mother of all races

Lin Xi never thought that she would dream about that exhibition on the first night after the failed leap.

If he could retain the ability to think in reality in a dream, he would attribute that dream to the weird Sunu sculpture. That thing is really too ugly, and Lin Xi admitted that he was frightened by it.

Of course, part of the responsibility can also be thrown on John Bronson. If it weren't for the old man's madness, not many people would think of Talan Ida's obscure Sunu ancestry.

Or you can attribute the problem to Bronson, that guy firmly refused Lin Xi's request for sleeping pills and tranquilizers, and kept nagging and telling Lin Xi that he should quit relying on these drugs...

But in any case, he just dreamed of the exhibition many years ago.

Oh, and it's important to emphasize that the Sunu cultural exchange show itself wasn't a bad thing.

Lin Xi and Bryson had a great time at that exhibition, and occasionally, Lin Xi would inadvertently think of that afternoon in her childhood.

Maybe time itself will endow human memory with a beautiful filter, or maybe the Sunu people at that time were so cute. In Lin Xi’s memory, that exhibition was as strange as a fantasy, magnificent and wonderful no matter what the details They all exuded an unbelievable dreamlike atmosphere.

However, Lin Xi and Bryce, who were having a great time at the time, did not know that the Sunu cultural exchange exhibition was the last event where the Sunu people communicated directly with the people on Earth.

The Sunu people who were still on the earth at that time did not know that the kind of madness without any reason had already erupted in their own group.However, not long after that event, the Sunu people who stayed on the earth also fell ill one after another. Their madness and sickness made them die like cockroaches on a strange planet.

Oh……

Wait, let's go back to Lin Xi's dream.

Back to the Sunu Cultural Exchange Exhibition.

In her dream, Lin Xi stared blankly at the hall decorated like a termite nest.

A line of crooked characters hung outside the guild hall, in Sunu language.He stood on tiptoe to get a better view, but was bumped and stumbled, almost unable to stand still.

There was a crowd of people around him, and the excited screams and laughter of children merged into the noisy background sound in this dream.

Lin Xi's vision is very low. In this dream, he is still the taciturn and shy child back then.

"Lin Xi, look--after the summer vacation is over, I will tell Teacher Anna about this--it's so interesting--"

Then, Bryce's crisp voice sounded.

Just like back then, he pulled Lin Xi's arm and walked quickly towards the gate of the exhibition.

Lin Xi staggered forward, Bryce's face was like melted ice cream in the sun, and his facial features could not be seen clearly.

But his demeanor, his movements, and his voice are all so real, as if the past is echoing in his mind.

Lin Xi felt a little out of breath.

A subtle fear seized his mind.

He wanted to leave here, he didn't want to enter the hall as eagerly and urgently as his childhood self.

However, the dream flickered a little, and he was already standing in the exhibition hall of the cultural exchange exhibition.

There were still a lot of people, but when Lin Xi looked around, those people were like Bryce, with blurred faces and heavy features, and even their bodies looked bloated and sloppy, blurred to the point where there were almost no outlines, like an absent-minded person. A third-rate painter who hastily dotted paint lumps on the canvas.

In contrast, those Sunu exhibits in the cultural exchange exhibition, they quietly guarded behind the glass cover in the dream, and even the decorative lines as thin as hair are so clear.

Lin Xi walked around the huge exhibition hall in a state of extreme bewilderment and fear.

Sometimes Bryce would stay by his side as he remembered, but most of the time, Lin Xi was alone.

Those exhibition halls full of Sunu living utensils are one after another, connected by short corridors in the middle. In the dream, this exhibition is like a huge maze, enough to trap a person there forever.

Lin Xi felt as if he had been walking in those never-repeating exhibition halls for 1 years, and he was about to faint. Of course, the premise is that he can faint in his dreams.When he came to his senses, he had already come to a corridor—yes, the organizer specially used a few exhibition boards to divide the original open corridor into a winding corridor.

Lin Xi looked at the display boards, and several of them were blurry, but only one of them - a sign was exceptionally clear.

