That's a somewhat boring story.
About Savile, about Lin Xi.
"You know my family, our parents are really kind-hearted people, and I and Lin Xi... and Savile, we are all adopted. Of course, we have many other unrelated brothers and sisters, A family like ours always changes, but the three of us are set in stone, and we've always known that this is our home."
Bryce's voice still had the hoarseness from crying.
"Saville was the last one to come. He was very timid and scarred when he first came... They said that Savile had been abused by his original family before. I think that's why Lin Xi got so close to him. ”
Bryce paused for a moment.
"...even a little too close."
Alyssa's eyes widened in surprise.
"Wait, you mean..."
Bryce was in a trance. He seemed to be completely immersed in memories. When he mentioned Lin Xi and Savile's affairs, a helpless smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.
"Yes, that's right, they fell in love. We don't know when that relationship started, but when we found out, they were completely inseparable from each other. When we first discovered this , our family is simply a mess, you know, after all, the two of them still have that kind of status relationship... But in the end, we still accepted this matter. Anyone who has seen the two of them together can't help it. Be ruthless and stop them from getting together."
"They look very happy when they are together." Bryce repeated in a murmur.
Alyssa stared at Bryce, she was very concerned about what was going to happen next, but she was a little hesitant about whether she should speak.
She had never seen Bryce look like this before.
Fortunately, she didn't need to say anything, and Bryce continued naturally.
"We were all naive at that time, and we thought our lives would continue as ordinary as that. But Savile died."
Bryce raised his eyes to look at Alyssa. His eyes were red and swollen.
"That's my fault."
he said quietly.
"What happened?" Alyssa finally couldn't help asking.
“…”
Bryce was silent for a while, and after a long time he spoke in a low voice: "Saville has some... mental trauma. Well, that's what those people said. He went crazy, and he just became trance-like at first, He said that he always had a lot of nightmares. We didn't pay much attention at the time, thinking that he was just under too much mental stress. After all, he was busy at work and planning a wedding with Lin Xi... But his condition soon deteriorated. We didn't react at all. Savile became paranoid and filled with thoughts of the extinction of the human race and the death of the entire world. We went to see a psychiatrist and gave him all kinds of damn tests, but none of the above. It showed that he was actually just a little overly anxious. Lin Xi stayed with him from beginning to end, hoping that Savile would get better, but the result was—"
There was another long silence.
"But it turned out Savile almost killed him."
"What?"
Alyssa couldn't help but let out a confused exclamation.
"Saville got the gun, he hid it on the pillow, and then he gave Lin Xi alcohol. He planned to kill Lin Xi when he was drunk and unconscious - because he thought he could save the world. Of course, at the last moment, he hesitated, and I realized something was wrong and rushed into the room to stop him. Savile was taken away by the police, and then... he committed suicide in the police station."
"Oh my god..."
Bryce's body trembled slightly.
"I went to the hospital to see him for the last time. At the last moment of his life, Savile finally woke up. Alyssa, you know, he was lying on the hospital bed like that, looking straight at me. He was about to He was dead, but he kept saying sorry... He asked me to protect Lin Xi, and I said I would, and he... he closed his eyes. "
Bryce rubbed his eyes with his hands.
He looked in such pain, as if he could faint in the next second.
"I clearly promised him, and I promised Savile that I would protect Lin Xi, but look now, Lin Xi was sent to die outside the cabin by that damn Taran right under my nose. I watched him crawl with my own eyes. Getting in the patrol car, I saw him leave the Helios, and now..."
At the end of the sentence, Bryce's voice was almost full of blood, hoarse and desperate.
"You asked me to take a good rest, I can't do it, Alyssa, every time I close my eyes... I will see Savile, he is still there, looking at me, and then saying sorry to me, saying let me protect Good Lin Xi…”
Bryce finally fell asleep under Alyssa's comfort - but Alyssa believed that what really worked was probably the sleeping pill she secretly put in the water rather than her empty comfort.
After settling Bryce, Alyssa also sat on the edge of the bed for a while, holding her forehead.
She felt sorry for Bryce and Linxi.
Because Bryce is her lover and Lin Xi is a very good friend.
But at this moment, there was another emotion surging in Alyssa's heart: guilt.
She felt guilty that she couldn't devote herself wholeheartedly to mourning Lin Xi like Bryce did, because she still had too many things to be busy with.
Ever since the storm started, Alyssa's intuition became clear. The annihilation of the exploration team was probably just the beginning of another wave of tragedies.
