Shizuo Ando, who was lying on the bed, had his lips slightly parted, and his face was even paler than before. If Lin Xi hadn't confirmed that he still had a pulse, he would have looked like a complete corpse - his soul had already left this body. Lin Xi couldn't tell the reason, but that was how he felt.
Lin Xi turned his eyes away from his face. He didn't know why he was so sad.
Then, just with such a casual glance, Lin Xi suddenly noticed some scratches on the metal wall near the small bed.
Lin Xi's eyes flashed, and he subconsciously walked forward to observe carefully.
At first glance, those scratches looked like a bunch of meaningless lines, with some blackened blood on the surface, just like the marks left by a mental patient scratching on the wall during a mental attack - but Lin Xi was still sensitive enough to see some clues from them.
Lin Xi felt that... those seemed to be some overlapping words.
It looked like Dr. Ando was trying to leave a few words, but his wrists were shackled in a narrow position so that the words could only overlap.
Lin Xi looked at Dr. Ando's fingers. He wondered why he hadn't noticed it before—Dr. Ando's fingers were covered with scars, and the nails on his fingertips had almost completely fallen off.
Lin Xi narrowed his eyes, concentrating on carefully distinguishing those intricate traces.
Beware of Taran
These were the first words he recognized, but these two words were enough to make his heart beat faster.
Food contains...
What's in the food
Lin Xi racked his brains and stared at the wall. In the distance, he could hear the rumble of a helicopter coming from the other end of the corridor. The medical technician was about to arrive.
Lin Xi broke out in a cold sweat on his back. He knew very well that once the medical officer arrived, he would probably have no chance to study these clues again - especially when these clues involved Captain Taran.
At this moment Lin Xi suddenly realized his stupidity. He cursed himself in his heart, and then he looked towards the position of Taran's other hand.
Sure enough, he also saw some scratches on the bed, but those scratches were even blurrier than those on the wall.
John
Sacrifice
Star... God...
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Although only a few words were distinguished, the meaning formed by those words when put together was enough to make people feel frightened.
In this short moment, many clues that were originally unrelated suddenly became connected.
Lin Xi looked at Ando Shizuo in shock, who had completely lost consciousness. He couldn't even control himself and reached out to shake his shoulders.
"Dr. Ando—Dr. Ando—wake up! I have something to ask you—"
At this moment, even Ando Shizuo's absurd statement that he was the captain of the famous ship three hundred years ago became less important.
"Ahem..."
Suddenly, Lin Xi heard someone coughing deliberately behind him.
He turned around and looked at the mercenary at the door. The latter was standing at the door, looking pale and stiff, but from his eyes, he seemed to be gradually regaining vitality. The mercenary was now staring at Lin Xi intently, his eyes burning with a strange intensity. The cough just now seemed to be just an accidental one - but soon, the medical technicians who appeared behind the mercenary proved that it was not an accident, but a deliberate reminder.
After all, there were several other men who came with the medical officer, and Lin Xi was disgusted to find that they were Taran and Robert's subordinates.
"Hey, what just happened? What did you do to Dr. Ando?"
As soon as they saw Lin Xi, one of them began to question her aggressively.
Later, Lin Xi found out that when he was talking to Ando, the surveillance camera line was inexplicably broken again.
It was also because of this that almost no one heard the words that Ando yelled at him at the end—except the mercenary.
Lin Xi didn't expect the mercenary to hide anything for him, but he would not stay in the confinement room and accept such impolite interrogation.
"Just some words that don't make any sense. Dr. Ando passed out pretty quickly due to his weakness."
He crossed his arms and spoke to the men, then turned to the young medical officer.
"If you want to know so much, you should save Dr. Ando right now."
Lin Xi responded coldly.
He stayed in the confinement room for a while with those lackeys of Taran, suppressing his disgust. He hoped that the medical officer could wake Ando up, so that he could at least get some useful information from the man.
But until those men took the mercenary away first (Lin Xi didn't even have to guess, he knew that those men were going to dig something out of the mercenary's mouth), Shizuo Ando remained unconscious.
Lin Xi finally had to leave the confinement room. He had planned to meet Ando Shizuo after he regained consciousness, but soon he received news that the crazy scientist had turned into a vegetable.
And as his brain died, the few words he left behind became an indelible doubt in Lin Xi's mind.
Watch out Taran, there's something in the food... and John Bronson, Sacrifice and the Star God.
Among these, if something goes wrong in the food bag, it will cause people to go crazy. Lin Xi had already learned this from Bryce.
And then he remembered that John Bronson was the ship's chief cook before he went crazy, and that, in that meeting... John Bronson once pointed at Taran's nose and shouted that he was a devil.
At least before John pointed the finger at him, he seemed to know something and had been on guard against Taran.
Oh, yes, there is also the Star God...
Lin Xi would never forget how Taran was morbidly focused on the fossil sculptures in the warehouse in the early days after the failed jump.
The Sunu fossil sculpture also scared him a lot at the time.
After checking all the information, the last word left made Lin Xi particularly concerned...
"Sacrifice."
