Lin Xi's brows frowned tightly.
The warning signal emanating from deep inside his body made him tremble involuntarily.
"There's something... hiss..."
Xavier beside him whispered, and the vague human voice turned into complete insect language at the end.
The young and strong King Insect is now standing upside down with spines on its body, its eyes are scarlet, and it seems that it has entered a state of high alert.
Lin Xi turned her head and glanced at Xavier quickly.
The state shown by the other party made his chest feel a little tight, and his heartbeat accelerated involuntarily.
After all, he knew very well what could make Xavier show such a strong alert state now...
“…”
Lin Xi walked to the other side of the control room step by step in silence. Then he stood in front of the glass window facing the refrigerated warehouse.
The scene that greeted Lin Xi's eyes was so evil, weird, and disgusting that it even made him, who was no longer human, shudder involuntarily.
Just a few minutes ago, Lin Xi thought he had seen the saddest scene in the world.
Before this day, Lin Xi never thought that he would witness so many frozen coffins and the death behind these "coffins."
He really realized that all of this was scary enough and dark enough.
But now he had to change his mind...
"Zizzi...zizi..."
Even through the thick isolation glass, the wet friction sound of those things can still be heard clearly.
There are a lot of things squirming inside the freezer warehouse.
Smooth, pale, soft, disgusting.
The things that suddenly poured into the outside freezer had familiar appearances, but they were different in size.
The largest one was nearly two meters long, while the smallest one looked only about the size of a small dog.
Just like those things Lin Xi had seen before, these "things" had a smooth appearance and looked similar to slugs, and their lifelike human faces were the most obvious identification mark.
Before this moment, Lin Xi didn't think these soft and pathetic creatures would cause him any harm.
But he never thought that one day he would face so many human-faced worms in such a short moment.
Is it dozens? Or a few hundred
Those overlapping and squirming creatures made it difficult for Lin Xi to judge their true number.
The only thing Lin Xi knew clearly was that the number of these human-faced worms was increasing.
From the time Lin Xi felt something was wrong to the moment he stood still in front of the glass window, it only took a few dozen seconds. But the frozen warehouse, which was dead silent before, is now extremely crowded.
"Zizzi..."
The wet sound seemed to become extremely loud in an instant.
Those soft-bodied worms with human faces quickly emerged from all kinds of weird nooks and crannies. Then, they ignored the cold freezing chambers containing countless mummified corpses, and just headed towards them in unison. Squirming in the direction of Lin Xi.
“…”
Lin Xi suddenly exuded his own spiritual power.
If nothing else happened, this almost sane monster would be driven away by him. However, after dispersing his mental power, Lin Xi realized that things had changed.
The thoughts of these worms are so turbid, so sticky... It seems that they can completely crush all his souls.
Lin Xi's eyes suddenly widened, and he quickly withdrew his strength.
"Close the door!"
Then, Lin Xi's eyelashes twitched slightly and she said to Xavier.
Xavier jumped up, and it flew directly towards the thick-looking door of the control room and then closed it heavily -
"Click."
Something invisible that has been lingering around them seems to be hinting at something to Lin Xi and Xavier. The moment Xavier closed the door, something that seemed to have failed next to the door lit up, and the red "locked" word flashed in the unstable current, as if it were some unknown living creature. .
The doors closed and locked promptly.
"boom-"
Because at the moment the door closed, there was a heavy impact behind the door.
"Hiss—"
Xavier's eyes flashed with sharp and cold red light at that moment.
Its mouthparts popped out subconsciously, and then it made a particularly fierce warning sound at the creature behind the door.
The brief banging and jostling stopped for a moment.
But neither Lin Xi nor Xavier showed any signs of relaxation.
“Xavier…”
Lin Xi stared at the closed office door and whispered.
"I know."
Xavier shook his tentacles and replied.
As if she wanted to interrupt the extremely brief conversation between Lin Xi and Xavier, some mucus exuding a fishy smell seeped in from under the gap in the door.
Xavier's wings visibly changed to a particularly conspicuous black and yellow color. He lowered his head and looked intently at the gray-white mucus.
Then, it suddenly opened its mouth and sprayed a large stream of acid with strong corrosive effect toward the bottom of the door.
"Zizi—"
Accompanied by an extremely sharp neighing sound, those things that looked like mucus quickly retracted in an instant.
All right…
At least Lin Xi, who had witnessed all this, now knew how those large numbers of human-faced worms squeezed out from various small gaps.
"What's going on with all this stuff?"
Lin Xi gasped and looked straight out of the glass.
At this moment, the originally smooth and smooth metal floor was covered with the wet bodies of countless worms.
