mother of all races

Of course, Lin Xi didn't know about her mutation, which caused Scripps, who was hundreds of kilometers away, to collapse...

Of course, even if he knew, he wouldn't care about it now.

At this moment, he is being surrounded by the flesh and blood of those clone captains, and his mind seems to be in a state of extreme sobriety and extreme chaos at the same time, he seems to be still him, but... seems to have become another one person.

Everything around is reddish, warm and humid, as if surrounded by a huge mutated womb.The smell of blood coming from the deformed body of the experimental subject made Lin Xi feel relieved. He was extremely relaxed, like a little baby in the amniotic fluid of his mother... A steady stream of energy passed through the capillary pores, constantly The blood is flowing into his body, and his cells are constantly differentiating and mutating.

He devoured almost greedily all the energy passed into his body.

It's just that Lin Xi didn't realize that just as he felt relaxed and warm as if returning to his mother's arms, his body was spreading...

Or, "dissolved" can also be used to describe his current appearance.

The outline of that hideous half-human, half-worm body that once made him feel extremely panicked is becoming blurred.

Lin Xi's skin and carapace first melted into the mucus, followed by muscles and bones, and finally, even Lin Xi's internal organs were transformed into thick cytoplasm under the action of the intensely secreted enzymes.

At this moment, the only tissue inside the meat sac that maintained its own shape was only a few slightly viscous buds hidden in the deepest part of Lin Xi's body.But what is surprising is that even in this situation, Lin Xi's will is not dissipated without the body dissipating.On the contrary, his will is becoming solid and powerful little by little.

Lin Xi realized that she was dreaming...

However, it was different from any previous dream. In this dream, what he saw was the vague memory of countless living beings from ancient times to the present.

He dreamed that on the planet AS192, the smallest insect was swallowed by another creature covered with bright colors as soon as it came out of the ground.

He dreamed of how in the vast galaxy, how the behemoths that fed on stars devoured the once bright and hot stars...

He dreamed of the Sunu people and how the ancestors of those Sunu people left behind the highly developed civilization world under the watchful eye of the dying alien god, sneaked into the most desolate area of ​​the universe, and finally degenerated into the most desolate place in the endless wandering. Primitive savage race.

He dreamed of how a human being, an extremely weak human being, found that his body gradually transformed into another creature within the cold metal parts, and because he couldn't bear the mental stimulation, he directly collapsed and died.

He dreamed of what was happening, and also of the distant past...

In the end, Lin Xi even dreamed of the bionic person that he loathed and feared so much.

But now, he already knew that the bionic man was actually just an advanced artificial intelligence created by humans.It has a set of numbers given by the Academy of Sciences as its name, but all the people on the spaceship and its beloved human beings call it Hal.

The appearance of Hal made Lin Xi involuntarily shrink her thoughts that were constantly diverging.

Those numerous dreams came to an abrupt end, and then burst like bubbles one by one. Lin Xi's dreams finally condensed on the artificial intelligence named Hal.

And this time, Lin Xi’s dream host was a worm inside a petri dish... In order to study the serious mutation that appeared in Captain Scripps, the scientists took out a queen from a certain worm nest of AS192. of females.

And now Lin Xi is using the eyes of this ordinary female to calmly peep at the two people outside the petri dish.

Completely different from the dilapidated Helios, this spaceship looks so clean and bright, with a grand space.And the man in the captain's uniform standing in the middle of the bridge made him feel kinder.

The female worm's dream is about a conversation between Scripps and Hal.

Scripps has a serious expression, with deep sadness in his eyes, while Hal, who is facing Scripps, has an extraordinarily calm expression and empty eyes just like all bionics.

At this moment, the anonymous bionic man is calmly comforting the man in front of him with a strangely calm tone.

"...I sincerely recommend that you reconsider your decision. You don't need to, dear Captain Cripps, you are No. 1 on the Providence list, which means, your Death would cause inevitable and important damage to the ship, which would affect the safety of the entire ship—”

"Hal, please, don't say those words in front of me. You are not the kind of artificial intelligence that just repeats everything mechanically." Scripps interrupted Hal, "You know that the current Condition……"

Scripps turned his head and glanced blankly over the petri dish.

