mother of all races

Shizuo Ando, ​​who was lying on the bed, opened his lips slightly, and his face was even paler. If Lin Xi hadn't confirmed that he still had a pulse, he would have looked like a corpse—his soul had already left the shell. Lin Xi couldn't say why, but that's how he felt.

Lin Xi looked away from his face, he didn't know why he was so sad.

Then, with such a casual glance, Lin Xi suddenly noticed some scratches on the metal wall near the small bed.

Lin Xi's eyes froze, and he subconsciously stepped forward to observe carefully.

Those scratches suddenly looked like a bunch of meaningless lines, with some blackened blood stains on the surface, just like the scratches made by all mental patients on the wall when they had a seizure—but Lin Xi was still sensitive. Some clues can be seen from it.

Lin Xi felt...that seemed to be some overlapping words.

It looked like Dr. Ando was trying to leave a few words, but his wrists were shackled in such a narrow position that the words could only overlap.

Lin Xi looked at Dr. Ando's fingers. He wondered why he hadn't noticed this before—Dr. Ando's fingers were scarred, and the nails on his fingertips had almost completely fallen off.

Lin Xi narrowed his eyes, and he carefully distinguished the intricate traces.

Beware of Taran

It was the first word he could make out, but those two were enough to make his heart beat a few beats faster.

food has...

what's in the food

Lin Xi racked his brains and stared at the wall. From a distance, he could hear the rumble of the landing plane coming from the other end of the corridor. It was the medical technician coming soon.

A little cold sweat broke out on Lin Xi's back. He knew very well that once the medical technician arrived, he might not have the chance to study these clues—especially if these clues still involved Captain Talan.

At this moment, Lin Xi suddenly realized his stupidity. He cursed his stupidity in his heart, and then he looked towards the position of Taran's other hand.

Sure enough, he also saw some nicks on the bed, but those nicks were more blurred than those on the wall.

John

Sacrifice

Star...God...

……

Although only a few words were identified, the meaning of those words combined together is enough to make people startled.

In this short moment, many clues that were originally irrelevant suddenly became connected.

Lin Xi looked at Shizuo Ando, ​​who had completely lost his interest, in shock. He even reached out and shook his shoulder uncontrollably.

"Dr. Ando—Dr. Ando—wake up! I have something to ask you—"

For a split second, even Shizuo Ando's absurd claims about being the captain of the famous ship 300 years ago seem less relevant.

"Cough cough..."

Suddenly, Lin Xi heard someone cough deliberately behind him.

He turned his head to look at the mercenary at the door.The latter was standing at the door, looking pale and stiff, but judging from his eyes, he seemed to be gradually regaining his vitality. The mercenary was now staring at Lin Xi intently, his eyes were burning strangely.The cough just now seemed to be made by him accidentally - but soon, the medical technicians who appeared behind the mercenary proved that it was not accidental, but a deliberate reminder.

After all, there were several other men who came with the medical technician, and Lin Xi found out with disgust that they were the subordinates of Taran and Robert.

"Hey, what just happened? What did you do to Dr. Ando?"

As soon as he saw Lin Xi, one of those people began to question aggressively.

It was only later that Lin Xi found out that when he was talking to Ando, ​​the line of the surveillance camera broke again inexplicably.

It was precisely because of this that almost no one heard what Ando yelled at him at the end - except for the mercenary.

Lin Xi did not expect that mercenary to hide anything for him, but he would not honestly stay in the confinement room to accept such impolite interrogation.

"Just words that don't make any sense. Dr. Ando passed out quickly due to his weakness."

He crossed his arms and said to those people, then he turned to the young medical technician.

"If you want to know that much, you should treat Dr. Ando right now."

Lin Xi replied coldly.

He stayed in the confinement room for a short while, suppressing his disgust with those Taran's dog legs. He hoped that the medical technical officer could wake up Ando, ​​so that he could at least get some useful information from that man.

But knowing that those men left with the mercenary first (Lin Xi didn't even need to guess, he knew that those people planned to dig something out of the mercenary's mouth), Shizuo Ando remained in a coma .

Lin Xi finally had to leave the confinement room.He originally planned to wait for Shizuo Ando to regain consciousness before meeting him, but news soon came that the mad scientist had turned into a vegetative state.

And with the death of his brain, the few words he left behind became lingering doubts in Lin Xi's mind.

Watch out for Taran, there's something in the food...and John Bronson, the Immolator and the C'tan.

Among them, something wrong with the food bag will cause people to go crazy, which Lin Xi has long learned from Bryce.

And then he thought that John Bronson was the head chef on the ship before he went crazy, and, in that meeting...John Bronson once pointed directly at Taran's nose and shouted that he was the devil .

