mother of all races

Lynch, Bryce, and Alyssa are now crowded tightly in the circuit exchange room at the corner of the passage.Considering their current situation, this circuit exchange room is almost a small gift from God for them-it is the only place to hide in this bare passage, and they can also pass through the metal box located in the exchange room. The air diffuser above the door observes the situation of the outside world in time.

Of course, this small exchange room is not without its flaws: the too narrow space makes them stick together a little unbecomingly, and because of this, Lin Xi can clearly feel Bryce's breathing and The heartbeat is too fast.

What the hell happened to that guy?

He looked up just in time to see Bryce lip-syncing to him.

Bryce's forehead was covered with crystal clear sweat, and his face looked even uglier than Alisa.

Lin Xi rarely saw Bryce showing such a frightened look (even if Bryce had tried his best to cover it up), and then he belatedly remembered that when he was on earth, Bryce hated him the most. It seems that the myriad bugs, and now, like this, watching his colleagues turn into such a disgusting appearance obviously gave him a lot of stimulation.

Lin Xi held his breath and gave Bryce a helpless look, then he looked at Alisa beside him, and motioned him to calm down. After all, there was Alisa beside them, who was scared by the huge human-faced centipede. Before becoming insane, they must consider those who need protection.

Lin Xi didn't know how much information could be exchanged by crossing eyes in the small dark room, but anyway, at the end, Bryce nodded with a distorted expression.

But sometimes, things always seem to go in the worst direction.For example...Even though Lin Xi had crazily prayed in his heart that his group would not attract the attention of those "people", Ai Li's body suddenly trembled heavily, and then he suddenly changed direction.

He was obviously about to swim away along the corridor, but now, he crawled towards Lin Xi's direction.

"rustle……"

"rustle……"

The rubbing sound made by countless feet gliding across the metal floor instantly became very clear.

Ai Li's pale cheeks almost touched the ground, and he kept sniffing the thin air on the ground, making a knocking sound similar to "click click".

"Alyssa... found...Alyssa..."

At this distance, Lin Xi and the others could already clearly hear the murmur coming from Aili's mouth.

At first, he was just mechanically repeating the instructions given by Taran.

But as the distance between him and Lin Xi tightened, his whisper gradually changed into another higher frequency hiss.

"King—our—king—"

Eli's call was extremely sharp and full of pain.

The moment Lin Xi heard that voice, Lin Xi's headache seemed to explode in the next second.

He had to bite his lip hard to keep himself from shouting.

But when he finally recovered his breath, he realized that both Bryce and Alyssa were looking at him with extremely worried eyes.

what happened?

Obviously, his face was pale and he was trembling unconsciously, but after seeing Lin Xi, Bryce still asked silently with his lips.

"..."

Could it be that they were not affected?

A trace of doubt flashed in Lin Xi's heart.

It's just that at this time, he didn't even have time to explore, because Aili was almost at their side.

There was a drop of cold sweat on Bryce's chin, his nostrils were flaring, and even though he had tried his best to control his breathing, Lin Xi could still feel that his breathing was getting heavier.

And his hands were moving silently.

He was aiming the pulse gun in his hand at Eli's position outside the metal door.

Lin Xi's pupils narrowed suddenly, and he shook his head at Bryce with difficulty.

Do not--

He wanted to yell.

But it was too late.

"Crack..."

Those thin friction sounds stopped.

And the light projected into the exchange room from the louvered windows suddenly dimmed.

Lin Xi turned her head suddenly.

Then I saw... the face that belonged to Eli.

Pale, twisted, expressionless face.

——The monster with a dark worm body is lifting its upper body and hanging it outside the metal door. The empty pupils without a trace of white are staring straight at the three people in the current exchange room through the thin gap of the heat dissipation window. individual class.

No, it should be said that the only person he looked at... was Lin Xi.

"king--"

Ali grinned at them.

"boom--"

Bryce raised his foot suddenly and kicked open the metal door directly from the exchange room.

"Ah ah ah ah ah--"

He let out an unbearable scream and rushed out, raised the gun and aimed at Ali's head and pulled the trigger.

"Pfft-"

Ai Li's expressionless human face was scorched black by the pulse bullets directly in front of their eyes.

Scarlet mucus countless times thicker than human blood sprayed out from the wound and splashed on Bryce's body.

