mother of all races

After walking for a short distance, the wide and deep road began to extend underground.

It's more like a mine than a cave.

After the Providence buried its own body underground, it built an amazing underground city around the underground space where it was hiding.

The road to the outside world is formed by intricate pipes and elevators.It's just that the facilities and lines used for lighting at the beginning have long been damaged after being abandoned for many years, and now there is only endless darkness and dead silence shrouded here——

The only thing that can break this dead silence is some... "something" that occasionally appears around him and Xavier.

Those things have been completely integrated with the environment here for a long time.If Lin Xi hadn't transformed into a different species now, I'm afraid he wouldn't have noticed their existence in the first place.

And even with the vision to see things in the dark, it is difficult for Lin Xi to find suitable words to describe those things in human vocabulary.They are huge in size, but they move quietly like ghosts.

They should more or less have components belonging to different species in their bodies.

However, unlike the mutated insects that Lin Xi knew, these alien species living in the tunnels all transformed into mollusk-like existences.

It's just that compared with the molluscs that Lin Xi knew, they looked... a bit too disgusting and ugly.

Lin Xi can even say... In comparison with these things, even slugs and leeches that are magnified thousands of times can be called beautiful.After all, if it's slugs and leeches, at least they don't have a flat, hollow human face covering their soft, fishy, ​​wet body.

——That’s right, it’s a human face.

It's just that this face is flat.

It was as if someone had directly peeled off someone else's face from the skeleton, and then pasted it flat on the back of a slug that had been magnified countless times.

Lin Xi even hated his excellent eyesight now, he could even vaguely see what they used to look like on the faces of those alien races.

It's just that these human faces only look like people now-just like the mimicry or patterns that some animals on the earth have evolved to save their lives.

The human essence has long since disappeared from within their deformed bodies.

These soft body variants seem to be the same as the individuals outside the pit, and they were all transformed from the human crew on the Providence (Lin Xi doubts that this transformation may be carried out in an abnormal state, because they I also sensed the twisted aura of that man-made object on this soft-bodied alien.)

Lin Xi doesn't know how long they have been here, but one thing is certain is that these creatures have completely adapted to the environment here.

They have relatively huge bodies and extremely concealed ways of action.

Sometimes it even seems quite clumsy.It's just that this clumsiness is just an appearance... These things are quite dangerous.

Although... this danger is only for humans or other creatures.

But for Lin Xi, they just made him feel a little bored and embarrassed.

Lin Xi noticed them frequently.Walk around yourself.

But they never launched an attack - after feeling Lin Xi's breath.These soft-bodied aliens always drag the soft and wet body to quickly shrink into the various gaps in the passage.

It's just that living in the extremely dark and silent environment for too long, the intelligence of these alien species has been seriously degraded, and they are not even as good as those white bugs with extremely simple structures outside the pit.

Their extremely dull and chaotic emotions continuously hovered in the completely enclosed space of the underground passage, and after resonance, they were transmitted to Lin Xi's mind.

Lin Xi could feel the strong appetite and extreme fear these alien species had towards her, but because the structure was too simple, they didn't even know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

Immediately avoid it after sensing the fear, but then, it will catch up because of the nature of hunger and greed.

The deeper you go underground, the more degenerate the alien individuals appearing around Lin Xi.

If it is said that those worm-like aliens near the edge of the gate can more or less sense the dangerous aura emanating from Lin Xi, they can instinctively avoid it when they get too close.

Then the alien worm species living deep in the ground completely lost the ability to judge the surrounding environment.

They exist unconsciously, and then die unconsciously, as simple as single-celled organisms—

With a soft sound at his feet, Lin Xi shook his body slightly in the darkness.

He flew up in mid-air lightly, dodging a weird worm that suddenly came out from a gap in the ground.

Even the smell of alien species on this worm is very weak. If it weren't for the iconic human face pattern on its back, Lin Xi would have almost thought it was some special native species on AS192.

After a failed blow, the worm's body fell limply to the ground, and the human face on its back showed a scream-like expression due to the squirming muscles underneath.

Xavier on the side rushed forward a few steps at the moment it seemed to be sucking towards Lin Xi, but after seeing the appearance of the worm, it quickly put away its limbs and shook His own wings sprinkled the poisonous powder on the worm's skin.