It said Sunu Xingdie, and under that line of English, someone wrote with a very childish brush: I like Xingdie the most!

The line of crayon characters seemed to be inlaid on the exhibition board, which looked weird and out of place.

But the hazy passers-by around Lin Xi seemed to have not noticed it at all.

Lin Xi stared at the words "Sunu Star Butterfly", his heart was pounding, he felt like some kind of animal being stared at by wild beasts, panic and ominousness were gnawing at him like bugs There was a faint tingling sensation in his soul, but he couldn't control his behavior in the dream.

The surrounding environment melted, and Lin Xi had already arrived at the exhibition area of ​​Sunu Star Butterfly.

People are crowding people, people are next to people.

This vast hall seems to gather the human beings from the earth.

The unstoppable real amazement undulates like a wave in the exhibition hall. Combined with the melting bodies of those people, the whole picture looks like a strange experiment.

But in this noisy environment, Lin Xi heard a special voice, which was very weird, shrill, and had an indescribable smell.

"Yes, that's right. What you are seeing now is the most precious and sacred star butterfly on our Sunu planet. It is also our totem and spiritual symbol. And this star butterfly was born in the long years. It is a rare individual that is still alive, and we generally call it 'His Majesty the Prince', because its form and status are second only to the king butterfly in the entire butterfly nest..."

Lin Xi walked towards the voice involuntarily.

Well, a dream is a dream, and he can always get what he wants.

Lin Xike remembered that the real situation at that time was not so smooth. It took him a while to squeeze in front of the rare Sunu star butterfly.

But the docent is still there, as always.

The slender and tall Sunu stood there like that, his limbs were unbelievably slender, his skin was pale, and his blood vessels could almost be seen through the pale skin.

From time to time, he would bend down and speak affectionately to the children around him.Whenever he spoke, the children who were closer would be amazed, smiling and hiding in the arms of their parents behind him.

How wonderful that Sunu looked, but Lin Xi didn't pay attention to him at all.

Just behind the Sunu stands the largest birdcage that Lin Xi has ever seen in his life. Of course, it just looks like a birdcage.If Star Butterfly was just an ordinary exhibition animal, then people could use that kind of cold and crude thing to trap it inside.But of course the Sunu people couldn't do that. They decorated the cage as well as possible. Even the metal objects seemed to be enough for several people to drive motorcycles in it, and their decorations made the cage inhabiting The creature looks as luxurious, dignified, and aloof as a nobleman among human beings.

However, the fact that it was born in an exhibition aimed at people on earth forms an absurd contrast with its temperament.

The star butterfly named "Prince" looks a little bit similar to the butterfly that humans recognize, but that's all.

The carapace torso with an inorganic luster was almost as tall and strong as a 1.8-meter strong man.They have huge blister-like red eyes and a well-structured body. The surface of the carapace shines like a polished mercury mirror, and the curved surface reflects the faces of the surrounding humans.And behind it, there are two huge and elegant films.Lin Xi was fascinated by it. Those films were like a fairy's gauze skirt, glowing with rainbow-like neon light. Behind Xingdie's hideous body, there was no wind, automatically, softly fluttering, lazily changing shapes and colors.

The combination of the gigantic bug-like body and the fantastic wings is so grotesque, but at the same time, it has a beauty that cannot be described by human language—the kind that can make people's skin crawl.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?"

Just when Lin Xi raised his head and stared obsessively at the huge star butterfly, the Sunu suddenly appeared beside him like a ghost.

"..."

Lin Xi looked up at Sunu's pale face, which was very different from that of the people on Earth, and said nothing.

But the Sunu didn't seem to care.

It spoke English very fluently, but the strong Sunu accent made it difficult to distinguish its words.

It stared fixedly at Lin Xi, then suddenly grinned, revealing a smile.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi saw it turn its head and make a long hissing sound towards the cage.Under the call of the Sunu, the lazy star butterfly that seemed to be in a daze landed.

It was almost standing in front of Lin Xi.

The Sunu reached out and grabbed Lin Xi's wrist.