Aili's body leaned heavily towards the sides, but after the shooting, its mobility did not weaken in the slightest.

"Kaka-Kaka-Kah-"

A group of hideous mouthparts protruded from the already bloody place, without the human cheek as a disguise, it looked even more disgusting than before.

That harsh clicking sound came from the lower part of Eli's deformed jaw.

Its eyes are already blind, but its movements are getting faster and faster.

"Be careful—" Lin Xi pulled Bryce suddenly, and finally let him avoid the mouthpart ejected from Eli's throat.

The mouthpiece fell heavily on the metal door that had been kicked out of the dent, and a circle of thin teeth directly tore a piece of metal off, leaving a ring with irregular edges on the metal door. .

"Oh, God!"

Alyssa pinpointed the timing and added another round of pulse bullets to Ali.

"I'm sorry I'm really sorry—"

The young lady had a look of genuine pain and apology on her face.

It was probably because she was the only one among the three who could accurately recognize Ai Li's identity, and now she felt extremely tormented by shooting at that person so mercilessly.

Of course, the gun in her hand was always steady.

Bryce's face twitches as he casts a quick glance at the previously impaled man in crisis.

"Don't tell me that you survived the attack of this kind of thing..."

he asked in horror, with a hint of belated panic.

"That thing is much more terrifying than him!"

Lynch yelled.

Neither he nor Bryce were stupid enough to stay here and tangle with Ali, but started running towards the other side of the corridor.

However, just like when Ai Li discovered that their existence was not based on their eyes but their sense of smell, even half of their heads had been blasted into pieces, and even their eyeballs had turned into a sticky splash of unknown liquid At the top of the corridor, Ai Li could still accurately find the location of Lin Xi and the others, then swung his body and crawled directly towards them.

Those pale yellow feet all over his body ran very fast, and it was the first time Lin Xi felt the speed of a multi-legged creature so intuitively.

It can be said that without any effort, Ai Li shortened the distance between him and Lin Xi.

"Oh no... oh no no no no..."

Bryce would turn around and shoot at Ai Li from time to time, but what he couldn't understand at all was that the upper body of this monster was about to be blasted into a scorched meat sauce by the pulse gun, and it could barely slow down. Some speed instead of trying to get away.

In Bryce's experience, he should feel this kind of injury even as a monster (or a giant insect), but Eli didn't feel the slightest bit about the bullets and his own scars. Behind Lin Xi, there was a crackling sound from the mouthparts that continuously flowed out black and red slurry.

Bryce could have sworn he didn't even have such a vision in his worst nightmares, even... if it wasn't in front of his girlfriend and brother, Bryce suspects he might have broken down and wailed.

God knows how much Bryce hates bugs with more than six legs.Not to mention this bug with the body of a centipede and the (now blasted) face of a former colleague.

There seemed to be some scandals between Ali and Alisa before, and people always thought that a woman who was eloquent and had a good skin was suitable for Alisa as the deputy captain.Bryce has never shown any abnormalities in front of other people, because he has always been confident in his relationship with Alyssa, but occasionally in the dead of night, he still fantasizes about killing Ellie with a bullet in his mind. The scene where the face was blown away.

At that time, Bryce didn't think that one day his dream would come true, and shooting a bullet into the face of his former love rival brought panic instead of happiness.

In his opinion, there is no worse time in this world than now.

But soon, he overturned this naive idea by himself.

"I**&%……"

Just as they were running wildly along the corridor and were about to turn a corner, Alisa stopped suddenly.

Bryce nearly bumped into her, and Lynch nearly fell over it.Fortunately, at the last moment, they all stabilized.

"What's wrong……"

There was obviously the footsteps of the bloody multi-legged giant worm behind him, but after seeing clearly the scene at the other end of the corridor after the turn, Bryce still froze involuntarily.

It can be said that in the face of the scene in front of her, Alisa, who still has the ability to swear, is probably the most resilient person among the three.

At the end of the cavern-like deep corridor, a group of ... mutated crew members squirmed.

They don't seem to have undergone such serious changes as Eli, at least, they still seem to maintain their human appearance.However, judging from their disheveled and mucus-covered appearance, it seems that they gather at this end of the corridor is not a day or two.

