mother of all races

"Ahhhh-"

Alicia screamed uncontrollably.

She began to struggle crazily, and it was precisely because of this that it took a long time before she realized that the person who restrained her had no intention of hurting her.

"...Calm down, it's me! Alisa!"

Then, the familiar voice slowly fell into her eardrums.

Bryce's voice sounded like it was coming from tens of thousands of light-years away.

Alisa stopped all her movements. She looked at the man close at hand hastily, almost thinking that this was a hallucination born of her fear.

"Bryce?"

"It's me, baby, oh my god... what happened to you?"

Bryce held Alisa's face in his hands, and he kept repeating, his eyes full of regret and concern.

Alisa was trembling constantly, her lips were closed for a long time, but her voice seemed to be stuck in her throat, obviously there were so many things to say, so many extremely important information to tell the other party.

But at this moment, she couldn't say anything, but her tears kept flowing out.

"It's okay, honey, it's okay, I'll protect you, don't be afraid—"

Bryce hugged Alisa heavily, without verbal communication, he could already feel Alisa's plight now.

Alisa's body softened the moment he hugged her, and all her strength finally disappeared completely.

She almost fell to the ground, but Bryce picked her up just in time.

"It's okay, I'm here for everything..."

Bryce leaned closer to Alisa and whispered in Alisa's ear.

"Cough-cough-"

Lin Xi, who was silent from the sidelines from beginning to end, couldn't help but fake cough softly.

He looked at Bryce and Alyssa who were hugging each other tightly, his eyes fluttered.

... He always felt that he was standing here under such circumstances, and there was an inexplicable sense of abruptness.

"Bryce...I suggest we go back to the medical room first, after all Alisa needs treatment."

Lin Xi reminded.

While speaking, he only felt that he seemed to hear something, then he turned his body slightly and looked towards the other side of the corridor.

Of course, at this time, there were no strange-looking monsters chasing in Alisa's direction, but the blood-stained footprints that Alisa left on the ground before were very conspicuous.

This made Lin Xi feel a little uneasy.

No matter what Alisa encountered before, judging from her actions just now, she was obviously avoiding something.

"Oh yes, my God—"

Bryce looked at Alisa's feet in the direction Lin Xi pointed at.

A medical officer who can keep his face straight even when he sees a wounded man with bloody flesh and internal organs flowing out at work, but when he sees the wound on his lover's foot, his face suddenly loses all color.

Alisa took off her shoes to hide her footsteps, which may have been a smart decision at the time, but at this time it seems that this decision is a bit bad.

After all, when Alisa ran away, she didn't have time to take care of her shoes. Those shoes were left in a remote warehouse, and she hurt her feet during the escape. Now There was a long gap on the sole of her foot, and blood was constantly oozing out.

Bryce took Alisa to the medical room very nervously, followed by Lin Xi.

He didn't notice that just after they left that corridor, a few drops of bright red and viscous blood silently fell on the other end of the corridor.

Then, the originally clean and cold corridor wall shook, and the color of the metal slowly faded, replaced by various patterns with strong colors.

"Honey."

The worm face of "No. [-]" was exposed from behind the wings. Although Lin Xi was no longer here at this time, it still looked a bit concealed when it showed its face.

It stared at the position where Bryce and Alyssa hugged each other for a long time, and then learned the words word by word a little abruptly.

"Honey."

After a pause, it repeated again, and this time its voice was very close to the tone of Bryce's whisper to Alisa.

Its tentacles trembled slightly at the back of the head, but then slowly drooped down again.

"It doesn't matter. I'm here for everything."

"Number One" spoke to the air word by word.

Then he slowly took two steps towards the ceiling.

The pale-faced bodies of several crew members peeked out from under its wings.

If Lin Xi was still here, he could easily recognize that these crew members were under the jurisdiction of Robert's emergency team.

And there are still countless unread messages flashing on their personal terminals.

"No. [-]" tapped the communicator curiously.

It's just that when it touched the communicator, a message of "personnel mismatch" appeared on the interface.

