The corpse lying in front of Lin Xi became very soft, and the raw skin had turned into an ugly blue color. The whole corpse began to emit a foul smell in a short time...
But even so, Lin Xi could still clearly find the breath of Arthur on such a corpse.
Of course, this monster is not Arthur himself—
It is just a replica and derivative of Arthur: a low-level organism quickly synthesized in a laboratory by extracting Arthur's cells and genes, a simplest biological weapon.
These pitiful creatures usually have only the most primitive instincts and a very short life.
And using alien followers as raw materials and making this damned thing is a complete blasphemy and provocation—
"How dare they... How dare they do this..."
Lin Xi realized that the cold animal nature of her as the mother of an alien species was reviving.
He tried to keep this dark emotion under control, but... it wasn't particularly working.
Lin Xi covered the r0u'se lizard's cloudy eyes with trembling hands.
"I will... make them pay..."
Even Lin Xi himself didn't notice that he was muttering to himself quietly.
At first his voice was still a normal human whisper, but soon, the sound emanating from his throat turned into high-frequency sound waves that only aliens could hear.
“Hiss…hiss…”
The sound waves were extremely strange and extremely penetrating - the repetitive chirping contained extremely clear commands.
That was a roar that only the mother of alien species could make.
The chirping sound spread forward along the narrow corridor, passing through the complex equipment layer, through the elevator room, through the protective layer, through the metal isolation wall... and on and on... until it spread far away...
Then, Hiss arrived at a heavily guarded laboratory.
This lab is very quiet.
The area markings on the wall have become blurred due to corrosion by the monster's blood many years ago, and only words such as "testing ground" can be vaguely seen.
There are traces of destruction left by some monsters everywhere. There are no humans, but there are a large number of functional robots.
They move back and forth in the huge test field, responsible for guarding and adjusting the spherical transparent devices fixed on the ground of the test field.
A special experimental device in the shape of a hemisphere is the most special of all the culture dishes. It is also the largest in size. With it as the center, countless hoses connect the culture dishes on the left and right like a spider web.
And now, in this special device, something suddenly shook... and then again...
The scarlet eyes opened in the cold sedative, emitting an extremely sinister and cruel look.
A stream of foam came out from the white monster's mouth.
Through the thick transparent outer wall of the petri dish, the alarm sounds gradually rising from the outside world were so ethereal and almost whispered.
But the neighing from Lin Xi was so clear that it seemed to be right next to its ear. "Lin..."
The white monster uttered a muffled cry.
Yes, the one who suddenly woke up from hibernation was Lin Xi’s target of this trip—Arthur.
This period of confinement has put its body in a semi-dormant state.
After waking up, it felt terrible... but that didn't stop it from struggling.
It shook its body and more or less sensed something strange.
"Huh..."
It then spread out its insect limbs and reached directly behind itself...
Several hoses were embedded deep in its body like parasites.
Arthur pulled the hoses off his body, and the coolant used for calming him suddenly filled with blood...
The intense pain made Arthur more awake.
As he struggled, Arthur could clearly see that the place he was in was different from before. Countless petri dishes surrounded Arthur, making him feel uncomfortable instinctively.
Some vague images flashed through Arthur's mind, vague impressions of it in hibernation...
"Woo woo..."
It uttered a muffled whimper.
Arthur looked around, then gasped even harder.
There was a white body floating in each petri dish... They looked very strange and terrifying. Some looked like a combination of reptiles and insects on Earth, while others were simply a large mass of floating r0u'se contents...
Arthur watched those bodies uncontrollably, and then its struggle suddenly became extremely frantic.
It was not stupid, and its alien characteristics allowed it to quickly recognize the essence of those monsters - that was itself.
It was a monster that was copied and had its essential characteristics tampered with during the cultivation period.
Because of this human tampering, all the clones looked so pathetic. Some of them were directly embedded into the mechanical bodies before they were formed, which made them look even uglier and weirder.
As alien species, they are so filthy that one cannot even look at them directly.
