"You mean this damn monster is actually intelligent? Please, please don't say such horrible things."
Schroedreth immediately retorted.
"But, if it wasn't like this...how could the center console be like this? And we just encountered that disgusting thing outside. Maybe there will be more on our way back. The people in this aircraft are probably This kind of monster also ate it, so it was abandoned here... "
Lina said reluctantly. She seemed unusually crestfallen, which was understandable since she had been so positive all this time.
"Really... I still hope to get the star map or coordinates... and then go home..."
As she spoke, Lina’s voice was filled with a hint of choking.
Of course she didn't mean going back to the Helios from here.
"Hey, don't give up hope, maybe we can find something else."
Even through the mask of the exploration suit, Lin Xi could see that Lina's eyes were already a little red, so he had no choice but to comfort her.
"Yeah, I don't think things are that bad."
Schrodneres was also comforting Lena.
Although he didn't seem to believe what he said.
However, Lin Xi finally discovered something after carefully observing the ruins of the central console.
He pried open all the wires and rusted metal plates that had become a big ball, and then there were the electronic components that had no function at all...
Finally, some silver-white metal plates emerged from under the completely corroded parts.
This is the main board of the center console.
Lin Xi felt relieved when she saw it.
Just as he had vaguely guessed before, although the blood of insects can corrode all the control buttons and wires of the console, the motherboard at the bottom may not be a big problem... Otherwise, they will not be able to enter this aircraft. At that time, it was impossible for the aircraft to automatically sense the presence of humans and turn on its lights, and it was also impossible for the freezer controller and personal operating system to operate normally.
Even the thick metal door of the central control room can be opened and closed normally (except that the biometric authenticator seems to be malfunctioning).
Lin Xi told the two people behind him his guesses and findings. As expected, the two people who had seemed extremely depressed suddenly became extremely high-spirited.
"Wait a minute, if we look carefully, there might be more useful things here!"
"Ha, yes, maybe there is a backup of the star map and coordinates."
Lina even said whimsically.
However, even though this speculation was somewhat vague, the other two people present had no intention of refuting her.
Schroedreth even eagerly searched inside the dark control room.
He chaotically used his feet to turn over and kick away the corpses of the monsters piled near the ruins of the center console, while the searchlight swept across the ground in random circles.
"boom-"
Not long after, a clear sound of metal collision came from his feet.
Schroedreth let out a cry of pain and jumped up on one foot.
"What the hell is this!"
he shouted in panic.
Three searchlights fell on the thing he mentioned before at the same time, and the smooth metal surface of the latter immediately reflected an arc of light.
Lin Xi's eyes froze for an instant.
He squatted down quickly, and then swept the remains of the strange-shaped insect corpses away from the metal objects on the ground.
After a brief cleaning, the thing was finally revealed.
Its size is not too big. It is a uniform and regular oblate object, with a slightly black metal sheet covering the back. A round head is embedded in the center of the body, and eight robotic arms are evenly spaced. Distributed on the lower part of the body.
Sensors, infrared detectors, spectrum analyzers and other detection equipment are all covered under the translucent synthetic material of the "head", and those bulging lenses suddenly look like its eyes.
Looking at it suddenly, it looks like a jellyfish toy made of steel and synthetic materials, which makes it look even a little naive.
But no one who knows what this thing is would think so.
"I feel more and more now that I am dreaming. Is this real? There is this here... This is a 'ghost', right? This is not a movie prop... This is real."
Schrodreth let out a low cry as if he was dreaming.
Lin Xi could understand his shock. In fact, he himself was not much better.
"ghost".
This was the most famous military mechanical warrior three hundred years ago. It is said that the Del company that produced this series of mechanical warriors had the shadow of the Anya people. The series of mechanical warriors they produced had nightmare-like maneuverability and efficient killing. efficiency.
