mother of all races

Lin Xi shivered, and almost fell limp to the ground.

"Dr. Lin Xi!"

Lina screamed and held him up.

"Sorry, I just... need some time to get used to these mummies."

Lin Xi saw herself panicked in Lina's eyes.

He took a deep breath and told himself for the umpteenth time to calm down.

"Also, maybe we, should go to the bridge? Then we can leave."

Schroderes stammered.

Lin Xi felt that the young man probably preferred to give up this investigation and leave.

"Bridge? Well, that's a good idea. Let's just take a look and retreat."

Lin Xi nodded at him, then cheered up and said.

Then, they tiptoed towards the freezer...as if a little weight would wake up the mummies.

However, just as they passed by a freezer, a shadow suddenly passed by the corner of Lin Xi's eyes.

He subconsciously turned his head to look at the freezer, and then stopped involuntarily.

That's a bloodstain.

Lin Xi stared blankly at the mummy beside him. The mummy and the freezer he was in looked no different from other people's, but if you looked closely, you would find that the mummy's fingertips were bumpy. Yes, some white bone stubble can be seen vaguely.

On the inside of the freezer, there were several deep scratches, and the gaps between the scratches were inlaid with bloodstains that had also turned black.

The others followed Lin Xi's gaze to look at the mummy, and then their faces became paler.

"Oh my god."

Lina's voice was even tinged with a little wet crying.

Although it has been a hundred years, the evidence left by this mummy is too obvious-he woke up, woke up before being trapped in the cryogenic temperature, and he kept trying to escape.

He failed.

Suddenly it seemed like a sad accident, but Lin Xi's instinct made him run back into those cold glass coffins involuntarily.

I didn't notice it before, so I haven't noticed it yet, but once I searched carefully, Lin Xi found that there are not a few people who have the same condition as this mummy...

A terrible idea suddenly appeared in his mind.

"It's not an accident." He said softly, "These people... were forcibly brought here and... then cryogenically frozen..."

Lin Xi thought of the materials scattered in the corridor, the lost shoe.

Is this what the researcher was trying to avoid 300 years ago?Someone forcibly brought here to be frozen.

When Lin Xi raised his head to look around him again, he realized that what he was looking at was not a freezer, but a scene of a large-scale slow slaughter.

but why?

Why would anyone want to do something like this to their fellow man?

"This, what is this?"

Lina pointed at a freezer not far away and screamed.

Looking at it suddenly, the corpse lying in the freezer is no different from other people, but if you take a closer look, you will find that there are some strange things in the coffin made of glass besides the dark and dry mummy. something that should appear.

are bugs.

Although it also became dark and broken for a long time, Lin Xi would never mistake the appendages protruding from the dull chitin carapace from under the body.Its body was huge, it seemed to be the size of a baby, and its fly-like wings had turned into several dry fragments scattered on the side of the corpse and in the empty abdominal cavity that was open to both sides.

Lin Xi didn't see traces of internal organs in the mummy's body. In fact, the corpse seemed to be empty of bones and muscles, and it was most likely eaten by the worm in his body.

And when it ate up the host's flesh and blood, it broke through the poor man's thin skin and got out, and was finally trapped to death in the freezer.

"vomit……"

Lena and Schroderes were not members of the survey team, and they certainly hadn't seen the scene in Bryce's medical room.Just this immobile and also taxidermied insect was enough to make them retch loudly.

Lin Xi's condition is better than theirs, but his chest is also oppressed.

With a livid face, he walked around those freezers, and found that about one tenth of the mummies had the same tragic condition.

Among them, either there were huge insects crawling out of the body, or they died miserably covering those insects. After mummification, the skin became dry and thin and completely covered the bodies of those insects. , highlighting their existence.

"Dr. Lin Xi, these people... the appearance of these people... I heard that a similar thing happened on the Helios before. You killed those two people in front of those exploration personnel."

Lina suppressed her fear, she rolled her eyes to look at Lin Xi.

Lin Xi's face seemed to be covered with a layer of frost.

"I pressed the disinfection button of the treatment cabin before those bugs rushed out." While speaking, his eyes remained on those weird and terrifying bugs, as if cold water had been injected into his veins, Lin Xi could only Feel the surrounding environment seems to be getting colder and colder.

Well, maybe in a sense, he is no different from the creators of this massacre 300 years ago, even their ideas of solving the "problem" are similar.

There was a voice whispering softly in Lin Xi's heart.

"Well, at least we now know why..."

Schroderes followed behind Lin Xi, and he murmured while looking at the corpses that had been ravaged by bugs.

Perhaps these people are experiencing this precisely because they have become hosts for bugs.

