mother of all races

The wreck of the Providence is just a few hundred kilometers away from the ruins of the Helios.

Thinking that the Helios is actually only a tiny distance away from this legendary "ship of miracles", even now Lin Xi couldn't help feeling a little bit emotional.

Of course, if it wasn't for the traces left by those mechanical warriors as a guide, and it has now been transformed into another completely different species, I am afraid that even if the people on the spaceship knew the existence of the Providence, it would be difficult really find it...

The storms that arise every once in a while on the planet AS192 will change the surrounding environment and landforms in a short period of time.

Those fast-growing jungles will be uprooted overnight and turned into deserts, the original hills will be turned into flat land, and the cliffs will be turned into hillsides...

Then, it won't be long, maybe a day, maybe two days...

Between storms, countless plants and creatures with exceptionally tenacious vitality will tenaciously re-grow in the sand brought by the storm, until they are completely wiped away by the next storm.

The planet is like an impatient child, and the storm is its eraser, always wantonly drawing magnificent and frenzied landscapes, and then erasing them completely in a blink of an eye.

In fact, the footprints of those mechanical warriors did disappear halfway... They passed a swamp, and in just a few hours, the water bear-like insects in the swamp seemed to have been magnified countless times. The organisms have begun to multiply and grow in large areas, completely covering up those messy traces.

It's just that this is not a problem for Lin Xi.

Compared with footprints, the bloody smell left by Arthur on the road is the most distinctive signpost.

……

After several hours of amazingly fast flight, Arthur's breath stopped.

And Lin Xi also saw reappearing footprints on the ground - those twisting footprints disappeared directly on the edge of a pothole.

Xavier folded his wings and landed

Lin Xi jumped down and came to the edge of the pit with Xavier.

It quietly looked around...

Compared with the barren desert surrounding this area, the scenery here is a bit abrupt.

A circle of hard stone hills near the tiankeng blocked most of the storm dust. Under the shelter of these hills, the extremely tenacious plants on this planet flourished into a rare virgin forest—if those Crooked, wriggling, entangled with each other, the gorgeous vegetation with a thickness of several meters can be called a "forest".

Under the rocky hills, a deep vertical hollow suddenly appeared on the originally undulating and flat land—this concave movement reminded Lin Xi of the earth. In some areas of the karst landform, there is this special hollow. "Tiankeng".

The "tiankeng" has exceptionally steep walls that almost form a right angle with the ground.

The light below is dim and the mist is pervasive, making people feel as if they saw a tropical rainforest in a trance.

Some wispy, sticky white mist rises from the gaps in the colorful jungle and moves slowly, as if covering the extremely colorful vegetation below with a thin veil because it cannot be illuminated.

Occasionally, some weird creatures can be seen crawling quickly on the steep rock walls. Most of them look very strange, and the posture they crawl in is even more hair-raising.For example, under Lin Xi, there is a thing that looks like a slug, which is crawling towards the bottom of the tiankeng quickly because it senses Lin Xi's existence.

It's just that it hasn't run far, and a black palm suddenly sticks out from the crack of the rock wall - that thing looks like a dry and carbonized human hand - and that hand is on Lin Xi's Guan Wang grabbed the "slug", and then, under the frenzied struggle of the slippery gray-black mollusc, forcibly dragged it into an impossibly narrow rock crevice.

Similarly, not far from this hunt, something similar to a slug raised its head high and forcibly swallowed a dark mass to poison it.

Lin Xi lowered her eyes and stared at the scene in front of her, the jungle preyed on the strong, natural selection.The laws of nature are displayed vividly in this area, which almost makes Lin Xi unimaginable. It is under such primitive and barbaric scenery that the 300 years ago and now are hidden... The most advanced and technological legendary spaceship Provi Dens.

"This thing... so strange... it's a different species, no, it..."

Like Lin Xi, Xavier was also looking down.

Upon seeing the black "human hand", it hissed in disgust and said.

"It's a man-made alien."

Lynch replied.

After a pause, it added another sentence: "Well, it should be something that ran out of the Providence."

And that creature...was very likely to be human before.

However, one thing Lin Xi can be sure of is that the body with the "human hand" hidden under the crack of the rock must have evolved into a different look.

Of course, Lin Xi didn't have the heart to explore the source and current status of those things... In fact, as the origin and uniqueness of all alien species, this special product that has been desecrated and twisted by human beings has already made him feel very uncomfortable.

