mother of all races

In another dome tent not far from Lin Xi and "No. [-]", two other figures were overlapping and sleeping together.

One of them was lying on his back exhaustedly, his lips parted slightly, he was a very large man with a slightly sunken face (that's because his nose had been smashed years ago), His name is written on the plaque on the chest: Stephen Lauer.

Covered with all kinds of dirt, the original color of the survey suit was almost invisible, crumpled and piled up at his feet. In this regard, he was similar to his companion, and they hadn't had time to take it off yet. The exploration suit fell asleep from excessive fatigue.

It's just that Stephen's companion may be in a worse situation now, because he was pressed down by Stephen's arm, and he was frowning uncomfortably at this time, but he didn't even have the time to protest against Stephen in his deep sleep , he was really tired.

If Beerus hadn't been so impulsive, if he hadn't uttered nonsense to Lin Xi in front of Francis (now "Number One") and then was swallowed up by some "uninvited" monster, he Now they will probably nest next to Stephen, and sleep with him on their backs—after all, there is a solid sympathy between the two of them.

They are all believers in John Bronson, and they firmly believe that they have a noble mission when they come out this time.

And if it wasn't for that accident, they might have found a way to kill the demon named Lin Xi in this well-prepared exploration mission.

"Well……"

Stephen, who was sleeping, suddenly sniffled, and he uttered a vague dream.

A few minutes later, he let out the same low cry again.

It's just that there was a faint hint of pain in this low cry.

"No...no...I can't...God...I..."

Finally, with a terrified moan, Stephen suddenly opened his eyes.

He stared blankly at the darkness in front of him, his mind blank.

He should go back to sleep immediately, and Stephen could feel his bones and nerves protesting desperately, but at this moment, in the nightmare, the face of Beerus' death, which was so clear in the nightmare, kept lingering On his mind, keeping him up at night.

Oh, is it so?That poor man named Beerus used to be your companion

In a trance, he seemed to hear a soft whisper.

The voice is so gentle that it can touch people's hearts.

He was killed by that horrible bug, right?Then why can you fall asleep so peacefully?Do you forget it?Those bugs summoned by Lin Xi are still outside.You are now sleeping in a worm pile.Who knows if there are similar monsters among the bugs outside the tent, eyeing you?

Stephen frowned, and he pressed his forehead.

The voice that was circling in my brain was very strange... Is that really my own thought?Or was someone talking to him in his head?

Stephen only felt that his head was in a daze, as if he was in a dream or in reality.

In order to avoid attracting the attention of insects, even in tents, people still control the light source very carefully.

But it is precisely because of this that people's hearing seems to be countless times more sensitive than before.

Bewitched by the voice in my mind.

Stephen listened carefully to the movement outside the tent, and he could vaguely hear some rustling sounds—as if some giant insects were crawling across the smooth rock surface.

Could that be the kind of monster that killed Beerus?

Or, was that just his hallucination?

"Oh... Stephen... Please, go to sleep, there is still work to do tomorrow."

The man's tossing and turning seemed to wake up his companion, who turned over and muttered in pain in the dark.

For a moment, Stephen stopped all movements.He held his breath and lay motionless on the spot for a while, and he breathed a sigh of relief when he heard his companion's breathing gradually became steady and slow.

Stephen actually felt that he seemed a little abnormal, because he was uncontrollably repeating the scene before Beerus died over and over again in his mind.

But now, a thought is becoming more and more intense in Stephen's mind: Beerus might have been killed—by that man named Lin Xi.

Before the monster jumped onto Birus' back without warning, Birus was unceremoniously reprimanding Lin Xi. Perhaps it was because of this that the man became so angry that he summoned that monster directly...

Yes, it was after Beerus was killed that the entire exploration team began to obey Lin Xi, including Jerry and Francis.

Maybe you'll be the next to die?

The voice in his head said softly.

