Xavier hugged Lin Xi tightly.
This overly dramatic reaction made Lin Xi hesitate for a moment, but he quickly gave up resisting.
He let himself hug Xavier's arm back, then he lifted his head and gently kissed Xavier's chin.
“Oh, Xavier…”
Lin Xi sighed and softly called the other person's name.
After experiencing the nightmarish mental pollution caused by those experimental subjects, Xavier's tenderness and love seemed as beautiful as a dream.
If viewed through the lens of Earthlings, his relationship with Xavier would probably be somewhat terrifying, Lin Xi vaguely thought...
In fact, even he himself never imagined that one day he would develop such strong feelings for such a huge and ferocious monster.
And now, their survival has only intensified this emotional entanglement...
"Lin Xi... Lin Xi..."
However, just as Xavier and Lin Xi were embracing, a white shadow rushed over.
That was Arthur, and his voice sounded so panicked.
"Look—look—hiss—look!"
Arthur clearly wanted to say something, but in his panic he could only utter some indistinct chirping sounds.
Xavier let out a disgruntled grumble, then turned his head aggressively to look at Arthur.
But this time, Arthur didn't seem to simply want to interfere with his good time with Lin Xi.
The little white bug raised its arm and pointed straight in the direction of the cold storage warehouse.
Out of extreme terror, it flapped its wings incessantly behind it.
"Arthur, what's wrong?"
Lin Xi naturally noticed Arthur's odd behavior, and immediately looked in the direction Arthur was pointing—
"Oh, damn it!"
Immediately afterwards, all color drained from Lin Xi's face.
He let out a whisper of disbelief.
The Ohmu clone that Xavier killed earlier turned out to be more than one.
More individuals gradually began to awaken after the death of that clone.
Heaven knows what modifications those scientists made to them three hundred years ago. Xavier and Lin Xi, who should have been extremely sensitive to their surroundings, were completely unaware of their presence.
It was only because Arthur, whose physical deformity made him exceptionally sensitive to danger, was there that they weren't directly attacked by those monsters while they were enjoying their time together.
Large amounts of refrigerant are continuously gushing out of the chilled water tank.
The cryogenic liquid began to evaporate immediately after it hit the ground, releasing a thick white mist that blurred the boundaries of the warehouse and masked the distinctive fishy smell of the clones.
Some incredibly ferocious and towering figures writhed slowly in the white mist like ghosts.
Although these creatures are completely different in appearance from the monster that Xavier killed before, they share the same repulsive features.
Could it be that all the clones he saw in the cryogenic chamber were actually just in hibernation?
And now they have all woken up because of the death of their companion?
After discovering this, Lin Xi felt as if someone had injected freezing liquid into her blood vessels.
Two monsters were the first to awaken and approach Lin Xi.
They looked like some kind of large worm, their scarlet eyes filled with nothing but murky savagery.
Upon sensing Lin Xi's presence, they emitted those maddening, bizarre cries, then began to pant heavily and spew out disgusting slime.
Seeing this, Xavier pushed Lin Xi into Arthur's arms.
Immediately afterwards, Xavier raised his body and then lifted his forelimbs, revealing the sharp thorns covering his tibias to the approaching monsters.
This is a fairly obvious act of demonstration—
Through this action, it finally managed to draw the attention of the two clones away from Lin Xi and onto itself.
The evil aura emanating from the two Queen Insect clones made Lin Xiguang want to shrink back just by looking at them, but Xavier seemed full of fighting spirit in the face of the two monsters' intensely malicious gaze.
Xavier appeared fearless, but Lin Xi wouldn't miss the wound on Xavier's chest from which blood was slowly seeping out.
The wound that the monster had inflicted on Xavier hadn't even healed yet, but now Xavier was actually planning to fight two similar monsters directly?
"Xavier—what are you doing?!"
Lin Xi watched as Xavier pounced on the two monsters without hesitation and couldn't help but scream.
Xavier tilted his head slightly when he heard his question.
Its tentacles swayed gently above its head: "Lin Xi...you go first. Leave this to me!"
It said.
If its words weren't lines from a TV drama that Lin Xi was familiar with, this scene would have seemed even more touching.
"Are you crazy? Xavier, we have to escape together—you can't take on two at the same time!"
Lin Xi shouted.
“I know… there are several more behind them,” Xavier said calmly. “These things have just been reviving from freezing, and if we don’t deal with them now, they’ll only become more troublesome.”
