mother of all races

"The person who appeared on John Bronson is also him, right? The reason why you suspect that I have something to do with all this on the ship is not just because of the Sunu exhibition accident on Earth, but the 'captain' Appear. Well, that's what I came to see you for, and I want to meet that Mr. Captain."

"what?"

Sorian's expression finally fluctuated.

Just after Lin Xi finished speaking, Sorian suddenly turned around, and he made a gesture to the other people staying in the hall.Soon, all those people left.

"What the hell are you doing?! You already knew that John was dead, and it was impossible for us to contact Scripps again! You killed him! Because he already knew your true identity, he knew you had question--"

"Scripps Eden. A human legend, a 300-year ghost..."

Lin Xi said softly.

"That's what he calls himself in front of you? Then, has he ever told you that he needs to be attached to the auxiliary components you have placed inside the brain before he can show himself?"

"What did you say?"

Sorian showed an expression of disbelief.

"After John died, he still lingered around me. I saw him in Shizuo Ando, ​​and I saw him in Jerry..."

Lin Xi told Sorian about the information he and Bryce had discovered.

When he proposed that he needed to use Sorian's body to summon the captain's ghost again, Sorian's eyes widened in surprise.

"Wait, you said... it can show up on me too?"

He showed a tinge of fear.

Lin Xi nodded: "That's right, if your previous body report is not false."

He thought he would have to spend a little more time convincing Thorian to be the container for the captain's ghost.

but……

"So, are you ready to die for the good of humanity?"

A vague and ethereal voice suddenly came from Sorian's lips.

Lin Xi's eyes froze. He stared at Sorian, and found that the man who was exhausted and full of vigilance against them a few seconds ago had disappeared, replaced by the "ghost" with a gloomy aura .

He just appeared without warning and occupied Sorian's body. Thinking of this, Lin Xi couldn't help but feel terrified.

"You pretender, do you have any other good suggestions besides letting an innocent person die?!"

As soon as Scripps (let's say he didn't lie about his identity, although he looks weird and suspicious from any angle), Bryce couldn't help but stare coldly. ridiculed.

Alisa, who was beside him, did not speak recklessly, but her probing eyes never moved away from Mr. "Ghost" from the beginning to the end.

Judging from her unusually vigilant eyes, she didn't seem to think that he had any special kindness towards her group.

Lin Xi instinctively sensed the tension of the two people around him, and he gave them a soothing look.

Then he turned his head and looked at "Sorian" in front of him.

"Tell me, before I should die, should you tell me the ins and outs of everything? Otherwise...the words you keep muttering over and over are not convincing."

Lin Xi said.

There was a very brief pause in his voice that no one else noticed.

But only he himself knew what was going on - there was an extremely weird feeling on his wrist, the ticking mucus seemed to appear out of nowhere, and the rope that was firmly tied to him suddenly Break loose.

Lin Xi could clearly feel the slackness of the rope, as long as he wanted, he could easily break free from the confinement that Sorian left on him when he was awake.

But on the surface, he still put his hands behind his back, pretending that nothing happened.

It is "Number One".

Lin Xi is very clear.

He didn't know how "Number One" understood what he meant, maybe just like Alisa said, this little alien bug did have amazing intelligence.He realized that Lin Xi needed to talk to Sorian, so it didn't appear abruptly and cut people into pieces like Robert and Eli, but sneaked up on them with its amazing mimicry ability, and then quietly He untied the rope in his hand silently.

It would be even more perfect if "Number One" could not drool so much when he acted.

On the other hand, Lin Xi's ghost conversation with Scripps is still going on.

After hearing Lin Xi's request, he who possessed Sorian showed a sad expression.

To be honest, Sorian looked a little creepy when he made such a sad and delicate expression.

"...You are the most human-like worm mother I have ever seen. Your humanity is still alive, which is very good." Scripps' voice was particularly deep and gloomy.

"Yes, I really should tell you everything, and then you will understand why I let you choose to kill yourself."

While speaking, he raised his head and looked at Alisa and Bryce on both sides of Lin Xi.

"You have a very close relationship with him and you will soon learn that this is the best option for him and the only option."

"Shit—"

Bryce didn't make a sound, but he mouthed a wordless curse.

Scripps looked away seemingly indifferently.

"——300 years ago, I led the Providence, 24 people who hoped to arrive at planet as192 to start their new life and 192 staff members arrived here. According to the normal process, we are about to arrive at as[-] on the spacecraft In the past two years, the immune agent has been gradually released in the nutrient solution circulating fluid in the freezer..."

"Immune agent?"