You should kill him, that man can manipulate bugs, even if he still has human nature, but one day...he will become the scariest monster in this universe.

The voice continued.

Stephen nibbled on his fingers nervously in the dark until his mouth was filled with the sweet taste of blood.

When he noticed it, he realized that he got up slowly without knowing it.

Trembling, he took out the weapon from his exploration suit, and then he staggered away from his tent step by step.

A strong stench rushed into his throat in an instant, and the irritating air instantly corroded his nasal cavity and mouth - Stephen didn't wear a survey suit, he directly breathed the toxic alien air in the cave.

Thick black blood flowed from his nostrils in an instant, but Stephen didn't seem to notice the maddening pain at all.

His eyes were empty, and he walked straight to where Lin Xi was.

However, he had no way to get close to it at all.

A terrifying creature with an unusually strange appearance had stood there at some point.

Seeing "Stephen", its wings spread out behind itself, and the huge eye spots on the wings flickered continuously, sending out a fluorescent warning.

——As a bug, "Number One" is quite sensitive to the movements of the outside world.

As early as the moment Stephen was still rustling in the tent looking for weapons, "No. [-]" realized something was wrong.

It reluctantly left Lin Xi's warm body, and then crawled out of the tent.

The atmosphere that is corrosive to humans is like another kind of nourishment to it. The originally crumpled and slightly dull-colored wings are now brightly colored and light and stretchable.

However, what made "Number One" a little confused was that "Stephen" reacted very strangely after seeing him.

It's too bad, it seems, I still haven't had time to save you.

"Stephen" looked at "Number One", whose horrifying appearance was enough to make the calmest human being scream, but "Stephen" didn't act surprised.

He just stood there silently, then grumbled softly.

... so ugly.

He added.

After finishing speaking, "Stephen" raised his hand without hesitation, and pointed the gun in his hand at "No. [-]".

But before he could flip the switch, a long, fleshy tentacle bound his wrist.

"puff--"

Then came the soft, wet sound when the human body was pierced.

"Stephen" was handed to the ground without any resistance.

Before the two barbed, long-saw-like insect forelimbs stretched out silently from the darkness and cut off the man's head and body, the last sound he heard was a hoarse voice full of doubts. whisper.

"Look...really...ugly...?"

The human body temperature and the overly strong smell of blood caused a small commotion among the originally peaceful bug swarm in the cave.

The rustling sound like the wind passing through the mountains and forests made Lin Xi frown in his sleep.

Vaguely, he felt as if someone was gently pushing his shoulder.

It took about a century for him to barely wake up from his dark sleep.Strangely, in normal times, even in such a tired situation, he would probably be able to jump straight out of sleep to deal with emergencies.

But this time, perhaps because of the faint sense of the presence of the person beside him, the nerve called "vigilance" in Lin Xi's body seemed to be completely broken.

His whole being was slack as hell.

"Huh? Francis...what's the matter...what's the matter..."

Lin Xi turned over, trying to avoid the hand that disturbed his sleep.

He asked in a daze, but couldn't open his eyes no matter what.

"Lin Xi..." He heard Francis stammering something next to his shoulder, "I... am... so ugly...?"

Well, Lin Xi's original efforts to wake up quickly dissipated after hearing this question.

He must be just dreaming.Lin Xi thought vaguely.

After all, in reality, how could a man as stern as Francis try to wake up his exhausted companion in the middle of the night just to ask him if he was ugly?

That scene was downright ridiculous.

"Lin Xi...do you...like...how...appearance..."

But the repeated muttering in his ear made Lin Xi unable to settle down no matter what.

Lin Xi raised her arms subconsciously, covered her ears with her wrists, and curled up like a baby.

"I like……"

Lin Xi spoke vaguely in a half-dream and half-awake state, and the name that had been suppressed in the deepest part of her heart for many years appeared so clearly on her lips.

"Saville."

He said.

Immediately afterwards, he allowed himself to fall back into a dark and sweet sleep.