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Lin Xi tentatively took several steps back to create some distance between himself and Noah, and then he carefully observed Noah's reaction.
Under his gaze, the pitiful young alien subconsciously took several steps forward, as if trying to catch up.
“Stop.”
Lin Xi gave a simple command in a cold tone.
Noah stopped immediately, although some of the nematodes in his body were still not obedient and were trying hard to break through the soft film on the surface and move closer to Lin Xi... But in the end, Noah still controlled his body and the tiny worms in it.
"Mother… "
The young descendant could not hide his depressed mood. Seeing Lin Xi getting farther and farther away, he repeated the word and called out softly.
Noah's eyes were full of desire, but from beginning to end, he did not take another step forward.
—This is not something that those low-level, instinctive nematodes can do.
“It can hold itself in check.”
Lin Xi couldn't help but whispered... Anyone could hear that his tone suddenly became much more relaxed.
Just like Lin Xi, Xavier had also been observing Noah from the side, but the difference from Lin Xi was that the more well-behaved and cute Noah looked, the sharper and colder Xavier's eyes became.
"It could also get out of control at any time. This thing... is just an imperfect combination right now."
Xavier spoke word by word, and his overly sharp tone reminded Lin Xi of the villain in some TV dramas who specifically bullied the protagonist.
Before Lin Xi could speak, Xavier added another sentence.
"It's not a wise thing to let such a □□ stay with us..."
Lin Xi's eyes flickered... He seemed to have heard this line in a TV series.
… Well, anyway, from this line we can see that Xavier is really resistant to Noah, and he even wants to drive him away at the cost of reciting his lines.
Lin Xi couldn't help but sigh.
He took Xavier back a few steps, and finally even turned his back to Noah and walked slowly towards a corridor - the coordinates Scripps had given them before were at the end of this corridor.
Lin Xi's departure made Noah anxious.
Lin Xi could feel the chaotic, complicated and filthy thoughts in its body rolling like magma, but Noah's body still stood quietly in place as Lin Xi had instructed before.
This made Lin Xi intuitively realize that some indescribable changes had indeed taken place in Noah.
"It can follow us, but don't get too close. I think we can observe it for a while. What if... what if it can assimilate those nematodes instead of the nematodes assimilating it..."
Lin Xi said
Xavier had a look of displeasure on his face, and he shook the tentacles on his head and let out a low hiss.
Although Xavier looked like a strong and handsome man, his expression made him look like a wronged child, with sadness all over his face and heart.
"Well, if you think that guy can really be said to be our child..."
After a long while, Xavier took a step back. It said slowly, but in the end it did not resist Lin Xi.
But it still hated Noah.
Xavier was well aware of this.
Moreover, this feeling similar to "hate" is very strange, and Xavier needs to work hard to digest it in order to deal with it.
No other alien mother has ever had such strong feelings for her children as Lin Xi has.
In the past millions of years, the only one who could always accompany the Mother of Alien Species was the strong and powerful King Bug. This kind of emotion was single and pure. In the eyes of the Mother of Alien Species, everything except the King Bug was just a tool, even its own offspring.
Xavier knew very well that he absolutely did not want Lin Xi to become such an animalistic alien mother, but now seeing Lin Xi's affectionate look towards Noah, he still felt so uncomfortable that he was about to collapse back into his original insect form.
When watching those human TV shows, Xavier always wondered: Why don't those jealous humans just eat their competitors instead of struggling? Now, when he himself has fallen into this situation, he knows that sometimes things are not that simple.
For example, although it now has ten thousand reasons to want to eat Noah%... but looking at Lin Xi, Xavier would rather endure this painful mood himself than see Lin Xi feel embarrassed because of it.
Lin Xi clearly felt Xavier's mood at this moment.
It must be said that Xavier's boyish anxiety and grievance actually softened his heart at once.
For a moment, Lin Xi even wanted to lean over and kiss Xavier's face, which could not hide his frustration.
Of course, this is just a momentary impulse. After all, now is not the time to talk about love.
After making sure that Xavier and Noah were finally able to coexist peacefully, Lin Xi immediately turned around and focused his attention on the complex pipes and screens in the hall that hung upside down from the sky to the ground.
Just as Lin Xi had judged before, before the Providence was destroyed, this was a rather complex transportation hub, and these screens and pipelines were used for information query and destination guidance.
