mother of all races

The weird bug flinched after hearing that name.

"Da da--"

It couldn't help but took two steps forward, and its mid-foot landed on the ground, making a sound similar to metal hitting.

Although they also knew that they needed to control their emotions, when they saw the behavior of the bug, Alisa and Bryce couldn't help but raised their guns behind Lin Xi and pointed it at it.

The giant bug called "No. [-]" stopped in an instant.

It hid its face behind its wings and stared blankly at Lin Xi.

Lin Xi didn't let the two humans behind him put down the guns in their hands... Although "No. [-]" had expected this a long time ago, that strange feeling of emptiness that seemed to tear apart his heart spread again. Come.

Of course, the gun in Lin Xi's own hand did not raise it again.This is a good start, Number One thought vaguely.It even felt a little happy, after all, when it accidentally fell out of the mimicry, it was already ready to face the severe pain that flashed when it was bombarded by the pulse gun.

But after seeing it, Lin Xi didn't do it.

He has become much gentler than before.

"Number One" stood motionless in the distance, then thought.

but……

"Number One" didn't know what was wrong with his body.

Unfamiliar emotions are constantly surging inside the body.

Savile?

It heard Lin Xi calling him that.

Is this its new name? "Number One" couldn't help thinking.

It still remembers that when its will was about to die, Lin Xi had promised him outside its chrysalis shell.

He will give it a new name.

However, as time passed, its ego and mind grew rapidly.It soon discovered that Lin Xi didn't seem to be calling for it, but another individual.

The surging tenderness in Lin Xi's eyes was something that "Number One" had never seen before... However, those tenderness and love, after it accidentally revealed its true face, came out of Lin Xi's eyes. It disappeared suddenly, replaced by the alertness and panic that "Number One" was already familiar with.

It took a few steps back slowly.

It wouldn't have been intolerable—after all, that's what they've been doing for eons.

The instincts of creatures will drive them to constantly modify and evolve their appearance and even their souls in order to cater to "His" preferences.Being mistaken for the individual called "Saville" wasn't a big deal either.

However, the moment Lin Xi called out the name "No. [-]" to it, it felt as if it was about to be swallowed up by that indescribable sense of emptiness.

Immediately afterwards, it shrank its body suddenly, bared, and quickly sprinted away along the edge of the wall.The newly transformed human eye has a fragile and strange feeling. It obviously has not been shot or felt any pain, but the eye sockets are inexplicably hot, and hot liquid that has no effect is gushing out.

"Number one?!"

Lin Xi couldn't help shouting again, but "No. [-]" didn't stop but ran faster.He almost followed "Number One" and ran deep into the corridor.

"Lin Xi!"

Bliss called him after him.With such a distracted effort, the figure of "No. [-]" has disappeared without a trace.

Lin Xi stood there staring blankly at the direction in which "Number One" disappeared. It took him a while to look away, and he looked at Bryce.

His brother now looked as if he was about to pass out.

"'Number One'? 'Number One'! If I remember correctly, isn't that your bug?"

Bryce stared at Lin Xi, his face was full of longing - longing for Lin Xi to give a negative answer.

"...Xingdie will become like this when she grows up?"

Before Lin Xi could speak, Bryce grabbed his hair and asked again.

"You get along with this kind of stuff every day?"

Lin Xi: "The last time I saw it, it didn't look like this."

He said so.But just after he finished speaking, some images suddenly appeared in his mind: the half-human, half-insect monster that attacked him in the middle of the night; Amazing mimetic abilities...

Lin Xi's eyes dimmed.

Alisa stabbed Bryce hard with her elbow: "Calm down, Bryce, that thing... that thing looks intelligent, maybe it's just like Lin Xi said, it's not malicious to us... "

While talking, Alisa looked at the two corpses that had been motionless for a long time, and her voice gradually became a little fluttering.

"That thing—what the hell is that thing?"

Bryce still looked extremely nervous.

And his questioning made Lin Xi extremely stressed.

Fortunately, the rustling sound from behind them quickly rescued Lin Xi from the current situation.

They suddenly looked behind themselves. When "No. [-]" was hiding nearby, these severely alienated crew members were in a completely still state, and they were all as far away as possible from the place where "No. [-]" appeared.

But now, with the departure of "No. [-]", they have gradually begun to return to activity.

"Ho ho... ho..."

The muffled murmurs rolled out of their throats, and their extremely empty eyes all pointed directly in Lin Xi's direction.

