mother of all races

For a long time, there was only silence in the medical room.

There was worry and shock on Alisa's pale face, and several times, her lips trembled slightly, but in the end she said nothing.

Bryce guessed she hadn't found the right words to break the silence of the moment.

The atmosphere was tense, and Bryce knew it, but he couldn't open his mouth to save the situation—he still needed some time to calm down.

Although he has told Alisa most of the past truthfully, Bryce is very clear that there are still many things he has not said: for example, the little sister who died in the science exhibition hall, for example, in the The family on the brink of collapse in the process of searching for Lin Xi, for example, how the young Bryce faced his inner panic and self-blame in that month...and in the months after that.

Oh, by the way, and those days after Lin Xi came home, he screamed in bed every night and even almost caused the nightmare of losing his voice.

He didn't want to hide anything, he just didn't know how to speak, the trauma of that extremely dark past was eternal for Bryce and the whole family, and the fear and pain were too strong to be summed up in words Degree.

The only thing Bryce can do is to bury it completely under the memory and pretend that he doesn't remember anything.

However, even after Lin Xi accepted the hypnosis and gradually brought her life back on track, even after so many years...

Bryce still couldn't help being haunted by that irrational unease.

When they were camping, Bryce would force himself to believe that Lynch's lack of any mosquito bites was just a matter of constitution.

When Lin Xi smiled and said that the plants he raised had never had any diseases and insect pests, Bryce would tell himself that some people are better at playing with flowers and plants than ordinary people.

When Bryce discovers that the number of insects near the house they live in has become high enough to attract the attention of experts, he will convince himself that this is just an ecological problem caused by environmental changes.  …

Bryce put that childhood nightmare behind him as much as possible.

Lin Xi is just an ordinary person.

Bryce kept repeating it to himself until he believed it himself.

"Back then, the top scientists on Earth studied Lin Xi for several months, but they got nothing. This is enough to prove that Lin Xi is just an ordinary person."

He said to Alisa.

(but something must have changed during the month he was in the chrysalis)

"For so many years, Lin Xi has never shown any abnormality. He has not sprayed spider silk from his wrist to jump between high-rise buildings, he has not grown wings, he has not become a superhero or become a superhero. What a villain with a dark past..."

(But his relationship with bugs has never been normal)

"Sorian and John, they thought they knew some little secrets hidden by others. They just saw the tragedy that Lin Xi suffered at the beginning, but now...they are trying to make Lin Xi a sacrifice of the Sun God ...yes, we all know something is wrong, it's just that some people are willing to face it, and some people, their fragile spirits can't bear the pressure, they don't want to accept the reality that we hapless people may be killed. Stay here forever - so they must find a culprit out, so that all their fear and hatred can be vented on Lin Xi! They feel that as long as they solve him, everything will become better Safe and sound, we will not die, we will find the coordinates to go home——

Bryce couldn't help talking faster and faster until Alisa had to raise her voice and cut him off.

"Bryce, no!"

"I'm not going to let that happen, we're on the Helios, which is a spaceship - not an ancient sailing ship made of wood and metal from ancient times. We'll always find a way to get through this everything."

Alyssa looked at Bryce, she bit her lip, and comforted her softly.

"..."

Bryce stared up at Alyssa's pale face, and after a few seconds, his shoulders slumped, and he covered his face.

"I'm sorry, Alyssa." He said, "I've...really been under a lot of pressure recently. And, you know, I'm really worried about what those people are doing to Lin Xi, I'm afraid they'll hurt him... ..."

"We'll take care of him, honey, and I'm sure we can."

She walked over and gave Bryce another hug.

Although at the bottom of her heart, her intuition-or rather, her premonition of the future, was screaming in her mind.

Doom is coming.

Doom... is already on board this ship.

……

A few days later-

greenhouse.

"boom--"

Something hit the glass.

Lin Xi's hand shook slightly, and a few drops of the original solution were sent out. The originally clear and transparent light blue in the test tube instantly turned into a cloudy yellow-brown. Before the reaction was completed, the instrument at his hand immediately started to alarm. , the atomized nutrient solution for air cultivation immediately displayed a red light indicating that the ratio failed.

"..."

Lin Xi stared at the failed work in hand, took a deep breath, then he turned off the alarming device, and turned his head with a sneer.