Before Arthur woke up, all these monsters were floating quietly in their own incubators.
But Arthur's awakening was like an opportunity. Just as it kept slapping the wall of the petri dish because of rage, the monsters with their eyes closed also opened their eyes one after another.
An unprecedented sound kept echoing in their ears...
That was from Lin Xi... No, that was the call and command from the Mother of Alien Species...
More and more scarlet eyes lit up. An especially piercing alarm sounded in the biological experiment field, but no one cared about it at that moment.
A creature similar to a sea urchin opened its spines and broke through the petri dish that imprisoned it.
Along with the sound of the outer wall breaking, more monsters completely ignored the external restraining devices and broke through the culture dish directly...
In just a short moment, the entire test site fell into a state of complete loss of control.
Every monster that was freed was covered in blood and scars. They staggered to their feet from the ground as if they had no sense of pain, and then slowly approached the center of the test site, where the petri dish where Arthur was.
There was no spirit or consciousness in their empty eyes, but their movements were more unified than ever before.
They wantonly destroyed everything in the entire biological experiment field.
This also includes Arthur's restraint device.
Arthur slid out of the shattered petri dish, covered in debris and slime, and fell to the ground.
It felt extremely weak and something was wrong with its body. It couldn't even keep its balance.
Arthur looked at his side indifferently, and then he realized that part of its body had been cut off and...
Then it developed into these things around it.
Its inferior replicas, those grotesque individuals, bathed Arthur's sight and stood quietly in place.
After Arthur escaped, all their movements stopped, and their pale, empty faces all turned in a certain direction, with their scarlet eyes staring motionlessly at the wall at that location.
"Lin Xi..."
Arthur followed their gaze and stared quietly in that direction, then hummed slowly.
As if in response to its call, the moment Arthur finished speaking, the seemingly unbreakable metal wall of the biological experiment field suddenly broke apart.
Lin Xi took Xavier and another unidentified creature and walked into the biological experiment cabin step by step.
…
"Lin Xi..."
Arthur straightened up suddenly.
The same action was performed by him as well as those semi-finished biological weapons that should not have had any reaction.
At this moment, they seemed to have become a complete whole.
All the creatures exposed themselves, tensed their strange-looking bodies, and then made calls that were no different from Arthur's.
"Lin Xi..."
…
"This is a malfunction..."
At the same time, Hal, who had been observing the situation in the biological testing field, uttered a whisper of disbelief.
If it were a human, it would have jumped up out of surprise by now.
A large number of error reports kept scrolling in Hal's database, almost making it difficult for Hal to run.
Neither Arthur nor Lin Xi knew that the biological weapons cultivated based on Arthur had control systems implanted in their bodies the moment they were born.
Although Arthur himself is a descendant of Lin Xi, under the effect of this system, all clones... all biological weapons products should be just "weapons".
They should have launched a fierce attack like mechanical warriors the moment they saw Lin Xi.
Those weapons don't even have a brain...
They are just some strange pieces of meat with strong vitality, following the system's control to eliminate alien species.
But what is happening now
These things actually started to move on their own
They rescued the alien named Arthur by themselves, and then began to call Lin Xi...
HAL had never encountered anything like this before, and its database had never had a similar scenario simulated.
It can be said that before this moment, Hal had always been at ease when facing Lin Xi because he had countless backup plans.
The reason why Lin Xi was allowed to wander around inside the Providence for so long was purely because Hal wanted to capture Scripps' electronic consciousness.
But now, even Hal, who is an electronic machine, can feel that kind of human-like emotions.
In human terms, he felt something was wrong. Things were getting out of control...
Hal instantly abandoned his mechanical body and returned to the control system of the entire spacecraft.
It used every avenue possible to try to mobilize the controllers of those biological weapons.
As the only and most powerful control system on the entire ship, this should have been an easy task, but now those complex control terminals are completely offline.
Hal no longer had any control over the terminals.
In other words, it has lost its highest authority...