mother of all races

Speaking of ground milk and mutations, Bryce hesitated for a moment. He stared at Lin Xi with sharp eyes full of inquiry.

He originally thought that Lin Xi felt so worried just because he saw the things at the end of the corridor. After all, those half-human, half-worm monsters looked a little too impactful.

But out of a brother's instinct, he suddenly felt his stomach tightened after seeing Lin Xi's dazed eyes.

It seems that something bad is going on.

Once upon a time, Bryce felt the same way when facing Savile (at this moment, Bryce thought of "Number One"'s eyes that resembled Savile, which made him burst into a kind of fury ), Bryce's nerves were tense all of a sudden.

"Did something happen, Lin Xi?"

Lin Xi was silent for a while, he hesitated to speak, his face was pale.

"Let's talk about it when we're somewhere safer, Bryce."

Bryce heard Lin Xi say this.

"you--"

"Bryce..." Alisa has been observing the interaction between the two brothers beside her. She is more sensitive than Bryce when she senses something wrong with Lin Xi, so she interrupts Bryce's questioning in time.

She shook her head at Bryce.

Blaise fell silent again.

"..."

Lin Xi bit her lips tightly and looked at the two people beside her, the feeling of being vigorously stirred by something reappeared.He really wished he was hallucinating and not really like those rumors said...

You should kill yourself.

With An Teng Jingxiong's voice, the words that the 300-year ghost said to him had always been regarded as ridiculous crazy words by him before that.

But at this moment, it weighed heavily on his chest like a stone.

Just like that, in an extremely dull atmosphere, the three of them tensed up and walked through the passage at the edge of the deck.

Without a personal terminal, all their actions became extremely difficult.

Bryce and Alyssa are ready to hijack several crew members to solve this serious problem, but the next part of the journey is completely beyond their expectations—those mutant crew members who had been wandering around inside the spaceship with empty and numb eyes None of them disappeared.

From bow to stern, the Helios is as quiet as a ghost ship.

"This is just a ghost."

Bryce faintly noticed some movement, and he chased in the direction of the movement, but the person who should have been there had long since disappeared.

Bryce muttered a little brokenly.

"Do you think this is Taran's conspiracy?"

Immediately afterwards, he turned his head and said to Alisa and Lin Xi.

Alicia raised an eyebrow and shrugged at him.

"Maybe? But it's also possible that someone is trying to solve the trouble for us."

She thought for a moment, then said meaningfully.

Then, she glanced at Lin Xi.

It took Lin Xi a while to realize what was happening, he shook his head in a panic: "No, it's not me—"

Even Bryce gave him a strange look now.

Lin Xi's words choked up.

He suddenly realized that what Alyssa had said before was not his supernatural power but "Number One".

"I don't know. I don't even know when it crawled out of the chrysalis, and I didn't expect it to be so lethal..."

Lin Xi said dryly.

"But I think it quite likes you."

Alisa recalled every move that "Number One" showed in front of them before, and she couldn't help but say.

"Although it does look a little scary, but...it looks very docile in front of you."

"Oh, come on, Alisa, what the hell are you talking about?! That thing isn't Lin Xi's pet, it's just a monster."

As soon as Bryce heard Alisa mentioning "Number One", his whole body instantly turned into a hedgehog, and even his voice became sharp.

"'Number One' is no monster."

Lin Xi retorted subconsciously.

"He was very docile in the greenhouse and seemed normal. I really don't know why he...why he behaved like that."

It was horrible, it was evil, it was maddening.

And it has such a powerful lethality.

"Normal?" Bryce's face was contorted, "It looked extraordinarily evil when it was still disguised as that big moth, and you still said it was normal?"

"I said, in the beginning it was normal..."

Even Lin Xi herself didn't know why she suddenly started speaking for "No. [-]".

"All right, boys."

In the end, Alisa forcibly stopped the argument between the two.

"No matter what it is, at least it is not malicious to us, and that's enough. You must know that there are still a group of ordinary humans who have turned into disgusting bugs on our spaceship."

While speaking, Alisa once again thought of Taran's swollen and shiny bug body in the warehouse, and she suddenly shuddered.

"Maybe the star butterfly raised by Lin Xi is also affected."

she says.

Having said that, Alisa suddenly turned her head and shouted towards the empty corridor behind her: "Thank you for your help... Mr. 'Number One'."

Alisa thought about her words, and when she called out "Mr. One", Bryce looked at her in shock, his jaw seemed to drop.

"...But we need personal terminals, if possible, please leave us a few people."

