Lin Xi, Bryce and Alyssa are now huddled tightly in the circuit switching room located in the corner of the passage. Considering their current situation, this circuit switching room is almost a small gift from God to them - it is the only place to hide in this bare passage, and they can also pass through the metal door in the switching room. The diffuser window above allows you to observe the outside world in a timely manner.
Of course, this small exchange room is not without its shortcomings: the too narrow space makes them stick together unsightly. Because of this, Lin Xi can clearly feel Bryce's breathing and The heartbeat is too fast.
What happened to that guy
He raised his head and saw Bryce mouthing to him.
Bryce's forehead was covered with crystal cold sweat, and his face looked even uglier than Alyssa.
Lin Xi rarely saw Bryce showing such a frightened look (even if Bryce had tried his best to hide it), and then he suddenly remembered that when he was on Earth, Bryce hated him the most. The things seemed to be myriapod insects, and now, like this, watching his colleagues turn into such disgusting looks obviously gave him a lot of stimulation.
Lin Xi held his breath and gave Bryce a helpless look. Then he looked at Alyssa beside him and told him to calm down. After all, there was Alyssa beside them, who was frightened by the huge human-faced centipede. Before going insane, they must consider the person they need to protect.
Lin Xi didn't know how much information could be exchanged through the exchange of eyes in the dark small room, but no matter what, in the end, Bryce nodded with a twisted look on his face.
But sometimes, things always seem to take a turn for the worst. For example... Even though Lin Xi was already praying crazily in his heart that he and his group would not attract the attention of those "people", Ai Li's body suddenly trembled heavily, and then he suddenly changed direction.
He was obviously going to swim away along the corridor soon, but now, he crawled towards Lin Xi's direction.
"Shasha..."
"Shasha..."
The friction sound made by countless feet crossing the metal ground instantly became particularly clear.
Aili's pale cheeks almost touched the ground. He kept sniffing the thin breath on the ground, and made a tapping sound like "click-click" in his mouth.
"Alyssa... found... Alyssa..."
From this distance, Lin Xi and others could clearly hear the muttering coming from Aili's mouth.
At first, he was just mechanically repeating the instructions given by Taran.
But as the distance between him and Lin Xi tightened, his whisper gradually turned into another kind of higher frequency neighing.
"King—our—King—"
Eli's call was extremely sharp and full of pain.
The moment she heard that sound, Lin Xi's headache felt as if it was about to explode in the next second.
He had to bite his lip hard to prevent himself from shouting.
But when he finally regained his breath, he realized that both Bryce and Alyssa were giving him extremely worried looks.
What's wrong
Even though his face was pale and he was shivering unconsciously, after seeing Lin Xi, Bryce still asked silently with his lips.
“…”
Could it be that they were not affected
A trace of doubt flashed in Lin Xi's heart.
It's just that at this time, he didn't even have time to explore, because Ai Li was almost coming to their side.
There was a drop of cold sweat on Bryce's chin, his nostrils were widened, and even though he tried his best to control his breathing, Lin Xi could still feel that his breathing was getting heavier.
And his hands were moving silently.
He was pointing the pulse gun in his hand at Ai Li's position outside the metal door.
Lin Xi's pupils suddenly shrank, and he shook his head at Bryce with difficulty.
No-
He wanted to shout.
But it was too late.
"Click..."
Those little grinding sounds stopped.
The light projected into the exchange room from the louvered heat dissipation window suddenly dimmed.
Lin Xi turned her head suddenly.
Then I saw... the face that belonged to Ai Li.
A pale, twisted, expressionless face.
-The monster with a dark insect body was raising its upper body to rest outside the metal door. Its empty pupils without a trace of white were staring directly at the three people in the current exchange room through the thin gap in the heat dissipation window. kind.
No, it should be said that the person he was looking at... was only Lin Xi.
"king-"
Eli grinned at them.
"boom-"
Bryce suddenly raised his foot and kicked open the metal door from the exchange room.
"Ahhhh-"
He let out an unbearable scream and rushed out. He raised the gun, pointed it at Eli's head and pulled the trigger.
"Puff—"
Aili's expressionless human face was burned into a black mass by the pulse bullet directly in front of their eyes.
Scarlet mucus, which is countless times thicker than human blood, spurted out from the wound and splashed on Bryce's body.
