mother of all races

The room that Bryce and Alyssa broke into was very dark, and there was a very bad smell in the air, but Bryce and Alyssa couldn't care less about complaining about the hygienic environment at this time.

The moment he entered the room, Bryce had jumped up, and he pressed against the door and locked the metal hatch from the inside—this way, even if those damn bugs were still searching for them, the door was more or less safe. Resist some time.

Immediately afterwards, Bryce and Alisa fell to the ground together. They seized every opportunity to rest hard, and were preparing for another escape that might be coming soon.

However, they waited with bated breath for a long time, but the "rustling" sounds belonging to those monsters outside the door did not follow as before.

Even though the breathing and heartbeat of the two of them had gradually returned to calm, the silence outside the door made them feel flustered.

At this moment, the surroundings turned out to be silent, and it seemed that only their heartbeat and breathing could make some sound in the whole world.

"I... I hope I'm not being overly optimistic..."

Alyssa barely sat up on the ground with her elbows propped up, and she looked at Bryce with a weak smile.

"No, it's not optimistic, I think this time maybe we did escape, that guy... I mean, the 'good man' who gave us this thing" Bryce shook his hand personal terminal, and smiled wryly, "It's probably pretty good food for those bugs."

Alisa's body relaxed.

But then, she pressed her hand vigorously on her cheek and rubbed it to refresh herself.

"Then let's take a look at the situation here, and then we are still the same?"

she says.

She was talking about the two taking turns at the night watch, one sleeping and the other on guard, and that's how they've gotten through the past week.

But because of the crazy sensitivity of those bugs, their shelters are always quickly discovered by those monsters...

Bryce nodded.

"Hopefully this place lasts longer this time."

he muttered.

Then he turned on the flashlight and carefully searched every crack and every piece of metal wall for possible traces of insects: mucus, rust left by corrosion by saliva, insect claws on the metal surface. The deep lines drawn, and the bloodstains and minced meat that will be rubbed wherever the bugs go...

During a week of fleeing, Bryce and Alyssa have been quite calm and skillful in doing this.

"Wow--"

But this time, after seeing everything around him clearly, Bryce let out a whistle, and his mood became a little higher than before.

"It seems that this place is quite solid."

After an extremely careful inspection, neither of them found any traces of insect invasion here.

This is the luck of luck for them today.

Even better, the four walls here are thick, flat, smooth metal—which reassures Bryce.

These walls are obviously new alloy walls that were replaced during the latest repairs to the spacecraft, not the old metal walls that can be seen everywhere on the Helios, which have become fragile and mottled due to 300 years of age.This means that if bugs try to break in, they may have more time to react.

There are very few superfluous clutter here.

Some instruments were randomly piled up in the shadowed corner, and in the middle of the room, more than a dozen rectangular silver metal blocks were regularly placed.

Alisa walked over and put her palm on the metal block.

Vibrations that would be absolutely undetectable without careful inspection came from under the metal block.

From time to time, some tiny spots of light would flicker on the surface of the metal block.

Alisa frowned slightly.

"This thing is still working?" she said in disbelief.

"what is this?"

Bryce walked to her side, imitating Alisa's way, feeling the slight tremor of those metal squares with the palm of his hand.

"Supercomputer." Alisa said, "This is all... If the artificial intelligence system on the Helios has not been stripped, these computers are its 'brain'."

She turned her head a little suspiciously, and once again began to look at the room they had broken into at random.

"I remember, there is no artificial intelligence on the Helios at all?"

Blaise asked a little puzzled.

"Yes, that's why this matter is very strange. Those artificial intelligences are too energy-intensive, and their uncontrollability is too high. A long time ago, old-fashioned spaceships like the Helios cleared all personal intelligence. But the computer component was originally embedded in the spaceship as a whole, so they didn't remove it from the spaceship in the end..."

"But it's still working, someone's using it—"

The tacit understanding between the two began to work again, and without further words, Bryce had already touched his waist vigilantly.

But the only thing he touched was the empty waist, and he remembered that his gun had been thrown away due to lack of energy before that.

That might be a good thing though, after all, he doesn't really want to irritate someone - especially if they have a gun in their hand.

It was a particularly thin figure, and it was difficult to see his appearance clearly from Bryce's current angle, but from the corner of his eye, Bryce caught a glimpse of the gun in the man's hand at a glance.His movements stopped immediately.

"How did you get in..."

Even with his voice alone, Bryce could feel that the man was in a terrible state. His trembling, nervous voice sounded full of despair and panic.

Even the gun in the young man's hand was shaking non-stop because of his extremely bad mental state.

"Sith?"

However, while Bryce was guarding, Alyssa looked straight over Bryce's shoulder and looked at him.

Then she opened her eyes wide in shock and called out the other person's name.

"...Alyssa?"

Sith Lime looked equally shocked, staring blankly at Alyssa, and the gun dropped to the ground with a shake of his hand.

Bryce turned his head quickly, and when he saw Sith's familiar face that always looked tired, he couldn't help but exclaimed in surprise: "You're still alive! Oh, my God, this is so good-- you are still alive!"

Sith is their friend, and has been on the ship responsible for comparing star maps and calculating the coordinates of their current planet.

In the early stage when the transition failed and the spaceship had to make an emergency landing, they could still get together to curse Taran and complain about work... But as the situation on the ship became more and more out of control, Sith almost He never appeared in front of them again.