Of course Alisa noticed the incredibleness of Bryce and Lin Xi, but she didn't seem to care much.

"Oh, by the way, don't go too bloody, it's kind of scary."

She even thought about adding one last sentence.

It took several minutes for Bryce and Lynch to find their tongues when she turned around and started leading the way again.

"Alyssa, you...can you detect that monster?"

Bryce asked in horror.

Alisa shook her head: "Of course not."

But then she glanced at Lin Xi: "I just want to try."

she says.

Lin Xi: "I don't feel anything."

What he said was true.

At least at this moment, he didn't feel the breath of "No. [-]".

And after Alisa shouted those words, there was no unusual movement around them.

"Okay. Looks like it's really not there."

Alyssa said.

Lin Xi was a little horrified to find that there seemed to be some regret in Alisa's tone.

But to be honest, Alisa's previous actions were not so much to solve the predicament the three of them were facing now, as to enliven the atmosphere.

At least when she talked about Xingdie in front of Lin Xi and Bryce, the silent atmosphere between the two brothers became much more relaxed.

After a while, the three of us stopped in front of a passage that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time.

"We have arrived."

Alyssa stared at the passage and said with a sigh.

"...If I remember correctly, as long as you pass through this passage, there is an elevator leading to the lower deck, which is a temporary passage for maintenance engineers."

Alisa said.

Thank you for fighting against the mountains of spaceship blueprints that she has been fighting against for a few days ago. After 300 years, this old spaceship has already been changed beyond recognition, only some corners and corners of the facilities are still in place. Land, after all, it would take too much money and manpower to replace such a large device.

Alyssa had been complaining privately that the ship had too many useless parts, but this time she couldn't help but thank them for their existence.

"Please pray next," Alisa said melancholy, "Pray that the thing can still be used... and that we can find a way to bypass the obstacle first, and come up with a way to open the mechanical device without using a personal terminal."

After speaking, she took the lead in walking towards the interior of the corridor.

The elevator was indeed there, and black oil seeped from the crack of the door, it looked like the spaceship itself was bleeding.

A metal mesh door separated Lin Xi and others from the lifting platform. The yellow and black paint had almost peeled off, revealing the reddish-brown potholes and rust at the bottom.

As for the control buttons on the right side of the metal door, they looked like trash.

Cotton-like dust is thickly piled up there, as if no one has done any maintenance here for 200 years.

"..."

The three of Lin Xi stood in front of the elevator in silence for a while.

"Do we have any other options?"

Bryce asked cautiously—although while saying this, he was already dismantling the metal plate under the control platform, preparing to rely on violence to open the control authority of the lifting platform.

"Unfortunately, no."

Alisa sighed.

"Unless we're willing to take the few elevators we know of and risk getting caught by Taran's men. I don't think that's a good idea given our current codenames and danger levels."

Alisa added.

And almost at the same time as her words fell, the metal platform in front of them shook heavily up and down, shaking off a lot of dust.

"Cough cough cough... that's... that's great..."

"This old thing can still be used...ahem..."

Lin Xi and Alisa covered their mouths and noses and let out a small cheer.

However, before their joy could last, a sharp siren sounded from the control platform in Bryce's hands.

"Oh shit!"

Bryce slammed a cut wire back in place while swearing heavily.

The siren stopped suddenly, but Bryce's face was so gloomy that it seemed that there would be thunder in the next second.

"Which bastard did it - the internal program of this thing actually overwrote the terminal system! Once it is forcibly cut off, it will send out an alarm, and the device will be forcibly locked. God, this is not a fucking ship!" The bridge facility, it's just a garbage lift that hasn't been used for hundreds of years—"

"Forehead……"

Alyssa smiled awkwardly at Bryce.

Bryce: "..."

Alisa: "...Before I updated the security system, I never thought that one day I would become a defector myself."

She defended with a wry smile.

Lin Xi rubbed his eyebrows, he interrupted the two people in front of him looking at each other with a headache.

"So, the situation now is that we have to get a personal terminal, right? And without getting Taran's attention."

"Yes."

Bryce and Alyssa spoke almost at the same time.

"Then... we still have to go back to the central area, and find a way to get a few personal terminals from other people..."

Before Lin Xi could finish speaking, there was an obvious noise from behind him.

"Crack-"

"Who?!"

Lin Xi suddenly turned her head, raised her gun and pointed it in the direction of the sound.

A somewhat terrifying white face was carefully hidden behind countless discarded objects, only the eyes were exposed.

