Mother of Insects

Chapter 23

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"Honestly, who else do I expect to be able to answer these questions for me."

The speaker was Thorian.

He lowered his eyes, stared at Lin Xi, and then said slowly.

Lin Xi looked back at him without answering.

It was a note-taker on the engineering team who first noticed something was wrong.

During a routine inspection, he discovered that the air filtration system in the cabin where the Andos were located had been operating at high load, and then the ancient components were overwhelmed and burned out.

If it were on Earth, this would be just a very small parts failure, but where they are now is an unnumbered asteroid.

The offline air filtration system will lead to excessive carbon dioxide content in the sealed living cabin. If left alone for a long time, in the most serious case, it may even cause the death of personnel in the cabin from suffocation.

So even in the extremely chaotic situation after the bug attack, the logger still dutifully marked the fault.

Next, just like Lin Xi, the recorder found that he could no longer contact Shizuo Ando using his personal terminal, which made him feel a little worried.

What happened next seemed to be a matter of course - just like all murder cases, after discovering that both Ando and his wife were unable to contact him, the recorder found his superior. The casual superior didn't pay much attention to this small problem at first. After all, after those crazy bugs attacked the spacecraft, the situation on the ship was quite bad, and the engineering department had a lot to do.

However, after checking the cabin access records of the Andos, these unlucky engineers discovered that the situation did not seem to be as simple as they thought - they found that the Andos had stayed in the room and never left.

The staff of the engineering department, who had already vaguely felt that something was wrong, had to come to Shizuo Ando's cabin in person, and then they found a way to open the metal door.

By the way, before seeing the body, everyone thought that the horrible smell that spewed out after opening the door was the greatest harm to them.

After a stupid newcomer recklessly turned on the lighting system in the cabin, about half of the people screamed and fled from the door of the Ando couple's cabin.

The remaining half of the people stood there, completely frightened by what they saw and unable to move.

"... When we saw Shizuo Ando, he was standing directly under Mrs. Ando's body. His body was covered with blood, some of which was his own and some of Mrs. Ando's. Of course, we are very sure that more blood came from For those monsters, and the corpses of those monsters are around his feet."

Solian's cold voice without any ups and downs sounded in Lin Xi's ears. It sounded like such a calm narrative, but after hearing his description, Lin Xi could not help but shudder.

This conversation took place in an office with confidentiality measures.

Lin Xi, Alyssa, Sorian and Bryce all tensed their cheeks and sat next to the same metal table.

Of course, Lin Xi knew very well that according to Sorian's idea, it was best for them to be alone in this room.

He didn't know what was going on, maybe because he was the last person to see the Ando couple alive? In short, Thorian always seemed to be suspicious of something.

However, Sorian's request is destined to be impossible to achieve.

Bryce could never safely let someone like Lin Xi be alone with Sorian. He was extremely tough, and could even be said to be rude, insisting on staying with Lin Xi.

The reason why Alyssa also appeared on the side of the metal table was because she simply stated that she was tired of being behind the one-way glass window, monitoring all conversations like a villain in an old movie.

In short, at the insistence of the medical officer and the deputy captain, this room appeared, this metal table appeared, and at this moment, Sorian even had to sit here, feebly talking to other people with that lifeless look. The three of them summarized the situation - yes, at Alyssa's request, he told everything in the cabin where the Ando couple were in a straightforward manner.

"Shizuo Ando... Professor Ando looked very bad at the time. He was covered in blood, and even when he saw outsiders arriving, he remained motionless. He just lowered his head, like a scarecrow stuck in a field. , there was no response. In fact, at the beginning, everyone suspected that both Ando and his wife were dead.

After all, he didn't move at all for a long time, and his look, well, I think you can guess it, anyway, he really didn't look like a living person at that time.

However, when the people I led approached him... that is, when we wanted to check those monsters, he suddenly started to move. "

Having said this, Sorian's pupils, which had always seemed cold and cruel, shrank slightly.

Lin Xi, who had been observing him, couldn't help but frown slightly when he saw this scene. Lin Xi could feel that when he recalled the scene of meeting Shizuo Ante, this man who looked like steel and had no humanity had a hard shell. There seemed to be a faint hint of fear seeping through the gap.

a few hours ago—

Ando and his wife’s living cabin

"Don't touch my baby."

Shizuo Ando raised his lowered head amidst the screams of the people, but it could be seen from his expression that he did not really notice what kind of nightmare he was in.

His eyes were dark and turbid, his cheeks were a shocking blue-gray color, and the bulging veins were beating like some kind of parasite under his thin skin.

The first person who approached him screamed in fright at Shizuo Ando's sudden movement.

After triggering a round of panic, Shizuo Ando stopped again. He stared blankly in front of him, and after a long time, he let out a small whimper from his throat.

"Dr. Ando?"

"Ando... Doctor... what happened..."

Someone suppressed their panic and asked him while holding on to their shaky sanity.

Of course that person didn't get any response.

Shizuo Ando's body gradually began to sway from side to side, and louder, continuous sobs slowly escaped from his throat. The sound did not sound like the sound that a human would make, but more like a beast.

But what was creepy was that almost at the same time as he was sobbing, there was actually a faint smile on his face.

His lips are turned up and reveal pink gums and teeth. This twisted and unnatural smile made him look like a retard. If they didn't know his identity, no one would have thought that not long ago he was an amiable and gentle university professor.

"...Don't be afraid, I...I am a good person."

He murmured, his pupils dark and empty, making his sunken eyes look like two small holes poked in a mask.