Lin Xi couldn't help frowning.

"We don't use that kind of thing anymore - but people 300 years ago seem to think that when Earthlings first arrive on a new planet, it's easy to develop a shock in the body's flora and immune system due to exposure to a completely unfamiliar environment. Chaos, so they will extract some extremely small amounts of native bacteria and other messy things from the new colony and gradually inject them into the human body, gradually allowing the body of the earthlings to adapt to the alien environment."

Bryce turned his head and explained for Lin Xi in a low voice.

Scripps nodded: "Yes, that's it, this is the normal process. In the early days of the entire Providence project, everything went smoothly..."

Yes, everything is going well.

It went so smoothly that people couldn't even notice the coming of the nightmare.

The release of the immune agent was just a trivial matter during the long voyage, and no one would have thought that it was the culprit of that tragedy.

First of all, the physiological data of a small number of people began to appear abnormal continuously—from the data sheet alone, they seemed to be infected with some unknown cancer, and the rate of cell division and proliferation far exceeded the normal level.Numerous grotesque lumps had appeared in the guts and beneath the skin.

Immediately afterwards, those lumps began to invade their internal organs and other tissues...

Scripps is awakened from hibernation by his companion intellect.

He examined those people, and after realizing that even the freezing state could not contain the weird tumors in their bodies, he had to kill them directly in the hibernation chamber with tears in his eyes.

But his decision did not stop the epidemic of that strange disease...

Soon, more and more immigrants were developing lumps in their bodies.Immediately afterwards, those lumps also appeared in the crew's body.

"... At the same time, I found that an important crew member on the ship was abnormal. He always had a headache and was having nightmares. He felt that his body was establishing a mysterious connection with many tiny lives... When I He was distressed at the decision to put to death those sailors and settlers who had lost control of their illnesses, as if their deaths had seriously affected him."

After hearing Scripps' description of the important crew member, Lin Xi's face became paler and paler.

He could feel that Scripps was staring at him meaningfully. The ghost of 300 years ago seemed to know the changes that happened to him.

Those headaches, nightmares, and that "connection" that no language can describe.

"and after?"

Lin Xi murmured.

"He hid many people."

There's something bordering on pain in Scripps' tone, which makes him look even weirder than before.

After all, his every move seems so lifelike, it is almost hard to imagine that he is just a ghost without any physical body.

That important crew member, Scripps did not mention his specific position, but it can be heard that he does have quite high authority.So when Scripps started mass killing crew members and settlers who showed signs of the strange disease, he figured out how to wipe some of the records.He hid those people in the biological dormancy compartment of the spaceship warehouse, and replaced the earth animals that should have been brought to the new planet to multiply and live with diseased human bodies.

The crew member's intentions were good, but he just couldn't bear to see so many people being killed alive like this... because the death of each infected person seemed to be repeated vividly in the depths of his own soul.What's more, the scientists on board almost exhausted all methods, but they still couldn't prove that the special tumor was an infectious disease.

Moreover, the degree of mutation in those people is not serious.Many of them are even healthy based on statistics alone.

He just wanted to give those people some chances, some chances to live instead of being killed so cleanly and decisively—not to mention, even if all the initial infected patients had been executed, that weird disease would still persist. Contagion spread uncontrollably among crew members and passengers.

Before doing this, the senior crew member never thought that it was his own selfishness that led everyone to perish in the end.

"Those people turned into bugs."

Lin Xi whispered about the fate of those people.

"Yes, that's right, huge worms, half-human, half-worm monsters, crawled out one by one from the deepest warehouse of the spaceship. They acted in the dead of night, pulling the living people out of the cabin, dragged directly from the freezer, killed, and then brought to the deepest part of the spaceship. There they cast a huge Zerg palace. Those who were taken away were stored there, and some were transformed into the same Monsters, and some people were injected with special digestive juices and turned into balls of meat paste, which is what they use to hatch new larvae. And that stupid senior crew member, as early as Before all the mutations started, they were taken to the depths of the 'palace'."

"The last time I saw him, he had turned into one of those disgusting...things...he was entangled with that ugly bug, surrounded by egg cases he produced. He became Became the mother of alien species, the breeder of that group of terrifying monsters, a mass of evil flesh that can only give birth... Do you know what the most terrifying thing is? The most terrifying thing is that at that time, he still had human flesh Sanity. He has been crying and begging me to kill him. Because if he does not die, the huge swarm will continue to multiply. And so people who have been immunized will be alienated into no sanity and no soul low-level insects."

