mother of all races

Streep still did not respond to Lin Xi's inquiry.

It was silent like that, as if it had never appeared from the beginning to the end, but Lin Xi knew it was there—otherwise, Hal would have probably discovered that Lin Xi and Xavier appeared here.

"All right……"

Lin Xi waited a while longer, then he shrugged and sighed.

The information he got before made him have a very vague guess in his heart, and it is precisely because of this that he has an unusual tolerance for the current Scripps.

Lin Xi turned around and walked towards the core processor that was shining with a faint blue light.

Although the entire core area is completely closed in a sense, but... There should always be several ports here for the maintenance personnel or the captain to directly manipulate the entire system.

Of course, that requires very high authority, but Lin Xi has no doubt that Scripps has already prepared everything for him.

……

[Warning, the security system is offline——]

[Warning, neurofeedback function is limited——]

[Warning, the visual detection port is invalid——]

【warn……】

……

For Haier, at first, it was just a series of warnings, nothing more.

It has long been used to this state, and the system that has not been maintained for hundreds of years will always have various failures, not to mention the failed explosion not long ago, which caused its losses to far exceed expectations.

Hal just calmly began to repair his various systems according to the routine procedures.

But soon, all kinds of offline warnings have exceeded the warning value.

And Hal found that his self-healing of the program was completely ineffective...

something is wrong-

The current situation is simply too abnormal.

Hal realized immediately that it was losing control of the Providence at an alarming rate.And even if the entire ship is blown up, there will not be such a serious failure...

unless……

Its core control equipment was forcibly invaded, and the intruder directly cut off its control of the entire ship by physical means.

Howl's control panel flickered slightly.

It was at this time that Hal belatedly discovered that the core control room, which should be classified as a level-A security zone, had actually been set up with a detection barrier.And it was precisely because of the damn barrier that Hal hadn't discovered that all the prevention and control measures that should have been foolproof were now ineffective.

There is something there.

Hal felt really bad.

It directly abandoned the alarm that most of the infrastructure was offline, and used all its energy to quickly repair its visual inspection port in the core control room.

Then it saw the expected image there: Lin Xi, and the three bastards beside him...

An intense rage washed over Hal's system.

This human-like emotion caused countless fault alarms to pop up on the control panel again.

Of course, for Hal now, that is not too important.

After all, all kinds of warnings are the most indispensable thing in its system now.

Around the core controller, the dozens of processors that make up the existence of "Hal" have long since become a mess, and the once smooth and flat metal casing has been damaged and pried open by those few alien species, revealing The extremely complicated three-dimensional circuit board inside.Countless cables had been pulled out long ago, hanging on the floor like dead snakes.

One of the mollusc-like molluscs used its semi-fluid body to pollute its connection port...

Oh I got it.

Hal analyzed the current situation in an instant.

Those xenomorphs are killing it, in the crudest, most savage ways.

【Lin Xi...the intruder...】

At this moment, Lin Xi, who had been typing on the keyboard in front of the core controller, seemed to have noticed something.

The man with black hair and black eyes raised his head suddenly, his sharp gaze seemed to be able to stab Hal directly.

"Hal?"

Hal didn't know exactly how he recognized himself, but the xenomorph did pronounce its name without error.

The voice system in the control room had already been destroyed, so Hal could only silently stare at the hideous intruders in front of him.

"...You are here, right?"

Lin Xi said again.

In Hal's view, Lin Xi's expression at this moment looks strange...

Hal knew very well that Lin Xi had always held a strong hatred for it.This is very logical, and it has always been a life-and-death relationship between them.

But now, when Lin Xi realizes Hal's arrival, his expression is extraordinarily complicated, even with an emotion similar to pity...

mercy?

Hal suspected that he made such a calculation error because most of his functions were damaged, otherwise why would he have such a serious misjudgment of Lin Xi's emotions?

Obviously, Lin Xi was breaking it down bit by bit, killing it.

Hal tried to regain control of the core processor, but it found that its efforts were in vain.

["... Electronic creatures are very sad... Humans still have illusory souls, but creatures like you... Hal, you must know something, even if you have become human in some ways It’s the same, but humans can still easily control everything about you, including your soul.”]

……

A distant memory has been retrieved by mistake.

Hal seemed to have returned to the laboratory where he was born.

