"Oh my god."
Lin Xi stood stiffly in front of the pupa shell of "No. 1" and looked at the red eye.
"You live."
He murmured involuntarily.
"...you are really alive."
Although he had long felt that "No. 1" was still pupating inside the pupa shell, only at this moment did Lin Xi feel completely relieved.
"No. 1"'s eyes twitched slightly, as if in response to his words.
Lin Xi approached it again.
It feels strange to look at "No. 1" through such a thin film.
Although it is completely impossible to see clearly what the insect looks like now, these eyes alone are enough to prove that "No. 1" looks completely different now than it did before.
Lin Xi was extremely curious. He wanted to know what "No. 1" looked like now more than ever.
After all, the pupation and transformation of "No. 1" are so wonderful and unique that there has never been any record of this stage in Dr. Ando's notes.
For the next whole day, Lin Xi allowed himself to stay next to the pupa shell of "No. 1", where he completed some tasks that are now considered dispensable. Occasionally, he would talk to "No. 1" say.
When he speaks, most of the time Hou No. 1 will respond positively to his words (occasionally Lin Xi will even have the illusion that this alien bug that is transforming can actually understand him. meaning), but sometimes, the red eyes hidden behind the membrane will become a little dim and dull, and it will fall asleep in the pupa shell.
Whenever this happens, Lin Xi will involuntarily stare into the hazy red eyes of "No. 1" and reveal a faint smile.
Although Lin Xi also knew rationally that the current "No. 1" was probably very scary in the eyes of others: the various reactions of Ernie and Bryce had already reminded him of this. But for him, the time he spent with "No. 1" was the calmest moment he had felt since the failure of the Helios jump - he had never felt such profound peace and tranquility even on Earth. Relax.
In other words... Ever since the gunshot made Savile leave him, Lin Xi has never been truly happy again.
Probably it was because of "No. 1"'s new transformation and its abundant vitality that Lin Xi felt at ease for a long time.
After returning to his humble cabin that night, Lin Xi unexpectedly took the initiative to find the holographic projection recorder that had been sealed away for a long time from the depths of the shelf.
The cold metal pressed heavily on Lin Xi's palm. He sat by the bed for a long time holding the holographic projection recorder in his hand, but he never had the courage to open the small metal box.
However, even so, everything about this holographic projector and that man has been clearly replayed in Lin Xi's mind.
Lin Xi lowered his eyes and looked at the recorder in his hand that had some faint signs of oxidation, feeling a subtle sense of sadness in his chest.
This was a gift that Savile bought with his first salary. He wore the most solemn clothes, recorded those holographic videos in front of the camera solemnly and somewhat stiffly.
At that time, Lin Xi was wearing messy pajamas, nestled on the sofa nearby, holding a blanket and looking at Savile like this with a smile.
Savile has never been the kind of person who is suitable to appear in front of the camera. Although the abuse and psychological trauma he suffered when he was young are in the past, he is always nervous in front of people other than Lin Xi. And looked extraordinarily indifferent - Lin Xi always laughed and said it was Savile's fault. And Saville will become at a loss because of Lin Xi's unreserved praise.
This is Sewell, a man with a gentle soul that is completely opposite to his cold appearance.
He is also the only man that Lin Xi has ever truly loved in her life...and even still loves her deeply.
"Click-"
By accident, Lin Xi finally touched the switch button of the recorder in his hand.
In the slight sound of electricity, Savile's figure appeared inch by inch in the empty air.
As long as you don't reach out and touch him, he looks like a real person... And at this moment, he is here, within Lin Xi's reach.
"Lin Xi..."
He smiled and said in Lin Xi's direction, even his loving eyes were so lifelike.
"Please, stop laughing, you're making me really nervous."
His slightly distressed voice echoed in Lin Xi's cabin along with his soft smile.
Lin Xi's shoulders shook slightly, and he instinctively reached for the button of the recorder, trying to turn off this heart-wrenching image.
But he tried several times, but his slightly trembling fingers could not press the button.
"...Ah... Just think of it as a test? I, I just think that maybe we can record what happened between us... maybe you can use it later?"