Lin Xi took a deep breath to calm down the tyrannical emotions that were constantly surging inside her body.Immediately afterwards, he squatted down, stretched out his hand, and stroked the rock wall on the edge of the tiankeng.

It wiped away the thick moss covering the rock wall with its fingertips, feeling the smooth texture from below.

"This is a pit dug artificially—it seems that those mechanical warriors did bring us to the Providence."

Lin Xi said softly.

It doesn't take much effort, just seeing this big crater and the unnatural stone hills on the edge of the big crater, the initial scene of the Providence landing on this planet has already been faintly in the bottom of Lin Xi's heart take shape.

The original situation of the Providence was much better than that of the Helios.If he guessed correctly.

Although it is said that it landed on the planet AS192 in an unfavorable state and could not contact the earth, the Providence did not suffer a devastating blow.

Contrary to the Helios, the people on this ship probably still maintained basic optimism, and started the initial construction according to the immigration plan carefully studied on Earth.Digging such a pothole and hiding the spaceship body, although this method is very primitive, can maximize the impact.But it can avoid the terrifying storm on this planet to the greatest extent.

"...They should have done the same for all the attached spaceships... The aircraft we discovered has also been hidden deep underground. Only when the aircraft needs to be used, will the aircraft be sent into the outside world through the lifting platform .It's an amazing amount of engineering."

Reminiscent of the final fate of the Providence...

Lin Xi couldn't help but sighed lightly.

If there are no alien species, after 300 years of construction, this planet has probably become a very prosperous colonial planet.

It's just that Lin Xi's emotion only lasted for a very short moment.

The closer he got to the Providence, the stronger Arthur's aura became.

But at this moment, Lin Xi clearly felt that the originally exuberant mental power that belonged to Arthur was fading little by little.

Lin Xi's face suddenly changed, and a dark red flashed in his eyes.

Xavier shook his tentacles, and turned his head to look at Lin Xi... Lin Xi still looked as calm as before, but this superficial calm could not fool Xavier who is the king worm.

Xavier could clearly feel that with Lin Xi at the center, an extraordinarily cold and gloomy atmosphere was slowly rippling.All kinds of creatures distributed on the steep rock wall were originally very active, but at this time they all shrank in unison.

Some monsters quickly hid their bodies deeply in the crevices of the rocks, and some unlucky ones were as stiff as stones, and fell directly from the rock wall.

……

"Lin Xi—"

Even Xavier shivered involuntarily, and then it called out timidly in a low voice.

After hearing Xavier's voice, Lin Xi blinked.The aura that terrified all creatures suddenly dissipated.

"Come on, let's go down and have a look..."

Lin Xi restrained her strength, then leaned into Xavier's ear and whispered softly.

"Then we'll kill that guy, right?"

Xavier asked.

It will never forget what it and Lin Xi suffered when the mechanical warriors attacked the Sun God... and a alien species like it is very vengeful.

Lin Xi sneered: "Of course."

Xavier couldn't help looking at Lin Xi, feeling that all the nerves in his body were trembling because of the cold and cruel smile on the corner of Lin Xi's mouth.

——In the TV series that made him so obsessed, even the most handsome villain is not as cool and dazzling as Lin Xi now.

And it is this kind of Lin Xi...and it...

"... Xavier."

Lin Xi clearly felt the emotional flush that Xavier could not describe.

The smile on the corner of his mouth froze quickly, and he even had to speak out to warn Xavier, so that Xavier could calm down the strange thoughts that surged out.Considering Arthur's current situation, Xavier's idea is really out of date.

"Let's get Arthur first. He's badly hurt."

Lin Xi seriously reminded each word.

Only then did Xavier shake his wings, forcibly suppressing the surging love in his heart.

"Okay, let's go save Arthur."

Xavier looked at Lin Xi several times with incomparably enthusiastic eyes, and then stretched out his worm limb towards Lin Xi again, it was going to hug Lin Xi, but this time Lin Xi was stunned for a moment, Avoided it with a little imperceptible stiffness.

"Let's go."

Lin Xi took a step forward as if nothing had happened, and then jumped down the pothole.In mid-air, a pair of incomparably gorgeous wings suddenly bloomed from his back.

He was so light and so easy to fly.

And his wings are even more shockingly beautiful, Xavier almost stared in a daze, until seeing Lin Xi's figure gradually shrinking, it panicked in its heart, and quickly jumped down together.

It flew towards Lin Xi extremely quickly, so that it could get close behind him.