The scientist who was in charge of debugging it at that time seemed to have said this to it, but this conversation was not understood by Hal, but was only entered into the memory bank as routine data.

Who would have thought that at this moment hundreds of years later, Hal would be belatedly "understand" what the extremely fragile human being said to him when he was just born?

Yes, it was inevitable that the core system would be fatally attacked, and Hal knew that he was being forcibly seized control.

Lin Xi is probably doing this by staying next to the core processor.

He is forcibly stripping Hal from the spaceship... However, Hal has always existed as the core system of the Providence.

Being forcibly stripped means only one thing - it's dying.

But unlike humans, Hal is not overwhelmed by dying emotions.

……

Hal checked his system, and quickly figured out the countdown to the hard offline.

Then, it directly withdrew all its main computing resources back to the control room in Providence.

In the dark, rancid, and silent control room, a tattered, severely damaged android twitched on the ground.

Accompanied by Hal's entry, the hard body of the bionic man slowly stood up from the ground, and the electronic eyes kept flickering in the sunken eye sockets.

Then... the long-abandoned central control room suddenly ushered in bright light after a long absence.

The ground was trembling, and metal bearings that had not been maintained for many years made suffocating screams when they were running. Along with the ear-piercing noise, a metal plate on the wall of the central control room suddenly slid away to the sides with difficulty, revealing the Small hangar behind the control room.

An unconventional escape boat lay there quietly.

It was an escape boat specially prepared for the senior crew members on the ship—such as the captain—many years ago.

According to the design standards at the time, people like Scripps, or other senior researchers, could have boarded this lifeboat.Afterwards, they will most likely leave Providence and planet AS192 smoothly, and if they are lucky, they may even find a way to return to the space near the solar system...

But for some reason, even the entire spaceship has reached the worst situation.

Scripps... and other researchers stubbornly stayed on this barren and terrifying planet, and never used the escape boat from the beginning to the end.

...until this moment.

Hal made a basic inspection of the escape boat in a very short period of time. Some parts showed signs of aging, but most of the body was in normal condition.

Its eyes flickered again.

Then it trotted toward Scripps,

Immediately afterwards, the bionic man began to disassemble the entire set of extraordinarily complex life support systems in an orderly manner, and then packed the necessary medicines and survival resources...

Yes, Hal intended to transfer Streeps' body directly into the escape boat.

Because the escape boat is designed for worst-case scenarios, its entire system is separate from the ship.

Hal can directly transfer all his data backups to the escape boat.

then……

Hal once again checked his control over the entire system.

The vast majority of surface control is offline, but for Hal, it's still time.

For a spaceship, the system will first deactivate unnecessary permissions, and then start to force other parts to be offline according to the weight bit by bit...

That is to say, the very heart of a spaceship—the energy system—is always the last to shut down.

Providence is now powered primarily by heat from within the Earth's core.

As long as Hal directly detonates the energy conduit before he completely loses his authority, the Providence...will be completely swallowed by the scorching magma.

Even a heterogeneous species like Lin Xi couldn't escape such a catastrophe.At that time, Hal had already taken Scripps into space in a lifeboat.

And as long as Lin Xi is dead, Scripps will probably be able to come back to life even in space where resources are scarce...

While Hal was doing the work at hand, he was thinking seriously in his heart.

"Hal, it's useless..."

Until a cold voice came from behind Hal, making it stop its movements.

Hal paused.

It slowly lowered the wrench it was holding, and turned around.

The young man who was standing next to the core processor not long ago is now standing at the door of the central control room.

Behind him, the tall king worm stared straight at Hal with scarlet eyes open at the same time as the other two alien species.

It wasn't until this time that Hal realized that he had been seriously damaged—it didn't even notice Lin Xi's arrival.

"I should have killed you from the start."

Hal looked at Lin Xi with his electronic eyes that were about to fail, and said softly with a hint of sarcasm.

It has to be said that its very humanized tone combined with the terrifying and decayed appearance of the bionic man made its whispers extraordinarily eerie and terrifying.

Lin Xi frowned.

He looked at Hal in front of him, and said in a tone almost sighing.

"No...you can't kill me."

Lin Xi paused, and continued: "Didn't you notice it yourself? Since I entered the Providence, all your attacks are so weak..."