At least before John pointed the finger at himself, he seemed to know something and had been wary of Taran.

Oh, yes, there is also a star god...

Lin Xi would never forget how Taran paid morbid attention to the fossil sculptures in the warehouse in the initial period after the failed leap.

And that Sunu fossil sculpture also frightened him a lot.

And after checking all the information, the last remaining word caught Lin Xi's attention...

"Sacrifice."

Lin Xi muttered the word softly, and then he shivered involuntarily.

Just thinking of this word made him feel very uncomfortable.

It was Taran who put something that made someone mutate in the food bag...in order to sacrifice to the so-called star god?

Lin Xi frowned.

If it weren't for the strange crazy words that Shizuo Ando yelled at him before he was unconscious, he would probably believe the information left by the former without hesitation and pursue it.

But now, Lin Xi always has a feeling of hesitation about the information he found.

Fortunately or unfortunately, Lin Xi doesn't have much time to entangle the mystery left by Shizuo Ando.

Because just after his unresolved meeting with Shizuo Ando, ​​he was about to face his first extravehicular exploration activity.

Bryce was going crazy with worry about it.

Lin Xi knew that he had applied several times to travel with him, but his status as a medical officer forced him to stay inside the Helios.

Looking at his brother's face that was particularly livid due to lack of sleep, Lin Xi endured and endured, and decided to wait until he finished the two-day and one-night extravehicular exploration before returning to the ship to discuss with him the information he had obtained from Shizuo Ando.

……

No.40 eight days after the failed jump.

Lin Xi wore a tattered survey team uniform, put an old-style laser gun on his shoulders, sat unsteadily in a patrol car, and started the first alien survey in his life.

The composition of the people sitting around him was very messy, one-third of them looked tired and gloomy, but they were extremely proficient in instruments and procedures—these people were members of the original exploration team.

There is also a third of the people who are capable and restless, and they communicate closely with the exploration team—these people are mercenaries.

And the rest of those panicked, looking around and wearing second-hand survey suits that don't fit their body and old firearms that should have been eliminated 30 years ago are naturally ordinary crew members who were forcibly assigned to exploration missions.

As early as when Lin Xi got into the car, he observed everyone quietly, and regretfully found that there were no acquaintances here.

Fortunately, Alisa did assign the crew seriously as she did to comfort Bryce and Lin Xi before. These people did not show too much hostility towards Lin Xi, and their eyes were still bright, not like Many of the mutated crew members who took food bags had empty eyes and high spirits.

However, even if there is no hostility, their attitude towards Lin Xi is not really friendly.

"Hey, Doctor—I hear you're the one—"

Just when Lin Xi lowered his eyes and thought about something, he heard the person opposite him speak in a drawn out voice.

Lin Xi silently raised his head to look at the other party. It was a strange man. Judging from the markings on his body, he should be a mercenary. His facial features were slightly crooked and his appearance was ugly.

Seeing that Lin Xi didn't respond, he made an obscene gesture towards Lin Xi.

"Those people say that you can manipulate bugs, as long as you don't like people, you will implant the eggs into their bodies, and then rely on your brother, the medical officer, to burn those people to death in the treatment Yili, right?"

Lin Xi pursed his lips, but he didn't say anything.

Because he knew very well that any response he made at this time would trigger a greater reaction from the other party.

"...I also heard that you have a big bug. That guy is so ugly that you will go crazy just by looking at it, but your taste is so strong..." At this point, the mercenary with crooked features deliberately lowered his voice. Voice, "I heard that you sleep with bugs... right? The temple priests on that crazy planet seem to have this vicious habit, they will sleep with their own bugs and give birth to a group of monsters, are you Did you learn this penchant from them?"

There was a strong malice in the mercenary's voice, and although he lowered his voice, in the closed patrol car, every move of people would be amplified, and everyone in the car could easily hear his question clearly. talk.

He did it on purpose.

In an instant, Lin Xi could clearly feel countless eyes coming and converging on him.

Well, the mercenary did pick an interesting topic.The insect worship on Sunu Planet has indeed spawned many hidden customs that are completely unacceptable to people on Earth, but no one likes to associate that disgusting custom with themselves.

In particular, the mercenary also mentioned "Number One".

Lin Xi's face slowly turned cold.

Before coming to participate in the exploration mission, he deliberately stayed in the greenhouse with the cocoons of "No. [-]" all night.

The condition of that cocoon looked better than before. It was hard for Lin Xi to tell the specific changes, but he could feel it.

The thick cocoon shell was still cold and rough to the touch, but Lin Xi could somehow sense a faint breath of life flowing inside the cocoon.