This needs to start with the time when the Helios made an emergency landing on this planet. This spacecraft, which has been in service since the era of great exploration, made an emergency landing at a lucky time period. During this period of time, the natural environment of this mysterious planet with no way to locate its coordinates was almost perfect. But now, it is tearing off its perfect veil little by little, revealing its cruel true face.
The position of the stars changed—
This is what the technician said to her.
According to the analysis of the ship's computer and the tired technicians wearing glasses, the violent storms that claimed more than a dozen lives will only become more frequent in the coming period.
The day they crash-landed, people discovered that the planet had two satellites.
Considering that resources are tight, and the planet's surface itself is covered in a layer of ghost dust that can shield most exploration instruments. The people on board the Helios did not spend extra resources doing too many calculations on the two satellites. And now they are paying the price for their shortsightedness.
In just a few days, the two satellites moved into a very unlucky position, where they were on the same side of the planet at the same time and caused changes in the magnetic field and gravity. Tidal forces on the earth may only cause tidal waves in the ocean and volcanic activities in some remote areas, but here, they bring huge storms that are completely beyond human control.
Relying on the "Covenant", the Helios barely withstood the storm the previous day, but the fuel would eventually run out.
If they still can't find their way home, it won't be long before the entire crew on the ship will die completely on this unknown planet.
Thinking of this, Alyssa felt a splitting headache... She couldn't find a solution, and she didn't know how to escape from the current predicament. The shadow of death lingered on everyone on this spaceship, let alone the people on the ship. It is gradually mutating under the influence of the food bag.
…
"What on earth are we going to do?"
Dozens of kilometers away underground, someone asked in panic on the communication channel.
Lin Xi turned back to look at him. The man who spoke was pale and looked extremely frightened.
"I have no idea."
Lin Xi replied calmly.
Not long ago, they had lost Jerry.
Lin Xi originally only planned to drag the hot-blooded Walker and Eugene out of the dark tunnel, and then work together to find a way out of the cave.
But not long after they walked forward, they discovered that the tunnel in front of them actually bifurcated. The originally narrow passage suddenly turned into a wide platform, surrounded by many crooked and twisted cracks and tunnels, leading to completely different directions ( If they wanted to, they could even jump down from the two-person-wide cave in the ground). Some of those forked caves were narrow enough for a cat to barely pass, and some were narrow enough for several people to pass side by side, but no matter where they were, A passage, the other end is so dark that it seems to be connected to hell.
Lin Xi had to lead the remaining people to stop at those intersections.
No one knows where Jerry, Walker, and Eugene went.
But they didn't have time to linger in this damn place... Likewise, they couldn't test tunnel after tunnel.
If they go the wrong way, they are very likely to die here - after all, their oxygen, food and water are limited (and the stocks are still a little tight). If they are unlucky, they will most likely enter a dead end, exhaust all their survival supplies, and finally suffocate to death in the deep, dark alien underground. It can be said that this way of death should be the worst that anyone expected. kind of.
"Are we really going to chase the two of them? Jerry must have gone crazy... Walker and Eugene may not have caught him. It's very possible that they just randomly picked a fork in the road and then chased him."
Another person muttered in panic behind Lin Xi.
"Actually we-"
He opened his mouth as if to say something, but after he actually opened his mouth, he suddenly closed his mouth again.
No one could say that sentence, but the idea lingered in everyone's mind very clearly.
The wisest thing to do would be to simply give up on the three people who had disappeared into the darkness. They should return to the original path as soon as possible, try to find the lost marker balls, and finally feel their way back to the ground bit by bit.
It was not far from the cave entrance to their camping site for the night. If God was still attached to them this time, it was still possible for them to find the way back to the ground.
However, if that happens, Jerry, Eugene and Walker will undoubtedly die here -
The remaining people were in a stalemate here. Everyone looked at each other. No one had the heart, or in other words, the courage, to say those words directly.
Lin Xi closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
"Please report the oxygen and battery inventory." He said.
After hearing that the survivors' oxygen battery stocks were worrying, Lin Xi quickly made a rough estimate in his mind.
"Let's go along this road -" he pointed at a tunnel at random, and then said, "We continue walking forward for thirty minutes, and I still don't see the three of them. Let's just turn back."
He paused and then said: "... My brother is still waiting for me on the boat. I have to go back."
No one had any objections to his suggestion. Faintly, Lin Xi could even feel that everyone was relieved.
They continued to move along the tunnel. The tunnel was very spacious, but the rocks on all sides were rough. Everyone had to be vigilant not to let those rocks cut their exploration clothes.
Lin Xi originally thought that he would lead the exploration team members for a 30-minute journey and then return without success, while Jerry and others would be trapped in the dark tunnel waiting to die.
