mother of all races

"Dr. Lin Xi..."

A pale face slowly emerged from the darkness.

Lin Xi had to admit that he was taken aback, he almost punched that ghostly face directly.And after a while, he realized that the face that appeared from the darkness belonged to Shizuo Ando.

"Professor Ando? Is it really you? What's wrong with you?"

Lin Xi blurted out and asked.

The last time I saw Shizuo Ando, ​​even though he had just passed each other in the hallway, Ando looked ten years older—or worse.

Shizuo Ando now looks like a skeleton wrapped in dead skin, with sunken cheeks, chapped lips, and only a pair of eyes shining, exuding an abnormal spirit.

"Did something happen?"

Lin Xi felt an inexplicable shudder, he looked at Shizuo Ando, ​​and added uneasily.

It took a long time for Shizuo Ando to focus on Lin Xi, and his reaction seemed particularly slow.

"Me? I... I'm fine..."

he whispered.

It's just that his too weak tone makes his words less convincing.

"It's just a little tired, you know, Liz's condition... She has been having a difficult time before this, and I have to be by her side to take care of her. It is difficult for a person to rest well during this period... This is also normal , isn't it?"

No, this is not normal at all.

Lin Xi cursed in his heart.

"But you...you don't look too good, God, how long have you not slept? Maybe I can go to Bryce to see?" Lin Xi pretended to be calm and said to Ando, ​​"Liz still Okay? Maybe she needs some extra help too?"

While talking, Lin Xi passed Ando's crooked body and looked into the cabin calmly.

It's a pity he didn't see anything.

Whether it was the darkness in the cabin or the stench emanating from the room, Lin Xi was filled with an ominous feeling.

He felt his heart grow heavy.

"Ah, Liz...she just needs quiet cultivation and doesn't need to bother Dr. Bryce." Shizuo Ando rolled his eyes, and after thinking for a moment, he murmured to Lin Xi, "The period before was the most difficult. , but now she has stabilized."

This evasive attitude made Lin Xi frown.

Especially considering that Ando spoke a bit upside down and seemed to be in a very bad state of mind.The more Lin Xi heard it, the more creepy she felt.

The more Shizuo Ando emphasized that everything was fine with Liz, the more terrifying the thoughts in Lin Xi's mind became.That's right, Shizuo Ando is indeed a good husband, at least in the eyes of the outside world.But how?Who can guarantee that a person has the same face in front of the crowd and in the family?Especially Liz is still such a special woman, she is so weak after pregnancy, she has no power to resist.

Lin Xi vaguely remembered that since she became pregnant, few people on board saw her.

Some dark memories slowly rose from the deepest part of Lin Xi's soul, and he had to grit his teeth to control his emotions.

Fortunately, as soon as Ando finished speaking, a hoarse and strange voice came from the depths of the dark cabin, dispelling Lin Xi's guess about Liz's current situation.

"Honey, who is it?"

Although the voice was breathless, it could still be heard that the voice came from Liz.

Lin Xi breathed a sigh of relief, but he still couldn't feel relieved at all.

"It's Dr. Lin Xi, he is very concerned about your condition."

Ando turned his head and whispered softly into the darkness of the room.

"Oh my God, Dr. Lynch...why don't you let him in for a cup of tea?"

Liz said enthusiastically in the room, it sounded a little more energetic than before.

"Sorry, look at me, I forgot to let you in."

Ando's eyes flickered, and he said dryly.

Lin Xi's nerves were tense. He observed Shizuo Ando carefully, and of course he didn't miss the unnatural expression on his face at that moment.

It was obvious that Shizuo Ando didn't want him to enter the dark cabin, but Lin Xi couldn't get rid of the uneasiness and doubts in his heart, so he walked along as if he hadn't noticed Ando's stiffness at all. Liz's invitation directly strode into the cabin where the Ando couple lived.

As soon as he stepped into the door, the strange smell became more and more intense.

Lin Xi was almost grateful for the darkness in the room at this moment, otherwise Ando and his wife would have seen his distorted face.Lin Xi spent all her willpower not to retch.

The temperature in the room was very high, it was abnormally high, and the smell smelled like rotten blood, with a sweet and greasy stench and fishy smell.

"It's really dark here, is the lighting system out of order?"

Lin Xi asked cautiously.

He heard the sound of Ando walking into the room with him, and then the hatch closed slowly behind him. The friction sound of the old spaceship's hatch sliding was usually nothing, but at this moment it sounded like a funeral The scream of a banshee is generally heart-pounding.

Lin Xi almost ran for the door, after all, after the hatch was closed, the room became even darker.

The only source of light might be the emergency light on the wall, the ethereal little light like a firefly, but the faint light from that little light can't even illuminate the range of a fist.

Lin Xi unconsciously opened her eyes wide, trying to find Liz in the cabin.

This bloody smell made him more and more worried about Liz's condition.

"No... I just... can't bear the too harsh light."