"No. [-]" was lying on the glass wall of the cultivation tank. It shook its wings at Lin Xi. The red spots showed its anger, and the small stone it hit the glass before fell on its body. below.

It must have heard the alarm sound of the instrument. When Lin Xi turned around, it trembled slightly, but soon put on a nonchalant look.

"Don't do it again, I'm warning you one last time, it's not funny"

Lin Xi dropped the work in hand, stepped heavily and came to the front of the glass tank, then he looked at "No. [-]", frowned and said sternly.

It was a somewhat ferocious face—well, even the heads of harmless insects on the earth would look extraordinarily ferocious once they were enlarged to this extent.

And Star Butterfly itself is not that kind of cute bug.

"I've discussed this with you yesterday - it's not doing you any good to interrupt my work!"

Lin Xi yelled at "No. [-]".

During this time, "Number One" grew up at an astonishing speed.

Its current body length is close to one meter, and the surface of its body is covered with a layer of silver-white, dreamy and blurred rainbow light like pearls. Its tentacles have begun to become more curly, and thin tentacles have grown from the top. , and its pair of peas eyes also have traces of compound eye development.

Even the bone plate on his body fell off once due to its rapid growth, and the fallen debris was carefully collected by Lin Xi and stored in a special box--Star Butterfly is a kind that is too old. It is a rare creature, and all the things it sheds will be precious research materials.

However, Lin Xi discovered one thing only after a painful practical experience: no matter what he tried to do to the things that fell off "No. [-]", he had to be careful. The bug's face collects these sheds.

Otherwise, when he walked into the large insect cultivation tank the next day, he would be hit on the head by the fragments of insect molts that fell off.That thing was so heavy that it was unreasonable, and Lin Xi doubted that he hadn't been smashed until his head was covered with blood, and he had exhausted the last bit of God's love for him.

Oh, by the way, I have to thank "Number One" next, otherwise it will start to routinely quarrel.

Lin Xi swore that before she set foot on the Helios, even in the most absurd scenario, she would never have expected that she would quarrel with a giant insect twice in three days, then make up, and then quarrel again.

Humans will never be able to figure out what is going on in the mind of an alien bug.At this time, Lingxi will try to comfort herself from the bottom of her heart,

In addition to the growing stature, "Number One"'s elastic wings with ever-changing colors are wide enough to wrap a grown man in it - Lin Xi knows this, naturally because "Number One" is already in the He's tried it on himself.

That got the little bug a slap and a stern reprimand.

"Number One" seemed quite annoyed by this, but its petty tempers were nothing compared to its biggest conflict with Lin Xi.

"ZiZi...ZiZi..."

"Number One" raised its head, its mouthparts trembled, and then let out a long series of mumbled sounds.

"No, no."

Although she didn't understand what "No. [-]" was talking about, Lin Xi could keenly guess the meaning of "No. [-]"—it wasn't a difficult thing. After all, "No. [-]"'s emotions were quite exposed, and Its wings allow it to see all its little thoughts at a glance.

Facing the complaint from the alien insect, Lin Xi raised his eyebrows and rejected it firmly.

"You are no longer that little bug. Looking at your current size, I can't accommodate you in my living cabin."

Lin Xi frowned and said to "No. [-]".

Of course, what he didn't say was that even if "Number One" was still the original size, he would not allow such a bug to stay in his living cabin.

After all, there was enough rumors about him and the bugs aboard the Helios by now.

"Zizi..."

After the umpteenth unanimous answer, "Number One" began to flap its wings angrily.

Seeing its appearance, Lin Xi began to sigh uncontrollably like a single father watching his crying child.

That's right, this is the fundamental conflict between him and "No. [-]" these days.

Since "Number One" found out that he had to stay alone in the large insect culture tank in the greenhouse, he began to lose his temper and wanted to go back to Lin Xi's original living cabin.Lin Xi is very suspicious, probably because "No. [-]" was born there, so it seems to regard it as a place similar to a nest, otherwise, it is really difficult to explain "No. [-]"'s nostalgia for that small and cramped space You know, in the notes left by Professor Ando, ​​it is clearly recorded that Xingdie's preferred living environment is wide, cool, dry, quiet, and full of jewels or gold coins.

From the last point of view, Star Butterfly does have similarities with the Western Dragon on Earth.

