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Bryce didn't speak for a long time.

But judging from his serious face and furrowed brows, Lin Xi knew that he must be seriously thinking about what he said now.This is probably why he loves Bryce so much—he will never take Lin Xi's words as unrealistic conjectures, and he will always take everything that happens around Lin Xi very seriously, whether it is ordinary or unusual.

"The 300-year-old ghost is now talking to you through the electronic auxiliary chip in the skull and the human brain, which sounds quite..." Bryce paused for a moment, as if he was considering his words, "like a third-rate book The beginning of an interstellar horror novel."

After a while, Bryce muttered softly: "Everyone knows that the captain of the Providence, Scripps Eden, is a true legend. Maybe he can indeed become a ghost. "

However, it is precisely because Mr. Scripps has so many legendary historical deeds (the most sensational thing is of course that he was appointed as the captain of the Providence and then disappeared in space), So when the ghost claiming to be him shows up, it always feels unreal.

Of course, Bryce didn't intend to tell Lin Xi his thoughts.

He turned around and operated on the personal terminal for a while—a bunch of complicated reports suddenly flashed on the electronic projection screen.

Lin Xi looked over and found that those reports were the detailed physiological data reports of the crew members of the Helios.

"These data are theoretically confidential."

Bryce looked at Lin Xi, and he said with a dark face.

"...But I think the issue of secrecy can be discussed after we return to Earth." Immediately afterwards, he added another sentence.

Even though the atmosphere between the two of them at this moment was extraordinarily solemn because of their new discovery, after seeing Bryce like this, Lin Xi couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled.

"Bryce, you know, what I like the most is your flexible look." Lin Xi complimented her sincerely.

"You should thank me for my role as the medical officer," Bryce shrugged, and he turned his attention to those reports. Who among these people has an auxiliary chip installed in the brain... If possible, we might be able to find him, and then find a way to get you in touch with that mysterious ghost again."

With a few taps on his personal terminal, the information of the crew began to flash on the screen quickly.

Every crew member was recorded with all their physiological data when they were selected for the Helios mission - data that was mixed with their previous flight experience to form a large and complex database.

Bryce and Lynch's search will take some time.

While waiting, Bryce began to contact Alisa.

"She needs to know about this...if, as you said, there is something wrong with that aircraft."

Bryce said.

It's just a little unexpected that after several consecutive attempts, Alisa didn't respond to Bryce's call at all.

The expression on Bryce's face gradually became serious.

Not responding to calls may be a normal thing for some people, but it was not unusual for Alisa - she was always busy as the first officer, especially after the Helios ran aground, she was always busy. Need to keep an eye on your communicator to respond to incoming reports and calls for help.

What's more, Bryce has a very different identity for her.

"Since boarding the Helios, Alisa has never ignored my communication request." Bryce looked at Lin Xi and said.

Lin Xi was shocked to see a thick panic in Bryce's eyes.

"I think... she must be in some trouble."

Bryce said.

……

Alisa silently pressed the communication request on the terminal.

Her back was completely drenched in cold sweat, and there was a faint smell of blood in her mouth, which was caused by her clenching her teeth desperately to keep her teeth from chattering.

It was cold and dark around her, and it seemed to wrap around her like a monster's gullet.

Fear and despair surged towards Alisa like a tide, and she even held her breath involuntarily, for fear that her rapid breathing and heartbeat would make the person who was only separated from her by a metal plate... ...no, that monster...discovered her existence.

How did things come to this?

Even Alisa herself had a hard time explaining clearly, after all, just a few hours ago, she was still safely staying in her office dealing with some less urgent trivial matters.Since Robert, the former energy director, formed the so-called emergency team, he has gradually separated most things from Alisa's hands, and Taran seems to have acquiesced in this matter-of course he will be more satisfied with Robert Well, after all, those bastards were on Taran's side.

Alyssa doesn't like Robert and the emergency team (look at the suggestions they made, kill the Sunu creatures kept in the dormant chamber to save more energy?), but she also has to admit that those Her job was much easier when people showed up.

And before the flustered-looking young crewman barged into her office, Alyssa was even pondering whether she should have dinner with Bryce to relax.

"Sir...I need to report something to you...but..."

