Lin Xi remained silent. He didn't say anything, because he didn't intend to put more pressure on Bryce and Alyssa during this special period - he looked at his brother and Alyssa, and was a little surprised to find that the two of them looked To be so vulnerable and panicked.
This made Lin Xi feel slightly distressed.
He finally discovered that before this incident, he had been unconsciously relying on the two of them. In his subconscious, both Bryce and Alyssa were omnipotent and indestructible.
Alyssa can always handle everything on the spaceship with ease, while Bryce can remain calm even when faced with the most difficult and terrible wounds. But this stubborn impression was shattered at this moment.
He saw with his own eyes that Alyssa was almost incoherent when she spoke, and he also saw that Bryce's face was obviously pale but he still gritted his teeth to protect others.
This made Lin Xi feel shaken.
He wanted to protect these two, he had to.
Just like they did when they protected themselves before...
Moreover, deep down in her heart, Lin Xi still had a strange feeling.
Although it is the same fear, the same fear - he seems to be much more insensitive than Bryce and Alyssa.
The mutations of these people on the ship and this series of weird things...
Lin Xi thought he would go crazy with fear countless times, but in the end, he resisted.
What does this mean
Maybe, just like the crew kept shouting, he did have some evil qualities in him
"let's go."
Lin Xi suppressed the chaotic thoughts in his heart, turned around, and intentionally or unintentionally stood between Robert's body and Bryce.
"No matter who it is... or what he plans to do, we'd better get out of here." Lin Xi said, he paused, and then added, "'He' may still be lingering here. And I would never want to meet this monster."
"Just don't care about anything? We don't know what that guy wants to do..."
Bryce became anxious and worried out of habit.
Alyssa stretched out her hand and pressed on the back of his hand.
Then, the vice-captain, who had regained some form, shook his head at his lover: "Lin Xi is right, let's leave here first, and let's talk about the rest... later."
Bryce was persuaded by Alyssa. He took one last look at Robert's body. The insect structure exposed under the human skin made him shudder.
"God, he's really disgusting." Bryce muttered, and then he accidentally expressed his feelings, "But look at him now. I don't know whether to feel lucky or scared - There are actually ghosts in this ship who can do such things. If Robert is a monster, the thing that killed him might be a visitor from hell. "
Lin Xi nodded at Bryce.
He was about to say something in agreement, but there was an electric shiver on the back of his neck.
"Um?"
Just that strange but familiar sense of peeping, Lin Xi suddenly raised her head and looked at the top of the corridor.
He always felt like there was something there—
But there was nothing there except the bright lights and the metal walls of the hallway.
Lin Xi's brows frowned.
He couldn't remember how many times he had felt the same way. Normally, he might have called it nervousness, but in front of Robert's body, he couldn't remain so calm.
Lin Xi raised his gun and fired several shots in succession at the direction where he had felt the sense of peeping before.
-The moment he pulled the trigger, Lin Xi didn't know why he suddenly felt nervous.
But as the pulse bullet left several black scorch marks on the metal wall, nothing happened in that area.
"What's wrong?"
Lin Xi's sudden move startled Bryce.
"No, it's nothing."
Lin Xi shook her head and said softly: "It's just... I want to confirm something... But maybe I'm too sensitive. I feel like something crawled over just now."
he muttered vaguely.
"Maybe it's bugs."
Alyssa said.
"I saw a lot of bugs in Robert's office before. I don't know where they came from. Maybe they slipped in from outside the protective shield, or maybe they were hatched by Taran for his weird religious beliefs."
After hearing the word "hatching", Lin Xi's eyelids jumped.
The appearance of "No. 1" and the ugly chrysalis it currently resides in quickly passed through his mind.
Oh, hell, why would he think of "Number One" at such an inopportune time
Lin Xi forced the uneasiness in her heart back to the bottom of her heart.
Then he turned to Bryce: "What should we do next?"
"We have to go to level b-1."
Bryce thought for a moment, and then said decisively.
"Floor B-1? Why are we going there?"
Bryce's answer was somewhat surprising to Lin Xi. He thought they would find a way to escape to the bridge and ask others for help.
"Because Thorian is there."
Bryce replied.
And the moment he finished speaking, Lin Xi couldn't help showing a bored expression.
"Wait, why are we looking for that guy..."
"The first is, of course, because he is a mercenary, and the most powerful mercenary on the ship. He and his men now have the most weapons on the ship. If we really want to deal with these weirdos in the Helios, we must Get his help. As for the second one..."