However, that tunnel soon came to an end.
When they arrived at the huge cave connected to the other side of the tunnel and saw clearly what was inside, everyone involuntarily opened their eyes and were so shocked that they were almost speechless.
It wasn't until a long time later that someone finally regained the ability to speak.
"Oh, God." Someone on the communication channel muttered involuntarily, "Is this a dream?"
"What on earth is this..."
…
It also took Lin Xi a long time to come back to her senses.
He bit the tip of his tongue hard until sharp pain came, and he was barely sure that what he saw was real and not an illusion.
That's an aircraft.
That's right, there is actually an aircraft in this huge cave that seems to be dug manually.
Under poor lighting conditions, it is difficult to see its full picture clearly just by relying on the light of a searchlight, and naturally it is also difficult to accurately judge its size.
The only thing that is certain is that it is not a small thing. No, it should be said that that "thing" is a huge thing.
Its surface is smooth and bright, and the silver-white alloy shines under the searchlight. It has no atmosphere at all and no traces of friction caused by dust or micro-meteorites that can never be avoided in interstellar flight—in fact, it is as if it has just left the factory. It was transported directly to this planet by some mysterious force, and transported to this dark underground cave where no sunlight can be seen...
It has been waiting here for countless days for the arrival of Lin Xi and others.
This inexplicable thought made Lin Xi involuntarily shiver.
This brand new aircraft is certainly exciting, but given its current status, its presence here is a little creepy.
In fact, until this moment, Lin Xi had an unbelievable sense of illusion, as if the thing in front of him was just a mirage, something they imagined in a desperate situation.
In this mood, Lin Xi cautiously continued to move forward for a certain distance. He soon made a new discovery: This aircraft was indeed very new, but at the same time, about two-thirds of its body was covered up. Among the fine and dark sand, the sand looks very thick and seems to have accumulated here for a long time. Moreover, these fine sands do not look like they should appear in such a cave.
There were some writings faintly visible on the tail of the aircraft that was exposed in the sand. Lin Xi squinted his eyes to identify it for a while, but the searchlight light was too dim for such a behemoth, and he could only barely make out that it was probably in English. …
Okay, this is even more hairy.
Lin Xi said to herself in her heart.
And just as he cautiously approached the direction of the spacecraft, three orange shadows appeared in the halo of the searchlight, about two to three hundred meters away from the aircraft.
"Hey Jerry!"
Lin Xi's nerves suddenly became tense.
He quickened his pace and took the remaining people with him and started running towards the three people.
Yes, that's them.
Jerry, Walker and Eugene.
They were all lying face down in the cold, dry sand, and they looked like corpses at a sudden glance.
"Jerry... wake up... Damn it, Walker? Walker, are you still conscious? Eugene..."
Lin Xi quickly came to the three people to check. The remaining members of the exploration team quickly turned them over from the ground and checked their life support devices. Fortunately, they were all still alive, but they didn't know. Why, they all lost consciousness.
Among them, Jerry's condition was probably the worst. Even in a coma, his facial spasms and asymmetry were still severe, and he was still suffering from nosebleeds.
There was some kind of tremor coming from under the thick exploration suit, it was Jerry's body twitching.
The old man looked as if he was going to die in the next second, but Lin Xi was completely helpless about this situation.
"Try the electric shock pulse gun." The youngest woman among the survivors of the exploration team, a girl named Lina, suddenly said next to Lin Xi.
"What?"
Lin Xi turned back to look at her.
"It's just a guess..." Faced with Lin Xi's doubtful eyes, Lina seemed a little uncomfortable, but her tone was firm, "My grandma has encountered something similar before. It was their built-in intracranial brain function assistant. There's something wrong with the components, and the advertisers and the people at the hospital say there's nothing wrong with this thing, but occasionally it just keeps having this problem - just shut it down with a pulse, and that might keep Jerry alive!"
Lin Xi only hesitated for a second before taking Lina's suggestion. He directly pulled out the pulse gun-this thing was originally used for self-defense for them-then he adjusted it to the minimum, and then pressed the muzzle of the gun. Jerry pulled the trigger.
"Beep—"
With the small sound of the pulse gun, Jerry's body jumped a few times like a fish that had just landed, but then his whole body collapsed.
At that moment, Lin Xi's heartbeat almost stopped.
However, he soon discovered that Jerry still had a pulse, and that the previous symptoms of Jerry's face being crooked and bleeding from the mouth and nose had been reduced a lot.
"Can this even fucking work?"
A young man, with his name written on the nameplate on his chest: Schrodereth, came up to look at Jerry, and then said in disbelief.
