Xavier slowly raised his upper body and stood up - if it was the original Lin Xi who saw Xavier now, he would definitely be surprised by Xavier's change.
Although Xavier's appearance can already be described as "terrible" when he was on the Helios, compared with it now, the previous "Star Butterfly" is like some kind of exquisite and cute pet insect. Generally delicate and cute.
Counting from the day when he was thrown out of the Helios by an explosion while dying, Xavier has experienced three painful transformations on this completely unfamiliar planet. Today, he is more than twice as big as before. As for the fragile human-like skin that evolved because of his attachment to Lin Xi, it has completely faded away from its surface. It was replaced by a silver carapace that was as hard as metal and glowed coldly.
In fact, Xavier now has no human-related features at all.
It has completely restored its original appearance, or rather... it has restored itself to what it should be.
The front legs that stand up like folding knives have slender and thick base joints, and the edges are as sharp as the top alloy knives. The surface is covered with a layer of bluish iridescent thorns on both sides of the leg joints. The gorgeous color is actually From the deadly toxins it ingests from food.
At the same time, this evolved forelimb allows Xavier to easily tear his enemies into fine pieces.
Covering the back of Xavier's thick body are hard elytra, which look more like armor than wings. One thing I have to admit is that the attack by the mechanical warriors inside the Helios did have a serious impact on Xavier. Even after so long, it still subconsciously armed itself into a walking robot during its transformation. Armor warrior. This special carapace is harder than most metals.
Sometimes Xavier would stare at his now evolved limbs and briefly recall the scenes inside the Helios.
If it is now, when it encounters those mechanical warriors, it should be able to easily deal with those guys, right
Xavier was sure of this in his heart, but he rarely really thought about it, because it would make his body covered with thick and hard breastplate feel an unbearable pain.
… If it were the strong and ferocious me that I am now, wouldn’t I be abandoned
Is it true that Lin Xi will not be left on this completely strange planet
But from time to time, such thoughts will still pop into its mind unprepared.
Thinking of this, Xavier couldn't help but turn his head and look at the extremely colorful sky outside the cave.
It had been so long, but every time he saw this clear sky made of bright colors, Xavier would still feel that invisible cold hand cruelly scratching its non-existent soft heart.
"Lin Xi...
When Xavier realized it, he realized that he had accidentally repeated the name again.
"Hiss—"
Xavier suddenly let out a violent neigh, and at the same time, an uncontrollable self-loathing surged in his heart.
It quickly turned its head, took a few more steps into the cave, and then hid its now huge and ferocious body in the shadow of the cave.
However, in the process, its too rough movements caused it to accidentally overturn the debris accumulated inside the cave.
Along with a series of crackling sounds, the mountains of debris slid down like a landslide and scattered all over the place.
Xavier: "..."
If Lin Xi were here, he would definitely find that these shabby objects that made Xavier stand still in anger looked familiar. Yes, that's right, all these sundries were collected by Xavier in the ruins of the Helios.
There are a lot of shiny metal parts, some of which are still intact, but most of them are small pieces that fell around the spacecraft in the explosion. This is Xavier's instinctive preference, and he can't control himself to collect these. The urge to play.
However, apart from the metal fragments... those other things completely went against the instinct of the King Insect.
That's a lot of books, toys, and a variety of personal portable entertainment devices, as well as their accompanying storage media.
According to common sense, Xavier should not have any unnecessary interest in these human cultural entertainment products.
But the reality is that Xavier collected those things involuntarily. It is indeed a very smart bug. The time he spent with Lin Xi allowed him to figure out how to use these gadgets. He carefully took care of all the things left by the crew in the ruins of the Helios. Researched it. With the help of some smart tools, Xavier became the first alien king insect in history to read a lot of novels and watch a lot of movies.
Compared with the innocent monster insect at the beginning, it now knows most of the common sense of love in the human world, but this does not make it happy.
