"Ahh-"
Alyssa screamed uncontrollably.
She began to struggle wildly, and it was precisely because of this that it took a long time for her to realize that the person restraining her did not mean to hurt her.
"... Calm down, it's me! Alyssa!"
Then, the familiar voice slowly fell into her eardrums.
Bryce's voice sounded like it was coming from tens of thousands of light years away.
Alyssa stopped all her movements and looked at the man so close hastily, almost thinking that this was an illusion she had born out of fear.
"Bryce?"
"It's me, baby, oh my god...what happened to you?"
Bryce held Alyssa's face with his hands, and he kept repeating, his eyes full of regret and worry.
Alyssa kept trembling, her lips closed for a long time, but her voice seemed to be stuck in her throat. There were obviously so many things to say, so much extremely important information that needed to be told to the other party.
But at this moment, she couldn't say anything, but her tears kept flowing out.
"It's okay, honey, it's okay, I will protect you, don't be afraid-"
Bryce hugged Alyssa heavily. He could already feel Alyssa's current predicament without verbal communication.
Alyssa's body softened the moment he hugged her, and all her strength finally disappeared completely.
She was just about to fall to the ground, but Bryce picked her up in time.
"It's okay, I'm here for everything..."
Bryce leaned into Alyssa's ear and whispered softly.
"Ahem—"
Lin Xi, who had been silent from the beginning to the end, couldn't help but fake a cough softly.
He looked at Bryce and Alyssa hugging each other tightly, his eyes a little dazed.
... He always felt that he was standing here in this situation, with an inexplicable sense of abruptness.
"Bryce... I suggest that we go back to the medical room first. After all, Alyssa needs treatment."
Lin Xi reminded.
As he spoke, he felt like he heard something, and then he turned slightly and looked towards the other side of the corridor.
Of course, there was no weird-looking monster chasing Alyssa at this time, but the line of bloody footprints that Alyssa had left on the ground was very conspicuous.
This made Lin Xi feel slightly uneasy.
No matter what Alyssa encountered before, judging from her actions just now, it was obvious that she was avoiding something.
"Oh yes, my God—"
Bryce looked at Alyssa's feet in the direction Lin Xi pointed.
At work, the medical officer could remain calm even when he saw wounded patients with bloody flesh and internal organs leaking out. However, when he saw the wound on his lover's foot, the color drained from his face in an instant.
Alyssa had taken off her shoes before to hide the sound of her footsteps. This may have been a smart decision at the time, but it seemed a bit bad at this time.
After all, when Alyssa escaped, she didn't have time to take care of her shoes. The shoes were thrown in a remote warehouse, and she also injured her feet during the escape. Now There was a long gash on the sole of her foot, and blood was pouring out.
Bryce nervously brought Alyssa to the medical room, followed closely by Lin Xi.
He didn't notice that just after they left the corridor, a few drops of thick red blood fell silently on the other end of the corridor.
Then, the originally smooth and cold corridor wall shook, and the metal color slowly faded away, replaced by various patterns with strong colors.
"Honey."
The insect face of "No. 1" was exposed from behind its wings. Although Lin Xi was no longer here at this time, it still looked a little hidden when it showed its face.
It stared at the position where Bryce and Alyssa were hugging each other for a long time, and then, somewhat abruptly, it learned the lesson word for word.
"Honey."
After a pause, it repeated again, and this time its voice was very close to the tone when Bryce whispered to Alyssa.
Its tentacles trembled slightly behind its head, but then slowly drooped again.
"It doesn't matter, I'm here for everything."
"No. 1" said to the air word by word.
Then he slowly climbed two steps toward the ceiling.
The bodies of several pale-faced crew members emerged from under its wings.
If Lin Xi was still here, he could easily recognize that these crew members were under the jurisdiction of Robert's emergency team.
And there are still countless unread messages flashing on their personal terminals.
"No. 1" clicked on the communicator curiously.
However, when it touched the communicator, a "personnel mismatch" message appeared on the interface.
