Something is moving...
Under Lin Xi's watchful gaze, the corpses in the frozen water tank, which appeared to be long dead, began to sway slightly.
Lin Xi saw a pair of eyes, a pair of blood-red eyes devoid of any reason, staring at him greedily between the corpses.
That thing had already secretly sneaked into the freezer tank long before Lin Xi entered the freezer warehouse.
It had been observing Lin Xi... waiting for Lin Xi.
"Damn it..."
Lin Xi let out a curse.
The moment he saw the monster, he jumped up without hesitation and began to run wildly toward the entrance.
Behind him, a huge, deformed, red-eyed monster, accompanied by a dripping sound, wriggled its massive body and quickly crawled out from the edge of the frozen water tank.
Like its own kind that is already dead (or perhaps just dormant), besides its deformed appearance, the most striking feature of this monster is that its body surface is covered with all sorts of "bumps".
These "bumps" all have rather suspicious shapes.
Even as the monster moved, these protrusions covering its body continued to spray out a viscous liquid.
If Lin Xi hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he would never have believed that a creature could have such an evil appearance—and what's even more unbelievable is that it could move freely in cryogenic liquid.
This is enough to prove just how difficult it is to deal with the clone of this queen beetle.
Not to mention, the clone king insect hovering behind Lin Xi exuded an aura of absolute evil.
It looks almost unreal; in fact, it's like something out of the wildest, most erotic fantasy.
However, while such monsters might bring pleasure to some special people in their dreams, in reality, Lin Xi, who is fighting against them, only feels like she is trapped in a complete nightmare.
Even though Lin Xi's movements were already far more agile and swift than human imagination after transforming into a mutant, compared to that monster, Lin Xi's movements were as slow as a tortoise.
In just a few steps, Lin Xi could clearly smell the odor emanating from the monster. It wasn't a foul smell, nor was it the smell of blood; it was something far worse...
Lin Xi was still running away, but the moment he smelled that scent, he felt his joints go weak and his mind went completely blank.
He just fell to the ground like that.
"Sizzle—"
The clone let out an unusually excited cry and swooped down towards Lin Xi.
Perhaps it's because extreme fear can actually calm people down... Lin Xi, following the posture of falling, suddenly turned around, pointed the old-fashioned electric pulse gun he was tightly holding at the monster right behind him, and then pulled the trigger forcefully.
A blue current shot out directly from the muzzle of the gun.
The monster trembled violently, and the bulges on its body shuddered all at once.
Lin Xi gritted his teeth and turned the pulse gun to its maximum. Under the influence of the electric current, the clone's movements suddenly paused. But that was all—as if in the next second, the monster resumed its movements as if nothing had happened.
Lin Xi felt a chill in her heart.
But he gritted his teeth and, taking advantage of the clone's incomplete recovery, forcefully thrust the butt of the electronic pulse gun into the monster's eye—
The monster let out a low growl and sluggishly raised its forelimbs to cover its eyes, which were gushing out sticky fluid.
Taking advantage of the moment when the monster's vision was obstructed, Lin Xi stomped his foot hard on the ground, his body nimbly turning in a different direction. He then changed direction again, directly overtaking the clone and running quickly in another direction.
He had a strong premonition that if he were caught by this monster, a nightmare awaited him.
Lin Xi moved swiftly through the warehouse filled with countless frozen culture dishes, using the cylindrical frozen culture dishes as obstacles to block the monster's view.
With a quick movement, Lin Xi slipped into the monster's blind spot, lying prone on the ground, his body tightly curled up. This way, the electronic detection components at the bottom of the frozen culture dish would somewhat conceal his figure.
The monster wasn't very intelligent... If he was lucky, he might be able to escape the monster's pursuit for the time being.
Just as Lin Xi had thought, the monster had indeed lost track of her.
"Bang--"
The electronic pulse gun's barrel was squeezed out of the clone's body. The monster gently rubbed its worm-like forelimbs, and the gun barrel, made of high-strength material, easily turned into countless fragments.
Upon realizing that Lin Xi was missing, the clone of the King Worm raised its neck and let out a savage howl.
Immediately afterwards, the monster began to slowly move its body, its head lowered, making a distinct purring sound as it sniffed... It then began to explore along the path Lin Xi had taken.
This creature, covered in evil parts, can even smell things—
Lin Xi cursed inwardly.
He covered his mouth, carefully bringing his face close to the edge of the frozen petri dish, observing the approaching monster. The more he observed, the more he sensed something was wrong.
His heart sank little by little.
This monster does indeed have relatively low intelligence, but as if to compensate for this, its instincts have become incredibly powerful.
If this stalemate continues, it's only a matter of time before Lin Xi is caught by that damned clone.
Lin Xi knew she should find a way to escape her current predicament, but...