Liz quickly answered Lin Xi, and it didn't sound too forced.However, Lin Xi felt that she was getting more and more nervous.Because he discovered that Liz's voice came from the corner.

And in the corner, there are two faint reflections, just above the ceiling.

Both reason and intuition told Lin Xi that something was wrong, he subconsciously took a few more steps in Liz's direction, and then he tripped over something in the dark.

"Well--"

Lin Xi groaned.

"Are you OK?"

Shizuo Ando asked nervously.

"I'm really sorry, I should help you lead the way... This is really..."

Lin Xi didn't have time to pay attention to Ando's repeated apologies at this time.

His mind was completely drawn to what tripped him up.

It was a large mass, so large that it should hardly appear in the daily living space of the space crew.

And its texture is also very subtle, the rough surface feels very hard, but that kind of hard feeling is very different from steel, plastic or glass-and most of the utensils in the spacecraft are made of these types. made of materials.

Lin Xi supported it and slowly got up from the ground. His eyes were completely useless in this environment. He could only try to identify what it was by touching it.

There are many fine and complicated lines on the surface of that thing, some parts have quite round lines, while some parts are extremely sharp.

The touch of it always gave Lin Xi a vague sense of familiarity, but probably because he was too nervous, he couldn't remember where he had encountered similar things.

"Turn on the night-light, dear, or it would be rude to our guest."

Just when Lin Xi was puzzled, Liz said quietly in the corner.

"But……"

Ando looked very reluctant.

"It doesn't matter," Liz said. Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi felt that she seemed to turn in her direction, "Dr. Lin Xi, I'm sorry for letting you see us like this. It's just me..."

Liz's tone was a bit weird: "I hope you are a little psychologically prepared for my current situation. Turn on the light, my dear, Dr. Lin Xi is not such a shallow and ignorant rude person, I don't think he will mind me too much It looks like this now."

Under Liz's urging, Ando Shizuo seemed to have made up his mind to turn on the night light.

The light of the night light is definitely not bright, after all, it was originally designed for the half-awake crew members, but that kind of light is enough for the cabin at this time.

The yellowish light spread out in the room, illuminating everything in the room.

And the moment she saw everything in front of her clearly, Lin Xi finally understood why the Ando couple seemed so reluctant to turn on the light before.

For a moment, he just stood there, staring dumbfounded at everything in front of him, his mind blank.

That scene was too much beyond common sense, so it seemed extraordinarily grotesque and magical, more like some of Lin Xi's nightmares than reality.

He saw Liz.

Live Liz.

No domestic violence, no harm, no murder.

but……

But he couldn't understand the other party's current situation.

The Sunu mixed-race woman was as thin and haggard as she had seen in the medical room before, but her abdomen was swollen countless times than before.All of her already thin hair had fallen off, and some tentacles-like things burrowed out from under the scalp instead of the hairs, and they formed a flesh-colored grid-like thing that was tightly attached to the wall superior.Some translucent slime secreted from those tentacles, wrapped around Liz, and helped her firmly fix the deformed body to the corner of the ceiling.

In that corner, it was wet from the ceiling to the floor, and the whole body was covered with slime that had slipped from Liz's body, and the unbreathable stench was also emanating from her body.

The two reflections that Lin Xi saw in the dark were not some mechanical device as he thought, but Liz's eyes.

"Oh my god."

Lin Xi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, he stared blankly at Liz, the only thing he could say was this.

Liz opened her dark eyes wide, and she grinned, revealing a terrifying smile.

"It's kind of ugly, I think I should scare you, right?"

the woman whispered.

"There's no need to hide anything, I know, in fact, I think it's terrible that I am like this-but who made me bleed with Sunu blood? Sometimes you just can't change your origin."

"Women on Sunu planet will have some physical changes when they are pregnant..."

At some point, Shizuo Ando came to Lin Xi's side, and he explained to Lin Xi hoarsely.

"It turns out... so..."

Lin Xi finally felt that she had regained her ability to speak.

Although he still didn't calm down.

"It never occurred to me that..."

Lin Xi spoke stiffly, although even he himself didn't know what he was talking about.

He unconsciously took two steps back, only to almost trip over the same thing again.

But this time, he only needed to tilt his head to see the appearance of that thing clearly.

A ferocious insect face dotted with fangs, compound eyes, and strange bone plates was aimed directly at him.

"Oh—God—"

Lin Xi really screamed this time.

He jumped straight away, his knees were weak.

"Don't, don't be afraid, it's just that statue!"

Ando Shizuo followed behind him, shouting in fear.

Lin Xi retreated to the very edge of the entire cabin. He pressed his back tightly against the metal wall, his face pale.

And Ando's words seemed to come from a distant horizon.

"sculpture?"

It took Lin Xi a long time to understand that apparently simple sentence.

Then he took a longer time to recognize the true identity of the thing.

"...for God's sake, what the hell have you done?"

Lin Xi felt that she had exhausted all her strength and shouted furiously at Ando.