If Talan was still here, he would probably tell Lin Xi that his guess was not wrong.These people disappeared even before Taran used incense to turn those who had mutated into puppets of himself.In fact, these people were the first to experience mutations after taking the food bag. In the words of the Sunu priests, they were born with the so-called "active physique".These people woke up suddenly some nights, walked out of their cabins slowly, and never went back--Talan had received a warning of their disappearance, but he didn't pay much attention to it, after all, at that time he There are too many things to do, so he simply and rudely used his authority to erase all the alarms.

However, I'm afraid Taran would never have imagined that these disappeared people gathered in a remote corner on the same deck as him.

Even, they began to transform themselves——

The moment Lin Xi saw these people, Lin Xi's instinct was loudly warning: the core of those people with blank eyes and empty eyes had been changed.

Chaotic and cold-blooded insects are taking shape in their bodies, gradually replacing their warm flesh and souls with rich emotions.

Of course, it is impossible for Alisa and Bryce to perceive these bloody devouring at the soul level.

What made them extremely horrified was the number of this group of mutated crew members and what they were doing... They were eating several clumps of bodies that had obviously begun to rot.

There are obvious bullet marks on the walls and floors of this corridor, but those weapons are now soaked in thick blood.The people who controlled them before have also become food in the mouths of other alienated crew members.

Apparently there was a confrontation here not too long ago.Not everyone on the Helios turned into muddled insect monsters with alienated bodies.

It's a pity that in the face of hundreds of mutated crew members, the crew members who were able to maintain their normal sanity still failed in the end.

The metal corridor that was supposed to be clean and cold was also covered by many sticky and unknown substances at this time. Those sticky colloidal substances gathered together in groups, covering the surface with mottled and interlaced veins like blood vessels.

Countless bulging translucent balloons hang down from mid-air, shaking slightly with the trembling of the contents.

And almost at the same time when the three of Lin Xi were staring at the scene in front of them in a daze, one of the sacs suddenly trembled violently, and then twitched—accompanied by the tearing of the fleshy shell, a mass of deformed flesh that was half human, half insect Mixed with a large amount of mucus rolling down from the balloon.

"Zizizizizi...zizi..."

In fact, everything happened so fast that it was almost impossible for people to react.

The moment Lin Xi and the others stepped into the corridor, all the mutated crew members, as well as the newly born worm monster... turned their heads at the same time and looked straight at them.Immediately afterwards, the half-human, half-worm monster that hadn't even faded its mucus lay on the ground, and began to crawl towards Lin Xi with all its strength...

Facing this corridor, no matter how bad it looks, no one can move forward, but following behind them is Eli, who is getting closer.

At this moment, the three of them looked at each other, with a faint expression of despair on their faces.

"..."

At this moment, time seemed to be stretched infinitely by some kind of force.

Lin Xi, Alisa, and Bryce changed positions tacitly, leaning back to back to form a triangle, and then raised their guns to point in different directions.

At least in this way, they will at least not be attacked by the enemy before they die.

However, after more than ten seconds, all three of them realized...something seemed wrong.

Eli, who was supposed to arrive soon, didn't show up for a long time.On the other side, the monster that was crawling fast in their direction suddenly stopped all movements.

It suddenly fell to one side, with its carapace facing up, shrinking itself into a ball.

A wave of fear emanated from the newborn monster.

And it also reveals a strong sense of surrender.

Lin Xi's head hurt more and more, his brows were tightly knit together, and cold sweat kept coming out.

"Fa, what happened?"

He heard Bryce say behind him.

No one dared to put down the gun in his hand.

"I don't know, maybe Ali... maybe he died on the road... maybe..."

Alisa replied weakly.

"..."

And Lin Xi just pressed her lips tightly and continued her silence.

I don't know how much time passed...maybe only a few seconds.But in Lin Xi's feeling, tens of thousands of years have passed in this short period of time.

"boom……"

A huge, pitch-black corpse suddenly appeared out of nowhere, and landed in the Laishi corridor that Lin Xi was facing.

Aili's body was divided into two distinct sections, the tail and head could still twitch slightly, perhaps still retaining some activity.

The corpse with the sticky black-red paste even slid a short distance on the ground, almost touching Lin Xi's toes.

Bryce yelled loudly at the moment when the corpse suddenly appeared. He screamed instead of Lin Xi and stretched out his foot to lift Eli's body into the distance - after hitting the wall of the corridor , the worm limb full of links shook vigorously on the ground several times before stopping.