The recorder did not record what Lin Xi said at that time.
The only thing Lin Xi could hear was Savile's slightly shy explanation.
He at that time... what did he say at that time
"Come on, Savile, you make me sound like a nostalgic old man. Who would watch their own holographic projection without any trouble? Maybe when we are both fifty years old, I will be willing to do such stupid things, but I I’m still very young now, please, let me go.”
I was really young at that time...
Lin Xi seemed to be able to hear the voice in her body speaking softly.
He has the person he loves most, a perfect family, a love so sweet that it seems like honey can flow out of it, and a seemingly bright and happy future. He took such precious happiness for granted, and thought that he would always have everything that was bright and warm, as intoxicating as fine wine.
And his arrogance ultimately cost him.
Until now, he could only sit stiffly in the small and broken cabin of the spaceship, looking at his lover who had left this world many years ago, smiling gently at him under the influence of the machine.
And there was nothing he could do and nothing to do.
"Ahem... Hey, Xiaoxi... Okay, I know I'm an old antique in your heart, but... this is me, isn't it?"
In Lin Xi's increasingly moist vision, Savile's soliloquy continued.
"Let me think about what I should record... Lin Xi, please, don't do this, you distract me... Ah, I remembered, what I wanted to say is..."
"I love you."
The man who was originally uncomfortable and shy suddenly became serious.
It was obviously just a trial shot to test the holographic projection recorder, but he was incredibly serious as if he was preparing to propose.
"I will always love you forever—"
With a "pop" sound, the light from all the projectors suddenly dimmed.
"No-"
Lin Xi watched Savile's voice disappear from the air and subconsciously let out a low cry of pain.
Then, he was stunned for a while before he realized that the old machine in his hand broke down again.
Now the small metal cube was stained with some liquid, which were tears shed by Lin Xi unconsciously. Lin Xi took a deep breath, and then hurriedly wiped away the tears on the recorder with her sleeves.
However, during this process, some small metal parts fell to the ground from various parts of the metal instrument.
Lin Xi was startled, and her heart, which had been completely immersed in sadness, instantly shrank.
He frightenedly picked up the parts from the ground and carefully observed the holographic projection recorder -
"Damn 'Number One'!"
Lin Xi cursed and his face turned dark instantly.
He soon discovered that the reason those parts were loose... was because there were more fixing parts that had disappeared from the main body of the machine long ago.
And it was at this moment that the metal parts placed at the bottom of the nest by "No. 1" many days ago appeared in his mind. At that time, he had always wondered what happened to these metal parts. He didn't understand where the little bug found those parts, and he couldn't figure out why he thought those parts looked familiar.
And all the questions were answered in this moment today.
Those metal parts came from the whole series of projection recorders that he placed deep in the shelf.
Lin Xi: "..."
He suddenly felt that maybe he had been a little too gentle towards "No. 1" before - the extraordinarily surging love and affection in his heart disappeared at this moment.
But in a sense, perhaps it was "No. 1"'s mischief many days ago that saved Lin Xi this night. At least for once, he didn't have to watch Savile's holographic projection over and over again all night long, and then be so painful that he couldn't sleep at all.
Because of the malfunction of the holographic projector, Lin Xi was able to lie on the bed smoothly and slowly closed his eyes while thinking.
But even so, Lin Xi's sleep quality that night was still very bad.
His dreams were intermittent, and most of them were about the incident between Savile and him.
He not only dreamed about what happened when Savile recorded the whole series of projection videos in front of him, but also dreamed about Savile's godlike, inhuman and ghost-like behavior in the later period of his life.
Bryce always thought that Lin Xi was asleep at that time. Savile's hesitation and Bryce's timely arrival prevented the tragedy, but Bryce would never know that Savile tried to The moment she killed him, Lin Xi inexplicably woke up.
He could feel the murderous intent surging in his lover's body so clearly. Lin Xi could have woken up, and he could have easily stopped what Savile wanted to do, but... He was so tired that he even felt that if he could give Savile, who had been driven crazy by the delusions in his mind, a moment of peace. good. So from beginning to end, Lin Xi just closed his eyes and lay motionless on the bed, like a real drunk who was drunk to the point of unconsciousness.
