mother of all races

"I do not understand what you are saying."

Bryce said to Sorian.

His voice sounded calm.

This is good... He encouraged himself from the bottom of his heart.

Bryce would never want to show his feet in front of that damn man, because he knew that the guy was watching him carefully, trying to find something in his face.And no matter what Sorian finds, it will be his weapon to stab Lin Xi.

And Bryce wouldn't let a bastard like Sorian get his wish.

"Please step aside, I still have a lot of work to do."

Bryce could feel his lips move, and the voice flowed lightly from his throat.

On his side, his fists were silently clenched, and he quietly grasped the metal storage box where all the specimens were placed, until his fingers lost all feeling.

He didn't even know how he calmly dealt with that difficult man and went all the way back to his infirmary—his memory seemed to have been cut off right after Sorian said that sentence, and has been going all the way. It wasn't until he returned to the enclosed space alone that he resumed normal operations.

But even after returning to the medical room, Bryce still couldn't calm down.I'm afraid even Sorian himself didn't expect that the words he said could give Bryce such a huge stimulus.Bryce just sat blankly at his desk, looking at the box where John Bronson's body fragments were placed. It took him a very long time to relax his fingers that were so tense that they couldn't control them. down.

But he was still trembling slightly.

Bryceburn thought that nightmare had been buried long ago behind thick papers and the passing of time, but it came back after all, back into Lynch and his life.Bryce seems to be able to see a monster, invisible, huge, and invincible——is digging out bit by bit from the past, and then slowly approaching him and Lin Xi.

"That exhibition..."

That was all that was mentioned in Sorian's diabolical whisper, he didn't say what exhibition it was, but in that split second, Bryce knew it all.

Bryce shuddered suddenly, breathing more and more quickly.

"Honey?"

Just when Bryce felt that he was about to be completely overwhelmed by that huge panic, the warm and hoarse female voice directly dragged Bryce back to reality from the nightmare past.

"Alyssa..."

Bryce turned back to look at his lover in a daze.

Alisa was standing at the door of the medical room, and she carefully looked at Bryce with a puzzled and worried expression.

She looked relieved to see Bryce finally responding to her.Then she walked towards Bryce, stretched out her arms, and hugged the man forcefully into her arms.

"I want to ask you, are you okay? But I already know your answer, you will say you are fine, and then bury everything in your own heart."

Alisa kissed Bryce's forehead, then said with a wry smile.

Of course, she has tried her best to cover it up, but Bryce can still easily hear the strong worry in Alisa's tone-Bryce's mood is even heavier because of this, he knows that he must be in a very bad state, so Will make Alisa care so much.

He even felt a little guilty towards the woman in front of him because of this.

"Did you get it?"

He forced himself to ignore the urge to tell the other party everything, and then he completely ignored Alisa's inquiry, but directly asked what he cared most about.

Alisa's eyes dimmed because of this, she sighed, took something out of her pocket, and put it in Bryce's hand.

"This thing took me a while, but... yes, I got it."

"Have all the backups been processed?"

"of course."

After Alisa's affirmative reply, Bryce looked a little more relaxed than before.

He looked around, and then used his authority to lock the entire medical room at the highest level. Then, he put the memory card that Alisa gave him into the reader.

Bryce looked at Alisa, he hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he pressed the play button in front of Alisa.

"The mother of worms will turn us all into incubators for her children..."

"Lin Xi—you have to kill Lin Xi—he is the alien—look at what he did! He hasn't woken up yet, you still have time! Look at what he did! He called it Worm! Because that is his family! It will be too late when the king worm appears, his children... His children... will kill us all!"

……

John Bronson's sharp and rapid cry came from the player immediately.

Coupled with the hideous and deformed face from the angle of the monitor, this old man with an extremely miserable death seems to be still alive in a corner of the world, and is shouting at them crazily.

Even if it was just a data record, the kind of madness he showed...or something more frightening than madness still made Bryce and Alisa tense their muscles involuntarily.

"Oh, my God."

Alisa frowned and sighed softly, she made a sign of the cross on her chest.

Thankfully, this video didn't last too long, and soon, the insane abuse and curses stopped abruptly.

"...the technicians said that the audio and video lines were inexplicably broken."

In the medical room, Alisa was stunned for a moment, and then she came back to her senses. She looked at Bryce and said.

"This is the last video we collected that night. Because of this, we still don't know how John died and what killed him. Damn it, when I took over the Helios, I There have been proposals to replace these old antiquated systems, but no one is willing to, they would rather spend time and effort to expand the warehouse than spend more budget on other facilities, and now... look at the mess."