Aili's body leaned heavily to both sides, but after the shooting, its mobility did not weaken at all.
"Kaka-kaka-"
A group of ferocious mouthparts protruded from the already bloody position. Without the human cheek as a disguise, it looked even more disgusting than before.
The harsh clicking sound came from the lower part of Eli's deformed jaw.
Its eyes are blind, but its movements are getting faster and faster.
"Be careful-" Lin Xi suddenly pulled Bryce, and finally let him avoid the mouthpart that ejected from Ai Li's throat.
The mouthpart fell heavily on the dented metal door on the ground. A circle of thin teeth tore off a piece of metal, leaving a ring with an uneven edge on the metal door. .
"Oh, heaven!"
Alyssa picked the right time and replenished Aili with another pulse bullet.
"I'm sorry. I'm really sorry-"
The young woman's face showed genuine pain and apology.
Probably because she was the only one of the three people who could accurately identify Eli, and now she felt even more tortured by shooting him so mercilessly.
Of course, the gun in her hand was always very stable.
In the moment of crisis, Bryce glanced quickly at the hole that had been pierced before, and his face twitched.
"Don't tell me that you survived an attack by this kind of thing..."
he asked horrified, with a hint of belated panic.
"That thing is much scarier than him!"
Lin Xi shouted.
Neither he nor Bryce was stupid enough to stay here to tangle with Eli, but began to run away towards the other side of the corridor.
However, just like when Aili discovered that their existence relied not on their eyes but on their sense of smell, even most of their heads had been blasted to pieces, and even their eyeballs had turned into a slimy splash of unknown liquid. At the top of the corridor, Ai Li could still accurately find the location of Lin Xi and others, then swung his body and crawled directly towards them.
The light yellow feet spread all over his sides ran very fast. It was the first time that Lin Xi felt the speed of a multi-legged creature so intuitively.
It can be said that without any effort, Ai Li narrowed the distance between him and Lin Xi.
"Oh no... oh no no no no no no..."
From time to time, Bryce would turn around and shoot at Eli, but what he couldn't understand was that the monster's upper body was almost turned into a blackened meat paste by the pulse gun, and it could only barely slow down. Some speed instead of trying to escape.
In Bryce's experience, even a monster (or a giant insect) should feel this kind of damage, but Eli didn't feel the slightest bit about the bullet or the scars on his body. He kept chasing after him tenaciously. Behind Lin Xi, there was a clicking sound from the mouthparts that continuously leaked out black and red liquid.
Bryce could swear that there was no such scene even in his most terrifying nightmares, even... If it weren't for his girlfriend and brother, Bryce suspected that he might have burst into tears due to a mental breakdown.
God knows how much Bryce hates bugs with more than six legs. Not to mention a bug with the body of a centipede and the face of a former colleague (now bombed off).
There seemed to be some scandals between Aili and Alyssa before. People always thought that Alyssa, who was eloquent and had a good skin, was suitable for Alyssa as the deputy captain. Bryce has never behaved abnormally in front of others, because he has always been very confident in his relationship with Alyssa. However, occasionally in the dead of night, he will still fantasize about using bullets to kill Ali in his mind. That scene where the face was blown away.
At that time, Bryce never thought that one day his dream would come true, and shooting a bullet into the face of his former love rival would not bring happiness but panic.
In his opinion, there could never be a worse time in the world than now.
But soon, he overturned this naive idea.
"I**&%… "
Just as they were running along the corridor and about to turn a corner, Alyssa suddenly stopped.
Bryce almost hit her, and Lin Xi almost fell because of it. Fortunately, they were able to hold on at the last moment.
"What's wrong… "
There were obviously the footsteps of the bloody multi-legged giant insect behind him, but after seeing clearly the scene at the other end of the corridor after turning the corner, Bryce froze involuntarily.
It can be said that Alyssa, who was still able to curse out words when faced with the scene in front of her, was probably the most mentally tough among the three.
At the end of the cave-like deep corridor, a group of... mutated crew members were squirming next to each other.
They don't seem to have undergone as serious changes as Eli, at least, they seem to still maintain their human appearance. However, judging from their disheveled appearance and mucus-covered appearance, it seems that they have gathered at this end of the corridor for more than a day or two.
