thick and soft soft membrane. With exceptionally good eyesight, Xavier can even clearly see the slightly wriggling things inside the soft membrane. They look like fat and soft maggots , but at the same time, their body surfaces also showed features similar to mammalian embryos.Some subtle vitality emanated from the inside of the egg: under Xavier's gaze, the culprit who caused Lin Xi to separate from it before... Those pink, embryonic things slowly tore open the cover Touching its own soft membrane, it fell to the ground wetly.

These are all eggs.

Xavier recognized this immediately.

"Really annoying."

It imitated the appearance of humans and let out a disgusted mutter.

It can clearly feel that these eggs are all his kind...

At least, part of it can be considered to be.

But seeing such a large number of eggs, but they are not its offspring, this alone is enough to make Xavier feel uncomfortable, not to mention, it can also feel that these eggs, as well as those from the insects The things hatched from the eggs exude a strange twisted aura.

Nothing is normal here - Lynch's instincts are right, these embryonic gadgets are indeed going to cause big trouble.

Xavier shook his tentacles, all its spines stood upside down because of serious discomfort.

It quickly looked around, and then found the wobbly Arthur not far away.

Obviously everything around is so strange, but that damned alien seems to be completely unaware of the dangers around it, and still tries hard to squeeze into the area where the eggs are dense.

Xavier jumped in mid-air, it flew directly beside Arthur, and then grabbed the white waste.

"Hiss..."

Xavier let out a rough hiss at Arthur.

It wasn't until this time that Arthur turned his head back in a daze, and it finally responded to Xavier.

However, even if there was a response, it seemed extremely abnormal.

Xavier immediately realized the strangeness in Arthur. The eyes of this white alien species were particularly lax. It looked dazed, as if it had lost all consciousness.

Even if Xavier caught it, Arthur kept twisting his body, trying to break free from the hold.

After several failed attempts to wake Arthur up, Xavier felt his fangs were already moving inside the mouthparts, and it really wanted to bite off the neck of the idiot in front of him.

It's just that at the last moment, Lin Xi's face appeared in Xavier's mind, which somewhat calmed him down.

"Lin Xi..."

Xavier whispered the man's name softly, so as to calm down the tyrannical desire in his heart.

Unexpectedly, following Xavier's words, Arthur raised his forelegs and pointed straight ahead.

It keeps repeating the same word.

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

"Lin Xi is not here!"

Xavier gritted his teeth and said to Arthur.

But Arthur looked... looked like he couldn't make sense of it at all.

"It's Lin Xi..."

Arthur yelled, and the struggle became more and more violent.

Just when Xavier's patience was almost at the bottom, it suddenly heard a wet and sticky friction sound coming slowly from the depths of the darkness.

Xavier turned his head suddenly, staring at the direction from which the voice came.

In the next second, Xavier's body trembled uncontrollably, and the aura belonging to "His" became stronger and stronger.

Xavier saw a man.

A young and handsome man with a twisted body exuding a strange aura.

He looks very weird, most of his body looks like a normal human being, but from the waist down is a long, white, soft substance.

That's its belly.

The shape of that thing is like a termite queen that has been magnified countless times...

Under the wrapping of those white films, thousands of newborn eggs were gestating in the man's swollen abdomen.

Xavier had never seen termites on Earth, but this did not prevent it from being disgusted and disgusted.

It felt that the other party was very ugly. Of course, this was also because Xavier hadn't seen the special experimental subjects that Lin Xi had seen.

Xavier will never know that the experimental subject standing in front of it now is already the most perfect individual cultivated in the laboratory at that time - at least it still maintains a human form.

Of course, the strange appearance is not the most important thing for aliens. What is really important is the smell they emit.

The moment that man appeared, Xavier realized that the aura that had confused him before was emanating from the deformed man in front of him.

Arthur's strangeness seemed to be related to this subtle similarity to Lin Xi's aura.

After discovering this, Xavier immediately became vigilant.

It grabbed Arthur, and then took a few steps back abruptly.

Compared with Xavier's nervousness and vigilance, the strange man who suddenly appeared had a strange attitude.

After realizing the existence of Xavier and Arthur, the man opened his arms, eagerly trying to hug Xavier and Arthur.A hormone with a strong sense of invitation emanated from the diffusers protruding from the sides of his body.

