"I used to think that it was because I had transformed from a human into a mutant that I thought you were so weak. But when I saw the information left by those people in the quarantine area, I realized... maybe it wasn't the case. Such."
Lin Xi took a step forward.
Hal involuntarily took a step back, and his thigh hit the life-support device behind him, making a crisp collision sound.
The body of this android was so badly damaged that it should have been retired a long time ago.
Lin Xi stared at Hal like this, but what came to mind was the large number of documents he saw in the quarantine area.
The people on the Providence knew much more about alien species than he thought - of course, in hindsight, this was almost a matter of course.
You know, they can even use Scripps' descendants as a blueprint to create biological weapons.
The white nematodes that Lin Xi had encountered, as well as the abnormal cultures they saw in the biological experimental site, were just shoddy and shoddy products.
A large number of dormant weapons are stored in the lower deck of the Providence: biological weapons created by people in the later period, fully automatic killing robots, and a full range of attack machinery specially modified by Del Company for alien planets...
That was the trump card that the researchers who had originally isolated inside the spacecraft worked hard and blocked for a lifetime.
Lin Xi had to admit that when he saw the information on those things, a cold sweat broke out on his back.
An insect mother like him who has never had time to reproduce enough offspring would probably die if he faced those eradication machines specially developed for alien species.
Whether it is him, Xavier, Arthur or Noah, they will all die.
"... But from the beginning to the end, you never used those weapons. You just sent out waves of extremely fragile basic mechanical warriors to weakly block me as if it was a joke."
“…”
Hal stared at Lin Xi silently, but did not speak to refute.
Lin Xi waited for a moment and then slowly continued.
"The insect mother is not invincible, and neither are the alien species. In fact, you know that, right? It's like you had easily controlled Captain Scripps... The most terrifying thing about the alien species is not the insect mother itself or alone. It's about the huge population of alien species that keeps multiplying and increasing in value. After Captain Scripps transformed into the mother of alien species, he didn't even have time to reproduce enough offspring, and he was completely controlled by you. -You should have treated me like that."
While speaking, Lin Xi suddenly let out a long sigh.
Then he stretched out his hand and waved it gently in the air.
Beside him, Xavier Noah and Arthur moved slightly at the same time, and then quickly swept to a specific corner of the control room.
Their extremely fast movements are almost impossible to detect with the naked eye.
Several crisp metallic sounds suddenly sounded.
Following the movements of the three alien species, the laser gun that slowly poked out its firing port in the dark was directly pulled out by them, and then crushed into a ball of scrap metal, which clattered to the ground.
Hal's electronic eyes flashed.
"Stop having this pointless...confrontation."
Lin Xi didn't seem to see the guns, and he said to Hal calmly.
At the same time, Xavier quietly slipped back to Lin Xi.
The young, handsome, and muscular man whose beauty was beyond the scope of human aesthetics turned his head and stared at Lin Xi intently with his scarlet eyes.
Lin Xi's appearance at this moment was so calm and cold, it almost made Xavier's heart beat so fast that it almost burst out of his chest.
Whether it's his lines or his expressions, Lin Xi now looks very similar to Xavier's favorite movie villain.
Thinking of this, Xavier felt that his task was important. He couldn't help but tighten his body and try his best to show an extremely fierce look in front of Hal.
"I would never have allowed someone like you to roam around my ship if it weren't for capturing Scripps' electronic consciousness."
Hal glanced at Xavier with great disgust, and then silently returned his gaze to Lin Xi's face.
Although the current situation is very bad, Hal still seems calm.
However, just after Hal said these words, Lin Xi's eyes became even weirder.
Behind him, the three alien species looked at the android in front of them with the same gaze.
Being looked at by four alien species with strange eyes at the same time, even Hal could vaguely sense that something was wrong.
It's just that its hardware is too severely damaged now. Taking into account all the current conditions, it has no way to deduce the reason why the alien species in front of it behaves so strangely.
Until Lin Xi spoke again.
"Scripps is dead. He was already dead."
Lin Xi said.
Without waiting for Hal to retort, he continued.
