mother of all races

"I think Scripps didn't tell you what to do when his body finally couldn't hold on before he died."

Lin Xi murmured.

Accompanied by his whispers, Hal's movements became a little stiff - obviously its analysis system was running crazily, trying to understand what Lin Xi said to it.

It just stood there blankly, and after a short pause, it answered Lin Xi—but compared to the fluent responses that were particularly human-like before, its response at this time was quite mechanical.

"ERROR - WRONG DATA - CANNOT READ - CANNOT - READ -"

Its electronic eyes flickered wildly.

All Lin Xi's words suddenly choked in his throat.

At this moment, the only sound in the central control room was Hal's repeated mechanical and electronic sounds.

Aware of Lin Xi's mood at this moment, Xavier slowly approached Lin Xi, and it stretched out its hand to gently hold Lin Xi's cold fingers.

Lin Xi could feel the silent comfort from Xavier.

Also because of the spiritual connection, Arthur and Noah seemed to have sensed something. Seeing that Xavier was approaching Lin Xi, the two alien races also moved quickly. They slowly moved towards Lin Xi's He leaned over...but was quickly kicked away from behind by Xavier secretly.

In the past, Lin Xi always felt a little embarrassed by the open and secret struggles of different races, but at this moment, it seemed particularly... warm.

Lin Xi knew it was strange to think like this, but seeing Hal who was not far away from him, and thinking about everything it had experienced in such a long time, Lin Xi actually felt a little lucky.

After all, no matter what he goes through, he will never be alone, Xavier will always be by his side, so will Arthur and Noah...even in the long future, more heirs, more family members...as long as Not surprisingly, they will all be with him.

Lin Xi lowered her eyes and looked at Hal with pity.

The Providence Project is the largest project in the entire era of great exploration. It has almost completely drained all the human and financial resources of a powerful country.

I am afraid that it is precisely because of this that no matter from that perspective, ordinary humans or a single artificial intelligence cannot perform such a task.

Lin Xi could easily guess what the scientists did back then.

When making Hal, in order to cope with the possible loss of contact, people added some functions of self-evolution and self-adjustment to Hal.

Then, the worst happened, and for nearly 300 years, Hal was trapped aboard the Providence, passing bugs that piled up with no one to debug, and finally...

In the end, it became a person.

Although Hal does not have a real body, he already has everything a human being has.

The sorrow of human beings, the despair of human beings, and the madness of human beings...

Thinking of this, Lin Xi turned her head thoughtfully and looked at the miniature holographic projector at hand. At the end of the projection, Scripps' pale face was forever frozen 300 years ago.

Scripps, who left a message on the Helios, yearned for death, blocked most of Hal's detection functions on the Providence, and induced Hal to block Scripps, who used advanced means of attack. puss...

"Actually, that's yourself."

Lynch said with a sigh.

His words undoubtedly stimulated Hal violently. Hal, who was already deeply malfunctioning, trembled suddenly. He looked at Lin Xi stiffly, and then slowly shook his head.

"You're just... talking... ridiculous fantasies... I know... I know Scripps must still be here...he's always been..."

Did Hal realize that he was repeating what he had said before?Lin Xi thought inwardly.

But in reality, he just looked at Hal like this, and then repeated what he had already said in the same way.

"In the same universe... there can only be one worm mother at a time."

While speaking, Lin Xi's eyes were gradually stained with inhuman scarlet.

tentacles.

mouthparts.

scales.

wing.

The overlap appeared on the surface of his body, and then disappeared instantly.

In the end, Lin Xi returned to his original human form, which was also his most perfect mimicry.

"...But, I'm already the mother of alien species."

He said.

An inhuman icy light shone in the red eyes.

"I've been metamorphosed since I was a kid... and Scripps was dead by then. That's why I'm here. The 'Scripps you always wanted to capture' ’ It’s actually your own consciousness that you… you want to die.”

But the program and Scripps' order before his death made it impossible for Hal, who is the core system of the Providence, to "die".

