mother of all races

zizi——

Nourishes—

The sound of electric current caused by the destruction of the video interface resounded.

In the control room of the Providence, Hal's database flashed yet again a series of error message reports.

"Heh... bastard..."

A dull and distorted smile appeared on the dilapidated bionic man's shell, and Hal used the shell to let out a slightly shifted whisper.

But then, another abnormal message passed by——

Hal's movements froze for a moment, then it turned around and looked behind itself.

Scripps' haggard and fragile, even ugly body is still covered by layers of life support systems.

His dry skin, with bones visible beneath the skin, made him look like a real dead man many times.

Hal stared blankly at Scripps, the electronic eyes flickering slightly in the extraordinarily dim environment.

At this moment, it looks like a real human being... It has extraordinarily complex emotions, and it seems to have some fragility and pain caused by being hurt.

However, in the next second it changed back to its original appearance, it was just a bionic man manipulated by mechanical consciousness.

(It's as if it doesn't even notice what's going on with the unusual data flow).

Hal manipulated his body slowly back to the side of the life support system.

It leaned down again, pointlessly kissing Scripps' cold forehead with its dry, lifeless lips.

"I will find a way to deal with that guy, that guy is still in its first pregnancy period, it doesn't even have its own family—"

Having said that, Hal abruptly stopped talking, and he looked at the rotten insect eggs from Scripps on the walls and in the corners.

"Sorry." Hal said softly to the unresponsive Scripps, "... soon, soon your situation will improve, and you will have your own clan and children, if you want. "

While speaking, Hal once again looked at the mass of biological organs fixed between Scripps' legs with disgust.

The extremely powerful vitality of the former king worm has already been exhausted in such a long time.

Now the outer skin of the toy has shriveled and rotted, only the core part still has a little vitality.

Hal could feel his intense disgust—he remembered the pair of bugs he had seen before the probe was destroyed.

The newborn mother of alien species and its healthy, strong and stupid king worm.

Obviously they are two people with very different appearances, and one of them is also a worm mother transformed from human beings, but the relationship between Lin Xi and Xavier is so harmonious and intimate.

They look like the happiest couple on earth, they accept each other, they love each other, and even, they are about to have their first family.

All of this is completely inconsistent with the information Hal collected 300 years ago, and even forced Hal to rewrite his logic of understanding.

The intimate appearance of Lin Xi and Xavier made Hal feel a kind of strange data shock.

It's resentment and jealousy.

If Hal were human, he might have called that how the data made him feel.

"call……"

At this moment, Scripps, who was motionless like a corpse, suddenly breathed heavily, his eyes were closed tightly, but a look of pain quickly passed over his gray face.

However, in the next second, Scripps calmed down again.

"...Don't worry, my captain, I won't let that bug come back, I'll find a way to fertilize the eggs—don't worry, I won't let you suffer that kind of thing again."

Lin Xi's previous appearance caused some dark data to be retrieved by Hal's system and sent to the processor.

That was... what Scripps was tortured back then.

[Kill me, please, Hal, kill me——]

Scripps' pleading and whispering seemed to be in Hal's ear.

This is probably the despair of being an electronic consciousness. Everything it encounters, everything it feels... will always be vivid and unforgettable. No matter how much time has passed, those pains are still as fresh as the last second. The clock just happened.

The bionic man's shell-expelling paused for a moment, and there was a momentary freeze. If expressed in human language, this should be pain.

But Hal didn't show any strangeness.

It sat down quietly beside Scripps, resting its face against Scripps' dying body.

Although its sensory terminal has already lost its effectiveness due to physical damage, even so, as long as he can be with Scripps, Hal can still feel a moment of peace in himself.

And if its plan works, if Scripps can recover, it can go back to the beginning...

Thinking of this, Hal's eyes became even hotter, and he talked in his own world.

"Now that they've all come here... There are more ways to solve those gadgets..."

Hal muttered to Scripps.

At the moment it sat down quietly, countless instructions were sent out through its connection with the spaceship central.

The Scripps, which had completely fallen into a dormant state, came back to life bit by bit under its orders.