They've already caught a whiff of Lin Xi's scent... so if they can't be killed one by one, they'll do everything they can to eventually find Lin Xi.
As an Ogre, Xavier instinctively knew this.
"Arthur, take Lin Xi with you first!"
Xavier took a deep breath and then yelled at the stunned Arthur.
Immediately afterward, under Lin Xi's horrified gaze, he raised his forelimbs and pounced on the two slightly slow-moving monsters.
A misty fog swirled around him and the monster, making it difficult for Lin Xi to see the battle unfolding between them.
However, the monster's screams don't lie, and the smell of blood on Xavier's body doesn't lie either.
Lin Xi was about to rush back to the battlefield with Xavier when Arthur accurately followed Xavier's instructions.
It grabbed Lin Xi and dragged her towards the exit.
"It's dangerous... Lin Xi, run!"
Arthur's talent allowed him to unleash astonishing power at this moment.
As it ran, it tried its best to explain to Lin Xi.
For Arthur, there was probably nothing more dangerous in the world than those Ohmu clones that crawled out of the cryogenic tank.
Moreover, according to its judgment, neither Xavier nor Lin Xi could possibly win if they were to actually face those slimy monsters.
In just a few seconds, Arthur and Xavier had already separated by a considerable distance from the laboratory where they had been.
Even so, Lin Xi could still clearly hear the sounds of fighting coming from afar.
"We need to...escape...quickly..."
Beneath him, Arthur continued to ramble on about how terrifying the monsters were.
No matter how much Lin Xi asked it to let go of itself, it remained unmoved—for an individual like it, Lin Xi's life and safety even came before its own.
It was impossible for it to let go of Lin Xi.
At that moment, Lin Xi could almost hear the sound of her nerves snapping.
"I told you to stop!"
Lin Xi roared at Arthur.
A vast spiritual force rushed directly towards Arthur.
Arthur jolted suddenly, then slammed on the brakes in the corridor.
"Lin Xi..."
It turned its head and looked at Lin Xi, trembling.
"Let me go."
Lin Xi said.
“But Xavier said…”
Arthur struggled to stammer.
However, upon meeting Lin Xi's gaze at that moment, all the words vanished from Arthur's throat in an instant.
He immediately released his grip and let go of Lin Xi.
"Lin Xi..."
Its antennae twitched incessantly, and tears welled in its bloodshot eyes. It stared at Lin Xi uneasily.
"It's dangerous...it's dangerous..."
Arthur kept repeating the same word.
Seeing Arthur like this, Lin Xi couldn't help but reach out and pat him on the head.
“Run away,” Lin Xi said to Arthur, “...run as far away as possible, it’s too dangerous here…”
Arthur let out a low whimper.
“Until I call you back once more.”
Lin Xi had to add one last sentence.
To Arthur, Lin Xi's voice was gentler than ever before.
However, the moment the words left his mouth, Lin Xi turned around and ran towards Xavier without looking back.
...
When Lin Xi returned to the biology lab and looked at the two monsters, Xavier and the others, he knew he had made the right decision.
As a mutant, Xavier certainly possessed considerable strength, but when faced with those two abnormal clones that were completely beyond reason, Xavier inevitably fell into a disadvantageous position.
For example, right now, what Lin Xi saw was that while Xavier was confronting one of the clones, another clone had already tensed its tentacles and aimed them at Xavier's back.
"Xavier!"
Lin Xi rushed forward and blocked a tentacle attack for Xavier, but he immediately gasped in shock.
The intense pain from his arm almost made Lin Xi's vision go black—the acid sprayed from the tentacle was directly corroding his skin.
Clearly, these clones of the Queen Insect used different attack methods when facing Lin Xi and when facing Xavier.
However, thinking about what they had secreted before, Lin Xi felt that this acid that could easily corrode human skin wasn't so bad.
"Lin Xi?"
Xavier turned around and saw Lin Xi!
A fleeting look of ecstasy flashed in its eyes, but this was quickly followed by intense panic.
"Why did you come back..."
As they were talking, Xavier grabbed Lin Xi, a move that allowed Lin Xi to dodge an attack from another monster.
Then, Lin Xi heard Xavier's voice choked with emotion as he spoke.
"...I really hope you watch less TV dramas."
Lin Xi gritted her teeth and said to Xavier.
