Let's push the time forward a little...to the beginning of the separation between Xavier and Lin Xi.
Xavier found himself separated from Lin Xi at the end of a corridor.
It suddenly stopped like a sudden brake, and the whole insect stood frozen on the spot. The pair of metallic wings behind it turned completely gray-white due to excessive fear and shock.
"Lin Xi?!"
Xavier let out a low cry filled with fear.
But the man who was supposed to be next to it didn't appear.
Even Arthur's figure disappeared.
“…”
Until now, there was only silence lingering around Xavier.
Absolute silence.
It was as if Xavier was the only one left in the whole world - only for a few very occasional moments, Xavier could hear something rustling in the dark in a narrow corner. He could hear it, and it was exactly those things. It was a strange embryo-like creature that forced it and Lin Xi to run away in embarrassment.
After entering this corridor, those strange creatures that were all over the sky like locusts disappeared in an instant.
It's like there's something else here that makes them feel very scared.
Xavier walked back and forth around the corridor several times, trying to find Lin Xi.
But its attempts always failed.
This is simply incredible, because Xavier is more sensitive than any other creature, and Lin Xi's breath is so unforgettable to him. It was an aura that penetrated deep into the bone marrow and was almost directly connected to its soul.
And Xavier was convinced that he had always followed Lin Xi's breath. In fact, just a few minutes ago, Xavier still vaguely felt that Lin Xi was beside him...
But that's what happened, Lin Xi disappeared.
Xavier felt as if something had dug a deep hole in his chest—
Once again, it lost its most precious possessions.
Although he clearly knew that he should be calmer, Xavier still fell into an extremely anxious state uncontrollably.
It flew directly into the long, narrow and intricate corridor, tracking Lin Xi's traces back and forth in countless silent and uninhabited passages.
This should have been an easy task for the alien species with exceptionally strong sensory abilities, but the development of the matter made Xavier increasingly panicked.
It does not lose Lin Xi’s breath...
In fact, every section of road and every passage that Xavier passed through was filled with that kind of vague atmosphere. This situation caused Xavier to completely lose his direction. When Xavier reacted, he was already in a deep and dark wide room.
Here, the atmosphere of "Lin Xi" is the strongest.
"Lin Xi..."
Xavier murmured.
It thought it could finally find Lin Xi, but after it eagerly opened the abandoned door, there was no sign of that gentle man in the room.
Only the faint breath of "Lin Xi" lingered endlessly in the depths of the dark room.
Xavier suddenly stopped.
It stood upright, its red eyes flashing slightly in the dark environment. It was staring straight at somewhere in the room - Lin Xi's breath came from there.
According to Xavier's instinct, it should rush in that direction as soon as possible.
But it didn't do that. The smell that filled the room was so strong that it made Xavier feel trance-like and anxious...
That breath was so touching, directly affecting Xavier's unique physiological instinct.
But... But is that really Lin Xi's aura
It was at this moment that Xavier suddenly became alert.
There's something not quite right about those auras that permeate all the passages.
Rather than saying that the familiar smell belonged to Lin Xi, it would be better to say that this smell was more similar to another primitive smell.
That's the smell of "Him".
After discovering this, everything that was wrong suddenly became very clear.
Xavier is not an ordinary alien species. He has a unique talent and can accurately distinguish the difference between Lin Xi and "him".
And now, just like before, Xavier quickly realized that the rich aura permeating the darkness was completely different from the real aura of Lin Xi - this aura was distorted... abnormal.
If it hadn't been panicked because of its inadvertent separation from Lin Xi, it should have discovered the difference at the first opportunity.
Thinking of this, Xavi suddenly spread his wings, his tentacles stood up above his head, and the tentacles tightened.
It appears very alert.
"Lin Xi..."
At the end, Xavier still shouted softly, but this time, there was still no response from Lin Xi.
Xavier retreated towards the way he came from without hesitation.
Its instinct tells it that there is something here that could cause trouble. And Xavier didn't want to waste the precious time of searching for Lin Xi in such trouble.
But at this moment, it caught a glimpse of a familiar shadow...
