"Oops, it's Arthur—"
After Lin Xi heard the call, he immediately withdrew his hand from Xavier's body.
Then he turned around quickly and ran eagerly in the direction where the low cry came from.
Lin Xi could only pretend that she didn't see Xavier's stiffness at that moment... and the shock and disappointment that showed on his ferocious face.
He had to worry about Arthur.
On the one hand, it was because of that low cry, but on the other hand, it was because, at this moment, the murderous intention for Arthur in Xavier's heart was so strong that it could flow directly out of the air.
Lin Xi quickly found Arthur. This white alien was inadvertently separated from Lin Xi and others because he was very familiar with the Helios. Now, it was standing vigilantly in a room at the end of the corridor. .
Before the Helios was turned into ruins, this should have been the office of a senior crew member. The ground was even covered with thick earth textiles and office supplies with personal style. However, now, there is only a sloping The ground and a pile of scrap metal piled up against the walls.
...and a "Ghost" mechanical warrior proudly produced by Del Company.
This is so fucking exciting.
Lin Xi's pupils suddenly narrowed when he saw the iconic jellyfish-shaped head and metal tentacles of the mechanical warrior, as well as the shining fluorescent eyes under the arc outer cover.
Arthur was now standing next to the mechanical warrior. It stared at the mechanical warrior warily, its wings and tentacles were stretched tightly, and its mouthparts protruded from its mouth, revealing its sharp fangs.
It seemed to be frightened by the thing in the room. And even a stunted, deformed alien species looks very scary when it threatens other species.
However, when faced with mechanical warriors, this threat seems particularly pitiful and fragile, and is simply vulnerable.
The scene of the confrontation between Arthur and the mechanical warrior almost made Lin Xi's heartbeat almost stop.
In an instant, countless bloody memories flooded into his mind like a flood that broke a bank.
At that moment, Lin Xi seemed to have returned to that day again...
He seemed to see the scene where his family members were strangled to death by those damn mechanical monsters again.
"No-"
Lin Xi let out a long neigh.
He issued a silent command, and almost at the moment when the command was conveyed with mental power, Xavier passed by him.
The huge and ferocious body of the alien species fell directly on the mechanical warrior, and the tips of the insect limbs almost pierced the outer shell of the mechanical warrior.
Under the huge impact, the mechanical warrior fell to the ground without any resistance.
"boom-"
Its head hit the ground with a loud crunching sound.
"Hiss..."
Of course, Xavier couldn't just let it go. It made a particularly wild neigh, and then raised its sickle-like forelimbs high.
Seeing that Xavier was about to cut the mechanical warrior in half in the next second...
"No, Xavier, stop—"
At this moment, Lin Xi's intuition suddenly jumped heavily. Before he could even react, he had already raised his voice to stop Xavier's massacre of the mechanical warrior.
Xavier's forelimbs stopped firmly in mid-air.
Its other legs pressed firmly against the mechanical warrior on the ground, and then turned its head to look at Lin Xi.
"Lin Xi?"
Lin Xi could even see Xavier's confusion through those scarlet eyes. You know, Xavier has been waiting for this day for a long time - the reason why it evolved into this way (you know, it even gave up its beautiful pair of wings that it was proud of in order to increase its lethality) is to one day It can easily kill these mechanical warriors that have caused it a lot of trouble.
It couldn't wait to show off its new skills in front of Lin Xi.
"Don't touch it yet."
As a result, Xavier received a completely unexpected order.
Lin Xi bit his lip, took a deep breath, and then approached the mechanical warrior warily.
"This mechanical warrior..."
He stretched out a hand and grabbed the metal tentacle of the mechanical warrior.
In Lin Xi's memory, the mechanical warrior's tentacles were dexterous and sharp, but only when he held those long metal tubes in his hands did he realize how heavy these things were.
Lin Xi weighed the metal tentacle in his hand, and the electronic eye of the mechanical warrior flashed rapidly under the mask.
But all the while, its metal tentacles remained motionless. When the thing fell into Lin Xi's hand, it looked like a long-dead snake.
The moment Xavier took action, Arthur found the opportunity and rushed to the wall in a flash. He hid carefully.
Seeing Lin Xi playing with the metal tentacles of the mechanical warrior, its tentacles moved, and then ran over curiously.
It stretched out its insect limbs, followed Lin Xi's example, and shook the metal tentacles.