At first, it thought it could find the reason why Lin Xi abandoned itself in these human creations, but now... it discovered that Lin Xi's abandonment of it seemed to be a natural thing.
After all, Lin Xi felt that he was a human being from beginning to end, and it... no matter how hard it tried to imitate another male human, there was no way to change its nature.
It, Xavier, is just a monster.
Even the tenderness it received from Lin Xi at the beginning was a luxurious gift.
It and Lin Xi...
Xavier trembled heavily at the thought of this, and the feeling of panic that even made him feel manic came again.
It was almost breathless. The elytra were ready to move, and the sharp hooks were involuntarily embedded deeply into the hard rock.
etc-
At this moment, Xavier suddenly realized something was wrong.
He suddenly tightened the two slender tentacles on his head.
The sharp thorns on the body are standing upside down.
Something isn't quite right.
Xavier realized this belatedly.
It felt the most primitive and instinctive drive, which was burning like a flame in its body.
"Lin Xi?"
That was the call from the Mother of Alien Species.
Xavier involuntarily stretched out his sharp forelimbs and exposed the skin on the inside of his forelimbs. That piece of skin was now turning a bright purple-red color in response to his emotions.
After carefully understanding his physical condition, Xavier's entire insect was enveloped in incredible emotions.
Is that an illusion, or does it really exist!
After such a long time, the close spiritual connection between it and the insect mother... and Lin Xi was actually connected again.
But Lin Xi has obviously abandoned it, left this planet, and returned to Earth? !
Is he back here again
Is he here to find me
Xavier forced himself not to think too much. He had had enough of the heartbreak.
But even so, it still couldn't help but walk outside the cave.
It didn't require any positioning or observation. The moment it walked out of the cave, it faced directly somewhere in the distance.
It knew that that was the place where the Sun God made an emergency landing and completely crashed. At the same time, the call from Lin Xi was also projected from that direction.
Xavier stood on the cliff for a moment in pain. The instinct as a king insect made it want to rush in that direction desperately, but on the other hand, Xavier's soul told it not to Have too much hope and don’t have strange delusions. Lin Xi has obviously already...
However, just as Xavier tried hard to convince himself, through the connection between souls, the emotions of the alien mother clearly penetrated.
fear.
weak.
In desperate need of protection.
"Hula..."
A loud sound of spreading wings suddenly sounded.
It was obvious that Xavier had suppressed the body's instinct deep in his soul, but Xavier found that in the end, it still couldn't resist the strong instinct and emotional drive.
It suddenly spread out its thick and powerful elytra behind it.
The carapace, which was as heavy as a metal plate, opened diagonally, revealing the translucent membrane wings vibrating at high speed below.
Immediately afterwards, Xavier jumped suddenly from the high cliff.
Like some kind of large aircraft, it passed directly in the direction of the wreckage of the Helios at an astonishing speed, stirring up a fierce air wave wherever it passed. Countless twisted woods with bright colors slowly fell down in the sudden strong wind, revealing the alien creatures hiding in the lush woods that did not dare to move because of Xavier's aura.
…
Lin Xi was dreaming again.
This dream was strange and bizarre, with a sense of elegance and weirdness that cannot be described in words.
In the dream, he seemed to have turned into a strange... thing.
Lin Xi didn't know if she could use the word "thing" to describe Him.
He is more like some kind of spiritual body or... soul.
He has existed in this world since the very beginning of the universe, and every long period of time, he will completely transform his original form and become something else under certain opportunities.
Sometimes, he is a weird-looking humanoid organism, and sometimes, he is a monster with a ferocious appearance. He constantly traveled through countless time and space and experienced countless incredible worlds and lives. Of course, all emotions derived from different organisms will eventually be melted into the most primitive instinct-reproduction.
But Lin Xi could only watch "himself" continue to expand and multiply in countless universes, and even swallow up all the matter in the entire universe. , and sometimes, it will be eliminated by other protozoa. That might be his death, but Lin Xi knew that death only allowed him to return to his eternal original form.
