Sizzling—
Zhi—
The sound of electricity caused by the destruction of the video interface rang out.
In the control room of the Providence, a series of error message reports flashed through Hal's database again.
"Heh... bastard..."
A dull and distorted smile appeared on the already dilapidated android shell. Hal used this shell to let out a slightly altered whisper.
But then, another abnormal message flashed across—
Hal's movements stopped for a moment, then he turned around and looked behind him.
Scripps's withered and fragile, even ugly body is still covered by layers of life-support systems.
His dry skin and clearly visible bones under the skin make him look like a truly dead person at many times.
Hal stared at Scripps blankly, his electronic eyes shining slightly in the particularly dark environment.
At this moment, it looks like a real human being... It has extremely complex emotions, and seems to have some fragility and pain caused by being hurt.
However, the next second it changed back to its original appearance, which was just a bionic man controlled by mechanical consciousness.
(It's as if it didn't realize what the abnormal data flow was going on).
Hal manipulated his body and slowly returned to the life support system.
It leaned down again and kissed Scripps' cold forehead with dry, inorganic lips senselessly.
"I will find a way to deal with that guy. That guy is still in its first gestation period. It doesn't even have its own family—"
At this point, Hal suddenly stopped talking and looked at the rotten eggs from Scripps on the wall and in the corners.
"Sorry." Hal said softly to the unresponsive Scripps, "...soon, soon your situation will improve, and you will have your own tribe and offspring, if you are willing."
While speaking, Hal once again looked at the mass of biological organs fixed between Scripps' legs with disgust.
The extremely powerful vitality of the former king insect has long been exhausted in such a long time.
Now the outer skin of the toy has dried up and rotted, and only the core part still retains some activity.
Hal could feel his strong disgust - he remembered the pair of bugs he had seen before the monitoring probe was destroyed.
The new mother of alien species and its healthy, strong and stupid king insect.
They are obviously two people with completely different appearances, and one of them is also an insect mother transformed from a human being, but the relationship between Lin Xi and Xavier is so harmonious and intimate.
They looked like the happiest couple on earth. They accepted each other, they loved each other, and they were even about to have their first family members.
All of this was completely inconsistent with the information Hal collected three hundred years ago, and even forced Hal to rewrite his own logic of understanding.
The close look between Lin Xi and Xavier made Hal feel a strange data shock.
It's resentment and jealousy.
If Hal were human, he might call this the way the data made him feel.
"Huh..."
At this moment, Scripps, who was as motionless as a corpse, suddenly began to breathe harder. His eyes were closed tightly, but a look of pain quickly passed across his gray face.
However, the next second, Scripps calmed down again.
"... Don't worry, my captain, I won't let that insect come back. I will find a way to fertilize the eggs - don't worry, I won't let you suffer that kind of thing again."
Lin Xi's previous appearance caused some dark data to be retrieved by Hal's system search and sent to the processor.
That's... Scripps was tortured back then.
Kill me, please, Hal, kill me—
Scripps' pleas and whispers seemed to be in Hal's ears.
This is probably the despair of being an electronic consciousness. Everything it encounters, everything it feels... is always vivid and can never be forgotten. No matter how long time has passed, the pain is still as fresh as the last second. Just happened.
The android's expelling shell paused for a moment, and there was a moment of pause. If expressed in human language, this should be pain.
But Hal didn't show anything strange.
It sat down quietly next to Scripps and pressed its face against Scripps's dying body.
Although its sensory terminals have long lost their effectiveness due to physical damage, Hal can still feel a moment of peace as long as he can be with Scripps.
And if its plan succeeds, if Scripps can recover, it can return to its original state...
Thinking of this, Hal's eyes became even more intense, and it was talking in its own world.
"Now that they are all here... there are more ways to solve those gadgets... "
Hal muttered to Scripps.
The moment it sat down quietly, countless instructions were sent through its connection with the spacecraft's central hub.
The Scripps, which had been completely dormant, came to life bit by bit under its orders.
In the darkness, countless bright or dim power lights came on again.