The next moment, he even fiddled with the mechanical hooks on the top of the metal tentacles. The tips of those hooks were obviously worn... But even so, seeing Arthur fiddle with the hooks of the tentacles still made Lin Xi My heart stopped for a beat.
This naive little bug had no idea how many of its companions had been directly cut into bloody pieces by this mechanical hook.
"Stop playing..."
Lin Xi pushed Arthur aside, then turned his head and looked at Xavier.
"Don't be too nervous, you can get off it. This thing is malfunctioning."
Only then did Lin Xi murmur.
This can explain why Lin Xi did not find the existence of this mechanical warrior when he controlled the bug to conduct environmental exploration inside the Helios.
This mechanical warrior was malfunctioning quite seriously. The constantly flashing electronic eyes proved that it was always active, but the motionless metal tentacles proved that it had completely lost its ability to move.
In a sense, although this mechanical warrior is still active, in essence, it is no different from the metal remains that fell among the monster corpses.
Lin Xizai looked at the mechanical warrior carefully. After a while, a trace of deep doubt appeared in his eyes.
He didn't find any unnecessary damage on the shell of the mechanical warrior. This thing was almost brand new, which showed that it had not experienced the last battle with the aliens.
But why did a brand new mechanical warrior trigger such a serious mechanical failure
Is it a coincidence... But this kind of coincidence does not make people feel at ease.
"Lin...Lin Xi...look..."
At this moment, Lin Xi felt his sleeve being pulled.
He turned his head and looked at Arthur.
Arthur pulled his cuffs while looking at the wall beside him curiously.
Finding that Lin Xi had noticed it, it raised its insect limb and pointed at the wall.
"look."
Lin Xi followed its direction and looked at the wall.
The next second, Lin Xi was stunned.
The light in this room is very dark (in fact, if it weren't for Lin Xi's current mutation, it would be almost impossible for him to see his fingers here). In addition, the Helios is in disrepair and the interior of the office and room has not been renovated. The decorative metal panels have some signs of oxidation. For several reasons combined, Lin Xi didn't notice at all that the mottled marks on the metal wall next to him turned out to be scratches on the entire wall.
It would be more correct to say it was an entire wall of scrawled messages.
The content of those carvings was definitely not unfamiliar to Lin Xi. After all, he had heard it countless times in his dreams from a man with a withered face who looked like a ghost.
Please, find me, you must find me, and then kill me, I need help, let me free first, please kill me...
Help me, help me.
kill me.
Find me and set me free, find me, find me, find me.
…
These handwritings are very sloppy and look like they were written by a child who just went to school. Even just looking at the handwriting, you can feel the despair and fear in the heart of the person who wrote these words.
The thick dark emotion almost turned into thick and smelly black blood, seeping directly from the carvings of these writings.
Lin Xi's breathing gradually became heavier. He stared at the wall and suddenly felt out of breath. Even the beating of his heart became extremely difficult at this moment.
If these words of help were not enough to shock Lin Xi, then the last few lines of words at the lower end of the metal wall completely shattered his calmness.
Dr. Lin Xi, save me.
Dr. Lin Xi…
… …
Lin Xi shook his head, as if this way, he could shake the metal carvings on the wall in front of him away from his sight.
He swallowed and slowly stood up.
Lin Xi approached the metal wall with great vigilance, as if something on the wall would bite his hand.
But even with this. When he really came to the metal wall, he couldn't help but stretched out his hand and traced those extremely fresh carvings with his fingertips.
There is even residual heat from friction left on those scratches.
After studying for a few seconds, Lin Xi suddenly turned around. He rushed back to the side of the mechanical warrior, stretched out his hand and touched the hooks on the tips of the metal tentacles that Arthur had played with before. On those hooks, There is still some warmth left.
Just like the one on the metal panel.
"What the hell is going on..."
Lin Xi couldn't hold it back and let out a loud bang.
Obviously, this line of message asking for help was completed just now.
The individual who left the message was the motionless and severely malfunctioning mechanical warrior in front of them.
Considering their current situation, this matter is simply more frightening than any ghost story on earth.
Whether it was this mechanical warrior or the identity of the person who controlled the mechanical warrior and wrote this line behind the scenes... He knew Lin Xi's name.
Ah, why doubt this
Lin Xi suddenly reacted in the next second. .
These extremely frightening and painful messages for help seemed to be sent by his old acquaintance—the man who always appeared in his dreams.