He shuddered when he saw the female in the petri dish.

"My death will not cause important losses on the spacecraft. On the contrary, my existence may endanger the internal safety of the Providence..."

The man in uniform showed a particularly bitter smile to the bionic man in front of him.

He stood up slowly, and Lin Xi's gaze stayed on him.

How familiar he looks, especially his lower body that has gradually begun to transform into a worm body.

The man looked like a half-human, half-worm monster.

"According to the regulations, I will perform my duties. I must guarantee that you will not be harmed by anyone. In this case, the definition of 'anyone' includes yourself."

The bionic man named Hal spoke word by word.

"According to your organization, what you need to protect is human beings, not me, a monster that has gradually begun to mutate... Hal, you once retrieved those data yourself, and you know what I have become. I am all monsters I will soon lose my will as a human being and become a reproductive machine for that horrible creature. I will become a plague in this universe, and now, while I still have my own will, I have to Find a way to end my own life. There will only be one alien mother in the same universe. As long as I choose to commit suicide now, there will not be any new alien mother in the next few hundred to tens of thousands of years ...we've got to buy some time for the humans on Earth..."

"With all due respect, Captain Scripps. Those historians have not done their research well. There is a great deal of fabricated information in the history of the Sulu. You should not end your life with such unsubstantiated rumors. .”

"But I have to do this." The despair in Captain Scripps' eyes became more and more intense as he whispered, "...Even without those historical data, I can't hold on any longer."

"I'm a murderer who killed 10 people. I had to do it for the people I love on this planet, but... when I made that decision, death was my only escape."

"Captain Scripps—"

"Now, in the name of the captain, I order you to carry out my orders."

Scripps interrupted Hal's stop directly, and said

However, Hal did not obey his orders as he imagined.

Yes, it didn't carry out Scripps' suicide order.

But...

Lin Xi quietly observed the tragedy that happened on the Providence, and then he closed his eyes. In this dream, the insect he relied on would soon die in the follow-up experiment.

And Lin Xi's dream was also shattered.

But his dream did not stop there. On the contrary, he began to fall deeper in the dream, and he dreamed of more things...

He dreamed of the series of panics and shocking facts he experienced on the Helios, he dreamed of himself... how he had the deepest contact with a creature that looked like a star butterfly in the exhibition hall.

He dreamed of how in the universe of another dimension, how he was transformed into a temple to offer sacrifices to the gods, and was finally swallowed completely...

he dreamed...

he dreamed...

He dreamed too many things.

These dreams—these pasts—made Lin Xi feel like a shooting star, constantly traveling among the stars until the very end.

He is drawn towards the huge black hole.

All life will eventually be annihilated, and he, as the mother of alien species, as the Charia Zerg, and the creature that countless intelligent individuals who were born and annihilated in the interstellar attempt to describe - "His" spiritual body will never die, until eternal.

The moment Lin Xi realized this, the flesh sac that wrapped him began to twitch violently.

The extra viscous cytoplasm due to the disintegration of Lin Xi's body began to churn, and the cell clusters suspended in the mucus—those buds, rapidly rebuilt and grew at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This "primordial broth" filled with a lot of energy began to breed.

Lynch is rebuilding her body...

Only this time, he was no longer constrained by the appearance of a human being.

Tentacles, claws, cilia, suckers... and all kinds of other disgusting organs, which are continuously formed in a flash, then quickly decompose, and then reappear again...

Beyond the flesh sac, there was only silence in the lab.

The meat sac had devoured all the individuals it could summon, and even the dead king worm clones in the freezing tank, it didn't care about bringing them back into the body and turning them into new energy.

And the will of the tiny individual "Lin Xi" became extremely thin amidst the drastic changes...

Just like the individuals whose fragments of his consciousness once inhabited, the human Lin Xi is gradually dying, or in other words, is slowly fading away...

"He" devours the energy that exists in reality and the memory in the void...

"He" devours everything, even his own dreams.