As the first and most widely used "ghost" mechanical warrior, it is the most famous one - his most famous achievement is that with a formation of 100 ghost mechanical warriors, the people on earth are tens of millions of kilometers away from the earth. Remote control directly strangled billions of Martian leeches - just 100 mechanical warriors. The people on earth easily exterminated the difficult and terrifying native Martian creatures and successfully established a colony on that planet. own immigration base.
But probably it is precisely because of the terrifying abilities displayed by this series of mechanical warriors produced by Del Company that these robots have aroused the fear of the people on earth.
The Mechanical Warriors are considered inhumane weapons by the United Earth Government and are banned throughout the solar system.
Dell spent a lot of money in the lengthy litigation and eventually went bankrupt - but the production technology and information they held disappeared after the company declared bankruptcy.
When the last mechanical warrior aged out of use over the long years, this strangely powerful killing weapon became a legend.
Now, however, the legendary Providence's lifeboat appears.
Killing machines considered legendary weapons also appear.
Suddenly, there was an answer to why those piles of monster corpses appeared.
"Oh my god, I understand..." Schroderreth suddenly clapped his hands, "Del Corporation's products are banned in the solar system - but the destination of Providence at that time was not within the scope of the solar system! They must have cooperated with Del Corporation Signed the agreement and brought these mechanical warriors with them! In this way, even if there is something as difficult as Martian leeches on AS192, they can easily deal with it-"
Lin Xi frowned and looked at the "ghost" mechanical warrior on the ground. He tentatively squatted down and observed it carefully.
Compared with the corpses of those monsters, the shell of this thing was intact, without any damage at all, but it still stopped all functions.
Lin Xi soon discovered more mechanical warriors under the corpses. Just like the one they found at the beginning, all the parts of these mechanical warriors were complete, and several mechanical warriors even maintained their function. The fighting action at that moment. But now they are completely frozen in time. They stay there motionless, spending hundreds of years in the darkness with the corpses of the monsters that gradually rot until only empty shells remain.
"Lina is right..."
After checking all the mechanical warriors, Lin Xi returned to the center console again.
He muttered, staring at the badly damaged console.
"This is a design error... The mechanical warriors produced by Del Company are too powerful. For the sake of safety, they must be directly controlled by the instructions from the central console. Those monsters discovered this, and they found that they had no way to resist. These mechanical warriors corrupted the center console with their own blood."
"…Then those mechanical warriors immediately stopped functioning after losing their command. Until now."
"Wow!" Lina and Schroedreth both exclaimed.
After a moment, Lina's excited voice rang out: "Hey, does this mean that if we can restore the motherboard of the center console, these mechanical warriors can also resume operation? If that is the case, we don't have to be afraid of this place anymore. of bugs.”
"I... I think so."
Lin Xi was stunned. He paused for a moment before answering.
really weird.
he thought in his mind.
What they discovered here would play a vital role in their subsequent survival.
But why is he so uneasy? It was as if there was a voice in the dark that kept reminding him... something was wrong.
Oh, and Jerry.
Did Jerry act so wrong and then lead them here just to let them discover this aircraft and these things in the central control room
Lin Xi's originally high mood quickly dropped when he thought of this.
Lin Xi put the motherboards he found into his backpack, and then he called Lina and Schroedreth.
"We'd better get out of here quickly." He said, "After all, we don't know if there are more bugs in the spacecraft. The rest of the exploration will be left to the annoying mercenaries on the Helios. , they must be more professional than us.”
Under Lin Xi's reminder, the two people who were a little carried away quickly shuddered, and then they quickly walked out of the aircraft.
rustle-
However, just as they left the central control room, Lin Xi suddenly stopped.
He suddenly turned around and looked at the central control room, which had returned to darkness.
"What's wrong?"
Lina asked in a panic.
"No... nothing."
Lin Xi turned around, nervously clenched the gun in his hand and whispered.
Maybe it was because he had come into contact with those two terrifying and disgusting giant insects before that he was a little scared... Lin Xi always felt that he seemed to hear the terrifying sound of those insects again.
The friction sound of countless feet coming into contact with the metal surface.
rustle-
rustle-
…
And this illusion lasted even until Lin Xi, Lina and Schroedres returned the same way.
