Of course, Lin Xi didn't know about his mutation, which caused Scripps' body hundreds of kilometers away to collapse...
Of course, even if he knew it, he wouldn't care about it now.
At this moment, he was wrapped in a flesh bag composed of the flesh and blood of the clone captains, and his mind seemed to be between extreme clarity and extreme chaos at the same time. He seemed to be still himself, but... seemed to have become another person. people.
Everything around him was reddish, warm and moist, as if surrounded by a huge mutated womb. The smell of blood coming from the deformed body of the experimental subject made Lin Xi feel relieved. He felt extremely relaxed, just like a little baby in his mother's amniotic fluid... A steady stream of energy passed through the capillary blood pores, constantly Passed into his body, the blood is flowing, and his cells are constantly differentiating and mutating.
He almost greedily devoured all the energy passed into his body.
But Lin Xi didn't realize that just as he felt relaxed and warm as if he was back in his mother's arms, his body was spreading...
Or, you can also use "dissolve" to describe his current appearance.
The outline of that abominable half-human, half-insect body that once made him extremely panicked was becoming blurry.
The first thing that melted into the mucus was Lin Xi's skin and carapace, followed by the muscles and bones. In the end, even Lin Xi's internal organs were transformed into a thick cytoplasm under the action of violently secreted enzymes.
At this moment, the only tissue inside the flesh sac that maintained its shape was a few slightly sticky buds hidden deep inside Lin Xi's body. But the surprising thing is that even in this situation, Lin Xi's will did not dissipate due to the dissipation of his body. On the contrary, his will is becoming solid and strong bit by bit.
Lin Xi realized that she was dreaming...
But it was different from any previous dream. In this dream, he saw the vague memories of countless living beings from ancient times to the present.
He dreamed about the process of the smallest bug on the planet AS192 being swallowed up by another creature with bright colors on its surface as soon as it came out of the ground.
He dreamed of how the huge star-eating giants in the vast galaxy devoured the once bright and hot stars...
He dreamed of the Sunu people and how the ancestors of the Sunu people abandoned the highly developed civilized world under the gaze of the dying alien god, sneaked into the most desolate areas of the universe, and finally degenerated into the most desolate form in the endless wandering. Primitive savage race.
He dreamed about how humans, extremely weak humans, found that their bodies gradually transformed into another kind of creature within the cold metal parts, and collapsed and died because they could not bear the mental stimulation.
He dreamed about what was happening now, and also dreamed about the distant past...
In the end, Lin Xi even dreamed of the android he hated and feared so much.
But now, he already knows that the android is actually just an advanced artificial intelligence created by humans. It has a number given by the Academy of Sciences as its name, but all the people on the spacecraft and its beloved human call it Hal.
The appearance of Hal made Lin Xi involuntarily shrink his divergent thoughts.
Those numerous dreams came to an abrupt end, and then burst one by one like bubbles. Lin Xi's dreams finally condensed on the artificial intelligence named Hal.
This time, Lin Xi's dream host was an insect inside a petri dish... In order to study the serious mutation that appeared in Captain Scripps, scientists took out the queen from a certain insect nest in AS192. Female worm.
And now Lin Xi was calmly peeping at the two people outside the petri dish with the eyes of this ordinary female insect.
Completely different from the dilapidated Helios, this spacecraft looks so clean, bright and spacious. And the man standing in the middle of the bridge wearing the captain's uniform made him feel more affectionate.
The female insect's dream is about a conversation between Scripps and Hal.
Scripps' expression was solemn, and his eyes were full of sadness, while Hal, facing Scripps, had a particularly calm expression and empty eyes like all the androids.
At this moment, the anonymous android was calmly comforting the man in front of him in a strangely calm tone.
"...I sincerely suggest that you reconsider your decision. You don't have to, dear Captain Cripps, you are number 1 on the Providence's list, which means, your death It will cause inevitable important losses on the spacecraft, which will affect the safety of the entire ship—"
"Hal, please, don't say those words in front of me. You are not the kind of artificial intelligence that just repeats everything mechanically." Scripps interrupted Hal, "You clearly know that now Condition… "
Scripps turned his head and glanced blankly at the petri dish.
