mother of all races

It was a somewhat boring... story.

About Savile, about Lin Xi.

"You know my family, our parents are really well-wishers, me and Lynch... and Savile, we're both adopted. Of course we have a lot of other unrelated siblings , family members like ours always come and go. But the three of us are fixed and we always knew that was our home."

Blaise's voice was still hoarse after crying.

"Saville was the last to come, he was very timid and bruised when he first came... They said that Savile had been abused by the original family before, I think that's why Lynch got so close to him reason."

Bryce paused for a moment.

"...It's even a little too close."

Alicia's eyes widened in surprise.

"Wait, you mean..."

Bryce was in a trance, he seemed to be completely immersed in the memory, and when he mentioned Lin Xi and Savile, a helpless smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Yes, that's right, they fell in love. We don't know when that relationship started, but when we found out, they were completely inseparable from each other. When we first discovered this matter , our family is a mess, you know, after all, the two of them still have that relationship... But in the end, we accepted it. Anyone who has seen the two of them together, there is no There is a way to be ruthless and stop them from being together."

"When they're together, they seem very happy," Bryce repeated muttering.

Alisa stared at Bryce, she was very concerned about what happened next, but hesitated whether she should speak.

She had never seen Bryce look like this before.

Fortunately, without her needing to say more, Bryce continued naturally.

"We were so naive at that time, we thought our days would go on like that. But Savile died."

Bryce raised his eyes to look at Alisa, his eye sockets were inflamed and his eyes were red.

"That's my fault."

he whispered.

"What happened?" Alisa finally couldn't help asking.

"..."

Bryce was silent for a while, and it took a long time for him to speak in a low voice: "Saville, he has some... mental trauma. Well, that's what those people said. He was crazy, and at first he just became trance , he said that he always had a lot of nightmares. We didn't pay much attention to it at the time, thinking that he was just under too much mental pressure. After all, he was busy with work and planning the wedding with Lin Xi at the time...but soon his condition deteriorated , so fast that we didn't even realize it. Savile started to be paranoid, and his mind was full of thoughts of human extinction, the end of the whole world. We went to see a psychiatrist and gave him all kinds of goddamn tests, but that All of the above showed that he was actually just a little overly anxious. Lin Xi stayed by his side from the beginning to the end, hoping that Savile would get better, but in the end—”

Another long silence.

"But it turned out that Savile almost killed him."

"what?"

Alisa involuntarily let out a bewildered exclamation.

"Saville got the gun, he hid it in the pillow, and then he gave Lynch a drink. He was going to kill Lynch when he passed out - because he thought it would save the world .Of course, at the last minute, he hesitated, and I saw something was wrong and rushed into the room and stopped him. Savile was taken away by the police, and then...then he committed suicide in the police station."

"God..."

Bryce's body trembled slightly.

"I went to the hospital to see him for the last time. At the last moment of his life, Savile finally woke up. Alisa, you know, he was lying on the hospital bed like that, looking straight at me, he was about to Dead, but he kept saying sorry...he asked me to protect Lin Xi, I said I would, he...he closed his eyes."

Blaise rubbed his eyes with his hands.

He looked so painful, as if he could faint in the next second.

"I clearly promised him, I promised Savile that I would protect Lin Xi, but look at this moment, Lin Xi was sent out of the cabin by that damn Taran to die right under my nose, I watched him crawl In the patrol car, I saw him leave the Helios with my own eyes, and now..."

In the end, Bryce's voice was almost soaked in blood, hoarse and desperate.

"You give me a good rest, I can't do it, Alisa, every time I close my eyes... I see Savile, he's still there, looking at me, and saying sorry, let me Protect Lin Xi..."

Bryce finally fell asleep under Alisa's comfort - but Alisa believed that the real effect was probably the sleeping pill she secretly put in the water rather than her empty comfort.

After Bryce was settled, Alisa also sat on the edge of the bed for a while, resting her forehead.

She felt sorry for Bryce and Lynch.

Because Bryce is her lover, and Lin Xi is a very good friend.

But at this moment, there is another emotion surging in Alisa: guilt.

She felt guilty that she couldn't care, and devoted herself to mourning Lin Xi like Bryce, because she still had too many things to do.

Ever since the storm started, the intuition in Alisa's heart became clear. The destruction of the expedition team's army was probably just the beginning of another wave of tragedies.