Alisa rapped a little more than before, probably because she was nervous about what she was doing today.

After a pause, she continued: "I overwrote this section with the previous video, and no one should notice anything wrong..."

"Thank you, Alisa... I really don't know, what would I do without you?"

Bryce said gratefully.

However, Alisa just looked at him, with a slight bitterness in the smile on the corner of her mouth.

"I don't know if I'm doing the right thing."

she whispered softly.

Before meeting Bryce, Alisa would never have believed that she would do such a thing - she used her highest authority to directly steal the surveillance records about John Bronson before his death from the surveillance facility , and then replaced with the previous record.

In this way, no one except Bryce and Alyssa knew the last words that John yelled before he died.

And Alisa did all this because of Bryce's plea.

"You also saw the attitude of those people, especially Sorian," Bryce sighed, he turned off the reader, and said gloomily, "John and Sorian have always treated Lin Xi Reciprocated with hostility, that strange... hostility. However, those rumors they spread are affecting those of the survey party, and the mercenaries... I'm afraid, we've been stranded for too long, these stay in the ship People have become more and more abnormal. In this high-stress situation, if they really push Lin Xi out and pretend that he is the culprit of all tragedies...you know what will happen, it has not happened in the past Not uncommon."

"Things can't be that bad."

Alisa comforted in a weak voice.

"I hope things won't be that bad," Bryce lowered his voice, he looked very worried, "but in order to avoid trouble, this kind of stuff, I mean, John's nonsense, it's better not to circulate anymore Get out. We've had enough trouble, and the most important thing now is to maintain stability in the ship."

After finishing speaking, Bryce manipulated the buttons and directly destroyed the memory device.

"Bryce?"

Alicia pursed her lips, she watched Bryce finish these things, and then she spoke suddenly.

"what?"

"Lin Xi..." Alisa's lips trembled slightly, and she spent a long time considering her words, "What happened to him?"

"he--"

"Oh, don't hide it from me, you know my 'special ability'." Alyssa said, she stood up from Bryce, and then slowly took a few steps back, "I can feel it all the time, something ...Some things make you completely unable to control your overprotective behavior. But this time, your behavior is especially strange. I have violated professional ethics for you, and I destroyed and falsified surveillance records to protect Lin Xi. I You have the right to know what happened in the first place...for example, the exhibition?"

"what are you talking about!"

Hearing the last word, Bryce jumped up from his seat, almost knocking over the box on the table.

"You know... what do you know?"

he asked in shock.

Alisa's eyes flickered: "Not much, but, but, Sorian came to me before, and he said some things, and those things made me very disturbed..."

"All he said was just gibberish."

Bryce said emphatically.

"But……"

"Oh no, I don't want to continue on this subject, honey, there is no 'but', you just know that whatever those people say is just gibberish."

Alyssa stopped talking, she just looked at him in that silent way, there was a twinkle in her eyes that made Bryce feel painful.

"I have a hunch that those rumors...maybe it's not just nonsense, something is really happening, and their central point is Lin Xi. Bryce, you know? I haven't slept for a long time Get a good night's sleep because every night I wake up with nightmares and I don't even know if it's because I'm stressed out or if I'm actually seeing something."

Bryce's lips moved slightly, he should continue to deny, but in the face of Alisa like this, his rationality finally surrendered.

Originally, he planned to carry that heavy secret for the rest of his life, but now he couldn't bear it anymore.

"We swore not to tell the truth about it. Yes, it was Lin Xi. When we were children, a very terrible thing happened to him..."

20 years ago--

Pine Lake Township, Arizona, Country A

The weather was very sunny and it was the best weekend in those months.

The temperature is pleasant, the breeze is warm, and the area near the newly completed Science Exhibition Hall in Songhu Town is even more lively with people coming and going. The air is filled with music, the smell of popcorn and the noise of humans frolicking.

This is not a festival celebration, but judging from the atmosphere, it is not too bad.

In normal days, this neighborhood will not be as lively as it is now. After all, since the science exhibition hall was built, there are usually only some shabby astronomy exhibitions or dinosaur fossil exhibitions in the bright and beautiful buildings—Bryce’s My father had said with certainty that the planets that hung from the thin steel wires above the pavilions were nothing but foam, and that the dinosaur fossils were nothing but plaster fakes.

This is not the fault of the curators of the Science Exhibition Hall. Songhu Town is just a small place after all, and the exhibition hall with its golden appearance and ruins was bribed by the previous mayor and a member of the Songhu Town Public Foundation. The product of scandal.

