mother of all races

Lin Xi took a few steps back. He looked at the EVA exploration suit he had just arranged, and then sighed.It took him about four hours to repair the exploration suit, and then replaced the corroded ventilation valve.But it is the only thing he can do, this thing almost used up all his patience, but when Lin Xi carefully examined his manual work, he still had to say that this thing still looks like a Rubbish.Well, there's nothing weird about that either.Lin Xi's evaluation of the exploration suits was actually not wrong, because they were originally rummaged from the material garbage.

When Robert was actively promoting the plan that Taran proposed at will, he seemed to forget that the ordinary crew members on the ship had no plans for exploration activities when they set foot on the Helios.Putting on not enough extravehicular exploration suits, in the end they could only find some damaged exploration suits that were about to be scrapped.

Lin Xi felt that this idea was extremely stupid, but the environmental data collected by the exploration team and others gave Robert and others strange confidence—they seemed to think that in the relatively mild and friendly environment of the alien planet, they chose to wear A slightly torn exploration suit is not a fatal thing.In this way of thinking, the exploration suits assigned by Lui to Lin Xi are probably the age of his grandfather, although the people above firmly stated that they have carried out the most rigorous repairs on these damaged exploration suits, but...

"I'd love to hear their explanation for that broken airlock, don't you?"

Lin Xi said to himself, he shook the broken parts in his hand and muttered.

It was only after a while that he suddenly realized that "Number One" was now pupating, and now there would no longer be a frighteningly shaped bug lying in the glass culture tank, responding to what he said.

Lin Xi was stunned for a moment, and then he forcibly suppressed the sadness in his heart.

To be honest, Ernie had noticed this before and reminded him that he may indeed have too much unnecessary affection for "Number One".

"If we can return to Earth, that star butterfly cannot belong to you alone. And if we can't return to Earth...ha, then it has nothing to do with you."

Thinking of O'Neill's indifferent tone of reassurance, Lin Xi frowned.

After recovering from his contemplation, he heard the application for a visit. He pressed his personal terminal and was surprised to find that it was Bryce.

Lin Xi opened the metal door, and his brother walked into the greenhouse with heavy steps, his face looking very ugly.But Lin Xi didn't pay much attention to that. After all, Bryce has been in this state of going crazy since he came out of the exploration mission.

However, this time Bryce's visit still faintly reveals an unusual meaning.

Bryce hasn't been here since Lin Xi told him that he put the adults of Star Butterfly in the greenhouse. (Lin Xi has reason to suspect that her brother may actually have a phobia of large insects, just like Ernie), but now he has actively appeared in the greenhouse, and he even stood in front of the cocoon of "No. [-]" to watch I watched it for a long time.

"Is this... the star butterfly?" Bryce asked.

"Yes, this is it, but it is now pupating, I don't know if it can come out alive, it is said that they are likely to die inexplicably at every stage of growth."

Lin Xi nodded and said seriously.

"You care too much about it, I remember you just took care of it temporarily for a while..."

Bryce forced himself to keep his eyes on the cocoon, and he suppressed the disgust in his voice and said to Lin Xi, "But now, I feel like you've fallen headlong into it, I've never seen you say anything to Lin Xi. Why are you so serious."

"Maybe?" Lin Xi raised his eyebrows. He didn't understand why everyone told him that he was too devoted to Xingdie, "After all, it was hatched in the palm of my hand... well, don't With that face, you look like you're going to throw up... If you do that, I'll force you to do my housecleaning."

Lin Xi met Bryce's face, of course he did not ignore the extreme disgust that Bryce showed the moment he saw the star butterfly cocoon.

"Actually, it's just a little bigger, but once you get used to it, you'll find that it's quite beautiful..."

(If you ignore its wings to perfectly mimic its surroundings.)

"Pretty?" The muscles on Bryce's face twisted slightly, and he showed the same expression of disbelief as O'Neill, "You actually said this thing is beautiful?" He pointed to the huge pale gold worm in the glass tank Cocoon, "Don't you think it looks like it just came out of a devil's nightmare?"

Bryce couldn't hold back his emotions, and said it directly in front of Lin Xi.

"...I think...it looks okay?"

It was rare for Lin Xi to see Bryce showing such strong emotions. He looked at the cocoon of "Number One" in puzzlement. There were some spots all over the pale golden ellipsoid. To be honest, Lin Xi felt that the "Number One" It looks much better than when it is alive and kicking and flapping its wings.

But even the sight of its cocoon seemed unbearable to Bryce.