If Hal is just a computer system without any human emotions and without any autonomous consciousness, it will probably continue to run according to the instructions until the body of the Providence is completely destroyed-it may take thousands of years.

But Hal is not such a stupid and lucky "life".

It can only endure this incomparably long... despair and pain.

Until "Scripps" came along.

……

"You're just telling silly lies."

Hal said word for word.

"Scripps is dead, why don't you face it, why don't you... look behind you?"

As Lin Xi spoke, she raised her hand and pointed her fingertips behind Hal...

In Hal's perception, those life support devices that have been carefully adjusted have actually been dilapidated long ago, like scrap iron.Even if you just look at it from a distance, you can tell that those things have lost their effectiveness a long time ago.

On the platform surrounded by the life-support device, Scripps's bones were so broken that it was difficult to see the original shape of the bones. Now there are only pieces of broken pieces with an extraordinarily smooth gray-white surface. Just bone fragments.

In this huge control room, there is actually nothing.

There are some broken bones and scales in the corner of the wall, probably from the alien larvae that hatched here many years ago.

It's just that without a normal insect mother, they can't wait to grow up at all.

Over a long period of time, they eventually decayed to the point where only brittle and thin remains remained, looking no different from dust.

There is nothing here.

It's just a cemetery, a dead cemetery.

It's just Hal.

Of course, Hal didn't think so.

Hal turned his head along Lin Xi's fingertips, and looked behind him quietly - Streeps' withered body was still lying there.

Yes, its captain does appear to be extremely weak, but under the control of the life support system and special drugs, Scripps' vital signs are still within acceptable values...

The only problem is probably the same - when Hal looks at Scripps, the date error warnings from the system will layer upon layer to block his vision.

But that was also irrelevant, and Hal routinely sent those reports into the garbage database that didn't need to be resolved.

Of course, Hal had to admit that those bug reports were indeed a little too much, and maybe when it transferred all of its own data to the escape boat's independent system, it should find a way to delete some data.

It's just... the reports with wrong dates... When did they accumulate so much?

This question lasted for about one-tenth of a second before it was quickly deleted by Hal.

The most urgent thing is to get out of here and let your plan go ahead.

As long as Lin Xi dies, Captain Scripps will regain the surging and eternal vitality of being the mother of alien species, and he will completely break away from his current extremely weak appearance.

He will live...forever...

It's just that Lin Xi, who has come to the central control room, does have some troubles.

Hal thought calmly.

The three alien species around Lin Xi have become extremely powerful, and they seem to have entered a long and powerful growth period from a weak initial stage.

To make matters worse, Lin Xi's conversation with it was delayed for a long time (Hal didn't understand why he made such a mistake).

Hal could clearly feel that his thinking function was getting weaker and weaker, and it had almost completely lost control of the Providence.

Now the only thing it can control is probably this tattered bionic body.

Hal carefully inspected his body. This bionic human was produced by Dell, so even if it is a service bionic human, it still has some basic weapons built into its body... but these basic weapons will consume Lost Hal's already little energy left.

But until now, with most of its control rights removed, even just such a bionic body is enough...

Hal's arm moved slightly, it was about to move, but then the whole person was instantly fixed in place.

Lin Xi seemed to possess magic, and "teleported" to Hal's side before Hal had time to act.

At this moment, his arm was on Howl's shoulder.

It looked like an ordinary human, but the pale and weak arms brought about the same intense oppression and strength as those mechanical warriors specially used for fighting.

Hal could hear his body creaking under the heavy pressure, and the few remaining logical feedback systems told it that at this moment it should choose to stay still and show obedience in front of Lin Xi.

This selection contributes to its survival.

Hal doesn't have many options.

But at this very moment, Hal realized that he was struggling crazily uncontrollably.

It only felt that a high-voltage current appeared in its body, and it stretched its arms hard, trying to pull out the laser weapon from its abdominal cavity.But in the next second, its arm was severed from the arm.

The bionic man's arm hit the ground, rolled down a few times weakly, and a little dark red mucus flowed out from the joint, which was the lubricant that had gone bad...