Thinking of what he had just felt on the belly deck of "No. 1", Lin Xi couldn't help but shudder.
"Can you please let me see your wound?"
Seeing that "Number One" was still standing hesitantly not far away, Lin Xi took a breath and then spoke again.
"Number One" blinked when he heard this.
"Lin Xi."
It muttered.
The voice sounded like it was cheering itself up.
Then it moved its huge and ferocious body cautiously, and moved towards Lin Xi again... But at the beginning it was still a little nervous and kept a little distance from Lin Xi.
Moreover, it cautiously turned to face Lin Xi, so that if it was attacked again, at least the original wound would not be pierced again.
However, "No. 1"'s vigilance only lasted for a few short seconds.
After all, once you get close, Lin Xi's aura becomes stronger.
The tentacles of "Number One" unconsciously swayed slightly behind his head, trying to capture as much of Lin Xi's scent in the air as possible.
The smell that gave it life and soul was so warm and charming that "No. 1" had no way to control his behavior.
It quickly gave up the defensive distance between itself and Lin Xi, and rubbed against Lin Xi's side without a care in the world, sitting close to him.
Lin Xi swallowed a mouthful of dry saliva.
Although his body was already familiar with the existence of "No. 1", the human part of his soul could not help but tremble when it felt the strange body of "No. 1" that was completely different from humans tightly covering him.
But he soon realized that while he felt a little panicked, the monster beside him seemed even more uneasy than him.
The things he had done to "No. 1" when he was semi-conscious replayed in Lin Xi's mind again, and the trace of fear in Lin Xi's heart was gradually replaced by a strange pity.
No matter what he looks like, the soul of "Number One" is gentle and well-behaved.
While thinking this, he gently stroked the chest of "Number One".
It has to be said that "No. 1"'s self-healing ability is quite strong. In just a moment, the wound that was bitten by Lin Xi had stopped bleeding.
Previously, you could vaguely see the inside of the wound through the mucus, but now the mucus has gradually solidified and turned into an opaque grayish white color.
"Will it hurt?"
Lin Xi asked dryly.
He had to force himself not to think about the disgusting organ in his mouth in order to speak normally.
"Number One" trembled slightly when he touched it, its eyes became bright, and it could not even maintain its mimicry - dark red compound eyes flashed out from behind the film, and then retracted.
And after hearing Lin Xi's answer (it certainly did not miss the hint of pity in Lin Xi's tone), it let out a hiss of joy.
Lin Xi was slightly stunned by the pure joy in the chirping of insects.
After realizing this, "Number One" immediately switched to human language.
"pain."
It murmured softly.
It stretched out its hand and placed it on the back of Lin Xi's hand, asking him to press hard on the wound.
Lin Xi instinctively wanted to pull his hand back, but "Number One" pressed very hard.
"If you... touch me... a lot... hiss... it won't hurt..."
It stammered in a mix of insect sounds and human speech.
When it gets serious, it looks almost exactly like Savile.
The strange emotion in Lin Xi's heart began to swell again.
It is hard to say whether it is pity or helplessness. In short, even though this "Number One" looks scary and ferocious, he has left an impression of a confused and pitiful little person in Lin Xi's heart.
"If I attack you again in the future—" Lin Xi looked at the face of "Number One" and was once again slightly dazed by the face that looked like Savile. "Remember to get out of the way."
Even Lin Xi himself didn't notice that after seeing that face, there was a hint of deeper tenderness in his tone.
However, what Lin Xi didn’t realize was that “Number One” was extremely sensitive.
This is the face that Lin Xi likes.
"Number One" thought contentedly under the mimicry.
It perfectly replayed in its mind every detail of the figure it had seen hiding on the wall...
If they shed their skin again next time, they will become more similar.
As it thought this, its heart was filled with incomparable happiness and love.
…
at the same time-
Abandoned AI room on deck c
"... Anyway, we are not completely hopeless now. As long as we can unlock the star map and locate the coordinates, we can go back."
Although Taran's authority issue made the three people in the computer room depressed for a while, Sith quickly cheered up.
He looked at Alyssa with a little regret.
