mother of all races

Vague thoughts flitted through Lin Xi's mind.

At the same time, he could keenly feel that the monsters in the hall seemed to be losing control.

Like something is boiling at the bottom of their collective consciousness.

Their eyes stared straight at Alisa and Bryce,

"Quick... escape..."

He repeated again and again.

And before he felt that his consciousness was about to fall into darkness, he almost instinctively summoned "Number One".

Take me away

take me far away

He repeated it over and over in a language that humans could not understand.

The animal nature that was about to move because of hunger and thirst was still surging in his body.

He was terrified by the desire that kept churning in his head, and this fear reached its peak when he found himself savoring the smell of blood and the warmth of Alyssa and Bryce in the air.

"No. [-]" hugged Lin Xi vigorously at the first moment—and at the moment when he was embraced by that terrifying monster, an unprecedented sense of comfort and peace of mind was instantly felt in the depths of Lin Xi's mind Ripple open.

Lin Xiran turned her head, then gnawed hard on its chest.

The body of "Number One" trembled.

Then it calmed down, and it even helped Lin Xi cut up some overly hard tissues so that Lin Xi could eat smoothly.

Just like that, Lin Xi directly tore off a large piece of bloody flesh from the surface of "No. [-]" and swallowed it down his throat, one mouthful, then another.

It wasn't until the strong smell of blood filled his throat that he felt that the hunger in his body was slightly better.

For Bryce and Alisa, seeing their younger brother directly devouring the monster they thought was horrific before, this too terrifying picture finally made them wake up from the numbness and trance .

"Lin Xi..."

A shaky call escaped Bryce's throat.

Lin Xi turned around suddenly, and Bryce's body stopped suddenly.

Walk--

Lin Xi whispered hoarsely.

The rustling footsteps of insects could be heard in the hall, and Bryce and Alyssa suddenly turned their heads, only to find that the monsters surrounding them reluctantly gave way to them with stiff steps. aisle.

At the other end of the passage, behind the mountain of human corpses, is the entrance to the outside world.

Alisa and Bryce staggered and supported each other to get up, and then, according to Lin Xi's repeated request, they began to slowly move towards the door of the hall step by step.

It's just that both Bryce and Alyssa seemed extremely tangled and painful.

Just as they were about to leave the hall, Alisa suddenly turned her head.

"When you feel better... come to us, okay."

Alyssa covered the still bleeding wound on her neck with her hand, sniffed her nose and tried to squeeze out an extremely ugly smile.

"You are my brother, no matter what happens to you."

Bryce also said.

"...It doesn't matter if you become a cockroach, you will come to us, right?"

"Of course, you'd better... try to look better, don't be like Taran, that's disgusting."

Alisa quickly added.

Lin Xi blinked.

He never expected that after such a thing happened, he could still hear the advice of Bryce and Alisa...even though he could still feel the fear of those two people, but more...

It's more about love.

All of a sudden, the mania and hunger that were constantly clamoring in his body became a little calmer.

"...live...live...go..."

Lin Xi stared at Alisa and Bryce, who were covered in blood, and said with great difficulty.

live.

Live until I come to you.

……

The figures of Bryce and Alyssa finally disappeared behind the door.

However, when his control over the other monsters in the hall was weakest, a few shambling monsters began to walk slowly towards the direction Bryce and Alyssa left.

They were like transfigurations of centipedes and spiders, just like Ali was.

This is the type that Bryce finds most troublesome. After all, Bryce has hated that kind of myriad insects since he was a child.

While thinking this way, Lin Xi felt furious in his heart.

Without any language, without any communication, "No. [-]" directly hugged it and rushed towards those uncontrollable monsters with a tacit understanding...

……

What happened after that was vague to Lin Xi.

On the one hand, it is because his will as a human being has reached its limit after confirming that Bryce and Alyssa are out of danger, and he can no longer sustain it.On the other hand... maybe his subconscious completely turned off the switch of rational thinking in order to protect himself.

In hindsight, everything about the hall was reduced to blurred fragments.

Sticky and wet blood and scattered internal organs, the insects screamed when they were dying, and there was soft and sweet juice under the thick carapace that was knocked open.

The air was filled with that turbid smell of blood, and that smell made Lin Xi faintly feel sick—but at the same time, he became extremely excited.

Two diametrically opposed emotions were constantly intertwined in his body, making him more irritable and unsettled.

But no matter what, the bodies of those bugs finally turned into enough energy to be incorporated into his body.

Although it would take a long time for that feeling of weakness to disappear, Lin Xi and the other "Lin Xi" in his body still settled down.

The last clear memory before falling into a coma was also related to that horrible insect.

Lin Xi felt that it carefully hugged herself in its arms, and after a brief hesitation, the pair of cumbersome wings behind it were pulled forward by it, wrapping Lin Xi in layers.

"very nice……"

The other party's uneasy mood entered Lin Xi's mind by relying on the spiritual link between the two who were still in contact.

Lin Xi stared at the colors rippling on the wings with her blurry eyes.

Pink and purple representing joy and love, yellow representing uneasiness, and...

"Good boy……"

Lin Xi muttered vaguely.

The "Number One" around him seems a bit too fragile. As his family members, this complex and delicate emotion should be as unnecessary burden as the pair of wings.A certain part deep in the body seems to have such an idea, but Lin Xi's human part doesn't think so at all.

In fact, he would rather stay with such "number one"... Lin Xi

The turbulent emotions settled down almost the moment the pair of wings wrapped around the body.