His body trembled when he saw the female worm in the petri dish.
"My death will not cause important losses on the spacecraft. On the contrary, my existence may endanger the internal security of the Providence..."
The man in uniform showed a particularly bitter smile to the android in front of him.
He stood up slowly, and Lin Xi's eyes stayed on him.
He looked so familiar, especially since his lower body had gradually begun to transform into an insect body.
The man looked like a half-human, half-insect monster.
"In accordance with the regulations, I will carry out my duties and I must ensure that you are not harmed by anyone, and in this case, the definition of 'any person' includes yourself."
The android named Hal said word for word.
"According to your logic, you need to protect humans, not monsters like me that have gradually begun to mutate... Hal, you have personally retrieved those data, and you know what I have become. I am the lover of all monsters. Origin, soon I will lose my will as a human being and completely become a reproductive machine for that horrible creature. I will become a plague in this universe, and now, while I still have my own will, I have to think. There will only be one mother of alien species in the same universe. As long as I choose Zi'sa now, no new mother of alien species will appear in the next few hundred to tens of thousands of years. Mother... we have to buy some time for humans on earth... "
"With all due respect, Captain Scripps, the historians' research is not complete. There is a lot of fabricated information in the history of the Sulu people. You should not end your life based on such unfounded rumors." ”
"But I have to do this," the despair in Captain Scripps's eyes became more and more intense as he whispered, "...even without those historical data, there is no way I can hold on any longer."
"I was a sha're:n murderer who killed hundreds of thousands of people. I had to do it for the sake of the people I loved on Earth, but... when I made that decision, death was the only thing I had relief."
"Captain Scripps—"
"Now I order you in the name of captain to carry out my orders."
Scripps interrupted Hal directly and said:
However, Hal did not obey his orders as he imagined.
Yes, it didn't execute Scripps' instructions.
But...
Lin Xi quietly observed the tragedy that occurred on the Providence, and then he closed his eyes. In this dream, the insect he relied on soon died in the subsequent experiments.
And Lin Xi's dream was shattered.
But his dream did not stop there. On the contrary, he began to fall deeper into the dream, and he dreamed of more things...
He dreamed about the series of panics and shocking facts he experienced on the Helios. He dreamed about himself... how he had the most in-depth contact with a creature that looked like a star butterfly in the exhibition hall.
He dreamed of how in another dimension of the universe, he transformed into a temple and offered sacrifices to the gods, and was eventually swallowed up completely...
He dreamed...
He dreamed...
He dreamed of too many things.
These dreams—these pasts—made Lin Xi feel like a meteor, constantly traveling among the stars until the very end.
He was attracted by the huge black hole.
All life will eventually be annihilated, and as the mother of alien species, as the Char Zerg race, and as the creature that countless intelligent individuals who were born and annihilated in the stars tried to describe - "His" spiritual body will be immortal forever, until eternity .
The moment Lin Xi realized this, the fleshy sac surrounding him began to twitch violently.
The cytoplasm, which had become extraordinarily viscous due to the dissociation of Lin Xi's body, began to churn, and the cell clusters suspended in the mucus—those buds—reconstructed and grew rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This "primordial broth" filled with a lot of energy began to gestate.
Lin Xi is rebuilding her body...
Only this time, he no longer sticks to human appearance.
Tentacles, claws, cilia, suckers... and a variety of other abominable organs are constantly being formed in an instant, then quickly decomposing, and then reappearing again...
Outside the sac, there was only silence in the laboratory.
The flesh sac has devoured all the individuals it can summon. Even the dead king insect clones in the freezing tank, it did not care to reincorporate them into the body and turn them into new energy.
And the will of a small individual like "Lin Xi" has become extremely thin amidst the drastic changes...
Just like those individuals whose fragments of consciousness once inhabited, the human Lin Xi is gradually dying, or in other words, slowly fading away...
"He" swallows the energy existing in reality and the memory in the void...
"He" swallows everything, even his own dreams.
At the end of the dream, Lin Xi once again returned to the dream that included Captain Scripps and Hal.