Lina, who had made the suggestion before, seemed to be relieved. She shrugged at the young man: "At least Jerry is luckier than my grandma. The lowest setting of the electronic pulse gun cannot kill anyone, but my grandma is here." After the unreliable component failed, she dropped the hair dryer into the bathtub... At that time, she put rose essential oil and petals in the bathtub to prepare for a romantic night. Who knew that there would be a place near the Moon Royal Hotel. High-powered communications station—those communications frequencies interfered with the auxiliary components and almost killed her."
Lina seemed a little chatty, probably because she was too nervous.
Lin Xi listened absently to her conversation with Schroedreth, and he was still observing Jerry's condition.
After determining that they probably wouldn't wake up in a short time, he let them lie back to their original positions. However, considering Jerry's weird behavior before, Lin Xi cautiously wrapped his hands with tape.
After dealing with Jerry, he stood up and felt the eyes of the others resting on his back. He turned around and saw the uneasy eyes of those people.
"Dr. Lin Xi, do you think... we should go investigate this thing?"
Lina asked Lin Xi nervously.
Lin Xi was silent for a while before nodding.
"Of course." he said.
Lin Xi re-determined everyone's oxygen levels, and then he set timers for everyone.
It has to be said that the experience of going to certain special caves to collect moss when on earth turned out to be very useful at this time.
"One hour... This is our limit. We must come out within an hour and take Jerry and the others out of here and back to the ground."
Otherwise, except for me, all of you will probably suffocate due to running out of oxygen, and eventually die in this weird and unpredictable place.
This sentence was swallowed down Lin Xi's throat.
Leaving one person to look after Jerry and the others outside the cabin, Lin Xi took out all the weapons and turned them on in the ready state. Then he led Lina and Schrodreth towards the aircraft.
They found the entrance without much effort, which further confirmed their guess - no matter why this aircraft appeared here, it was undoubtedly a product of the earth, even the location and opening method of the emergency exit. They are no different from the Sun God that Lin Xi and others are familiar with.
If there is any difference, it is probably that the aircraft itself is much more advanced than the Helios in terms of structure and materials.
"Click—"
Along with a slight puff of smoke, the emergency entrance was opened.
Lin Xi jumped first.
After observing the surrounding area with a searchlight, he gestured to the people behind him.
"At least it looks safe now."
He said somewhat unprofessionally.
"I hope so too..."
The rest of the people jumped down, and someone muttered tremblingly.
"It feels almost like visiting a ghost ship sunk at the bottom of the sea. You never know what will appear next second-"
The moment the man spoke, there was an extremely small sound of electricity.
Inside the originally dark spaceship, a soft light suddenly lit up.
"who-"
Lin Xi felt like his scalp was going to explode. He suddenly picked up the gun and shouted.
“…”
But what greeted him was the subtle buzzing of the exhaust system, power system, and other life-support devices slowly resuming operation behind the metal wall in the spacecraft built during the Age of Exploration.
"Oh My God… "
A low murmur came from the communication channel.
Just two words, but everyone can feel the extremely complex emotions contained in them.
—This aircraft is actually still operating.
It is intact.
At least, that's the case for now - he can even sense the presence of humans like an advanced spaceship and wake up various facilities that were originally sleeping.
You know, even this function of the Helios has long been deactivated due to disrepair.
But here, in the deep, dark alien underground, the aircraft's functions are still intact.
"You, do you think... there will be a star map... in this spaceship..."
After a moment, Lina lowered her voice and spoke carefully.
Lin Xi glanced at her and then said nothing.
The author has something to say: "No. 1": That... director... why do I still have no role... Is it because the makeup is too ugly? (Flies rub their hands. jpg)
Lin Xi:…
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Thanks to the little angels who voted for me or gave me the nutrient solution~
Thanks to the little angel who threw [Grenade]: 1 dust;
Thanks to the little angels who threw [landmines]: 4 cures; 3 cranes; 2 A-zhuang; sick boyfriend, one beeped full of blood, little shrimp, 1 never forget;
Thanks to the little angel who irrigates [nutrient solution]:
Upstairs, there are 27 bottles of Chenxi; 20 bottles of Domingo and Ahjiang; 10 bottles of yiyayay, Chengfu, Fenghengyan; 5 bottles of lotus root cake; 4 bottles of Walter; 3 bottles of Bengbengframe; 2 bottles of Xixian; I love allergies, and Wanzi is very happy , I always like Brother Zheng, Fengxing, What to Watch, Zhan Xuyang, Peony Duoduo 1 bottle;
Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!