"It's a pity. If you were still the vice captain, Alyssa..."
"Even if I still have the authority, I don't think Taran will allow me to visit." Alyssa smiled bitterly and said, "After all, his biggest wish is to stay in this damn place and turn into a monster."
At the mention of Taran, both Alyssa and Sith's faces wrinkled.
"Besides, we have other problems to solve besides the star map." Alyssa calmed down and spoke again, "As far as I know, the fuel on the Apollo is almost exhausted, so even if we get the star map, it will be difficult to go back—"
"That's not a problem."
Sith interrupted Alyssa's words. He was obviously as thin as a starving person, but when he mentioned returning to Earth, his eyes seemed to light up with flames, flashing a different kind of brilliance.
Alyssa and Bryce saw him suddenly jump up from the ground, and then rushed directly into the thick shadows on the other side of the computer room. After a moment, Sith quickly returned to their side, holding an old-fashioned electronic paper in his hand, which was spread flat on the ground.
"This is what I have been thinking about during the time I have been trapped here, Alyssa, you should be able to understand, right! Yes, the fuel of the Apollo is indeed running out, but we don't need that much fuel. We only need a small amount of fuel to propel this-"
Sith pointed his finger at the electronic paper and spoke while dancing.
Alyssa and Bryce looked at each other, and then they both looked in the direction of Sith's finger: the content of the electronic paper was the internal structure and equipment diagram that was finally retained after the Apollo was modified many times, and the part that Sith focused on was at the very bottom of the spacecraft.
There were vague drawings of some very small escape ships.
Alyssa couldn't help but frowned. "Wait, these escape ships are only built for short-term escape. Their fuel tanks are too small. They may run out of fuel before they reach the warp gate and can only float in space. Although there are at least no crazy monsters in space, running out of fuel and floating in space like a mummy is not a good option."
"Also, have we all forgotten one thing? The warp gate has disappeared. Otherwise, we wouldn't have come here inexplicably and been stranded for so many days—" Bryce looked at the equipment diagrams with a serious face and said in despair.
"Hee hee hee… "
Sith grinned in front of them with a weird smile.
"These are not problems, guys, these are really not problems..." He waved his arms excitedly, his voice gradually becoming louder, "The warp gate is still there, it has always been there. It's just that Taran modified the parameters we used to calculate the location of the warp gate, so we have never found it, but Taran had no idea that the artificial intelligence on the Apollo was still working. He forgot to modify the parameters here, and there were still some data that had not been completely cleaned up in the Apollo's original intelligence. Yes, I have calculated it many times - the warp gate is there! As for the fuel tank, that's also very simple. The aircraft that Lin Xi found in that big pit can help us. In the era of great exploration, they needed mass-produced spacecraft so much, so all spacecraft were basically produced quickly based on modularization! I checked the fuel tank number used by the Providence aircraft..."
"It just happens to match our escape ship?"
Alyssa murmured.
Although she had forced herself to suppress her emotions, Bryce could still easily hear her excitement.
Well, even himself.
If everything goes as Sis said.
They could indeed reassemble the escape ship and the aircraft's fuel tank, and then escape directly using the star map and coordinates drawn three hundred years ago.
Bryce reached out and held Alyssa’s hand hard.
"We can get out of here, yes we can. I've been running the numbers here for days, and I'm pretty sure it can work."
Sith said to Alyssa and Bryce, half crying and half laughing.
"There are enough lifeboats for us to escape, Bryce, Alyssa, I..."
At the end, Sith couldn't help but start counting the number of people on his fingers.
His voice paused for a moment at this point.
"I wanted to ask this before, but I... I don't know if it's presumptuous..."
Sith asked about his old friend a little hesitantly.
"Lin Xi he...he..."
"He is still alive."
Bryce said firmly.
Alyssa nodded then: “He has some other things to deal with, so we will separate from him for the time being.”
For some secret reasons, neither Bryce nor Alyssa mentioned to Sis the abnormality of Lin Xi and his possible terrifying identity.
After hearing that Lin Xi was still alive, Sis couldn't help but smile.
"That's wonderful, wonderful... As long as everyone is alive there is still hope."