Before this, both Alisa and Bryce felt pessimistically that Isis's character, probably he had already died under the mouthparts of the crew members who kept mutating into monsters.

After seeing Alisa and Bryce, Sith also seemed extremely excited.

He almost didn't cry with his former friend in his arms...

God knows how long it took Alisa to calm Sith, who was almost out of control.

In addition, they also learned from Sith that the supercomputers that were supposed to be used by artificial intelligence are continuously running for what purpose.

……

"Wait, you mean... that motherboard?! That motherboard does contain the star map left by the Providence?!"

In the dark computer room, Alisa accidentally raised her voice.

But no one would blame him for this feeling, after all, the news from Sith Lime was simply too important to them now.

The main board of the aircraft that Lin Xi took out from the aircraft at the risk of death was thrown to the technicians on the ship for data cracking, and Sith Lime was naturally one of them.

"Everything went smoothly at the beginning, but soon...those things happened..." Sith was still trembling when he mentioned the mutation that happened in the data processing room, "Joanna, Bailey...they one by one ...it all went really wrong, and then...then they all turned into some kind of disgusting thing that was neither human nor ghost..."

With his colleagues leaving one by one, Sith, who was helpless, could only watch the progress bar on the motherboard slowly crawl to 90.00% speed and then get stuck there.If Sith were just a normal guy, he'd probably just give up and let what happened to his colleagues happen to him.

"I was chased by those things... and escaped here accidentally. Then, I discovered these computers—" While speaking, Sith looked longingly at the metal blocks beside him.

"You decided to bring these idle electronic brains back to life and let them help you crack the motherboard, right? Oh Sith, you're a fucking genius! As long as we have the star map, we can go back! We can leave This is a hellish place!"

Bryce couldn't resist giving Sith a big hug.

He didn't feel too much force, on the one hand because his body was on the verge of collapse, and on the other hand because Sith was really too thin, he looked almost like a skeleton wrapped in pale skin.

"No, no, I'm not a genius." After hearing Bryce's praise, Sith showed a particularly bitter expression: "All the data on that motherboard has been unlocked, but...but we have no way to see The files inside. In order to make this motherboard usable, we overwrote our program on the motherboard when we cracked it, now...now..."

As he spoke, Sith stuttered again.

"Now the ship is under Talan's control. The key content on this main board probably needs Talan's authorization before we can access it, just like other things on the ship, right?"

In the end, it was Alyssa who spoke the horrific truth directly instead of Sith.

"Talan... Taran?"

Bryce froze all over.

"That's right, it's him. We have to find a way to allow him to let us get the star map. Moreover, if we really want to leave here, we need him to open the rescue capsule or start the engine."

As soon as Sith's voice fell, the three of them fell silent instantly.

They looked at each other, each seeing a hint of despair on each other's faces.

……

despair.

The same despair, at the same moment, actually enveloped Lin Xi's heart.

At that moment just now, Lin Xi felt as if he had become one with the insects full of hunger and bloodthirsty instincts in a long and narrow corridor.

He became that bug.

And that worm was really himself.

He even clearly saw the backs belonging to Bryce and Alisa through the heat source and infrared rays.

Bryce, Alisa—

At that moment, he almost cried out directly.

But all that came out of its throat was that eerie, sinister neigh.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi felt... as if she was forcibly excluded from the spiritual world by something.

The feeling couldn't have been worse.

Lin Xi fell directly to the ground, her body trembling constantly, her head hurting so much that it seemed that she could explode in the next second.

Cold, hungry, and...a strong sense of emptiness was spreading through his body.

He is longing for a source of energy, and more family members... Until now, "He" still has not established a prototype of a qualified worm nest, and those disobedient subjects made the zerg queen in him Fell into extreme agitation.

"Lin Xi."

As soon as he saw Lin Xi fall, "No. [-]" quickly appeared by his side.

Chongzi's weird body hugged Lin Xi tightly, and a row of small holes on both sides of the ribs of "No. [-]" suddenly opened, and a charming and sweet fragrance came out...

Lin Xi's body, which was so tense that it was about to convulse, immediately relaxed a lot after smelling the fragrant breath.

Even his headaches eased a little.

Security.

Lin Xi didn't want to admit this, but he couldn't deny his most instinctive feelings.

"Number One" is his family, his king worm.

Its hug and smell soothed the restless "He".

Similarly, when Lin Xi's body relaxed, his consciousness also involuntarily became dull and relaxed...

He just let "Number One" hug him so weakly—that was a tight hug that he could never imagine when he was a human being.

The arms of "No. [-]" trapped Lin Xi's upper body, and then silently... two arms covered with fleshy skin protruded directly from the back of "No. [-]", under the pair of wings, They clasped Lin Xi's waist tightly, making him unable to move at all.

For a few minutes, Lin Xi even had the illusion that she was almost embedded directly into the body of "No. [-]".

But what really woke him up was not the hug, but the bulge of the eighth belly plate of "Number One"'s abdomen...

And bony canals bulging rapidly from beneath the belly deck.

"Lin Xi..."

"Number One" lowered his head and murmured sweetly in Lin Xi's ear.

This is the "Lin Xi" it likes, so...

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Number One: Sure, it's my favorite bug.happy! ~You can do what your favorite bugs love to do!

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