mother of all races

On that day, all creatures on the planet AS192 felt an indescribable throbbing vaguely...

Something happened, some memory was awakening that was rooted in their blood and genes.

It's just that their thinking is chaotic and low-level, they can only raise their heads and stare at the brilliant crimson sky, trembling slightly because of fear.

The feeling was even stronger for the aliens near Xavier's nesting cliffs.

They stopped all their movements suddenly, and the thorns, venom, or cover color were displayed at the same time.

These creatures felt a strong pressure attacking them at the same moment - such a strong sense of oppression had never been seen before.

It was a kind of intuition rooted in instinct, and it was this instinctive sense of fear that made them dare not move. They could only lower their bodies humbly and wait for the strong sense of oppression to pass.

After a long time, accompanied by some kind of weird beeping... These chaotic and low-level alien creatures felt two dark figures flying past their heads.

That figure is so agile and fast, like lightning, like a storm, like a shadow in the dark night——

The strong oppressive feeling didn't dissipate until a long time after the figure left.

Then, after a while, something that looked like a dead branch suddenly moved in the red sand.

Eyes, tentacles, and mouthparts slowly emerged from the shriveled body surface. On this monster's face, the eyes took up almost 80.00% of the area.

It slowly raised its head, revealing its true colors.

This kind of monster is quite weak, and the only advantage is probably its good eyesight.

Under some kind of strange throbbing, the monsters bravely opened their eyes, and looked at the shadows flashing past their heads from a distance.

Following a fairly long distance, the giant-eyed monster saw two huge insects flying in mid-air, one of which was still holding its "prey" in its arms.

That "worm" flew extremely fast, while another white shadow hung far behind.

That "bug" is white, obviously its flight is extremely fast, but against the background of the former, there is always an inexplicable sense of clumsiness, even the pair of white wings that keep flapping have a kind of pitiful meaning.

Of course, this kind of pitifulness is just an illusion.

Just as the dead branch-like monster was watching the two bugs, the white shadow suddenly turned its head as if it could detect its gaze.

Even though there was still such a long distance, but... a dark and twisted breath still accurately stabbed at the original alien monster.

The monster immediately crouched down, and it instinctively tried to get into the gap to avoid the terrifying look back, but soon, it maintained the previous posture, slowly becoming stiff, soft.

A few seconds later, more bugs emerged from the gap. They didn't pay much attention to where the monster's corpse came from, but opened their small pincers step by step, and moved towards the monster's body. A monster walks away... For these small and fragile beings, this is just an extremely ordinary cycle of life.

Only the thin white bone spurs on the back of the big-eyed monster clearly showed the specialness of its death.

……

Of course, it is impossible for Lin Xi to know the episode that happened behind him

The shadow that the little monster saw before was naturally him, Xavier and Arthur.Flying in front and holding the "prey" was naturally Xavier, and the one following behind was Arthur who had to flap his wings trying to keep up with Xavier.

…After getting out of danger, it was immediately thrown down by Xavier on the grounds of being “very heavy”.

Of course, as a different species, Arthur can also fly.

It's just that its wings are completely different from Xavier's current wings.

If Xavier is willing, it can easily hold Lin Xi and throw Arthur far away... Thank God, Lin Xi is not a cold worm mother, he still cares about Arthur, which allows Arthur to follow behind them.

Just like all the top predators, they don't know how much spiritual persecution their passing has caused to the creatures on planet AS192.He never cared about the white bone spurs that Arthur randomly sprayed behind him.

They returned to the lair calmly and smoothly, and the calmness along the way was like a dream compared to the previous narrow escape in the storm.

With the wings folded, Xavier hugged Lin Xi and gently landed on the edge of the cliff.

Then, Xavier stared at his once warm and lovely nest, which had completely changed—Xavier had carefully decorated the cave entrance of the nest, where it was decorated with many flowers and brightly colored stones, but now those Everything was reduced to a heap of rubble by the storm.

If it weren't for the wide platform in front of the cave, Xavier and Lin Xi wouldn't even be able to stop directly at the door of the lair.

When Lin Xi jumped out of Xavier's arms, he could feel that Xavier's movements became extremely stiff.

Yes, Xavier's wings had changed color after discovering that the mouth of the cave he had decorated had been blown in this way.

It even stood a little dazed at the entrance of the cave, staring straight at the mess in front of it for a long time.

At this moment, Xavier looked extremely downcast.

Lin Xi looked at him, feeling a little pity.

"Maybe, maybe the head isn't that bad."

He whispered to Lin Xi.

The comfort from Lin Xi made Xavier barely cheer up.

It waved its extraordinarily powerful forelimbs, and easily pushed the gravel away.

Gululu gravel immediately fell down the cliff, making non-stop ringing in the abyss below.