The white deformed body was so conspicuous that even if Xavier wanted to comfort himself, it would be impossible for him to see it wrong.
That's Arthur.
Arthur, who had been separated from Xavier before, didn't know why he appeared here.
At this moment, Arthur was staggering towards the other end of the dark room. It seemed that there was something forcefully attracting him... He didn't even notice Xavier who was not far away from him.
A roar came from Xavier's mouth. It tried to attract Arthur's attention, but strangely, Arthur, who was always very obedient because of fear of Xavier in the past, ignored Xavier's call at this time.
It still squirmed with its weak body and slowly moved towards the corner.
If it were according to Xavier's nature, it would abandon Arthur here without hesitation. After all, Xavier has never liked this deformed alien species. It is Xavier's brother, but it is also its competitor.
Well, Arthur's deformity also allowed him to survive in some ways, because he would not be an alternative to a king insect (otherwise, Xavier would probably not be able to control his instincts).
But not taking the initiative to kill Arthur does not mean that Xavier wants to save him. It has a hundred reasons to abandon Arthur...
However, Xavier is not an ordinary alien after all. He has watched so many human TV series and thus knows many complex emotions that aliens should not know.
It is clear that abnormalities that suddenly appear in such a place often mean great danger.
Those scents that are very similar to Lin Xi's are the "abnormality" at this moment.
If Xavier really left Arthur alone, the latter might die here.
This is good news for Xavier. After all, if Arthur is, there will be nothing else in the way between him and Lin Xi.
Xavier said to himself.
However…
Xavier could not help but think of the smile on Lin Xi's lips when she named Arthur.
And Lin Xi said that Arthur saved him.
If Arthur died, would Lin Xi be sad? After all, he specifically gave that name to Arthur, a weak and deformed alien.
Lucky Arthur.
Xavier moved his insect limbs.
Its mouthparts poked out, and then it sprayed some acid out. This was a sign of its extreme displeasure, but it had never done such an impolite thing in front of Lin Xi.
Immediately afterwards, Xavier chased directly in the direction of Arthur.
But the time Xavier spent on the mental struggle was a little too long. When it finally started, Arthur's voice had already disappeared from the other side of the room.
Xavier had to crawl behind the guy all the way into the room.
It passed through one door after another. When this underground facility was not completely abandoned, there must have been quite strict security measures here, but now those thick isolation doors and sophisticated laser traps have fallen into permanent failure.
When Xavier finally saw Arthur's figure again, it had reached the deepest depths of darkness...
This is a greenhouse-like place.
Xavier, who grew up in a greenhouse, is very familiar with the humid, warm, and slightly suffocating smell due to the lack of air circulation.
It's just that Lin Xi's greenhouse cultivates mild, harmless and pleasant Sunu plants, but in this "greenhouse", what thrives because of the warm air is something completely different.
Every muscle in Xavier's body was stretched to the limit, and he looked at everything around him vigilantly -
Countless translucent circular culture tanks are placed one on top of another on towering metal shelves, and the interior of those culture tanks is filled with a thick and sticky substance that looks like asphalt.
Most of the culture tanks have been broken, and mucus exuding a fishy smell squeezed out from the damaged parts, dripping and splashing all over the floor.
And inside the mucus, there are countless densely packed, translucent round eggs.
These eggs have only a thick and soft soft membrane. With his exceptionally good eyesight, Xavier can even clearly see the things that are squirming slightly inside the soft membrane. They look like fat and soft maggots. , but at the same time, their body surface also showed characteristics similar to mammalian embryos. Some subtle vitality emanated from the inside of the egg: and under Xavier's gaze, the culprit who had let Lin Xi get separated from it before... Those pink, embryo-like things slowly tore open the covering His soft membrane fell wetly to the ground.
These are all insect eggs.
Xavier realized this immediately.
"Really annoying."
It imitated humans and let out a grunt of disgust.
It can clearly feel that these insect eggs are all of his own species...
At least, part of it can be regarded as such.