Bryce said as he clicked on his personal terminal.
"Remember those physical examination data? We didn't get everyone's list, but at least we knew Sorian. He injured his brain in an accident when he was a child, and then he had an intracranial electronic assist chip implanted... He might They are among the first people in country A to receive this treatment method.”
"Oh, for God's sake, isn't it..."
Before this, Lin Xi never thought that the "spiritual medium" he was looking for would be that troublesome guy.
"Then we have to pray that Thorian is not bewitched into a bug by Tallan at this time."
Lin Xi said dryly.
The three of them quickly left the corridor filled with blood.
And it wasn't until the sound of their footsteps gradually disappeared that the metal wall next to Robert's body gradually lost its mimicry.
"No. 1" slowly shook its wings and climbed down from the wall.
There were some inconspicuous black scorch marks on the edges of its wings, which were caused by Lin Xi's previous shooting - but Lin Xi only had some vague feelings after all, and the position of his shooting was slightly off.
Although Lin Xi was still attacked without hesitation this time, "No. 1" felt at this moment that his mood was much calmer than before.
It has become somewhat accustomed to Lin Xi's cold attitude toward it, not to mention that this time Lin Xi didn't even hit its body.
"No. 1" used its hind limbs to bring the slightly burnt edge of its wings in front of itself, and it carefully used its teeth to chew off the parts hit by the pulse gun.
But after doing this, "No. 1" couldn't help but stare at the gnawed wings for a while.
Some are not pretty.
it thought vaguely.
"nice".
"ugly".
"nausea".
These are all new words that "No. 1" has learned during this period.
Although as a new-born insect, it is difficult for "No. 1" to accurately summarize the meaning of these words, but after experiencing so much, it still has some vague concepts.
For example, its current appearance is "disgusting" in Lin Xi's eyes.
In its previous juvenile state, it was "good-looking".
And its current wings... should be... "ugly".
While thinking this, my chest felt empty, as if the discomfort of being hungry for a long time hit "No. 1" again.
Its long tentacles hung down to its back, and the tail ends of its wings could not help but shrink.
The wings it now uses are newly grown. The previous wings had become tattered, so they had long since fallen off its body. When it was time to grow wings again, "No. 1" deliberately imitated his previous appearance.
But before it could muster up the courage to show it to Lin Xi, it was broken again.
"Number One" rubbed his forelimbs uneasily.
It turned back and looked at the pieces of meat that it had carefully split and arranged.
The color on his body gradually began to fade.
It originally thought that Lin Xi would be happy if that annoying guy disappeared. However, in the end, "No. 1" could only feel a sense of caution from Lin Xi.
However, it protected Lin Xi anyway.
With the gradual growth of intelligence, "No. 1" has gradually developed the idea of self-comfort.
However, some subtle and distant vibrations momentarily interrupted "No. 1"'s thinking.
"Shasha..."
"Shasha..."
…
"No. 1" smelled the smell that disgusted him again, the bitter smell in the brains that had been pierced by it before.
But this time, the flavor became extra strong.
"No. 1"'s wings suddenly tightened, and the ever-changing colors solidified into red and black that represented warnings.
It suddenly raised its body and hooked its forelimbs tightly to its chest. Its tentacles stood up, and the feather-like receptors at the top of the tentacles continuously analyzed the strange smell in the air.
"Lin Xi."
"No. 1" said to himself nervously.
"Lin Xi, I want to protect you."
At the same time as the strange voice fell, the body of "No. 1" was no longer where it was - it pursued Lin Xi and others in the direction they left at an alarming speed.
…
On the other side of the Helios.
Taran was squirming his deformed body, moving bit by bit to the center of the bridge.
The bridge is the central area of the Helios. During the past three hundred years of service, only authorized senior crew members were allowed to enter and exit here.
But now, it feels a bit overcrowded here.
The exploration team members wearing orange exploration uniforms, the maintenance personnel responsible for the basic repair of the interior of the spacecraft, the mercenaries who were attracted by the money to this mission, the low-level crew members who are usually inconspicuous...
They were swaying, squeezing and crowding around Taran, and the man's extremely ugly body was reflected in their blank eyes.
Taran stared at the men with contentment.
Oh, these will be His people.
he thought happily.
If everything goes well... these people will establish the original Kingdom of God for him.
