Despite possessing a carapace harder than metal, the moment Lin Xi touched his chest, Xavier staggered back a step as if stung by Lin Xi's hands.
Lin Xi could feel a turbulent current of panic and unease rising from the river of emotions flowing towards him from Xavier's side.
"I'm not sad, I'm just..."
Xavier raised its tentacles and suddenly raised its voice. It was clear that it was still trying to maintain its cold mask, but its body betrayed it before it could refute it—before Lin Xi's hand could fall, all the thorns on Xavier's body retracted.
"I just, I just—"
Xavier stared intently at Lin Xi, all its rebuttals merely an attempt to maintain its fierce demeanor in front of her. But it quickly realized that its facade was utterly fragile in the face of the powerful mental connection between them…
Not to mention, Lin Xi was right in front of him.
And Lin Xi is crying.
Lin Xi said that this was why he was crying for it.
Lin Xi's tears left Xavier feeling helpless.
Every tear that flowed from Lin Xi's eyes seemed to fall directly into Xavier's heart.
This is Lin Xi...
Even though Lin Xi's appearance has now become "His" form, and even though the aura around him has become somewhat mottled and strange.
Xavier still accurately recognized his beloved Lin Xi.
From the day the spaceship exploded until now, the hatred that had been brewing for so long was so pathetic that it quickly crumbled under Lin Xi's tears—just as Lin Xi could feel the surging sorrow and grief in Xavier's heart, at this moment, Xavier could also clearly feel the tenderness that arose in Lin Xi's heart towards it.
But it was precisely this gentleness that suddenly made Xavier feel incredibly wronged.
If it still had a human-like appearance at this moment, it would probably be sobbing along with Lin Xi...
Xavier thought to himself.
As it thought this, it uncontrollably lowered its body, retracted its wings, and its scarlet pupils flickered uneasily.
Although it still looks terrifying, judging from its aura alone, it could be described as delicate and mournful at this moment.
“You said you were coming to find me,” Xavier said to Lin Xi in a hoarse voice, sounding utterly dejected.
Its antennae drooped down and swayed gently behind its head.
Its sadness and fear intensified when Lin Xi's absence was mentioned.
“You promised you’d come—but you never did. I’ve been waiting for you for so long, but you never came. I’ve been waiting there for you, but the lifeboat has already flown away…”
As he spoke, Xavier seemed to have returned to that tormented past, his tone sounding somewhat impatient and fierce.
If an ordinary person were here, they would probably be so frightened by Xavier's strange behavior that they would be speechless, but when Lin Xi looked at Xavier like this, she felt a surge of heartache.
Then, under Lin Xi's gaze, Xavier raised his insect limb and gently tapped it on his thorax.
"I'm really sad."
Finally, Xavier admitted this with utter frustration.
This might sound strange, because... Xavier is a monster with cold, insect-like compound eyes, but at this moment, Lin Xi can see the emotions of this enormous alien in those eyes that have no eye muscles.
I'm sorry.
Lin Xi and Xavier stared at each other for a moment, then he softened his voice and begged the monster opposite him for forgiveness.
The monster before him was completely different from the beautiful butterfly that danced gracefully in his memory, yet at this moment, their images suddenly overlapped. The monster before him was his little butterfly.
Lin Xi can confirm this.
The next second, he couldn't help but reach out and cup Xavier's now grotesque face in his hands. Lin Xi's cheeks were still wet; after all, the tears that had welled up from the emotions of killing Xavier hadn't dried yet. And the surging emotional connection between them hadn't stopped; on the contrary, this invisible connection was growing stronger and stronger.
What Xavier's body was now surging toward Lin Xi was an intense emotion as sincere and pure as that of a child.
“I’ve forgotten a lot of things,” Lin Xi explained to Xavier with great seriousness.
Although his face was still wet with tears, he still managed to force a smile at Xavier.
"Actually, I've forgotten what I did before... I'll try to remember. There are many things I'm not sure about, but the only thing I'm sure of is that I would never have abandoned you on purpose. If there had been even the slightest possibility back then, I would have gone to find you. I just... I think I probably ran into some trouble."