"Would you like to touch it?"

Sunu asked.

Lin Xi still didn't answer it.

But the Sunu didn't care about this, it just grabbed Lin Xi's hand like that, forcing him to touch the inside of the birdcage.

Lin Xi touched the star butterfly.

He originally wanted to touch Xingdie's wings that were as soft and beautiful as clouds, gauze, and mist, but the moment he stretched his fingertips towards Xingdie, Xingdie's wings suddenly trembled, and Lin Mao stretched out before his eyes.

hula-

At that moment, the entire world was occupied by the wings of the star butterfly.

The wings, which were hazy and dreamy like a cloud of smoke, showed a bewitching golden red after blooming, and fleshy veins spewed out from the body of the star butterfly, forming countless curly, trembling threads.

And Lin Xi's hand was tightly attached to Xingdie's hard and rough sternum.

The star butterfly's scarlet eyes were aimed straight at him.

"...Wow, it's really rare, this little friend from Earth. Xingdie will only show her wings completely in front of someone she likes very much, hahaha, I never thought that it would show itself in front of people on Earth Wings...*&...￥&t%$..."

The Sunu seemed to be taken aback. It looked at Lin Xi in shock and said.

And when the Sunu people were staring at Lin Xi and distracted, the dense tentacles behind Xingdie began to squirm slowly towards the weak but warm human child.

One of them has already touched Lin Xi's finger.

From the outside, those tentacles look like some kind of jelly, translucent, moist, and elastic, like some kind of children's food.

But when they touched Lin Xi, Lin Xi realized that it was just an illusion——

Those beautiful tentacles were as tough and powerful as a python, and the force around his wrist was so strong that it almost broke his wrist bone.

Lin Xi's face was pale.

He wanted to cry—scream and cry like all normal children do.

But he is no ordinary kid.

Orphans like him have long been accustomed to shutting up quickly when experiencing great pain, being quiet, and motionless to avoid worse things from happening to them.

And even though he has become a member of the Bryce family, this nature still stubbornly stays in his body.

So he just froze instinctively.

No one knew his panic at that moment, and Lin Xi even heard people's friendly laughter, as well as the exclamation full of admiration.

Oh no, maybe not everyone...

The Sunu knew something was wrong.

Lin Xi even heard him say a long paragraph of Sunu star language

It also stretched its hand into the cage with a smirk, it was very close to Lin Mao, so Lin Mao clearly heard another sound - the sound of rough things rubbing against each other from Su Nu Ren's chest passed out.

The star butterfly also made the same sound.

But from beginning to end, Xingdie never intended to let go of Lin Xi.

Finally, the Sunu shouted to his companions.

Of course Lin Xi, who was still a child at the time, could not understand this passage, but now, he can somewhat understand it—of course, the premise is that this Sunu star language is not something he imagined in his dreams.

The Sunu said...

I've got a problem here and I need help... He got it wrong... He took this child for his spouse!He is capturing him... this earthling will die... trouble...*...%

Those Sunu words began to become vague and vague.

They didn't even sound like Sunu, but more like a high-frequency flapping of wings.

This is...*&%...%...you...like...*&%￥species...

Only a few words are barely legible.

But they sounded weirder and more obscure than that grinding sound.

While the Sunu was trying to seek help from his companion, Lin Xi was still looking at the star butterfly.

Xingdie's face is slowly changing.

Its eyes, the scarlet blistered pupils, split in two.

However, from two to four...

In the end, his eyeballs turned into densely packed red compound eyes.

hissing...

Lin Mao heard that voice again.

"Do not……

Lin Ximing knew that this was a dream, but the sense of panic still vividly reappeared in his body.

He looked at the Sunu beside him in fear, but that person had disappeared.

In fact, at some point, Lin Mao's side has become empty, without a single person.

The exhibition hall in memory has become rough and wet unconsciously.

The smell in the air changed from the dry smell of the exhibition, mixed with the smell of popcorn, perfume, human sweat, etc., to a thick and moist fishy-sweet smell.

The bright incandescent lights were also dimmed—no, they disappeared.