It was at the moment of the attempt to engulf Scripps that a subtle sense of stasis emerged.
"He" stopped devouring himself, and the ancient consciousness slowly settled on the main body of the dream.
The man named Scripps was different, he was special.
Lin Xi thought indifferently.
"Do you still remember? Who are you... You should not be defeated by the void, you must remember your existence... "
In the dream, the man who was standing on the bridge talking to Hal suddenly raised his head. He looked straight into the void, as if he was looking at Lin Xi himself.
Theoretically this is almost impossible, the two of them are completely in different dimensions.
The man should not even be aware of His presence.
But at this moment, Scripps' will was accurately thrown into "His" thinking.
And that question caused a slight tremor in Lin Xi's will that had become extremely thin.
Once upon a time, it seemed that someone kept repeating the same words in his ears.
But what do these words mean? What does it mean to "remember who you really are" and what does it mean to "don't lose to the void"...
"Do you really want to give up everything? Do you really want to completely turn into nothingness? Even if you give up everything..., even if you give up that person..."
At this time, the man's body in the dream also underwent a strange transformation. He transformed into the particularly terrifying and gaunt man. While whispering, the man raised his arm and pointed his fingertips straight at someone. place.
Lin Xi's will was involuntarily projected in the direction of the man's finger -
Only at this moment did Lin Xi slowly withdraw from the chaotic state.
He suddenly realized that he was now trapped in a thick soup of flesh and blood.
There are all kinds of shapeless limbs scattered here. They are extremely ugly, but at the same time they reveal a strange sense of beauty.
Although they are just some shapeless balls of flesh and tentacles, they appear to be extremely ancient and at the same time so immature. They are indestructible and at the same time extremely weak...
These things looked like they belonged to some evil god from ancient times, but Lin Xi knew very well that all those weird and evil organs belonged to him.
The absurd point is that if Lin Xi was indeed an ordinary human being at this time, just seeing the scene in front of him would probably completely drive him crazy because of what he saw in front of him.
But for him now, whether it is evil or beautiful, these things are part of it.
The only thing that needs to be taken care of is probably the fragile individual wrapped in those wriggling tentacles and cilia and the exposed nervous tissue.
Lin Xi stared at the creature in his body with human and alien eyes at the same time.
"Xavier..."
The crooked lips that constantly emerged from the inside of the flesh sac began to sing in a low voice, calling the name of the individual.
This is his dependent family.
Lin Xi thought.
In his own consciousness, he was chewing the dream that belonged to this family member. He saw how this alien species was born from the egg sheath, and how, under his gaze and care, it grew from a little-like creature little by little. A creature as weak as a butterfly became what it is now.
As a king insect, it is indeed a little too weak...
Of course, this may be because Lin Xi's own condition is not normal.
For some special reason, Lin Xi's transformation has not yet been completed, and he is still an incomplete body.
What's worse is that Lin Xi's strong human consciousness makes him almost subconsciously prefer weaker individuals.
Following Lin Xi's will, Xavier himself never noticed that it forcibly suppressed his own power.
That's why Xavier is here now - it's a tragedy.
The enzyme Lin Xi secreted for transformation can even completely melt his own penis into a thick slurry. At the same time, Xavier wrapped in it is also melting without a doubt... However, Xavier does not have the same penis as Lin Xi. The imaginal discs that can reorganize the body.
This means that once it is completely dissolved in this mass of meat, it will be digested and absorbed by Lin Xi, and then turned into nutrients and incorporated into Lin Xi's body.
In a sense, Xavier was completely integrated with Lin Xi, but on the other hand, Xavier as an individual was also completely dead.
Yes, Xavier will die.
It just floated in the mucus, its body was in a state of disrepair, and it relied entirely on its instinct as a alien king insect to persist until now.
However, Lin Xi could clearly feel that the breath of life on its body was very dull.
His family is about to die.
However, at this moment... As if aware of Lin Xi's will, Xavier, who was supposed to be completely unconscious, suddenly spasmed and twitched inside the flesh sac. He opened his eyes and looked through the tumbling and squirming flesh. , aimed directly at Lin Xi, who was undergoing differentiation and reorganization.