The tentacles of "Number One" trembled slightly. It bent down and picked up the corpse's fingers and placed them in front of its huge compound eyes. Changes are visible to the naked eye.

The original skin became tight and dry, and then slowly oozes blood—the carapace inside the skin expanded and directly broke the original skin.

Shortly after being exposed to the air, the edges of the off-white carapaces also showed signs of cracking.

"Number One" tilted its head slightly, and it raised its forelegs and swayed.

The carapaces quickly shattered into pieces and fell to the ground.

The structure protruding from the inside of the carapace already has very obvious characteristics of the human hand, but the abnormally pale "skin" is actually just a layer of special chitin, only in the position of the fingertips, there is a layer film.

And the complex folds on the film are exactly the same as the finger prints of the corpse that "No. [-]" observed carefully.

"No. [-]" tentatively stuck his newborn "hand" on his personal terminal.

This time it opened the terminal very smoothly, and those messages jumped out quickly.

Team members: Please report the location of the deputy captain Alisa in time...

"Number One" stared blankly at those characters, it didn't understand the meaning, so it soon lost interest in the personal terminal and those unread messages.

"boom--"

The corpse was thrown on the ground casually by it.

"Lin Xi."

"Number One" muttered.

It shook its arms in the air, and the object of imitation was still Bryce not long ago.

It was standing there as if Lin Xi was in its arms, but at this moment, there was only air in its arms.

"Number One" was in a good mood at first.

Although this little bug hasn't evolved a clear logic yet, its instinct tells him that what it did just now...helped Lin Xi.

Although, the original "No. [-]" is still a little angry.The injury Lin Xi caused to it was really serious. It experienced pain and sadness that it had never experienced in its life.It was even prepared. When Lin Xi came to visit him again, it would definitely spit at him viciously.

But since Lin Xi was called away, he never came to the greenhouse again.

In the end, "Number One" could only drag his unhealed body and slip out restlessly.It quickly found Lin Xi, but it didn't dare to show its face in front of Lin Xi. "Number One" had a premonition that Lin Xi would not be happy with his current appearance, so it could only hide behind him secretly and follow him all the way.

It can be said that the few unlucky crew members who are now lying at its feet just appeared in the wrong place at the wrong time.After all, neither Lin Xi nor Bryce found the two crew members who followed Alisa.

But "Number One" was easily aware of their existence.

"No. [-]" saw them creeping up to Lin Xi and the other two humans, and the thing that the crew members held tightly in their hands also impressed the alien insect deeply.

After all, not long ago, it personally experienced the feeling of a pulse gun opening several holes in its body.

"Number One" didn't think much, it leaned out, and then pierced the skulls of those crew members with its tongue. There was a bitter taste in the brains of these humans that made "Number One" feel disgusting, so it gave up on them picky eaters Fresh and warm flesh.

But anyway, it knew that it helped Lin Xi.

It takes care of those two annoying humans with guns.

"Lin Xi..."

"Number One" imagined Lin Xi curled up in his arms after knowing this, and let out a happy murmur.Before that, it never liked the two humans around Lin Xi, after all, Lin Xi always had a lot of smells from those two people.But now "Number One" has subtly changed his mind about Alyssa and Bryce.

It simply watched all the interactions between Alyssa and Bryce in the corridor without taking their eyes off it.

Those tender kisses and hugs were as sweet as dreams.

For the first time, "Number One" felt that feeling called "envy".

That's why it secretly began to imitate the actions of Lin Xi and Bryce after they left.

"No. [-]" believes that this will be a happy thing,

But immediately, the lightness in the arms made "Number One" feel a sense of discomfort similar to hunger.It's just that this kind of hunger doesn't come from the stomach, but from its chest.

This feeling is really too strange.

It's as if its entire body has become empty... just like its current arms.

One thought here. The mood of "Number One" quickly sank.

At this time, a burst of noisy footsteps came from a distance.

"Number One" turned his head suddenly, just in time to meet those people who were slowly walking from the other end of the corridor.

It's just... those people look a little weird.

