"The person who appeared in John Bronson's body is also him, right? The reason why you suspect that I have something to do with everything on the ship is not just because of the Sunu exhibition accident on Earth, but because of the 'Captain' Show up. Well, that's why I came to you, I want to meet the captain."
"What?"
Sorian's expression finally changed.
Just after Lin Xi said this, Sorian suddenly turned around and made a gesture to the other people staying in the hall. Soon, all those people left.
"What the hell are you doing?! You already knew that John was dead. There was no way we could contact Scripps again! You killed him! Because he already knew your true identity. He I know you have a problem—"
"Scripps Eden. A legend of mankind, a ghost that has lingered for three hundred years..."
Lin Xi said softly.
"This is what he calls himself in front of you? Then has he told you that he needs to be attached to the auxiliary component you installed inside the brain in order to appear?"
"What did you say?"
Thorian showed an expression of disbelief.
"After John died, he still lingered around me. I saw him in Shizuo Ando, and I also saw him in Jerry... "
Lin Xi told Sorian all the information he and Bryce discovered.
When he suggested that he needed to use Sorian's body to summon the captain's ghost again, Sorian's eyes widened in surprise.
"Wait, you said... it can also appear on me?"
He showed a subtle hint of fear.
Lin Xi nodded: "Yes, if your previous physical report is not false at all."
He originally thought that he would need to spend more words to convince Sorian to become the container of the captain's ghost.
but…
"So, are you ready to sacrifice your life for the benefit of all mankind?"
A vague and ethereal voice suddenly came from Sorian's lips.
Lin Xi's eyes froze. He looked at Sorian and found that the man who was exhausted and wary of them a few seconds ago had disappeared, replaced by the "ghost" with a gloomy aura. .
He just appeared without warning and invaded Sorian's body. Thinking of this, Lin Xi couldn't help but feel terrified.
“You’re a pretentious person, do you have any other good suggestions besides letting an innocent person die?!”
As soon as Scripps (let’s assume he didn’t lie about his identity, although he looked very weird and suspicious from any angle) finished speaking, Bryce couldn’t help but stare coldly. mocked.
Alyssa who was beside him did not speak rashly, but her probing eyes never moved away from Mr. "Ghost" from the beginning to the end.
Judging from her extremely vigilant eyes, she didn't seem to think that he had any special kindness towards her group.
Lin Xi instinctively noticed the tension of the two people around him, and gave them a comforting look.
Then he turned back and looked steadily at "Thorian" in front of him.
"Tell me, before I die, should you tell me the ins and outs of everything? Otherwise... the words you keep muttering over and over are not very convincing."
Lin Xi said.
There was a very brief pause in his voice that no one else noticed.
But only he knew what was going on - there was an extremely weird feeling on his wrist, the dripping mucus seemed to appear out of thin air, and the rope that was originally firmly tied to his body suddenly Break loose.
Lin Xi could clearly feel the looseness of the rope. As long as he wanted to, he could easily break free of the restrictions that Sorian had left on him when he was awake.
But on the surface, he still put his hands behind his back, pretending that nothing happened.
It's "Number One".
Lin Xi knew it very well.
He didn't know how "No. 1" understood what he meant. Maybe just like Alyssa said, this little alien bug did have amazing intelligence. He realized that Lin Xi needed to talk to Sorian, so it did not appear suddenly and cut people into pieces like it did with Robert and Eli. Instead, it relied on its amazing mimicry ability to sneak up on them, and then quietly Silently, he untied the rope from his hand.
It would be even more perfect if "No. 1" could stop drooling so much when acting.
On the other hand, the ghostly conversation between Lin Xi and Scripps continues.
After hearing Lin Xi's request, he showed a sad expression as he possessed Sorian.
To be honest, when Sorian made such a sad and delicate expression, it looked a little bit hairy.
"... You are the most human-like insect mother I have ever seen. Your humanity has not been lost, which is good." Scripps's voice was particularly low and sinister.
"Yes, I really should tell you everything. Then you will understand why I let you choose to kill yourself."
While speaking, he raised his head and looked at Alyssa and Bryce on both sides of Lin Xi.
"You have a close relationship with him and you will soon learn that this is the best and only option for him."
"Shit—"
Bryce didn't make a sound, but he mouthed a silent curse.
Scripps looked away seemingly unconcerned.
"-Three hundred years ago, I led the Providence, and 240,000 people who hoped to reach the planet AS192 to start a new life and 30,000 staff arrived here. According to normal procedures, we arrived when the spacecraft was about to Two years before arriving at AS192, the immune agent was gradually released into the nutrient solution circulating fluid in the freezing warehouse... "
"Immunizer?"
