mother of all races

In the deep and dark underground where no one can see.

A huge spaceship so huge that it can almost be called a city is silently crawling in the wet and sticky alien sand.

What an amazing metal creation, it seems that it was not made by small human beings, but by a more sacred and almighty god. Surprised by this.When they made it, they always felt that there seemed to be something attached to them in the dark, allowing them to successfully construct the outline of this miracle.

Countless golden transparent energy plates are aggregated by translucent polymer materials, and together they form a golden sphere like an asteroid.

Although, in the years after the disappearance of the Providence, people on Earth often created various stories based on it in various works of art, none of the stories really portrayed Its grandeur and grandeur.

Strictly speaking, it can’t even be called a spaceship—it’s actually a sphere of artificial matter manufactured by bringing together the most advanced, most luxurious, and most refined technologies in the entire Great Exploration Era.

It could almost be called a Dyson sphere, although its core is a high-tech aircraft rather than an actual asteroid.

But in any case, even now, it can still be called a miracle of mankind.

Numerous metal pipes protrude from the gaps in the metal plates of the Providence like the roots of plants, piercing straight to a deeper position, which makes it look like a star that has been magnified countless times. virus.A steady stream of geothermal heat is extracted by these pipes and then turned into clean energy and transported to the interior of the "city".

However, even with such energy, there is no way to afford the operation of the entire spaceship.

There was no light on the surface of the incomparably huge spaceship, and no movement of any equipment could be seen.

The 300 years have not caused much wear and tear to the spaceship. The metal on its surface is as bright and smooth as ever, and the wear and tear of all equipment is still in a good state, but it still looks lifeless, like a ship. The metal body that had been dead for 300 years was buried silently in the tomb.

However, in the innermost part of the "corpse" of the Providence, there is something that still maintains its own vitality.

The energy converted from geothermal heat is transported here. The pipes pulsate like human blood vessels. The electronic brain wrapped around the outer wall of the spherical core presents a regular spherical shape. Flashes and changes regularly.

But under the heavy siege, the most central position of the metal core was an empty command room.Wet, sticky colloids spread all over the metal surfaces, and intricate blood vessels and nerves protruded from the surface thanks to the colloids, building together a moist, warm, evil lair.

And in the center of this lair, a man is hanging his head wrapped in the middle of blood vessels and meridians.

He had a pale, handsome face, looked about to be in his thirties, and was as handsome as some star on Earth.

However, his body has been seriously shrunken and out of shape. His scrawny body looks like the size of a child, and because of the dry and constricted skin on his body surface, he has to curl up as a whole, like a sacrifice put into a jar in a human sacrifice. .

Most of his body has almost merged with the jelly on the ground, but there is a bit of metallic blue light flashing on the exposed skin.

The disgusting looking body didn't have any ups and downs, only some artificial parts embedded on the surface of his body would regularly light up faintly like a breathing lamp.

Suddenly, its body trembled, and then it slowly opened its eyes.

It was a pair of scarlet and dull compound eyes, without any emotion inside, only a void, like the darkness that enveloped it.

"He's still alive..."

The monster-like man made an extremely unpleasant hoarse voice.

"...Yeah...Why did I forget...He is already at the end of transformation. Ordinary guns can't kill him. It's bad because He shouldn't exist. In this world, there should only be one worm mother, What do you think?"

the monster murmured.

It issued a question, but from the beginning to the end, the jelly that wrapped him and the spherical objects that were densely suspended around him remained silent, without answering any of its questions.

"Ah……"

The monster sneered, and he looked into the darkness.Those tiny pupils densely covered in the eye sockets accurately locked on a bug egg embedded in the wall.

The eggs had already entered the late stage of hatching, they looked heavy and swollen, and there were already some mottled patterns on the chitin shell on the surface.

The monster's eyes trembled, and then a metal arm stretched out from the top of the control room, directly holding the bug egg to its side.

Immediately afterwards, a blue light suddenly flashed on the metal arm. In just a few seconds, the blue light evenly scanned the eggs aside, allowing the monster-like man to directly see the contents of the eggs. .