That way, at least it can avoid direct contact with such things.

The swollen, wet and viscous body of the alien species began to foam a lot immediately after touching the poisonous powder, and then in an instant, its body suddenly fell over and slowly curled up into a small ball— —

Some slime oozes from the inside of its body and it just dies...

"...it's ugly."

Xavier muttered subconsciously.

The slime on the surface of the dead worms was absorbed by the sand in the channel within a short time.

Its dry skin allows a clear view of its structure.

Well, in fact, this guy has no structure at all, it has no eyes, no nose... There are no extra organs, only a mouth for eating and an excretion port for excretion.

"Don't look at this kind of stuff."

Lin Xi stood in front of Xavier.

His face was also a little ugly.

After a while, more worms came out of the gap in the passage, and they began to eat the bodies of the dead worms as if no one was there.

Likewise...their backs are all embedded with hollow human faces.

For a moment, Lin Xi even felt that the face on the back of a worm was quite familiar...

That guy is quite a name in the history books, he was a famous scientist, inventor, explorer.When he became famous, he abandoned all the property he earned in the solar system, and embarked on the road to the new world, but finally disappeared in the dark universe with the legendary ship...

Such a story is too dramatic, and a large number of works based on him have been derived.

But who would have thought that the final ending of such a person would be like this...

a worm?

Lin Xi even refused to call this thing a heterogeneous species.

He felt extremely tight in his chest, and even had a feeling of wanting to vomit.

The appearance of the alien species is largely affected by the mental state of the mother of the alien species, and these alien species are obviously not Lin Xi's dependents, they belong to the mother of the previous generation, but... what happened to the mother of the alien species in the previous generation , would allow his descendants to become like this?

At this moment, Lin Xi couldn't help but think of the mutated crew members on the Helios.

He will never forget the miserable and terrifying deformed appearance of those people at the end. Once upon a time, he once felt that it was probably the worst ending that a human being could have.

But now, he was a little uncertain——

Lin Xi fought a cold war. She couldn't imagine what kind of impact it would have on her descendants if she really surrendered to her instinct and to the void.If that was the case, he would probably prefer to choose death.He would rather disappear with the entire race than watch his companions be transformed into such a pathetic appearance.

It was at this moment that the man who kept appearing in his dreams suddenly appeared in Lin Xi's mind.

The man made desperate pleas to Lin Xi again and again, begging Lin Xi to end his life. Lin Xi was once confused by this weird request, but now he has a faint understanding in his heart.

"Mother of all races."

Lin Xi murmured.

So that man, who he really is, is actually...

Lin Xi already had a rough answer to the man's identity in his heart, but the fate behind that answer was so tragic that Lin Xi didn't even want to think about it.

"Zizi...Zizi..."

Just as Lin Xi was contemplating for a moment, the worm species that had died before had been devoured, leaving only some traces of dried mucus to prove its existence.

The wet chewing sound of its kind brought Lin Xi back to his senses.

Lin Xi took a deep breath, and a trace of deep sadness appeared in his calm eyes.

He lowered his eyes, and his spiritual power spread out...

In the next second, the bodies of those soft-bodied alien species twitched, fell down, and then stiffened instantly, just like their previous companion.

Within a few seconds, these chaotic and filthy lives lost their vitality.

Lin Xi stepped over the worm's body and continued walking forward.

Xavier suddenly stretched out his hand and firmly grasped Lin Xi's cold palm.

"Don't be sad."

Xavier said softly to Lin Xi.

Lin Xi was taken aback for a moment, then turned to look at Xavier.

"I'm not sad, I'm just..."

I just feel a little out of breath.

But the moment Lin Xi was about to say that, he suddenly realized that the heavy feeling that had been entrenched in his heart was exactly the kind of emotion called sadness.

It's just that, as the mother of different races, Lin Xi's transcendent mental state makes it difficult for Lin Xi to even feel her own emotions...

But only relying on the spiritual connection, Xavier was keenly aware of a trace of human pain in Lin Xi's heart.

It was obviously just a foreign species, and even its appearance kept the most primitive and hideous appearance, but at this moment, it seemed more human than Lin Xi.

Thinking of this, Lin Xi suddenly stepped forward and gave Xavier a hug.

"I'm a little sad."

Lin Xi buried her head in Xavier's chest, and said sullenly.