"Who, who is where?"

Bryce fired continuously in the corridor out of control, until the pulse gun issued a piercing siren due to lack of energy.

On the other side, the alienated crew members who had been staring at Lin Xi's ready to move all curled up in unison.

They backed away bit by bit at a slow speed.Some of the more alienated features, such as those crew members whose bodies had gradually emerged with insect eyes and carapaces, many chose to cower and play dead.

"Calm down, Bryce!"

Lin Xi had to punch Bryce hard to calm him down.

But even so, Bryce still looks like he's on the verge of madness -- well, Lynch certainly understands --

After all, Eli's body appeared out of nowhere...

and many more.

wrong.

A shudder ran down Lin Xi's back, almost making his hair stand on end.

Lin Xi suddenly took a step forward, he raised the gun and pulled the trigger towards a certain position he felt.

"Whoa..."

The moment the pulse bullet hit a certain position on the wall, there was a sound like the soft fabric being shaken in the air.

Right in front of Lin Xi's eyes, the place that should have been the metal wall suddenly trembled, and the color and reflection of the metal became blurred as if covered with a thin layer of sandpaper.Then, all the colors were faded away little by little, revealing the folded wings below, whose color was almost translucent.

Something fell off the wall.Its body is extremely strong and huge, it looks even bigger than Eli — and it is also much more terrifying than that weird and deformed giant centipede mutant.

At a glance, that guy is somewhat similar to the praying mantis on the earth, with six sharp and ferocious legs spread evenly on both sides of its body.However, on the back, it has a pair of wings that can be called very beautiful.

Unlike all the mutants that Lin Xi and his team have seen before, this monster's insect-like body is not as shiny or colorful as an insect's shell. Its body is even covered with a A thin layer of human skin.

"Woooooooo..."

It was creepy and unbelievable that there was a whimper that was completely indistinguishable from that of a human from the thing's throat.

The huge wings were tightly tucked behind its back under a slight tremor, and some round stripes crowded close to each other on the edges of the soft, wrinkled wings.

It alternately flashed pale pink, blue, and bright yellow-black.

Pink is happy, blue is shy, and those black and yellow are probably extremely frightened?

During the period of taking care of Xingdie, Lin Xi has become accustomed to judging the emotions of "No. [-]" according to the color of its wings.

The monster in front of him now...

But it's not Xingdie.

Lin Xi said in his heart.

——Only he himself knows how emboldened he is when he thinks this way.

Those brightly colored wings.

And that unparalleled ability to mimic the environment.

Lin Xi has only seen it on "No. [-]".

"..."

Perhaps feeling Lin Xi's gaze, the monster finally turned its head slowly after a slight tremor. However, while doing this movement, its wings gradually spread out, and it seemed very Afraid to show his face in front of Lin Xi (Lin Xi himself didn't know why he felt this kind of "fear" emotion in such a terrifying monster), so it kept using its wings Covering most of his face.

Only his eyes... its eyes were sticking out.

"boom--"

Lin Xi heard the sound of the pulse gun falling to the ground, which was a mistake made by Bryce in his absence.

"Oh, my God, my God, my God..."

He seemed to have completely forgotten other words, and just kept repeating this word in Lin Xi's ear.

And Lin Xi didn't even have the ability to speak. He felt that he was completely frozen, unable to move, unable to speak, and unable to think.

All he could do was stare straight at the other person with his eyes widening in shock.

On the monster's deformed and terrifying body, there was a pair of incomparably deep and gentle eyes inlaid very inappropriately.

There is even a very small tear mole on the corner of the eye that seems to be always smiling, and the dark blue pupil is as deep as a starry sky.

Those were Savile's eyes.

Lin Xi thought to herself.

No matter how long it has passed, no matter what happened, Lin Xi will never be able to mistake those eyes. After all, in such a long time, no matter who he is with, no matter whether he is happy or sad, that man's face will always be engraved on his soul. the depths.

Over time, those nicks began to rot and bleed, making him scarred and in pain.

But no matter how painful and desperate, that person's face is always there and will never go away.

forever.

Lin Xi never thought that in the rest of her life, she would meet that man's eyes again, Savile's eyes.

Those are the eyes of the living.

"Saville—"

Finally, all the surging emotions exploded at this moment.