Lin Xi couldn't help but frown.
"We don't use that kind of thing anymore - but people three hundred years ago seemed to think that when people on Earth first arrived on a brand new planet, it was easy for them to develop changes in their body flora and immune systems due to exposure to a completely unfamiliar environment. Chaos, so they will extract some extremely small amounts of native bacteria and other messy things from the new colony and gradually inject them into the human body to gradually adapt the earth's body to the alien environment. "
Bryce turned his head and explained in a low voice for Lin Xi.
Scripps nodded: "Yes, that's it, that's the normal process. In the early days of the whole Providence plan, everything went smoothly..."
Yes, everything went well.
It was so smooth that no one could notice the nightmare coming.
The release of the immune agent was just a trivial thing during the long voyage, and no one would have thought that it would be the culprit of the tragedy.
First, the physiological data of a small number of people began to appear abnormal. From the data sheet alone, it seemed that they were infected with some kind of unexplained cancer, and the rate of cell division and proliferation was far higher than the normal level. Numerous weird lumps appeared in the guts and under the skin.
Immediately afterwards, those tumors began to invade their internal organs and other tissues...
Scripps was awakened from hibernation by his companion brain.
He examined those people, and after realizing that even freezing could not contain the weird tumors in their bodies, he had to tearfully execute those people directly in the hibernation chamber.
But his decision failed to control the epidemic of that weird disease...
Soon, more and more immigrants were developing lumps on their bodies. Immediately afterwards, those lumps also appeared in the crew's body.
"... At the same moment, I discovered that something was wrong with an important crew member on the ship. He always had headaches and had nightmares. He felt that his body was establishing mysterious connections with many small lives... When I decided to "He showed great pain when sailors and settlers who could no longer control their illnesses were executed, as if their deaths had affected him severely."
After hearing Scripps' description of that important crew member, Lin Xi's face became increasingly pale.
He could feel that Scripps was staring at him meaningfully. This ghost from three hundred years ago seemed to have known about the changes that had happened to him.
Those headaches, nightmares, and that "connection" that no language can describe.
"and after?"
Lin Xi asked in a murmur.
"He hid many people."
There was something close to pain in Scripps' voice that made him look even weirder than before.
After all, his every move seemed so lifelike that it was almost unimaginable that he was just a ghost without any entity.
Scripps did not mention his specific position for that important crew member, but it can be heard that he does have quite high authority. So when Scripps began killing sailors and settlers en masse who showed signs of contracting the strange disease, he found a way to erase some of the records. He hid those people in the biological dormancy chamber of the spaceship warehouse, and used infected human bodies to replace the earth animals that should have been brought to the new planet to thrive and thrive.
The crew member had good intentions, but he just couldn't bear to see so many people being killed alive... because the death of every infected person seemed to be repeated vividly in the depths of his own soul. What's more, the scientists on the ship have tried almost every method, but they have never been able to prove that the special tumor is an infectious disease.
Moreover, the degree of mutation in those people was not serious. Many of them are even healthy based on the numbers alone.
He just wanted to give those people some more chances, some chances to live instead of being killed so cleanly and decisively - not to mention, even if all the early-stage patients with the disease were executed, the weird symptoms still persisted. The contagion spread among the crew and passengers in a controlled manner.
Before doing this, the senior crew member had no idea that it was his own selfishness that ultimately led to everyone's demise.
"Those people turned into bugs."
Lin Xi softly told the fate of those people.
"Yes, that's right, huge bugs, half-human, half-worm monsters, crawled out one after another from the deepest warehouse of the spacecraft. They acted in the dead of night, removing the living people from the cabin, They were directly dragged out of the freezing chamber, killed, and then taken to the deepest part of the spacecraft. They built a huge Zerg palace there, and the people who were taken away were stored there, and some of them were transformed into the same. Monsters, and some others were injected with special digestive juices and turned into balls of meat paste, which they used to hatch new larvae. And that stupid senior crew member, as early as. Before all the changes started, he was taken to the depths of the 'palace'."
"The last time I saw him, he had turned into that disgusting... thing... He was entangled with those ugly bugs, surrounded by the egg sheaths he produced. He became The mother of alien species, the breeder of those horrific monsters, a mass of evil that can only give birth... Do you know what is the most terrifying thing? The most terrifying thing is that he still had human sanity at that time. He kept crying, begging me to kill him, because if he didn't die, the huge insect swarm would continue to multiply, and all the people who had been vaccinated would become low-level creatures without consciousness and soul. insect."