"No. 1"'s tentacles trembled slightly, and it leaned down to pick up the corpse's fingers and put them in front of its huge compound eyes. After a brief inspection, "No. 1"'s forelimbs looked like they were covered with thin human skin. Changes begin to appear visible to the naked eye.
The original skin became tight and dry, and then slowly oozed blood - the carapace inside the skin expanded and directly burst the original skin.
Shortly after being exposed to the air, cracks appeared on the edges of the gray-white carapace.
"No. 1" tilted its head slightly, raised its forelimbs and shook them.
The carapace quickly shattered into pieces and fell to the ground.
The structure protruding from the inside of the carapace has very obvious characteristics of human hands, but the unusually pale "skin" is actually just a layer of special chitin. Only on the fingertips, there is a layer of film.
And the complex wrinkles on the film were exactly the same as the fingerprints of the corpse that "No. 1" carefully observed.
"No. 1" tentatively put his new "hand" on the personal terminal.
This time it opened the terminal particularly smoothly, and the messages popped up quickly.
All members: Please report the location of Vice Captain Alyssa promptly...
"No. 1" stared blankly at those characters, not understanding their meaning, so it soon lost interest in the personal terminal and the unread messages.
"boom-"
The body was casually thrown to the ground.
"Lin Xi."
"Number One" muttered.
It shook its arms in the air, and the object it imitated was still Bryce not long ago.
It stood there as if Lin Xi was in its arms, but at this moment, there was only air in its arms.
"No. 1" was in a good mood at first.
Although this little bug has not evolved too clear logic, its instinct told him that the things it did just now... helped Lin Xi.
Although, the original "Number One" was still a little angry. The damage Lin Xi caused to it was really serious, and it experienced pain and sadness that it had never experienced before in its life. It was even ready. When Lin Xi came to visit him again, it would spit at him fiercely.
But since Lin Xi was called away, he has never been to the greenhouse again.
In the end, "No. 1" could only drag his unhealed body out anxiously. It quickly found Lin Xi, but it didn't dare to show itself in front of Lin Xi. "No. 1" had a hunch that his current appearance would not make Lin Xi happy, so it could only secretly hide behind him and follow him all the way.
It could be said that the unfortunate crew members now lying at its feet were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. After all, neither Lin Xi nor Bryce noticed the two crew members who followed Alyssa.
But "Number One" easily noticed their presence.
"No. 1" saw them tiptoeing closer to Lin Xi and the two other humans, and the alien insect was deeply impressed by the things that the crew members held tightly in their hands.
After all, not long ago, it personally experienced the feeling of a pulse gun opening several holes in its body.
"No. 1" didn't think much. It leaned out and pierced the skulls of the crew members with its tongue. There was a bitter taste in the brains of these humans that made "No. 1" feel very sick, so it was picky and gave up on them. Fresh and warm.
But no matter what, it knew that it helped Lin Xi.
It takes care of those two annoying humans with guns.
"Lin Xi..."
"No. 1" imagined Lin Xi curling up in his arms after knowing this, and let out a happy murmur. Before this, it had never liked the two humans around Lin Xi. After all, Lin Xi always had a lot of smell coming from those two people. But now "Number One" has subtly changed his mind about Alyssa and Bryce.
It simply watched the entire interaction between Alyssa and Bryce in the corridor.
Those gentle kisses and hugs were as sweet as a dream.
For the first time, "No. 1" felt that kind of feeling called "envy" in his heart.
That's why after Lin Xi and Bryce left, it secretly began to imitate every move of those two people.
"No. 1" believes that this will be a happy thing,
But immediately, the light feeling in his arms made "No. 1" feel a discomfort similar to hunger. It's just that this hunger doesn't come from the stomach, but from its chest.
This feeling is really weird.
It's as if its entire body has become empty... just like its current arms.
The thought of this. "No. 1"'s mood quickly dropped.
At this time, a burst of noisy footsteps came from a distance.
"No. 1" suddenly turned his head and happened to face the people walking slowly from the other end of the corridor.
It's just...those people look a little weird.
Their eyes were so empty and their expressions were dull. They looked like dolls powered by equipment rather than real humans.
"Looking for... looking for... looking for..."