Immediately afterwards, at the moment when Lin Xi was stunned, the sharp and sharp forelimbs like a sickle slowly protruded from behind the trash.

"Snapped……"

Accompanied by a little splash of blood, three bluish-white stiff arms were thrown over, just in front of Lin Xi's toes.

"call--"

Lin Xi could hear Bryce let out a long gasp right behind him.

"Number one?"

Lin Xi couldn't help but speak.

But after losing those three arms, the huge and terrifying body of "Number One" retracted at an alarming speed, and disappeared into the shadows.

Bryce: "..."

Lin Xi: "..."

Alisa: "...ha."

Feeling the gaze projected on her for a moment, Alisa covered her mouth, and then coughed lightly twice.

"Feel sorry."

She said.

It must be said that the three arms that were flung in front of them looked rather terrifying indeed.

But as long as you look closely, you can find that they all have personal terminals tied to their wrists.

And the cross-sections of those arms were as smooth as ever—the cross-sectioned muscles were slightly whitish, and there was nothing but a little oozing blood and tissue fluid.

Obviously, before being thrown over, someone... or rather, a bug had carefully processed these arms. "

"Do you think... these arms have been washed? How did it do it..."

Alyssa stared at the arm suspiciously and murmured.

"vomit……"

After her words fell, Bryce covered his mouth, and he tried to restrain himself, but he couldn't help but let out a retching sound.

"Feel sorry."

Alyssa snapped back to her senses, shot Bryce an apologetic look and apologized.

After a pause, she added a little weakly: "Actually, I was just joking. I really didn't expect... I didn't expect it to be really understandable."

Yes, that's right, after seeing these three arms that didn't feel dripping with blood at all, everyone remembered what Alisa said to the empty corridor before.

Because a personal terminal was needed, "Number One" cut off three arms and threw them over.

Because I emphasized not to be too bloody...

Um, although I don't know how "No. [-]" did it, but it did find a way to deal with the blood stains on those residual limbs.

Lin Xi's eyes switched back and forth between the arm on the ground and the end of the corridor where "Number One" disappeared. He didn't know what expression to use to face this almost absurd scene.

"That guy has been following us, right?" Bryce's face was already ugly like a ghost. "I think we need to be vigilant - I have never seen such an intelligent... monster... It is too scheming, no one can guarantee that it will always be harmless to us."

"you're right."

Alisa nodded.

Then she pointed to the three personal terminals on the severed arm on the ground.

"Should we use it?

She asked.

Bryce squatted down before her, and he carefully removed the personal terminal in a panic like defusing a bomb.

Then he took out the disinfectant foam from his pocket, sprayed the three personal terminals back and forth several times, and handed them to Lin Xi and Alisa tremblingly.

"this is the last time."

He muttered in panic.

Lin Xi reluctantly took over their new terminal and then opened the control authority of the elevator on the side.

There was a terrifying rattle of the lift, and the metal mesh door swung open in front of the three of them.

Lin Xi walked in first, followed by Bryce and Alyssa.

The elevator began to gradually descend——

"Thank you."

The moment she was about to leave Deck A, Lin Xi suddenly murmured thoughtfully.

And at the top of the lift, there's a mechanical layer that's barely accessible to humans.

A pale half-human, half-worm monster shook its wings, its eye sockets were still a little red and swollen, and there was still a little moistness on its cheeks.

But the moment the murmur that a normal person could never hear entered its ears, magnificent and beautiful patterns flashed on the huge spots on the edge of the wings.

……

"Crack-"

With a frightening metallic sound, the heavy, old, dusty and sundry elevator finally stopped at the deck where the mercenaries were stationed.

Lin Xi took a step forward and walked towards the outside of the elevator.

Compared with the a-1 floor, this floor is even more desolate and remote.

What should have been a corridor is now obscured by layers of discarded materials.

Lin Xi reached out and pushed away a lot of sundries, finally found a gap, and got out.

On the outside of the sundries, the layout looks similar to the previous layer.

It's just that the lights are almost off, and most of the cabins on both sides of the corridor are turned on.

This means that the central control system has failed in this area.

There was a dull, rancid smell in the air—the peculiar smell of rotting blood.

It can be said that upon seeing the scene in front of them, the hearts of Lin Xi and the others sank heavily.

"It looks like... Thorian is not having a good time either."

Lin Xi couldn't help but muttered softly to Alisa and Bryce.

They carefully probed the cabin closest to them.

Judging from the remaining living items and the degree of dirt in the cabin, it has not been a few days since this place has turned into this near-abandoned state.