In Lin Xi's living cabin, all the conditions were exactly the opposite of what was recorded.

So now Lin Xi only left the egg case that hadn't hatched all the eggs in his cabin, and "No. [-]", he hoped to give it a better living environment.

"Hey, listen, I know you might feel uneasy because you're suddenly transferred to a new environment, but...but there's no way around it, and when you get back to Earth, I think you'll have a Perfect living environment, that might make you feel a little more relaxed..."

Lin Xi originally just wanted to persuade "No. [-]" to calm down, but as he spoke, his voice became smaller and smaller. In the end, he simply stared blankly at the glass tank in front of him and fell silent.

back to earth.

He repeated this sentence in his mind, and then his heart gradually became cold.

At the very beginning, the people on board had high hopes for returning to Earth, which is natural - the failure of the jump was a serious accident, but since their spacecraft did not explode and there were no serious casualties, The accident was not fatal.

What's more, although the Helios is old, it is secretly carrying out government missions, and its supplies are far more abundant than those private spaceships.As long as they can recalculate the coordinates and find the jump gate, they will still be saved after all.

Everyone thought so at the beginning, and the officers on the spaceship have been guiding the crew to think so.

But now, even the most stupid people have noticed that something is wrong—surveyors compare star maps day and night, fly space probes, and check the data sent back from space...but they never found the star they landed. The coordinates of the planet, not to mention finding the jump gate to go back.

The premonition of death hung heavily on everyone's heart, and the atmosphere on the ship became more and more bad.

Lin Xi has been working hard to control her emotions, but sometimes, panic and despair cannot be controlled by human reason. What's more, because of Bryce and Alisa, Lin Xi knew better than ordinary crew members. More……

Mutation.

insect.

There are also bizarre deaths that have gradually begun.

Sometimes, Lin Xi wanted to imitate those more and more disgraceful prospectors, taking alcohol and drugs recklessly, because only after he completely paralyzed his thoughts, could he forget those suffocating things back……

"Zi Zi...Zi Zi?"

A slight hum came from the other end of the glass tank, and Lin Xi suddenly came back to his senses, only to find that "No. [-]" pasted on the other side of the curtain wall had changed from losing his temper before, and became docile instead.Its wings turned into the color that Lin Xi liked again, colorful and wonderful, and the red compound eyes inlaid on the ferocious insect's face kept staring at him, and one could even see some emotions similar to "worried". .

"clatter--"

"Number One" raised his forelegs and tapped lightly on the other side of the glass.

Its red eyes flickered slowly.

Lin Xi couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

Number One tapped on the glass again.

Its appearance looks so terrifying now, but its movements are full of humanity, and even have a little sense of inexplicable familiarity.

It took Lin Xi a long time to realize that "Number One" was imitating his previous behavior.

Before "No. [-]" became so large, Lin Xi would occasionally reach out and gently stroke its head and back, because he found that his behavior could well soothe the little bug's emotions.

And now, "No. [-]" also intends to use the same behavior to comfort him, but through the thick glass curtain wall, the only thing "No. [-]" can do is to use the tips of his forelimbs covered with thorns to gently touch him. knocking on the glass.

Lin Xi knew that "No. [-]" had sensed his depression, so he suddenly changed his attitude.

This made Lin Xi's originally extremely heavy mood a little easier.

"Thank you. It's okay, you don't have to worry." He stroked the head of "No. [-]" through the glass curtain wall, "...Of course, if you can be more obedient, I will be happier."

He said.

Lin Xi didn't know if "No. [-]" understood what he said, but anyway, for a long time to come, his little bug was indeed much quieter than before.

This almost made Lin Xi feel unaccustomed. Several times, he would involuntarily turn his head and look at "No. [-]" at work. The latter was perched quietly on the branch, staring at Lin Xi looked.

That kind of gaze occasionally even made Lin Xi feel deep and full of inquiry.If it wasn't for "Number One" who behaved like an unreasonable child most of the time, the notebook left by Dr. Ando also clearly stated that although Xingdie is extremely smart, there is still a limit to its smartness and high IQ.Even the smartest star butterflies have the IQ of human children (after all, judging from the star butterflies' overly strong bodies, nature doesn't need them to spend too much energy on IQ), Lin Xi almost feels that, An unusually mature and intelligent soul lives in the body of "No. [-]".

