It's great to be alive.
This was the most vivid thought that came to Lin Xi's mind after meeting Bryce.
Even if there is a series of troubles waiting for him next.
As a survivor of the exploration team, what awaits him will be a pile of written reports, and if he is unlucky, he will most likely have to make a face-to-face mission report with Taran (or that damn emergency team). Just thinking of these two points, Lin Xi has begun to envy Jerry and the other three who are in a coma.
Not to mention, this distress also allowed them to accidentally discover the Providence's aircraft - this was a life-saving straw for the Apollo, which was now almost out of ammunition and food.
Of course, every time he repeated his adventures with Lina and Schroederes in the aircraft, Lin Xi would constantly emphasize that there were many huge and terrifying alien insects living in the aircraft, as well as the abnormalities of the mummies trapped in the freezer...
However, looking at the ecstatic expressions of those people on the Apollo, Lin Xi was very doubtful whether they had listened to his reminder.
The control motherboard they took out from the central control room of the aircraft was immediately handed over to the technical analysts on the Apollo. Fortunately, the technology on Earth has not completely stagnated in the past 300 years. According to the information that Alyssa revealed privately, they may be able to completely repair the motherboard in a short time - okay! Maybe this is why the people on the Apollo did not take Lin Xi's reminder seriously.
After all, once the central control motherboard is repaired, it means that those "ghost" type mechanical warriors that receive central control commands can resume operations immediately.
Even if they only rely on the few mechanical warriors that Lin Xi and his team found in the central control room, they can easily deal with most attacks.
"... According to your description, we suspect that there are more mechanical warriors stored in the lower warehouse of the aircraft." It was the lovely Alyssa who secretly told Lin Xi the news, "After Del Company went bankrupt, the United Government discovered that the inventory in their warehouse was too small when they carried out the destruction procedure for those mechanical warriors. Now that I think about it, it is very likely that Del Company has reached an agreement with the government of Country A in private, and all the orders that have not been shipped out in time have been transported to the Providence and brought here. After all, this place is not controlled by the solar system ban. According to the usual nature of the government of Country A, maybe they are still hoping to use the special location here to conduct private weapons resale. You know, at that time, this place has always been considered the first extrasolar colony in human history."
Perhaps even Alyssa herself did not realize that when she talked about the planet where the Apollo was now located, she had completely assumed that it was the legendary planet AS192.
Lin Xi pursed her lips.
He silently watched Alyssa muttering in a low voice because of excessive excitement, and did not remind her. If this was really AS192, why was the warp gate that should have been nearby according to the coordinate calculation completely nowhere to be seen
To erase a folding black hole like a warp gate so casually - Lin Xi doubted that even God would find it difficult to do this.
Moreover, what made Lin Xi increasingly worried was not just the aircraft and those damn documents and reports.
"Huh..."
It was another day of reporting tasks. After leaving the meeting room, Lin Xi let out a long sigh, then dragged his tired body straight to his greenhouse without stopping.
In fact, so much time had passed since the Apollo 11 crash-landed that the research tasks of these researchers had been completely abandoned. No one cared about the animals and plants transported from Sunu (no matter how precious and priceless they were), and no one cared about the progress of their tasks. When even the survival of life was in question, the projects of these researchers seemed to have become particularly insignificant.
But for Lin Xi, just because no one cares doesn't mean he doesn't have to worry.
At least, the star butterfly that is still in the greenhouse is now the one he is most concerned about.
"Hey, 'Number One', how are you doing today?"
Lin Xi walked into the greenhouse and greeted the huge, ugly, even deformed thing in the glass culture tank.
And that thing was just as usual, quietly attached to a corner of the glass groove, without any sound, as if it were a dead object.
Lin Xi walked to its side and began to measure its various data as usual.
Although Ouni firmly believed that this mass of things covered with tangled meridians and disgusting spots was the corpse sac formed after "No. 1" failed to pupate, Lin Xi still decided to continue observing it as the pupa shell of the star butterfly.