Lin Xi raised his eyes and looked at the dark pipes on the ceiling, which looked like countless giant pythons entangled together. A trace of deep thought flashed in his eyes, and then he walked towards the screen.
There was no electricity, no movement, nothing was working, and these dust-covered screens looked like long-abandoned electronic waste.
But Lin Xi didn't have too many concerns. He wiped the dust off one of the screens with his hand and then patted it hard.
“… …I know you’re here.” He said calmly as if talking to himself, “I need a route map. You can’t let me wander around in this place like a headless fly.”
Lin Xi's words fell, and then the whole hall returned to silence.
But he didn't show any abnormality, but stood patiently in front of the screen and waited for a while.
Lin Xi's wait was soon responded to. A few minutes later, a slight electric sound suddenly rang out, and the screen in front of him flashed quickly, then slowly lit up.
The screen, which had not been used for many years, seemed to have some color cast, but it did not prevent Lin Xi from clearly seeing the information provided on it.
Just like before, Lin Xi had high authority like h0u'me:n, which allowed him to easily obtain any information he needed.
He quickly entered the coordinates that Scripps had given him earlier, and then a holographic three-dimensional roadmap leading to that place was clearly displayed in front of him.
As a Dyson sphere-class spacecraft, the Providence's internal passages are unimaginably complex for people who are not in the Age of Exploration. This can be seen from this route map - there is still a long and complicated road from where Lin Xi is now to that room...
Of course, the length and complexity are not the biggest trouble. The real trouble is that there are several places clearly marked in red on almost all the passages leading to that room.
Lin Xi gently tapped the red area, and a line of small words popped out.
"Warning: This is a heavily biologically contaminated area. Unauthorized personnel are not allowed to pass through..."
Lin Xi repeated the warning sign word for word.
"… It is estimated that it will take 7,927 hours to clean up the pollution…? Wow, I can see that your efficiency was really not that good back then."
Lin Xi said immediately.
At some point, Xavier slowly came over and stared at the screen with great interest.
"I've seen this in movies. Bio-contamination is the monster, right?"
Lin Xi thought that Xavier had probably watched those famous space horror monster movies.
"Well… "
"Don't be afraid, I can help Lin Xi kill all the monsters. I'm very fast now..."
Xavier shook the tentacles on his head eagerly and said.
After saying this, it looked back at Noah intentionally or unintentionally.
—Noah couldn’t even read, so naturally he had no idea what the so-called biological pollution was.
It stood stiffly at a distance from Xavier and Lin Xi, staring blankly at its murmuring parents with its eyes wide open.
When Xavier saw it like this, he turned back contentedly and his mood became better.
Lin Xi reached out and patted the back of Xavier's hand, pretending not to notice the slightly sour smell it emitted at that moment.
"Thank you, Xavier. I always feel safe when you are around."
Lin Xi said.
"But I don't think we'll be going to this place for a while."
Lin Xi's fingers quickly erased the coordinates that Scripps left for him. He clicked on the screen, and the next second, the original single map instructions were transformed into a comprehensive internal structure diagram of Providence - those intricate and extremely dense passages and rooms made the entire structure diagram look like a white and dense grid.
Lin Xi's pupils turned into thin vertical lines at this moment. He held his breath and concentrated, ignoring everything, recording those images because he knew he didn't have much time.
Sure enough, a few seconds later... the screen in front of him flashed quickly, and then returned to darkness and silence.
"You are so stingy that you don't want me to see the internal structure of this ship. What are you afraid of? Or do you think I should just be your puppet and not have any plans of my own?"
Lin Xi blinked, and his originally strange eyes returned to the appearance of human eyes.
He glanced at the ceiling and said coldly.
His tone sounded like he was joking, but anyone familiar with Lin Xi would be able to tell that his voice was unusually cold... and even carried a hint of brutal murderous intent.
Xavier couldn't help but look at Lin Xi again.
But at this time, Lin Xi had quickly returned to his original calm state.
"We have to rescue Arthur first. Don't forget that he is still in the hands of those people..."
Lin Xi always seemed gentler when facing Xavier. He patiently explained. "Arthur..."
Xavier was stunned for a moment, then he realized and said, "So that's how it is?"
It has a slightly dry tone.
Lin Xi glanced at him, then turned and walked towards a particularly remote corner.
He was very kind and did not expose Xavier's disguise - Xavier must have forgotten Arthur's existence a long time ago.