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Thinking about it afterwards, Lin Xi suspected that he and the rest of the exploration team might have been hypnotized by some mysterious force.

Yes, that's it—Jerry's voice was so calm, so confident, as if they were walking along some scenic avenue marked by countless signs instead of a narrow dark tunnel with no light.

The strange thing is that everyone believed Jerry's words.

They believed that the road was so long because of the darkness, and they believed that in a short while they would arrive at the cave from which they first rolled down.

The hole may be blocked by some gravel and dirt, but that's okay, since the bugs can find their way out, so can they.

But the situation is gradually getting worse, the atmosphere here is gradually becoming more humid, and the temperature is getting colder and colder.

Every few steps, Lin Xi needed to wipe off the mist on her mask.

There were questions about Jerry at first, and occasional ramblings on the comms channel.

Now, there's silence on both private and public channels—only the sound of people breathing more and more heavily.

Beginning to realize that something was wrong, it was because Lin Xi saw something in the crevices of some rocks, soft, like a large group of sea anemones crowded there, Lin Xi thought it was unique to this planet at first lichen or moss, but he soon discovered that it was the protruding tongue of some gigantic worm.When Lin Xi and others passed them, they were frightened. Probably a nest of worms twisted their bodies and burrowed into a deeper and narrower rock crevice. fell down.

Thank God, the tunnel did not collapse, but Lin Xi was hit by a few stones on his shoulder and forehead.

There was a distinct sweet smell in his mask.

"Damn..."

Lin Xi grumbled as he realized that he was bleeding.

It was at this moment that Lin Xi suddenly recovered from that dazed state.

He stopped suddenly.

Walker, who had been following him, bumped into him, followed by Lena, Eugene, Schroderes...

"Hey, what the hell are you doing!"

Walker was so big that the force of his impact nearly sent Lynch down, but Lynch stopped.

After a pause of perhaps a few seconds, he heard Walker's familiar rude yell.

Lin Xi really didn't want to admit that hearing this guy's curses made him feel at ease.

"Things aren't quite right..." That's what he said in Walker.

"Jerry! Where the hell are you taking us?"

This is what he told Jerry.

"..."

Jerry was silent.

"Jerry! Stop!"

Lin Xi raised her voice and shouted.

"We're almost there."

It took a while before Jerry responded to him.

"Don't worry, we're not on the wrong track, we've been following the signs."

He said word by word.

But Lin Xi's face was tense at this moment.

Even with Jerry's promise.The reason is simple, if he knew the responsible and good-tempered man, Jerry would stop at this time no matter what.

But Jerry didn't do that. His body was shaking slightly, his movements were stiff, and he walked forward.

"How is this going?"

Up to now, the exploration team members who have come over from other situations have also realized that something is wrong.

Lin Xi didn't have time to pay attention to them, he rushed forward in three steps and grabbed Jerry.

He forcibly turned Jerry around, forcing him to face the prospectors behind him.

"Jerry?"

"Wait—Jerry, what's wrong with you?"

After seeing Jerry, several people couldn't help but exclaimed.

The man who had been speaking to them in a calm voice now looked like he was suffering from some kind of acute illness.

Even through the mask, people can clearly see soybean-sized beads of sweat oozing from his pores.

The muscles on his face are skewed, and the two sides are severely asymmetrical. The right side of the face seems to be pushed down by an invisible hand, and even the eyes can only be half-opened, while his left side is pulled out. With a weird smile, his eyeballs have been trembling unconsciously, and his pupils are dilated.

Such Jerry made Lin Xi feel very, very uncomfortable, and his heart suddenly became cold and heavy.

Out of an instinct, he suddenly took Jerry's hand.

He looked at Jerry's personal terminal—it was just a scarlet glitch indicating a malfunction.

From the beginning to the end... They didn't follow the marked route at all, because the marked ball had long since expired!

"What the hell is going on! Jerry?!"

When they first saw Jerry's situation, the rest of the exploration team was already panicked, but when Lin Xi showed the personal terminal on Jerry's wrist, they were completely confused.

"No, no, it's not true, haven't we been walking outside?"

"There must be something wrong, no, Jerry, what the hell are you doing—"

At this moment, Jerry's eyeballs suddenly stopped moving.

Lin Xi met Jerry's eyes directly.

His movements stopped immediately.

"Ho... ho ho..."

There was a rush of breath from Jerry's throat, and then, the man who was not young suddenly broke out of Lin Xi's hand.

Lin Xidun felt bad: "Catch him!"

he shouted.

Walker and Eugene reacted the fastest, and they rushed towards Jerry immediately.

"Oh shit—"

But then, Lin Xi heard a cry of pain.

Walker flew out, and then Eugene—at this moment, Jerry's strength was unbelievable, and he even threw the two men away.

