Mother of Insects

Chapter 118

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Lin Xi suddenly turned off the unknown man's communicator.

He stood beside the desk in a daze, and for a moment his mind was blank.

—Maybe this was a prank played by someone before he died.

Although he knew it was ridiculous to think this way, Lin Xi still subconsciously tried to rationalize the information he saw from the communicator...

He licked his lips and felt his throat getting dry and his heart beating very fast.

This was the first time that Lin Xi had experienced such a huge emotional fluctuation since he transformed into an alien.

After all, every Earthling born after the Age of Exploration has learned about the past of Cybermen in boring history classes at school.

It's just that those cyborgs have long disappeared into the dust of history along with their disappearance.

But now Lin Xi actually learned that Captain Scripps, the most core member of the Providence, is a cyborg

And if we follow the clues revealed in these messages, we can easily guess something even more terrifying—Scripps is a "cyberman" specially created by humans for the Providence Project.

Of course, if we put aside all personal emotions, this matter seems to be a matter of course. After all, when the Providence proposed it, the breeding and assembly of Cybermen had already been classified as a serious crime by the Earth Alliance - naturally and legal Cybermen no longer existed, unless someone deliberately bred this kind of... "thing".

If reason is reason and emotion is emotion.

At least at this moment, Lin Xi had no way to accept this matter.

Scripps, before he became the captain of the Providence, he was already a legendary space captain. It is no exaggeration to say that he was the dream of all men at that time and the object of worship of countless people. Even now, he is still the most admired legendary figure in the hearts of many people.

He is so incompatible with the word Cyberman.

Most importantly, Scripps' true identity as a cyborg completely destroyed Lin Xi's previous important assumptions about him.

Just as Lin Xi was in a daze.

As if he had noticed Lin Xi's emotional fluctuations, Xavier turned his head and looked at Lin Xi steadily with his red eyes. A wave of worry slowly and cautiously permeated over him.

He felt Xavier's concern. Lin Xi raised his eyes and met the gaze of his own king insect.

Xavier shook his tentacles at him.

"Lin Xi... What did you find?"

Xavier asked.

"I... don't know how to say it." Lin Xi said hoarsely, "... I thought I had found the answers to many things, but now it seems that those answers are completely invalid..."

The puzzles that once troubled Lin Xi once again entangled him.

But this time Lin Xi had no idea where to find the answer.

"Is it related to your dreams?"

Xavier was acutely aware of this.

Then, it approached Lin Xi, and then it looked vigilantly at the man's body on the ground which had no longer taken human form.

He felt somewhat regretful, as if he had accidentally smashed the man's body, which caused Lin Xi to suddenly fall into such a depressed mood.

"No, it has nothing to do with you."

Lin Xi immediately noticed Xavier's subtle thoughts.

He shook his head at Xavier and said.

Then his eyes fell on the communicator he had thrown aside.

His eyes became deep and dark.

“…Someone wanted me to have this information.”

Lin Xi murmured.

"I think, even if I didn't pick up this communicator, someone would find a way to make me find out about it..."

Lin Xi paused for a moment, and repeated in disbelief: "Cyberman? Scripps is actually a Cyberman..."

"Cyber... Human..."

Xavier caught the word keenly. He shook his tentacles curiously, then responded to Lin Xi hesitantly.

"I... I know them. They were mentioned in the novel. They are all villains, but they are not handsome."

Xavier said.

Then it tried hard to recall the plots it had seen before.

But in the TV shows and movies that it is so obsessed with, Cyberman is usually just a thin shadow.

Now, the only thing Xavier could remember was that cyborgs were usually very ugly and ferocious. Their bodies were combined with machines, which made them completely half-human, half-machine monsters.

Most importantly, precisely because they are completely half-human, half-mechanical artificial monsters, they are inherently mentally incomplete aliens.

And generally speaking, despite possessing abilities far beyond those of ordinary humans, they are still cruel by nature...