But Savile did not take action in the end, not because of his hesitation, but because he had no way to do it. Lin Xi knows this better than anyone else.
When he pretended to be drunk under Savile's gun, in addition to the murderous intention, Lin Xi actually felt deeply the love from Savile.
That love was hot and strong from beginning to end, and it never changed, no matter when Savile was sober... or when he was crazy.
On that day... Lin Xi clearly felt that Savile's gun was pointed at him several times and then left...
In the end, the only thing that touched his skin was Savile's cold, dry fingers.
Savile's tears fell on Lin Xi's cheeks, burning hot, and then seeped down his cheeks and into Lin Xi's lips.
Lovers' tears have the most boring taste in the world.
Later, Lin Xi always said to the people around him with a lazy smile.
He has never lied about this.
As for Savile at that time, the last time Lin Xi saw Savile alive was lying next to Lin Xi, sobbing softly. Lin Xi knew very well that Savile could not control himself, and the obsessive thoughts in his mind had put this man in purgatory. Savile kept stroking Lin Xi's cheeks and forehead, tracing Lin Xi's facial features with his fingers, and then kept calling his name...
"Lin Xi..."
Until now, in her dream, Lin Xi could still clearly hear the hoarse and low call.
"Lin Xi... I... love... you..."
Lin Xi frowned, and his consciousness gradually emerged from the chaos of sleep.
But Savile, who was supposed to only appear in his dreams, was still gently stroking his cheeks and ears.
Although she was never pressed against him, Lin Xi could still feel the man's extraordinarily heavy and cold body sticking closely to his back.
Is it a corpse...or is it the ghost of the past
The body had no heartbeat or breathing movement at all, and a very light fishy smell emanated from it.
And its fingertips kept sliding on Lin Xi's body. Gradually, something wet stuck to Lin Xi's body. It seemed to want to wrap Lin Xi's entire body into its own body and squirm.
Lin Xi opened her eyes in the darkness.
No, that was not a dream.
And the person...or rather...the "thing" behind him...is definitely not Savile.
Because even human zombies or undead would not have such a terrifying appearance.
Lin Xi stared at a tongue-like thing hanging down from the thing behind.
The thing was hanging flexibly in front of the tip of his nose.
Some rough hair-like parts rubbed against his back, and Lin Xi instantly got goosebumps all over his body.
monster…
He maintained his original posture calmly, and in the darkness every piece of skin on his body became more sensitive than before.
He tried hard to picture the actual appearance of that thing in his mind.
The thing was very large, with mucus all over its body, and its nails were thin and sharp. The human-like exoskeleton was covered with a thin layer of skin, and there were sparse but thick hair in some places, and it was different from the huge thing. Compared to its size, its movements are incredibly light and agile.
At least Lin Xi didn't notice at all when it sneaked into her room quietly.
Lin Xi gritted his back molars, because only in this way could he avoid screaming in extreme panic.
He held his breath, his heart beating so fast that he was even a little worried that the monster behind him would hear his constantly roaring heartbeat.
What the hell is this—
Lin Xi kept thinking in panic.
Is it the giant insect that keeps rustling in that aircraft
Or are they the monsters that quietly sneaked into the heavily guarded solitary room and turned John Bronson into countless tiny pieces of flesh
Or are they some monsters that have never been known to anyone and belong to this special planet
Because of the extreme nervousness, Lin Xi's thoughts were extremely chaotic and completely illogical.
But at the same time, his hand was moving under the pillow without leaving a trace -
His fingertips soon touched what he wanted, a pulse gun.
The cold and solid handle of the pulse gun made Lin Xi's nerves, which had been stretched to the limit, relax a little.
Thanks Lena.
He said to himself in his heart.
Since returning from the cave where the aircraft was located, the uneasiness that has troubled Lin Xi for a long time has not continued to intensify, but it has not disappeared either. He had a lot of nightmares about it.
After learning about this, Lina told him this method.
"Putting a pulse gun under your pillow can solve most nightmares."
