mother of all races

spaceship?

crew?

sacrifice?

These words passed Alisa's ears like blades, as if they could cut bloodstains in her soul.

Alisa desperately controlled her body not to tremble.

And Taran's cries continued, even as an audience, Alisa could still clearly feel his pain and despair.

"I have nothing left, and I have dedicated all the most precious things in my life to you... Great God of the Void... You have clearly changed me... But why... Why are you still unwilling to be here? Appear in front of me?"

Gradually, Taran's tone became more and more self-pitying.

"Is it that man? I've smelled that smell... the smell of gods... no, no, no, it's impossible... I know that guy... he's still human, and he's been trapped in that disgusting body from beginning to end. In the fragile skin...he can't...impossible...no one on this ship has ever sensed the presence of God except me...wait, maybe I should go to him, or...I can put him Give it to the great Star God first—no! Are you crazy?! That guy, that nasty thief, he touched the Star God first, but God’s favor did not fall on him, never..."

Talan looked more and more strange.

Sometimes he seems to be talking to himself, but sometimes it sounds like he is splitting into another personality and arguing with himself.

"No, I did nothing wrong. I didn't, I didn't, I did it for their own good, my crew is a good crew... That's why I so generously allowed them to drink the nectar that God gave us... You see , they soon also felt the calling of God... They are gradually breaking away from the low-level and cumbersome monkey body, and becoming a more noble and perfect existence... No one can steal my credit, and no one can take it away God's favor with me... just look at us now to know that..."

Gradually, his voice became weaker.

Alisa heard a humble, pained voice.

"No, I am...I am the queen of all insects...I am...the mother of all species...I have heard your call, and I brought my people here without any hesitation... ...I even...have so many Familia...yes, I am the chosen one...I will bear a dark womb in the void and get my kingworm to give birth to my people... ...my body is ready for this...I'm the one..."

Alyssa wanted to rush out, grab Taran by the neck and scream at him, telling him to stop that horrible, raspy voice.

But the reality is that she continues to nest in the broken ventilation duct left over 300 years ago without daring to move.

Until Taran's twitching and wriggling movements gradually subsided.

And the terrible crying stopped.

Alisa watched Taran's every move in horror.

She suspected that Taran had passed out (or fell asleep?), which should have reassured Alyssa, but instead, she felt more and more distressed.

The bloody smell of the corpses of the young crew members mixed with the incense of Sunu's specialty, forming a breathless and disgusting smell.

But at this special moment, Alisa couldn't even take a big breath.

She's draining a lot of stamina, and it's no easy feat to slowly back out of the 300-year-old ventilation ducts without making any unwanted noises.And she wasn't sure if Taran would remain in this lunatic, delirious state when he came to life again.

At least, the last time Alyssa saw Taran, he was well disguised as a human being—if that was the case, his senses would only be heightened.

want to run away.

Want to escape, want to escape, want to escape, want to escape from this damn place, want to get away from that maddening monster in the warehouse...

Alisa could hear her "little inspiration" screaming in her skull.

However, as much as she wanted to escape from where she was now, she was afraid to move her body.

Alisa stared at Talan's body without blinking, she was not sure if Talan had really fallen asleep.

Damn it.

Alisa kept cursing all this in her heart.

When she came, Taran must have been "solving" the young crew member, or he was in some kind of absent-minded state at that time, otherwise, how could he not have noticed the movement?

Alisa felt a crazy voice in her head muttering and calculating non-stop.

No... maybe there are other possibilities.Perhaps Talan had already discovered her existence, and everything she saw here was just Talan acting.

Now Talan was lying on the fresh corpse, pretending to be asleep, but in fact, he had been observing her secretly, viciously and indifferently.

The very thought drove Alicia mad with terror.

She curled her index finger and stuffed it into her teeth, barely stopping her teeth from chattering.

A bloody smell came from the position where the teeth and finger joints were in contact, and it wasn't until this time that Alisa realized that she had bitten herself unknowingly, and she didn't even feel the slightest pain. pain.

It became very quiet around.

Not even an ordinary small noise.

There was no sound of breathing, no scuffing of fabrics with small movements of the human body, not even the humming noise of the old equipment inside the Helios.

The entire private warehouse seemed to have been cut off from the world by Talan and isolated separately.

