mother of all races

"You mean this damn monster is intelligent? Please, please don't say such terrible things."

Schroderes immediately issued a rebuttal.

"But, if it wasn't like this... how could the center console become like this? And we just met that disgusting thing outside, maybe there are more on our way back, the people in this aircraft It was probably eaten by this monster, so it was abandoned here..."

Lina said unwillingly.She looked uncharacteristically downcast, which is understandable, and she's been very positive along the way.

"Really...I was still counting on getting a star map or coordinates...and then going home..."

As she spoke, Lina's voice was tinged with sobs.

By "going home" she certainly didn't mean going back to the Helios from here.

"Hey, don't give up hope, maybe we'll find something else."

Even through the mask of the exploration suit, Lin Xi could see that Lena's eye sockets were a little red, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet and comfort her.

"Yeah, I don't think it's that bad."

Schroedneres was also comforting Lena.

Although he doesn't seem to believe what he said.

However, after carefully observing the ruins of the central console, Lin Xi finally found something.

He pried apart the fused wires and corroded metal plates, and then the completely useless electronic components...

Finally, some silver-white metal plates emerged from under the completely corroded parts.

This is the motherboard of the center console.

Lin Xi felt relieved when he saw it.

Just as he had guessed in the bottom of his heart before, although the control buttons and wires of the console can be corroded by the blood of the bugs, the problem with the motherboard at the bottom is probably not that big... Otherwise, they will be in this machine When the aircraft is flying, it is impossible for the aircraft to automatically sense the presence of humans and turn on the lights, and it is impossible for the controller of the freezer and the personal operating system to operate normally.

Even the thick metal door to the central control room opens and closes normally (although the biometric authenticator appears to be malfunctioning).

Lin Xi told the two people behind her about her guess and discovery. Sure enough, the two people who were still extremely depressed at first became extremely excited.

"Wait, if we search carefully, there may be more usable things here!"

"Ha, yes, maybe there is a backup of the star map and coordinates."

Lena even said whimsically.

It's just that, although this kind of speculation is a bit illusory, the other two people present did not intend to refute her at all.

Schroderes even searched urgently inside the dark control room.

He turned over and kicked away the corpses of those monsters piled up near the ruins of the central console with his feet in a disorderly manner, and the searchlights swung around in random circles on the ground.

"boom--"

Not long after, there was a crisp metal impact sound from his feet.

Schroderes let out a cry of pain, then jumped up on one foot.

"What the hell is this!"

he yelled in panic.

Three searchlights fell on the thing he mentioned earlier at the same time, and an arc of light was reflected on the smooth metal surface of the latter.

Lin Xi's gaze froze for a moment.

He quickly squatted down, and then swept the corpses of those strange-looking bugs away from the metal objects on the ground.

After a simple cleaning, that thing finally showed up.

Its volume is not too large, it is a uniform and regular oblate object, covered with a little black metal sheet on the back, a round head is inlaid in the center of the body, and the eight mechanical arms are evenly spaced. distributed on the lower part of the body.

Sensors, infrared detectors, spectrum analyzers and other detection equipment are all shrouded under the translucent synthetic material of the "head", and those bulging lenses suddenly look like its eyes.

Looking at it suddenly, it looks like a jellyfish toy made of steel and synthetic materials, which makes it look a little naive.

It's just that anyone who knows what this thing is will not think so.

"I'm feeling more and more like I'm dreaming now, is it real? There's this here... it's a 'ghost', right? It's not a movie prop... it's real."

Schroderes let out a sleepy low cry.

Lin Xi could understand his shock, but in fact he himself was not much better.

"ghost".

This is the most famous military mechanical warrior 300 years ago. It is said that the Dell company that produced this series of mechanical warriors has the shadow of the Anya people. The series of mechanical warriors they produced have nightmare-like mobility and high killing efficiency. .