"Drip-drip-drip-"

The instrument alarmed again.

Lin Xi came back to his senses after a shock. He looked at the reagent in front of him in frustration and cursed.

He didn't know what happened today, but he was so restless. He had failed many times in preparing the reagents, and he was simply wasting the raw materials that were not in stock.

"never mind!"

Lin Xi rubbed her nose dejectedly, and muttered to herself in a low voice.

Immediately afterwards, he began to pack his things, intending to give up today's work tasks and go back to his room to take a good rest.

Just as he was about to leave the greenhouse, Lin Xi stopped involuntarily.

"Then...see you tomorrow."

Lin Xi turned her head, looked at the insect glass tank behind her and said.

"Number One" waved its wings at him, and then quietly flew from the glass to the Sunu branches for enrichment, and it began to weave its pale golden nest silently.Ever since his size started to grow, his painstakingly weaved nest just couldn't keep up with his size.

Lin Xi almost couldn't adapt to such a "number one". You must know that before today, every time he left the greenhouse was a war.At this moment, his nerves are also very tense-according to his past experience, every time he leaves the greenhouse, he will be greeted with "Number One" making a big fuss.

As a result, until Lin Xi left, "No. [-]" was always well-behaved and did not do anything that caused headaches.

...In this way, Lin Xi himself felt uneasy and had no idea.

"Number One" might just be getting mature.

Lynch said to herself.

That's why it becomes so obedient.

However, the more Lin Xi comforted himself, the more uneasy he felt in his heart - he thought for a long time but could not find the source of that uneasiness.

It was precisely because Lin Xi had been immersed in his own thoughts that he didn't notice at all that behind him, at some point, he had caught up with several tall young men.

Several men wore orange survey suits, proving their identities. They were basically survey team members, and there were also one or two mercenaries.

They are all thin, with pale skin, blood vessels are very obvious under the light blue skin, and they have red spots around their eyes that resemble allergies, which is related to excessive alcohol intake and food bags with unknown ingredients. related.

Unlike the mutated companions who scared Lin Xi and his party in the restaurant before, these men's eyes are not distracted, but like wild animals, shining strangely.

And when they were walking, the fabric of their clothes fell straight down, and the sound of slight metal collisions came from their pockets—they were the weapons they carried on their bodies.

Their expressions were morbidly excited, and their gazes towards Lin Xi were full of malice.

If Mark or Sorian were here, they would easily recognize that these guys behind Lin Xi were the closest people to John Bronson back then.

After all, after encountering a major accident of the level of the failure of the leap, there will always be a few people who will hear those sworn nonsense because of panic——

Just like what Bryce and Alisa said, they tried to attribute this sense of powerlessness and panic to another "guilty person".

And now, the horrific and unexplained death of John Bronson has brought out the darkness in some people.

Lin Xi quickly realized the existence of those people behind him, probably because it was difficult for those guys to hide their footsteps in their current state of mind.

With his back turned to those people, Lin Xi carefully discerned the movement behind him, his face became serious.

He had an urge to run away, but Lin Xi quickly dispelled that thought after looking at the people behind him from the corner of his eye.

Those people are like a wild dog who saw a rabbit. Once he starts to run away, he shows his weakness, and that will only make these men's madness burn completely.

So Lin Xi just kept her original pace and walked towards Bryce's medical room as if she didn't notice anything.

It's just that he didn't get to the medical room as he wished. He was forced into a sparsely populated dead end by those people. Not far behind him was the locked airlock room, which was very noisy.

"Hey, Dr. Lynch, please wait..."

He heard a high-pitched voice.

A drop of cold sweat slipped down Lin Xi's neck. He intentionally or unintentionally walked to an L-shaped corner of the corridor, and then turned around slowly. At the same time, the walls on both sides of the corridor blocked his neck and back.

"Hello, what's the matter?"

He raised his head and looked at those people pretending to be nonchalant.

Those people surrounded him in a fan shape.

"We need you to explain something to us."

The person who stood at the front and spoke was not a prospector but a mercenary.

His height was almost reaching the top of the corridor, the muscles on his arms were bulging, and his fingers were covered with gun calluses.

It was a man who was far from being handsome. When he spoke, his facial muscles were always twitching slightly as if he was out of balance.

"Explain what?"

Lin Xi asked coldly.

