Of course, there was no way that sculpture could come alive.
After confronting the thing for more than ten seconds, Lin Xi shuddered and then came to his senses - extreme darkness and silence can cause people to have various psychological problems, stress, tension, fear and others.
Lin Xi felt that this was undoubtedly the reason why he was so frightened by a strange fossil sculpture.
"Who would have thought that I would actually start to miss your nagging now, Bryce."
Lin Xi secretly felt lucky that he was the only one who knew about the humiliating scene just now.
How could such a bold and reckless Lin Xi be so disturbed and horrified by a silent fossil sculpture
Even a few hours ago, if someone had said this to Lin Xi, Lin Xi would have definitely thought that the person's brain must have been damaged by the radiation in space.
Lin Xi calmed himself down, then passed the sculpture and began to walk around the warehouse to inspect the tragic scene of cargo damage.
It was a relief to find that only the sculpture was the most serious problem. The plants and other small animals native to Sunu, the relics of the former Sunu royal family, and a large amount of precious metals were all intact in the collection container.
"Whoa, man, it looks like those damn alloys are picking on you."
After checking all the goods, Lin Xi forced himself to ignore the resistance deep in his heart and returned to the side of the fossil sculpture.
He needed to check the condition of this thing more carefully, after all, it was the only one in the entire warehouse that had slipped out of the storage container.
Moreover, it is also the most valuable of the "cargo" this time.
The surface of the fossil sculpture is intact, but the insulating gel that coated it is drying.
In those areas, the surface color of the fossils began to gradually darken and oxidize. The degree was not very serious, but those light spots were hard to ignore.
"I can bet you that if Taran saw you like this, he would probably have a mental breakdown on the spot."
While Lin Xi was trying hard and clumsily to operate the mecha, smearing some of the remaining isolation gel on the ground on the fossil, he muttered softly to the strange pupa-like creature in his sight.
The touch of the fossil was transmitted to Lin Xi's fingertips through the mecha's sensor system. The strange feeling was somewhat indescribable.
Completely different from the softness that we feel visually, the fossil of the Sunu people feels hard and a little rough, as if there are many scales or bumps on its surface that are invisible to the naked eye. The isolation gel gives it a subtle stickiness and slipperiness...
"That bastard Taran should have fucking experienced this for himself..."
The warehouse was so quiet that Lin Xi almost subconsciously began to talk to himself to relieve the oppressive stagnation and silence.
But even so, as soon as he stopped talking, silence would come again.
Lin Xi could even hear the sound of his blood flowing in his veins. That gurgling sound could easily make people nervous in such an environment, because it sounded like something was wriggling inside his body.
Oh, damn, creep.
A strange picture emerged in his mind.
It was a blurry mass of flesh that was constantly wriggling.
There are also some brightly colored spots.
Lin Xi trembled slightly because of the sudden imagination.
He vaguely remembered that what he just remembered was a scene from one of his nightmares.
Well, the truth is now out.
Lin Xi took another look at the weird and strange fossil sculpture. This thing probably looked too much like something in his nightmare, which made him so scared.
But overall, he didn't think too much about it.
Lin Xi never thinks too much, he is not Bryce.
He quickly brushed aside the meaningless things in his mind and focused on his damn task.
Of course Lin Xi could use the equipment to record everything in the warehouse and then just turn around and leave.
When the situation stabilizes, others will slowly climb down from above and deal with the mess in the warehouse. However, from Lin Xi's observation, the sculpture is indeed in a bad state. Who knows if it will be exposed to the outside and affect the strange activity inside it, and then affect the secretion of the "earth milk" that makes people on Earth crazy
Lin Xi did find a lot of empty storage devices in the warehouse on the upper floor. However, the power required to push the device back into the slot and inject the isolation gel could not be provided by the built-in battery of the light mecha.
Alyssa must have vaguely sensed something, so she reminded him to restart the system settings.
This woman's sixth sense is sometimes so sharp that it's like some kind of super power.
Lin Xi sighed resignedly and retreated from the warehouse on the B-3 floor.
However, at the moment when he was about to turn around, a dark gaze fell on his back.