His crumbling face, with the blood color fading from his face bit by bit, seems to be somewhat similar to Ernie's, the only difference is that Ernie almost fainted just by glancing at "Number One", while Blaine almost fainted. However, Si seems to be planning to challenge himself, he has been forcing himself to look at the cocoon.

Of course, it was really hard for Lin Xi to understand their distaste for the appearance of "No. [-]", but out of consideration for her brother's blood pressure, Lin Xi finally pushed Bryce to the desk in the corner of the greenhouse.

He handed Bryce a small calming gel stick that Ernie used to calm down before, and after Bryce gulped down those gel sticks, his face looked better afterwards.

Lin Xi observed Bryce calmly.

"Hey buddy, what's going on? You look... overwrought."

He said.

At least as far as he could remember, Bryce hadn't been the type to rely on sedative gels to calm his nerves.

And now Bryce's reaction made Lin Xi very worried.

"I thought Alyssa had explained everything clearly, and there wouldn't be any major problems... Well, assuming the piece of garbage they assigned me doesn't go wrong."

After Lin Xi finished speaking, he suddenly felt a little confused, so he quickly added.

"...Maybe I don't need to be so nervous? After all... Now I hear them calling this place the 'Second Eden' in private. Wasn't there someone who was planning to wait until the Helios was completely paralyzed? Enter the outside world and build a brand-new earthling village..."

"I'm fine, I'm just a little...stressed."

Bryce very reluctantly propped up the original calm and calm illusion in front of Lin Xi.

"I just don't like bugs very much, especially the star butterflies... well, I don't like anything transported from Planet Sunu..."

Bryce said hoarsely to Lin Xi.

After being silent for a while, he suddenly spoke abruptly.

"An Teng Jingxiong wants to see you."

"Dr. Ando?"

Lin Xi suddenly raised her voice.

His eyes lit up so suddenly that he didn't notice that it was his very interest that made Bryce's chest tighten.

"I heard that he had been sleeping—" Lin Xi quickly realized that he was a little overjoyed, and he quickly added, with a hint of doubt and expectation in his tone.

Since getting the notebook left by Dr. Ando, ​​Lin Xi has always hoped to meet this Sunu fanatic and expert. The notebook has answered many questions for him, but at the same time, there are more doubts left. In the bottom of Lin Xi's heart.

"Yes, we put him in a coma before, but after Sam's incident, many people had doubts about the effectiveness of the tranquilizer, so we woke him up and put him in the brig. He woke up Asked to speak to you shortly thereafter."

Having said that, Bryce twitched the corners of his mouth, showing a weird expression.

Lin Xi knew it was because he thought of John Bronson.

But in fact, Lin Xi still has many things that he doesn't know.

For example, Shizuo Ando still looks crazy after waking up. His sanity seems to have entered a world that only he knows, and almost no one can communicate with him effectively.

Because of this, the investigation into Liz Chen's death could not proceed at all.

But even in this extreme madness, Ando was able to ask other people to meet Lin Xi very clearly...Combined with the nonsense he uttered when he was crazy, Bryce felt quite bad .

More than anyone else, he hopes that Lin Xi can refuse this meeting, but after seeing Lin Xi's current appearance, he knows that it is an impossible expectation.

"Actually, you don't need to see him." Bryce whispered hoarsely, "Dr. Ando was a respectable scholar before, but now he is just... just a lunatic, and the nonsense he said has no meaning at all. Meaning, if I were you, I would honestly stay in my room and check those weapons and equipment, I heard that there are a lot of weird bugs outside the cabin..."

"Hey, Bryce." Lin Xi sighed, he stretched out his arms and hugged Bryce, "You're too nervous, I'll be fine-I swear I'll be careful in the extravehicular exploration Myself, Alisa adjusted the team members for me. I have read the list, and they are all good people. By the way, it is dangerous to visit a professor who is guarded by a deputy in the confinement room. You know, even Sarah M-"

He felt Bryce visibly stiffen at the mention of that name.

However, Lin Xi continued to speak calmly.

"Even a guy like Sam got me down before, it's really nothing to worry about, man."

Bryce's face twitched, and the movement made the lines around his eyes and mouth stand out.

He looked at Lin Xi, and suddenly felt an emotion similar to anger flowing through his body.

How could he not be worried—

Bryce wanted to yell.

The nonsense of Shizuo Ando's waking up sounded to many people as outright crazy words, but to Bryce's ears, there were many particularly ominous omens in those vague and obscure shouts.