Speaking of earth breasts and mutations, Bryce suddenly hesitated. He stared at Lin Xi with sharp eyes full of inquiry.
He originally thought that Lin Xi felt so worried just because he saw the things at the end of the corridor. After all, those half-human, half-insect monsters looked a bit too impactful.
But out of a brother's instinct, he suddenly felt his stomach tightening after seeing Lin Xi's dazed eyes.
Something bad seems to be happening.
Once upon a time, Bryce had the same feeling when facing Savile (at this time, Bryce thought of "No. 1"'s eyes that looked exactly like Savile, which made him burst into a rage. ), Bryce's nerves suddenly became tense.
"Did something happen? Lin Xi?"
Lin Xi was silent for a while. He hesitated to speak and his face turned pale.
"Let's wait until we're somewhere safer, Bryce."
Bryce heard Lin Xi say this.
"you-"
"Bryce..." Alyssa had been observing the interaction between the brothers beside her. She was more sensitive than Bryce to the fact that something was wrong with Lin Xi, so she spoke in time to interrupt Bryce's questioning.
She shook her head at Bryce.
Bryce fell silent again.
“…”
Lin Xi bit her lip tightly and looked at the two people beside her. The feeling as if something was forcefully stirring her internal organs appeared again. He really hoped that he was hallucinating and not really like those rumors said...
You should kill yourself.
Through the voice of Shizuo Iteng, what the three-hundred-year-old ghost said to him had always been regarded as ridiculous madness by him before.
But at this moment, it was like a stone weighing heavily on his chest.
In this way, in the extremely dull atmosphere, the three of them walked through the passage at the edge of the deck with high spirits.
Without personal terminals, all their actions have become extremely difficult.
Bryce and Alyssa were already ready to kidnap several crew members to solve this serious problem, but the next journey was completely beyond their expectations - the mutated crew members who had been wandering inside the spacecraft with hollow and numb eyes turned out to be None are missing.
From bow to stern, the Helios was as quiet as a ghost ship.
"This is a ghost."
Bryce faintly noticed some movement, and he chased in the direction of the movement, but the person who should have been there was long gone.
Bryce muttered in a broken voice.
"Do you think this is Taran's conspiracy?"
Then, he turned back to Alyssa and Lin Xi.
Alyssa raised her brows and shrugged at him.
"Maybe? But it's also possible that someone is trying to solve the problem on our behalf."
She thought for a moment and then said meaningfully.
Then, she glanced at Lin Xi.
It took Lin Xi a while to realize something. He shook his head in panic: "No, it's not me—"
Now even Bryce cast a strange look at him.
Lin Xi choked on her words.
He suddenly realized that what Alyssa was talking about before was not his special power but "Number One".
"I don't know. I don't know when it climbed out of the pupa shell, and I didn't expect it to be so lethal..."
Lin Xi said dryly.
"But I think it quite likes you."
Alyssa recalled every move "Number One" had shown in front of them, and she couldn't help but say.
"Although it does look a bit scary, but... it looks very docile in front of you."
"Oh, please, Alyssa, what on earth are you talking about?! That thing is not Lin Xi's pet, it is simply a monster."
As soon as Bryce heard Alyssa mention "No. 1", his whole body instantly transformed into a hedgehog, and even his voice became sharp.
"'Number One' is not a monster."
Lin Xi retorted subconsciously.
"It was very docile and seemed normal when it was in the greenhouse. I really don't know... why it became like that."
It's so horrific, so evil, so maddening.
And it has such powerful lethality.
"Normal?" Bryce's face was distorted. "It looks particularly evil when it's disguised as a big moth. You actually say it's normal?"
"I told you, it was normal in the beginning..."
Even Lin Xi himself didn't know why he suddenly started speaking for "No. 1".
"Okay, boys."
In the end, Alyssa forcibly stopped the argument between the two.
"No matter what it is, at least it has no ill intentions towards us, that's enough. You know, there are still a group of ordinary humans who turned into disgusting bugs on our spaceship."
As she spoke, Alyssa once again thought of Taran's swollen and shiny insect body in the warehouse, and she suddenly shuddered.
"Maybe the star butterfly Lin Xi raised was also affected."
she says.
Having said this, Alyssa suddenly turned her head and shouted into the empty corridor behind her: "Thank you for your help... Mr. 'No. 1'."
Alyssa thought about her words, and when she called out the title "Mr. No. 1", Bryce looked at her in shock, and his jaw seemed to drop.
"... But we need personal terminals. If possible, please leave us a few people."