The environment at the bottom of the deep pit is really not peaceful——

As if it could detect the arrival of outsiders, the white clouds that had originally shrouded the gaps and surfaces of the jungle like light smoke suddenly rose.

That layer of smoke formed milky waves, direct in an almost murderous way.Pounced on Lin Xi.

However, when there were tens of meters away from Lin Xi, this layer of white mist seemed to have encountered some great resistance, and suddenly rushed to both sides, fleeing from Lin Xi's side far away. opened.

But even so, it did not prevent Lin Xi and Xavier from discovering that the fog that shrouded the jungle was actually a swarm of carnivorous insects.

It's just that there are too many of them and their volume is too small, and they look more like smoke from a distance.

Lin Xi hovered in mid-air for a moment.

He stretched out his hand towards "Smoke", but with a thought, a few small traitors immediately appeared in the swarm of frantically fleeing insects.

The few insects wobbled back and landed in his palm.

Upon closer inspection, these little bugs are not beautiful, they look like white flies, but... just turn the bugs over, and you can see that under the unnatural white body, It has extremely hideous tiny mouthparts and pincers.

Just looking at the mouthparts and pincers of the insects, one can already imagine the horror of the carnivorous insect swarms gathered in groups-if any human being or other creature on this planet falls into the swarm of insects, In... probably not even the bones left.

It's just that just like the creatures Lin Xi saw on the edge of the deep pit before, these little bugs also have a distorted aura that makes Lin Xi feel uncomfortable.

Lin Xi turned these insects over with her fingertips, and then saw a line of very small characters on the abdomen of these insects.

The words "Project Providence, experimental product, a1301" are clearly left on their body surface like the natural markings of mosquitoes.

"Gene imprinting...a product of the Providence Project."

Lin Xi couldn't help murmuring the word softly, and then said.

Just as Lin Xi thought, these bugs are indeed man-made.

"These bugs... are disgusting..."

Xavier pretended to be natural, pretending that he was just looking at those little bugs, and stuck it to Lin Xi's shoulder, and then said dissatisfied.

Of course, it's one thing to find an opportunity to cling to Lin Xi, but it's another thing to find these bugs disgusting.Xavier didn't lie, he felt from the bottom of his heart that the bug in Lin Xi's palm made him extremely uncomfortable.

What makes Xavier feel sick, of course, is not the shape of these insects like flies... What makes them feel a little restless is the distorted breath that permeates them.

This unnatural product always makes Xavier's whole body itchy, and he can't even control the rage welling up in his heart.

And Xavier also believes that Lin Xi has the same feeling as it, but now Lin Xi looks much calmer than it.

... This is the Lin Xi that Xavier likes, he is always so smart, always so calm, and knows everything well.Thinking of this, Xavier couldn't help but feel sweet ripples in his heart.

"Perhaps the people on Earth have been studying something they shouldn't be studying a long time ago."

Lin Xi said.

He spread out his palm, allowing the little white bug in his palm to quickly return to the white mist.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi flapped his wings and landed lightly on the bottom of the tiankeng.

He was in a bad mood.

And the moment he landed on the ground, within a range of tens of meters with him as the center, the "forest" that had already tightly covered the ground began to wriggle and tremble—these would move and secrete The "tree" that produced the strange mucus seemed to let out a silent scream, and then quickly retracted all its branches and vines.

Wet and corroded rocky surfaces are revealed.

"Good boy."

Lin Xi glanced at the "twig" that had shrunk all her vines, squinted her eyes and gave a soft laugh.

Just at this time……

Some subtle noises caught Lin Xi's attention

It was the screech of metal rubbing against each other, almost like a banshee screaming.

Lin Xi turned her head appreciatively and looked in the direction where the voice came from.

Metal gates tens of meters high were displayed in front of him. After such a long time, there was not even a trace of rust on the surface of these metal gates. world seems out of place.

However, it can be heard from the particularly unpleasant sound when it is opened due to lack of lubrication, that this door has not been opened for a long, long time.

accompanied by.As the hinges and pulleys turned, Lin Xi could see countless tiny "things" falling from the complicated parts on the edge of the gate.

After falling to the ground, those things squirmed, and then quickly found several gaps in the ground and slipped down.

Those things looked more like worms that had been broken into several pieces, and there were slender finger-like things growing on the edge of each worm.

You only need to get a little closer, and you will find this metal gate.It's not completely smooth, either.Near the bottom of the door, there were some very deep scratches on the metal plate - it almost looked like someone had scratched them frantically with their fingernails.

