mother of all races

For a moment, no one spoke.

Schroderes stood still with his hands raised, staring at Lin Xi helplessly, his lips parted slightly, showing a horrified expression.

At the same time, the metal door that has not been opened for many years has quietly slid open towards the two sides.

It was pitch black in the central control room.

"I, I didn't mean to."

Schroderes stared at the central control room as if he had seen a ghost. He suddenly came back to his senses, stepped back several steps, and kept yelling.

"I don't know what's going on, hell, I don't understand..."

A moment later, the thick metal door of the central control room closed again in front of the three of them.

Lin Xi turned on the searchlight, and after pondering for a moment, he turned to Lena.

"Lena, go and try."

"I?"

"That's right, just like what Mr. Schroderes did just now."

Lin Xi said.

"But, but..." Lina flustered, she stared at the authenticator as if there was a spider lying on it.

Lin Xi let out a breath.

He stepped forward, passed Lina, and pressed his hand on the biometric authentication device.

"Beep - authentication passed, please enter."

The same electronic sound as before sounded again.

The door opened again.

And when the metal door closed again, without Lin Xi's words, Lina had already consciously stepped forward to take it seriously.

Just like the previous two times, this time the door of the central control room opened smoothly in front of the three of them without any obstacles.

Schroeder's expression suddenly relaxed.

"There must be something wrong, maybe it's a system bug, or it could just be that the authenticator simply failed. After all, this is something from the era of great exploration. It's impossible for them to use Anya's technology for the biometric authenticator... Maybe any one person could open this thing up," he said, "but I have to say, that was a fucking scary thing to do."

Lena stood cautiously at the door, and she looked inside several times before the door closed again.

"Shall we go in and take a look?" She licked her lips nervously, "...I think maybe we should."

Lin Xi hesitated for a moment, but finally he nodded.

Although his rationality told him that after encountering those deformed monster insects, he should quickly evacuate from this aircraft, but...

The fact that this place used to be the survival boat of the Providence made it impossible for him to turn around and leave anyway.

Jerry's previous anomaly—seems to have brought him here.

If the ghost claiming to be the captain of the Providence really exists, then he will always find a way to give Lin Xi some information.

As it stands, it seems most likely that this information was left in the central control room.

Lin Xi hoped that she would not be too suspicious, but the fact that the door of the central control room, which was supposed to be controlled by the highest authority, was allowed to open smoothly by three uninvited guests was strange enough in itself.

Lin Xi asked Lina and Schroderes to take out the electronic pulse gun, and then turned on the searchlights of the three of them, and then opened the door of the central control room and walked in.

As soon as she walked in, Lin Xi keenly felt that the atmosphere here was completely different from the outside world.

In the words of Schroderes - there is an evil breath here.

There was blood everywhere, blackened blood.The metal floor was pitted and grooved, almost scratched.Some shriveled corpses were stacked on the floor.

Lin Xi walked around them cautiously.

"My God... what happened here..."

Schroderes said tremblingly.

"Maybe we shouldn't be in here, maybe there's that nasty bug here too."

Lin Xi shook her head.

"No, I think it's probably the only thing where there are no bugs here." He shook the light, signaling the other party to look at the corpses, "...their corpses were not eaten but discarded here."

Schroderes immediately fell silent.

"Why are there no emergency lights here? For God's sake, I regret my proposal now."

After accidentally kicking someone's head again, Lina said in a voice that was about to cry.

Sometimes Lin Xi is very envious of people like Lena and Schroderes, who can express their emotions so clearly.

And he, standing at the front of the three of them now, felt as if his heart was going to jump out of his chest in the next second, but he couldn't say a word.

His head was about to explode.

"Ah, what the hell is this—"

Suddenly, Lina let out a scream.

"what?"

Lin Xi turned her head, just in time to see her jumping toes pointing to a certain corpse on the ground.

That corpse suddenly looks like an ordinary human corpse, but as long as you observe carefully, you will find its weirdness.

The deformed skull looks elongated and weird, but the part that should be the lower jaw now looks like a pale and ferocious mouthpart. The surface of the bone from the sternum to the bottom gradually becomes dark, and those carapaces that belong only to insects seem to be formed naturally. Covered on the skeleton——Lin Xi observed for a long time, and found that it was difficult for him to explain whether the corpse belonged to humans or insects.

At this moment, the strange and distorted corpses of Liz Chen's children seemed to appear before his eyes again.

The oxygen seemed to be much thinner, and Lin Xiduo took a look at the oxygen supply system of the exploration suit.

Those lovely green lights show that everything is ok.

But Lin Xi still felt that he was going to be out of breath.

"Maybe that's what's wrong with this craft."

he murmured.

The only thing that can reassure the three of them is that, judging from the condition of the corpse, it died of some kind of serious trauma.

"Hopefully, at least something in this craft is fighting this monster."

Lin Xi weakly comforted the two companions who were about to go crazy from fright

Immediately afterwards, the three of Lin Xi found more similar weird corpses near the central console, and they were basically smashed to pieces by something.

Some of them even looked like they were completely worms—the dry insect shells had a light and brittle texture when they were lifted off, and when they fell to the ground, some black dust and flocs fell out of the empty shells.

"I'm going to vomit."

Lina complained.

Schroderes: "Ugh..."

The poor man seemed to have literally vomited in his survey suit.

When they finally reached the front of the center console, Lina's initial question was immediately answered.

Why only the central control room doesn't have any light source?

Because it's completely disconnected here.

"Damn-"

Lin Xi stared at the scrap iron that should have been the center console, and cursed.

Yes, scrap iron.

There is no word better than scrap iron to describe the pile of things in front of Lin Xi.

It seems to have been soaked in some highly corrosive reagent for hundreds of years.

The center console is now just a pile of rusty debris that shatters at the touch of a button.

A few worm shells fell beside it, and there was no doubt that they were the main culprit for the center console to become like this.

"These bugs actually know how to corrode the central console with blood?"

Lina said in surprise, her tone full of disbelief.