Mother of Insects

Chapter 116

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The wreckage of the Providence is just a few hundred kilometers away from the ruins of the Helios.

Even Lin Xi couldn't help feeling a little emotional when he thought that the Helios was actually only a tiny distance away from this legendary "ship of miracles".

Of course, if it weren't for the traces deliberately left by those mechanical warriors as a guide, and it has now been transformed into another complete alien species, I am afraid that even if the people on the spacecraft at that time knew the existence of Providence, it would be difficult Really find it…

Storms that arise every once in a while on planet AS192 will change the surrounding environment and landforms in a short period of time.

Those fast-growing jungles will be uprooted and turned into deserts overnight, the original hills will become flatlands, and the cliffs will become hillsides...

Then, it won’t take long, maybe one day, maybe two days…

Between storms, countless plants and creatures with extremely strong vitality will tenaciously re-grow in the sand brought by the storm, until they are completely wiped out by the next storm.

The planet is like an impatient child, and the storm is its eraser. It always paints beautiful and crazy scenery, and then completely erases these images in the blink of an eye.

In fact, the footprints of those mechanical warriors did disappear halfway... They passed through a swamp, and in just a few hours, those tardigrade-like creatures in the swamp seemed to have been magnified countless times. Creatures have begun to reproduce and grow on a large scale, completely covering up those messy traces.

But this is not a problem for Lin Xi.

Compared to the footprints, the smell of blood that Arthur left on the road was the most distinctive signpost.

After several hours of breathtakingly fast flight, Arthur's breath stopped.

And Lin Xi also saw the reappearance of footprints on the ground - those twisting footprints disappeared directly on the edge of a pothole.

Xavier folded his wings and fell down

Lin Xi jumped down and came to the edge of the pit with Xavier.

It looked around quietly...

Compared with the barren desert surrounding this area, the scenery here seems a bit abrupt.

A circle of hard stone hills located near the sinkhole blocked most of the storm dust. Under the shelter of these hills, the extremely tenacious plants on the planet grew into a rare primitive forest - if those crooked , constantly squirming and entangled with each other, the gorgeous vegetation several meters thick can be called a "forest".

Under the stony hills, a deep vertically downward hollow suddenly appeared on the originally undulating and flat land - this hollow movement reminded Lin Xi of the earth. In some areas of karst landforms, there is this special " "Sinkhole".

The walls of the "Sinkhole" are extremely steep and appear to be almost at right angles to the ground.

The light below is dim and the fog is thick, making people feel as if they are seeing a tropical rainforest.

Some ethereal, sticky white mist rose up in the cracks of the brilliantly colored jungle, moving slowly, as if covering the vegetation below with a thin veil that was extraordinarily rich due to the lack of light. .

Occasionally, you can see some weird creatures crawling quickly on the steep rock walls. Most of them look strange, and their crawling postures are even more hair-raising. For example, below Lin Xi, there was something that looked like a slug, which was crawling towards the bottom of the sinkhole because it sensed Lin Xi's presence.

But before it ran too far, a dark palm suddenly stretched out from the gap in the rock wall - that thing looked completely like a dry and carbonized human hand - and that hand was under Lin Xi's gaze. He grabbed the "slug" and then, with the frantic struggle of the slippery gray-black mollusk, he forcibly dragged it into the incredibly narrow rock crevice.

Similarly, not far away from this hunt, something similar to a slug raised its head high and forcibly swallowed a mass of black stuff to poison it.

Lin Xi stared at the scenes in front of him with his eyes lowered, the weak and the strong, the natural selection. The laws of nature are so vividly displayed in this area that it is almost difficult for Lin Xi to imagine that it is under such primitive and wild scenery that three hundred years ago and even now... the most advanced and high-tech legendary spacecraft Provi on earth is hidden. Dens.

"This thing... is so strange... it is a different species, no, it..."

Xavier, like Lin Xi, was also looking down.

Upon seeing the black "human hand," it hissed in disgust and said.

"It's a man-made alien species."

Lin Xi replied.

After a pause, it added: "Well, it should be something that escaped from the Providence."

And that creature... was very likely to be human before.

However, one thing Lin Xi was sure of was that the body hidden under the rock crevice with the "human hand" must have evolved into something else.

Of course, Lin Xi had no intention of exploring the origin and current situation of those gadgets... In fact, as the origin and only of all alien species, this special product that had been desecrated and distorted by humans already made him feel very uncomfortable.