As the first and most widely used "ghost" mechanical warrior, it is the most famous one-his most famous record is that with a formation of 100 ghost mechanical warriors, people on earth can fly tens of millions of kilometers away. The remote control of the earth directly strangled hundreds of millions of Martian leeches—just 100 mechanical warriors, and the people on earth easily wiped out that kind of difficult and terrifying Martian native creatures, and succeeded in killing them on that planet. Established its own immigration base.

It's just that it is probably because of the terrifying capabilities displayed by this series of mechanical warriors produced by Del Company that these robots have aroused the fear of the people on earth.

The mechanical warrior is considered an inhumane weapon by the United Earth Government and is banned throughout the solar system.

Del Company spent a lot of money in the long litigation and eventually went bankrupt—however, the production technology and materials they held disappeared without a trace after the company declared bankruptcy.

This eerily powerful killing weapon became legend when the last of the mecha-warriors ageed out of age.

Now, however, the fabled lifeboat of the Providence appeared.

The Killing Machine, considered a legendary weapon, also appeared.

Suddenly there is an answer to why those piles of monster corpses appear.

"Oh my god, I understand..." Schroderes clapped his hands suddenly, "Dell's products are banned in the solar system—but the destination of the Providence at that time was not within the scope of the solar system! They must have followed the Dell signed an agreement and brought these mechanical warriors! In this way, even if there are as difficult things as Martian leeches on AS192, they can easily deal with them-"

Lin Xi frowned and looked at the "ghost" mechanical warrior on the ground. He tentatively squatted down to observe it carefully.

Compared with the corpses of those monsters, the shell of this thing is intact, without any damage at all, but it still stops all functions.

Lin Xi soon found more mechanical warriors under those corpses, just like the one they found at the beginning. All the parts of these mechanical warriors were intact, and several mechanical warriors were even maintained. The fighting action at that moment.It's just that now they are completely frozen in time, they stay there motionless, spending hundreds of years in the darkness together with those monster corpses that are gradually decaying, and finally only empty shells are left.

"Lena is right..."

After checking all the mechanical warriors, Lin Xi returned to the center console again.

He stared at the badly damaged console and muttered.

"This is a design error... The mechanical warriors produced by Dell are too powerful. To be on the safe side, they must be directly controlled by commands from the central console. Those monsters discovered this, and when they found themselves completely helpless When resisting these mechanical warriors, they corrupted the center console with their own blood."

"...Then those mechanical warriors stopped working immediately after losing their command. Until now."

"Wow!" Lena and Schroeder let out a low cry together.

After a while, Lina's excited voice sounded: "Hey, does this mean that if we can restore the main board of the central console, these mechanical warriors can also resume operation? If so, we don't have to be afraid of here at all. bugs."

"I... I think so."

Lin Xi was taken aback, and he paused for a moment before replying.

really weird.

He thought to himself.

What they discover here is crucial to their subsequent survival.

But why, he was so uneasy?It was as if there was a voice in the dark that kept reminding him... something was wrong.

Oh, and Jerry.

Did Jerry act so wrong at the beginning, and then lure them here, in order for them to discover this aircraft and these things in the central control room?

Thinking of this, Lin Xi's originally high mood quickly sank down.

Lin Xi put the motherboards he found into his backpack, and then he stopped Lina and Schroderes.

"We'd better get out of here quickly," he said, "after all, we don't know if there are more bugs in the spaceship. The rest of the search will be left to the annoying group of mercenaries on the Helios , they must be more professional than us.”

Under Lin Xi's reminder, the two people who were a little carried away quickly shuddered, and then they quickly walked out of the aircraft.

rustle--

However, just as they left the central control room, Lin Xi stopped suddenly.

He suddenly turned his head to look at the central control room which had returned to darkness.

"what happened?"

Lina asked in a panic.

"No... nothing."

Lin Xi turned his head, he clenched the gun in his hand a little nervously and whispered.

Maybe it was because he had come into contact with those two terrifying and disgusting giant insects before, he was a little overwhelmed... Lin Xi always felt as if he heard the terrifying sound of those insects again.

The friction sound made by countless feet touching the metal surface.

rustle--

rustle--

……

And this illusion was even maintained until Lin Xi, Lena, and Schroderes returned the entire way back.