Well, the most important thing is that all Cybermen are, without exception, extremely ugly...

When Xavier thought of the disgusting appearance of the Cybermen on TV, he couldn't help but waved his wings in disgust.

It didn't know that it was its slightly childish answer that made Lin Xi's originally extremely tense mood relax a little.

"... Actually, not all Cybermen are villains and bad guys. Their appearance and existence... was actually a complicated issue at the time..."

Lin Xi said slowly.

Xavier approached Lin Xi with some uneasiness, and then rubbed Lin Xi's shoulder. He could feel that Lin Xi's emotions were quite complicated.

Yes, for a long time, cyborgs have been a taboo topic for people on Earth.

After all, their appearance was so sad, and their eventual disappearance from history was a huge tragedy.

The "raw materials" of the Cybermen are usually deformed children. Before the Age of Exploration, with the help of the Anyas, human technology was developing at a rate beyond imagination.

But the human beings on Earth at that time were not actually prepared to face the great social changes brought about by technology.

For example, under normal circumstances, deformed babies like this are usually aborted in the early stages of pregnancy due to genetic screening.

But at the same time, quite strict and conservative religious teachings were still retained in the society at that time.

These religions force parents to give birth to children with defects...

The worst thing was that it was the very beginning of space exploration.

A large number of people have directly entered the distant space to work and study without taking proper protective measures.

This directly led to mutations in their offspring.

These children usually suffer from very severe radiation sickness, and the deformities caused by radiation sickness are far beyond the imagination of Earthlings.

Countless deformed children were born among the descendants of the pioneer explorers of that era.

They are usually incomplete, some even have no facial features or limbs, just some round lumps of flesh.

But what is surprising is that, perhaps because of the special space radiation (of course, it is more likely that the Anya people’s technology caused the radiation mutation), some of these "meat lumps" actually have extremely developed brains and nerves that are different from ordinary people.

It is this characteristic that allows them to live in this world in ways that normal humans have never imagined.

… was originally used for medical purposes only.

Scientists installed some mechanical devices on their bodies to replace their missing limbs.

Soon, people discovered that these deformed children could be perfectly integrated with machines.

They have human brains and completely mechanical bodies, a perfect fit, complete integration.

Some people gave these new life forms a name out of fun... Cybermen.

These cyborgs are a complete combination of humans and machines. And with the advancement of technology, cyborgs can complete complex tasks and high-intensity work that ordinary humans cannot complete at all.

It is because of this that for a period of time, cyborgs took on many extremely important responsibilities in society.

Everything seemed to be going in the right direction, but soon things started to go in a direction that no one wanted to see.

People discovered that while Cybermen had become extremely powerful, they still essentially possessed many of the flaws of humans.

After all, they were originally human beings...

However, their overly powerful mechanical bodies sometimes magnify the harm caused by their defects.

Gradually... Gradually...

After a series of tragedies and disasters, people began to view cyborgs as aliens.

This craze eventually swept through the entire human civilization.

In the end, all the Cybermen were destroyed in a long and brutal war.

Cybermen are considered abnormal creatures and their existence is declared illegal.

Any act of "producing" cyborgs is considered a heinous and felonious crime.

Finally... Decades passed, and the Cybermen finally disappeared from human sight.

What Lin Xi found completely incomprehensible was that

300 years ago, when the Providence took off, cyborgs had been considered illegal for a long time. Under such circumstances, Scripps' true identity was incomprehensible.

What made Lin Xi even more puzzled was that he had previously thought that Scripps was the mother of the previous generation of alien species.

But now...

This idea was completely overturned.

If Strips is a cyborg, then it cannot be the mother of the alien species in any way.

Just when Lin Xi was shocked by Scripps' identity, his heart suddenly moved slightly.

Something touched his intuition, making him alert for a moment.

On the other side, Xavier suddenly tensed every thorn on his body.

They all headed towards the glass window of the control room.

Then, they murmured in unison.

"How is this going… "

"Hiss..."