However, there are obvious traces of fighting in a few cabins, and there are bloodstains on the ceiling and walls. of those scratches.

Lin Xi squatted down, and gently stroked those long marks with her fingertips.

"It's a bug."

His lips moved slightly, and he spoke with difficulty.

"These people have all turned into bugs... The mutated people in the mercenary and exploration teams are the most."

But now it seemed that the entire mercenary team had turned into that kind of monster that was neither human nor ghost.

"This……"

In an instant, the aura around the three of them became silent.

"Do you think... there might be survivors here?"

Lin Xi checked several cabins in a row, and when he found a large number of human skeletons that had been almost eaten in one of the mercenary's rooms, he was almost out of breath.

He couldn't help but muttered to himself and asked——

"Of course there is."

Then, a hoarse and low voice answered him.

At the same time, the cold muzzle of the gun aimed directly at the back of Lin Xi's head.

A gray and thin figure suddenly appeared, as if he had grown directly from the stale and dark stains in the room.

And it took at least a few minutes before the three of Lin Xi realized that the person who spoke was exactly the guy they had been looking for.

Sorian, who is arrogant, cold, always looking for ways to make trouble for others.

"Let me see who this is..." Sorian approached a little closer, and the bloody smell on his body was very strong, "Oh, God, can I believe what I see? Alyssa , Bryce, and... and our Lin Xi."

Sorian's voice was hoarse and deep, and it seemed to be the same as before.

But Lin Xi couldn't help but frowned.

He could feel that the mood of the man who pointed the gun at him was not as stable as he showed.

"Sorrian? We don't have any malicious intentions, I just want to talk to you."

Lin Xi raised his hand in a gesture of surrender.

Of course, at the same time...

His eyes were fixed on a dark spot in the room.

He didn't see Number One, but his gut told him there was something there.

calm down and don't move

Lin Xi said silently with her lips.

Under such light, and this kind of communication without sound, Lin Xi actually didn't know whether "No. [-]" could understand what he meant.

"Talk to me? Talk about what—how to continue choosing your sacrifices? Devil!"

Facing Lin Xi's accusation, Sorian just yelled nervously.

Immediately afterwards, more erratic and thin figures also appeared, and the muzzle of the plasma gun was aimed at the three of them in unison.

Both Alisa and Bryce seemed a little nervous, and so did Lin Xi.

However, his nervousness was different from that of his brother and Alisa.What he was really worried about was "Number One". Although he had never seen that alien insect hunting with his own eyes, Robert, who was cut into pieces before, and Eli, who was easily cut into two pieces, proved that " No. [-]" has strong capabilities in this regard.

But Sorian is different from those people who have been alienated into monsters. Lin Xi also hopes to communicate with the "ghost" who claims to be the captain of the Providence through him-he really has too many doubts to get the source. The weird Mr. "Ghost" solves the puzzle.

And at this moment, what he was most worried about was that "Number One" jumped out and cut Sorian into fresh pieces in front of him.

Thankfully, he waited with bated breath for a while, and some monster didn't just jump out of the darkness and kill - that alone was enough for Lin Xi to breathe a sigh of relief.

"I'm not a devil, and I have no plans to choose a sacrifice." Lin Xi said calmly, "I just want to solve the problem—there is something wrong with this ship, I think you feel it too, don't you?"

He didn't say much.

After all, these completely open cabins have proved his words.

"Shut up, don't try to confuse me!"

cried Sorian.

Although they all sound similar, Lin Xi was keenly aware of a slight wavering in Sorian's tone.

At the same time, both Bryce and Alyssa spoke successively in an attempt to ease the situation.

"Hey, Sorian, you should know what kind of person I am. I can guarantee Lin Xi that there is a reason for us to come to you this time, and we have absolutely no malicious intentions."

Alisa said.

Although it has long been heard from the ship's bulletin that Alyssa was designated as a defector, during the two-year mission, even the mercenaries have to admit that Alyssa is probably the most responsible and dedicated person they have ever encountered. Deputy captain, after hearing her speak, the murderous intent and ferocity in the eyes of the other mercenaries, except for Sorian, more or less subsided.

But for some reason, the group of people represented by Sorian obviously did not show the characteristics of alienation, but their behavior was still extremely neurotic and weird.

So even with Alisa's guarantee, they were still unwilling to put down the guns in their hands and have a good talk with them.

Lin Xi and the others were pushed and pushed out of the narrow and dim cabin by those gunpoints.

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