mother of all races

Even if it is clear that the weird laughter is because of Liz's natural Sunu accent.

But Lin Xi still couldn't help feeling horrified—the swollen and deformed Sunu mixed-race woman on the ceiling laughed like never before, like a frightening ghost in a horror novel.

At that moment, he thought that Taran... Taran might have been killed by the Ando couple secretly.

This idea may be ridiculous, but Lin Xi just can't control his chaotic thoughts.

"I went to test Captain Taran..."

Fortunately, Shizuo Ando quickly explained, dispelling the terrible guess in Lin Xi's mind.

"His headache is very serious. This is his old problem. He has been relying on medicine to maintain it. However, now that there is an accident on the Helios, his reserve medicine has long been used up, so he is about to be taken by that This kind of headache tortured him to death, and for a long time... I mean, at least until Dr. Bryce figured out a way to formulate an alternative medicine, he probably didn't have much thought to think about the statue of the star god sealed in the warehouse. "

He paused, turned his head and glanced at Lin Xi.

Perhaps it was because Lin Xi's expression was a bit too obvious, he seemed to have guessed what the former was thinking, and added: "The medicine Captain Talan takes is Sunu's special product. Before that, he came to Liz to see her here Is there any stock left, we gave him all we could, but it seems that he still ran out of that herb soon..."

"Even so..."

Lin Xi wanted to say something more, but he soon noticed that Dr. Ando gave him a look behind Liz's back.

He frowned, and followed Ando's hint, after a perfunctory conversation that even he himself didn't remember what he said, he pretended to be very calm and left the cramped, dim and foul-smelling cabin.

As soon as he walked out of that cabin, Lin Xi couldn't help taking a deep breath. He had never felt that the always slightly stale air inside the Sun was so fresh and charming.

Soon, Ando followed him out after turning off all the lights in the room.

Under the bright light in the corridor, Ando looked even more haggard and thinner than the last moment, as if this man would be reduced to powder in front of his eyes when a gust of wind blows.

He opened his eyes wide and stared blankly at Lin Xi, the look in his eyes made Lin Xi's scalp tingle.

"I know what you are going to say, Dr. Lin Xi, and I also know that what I did was wrong." Before Lin Xi had time to speak, he spoke first, "But, I have nothing to do... Dr. Lin Xi, you Good man, you saw Liz with your own eyes. She probably wouldn't have made it through a day without that statue. She would have died, and so would the children."

"I don't think a sculpture will have such a magical effect, yes, I admit that the sculpture looks a bit magical, although I prefer to describe it as weird, but in terms of the scene I just saw, I think What Liz needs is Bryce's healing instrument, not a sculpture, especially a sculpture that has not been approved for private use. Professor Ando, ​​you should remember that once all Sunu materials are carried to the sun god No, it is the property of the Coalition Government. And your conduct—”

"You do not understand……"

Dr. Ando looked at Lin Xi blankly, his lips were murmured, and his voice sounded so miserable and desperate.

"I don't understand? No, I think you're the one who doesn't understand reality. I think you should talk to Alyssa, Taran may be a jerk, but Alyssa is different, she will help you. "

"You don't understand...Dr. Lin Xi, I hope you never understand..."

Ando kept repeating this sentence.

Every time he said a word, he seemed more desperate.

despair, or panic.

Ando felt to Lin Xi that he was completely cornered.

"That's not an ordinary statue, it's a statue of a star god, it's different for the Sunu people... Please, Dr. Lin Xi, don't tell anyone, don't take this statue... you Look, I could have refused you to enter the cabin, I could have kept everything a secret. But Liz made a decision, she knows you are a really good person, someone recognized by the Citadel, so we have nothing to hide from you. Believe me, as soon as Liz and the kids are safe, I will send the sculpture back quickly and no one will know."

It was a long, babbled plea full of despair and pain.

Thinking about it afterwards, Lin Xi also felt that he must have been insanely infected by Shizuo Ando, ​​or maybe he just wanted to escape from such a strange Ando so that he had no time to think too much about it.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have nodded in a strange way, and agreed to Shizuo Ando's plea—he would pretend that he didn't know anything, and let the Ando couple temporarily keep the Sunu fossil sculpture in their cabin until Liz gave birth. own children.

This is a stupid decision.

But Lin Xi couldn't refuse Shizuo Ando like that, he was never good at dealing with such people.

Add to that Liz's condition, oh my god, think of that woman stuck to the ceiling with her own slime.

Who on earth could shake his head at the pleadings of such a poor couple?

Lin Xi desperately convinced herself in her heart.