When he thinks about the things recorded in the classics he has read since he was a child, Taran can't help but tremble with joy... He even forgets the extreme pain caused by the alienation of his body.
However, this happy mood faded away a lot after he saw a few cronies around him.
Looking at the entire bridge, there are very few people like Robert who have obviously turned into insects. After all, the active earth milk that Taran has on hand is limited, and what gives him a headache is that if he does not take enough for others, If there is too much earth milk, there will be no way to achieve the effect of insect transformation.
Taran could only choose a few people he was most optimistic about and half-deceived and half-forced them to drink high-concentration earth milk. As for the others, all he could do was mix the earth milk into the raw materials of the food bag.
This indeed allowed the number of his people to increase exponentially in a short period of time, but trouble soon followed.
People who are only mildly alienated look dull, their minds are rigid, their IQs are lowered, and their personalities will become rough and bloodthirsty. Of course, these are not fatal problems. The fatal problem is...
Taran had no control over them.
No matter how hard Taran tried and how much he wanted to demonstrate the legendary "collective sensing ability", he still got nothing.
He couldn't sense anything at all...
He is still him, and these crew members are still crew members.
This is completely different from the records in the classics.
Taran had to keep telling himself that the reason this was the case was because these people were not alienated enough.
However, those who had gradually begun to transform later did not seem to respond to his orders.
"God's inspiration... God's grace is always special..."
Taran squirmed step by step and moved up to the captain's command seat.
Well, his current body can't fit into that position, so he can only barely sit next to the command seat.
During this process, the wet mucus was still being secreted uncontrollably.
On the one hand, Taran felt proud of the strange feeling in his body, but on the other hand, he couldn't help but feel irritated.
"Huh...huh..."
At this moment, Taran heard a heavy gasp coming from his side.
Taran turned his head warily, and happened to see a close confidant staring directly at him. His originally chaotic and dull eyes flickered slightly, revealing a slightly frightened look.
"Ta...Talan...Captain?"
Seemingly noticing Taran's gaze, the henchman slowly turned his head. He stared at Taran, a vague and shocked whisper escaping from his throat.
And then, he seemed to realize something. He gasped and raised his hands with black bristles and fine armor with great difficulty, and the muscles on his face gradually became distorted.
"Is this a nightmare? Oh my god... what on earth is... how..."
Taran frowned. He roughly pulled off a pendant around his neck, took out some powder and placed it in his palm.
Then he lit the powder directly in his palm.
A strong scent of incense emanated from the slowly burning powder and drifted towards the vaguely awake crew member.
Taran looked at the crew member coldly and his eyes returned to deathly silence little by little.
In the lingering smoke of incense, his thoughts seemed to return to the distant past.
He thought of his childhood, which was a gloomy childhood that no one could imagine.
"Bastard."
"insect."
"Disgusting monster."
…
His neighbors, his classmates, his teachers, and even his mother who was always crying always called him that.
Before he escaped from that terrible and closed town, those curses with extremely malicious meaning ran through his entire life.
Yes, just like the rumors secretly circulating on the Helios, Taran does have Sunu blood flowing in his body.
However, no one knows where his bloodline comes from.
His father had thin Sunu blood, so the man looked very different from the people on Earth. The man took advantage of this very cleverly. After all, at that time, the Sunu people had not gone crazy yet, and the people on earth were so curious and exploring about Sunu.
Almost everyone was immersed in that kind of Sunu fever. His father cleverly disguised himself as a member of the so-called Sunu mission, and always claimed that he was a priest of the lofty Sunu temple - relying on forged With his identity and unusual appearance, his father swaggered along the inland and deceived him.
It is said that the man defrauded a lot of money from conservative and remote small town people, and also gave many innocent and simple small town girls a bulging belly before college - that summer, almost every other family's backyard Several tightly locked black boxes were buried under the trees.
Those deformed pieces of meat have become an eternal taboo for people in the entire town.
But…
Taran's mother was not so lucky.
Taran was eventually born, as a monster.
He lived there for more than ten years, and he couldn't even remember how many times he woke up to his mother's wails and found that he had sunk deeply into the mattress, with his head Covered with thick pillows.
His mother's wails turned to terrified screams as he weakly pulled the pillow away from his head.
Before he realized that he was different, Taran used to feel extremely sad about this kind of thing. He even foolishly tried to gain the approval of his mother and others. For this, he paid a nightmare-like price.
Of course, in the end... finally he came to his senses.
