mother of all races

But no matter how reluctant Bryce was, Lin Xi finally got a pass to the brig.

Compared with Bryce who was worried about Lin Xi, more people on this ship hoped that Lin Xi could dig out some valuable information from An Teng Jingxiong.

The corridor leading to the confinement room was dark and dank like before, reminiscent of a dungeon in a nineteenth-century castle. In order to save energy, even the lighting facilities were disabled on the way to the confinement room. It was dark and crowded. The sound of footsteps on the metal floor echoed very loudly, and from the end of the corridor came nightmarish whispers and cries.

"It's the people in the confinement room, they're all out of their minds."

The mercenary who led Lin Xi to the confinement room noticed Lin Xi's hesitation in his footsteps. He turned around and held a searchlight to illuminate his face, dyeing his jaw a pale blue-white.

He smiled wryly at Lin Xi and explained.

"Although I can also understand that some people can't bear the pressure and eventually have a nervous breakdown, but too many people have been brought to the confinement room during this period. If this continues, I estimate that the confinement room on this floor is about to collapse. Can't handle it anymore."

As he spoke, he turned around and continued to lead Lin Xi in the dark corridor.

Finally, he stopped at the very end of the corridor.

"Whoa whoa whoa I was wrong Liz I was wrong I didn't think it would turn out like this... I don't understand... God what the hell I did to you... But it's okay and you don't want to Such a fate... Maybe you will feel lucky..."

A beast-like wail came from the other side of the iron gate. The irrational voice mixed with the darkness and dampness in the corridor, turning into something chilling...

Lin Xi and the mercenary looked at each other.

"Professor Ando is here." The mercenary said.

He then swiped open the door of the brig with his biometric.

"The doctor is immobilized. I don't think he can just jump up and chew you into minced meat." The mercenary made a joke that wasn't funny (and that joke definitely came from John Bronson), and then He motioned for Lin Xi to enter the confinement room, but he himself stood outside the confinement room with a weapon in his hand. He didn't seem to intend to follow the normal rules and procedures, sharing the same room with Lin Xi and Ando Shizuo.

Lin Xi wouldn't blame him for this, the mercenary hid it well, but Lin Xi could still smell his fear clearly from behind the cheeks that were tense due to emaciation.

But... what is he afraid of?

Lin Xi thought so, and then he stepped directly into the confinement room.

Thankfully, the lights were not turned off in order to save energy. Everywhere is brightly lit, from the ceiling to the floor, and every corner is illuminated white by the bright light.

And in this room, Dr. Ando, ​​who was firmly trapped on a small bed by plastic shackles, became more conspicuous.

He didn't look as bad as Lin Xi thought, and he was even a little better than some ordinary crew members who took too much food bags.He's just as thin and pale as ever (but who's not on the Helios now?).

Lin Xi pulled the only chair in the closed room, and then sat down in an safe position.

Ever since hearing Lin Xi's voice outside the door, Shizuo Ando has become quieter. At this moment, he is staring at the surveillance camera in the confinement room with his bloodshot eyes wide open.

But his eyes seemed to look far beyond the camera.

"Dr. Lin Xi..."

After a brief silence, An Teng Jingxiong's first words were hard to hear his madness.

"Professor Ando, ​​hello."

Lin Xi replied dryly.

He kept his voice low, and he had already entered the confinement room, but Ando looked like he was taken aback after hearing his response.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-mother of worms--"

Professor Ando struggled on the bed, his body was unbelievably soft, Lin Xi was shocked to see his shoulder twisted to one side as if dislocated, while Professor Ando himself maintained that terrible posture, straight up Hooked at Lin Xi.

"I made a mistake, Doctor, a serious mistake."

Dr. Ando muttered.

"It's not Liz's fault...those are my kids..."

He continued.

Lin Xi turned her head and saw the mercenary at the door looking at the two of them curiously.

"My condolences, Professor Ando."

Lin Xi didn't know what to say, he could only say this to the lunatic in front of him.

"No, no, no, it's not too bad, I know you all think I'm crazy, well, maybe I'm crazy, but as I lay here, I realize, maybe I'm not doing anything wrong... "

Dr. Ando spoke in an odd tone, his voice hoarse and high-pitched, as if nails had been slid across a blackboard.

"The problem is ground milk."

What he said was very messy, and there was almost no logic between the front and the back, but with this sentence, Lin Xi's whole body froze suddenly.

The sight of the mercenary came from behind, and he was sure that person must also be listening attentively to the conversation between him and Ando.

He stared suspiciously at Professor Ando, ​​trying to find a trace of madness in his eyes, but the strange thing was that at this moment, Shizuo Ando looked extremely calm.