"...The problem is those immune agents. When selecting the active ingredients, those stupid scientists took the ingredients in the most common insects on as192...that is used by the horrible group to produce food and materials effective way of doing this. Once carbon-based organisms are infected with that stuff, they're marked as potential food and tools for them."

"They are called xenomorphs... In the entire universe, they will only have one worm mother at a time. During the time when the worm mother is not born, neither they nor those marked and infected creatures will show However, every once in a while, it may be hundreds of millions of years, it may be thousands of years, or it may be hundreds of years... New insect mothers will always be produced in the infected organisms. Once the insects The mother is selected, and the story that has been repeated countless times will start again - the innocent intelligent life is transformed into a low-level creature that he hates extremely, accepting the drive of the mother and those alien species or directly becoming food... the entire alien species The population began to multiply and expand continuously within the universe, and the universe would temporarily escape from their clutches until the worm mother left and died."

While speaking, Scripps turned his head and stared deeply at the group of evil-looking and extremely weird half-human, half-worm monsters behind him.

"This tragedy keeps repeating, and then repeating...Look at these people, the reason why they became like this is because of your awakening. They also have their own families, their own lovers, and their own dreams, but now, They've got nothing - and if you, the bug mother, don't kill yourself before things get worse, there will be more people who will end up like this because of you."

he said softly.

While speaking, a line of nosebleeds slowly flowed out of Sorian's nostrils, and then, thin lines of blood also flowed out of his ears.

Even though his expression still looked cold and calm, Lin Xi could clearly see that Sorian's body was trembling and convulsing uncontrollably.

He immediately thought of Jerry who fell in front of the aircraft before—the old man is still in a coma because of the overload of the auxiliary nerve components in the brain, and according to Bryce's diagnosis, he is likely to never Can't wake up.

"Damn-"

He was startled.

"You have to go! You're killing Thorian!"

he yelled at the ghost.

It's just that Scripps doesn't seem to care about Sorian's condition.

He looked straight at Alisa.

"It's my biggest regret not to kill him before the situation got out of hand, and I still think so until now. Now the mutation of this group of monsters is accelerating...not to mention...his king worm has also appeared Yes, I have felt that evil, and I have seen that terrible devil..."

After hearing the word "king worm", Bryce and Alyssa turned their heads at the same time and looked at each other.

A very... ugly and terrifying face appeared in their minds.

"Oh please."

Alyssa murmured, shivering at the scene in her mind.

"...That's still a bit too much to challenge human physiological instincts." She muttered.

Lin Xi's brows were tightly locked together.

King bug?

King Chong refers to..."Number One"?

Lin Xi couldn't help turning his head slightly, and now he was able to locate the position of "No. [-]" more and more accurately.

In other words, he and that little monster have indeed become more and more in touch with each other. For example, at this moment, he has clearly seen the positive eyes of "No. [-]" slowly protruding from the mimicry. stared at him without blinking.

It's just that as long as Lin Xi moves, "Number One" will quickly retract and continue to disguise itself as a completely inconspicuous lamp on the top of the hall.

Of course, his interaction with "No. [-]" at this moment was very secretive and was not discovered by anyone.

"Damn it, do we have to find a way to kill that thing?"

Bryce's face looked ugly as if someone had slapped it with a blackened pan.

He would never forget how the monster named "Number One" easily cut those extremely difficult monsters into a pile of pieces.

To be honest, at this time, Bryce hoped that the so-called captain of the Providence in front of him was just talking nonsense to intimidate them.

But the words that came out of the ghost's mouth always had an inexplicable sense of ominousness.

"...Since the king worm has appeared beside the mother of the alien species... soon, soon he will become that filthy and evil thing, and will be permanently imprisoned in the palace of the insects to breed new alien species. Even if It is out of mercy, you should also end his life as soon as possible...cough cough..."

At the end of the words, Scripps' voice gradually became muffled, and some blood mixed with saliva flowed uncontrollably from the corner of his mouth, wetting his front collar.

"...mutated... people... unknowingly spread that juice...they desire...infect normal...people...they need more...companions...kill them... ...otherwise...everyone would..."

"boom--"

Seeing that Sorian's body was leaning back, Scripps had no intention of leaving him at all.Lin Xi broke free from the rope suddenly, and then hit Sorian's temple hard with his elbow.

Sorian didn't say a word, just fell to the ground and passed out.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi came to the side of Bryce and Alisa, and untied the rope behind them.

When Sorian woke up from a maddening headache, he saw three people who had completely broken free and surrendered all the weapons on him.

"How do you feel—do you think your IQ has dropped? Or can't move half of your body?"

Bryce, who was closest to him, saw Thorian come to his senses, let go of the vicious mercenary's eyelids, checked his pupils, and said.