Lin Xi's mind went blank. Although he had some vague premonitions before, when he really faced this ridiculous reality...
The man who kept wailing in his dream now left such a clear message in the real place.
Thinking of this, Lin Xi could not calm down no matter what, not to mention that these traces were left by the metal tentacles of the mechanical warrior.
Just associating that man with the mechanical warrior made Lin Xi tremble uncontrollably.
For a moment, Lin Xi hoped from the bottom of his heart that what he was facing now was someone's prank.
But the next second, Lin Xi realized with great sadness that no one would play pranks on him. After all, he was on the planet AS192, which was extremely far away from the earth, and he was standing on The location is the Helios that has been completely abandoned and turned into ruins.
Here, no one would come to play pranks on him at all, because there were not even humans here.
Lin Xi returned to the side of the mechanical warrior. He stretched out his hand and slapped the mechanical warrior's hemispherical head.
"Hey, who are you? What are you going to do? Why are you always in my dreams? What is going on? What do I mean by looking for you? What do I mean by killing you? Why do you know my name... …”
Lin Xi had too many questions to ask, but the mechanical warrior under his hands was as quiet and silent as ever.
They were born to kill, not to communicate with humans.
Even though Lin Xi was trembling slightly due to excessive excitement, the pile of metal structures in his hands never gave him any unnecessary response. Even the electronic eyes under the mask quickly dimmed after meeting Lin Xi.
This mechanical warrior is gradually losing its functionality.
"Dammit—answer me! Who the hell are you?!"
Lin Xi's voice suddenly rose.
At this moment, a subtle sound came from inside the electronic brain covered by the mechanical warrior's hemispheric mask.
The next second, Lin Xi felt like he was hit hard by something.
He flew up in mid-air and then landed on the ground. Immediately afterwards, he was surrounded by something airtight.
It took a moment for Lin Xi to realize that it was Xavier...
The moment there was a soft sound in the mechanical warrior's head, Xavier jumped up in mid-air. He hugged Lin Xi tightly and led him back to the corner of the room.
"Xavier?!"
The soft sound just now was probably the sound of the mechanical warrior's self-destruction starting up.
Thinking of this, a thin layer of cold sweat suddenly broke out on Lin Xi's back.
He could clearly feel Xavier's strong body covering him tightly.
Xavier's elytra spread directly to both sides, covering both sides of Lin Xi. This is a very protective gesture.
If an explosion did occur, all impact and debris would be obscured by Xavier's back and wings.
However, when Xavier opened his elytra, he also exposed his relatively more fragile back...
It should be said that Lin Xi was lucky. After waiting for a while, nothing happened in the room.
The mechanical warrior did not explode.
Lin Xi's heartbeat was very fast.
He lay stiffly on the spot for a while before slowly sitting up with his hands and feet weak.
"It's okay...thank you."
Lin Xi looked at Xavier, who was desperately protecting himself, and said stiffly. He put his hands on Xavier's chest and slowly pushed the frightened and alert bug away from him.
"It was dangerous just now!"
Xavier looked at Lin Xi with an unprecedented look of reproach.
It seemed like it didn't realize there was anything special about what it just did.
Instead, Lin Xi's own chest was slightly swollen and sore.
He opened his mouth, originally wanting to say something, but midway through his words, he inexplicably changed his words temporarily.
"I know, I'll pay attention next time."
Lin Xi murmured to Xavier. He suddenly didn't know how to face Xavier like this.
Is it his imagination? Why did he feel at this moment that Xavier's gaze on him seemed to have warmth, almost naked him. Any exposed skin was on fire.
"Click, click, click..."
What broke the gaze between him and Xavier was a somewhat noisy metallic sound.
That was Arthur, who was squeezing curiously next to the mechanical warrior, using his front paws to push the completely motionless body of the mechanical warrior.
Those metal tentacles made a harsh friction sound with the ground under its push.
"Fault."
Sensing Lin Xi's gaze, Arthur turned back with some confusion, then he picked up one of the mechanical warrior's tentacles and shook it.
Arthur imitated Lin Xi and learned a new word solemnly.
"It's a malfunction."
It said cheerfully.
Well, in fact, Arthur didn't say anything wrong. The soft sound that the mechanical warrior's electronic brain made before was indeed just a malfunction.
The internal chip of its electronic brain was overloaded for unknown reasons, and then the entire electronic brain was burned down.