"Who knows."

Lin Xi frowned and replied softly.

In fact, there are more things, some fragments, or fantasies, flying wildly in Lin Xi's mind like snowflakes in a storm. When Lin Xi opened his mouth, he vaguely felt that he seemed to have noticed something, but the organization While talking, I found that the details I captured before had completely melted away.

He didn't say anything superfluous in the end.

Lin Xi's palms were covered with cold sweat, and the exploration suit seemed to be unprecedentedly heavy and stuffy.

He really wanted to run away, like the kind of kid who was scared and cried in a haunted house, and ran straight out of this damn place.

It's just that Lin Xi's rationality prevailed at the last moment.

This aircraft is rich in material and structurally complete. It is likely to be a replacement for the Helios, which is almost on the verge of being scrapped. More optimistically... it may be able to take them back to Earth.

Thinking of this, Lin Xi couldn't allow herself to escape.

In a moment of silence, Lin Xi and the other three made some records for the mummy and the bugs around the mummy, and then they fled from there with pale faces.

The silent corpses trapped in the freezer were too frightening. After leaving there, even Lin Xi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Relying on the last bit of willpower, they swept across the various rooms and halls that appeared along the way, and walked directly towards the bridge of this aircraft.

"I want the center console to be there, I think it should still work, and it should have a star map in it, so we can get home with that, right? Doctor, I think we can..."

Because she was too flustered, Lina babbled on the communication channel all the way.

In the past, Lin Xi probably felt that she was a little loud and talkative, but at this moment, he was actually a little grateful for Lina's thoughts.

Because the silent and cold bridges and passages that appeared in front of their eyes seemed to be becoming more and more gloomy as they gradually penetrated into the interior of the aircraft.

Some hideous nicks appeared on the wall of the passage, and the further one walked, the denser the traces became.Even if you look back after 300 years, the traces branded on the metal walls, the blood stains on the ground, and the debris scattered on the corridor floor... can still clearly reflect the brutality of the original battle.In some places, even the lighting fixtures on the ceiling were damaged and disabled.

"There's a real vibe about this place."

Schroderes muttered while rubbing his arms.

"It's almost like a grave."

Lena immediately agreed.

I think this place is more terrifying than the tomb, Lin Xi thought in his heart, but he didn't say it.

It didn't take long before they found some clues about the aircraft among the debris on the ground.

"Oh, look, I'll say--this is the Providence!"

Schroderes picked up a damaged identification plate from the ground. There were some traces of laser scorching on the metal nameplate, but this did not prevent others from seeing the iconic "p" on it clearly.

"Oh, please, please look carefully, there is still writing under this!"

Lena snatched the identification plate from Schroderes's hand and said with a frown, the metal piece flipped back and forth at her fingertips, and then she read the words below the identification plate: "Providence b-type galaxy Inner Airship Emergency Rescue Aircraft No. 1-v2."

The three exchanged a look.

Schroderes' cheeks were slightly red. He really made a stupid mistake. Although this aircraft did look huge, it was only compared to the old and dilapidated Helios.And 300 years ago, the Providence, which could carry 25 people to an alien planet, could not have been such an aircraft anyway.

This aircraft should have been just a lifeboat that was placed inside the Providence at the time.If that terrible accident hadn't happened, after the basic human cities are built, these flying boats that can only be used for flying in the galaxy will probably be reused as transportation boats...

"As expected of the Great Exploration Era..."

Lena muttered in a daze.

Even on the earth, I have seen many documentaries and movies about the era of great exploration, but I know that I know that after experiencing the luxurious creations of that prosperous era, 300 years later, I can only fly with the old aircraft that survived. People were still shocked.

The girl unconsciously turned the signboard over, and there was also a line of small characters on it - the number of people in the nuclear capacity is 1000

After seeing the line clearly, the three of them fell silent for a while.

Although no one spoke, everyone knew that the only thing that came to their minds at this moment was the mummies they had seen before.

"Do you think they're all dead?"

After a long time, Lina lowered her voice and asked tremblingly.

Lin Xi stared at the identification plate, and that chilling feeling struck again.

"Do not--"

He was whispering before he knew it.

"I made a rough estimate before, and the people who were frozen there... there were only about two or three hundred people."

"Where did the rest of them go?" asked Schroderes.

No one answered him.

A deadly silence fell between the three of them in an instant.

After several seconds, the young boy suddenly opened his eyes wide, realizing what a terrible question he had asked.

That's right, if the number of nuclear loads here is 1000... Except for those who watched themselves trapped to death in the freezer, where did the rest go?

"Also, maybe, the aircraft took off before the scheduled number of people arrived."