In this way, in this weird dream, Lin Xi kept repeating his fate in endless time and space.
He has been dreaming for a long time. Sometimes, Lin Xi can't even tell whether he is dreaming or whether he has really experienced so many worlds...
This dream is endless, as if it can last until the end of the universe.
In the last dream, Lin Xi, who was mentally exhausted, found that he had returned to his original identity - an ordinary botany teaching assistant on the earth. Because of an accident, he embarked on a journey of The spacecraft named Helios was bound for a distant alien planet occupied by madmen and monsters.
Lin Xi originally thought that in this dream, he could see the long-lost Bryce and Alyssa again. After all, these two people are the people he misses the most now, but he did not expect that he kept repeating it in this dream. What I dreamed about was a butterfly.
Or, more correctly, it was an alien creature that resembled a butterfly.
The "butterfly" swayed its soft, magnificent wings like clouds, dancing towards him.
Its appearance seemed familiar, and an unexplainable sadness slowly filled Lin Xi's heart.
In the dream, Lin Xi stared blankly at the dancing butterfly - he didn't even notice that everything lingering around him, including the greenhouse and the Helios, were slowly blurring, melting, and finally dissolving. A chaotic gray mist.
"Please remember it."
Suddenly, Lin Xi heard a voice.
His mind seemed to clear up a bit.
Lin Xi turned around suddenly and looked behind him, only to realize that at some point, another person had appeared in his dream.
"Who are you?"
Lin Xi couldn't help but tremble because of the tragic situation of the man who suddenly appeared in the dream.
The man was standing there, extremely thin, like a living corpse. He gave Lin Xi a strange sense of familiarity (of course, many things in this dream gave him a sense of familiarity). The man was firmly fixed among countless wires, his eyes were empty, and his body was covered with traces of decay.
At this time, he was looking directly at Lin Xi.
"what are you saying?"
Lin Xi couldn't help but ask.
He had a vague feeling that what he was experiencing now might not just be a dream, but...
"You can't succumb to the void, you can't succumb to instinct."
The terrifying man spoke to him word for word.
"Once you lose your individual consciousness, this long dark fate will reincarnate again, endlessly, never-ending. This is too sad, this is too scary... Don't give up... Even if it's for yourself..."
"Wait, what are you talking about?"
Lin Xi couldn't help but ask.
However, the man seemed to be unable to hear Lin Xi's words. He kept repeating his previous words like a machine. Then, he slowly turned around and staggered towards the thick fog.
"Hey, wait, tell me, what happened here? What happened to me?"
Lin Xi rushed over subconsciously.
But Lin Xi regretted it the moment he entered the thick fog.
That layer of mist was not the ordinary mist that Lin Xi thought, but another kind of... something that Lin Xi couldn't describe. They were wet and sticky, with a unique temperature and smell. Its existence made Lin Xi... It felt familiar and comfortable, but at the same time there was an instinctive feeling of disgust and fear.
"Don't be defeated by it, remember your heart, remember everything you love..."
Lin Xi heard the man mutter to himself again.
In the thick fog, the man's figure flickered and appeared, as if he was about to be melted by the thick fog, several times. Lin Xi even thought that he and he would be lost in the thick and wet fog like this, but in the end he passed through the thick fog.
But the moment he walked through the fog, Lin Xi stopped involuntarily.
He frowned at the scene before him.
Then he shuddered because of what he saw and heard.
He saw himself.
Although, the shadow in front of him is completely different from what he looks like now.
Lin Xi originally thought that the deformed body he had now was terrifying enough, but compared with the figure he saw now, he could almost be said to be a normal person.
"Oh, God..."
Lin Xi covered his mouth and he almost spit out.