Alyssa certainly noticed how incredible Bryce and Lin Xi were, but she didn't seem to care much.
"Oh, by the way, don't be too bloody, that's a bit scary."
She even had the guts to add one final sentence.
When she turned around again and continued to lead the way, Bryce and Lin Xi took several minutes to find their tongues.
"Alyssa, you... can you detect that monster?"
Bryce asked in horror.
Alyssa shook her head: "Of course not."
But then she glanced at Lin Xi: "I just want to try it."
she says.
Lin Xi: "I feel nothing."
What he said is true.
At least at this moment, he didn't feel the aura of "No. 1".
After Alyssa shouted those words, there was no unusual movement around them.
"Okay. It looks like it's really not here."
Alyssa said.
Lin Xi was a little shocked to find that there seemed to be a hint of regret in Alyssa's tone.
But to be honest, Alyssa's previous actions were more to liven up the atmosphere than sincerely wanting to solve the dilemma the three of them were facing now.
At least after she brought up the topic about Star Butterfly in front of Lin Xi and Bryce, the silent atmosphere between the brothers became much more relaxed.
After a while, the three of us stopped in front of a passage that seemed to have been abandoned for a long time.
"Here we are."
Alyssa stared at the passage and then sighed and said.
"... If I remember correctly, as long as you pass through this passage, there is an elevator that can lead to the lower deck. It is a temporary passage prepared for maintenance engineers."
Alyssa said.
Thanks to the piles of spaceship blueprints she has been struggling with in the past few days. After three hundred years, this old spaceship has been modified beyond recognition. Only some corner facilities still remain in their original state. After all, it would take too much money and manpower to replace such large equipment.
Alyssa had been complaining privately that there were too many useless parts left in this ship, but this time she couldn't help but start to be grateful for their existence.
"Please pray next," Alyssa said melancholy, "Pray that the thing can still be used... and that we can first find a way to bypass the obstacles and come up with a way to open the mechanical equipment without a personal terminal."
After saying that, she took the lead and walked towards the corridor.
The elevator was indeed there, and dark engine oil seeped from the cracks in the door, making it look like the spacecraft itself was bleeding.
A metal mesh door separated Lin Xi and others from the lifting platform. The yellow and black paint had almost peeled off, revealing the reddish-brown pits and rust at the bottom.
As for the control button on the right side of the metal door, it looks like trash.
Cotton-like dust accumulated there thickly, as if no one had done any maintenance here for two hundred years.
“…”
Lin Xi and the other three stood in silence for a while in front of the elevator.
"Do we have any other options?"
Bryce asked cautiously—although while saying this, he was already dismantling the metal plate under the control platform, preparing to rely on violence to unlock the control authority of the lifting platform.
"Unfortunately, no."
Alyssa sighed.
"Unless we're willing to risk being caught by Taran's people and take the few elevators we know about. I don't think that's a good idea given our current codename and danger level."
Alyssa added.
And almost as soon as she finished speaking, the metal platform in front of them shook heavily up and down, shaking off a lot of dust.
"Cough cough cough... so... so good..."
"This old thing can still be used... ahem..."
Lin Xi and Alyssa covered their mouths and noses and let out a small cheer.
However, before their joy could last, a sharp alarm sounded from the control platform in Bryce's hands.
"Oh shit!"
Bryce suddenly inserted a cut wire back into place and cursed heavily at the same time.
The siren stopped suddenly, but Bryce's face was as gloomy as if thunder was about to happen in the next second.
"Which bastard did this? The internal program of this thing actually covered the terminal system! Once it is forcibly cut off, an alarm will sound. Forget it, the equipment will also be forcibly locked. God, this is not a fucking bridge. Facility, this is just a garbage lifting platform that has been unused for hundreds of years—"
"Forehead… "
Alyssa smiled awkwardly at Bryce.
Bryce: "..."
Alyssa: "... Before I updated the security system, I never thought that one day I would become a defector."
She argued with a wry smile.
Lin Xi rubbed his eyebrows. He had a headache and interrupted the gaze between the two people in front of him.
"So, the current situation is that we have to get a personal terminal, right? And we can't attract Tallan's attention."
"That's right."
Bryce and Alyssa said almost at the same time.
"Then... we still have to go back to the central area and find a way to get a few personal terminals from other people..."
Before Lin Xi finished speaking, an obvious noise suddenly came from behind him.
"Kaka—"
"who?!"
Lin Xi turned around suddenly, raised the muzzle of his gun and pointed it in the direction of the sound.