But in any case, having such an exhibition hall is not always a bad thing. After all, since it was built, the extracurricular activities of Songhu Town Public Middle School finally have a place to go... and, occasionally, a piece of cake will fall on the For the residents of Songhu Town, for example, the exceptionally famous and high-end Sunu-Earth Civilization Exchange Exhibition will tour Songhu Town for half a month for the first time.

That's a big deal for small-town residents who have little fun other than football and weekend barbecues.

Bryce began to look forward to the exhibition almost from the day he saw the exhibition poster. Like all boys at that age, he was full of exuberant curiosity and love for aliens.

After his repeated pleadings, his mother finally agreed to his request, but there was a serious agreement between them - in public places with so many people, Bryce must take good care of the newly adopted boy in his family In case the latter gets lost or has a panic attack.

"Xiao Xi is a child who has encountered a lot of..., he still needs some time to adjust to the new life, but you also know that I have to take care of Jessica, she is still a baby so I have to focus on her body. So, promise me, you will take care of Xiao Xi instead of mom, okay?"

His mother's words were still in Bryce's ears at the time, but now, Bryce almost cried when he remembered the promise he made with his mother.

The reason is simple, Lin Xi, who was still by his side before, has disappeared.

It must be said that this is not entirely Bryce's fault. There are too many people in this Sunu civilization exchange exhibition. The crowd dispersed.

Bryce had firmly remembered to hold Lin Xi's hand tightly before, but by accident, he drove Lin Xi, and then his particularly silent and shy Asian brother was instantly surrounded by the crowd and headed towards the interior of the exhibition hall walk over.

"Bryce...Bryce..."

In the distance, Bryce could even hear Lin Xi calling with a little panic.

Bryce wiped the sweat from his forehead, maybe he could wait for his parents where he was, and they might come back to look for him, but Lin Xi—Lin Xi was lost by Bryce, so after a short hesitation, Bu Rice still ran towards the direction where Lin Xi's voice came from.

As a kid, Bryce had a hard time moving quickly through crowds.When Bryce was finally able to see Lin Xi's back clearly, he realized that he had squeezed into the interior of the exhibition hall with Lin Xi.

There are fewer people in the exhibition hall than outside, at least now Bryce can clearly see Lin Xi's appearance.

"Lin... Xi... Lin Xi! Wait for me, I'm here! Hey, I'm here—"

Bryce raised his voice, looked at his brother and yelled.

Bryce could guarantee that his voice was loud enough for Lin Xi to hear clearly, and what surprised him was that the other party didn't have any intention of stopping.

Lin Xi didn't even look back at Bryce.

He looked like... as if he was frightened, or rather, paralyzed.

From this angle of Bryce, one could clearly see that Lin Xi's face was covered with cold sweat, and even his lips were pale. The thin boy's eyes were wide open and his pupils dilated, which made his eyes look blurry. It's pitch black, with no luster or focus at all.

Lin Xi was originally the thinnest boy in the Dries family, but at this moment, he seemed to be thinner and thinner than before, as if other people could smash him to pieces as soon as they touched him .

Then, under Bryce's sight, Lin Xi turned around, and he walked straight towards the deepest part of the exhibition hall. The crowd was obviously so crowded, but it seemed unconscious. When Lin Xi passed them, They would turn around or move a little bit to make way for Lin Xi through a narrow passage.

It seemed that only a few seconds or less passed, and Lin Xi's original voice seemed to disappear behind the crowd again.

"Lin Xi—"

Bryce roared, and he struggled to run towards Lin Xi.

He felt that his heart suddenly became heavy and his breathing became difficult.

It was a very strange feeling, a "foreboding," in the words of the woman he loved long afterward.

Maybe I should thank God that my Bryce was still a small child, which allowed him to slip through the gaps in the crowd without any problems.

He did not follow Diu Linxi, but followed him to the deepest part of the exhibition hall.

This exhibition hall is set up very hidden. Thinking about it afterwards, that kind of setting is actually quite weird—it is so inconspicuous, and the door is covered with signs that mislead others. It is hard for normal people to imagine that it turned out to be a Exhibition hall open to visitors.

What is displayed in that exhibition hall is the sacred object most worshiped by the Sulu people... or, in other words, the god of death.

And that thing... is called a star butterfly.

The exhibition hall where Xingdie was located had very few audiences. Compared with the bustling crowd outside, the place looked darker, colder and quieter.