Lin Xi took a deep breath to calm down the violent emotions surging inside her body. Then, he squatted down, stretched out his hand, and touched the rock wall on the edge of the sinkhole.

It wiped away the thick moss covering the rock wall with its fingertips, feeling the smooth texture coming from below.

"This is a man-made pit - it looks like those mechanical warriors did bring us to the Providence."

Lin Xi said softly.

It didn't take much effort. Just seeing this big pit and the unnatural stone hills on the edge of the big pit, the first scene of Providence landing on this planet was already vague in Lin Xi's heart. take shape.

The situation of the Providence was much better than that of the Helios. If he guessed correctly.

Although it landed on the planet AS192 in an unideal condition and was unable to contact the earth, Providence did not suffer a devastating blow.

Contrary to the Helios, the people on this ship probably still maintained basic optimism, and started the initial construction in accordance with the immigration plan that had been carefully studied on Earth. Although this method of digging such a hole and hiding the spacecraft body is very primitive, it can maximize the effectiveness. But it can avoid the terrifying storm on this planet to the greatest extent.

"... They should have done the same thing for all the attached spacecrafts... The aircraft we found has also been hidden deep underground. Only when the aircraft needs to be used, will the aircraft be sent to the outside world through the lifting platform. This It’s an amazing amount of work.”

Thinking again of the Providence’s final fate…

Lin Xi couldn't help but sigh softly.

If there were no alien species, after 300 years of construction, this planet would probably have become a very prosperous colonial planet.

However, Lin Xi's emotion only lasted for a very short moment.

The closer he got to the Providence, the stronger Arthur's scent became.

But at this moment, Lin Xi clearly felt that the mental power that had been particularly strong... belonging to Arthur was fading little by little.

Lin Xi's expression suddenly changed, and a hint of dark red flashed in her eyes.

Xavier shook his tentacles, and it turned its head to look at Lin Xi... Lin Xi still looked as calm as before, but this apparent calmness could not fool Xavier, who was the king insect.

Xavier could clearly feel that with Lin Xi as the center, a particularly cold and gloomy aura was slowly rippling. The various creatures scattered on the steep rock walls were originally very active, but at this time they all shrank in unison.

Some monsters quickly hid their bodies deep in the crevices of the rocks, while some unlucky ones fell directly from the rock wall with their whole bodies stiff as if they were stones.

"Lin Xi—"

Even Xavier shivered involuntarily, and then he called out timidly.

Lin Xi blinked after hearing Xavier's voice. The aura that made all creatures feel extremely frightened suddenly dissipated.

"Come on, let's go down and take a look..."

Lin Xi gathered her strength, then whispered softly into Xavier's ear.

"And then we're going to kill the guy, right?"

Xavier asked. .

It will never forget what it and Lin Xi suffered when the mechanical warriors attacked the Helios... And aliens like it are very vindictive.

Lin Xi sneered: "Of course."

Xavier couldn't help but look at Lin Xi, feeling that all the nerves in his body were trembling because of the cold and cruel smile at the corner of Lin Xi's mouth.

—In those TV series that obsessed him, even the most handsome villains were not as cool and dazzling as Lin Xi now.

And it is this kind of Lin Xi... and it...

"…Xavier."

Lin Xi clearly felt Xavier's indescribable emotional wash.

The smile on his lips quickly stiffened, and he even had to issue a warning so that Xavier could calm down the strange thoughts that were surging out of him. Considering Arthur's current situation, Xavier's thoughts are really inappropriate.

"Let's save Arthur first. He's seriously injured."

Lin Xi reminded her carefully every word.

Xavier then fluttered his wings and suppressed the overwhelming love in his heart.

"Okay, let's go rescue Arthur."

Xavier looked at Lin Xi several more times with extremely passionate eyes, and then stretched out his insect limb towards Lin Xi again. It planned to hug Lin Xi, but this time Lin Xi was stunned for a moment. Avoiding it with some imperceptible stiffness.

"Let's go."

Lin Xi took a step forward as if nothing had happened, and then jumped down the pit. In mid-air, a pair of extremely gorgeous wings suddenly bloomed from his back.

He flew up with such incomparable lightness and ease.

And his wings were even more shockingly beautiful. Xavier was almost in a daze. Until he saw Lin Xi's figure gradually getting smaller, he panicked and quickly jumped down too.

It swept towards Lin Xi very quickly, so that it could get close behind him.