This needs to start with the time when the Helios made an emergency landing on this planet. This spaceship, which has been in service since the era of great exploration until now, made an emergency landing at a lucky time.During this period of time, the natural environment of this mysterious planet with no way of locating its coordinates is almost perfect.But now, it is tearing off its perfect veil bit by bit, revealing its cruel true face.

The position of the stars changed—

This is what the technician told her.

According to the analysis of the ship's computer and the weary technicians wearing glasses, the violent storm that killed a dozen people will only become more frequent in the next period of time.

On the day they made an emergency landing, people discovered that the planet had two satellites.

Considering the shortage of resources, and the surface of the planet itself is covered with a layer of ghost dust that can shield most of the exploration instruments.The people on the Helios did not spend extra resources to perform too many calculations on the two satellites.And now they are paying the price for their short-sightedness.

In just a few days, those two satellites moved to a very bad position. They were on the same side of the planet at the same time and caused changes in the magnetic field and gravity.The tidal forces on the earth may only cause tidal surges on the ocean and volcanic activities in some remote areas, but here, what they bring is a giant storm that humans can't control at all.

Relying on the "covenant", the Helios barely survived the storm of the previous day, but the fuel will always run out one day.

If they still can't find the way back home, it won't be long before the people on the entire spaceship will die on this unknown planet.

Thinking of this, Alisa felt a splitting headache... She couldn't find a solution, and she didn't know how to escape from the current predicament. The shadow of death was entrenched on everyone on this spaceship, let alone the people on board. Human beings are gradually mutating under the action of food bags.

……

"What on earth should we do?"

Under the ground dozens of kilometers away, someone asked in fear on the communication channel.

Lin Xi turned her head and looked at him. The person who spoke was pale and looked extremely frightened.

"I do not know."

Lin Xi replied calmly.

Not so long ago, they had just lost Jerry.

Lin Xi originally only planned to drag Walker and Eugene out of the dark tunnel, and then find a way to leave the cave together.

But not long after they walked forward, they found that the tunnel in front of them actually forked. The original narrow passage suddenly turned into a wide platform, surrounded by many crooked and twisted cracks and tunnels, leading to completely different directions ( If they want, they can even jump from the two-person-wide hole in the ground), and those branching holes are either narrow enough for a cat to barely pass, and some are narrow enough for several people to pass side by side, but no matter which One passage, the other end is so dark that it seems to be connected to hell.

Lin Xi had no choice but to stop at those forks with the rest of the people.

No one knew where Jerry, or Walker, or Eugene had gone.

But they don't have time to stay in this ghost place at all... Similarly, it is impossible for them to explore one tunnel after another.

If they go the wrong way, it is very likely that they will die here directly-after all, their oxygen, food and water are limited (and the stock is still a little tight).If they are unlucky, it is very likely that they will enter a dead end directly, and then exhaust all the living materials, and finally suffocate to death alive in the deep and dark alien underground. It can be said that this kind of death should be the worst that everyone expected one of a kind.

"Are we really going to chase the two of them? Jerry must be crazy... Walker and Eugene may not have caught up with him. It is very likely that they just picked a side road at random and chased them down."

Another person murmured in panic behind Lin Xi's back.

"Actually we—"

He opened his mouth as if to say something, but after he really opened his mouth, he suddenly closed his mouth again.

No one could utter that sentence, but that thought lingered in everyone's mind very clearly.

The most sensible course of action should be to just give up on those three people who have disappeared into the darkness.They should return to the original path as soon as possible, find a way to find the lost marker balls, and finally grope back to the ground bit by bit.

It wasn't that far from the entrance of the cave to their overnight camp. If God still cared for them this time, they might still find the way back to the ground.

However, if that's the case, Jerry, Eugene and Walker will undoubtedly all die here——

The remaining few people were deadlocked here, everyone looked at each other, and no one could bear, or rather, did not have the guts, to say that sentence directly.

Lin Xi closed his eyes, and he took a deep breath.

"Everyone report the stock of oxygen and batteries." He said.

After hearing the worrying oxygen battery stock of the survivors, Lin Xi quickly estimated a rough value in his heart.

"Let's go along this road—" He pointed to a tunnel at random, and then said, "We continue to go forward for three or ten minutes, and I still don't see the three of them. Let's just turn back."

He paused and then said: "...my brother is still waiting for me on the boat, I have to go back."

