mother of all races

It's great to be alive.

This is the most vivid thought that came to Lin Xi's mind after meeting Bryce.

Even if there are still a series of troubles waiting for him next.

As a survivor in the exploration team, there will be a lot of written reports waiting for him, and if he is unlucky, he may have to make a face-to-face mission report with Taran (or that damn emergency team) Just thinking of these two points, Lin Xi has already begun to envy Jerry and the other three who have fallen into a coma.

Not to mention, this time of distress also allowed them to discover the aircraft of the Providence by mistake-this is a life-saving straw for the Helios, which is now close to running out of ammunition and food.

Of course, every time she repeats her adventures with Lina and Schroderes in that aircraft, Lin Xi will keep emphasizing that there are many huge and terrifying alien insects living in that aircraft. , and the abnormalities of the mummies trapped to death in the freezer...

But looking at the ecstatic looks of those people on the Helios, Lin Xi doubted whether they had listened to his reminder.

The control board they took out from the central control room of that aircraft has been handed over to the technical analysts on the Helios immediately.Fortunately, in these 300 years, the technology on the earth has not stopped standing still. According to the news revealed by Alyssa in private, they may not be able to completely repair the motherboard in a short time-okay!Maybe that's why the people on the Helios didn't take Lin Xi's reminder seriously.

After all, once the central control main board is repaired, it means that the "ghost" mechanical warriors under the command of the central control can also resume operation immediately.

Even if they only rely on the few mechanical warriors that Lin Xi and the others found in the central control room, they can handle most of the attacks with ease.

"...According to your narration, we suspect that there are probably more mechanical soldiers stored in the bottom warehouse of that aircraft." It was the lovely Alisa who secretly told Lin Xi's news in private, "Dell's bankruptcy Later, when the coalition government carried out the destruction procedure on those mechanical warriors, they discovered that the inventory in their warehouses was unreasonably small. Now that I think about it, it is very likely that Del Company has reached an agreement with the government of country A in private , Those orders that did not have time to leave the factory were transported to the Providence and brought here. After all, this place is not controlled by the solar system ban. According to the consistent behavior of the government of country a, maybe they still rely on the special You know, at that time, this place was always considered to be the first colonized planet outside the solar system in human history.”

I'm afraid that even Alisa herself didn't realize it. When she talked about the planet where the Helios is now located, she had completely agreed that it was the legendary as192 planet.

Lin Xi pursed her lips.

He silently watched Alisa whispering because of excessive excitement, and did not remind the other party, if this is really AS192, why is there no trace of the transition gate that should be nearby according to the coordinates? Woolen cloth?

Erasing folded black holes like the Transition Gate at will - Lin Xi doubts that it would be difficult for even God to do this.

Moreover, what made Lin Xi more worried was not only the aircraft and those damn documents and reports.

"call……"

It was another day of reporting tasks. After leaving the meeting room, Lin Xi let out a long sigh, and then dragged his tired body straight to his greenhouse without stopping.

In fact, it has been so long since the Helios made an emergency landing, and the research tasks at hand of these researchers have been completely abandoned. No one cares about the animals and plants transported from Sunu (even if they are precious and valuable. ), and no one cares about their task progress.In a world where even the survival of life is in question, the projects of these researchers do seem to have become all the more irrelevant.

But for Lin Xi, just because no one cares doesn't mean he doesn't have to worry.

At least, the Star Butterfly that was still in the greenhouse was the one he cared about the most.

"Hey 'Number One', how are you doing today?"

Lin Xi walked into the greenhouse, and then greeted the huge, ugly, and even deformed thing in the glass culture tank.

And that thing was as usual, silently attached to the corner of the glass tank, soundless, like a dead thing.

Lin Xi walked to its side and began to routinely measure its various data.

Although O'Neill firmly believed that this mass of tangled meridians and disgusting spots was the corpse sac formed by "Number One" after it failed to pupate, Lin Xi still decided to continue treating it as the chrysalis of a star butterfly shell to observe.

It was discovered that there was a problem with the pupation of "No. [-]" on the night he was brought back to the Helios by the rescue team.