But seeing such a large number of insect eggs, but they are not its descendants, this alone is enough to make Xavier feel uncomfortable, not to mention that he can also feel that these insect eggs, as well as from the insects, Everything hatched from the egg exudes a strange and twisted aura.
Nothing here is normal - Lin Xi's intuition is right, these embryonic gadgets will indeed cause trouble.
Xavier shook his tentacles, and all its thorns stood upside down because of the severe discomfort.
It looked around quickly, and then spotted Arthur swaying not far away.
It was clear that everything around him was so strange, but that damn alien seemed to be completely unaware of the dangers and strange things around it, and still worked hard to squeeze into those areas where insect eggs were densely packed.
Xavier jumped in mid-air, and it flew directly to Arthur's side, and then grabbed the white waste.
"Hiss..."
Xavier gave a rough hiss at Arthur.
It was only then that Arthur turned around in a daze, and it finally responded to Xavier.
However, even if there was a response, this response seemed extremely abnormal.
Xavier immediately realized something strange about Arthur. The white alien's eyes were particularly distracted. It looked confused, as if it had lost all consciousness.
Even if Xavier grabbed it, Arthur kept twisting his body, trying to break free from his grasp.
After several failed attempts to wake Arthur up, Xavier felt that his fangs were already moving inside his mouthparts. He really wanted to bite off the neck of the idiot in front of him.
But at the last moment, Lin Xi's face appeared in Xavier's mind, which somewhat calmed him down.
"Lin Xi..."
Xavier whispered the man's name softly to calm the violent desires in his heart.
Unexpectedly, following Xavier's words, Arthur raised his forelimbs and pointed straight ahead.
It keeps repeating the same word.
"Lin Xi...Lin Xi..."
"Lin Xi is not here!"
Xavier gritted his teeth and said to Arthur.
But Arthur looked...it seemed like he couldn't understand this sentence at all.
"It's Lin Xi..."
Arthur yelled, and the intensity of his struggle became more and more intense.
Just when Xavier's patience was almost at its bottom, it suddenly heard a wet and sticky friction sound slowly coming from the depths of the darkness.
Xavier suddenly turned his head and stared in the direction of the sound.
The next second, Xavier's body trembled uncontrollably, and the aura belonging to "His" became stronger and stronger.
Xavier saw a man.
A young and handsome, but twisted man with a strange aura all over his body.
He looks very weird, and most of his body looks like a normal human being, but from the waist down, there is a long, white, soft substance.
That's its belly.
The shape of that thing is like a termite queen that has been magnified countless times...
Wrapped in those white films, thousands of new eggs were gestating in the man's distended abdomen.
Xavier has never seen termites on earth, but this does not prevent him from feeling disgusted and disgusted.
It felt that the other party was very ugly. Of course, this was also because Xavier had not yet seen the special experimental subjects that Lin Xi had seen.
Xavier would never know that the experimental body standing in front of it now was already the most perfect individual cultivated in the laboratory at that time - at least it still maintained its human form.
Of course, the weird appearance is not the most important thing for alien species. What is really important is the smell they exude.
The moment the man appeared, Xavier realized that the aura that confused him before was emanating from the deformed man in front of him.
Arthur's strangeness seems to be related to this aura that is subtly similar to Lin Xi.
After discovering this, Xavier immediately became vigilant.
It grabbed Arthur, and then suddenly took several steps back.
Compared to Xavier's nervousness and alertness, the strange man who suddenly appeared had a strange attitude.
After noticing the presence of Xavier and Arthur, the man actually opened his arms and eagerly tried to hug Xavier and Arthur. A hormone with a strong sense of invitation emanated from the hair diffusers protruding from both sides of his body.
It was this aura that captured Arthur very accurately.
Even Xavier himself felt that his body was a little out of control.
only…
But no matter what, Xavier would not allow himself and Arthur to get close to that thing.
After all, nothing about that man looked right. His face was so pale and his eyes were as hollow as a deep well. He had no wisdom, no reason, and no soul.
That man is an empty shell.
And what fills that driving shell is... a most primitive desire.
Just as he tried to get closer to Xavier's colleague, countless fresh insect eggs were pushed out of his distended abdomen and then fell to the ground.