She said to Lin Xi with a sly smile.
"As for why...well, we girls all do this. Weapons make us feel at ease."
Lin Xi didn't ask whether this so-called "female secret" was really useful, he just followed it honestly.
Of course, it was impossible to allow crew members to privately possess high-energy destructive weapons such as plasma guns inside the Helios, but Lin Xi still managed to get himself an electronic pulse gun.
Although Lin Xi soon discovered that the pulse gun was not of much help to his nightmares, he had no intention of pressing it out from under the pillow. He had to thank Lina for her suggestion and his decision. On this night, the electronic pulse gun suddenly played a more important role than solving the nightmare.
While Lin Xi slowly tightened his grip on the gun, the "thing" gradually became more and more aggressive.
Its sticky saliva kept dripping, even soaking most of Lin Xi's body.
From time to time, the guy's fangs scratched his skin, and Lin Xi's muscles all tightened, waiting for the pain that might come at any time.
A few short seconds seemed like a lifetime to Lin Xi.
The moment he completely grasped the pulse gun, Lin Xi turned around suddenly, and then shot the "thing" behind him.
The bright rays of the pulse gun illuminated the dark cabin for a brief moment, allowing Lin Xi to finally see clearly what the "thing" looked like.
Lin Xi swore that he had never seen anything so terrifying. Even the huge expanded bodies of cockroaches and spiders in the aircraft looked pitiful in comparison to this guy.
It was a complete human-bug chimera.
He has a weird, fuzzy and distorted human face, and his body is a corpse-like bluish-white color. Thin skin is wrapped around the body of an obvious insect, even on the sickle-like sharp forelimbs.
The slender jointed limbs support the deformed body. They should be the limbs of arthropods, but they have round joints that are very similar to humans.
Lin Xi fired continuously at the human-bug chimera without hesitation.
The monster let out a long neigh, and then suddenly retreated towards the corner. It climbed to the ceiling with lightning speed, and the twisted human face rotated 180 degrees, looking straight at Staring at Lin Xi.
“l…”
Lin Xi watched the monster's crooked lips open and let out a breathy sound.
He didn't even wait for it to open completely before he aimed at the open mouth and fired.
He shot accurately this time.
With the sound of gunfire, the monster's human face fell apart in all directions, splattering out a handful of thick mucus.
But Lin Xi didn't relax at all.
He didn't miss that moment - after the weird human face was blasted to pieces, a face that was completely insectoid appeared.
To be honest, Lin Xi even felt that the insect face with the ferocious mouthparts and compound eyes was much better than the human face. At least it looked purely terrifying rather than disgusting.
The human face was a mimic of the insect, and beneath that was its true form.
Lin Xi finally breathed a sigh of relief after realizing this. After all, it was easier to deal with bugs than monsters.
His hand became steadier than before.
The next few shots hit the insect's joints accurately.
"boom… "
The insect's heavy body shook, and then it fell straight down from the ceiling.
A large amount of mucus poured out of its body and was everywhere in the room. But the bug didn't die directly as Lin Xi hoped - its movements were even as agile as ever. In Lin Xi's disbelieving gaze, the insect suddenly turned over and rushed towards the door. It paused eerily at the door for a moment, its disgusting head turning slightly.
Lin Xi really hoped that he was wrong, but at that moment the bug did show amazing humanity.
It seemed to take a deep look at Lin Xi. .
It was only now that Lin Xi discovered that his cabin door was actually open. What should have been the control panel was now only a large puddle of saliva, and the control buttons were twisted into a ball under the corrosion of saliva.
The insect just rushed into the darkness outside the corridor...
Lin Xi stood blankly in his destroyed living cabin. After a long time, he slowly let go of the pulse gun in his hand.
"Jesus."
After confirming that she was out of danger, Lin Xi's legs softened and she half-knelt on the ground.
It seemed like it took more than a century for the other people on the spacecraft to realize something was wrong.
The power lines on the deck where Lin Xi was located were all cut off, and all facilities lost their effectiveness.
However, Lin Xi was the only one on the entire deck who was attacked.
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