At the end of the dream's death, Lin Xi once again returned to the dream that contained Captain Scripps and Hal.

That is, at the moment of trying to devour Scripps, a subtle sense of stagnation appeared.

"He" stopped his devouring, and the ancient consciousness slowly focused on the main body of the dream.

The man named Scripps was different, he was special.

Lin Xi thought indifferently.

【"Do you remember? Who are you... You should not be defeated by the void, you must remember your own existence..."】

In the dream, the man who was standing on the bridge talking to Hal suddenly raised his head, and he stared straight at the void, as if he was looking at Lin Xi himself.

In theory, this is almost impossible, the two of them are in completely different dimensions.

That man shouldn't even be aware of "Him".

But at this moment, Scripps' will was accurately thrown into "His" thinking.

And that period of questioning caused a slight tremor in Lin Xi's will, which had become extremely thin.

Once upon a time, it seemed that someone kept repeating the same words in his ears.

But what do these words mean?What is..."Remember who you really are", what is "Don't lose to the void"...

【"Do you really want to give up everything? Do you really want to completely turn into nothingness? Even if you give up everything..., even if you give up that person..."】

At this time, the shape of the man in the dream also underwent a strange change, and he re-appeared as that particularly terrifying and haggard man. While whispering, the man raised his arm and pointed his fingertips at a certain place. place.

Lin Xi's will also involuntarily projected in the direction of the man's finger——

Only at this moment did Lin Xi slowly withdraw from that chaotic state.

He suddenly realized that he was now trapped in a thick soup of flesh and blood.

There are all kinds of shapeless limbs all over here. They are extremely ugly, but at the same time reveal a strange beauty.

Although they are just some shapeless lumps of flesh and tentacles, they are extremely ancient, and at the same time so immature, they are indestructible, and at the same time extremely weak...

These things looked like they belonged to some evil god from ancient times, but Lin Xi knew very well in his heart that all those weird and evil organs belonged to him.

The absurd point is that if Lin Xi is indeed an ordinary human being at this time, just seeing the scene in front of him will probably drive him completely crazy because of what he sees in front of him.

It's just that for him now, whether it's evil or beautiful, these things are part of it.

The only thing that needs to be cared about is probably only the weak individual wrapped in those wriggling tentacles and cilia, as well as the exposed nerve tissue.

Lin Xi stared at the creatures in her body with human and alien eyes at the same time.

"Xavier..."

The crooked lips constantly emerging from the inside of the meat sac uttered a low voice, calling the individual's name.

This is his family.

Lin Xi thought.

In his own consciousness, he was chewing the dream belonging to this family member. He saw how this alien species was born from the egg case, and how under his watch and care, it gradually grew from a similar animal The tiny butterfly-like creature became what it is now.

As a king worm, it is indeed a little too weak...

Of course, this may be because Lin Xi's own state is not normal.

For some special reason, Lin Xi's transformation has not been completed, he is still an incomplete body.

What's worse, as Lin Xi's strong human consciousness, he almost subconsciously prefers weaker individuals.

And following Lin Xi's will, Xavier himself never noticed that it forcibly suppressed its own power.

That's why Xavier is here now—it's a tragedy.

The enzyme that Lin Xi secreted for transformation can even completely melt his own body into a thick paste, and at the same time, Xavier wrapped in it is undoubtedly melting... It's just that Xavier doesn't have the same body as Lin Xi. An imaginal disc that can reorganize the body.

That is to say, once it is completely melted in this mass of meat pulp, it will be digested and absorbed by Lin Xi, and then turned into nutrients into Lin Xi's body.

In a sense, Xavier was completely integrated with Lin Xi, but on the other hand, the individual Xavier was completely dead.

Yes, Xavier will die.

It was floating in the mucus just like that, its body was broken, and it persisted until now by relying entirely on its instinct as a heterogeneous king worm.

However, Lin Xi could already clearly feel that the breath of life on it was very faint.

His family is about to die.

However, at this moment... As if aware of Lin Xi's will, Xavier, who should have been completely unconscious, suddenly convulsed and twitched inside the flesh sac. It opened its eyes, and through the writhing and wriggling The flesh and blood aimed directly at Lin Xi who was undergoing differentiation and reorganization.