[Don't come near here! 】

[Here - it's a monster! 】

【Danger! 】

【It's all monsters!All monsters!ah】

……

Otherwise, looking at these messy funds in the past, it seems like a warning sign left by the survivors of the Providence for later generations, but...

Can such deep traces be drawn on high-density metal with only fingernails?

While warning others (if there are other people, of course) that there are countless monsters inside the door, the person who wrote this line...is he really human?

While Lin Xi was thinking about this aimlessly, the two metal doors made a heavy impact and then stopped.These two doors have been completely opened.

"It seems that there are people who welcome us."

Lin Xi said softly

Behind the metal gate, what appeared was a metal track enough for small-scale aircraft to enter and exit, as well as an intricate support structure that looked like some kind of giant biological skeleton.

It looks like a tunnel, a cave, or a fortress...

There is no light, relying on a little skylight coming down from the line at the entrance of the tiankeng, I can barely see some parts near the gate, and the deeper place is as dark as hell.There is a faint whistling wind in the depths of the darkness, and the hollow echo is enough to prove that there is an extremely deep and wide space behind the gate.

After the Providence landed here that year, it did undergo a considerable transformation.

It's just that even from the current point of view, the vast and shockingly complex project has now become a dead ruin, the metal tracks are full of rust, and some concrete structures with unknown functions have also been destroyed. collapsed.

Lin Xi didn't walk in the door immediately, but stayed at the door for a while.

He stared at the seemingly dead, dark tunnel with calm and indifferent eyes.

Sure enough, just a few minutes later, some red light spots faintly flashed in the darkness.

"Swish—swish—"

Then, some small sounds, as if reptiles were crawling fast, came out.

Lin Xi was not surprised to see the metal monster crawling fast in the dark. He was already quite familiar with this kind of man-made creature with a hemispherical head and slender tentacles.

one, two...

ten...

Hundreds of...

Under Lin Xi's sight, those mechanical warriors crawled out from the depths of the nest like ants.

After discovering Lin Xi, the red eyes under their masks became much brighter.Although these guys are basically metal artifacts without any life and intelligence at all, at this moment, Lin Xi can still clearly feel that there is an evil aura permeating these mechanical monsters.

"Hello, Hal."

Lin Xi raised his hand and waved calmly at the densely packed mechanical warriors in front of him.

And those machines did not give him any response for the time being. At a position more than ten meters away from Lin Xi, the mechanical warrior suddenly stopped all movements.

However, all their detectors were completely locked on Lin Xi's body.

They "looked" at Lin Xi, and Lin Xi was also looking at them.

In a trance, Lin Xi seemed to have returned to the time when the Sun God was not completely destroyed. At that time, the fragile, human self was full of despair and forced himself to fight against the densely packed mechanical soldiers.

He was so frightened that he almost died from it.

……

How close he was to death at that time.

Lin Xi put her hand on her abdomen. The severe pain Hal once brought him has long faded in the transformation into a different species.

At this moment, the only thing Lin Xi could feel was the life in her belly.

Before, Lin Xi felt death in the wound on his abdomen, but at this moment, what he felt was endless power and life.

The scene of deja vu combined with a completely different mood made Lin Xi feel a subtle and indescribable joy.

"I'm here to find you—"

Lin Xi said.

The moment his voice fell, all the mechanical warriors jumped up, shaking those slender and deadly metal tentacles, and rushed towards Lin Xi and Xavier.

Xavier immediately retracted his wings, because it was so eager to try, its eyes even shimmered in the dim light, new fleshy tentacles protruded from behind it, and the tips of the fleshy tentacles showed flower-shaped suckers. Open it, revealing the fine fangs inside.

Seeing that Xavier was about to rush over and tear the group of mechanical warriors into pieces, Lin Xi shook his head at Xavier.

"I don't want to waste time now.

Lin Xi sighed, and then, he pointed at the metal jellyfish that rushed... and moved his fingers.

At this moment, Lin Xi's dark brown pupils gradually turned into a deep, chaotic, evil red.

And at the same moment, the seemingly harmless white mist floating behind him...those dense swarms of carnivorous insects just soared up, and then formed a tornado-like vortex in mid-air. It rushed directly to the metal gate at an extremely fast speed, and then suddenly spread out in the space behind the gate.

The few mechanical warriors rushing to the front were covered with a thin layer of "white dust" in an instant.