Their eyes are so empty, their expressions are dull, and they look like dolls powered by machines rather than real humans.

"Look...find...find..."

And every step they take, they will mumble such words at the same time.

After seeing "No. [-]", those people stopped suddenly.

There was a spark of emotion in some people's dark eyes, which was something called fear.

But more people just stood in place purely because of instinct.

"Number One" turned around slowly, facing them.

"Don't, don't be afraid."

Said to the person who did not exist in the air.

Then it slowly crawled towards those people.

……

"Well……"

On the other side of the spaceship, Lin Xi couldn't help shivering the moment he stepped into the medical room.

He rubbed his temples, just now, he seemed to feel that there was an invisible hook gently ticking in his mind.

Although that feeling is not as strong as a headache, it is extremely weird.

Lin Xi looked down at his arm, every hair on his arm stood up unconsciously.

And after the metal door closed, Lin Xi frowned. He glanced at Bryce, who was busy with treatment, and then reached out and pressed the lock button.

The door of the medical room instantly lit up red, which did not comply with the regulations on the spaceship, but Lin Xi felt a little more at ease after seeing the locked light turn on.

After doing this, Lin Xi turned around and came to Bryce and Alisa.

Alisa was terrified.

Lin Xi looked at her with some sadness. It can be said that since he knew Alisa, he had never seen Alisa like this.In his impression, although Alisa has a gentle temper, she has a very tenacious personality. No matter how difficult things are handed over to her, she can complete them smoothly.

Sometimes, Lin Xi even felt that Alisa was omnipotent. She was far stronger than Bryce and herself.

Even in her worst imagination, Lin Xi never imagined that one day she would be able to see Alisa in Bryce's arms with this trance-like, fragile look.

Moreover, what was even worse were the injuries on Alyssa's body.

There were scrapes and bruises all over her body, and the deep bite marks on her knuckles were bloodless but swollen and purple by this time.

Just seeing these is enough to make Lin Xi extremely sad, not to mention the deep bone wounds on her fingers and soles.

Bryce's hands were shaking slightly while cleaning those wounds, and Lin Xi's brows were also tightly frowned.

"What the hell happened... who dared to do this to you... Robert?"

He asked while slapping Bryce and spraying antiseptic foam on Alisa's wound.

Alisa shook her head.

Her complexion looked much better than when the two brothers first saw her.

It's just that her hands have been grabbing the blanket that Bryce draped over her body, and it seems that this is the only way to relieve her tension.

"It was Taran...Talan who planned all this..."

At the mention of Taran, Alyssa put her hands over her mouth abruptly to suppress the nausea that was welling up in her stomach.

Next, she intermittently told Bryce and Lin Xi all the things she heard in the warehouse.

"...There was no warp failure in the first place, Taran must have done it on purpose, he planned this warp failure himself. Oh my god, I'm so stupid, why didn't I think about this. All of us at the time People are in the dormancy of the transition, if he wants to do something, it is too easy, not to mention that the Helios is not equipped with a spaceship AI."

While speaking, Arisa hugged her head vigorously.

"Hey, don't say that. No one would have thought that they would be so crazy. After all, no one with a normal mind would dare to do anything during the leap—he might be crushed to the molecular level by the leap gate together with himself fragments."

Blaise reassured her.

But Alyssa still looked terribly annoyed.

"It was the food bags that went wrong, oh my god, we found out about this a long time ago, but I kept it under wraps because of food shortages, I thought... I thought their Alteration can be repaired... Once we return to Earth, we will always find a way to fix the mutation of those people. What a mistake I made, now... Look at our crew, they all changed Became Talan's family, no, no, that's not a family at all, he just sacrificed these innocent humans to Sunu's evil god!"

In the process of speaking, Alisa's emotions became extremely excited again.

She did look like she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

"Mother of all races, damn... what the fuck is that? Why haven't I found out about him since I've been working with him for so long. God, he wants to be this horrible, And he actually did it on his own initiative..."

"Mother of all races?"

Lin Xi, who was able to barely maintain her composure when she heard Alisa's series of horrified narrations before, trembled slightly when she heard this familiar word from Alisa's mouth.