No one had any objection to his suggestion, vaguely, Lin Xi could even feel that everyone was relieved.

They continued along the tunnel, which was very spacious, but the rocks on all sides were very rough, and everyone had to be vigilant not to let the rocks cut their exploration suits.

Lin Xi originally thought that he would directly lead the group of exploration team members through the 30-minute journey and return without success, while Jerry and the others would be trapped in the dark tunnel waiting to die.

However, that tunnel soon came to an end.

When they arrived at the huge cave connected to the other side of the tunnel and saw clearly what was inside, everyone involuntarily opened their eyes wide, almost speechless in shock.

It was not until a long time later that someone barely regained the ability to speak.

"Oh, God." Someone in the communication channel muttered involuntarily, "Is this a dream?"

"What the hell is... what..."

……

It took Lin Xi a long time to come back to his senses.

He bit the tip of his tongue hard, until the sharp pain came, and he was barely sure that what he saw was real and not a hallucination.

It was an aircraft.

That's right, there is an aircraft in this huge cave that seems to be dug by man.

Under harsh lighting conditions, it is difficult to see its appearance clearly by simply relying on the light of the searchlight, and naturally it is also difficult to accurately judge its size.

The only thing that is certain is that it is not a small thing, no, it should be said, that "thing" is a huge thing at all.

Its surface is smooth and bright, the silvery-white alloy glistens under the searchlight, and it is completely devoid of any atmosphere, dust or micro-meteorites that can never be avoided in interstellar flight—in fact, it is almost as if it has just left the factory. It was directly transported to this planet by some mysterious force, and transported to this dark underground cave where the sun is never seen...

It has been waiting here for countless days, just for the arrival of Lin Xi and others.

This inexplicable thought made Lin Xi involuntarily fight a cold war.

It's exciting to see a brand new aircraft, but, given the current state of affairs, it's kind of creepy that it's here.

In fact, until this moment, Lin Xi felt an unbelievable sense of illusion, as if the thing in front of him was just a mirage, something they imagined in their desperate situation.

In such a mood, Lin Xi cautiously continued to walk forward for a certain distance, and he soon discovered something new: this aircraft is indeed very new, but at the same time, about two-thirds of its body is covered in the Among the fine and dark sandy soil, the sandy soil looks very thick, and it seems that it has been accumulated here for a long time.Moreover, it seems that these fine sands should not appear in such caves.

Some words were faintly exposed on the tail of the aircraft that was exposed out of the sand. Lin Xi squinted his eyes to identify it carefully for a while, but the light of the searchlight was too dim for such a huge monster, and he could barely make out that it might be in English. ...

Well, this is even more hair-raising.

Lin Xi said to herself from the bottom of her heart.

And just when he approached the spacecraft with suspicion, three orange shadows appeared in the halo of the searchlight, about two or three hundred meters away from the aircraft.

"Hey, Jerry!"

Lin Xi's nerves tensed all of a sudden.

He quickened his pace and led the rest of the people towards the three people.

That's right, it's them.

Jerry, Walker, and Eugene.

They were all lying face down in the cold and dry sand, and suddenly looked like corpses.

"Jerry...wake up...damn it, Walker? Walker, are you still conscious? Eugene..."

Lin Xi quickly came to the side of the three people to check, and the rest of the exploration team quickly turned them over from the ground and checked their life support devices—thankfully, they were all still alive, but not Knowing why, they all lost consciousness.

Of these, Jerry is probably the worst, even in a coma his facial spasms and asymmetry are still severe, and he's still bleeding from the nose.

There was some kind of tremor coming from under the thick survey suit, and it was Jerry's body convulsing.

The old man looked as if he was going to die in the next second, but Lin Xi was completely helpless against this situation.

"Try the stun pulse gun." The youngest woman among the survivors of the exploration team, a girl named Lena, suddenly said next to Lin Xi.

"what?"

Lin Xi turned to look at her.

"It's just a guess..." Facing Lin Xi's puzzled eyes, Lena looked a little uncomfortable, but her tone was firm, "My grandma has encountered similar things before, it's their built-in brain function Auxiliary components are faulty, advertisers and hospital folks say it's okay, but every once in a while it's just going to go wrong - just pulse them down and it might save Jerry's life!"