A somewhat terrifying white face was carefully hidden behind countless discarded objects, with only the eyes exposed.
Then, at the moment when Lin Xi was stunned, a forelimb as sharp as a sickle slowly stretched out from behind the waste.
"Snapped… "
With some blood spattering, three stiff, blue-white arms were thrown over, landing just in front of Lin Xi's toes.
"call-"
Lin Xi could hear Bryce making a long gasping sound right behind him.
"Number one?"
Lin Xi couldn't help but speak.
But after losing those three arms, the huge and terrifying body of "No. 1" retracted at an alarming speed and disappeared into the shadows.
Bryce: "..."
Lin Xi: "..."
Alyssa: "... Ha."
Feeling the gaze cast on her for a moment, Alyssa covered her mouth, and then coughed twice.
"Feel sorry."
she said.
It must be said that the three arms thrown in front of them looked really scary.
But if you look closely, you can find that they all have personal terminals tied to their wrists.
The cross-sections of those arms were as smooth as ever—the cross-sectioned muscles were slightly white, and apart from a little oozing blood and tissue fluid, there was nothing else.
It was obvious that someone... or rather, an insect had carefully treated these arms before they were thrown over. "
"Do you think... these arms have been washed? How on earth is it done..."
Alyssa stared at the arm suspiciously and then murmured.
"Ugh..."
After her words fell, Bryce covered his mouth. He tried hard to restrain but still couldn't help but make a sound of retching.
"Feel sorry."
Alyssa suddenly came back to her senses, she cast an apologetic glance at Bryce and then apologized.
After a pause, she added weakly: "Actually, I was just joking. I really didn't expect... I didn't expect that it would really understand."
Yes, that's right. After seeing these three arms that didn't feel bloody at all, everyone remembered what Alyssa said to the empty corridor before.
Because he needed a personal terminal, "Number One" cut off three of his arms and threw them away.
Because I emphasized not to be too bloody...
Well, I don't know how "No. 1" did it, but it did find a way to deal with the blood stains on the stumps.
Lin Xi's eyes shifted back and forth between the arm on the ground and the end of the corridor where "No. 1" disappeared. He didn't know what expression to use to face this almost absurd scene.
"That guy has been following us, right?" Bryce's face looked as ugly as a ghost. "I think we need to be more vigilant - I have never seen such a smart... monster... It is too scheming, and no one can guarantee that it will always be harmless to us."
"you're right."
Alyssa nodded.
Then she pointed to the three personal terminals on the severed arm on the ground.
"Should we use it
she asked.
Bryce squatted down before her. He carefully took down the personal terminal as if he was dismantling a bomb.
Then he took out the disinfectant foam from his pocket and sprayed the three personal terminals back and forth several times before tremblingly handing them to Lin Xi and Alyssa.
"this is the last time."
He muttered in panic.
Lin Xi reluctantly took over their new terminal and then swept aside the elevator control authority.
The elevator clicked and made a frightening tremor, and then the metal mesh door opened in front of the three people.
Lin Xi walked in first, followed by Bryce and Alyssa.
The elevator began to gradually descend -
"Thanks."
The moment he was about to leave deck A, Lin Xi suddenly whispered thoughtfully.
And at the top of the lift, there's a mechanical level where almost no one can set foot.
A pale half-human, half-insect monster shook its wings. Its eyes were still a little red and swollen, and there was still a little moisture on its cheeks.
But the moment the murmur that normal people could never hear reached its ears, the huge spots on the edges of its wings flashed with magnificent and beautiful patterns.
…
"Click—"
With a frightening sound of metal, the heavy, old, dusty and debris-filled elevator finally stopped at the deck where the mercenaries usually reside.
Lin Xi took the first step and walked towards the elevator.
Compared with the A-1 floor, this floor is even more desolate and remote.
What should have been a corridor is now obscured by layers of discarded materials.
Lin Xi reached out and pushed away a lot of debris, finally found a gap and got out.
Outside the debris, the layout looks almost the same as the previous floor.
It's just that the lights have been almost completely extinguished, and most of the cabins on both sides of the corridor are open.
This means that the central control system has failed in this area.
There was a dull, rancid smell in the air—the unique smell of blood that has become corrupted.
It can be said that as soon as they saw the scene in front of them, Lin Xi and others' hearts sank heavily.
"It seems...Thorian's life is not easy either."
Lin Xi couldn't help but murmured softly to Alyssa and Bryce.
They carefully explored the cabin closest to them.
Judging from the remaining household items and the degree of dirt in the cabin, it has only been a few days since the place turned into this almost abandoned state.