"You should have known this... Scripps is a cyberman. A cyberman is just a man-made thing. He is a mixture of human and machine. A machine will always be a machine, and the human part will always be just a machine." It's a human being. Scripps is just a human being, and a human being can never have the so-called electronic consciousness, nor can he become a ghost and sneak into a computer system..."
"The only one who can do that is a machine. And that's you, Hal. From beginning to end, it's just you."
Lin Xi said to Hal word by word.
"That's Scripps."
"I knew it was him—I knew—I always knew—
"That's Scripps."
"That's Scr-rips-"...
Halder answered, gradually becoming choppy, with unnecessary repetitions and pauses.
It sensed that its logic was beginning to malfunction.
On the one hand, it was because Lin Xi had destroyed most of its services, and on the other hand, because, in order to refute Lin Xi, a large number of error reports appeared in Hal's system again.
Lin Xi couldn't help but sigh again.
He stared at Hal with a sad, strange look.
This extremely ugly simulator once made him feel fear and hatred, but now, he felt that the Hal in front of him was a little bit pathetic.
"... You have been avoiding this fact, which directly caused your system errors to keep stacking up."
Lin Xi said calmly, then he raised his hand, revealing a small gadget in his palm.
It was a small holographic projector. He found this thing in the research center in the quarantine area. It was a very old model, but thanks to the industrial technology of the Age of Exploration, this thing can still be used today.
And Lin Xi also brought it out during that very critical explosion.
Perhaps, at that time, Lin Xi had already vaguely guessed that he might use it.
Lin Xi turned on the holographic projector in front of Hal—
With a faint blue light, images from hundreds of years lit up again.
My dear crew, I am the current top officer of the Providence, Captain Scripps, and I will give you the last briefing of this plan...
Hal's body shook heavily, and he turned back blankly to look at the projection in Lin Xi's hand.
The voice belonging to Scripps seemed unusually calm.
It was so calm... It was almost impossible to connect the content of his report with his tone.
Yes, it was the last decision Scripps ever made.
He will install a micro-drug inside his brain, and the set detonation time is exactly 0.1 seconds after his body completely transforms into a mutant.
All this is to ensure the safety of mankind.
The microcosm would destroy his brain, and the rest of the process was left to other senior researchers.
For those researchers who finally survived the Providence, their last and highest mission in life is to maintain the life of Captain Scripps, the insect mother...
"There is only one mother of alien species in the same universe, no matter whether that mother is seriously ill, weak, old, or...a vegetative state that is unconscious and only has physical reserves."
Lin Xi said.
As long as the researchers on the Providence can maintain Scripps' basic vital signs in the spacecraft, it means that there will not be a second mother of alien species in this universe.
Similarly, that also means that the Earth on the far side does not have to worry about its home being invaded by another terrifying alien monster...
"Scripps must have given you the same instructions before making this decision."
Lin Xi stared at the motionless Hal behind the translucent projection.
His voice was a little hoarse.
In fact, even he had a hard time describing his feelings at this time. After learning all the truth, his feelings about Scripps became particularly complicated.
That young man was not a product of nature and love. He was purely a tool, created by humans in the research room for the Providence project...
Scripps can't even be called a real human being, but it is this kind of him who sacrificed the entire crew of the Providence on a distant, uninhabited planet, and used all his own deeds to Sacrifice... protects humanity.
Protecting mankind who know nothing about the distant universe.
If the information obtained in the quarantine area only gave Lin Xi some vague guesses, then when Lin Xi opened Hal's core processor under the guidance of "Scripps", Hal's original Everything that was forcibly sealed in the fault management library allowed Lin Xi to fully understand the tragedy that had happened on the ship.
The common crew members infected in surface space were eliminated and executed by Scripps.
But he left behind a large number of scientific researchers with high authority.
Those people held on for a long time. .
“…but they died eventually, and no one can survive in a place like this for long, except you.
You're being kept, Hal. You are the only one who has always maintained a completely awake consciousness..." Lin Xi's voice gradually became lower.
He tried to see an expression on Hal's body.
This is ridiculous, considering that it's an android... but maybe it's because Hal has always been too human. So much so that Lin Xi sometimes couldn't even control himself. Subconsciously, he wanted to know what Hal was thinking.
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