"……Thank you for comforting me."

Lin Xi could feel Xavier stretching out his wings and wrapping him gently.

Xavier didn't say anything more, but its tenderness was transmitted to the bottom of Lin Xi's heart by virtue of the spiritual connection.

When Lin Xi walked out of Xavier's arms again, he was already much better than before.

At least he can calmly face these inferior alien species that appeared in the passage

In addition to those white worm-like aliens, some former crew members have been transformed into pale, slender lizards.

Just like those sad creatures before, the bodies of these alien species more or less retained some characteristics that belonged to humans...

For example, their skin still looks human, or their skulls vaguely look like primates rather than reptiles...

Lin Xi has no doubt that after hundreds of years of free evolution, these creatures may become outright alien creatures.

At that time, who would have imagined that their ancestors were actually transformed from earthlings with advanced civilizations?

A long sigh...

Lin Xi withdrew her thoughts and ignored these cowardly, low-level, unnaturally formed alien species.

Perhaps, when he finished exploring the Providence, he would be able to figure out what happened to these creatures.

He might not be able to bring them back to the normal world, but at least he could give them a peaceful death.

With this thought, Lin Xi's pace gradually accelerated.

As he moved forward, the surroundings of the passage gradually changed. The closer to the door, the simpler it was, and the closer it was to the end, the more perfect it was.

Lin Xi saw the remnants of the great project. Many facilities had already laid the foundation, but they were abandoned at the beginning.

For example, Lin Xi saw some pipes similar to large urban underground drainage facilities on both sides of the passage more than once. Lin Xi glanced inside, but didn't know where these pipes would eventually lead.

However, he was very sure that in the seemingly empty darkness, there were actually a large number of non-human creatures living there, and they regarded it as their final nest.

Similarly, the more you push inward, the higher the surrounding temperature becomes.Probably due to the passage of groundwater, it has become extremely humid and hot here.

While advancing, Lin Xi reached out her hand without any trace, and pressed her stomach.

The subtle and unspeakable swelling made Lin Xi feel a little troubled, because the eggs in his body were growing and developing.

Lin Xi lowered his head and looked at his stomach. The swelling of his stomach seemed unavoidable. The space suit that was originally very loose on him was a little tight at this moment.

Lin Xi couldn't help frowning. He knew very well that this phenomenon might be related to his mental state...

The Providence made him feel a little nervous, and the mothers of alien races throughout the ages would take a lot of measures to protect themselves by producing a lot of family members when faced with difficulties.

In fact, if it wasn't for Arthur, Lin Xi should have done the same.

But now, Lin Xi's series of actions have given his children a wrong perception. They feel that their mother is in danger, and they urgently need their birth...

Thinking of this, Lin Xi felt a strange feeling of pity in his heart.

Inside his body... is the life he conceived, his family.

The relationship between them is closer and more inseparable than that of human parents and children, and the natural spiritual control of their own family members by different species closely links Lin Xi with these numerous lives.

From now on, Lin Xi will never feel alone and lonely, and he will never worry about betrayal.

These children belong to him.It will only exist with it forever...and annihilate together.

It's just that at the moment when Lin Xi was in a trance because of the life in his abdomen, the pain from Arthur once again spread to the bottom of his heart.

"damn it……"

Lin Xi let out a curse.

"What's wrong?""

"They're hurting Arthur..."

Lin Xi raised her head and faced Xavier who looked a little frightened.

He gritted his teeth and said, a dark red flashed in his eyes.

He touched his arm involuntarily, and there seemed to be some pain left there.

The severe pain in the back, the severe pain on the wound of the broken limb, the feeling of suffocation, the burning sensation, the unbearable fear of being corroded... Countless dark emotions emanated from Arthur's body continuously.

What the hell did those guys do to Arthur? !

Thinking of his close family members being tortured in places he didn't know, Lin Xi instantly felt a sense of bloodthirsty rage.

In agitation, Lin Xi grabbed Xavier and ran towards the end of the corridor at an extremely fast speed.

Not long after, Lin Xi's eyes suddenly opened up.

"here……"

Lin Xi walked to the end of the passage, and then stared at the scene in front of her.

It must be said that he was amazed by what he saw.

In front of him is an unimaginably huge space, which is so wide that it can accommodate a small city.