The few visitors crowded around the cage, stretching their necks and staring curiously at the contents of the cage.

And that thing just huddled motionless in the position farthest from humans in the cage, only two small red dots flickered slightly in the shadows.

Bryce only glanced at it at the moment when he rushed into the exhibition hall, and then he couldn't help but shiver and quickly looked away.

He was already a big boy, and his age and self-esteem did not allow him to show timidity and fear in front of other people like a child.

Besides, he had no time to be afraid.

His younger brother is making his way toward the crowd of visitors clustered in front of the cage.

"Lin Xi—"

Bryce yelled.

Lin Xi still didn't look back.

Bryce chased a few steps, and then he stopped hesitantly.

He stood about ten meters away from those people, eyeing them with confusion.

The air conditioner in the exhibition hall was turned on very cold, yes, it must be because of this reason, otherwise he would never be shivering from the cold like he is now.

Those people didn't communicate with each other, and they didn't even turn their heads. However, when Lin Xi approached them, they naturally moved to both sides, giving Lin Xi a passage.

Their actions were so full of tacit understanding that the sporadic and normal visitors among them seemed a little at a loss.

They looked at the people around them and Lin Xi in surprise, and then gave way in a daze.

When Lin Xi stood silently in front of everyone, the Sunu man standing in front of the cage also revealed himself in the gap between the people.

That should be a person acting as a commentator, but it is definitely not a qualified commentator.

"*&%...￥#￥3..."

Its words are terribly vague, and it sounds like English at first glance, but if you listen carefully, those words are more like meaningless muttering.

Just like all Sunu people, its appearance is a bit weird—it is pale, its limbs are slender and uncomfortable, and its facial features are abnormally flat, sticking to its face like a clumsy handicraft, but There is a pair of conspicuous and intimidating red eyes.

The pair of red eyes kept gurgling and turning, scanning the exhibition hall.

However, when Lin Xi appeared, its eyes immediately stopped on Lin Xi.

"Lin...Lin Xi..."

Su Nu's guide suddenly stopped the meaningless muttering, and a strange call came from its throat... No, that was not the sound it made.

That was the thing behind it, the sound from that huge star butterfly.

It was at that moment that the alien bug suddenly fell from the top of the cage.

Some people screamed because of this, but Lin Xi remained unmoved. He stood quietly in front of the metal cage, watching the star butterfly slowly unfold the pair of intimidating butterflies towards him with his dark eyes. wings.

"Maybe you want to touch Xingdie? Oh, it's rare, He likes you very much."

The face of the Sunu commentator suddenly filled with a weird smile, it bent down, and then stretched out its hand towards Lin Xi.

"He likes you very, very much."

Then, right in front of Bryce's eyes, countless fleshy tentacles of changing bright colors protruded from the back of the cage. They were more terrifying than the scariest monsters described in horror novels, and then...

They wrapped around Lin Xi's body.

After many years, Bryce no longer remembers whether he screamed, but he can be sure that at that time, he was about to go crazy from the scene he saw.

Immediately afterwards, the star butterfly tore open the metal cage with ease, and two thin fleshy wings stretched out from its weird body, wrapped Lin Xi in the fleshy wings, and then flew up.

……

"later--"

In the medical room of the Helios, Bryce suddenly stopped talking palely.

His breathing was unusually heavy.

Over the years, he recalled the details of the accident in such detail only in his nightmares.

And every time he recalled it, he would feel a kind of intense fear—doctors said it was a kind of stress, a kind of accident trauma. After all, the science exhibition hall in Songhu Town collapsed and killed many people, and Bu Rice is one of the few lucky ones.

"What happened next?"

Bryce heard Alisa asking, his lover was obviously by his side, but for a moment, Bryce felt that she was so far away, as if she was in another dimension.

Suddenly, Bryce felt a soft and warm embrace, and he turned his head to see Alisa giving him a hug.

"Hey honey, whatever happened, it's in the past, you know that."

she said to Bryce.

Bryce nodded, and he stretched out his hand, wrapping it tightly around Alisa's waist, as if it gave him the courage to continue.

"The star butterfly took Lin Xi and flew away directly - our building looked like it was made of plastic cardboard in front of them. The structure of the exhibition hall was destroyed, so the whole building collapsed. Everything It was a mess, many people died, and the National Guard came to maintain order, but it still took them almost a month to find the star butterfly—they found Lin Xi."

Bryce controlled his emotions, trying to keep his thoughts out of memory, trying to just talk about what happened after that.

"Wait, you mean, one month? You didn't find Lin Xi until one month later?"