In the dark, humid and dark environment, it didn't take long at all for countless little embryo-like things to be born. Xavier carefully observed those disgusting little creatures, and then discovered that only about a quarter of the eggs could actually develop into the running, jumping, and complete little monsters he knew. What crawled out of most of the insect eggs were mutilated bodies with obvious deformities and distortions.
But whether they are incomplete or complete, the first thing they do after birth is to quickly rush into the darkness.
Immediately afterwards, these little things will die in instinctive cannibalism. The loser of the struggle will become the freshest bait for their brothers and sisters. Similarly, the larvae that grow up by devouring the corpses of their brothers and sisters will also become the freshest food for their brothers and sisters. "Mother's" food.
"Woo... Wu..."
And that man seemed unaware of himself and the heinous tragedy of the reincarnation that was repeating around him.
He would just keep whimpering almost like a howl, and then get closer to Xavier and Arthur little by little.
Xavier felt fear for the first time, because it soon discovered that while it was extremely disgusted with the man in front of it, it was completely unable to have any thoughts of attacking him.
This was so strange. Xavier lowered his head and stared at the deadly thorns on his shins.
On the other side, it had to find the energy to control Arthur at hand - the idiot was still twisting his body and trying to rush towards the man.
Xavier could only retreat helplessly step by step.
The man pressed forward step by step, but just when he was about to come into contact with Xavier and Arthur, his body suddenly stopped.
He squirmed his body in pain, and the wails in his throat became more and more shrill.
Xavier shuddered, and he suddenly woke up.
Then it grabbed Arthur and quickly took several steps back to distance itself from the man.
The indescribable sense of chaos slowly faded from its body.
It was only then that Xavier discovered that the man had actually been bound by countless pipelines. Those dense pipelines were covered with new ulcerated skin and flesh, and they almost seemed to have formed a part of the man's body. It is precisely for this reason that when the man was about to step out of the scope of the pipeline, the pipeline behind it almost came out of his body, and a large amount of blood gurgled out, causing the man to stop all his movements, and then let out such a painful sound. wailing.
Xavier looked at the man and felt a shudder.
There was a strange aura about this man that made him think of Lin Xi involuntarily. But Xavier swore that if he saw his Lin Xi like this, he would go completely crazy.
"Lin Xi..."
Arthur next to Xavier still looks confused and chaotic
Arthur looked at the man dazedly, and then moved his eyes to Xavier.
"Lin Xi?"
it asked in confusion.
"That's not Lin Xi..."
Xavier shook his head crazily and then said.
The man seemed to be afraid of the pain in his back. After finding that he could not touch Xavier and Arthur no matter what, it disappeared into the darkness little by little, just as it came, accompanied by the sound of wet friction.
In fact, if Xavier is willing, it can catch up and find out where the man is hiding.
But at this moment, the only thing Xavier could do was to stay on guard and forcefully pull Arthur out of the room quickly.
Just when it finally took Arthur back to the corridor where he was before, an indescribable sense of trembling ran through Xavier's soul like an electric current.
With a huff, its wings unfolded uncontrollably.
Even Arthur regained consciousness in an instant.
They turned their faces in unison and looked somewhere in the corridor.
"Lin Xi!"
There was no trace of confusion in Arthur's tone this time.
While it was whispering, Xavier had already taken the lead and rushed in that direction - just now, their spiritual connection with Lin Xi was touched.
Lin Xi was in a state of extreme fear.
Lin Xi is in danger!
At this moment, Lin Xi's warning became the most eye-catching beacon for Xavier and Arthur. They broke through numerous obstacles at an alarming speed and found Lin Xi's position in the intricate passage.
However, after finally finding Lin Xi, what stood in front of Xavier and Arthur was such an extremely thick metal door.
But even with such a thick metal door, it still couldn't cover up the stench coming from the other side of the door.
It's the king insect.
It was another king insect that appeared in its territory.
"I'm coming, Lin Xi, I'm coming..."
Xavier roared, and then suddenly hit the door.
The thick metal door cracked a crack in a few blows under Xavier's impact.