He found some sealed boxes in the dusty attic, which were filled with ancient books from alien planets. The sacrificial objects made of gold and gems were still shining and charming after so many years. of light.
It was on that day that Taran suddenly understood something that no one in the entire town understood.
His father was not the liar in the rumors... his father was a high-status priest from that distant planet.
Otherwise, no one can explain where those enigmatic books, those obscure notes, and those priceless sacrificial supplies came from.
A few years later, when Taran spent countless efforts to translate the contents of those ancient classics using his self-taught Sunu script. He finally saw his destiny clearly.
The vicious and nihilistic God of the people on Earth has never been his god... The Star God is his destination, his love, and his everything.
The Sunu blood flowing in his body is far more noble and sacred than that disgusting group of stupid earthlings. What is ridiculous is that the group of lowly creatures around him actually laugh at him with it.
The night he translated the story of the Worm Mother, Taran had a dream.
That was God's first call to him.
It was also the first time that Tallan bathed in the favor of the Star God.
Taran experienced everything that was extremely sacred and sublime in his dream. He felt that supreme sense of control. He watched his country expand its territory in the vast universe. He caressed his children, those alien species that were considered terrifying by the people on earth.
It was the best dream he had ever had in his life, and it was also the perfect future he could glimpse.
When he woke up, he knew that he was chosen.
He is the mother of all insects, the breeder of all alien species, the lover of the Star God, and the only king in that extremely vast and extremely dark kingdom...
…
From the day he opened those dusty books in that dark attic, Taran spent decades of hard work and finally came to God step by step.
Taran is fully prepared to meet his fate.
but…
Something seems to have gone wrong.
To this day, if he wants to control the dependents who have been transformed by his own hands, he still needs to rely on the incense of unknown composition that he found in the attic.
"-These are all fucking props used by your liar father to fool people! He is just a thief. If he has anything to do with the damn Sonu priest in this life, it is that he stole the things of the unlucky priest. !”
"Talan, you are crazy. You are completely obsessed. There are no books or Star Gods at all! That disgusting liar admitted that everything was just a scam before he died..."
…
In a daze, Taran's ears seemed to hear the shrill scream of the woman he should call mother again.
He shuddered suddenly, his expression a little distorted.
"Liar. Don't try to lie to me... you have been lying to me..."
After many years, he still couldn't help but talk to the mother in his memory.
His mother had always called his father a liar, and she said it with such certainty and certainty that there were many times that Taran almost believed it.
Fortunately, every time, he strengthened his belief at the last moment.
Yes, thankfully…
If it weren't for his strong will, how could he be here? Come to this land of God…
How can he shed his ugly and evil human body and finally transform into a more holy and noble form
However, while Taran continued to convince himself, the incense in his palm was like a cold inquiry, constantly stinging his confidence in the Star God.
Why has it come to this moment... why does he still need to rely on this incense to drive his family members
Especially during this period of time, the alienated family members seem to have become more restless and disobedient than before.
It became more and more frequent for the confidant to suddenly wake up like before.
This made Taran extremely anxious—
If it wasn't for that, he wouldn't have made that mistake.
"Alyssa."
Taran muttered the familiar name.
He didn't hate Alyssa, she was a good working partner and a qualified deputy.
But that's all.
Alyssa is just a lowly Earthling.
She could never be Taran's companion.
What's more, she actually peeped into his sacrificial ceremony...
About one-half of the people on the ship were not successfully transformed into his dependents.
And these people will become his trouble later.
Taran would not be so naive as to think that Alyssa would remain silent after seeing all that.
Once she was allowed to incite the remaining gang, Tallan's long-standing devotion to the C'tan and his ritual process to become the Mother of All Worms would likely be disrupted.
That last point is something that Taran cannot accept under any circumstances.
Not to mention... When talking about Alyssa, Taran inevitably thinks of Lin Xi.
Strong hatred instantly swelled in his chest, and his murderous intention for that man even exceeded Alyssa.
…
Perhaps he needed to offer more sacrifices to the C'tan.
Taran thought irritably.
"Alyssa," he relit the incense, and the strong aroma continued to spread in the bridge. He muttered vaguely to the crew, "...find Alyssa and bring her to me."
"Find Lin Xi and kill him or devour him."
"Go... my lovely family... go..."
His voice, accompanied by the aroma, penetrated into the mouths and noses of the dull-eyed sailors little by little.
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