"... The problem is those immune agents. When selecting the active ingredients, those stupid scientists took the ingredients in the most common insects on AS192... Those are the effective ingredients used by the terrible group to produce food and materials. Method. Once carbon-based organisms are infected by that kind of thing, they will be marked as their potential food and tools."
"They are called alien species... In the entire universe, they will only have one insect mother at the same time. In the time when the insect mother is not born, neither they nor the marked and infected creatures will show any symptoms. Any out-of-phase, however, every once in a while, maybe billions of years, maybe thousands of years, maybe hundreds of years... a new insect mother will always be produced in the infected biological individual once the insect mother is infected. Selected, the story that has been repeated countless times will begin again - innocent intelligent life is transformed into low-level creatures that one hates extremely, driven by the insect mother and those alien species, or directly turned into food... The entire alien race begins in the universe. The range continues to multiply and expand until the insect mother leaves and dies, and the universe will temporarily escape from their clutches.”
As he spoke, Scripps turned back and stared deeply at the group of evil-looking and extremely weird half-human, half-insect monsters behind him.
"This tragedy keeps repeating, and then repeating again... Look at these people, the reason why they became like this is just because of your awakening. They also have their own families, their own lovers, their own dreams, but now, they There is nothing left - if you, the insect mother, don't kill yourself to end this before things get worse, then more people will end up like this because of you."
he said softly.
As he spoke, a line of nosebleed slowly flowed out of Sorian's nostrils, and then, a thin line of blood flowed out of his ears.
Even though his expression still looked cold and calm, Lin Xi could still clearly see that Sorian's body was shaking and convulsing uncontrollably.
He immediately thought of Jerry who had fallen in front of the aircraft before - that old man was still in a coma due to the overload of the auxiliary neural components in his skull, and according to Bryce's diagnosis, he would probably never wake up. not coming.
"Damn-"
He was startled.
"You have to leave! You're killing Thorian!"
he yelled at the ghost.
However, Scripps didn't seem to care about Sorian's condition.
He looked directly at Alyssa.
"My biggest regret was not killing him before the situation got out of hand, and I still think so. Now the mutations of these monsters are accelerating... What's more... his king insect has also appeared, I have felt that evil, and I have seen that terrible devil with my own eyes..."
After hearing the word "king insect", Bryce and Alyssa turned their heads sideways and looked at each other.
A very... ugly and terrifying face appeared in their minds.
"Oh, please."
Alyssa murmured, shuddering at the scene that came to her mind.
"... That's still a bit too much of a challenge to human physiological instincts." She muttered.
Lin Xi's brows were locked together.
King insect
The king insect refers to... "No. 1"
Lin Xi couldn't help but turn his head slightly. He was now able to locate the position of "No. 1" more and more accurately.
In other words, he and the little monster have indeed become more and more connected. For example, at this moment, he has clearly seen the eyes of "No. 1" slowly peeking out from the mimicry. Staring at him without blinking.
But as soon as Lin Xi moved, "No. 1" would quickly retract and continue to disguise itself as a completely inconspicuous lamp at the top of the hall.
Of course, his interaction with "No. 1" at this moment was very secret and was not discovered.
"What the hell are we going to find a way to kill that thing?"
Bryce's face looked as ugly as if someone had slapped it with the bottom of a blackened pot.
He will not forget how the monster named "No. 1" easily cut those extremely difficult monsters into a pile of pieces.
To be honest, at this time, Bryce hoped that the so-called Captain of the Providence in front of him was just talking nonsense to intimidate them.
But the words that came out of the ghost's mouth always had an indescribable and ominous feeling.
"... Now that the king insect has appeared next to the mother of alien species... Soon, soon he will turn into that filthy and evil thing, and be permanently imprisoned in the palace of insects to breed new alien species. Even if it is for Mercy, you should also end his life as soon as possible... Ahem... "
At the end of the words, Scripps' voice gradually became muffled, and some blood mixed with saliva flowed out of the corners of his mouth uncontrollably, making his front wet.
"... mutated... people... will spread that juice unconsciously... they are eager... to infect normal... people... they need more... companions... kill them... otherwise... everyone will..."
"boom-"
Seeing that Sorian was leaning back, Scripps had no intention of leaving him. Lin Xi suddenly broke away from the rope, and then hit Sorian hard on the temple with his elbow. ,
Without saying a word, Sorian fell to the ground and passed out.
Immediately afterwards, Lin Xi came to Bryce and Alyssa and untied the ropes behind their backs.
When Sorian woke up from a maddening headache, he saw three people who had completely broken free from the restraints and disposed of all the weapons on his body.
"How do you feel - do you think your IQ has dropped? Or that you can't move half of your body?"
