mother of all races

A group of people moved forward along the corridor, crossed countless cabins with wide open doors, and finally stopped in a hall that was obviously similar to an activity room.

The cabins and corridors are very dimly lit, but here, the light is very bright.

Moreover, Lin Xi noticed very sensitively that the light here is not the special red light in emergency situations, but ordinary white light——

This is enough to prove that the system here has been separated from the main system on the Helios.

What Lin Xi cares about is the people in this hall.

The people here are clearly divided into two parts - one part is those mercenaries pointing their guns at them, it was not obvious in the dark living cabin before, but now in the brightly lit area, these people are pale, haggard and If there is panic, it can be seen clearly under the light.

Each of them was so skinny that they looked less like space mercenaries and more like starving people in the slums of some colonial planet.

They must have been starved miserably, Lin Xi couldn't help thinking, maybe these people noticed something wrong with the food bag at the beginning and controlled their own diet-well, maybe this is what distinguishes them from the other people in the hall The reason for the opening.

Yes, those other people.

Lin Xi could feel the eyes of Alisa and Bryce falling on the other people in the hall.Although, it is debatable whether the word "person" can be used to describe them now.

The hall was supposed to be used for storing equipment, but now that all weapons and equipment have been emptied, the metal railings that used to hold the heavy shelves have been preserved.

Long ropes hung down from top to bottom one by one, and then were tied tightly in nooses to those strange-looking insectoid bodies.

Most of them still maintain the basic human shape, but it is only "basic".

Elytra, tentacles, chewing mouthparts, segmented bodies—they all had more or less these obvious insect features, and some people had a complete head, and they muttered indistinctly, and there was nothing in their cloudy eyes. There is no brilliance at all.

A thin mercenary seemed to have heard the movement, and he walked out from the depths of the hall with a rope in his hand.Behind him came the sound of a needle scraping a blackboard.

"Hey, Sorian."

look up.He greeted Suo Li'an, and it wasn't until this moment that Lin Xi realized that the other end of the rope he was holding was tied with a woman's body.

However, the woman was almost complete insectization, she had compound eyes and feathery tentacles, there was blood on the sickle-like forelimbs, and a small piece of stretched flesh dragged softly on her arm below the elbow.There was a deep, black hole in the middle of her forehead, and a stream of blood flowed out of that hole.This woman was killed when she was about to complete her last transformation.

"Hal—"

Sorian simply greeted the man, his eyes fell on the woman's body, his brows were slightly frowned, and a trace of pity flashed across his eyes.

"I'm sorry, Annie, she..."

"It's okay, at least I killed her before she was completely transformed into this monster. I think he still had human will at that time." Hal murmured, "My wife died as a human .”

Immediately afterwards, Hal cast his eyes on the three people behind Sorian, he passed Alisa and Bryce, and his eyes were fixed on Lin Xi.

"Oh, it's you, you are the mother of these monsters...the caller of doom..."

Hal, who seemed a little indifferent at first, suddenly became agitated. He suddenly let go of the rope, took out a laser gun from his waist, and pointed it at Lin Xi.

Before he had time to shoot, the mutation happened——

The alien species next to him was originally drooping its head and panting heavily. It seemed that the male could almost be described as dying, but the moment Hal drew his gun and pointed at Lin Xi, he became agitated. It suddenly arched its body, then jumped heavily, its sharp mouthparts rushed straight out of its throat, and then directly bit Hal's wrist.

Hal let out a scream, and the blood-splattered lasgun slammed to the ground.

"Damn—Hal—"

"Hal! Are you all right—"

……

The mercenaries rushed towards Hal in a hurry, they hurriedly chopped off the monster's mouthparts to separate Hal from the monster.During this process, a young mercenary couldn't control his emotions and directly raised his gun and fired more than ten shots at the monster that bit Hal, and the monster's head was quickly smashed to pieces. It's just that the young mercenary's move was a bit unnecessary, because it was already dead before the shot was fired - its esophagus was connected to a part of internal organs, connected to the mouthparts, and was directly dragged out of the body.

The bite that bit Hal before was its life-depleting attack.

