mother of all races

"I'm sorry...I'm really, really sorry...I really don't want to do this."

In the dark and damp computer room, Sith knelt down.

Those anesthetics took effect unexpectedly quickly, and Bryce fell in front of him before he could make any resistance.The man's body was motionless, but his arms were stretched straight forward, as if trying to protect something.

And even though he had lost consciousness, there was still that unbelievable expression on his face.

Obviously, even before this, these two people had been secretly wary of Sith in their hearts, but Bryce and the others were fundamentally unprepared-they didn't expect Sith would really make such a move. A shocking act of betrayal.

Seeing the unconscious Alisa and Bryce, Sith cried bitterly.

Obviously the guy who betrayed his friend was himself, but he seemed to be in more pain than Alisa and Bryce.

At the end of the cry, this extremely haggard and thin young man even curled up on the ground. He covered his face with his hands, and his body twitched slightly.

He kept saying sorry to the two who could no longer hear him, until a particularly hoarse voice interrupted his ugly sobs.

"Oh, what a poor boy, you look absolutely devastated..."

A figure slowly emerged from the shadows.

It was a person who seemed to have crawled out of a horror movie. His skinny skin was wrapped directly on the abrupt skeleton, and his tattered coat was full of dirt... In fact, it was only because he was still alive and able to move on his own. Everything seemed like some kind of miracle.There were black and red stains all over the body of that terrifying figure, and large chunks of blood coagulated on the bottom of his eyes and around his mouth, and even his ears and the side of his neck.He seemed to have had a hemorrhage, but that wasn't the scariest part of his body—what was even more frightening was the left half of his head. There is only a thin film that looks like paper on the outside of the human bare brain.

When he appeared, his figure was erratic like a ghost.

With his terrifying appearance, it looks even more scary.

However, Sith, who was crying constantly, did not show any surprise at this man's arrival.

"They are all my friends, very good friends." Sith was even more able to swallow back the man's sympathetic whisper.

He wiped away his tears, then turned to look at the person who came.

"How is your physical condition...God, you still look bad. Professor Ando."

Sith just called out the horrible man's name.

Yes, that's right, this ghostly man is none other than Shizuo Ando who should have been lying in the confinement room, forgotten by everyone, and then died quietly.

The man who had long been judged to be brain-dead by the medical officer and medical equipment now appeared to be able to move freely and have a quick mind.

He can even communicate with outsiders smoothly, and is also very good at comforting others.

"Sith crew, don't push yourself too hard - like you said, you used to be good friends, and Bryce and Alyssa were good people. If that's the case, they should understand you Behavior." Ando Shizuo said to Sith, "...your mother has lost so many children, think about how desperate she would be if her last youngest son died quietly in outer space like this .Really good people don’t want to see this happen to an aging mother. They’re going to help you get what you want, and they’re going to do it—you’re going to leave this planet and go back to Earth.”

"But...but...I'm sending them to die."

Sith finally stopped crying under the bewitching persuasion of Ando Shizuo, he calmed down a little, but he still looked very desperate.

"Talan is completely crazy now, he will definitely kill them..."

"Oh, poor young man, you see, you've already said it: Taran hates them, yes, he'll kill them, so..."

The man named Shizuo Ando lowered his voice, and there was something in his voice that no language could describe.

If there really is a devil in this world, then the devil's voice must be like his.

"Your friends would still have died without the things you've done. But now you've given them a chance to make their deaths meaningful..."

"But…….

"Please don't go on like this 'but', now, neither you nor me, nor your friends, there is no way to turn back."

Shizuo Ando looked at Alisa and Bryce who were lying on the ground, he squirmed his shriveled and wrinkled lips, and then sneered like a witch.

This smile made Sith's eyes condense.

In a short moment, Sith's eyes flickered with long-lost clarity.

But soon, what Shizuo Ando said next made the young man in a trance again.

"Besides, you're not doing nothing. You're going to avenge your friends. Just like I told you before."

In this way, Shizuo Ando persuasively comforted Sith who was in a trance.

"Revenge. For...you said..."

Sith seemed to have found the last straw, he nodded frantically, and then kept repeating the same sentence.

"As long as, as long as Taran turns on the motherboard, as long as this thing is activated, it will automatically connect to the killing machines on the Providence, and those 'ghosts' will automatically kill all people infected with foreign cells, then But the most terrifying killing machine manufactured by Dell, it won't take long at all, and people can use those robots to kill all these monsters..."

Sith repeated in a trance every word Shizuo Ando had said to him not long ago.