And with every step they took, they would mutter such words at the same time.
After seeing "No. 1", those people suddenly stopped.
Some people's dark eyes flashed with sparks of emotion, which was something called fear.
But more people just stood there simply because of instinct.
"Number One" slowly turned around and faced them.
"Don't, don't be afraid."
Said to the person who did not exist in the air.
Then it slowly crawled towards those people.
…
"Well… "
At the other end of the spaceship, Lin Xi couldn't help but shudder the moment he entered the medical room.
He rubbed his temples. Just now, he seemed to feel an invisible hook gently ticking his brain.
Although the feeling was not as strong as a headache, it was extremely weird.
Lin Xi lowered his head and looked at his arm. Every hair on his arm stood up unconsciously.
And after the metal door closed, Lin Xi frowned. He glanced at Bryce, who was busy with treatment, and then reached out and pressed the lock button.
The door of the medical room instantly lit up in red, which was not in compliance with the regulations on the spacecraft, but after seeing the locked lights on, Lin Xi felt a little calmer.
After doing this, Lin Xi turned around and came to Bryce and Alyssa.
Alyssa was simply frightened.
Lin Xi looked at her a little sadly. It could be said that since he met Alyssa, he had never seen Alyssa like this before. In his impression, although Alyssa has a gentle temper, she has a very tenacious personality. No matter how difficult things are, she can successfully complete them.
Sometimes, Lin Xi even felt that Alyssa was omnipotent. She was far stronger than Bryce and far stronger than herself.
Even in her worst imagination, Lin Xi never thought that one day she would see Alyssa showing such a dazed and fragile look in Bryce's arms.
Moreover, what's even worse are the injuries on Alyssa's body.
There were scrapes and bruises all over her body. Although the deep bite marks on her finger joints were no longer bleeding, they had swollen and turned purple at this time.
Just seeing this was enough to make Lin Xi extremely distressed, not to mention the bone-deep wounds on her fingers and soles.
Bryce's hands were shaking slightly when he was cleaning the wounds, and Lin Xi's brows were also furrowed.
"What happened... Who dares to do this to you... Robert?"
He asked while helping Bryce and spraying disinfectant foam on Alyssa's wounds.
Alyssa shook her head.
Her face looked much better than when the two brothers first saw her.
But her hands kept digging into the blanket that Bryce had draped over her body, as if this was the only way to relieve her tension.
"It's Taran... Taran planned all this..."
At the mention of Taran, Alyssa suddenly covered her mouth with her hands to suppress the nausea that surged up from her stomach.
Next, she told Bryce and Lin Xi all the things she heard in the warehouse intermittently.
"...there was no warp failure from the beginning, Taran must have done it on purpose, he orchestrated this warp failure himself. Oh my God, I was so stupid, why didn't I think of that. All of us at the time They are all in dormant state. It would be too easy for him to do anything, not to mention that the Helios is not equipped with a spacecraft AI."
As she spoke, Alyssa hugged her head hard.
"Hey, don't say that. No one could have imagined that they would be so crazy. After all, no one with normal consciousness dares to do anything during the jump - he may be crushed to a molecular level by the Jump Gate Alliance along with himself. fragments.”
Bryce comforted her.
But Alyssa still looked extremely annoyed.
"The problem was those food bags. Oh my god, fortunately we discovered this so long ago, but I concealed it because of the shortage of food. I thought... I thought they had changed It's fixable... Once we get back to Earth, we'll always have a way to fix what happened to those people. What a mistake I made, and now... Look at our crew, they've all been turned into towers. Lan’s family, no, no, that’s not a family at all, he just sacrificed these innocent humans to the evil god of Sonu!”
While speaking, Alyssa became extremely excited again.
She certainly looked like she was on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
"Mother of alien species, damn... what the hell is this thing? Why haven't I discovered his problem after working with him for so long? God, he actually wants to become such a terrifying thing, and He actually did it on his own initiative..."
"Mother of alien species?"
Lin Xi, who could barely maintain his composure when hearing Alyssa's series of frightened narrations without intonation, swayed slightly the moment she heard this familiar word spoken from Alyssa's mouth.