The environment at the bottom of the pit is far from peaceful—

As if they could detect the arrival of outsiders, the white clouds that originally shrouded the gaps and surfaces of the jungle like light smoke suddenly rose up.

That layer of smoke formed a milky wave, direct in an almost murderous way. He pounced on Lin Xi.

However, when it was still dozens of meters away from Lin Xi, this layer of white mist seemed to have encountered some great resistance. It suddenly surged towards both sides, escaping far away from Lin Xi. opened.

But even this did not prevent Lin Xi and Xavier from discovering that the fog shrouding the jungles was actually a swarm of carnivorous insects.

It's just that there are too many of them and their size is too small. From a distance, they look more like smoke.

Lin Xi hovered in mid-air for a moment.

He stretched out his hand towards the "smoke", but with a thought, several tiny traitors immediately appeared among the swarm of insects that were originally running away like crazy.

The insects swayed back and landed in his palm.

Upon closer inspection, these little bugs are not beautiful. They look like white flies, but... as long as you turn the bug over, you can see that under the unnatural white body, there are long... It has extremely ferocious tiny mouthparts and pliers.

Just looking at the mouthparts and pincers of the insects, you can already imagine the horror of the swarms of carnivorous insects - if any human being or other creature on this planet falls into this swarm of insects, … There may not even be any bones left.

But just like the creatures Lin Xi had seen on the edge of the pit before, these little bugs also had a twisted aura that made Lin Xi feel uncomfortable.

Lin Xi turned the insects over with his fingertips, and then saw a line of very small words on the abdomen of the insects.

The words "Project Providence, Experimental Subject, A1301" are like the natural markings of mosquitoes, clearly left on their body surface.

"Genetic imprint... a product of Project Providence."

Lin Xi couldn't help but whisper the word softly, and then said.

Just as Lin Xi thought, these bugs were indeed man-made.

"These bugs... so disgusting..."

Xavier pretended to be natural, pretending that he was just looking at those little bugs, put it on Lin Xi's shoulder, and said dissatisfiedly.

Of course, it's one thing to find an opportunity to stick to Lin Xi, but it's another thing to find these bugs disgusting. Xavier didn't lie. He felt from the bottom of his heart that the bug in Lin Xi's palm made him extremely uncomfortable.

Of course, what made Xavier feel sick was not the fly-like shape of these bugs... What made him feel a little restless was the twisted aura permeating their bodies.

This unnatural product always made Xavier itchy all over, and he even couldn't control the rage rising deep in his heart.

And Xavier also believed that Lin Xi had the same feeling as it, but now Lin Xi looked much calmer than it.

... This is the Lin Xi that Xavier likes. He is always so smart, always so calm, and knows everything well. Thinking of this, Xavier couldn't help but feel sweet ripples in his heart.

"Perhaps people on Earth were studying something that they shouldn't be studying a long time ago."

Lin Xi said.

He opened his palm and let the little white bug in his palm quickly return to the white mist.

Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi flapped his wings and landed lightly at the bottom of the sinkhole. .

He was in a bad mood.

And the moment he landed on the ground, within a few dozen meters of him as the center of the circle, the "forest" that had covered the ground tightly began to squirm and tremble - these could move and secrete The "trees" of strange slime seemed to let out a silent scream, and then quickly retracted all their branches and vines.

The rocky surface, which is wet and full of traces of corrosion, is revealed.

"Good boy."

Lin Xi glanced at the "branches" that had shrunk all his vines, squinted his eyes and laughed softly.

Just at this time…

Some subtle noises caught Lin Xi's attention

It was a screeching sound of metal rubbing against each other, almost like a banshee screaming.

Lin Xi turned his head critically and looked in the direction of the sound.

Metal gates tens of meters high were displayed in front of him. After such a long time, there was not even a trace of rust on the surface of these metal gates - the overly smooth and polished metal surface was incompatible with this wild, primitive and weird place. The world seemed out of place.

However, just from the unpleasant sound when it was opened due to lack of lubrication, one could tell that this door had not been opened for a long, long time.

Accompanied by. As the hinges and pulleys rotated, Lin Xi could see countless tiny "things" falling from the complex parts on the edge of the door.

After falling to the ground, the things squirmed, and then quickly found a few gaps on the ground and got into them.

Those things looked more like worms broken into several sections, and each worm had something long and thin like a finger growing on the edge.

Just get a little closer and you'll find this metal door. It's not completely smooth either. Near the bottom of the door, there were some very deep scratches in the metal—it almost looked like someone had made it wildly with their fingernails.