"I didn't do anything wrong by killing Liz and the kids, because even if I didn't kill them, they would still turn into that disgusting thing in the end... that bug... all the people who took ground milk No one can escape, we are thieves, we are robbers, we stole food that does not belong to us at all, so in the end, we pay the price.”

Dr. Ando's voice contained a strange tone, which suddenly sounded very similar to that of the Sunu people.

"Dr. Ando... the price? What is the price?"

Lin Xi originally wanted to come to Shizuo Ando to ask about the pupation of the star butterfly, but after hearing what Dr. Ando said, his attention was completely attracted.

But the sobriety in Dr. Ando's eyes has gradually dissipated now, as if he didn't hear Lin Xi's question at all, he babbled on his own, his eyes gradually lost focus: "Either die, or Just be one of those low level bugs, they don't like waste, they will create more low level puppets in the waste and food for you and your kids to drive.. it's bad Dr. Lynch, you're a good man , but I can't stand this, I can't watch my wife and my kids turn into that disgusting thing, when I cut up Liz's body and saw the kids I knew I wasn't wrong..."

"Dr. Ando?"

Lin Xi frowned.

"Sorry I don't understand what the hell you're talking about...you mentioned before that you want to see me..."

"Oh, yes, I want to see you, of course I want to see you, I need to tell you something—" Dr. Ando chuckled, "You should die, Dr. Lin Xi, your awakening makes everything It's all over... Those Sunu people have lived peacefully on Sunu planet for so many years, they worked hard to survive, but the moment you start to wake up, everything changes... the people of the whole planet They all felt that kind of mutation, the change that started from the depths of their bodies...and I am sure that those people on the earth who have taken ground milk must also feel it...we are all changing, Dr. Lin Xi, we For you, turning into worms, your children will become our kings later, and we...we will lose everything we have..."

While talking, Dr. Ando suddenly let out a sob of extreme pain.

"During the tens of thousands of years before you woke up, we had human bodies, we had our own intelligence, we had civilization... But now everything will disappear—we will be transformed into insects, and we will stay here forever In the darkened dirt and corpses, there will be nothing else in our minds but you...your children...we are your slaves and your food...it's really too bad, Dr. Lin Xi, I beg you, kill yourself, for the happiness of all of us. It may take another few tens of millions of years for the next egg of the alien mother to wake up. At that time, human beings may have advanced enough to escape from this world. A degree of fate, but before that, we need your death—”

"Dr. Ando, ​​I'm just an ordinary earthling. You should know this. We also worked together in the university. You have seen my file. When I was selected for the Helios mission team, I experienced After a long period of physical tests, there is nothing abnormal on my body."

Lin Xi had to work hard to remind Ando.

He could feel the thorn-like gaze of the mercenary beside him, which made him extremely uncomfortable, and he could somewhat understand why Bryce objected to him coming to see Shizuo Ando.

Once this man's crazy words are leaked, the crazy messages on the ship will only intensify.

"...I came to see you just to ask about Xingdie."

Lin Xiqiang looked at Ando energetically.

"I hatched the star butterfly, and it has pupated now, I read your notes before, but you didn't mention this at all in the notes—"

"That's not a star butterfly."

Shizuo Ando interrupted Lin Xi directly.

Because this answer was so ridiculous, for a moment Lin Xi didn't know how to respond.

Lin Xi noticed that even in such a crazy situation, Shizuo Ando still seemed nervous and panicked when he mentioned Xingdie.

"I made a mistake, Dr. Lynch, I should have warned you earlier."

Shizuo Ando even began to whisper to Lin Xi in a serious manner.

"What we found... is not the egg of a star butterfly at all... it is your king worm... your most beloved child... it will kill everyone here for you..."

The more Shizuo Ando said, the more outrageous it became, and Lin Xi's brows became tighter and tighter.

He could feel that Ando really believed in what he said, which made him feel ridiculous-but at the same time, Lin Xi felt a chill down his spine, as if someone had directly pulled his spine out and immersed it in ice water .

He looked at his personal terminal, then heaved a long sigh, he got up directly, and planned to leave.

But when looking at the door, Lin Xi still couldn't help being slightly taken aback.

The mercenary who was supposed to stay there had disappeared at some point.

There is only chaotic darkness outside the open confinement room.

In a trance, Lin Xi even had the illusion that the entire Helios spacecraft had lost its power, and there was no one in it and it was pitch black. The only light left was the confinement room where Lin Xi and the crazy Professor Ando were.

"Dr. Lin Xi...you should go to hell..."

And Ando was still chattering behind his back.