In the darkness, countless bright or dim power lights came back on.

"Crack-"

"Crack-"

"Whoa..."

The sound of metal unlocking.

The jerky grinding sound of special appliances when they were restarted after many years filled this dark place.

300 years ago, before Scripps completely fell into despair, and before the spaceship was completely deserted, various weapons made by human scientists on the spaceship to deal with the pollution of alien species began to be unlocked one by one on the recovered system.

"Well?"

And Lin Xi, who has been staying in the control room of the freezer, seems to have sensed the changes and dangers contained in the darkness.

His forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his pale cheeks were tense.

"Lin Xi."

Xavier hugged Lin Xi tightly, using his strength to support his most beloved human being.

"The children... are the children..."

In the dark, Xavier can already feel the call of those tiny lives.

It trembled and stretched out its forelimbs, covering Lin Xi's swollen abdomen.

Under the thin skin, the small bodies of the family members could almost be seen faintly.

"It's not the time...at least not this time..."

Lin Xi bit his lips tightly, and he spoke intermittently.

"dangerous."

he said, and looked up at Xavier in bewilderment.

"They become...tools and...consumables..."

Lin Xi gasped and said in despair.

"They want to protect you. Something dangerous has appeared."

Xavier was about to die of heartbreak because of Lin Xi's painful and weak appearance now.

"You can get them out, that's their job."

Xavier said.

While talking, outside the observation window, those horrifying human-faced worms suddenly screamed in unison——

Lin Xi groaned, his body was severely deformed in an instant, fine scales appeared on his face covered in cold sweat, and the wings on his back also popped out, flapping in vain.

Xavier jumped in front of Lin Xi in horror, and spread his wings to block him.

"Lin Xi..."

It called Lin Xi's name.

Lin Xi's complexion became more and more ugly.

He pressed his abdomen hard, stood up staggeringly, and came to the observation window.

The human-faced worms that originally occupied the entire window have been reduced by more than half, and the remaining ones also seem to be in extreme fear.

Distorted expressions appeared on the heads of the people they mimicked, and some even began to gurgle sticky scarlet tears.

"pat-"

Then, there was a soft sound.

These worms fell from the attached glass one after another. They wriggled and trembled on the ground, looking as if they had been sprinkled with salt, shrinking and seeping at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Then, some tiny thread-like nematodes emerged from the inside of those worms.

They quickly covered the shriveled and deformed body of the worm, and clusters of nematodes swarmed together, covering up the traces of the corpses.

"..."

Now Lin Xi finally understood why the eggs in his abdomen that were in the state of pregnancy became so restless at this time.

A large number of nematodes not only emerged from the bodies of the worms that had been eaten up, but also an ominous sizzle sound came from the freezer that originally kept a large number of human corpses.

Lin Xi saw countless tiny worms slowly moving out from the middle of the corpse.

"Beep--"

Then, a large number of frozen compartments that were originally closed suddenly returned to the operating state, and the transparent glass doors slowly opened and slowly unfolded.

The frozen corpse that looked like a mummy was devoured by these nematodes in an instant, leaving only a small amount of gray-white bone residue, and then the worms began to surge out.

It was a bug that parasitized inside these human bodies a long time ago, and died with the host before hatching in time.

It's just that before dying, these insects lay a large number of eggs based on their reproductive instinct.

Now when the freezing chamber is opened, the temperature rises...these eggs immediately began to hatch.

300 years of dormancy left these ugly and disgusting bugs extremely hungry, and they quickly devoured all edible things near them, including dead bodies, and some natural rubber used in cryochamber components Parts...

It was at this moment that Lin Xi suddenly realized that those human-faced worms that kept flocking to the control room were probably avoiding the weird nematodes that suddenly started to wreak havoc on the Providence.

After all, in this huge spaceship, there is more than one frozen cemetery...

Perhaps, when they were investigating the past of Captain Scripps in the office, the cryogenic compartment had been quietly opened without them knowing, and the greedy and crazy nematode, which was born 300 years ago, also woke up.