It was discovered that there was a problem with Number One's pupation that night when he was brought back to the Apollo by the rescue team.
After a series of bureaucratic meetings, Lin Xi dragged his tired body to open the door of the greenhouse - and then he almost fainted because of what he saw.
The star butterfly chrysalis shell, which was originally more or less beautiful, was rotten, swollen, deformed and changed color. And when Ouni, who was supposed to take good care of "No. 1", saw Lin Xi's deathly expression, she just blushed and stammered, unable to find an excuse.
Well, the young man with curly hair had made an excuse, more or less.
"I swear, I really don't know what happened, it just became like this all of a sudden... OK, okay, I admit that I was a little negligent during the time you were missing... I'm sorry, Dr. Lin Xi, but you have to know that I'm really too busy. The animal laboratory is in a mess, and those bastards in the emergency team are clamoring to destroy a batch of biological sleeping bodies below level A to save energy. If I could put a chip in my brain like Professor Ando, maybe I could take care of all these messy things, but you know me... I'm just a student who wants to get more credits, who knew that things would turn out like this in the end..."
Ouni almost looked like she was about to cry when she spoke to the end. Facing such a face, Lin Xi could only helplessly accept it in the end.
The little star butterfly he raised with his own hands.
His "Number One" might have really died in that disgusting and rotten cocoon shell...
However, perhaps the accident caused by the storm changed him. After witnessing Francis' death with his own eyes, Lin Xi found it increasingly difficult to accept the fact that a life close to him was leaving him.
So even though the cocoon shell of "No. 1" has become what it is now, Lin Xi still refuses to give up.
Instead of destroying it, he silently recorded all the data every day and prayed in his heart that "No. 1" was still alive.
Maybe his prayers really worked.
There was actually a faint breath of life coming from the extremely ugly cocoon shell.
At first it was just a soft shell that bulged slightly when he whispered to it.
The noise was even fainter than a baby turning over in its mother's belly - but Linxi somehow discovered it.
God knows how happy he was at that moment.
Later, Lin Xi discovered that when he gently stroked the wet and sticky surface of the pupa shell, something inside the pupa shell seemed to vibrate slightly in response.
Even the spots on the surface of the pupa shell would occasionally change into different colors, just like the patterns on the gorgeous wings of "No. 1".
Lin Xi began to have more confidence in the survival of "No. 1", although he was probably the only one on the entire ship who cared about this.
"Hey man, how's your day going? Maybe you wanna go for a spin?"
Lin Xi spoke softly to "Number One".
After taking a look at the data, it was found that in just a few days, the deformed pupa shell had grown a lot larger at a speed visible to the naked eye. Because of this, the originally thick pupa shell has now become much thinner, and in some special parts, the pupa shell has begun to crack.
After discovering this, Lin Xi examined those parts with trepidation.
"Huh? This is..."
Lin Xi couldn't believe his eyes - he found a soft and thin film under the cracked cocoon shell.
The film was white, but had a faint translucent texture.
The yellowish slurry inside the pupa shell showed a little yellow shadow under the film.
At the edge of the membrane and the eggshell, there are some capillaries that should not appear on the insect eggshell, but Lin Xi did not notice the problem at this time.
Because at the moment when he couldn't help but move closer to observe, a wet gurgling sound was heard, and then a pale shadow slid quickly from under the film.
"ah?!"
Lin Xi was startled.
He straightened up suddenly and took a few steps back.
At the same time, after the white shadow began to move, a thumb-sized red spot gradually appeared.
Then there was another gurgling sound, and under Lin Xi's gaze, the hazy red spot stayed in a fixed position. It stared at Lin Xi through the cracks and the film, appearing and disappearing from time to time.
"No way?"
Lin Xi murmured.
It was not until this moment that he suddenly realized what the red spot was.
That's... eyes.
The eyes of Number One.
At this moment, "Number One" was staring at him.
Lin Xi didn't know what "Number One" would look like after the transformation was complete - but one thing was certain now, that is, "Number One" would probably have a pair of big eyes... and red eyeballs.
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