After a series of bombarding bureaucratic meetings, Lin Xi dragged his weary body to open the door of the greenhouse—and he almost fainted from what he saw.

The originally beautiful star butterfly chrysalis seemed to be rotten, enlarged, deformed and changed color.And O'Neill, who was supposed to observe and take good care of "Number One", just blushed when he saw Lin Xi's deathly face, and couldn't even come up with an excuse.

Well, the curly-haired young man somehow made an excuse.

"I swear, I really don't know what happened, it just suddenly became like this... Okay, okay, I admit that I was a little negligent during the days when you disappeared... I'm sorry, Lin Xi Doctor, but you know, I'm really too busy. The animal laboratory is full of situations, and those bastards in the emergency team are clamoring to destroy a batch of biological sleeping bodies below A-level to save energy. If I were to It would be nice to be able to stuff a chip into my brain like Professor Ando, ​​maybe I can still take care of these messy things, but you know me... I am obviously just a student who wants to get more credits, who knows what will happen in the end Woolen cloth……"

At the end of O'Neill's words, he almost felt like weeping. Facing such a face, Lin Xi had no choice but to acquiesce in all this at the end.

The little star butterfly he raised with his own hands.

His "Number One" may have really died in that disgusting chrysalis...

However, it was probably the accident caused by the storm that changed him. After witnessing the death of Francis, Lin Xi became increasingly unable to accept that the life around him had left him.

So even though the chrysalis of "No. [-]" has become what it is now, Lin Xi still refuses to give up.

He didn't destroy it, but silently recorded all the data every day, and prayed in his heart that "Number One" was still alive.

Maybe it was his prayers that really helped.

In the extremely ugly chrysalis shell, there is indeed a faint breath of life coming out.

It started out as a soft shell that bulged slightly when he whispered to it.

The movement was weaker than a baby turning over in its mother's womb—but Lin Xi still noticed it by accident.

God knows how happy he was at that moment.

Later, Lin Xi found that when he lightly stroked the wet and sticky surface of the chrysalis, something seemed to vibrate slightly inside the chrysalis as a response to him.

Even the spots all over the surface of the chrysalis, occasionally, will change into different colors just like the stripes on the gorgeous wings of "No. [-]".

Lin Xi began to have more confidence in the survival of "No. [-]", although he was probably the only person on the entire ship who cared about this.

"Hey man, how was your day? Maybe you want to go out for a drive?"

Lin Xi said softly to "No. [-]".

I glanced at the data, and in just a few days, the deformed pupa shell became much larger at a speed visible to the naked eye. It is precisely because of this that the originally thick pupa shell has now become much thinner. The chrysalis shell has begun to crack.

After discovering this, Lin Xi checked those parts with fear.

"Huh? This is..."

Lin Xi couldn't believe his eyes—he found that under the cracked chrysalis shell, a soft and thin film appeared.

The film is white, but faintly revealing a 01:30 transparent texture.

The yellowish slurry inside the pupal shell shows a little yellow shadow under the membrane.

At the edge of the film and the egg shell, there are some capillaries that should not appear on the insect egg shell, but Lin Xi didn't find the problem here at this time.

Because at the moment when he couldn't help but get closer to observe, there was a gurgling wet sound, and then, a pale shadow slid quickly and dimly from under the film.

"what?!"

Lin Xi was taken aback.

He straightened up suddenly and took a few steps back.

At the same time, after the white shadow squirmed, a thumb-sized red spot gradually appeared.

Then there was another round of turning, under Lin Xi's gaze, the hazy red spot stayed at a fixed position, it stared at Lin Xi through the cracked gap and the film, flickering from time to time Now.

"No way?"

Lin Xi murmured.

It wasn't until this time that he suddenly realized what the red spot was.

That's... the eyes.

Eyes belonging to "Number One".

At this moment, "Number One" was staring straight at him.

Lin Xi didn't know what "No. [-]" would look like after the transformation was completed - but one thing is certain now, that is, "No. [-]" will probably have a pair of big eyes... and red eyeballs.

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