Lin Xi muttered the word softly, and then he shivered involuntarily.
Just thinking about this word made him feel very uncomfortable.
Did Taran put something in the food bag that would mutate someone... in order to offer a sacrifice to the so-called Star God
Lin Xi frowned.
If it weren't for the strange and crazy words that Shizuo Ando shouted to him before he fell into a coma, he would probably have believed the information left by the former without hesitation and continued to investigate.
But now, Lin Xi always feels hesitant about the information he found.
Fortunately or unfortunately, Lin Xi now does not have much free time to worry about the mystery left by Shizuo Ando.
Because just after his inconclusive meeting with Shizuo Ando, he was about to face his first extravehicular exploration activity.
Bryce was going crazy with worry about this matter.
Lin Xi knew that he had applied several times to travel with him, but his position as a medical officer forced him to stay inside the Apollo.
Looking at his brother's face which had become particularly livid due to lack of sleep, Lin Xi endured it again and again and decided to wait until he finished two days and one night of extravehicular exploration before returning to the ship to discuss with him the information he had obtained from Shizuo Ando.
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Forty-eight days after the failed jump.
Lin Xi, wearing a tattered exploration team uniform, put an old standard laser gun on his shoulder, sat shakily in the patrol car and began the first alien exploration in his life.
The people sitting around him were a mixed bunch. One third of them had tired and gloomy expressions, but they were extremely proficient in the instruments and procedures - these people were the original members of the exploration team.
Another third were capable and restless, communicating closely with the exploration team—they were mercenaries.
The remaining ones, who were in a panic, looking around, wearing second-hand exploration uniforms that did not fit them and wearing old firearms that should have been eliminated thirty years ago, were naturally ordinary crew members who were forcibly assigned to the exploration mission.
Lin Xi had quietly observed everyone before getting on the bus, and he regretfully discovered that there was no one familiar face here.
Fortunately, Alyssa did assign the crew members carefully, just as she had comforted Bryce and Lin Xi before. These people did not have obvious hostility towards Lin Xi, and there was still spirit in their eyes, unlike many mutated crew members who had taken the food bags and had empty eyes and hyperactivity.
However, even though they had no hostility, their attitude towards Lin Xi could not really be described as friendly.
"Hey, Doc—I heard you were the one—"
Just as Lin Xi lowered his eyes and thought about something, he heard the person opposite him speak in a long voice.
Lin Xi silently raised his head and looked at the other person. It was a strange man. Judging from the markings on his body, he should be a mercenary. His facial features were slightly crooked and his appearance was ugly.
Seeing that Lin Xi did not respond, he made an obscene gesture towards Lin Xi.
"Those people said that you can control bugs. As long as you don't like someone, you will implant bug eggs into their bodies, and then rely on your medical officer brother to burn those people to death in the treatment device, right?"
Lin Xi pursed his lips and said nothing.
Because he knew very well that any response from him at this time would trigger a greater reaction from the other party.
"... I also heard that you have a big bug. It's so ugly that it drives people crazy at a glance, but you have such a strong taste..." At this point, the mercenary with crooked features deliberately lowered his voice, "I heard that you sleep with bugs... Is that right? The temple priests on that crazy planet seem to have this vicious habit. They sleep with the bugs they raise and give birth to a group of monsters. Did you learn this hobby from them?"
The mercenary's voice was filled with malice, and although he lowered his voice, in the closed patrol car, people's every move would be amplified, and everyone in the car could easily hear his questions.
He did it on purpose.
In an instant, Lin Xi could clearly feel countless eyes converging on him.
Well, the mercenary did pick a topic that would arouse people's attention. The insect worship of Sunu Star did give rise to many secret customs that were completely unacceptable to the people on Earth, but no one would like to associate such disgusting customs with themselves.
In particular, the mercenary also mentioned "Number One".
Lin Xi's face gradually turned cold.
Before coming to participate in the exploration mission, he deliberately spent a whole night in the greenhouse with the cocoon of "No. 1".
The condition of the cocoon seemed to be better than before. It was difficult for Lin Xi to tell the specific changes, but he could feel it.
The thick cocoon shell still felt cold and rough to the touch, but Lin Xi could inexplicably sense a faint breath of life flowing inside the cocoon.
The author has something to say: Alas, I was supposed to replace it during the day but ended up having a low-grade fever the whole day...
The worst thing is that my stomach problems broke out and I started having migraines at the same time.
Painkillers happen to irritate the stomach.
In short, you have to choose between stomachache and headache...
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I don't know if there will be any updates today orz, I'll try my best...
I'm really worried that once I stop, I'll never be able to get back to the momentum I had in the beginning when I updated 9,000 words a day.
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And recently I saw a lot of comments saying that Lin Xi is stupid or something...
Everyone should know that we have a God's perspective and Lin Xi does not have this kind of God's perspective orz
He perceives himself as an ordinary person, who at most has more nightmares. Moreover, all the people on the ship are now suffering in the doomsday and are all neurotic... It is impossible for him to die just because others tell him to.
He's also super weird...