Lin Xi turned around suddenly.
The warehouse was still so quiet.
Only the sculpture was still wet, lying quietly on the ground without moving, and the ferocious face carved out of it seemed to be looking at Lin Xi.
"… "
Lin Xi swore that he really didn't like the things carved by the Sunu people.
He slammed the door of the warehouse shut (even though it was unnecessary), and then quickly moved towards the machine room. Whether he wanted to admit it or not, his movements were much faster than before.
Lin Xi really didn't want to stay on the B-3 floor and stay with that damn thing.
Fortunately, things have been going much more smoothly at this stage.
At least solving the system failure is easier than Lin Mao thought.
Yes, just as Alyssa reminded, the system was just stuck and not burned. ("God, I'm really falling in love with you, Alyssa..." Lin Xi muttered.)
After a short while of debugging that even Lin Xi could complete, Lin Xi suddenly pulled down the heavy switch, once, then again, and then the delightful buzzing sound from the various mechanical parts immediately rang out.
Lin Xi returned to the B-2 floor and carried down the unused storage dishes and isolation gel. Then, panting and exhausted, he opened the warehouse door.
Then, he stared at everything in front of him, and his mind suddenly went blank.
The sculpture remains in place.
Just like what he saw when he left.
However, at this moment, the sufficient light makes it look...
Extremely terrifying.
Dark traces of oxidation had been visible on the surface of the sculpture before, and in the short time that Lin Xi was away, those traces of oxidation had clearly turned into a dark brown.
The source of that special feeling became clear. Lin Xi could see that the sculpture's pupa-like body had obvious segmented nails.
“… I didn’t know that isolation gel was so important.”
After a long while, Lin Xi spoke to himself dryly.
Things are getting a little troublesome.
Of course, strictly speaking, the trouble of this matter has little to do with Lin Xi. His mission record can explain everything. But even so, looking at the statue that has obviously changed, Lin Xi still feels a little heavy.
For the first time in his life, he regretted always dozing off in history class. Otherwise, he might have been able to dig out some useful information from the depths of his memory to explain the strangeness of the fossil.
And now, as he stared at the increasingly horrible and disgusting fossils, the only thing he could remember was the most basic concept about the Sunu people.
The Sunu love bugs.
It would be more accurate to say that the Sunu people's lives are closely connected to bugs.
Their food, clothing, production materials, medicine, and even religious beliefs are centered around insects.
Even the god they worship most - the Star God - looks like a giant insect.
Uh... it's similar to the sculpture in front of him.
Lin Xi took several deep breaths and calmed down a little.
In any case, the first thing to do is to stuff the sculpture back into its storage containers and then fill the isolation gel around it.
Lin Xi had seen with his own eyes what would happen to this damn sculpture without a sufficient amount of isolation gel, and he didn't intend to make things worse.
However, now that I have seen the strange appearance of the Sunu fossil sculpture with my own eyes, the psychological pressure of putting it back is much greater than before.
Lin Xi was disgusted.
The sculpture still feels hard and rough, but the dried isolation gel has become stickier.
Moreover, the capacity of the backup storage device was smaller than the original one, and Lin Xi had to spend a lot of effort to barely squeeze the sculpture in.
Several times, he even suspected that he was about to burst the sculpture's bulging, slightly protruding belly - but each time he realized that he was just too nervous.
"I'm so sorry, I want to say I really didn't mean it but... oh... God..."
Lin Xi was muttering desperately to the sculpture in the empty warehouse.
He seemed to see a row of curled-up appendages underneath the shell-like shell that he couldn't identify at all
Lin Xi now inexplicably understood why those Sunu people went crazy - if the person he worshipped every day looked like this, he might go crazy even earlier than those Sunu people.
It was not until the container made a "dipping" sound after being completely sealed, and then Lin Mao let out a sigh of relief as he watched the isolation gel fill all the gaps.
Only then did he realize that he was holding his breath involuntarily.
"Oh, this is awesome, halfway through life I finally realized I'm afraid of bugs—"
Lin Xi said to himself.
He really didn't want to admit it, but even the sculpture shaking in the container due to the injection of gel almost made him scream.