"It's difficult, very difficult. I don't know how I did it, thank God I did it... They all move very fast, and I also know that if they really exert their power, even if there are ten There was no way I could do anything about it, but I finally did it. You see, I should have sensed something was wrong with Liz from the beginning... and me. The kids... for God's sake, I can actually feel that those are not my kids."

The screaming crowd standing outside the hatch seemed to make him thoughtful.

"Hey, listen..." he muttered, with a hint of childish disapproval, "I killed them for everyone on this ship... you should be thanking me... I've been struggling... I know, yeah, I know, but I can't help it... At least a small part of their bodies are my children... "

Shizuo Ando staggered forward two steps, looking like a zombie chasing his prey.

It's just that his actions were so clumsy, and by accident, he kicked the corpse of the monster at his feet.

Ando's movements suddenly froze.

He lowered his head and stared directly at the monster at his feet.

A mixture of bugs and human babies, ordinary people would have nightmares for a long time just by looking at them a few times, but Shizuo Ando looked at them for a long time... a long time...

Then he squatted down and tremblingly picked up the monster's body.

"sorry… "

He sobbed and murmured to the terrifying monster in his arms, his voice much louder than before.

"I'm sorry...Dad killed you...I'm sorry..."

Shizuo Ando's body suddenly stooped, and he fell directly to the ground, under Liz's body and surrounded by monster corpses.

He kept kissing the human part of the monster's body in his arms, crying and crying.

And the monster in his arms happened to have the face of a human baby. If you could ignore the carapace on its head with obvious insect characteristics, looking at it from a distance, the scene looked really similar. It was a heartbroken father holding his child and crying.

Monsters are real and they are so scary.

And Shizuo Ando’s pain turned out to be equally real.

Time returned to the present. In the temporarily opened confidential room, Lin Xi interrupted Sorian.

"You mean, Shizuo Ando himself admitted that it was him... who killed those monsters?"

Lin Xi asked.

Sorian nodded: "Yes, we checked the corpses of those monsters. Each monster had marks of stab wounds with sharp weapons, and we found Shizuo Ando's pockets that he used to kill those monsters. The dagger has the blood of those monsters on the blade, and Shizuo Ando’s fingerprints are very clear on the handle.”

"Those monsters..."

At this time, Alyssa also spoke, but her tone was very hesitant, as if she was debating whether she should ask that question.

"Those monsters came from inside Liz."

Bryce glanced at Sorian, and then said before the man - as if he could fully understand what Alyssa wanted to ask.

As the highest-ranking medical officer on the ship, he had already preliminarily examined the monsters that had lost their lives... and Liz's body.

Although they had already been mentally prepared, after hearing this definite answer, the faces of the four people at the metal table became particularly ugly.

"Oh, God… "

Alyssa whispered.

Bryce stretched out his hand and held Alyssa's cold palm.

He had a hunch that what he was going to say next might make Alyssa feel even more uncomfortable.

"What I'm going to say next... I think you should be prepared, it's not a pleasant thing." Bryce said, he could feel that Alyssa's palm was wet and cold, which was very important to her. It's a very rare thing.

Thinking that all this mess now rests on Alyssa's shoulders, Bryce couldn't help but feel deep pity and love for her.

He really didn't want to scare Alyssa, but he knew he had to tell those things.

"I'll make a long story short - those bugs are scary, but after a simple test, I found that they are not some damn space parasite infection as we thought before. I know a lot of people think that, after all, we I just suffered an attack from alien bugs... But no matter how scary the bugs on this planet are, one thing I can be sure of is that the genes of those things that died in that cabin came from Liz Chen and Shizuo Ando, in other words, they are their children.”

"Are you kidding me?"

This answer was not the answer that Sorian thought. He looked at Bryce in shock, his tone full of doubt.

Bryce gave him an unusually cold look.

There is no doubt that Thorian really thinks that the sudden madness of the bugs before is related to the bug monster in Liz's belly. This is really a coincidence, isn't it

Bugs, bugs, and bugs.

Sunu was originally called an insect planet by those who hated it, and when they failed to jump and landed on a strange alien planet, it was still insects that plagued the Helios.

"I would never joke about something like this," Bryce said. "Let me remind you, Liz is half-Sunu, and we don't know anything about people on this planet, and then They chose to self-destruct. Moreover, Ando and Liz were not supposed to have children in theory. Liz's pregnancy was obviously God's mistake... Well, we just didn't expect that those children would end up. Appear in front of us in...that form."

He chose his words with some difficulty.

The confrontation between Bryce and Sorian was straightforward and intense, while Lin Xi sitting on the other side was silent.

He had to take a deep breath because he felt a little out of breath.

Bryce was obviously by his side, but he always felt that his brother's words were a bit ethereal, as if he had been submerged underwater and was listening to the people on the shore talking.

"... Another thing that needs to be pointed out is that even if Shizuo Ando didn't attack these monsters, they would probably have a hard time surviving. Yes, they look very scary, but I checked their bodies and they are just in appearance. It's just very weird and scary. As for their bodies, they are incredibly weak. Let me put it this way, they are just a group of completely undeveloped things. Even if Shizuo Ando didn't dig them out of Liz's belly, they would still be there. Can't survive... maybe they are just a few poor deformed children."

Bryce shrugged and came to his own conclusion.

The author has something to say: Let’s go through the plot... =v=

There was actually a lot to revise in the last chapter, and I even added a lot of extra words. As a result, I was locked out of the review and couldn't update it, which made me crazy.

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