Mother of Insects

Chapter 47

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However, Lin Xi understood what Lina meant. Since this aircraft could come here from the earth (from its intact appearance, it was impossible for it to be forced to land here because of an inexplicable failure of the jump like the Apollo), then its central computer must have a record of the flight route, or, most basically, the coordinates of this planet.

However, when Lin Xi saw this aircraft, he already had a vague guess in his mind.

Maybe, just like those people said, this is indeed the destination of the missing Providence... Planet AS192.

This speculation made Lin Xi feel a little bad.

The few words that Professor Ando had said when he suddenly went crazy in the confinement room still weighed heavily on his chest like a heavy stone.

It's the Providence again...

Could it be that the ghost of the captain of the Providence, who disappeared into space along with 250,000 other people, has really traveled through three hundred years and is still lingering on this strange planet

Lin Xi's reason told him that this was impossible, but sometimes, there is more than just reason in the human body.

"Dr. Lin Xi? Is, is there something wrong?"

Schroedereth's trembling voice forced Lin Xi to focus back on the present. He glanced at the young man next to him. The young man's face was pale. It was obvious that he had been thinking a lot because of Lin Xi's long silence just now.

"No, nothing."

Lin Xi shook his head.

He did not show any uneasiness. Forced by the situation, he unknowingly became the leader of the four people and had to learn to stabilize the situation.

Lin Xi held the gun tightly in his hand and walked forward along the corridor.

The light was so bright that he was a little uncomfortable with it. The Apollo had consumed too much fuel to maintain the "Covenant" shield, and he was almost accustomed to the unstable and dim light brought by the secondary energy source without realizing it.

For the same reason, Lin Xi was not used to the quietness here.

After all, those old things on the Apollo that had been in service for hundreds of years were always making noises here and there from time to time - and here, apart from the slight beeping sound when it was first started, there was only the slow and hesitant footsteps of their group echoing in the long and narrow corridor.

They first passed through a temporary passage for emergency evacuation, then used a crowbar to push open an isolation door and came to the real interior of the aircraft.

What appeared in front of Lin Xi and others was a bright and smooth corridor. Because the spacecraft itself was not in a horizontal state, the corridor was inclined all the way downward.

There are some circular hatches embedded on both sides of the corridor.

Lin Xi tried to open them, but most of them were locked from the inside.

However, their original functions can be seen from the metal plate on the hatch.

"Life supplies storage room 1, life supplies storage room 2, life supplies - damn, these people are really rich, how much life supplies do they have in stock?"

Schroedereth repeated the words on the signs in a low voice and then asked in amazement.

No one answered his question. Lin Xi walked slowly and cautiously down the inclined corridor. He stopped from time to time, trying to find some clues from the smooth and new aircraft... some clues as to why it appeared here.

In addition, he found that the materials and facilities of the entire aircraft were very exquisite, but the style was all from the oldest era of exploration.

They found the elevator at the end of the corridor. Lin Xi glanced at the sign and pressed the up arrow.

When they arrived at other decks, the clean and cold scene they saw on the storage deck finally changed.

There were a lot of debris on the ground, and there was a white shoe with reflective material that obviously belonged to a researcher. He must have been very panicked when he ran through the corridor where Lin Xi and others were now.

“… Otherwise, he wouldn’t have lost his shoes.”

Lin Xi murmured.

Then he looked further away.

There was some information on the ground, but the electronic ink paper had completely failed over the years.

Now they look like little more than gray plastic film.

Then there were the weapons, every one of them was out of bullets, and a little further ahead... black stains appeared on the ground and walls.

Lin Xi's gaze lingered on those stains for a long time, and his heartbeat was speeding up little by little.

Because those stains that had turned completely black... were actually blood stains.

"What on earth... is happening here?"

Schroedereth made a trembling sound.

Lin Xi didn't answer him.

They continued walking forward, and finally they came to a row of cryogenic hibernation chambers with their doors wide open.

After seeing the situation inside, almost everyone let out a low cry of panic.

There are almost hundreds of cold storage chambers in this aircraft. At first glance, those neatly arranged cold storage chambers seem to be able to stretch directly from one end of the aircraft to the other.

Compared with the hibernation rooms here, those on the Apollo are so shabby that they are unsightly.

Moreover, there are people in all these cryogenic chambers... or rather, corpses.

That's right, the hundreds of people lying in the cryogenic hibernation chamber have all turned into shriveled mummies with dark skin. However, the vital signs monitors and terminal systems are still glowing with a faint blue light - they are still working from beginning to end.

Lin Xi's body shook slightly, and he felt nauseous and frightened.

But he finally forced himself to calm down.

After looking around, he endured the extreme discomfort and slowly walked to the middle of the hibernation chambers.

He examined the mummies and the instruments in order.

The mummies' eye sockets were deeply sunken, but their lips were all wide open. However, due to the low temperature, all their hair and clothes were completely preserved. Some had clear tattoos on their skin, some had wedding rings around their necks, and some had photos next to their pillows, but the people in the photos had no outlines anymore... Everything about them strangely made them exude a weird, living aura, as if they would open their eyes in the next second and smile at Lin Xi.

The other three people were already so frightened that they couldn't even speak. Lin Xi calmed himself down and opened the work log of the cold storage room.

The freezing began in 2275... This coincided with his guess in his heart. That was indeed the end of the great era of exploration. The Providence had disappeared in space at this time.

All the freezers were opened in normal conditions, and Lin Xi searched page by page for the information he wanted.

The first few dozen pages were filled with boring and dull data that looked perfectly normal. However, in 2280, something strange started to appear in the work log.

He discovered that people began to frequently use emergency freezing devices to put some people into cryogenic hibernation, and soon after, some bizarre instructions began to appear in the work logs.

For example…

"Adjust the thawing deadline from 2295 to 1,000,000?"

He looked at the words on the work log in confusion.

This adjustment would be tantamount to killing everyone in the cryostat, and of course, they are dead now.

Lin Xi tried to find the source of the instruction, but he failed in the end because he lacked the key.

"You mean, these people were killed?"

Lina's voice was trembling as she spoke. It was obvious that she was terrified by the hundreds of corpses that had turned into mummies in the freezer.

"Maybe... but that's weird."

Lin Xi murmured.

"This kind of instruction completely violates the basic right to life. Unless the underlying program is changed, it will never be successfully issued, let alone adopted by the central computer."

Lin Xi looked around at the mummies around him.

The mummies, whose jaws had been stretched open by the tightening of their skin and whose lips had opened wide, now looked as if they were screaming silently.

And this scream has lasted for three hundred years.

Lin Xi felt his stomach was uncomfortable, he wanted to vomit, and his whole body was cold.

There were a few moments when he almost wanted to give up the exploration and flee with his companions.

But as he was thinking this, there seemed to be a voice deep inside his body constantly reminding him - look again, look again, here is what you need, here is what you need... the clue.

I am the captain of the Providence—

In a trance, Lin Xi seemed to hear Dr. Ando's ethereal, ghostly whisper ringing in his ears again.

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