He let out a long call, and ran towards the man.

"No, Lynch, no—that's not Savile! That's not!"

It's a pity that Lin Xi was grabbed by someone before he had time to run a few more steps.

It was done by Bryce and Alyssa who realized it in an instant.

They forcibly grabbed Lin Xi's shoulders and pulled him back forcefully.At the same time, "No. [-]", who had been motionless and carefully covered his face with his wings, also shook his wings involuntarily because of Lin Xi's call containing sadness and longing just now.

This brings out those bumpy parts of its wings that are otherwise well hidden.

"Woooo..."

This unexpected mistake made it nervous all of a sudden, it raised its forelimbs in an attempt to grab its unattractive wings.

It's a pity that this action of it also fully showed its true face.

At this moment, all emotions and thoughts were wiped out.

Instead, there was only fear and guns.

"This is its mimicry! Don't be fooled!"

Alyssa immediately raised her gun the moment she saw "Number One".

That's not Savile.

Although she had never seen the legendary man before, Alisa was sure at this time that the man named Savile did not exist here.

There's just one downright buggy monster here.

That guy has a ferocious, indescribable insect face, every part of it seems to show its evil and cruelty, the sharp mouthparts and some sticky, dripping black red blood.

Anyone can see that the black and red blood is not someone else's blood, but the blood of that unfortunate life assistant, Eli.God knows what the monster did to it before it died to get its mouth full of blood.

But it was just such a monster—such a face, where compound eyes should have bulged out, unexpectedly had a pair of extremely beautiful eyes...

This made the monster look unprecedentedly terrifying.

Not only scary, but disgusting.

The disgust and fear of this monster spread all over Alisha's body in an instant, and even her bone marrow trembled because of this monster.

Alisa pulled the trigger without hesitation.

But the monster in front of them has incredible agility and quickness—it's no wonder that Ai Li, who has tenacious vitality and frightened them, turned into a monster without any resistance in front of such a monster. Two corpses.

Its movements are so fast that it seems to be teleporting.Even Alisa, who was the best marksman among the three, couldn't shoot each other completely after shooting.

"No, stop!"

Of course, Alisa didn't have time to fire a few shots.

Because Lin Xi stopped her directly and pressed her gun.

"I, I know who it is, please - don't shoot - it meant no harm - +"

Alisa almost used all of her willpower to control the fear in her heart. She forced herself completely, and finally released her finger from the trigger.

"Lin Xi? What the hell are you talking about?! It's not malicious? This monster—"

she asked with a contorted face.

However, at the next moment, when she saw the monster's reaction after the gunfire stopped, her question was stuck in her throat and could not come out again.

Neither Bryce nor Alyssa thought they would encounter such a thing one day.

The monster had no intention of attacking them just as Lin Xi said.

Even... it does seem to have an inexplicable humanity.

Those incomparably sharp limbs were tightly squeezed in front of his chest.It first tried to raise its forelimbs to cover its face with the bent joints, but soon it found that its overly conspicuous forelimbs seemed to put a lot of psychological pressure on the humans in front of it, so it quickly lowered its forelimbs.

How should I put it, this monster looks a bit at a loss.

After a brief hesitation, it dragged its wings from behind its body without a trace, then retracted its neck, and blocked its face behind the wings again.

There is a small fresh scorched mark on the edge of the wing, which was left when Lin Xi shot him again just now.

It quickly discovered the black color that was a bit of an eyesore, and it pretended to be inadvertent, and pulled the small piece of wing aside.

The changing colors on its wings showed how quickly its mood was changing now.

And its unusually human-like eyes are also turning around, it has been staring at Lin Xi and Alisa, and Bryce can't stop watching.

(If Alisa pays more attention, she will find that some alien insect is particularly interested in the interaction between her and Bryce).

The look revealed from those clear blue eyes almost seemed a little bit innocent.

But... only those eyes.

As soon as she saw the monster's body, Alisa felt that her scalp was about to explode.

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

Bryce came gently to Alisa's side, and then held Alisa's hand.

Bryce's palms were also moist, and his pulse was beating extremely fast-while comforting Alisa not to be afraid, Bryce himself was actually quite nervous.

Among the three, only Lin Xi looked calm.

"Number one?"

Lin Xi stared blankly at the weird bug, then murmured.