"That's right, you're not mistaken at all. This is how things developed afterwards... You also know that Taran has gone crazy, and his body has undergone serious alienation. Once the killing machines of Dell's company detect alien monsters The existence of those monsters will naturally be wiped out one by one according to the degree of infection. Think about those headaches of Martian leeches, the little monsters on this planet are only as good as those killing machines. Pediatrics nothing more. Soon, you will never have to worry about monsters that kill all your friends and co-workers.. The surviving crew of the Helios will appreciate you too. You have a bright future ahead of me I can assure you. You will get the damn star map, and then you will go back to your comfort zone and live a full life in peace on that blue planet."

I have to say that even from the perspective of a bystander, Shizuo Ando's words sound very contagious.

Not to mention, Sith was already in a trance and confused.He seemed to be able to directly see his beautiful future life through Ando Shizuo's narration. While the man was speaking, he kept nodding in a trance.

However, suddenly, he seemed to think of something, and then he looked at Shizuo Ando with some trepidation.

"No... no... it's been 300 years." Sith's voice sounded extremely anxious, "Can those machines really move freely? How can you be sure that those robots will really look like you Be as obedient as you say."

Ando Shizuo shook his head helplessly, he took a step forward and approached Sith, his dry and cold palm lightly pressed Sith's cheek, and his pair of cloudy eyes stared straight at Sith. This extremely frightened young man in front of him.

"Of course I would. As the captain of the Providence, I even remember how I gave orders to those terrible machines."

Ando Shizuo's fingers were icy and cold on Sith's skin, and Sith could even faintly smell the rancid smell emanating from this man.

Sith shivered involuntarily.

"But, you...you are...Ando..."

There was a hint of confusion in his eyes.

"I'm Shizuo Ando, ​​but I'm also Scripps, the captain of the Providence. I've told you before, haven't I? There are two souls in this body at the same time..."

"I……"

"Dear Sith, please don't question my determination to help you," Shizuo Ando, ​​or rather, Scripps' voice became hoarse little by little, "...anyone trapped on this planet 300 years of soul, will want to help their own people back to the earth. I have died here, I know the pain. I really can't bear it... I can't bear to see more people like me , wandering forever and ever in the dark and cold void of the universe, and the soul will never be at peace."

While saying these words, a strange light shone in the man's eyes.

After Sith met the light in the man's eyes, the expression on his face became relaxed little by little, and his eyes became more and more blurred.

yes……

Sith heard a small, unfamiliar voice in his head repeating the horrible man's whispers over and over again.

Sith felt terribly painful, but in the end, he made up his mind.

He took a deep breath.Then he clicked on his personal communication, and tapped the internal call button for Captain Taran with trembling fingers.

……

"Ok?"

Several decks below the Sith.

Lin Xi suddenly stopped all movements and raised her head to look above her.

However, what he can see now is only those layers of glue that seem to be alive.

"Lin, Lin Xi."

Xavier, who was beside him, quickly noticed Lin Xi's movements, and it stood up all of a sudden, staring at Lin Xi without blinking its blue eyes.

"what happened?"

it asked awkwardly.

The atmosphere between it and Lin Xi has been a bit weird until now.

Lin Xi's attitude towards it is always a little inexplicably tense-and Xavier seems to have noticed this, and now even Lin Xi's slightest move will cause it to treat it nervously.

"nothing……"

Lin Xi came back to his senses in a trance, and he said a little uncomfortable.

Just now, he always felt as if he saw something.

That feeling was a bit similar to how he saw Isaac and Alyssa through the eyes of other bugs before, but this time he didn't see anything.That fleeting palpitation was more like an illusion caused by his own mutation.

Mutation.

Thinking of this, Lin Xi couldn't help but look dark.

This corridor, which was used as a temporary nest, no longer looks like a place on earth.The light here became very hazy, and the cold and dry air became warm and humid under the action of these jelly.If Lin Xi hadn't had any special changes, this cloudy and hot environment would probably have made him feel very uncomfortable, but now, he had to admit that he felt very comfortable when staying here—his body was earlier than His will adapted to the environment here early.

Those fleshy pouches that were originally hanging in the air aged quickly after Lin Xi personally killed those poor alien species, dried up, and then fell to the ground.

Some tiny crustaceans that Lin Xi couldn't describe at all got out of the gaps in the jelly, and they began to gather in groups, and then devoured the fragile and soft bodies of the alien species.

And when these lowest-level swarms were happily enjoying their extra meals, Lin Xi was actually eating too.

Those foods were prepared by Xavier for him.

The severe trauma he received before and the internal changes in his body made Lin Xi still in a particularly weak state.His instinct is warning that he must eat food as soon as possible to make himself better... Lin Xi is unwilling to admit it, but he is very clear that at this moment, even the corpses of those alien species that are being devoured by the little beetles All exude an attractive smell.

Lin Xi's particularly bad mood is probably also related to his current state: he fell asleep, woke up, ate, then fell asleep again, woke up, ate...

He is turning into a monster.