Feeling the unique atmosphere of "No. [-]" lingering around him, he finally relaxed all his emotions and allowed himself to fall into a dark coma.

……

Lin Xi had a dream.

He seemed to be trapped in an extremely dark and huge metal maze.

Everything around looked extremely old and dilapidated. There were obviously no corpses, but the breath of death was so strong that it seemed real.

He kept walking forward along a narrow corridor, and sometimes he would see quaint portholes on the wall, but when he lay down on the window and looked out, there was only darkness outside.

But the maze is not completely dead.

Occasionally, Lin Xi would also feel something trembling slightly under the metal floor.

Some small and bright points of light will fly directly from the dark distance to the opposite direction in an instant.

In the dream, Lin Xi felt that his thinking ability was weakening infinitely. It took him a long time to realize that it was a sign that the cables on the ship were still working.

So, he started walking along the cable.

He finally sees what he subconsciously seeks in a brightly lit room.

a man.

He was still wearing a 300-year-old spacesuit, sitting motionless on a seat wrapped by the podium with his back to Lin Xi.

Lin Xi looked around in a daze, and it took him half a beat to realize that this was actually the bridge of a spaceship—but, how big should this spaceship be, to have such a vast and huge bridge?

In contrast, the man sitting alone on the command seat, even though he was wearing a bloated space suit, was still extremely small and lonely in comparison.

Lin Xi walked towards the man like a ghost.

It wasn't until he walked in that he realized that the podium was actually covered with thick dust.

A piece of paper and a pen were placed in front of the man. These two things were considered invaluable in today's world, but to him they seemed to be just ordinary things.

He used his arm to support himself, and tilted his head a little carelessly, looking at the pen and paper in hand.

Lin Xi didn't manage to see clearly what was written on that piece of paper until she was at a very close distance.

will

I am the commander-in-chief of the USS Providence, the main person in charge of the as192 interstellar immigration program, Scripps Eden.Our spaceship is flying...

The handwriting on the back gradually became blurred, perhaps because it was originally a dream.

However, at the moment when Lin Xi squinted her eyes and tried to discern the handwriting on the will, all the lights and instruments of the entire bridge were turned on in an instant.

kill me, kill me, kill me...

A voice of incomparable pain and incomparable despair was deafeningly transmitted from the radio broadcasting all around.

Immediately afterwards, the man who was originally by Lin Xi's side suddenly grabbed him.

"Crack-"

Frightened, Lin Xi suddenly provoked and threw Scripps' body far away.

The latter's helmet was thrown off at once, and then hit the ground with a bang.

Since the white bones rolled out of the spacesuit hit the metal ring of the spacesuit head, the open mandible seems to be laughing at something.

find me... and... kill me...

The skeleton fell to the ground, turned its head slowly on the ground, and then looked straight at Lin Xi.

let me... free...

it says.

Lin Xi suddenly woke up.

As soon as he woke up, he was stunned by the strangeness of his body, because a thick layer of gelatin was wrapping around his side layer by layer, even his mouth and nose were covered.

That feeling was a bit like drowning, and Lin Xi panicked uncontrollably.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

He let out an exclamation, and danced and struggled.

"Zi la..."

In the next second, he seemed to have pierced something like a film stuck to the outermost layer of glue, and then he slid out of the big sticky mass.

He landed on a soft, wet, fleshy cushion.

It took him a long time to prop up his body from the fleshy cushion.

He glanced around him.

For about a few seconds, he felt dazed and in a trance, almost unable to tell whether he was still in a dream, or... or he was in a reality like a nightmare.

His surroundings are covered with that disgusting gel, including the "cushion" under his feet. If he just looks at the purple and cyan interlaced veins on the surface of the crimson gel, which looks like blood vessels, he doubts these things. Maybe some kind of living thing—

Ah yes, that's what it feels like.

Lin Xi felt as if she was lying in the stomach of some huge creature.

Not far from him, there are many pouches that are also wrapped down, and those pouches will tremble slightly from time to time.

Through the translucent gelatinous membrane, Lin Xi could clearly see that all those wrapped in those pouches were worm-like monsters.

Accompanied by the slight tremor of the sac from time to time, the worms would occasionally change their positions and movements accordingly.

Lin Xi stared at them for a long time, then shivered suddenly.

He found that he couldn't feel any fear of these terrifying creatures.

Then, Lin Xi discovered something was wrong with her again.

He looked down at his stomach.

Before he lost his mind, he remembered that there should be an extremely terrifying huge wound, but now, that wound has completely disappeared.

The new skin covered the place where the wound was originally, and it felt fine and smooth to the touch, without any abnormality at all.

"Well……"

Lin Xi frowned, because just as he was trying to recall how his body recovered, a severe headache hit him.

He almost fell directly to the ground.

But, of course, he couldn't be so embarrassed. As early as the moment his figure swayed slightly, a white shadow flashed quickly, and hugged Lin Xi into its arms.

"Lin Xi... you're awake!"

It was a voice of gentle concern, with an intimacy that was hard to ignore.

But Lin Xi froze suddenly because of the voice.

He slowly raised his head along the other's arm, and looked at the person hugging him.

"Saville?"

Lin Xi whispered in shock.

The man's eyes flickered slightly.

He didn't respond to Lin Xi immediately, but Lin Xi suddenly reacted in the next second.

He gasped suddenly, then threw the opponent away.

"It's you... 'Number One'."

He said.