"Explain old man John's death."

The mercenary stared straight at Lin Xi and said.

"You killed him with the bug, right?"

Beside him, another man shouted excitedly.

"I don't understand what you're talking about... The cause of John Bronson's death hasn't been found out yet?"

Lynch said.

His heart beat a little fast, and his palms were slightly moist.

Of course he was afraid, because he couldn't feel any rationality from these people in front of him-this proved that he couldn't communicate with them with reason at all-and what's worse, there was a tyrannical spirit in these people. mood.

They were just looking for an excuse to do something bloody and violent, and Lin Xi realized it the moment he saw them.

"The person who checked is your dearest brother... the person who is domineering on this ship is your brother's girlfriend..."

The other party said to Lin Xi resentfully.

"There won't be an answer, everyone knows."

Another slurred in agreement.

"It must be you. Old man John said before that he knows your true identity, and you will definitely not let him go."

"Then what do you want me to say? Since you have already condemned me in your heart."

Lin Xi said coldly.

While pretending to be calm and entangled with these people, his hand gently touched his wrist and pressed the communication button a few times,

Before he could reach Bryce, the mercenary grabbed his wrist firmly.

"Don't try to play tricks, you demon."

The mercenary's voice rose.

At that moment, Lin Xi knew that he had made a mistake, and the situation suddenly became worse.

"Don't let him resist, maybe he'll kill us, just like he killed Old John!"

Several people shouted in excitement and fear——

In their hearts, Lin Xi was indeed like what the old man said before, no longer a human being, but a devil who brought all the bad luck to the Helios.

John Sr. proved it with his own death.

"Let go!"

Lin Xi struggled. He tried his best to open the mercenary who grabbed him at first, and then rushed out towards the gap he had expected before, but there were too many people around him, and they all had a strange strange power.

Lin Xi only rushed a few meters away before being forcibly pulled back by those people.

"Do not--"

Lin Xi cried out, but someone directly covered his mouth.

The strong smell of wine and the strange smell of the food bag instantly filled Lin Xi's entire nasal cavity, and he almost couldn't breathe.

"We have to kill him."

He heard someone beside him talking excitedly to his companion.

"Old man John said that we can only survive if we kill him—"

"Where should we do it? I think we need to move fast, or he might find a way to bring in those bugs, and he'll kill us like he killed Joe before. I saw him put those bugs in there In the bodies of the two poor ghosts..."

Lin Xi turned his head to the side in disbelief, and he almost hurt his neck because of it.

He glared hard at those guys, and he was pretty sure none of them were in the medical room when the bugs attacked the ship.

These people have gone completely crazy.

Lin Xi thought.

Those food bags may not only change their bodies, but also lower their IQs.

These idiots probably literally killed themselves for the gossip John Bronson let out.

"Um...uh..."

Lin Xi was terrified.

His body was pressed to the ground by several people, his mouth and nose were tightly covered, and the violent struggle made his body a little lack of oxygen.

In a trance, the scene in front of me seemed to repeat some of the deepest memories.

Lin Xi's sanity suddenly became blurred.

After the mercenary found that Lin Xi's struggle had weakened, he immediately rode on Lin Xi's body. One of his hands was stuck on Lin Xi's neck, and the other hand was raised high. Holding a dagger.

Lin Xi panted violently, cold sweat and physical tears seeped into his eyes, making him completely unable to see the face of the man in front of him.

He waited for the coming pain.

But several seconds have passed, but the dagger in the mercenary's hand has never fallen.

"This... what kind of smell..."

The mercenary smelled a smell.

He had never smelled such a wonderful fragrance in his life.

The aroma that seemed to melt even the brain came from the "devil" under his body.

Oh, old John was right.

The mercenary stared at Lin Xi's face and thought.

This smell is by no means human, he—

The man's thinking suddenly began to collapse at this moment.

A thought became clear with the aroma that filled his nostrils.

this is mine

In the quick flashes of human beings, everything around the mercenary became slow and distorted.

He could hear his own heart beating violently and the shouts of his companions.

He could see the hands that were on "Him."

He smelled human sweat, a slight smell of blood, and that special "substance".

All the subtle information around him gathered in his mind at the same time.

And those sounds, those smells... all made the mercenary want to go crazy.

this is mine

The thought began to dance in his mind again.