However, there were obvious traces of the struggle in several cabins, and it was nothing that there were blood stains on the ceiling and walls. What made the three people's faces become more and more solemn was that it was actually all over the ground and walls. Those scratches.
Lin Xi squatted down and gently stroked the long marks with his fingertips.
"It's a bug."
He moved his lips slightly and spoke with difficulty.
"These people have all turned into bugs... Originally, the mercenaries and exploration teams had the most mutated people."
But now it seems that the entire mercenary team has turned into that kind of monster that is neither human nor ghost.
"this… "
For an instant, the aura around the three people became silent.
"Do you think... there might still be survivors here?"
Lin Xi checked several cabins in succession. When he found a large number of human skeletons that had been almost eaten in the room of one of the mercenaries, he was almost out of breath.
He couldn't help but murmured to himself and asked -
"Of course."
Then, a hoarse, deep voice answered him.
At the same time, the cold muzzle of the gun was directly aimed at the back of Lin Xi's head.
A gray and thin figure appeared suddenly, as if he had grown directly out of the stale and dark stain of the room.
And it took at least several minutes for Lin Xi and the three of them to realize that the person speaking was the guy they had been looking for.
The arrogant, cold-hearted Thorian who always finds ways to cause trouble for others.
"Let me see who this is..." Sorian came closer, the smell of blood on his body was very strong, "Oh, God, can I believe what I see? Alyssa, Bryce, and... and our Lin Xi."
Thorian's voice was hoarse and low, and it seemed to sound the same as before.
But Lin Xi frowned involuntarily.
He could feel that the man holding the gun pointed at him was not as emotionally stable as he showed.
"Thorian? We don't mean any harm, I just want to talk to you."
Lin Xi raised his hands in a gesture of surrender.
Of course, at the same time…
His eyes were fixed on a dark spot in the room.
He didn't see Number One, but his gut told him there was something there.
Calm down, don't move
Lin Xi said silently with her lips.
Under such light and with this kind of silent communication, Lin Xi actually didn't know whether "No. 1" could understand what he meant.
"Talk to me? About what—how to go on selecting your sacrifices? Devil!"
Faced with Lin Xi's conversation, Sorian just yelled nervously.
Immediately afterwards, more figures who looked erratic and thin appeared, and the muzzles of the plasma guns were aimed at the three of them.
Alyssa and Bryce both seemed a little nervous, and of course Lin Xi was too.
However, his nervousness is different from that of his brother and Alyssa. What he was really worried about was "No. 1". Although he had not seen the alien insect hunting with his own eyes, Robert, who was cut into pieces before, and Eli, who was easily divided into two parts, both proved that " No. 1" has strong capabilities in this regard.
But Sorian is different from those who have turned into monsters. Lin Xi also hopes to communicate with the "ghost" who claims to be the captain of the Providence through him - he really has too many doubts and needs to know the mysterious origin of the man. Mr. "Ghost" solved the puzzle.
At this moment, what he was most worried about was probably that "Number One" would jump out and cut Sorian into fresh pieces of meat in front of him.
Thank God, he waited with bated breath for a long time, but a certain monster did not jump out of the darkness and start killing people - this alone was enough to make Lin Xi breathe a sigh of relief.
"I'm not a devil, and I have no intention of choosing a sacrifice." Lin Xi said calmly, "I just want to solve the problem - there is something wrong with this ship. I think you feel it too, don't you?"
He didn't say much.
After all, these completely open cabins proved his words.
"Shut up, don't try to trick me!"
Thorian shouted.
Although they all sounded similar, Lin Xi was also keenly aware of a particularly subtle wavering in Sorian's tone.
At the same time, both Bryce and Alyssa spoke in an attempt to ease the situation.
"Hey, Sorian, you should know what kind of person I am. I can vouch for Lin Xi. There is a reason why we came to find you this time, and we never have any malicious intentions."
Alyssa said.
Although they had long heard from the ship-wide briefing that Alyssa was designated as a defector, during the two-year mission, even the mercenaries had to admit that Alyssa was probably the most responsible and dedicated person they had ever encountered. After hearing her words, the murderous intent and ferocity in the eyes of the other mercenaries, except for Sorian, more or less subsided.
But I don’t know why, this group of people represented by Sorian obviously don’t have alienation characteristics, but their behavior is still extremely neurotic and weird.
So even after receiving Alyssa's assurance, they were still unwilling to put down their guns and have a good talk with them.
Lin Xi and others were pushed out of the narrow and dark cabin by the muzzles of the guns.
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