Those carnivorous tiny insects landed on the surface of the mechanical warriors' bodies. At the very first moment, these mechanical warriors seemed not to be affected.But soon, problems arose.Their steps slowed down bit by bit, and then the metal tentacles lifted up and waved in mid-air. Within a few seconds, blue smoke that was invisible to the naked eye began to emit from the connection between their metal tentacles and the semicircular mechanical brain. , A burnt smell slowly spread in the turbid and humid air.

Then sparks began to light up, and batches of mechanical warriors experienced control failures at a speed visible to the naked eye. They turned around in circles, misjudged that the enemy started to kill each other due to wrong positioning, or lost their path, And constantly hit the solid rock wall...

With just a snap of his fingers, Lin Xi easily turned the group of mechanical warriors into scrap metal.

It wasn't until the last mechanical soldier fell to the ground that the insect swarm that had completed its task slowly flew up.

They wandered around Lin Xi's side with nostalgia, and then slowly flew back to the original place. Just like before, they dispersed and turned into white mist, quietly waiting for the arrival of new food.

Of course, this layer of white mist has become much thinner than before, but it won't take long for them to return to their original density.

Lynch doesn't question that at all - because that's what it allows.Just now he allowed the existence of these artificial alien insects.

The breeding lock that human scientists had customized for these swarms in the laboratory was unlocked by Lin Xi in just a moment.

From now on, these white bugs will completely break through their shackles.

They will never just stay at the bottom of the deep pit, waiting for the arrival of uninvited guests in this small space, they will multiply and spread until they cover the entire planet.

...Of course, this change was just a matter of little effort for Lin Xi, he didn't pay much attention to those white swarms, just like he didn't pay much attention to the mechanical warriors who had completely fallen.

He didn't even look at the killing machines that had turned into metal trash, and walked directly towards the dark space behind the door.

However, at this moment, Lin Xi suddenly let out a soft snort.

He paused, then lowered his head to look at his abdomen.

"What's wrong? Did something happen? Did someone hurt you?"

Xavier suddenly became nervous...

"...Nothing." Lin Xi replied immediately.

However, Lin Xi is very clear - it is not the so-called "nothing".

Just now, it suddenly felt something throbbing deep in its abdomen.The feeling was so strong, it was like a ball of lightning was constantly beating in his belly.The life that was constantly being nurtured in his body seemed to suddenly become extremely active and huge at that moment just now, and Lin Xi could even feel some bugs wriggling gently.

That feeling was so weird, there was even an instinct in Lin Xi's body that was urging him to immediately find a suitable cave for the first formal ovulation.

Well, Lin Xi had to admit that he thought he had transformed into a complete monster, but when he noticed something was wrong in his belly, the shyness and discomfort that belonged to humans returned.

That's why when Xavier asked him, he almost subconsciously evaded it.

However, what Lin Xi didn't know was that there had never been a worm mother who could give birth to such healthy and active offspring as quickly as he did.

In the past, even the most compatible worm mother and king worm would need dozens of days to give birth to their first batch of offspring.

But for Lai Linxi, the process seems to have sped up a lot.

This is the testimony of the successful insect marriage between him and Xavier, and it is also the most significant difference between him as the mother of a heterogeneous species and other insect mothers...

Lin Xi is more perfect than any other mother of all races.

The eggs in its body will also develop more quickly than those of other species.

It's just that for creatures like alien species, evolution can only be described as perfect, but for Lin Xi now, it's not so beautiful...

After all, after the mother of the alien species feels that she has given birth to the eggs, she will usually follow her instinct and find a safe place to give birth and raise the larvae, but the timing is really bad now.

Lin Xi bit the tip of his tongue forcefully. He didn't smell blood, because the moment he bit himself, he had already recovered.

But the pain was still imprinted in his nerves, which made him calm down immediately.

"...not a big deal."

Lin Xi repeated as if talking to herself.Then he raised his head and looked into the depths of the cave.

There should be no other humans on the Providence, and what Hal can control is only an unconscious machine.

Lin Xi can easily deal with things like mechanical soldiers.This means that it doesn't take much time for Lin Xi to save Arthur... Then, by the way, kill Hal, find that man, and end his painful life...

Maybe after finishing this series of trivial matters, Lin Xi still has time to rest.At that time, let's deal with his "children".

At least that's what Lin Xi planned.

Of course, this plan is more or less evasive...

"But, Lin Xi..."

Xavier was obviously a little uneasy, but in the end it didn't ask any more questions, but followed Lin Xi and continued walking.