He looked at Alisa in horror and could hardly believe his ears.

"You mean, Taran wants to become the mother of aliens?"

"No, that's right." Alyssa forced herself to recall what she had seen and heard before, and she nodded vigorously, "I heard it with my own ears, and he also regarded... as a sacrifice, God knows, How many innocent people has he sacrificed during this period of time..."

"But, that's not right."

Lin Xi couldn't help but muttered.

"What's wrong?"

Bryce had been watching Lin Xi and Alisa's every move nervously. After hearing this sentence, he frowned and asked.

"No one can become the so-called mother of alien species through sacrifice. The mother of alien species is..."

At this point, Lin Xi's voice suddenly stopped.

How did the mother of all races... appear?

He obviously didn't know anything, but why could he tell Bryce and Alisa naturally that everything Taran did was futile and meaningless?

"Lin Xi, do you know something?"

Alisa stared blankly at Lin Xi and asked.

"I……"

Lin Xi's lips pursed slightly.

But before he had time to speak, a heavy abnormal sound suddenly came from the other side of the metal door.

"Drip-"

The metal door that had been locked inside made a hurried sound after the abnormal noise.Upon hearing this voice, everyone in the medical room turned serious.

"Damn."

Bryce cursed softly.

His voice sounded a little scared.

If Lin Xi hadn't locked the metal door subconsciously, the door would have been violently opened at this time.

Even just a week ago, Bryce never thought that he would hear this kind of alarm from the metal door one day-you know, this kind of alarm is facing the interstellar pirates who broke into the spaceship to burn, kill, and loot in the era of great exploration. they set.

"Oh no……"

With a flash of Alisa's figure, she jumped off the treatment table in an instant, and then stared warily in the direction of the metal door.

"They must have come for me. Taran saw me, he knew... he knew I had seen all his secrets..."

Alisa said incoherently.

Sure enough, the moment Alisa's voice fell, the personal terminals of the three of them began to beep—the countless incoming messages almost turned those beeps into the long howl of a banshee.

Lin Xi and Bryce looked at each other, and they pressed the mute button.Let the information on the screen scroll quickly.

But soon, a vague and strange voice came from the other corner of the medical room.

"Medical officer Bryce, you have blocked the medical room in violation of regulations during your work, which violates the interplanetary flight law promulgated by the United Human Government. We will issue a stern warning to you here and ask you to reopen the interior of the Helios immediately. Medical room……"

"boom--"

A shot went off.

The spaceship's built-in stereo in the corner turned into a squeaky mass of molten plastic under the bullets from the pulse gun.

Lin Xi put down the gun in his hand, and turned to look at the stunned Alisa and Bryce.

"That guy sounds like he's swallowing his saliva when he talks, it sounds disgusting, don't you think?"

After turning off the speaker without changing his face, Lin Xi seemed much calmer.

Bryce stared at him blankly for a few seconds, then unexpectedly smiled.

"You're right," he said.

"Bang... bang bang..."

But the conversation between Bryce and Lin Xi was soon interrupted by a heavy knock on the door.

"Vice-captain Alisa, I'm Director Robert Energy. There is an emergency on board. We really need you to cooperate with us to complete this work. Captain Taran and all members of the emergency team are waiting in the conference room you……"

Robert's tone of voice was more normal than before.

His voice is loud and steady. If there were no abnormalities before, just listening to the calm voice of the man outside the cabin door, it might be difficult for you to realize that everything is wrong.

But it was this kind of "normality" that caused goose bumps on the backs of the three people in the medical room.

Bryce moved his fingers and turned on the surveillance outside the medical room.

Soon, his figure appeared on the screen.

He was still wearing that strange robe, with his head and neck drooping to an unbelievable degree, and he was stuck tightly outside the door of the medical room.

After a while, he seemed to be aware of the peeping from the surveillance.

"Lieutenant Captain Alisa, Medical Officer Bryce... Are you looking at me?"

He suddenly raised his head, opened his protruding eyes, grinned at the camera and said.