"For everyone, for human beings, you should commit suicide. You should also kill the king worm that was hatched by mistake. It will do even more terrible things in order to monopolize your love—"

When Ando repeatedly mentioned the matter of killing "No. [-]", a shallow anger slowly spread in Lin Xi's heart.

"Shut up - Dr. Ando, ​​you're just - you're just crazy"

Lin Xi whispered unbearably.

He felt flustered and his head ached.

"I don't know whether you are imagining it, or...like other people who heard John Bronson's nonsense, but I am just an ordinary human being, and I don't have the magic to turn people into Worm, of course, and I can't possibly have any kids considering we're still on a shitty planet, and everything you're saying is just nonsense nonsense—"

Lin Xi yelled at Ando, ​​while trying to look outside the door, trying to find the figure of the mercenary.

That man was obviously behind him before, but now he disappeared like smoke and dust.

This matter, at this moment, seems almost more disturbing than An Teng Jingxiong's strange crazy words.

"No...I'm not crazy...Dr. Lin Xi...I'm not..."

Ando rolled from side to side in pain on the bed, his body convulsed slightly, as if he was enduring severe torture.

"For God's sake--"

Lin Xi looked at Ando in bewilderment.

"Professor, what's wrong with you?"

He was very worried that Ando would bite off his tongue in a convulsion, so he couldn't help taking two extra steps towards Ando's bed.

At this moment, Ando's body suddenly trembled heavily, and then calmed down.

The muscles on his face became looser little by little, and his closed eyes slowly opened.

Lin Xi saw a pair of unfathomable eyes, like a bottomless abyss, or a black hole that could draw people into eternity.

There is no madness, no fear, no aura that belongs to humans, but this is a pair of human eyes.

After Lin Xi met Professor Ando's eyes at this moment, the muscles in his body tensed up to the extreme instantly. He suddenly jumped back several steps to distance himself from Ando Shizuo, and his heart was beating so frightened that it was about to burst. chest out.

He didn't know what happened to him, but he knew that he was terrified to see Shizuo Ando at this moment.

"Dr. Lin Xi, what you heard is not a crazy imagination, but a fact."

"Shizuo Ando" stared at her without blinking.

"I have been trying to save the people on your ship, I have been sending out signals, but unfortunately only a few people can understand what I mean..."

"You? Who are you?"

Lin Xi's back was pressed against the wall, he asked.

He suspects that this is Shizuo Ando's second personality, or some ancient ghost, of course, it is more likely that he himself is completely crazy.

Otherwise, why would he talk to such a consciousness that wears Shizuo Ando's skin, but is obviously not Ando?

"I'm the captain of the Providence, and I'm—"

"Lin--Lin Xi--Dr.--"

"Dr. Ando" was interrupted by a stuttering voice.

Lin Xi turned her head suddenly, and found that the mercenary who disappeared before had returned to the door at some point, but his face was pale, and even his lips had no color at all, as if he had just been seriously frightened by something .

But at this moment, he was holding a weapon, standing at the door in a daze, staring at Lin Xi and Ando Shizuo.

"boom--"

Almost at the same time that Ando was interrupted by him, the man who suddenly spoke and behaved strangely went limp, and fell back heavily on the hard and narrow bed in the confinement room like a corpse.

Everything happened in such a short time that Lin Xi couldn't react at all.

"Professor Ando? What's wrong with you—"

He first rushed over to check An Teng Shizuo's pulse, only to find that Ando seemed to have just passed out of shock.

Lin Xi's body softened and he almost fell to his knees.

"Dr. Ando is unconscious, we have to get the medical technical officer down."

Then Lin Xi turned to look at the mercenary.

"Where did you go just now?!"

The mercenary's expression was dull and his eyes were dull.

"I...I...go out...to patrol..."

Lin Xi suspected that Professor Ando's previous crazy words had affected the mercenary. He appeared extremely unnatural when facing Lin Xi, and even stuttered when speaking.

"Damn-"

Seeing his unresponsive look, Lin Xi turned her head irritably.

His head was in a mess, and he had no time to pay attention to such a mercenary who behaved strangely.

During the process of using the communicator to notify the medical officer to come down to treat the unconscious Professor Ando, ​​Lin Xi stood beside the small, narrow bed in surprise.

He kept staring at Shizuo Ando's face.

The scene that happened before made Lin Xi feel weird and ridiculous.

Captain of the Providence?

I have to say that it was this identity that made Lin Xi feel ridiculous for his previous seriousness.

The ghost of more than 300 years ago has now floated into the body of a mad scientist, forcing him to kill his wife and urging Lin Xi to die, lest all human beings become bugs because of Lin Xi?

This kind of ridiculous thing is too exaggerated even for absurd fiction.