mother of all races

Helios

a-1 deck

Corridor number a-1-23

"Crack...crack...crack..."

Following the sound of slight footsteps, three figures suddenly rushed into this remote freight passage.

Bryce went first, followed by Alyssa.The last person following was Lin Xi.

They walked in a hurry, and their bodies were stained with a lot of blood.

"We've got to hurry up, or—"

Alisa looked nervously at the personal terminal on her wrist and said.

However, before she could finish her sentence, the lights above their heads began to flicker on and off regularly.

A few seconds later, the entire spaceship went dark.

"Damn."

Alisa let out a curse.

Immediately following her words was a cold announcement from the central system——

Attention hull crew, an important announcement from Captain Taran Ida follows.The ID code of the former deputy captain Alisa is 2734, the ID code of the senior medical officer Bryce Drake is 2411, and the ID code of Lin Xi Drake of the Institute of Advanced Botany is 4211. Article 23 r-787 of the Flight Law, 41 r-113 regulations, 116 r-1, r-14... All violations have been recorded, and the official crew status is hereby deprived, and the identity is determined as a "defector", Code l, degree of danger a.After the notification of this article, the identity determination takes effect immediately.The ship is on emergency alert.This notification has been triple confirmed by Captain Taran Ida.

The dull electronic mechanical sound sounded in the spaceship passageway full of sundries.Immediately afterwards, the ship's lighting lights also turned on and off regularly, and then turned to the unique red after entering an emergency state.

"Damn, did that guy add all the violations for me, how dare he?! My resume is completely fucked."

Alisa said with a pale face.

Before this, she was still a little panicked, after all, she was really frightened before.However, after hearing Taran's briefing, all trembling, incoherent speech, timidity... all disappeared.

She stopped and looked at the place where the sound came out in disbelief, and a ray of fury burst out of her eyes instantly.

"I'm going to kill that guy, I swear I'm going to kill that guy—"

Alisa turned her head and looked at Bryce and Lin Xi.

If she still couldn't help showing a little fear when she mentioned Talan before, then now, when she mentioned Talan, she only had outright killing intent.Even Bryce flinched involuntarily when he met Alisa's gaze.

Bryce gave Lin Xi a look, and then he said to Lin Xi with a smile in his mouth: "Talan really pissed her off."

Lin Xi shivered, then nodded.

Alyssa has always been fabled super-elite, and her résumé is too good to serve as a template for the life of the kind of star captain-except that Taran now adds to her (and Bryce and Lynch) Those violations on the website completely ruined this carefully maintained resume.

If she is lucky enough to return to Earth, she will never be able to board any spaceship in her life, even as a passenger.

Considering Alisa's love for her resume all the time, Lin Xi is sure that Talan has indeed caused a big trouble for herself.

However, if there is anything more headache than the end of Alisa's resume...

Oh, these troubles are still to come, and one after another, one after another.

"Give me your hand."

Bryce had already taken out a small laser scalpel from his pocket before the briefing was over.

He pulled Lin Xi's wrist and moved his fingers slightly, the personal terminal on Lin Xi's wrist went black, and then fell down with a bang.

Then Bryce did the same to Alyssa and himself.

"Code L? It seems that even though Talan has turned into a bug, his insidiousness has not changed...Now even normal crew members can shoot and kill us when they encounter us."

While cutting off the personal terminal, Bryce muttered with a wry smile.

"I bet that guy has been waiting a long time for the day."

"Then what shall we do next?"

Needless to say, Lin Xi shot and smashed the three terminals the moment the terminal fell to the ground. He had to do this to prevent his identity from being discovered by those people.

However, without a personal terminal on a large spacecraft like the Helios, they are almost completely trapped in a hamster ball.

All access control and devices on board need to be transcoded or manipulated through personal terminals.

"I don't know. Maybe we can take some of the rank-and-file crew?"

Bryce said bitterly.

"That's against Article [-] of the Spaceship Act..." Alisa subconsciously said, but she stopped when she said something, "Well, pretend I didn't say it."

She paused for a moment, and then couldn't help asking: "Then where are we going to hijack the crew?"

"Shh-"

Lin Xi suddenly stopped the conversation between Bryce and Alisa.