At this point, Lin Xi's dark pupils dilated for a moment, and a blurry image seemed to appear before his eyes: he was lying on his back on the ground, with a blurry figure beside him. And that figure was placing something inside his body... The next second, Lin Xi subconsciously pressed his abdomen. The dull pain seemed to transport him back to the past, causing him to shiver involuntarily.
"There's a reason I didn't show up," Lin Xi said in a low voice, a hint of fear in her tone.
"You didn't abandon me?"
Xavier stared intently at Lin Xi, repeating the sentence with an uncontrollable tremor in his voice. Beneath that strange tone lay an undisguised anticipation and disbelief.
"I didn't." Lin Xi nodded.
“Although I can’t give you any evidence, I know… I won’t abandon you, I can’t do that,” Lin Xi said.
Of course, he was still somewhat worried that Xavier would demand that he provide some evidence.
Aside from a vague intuition about the past, he couldn't provide any substantial evidence, since he knew nothing about his past after waking up in that dark underground nest.
However, Lin Xi soon realized that Xavier was much easier to satisfy than he had thought.
Lin Xi told it that he had not abandoned it.
It immediately believed it, without even the slightest doubt.
In this respect, its simplicity remains unchanged.
Lin Xi could clearly see that the monster in front of him became extremely happy immediately after receiving his affirmation. The blood-red color that had been flashing in its compound eyes turned into a bright ruby red, and a layer of pearly camouflage suddenly appeared on its metallic elytra.
Although Lin Xi prefers the soft, misty wings of butterflies, the elytra that Xavier has evolved now look quite nice.
This feeling was quite special; Lin Xi could hear a voice whispering softly deep within her heart.
He knew nothing about the monster in front of him, and had no idea what had happened between him and this monster called Xavier, but the intimacy and familiarity he felt from the depths of his heart was undeniable.
Similarly, after experiencing such profound pain, Xavier, upon hearing Lin Xi's words, quickly transformed his previous anger and pain at being betrayed into complete trust...
All the negative emotions instantly transformed into tenderness and love, and the affectionate feelings enveloped Lin Xi like warm water.
Besides its emotions, Xavier also moved very quickly, stretching out its sharp insect limbs and holding Lin Xi tightly in its arms.
From an outsider's perspective, the way it held Lin Xi was like a dragon holding its lost treasure that it had regained.
The grotesque and terrifying monster was tightly embracing another half-human, half-insect youth... Fortunately, no one on AS192 was alarmed by the allure and eeriness of this scene.
"Lin Xi, my Lin Xi."
Xavier was even less concerned about how intimate his embrace of Lin Xi was.
It kept whispering in Lin Xi's ear, its skeletal chin gently rubbing against Lin Xi's cheek.
"...I've added nutrient solution to the plants in your greenhouse."
Xavier whispered softly in Lin Xi's ear.
“I know, I saw it.”
Lin Xi thought of the lush Sunu plants in the abandoned greenhouse, and he couldn't help but hug Xavier's now strong and sturdy body back.
“I also cleaned the glass tank,” Xavier added.
“I saw it too…” Lin Xi nodded.
"I have been working hard to learn human languages lately, and I have come to understand many things that I didn't understand before."
"I know……"
...
The emotional resonance seemed to materialize into something tangible; every whisper, every glance, and every embrace between them transformed into a scorching, magma-like impulse that permeated the bodies of both Lin Xi and Xavier.
Lin Xi smelled a pleasant scent, a fragrance that could not be described by Earth's limited language. More accurately, the scent should be called pheromones: although it was a smell, the scent molecules emitted by the fragrance device contained emotions as complex as language.
As Lin Xi breathed, those emotions seemed to enter his body directly, transforming into scorching flames that flowed through his veins, gradually igniting his body.
Unbeknownst to him, Lin Xi's wings began to unfurl slightly. Not long ago, he had felt that his enormous, insect-like body was deformed and terrifying. But gradually, without Lin Xi even noticing, he began to get used to this body—as if he had been born this way.
At that moment, almost instinctively, Lin Xi slightly wiggled his lower abdomen and the wings on his back. He released pheromones corresponding to Xavier's. By the time Lin Xi realized it, he was already tightly entwined with Xavier.
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