Before this day, Lin Xi even considered suicide.It was probably because of this that he killed his family members one by one, those poor aliens, in such a painful struggle.He wants to end it all.only……

What happened later completely deviated from Lin Xi's expectations.

He let the alien go, he... he kind of reluctantly accepted the status quo.

He stayed in this place that made him feel comfortable and made him feel sick, like a queen in a termite nest, waiting for his subjects to feed him.

Of course, the only family member who can stay beside him now is Xavier.

Xavier adapted well to this and was in a very happy mood, but Lin Xi herself was a little nervous.

He still remembered that he had eaten a lot of bugs, and he was very worried that the food Xavier used to feed him would also be human beings or the hideous corpses of his fellows.

Thankfully, that seemingly ignorant alien insect is smarter than Lin Xi thought.

Perhaps because of that weird spiritual connection, it could vaguely sense Lin Xi's thoughts.And it is also very clear that Lin Xi has an extremely strong resistance to eating humans (although the spaceship is now full of human corpses, and for alien species, the corpses of naked apes with soft bodies should be the tastiest and most delicious) handy ingredients), while Lynch doesn't seem too keen on sucking on the pate that's been transformed from various insects.

At least, what Lin Xi got this time were those unopened food bags for human consumption.

These food bags are not ideal food for the "mother of alien species".After all, as "He", "He" no longer needs to continue to ingest the degraded ground milk in the food bag, and the nutrition of the food bag itself is far inferior to the fresh biological individuals everywhere in the spaceship.

but……

If it was Lin Xi, he would probably like this kind of food more.

So Xavier thought as he foraged for food.

But at this moment, it was guarding Lin Xi's side nervously, paying close attention to Lin Xi's reaction to these food bags.

Occasionally there are a few gaps, and Lin Xi can even feel the expectation from it.

This made Lin Xi's mood more and more complicated.

After all...whether it's apprehension, attachment, or the current look of tossing and turning expecting praise but evasive, it's a bit too human for a monster like Xavier.

Lin Xi couldn't help but glanced at Xavier, who looked at him without blinking.

Perhaps because of getting used to seeing it, the combination of Savile's face and this incomparably ferocious insect body is not as abrupt as before.

Lin Xi thought with a bit of self-loathing, after all, at this moment, he actually felt a trace of pitifulness in Xavier.

And he couldn't even help himself being touched.

"thanks--"

Lin Xi's lips moved slightly, and he said to Xavier with some difficulty.

As soon as his words fell, two slender tentacles stood up directly from the top of Xavier's head.Because Lin Xi has been observing it, he naturally noticed the change in Xavier's eyes.

Those beautiful blue eyes suddenly became extraordinarily bright, burning as if they could scald others.

Lin Xi lowered her eyes and didn't want to look at it again.

He was very afraid that the love he felt for Xavier at this moment was actually because his mutation was deepening day by day.

Next time I can go out and forage by myself.

Lin Xi almost said that directly to Xavier.

It's just an unexpected episode that interrupted Lin Xi's conversation: After wandering around him for a few times, this terrifying monster... suddenly carefully pulled out from a certain fold at the base of its wings. He handed something to Lin Xi.

"Here, for you."

it said very quietly.

Lin Xi looked at its palm, and then opened her eyes involuntarily.

That is a chocolate.

Considering the wet and slightly wriggling jelly around him at this moment, the horrifying monster opposite him, and his half-human, half-insect ghost—judging from the current scene creation, It would have been more natural for Xavier to bring him the head of some acquaintance than such a chocolate.

It was a chocolate that had been carefully preserved. The patterns and labels on the patterned paper on the surface proved that it was not the kind of cheap chocolate distributed inside the spaceship, but a crew member who took it all the way from Earth to Sunu with a cherished heart. , brought here from Sunu again.

Obviously, this was something that Xavier found in the inventory of some unlucky guy when he searched the entire spaceship for those unopened food bags.

There were still a few drops of blackened blood left on the wrapping paper with bright patterns—Lin Xi refused to think about what happened to the former owner of this chocolate.

In the days when food is scarce and the future is dark and stranded, that person still carefully hides this chocolate. What is his mood?

And is he still alive now?

Lin Xi stared at the chocolate involuntarily in a daze.

Xavier followed Lin Xi's gaze, and soon saw the drop of blood on the chocolate packaging.

There was a restless gray-purple color on its wings, and its tentacles quivered slightly.

Then it withdrew its hand, sticking out its slender tongue from its mouthparts, rolled up the blood-stained wrapping paper in one gulp and swallowed it. When Lin Xi reacted, it handed the peeled chocolate to Lin Xi. went back.

"Number One—Xavier—"

Lin Xi blurted out.

"It's...human food."