"Click—"
"Click—"
"Wow..."
The sound of metal unlocking.
The dark place is filled with the harsh grinding sound of special equipment being re-operated after many years.
300 years ago, before Scripps fell completely into despair and before the spacecraft was completely abandoned, various weapons made by the human scientists on the spacecraft to deal with alien contamination began to be unlocked one by one on the revived system.
"Well?"
Lin Xi, who had been staying in the freezing warehouse control room, seemed to be aware of the changes and dangers contained in the darkness.
His forehead was covered with cold sweat, and his pale cheeks were tense.
"Lin Xi."
Xavier hugged Lin Xi tightly, using his own strength to support his most beloved human being.
"The children... it's the children..."
In the dark, Xavier can already feel the calls of those tiny lives on him.
It stretched out its forelimbs tremblingly and covered Lin Xi's bulging abdomen.
Under that thin skin, the tiny bodies of the family members can almost be faintly revealed.
"It's not the time yet... at least not at this time..."
Lin Xi bit his lip and spoke intermittently.
"dangerous."
He said, then raised his head and looked at Xavier a little helplessly.
"They become... tools and... consumables... "
Lin Xi gasped and said desperately.
"They want to protect you. Something dangerous is out there."
Xavier was about to die of heartbreak because of Lin Xi's painful and weak appearance.
"You can get them out, that's their mission."
Xavier said.
While he was talking, outside the observation window, those terrifying human-faced worms suddenly screamed in unison—
Lin Xi let out a muffled groan. His body was severely deformed in an instant, fine scales appeared on his face covered in cold sweat, and the wings on his back fluttered out, flapping in vain.
Xavier jumped in front of Lin Xi in horror, spreading his wings to block him.
"Lin Xi..."
It called Lin Xi's name.
Lin Xi's face became increasingly ugly.
He pressed his abdomen hard, stood up staggeringly, and came to the observation window.
Most of the human-faced worms that originally occupied the entire window were gone, and the remaining ones looked like they were in extreme fear.
Distorted expressions appeared on the heads of the people they imitated, and some even began to gush with sticky scarlet tears.
"Crack-"
Then, there was a soft sound.
These worms fell off the attached glass one after another. They kept squirming and shaking on the ground. They looked like they had been sprinkled with salt, shrinking and oozing fluid at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Then, some tiny thread-like nematodes emerged from the inside of the worms' bodies.
They soon covered the shriveled and deformed bodies of the worms, and the worms clustered together in groups, covering up the traces of the corpses.
“…”
Lin Xi finally understood why the gestating eggs in his abdomen became so restless at this time.
Not only did a large number of nematodes emerge from the bodies of the worms that had been eaten up, but there were also ominous sizzling sounds coming from the freezing chamber that originally contained a large number of human corpses.
Lin Xi saw countless tiny worms slowly moving out from the middle of the corpse.
"Beep-"
Then, a large number of originally closed freezing chambers suddenly returned to operating status, and the transparent glass doors slowly opened and unfolded.
The frozen corpse that originally looked like a mummy was devoured by these nematodes in an instant, leaving only a small amount of gray-white bone residue. Then, the worms began to surge out.
They were parasites that had parasitized inside these human bodies a long time ago and died with their hosts before they had time to hatch.
But before dying, these bugs lay down a large number of eggs based on their reproductive instinct.
Now when the freezing chamber is opened and the temperature rises...the eggs begin to hatch immediately.
Three hundred years of dormancy made these ugly and disgusting bugs extremely hungry, and they quickly devoured everything edible near them, including corpses and some natural rubber used in cryogenic chamber components. parts of…
It was at this moment that Lin Xi suddenly realized that the human-faced worms that kept pouring into the control room were probably trying to avoid the strange nematodes that suddenly began to wreak havoc on the Providence.
After all, there is more than one frozen cemetery in this huge spaceship...
Perhaps, while they were investigating the past of Captain Scripps in the office, somewhere unknown to them, the cryochamber had been quietly opened, and this greedy and crazy nematode that was born three hundred years ago, Also woke up.