Good heavens, his mind is completely blank right now.
Lin Xi could feel that she was in a state of helplessness. All her rationality and thinking seemed to have evaporated, leaving only intense fear and an uncontrollable sense of disgust.
This aversion was beyond reason; Lin Xi could even feel the "He" deep within his soul constantly clamoring and stirring.
This creature, covered in strange organs, is the "clone" mentioned in the previous reports.
Is this what is meant by "showing a special fertility tendency"?
Lin Xi almost wanted to curse the researcher who had casually mentioned that line in the experimental report three hundred years ago.
That "thing" that keeps wandering and wriggling in the cold storage should have been completely destroyed from the moment it was born into this universe.
While cursing the researchers from back then, Lin Xi also deeply regretted not having read the report more carefully.
If he had been more careful back then... wouldn't he have been able to find out exactly where this thing's weakness was? You know, this thing can even move freely in cryogenic fluid, and the damage the electronic pulse gun inflicted on it looks like a tickle.
What were the people on the Providence three hundred years ago thinking that would create such disgusting and terrifying creatures?
As Lin Xi was frantically thinking, the monster gradually turned its "face" toward Lin Xi.
Lin Xi's eyes widened suddenly. He was shocked to see that something resembling an eye stalk had grown where the clone's eyes used to be. Just minutes before, Lin Xi had personally inserted the handle of the electronic pulse gun into the monster's eye socket.
In such a short time, the original wound actually healed?
Whether it was because of his rapid breathing or not, Lin Xi suddenly felt that the monster seemed to tilt its head in his direction, provided that... the organ that Lin Xi thought was its head could actually be considered its head.
Lin Xi clenched his teeth and held his breath as he shrank back into himself.
His heart was pounding so hard that he began to worry that the monster might hear it.
After a while, the wet, sticky sound of the monster moving around rang out again.
It seems it did not detect Lin Xi's presence.
But then it let out a scream filled with anger and hunger; it was going berserk…
Lin Xiguang got goosebumps all over his body just from listening to the thing's cries.
He instinctively closed his eyes, wanting only to stay there like an ostrich, burying his head in the sand, and not wanting to see that thing even once more.
But Lin Xi knew that was impossible. Only by monitoring what the monster was doing in real time could he possibly find a chance to escape.
Lin Xi mentally prepared himself, took a deep breath, and then mustered the courage to slowly turn around.
However, the moment Lin Xi did this, he suddenly felt something move in the corner of his eye.
Lin Xi froze, and slowly... turned his head. Then he met a handsome face, but one that was completely expressionless.
Captain Scripps' clone, or as he's known by another name, Special Experiment Subject S...
This creature should have been completely frozen, but at this moment, it slowly opened its eyes in the freezing liquid.
It woke up.
The eyes of the special experimental subject S were a strange, deathly grayish-white, with severely dilated pupils that reduced the iris to a mere thin ring. Anyone could see that this thing had absolutely no consciousness... its eyes held only emptiness.
At least, Lin Xi couldn't see any human emotions or rationality in him.
However……
"Waaaaah..."
Under Lin Xi's panicked gaze, Scripps' clone slowly opened her mouth and let out a low whimper...
This whimper acted like a switch, and about a third of the clones slowly awoke to it—most of them appearing as rotting, ever-growing tumor-like lumps of flesh. Even the best-looking individuals resembled deformed children suffering from severe genetic diseases, while others didn't even have complete human faces, with only scattered eyeballs and teeth embedded in the purplish-red, vein-covered surface of the flesh.
Lin Xi didn't know what had activated them... In any case, they had indeed woken up.
Upon awakening, they all simultaneously let out those meaningless screams of pain.
Painful low moans echoed continuously in the empty space of the cold storage warehouse, and their cries almost inevitably and immediately revealed Lin Xi's hiding place.
The deformed clone that filled Lin Xi with utter disgust and fear turned its body with an agility completely disproportionate to its size, its single, scarlet eye fixed intently on Lin Xi's location.
Everything is terrible.
Moreover, Lin Xi's current situation is extremely dangerous.
Lin Xi knew this better than anyone else, yet at this moment, Lin Xi couldn't even move a finger.
His body froze completely, because the moment those special experimental subjects awoke, intense pain and despair overwhelmed Lin Xi's entire mind like a tsunami.
It was a kind of pain that was completely devoid of reason...
A chaotic, ignorant pain... seemingly originating from the most primal core of the universe.
In that instant, Lin Xi even felt that he had been completely melted by this intense emotion—from body to soul—as if he had been assimilated by those things, and the pain had merged him with those special experimental subjects.
In a daze, Lin Xi had become the experimental subjects themselves, imprisoned in frozen petri dishes.
He couldn't understand his surroundings, nor could he comprehend what was happening.