This is not an exaggerated rhetoric, but a fact visible to the naked eye—at the bottom of this huge cave, the Providence is quietly crawling there.

With Lin Xi's current vision, it is even difficult for him to see the whole picture of the Providence...

However, most of the Providence has been deeply sunk in the ground, and only a small part is exposed.

In order to place the spaceship, people at that time seemed to have directly hollowed out a giant volcano, and then built a shocking vast project based on the structure of the volcano.

Lin Xi was almost speechless for a moment. After such a long time, the spaceship still looked so thrilling.

Looking at the Providence like this, Lin Xi finally understands why people say that its disappearance will completely disintegrate the most powerful country on Earth, and the Earth civilization that once had the opportunity to explore other galaxies, until 300 Years later, they are still huddled in the solar system, and can only rely on the technology provided by the Anya people to fix a few planets.It is precisely because of its fall that the earth civilization that has been developing has declined to the present.

Lin Xi stared at the spaceship with bated breath...

The ship seemed to be just dead silent.

It's just that in the part of it buried deep in the ground, there seems to be some subtle movements coming out.

Some slender high-altitude slings like spider silk connect the mountain wall and the spaceship underground.

Lin Xi looked around and found that there were several openings similar to where they were now distributed in the wide cave.

Obviously, there is not only one entrance and exit connecting the Providence with the outside world.

Those high-altitude slings can't actually be called slender, but they look so fragile because they are too far away.

Not far from Lin Xi, there is a similar sling. The waist-thin cable looks extremely strong, and what hangs on the cable is a long-corroded high-altitude cable car.

Although the sling was not needed, Lin Xi couldn't help but walked over to check it.

The moment the door was opened, several alien species with flat bodies quickly slipped out through the crack of the door, and then plunged into the darkness with a stabbing sound.

The dusty glass had even turned gray, and there were still some bloody handprints, but now those handprints looked completely black.

The floor of the cable car has long been corroded and hollow, and a sticky teddy bear, crumpled body is lying in the gap of the metal frame.

What happened to the child who tried to escape the Providence with the bear in his arms?Did it become the kind of insect just now?

Lin Xi's eyes dimmed, and then he quickly closed the cable car door.

"Be careful...don't get close..."

However, at this moment, a particularly ethereal whisper emerged from the darkness far away.

Lin Xi's breathing paused for a moment, he suddenly turned around, his eyes widened, and he looked straight at the direction from which the voice came.

He almost thought it was his hallucination, but then the same whisper came out again.

"Be careful...don't get close...there are monsters..."

Although the words and pronunciation are very strange, but if you distinguish carefully, you can still clearly identify the content of the warning.

"Lin Xi."

The first time Xavier heard the voice, he immediately approached Lin Xi.

It raised its forelegs and looked warily at somewhere in the darkness.

The upside-down thorns on its body are enough to prove that it is in a state of full alert.

This is of course not a big surprise...In such an environment, hearing human voices suddenly is even more disturbing than hearing monsters roaring.

"That guy's down there."

Lin Xi took a deep breath to calm himself down.

Then, he patted Xavier on the shoulder.

After a pause for a few seconds, Lin Xi suddenly spoke again

"Maybe that guy did it."

After all, this is Howl's lair...

He sounded like he was trying to explain the call.

But only Lin Xi knew that at this moment, the explanation was not so much for Xavier, but for himself.

Even on the outside, he is still very calm.

Moreover, he also knew that hearing such shouts in such a place was probably just a trap.

but……

However, on this planet, after hearing a voice belonging to another human being for a long time, Lin Xi's heart still couldn't help beating wildly.

"Go down and have a look."

Lin Xi said, and then he suddenly spread his wings and flew directly towards the Providence at the bottom of the cave.

He landed on the outer layer of Providence with great speed without any effort.

Afterwards, Lin Xi locked on to the target who made the sound in an instant.

And to his surprise, what he saw was not the mechanical warrior waiting in battle, nor the rotten, disgusting face of the android Hal, on the contrary, he saw a beautiful, youthful face .

With a pale face and gray eyes, he was staring blankly at Lin Xi who was walking in the darkness.

That person looked like a very young girl, most of her body was hidden behind the mottled gray metal parts, only a bright and clean face was exposed.

"Don't come here, there are monsters."

