mother of all races

Bryce took off the necklace he had been wearing around his neck, and opened the small pendant on the necklace.

A phantom of a young man is projected from an old WeChat projector at the bottom of the pendant.

The pale man stood quietly in Bryce's palm, smiling silently at him.

"I wish you were here with us, Savile, you always know what to do—"

Bryce lowered his eyes, looked at the figure of the man named Saville, and muttered to himself.

"And as you promised, you will take good care of Lin Xi."

Unfortunately, Savile did not abide by his agreement.

……

"Ahhh-"

Lin Xi sneezed.

Maybe someone is thinking about him.

he thought, rubbing his nose.

The hatch of his room slowly moved away in front of him, and inside the dark room, only the star butterfly egg case life support device beside his bed was emitting a faint blue light, and the furniture and sundries near the device were all stained with a layer of haze. And unreal blue.

A bearded jellyfish turned and floated gently and slowly inside the not-so-rich life support device. Maybe it was a coincidence, or maybe it really sensed something. After Lin Xi walked in from the door, the The direction of the egg case also changed accordingly.

The tentacle, which was just slowly swinging unconsciously in the viscous culture fluid, slowly stuck to the transparent glass inner wall of the device, and from the perspective of its position, it was approaching in the direction of Lin Xi.

This scene looks somewhat weird, but Lin Xi is used to it now.

He pulled down the switch of the power delivery, and the lights came on quickly, filling the room with soft white light.

Then Lin Xi threw all the sundries on her body on the ground, and then fell straight towards her bed.The hard bed on the Helios made his bones ache, which made Lin Xi miss the thick and comfortable Simmons in the teacher's apartment on earth like never before.

"I'm so tired..."

He buried his face in the sheets and murmured wearily.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with the water urchin orchid that Lin Xi carefully cultivated.

But the plants he took care of still cost him a lot of work.

Lin Xi had already used all the methods he could think of, but the pest plague still showed no signs of abating.

He was really exhausted, and if this continued, he might have the cheek to go to those members of the exploration team and ask them for some insecticides specially used for the external environment of the spaceship...

"Grrrrrrr-"

Just when Lin Xi was thinking about work with a terrible headache, a wet and viscous voice came from his ear... It was as if he was belatedly responding to his previous words.

Lin Xi turned his head, put his face on his arms, and stared at the direction from which the voice came.

This position was just enough for him to see the egg case on the bedside table in a comfortable and relaxed state.

The ootheca has changed considerably.

When it was first sent to Lin Xi, the thin transparent tentacles dragging under its egg case had a diameter of nearly two millimeters, and the color had also changed from completely transparent to translucent white.

And the egg case itself has also grown in size, and the egg shell covering the row of slender eggs has also begun to become thinner and more transparent, allowing people to easily see the inside of the eggs.

At the position closest to Lin Xi, there is an egg that is more fully developed—although the contrast is not very obvious, but if you look closely, you can find that the egg is larger, and there is a certain person curled up tightly inside. The structures are also clearer.

Lin Xi could even see two small red dots affixed to the inside of the eggs, even in the absence of light, they would still emit a subtle red light that was hard to recognize.

That should be Xingdie's eyes.

Lin Xi guessed interestingly.

He gave the best-developed egg a nickname "theone"

"Number One", when he was extremely bored, he would occasionally call it like this, and then talk to it about some thoughts that could not be narrated to any human beings.

Seeing a small life develop from chaos to this stage is actually a rare and interesting thing in the extremely boring spaceship life. Lin Xi even checked the ship's database for it, wanting to find more information about star butterflies. look.It's a pity that this sacred object left by the Sunu people was too mysterious in the past, and even the information on the adults is pitifully scarce, let alone the rarer eggs.

That is to say, Shizuo Ando, ​​who has a Sunu mixed-race wife, can recognize that this is the egg case of Xingdie...

And now Lin Xi can somewhat understand Ando's persistence and enthusiasm for this little thing.

"...After all, you are really quite funny, right, number one."

Lin Xi muttered.

"How long before you hatch?"

He stretched out his fingers unconsciously, and tapped lightly on the transparent shell of the life support device.

According to Ando's request, this is to give the eggs a slight external stimulus to help them develop - Lin Xi thought with pleasure.

The tentacles growing out of the egg case were stimulated, and they attached to the other side of the glass at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And the two red spots on "No. [-]" that Lin Xi thought were eyes also trembled slowly.

Those two red lights flickered for a moment at a level that humans could not detect.

Seeing the tentacles gradually approaching his finger, Lin Xi raised his eyebrows, and playfully put his finger on the other side of the device and tapped it.

Those tentacles immediately began to slowly move towards the shell on the other side, but there are too many of those tentacles now, so when they are clustered together and change directions, they seem to have a panicked and clumsy feeling.