It was this breath that captured Arthur very accurately.

Even Xavier himself felt that his body was a little out of control.

only……

It's just that Xavier will not allow himself and Arthur to get close to that thing anyway.

After all, the man didn't look right no matter how he looked, his face was so pale, his eyes were as hollow as a deep well, without wisdom, reason, or soul.

That man is an empty shell.

And what fills that exorcism shell is... a most primitive desire.

Just when he was trying to get close to Xavier's colleague, countless fresh eggs were pushed out from his swollen abdomen, and then fell to the ground.

In the dark, humid, dark environment, it didn't take long at all, countless little things like embryos were born like that.Xavier observed those disgusting little creatures vigilantly, and then found that only about a quarter of the eggs could really develop into the little monsters it knew could run and jump with complete shapes, and the rest Most of the bug eggs crawled out were mutilated bodies with obvious deformities and twists.

But no matter whether they are incomplete or complete, the first thing they do after birth is to quickly rush into the darkness.

Immediately afterwards, these little things will die in the instinctive cannibalism, and the losers of the struggle will become the freshest bait for their brothers and sisters. "Mother" food.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

And that man didn't seem to realize what a heinous tragedy he and the reincarnation around him were constantly repeating.

He would just keep whimpering almost like howling, and then get closer to Xavier and Arthur little by little.

Xavier felt fear for the first time, because it soon discovered that while it was extremely disgusted with the man in front of it, it was completely unable to have any thoughts of attacking him.

It was so strange, Xavier stared down at the deadly spines on his shin.

On the other side it had to use its mind to control Arthur - the idiot was still wriggling and trying to run towards the man.

Xavier could only retreat weakly step by step.

And that man pressed on step by step, but just when he was about to touch Xavier and Arthur, his body stopped suddenly.

He wriggled his body in pain, and the wailing from his throat became more and more horrific.

Xavier shuddered, and it woke up instantly.

Then it grabbed Arthur and quickly stepped back a few steps to distance itself from the man.

The indescribable sense of chaos slowly faded from its body.

It wasn't until this time that Xavier discovered that the man had actually been bound by countless pipelines, and those densely packed pipelines were covered with new festered skin and flesh, which seemed to have almost constituted a part of the man's body.It is also for this reason that when the man was about to step out of the scope of the pipeline, the pipeline behind it almost fell out, and a large amount of blood gushed out, making the man stop all movements, and then let out such a painful cry. wailing.

Xavier looked at the man and felt a shudder.

There was a strange aura about this man, which made him think of Lin Xi involuntarily.But Xavier swears that if it sees its own Lin Xi like this, it will definitely go completely crazy.

"Lin Xi..."

Arthur beside Xavier still looks confused and chaotic

Arthur looked at the man in a daze, and then moved his eyes to Xavier.

"Lin Xi?"

it asked in bewilderment.

"That's not Lin Xi..."

Xavier shook his head frantically, and then said.

The man also seemed to be afraid of the pain in his back. After he found that he couldn't touch Xavier and Arthur anyway, it faded back into the darkness little by little, just like when it came, accompanied by the sound of wet friction.

In fact, if Xavier is willing, it can catch up and find out where the man is hiding.

But at this moment, the only thing Xavier could do was to stay alert and force Arthur to leave the room quickly.

Just when it finally took Arthur back to the aisle where he was before, an indescribable trembling sensation rushed through Xavier's soul

With a whimper, its wings unfolded uncontrollably.

Even Arthur regained consciousness in an instant.

They turned their faces in unison, looking somewhere in the corridor.

"Lin Xi!"

There was no trace of confusion in Arthur's tone this time.

While it was whispering, Xavier had already preempted and rushed in that direction - just now, their spiritual connection with Lin Xi was touched.

Lin Xi was in a state of extreme fear.

Lynch is in danger!

At this moment, Lin Xi's warning signal became the most eye-catching beacon for Xavier and Arthur. They directly broke through the obstacles at an astonishing speed, and found Lin Xi's position in the intricate passage.

However, after finally finding Lin Xi, what stood in front of Xavier and Arthur was such an extremely thick metal door.

But even such a thick metal door still couldn't hide the stench coming from the other side of the door.

It's the king worm.

It was other king worms that appeared in its domain.