If Talan was still here, he would probably tell Lin Xi that his guess was not wrong. These people had disappeared even before Taran used incense to turn the mutated people into his own puppets. In fact, these people were the first to experience changes after taking the food bag. In the words of the Sunu priests, they were born with the so-called "active constitution." These people suddenly woke up some nights, slowly walked out of their cabins, and never went back again. Taran had been warned of their disappearance, but he didn't pay too much attention, after all, he was still there at the time. There were too many things to ask for, so he simply and rudely used his authority to cancel all the alarms.
However, I am afraid that Taran would never have imagined that these disappeared people were gathering in a remote corner on the same deck as him.
They even began to transform on their own—
The moment he saw these people, Lin Xi's instinct loudly warned: the core of those people with confused eyes and empty eyes had been changed.
Chaotic and cold-blooded insects are taking shape within their bodies, replacing their warm flesh and emotional souls bit by bit.
Of course, these bloody devourings that occur at the soul level are impossible to be perceived by Alyssa and Bryce.
What made them extremely horrified was the number of these mutated crew members and what they were doing... They were eating several groups of bodies that had obviously begun to decay.
There are obvious bullet marks on the walls and floor of this corridor, but those weapons are now soaked in thick blood. The people who controlled them before have also become food in the mouths of other alienated crew members.
Apparently, there had been a confrontation here not too long ago. Not everyone on board the Helios has turned into a muddle-headed, alienated insect monster.
Unfortunately, in the face of hundreds of mutated crew members, the crew members who were more or less able to maintain their normal sanity ultimately failed.
The metal corridor that was supposed to be smooth and cold was now covered with a lot of sticky and unknown substances. Those substances like sticky colloids gathered together in groups, and the surface was covered with mottled and intertwined veins like blood vessels.
Countless bulging translucent balloons hung down from mid-air, swaying slightly with the vibration of their contents.
And almost at the same time that Lin Xi and the others were looking at the scene in front of them in a daze, one of the balloons suddenly trembled violently, and then twitched - along with the tearing of the fleshy shell, a deformed ball that was half human and half insect appeared. Mixed with a large amount of mucus rolling out of the balloon.
"Sizzling...sizzling..."
In fact, everything happened very quickly, so fast that people could hardly react.
The moment Lin Xi and others stepped into the corridor, all the mutated crew members, as well as the newborn human insect monster... turned their heads at the same time and looked directly at them. Immediately afterwards, the half-human, half-insect monster, which had not even shed the mucus on its body, lay down on the ground and began to crawl towards Lin Xi...
Facing this corridor, which looked terrible, no one could move forward. However, following them was Ai Li, who was getting closer and closer.
At this moment, the three people looked at each other, with a faint expression of despair on their faces.
“…”
Time seemed to be stretched infinitely by some force at this moment.
Lin Xi, Alyssa and Bryce changed positions tacitly, leaning back to back to form a triangle, then raised their guns and pointed them in different directions.
At least this way, they won't be attacked from both sides before they die.
However, after more than ten seconds, all three of them realized... something seemed wrong.
Eli, who was supposed to arrive soon, didn't show up for a long time. On the other side, the monster that was crawling quickly in their direction suddenly stopped all movements.
It suddenly fell to one side, its back armor facing upwards, and curled up into a ball.
A wave of fear emanated from the newborn monster.
And there is a strong sense of surrender about it.
Lin Xi's head hurt more and more, his brows were tightly knitted together, and cold sweat kept pouring out.
"Fa, what happened?"
He heard Bryce say behind him.
No one dared to put down the gun in their hands.
"I don't know, maybe Eli... maybe he died on the road... maybe..."
Alyssa replied weakly.
“…”
But Lin Xi just pursed her lips tightly and continued her silence.
I don't know how long it took... maybe just a few seconds. But in Lin Xi's feeling, tens of thousands of years have passed in this short period of time.
"boom… "
A huge, pitch-black corpse suddenly appeared out of thin air and landed in the corridor facing Lin Xi.
Aili's body is divided into two distinct sections, and his tail and head can still twitch slightly, perhaps still retaining some activity.
The body with thick black-red slurry even slid a short distance on the ground and almost touched Lin Xi's toes.
Bryce screamed at the top of his lungs at the sudden appearance of the body. He screamed and stretched out his foot on Lin Xi's behalf to lift Eli's body far away - but after hitting the wall of the corridor, The insect limb covered with links shook vigorously on the ground several times before stopping.
"Who, who is where?"