Bryce was closest to him. Seeing Sorian come to his senses, he let go of the bad-character mercenary's eyelids and checked his pupils, and then he said.
“…”
Suorian endured the pain, gritted his teeth and slowly sat up from the ground, and then felt the condition of his body.
"what did you do to me?"
After a while he asked coldly.
"Our kind captain ghost almost made you a permanent idiot." Lin Xi replied.
"Of course, if you want to ask what we did... I stopped this." He stopped and looked at Bryce, and then continued to face Sorian, "You should be lucky that my brother is a medical professional. Officer, he gave you first aid."
"A precious tube of healing factor injection was also wasted."
Bryce added duly.
He motioned to Sorian to look at the completely empty syringe lying on the ground.
Thorian fell silent again.
He closed his eyes and tried to remember what happened before he completely lost consciousness...
Some hazy images slid through his mind in an unusually vague manner—
insect. monster. blood.
and a deformed, half-insect, half-human young man.
…Kill me, please, I can’t go on like this anymore… Let me die… Please… Let me die…
The man seemed to be saying something to him, his pale face covered with mottled tears.
His face seemed familiar.
"Well… "
But when Sorian thought about it carefully, the only thing he could feel was the maddening pain. He let out a muffled groan and almost collapsed to the ground.
That was definitely not a scene he had ever remembered. Thorian was sure of this, it was another person's memory.
Memories of ghosts.
It was at this time that Sorian instinctively realized that maybe it was just like Lin Xi said... the captain of the Providence had occupied his body just now.
And it almost killed him.
"What do you know?"
After a long time, Thorian asked.
"nothing."
Bryce answered almost instinctively.
"I don't know what that guy told you before, but everything he said to me sounds like nonsense and has no credibility at all. Oh, by the way, considering that as a ghost, he still needs to borrow Only the intracranial auxiliary components can appear and tell stories, and what he said is even more unbelievable.”
Lin Xi clearly heard what Bryce said from the side. He opened his mouth subconsciously, but when he turned around and saw Bryce's current expression, all the words were instantly stuck in his throat and could no longer be spoken.
Is it really completely untrustworthy
Lin Xi didn't think what Captain Scripps said was completely nonsense.
At least, in the aircraft left behind by the Providence, there were many clues that could instantly corroborate what he said.
Those mummies who were trapped alive and died in the freezer had already developed insect-like characteristics.
There are also various traces left by those people when they tried to escape...
However, Lin Xi still felt that something was wrong in the ghost's words.
"That guy is the culprit of everything!"
Just when Lin Xi was lost in his own thoughts, a shrill shout suddenly came from a corner of the hall.
Harry, who should have been taken away by his companions, unexpectedly appeared behind the four of them. He also held a high-power ion gun in his hand, pointing the muzzle straight at Lin Xi.
"They're lying to you, boss. They're lying to you. It's not nonsense. I heard it all."
"That's Scripps, he's a hero to mankind, and he doesn't lie. That guy in front of you is the cause of all this shit on the ship! He's the mother of the monster! As long as he's alive, those of us who drank from the feed bags Anyone becomes a monster—we have to kill him, kill him now!"
"Harry?"
Thorian looked at Harry who suddenly jumped out in shock.
"Hey man, calm down..."
Bryce's eyes were almost bleeding. He looked straight at the ion gun aimed at Lin Xi, and the veins on his forehead popped out, but the words he spoke seemed relaxed and warm.
"We don't know the truth of the matter yet. What that guy said is just one side of the story, isn't it?"
It's a pity that no matter how hard Bryce tried to comfort Harry, the man who had just killed his wife was completely immersed in his own world.
"I heard it, I heard it, it's your fault, as long as I kill you, everything will become normal, everything will be fine-"
he murmured.
Because of the excessive excitement, his body was trembling.
"boom-"
Then he fired.
The next second, blood splattered everywhere.
"No. 1 - no -"
The moment Lin Xi fired the gun, he had already lowered his body, hugged his head and rolled away from where he was. A cold wind blew past his shoulder, and then the man holding the gun was killed in an instant. It hit the corner.
The high-power bullets directly passed through the ceiling, and with the crackling sound, the lighting facilities were destroyed, and the lighting in the entire hall was dimmed by more than half in an instant.
Harry, who was thrown away, struggled for a long time to hold himself up after hitting the wall. His face and nose were covered with blood, and a deep scratch stretched from the corner of his eye to the ear on the other side. , his skin and flesh split open, revealing the white bones, and the wounds looked extremely terrifying.
But... Lin Xi knew very well that if he hadn't called out "No. 1" in time, there would have been two bloody corpses lying there now.
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