Lina said tremblingly.

Lin Xi didn't object or respond—everyone knew that no one would be so stupid to let an empty vehicle take off when the resources in outer space were extremely tight.

And at the moment when the three of them remained silent, Lin Xi suddenly shuddered.

The feeling of extreme uneasiness became more and more intense in his heart, so strong that he couldn't even continue to suppress it.

"Let's go," he said decisively.

"What? Let's not go to the bridge to see if there is a star map there..."

The other two didn't seem to have recovered yet.

Lin Xi shook his head at them.

"Look at the environment here, this ship is not as safe as what we saw before, maybe there is something that we can't deal with is still living here - let the mercenaries on the Helios Let's deal with them. Now we should go. Maybe this nameplate is here to remind us."

Lin Xi said.

Then he turned around and walked quickly towards the road he came from.

"Yes, but..."

Lina and Schroederes also reacted immediately after a short period of wonder, and they immediately followed Lin Xi's footsteps, although Lina seemed a little unwilling.

However, Lin Xi's decision to leave seemed a bit late.

rustle……

A whole fine rubbing sound corridor sounded at the end near the bridge.

rustling... rustling...

Lin Xi felt that he had never been so swift in his life—he turned around suddenly, and fired countless shots in the direction of the sound.

But there was no way to stop the thing from slowly appearing in front of them.

"Great, I think I'll come down and find out where the rest of the guys went."

Schroderes stared at it, he murmured in disbelief.

He felt that he already had a fairly clear answer—those on the ship who were not so unlucky enough to be trapped in the dormant cabin alive were all eaten up by the thing in front of them.

It was an extremely ugly bug.

It looked as if someone had forcibly grafted the spider and the cockroach together and then magnified it countless times—it didn't even need to open its eight black-glowing legs to completely block the entire passage.

It has a long, flat tail full of brown-red links, and a thick and fat chest cavity that is almost out of proportion to the body.The back is covered with a thick layer of leathery wings which are dark brown.There are countless blinking eyes inlaid on the face covered with fluff.Two slender tentacles vibrated on its head, and some fluff on the top of the tentacles opened and closed, absorbing and analyzing the smell and information belonging to the three outsiders in the atmosphere.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

"Help, ah, ah—"

Lina and Schroderes let out deafening screams at the moment they saw the thing, and then they quickly hid behind Lin Xi, whose body was completely stiff.

"Fire!"

Lin Xi had no choice but to roar at the two of them.

Immediately afterwards, he pulled the trigger in his hand towards the nightmarish insect.

The plasma beam hit the bug instantly.

"Zizi-"

Accompanied by the sound of the carapace being scorched, a puff of green smoke rises, a thick liquid mixed with dark green and yellow, wrapped in some internal organs, slips from the hole in the thick breastplate of the cockroach spider out.

Even though Lynch's air filter was still working, he could still smell the bold, sweet-smelling stench.

But the bad thing is that even though there was a big hole in its body, that huge monster didn't seem to be affected by you in any way, and it still approached Lin Xi and the others little by little with its tentacles shaking.

Lin Xi had to hold a gun and shoot at it continuously to barely control it at a slow speed. The walls were full of sparks and scratches made by the ion beam, but for that monster, Lin Xi et al.'s attacks seem to be becoming more and more useless.The thick mucus secreted from its wounds seems to be able to blast away the damage of the ion beam to some extent.The incomplete worm body is like a zombie, and it looks even more terrifying and disgusting than when it first appeared.

"What the hell is this?!"

"God, woo woo woo... help..."

The one who screamed was Lena.

It was Schroderes who was crying and shooting.

"..."

It was Lin Xi who bit his tongue hard and let the pain force him to calm down.

The three men backed away slowly and fired.

They're trying to stop the damn bug by shooting...or just slowing it down a bit, so at least they'll have room to turn around and run for their lives.

It's a pity that even the body has been blasted into a mess of insect flesh by the plasma beam, and even the neck that connects the body has fallen off the terrifying body after a few accurate shots——that one The bug's body was still swinging its limbs, stepping on its own blood and internal organs in an attempt to reach Lin Xi.

Lin Xi held the gun tightly in his hand. The ion generator at the gun's muzzle was already heating up. Lin Xi's palm was wet. He thought it was his own sweat, but the bright red that caught his eyes showed that it was actually his sweat. Blood on hands.

Moreover, the point that makes things even worse is probably that...

click...

There was another disturbing sound, the screech of metal deforming.Lin Xi suddenly raised her head and looked at the top of her head——

The originally smooth and clean metal panel is gradually beginning to deform and sag downwards.

click-

It was that sound again, closer now.