"呲-"

The next moment, under the gaze of the monster, the case of the egg was directly cut open by the metal arm.

Accompanied by the viscous sound of the mucus gushing out, the extremely rancid thick slurry shot out directly from the inside of the eggs.

Immediately afterwards, there was a deformed insect curled up with its own body.

It looks only the size of a kitten, and the position of the head looks like a primate, but starting from the neck and looking down, it is an out-and-out insect, but the immature insect looks more It looks like a mass of semi-liquid soft flesh studded with carapace and bristles.

The unusually tenacious vitality of the alien species is clearly reflected in this deformity.

Even if it is forcibly cut out from the eggs, even if it is severely stunted, it is still alive.

Its mouthparts flapped and closed rapidly in the air, its soft and feeble body trembled, and it tried to escape from the monster——

But the metal arm clamped it mercilessly.

"It's disgusting...it's disgusting...damn...damn Lin Xi..."

The monster man let the metal arm take the monstrosity into his hands.

It let out a painful grunt, then tore open the little thing's body, and swallowed the soft flesh of the failed deformed insect whole.

At the end of the meal, only the ossified head of the deformed insect remained.

The man tossed aside the part of the wreckage he couldn't absorb, bored.

The eyeballs of the deformed insect quivered a few times in the eye sockets, and then it finally completely lost its vitality.

Around it, are hills of skeletons already piled high.

The monster man turned his head and looked at the remaining eggs on the wall.

Its eyes flickered, and its mood seemed very depressed.

"I don't even remember how long..."

he said with a sigh.

"It's been a long time since no children have been able to hatch smoothly... Well, I know you don't like me doing this, but what can I do? We really need new children..."

While speaking, the monster man wriggled his body with difficulty with the help of the mechanical arm.

On the lower side of his body, an extremely disgusting mass trembled slightly.

It was once an extremely powerful bug.

"King Bug," that's what some Sunu myths would call that bug.

However, most of the body of the king worm has been stripped off now, leaving only the complete gonads and a part of the life support system reserved to maintain its vitality. Middle—no soul, no thinking, no body, just living in nothingness.

It's just that once or twice, it seems to respond to the monster man's words.

"It's okay, everything will be fine."

The monster man was gentle with the lump of flesh stitched on his body.

He didn't seem to realize at all how terrifying and maddening the current scene was.

"...As long as he dies, everything you worry about will be resolved, I can swear to you."

The monster man muttered to himself.

"It's just that it does take some work to kill him. I can feel that he is expanding his territory and multiplying his own children. Maybe cutting that guy into pieces will be useful, yes, I think it will work, cut into pieces After the fragments, those family members who kill him, even if it is him, will die naturally when they cannot absorb enough energy to repair their bodies, right? Let me think about what I should do...Let me... "

While speaking, the monster man suddenly looked thoughtfully at those metal arms.

Even after 300 years, the blue spray-painted words on the metal arm are still clearly visible—that is the prominent logo of Dell.

……

Lin Xi shuddered, and he woke up suddenly.

Vaguely, he felt that he seemed to be having a nightmare.

He dreamed of deformed bug eggs, dark nests, and, oh yes, horrific lumps of flesh sewn onto himself.

Maybe only after experiencing the most disgusting thing in the world (such as finding himself turning into a monster bug with an extra set of mouthparts and a straw growing out of his throat) would he do such a debilitating act nightmare.

In the gap between sleep and waking up, Lin Xi couldn't even distinguish reality from dreams.

The heaviness coming from his waist made him scream uncontrollably.

He subconsciously pushed the monster away——

"Lin Xi?"

"Number One" suddenly tightened its wings, and looked up at Lin Xi sadly, its eyes full of bewilderment.

In fact, long before Lin Xi woke up, "No. [-]" had already woken up vigilantly.

However, it knew that once Lin Xi opened his eyes, he would have to separate from the other party. In the frank attachment, it worked very hard to maintain the posture of tightly hugging Lin Xi's waist.

The slap on its face was a bit hot and painful, which made "Number One" a little worried that his mimicry would be released accidentally.

Facing the Savile-like face of "Number One", Lin Xi shuddered and finally woke up from the chaos.