Lin Xi only hesitated for a second before taking Lina's suggestion. He directly pulled out the pulse gun—this thing was originally used for their self-defense—then he adjusted it to the minimum, and then put the gun The mouth was on Jerry's body and the trigger was pulled.

"Beep-"

Accompanied by the small sound of the pulse gun, Jerry's body jumped a few times like a fish just caught on the shore, but then his whole body collapsed.

At that moment, Lin Xi's heartbeat almost stopped.

But soon he found that Jerry still had a pulse, and Jerry's previous symptoms of crooked face, bleeding mouth and nose had been alleviated a lot.

"How the hell does this work?"

A young man with his name written on the nameplate on his chest: Schroderes, he leaned over to look at Jerry, and then said in disbelief.

Lena, who made the suggestion before, also seemed relieved. She shrugged at the young man: "At least Jerry is luckier than my grandma. The lowest gear of the electronic pulse gun can't kill people, and my grandma is here. Unreliable components failed and fell into the bathtub together with the hair dryer... At that time, she was still putting rose essential oil and petals in the bathtub to prepare for a romantic evening. Who knew that there would be It was a high powered comm station - those comm frequencies jammed the ancillary components and nearly killed her."

Lina seemed a little chatty, probably because she was too nervous.

Lin Xi listened absently to her conversation with Schroderes, who was still observing Jerry's condition.

After ascertaining that they probably wouldn't wake up for a short time, he laid them back in their original positions.However, considering Jerry's weird behavior before, Lin Xi cautiously wrapped his hands with tape.

After dealing with Jerry, he stood up and felt the eyes of the rest of the people resting on his back. He turned around and saw the restless eyes of those people.

"Dr. Lin Xi, do you think...we should investigate this thing?"

Lina asked Lin Xi nervously.

Lin Xi was silent for a while before nodding.

"Of course," he said.

Lin Xi re-determined the amount of oxygen for everyone, and then he set a timer for everyone.

It has to be said that the experience of going to certain special caves to collect moss while on earth is actually very useful at this time.

"One hour... that's our limit, we have to come out within an hour and take Jerry and them out of here and back to the ground."

Otherwise, except for me, you will probably suffocate due to exhaustion of oxygen, and finally die in this weird and unpredictable ghost place.

These words were swallowed by Lin Xi.

Leaving one person to look after Jerry and the others outside the cabin, Lin Xi took out all the weapons and turned them on in the ready state, then he led Lena and Schroderes towards the aircraft.

They found the entrance without much effort, which further affirmed their guess-no matter why this aircraft appeared here, it undoubtedly belongs to the product of the earth, even the location and opening of the emergency entrance. The method is no different from the Helios that Lin Xi and others are familiar with.

If there is any difference, it is probably that the aircraft itself is much more advanced than the Helios in terms of structure and materials.

"Crack-"

Accompanied by a slight puff of smoke, the emergency entrance was opened.

Lin Xi jumped down first.

After looking around with the searchlight, he gestured to the people behind him.

"At least it looks safe now."

He said it a little unprofessionally.

"I hope so too..."

The rest jumped down, and someone muttered tremblingly.

"It's almost like visiting a ghost ship on the bottom of the sea, you never know what will appear in the next second-"

The moment the man spoke, there was an extremely small electrical sound.

The interior of the spaceship, which was originally pitch-black, unexpectedly had a soft light suddenly lit up.

"who--"

Lin Xi felt that his scalp was going to explode, he suddenly raised his gun and shouted violently.

"..."

But the only thing that greeted him was the slight beeping of the exhaust system, power system... and a series of life support devices slowly returning to operation behind the metal wall in the spaceship made in the era of great exploration.

"Oh my God……"

A murmur came from the communication channel.

Just two short words, but everyone can feel the extremely complex emotions contained in it.

——This aircraft is still in operation.

It is in good condition.

At least, from the current point of view - he can even sense the existence of human beings like a high-level spaceship and then wake up various facilities that are already in a dormant state.

You know, even this function of the Helios has long been disabled due to disrepair.

But here, in the deep, dark alien subterranean depths, the craft is still functioning perfectly.

"You, do you think... there will be a star map in this spaceship..."

After a while, Lina lowered her voice and said cautiously.

Lin Xi glanced at her, and then said nothing.

The author has something to say: "No. [-]": That...the director...how come I still don't have a role...Is it because the makeup is too ugly? (Flies rub their hands. jpg)

Lin Xi: ...