He felt that his muscles were about to twitch due to excessive tension, because that weird sound followed them vaguely.
Several times, Lin Xi was ready to watch those disgusting monsters emerge from every corner, swinging their thick brown-red tentacles and ferocious mouthparts at them.
But in the end those strong premonitions came to nothing.
Their journey away from the aircraft was even smooth. During this period, Lena and Schroedreth also got themselves new gas bottles and clean water from the living facilities reserve area in the warehouse area.
…
"You made a big mistake, Lin Xi, you shouldn't have done that..."
A strange woman stood at the end of the corridor of the Helios spacecraft. She walked toward Lin Xi step by step, and then spoke slowly and softly.
She didn't seem to notice anything wrong with herself - her whole body was covered with blood, there was a deep wound in her abdomen, and her abdominal muscles were turned out. Her abdominal cavity was open to Lin Xi, revealing the things inside that were enough to make people... Crazy things: half-human, half-insect babies huddled together in layers, their faces wrinkled and their skin stained with mucus and their mother's blood.
"Zizzi... sizzling..."
The buzzing sound of insects came from their deformed bodies. Their extremely terrifying faces were crowded around the edge of the woman's abdominal wound, just like children crowded into the window, looking out curiously.
"Liz..."
Lin Xi finally recognized the woman's face.
His heart was suddenly seized by fear.
He almost screamed, but something seemed to be blocked in his throat and he couldn't scream a word.
In the blink of an eye, the scene around him changed.
Lin Xi was horrified to find that she had returned to the central control room of the aircraft.
But this time the central control room was not completely dark, with the scarlet light of the emergency lights. Illuminating everything in the central control room.
The insect corpses that had withered and decayed into empty shells in Lin Xi's memory were now all alive.
Some of them almost look like normal humans, except that their pupils are densely covered with countless tiny black dots, which are their pupils.
And some are extremely disgusting and terrifying humanoid insects, but judging from the distribution of the facial features, the shadow of humans can be vaguely seen.
They were in pieces, with only fresh fragments lying on the floor, under the mechanical arms of those cold mechanical warriors, their twisted faces staring at Lin Xi.
"This is a mistake... This is a... mistake..."
They opened their mouths wide at the same time, and shrill and desperate sounds continued to come from inside the black bodies.
"This is a mistake?"
Lin Xi closed her eyes and murmured again.
"Dr. Lin Xi! What's wrong with you?!"
Suddenly, Lina's voice came.
Then Lin Xi's body jolted heavily, his head fell back and hit a metal plate heavily.
This time he woke up immediately.
What caught his eye were naturally the concerned faces of Lina and Schroedreth, but without the isolation of the exploration suit helmets, the two of them looked more or less unfamiliar.
Lin Xi was in a daze. The vibration of the patrol car and the sound of the tracks rubbing on the alien ground came together with the roar of the motor.
The cramped environment brought Lin Xi back to his senses - he was now in the patrol car driving to the Helios.
"I... I think I just fell asleep and had a nightmare."
Lin Xi closed her lips and uttered a dry and hoarse whisper.
In an instant, everything that had happened before came back to his mind—
After leaving the aircraft from Providence, they found their companions staying outside and Jerry and others who were still unconscious.
They thought they probably still had a long way to go in cave exploration. But what they didn't expect was that the companion who stayed behind made a new discovery while waiting for them: right behind the aircraft, there was an elevator that went directly to the ground.
Although it has been buried by sand, we can know from some remaining facilities throughout the artificial cave that it should have been a lifting platform used to transport large aircraft from the bunker to the ground. However, in an accident three hundred years ago, the lifting platform became tilted, and the aircraft was permanently trapped in the underground cave.
Probably God finally felt that the bad luck he had imposed on the exploration team was enough. This time, He decided to grant them some luck—the elevator that was originally supposed to be used by logistics personnel to inspect the lifting platform was still in a usable state until now. !
Lin Xi and others brought their unconscious companion directly from the underground to the surface with incredible ease.