And after finally pushing away the gravel at the entrance of the cave, Xavier immediately got in.

The situation in the lair is not too different from what Lin Xi said.

The most severely damaged things were near the entrance of the lair, especially the carefully collected TV series, movies and some games that Xavier sneaked into the bedrooms of the members of the Helios...all were swept away by the strong wind.

Xavier almost froze.

It took a step forward in disbelief.

"Crack-"

A crisp sound rang out.

Xavier slowly raised his leg, raised a broken metal box and looked at it for a while.

This is exactly the player for those TV shows and movies.

It's just that it's completely shattered now.

……

Of course, although it is said that Xavier suffered heavy losses.

But in Lin Xi's view, the damage in the lair is still within an acceptable range.

He looked at the messy nest and then at the gravel outside the cave, and sighed silently.

The entrance of the cave that Xavier used as a lair is quite fragile (especially the beautiful stones that Xavier deliberately knocked out a lot of holes in the stone and searched for it secretly), so after the storm started, not long after, It collapsed here.

The entrance of the cave full of gravel is really scary, but in another sense, it is precisely because the cave collapsed early and the gravel blocked the air outlet, so the objects inside the nest that have not been completely blown out are still preserved. down.

Lin Xi walked into the nest step by step, carefully picking up the small things all over the floor.

During this process, Lin Xi suddenly narrowed his eyes.

He saw something familiar in a pile of debris that had turned into rubbish.Lin Xi picked it up and saw that it turned out to be a music box.

"I always feel like I've seen it before..."

Lin Xi muttered, then turned over the music box.

He saw a metal plate at the bottom of the music box, and sure enough, Bryce's name was written on it.

Lin Xi's face softened all of a sudden.

Then he subconsciously opened the thing.

【"Dear Alisa, you are my dearest in this world..."】

Unusually familiar words suddenly came out of the music box.

Well, this thing isn't even a real music box technically, it's just pretending to be one of those ancient things on the outside, and inside it's really a small casual projector.

After Lin Xi opened it, he immediately saw a particularly nasty holographic projection.

Bryce was wearing a fluffy doll costume, holding flowers and balloons in his hands, and said a long and exaggerated courtship oath to Alisa——

The more Lin Xi heard it, the more she frowned, but in the end, she couldn't help but burst out laughing.

This is probably a little secret that Bryce never wants him to know.Lin Xi didn't doubt at all that what she picked up was probably a gift prepared by Bryce for Alisa.

Lin Xi didn't know if Bryce showed Alisa this thing.He really prayed that Bryce hadn't had time, after all only a very big hearted person would allow such a gift of love.

only……

Lin Xi stared blankly at Bryce's funny appearance in the projection, her eyes felt a little hot.

If something like this was before, it would only make people laugh.

But... after experiencing everything, its existence carried a vague warmth.

Lin Xi knew that he was losing his composure, but he couldn't help but stared at Bryce's projection for a long time.

He thought again of how Bryce and Alyssa had looked when they left.

Bryce should be very angry, right?

Are they back on Earth now?

Are they... still alive?

Lin Xi couldn't help thinking about these questions.

It took him a while to close the thing slowly, and then he put Bryce's failed gift in his hand.

A scorching gaze came.

Lin Xi turned her head and saw at a glance that Xavier was staring at the thing in his hand with piercing eyes.

After realizing that Lin Xi had noticed him, Xavier stammered and opened his mouth.

"Do you like things like this?"

Lin Xi quickly explained: "No, of course not... This is Bryce's stuff. His taste is still the same as before, very bad."

After a pause, Lin Xi's voice became softer: "It's just that this thing makes me... miss him a little bit."

Lin Xi said to Xavier with a smile.

"...Maybe Bryce is back on Earth now. He must not have thought I'd find this. I can't wait. When I get back, I'm going to take this thing out in front of Bryce. He sure It's going to be crazy..."

Lin Xi's voice gradually disappeared.

His expression darkened a little.

Xavier reluctantly looked away from the music box in Lin Xi's hand.

It doesn't miss what Lynch said about Music Box: Bad taste...  

But Xavier simply loves that stuff.

It has even thought about what it would say to Lin Xi when it recorded this projection.

It's just that Lin Xi's depressed state when he mentioned returning to the earth made him take his attention away from the music box.

"Lin Xi...do you really want to go back to Earth?"

Xavier couldn't help asking.

"Of course." Lin Xi said firmly.

"That's Earth, and Bryce and the others went back there."

Xavier didn't say a word, it didn't dare to tell Lin Xi, in fact...

In fact, it felt that it would be nice to be able to live with Lin Xi on such a planet.

There is no obstacle between them, only each other.