"I'm here, Lin Xi, I'm here..."

Xavier let out a growl and slammed into the door.

Under the impact of Xavier, the thick metal door cracked a crack within a few strokes.

Next, the monster on the other side of the door did the rest of the work instead of Xavier.

A few extremely thick insect limbs protruded from the edge of the gap, like tearing cardboard, the opponent tore the metal isolation door in half, and then threw it heavily into the distance.

Xavier confronted the monster directly.

Overlords... defiled and twisted overlords...

Just like Lin Xi, at the moment he saw that monster, deep in Xavier's body, the instinct that originated from a different species for hundreds of millions of years began to boil.

Its disgust and hatred for this king worm reached its peak in an instant.Not to mention, Xavier also smelled the monster from Lin Xi.

It can't mistake the information contained in this smell.

Xavier let out a hiss, and then rushed towards the monster like a sharp sword.

It collided with the monster, and then separated.

Xavier left a deep scar on the monster that could almost cut the monster in half.

But that monster also left a deep imprint on Xavier at the same moment... Those tentacles on that guy's body sneakily bypassed the armor on Xavier's back, and directly passed through Xavier's face. A more fragile chest.

Xavier fell from mid-air, and then it staggered back several steps before stabilizing its body.

"Xavier?!"

Lin Xi cried out in horror.

Xavier just shook his tentacles at him.

"...Next time you will hold my hand."

It said every word seriously.

"Don't lose me again!"

it says.

Blood trickled down from its body.

Lin Xi almost fainted, but the monster behind Xavier.But he still stood motionless in the previous position.

It turned its head sideways, as if it didn't notice the terrible scars on its body at all.

Lin Xi even suspected that this monster might not have the ability to perceive pain at all.

"Xavier! This is not the time to say that—be careful!"

Lin Xi was so nervous that he couldn't help shouting,

But the moment his voice fell...

"Snapped……"

The monster's arm fell from its shoulder suddenly, and the foul-smelling blood sprayed directly on the ground.

That was Xavier's previous masterpiece.

Immediately afterwards, the monster's figure began to shake.

Lin Xi watched helplessly as the familiar scene reappeared in front of her eyes again. The surface of the monster's wound was covered with a film in an instant, and then a disgusting column protruded from the inside of the wound...

It's just that the wound surface created by Xavier this time is really too big, and pink granulation keeps appearing under the monster's wound membrane, but there is not a complete column from the beginning to the end.

There was a muffled grunt from the monster's throat, it seemed completely confused about the situation, and it didn't even know that it was injured.

It thought that it would grow new appendages as quickly as before, and then it shook its broken body with teeth and claws, and rushed towards Xavier.

Xavier showed off his exceptionally sharp thorns again, it jumped up lightly, and the sharp edges of its limbs slashed towards the monster's throat.

It jumped on the monster's back, and firmly stepped on the monster's back with the remaining few feet. Then, using this as a fulcrum, Xavier's two forelimbs interlaced and hooked on the monster's throat , and sawing back and forth like sawing wood.

This time the monster finally raised its head high and let out a pain-filled hiss.

"boom--"

After an unknown amount of time, the monster's head fell to the ground with a lot of blood.

Its disgusting body also fell down bit by bit.

It's dead.

"Lin Xi!"

"Xavier!"

Lin Xi forcefully tore off the tentacle wrapped around one of his feet from his body.

Xavier briskly jumped off the king worm clone and rushed towards Lin Xi.

It has a deep scar on its body, and the whole insect is stained with blood, but it is probably because killing a foreign species with the aura of the king worm has activated the most primitive nature deep in its body, and it is now stronger than before. High morale and even more excited.

Even its metallic wings take on the ever-changing colors of an opal.

Its tentacles were fully opened and puffed up like a banner, trembling crazily and rapidly above its head.

In the next second, it hugged Lin Xi all at once.

"Xavier, your injury—"

"Lin Xi...it smells so good..."

Xavier buried his face deeply on the side of Lin Xi's neck at the first moment, and its wings and tentacles almost completely covered half of Lin Xi - it was greedily absorbing Lin Xi with all its body organs. Hee's smell.

This is the taste of Lin Xi...

After confirming this point, Xavier's body, which was stretched to the limit, slowly relaxed.