He felt that his muscles were going to twitch due to excessive tension, because that weird voice had been following them as if nothing.

Several times, Lin Xi was ready to watch those disgusting monsters emerge from every corner, swinging their thick brown-red tentacles and hideous mouthparts at them.

But in the end those strong premonitions all came to nothing.

Their journey away from the aircraft was even smooth. During this period, Lena and Schroederes even got themselves new gas cylinders and fresh water from the storage area of ​​the living facilities in the warehouse area.

……

"You made a big mistake, Lin Xi, you shouldn't have done that..."

A weird woman stood at the end of the corridor of the Helios spacecraft, she walked towards Lin Xi step by step, and then spoke slowly and softly.

She didn't seem to notice what was wrong with her—her body was covered with blood, there was a deep gash in her abdomen, and the abdominal muscles were turned outwards. Crazy stuff: half-human, half-worm babies huddled together in layers, their faces wrinkled and skin smeared with mucus and their mother's blood.

"Zizi...Zizizi..."

The sound of insects screaming came from their deformed bodies, and their terrifying faces squeezed against the edge of the woman's abdominal wound, just like children squeezed through the window, looking out curiously.

"Liz..."

Lin Xi finally recognized the woman's face.

His heart was suddenly captured by fear.

He almost screamed, but there seemed to be something blocked in his throat, and he couldn't utter a word.

In the blink of an eye, the scene around him changed.

Lin Xi was horrified to find that she had returned to the central control room of the aircraft.

But this time the central control room is not completely dark, the scarlet light of the emergency lights.Illuminates everything in the central control room.

In Lin Xi's memory, the corpses of bugs that had shriveled and rotted into empty shells were all alive now.

Some of them look almost like normal human beings, except that the pupils of their eyes are densely covered with countless tiny black dots, which are their pupils.

But some are extremely disgusting and terrifying human-shaped insects, but judging from the distribution of the facial features, the shadow of humans can be vaguely seen.

They were torn apart, only fresh crumbs were lying on the floor, lying under the mechanical arms of those cold mechanical warriors, staring at Lin Xi with distorted faces.

"It was a mistake...it was a... mistake..."

They opened their mouths wide at the same time, and screaming and desperate voices continued to come out from the black hole's body.

"This is a mistake?"

Lin Xi closed her eyes and repeated mutteringly.

"Dr. Lin Xi! What's wrong with you?!"

Suddenly, Lina's voice came.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi's body shook heavily, and his head fell back, hitting a metal plate heavily.

This time he woke up immediately.

The concerned faces of Lina and Schroderes came into view naturally, but without the isolation of the helmets of the exploration suits, the two of them looked more or less strange.

Lin Xi was in a daze for a moment, the vibration of the patrol car, the sound of the tracks rubbing against the ground of the alien planet came along with the roar of the motor.

The cramped environment brought Lin Xi back to his senses—he is now in a patrol car bound for the Helios.

"I... I think I just fell asleep and had a nightmare."

Lin Xi's lips parted and he let out a dry and hoarse murmur.

In an instant, everything that happened before came back to his mind——

After leaving the aircraft from the Providence, they found their companions staying outside and Jerry and others who were still unconscious.

They thought they probably still had a long way to go in cave exploration.But what I didn't expect was that the companion who stayed behind made a new discovery while waiting for them: just behind the aircraft, it turned out to be an elevator that directly leads to the ground.

Although it has been buried by sand, it can be known from some remaining facilities in the artificial cave that this place should have been used to transport large aircraft from the bunker to the ground lifting platform before.It's just that in an accident 300 years ago, the lifting platform was skewed, and the aircraft was permanently trapped in the underground cave.

Probably God finally felt that the bad luck that had been imposed on the exploration team was enough. This time, He decided to give them some luck—the elevator that was supposed to be used by the logistics personnel to overhaul the lifting platform has been in use until now. state!

Lin Xi and the others led their comatose companions directly from the ground to the ground with incredible ease.