The originally bright and dazzling lights flashed suddenly, and then suddenly dimmed amidst a burst of crackling electric current.

"Damn, we have something on top of our heads too!"

Lin Xi let out an urgent roar.

Because of the sudden change of light, there was only darkness in front of his eyes at that moment.

In the blink of an eye, Lin Xi only felt a faint sound of wind coming from the top of his head.He felt goosebumps all over his body, he fell forward suddenly, and then rolled around on the ground with his head in his arms.

"Tick tock..."

Some wet voices came from where he was before, and Lin Xi refused to think about what was falling from above.

He fell down abruptly—

"Om-"

At this moment, there was a slight shock inside the spaceship, and the red emergency light at the bottom of the wall lit up.

Lin Xi was finally able to see the surrounding environment again, and then he saw clearly what he had avoided just now—there were two dark brown, whip-like tentacles, protruding from the gap in the vent at this time out.

And with the overwhelmed rattle of the ceiling sheet metal, even an idiot would know that the thing above their heads was about to spin out.

And almost at the same time Lin Xi saw the two tentacles, the gun in his hand beeped slightly——the color of the ionizer changed from green to bright red.

It's overheating.

"Damn."

Lin Xi let out a curse.He had never been so irritable.

He jerked the muzzle away, then gave Lena and Schroderes a hard tug.

"Walk--"

he growled hastily.

Then at the moment when another behemoth—that giant dark brown insect fell out of the vent, Lin Xi led you and Schroederes and started running crazily.

The entire aircraft was blood red.

The monster probably broke an important line when it sneaked into the location of the three of them. Now Lin Xi and the three could only rely on the emergency lights to flee in a panic all the way in the intricate corridors.

The second person whose ion gun overheated was Lena, followed by Schroderes. They still had electromagnetic guns that were already turned on in their backpacks. The gap of the gun.

But eventually they had to turn around and face the two...or more giant insects...

Because before they knew it, the three of Lin Xi accidentally escaped into a dead end.

The reason why they judged wrongly was because this corridor was extremely wide, and they thought there would be a fork in it, but what stood in front of them was an extremely thick and tall metal door.

The door was red under the emergency light, almost like the gate of the underworld.

Lin Xi's shoulder hit the door, and then he turned around to look at the slow figures that were gradually approaching.

As they walked, they kept flapping the thick wings behind them, making a continuous sizzle noise.

It was at this moment that Lin Xi felt that the nerve called reason in his head was completely broken.

He was very angry—

This situation should not happen.

The thought raced through his mind quickly.

hula-

That voice did not arise in reality, but in his brain.

Lin Xi only felt that a small explosion suddenly erupted in his head.

With a bang.

Something invisible exploded, and the fragments shot through his gray soft brain, through his skull, into the void...

"Well……"

At that moment, Lin Xi only felt that his mind was blank.

He lost control of his body, staggered, and fell to the ground with his back against the metal door.

"Dr. Lin Xi!"

Vaguely, he seemed to hear Lina screaming in panic.

But at this moment he didn't even have the strength to turn his head.

The severe pain was constantly swaying in his head along the center of the "explosion", the pain almost made him scream out.

But at the moment when Lin Xi fell to the ground and couldn't move, the monsters who followed them seemed to have finally reached their limit.

They stopped in Lin Xi's field of vision, and then shook slightly.

Finally, with a bang, he fell heavily to the ground.

"Huh...huh...huh..."

Lin Xi could hear her own heavy breathing.

He stared at the bugs that were gradually turning their backs without blinking, and the feeling of extreme disgust and panic still remained in his heart.

He guessed that you and Schroderes probably felt the same way.

After an unknown amount of time, Lina among the three finally calmed down a little.

"They are dead."

She forced herself to take a few steps towards the corpses of the bugs, then she stood there observing for a while before running back to Lin Xi and said.

"They're really dead, I looked, and they're not moving."

she repeated nervously.

"I know."

Lin Xi murmured back to her.

He didn't even quite remember how he managed to pull himself up from the ground.

He had a splitting headache and his whole body was shaking.

It was at this time that Schroderes made that exclamation.

"Central control room... Dr. Lin Xi... This is actually the central control room!"

Lin Xi looked along where his finger was, and it took him a while to focus his gaze.

There was indeed a line written there: Central Control Room

The following is a special reminder: non-authorized personnel are not allowed to enter

On the right side of the nameplate, there is a biometric authenticator with a shimmering light.

"If only we could go in..."

Schroderes muttered, and he unconsciously pressed his hand on the authenticator.

And no one expected that just after he finished that action, a soft electronic sound sounded like that.

"Beep - authentication passed, please enter."