It was a clear and clear order, and the mercenaries had no way to resist it.

This is mine This is mine This is mine—

And soon, there was nothing else on his mind.

"Sam, what are you hesitating about? Kill this demon! Then we can all go back!"

"If you're scared, I can come..."

"Sam, do it!"

……

The others immediately became agitated after seeing the mercenary named Sam freeze for a short time.

Something in the food bag did make them hyperactive like wild dogs.

But at the same time, their declining IQs also make it difficult for them to respond sharply to what Sam has done.

"boom--"

It was the muffled sound of fists touching flesh.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

Then came that beast-like voice, squeezed out from the mercenary's throat in a low voice.

He jumped up from Lin Xi's body and grabbed the hair of the person closest to him with his hands. He dragged that person's head and hit it against the wall, and a bloodstain suddenly appeared on the metal wall.

The man Sam had caught passed out without saying a word.

Before the No.1 victim's body had time to touch the ground, Sam had easily grabbed his No.2 victim.

He slammed his fist against the temple of the unfortunate guy, and he didn't let go until the other person's body was also paralyzed due to coma.

Dark red blood slowly flowed down the nostrils and corners of the mouth of the prospector in his hand.

The prospecting team who were still clustered around Lin Xi didn't realize something was wrong until this time, and they looked at Sam with that dreamy expression.

"What did you do... Sam... what did you do..."

someone shouted.

"its mine……"

The mercenary repeated this sentence in a murmur.

He walked towards those people.

It didn't take much time for almost all of them to fall down—most of them had passed out. Although a small number of them maintained their sanity, they were violently beaten, and they completely lost their mobility. Curled up on the floor whimpering softly.

"Ho... ho ho... good... so good... listen to..."

After doing all this, Sam muttered vaguely, and slowly turned around to look at Lin Xi.

Lin Xi had already struggled to get up from the ground at the very beginning of the incident. At this time, he was leaning tightly against the metal wall in the corner, looking at everything in front of him with a pale face.

Sam walked over to him.

"I'm good……"

His lips moved together, speaking to Lin Xi inarticulately.He reached out and stroked Lin Xi's cheek slowly.

Then he slowly leaned over towards Lin Xi, his nostrils twitched, and he took a deep breath.

Just a little bit, he was even about to meet Lin Xi—and judging from his current state, that was definitely not a pleasant experience for Lin Xi.

Lin Xi took a deep breath.

Then he withdrew his hand from behind.

He tightly held an extra-cabin multifunctional hammer for maintenance in his hand, and then struck the man on the back of the neck forcefully.

The hammer didn't even make a sound as it fell on the man.

Sam's body shook. A few minutes ago, the man who was violently confronting other people like a wild beast now fell to the ground without any resistance at all.

Lin Xi froze on the spot for a while, then suppressed her panic and kicked Sam with her toes.

There was no response from the man's body—he had indeed lost consciousness.

Until this time, Lin Xi held the hammer tightly and staggered back.He leaned against the cold wall, and his body slid down slowly uncontrollably.

That hammer was taken out by Lin Xi from the No.1 victim's tool bag in a hurry after the No. [-] victim fell down.

And now, only it can make Lin Xi calm down.

Perhaps it was because of the sequelae of being unable to breathe after being strangled before, Lin Xi only felt that his neck was burning hot, and his throat seemed to be swollen, which made it extremely difficult for him to breathe, and he trembled like A Parkinson's patient takes a deep breath.

It seems that a century has passed, Lin Xi pressed the communicator with difficulty with her trembling fingers.

"Hey, Bryce—" he looked at his brother with wide eyes, his vision was a little blurred, "there's good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear?"

"Lin Xi?"

Bryce in the communication projection jumped up instantly after seeing Lin Xi's current appearance.

"what happened?"

Lin Xi forced himself to smile, although he knew that this smile was probably extremely ugly.

"The bad news is that someone wanted to attack me just now." Lin Xi continued in a daze, his eyes still on the comatose mercenary, "The good news is that these people have lost consciousness now, and I Still alive."

"what--"

Really bad.

Lin Xi thought to herself.

He's done his best, but Bryce still looks like he's going crazy.

and……

"Sorry, Bryce...I..."

I might faint.

Lin Xi held the hammer in his arms, and before he could finish his sentence, he closed his eyes and fainted.

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