Don't come near here!

Here - it's a monster!

Danger!

All monsters! All monsters! ah

Otherwise, looking at these messy funds, it seems like a warning slogan left by the survivors of the Providence for later generations, but...

Can you scratch such deep marks on high-density metal with just your fingernails

While warning others (of course, if there are really others) that there are countless monsters inside the door, is the person who wrote this line... really still a human

While Lin Xi was thinking about this aimlessly, the two metal doors made a heavy impact and then stopped. These two doors have been completely opened.

"It seems like there are people who welcome us."

Lin Xi said softly

Behind the metal gate, what is revealed is a metal track that is large enough for small aircraft to enter and exit, as well as an intricate support structure that looks like the skeleton of some giant creature.

This looks like a tunnel, a cave, or a fortress...

There was no light, and relying on the little light coming from the line at the entrance of the sinkhole, I could barely see some parts near the gate, while the deeper places were as dark as hell. There was a faint whistling of wind in the depths of the darkness, and the echo from the hollow was enough to prove that there was an extremely deep and wide space behind the door.

After the Providence landed here, it did undergo quite a huge transformation.

It's just that even from today's perspective, the shockingly huge and complex project has now turned into a lifeless ruin. The metal tracks are full of rust, and some concrete structures with unknown functions have also been destroyed. Collapse.

Lin Xi did not walk through the door immediately, but stayed at the door for a while.

He stared into the seemingly dead and dark tunnel, his eyes calm and indifferent.

Sure enough, just a few minutes later, some red light spots faintly flashed in the darkness.

"Shasha-shasha-"

Then, some small sounds, like reptiles crawling quickly, came out.

Lin Xi was not surprised when he looked at the metal monster crawling quickly in the darkness. He was already quite familiar with this man-made object with a hemispherical head and slender tentacles.

One, two...

Ten…

Hundreds…

Under Lin Xi's sight, the mechanical warriors were crawling out from the depths of the nest like ants.

After discovering Lin Xi, the red eyes under their masks became much brighter. Although these guys are simply metal artifacts without any life or intelligence, at this moment, Lin Xi can still clearly feel that there is an evil atmosphere permeating these mechanical monsters.

"Hello, Hal."

Lin Xi raised his hand and waved calmly at the dense crowd of mechanical warriors in front of him.

Those machines did not give him any response for the time being. A dozen meters away from Lin Xi, the mechanical warrior suddenly stopped all movements.

However, all their detectors were completely locked on Lin Xi.

They "looked at" Lin Xi, and Lin Xi also looked at them.

In a daze, Lin Xi seemed to have returned to the time when the Sun God was not completely destroyed. The fragile human self at that time was once full of despair and forced himself to fight against the dense mechanical warriors.

He was so scared that he almost died from it.

He was so close to death at that time.

Lin Xi put his hand on his abdomen. The severe pain that Hal once caused him had long since disappeared in the transformation into a foreign species.

At this moment, the only thing Lin Xi could feel was the life inside her belly.

Lin Xi felt death in the wound on his abdomen before, but at this moment, what he felt was endless power and life.

The familiar scene combined with the completely different mood made Lin Xi feel a subtle and indescribable pleasure.

"I'm here to find you—"

Lin Xi said.

The moment he finished speaking, all the mechanical warriors suddenly jumped up, shaking their slender and deadly metal tentacles, and rushed towards Lin Xi and Xavier.

Xavier immediately retracted its wings, and its eyes even shimmered in the dim light because it was eager to try. New fleshy tentacles stretched out from behind it, and the tips of the fleshy tentacles showed flower-like suckers. Opened, revealing the fine fangs inside.

Seeing that Xavier was about to rush over and tear the group of mechanical warriors into scrap metal, Lin Xi shook his head at Xavier.

“I don’t want to waste time now.

Lin Xi sighed, and then he pointed at the rushing metal jellyfish... and moved his fingers.

At this moment, Lin Xi's dark brown pupils gradually turned into a deep, chaotic, evil red.

And at the same moment, the seemingly harmless white mist that was originally floating behind him... those dense swarms of carnivorous insects soared into the sky, and then formed a tornado-like vortex in mid-air. It rushed directly towards the metal gate at a fast speed, and then suddenly dispersed in the space behind the gate.

The few mechanical warriors who rushed at the front were covered with a thin layer of "white dust" in an instant.