All he could feel was a dark and overwhelming despair...
That emotional connection is so inviolable, so powerful.
The intense pain even directly affected Lin Xi's body. In Lin Xi's frozen gaze, he saw fine red bleeding spots slowly appear on the part of his limb that belonged to humanity.
Tick-tock...tick-tock...
Immediately following was the blood that fell to the ground.
A trickle of dark red blood slowly seeped from his nose.
Just as Lin Xi felt she was about to be submerged—
"Snap—"
From afar, he heard a crisp cracking sound—the sound of the frozen culture dish being smashed by the Queen Worm clone.
A large amount of refrigerant leaked directly from the damaged petri dish, causing the temperature inside the cold storage warehouse to drop sharply instantly.
The low temperature, followed by an even more painful groan, jolted Lin Xi awake, pulling her out of that extremely distressing state of mind.
He should have run away immediately, but at that moment... he couldn't help but freeze in place because of what he saw.
He was almost unable to think.
"No……"
He could hear himself squeeze out an exceptionally muffled and weak whisper.
Heavens above, what did he see...?
The deformed clone smashed a cryogenic culture dish, and as the cryogenic fluid leaked, the experimental subjects contained within spilled out and fell to the ground.
It was clearly a very unsuccessful experimental subject; even its outline was blurry. If it weren't for the distorted, as if squeezed human face embedded in its body, Lin Xi would have had almost no way of knowing whether it had truly awakened.
Oh yes, it is one of those that have awakened.
Lin Xi watched helplessly as those sorrowful eyes blinked rapidly across the grotesque, hideous flesh, thick, red tears of blood slowly streaming down its cheeks…
The clone of the Queen Insect seized it, its angry and violent roar transforming into extreme excitement and pleasure.
Under the monster's control, the only thing Captain Scripps' clone could utter was a few weak low growls.
The sound was more like that of some extremely fragile little animal.
Lin Xi stared in shock at the scene unfolding before her.
The next second, he vomited.
In the brief moment when his body stiffened in shock, the special experimental subject, unfortunately captured by the King Worm clone, had silently turned into several fragmented pieces. Its deformed internal organs, mixed with crimson blood, were scattered all over the ground, but its flesh did not satisfy the King Worm clone. On the contrary, this pitiful creature seemed to excite the terrifying monster even more.
Lin Xi watched helplessly as the monster raised its forelimbs, easily smashed another frozen culture dish, and then pulled out the special experimental subject from inside.
What happened next...
Lin Xi could no longer bear to watch.
He scrambled to his feet, his knees buckling in waves. Around him, all the experimental subjects who could regain consciousness simultaneously opened their vocal organs and emitted long, painful moans.
Several more crisp clinking sounds of glass came from behind Lin Xi...
Lin Xi didn't even dare to turn around.
He knew that the existence of those special experimental subjects had unknowingly helped him escape.
The clone of the Queen Worm wanted to capture Lin Xi, but whenever it passed by the experimental subjects who were constantly groaning, it would stop uncontrollably, then break the petri dish and grab those soft chunks of flesh, whether formed or not, to satisfy its physical desires.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Lin Xi staggered out of the freezer.
The clone immediately realized it was trying to escape.
It let out a roar and rushed towards Lin Xi, but before it could, Lin Xi had already turned around abruptly and slammed the door of the cold storage room shut.
"Bang--"
The metal door trembled violently from the impact.
But Lin Xi had completely lost the willpower to do anything about that door.
He fled from beside the door in a panic.
He felt weak, cold, and desperate... He had never experienced such intense negative emotions before.
Lin Xi knew very well that those Captain Scripps clones, with their deformed bodies, probably didn't even have brains for thinking; they were just lumps of rotten flesh haphazardly created by humans.
But who can explain this situation? These lumps of rotting flesh possess such vivid emotions and perceptions, and these perceptions are connected to Lin Xi's body more powerfully than those of any other living being...
For example, right now, Lin Xi is clearly trying to escape, but at the same time, a part of his body is vividly experiencing what the monster is doing to the test subjects inside the cryogenic warehouse—something so evil that no words can describe it.
Before Lin Xi even realized it, he had already started crying out uncontrollably.
The voice sounded... almost exactly the same as those experimental subjects.
However, whenever Lin Xi felt he was about to be overwhelmed by negative emotions, he would not hesitate to use his fingernails to draw a long, bloody line on his arm.
He was grateful for the pain and blood that allowed him to barely separate his mind from the minds of the experimental subjects in the cryogenics room.
And so, panting, Lin Xi walked through the messy biology lab and went straight to the outside corridor.
When he saw the two metal doors that blocked the corridor, he let out a desperate gasp.
"Fuck it—"
Lin Xi rushed to one of the metal doors and tried with all his might to break through it.