The things that were glowing were just moss all over the ceiling.

Regularly arranged holes appeared on the wall, each the size of a basketball, and some milky white or beige translucent eggs were inlaid in the middle of those holes.Bulky, wriggling constantly with a certain special rhythm.

Lin Xi could even see those disgusting maggot-like things flipping, trembling, and whispering under the translucent film.

hiss... hiss...

Then that horrible high frequency noise came again.

Lin Xi felt that the noise was like an invisible knife, which could almost penetrate directly into his body through the vibration of the sound waves.

wake up--

This is a terrible nightmare.

Lin Xi desperately said to herself in the dream.

But the dream is still so viscous, so realistic, so... dark.

hiss……

The sticky and tight touch on the wrist made Lin Xi whisper uncontrollably.

Of course, when he returned his attention to the thing in front of him, he had no time to panic about the pain in his wrist.

star butterfly.

To be more precise—that thing that used to be Xingdie——

It is changing little by little before Lin Xi's eyes.

The black breastplate shattered, revealing the off-white armor underneath!

Numerous things like spider legs start from armor, 5 animal husbandry, rewards, rewards, mothers, mothers, mothers, mothers, mothers, mothers, and others

Lin Xi almost whimpered when he saw that thing.

However, at this moment, he couldn't even make any sound—excessive fear had completely choked his throat.

He could only stand there sluggishly, like a weak animal in the forest that could only pretend to be dead to escape, standing there motionless.

Let the appendages of the "thing" touch his body.

Then, pull him little by little into the darkness.

More evil, stickier, and hotter dreams slowly surrounded him.

It was pure darkness where not even fear or crying existed.

There, there is no passage of time, no rationality, only something so dark that even human consciousness can be completely melted away.

And that thing was eating Lin Xi's soul.

……

"Didi... Didi... Didi..." It was a very bad experience to be pulled out of the communicator from a deep and unconscious dream.

Seeing that the call on the communicator actually came from Talan, this experience can be added ten points.

Lin Xi woke up from the cramped bed, which was exceptionally good at being uncomfortable.He grabbed the communicator and took a look, then covered his face hard and let out a painful moan...

Lin Xi never felt that waking up would be as painful as he is now.The severe headache made him almost faint again the moment he sat up.

Lin Xi staggered and took a long time to barely get out of her bed.He glanced back at his bed sheet unconsciously, and then he was stunned by the mess on the bed.

His pillow and sheets were soaked.

The pillow was soaked with tears, and his own cold sweat printed a vivid human figure on the bed sheet.

Even his comforter had some suspicious stains on it.

Enduring her headache, Lin Xi stared at the last thing mentioned for a long time.

He couldn't figure out what was going on.

Crying, cold sweat, what else?

He vaguely remembered that he seemed to have had a nightmare.

But if you think about it carefully, that dream is so vague and far away.

——But those fabrics can prove that, at least last night, that dream was really quite scary for him.But that makes it hard to explain the stains on the comforter.

Lin Xi didn't remember that he was the kind of person with heavy taste.

"Didi—didi—

Just as Lin Xi was staring at his bed, his damn communicator rang again.

"Fuck it."

Lin Xi cursed, and he grabbed the communicator and took another look.

Very well, this time in addition to Taran's call, there was actually a message from Alisa.

Lin Xi hesitated for a while, but finally he opened the message from Alyssa.

We found something in the statue's airtight container that I think you might need to take a look at. ——Information sender: Alyssa

"statue?"

Lin Xi felt that her thinking was quite confused.

It took him a while to realize that Alisa was talking about the weird fossil statue.

What Alisa said in the message was very vague, but Lin Xi felt more and more heavy because of this.

After all, Alyssa knew his character.

If there wasn't really a very difficult problem, she should have revealed some detailed information before he was summoned by the Great Demon King Talan so that he could deal with it smoothly.

But now, Alisa simply said "we found something" and vaguely passed it by.

Lin Xi already had a hunch.

"New trouble. Huh, I knew—"

he murmured to himself.