The crew member who came to find her was Robert's second-in-command. He was a very nice young man, but now he looked haggard and frightened as if he had some serious illness.

"The people on the ship are disappearing, sir, they're missing, one after the other..."

When she first heard what the deputy said, Alisa almost thought that this was another poor man who had hysteria due to the long-term grounding of the spaceship.After all, under the pressure that everyone may die, fragile human beings will always have some minor mental problems from time to time.

But the deputy produced evidence.

That's the list of people on the ship.

Suddenly, it seemed that there were no problems with the list, and the daily automatic assessment had also passed perfectly.But after some operations, the original file that was overwritten appeared in front of Alisa.

"Robert and the others modified the mission log. They would do this every once in a while... And every time, it was to cover up those abnormal attendance..."

The young deputy said tremblingly.

Alisa noticed that every time he said a word, he would nervously look behind him, as if he was afraid of someone breaking in through the door.

But at this time, Alisa couldn't care less about the abnormality displayed by the deputy.

All attention is on the attendance record sheet that has been revised countless times.Every short period of time, there will be a few more names on the record sheet-followed by a red warning mark that they have not completed their attendance.They did not show up for their scheduled jobs or stay in their rooms.

Even their physiological monitoring information disappeared directly.

Alisa checked their identities, as if she had already faintly felt in her heart that these people were the lowest-ranking crew members, and their work locations and tasks were scattered in various parts of the old and complicated hull of the Helios, So even if they disappeared, it would be difficult for Alisa and others as senior crew members to find out.

In the end, as the deputy said, these people just disappeared without a sound. Their work reports will be sent to the robot's terminal regularly, but their bodies have long since disappeared.

Theoretically speaking, once such a warning appears, it will be sent directly to the captain. In the vast universe, whether it is the defection of the crew or always considered a major accident, it is serious enough to put the ship on alert.However, according to the attendance records in Alisa's hand at this moment, since the spaceship ran aground, the identities of dozens of people have been directly erased from the records.

But from beginning to end, Alisa didn't even notice it at all.

It's just ridiculous, and yet, it happened.

"This, this cannot be justified..."

Alisa looked at the records in disbelief, and when a certain code appeared repeatedly next to the erased records, her voice suddenly stopped.

She had never wished so much that she was in a nightmare.

That was Taran's access code.

Alisa didn't like Talan, but she never thought that Talan would do such a thing-it was not Robert who revised the records of the missing crew members, but Talan himself.

Ah, yes, this is the only way to make sense: an alarm of the level of the missing crew will indeed be passed directly to Taran at the first time, and only Taran has the possibility to modify those records without alerting anyone.

In a trance, Alisa seemed to have returned to the time when she was standing at the door of Taran's cabin.The man who slowly emerged from the darkness looked at her, and the ominous feeling that made her tremble...

Alisa took a long breath, trying to restrain the panic in her heart, then she raised her head and stared at the young crew member whose spirit was close to collapse.

Her voice was as dry as if it had been sanded.

"Go find a place... hide..." She didn't know why she said that, but she just said that, as her intuition told her, "There is something wrong with someone on this ship, you should also Feel it, don't you? Go find a place to hide. I'm going to figure out how to deal with this. I have to."

The young crew member seemed to have noticed something, his cheeks twitched unnaturally, and then he turned around suddenly and ran out of Alisa's office.

By the time Alisa came outside the office with heavy steps, the young man had already disappeared.And Alisa hoped that he could follow her advice and find a safe place on this spaceship to hide herself.

Alisa stood outside the office for a while, her mind was in a mess, but there was an inexplicable sense of calm in her heart.

Maybe this is the feeling of the "second boot" falling... Alyssa found that she even had leeway to tease herself in the bottom of her heart.The sense of wrong fear and indescribable unease towards Taran all the time finally had an answer at this moment.

The author has something to say: Hey, I want my brother and sister-in-law to vomit their lunch boxes.

In fact, as I write, I feel that Lin Xi is probably the happiest person in my article. (except sweet text)

Although he was born as an orphan, his family is enlightened and happy, and his brother and sister-in-law are also very kind to him... The future husband... except for being ugly and uneducated... Also, there is nothing wrong with him...