Mother of Insects

Chapter 49

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For a moment, no one spoke.

Schroedereth stood there with his hands raised, staring at Lin Xi helplessly, his lips slightly parted in a look of horror.

At the same time, the metal door that had not been opened for many years had quietly slid open to both sides.

The central control room was in complete darkness.

"I, I didn't mean it."

Schroedereth stared at the central control room as if he had seen a ghost. He suddenly came to his senses, took several steps back, and kept shouting.

“I don’t know what’s going on, damn, I don’t understand…”

A moment later, the thick metal door of the central control room closed in front of the three of them again.

Lin Xi turned on the searchlight and after hesitating for a moment, he turned to Lina.

"Lina, go and try it."

"I?"

"Yes, just like what Mr. Schroedereth did just now."

Lin Xi said.

"But, but..." Lina was in a panic. She stared at the authentication device as if there was a spider lying on it.

Lin Xi exhaled.

He walked forward, passed Lina, and placed his hand on the biometric authentication device.

“Beep—Authentication passed, please enter.”

The same electronic sound as before rang out again.

The door opened again.

And when the metal door closed again, without Lin Xi saying anything, Lina had already walked forward and worked seriously.

Just like the previous two times, this time the door of the central control room opened smoothly in front of the three of them without any obstacles.

Schroedereth's expression suddenly relaxed.

"It must have been a malfunction. Maybe it was a system bug, or maybe it was just the authenticator failing. After all, this is an Age of Exploration thing, and they can't possibly use Anya technology for the biometric authenticator... Anyone could have opened this thing," he said. "But I have to say, that was fucking scary."

Lina stood cautiously at the door, and looked inside several times before the door closed again.

"Should we go in and take a look?" She licked her lips a little nervously, "… I think maybe we should go and take a look."

Lin Xi hesitated for a moment, but finally he nodded.

Although his mind told him that he should quickly evacuate from the aircraft after encountering those deformed monster insects, but...

The fact that this was once the Providence's lifeboat made it impossible for him to turn around and leave.

Jerry's previous abnormality - it seemed to be intended to bring him here.

If the ghost who claims to be the captain of the Providence really exists, then he must find a way to give Lin Xi some information.

At this point, it seems most likely that this information remained in the central control room.

Lin Xi hoped that he would not be too suspicious, but the fact that the door of the central control room, which should have been under the highest authority, was opened smoothly by the three uninvited guests was strange enough in itself.

Lin Xi asked Lina and Schroedereth to take out the electronic pulse guns, then turned on the three people's searchlights, and then opened the door of the central control room and walked in.

As soon as he walked in here, Lin Xi keenly felt that the atmosphere here was completely different from the outside world.

In the words of Schroedereth - there is an evil atmosphere here.

There were bloodstains everywhere, black bloodstains. The metal floor was full of pits and grooves, almost torn apart. Some shrunken corpses were piled on the floor.

Lin Xi carefully walked around them.

“Oh my god… what happened here…”

Schroedereth said tremblingly.

"Maybe we shouldn't come in here, maybe there are those disgusting bugs here too."

Lin Xi shook his head.

"No, I think this is the only place without bugs." He flicked the light and motioned the other party to look at the corpses, "... Their bodies were not eaten but dumped here."

Schroedereth fell silent immediately.

"Why aren't there emergency lights here? For God's sake, I'm regretting my suggestion now."

After accidentally kicking someone in the head again, Lina said in a voice that was about to cry.

Sometimes Lin Xi envied people like Lina and Schroedereth who could express their emotions so vividly.

And now he was standing at the front of the three people, feeling as if his heart was about to jump out of his chest at any second, but he couldn't say a word.

His head hurt so much that it felt like it was going to explode.

"Ah, what the hell is this—"

Suddenly, Lina let out a scream.

"What?"

Lin Xi turned around and saw her jumping and pointing at a corpse on the ground.

At first glance, the corpse looks like an ordinary human corpse, but if you look closely, you will find something strange about it.

The deformed skull looked elongated and strange, and the part that should have been the lower jaw now looked like a pale and hideous mouthpart. The surface of the bones from the sternum downwards gradually began to turn black, and those shells unique to insects seemed to be naturally covering the skeleton. Lin Xi observed for a long time and found that it was difficult for him to tell whether this body belonged to a human or an insect.

At this moment, the strange and twisted bodies of Liz Chen's children seemed to appear before his eyes again.

The oxygen seemed to become much thinner, and Lin Xiduo took a look at the oxygen supply system of the exploration suit.

Those lovely green lights show that everything is working fine.

But Lin Xi still felt like he was almost suffocating.

"Maybe that's what's wrong with this aircraft."

He murmured.

The only thing that could make the three of them feel at ease was that, judging from the condition of the body, it died from some serious trauma.

"Look at it from a bright side, at least there is something in this aircraft that is fighting this monster."

Lin Xi weakly comforted the two companions who were almost frightened to death.

Soon after, Lin Xi and the other two found more similar strange corpses near the central control console. Most of them had been killed by something that directly blew their bodies apart.

Some of them even look like complete insects - the dry shells have a light and crisp texture when opened, and when they fall to the ground, some black dust and flocs fall out of the empty shells.

"I'm going to vomit."

Lina complained.

Schroeder Reis: "Ugh..."

The poor guy seemed to have actually vomited in his exploration suit.

When they finally reached the central control console, Lina's original question was immediately answered.

Why is there no light source in the central control room alone

Because the connection here is completely disconnected.

“Shit—”

Lin Xi stared at the pile of scrap metal that should have been the central control console and uttered a curse.

Yes, scrap metal.

No word could be more suitable to describe the pile of stuff in front of Lin Xi than scrap metal.

It seemed as if it had been soaked in some highly corrosive reagent for hundreds of years.

The center console is now just a pile of rusted debris that crumbles at the slightest touch.

Several bug husks had fallen beside it, no doubt responsible for the center console's condition.

"These bugs actually know how to use blood to corrode the central control console?"

Lina said in surprise, her tone full of disbelief.

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