"Someone...someone is approaching."

he said softly.

Bryce immediately clenched the gun in his hand, but Lin Xi stretched out his hand and pressed it on the muzzle of his gun.

"Do not……"

he murmured.

"It's a lot of people...they're sweeping us..."

Bryce also imitated Lin Xi, he frowned and listened carefully to the surrounding movement, but the intricate passages and the always roaring spaceship parts could almost cover up all the too small sounds.

"I heard nothing," he said.

Lin Xi's face became a little ugly.

He didn't hear Bryce's mumbling, because he was in a strange state.

Finding that those people approached was not so much based on the small movements in the surrounding environment, but rather because their traces suddenly appeared in Lin Xi's mind.

But now, what Lin Xi can feel is the "feeling" when hundreds of individuals are approaching him.

His throat was a little dry, and there was a coin under his tongue, full of dry taste.

"I don't feel well."

Lin Xi said to Bryce and Alisa, with a painful look on her face.

"I don't know how to put it, but my gut tells me we need to avoid them... I doubt that those people have basic sanity..."

"but--"

"Our guns are running out of power. I think we'll have to figure out how to avoid them."

Lin Xi repeated.

"But we can't avoid it anymore."

Bryce shook his head. He poked his head out of the corner and looked at the corridor, which was still empty.

Bryce tried to recall the map he had memorized in his head.

He had never realized that the Helios was so old—if it was a new ship, it would at least have some more passages.However, Helios perfectly followed all the design features of the Great Age of Exploration.

In order to prevent the interstellar pirates that were flooding the channel at that time from rushing straight to the bottom after breaking into the spacecraft, the decks of the Helios were almost independent of each other, and the only few elevators were used as passages.

This was arguably a clever design at the time.After all, as long as the elevator is controlled, the range of activities of the interstellar pirates in the spaceship can be perfectly contained.

But now, Lin Xi and his party are almost driven into a corner by this design.

They have already tried the elevators in several areas, but perhaps just to arrest them, the vicinity of those elevators is full of mercenaries with live ammunition.

At the same time, more and more crew members with particularly weird behaviors are also wandering around the deck of the A-1 floor like ghosts, looking for clues about the three of Lin Xi.

Just like now.

Carpet search.

At the mention of the word, Bryce wanted to bleed the arrogant guy with the butt of his gun.

"Maybe we can fight? Those crew members seem a little dull. Maybe they're not so difficult to deal with."

It sucks to be chased down a dead end like a rat in the gutter.

Bryce looked increasingly irritable.

"No, I think we should listen to Lin Xi, I feel bad too."

Alisa frowned, showing a distressed expression.

And a few minutes later, the scene that finally appeared in their field of vision proved that avoidance was indeed a correct decision.

A monster slowly rustled along the corner of the wall.The monster looked like a magnified centipede, and its countless thin feet left a fine rubbing sound on the ground.

What's disgusting is that there is a human face inlaid on the body of such a fat and dark bug.

"God, Ellie?"

Alyssa just glanced back before retracting her head.

She covered her mouth tightly and mouthed to the two people around her.

Lin Xi admired Alisa's ability to recognize people from the bottom of his heart. In his opinion, the deformed face only had the word horror, and it was impossible for him to tell who that face belonged to before.

Still, if what Alyssa said was true, Lin Xi could only mourn for that guy.

He still remembers Ali, Taran's life assistant, he has a good mind, but unfortunately he is a little too keen on fighting for power.

And he was good at it too, his handsome face had given him a lot of affairs on board, however, now, all the ambition and male instincts of that man had been turned into smoke.

Just seeing Ai Li wriggling on the ground in a weird way, Lin Xi felt an indescribable feeling of resistance in his heart.

For a moment, he could almost feel what was left of the soul inside the monstrously deformed body of the behemoth.

Pain and despair, and then the unwillingness to be gradually pulled into chaos—it's a pity that human emotions are being swallowed up by the bug's instinct, bite by bite, until they disappear.

"Empathy", there's nothing worse than empathizing with a monster at a time like this.

Lin Xi's palms were wet with cold sweat.

He took small breaths to keep himself breathing normally.