Immediately afterwards, he suddenly rushed towards the other end of the dark corridor.

"Jerry—"

Lin Xi yelled at him.

Jerry, who had moved some distance away from them, seemed to look back at him.

After such a distance, the exploration suit on his body has long been lost in the thick darkness, only the light yellow light inside his helmet.

His head seemed to be floating alone in mid-air, his crooked face a mask of an evil smile.

Lin Xi felt that Jerry...or rather, the soul that now occupied Jerry's body was sneering at him.

In the next second, Jerry's figure disappeared.

"Damn!"

Before Lin Xi had time to speak, he heard an angry curse.

"Wait, Walker—"

Lynch yelled.

But it was too late, as early as the moment he spoke, Walker, who had been left aside by Jerry before, had already got up on the ground with his hands and feet and rushed directly in the direction where Jerry disappeared.

Following him was Eugene.

"..."

Lin Xi stood still and looked at their backs.

He silently uttered a series of extremely vicious curses, and then he had to grit his teeth and rush after them.

……

At the same time, on the Helios which was tens of kilometers away from them.

There are also people who are cursing God at the same moment.

"Is there still no news from them?!"

Bryce slammed his fist hard on the console.

The technician next to him flinched, almost screaming in fright.

"Oh Bryce, calm down."

Alicia sighed, and she put her arms around her lover.

"If you smash the console, we can't find an original to replace it now."

The technician muttered angrily behind them when he came back to his senses.

"Hey hey guys—"

Alisa had to raise her voice.

She covers Bryce's mouth before he almost speaks.

"Come on, Bryce, just let Douglas do his job quietly, you're not alone here worrying about them."

She stared at Bryce's face, and there was some sternness in her voice.

"But--"

Bryce opened his mouth subconsciously, but when he saw Alisa's gaze, he still drooped his shoulders.

Of course, his appearance was a little pitiful in Alisa's eyes.

After all, Bryce hadn't eaten or slept since news of the expedition's disappearance.

After gritting his teeth and completing his daily work, he would squat directly in the control room in an attempt to obtain some additional information. However, even if the massive storm finally stopped after howling all day and night, it was an exploration project. The team's wireless signal never came out.

Bryce almost broke down completely.

It's just that Alisa couldn't let Bryce continue like this.

"Listen, you need to eat something and get some rest."

Alyssa tried to stay calm and said to Bryce.

She paused slightly, and then said: "The first wave of search and rescue teams are already searching outside. To be honest, no news is good news, isn't it?"

It's just that as soon as this sentence was said, Alisha regretted it a little.

It must be because the Helios was damaged in the storm that made her too anxious, otherwise, she would never say this in front of Bryce.

"No news is good news—"

The hidden meaning behind this sentence is too sad.

In fact, at the moment when the news of the disappearance of the exploration team in the storm came, everyone already had the answer in their hearts: those people were dead.

And if the news from the search and rescue team really came, it might be that they found the bodies of members of the exploration team.

Alyssa couldn't bear to think about the scene.

She held her breath subconsciously, guarding against Bryce's loss of control...

But Bryce didn't do that.

He just stood there staring blankly at Alyssa, then nodded dully.

"Well, that's right. I... I should really go take a break..."

He whispered in a hoarse voice, then turned around unsteadily, and walked towards the control room.

Alyssa watched his leaving back sadly.

Until the technician behind her spoke cautiously: "Are you really not telling him? Those corpses..."

"No, Douglas, give me a favor and don't say this at this time."

Alyssa lowered her head and said wearily.

She forced herself to stay in the control room for a while longer, but in the end she couldn't let go, and she rushed out after Bryce.

Not surprisingly, Alisa found Bryce in the medical room who had agreed to rest.

When she entered the infirmary, she saw Bryce crouching in the corner, sobbing silently.

"Oh...Bryce..."

Alicia walked over and hugged Bryce tightly.

"Everything is going to be fine, it's not too bad yet."

She kept wiping away Bryce's tears.

After a long time, the twitching of the man in her arms slowly stopped.

"I don't want this, I just can't control..."

Bryce put his head on Alisa's shoulder and whispered in an unusually hoarse voice.

Alicia patted him on the back.

After a long period of silence, Bryce suddenly spoke without beginning or end.

"I've seen one of my younger brothers die with my own eyes...I really don't want to see my remaining brothers die like this..."

"Brother? Sorry, Bryce, I never knew..."

Alisa frowned in bewilderment.

younger brother?

She has been in love with Bryce for a long time, but she has never heard that Bryce has a younger brother besides Lin Xi.

"Saville."

Bryce murmured a name.

"Before Savile died, I promised him personally that I would take good care of Lin Xi."

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