Lin Xi almost laughed out loud.

But after chuckling, he took a few more glances at the life support device.

The device seemed a little too small for the egg case, which had grown and swollen so much by now.

Lin Xi was a little unsure if this was the right volume, maybe he should really follow what Bryce said, and go find Shizuo An Teng?

At this time, Lin Xi never expected that finding An Teng Jingxiong would be such a difficult task.

Shizuo Ando was not in the office, nor was he in the laboratory.

When Lin Xi visited his laboratory, he saw only his two students and assistants busy in the laboratory.Judging from what Lin Xi could observe with the naked eye, the two students were not prepared at all to take care of the alien life in Shizuo Ando's laboratory, even if the latter were almost in a state of cryogenic dormancy.

And Professor Ando was able to allow such a thing to happen?

Lin Xi was shocked.

But in the face of his confusion, the two young students were extremely helpless and aggrieved.

"We didn't ask to be in charge of the laboratory."

One of the students, perhaps Ernie or something, glared at Lin Xi with bloodshot eyes.

"... Mrs. Ando's body has serious problems, I think, the professor just told us to let us take care of the laboratory for a while, but he never came here again." Ernie looked like he hadn't done anything for several days After someone cleaned up, as soon as he approached, the smell on his body forced Lin Xi to take a few steps back silently.

"Sounds bad."

Lin Xi said stiffly and sympathetically.

"Actually, the situation wasn't so bad at the beginning," O'Neill rubbed his greasy hair, and he said tiredly, "However, we don't know what happened, obviously everything is operating according to the operating rules It's probably a problem with this asteroid? The physiological data of the experimental subject is getting more and more abnormal..."

It seemed that he wanted to complain a few more words, but soon, at the other end of the laboratory, an anesthesia capsule containing some kind of Sunu creature that resembled a prawn and a parrot issued a sharp siren.

That thing should have been as quiet as an animal carcass soaked in formalin, but at this moment, its eyes suddenly widened, and its powerful claws scratched the inner wall of the container vigorously.

"Ernie?!"

Another assistant yelled at Ernie angrily.

"Stop talking about chatting, go and see that bird dragon, damn it—"

He then turned to Lin Xi: "Sorry, Dr. Lin, there are too many troubles here."

After a pause, the assistant seemed to realize that his tone was too blunt, and he remedied: "I think maybe you can go directly to the teacher's room? He should be there. He stayed in the room with Mrs. Ando during this time .Occasionally we can reach him through the intercom, but he rarely responds to us. In fact, we are also a little worried about the teacher's condition."

"Okay, sorry to bother you."

Almost at the same time that the other assistant was talking to Lin Xi, another alarm began to beep.

Not far from them, a mud rat trapped in a metal cage suddenly began to hit the cage wall frantically, its eyes swelled, and its body turned a dazzling fluorescent green due to blood congestion.It was obviously only the size of a fist, but the force of its impact was so great that the metal cage fixed on the test bench with bolts trembled non-stop.

"Oh fuck, here we go again—"

The assistant let out a curse, and rushed towards the mud rat in a hurry, ignoring Lin Xi any more.

Seeing the terrifying battlefield-like scene in Ando's laboratory, Lin Xi quickly backed out so as not to get in the way.

It's just that even after leaving the laboratory, his frowning brows showed no signs of relaxing.

It can't go on like this.

Lin Xi thought.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Ando's laboratory is now a huge hidden machine. Although there are still two assistants who can barely maintain the situation, Lin Xi is sure that it will only be a matter of time before the situation is completely messed up.

There are still some students in the scientific research team, but those who will participate in long-distance voyages such as the Helios are usually on the verge of failing due to various reasons in the Earth-Moon Joint University. Hard work to get credits, their professionalism can only be described as appalling.

In fact, Lin Xi himself considered asking the students to help when he faced the troublesome bugs in his greenhouse, but he was worried that those people would only make the situation worse...

Lin Xi came directly to An Teng Jingxiong's door with a heavy heart.

That's right, as soon as he left Ando's laboratory, Lin Xi came to him without delay.He didn't make an appointment or communicate in advance (he tried to contact Ando's personal terminal, but the other party ignored his connection needs at all), this kind of behavior can be said to be very rude, but Lin Xi didn't have so many scruples.

He directly pointed the terminal to the monitor at the door, and pressed the call request.

After a long time (so long that Lin Xi almost thought that there was no one in the room), the metal hatch trembled slightly, and then moved aside.

A gust of moist heat mixed with a strong fishy and sweet smell rushed towards Lin Xi in an instant.

Lin Xi almost suffocated because of the smell.

The room was pitch black, and the lighting was not turned on.