Alice asked in shock.

Bryce nodded.

He took a deep breath before continuing.

"Yes, there is a camping park about 100 kilometers away from Songhu Town. The business there is not very good. The administrator will only carefully inspect the entire park before closing the mountain every winter. He is next to a natural cave. It smells foul..."

20 years ago--

Huishan Camping Park

Robinson Wiley walked quickly on the rugged mountain road with the police officers.

In the past, he was a fat, even a little silly little old man, and few people saw a sad expression on his face, but now, his face that was red from alcohol is wrinkled, and he He looked sad and full of worry.

"I swear... when I visited there before, there was nothing there."

he said in a high voice.

"But now, it's so smelly that even dogs don't want to come near it, oh, I'm not exaggerating, you saw Anne and Mary just now, right, Sheriff."

The sheriff nodded at him breathlessly, but the exhaustion prevented him from uttering a word.

The Anne and Mary in Robinson's mouth are the two dogs he raised. They are two pretty good hounds, and they are Robinson's good helpers when hunting every spring.They have almost never made mistakes, but since they discovered the abnormality near the cave, they are no longer willing to approach this mountain—there are still several kilometers away from the cave, and they all wailed in unison, using four His paws were on the ground, unwilling to go forward no matter what.

"Maybe they're just scared." A middle-aged police officer guessed behind the sheriff, "After all, you found so many Sunu corpses."

At the mention of this, Robinson couldn't help trembling.

When he was patrolling the mountain a few days ago, he found something strange next to the "rabbit hole" (this is his pet name for the cave).

The side of the hole is covered with muddy liquid, and emits a suffocating stench.

Robinson has never smelled such an unpleasant smell in his life. He thought it was a bear that died there, but when he got closer, he realized that it wasn't a fucking bear, it was...a large piece of corpse...

Those were all Sunu corpses, not decomposed, but worse than rotting corpses, all of them turned into a strange, sticky syrup-like thing.

Beneath the melted skin and muscles, only the bones could barely make out some shape.

And just as Robinson looked at the corpses, he felt that something seemed to be moving around in the cave.

He didn't dare to stay there at all, and immediately ran away with the dog that was also trembling with fright. He felt that this matter was "very wicked" and would definitely bring a lot of trouble, and he almost wanted to avoid it -However, a few days later, he still called the police station to report the incident.

"Maybe suicide."

Before they were about to reach the entrance of the cave, some people also guessed so.

"I heard... those Sunu people are keen to commit suicide recently... They have gone crazy one by one. The Congress is in a state of distress because of this matter."

"Yeah, the Sunu people are all lunatics, and the things they raise are-"

The other policeman pretended to be relaxed and said.

Their small talk stopped immediately when they reached the "rabbit hole".

For a second or two, everyone looked down the rabbit hole, unable to move or make any sound.

The foul-smelling mucus had dried up long ago, but the bones were carefully collected by something and piled up inside the shallow cave.

Those bones were piled up into a shape similar to a nest, and in that nest, a chrysalis that was as tall as a person was standing there, wriggling slowly, as if it was breathing.

"What the hell is this……"

A police officer murmured.

He turned on the flashlight and shone the light on the chrysalis in the dark cave.

His original intention was to let himself see clearly, but after turning on the light, another thing that surprised everyone was revealed.

"Oh my god, that, that's..."

"Do you think it's a person? Or am I just reading wrong... God, I think it's a person..."

The shell of the chrysalis is translucent, and under the light, the outline of the boy wrapped in it appears.

After a period of panic and disbelief, the group of police finally bit the bullet and cut the chrysalis open.Then, the young Asian boy fell to the ground mixed with a lot of slime from the nest made of Sunu bones.

"My God, that boy!"

Until this time, someone finally recognized Lin Xi.

"The boy they've been searching for—"

he cried in horror.

……

"They found Lin Xi and gave him a very detailed physical examination. For the next few months, he was locked up in some secret state laboratory for investigation, of course, what those guys generally call 'treatment '." Bryce said to Alisa with a livid face, "but they didn't find anything on him, he was just a little malnourished. After losing the value of in-depth research, Lin Xi was sent back Home, everything seems to be fine with him, except that occasionally, he would have nightmares at night... In the end, we went to a psychiatrist, hypnotized, and some other things. In the end, Lin Xi didn't remember anything. All he knows is that he had a nice exhibition when he was a kid, that's all."

Bryce ends the flashback as calmly as possible.

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In this story, the members of the protagonist group are all serious villains.