"Lin Xi..."
The next second, it made a vague call.
The voice was so subtle, almost breathtaking, but at this moment, Lin Xi heard that the call resounded through the sky and pierced directly into his soul.
Lin Xi suddenly remembered - that man once told him to remember who he really is - he is not some bullshit ancient creature, he is not some bullshit mother of alien species, he is not the same as those thousands of people in his dream. Thousands of living creatures are different, they have their own names!
He is Lin Xi!
He is Lin Xi from Xavier!
Time seemed to start flowing again at this moment, and the horrific organs inside Lin Xi's body that were constantly decomposing and reorganizing all melted away in an instant.
After a brief silence, the cytoplasm began to form Lin Xi's body in a stable and orderly manner.
Under his will, Xavier, who had been half-melted, was gradually covered with a layer of new flesh and blood...
…
When Lin Xi woke up again, the first thing he felt was the soft membrane tightly covering his body, followed immediately by the suffocation feeling that made him panic...
Although he had had similar experiences several times before, Lin Xi still couldn't help but panic when faced with such a scene again, not to mention that he found that his body was very unruly.
When he wanted to lift his arm, he realized that his arm was as soft as cheese that had been melted by fire.
He couldn't exert himself, but the feeling of suffocation became more and more intense.
Lin Xi began to struggle... Just when his mind fell into chaos, something came directly from behind him.
They were two snow-white and very sharp insect limbs.
The tarsus of the insect's limb easily penetrated into the soft membrane and tore open to both sides. Fresh and cool air poured into the soft membrane.
Lin Xi was wrapped in a large ball of mucus and slid directly from inside the soft membrane to the ground. .
And the creature that was covering behind him also crawled out.
Lin Xi fell to the ground. He coughed several times and felt that his lungs were filled with mucus with a fishy smell.
"Lin Xi..."
The extremely sharp insect limbs fell on him.
The creature helped him turn over so he could feel better.
The insect limbs and thorns that could easily scratch metal were always extremely gentle when facing him.
It took a while for Lin Xi to recover. He raised his head and looked above him. For a moment, Lin Xi was speechless.
Standing next to him was Xavier.
After noticing Lin Xi's gaze, Xavier shook his head and waved his tentacles at Lin Xi.
Xavier became stronger and bigger than before...
Its carapace has become thicker visibly to the naked eye, and each insect limb has become sharper and sharper. Of course, all this is just the most basic appearance.
Lin Xi knew very well that Xavier now contained even more powerful power.
Xavier waved his forelimbs in front of Lin Xi, as if he was adapting to his new body.
"I thought you would turn me into..."
Xavier hesitated for a moment, and then continued, "Become a human being... the way you prefer..."
Xavier's voice gradually became lower.
Throughout the transformation process, Xavier maintained his consciousness.
In the long life of this creature for hundreds of millions of years, it is not the only one that has experienced the transformation of the mother of alien species in this way, but...
The individuals before it undoubtedly followed the mother insect's preferences and completely transformed their bodies.
Compared with its own evolution, this transformation is more thorough and more essential.
Not to mention, Xavier is completely different from those individuals who have no will of their own. It knows that Lin Xi is not an ordinary mother of alien species. It also knows that Lin Xi once had a human being whom she loved deeply.
In fact, when it was undergoing transformation, it was once happy. If it really turned into that human being, maybe Lin Xi would be happier when seeing it.
Just thinking of this is enough to make Xavier happy.
But Xavier never expected that when it saw its new body, it saw a body that was completely alien—strong, ferocious, and containing unimaginable power.
There is no transformation guided by human aesthetics.
It is the most primitive form of an alien species.
If Xavier hadn't been able to clearly feel that the human being in front of it was still its beloved Lin Xi, it would almost have thought that Lin Xi had been occupied by "his" consciousness.
Faced with Xavier who was anxious and at a loss, Lin Xi finally spoke slowly.
"I think you're fine now."
Lin Xi said hoarsely.
"You don't need to be like someone else."