But in fact, he just slightly closed his lips and murmured with difficulty.

The sense of familiarity that arose when I was rubbing that thing in the dark before finally had an answer, because the thing in the center of the room of the Ando couple was nothing but the extremely troublesome Sunu fossil statue!

It's just that when Lin Xi saw it twice before, it was in a gel-wrapped state, and even if it hardened after the gel dried, it was only a little bit.But now, the statue is out of the protection of the sealing gel, and the entire shell has been completely hardened.

It was originally a sculpture carved by Sunu's handicraftsman, but now it has completely turned into a hideous and terrifying bug shell.

From mouthparts to compound eyes, as well as its complex physiological structure, everything is lifelike.

Even though Lin Xi had known before that this was the natural appearance of the sculpture after it was separated from the gel package, he still couldn't look directly at it.

Fear is sometimes beyond the control of the will.

Especially thinking that just a few minutes ago, he was still touching the surface of the huge bug sculpture with his own hands, Lin Xi felt his scalp was numb.

Under such a strong impact, even Liz's distended belly was gelled to the ceiling.

After all, Liz has alien blood in her body, and aliens sometimes have weird habits.

And bugs—bugs are bugs.

An insect that is so huge is like a nightmare.

Of course, after calming down (which took Lin Xi a lot of effort), Lin Xi had to start asking Ji Ando what was going on.After all, even if he was scared out of his wits, he could still be sure of one thing—that fossil sculpture should be in a sealed container in the warehouse on the ground floor at this time, not in the crew's living quarters.

"Because...that is the sacred object of the Sunu people..."

Facing Lin Xi's questioning, Ando stammered for a long time before giving a particularly vague answer.

"Shizuo did all this for me."

In contrast, Liz, who was obviously in a weird state, appeared calmer.

After listening to her explanation, Lin Xi managed to understand the reason of the matter.

In fact, as Ando said many times before, Liz's physical condition has been quite bad since she became pregnant.Before those little lives were born in her womb, neither Ando nor Liz thought that the blood pulse between Sunu people and Earth people would be so intense.

Pureblood Sunu women only need to conceive for three months, and they usually eat like crazy before conceiving until they turn themselves into fat-filled swollen meat balls, which makes it easier for them to carry their unborn children for the next three months. Crazy uptake of them.

But in terms of physique, Liz is more inclined to people on earth. She has no way to eat herself to three times her original size in a short period of time like her own kind, and the special closed environment on the spaceship is not good. Allow her to do so.But the fetus in her womb obviously inherited the greedy and vicious characteristics of Sunu fetuses.They are killing the emaciated Liz while they are conceived in Liz's womb.

And the babies were healthy, and surprisingly alive (especially considering that their mothers still had half the blood in their bodies).But the healthier they grew, the weaker Liz became.

Even without Bryce's diagnosis, the Ando couple could clearly feel that before those children had time to be born, Liz would probably die of direct exhaustion due to too much consumption.

"Dr. Bryce has been trying to convince us to kill these children. He is indeed a good man, but we don't want to lose our children... With my special constitution, this may be the only offspring between me and Shizuo , Their appearance is a miracle." Liz lowered her terrifying head and looked softly at her abdomen, "But I have to admit that my condition is so bad that I almost lost my Children. And at that time, I dreamed of my father... Then I remembered that if I were still in Sunu, my maids would probably take me directly to the temple to be blessed by the great star god For me, so that I can give birth to my child smoothly."

Liz said.

There was a hint of illusory admiration in the tone of voice.

"The power of the Star God can help us overcome all difficulties. I know this, and I can feel it. Because when I think of it, I suddenly feel its call."

When Liz was talking, her eyes stayed on the terrifying statue of Sunu obsessively.A while ago, Lin Xi felt that apart from her terrifying appearance, her thinking was quite clear.But at this time, Lin Xi was a little uncertain about his judgment.

Because the fanaticism and obsession displayed by Liz really doesn't seem to be still rational.

By the way, Lin Xi also remembered that Liz's father with exceptionally noble blood seemed to be the priest of the temple before he completely lost his mind... and according to the report of the researcher stationed in Sunu on Earth, when those Sunu people initiated When it comes to madness, all the clergy are the most mad.

"So I figured out a way to steal this statue from the warehouse, oh, Dr. Lin, I can swear to you, as soon as the baby is born, I will send this sculpture back to the warehouse. I just... there is no way It's..."

Liz watched the statue of Sunu fall into frenzy not once or twice, because after she started babbling some vague prayers, Shizuo Ando quickly took over the conversation.

"I really don't know what to say."

Lin Xi looked at the couple dumbfounded.

"If Taran knows..."

According to Lin Xi's previous understanding of Taran, if that paranoid finds out that his beloved sculpture was taken into the ship's cabin privately by researchers... Lin Xi can't even imagine what that person would do.

"Talaan won't be a problem."

Liz suddenly turned her head and said, she stared at Lin Xi, giggling.