It was an extremely large, swollen, and deformed body that was constantly squirming. Round insect eggs were continuously expelled from the body one by one, and then accumulated in a sticky manner at his tail. Some of the eggs that were pushed to the outermost edge began to slowly squirm not long after they were produced. Then the outer skin became transparent and wrinkled, and some small, familiar white shadows just emerged from the eggs. .
What made Lin Xi even more disgusted was that he was hugging another body tightly in his arms.
And the things they did were completely beyond any ethics or common sense that Lin Xi knew as a human being.
Lin Xi wanted to look away, but as if he was hypnotized, he could only freeze there motionless.
I don't know when, but the man standing beside him disappeared. Lin Xi himself slowly merged bit by bit with the figure that he didn't even dare to look at.
Oh... come on, I'm just dreaming, I'm just dreaming... Although I'm scared and sick now, I know it's a dream.
Lin Xi kept saying to herself in extreme fear.
Can't give up...
The words that the man said to him seemed to ring in Lin Xi's ears again.
I can't give up, I can never let myself become that miserable creature, I still have things to do, I still need...
At the moment when Lin Xi's consciousness was about to disappear, he suddenly remembered the little butterfly he had seen before.
Those magnificent, soft wings danced in the air, and when Lin Xi looked at the little insect, a trace of warmth surged through her heart.
A scene suddenly appeared in Lin Xi's mind - he dreamed that he was kneeling weakly in front of a metal door, and he was facing the other side of the door, roaring in great pain...
"I will come back, I will come back to you..."
The moment Lin Xi woke up, he found that he was shouting this sentence continuously.
Such a vivid nightmare quickly dissipated in his mind like mist, but no matter what, Lin Xi could not forget the terrifying feeling that the dream brought to him.
He sat frozen in the dark cave for a long time, and then he barely regained consciousness.
Then, Lin Xi found that he was still in the cave he had seen before he fell into coma. Even his position was exactly the same as before. The difference was that the flesh sac that trapped him before had lost its moisture. Now it was just A layer of wet and soft fleshy film. The flesh membranes were piled on a high platform made of metal fragments and various strange stones and wood, and Lin Xi was now carefully placed in the middle of the pile of flesh membranes.
Lin Xi held her breath and checked her body condition, and found that she was exactly the same as before she fell into coma, unscathed. He couldn't help but frown, knowing that he still remembered the last scene he saw before losing consciousness. The monster rushed towards him menacingly.
But now not only is he unscathed, but...
At this moment, a familiar rustling sound interrupted Lin Xi's contemplation. He suddenly raised his head and looked somewhere in the darkness. Thanks to his now abnormal eyesight, in such dark conditions He can still see everything around him clearly
Likewise, he could clearly see the two tentacles.
Thin, feather-like white tentacles were dangling from the edge of a huge stone.
Lin Xi still remembered that the monster that scared him into unconsciousness also seemed to have such a pair of tentacles
Lin Xi looked at the two swaying tentacles in silence.
In such a weird and random situation, he should be afraid of this weird-looking monster, but inexplicably after experiencing that dream, he found that his fear of this monster seemed to be reduced, and he even remembered The butterfly he saw in his dream—an untimely tenderness suddenly rose in his heart.
"I saw you." Lin Xi took a deep breath, and then he shouted to the other side of the stone with a straight face.
As he spoke, he saw with his own eyes that the tentacle suddenly stood up.
It's strange, why does he have a familiar feeling? Lin Xi stared at the monster's savings and thought.
Slowly, slowly, contacting the white monster he saw before, he slowly poked his body out from behind the stone.
Lin Xi stared at him for a long time, secretly wondering. He didn't know why he was so afraid of such a monster before. After all, judging from the trembling he was showing now, it seemed that he was afraid. He, not Lin Xi, was afraid of him. Thinking of this, Lin Xi couldn't help but turn his head and look at his current body, and then he frowned in disgust.
"Who are you?"
Lin Xi looked at the monster and asked.
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