Bryce fired uncontrollably in the corridor until the pulse gun sounded a piercing alarm due to insufficient energy.
On the other side, the alienated crew members who had been staring at Lin Xi and the others all curled up in unison.
They retreated back bit by bit at a slow speed. Some of the crew members who had more alienated characteristics, such as those crew members who had insect eyes and carapace gradually appearing on their bodies, chose to cower and pretend to be dead.
"Calm down, Bryce!"
Lin Xi had to punch Bryce hard to calm him down.
But even so, Bryce still looks like he's on the verge of going crazy - well, Lin Xi can certainly understand -
After all, Eli's body appeared completely out of thin air...
etc.
wrong.
A shiver ran down Lin Xi's back, almost making his hair stand on end.
Lin Xi suddenly took a step forward, raised his gun and pulled the trigger at a certain location he felt.
"Wow..."
The moment the pulse bullet hit a certain location on the wall, there was a sound like soft fabric being shaken in the air.
And right in front of Lin Xi's eyes, the place where the metal wall should have been suddenly trembled, and the color and reflection of the metal became blurred as if covered with a thin layer of frosted paper. Then, all the colors faded away little by little, revealing the wings that were full of wrinkles underneath and were almost translucent in color.
Something fell from the wall. Its body is extremely strong and huge, and it looks even bigger than Eli - and much more terrifying than the weird and deformed giant centipede mutant.
Suddenly, it looked like that guy was somewhat similar to a mantis on Earth, with six sharp and ferocious legs spread evenly on both sides of its body. However, on the back, it has a pair of wings that can be called very beautiful.
Different from all the mutants that Lin Xi and his party had seen before, this monster's insect-like body was not as shiny or colorful as insect shells... Its body surface was actually covered with a layer of Thin human skin.
"Woooooooo..."
What was creepy and unbelievable was that a whimpering sound that was completely indistinguishable from a human came from the thing's throat.
The huge wings shivered tightly behind it, and some circular markings crowded together on the edges of the soft, wrinkled wings.
It alternately flashed pale pink, blue and bright yellow and black.
Pink means happiness, blue means shyness, and those black and yellow ones probably mean extreme fear
During the period of taking care of Star Butterfly, Lin Xi had become accustomed to judging the happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy of "No. 1" based on the color of its wings.
Now this monster in front of him...
But not Star Butterfly.
Lin Xi said from the bottom of his heart.
-Only he knows how unconfident he is when he thinks this way.
Those brightly colored wings.
There is also the unparalleled ability to mimic the environment.
Lin Xi had only seen it in "No. 1".
“…”
Perhaps feeling Lin Xi's gaze, the monster finally turned its head slowly after a gentle tremor. However, while doing this action, its wings gradually stretched out. It seemed very It was afraid of showing its face in front of Lin Xi (Lin Xi himself didn't know why he felt such a "fear"-like emotion in such a terrifying monster), so it kept using its wings. Covering most of his face.
Only his eyes... his eyes were exposed.
"boom-"
Lin Xi heard the sound of the pulse gun falling to the ground. It was Bryce who made a mistake in his absence.
"Oh, my God, my God, my God..."
He seemed to have completely forgotten the other words and just kept repeating this word in Lin Xi's ears.
Lin Xi didn't even have the ability to speak. He felt that he was completely frozen, unable to move, speak, or think.
All he could do was open his eyes in shock and look straight at him.
The monster's deformed and terrifying body was inlaid with a pair of extremely deep and gentle eyes that were very out of place.
There is even a very small tear mole on the corner of the eye that always seems to be smiling, and the dark blue pupils are as deep as the stars.
Those were Savile's eyes.
Lin Xi thought in her heart.
No matter how long it took, no matter what happened, Lin Xi could never mistake those eyes. After all, in such a long time, no matter who he was with, whether he was happy or sad, that man's face was always engraved in his soul. of depth.
As time went by, those scratches began to rot and bleed, leaving him scarred and painful.
But no matter how painful or desperate, that person's face is always there and will never disappear.
forever.
Lin Xi never thought that she would meet that man's eyes, Savile's eyes, again in the rest of her life.
Those are the eyes of a living person.
"Saville—"
Finally, all the surging emotions exploded at this moment.
He let out a long cry and ran towards the man.
"No, Lin Xi, no—that's not Savile! That's not it!"