They quickly climbed up the glass in front of Lin Xi, and the simulated human faces on their bodies were facing Lin Xi's direction blankly. For a moment, Lin Xi even had a strange illusion, as if these worms were... These low-level creatures, which had long lost any sense of consciousness, were looking directly at him through the glass window.
"Lin Xi—"
Lin Xi's strong discomfort was quickly noticed by Xavier.
It suddenly came to Lin Xi, and then spread its wings, blocking the "sight" of those worms.
"Are you OK?"
Xavier asked worriedly.
Lin Xi shuddered and didn't recover until this moment.
"I'm fine, I just have some..."
Somewhat disgusting.
Lin Xi's previous attempt to pierce these creatures with mental power was undoubtedly quite wrong - until now, Lin Xi still felt as if his mind was contaminated with something sticky and dirty.
That is what clings to the chaotic souls of these worms.
Xavier's tentacles swayed restlessly above his head.
"I can kill them all—don't be afraid."
it said dryly.
"I'm not scared, I'm just..."
Lin Xi said, but before he finished speaking, some mechanical and monotonous whispers interrupted his answer.
"Help... help..."
"help me… "
"I don't want to die, please, help me..."
Lin Xi pressed her temples, forcing herself not to pay attention to the calls for help made by those soft, wet, slug-like worms that mimicked the human heads on their bodies.
Lin Xi hoped that he could calm down. The worms blocking the outside of the command room made him feel bad.
Of course, besides the worms, what made him feel so uncomfortable was... the stuff in his stomach.
Lin Xi involuntarily reached out his hand again and pressed his abdomen - the eggs that were breeding in his abdomen were squirming particularly restlessly, causing a stinging pain that could not be described in words.
The intense commotion caused a thin layer of cold sweat to break out on Lin Xi's forehead...
He knew that it was precisely because of the bad emotions he had had before that he had stimulated these tiny lives.
The life conceived in his belly was eager to be born.
They have been programmed since ancient times to be such little things. They will hatch when their mother is threatened and become the most loyal soldiers to defend the life of their mother.
However, Lin Xi was extremely resistant to such things - these insect eggs, which were born purely to resist external threats, were failed consumables.
Lin Xi stretched out her hand and slowly pressed down Xavier's wings.
He glanced at the worms that had gradually covered the entire observation window: no mind, no wisdom, only the most basic and lowest instincts.
"No… "
Lin Xi whispered softly.
He didn't want his dependents to turn into that miserable state under any circumstances.
However, just when he was trying to suppress the turmoil that was constantly rising in his belly, another strong premonition came over him that almost made him collapse.
He almost fell to the ground.
"Lin Xi?"
Xavier immediately hugged Lin Xi, but his movements suddenly stiffened for a moment.
Lin Xi followed Xavier's gaze and looked at his abdomen—his abdomen was significantly swollen.
"No, something's wrong..."
Lin Xi tightly hooked Xavier's neck with one hand. He covered Xavier's ear and whispered breathlessly.
Those crowded and dull faces were still covering the observation window, their gray-white eyes staring intently at Lin Xi and Xavier in the room.
Lin Xi only glanced at the observation window and then withdrew his gaze.
Whether it was the eggs or himself, the reaction to these worms was too big, which was too strange—these worms were indeed quite disgusting, but Lin Xi, who had dealt with them, knew very well that these things were not Too big a threat.
At least, in front of Xavier, they were nothing more than a group of soft meat that could be clearly cut into pieces.
So why...why did he have such a strong reaction
At this moment, Lin Xi keenly felt that something was peering at him.
He suddenly turned around and looked at the corner.
Sure enough, he saw a surveillance camera there.
As soon as Lin Xi's expression changed, Xavier immediately noticed his thoughts.
The huge, ferocious king insect flew up lightly - and then, it easily destroyed the surveillance probe.
However, the sound of electricity when the machine malfunctioned did not make Lin Xi feel relieved. On the contrary, he felt that something in his body became heavier and heavier, so heavy that he could hardly breathe.
"Well… "
He groaned.
The next second, Lin Xi's face suddenly became extremely pale.
He felt... something... moving violently in his abdomen.
The author has something to say: I'm back! ! ! !
The delay of a month is really... just... a natural disaster**...
Alas, I have a body that is prone to anxiety, but during this period I was completely beaten to the point where I couldn't breathe.
I hope God will be kind to everyone in February.
The next step should be to change the rhythm of the return day (actually I shouldn’t say this, my FG physique is too terrible)
ps, everyone must be having a hard time during this time, so all I can say is "Come on"
Anyway, it’s a new year, and I wish you all a happy New Year.