Even if there are still those nasty mechanical warriors somewhere on this planet, in front of their current sharp claws, those mechanical warriors are just some fragile tin scarecrows.

Those monsters are no longer their opponents, they have no enemies on this planet.

But what Xavier thought about was all turned into silence in front of Lin Xi's longing.

Lin Xi wants to go back - anyone can see this, Xavier is no exception.

Xavier shook the tentacles on his head, then glanced at Arthur who was busy packing up behind him, and forced a smile.

It evaded and hid aside and began to pack up its things.

However, Xavier originally thought that cleaning up these sundries would make his depressed mood better.

But when it really started to move its hands, its heart sank bit by bit.

Before that, Xavier thought that apart from the serious damage to the material at the entrance, the things in the depths of the lair might still retain their original appearance to some extent.

But when I packed it up, I found that many things had been damaged due to the strong wind.

Xavier put together a broken mirror, and he liked this mirror very much, after all, it was so smooth and could reflect dazzling light.

However, as soon as it let go, the mirror cracked again.

Xavier had no choice but to secrete some colloidal mucus to paste the mirror together, and carefully put the mirror that was no longer cracked back on the stone platform he carefully prepared.

After reading it for a while, Xavier drooped his tentacles and picked up the books that had already been scattered... This was also a considerable challenge for him. After all, he had a bad grasp of human writing, even if he had already squinted After looking at those words for a long time, it is still difficult to judge the correct page order.

It is precisely for this reason that the process of collecting books is very slow.

It's just that beside it, Arthur has already arranged many things neatly and quickly with great interest.

Xavier glanced at Arthur indifferently, seeing with his own eyes that Arthur just collected the scattered paper pages, folded them according to size, and finally put them in the bookcase, Xavier slowly took them back own line of sight.But Arthur's clumsiness and dullness made it a little easier...

But with the follow-up cleaning up, Xavier's mood became worse and worse.

Many of the things it loved so much had been lost in the storm, and what remained... most of them were shattered.

Considering that even the solid cliff caves have been baptized by such a terrible storm, the wreck of the Helios lying alone on the plain can only be in worse condition than here.

Xavier had long since given up hope that he could get supplements from the wreckage of the Helios.

Xavier, who was thinking like this, slowed down a little.

It raised its eyes and looked around. Both Lin Xi and Arthur were packing up their things seriously.

But even so, the carefully tidied up area still looks dilapidated, completely different from the warm world carefully prepared by Xavier.

It's more of a dump than a lair now.

Xavier's movements became slower and slower, and finally stopped altogether.

Its wings, spread out behind it, were a sombre grayish blue.

Xavier felt his chest become extremely heavy and sore...it was really sad

It tried to hide its emotions, but its mood swings at this moment were transmitted to Lin Xi unreservedly.

Lin Xi turned his head to look at the big bug behind him, and he could tell at a glance that Xavier was extremely depressed.

Such negative emotions are really rare, Lin Xi raised his eyebrows, and soon realized where Xavier's frustration came from.

Lin Xi immediately walked towards Xavier, and he put a hand on Xavier's shoulder.

"It doesn't matter, although...the nest is damaged. But we can still rebuild it again. This time, we can build a more comfortable nest. The hole may need to be reinforced to prevent the next more violent storm..."

While speaking, Lin Xi immediately noticed that Xavier's gaze became straight.

He raised his head and looked at each other.

Xavier's eyes were moist, and his tentacles were dangling from the top of his head. It seemed disturbed and surprised at the same time.

"New lair? You mean...we're going to build a new lair?

Xavier asked incredulously

This time, Lin Xi looked a little dazed.

"Is there any problem with the new lair?" Lin Xi asked.

"I thought... I thought you'd want to go back to Earth more."

Xavier said dryly.

Before that, Xavier never thought that Lin Xi would build a lair with it.After all, Lin Xi's performance has always been so obvious. This mother of alien species who once lived in this world as a human being is extremely eager to return to that beautiful and peaceful blue planet.

Coupled with Lin Xi's previous actions, Xavier always thought that Lin Xi would follow the traces of those mechanical warriors after simply cleaning up the lair, and chase them all the way to the Providence.

Just like those TV shows and movies that Xavier has been watching, the protagonist will always defeat the bad guys, then get the spaceship, and return to the homeland they have always wanted.Lin Xi will probably do the same thing...

But now, Lin Xi is standing in front of it, staring at it calmly, and then said that he and it have a brand new nest.

Xavier almost felt like he was dreaming...

It never thought that Lin Xi would say such a thing to it.

The mother of the alien species promised the king worm a lair. In the alien world, this means...

mean……

Xavier's wings suddenly turned an ambiguous pink.

It was almost ashamed of the images that came to its mind.

Xavier's complicated thoughts were like blank paper in front of Lin Xi.