Although it had already deviated from their planned exploration point, no one really thought about their exploration mission until now.
Lin Xi used his personal terminal to send distress information and their current real-time location to the Helios.
They didn't wait long. The excited team, who had been conducting search and rescue operations nearby, found them immediately.
In a series of previous activities, Lin Xi already had a pretty good relationship with Lina and Schroedreth, and they boarded the same patrol car.
Then, Lin Xi fell into a deep sleep unknowingly due to excessive exhaustion... and then had the nightmare that made him very uncomfortable.
"Dr. Lin Xi, stop looking so gloomy. It's such a waste of your face."
Lina stared at Lin Xi for a while. She was half-joking at Lin Xi. It could be seen that her escape from death this time made her feel very happy.
"After going through those things, it is normal to have nightmares. I suspect that I will also have nightmares for a long time after returning to the spacecraft, but look at it now... we are all still alive. Is there anything better than this? ?" Schroedreth was also smiling, and he said after Lina.
The search and rescue team sitting next to them cast strange looks at the three of them.
Obviously, they were a little uncomfortable with the harmonious relationship between the three.
Lin Xi's reputation on the Helios was not good... Although the surging rumors did not make everyone wary of Lin Xi or want to kill him, no one wanted to get close to Lin Xi.
In fact, when the news came that Lin Xi had disappeared and died along with the exploration team in that unprecedented horrific storm, many people on the ship even secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Let people.
Who would have thought that Lin Xi was still alive
This is simply a fantasy—anyone who lived through that storm will think so.
Lin Xi certainly didn't miss those people's gazes and their vaguely malicious looks.
It's just that at this time, he couldn't muster the energy to care about those people.
His head hurt and his mind was very confused.
Even though Lena and Schrodreth had been trying to relax him, he still couldn't get rid of the sense of panic without any reason.
From time to time, he would think of the trapped mummies, the insect corpses in the central control room and... the mechanical warriors produced by Del Company.
"Ghost" type killing machine.
Although he, Lina, and Schroderres only conducted an extremely simple exploration of the aircraft, based on the information they had obtained so far, it seemed that they could already make a rough guess about what happened inside the aircraft.
No matter why the aircraft appeared on the lifting platform, one thing that is certain is that many people inside the aircraft have already shown symptoms of being parasitized by alien bugs.
Maybe the bugs escaped from some people's bodies, or maybe it was the invasion of bugs from the outside. In short, someone found a way to activate the Del mechanical warriors through the central console to eliminate those bugs... At the same time, they also sealed all those who had been parasitized. A mass slaughter was carried out in the freezing warehouse.
But in the end, those monsters broke into the central control room, corroded the console with their own blood, and stopped the operation of all mechanical warriors...
Lin Xi kept thinking about everything he had seen before, and the uneasy feeling was so strong that it made him feel dizzy.
What went wrong
He couldn't help but think.
Or... was everything just a figment of his imagination after being overly frightened
Lin Xi calmly observed that Lina and Schrodreth were obviously much more relaxed. The self-doubt and irrational fear in his heart almost tore him in half.
However, these chaotic emotions were temporarily forgotten by him after he jumped out of the patrol car and saw Bryce and Alyssa who were already waiting there.
"You fucking bastard—"
Bryce hugged him and then cursed at him viciously.
If an uninformed person saw him today, he would probably think that there was some deep hatred between him and Lin Xi.
Alyssa watched their reunion from the side, with an uncontrollable smile on her face, but her eyes were already red.
"Forgive this guy's foul mouth... You must know that before this, your brother had been frightened by the news of your disappearance and cried several times."
She leaned over and hugged the two older boys, and then she rubbed their hair vigorously.
Then she said this to Lin Xi in front of Bryce.
"Hey, stop talking nonsense."
Bryce's face suddenly turned red.
The author has something to say: Number 1: Director... why didn't I appear? (face gradually darkens)
Bad author: Yes, why? It must not be because I can’t think of a good-looking male protagonist...
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