After getting closer, Lin Xi found that the girl's voice seemed to have a hint of crying.

"Who are you……"

Lin Xi couldn't control her emotions anymore, and couldn't help asking directly.

However, at the moment when he made the sound, that white face suddenly retracted, and then there was the rustling sound of stepping on the metal plate and fleeing quickly.

Lin Xi and Xavier looked at each other, and then followed the man closely.

Then they discovered that the girl was so familiar with everything about this spaceship.

She moved lightly through all kinds of unimaginable narrow gaps.Lin Xi and Xavier's actions were not unpleasant, but several times they almost wanted to catch the girl, but in the end they could only listen to the girl's fine footsteps between metal and metal through some spaceship parts. run fast...

After crossing countless complicated pipes and seals, some of them were obviously damaged by external forces and formed hollow seals...

Lin Xi suddenly fell from a ventilation duct and stood directly in the dark but extraordinarily spacious metal corridor.

Only then did he realize that he had directly entered the interior of the Providence through the vent.

Even though the area he was in now was obviously the outermost layer of the Providence, it was enough.

He looked at the situation around him in disbelief.

And the vigilance in his heart has been raised to the highest level.

"that person……"

Lin Xi stared at the other end of the corridor hesitantly.

The breath left by the other party is so obvious, as long as he wants, he can easily catch that guy.

But is everything really going so smoothly?

That's how Lin Xi heard the warning belonging to a little girl—theoretically speaking, there are no more human beings living on the Providence.

He then followed the man closely and found his way into the Providence.

It's probably too much of a coincidence...

Lin Xi stood there quietly for a while, thinking deeply.

He silently restrained all his aura, becoming extraordinarily harmless and pure.

Xavier turned his head to look at Lin Xi with some obsession.

In his perception, Lin Xi had completely shed the cold and weird aura of the mother of alien species.

Instead, it was the warm and pure human breath that made him feel nostalgic and loved.

After restraining her own characteristics, Lin Xi really looked like an ordinary human being through and through.

For a moment, many inappropriate thoughts appeared in Xavier's mind.

Lynch tugged at its tentacles, then gave it a warning glance.

"Feel sorry--"

Xavier's apology was transmitted to Lin Xi through the spiritual connection between the two, but, judging from its completely transformed dark pink wings, Xavier's apology was really not sincere.

On the contrary, the more Lin Xi looked at Xavier sternly, the... things that were active in Xavier's mind... became more difficult to say.

In the end, Lin Xi could only keep a straight face and forcibly ignore Xavier.

"..."

Suddenly, something moved in the darkness.

Lin Xi immediately looked into the darkness, and then he took several steps forward, deliberately leaving human footsteps behind.

Sure enough, not long after he made the noise, he heard the voice of that young girl again.

"There are monsters here, don't get close, there are monsters here... don't get close..."

The girl kept whispering in the dark corridor with an exceptionally hollow voice.

Seeing Lin Xi frowning, she stared in the direction of the girl in a daze.

Xavier shook his tail a little anxiously, then he rushed out impatiently, and before Lin Xi had time to stop, he used his worm limbs to hold the pale face tightly.

In the next second, the girl was dragged out of the corner of the corridor by Xavier.

It's just that when Lin Xi saw the whole picture of the girl, Lin Xi felt that it seemed inappropriate to use the word "girl" to describe her...

That guy wasn't human at all.

The human face that made Lin Xi feel dazed and shaken was actually just a predatory mimic at the tip of its tail.

Its overall appearance looks a bit similar to the worm species that both Xavier and Lin Xi feel particularly disgusted with, except that the body surface of those worm species is covered with a completely flat human face.

But on the back of this alien species, a three-dimensional complete human head suddenly appeared.

That person has five sense organs and hair on his head, and he can even make some sounds that sound completely indistinguishable from human warnings through the vocal organs hidden under his tongue.

Also, this guy is pretty old.

The surface of the body covered with thick mucus is full of wrinkles.

Different from those worm-like alien species in the outside world, besides the disgusting girl's head, there is a line of extremely clear small characters on its back.

[Providence Project Experimental Item, a10713]

Just like the little white bugs that Lin Xi saw in the deep pit, this guy was probably also an experimental product made by the scientists at that time.

In this way, his survival mechanism can be understood.