"Lin Xi..."

The next second, it made a vague call.

The voice was so small, so small that it was almost panting, but at this moment, Lin Xi heard the call resounding through the sky, piercing directly into his soul

Lin Xi suddenly remembered—that man once told him to remember who he really is—he is not some shit ancient creature, he is not some shit mother of alien species, he and those ten thousand things in his dream Thousands of biological individuals are different, and he has his own name!

He is Lin Xi!

He is Lynch from Xavier!

Time seemed to start flowing again at this moment, and the terrifying organs inside Lin Xi's body that were constantly decomposing and reorganizing melted away in an instant.

After a brief silence, the cytoplasm began to form Lin Xi's body in a stable and orderly manner.

And under his will, Xavier, who was already half-melted, was gradually covered with a new layer of flesh and blood...

……

When Lin Xi woke up again, the first thing he felt was the soft membrane tightly covering his body, and then the suffocation that made him panic...

Although he had had similar experiences several times before, Lin Xi couldn't help but feel panic when faced with such a scene again, not to mention, he found that his body was very disobedient.

When he wanted to raise his arm, he realized that his arm was as soft as cheese that had been roasted by fire.

He couldn't exert himself, but the feeling of oppression became more and more intense.

Lin Xi began to struggle... Just when his mind was in chaos, something came directly from behind him.

Those were two snow-white and very sharp insect limbs.

The tarsus of the worm's limb pierced into the soft membrane with ease, and tore apart to both sides, fresh and cool air poured into the soft membrane.

Lin Xi slid directly from the inside of the soft membrane to the ground under the wrapping of a large mass of mucus.

And the creature that covered him before also crawled out.

Lin Xi fell to the ground. He coughed several times, feeling that his lungs were filled with mucus with a faint fishy smell.

"Lin Xi..."

Incomparably sharp insect limbs landed on his body.

The creature helped him turn over to make him feel better.

The insect limbs and thorns that can easily scratch the metal are always gentle as hell when facing him.

It took Lin Xi a while to recover. He raised his head and looked up at himself. For a moment, Lin Xi was speechless.

Standing next to him was Xavier.

After noticing Lin Xi's gaze, Xavier shook his head and shook his tentacles at Lin Xi.

Xavier was stronger and bigger than before...

Its carapace became thicker visible to the naked eye, and each insect limb became sharper and sharper.Of course, all of this is just the most basic appearance.

Lin Xi knew very well that the current Xavier contained even more powerful power.

Xavier waved his forelegs in front of Lin Xi, seeming to be adapting to his new body.

"I thought you would turn me into..."

Xavier hesitated for a moment, and then continued, "Becoming a human...that's what you prefer..."

Xavier's voice gradually dropped.

Throughout the transformation, Xavier maintained his own consciousness.

In the long life of this creature for billions of years, it is not the only one who has undergone the transformation of the mother of alien species in this way, but...

The individuals before it undoubtedly followed the worm mother's hobby and completely remodeled their bodies.

Compared with its own evolution, this transformation is more thorough and more essential.

Not to mention, Xavier is completely different from those individuals who have no will of their own. It knows that Lin Xi is not an ordinary mother of alien species, and it also knows that Lin Xi once had a human being whom she loved deeply.

In fact, when it was being transformed, it was very happy. If it really turned into that human, maybe Lin Xi would be happier when he saw it.

Just thinking of this is enough to make Xavier happy.

But Xavier never imagined that when it saw its new body, what it saw was a body that completely belonged to a different species—strong, ferocious, and containing unimaginable power.

It does not see any transformation guided by human aesthetics.

It is the most primitive appearance of a heterogeneous species.

If Xavier hadn't been able to clearly feel that the human being in front of it was still its beloved Lin Xi, it would almost have thought that Lin Xi had been occupied by "His" consciousness.

Facing Xavier who was uneasy and at a loss, Lin Xi finally spoke slowly.

"I think you're fine now."

Lin Xi said hoarsely.

"You don't need to be someone else."