Lin Xi's eyes widened slightly, and then a faint smile appeared on his face.

"You guessed right before, I really want to go back to Earth, and in fact I have to go back to Earth."

Lin Xi explained to Xavier in a calm voice.

Xavier stiffened.

Lin Xi had to get closer to calm Xavier.

"Whether it's you...or me, they are special existences...you should have already noticed that the two of us are completely different from any other mother of alien species and king worm before. We have our own will, we have Our emotions, we have... love."

When he said the last word, Lin Xi's cheeks warmed up slightly, but he immediately settled down and covered it up.

After a short pause, Lin Xi stared at Xavier and reorganized his language.

"...This may be the salvation of this universe. Just because we have our own will and our loved ones, we don't want this universe and that little blue planet to be destroyed because of creatures like us .Also, I need to keep my sanity, I have to remember who I am and where I came from—”

Lin Xi took a deep breath and said slowly, "I am Lin Xi. Although I have a monster's body now, my essence is human."

Thinking of this, Lin Xi couldn't help taking out the music box left by Bryce, and stared at the wooden artifact with nostalgic eyes.

Immediately, he raised his head and looked at the vast scenery beyond the cliff. After the baptism of the storm, a large area of ​​woods and vegetation around the cliff had been completely stripped away, leaving only the bare colorful ground, countless Animals with strange shapes and dazzling colors rustled and moved in the gaps between the stones and the soil.

It's a downright, alien world

It is so splendid, so magnificent, but also so brutal.

Lin Xi shook his head towards this beautiful world, his voice gradually lowered.

"I need to go back to the earth, I need to go back to the human beings. Only the crowd can remind me all the time that I am a human being. Only by remembering who I am, can I remain in the endless metamorphosis. the essence of humanity."

"It's impossible for me to stay here. There are no human beings here. I may gradually lose my sanity in the evolution again and again, and finally return to that chaotic existence."

Xavier shuddered suddenly.

It can still recall the chaotic breath belonging to "His" until now.

Lin Xi met its eyes. At this moment, Lin Xi seemed to be able to directly see Xavier's soul.

"And once I become that ghost..."

Lin Xi raised his hand and gently stroked Xavier's face. He felt the hard and thorny carapace on Xavier's face with his palm.

From a human point of view, Xavier is extremely terrifying now, but Lin Xi has long since lost that feeling. In fact, he thinks that Xavier is now more handsome than ever.

This may be because of the history of his relationship with Xavier.

Maybe it's because he's gradually transforming into another creature.

But the most important thing is that under such a ferocious shell, Xavier still maintains a soft and gentle heart.

This heart is the most important thing to Lin Xi in this barren world.

"Once I become such a monster, you will also be completely reduced to a breeding product without any sanity... Before long, we and our family members will gradually multiply into a huge group, and we, they, will all leave this planet in the end , and then step by step to occupy the entire universe, it may take a long time, but that future will eventually come, and by that time, the human beings I once loved and the planet I love will be completely destroyed by my own family hand."

The cruel and desperate images of the memories he had devoured before emerged in Lin Xi's mind. It was a dark dream in which countless civilizations were gradually dying under the infestation of alien monsters.

Lin Xi would never want such a thing to happen to humans and the earth.

"That's why I have to go back..."

Lin Xi could see that Xavier couldn't understand what he said to it, but Lin Xi didn't explain too much, he just said to Xavier in the same gentle tone as before.

"I'm still going to need a den, but this time mine should have a full nursery."

While speaking, Lin Xi pressed her stomach.

The sense of emptiness that comes from the instinct of the body has never dissipated, but now Lin Xi has been able to live in harmony with his new identity, and he will no longer feel fear and shrink back because of his instinct.

"It's not enough to rely on you, Arthur, and me. The Providence is a Dyson sphere-level giant immigrant spaceship..."

"Manipulating such a behemoth back to Earth requires tens of thousands, or hundreds of thousands of individuals to manipulate and coordinate the various components of the spacecraft."

"Lin Xi? You mean?"

Xavier stared at Lin Xi in disbelief.

Even Arthur shook his wings and tentacles involuntarily, and slowly approached Lin Xi. The young alien stared at his worm mother and Xavier curiously. It could feel a strange breath It was hanging over Lin Xi and Xavier, and that special emotional infection even affected it.

Arthur's wings trembled slightly.

"It's going to be a long run, the Providence may need repairs, maybe it's running out of energy...but I need it anyway, and if I want to get Providence, I'm going to need a lot of it As far as the current situation is concerned, the most reliable companion is my own heir."

Lin Xi took a deep breath, then he stared at Xavier, and said that sentence word by word.

"I need offspring...I need a lot of offspring. Yes, I will breed my own race."