Such a tragic scene happened directly in front of Lin Xi and others.So fast, so brutal, so bloody.

Bryce's face was as white as starched linen, and Lin Xi heard him make two consecutive gasps that were not quite right.

—he suspects that Bryce is really going to throw up.

Well, he was also a little sick when he saw the monster's entrails dripping wet and bloody from its deformed jaw.

"God." As for Alisa, she turned her head away as early as the moment the smell of blood came out, not daring to look again.

However, the extremely impactful scene in front of him seemed to be an ordinary thing to Sorian. He didn't even seem to be touched in the slightest, and his face didn't even change.

Lin Xi swallowed a mouthful of saliva, his throat was a little dry.

Sorian is not the kind of ruthless person, on the contrary, Lin Xi is very clear that he has a kind of concern and love for his companions that should not appear in mercenaries.

The reason why he was able to act so calmly in front of such a cruel and terrifying thing... The only possibility is that similar things have happened too many times.

"You're lucky."

Sorian lifted the half-human, half-worm monster aside, and then he spoke softly to Lin Xi.

"These nasty monsters you created saved your life—"

Lin Xi pursed her lips.

He didn't say a word, because he felt sensitively that there seemed to be something trembling slightly behind Sorian.

"call……"

He was sure it wasn't his illusion, because Bryce and Alyssa seemed to have noticed something was wrong, and their breathing became faster all of a sudden.

Lin Xi turned her head and exchanged glances with them.

At the same time, Sorian was unaware of the fact that he had just escaped a catastrophe. He directed his small number of companions, led Hal out of the hall, and then took Lin Xi and others Drove to another corner of the hall.

Here, the three of Lin Xi were tied up with special ropes.

Lin Xi could feel Sorian walking behind him, pulling hard on the ropes that bound him. Those ropes made of aramid fiber were extremely strong, and Sorian even hit a blow that almost cut the ropes. The knot that went into his flesh—After all this was done, Sorian seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

He stood back a few steps, stared at Lin Xi with his hands crossed over his chest for a long time before speaking.

"You said you wanted to talk to me, so now you can." He pointed to his personal terminal, "Of course you'd better pray that you didn't talk nonsense, my patience is not very good right now."

He paused, then looked at Lin Xi, there was a vicious and cruel look in his eyes.

"As you saw just now, my team members are probably more impatient than me—just like you claimed before, a lot of things have happened during this period."

He said in a low voice.

Lin Xi was still looking at the "people" who were tied to the fixed frame. He should have expressed his intentions to Sorian bluntly, but when he opened his mouth, what he said turned into something else.

"Those who were tied up...are your companions, right? You brought the crew members who had problems out of the cabin and tied them here. However, they are still gradually alienating...After things became irreparable, You just have to kill them."

As soon as Lin Xi's words fell, the muscles on Sorian's face twitched slightly, and then he raised the gun and pressed Lin Xi's forehead directly.

"I warned you, don't talk nonsense."

"Sorian!"

"We are here for the alienation of the crew!"

Alisa and Bryce shouted on both sides of Lin Xi at the same time.

Compared with the two of them, Lin Xi, who was actually pointed at by the gun, was the calmest person.

"You are very sad..." Lin Xi said softly, "You still think it is because of me? No, you have been a little shaken, right? Otherwise, when you saw me in the cabin, you would directly Shots were fired. You want to know what the hell happened, and you want to know why I came after you."

Lin Xi paused, and then continued: "...What did John Bronson tell you? Why do you think so firmly that I am the culprit of everything?"

"boom--"

Sorian shot suddenly, and the bullet grazed Lin Xi's cheek and shot directly to the ground, leaving a scorched mark there.

Lin Xi's eyes trembled slightly.

"I thought it was you who answered me instead of me answering you."

Sorian said with a hint of anger.

"I went to see Shizuo Ando before." At this moment, Lin Xi murmured without thinking, "At that time, Shizuo Ando suddenly acted very strange..."

Lin Xi calmly narrated the abnormality that happened to An Teng Jingxiong, and at the same time, he kept observing Sorian's every move.

He was not surprised - after hearing the ghost of the captain of the Providence 300 years ago, Sorian's expression changed.