"..."

Sorian endured the pain, gritted his teeth and slowly sat up from the ground, and then felt the condition of his body.

"what did you do to me?"

After a while, he asked coldly.

"Our good captain's ghost almost made you a permanent idiot," Lynch replied.

"Of course, if you want to ask what we did... I stopped it." He stopped and glanced at Bryce before continuing to say to Sorian, "You should really be glad that my brother is Medical officer, he gave you first aid."

"I also wasted a tube of precious healing factor injection."

Bryce added in a timely manner.

He gestured for Sorian to look at the empty syringe on the floor.

Sorian fell silent again.

He closed his eyes, trying to recall what happened before he completely lost consciousness...

Some hazy pictures slipped through his mind very vaguely——

insect.monster.blood.

And some misshapen young man, half insect, half human.

...Kill me, please, I can't go on like this...Let me die...Please...Let me die...

The man seemed to be saying something to him, his pale face was covered with mottled tears.

His face seemed somewhat familiar.

"Well……"

But when Sorian thought about it carefully, the only thing he could feel was the maddening pain. He groaned and almost collapsed on the ground.

That was definitely not the picture he had in his memory.Sorian was sure of that, it was someone else's memory.

ghost memory.

At this time, Sorian instinctively realized that maybe it was just like what Lin Xi said... the captain of the Providence had occupied his body just now.

And almost killed him.

"What do you know?"

After a long time, Sorian asked.

"It's nothing."

Blaise answered almost instinctively.

"I don't know what that guy told you before, but it sounds to me that everything he said is nonsense without the slightest credibility. Oh, by the way, considering that as a ghost, he still needs to borrow It takes Cranial Auxiliary Unit to show up and tell the story, and what he said is even more unbelievable."

Lin Xi clearly heard what Bryce said, and he opened his mouth subconsciously, but when he looked back and saw Bryce's current expression, all the words were instantly stuck in his throat and could no longer be uttered.

Is it really unbelievable?

Lin Xi didn't think what the Scripps captain said was completely nonsense.

At least, in the aircraft left behind by the Providence, many clues can be confirmed in an instant with what he said.

Those mummies that were alive and trapped in the freezer had already shown the characteristics of insectification.

There are also various traces left by those people when they tried to escape...

However, Lin Xi still felt that there seemed to be something wrong in the ghost's words.

"That guy is the culprit of everything!"

Just when Lin Xi was lost in thought, a stern shout suddenly came from a corner of the hall.

Harry, who should have been taken away by his companions, unexpectedly appeared behind the four of them at some point, and he held a high-power ion gun in his hand, pointing the gun straight at Lin Xi.

"They're lying to you, boss, they're lying to you, and that's no nonsense at all, I've heard it all."

"That's Scripps, he's a human hero, and he doesn't lie. The guy in front of you is the one who caused all this shit on the ship! He's the mother of the monsters! As long as he's alive, we'll drink food bags Everyone will turn into a monster - we have to kill him, kill him now!"

"Harry?"

Sorian looked at Harry, who jumped out suddenly, in shock.

"Hey man, calm down..."

Bryce's eyes were bleeding. He stared straight at the ion gun aimed at Lin Xi, and the veins on his forehead popped out, but the words he said seemed relaxed and warm.

"What is the truth of the matter? We don't know the truth yet. What that guy said is all one-sided, isn't it?"

It's a pity that no matter how hard Bryce tried to appease Harry, the man who had just killed his wife was completely immersed in his own world.

"I heard it, I heard it, it's your fault, as long as I kill you, everything can become normal, everything will be fine—"

he murmured.

His body was trembling due to over-excitement.

"boom--"

Then, he fired.

In the next second, blood spattered everywhere.

"Number one—no—"

As early as the moment Lin Xi fired the gun, he lowered his body, hugged his head, and rolled away from the spot. A sound of biting wind brushed past his shoulder, and then the man holding the gun was caught in the blink of an eye. Lifted to the corner.

The high-power bullets directly slashed across the ceiling, accompanied by the crackling sound, and the lighting facilities were destroyed, and the lighting in the entire hall was dimmed by more than half in an instant.

Harry, who was thrown into the air, struggled for a long time to barely stand up after hitting the wall. His face and nose were covered with blood, and a deep scratch was drawn from the corner of his eye to the ear on the other side. , his skin and flesh were ripped apart, revealing dense white bones, and the wound looked extremely terrifying.

But... Lin Xi knew very well that if he hadn't called out "No. [-]" in time, what was lying there now would be two bloody corpses.