It's a pity that Lin Xi was grabbed tightly before she could run a few more steps.
That was done by Bryce and Alyssa who reacted in an instant.
They forcibly grabbed Lin Xi's shoulders and pulled him back hard. At the same time, "No. 1", who had been motionless and carefully covered his face with his wings, could not help but flutter his wings because of Lin Xi's call just now that contained sadness and longing.
This suddenly exposed the bumpy parts of its wings that had been well hidden.
"Woooo..."
This unexpected mistake made it nervous all of a sudden. It raised its forelimbs in an attempt to hold its not-so-good-looking wings.
It's a pity that its action also fully revealed its true face.
At this moment, all emotions and thoughts disappeared.
Instead there was only fear and guns.
"This is its mimicry! Don't be fooled!"
Alyssa immediately raised her gun the moment she saw "Number One".
That's not Savile.
Although she had never seen the legendary man, Alyssa was already sure at this time that there was indeed no man named Savile here.
There is only one complete insect monster here.
That guy had a ferocious, indescribable face like that of an insect. Every part of it seemed to show its evil and cruelty. The sharp mouthparts and some sticky, black liquid were dripping down. red blood.
Anyone could tell that the black and red blood belonged to none other than the unlucky life assistant Eli. God knows what the monster did to it before it died, leaving itself with a mouth full of blood.
But it is such a monster - such a face, where a pair of extremely beautiful eyes are suddenly embedded in the place where the compound eyes should be bulging...
This makes this monster look more terrifying than ever before.
Not just horrific, but disgusting.
The disgust and fear of this monster spread all over Alyssa's body in an instant, and even her bones were trembling because of this monster.
Alyssa pulled the trigger without hesitation.
But the monster in front of them was incredibly agile and agile. It was no wonder that Ai Li, who had tenacious vitality and scared them a lot, turned into two people without any resistance in front of such a monster. Section the corpse.
Its movements were so fast that it seemed like it was teleporting. Even Alyssa, who had the best marksmanship among the three, could not hit the opponent at all after firing.
"No, stop!"
Of course, Alyssa didn't have time to fire a few shots.
Because Lin Xi stopped her directly and pressed the muzzle of her gun.
“I, I know who it is, please—don’t shoot—it means no harm—+”
Alyssa almost used all her willpower to control the fear in her heart. She completely forced herself and finally released her finger from the trigger.
"Lin Xi? What on earth are you talking about?! It's not malicious? This kind of monster—"
she asked with a twisted look on her face.
However, the next moment, when she saw the monster's reaction after the gunshots stopped, her question got stuck in her throat and never came out.
Neither Bryce nor Alyssa thought that they would encounter such a thing one day.
The monster was just like Lin Xi said, and had no intention of attacking them.
Even... it does seem to have an indescribable humanity.
Those extremely sharp limbs were tightly squeezed in front of his chest. It first tried to raise its forelimbs to cover its face with the curved joints, but soon it discovered that its too conspicuous forelimbs seemed to put great psychological pressure on the humans in front of it, so it quickly lowered its forelimbs.
How should I put it, this monster looks a little at a loss.
After a brief hesitation, it dragged its wings from behind its body without leaving a trace, then shrank its neck and covered its face behind the wings again.
There was a small fresh scorch mark on the edge of the wing, which was left when Lin Xi shot him again just now.
It soon discovered the somewhat unsightly black color. It pretended to be casual and pulled the small piece of wing to the side.
The colors on its wings are constantly changing, showing that its mood changes quickly now.
And its pair of unusually human-looking eyes were also moving around. It kept staring at Lin Xi and Alyssa, and Bryce couldn't stop looking at them.
(If Alyssa had paid closer attention, she would have discovered that a certain alien insect was particularly interested in the interaction between her and Bryce).
The look revealed from those clear blue eyes seemed almost a little bit innocent.
But... there are only those eyes.
As soon as she saw the whole body of the monster, Alyssa felt that her scalp was going to explode.
"Don't, don't be afraid."
Bryce came to Alyssa's side gently, and then held Alyssa's hand.
Bryce's palms were also moist, and his pulse was beating extremely fast. While comforting Alyssa not to be afraid, Bryce himself was actually quite nervous.
Among the three, only Lin Xi looked calm.
"Number one?"
Lin Xi stared at the weird insect, and then asked in a murmur.
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