Those small carnivorous insects landed on the surface of the mechanical warriors' bodies. At the first moment, these mechanical warriors seemed not to be affected. But soon, problems arose. Their steps slowed down little by little, and then they raised their metal tentacles and waved them in mid-air. Within a few seconds, green smoke that was invisible to the naked eye began to emit from the connection between their metal tentacles and the semicircular mechanical brain. , a burning smell spread slowly in the turbid and moist air.

Then sparks began to light up, and batches of mechanical warriors experienced control failures at a speed visible to the naked eye. They were spinning in circles. Due to incorrect positioning, they misjudged the enemy and began to kill each other, or they lost their path. And constantly hitting the solid rock wall...

With just a snap of his fingers, Lin Xi easily turned this group of mechanical warriors into scrap metal.

It wasn't until the last mechanical warrior fell to the ground that the insect swarm that had completed its mission slowly took off.

They lingered nostalgically beside Lin Xi for a while, and then slowly flew back to their original place. Just like before, they dispersed and turned into white mist, quietly waiting for the arrival of new food.

Of course, this layer of white mist has become much thinner than before, but it won't take long for them to return to their original density.

Lin Xi will not question this at all - because this is what it allows. Just now he allowed the existence of these artificial alien insects.

The breeding lock customized by human scientists for these insect swarms in the laboratory was unlocked by Lin Xi just at that moment.

From now on, these white bugs will completely break through their shackles.

They will never just stay at the bottom of the pit, staying in this small space and waiting for the arrival of uninvited guests. They will multiply and spread until they cover the entire planet.

... Of course, this change was just a piece of cake for Lin Xi. He didn't pay too much attention to those white insect swarms, just like he didn't pay too much attention to the mechanical warriors who had completely fallen.

He didn't even look at the killing machines that had turned into metal garbage, and walked directly towards the dark space behind the door.

However, at this moment, Lin Xi suddenly snorted softly.

He paused, then lowered his head and looked at his abdomen.

"What's wrong? Did something happen? Did someone hurt you?"

Xavier suddenly became nervous...

"...Nothing." Lin Xi replied immediately.

However, Lin Xi knew very well - it was not the so-called "nothing".

Just now, it suddenly felt something throbbing deep in its abdomen. The feeling was so strong, it was like a ball of lightning was beating inside his belly. The lives that were constantly gestating in his body seemed to suddenly become particularly active and huge at that moment. Lin Xi could even feel some insects squirming gently.

That feeling was simply weird. There was even an instinct in Lin Xi's body that was urging him to find a suitable cave immediately for the first official ovulation.

Well, Lin Xi had to admit that he thought he had transformed into a complete monster, but when he noticed something was wrong in his belly, the shyness and discomfort that belonged to humans came back.

This is why when Xavier asked him, he almost subconsciously answered the question.

However, what Lin Xi didn't know was that there had never been an insect mother that could give birth to such healthy and active offspring as quickly as he could.

In the past, it would take dozens of days for even the most compatible insect mother and king insect to give birth to their first offspring.

But for Lai Linxi, the process seems to have sped up a lot.

This is the testimony of the successful insect marriage between him and Xavier, and it is also the most significant difference between him, as the mother of alien species, and other insect mothers...

Lin Xi is more perfect than any other mother of alien species in history.

The eggs in its body will also develop faster than others of its kind.

It's just that for alien species, evolution can only be described as perfect, but for Lin Xi now, it's not so beautiful...

After all, after the mother of the alien species feels that she has given birth to insect eggs, she will usually follow her instinct and find a safe place to give birth and raise the larvae, but the timing now is really bad.

Lin Xi bit the tip of his tongue hard. He didn't smell the smell of blood, because the moment he bit himself, he had already recovered.

But the pain was still imprinted on his nerves, which made him calm down immediately.

"… It's not a big deal."

Lin Xi repeated as if talking to himself. Then he raised his head and looked into the depths of the cave.

There should be no other humans on the Providence, and all Hal can control are unconscious machines.

Lin Xi can easily get rid of things like mechanical warriors. This means that it doesn’t take much time for Lin Xi to save Arthur... and then kill Hal by the way, find that man, and end his painful life...

Maybe after completing this series of trivial tasks, Lin Xi would still have time to take a rest. Until then, let's deal with his "children".

At least that's what Lin Xi planned.

Of course, this plan has a hint of escape...

"But, Lin Xi..."

Xavier was obviously a little uneasy, but in the end he didn't ask any more questions and continued to walk forward closely behind Lin Xi.

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