That human head is its predatory organ, just like the monkfish in the deep sea... The monkfish lights up the light emitter above its head to attract small fish like moths to a flame.

And this old alien species, through the human head that survived on its own tail, attracted humans who were trying to rescue its companions to approach it, and then...

Then it's time for them to hunt.

The degraded IQ of these worms simply cannot understand what the sounds they make mean.

They simply imitated the sound, and what could be more noticeable than a monster's warning of a young girl panicking in agony in the ruins?As long as one is not careful, the person who wants to rescue the girl will be eaten to death.

It's just that with the passage of time, the monster's predation skills have become more and more inappropriate. After all, only humans can respond to this call and rescue the little girl.

Now, all humans are long dead.

It may have fallen dormant in starvation.He woke up only when he felt Lin Xi's arrival.And the long period of hunger and cold made it completely lose its mind, and even made a call to Lin Xi for predation, and only fled away in a hurry after realizing that Lin Xi's breath was not right...

However, soon, because of Lin Xi's human traits, it showed its whereabouts again.

This is also a particularly sad man-made monster.

Lin Xi stared at the girl's head at the tail of the monster for a while, and he didn't want to think about whether that beautiful and innocent child's face was the original appearance of the aging monster in front of him.

With Lin Xi's sigh.The mental power spread out, cutting directly into the soul of that alien species like a dagger... The monster suddenly twitched, and then fell to the ground.

It was finally freed after 300 years of torture.

It's just that the death of this monster didn't mean the end of everything, and Lin Xi couldn't help walking to the place where he was hiding before.

After pushing the door open, Lin Xi's eyes flickered.

He saw a frozen warehouse as wide as a stadium.

Countless frozen coffins made of metal and organic materials stood neatly and densely on the smooth surface.

And inside each frozen coffin lies a person who has long since died.

Some of those people still maintain their human forms, but more of them have transformed into terrifying monsters.Of course, there are still some frozen coffins that have been broken from the inside to the outside. This is probably because the human beings lying in them have been transformed into alien species, and the strength of their bodies has been greatly improved, directly breaking through the frozen chambers that imprisoned them.

Lin Xi couldn't help but turned her head and looked outside the door. The worm species probably appeared in the ruins of the spaceship under such circumstances.

Lin Xi stepped into the pile of corpses expressionlessly.

The scene in front of him made him feel familiar.

Yes, there was a similar scene in the aircraft he had investigated.

It was the same mutated human being who was killed, and it was also a silent cryogenic chamber, but compared with the scenes in the aircraft, the relics of the massacre he saw inside the Providence were far smaller than those in the aircraft. Small fights can be compared.

Even after so many years, Lin Xi's spirit can still vaguely detect the spiritual imprints left by those dying aliens - extreme pain, chaos, darkness...

It was like a nightmare from which I would never wake up.

In the end, Lin Xi found the lair of the girl head monster in the control room at the end of the frozen warehouse.

Just like all soft-bodied monsters, the lair was built very crudely, just a puddle of slime on the wall.

Through the translucent mucus, it can be vaguely seen that this place used to be a place where a little girl stayed.

Here Lin Xi saw pink plush toys decorated with ribbons, and some luggage that had been neatly packed. Each suitcase was painted with brightly colored cartoon pictures, but now those pictures are mostly It's all faded.

Lin Xi didn't know that this was his first sigh, he turned his head and looked to the other side of the room.

The control instruments piled up on the walls facing each other and the large observation windows facing the refrigerated warehouse-the person who can sit here should also be a middle-level manager on the Providence at that time.

In the very center of the control room is a desk, and on the desktop of the desk is a stack of documents marked as overtime processing...

A man was lying prone in front of the desk quietly, with his head and neck drooping, motionless.

He has been lying here for 300 years.

Lin Xi walked to the desk, and he was not surprised to find a huge cavity near the man's temple.And at the man's feet was a gun with the safety catch pulled.

Black blood soaked the snow-white desk. After many years, the blood had completely seeped into the desk.

Xavier looked at the man's body curiously, and it stretched out its hand to gently touch the ossified body.

"boom--"

In the next second, the man's skeleton brought the chair and fell directly to the ground, turning into small white pieces.

Xavier froze in place immediately.

"I did not do it on purpose."

It turned its face and stammered to Lin Xi.