However, his condition was so bad that he couldn't even leave a scratch on the metal door. And not long after, something terrifying happened.
Just as Lin Xi was still confronting the metal door, a dull thud came from behind him.
That terrifying aura that Lin Xi would never forget emanated from it.
It's that monster...
Everything happened so fast, like a nightmare.
Lin Xi turned around abruptly, looking in horror at the enormous, evil figure that swayed and appeared in front of him.
Its movements appear quite slow, but in reality they are exceptionally swift.
The deformed and twisted body was covered with countless horrifying protrusions that were writhing... Some parts even still had remnants of the experimental subject.
The clone's eyes were also red, but there was nothing in the single, scarlet eye that was associated with positive emotions.
That was a body formed from a pure, evil fusion of desires.
Lin Xi's heart was pounding so hard it felt like it was going to jump out of his throat. His back was covered in cold sweat, and almost instinctively, he began to let out a strong, piercing hiss at the monster.
But the monster didn't react at all.
It seems to be able only to emanate evil emotions, but has no way to receive any information from the outside world.
Just as the reports Lin Xi had seen described, its mind was filled only with the desire to reproduce.
The deformity and grotesqueness of this thing were simply unbearable for Lin Xi.
Lin Xi retreated step by step until he reached the cold isolation door.
He had no way out.
In his horrified gaze, though the monster was still several meters away, some slender, tentacle-like things emerged from its body. They were so wet and soft, emitting a strong, nauseating odor.
Lin Xi's face was deathly pale. He stared intently at the monster's reddened eyes, feeling as if he were about to go mad. At such close range, the unique aura of the King Insect, which had previously been barely perceptible, emanated from the monster and became slightly stronger. However, it was precisely this aura that Lin Xi found unbearable.
It was as if his soul and body were screaming at him that the thing in front of him shouldn't exist in this world.
This is a blasphemous and defiled act.
Before Lin Xi could even react, he had already jumped up, and he could feel something springing out from under his fingernails.
He then jumped up with all his might and smacked the monster with his claw.
Like a hot dagger piercing butter, Lin Xi easily left a deep wound on the monster's body. However, before Lin Xi could even breathe a sigh of relief, he watched helplessly as the wound he had just made a few seconds earlier began to scab over, a thin, translucent film covering the surface of the deep, bone-revealing wound.
What Lin Xi found unacceptable was that he witnessed some new "protrusions" slowly emerging from the monster's wound.
"Hiss..."
The monster let out a muffled cry, devoid of any other emotion, only a nauseating desire that made Lin Xi feel disgusted.
The attacks Lin Xi launched against it earlier didn't seem to cause it any pain at all; on the contrary, the monster became even more active and excited than before.
Lin Xi revealed his mandibles to the monster. Instead of continuing to entangle with it, he stepped on the monster's shoulder and quickly jumped onto the wall.
Regardless of what might happen next, at this moment, Lin Xi's only thought was to get away from this monster.
He couldn't bear to have any contact with this monster—
But the next second, Lin Xi felt a sharp pain in his ankle: his ankle was firmly bound by the monster's tongue.
Lin Xi let out a soft cry, and then found that her body felt light.
The monster's tongue was like a rope, pulling Lin Xi towards itself.
Lin Xi's hand plunged deep into the metal wall in an attempt to stabilize her body, but all her efforts were in vain.
The monster's saliva was abnormal, and Lin Xi immediately realized this. Upon contact with it, Lin Xi's body quickly lost its strength.
His body was becoming weaker and weaker...
Even his mind became incredibly confused…
Everything happened in such a rapid instant. Sensing the movement of one side of her body, the only thought in Lin Xi's hazy mind was...
He's finished.
This mutated King Worm clone is so powerful it defies logic; perhaps it should take its own life while it still has the capacity to think.
"No……"
Lin Xi let out a desperate groan.
Just as Lin Xi was filled with despair, he suddenly heard a violent roar—
Something is hitting the metal partition door on one side of the passage.
"Lin Xi..."
What followed was Xavier's hoarse roar, made out of panic, as he heard it.
"Lin Xi...it's me...I'm here!"
"Xavier shouted."
As it cried out, it kept banging on the metal isolation door.
The isolation door that had previously filled Lin Xi with utter despair began to deform at a visible rate.
The clone of the King Insect that had already trapped Lin Xi reacted violently.
Its body tensed abruptly, then it slowly turned its hateful head.
Then it stared straight at the metal door.
At this moment, the clone of the Queen Beetle actually exhibited emotions beyond sexual desire—exclusivity and possessiveness.
The monster even temporarily abandoned Lin Xi, focusing all its attention on the deformed metal door.
It smelled Xavier's scent.
That was the aura of a genuine, normal Ohmu.
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