With Xavier's help, Lin Xi cut open the extremely hard shell of the mechanical warrior and then examined its internal structure.
But after examining it for a long time, he could only come to this conclusion.
"I always feel that this failure mode is somewhat familiar..."
Lin Xi rubbed his temples, sighed, and then muttered.
Although there are currently no suitable tools for further inspection of this mechanical monster, Lin Xi ordered Xavier to dismantle the extremely heavy mechanical warrior, and finally took out the malfunctioning electronic brain.
In the following time, Lin Xi was a little absent-minded. He checked the ruins of the Helios again and packed some supplies that Xavier had missed before.
It wasn't until the long daylight of the planet slowly faded that Lin Xi suddenly realized that he had spent too much time in the ruins.
"...We'll check again in a few days."
Lin Xi said, and then he made the decision to leave with a full load of supplies.
But before leaving, Lin Xi once again returned to the office where the mechanical warrior was found. This time he was much calmer than before. He carefully studied the writings on the wall. He remembered every word of the information firmly in his heart, and then he felt a little relieved.
find me…
Lin Xi focused on this word.
If that man really knows his name, he should be able to understand that Lin Xi is not on earth now, but on a strange alien planet.
If this is the case, why does he keep stressing "find me"
Is it because that man is now trapped on this planet like Lin Xi
Thinking of this, a word already appeared in Lin Xi's mind.
Providence.
There was a slight tingling in his head, and some vague memories were tumbling in the depths of his mind.
This time Lin Xi did not succumb to that dizziness.
"The Providence... Scripps..."
He muttered the fragments that popped up in his mind, trying to remember things that had been forgotten.
Full of worries, Lin Xi did not feel the changes in the surrounding environment.
Because the group of people carried too much supplies, no matter how strong Xavier was, it was impossible to carry Lin Xi directly on his back and fly back to the cave like before. So in the end they had to walk back through the alien jungle.
This undoubtedly slowed them down a lot.
The first person who noticed something was wrong was Arthur. Probably due to his physical deformity, his combat power was much weaker than that of ordinary mutants, but he had an outstanding talent in predicting danger.
Halfway along the way, it suddenly stopped, then raised its body and stared straight into the distance for a long time.
"Lin Xi..."
It called Lin Xi's name very uneasily.
It took Lin Xi a moment to react. He raised his head and looked at Arthur. Only then did he realize that the white alien in front of him had already spread its wings on guard.
"Arthur, what happened... what?"
Before Lin Xi's question was complete, the same premonition suddenly hit his heart.
He suddenly turned around and looked at where Arthur was looking before. At this moment, Xavier came to Lin Xi's side silently.
The strong alien slightly opened his wings, hiding Lin Xi's figure behind him.
There is no need for redundant language communication between the three. The same emotions and feelings can be transmitted to each other through the unique spiritual connection between them.
Danger, huge danger is coming...
The entire jungle was very quiet, so quiet that it seemed like the air had turned into solid form.
But Lin Xi knew very well that this kind of tranquility was just an appearance. He closed his eyes, and his mental power spread around like ripples. He soon discovered that all the creatures under the surface... from small, weird-shaped There are a large number of living creatures, insects... all of them are extremely busy.
They are all busy running for their lives.
Slightly smaller creatures, such as those insects, are using all their strength to drill deeper into the ground.
The small animals that had no way to hide themselves underground ran madly in a certain direction.
Something is coming.
Lin Xi felt a slight itch on his back, which was caused by his wings trembling unconsciously.
Both he and Xavier, including Arthur, could clearly feel the particularly ominous sign.
The premonition of danger is growing.
Without any instructions from Lin Xi, Xavier suddenly flapped its wings and flew up. It hovered in the air for a moment, its eyes staring straight into the distance, and its tentacles fully opened.
It keenly captures some abnormal, extraordinarily subtle air movements and a certain unsettling smell.
In the distance, Xavier saw a particularly hazy gray smoke...
The smoke looks almost like mist, without any threat, and the mist is also very thin. If you don't look carefully, it is almost difficult to detect its arrival.
However, it was this mist that caused the color of Xavier's back to turn dark in an instant.
It fell quickly.
"It's wind, very strong wind..."
Xavier said.
While talking, it caught sight of Arthur, who was huddled next to Lin Xi and was extremely nervous.
Xavier paused for a moment and then spoke again.
"storm.
It immediately changed to a more professional word.