Compared with the same kind who still maintain the human form, those half-human, half-insect people who have obvious insect characteristics seem to be more fanatical about this group of people.

They tentatively squirmed slowly in Lin Xi's direction.

It's just that probably because of the aura left here before "No. [-]", the closer they are to Lin Xi and the others, the more frightened and anxious they appear.

"Gentlemen," Alisa pointed her gun at the monsters, she pulled the trigger, and the pulse bullets drew a long scorching mark in front of the bodies of those monsters, "I think the star butterfly The true biological properties of the body, we may discuss it later, but for now, we really have to get out of here."

Of course, the other two men present could not deny this wonderful proposal in front of this group of ready-to-moving monsters.

Lin Xi glanced at them one last time, then turned around and walked in the opposite direction suddenly.

"Will they follow?"

Bryce watched them solemnly, holding the gun tightly in both hands.

"Judging from the current situation, no, I think they should be afraid of 'Number One'."

Lin Xi said as he walked.

Of course, he would not tell the two people around him that besides the fear of "Number One", there are other reasons why those alienated crew members are so well-behaved.

He told them to stay there—

The idea seemed to come naturally.

Something formed inside his skull and was... "radiated" out.

He could vaguely feel some kind of wonderful invisible fluctuations appearing, and he formed a mysterious connection with the bodies of those "things" that cannot be described in words...

Of course, that weird sense of connection was fading fast as the distance between him and the monsters grew.

It soon weakened to the point that everything before was just Lin Xi's illusion.

Lin Xi tried to sort out the thoughts in his mind as he walked, but his mind seemed to be confused by something, there was only a mess in it now, and the only thing that was clear was the sense of fear.

Fear is growing.

He had a strong premonition that he was gradually becoming abnormal.

After all, if they were normal people, they wouldn't hear the high-frequency screams coming from the monster's mouth, and it was even more impossible for them to keep a group of wet and deformed monsters obediently away from them with just mental strength.

Lin Xi could feel his heart beating in his chest, and the rumors that he had sneered at before kept dangling in his mind. He was full of doubts, and he never wanted to find Ask the ghost captain of the so-called Providence.

So is he really a monster?Is he the one who brought this disaster to the ship?

"Lin Xi?"

Alyssa noticed his strangeness and couldn't help calling him worried.

"what happened?"

She asked.

Lin Xi suddenly looked at her.

"No... nothing..."

he stammered.

After a while, he suddenly asked: "Alyssa, you said that you overheard many things in Talan's warehouse, so he mentioned how much food in the food bag would start to mutate? ?"

He paused, and then said with difficulty: "Actually, I drank that stuff before."

"Well... I don't think... he didn't mention..."

"You don't have to worry about this," Bryce answered Lin Xi instead of Alisa, "I have done experiments with the artificial cells on the ship, and under normal circumstances only large doses of intake will cause that kind of mutation."

Speaking of this, Bryce's face was very dark; "That's why Alisa and I didn't raise our vigilance. We both thought it might just be a slow, mild change."

In fact, when it comes to this, Bryce is also puzzled.

The main ingredient that makes people mutate is the ground milk from Sunu, which has already been confirmed.

However, Bryce is very clear that as early as when Sunu's ground milk entered the earth as a precious import, the scientists on the earth have studied it countless times and conducted countless experiments. Earth milk is only allowed to be taken by earthlings after it is a very effective anti-aging medicine.

But after landing on this planet, the ingredients of the ground milk that were supposed to help the crew of the Helios had the opposite effect.

Bryce had no idea how it all happened.

And if he had known earlier...

"There is nothing more useless than regret."

Alyssa, noticing Bryce's mood, reassured.

Bryce smiled reluctantly.

He looked at Lin Xi: "Alissa and I are the same as you. We drank that stuff before we found out that something was wrong, but I have checked our physical condition a long time ago, at least so far there is nothing unusual about us .I think there should be many people on board who, like us, only ingested a small amount of ground milk, but because the amount of ground milk consumed was very small, it did not stimulate the mutation effect."

The author has something to say: In fact, the predecessors before "No. [-]" would not be so stupid as to think as much as it does

All you need is to change shape and please your wife to have more babies. You don't need love at all.

"No. [-]" miserably hoped for love.

ps, in terms of setting...there is more than one king worm...if the first hatched worm is not smart enough and does not evolve in time to meet the aesthetics of the worm mother, it is likely to be eaten directly, and the remaining ordinary alien species will transform into The new king worm...

In fact, "No. [-]" is already very happy.