He looked at Alyssa in horror, almost unable to believe his ears.
"You mean, Taran wants to become the mother of alien species?"
"No, that's right." Alyssa forced herself to recall what she had seen and heard before, and she nodded vigorously, "I heard it with my own ears, and he also used... as a sacrifice. God knows, this How many innocent people has he sacrificed over a period of time..."
"But that's not right."
Lin Xi couldn't help but murmured.
"What's wrong?"
Bryce had been nervously observing every move of Lin Xi and Alyssa. After hearing this sentence, he frowned and asked.
"No one can become the so-called mother of alien species through sacrifice. The mother of alien species is..."
At this point, Lin Xi's voice suddenly stopped.
How did the mother of alien species... appear
He obviously didn't know anything, so why could he tell Bryce and Alyssa naturally that everything Taran did was in vain and had no meaning
"Lin Xi, do you know something?"
Alyssa looked at Lin Xi blankly and then asked.
"I… "
Lin Xi's lips pressed together slightly.
Before he could speak, a heavy sound suddenly came from the other side of the metal door.
"Didi—"
The metal door that had been locked internally made a squeaking sound after the abnormal sound. As soon as they heard this voice, everyone in the medical room became serious.
"Damn it."
Bryce cursed softly.
His voice sounded a little scared.
If Lin Xi hadn't locked the metal door subconsciously, the door would have been violently opened at this time.
Even just a week ago, Bryce never thought that he would one day hear this kind of alarm from the metal door - you know, this kind of alarm was for the interstellar pirates who broke into the spacecraft to burn, kill and loot during the Age of Exploration. set.
"Oh no… "
Alyssa's figure swayed, and she jumped off the treatment table in an instant, and then stared in the direction of the metal door warily.
"They must have come to find me. Taran saw me, he knew... He knew I had seen all his secrets..."
Alyssa said incoherently.
Sure enough, the moment Alyssa finished speaking, the personal terminals of the three of them all began to buzz - countless incoming messages almost turned those buzzes into a banshee's roar.
Lin Xi and Bryce looked at each other and pressed the silence button. Let the information on the screen scroll rapidly.
But soon, a vague and strange voice came from the other corner of the medical room.
"Medical Officer Bryce, you illegally sealed off the medical room during work, which violates the interstellar flight laws promulgated by the United Human Government. We will give you a stern warning here and require you to immediately reopen the interior of the Helios. Medical room… "
"boom-"
There was a gunshot.
The spacecraft's built-in speaker located in the corner turned into a squeaky mass of melted plastic under the bullets of the pulse gun.
Lin Xi put down the gun in his hand and turned back to look at the stunned Alyssa and Bryce.
"That guy sounded like he was swallowing saliva when he spoke. It sounded really disgusting, don't you think?"
After turning off the speaker without changing his expression, Lin Xi seemed much calmer.
Bryce stared at him blankly for several seconds, and then he actually smiled.
"You're right," he said.
"Bang... bang bang..."
But the conversation between Bryce and Lin Xi was soon interrupted by a heavy knock on the door.
"Vice Captain Alyssa, I am Robert, the energy director. There is an emergency on the ship. We really need you to come forward and cooperate with us to complete this work. Captain Taran and all members of the emergency team are waiting in the conference room. you… "
Robert finally spoke in a more normal tone than before.
His voice was loud and steady. If there weren't all the strange things before, just listening to the steady voice of the man outside the cabin door, you might have a hard time realizing that anything was wrong.
But it was this "normality" that caused goosebumps to rise on the backs of the three people in the medical room.
Bryce moved his fingers and turned on the surveillance outside the medical room.
Soon, his figure appeared on the screen.
He was still wearing that strange robe, his head and neck drooped to an incredible degree, and he was pressed tightly against the door of the medical room.
After a while, he seemed to notice the prying eyes from the surveillance camera.
"Vice Captain Alyssa, Medical Officer Bryce... are you looking at me?"
He suddenly raised his head, opened his eyes that were gradually protruding, grinned at the camera and said.
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