She may be trapped here for tens of millions of years, until she becomes a bone and cannot move.

Absurd thoughts emerged from Alisa's mind again, and she felt that she was on the verge of collapse...

"call……"

Then, she heard herself take a soft breath.

It was a purely unconscious move, and she had held her breath for too long...and when she breathed, the sound was deafening in the exceptionally silent duct.

And the next second, Taran moved.

He turned around abruptly, his protruding mulberry-like eyes aimed straight at the vent after circling around a few times.

Alisa let out a low cry.

She shrank her body suddenly, and then used all her strength to escape in the direction she came from.

Alisa can be sure that she has never been so dexterous and agile in her life, and she was not even so desperate when trying to pass the examination of the deputy captain.

And it was not fear of death that drove her, but... fear of Taran.

She quickly distanced herself from Taran's warehouse.

But the ventilation duct under her body vibrated at this moment.

"who is it……"

A slow, muffled, wet voice came from the other end of the dark pipe.

Then there was that gurgling wet friction sound.

That's Taran.

Taran had climbed into the pipe—

Even though it was so far away, Alisa could still clearly feel the presence of the other party.

His wriggling body was struggling to squeeze into the narrow passage.

Alicia's mind went blank.

She didn't even have time to think about it.

He climbed out directly towards the nearest pipe opening.

"boom--"

Before she had time to dismantle the rusted railings one by one with her hands, Alisa propped her elbows on the pipe wall, kicked those railings away vigorously, and then rolled down with her head in her arms.

"I see you...I see you..."

And Taran's screams still came through the other side of the vent clearly.

Alisa rushed to the door of the warehouse in a panic.

Thanks to the authority of the deputy captain, the metal door slid open to both sides, and Alisa rushed out without looking back.

"Zizi..."

But right behind her, the moist, scalp-numbing sound of rubbing still didn't stop.

Alyssa didn't know how Taran did it, but his bloated, misshapen body seemed less dull than it seemed.

And what made her feel even more shuddering was the faint voices coming from behind the metal wall.

Alyssa doesn't even know if it's an illusion she's had in her panic, but...her gut is telling her that there's something behind the wall...something she'll never want to see in her life.

Alisa didn't stop, she gritted her teeth and ran towards the elevator.

She must escape.

She can face a ship accident with equanimity, she can accept death.

However, there was no way she would allow herself to be caught by that monster and placed in front of the statue of the evil god like a lamb with its throat cut.

"Zi...ZiZi..."

Just as Alisa rushed into the elevator, she shrank herself in the corner of the elevator and trembled.

Already Taran's deformed body cast a heavy shadow across the corridor.

The gastropods evenly distributed at the bottom of Talan's abdomen stepped on the ground wetly, leaving a long string of foul-smelling mucus.

But as Taran finished, the metal door of the elevator slid down so slowly.

"Do not……"

Alyssa slammed on the button to the upper deck, but the elevator door seemed to be stuck and didn't move.

In the end, Alisa could only try her best to press her back against the elevator wall, and she wished she could embed herself behind the elevator wall.

Tears rolled down her cheeks slowly, and she couldn't help sobbing anymore.

She'll be caught—

She'll be caught by that monster—

she will-

"Crack-"

The sound of the elevator doors closing together sounded, calling back Alisa's mind that was on the verge of losing control.

Alisa raised her head suddenly, only to realize that the elevator hadn't broken down in any way.It closed, the roar of mechanical operation sounded, and the elevator car was gradually moving upwards.

Taran didn't have time to catch her before the elevator doors closed.

Alisa finally took a breath until this time.

She sat softly on the ground, watching the constantly changing buttons of the elevator.

Then, when the elevator door opened again, she gritted her teeth and stood up again, then rushed out.

"Lieutenant Captain Alisa?"

"Hey Alisa?"

……

She met some people in the hallway of the bright work area, and they all looked at her in shock.

Alisa didn't stop her footsteps, because she didn't know whether these people would also be the so-called "Familiars" in Taran's mouth. The things she heard in the ventilation duct completely ruined her understanding of this matter. The security of the ship and the trust in other people.

And just as she turned a corridor to avoid others.

A pair of icy hands came out silently, grabbed her, and dragged her into the shadows.

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