Next, the monster on the other side of the door did the rest of the work for Xavier.
Several extremely thick insect limbs protruded from the edge of the gap, and like tearing apart cardboard, the opponent directly tore the metal isolation door in half, and then threw it heavily into the distance.
Xavier faced the monster directly.
The king insect... The defiled and twisted king insect...
Just like Lin Xi, the moment he saw the monster, deep in Xavier's body, the instinct derived from hundreds of millions of years of alien species began to boil.
Its disgust and hatred for this king insect reached its peak in an instant. Not to mention, Xavier also smelled this monster from Lin Xi's body.
There's no mistaking the message contained in the scent.
Xavier neighed, and then rushed straight towards the monster like a sharp sword.
It collided with the monster and then separated again.
Xavier left a deep scar on the monster that could almost cut the monster in half.
But that monster also left a deep mark on Xavier at the same moment... The tentacle-like things on that guy cleverly bypassed the armor behind Xavier and directly passed through Xavier's relatively more powerful body. For the fragile chest.
Xavier fell from the air, then staggered back several steps before steadying himself.
"Xavier?!"
Lin Xi screamed in horror.
Xavier just waved his tentacles at him.
"... Next time you have to hold my hand."
It said every word carefully.
"Don't lose me again!"
it says.
Blood dripped from its body.
Lin Xi almost fainted, but the monster behind Xavier. But he still stood motionless in his previous position.
It turned its head sideways, as if it didn't notice the horrific scars on its body at all.
Lin Xi even suspected that this monster might not have the ability to perceive pain at all.
"Xavier! Now is not the time to say that—be careful!"
Lin Xi was so nervous that he couldn't help shouting,
But the moment he finished speaking...
"Snapped… "
The monster's arms suddenly fell from its shoulders, and the foul-smelling blood splattered directly on the ground.
That was Xavier's previous masterpiece.
Then, the monster's figure began to shake.
Lin Xi watched helplessly as a familiar scene reappeared in front of her eyes. The surface of the monster's wound was covered with a thin film in an instant, and then the disgusting pillar protruded from the inside of the wound...
It's just that this time the wound caused by Xavier was too big. Pink granulations appeared under the film of the monster's wound, but not a complete column appeared from beginning to end.
The monster made a muffled murmur from its throat. It seemed completely confused about the situation. It didn't even know that it was injured.
It thought it would grow new appendages as quickly as before, and then it opened its teeth and claws, shaking its already broken body, and rushed towards Xavier.
Xavier once again showed off his extra-sharp thorns, and it jumped up lightly, and the sharp edges of its limbs slashed towards the monster's throat.
It jumped behind the monster and stepped firmly on the monster's back with its remaining feet. Then, using this as a fulcrum, Xavier's two forelimbs were staggered and hooked on the monster's throat. , and sawing back and forth like sawing wood.
This time the monster finally raised its head high and let out a scream full of pain.
"boom-"
After an unknown amount of time, the monster's head fell to the ground along with a large amount of blood.
Its disgusting body also fell down bit by bit.
It's dead.
"Lin Xi!"
"Xavier!"
Lin Xi forcefully pulled the tentacle wrapped around one of her feet away from her body.
Xavier quickly jumped off the king insect clone and rushed towards Lin Xi.
There was a deep scar on its body, and the whole insect was stained with blood, but probably because the complete killing of a alien species with the aura of a king insect activated the most primitive nature deep in its body, it is now more powerful than before. The morale is high and even more exciting.
Even its metallic wings show the ever-changing colors of Opal.
Its tentacles were fully opened and swollen like a flag, trembling crazily and rapidly above its head.
The next second, it hugged Lin Xi.
"Xavier, your injury—"
"Lin Xi...it smells so good..."
Xavier buried his face deeply in the side of Lin Xi's neck at the first moment. Its wings and tentacles almost completely wrapped most of Lin Xi - it was greedily sucking Lin Xi with all its body organs. The smell of your body.
This is the taste of Lin Xi...
After confirming this, Xavier's body, which had been stretched to the limit, slowly relaxed.