Although there had already deviated from their planned exploration point, no one really thought about their exploration mission until now.

Lin Xi used his personal terminal to send a distress message and their current real-time location to the Helios.

They didn't have long to wait.The excited team, who were already conducting a search and rescue operation nearby, found them immediately.

In the previous series of events, Lin Xi already had a pretty good relationship with Lina and Schroderes, and they boarded the same patrol car.

Then, Lin Xi fell into a deep sleep unknowingly due to excessive exhaustion... and then had that nightmare that made him very uncomfortable.

"Dr. Lin Xi, don't be so sad, it's a waste of your face."

Lina stared at Lin Xi for a while, and she half-jokingly looked at Lin Xi, and she could see that she was very happy to escape from death this time.

"After all that, it's normal to have nightmares, and I suspect I'll probably have them for a long time when I get back to the ship, but look at this... we're all alive. What could be better than that Is it?" Schroderes was also smiling, and he said after Lena.

The search and rescue team sitting next to them cast strange glances at the three of them.

It's clear that they're a bit out of tune with the rapport between the three.

Lin Xi's reputation on the Helios is not good... Although those rumors that are raging under the tide will not make everyone wary of Lin Xi or want to kill him, but no one wants to get close to Lin Xi .

In fact, when the news came that Lin Xi had disappeared and died along with the exploration team in that unprecedented terrifying storm, many people on board even secretly breathed a sigh of relief.let people.

Who would have thought that Lin Xi was still alive?

It was nothing short of impossible to imagine—anyone who lived through that storm would have thought so.

Of course, Lin Xi didn't miss the sight of those people, and the faintly malicious look.

It's just that at this time, he couldn't bring himself to care about those people at all.

His head hurts and his mind is very confused.

Even though Lena and Schroderes had been trying to make him relax, he still couldn't get rid of the sense of panic for no reason.

From time to time, he would think of those trapped mummies, the insect corpses in the central control room, and... the mechanical warriors produced by Dell.

A "ghost" type killing machine.

Although he, Lena, and Schroderes only had a very simple exploration of the aircraft, judging from the information they have obtained so far, they seem to have been able to make a rough guess about what happened inside the aircraft.

No matter why the aircraft appeared on the lifting platform, one thing is certain is that many people in the aircraft have already shown symptoms of being parasitized by alien bugs.

Maybe the bugs in some people escaped, or maybe the bugs from the outside invaded. In short, someone found a way to activate those del mechanical warriors through the central console and wiped out those bugs... At the same time, they also sent those people who had been parasitized Sealed into the freezer, a mass slaughter was carried out.

But in the end, those monsters still broke into the central control room, they used their own blood to corrode the console, and stopped the operation of all mechanical soldiers...

Lin Xi kept thinking about what he had seen before, and the feeling of uneasiness was so strong that it made him a little dizzy.

What went wrong?

He couldn't help thinking.

Or... was everything just his imagination after being overly frightened?

Lin Xi observed the situation calmly, and Lina and Schroderes were obviously much more relaxed. The self-doubt and irrational panic in his heart almost tore him in two.

It's just that, after he jumped out of the patrol car and saw Bryce and Alisa who had been waiting there, all these chaotic emotions were briefly forgotten by him.

"You bloody bastard—"

Bryce hugged him, then cursed at him again.

If an uninformed person sees him now, he will probably think that there is some deep hatred between him and Lin Xi.

Alisa watched their reunion from the sidelines, with an uncontrollable smile on her face, but her eyes were already red.

"Forgive this guy's stinking mouth... You must know that before this, your brother has been frightened by the news of your disappearance and cried several times."

She leaned over and hugged the two big boys, and then she rubbed their hair vigorously.

Then she said this to Lin Xi in front of Bryce.

"Hey, stop talking nonsense."

Blaise's face went red all of a sudden.

The author has something to say: No. [-]: Director...why am I still not on stage? (face gradually turns black)

Bad author: Yes, why?It must not be because I can't think of a good-looking male lead...