Xavier tried his best to explain without waiting for Lin Xi to finish speaking.

It's nonchalantly ignoring the fact that it ate the wrapper—although it's actually quite distressed, the colorful wrapper on the outside of the chocolate fits its aesthetic perfectly.Xavier had originally planned to set the sparkling "little stone" in his new nest before discovering that it was a human favorite chocolate.

Of course, it was impossible for Lin Xi to perceive the regret in Xavier's heart.

After hearing Xavier's words, his eyes dimmed slightly.

human food...

However, is he really still human today?

Lin Xi was still silent, and the alien monster opposite him continued to speak with apprehension.

"You'll like it."

Xavier murmured.

"Lin Xi likes humans."

...And Lin Xi doesn't like aliens.

Although the matter has passed, Xavier will never forget Lin Xi's strong resistance and collapse before this.

And the moment the thought "Lin Xi doesn't like alien species" broke into its mind, countless complex and sour strange emotions began to bite Xavier's ignorant heart like tiny bugs.It was precisely this kind of dull pain that made it subconsciously swallow the last half of the sentence without saying a word.

"Thank you."

Lin Xi stared blankly at Xavier and said, this time, his attitude was much more serious than before.

He didn't expect that such a slight change in attitude could cause such a big reaction from the little monster in front of him——

Xavier's cheeks turned red all of a sudden, and some small "click" sounds came out from the depths of its throat completely uncontrollably.

It was an instinctive reaction of a different species, a "singing sound" that only appeared when one was extremely happy.

Xavier squeezed his lips suddenly, but the sound did not come from the vocal cords but from the rapid friction of some parts deep in the throat, so even though it was desperately shutting up, those happy short sounds continued from Its chest popped out.

Not to mention, its tentacles began to shake regularly in the air, and its wings kept changing various happy colors.

Lin Xi was stunned, he was a little dazed, he didn't know how to face Xavier's reaction.

So he just reached out and took the chocolate after a short silence.

The surface of that piece of chocolate had stale hoarfrost, and its smell even had a smoky stench in Lin Xi's nasal cavity, which is now extremely developed in perception.

However, it was such a chocolate that seemed so ordinary in the human world...and even should have been thrown into the trash can, that made Lin Xi's eyes feel a little hot.

And just when he was about to eat the chocolate, he noticed Xavier's extremely focused eyes.

Lin Xi's heart couldn't help but move slightly.

By accident, Lin Xi broke open the piece of chocolate, and then put the remaining half back into Xavier's palm.

"do you want to eat?"

Lynch asked.

Xavier froze completely.

It held the half chocolate with both hands, and didn't dare to move.

The magnificent rose pink flashes continuously on its wings, and its tentacles are stretched straight, only the tips of the tentacles are constantly trembling.

Without any language communication, Lin Xi could clearly feel the ecstasy of Xavier just by the various chemical breaths secreted from Xavier's color and body surface.

Not to mention, almost every syllable of the fast-paced "click" sound coming from Xavier's chest showed Lin Xi how excited he was at the moment.

"Here, give me something to eat?"

It took Xavier a long time to finally come back to his senses, and it asked awkwardly.

"Ah."

Lin Xi responded dryly.

He subconsciously avoided Xavier's blunt and enthusiastic gaze, and his body was even more rigid.

He felt that he was in a state of confusion and abnormality, as if he had started to look for humanity and comfort in Xavier.

If Xavier hadn't been dizzy with joy, he might have been able to faintly sense that Lin Xi's emotions were wrong, but he was completely dizzy at this time.

It was happy as hell, and then it couldn't wait to swallow the dark and pungent-smelling human food into its mouth in one gulp.

next second...

The color of its wings suddenly turned gray.

And the tense tentacles slapped directly to the back of the head.

Even a dull person like Lin Xi could feel Xavier's dullness and shock at that moment.

"Xavier?"

... Lin Xi was a little flustered.

He began to recall involuntarily whether there was anything to be taboo in the Star Butterfly recipe recorded in Professor Ando's notebook.Although from the records he could recall, Star Butterfly was considered to be a magical species that was almost invulnerable to all poisons.

They can be very picky about food, but they can survive by chewing metal or stone if necessary.

But Xavier's reaction was indeed too violent.

Lin Xi could feel that it had been trying to cover up its abnormality, but the worrying off-white color had even spread from its wings to its body.

Lin Xi stared at Xavier's gray face that was beginning to fade, and the voice and smile of the neighbor's puppy who died because of eating chocolate in his childhood kept reappearing in his mind inexplicably.

In a panic, Lin Xi hurriedly put his own half of the chocolate into his mouth to find out what was wrong.

Then, he instantly understood why Xavier had the previous reaction.

In my memory, it should be a sweet and delicious chocolate, but now it tastes like a maddening strange smell.