"Octuplets... I'm going to have eight lively and lovely children... You're going to love them, Dr. Lynch."

Full of thoughts, walking absent-mindedly on the way to the medical room, Lin Xi suddenly remembered the words that the ecstatic Shizuo Ando murmured in his ear when he parted.

For no reason, Lin Xi shivered.

Maybe he's doing it wrong.

Lin Xi thought to herself suspiciously.

Maybe he shouldn't have kept the C'tan statue from them, as Ando had begged.

As Alisa used to say—he had a bad feeling.

"call……"

Lin Xi let out a long sigh.

Fear, shock, pity, sympathy, disgust, regret...

Until now, his heart is still churning with complicated emotions.

So Lin Xi decided to talk to Bryce.

Although Lin Xi has always been afraid of that man's nagging, when encountering such a thing, Lin Xi knows that Bryce is the man who can make the right choice.

And just when Lin Xi relaxed a little, he suddenly stopped in his tracks.

"..."

Lin Xi turned her head and stared at her back with wide eyes.

Something was staring at him - eager, intent, ecstatic.

That gaze almost cut open his body directly, and then sucked his whole body including internal organs and soul clean.

It's just that in reality, the corridor behind Lin Xi is empty and empty, only the various pipelines of the spaceship are buried behind the metal wall, and they make a soft hum that is so subtle that it is almost inaudible.

"who?"

Lin Xi opened his mouth.

He wished his voice didn't sound too trembling.

"I saw you."

After a pause for a few seconds, he said.

But in fact he didn't see anything.

Minutes passed (though it could have been only seconds), and the hallway behind him was still motionless.

However, the air filter seemed to have encountered some minor problem. The fan got stuck in the duct and made a small knocking sound.

Lin Xi trembled slightly in fright.

Then when he came back to his senses, he found that everything had returned to normal.

It was still the same empty corridor and the same humming machinery, but the chilling feeling of peeping was gone.

Lin Xi was panting, looking dully at everything around him.

He was confused and tired, as if he had just woken up from a dark nightmare.

Only the cold sweat on the palms and the still unsteady heartbeat reminded him that he was indeed frightened by some invisible horror just now.

Of course, it is more likely that he may have some kind of panic attack.

It's always easy for people to get weird ailments during space travel, just like Taran, and even such a jerk can't find fault with severe headaches.

But then again, now Lin Xi has even more reason to go to the medical room to talk to Bryce.

Lin Xi sorted out her thoughts restlessly, and quickened her pace towards the medical room.

Of course he would not know that at the same moment, on the other side of the spaceship, in the cabin of the Ando couple he had just left, a conversation was unfolding around him.

"I like him."

The person who spoke was Liz. After Lin Xi left, she didn't need to hide anything about herself, and because of this, her voice sounded even weirder—like the hissing sound of some kind of insect rubbing its wings.

Ando Shizuo curled himself up in another corner away from Liz, he wrapped his arms around his knees, and buried his head deeply in the crook of his arms.

After hearing Liz's whisper, he trembled heavily.

"Dr. Lynch is a good man."

Ando said stiffly.

"Yes, he is indeed a good person... He has a very good smell, he must be favored by the Star God... That smell makes me feel very comfortable and satisfied..."

"I don't smell anything. Liz, he's a really nice guy."

Ando's eyes widened in pain in the darkness, and he kept whispering.

But what came from the other side was a wet, sticky friction sound, and Ando knew that it was Liz moving.

Liz seemed to be laughing, but at the same time, it seemed to be crying.

"I know, dear, I know everything... But, I'm really hungry... The children are also very hungry... There is no nutrition in this fossil, it's just the dead slough that shed from Him... Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

Then came the sound of chewing.

Click click click click click click.

Dr. Ando didn't move, he didn't dare to imagine the scene so close to him.

Although he knew very well in his heart that what Liz was chewing at this time was none other than the fossil sculpture of the Sunu people.

"I have to eat something nutritious, you know...to hatch our babies...honey...I can smell it...that man is different, he smells...really delicious ..."

Amidst the maddening chewing, Liz's whispers reached Shizuo Ando's ears clearly.

……

In Lin Xi's room, the egg case that was leisurely floating in the nutrient solution suddenly twitched violently.

All the tentacles suddenly tightened, and then furiously pulled towards the inner wall of the device.

And the worm egg that was hastily named "No. [-]" slowly stretched its body - it was almost about to burst the egg shell that wrapped it, but it froze there.

Those bright red, pinpoint-sized eyes, wrapped in a translucent film, flickered rapidly.

"Zizi..."

The extremely subtle sound, centered on the small, inconspicuous egg case, spread out like ripples.