The two remained locked in combat, but the situation in the laboratory did not improve with Lin Xi's arrival—the clones of the two Queen Insects had not yet been completely defeated, and another shadow loomed over them.
Although the newly added clone, Liu, was still very sluggish due to being frozen, its appearance was much larger and more repulsive than the other two clones.
After appearing, the clone didn't even pay attention to Xavier next to Lin Xi—its pair of scarlet and chaotic eyes were fixed on Lin Xi.
Immediately afterwards, a strange, turbid, viscous thought, like mud, surged into Lin Xi's brain.
Lin Xi's body trembled violently; the filthy thoughts emanating from the clone almost made him lose his strength.
In that instant, several more slender tentacles emerged from the monsters. Just thinking about what those tentacles looked like before, a strong sense of unease welled up in Lin Xi's heart.
Xavier rushed over and blocked several attacks for Lin Xi.
Unsurprisingly, it was injured as a result, its carapace splitting open to reveal the soft membranous wings hidden beneath its elytra.
It was only at this moment that Lin Xi realized that Xavier's proud wings had been torn apart once again.
Lin Xi's pupils suddenly contracted—heaven knows why the thought of Xavier's wings being torn apart by these disgusting creatures caused such intense resentment to surge in his chest.
Before Lin Xi could even ask Xavier if he could hold on, another shadow loomed over her.
It was another clone, which had been lurking furtively around Lin Xi and Xavier.
Xavier's injury gave the clone a sense of opportunity.
"Whoosh..."
As a strong, pungent smell of hormones spread, Lin Xi dodged the clone's attack.
The clone swept past him, and in the blink of an eye, Xavier was rolling around with another clone right in front of Lin Xi.
Without a moment to catch their breath, following the clone that pounced on Xavier, the other two monsters appeared. They were exceptionally cunning and ferocious when facing Xavier—for example, right now, once they found an opportunity, they opened their hideous, blood-red maws without hesitation and bit down on Xavier's neck and chest.
Fresh blood gushed out.
"No--"
Lin Xi let out a scream.
He stared at the scene before him in disbelief.
Xavier's neck and chest were now riddled with bloody, gaping wounds. The wound on his neck had become a fountain of blood, while the wound on his chest was even more gruesome. Lin Xi could even see Xavier's internal organs clearly through the wounds.
Xavier struggled frantically under the pressure of the three monsters, and then his body visibly went limp.
Lin Xi's vision instantly turned blood red.
"Xavier".
He murmured to himself.
"You guys... hiss..."
You have hurt Xavier.
"Hiss... hiss..."
A long, distinctive hiss of the Zerg emanated from Lin Xi's body.
At the same time, he felt a sharp, stabbing pain in his temple.
Lin Xi could hear her own heartbeat, thumping and pounding.
And deep within his body, something was gradually expanding.
Everything before Lin Xi's eyes gradually turned a thick, bloody red. At the same time, something inside his body was swelling as if it were about to tear his body apart.
pain.
A feeling of expansion.
A frantic and uncontrollable emotion.
My heart is pounding...
For a brief moment, only these fragmented memories remained in Lin Xi's mind.
And so, Lin Xi couldn't help but curl herself into a ball.
Something leaked out of his body…
thump thump...
thump thump...
Bang bang...
At first, Lin Xi thought it was his own heartbeat, but he soon realized that it was actually...
That's actually something else.
Those were pulses emanating from the depths of flesh that had been artificially created and subjected to 300 years of torment.
The mental afflictions that had once caused Lin Xi immense pain reappeared, piercing through the hazy crimson and surging directly towards him.
It's like countless streams flowing into a river, and the river flowing into the sea.
The ocean accepts everything.
Lin Xi... Lin Xi turned into the sea.
Lin Xi is connected with countless "individuals".
Meanwhile, in reality...
At the same time, all the special experimental subjects S remaining inside the frozen culture dishes in the cold storage warehouse also opened their gray-white eyes.
They awoke.
The swollen, deformed flesh, like a tumor, writhed incessantly, its mouths, covering its surface, agape to their limit. Then, in unison, they let out the same scream and cry…
"Waaaaah... Ugh... Ugh..."
Lin Xi clutched his own neck, unable to control himself as he let out the same long, drawn-out scream at the same time.
And his will... his will is growing thin.
Lin Xi's soul became exceptionally faint due to the dilution caused by countless painful spiritual entities.
In a daze, Lin Xi felt as if she had become something else entirely.
Something extremely ancient, powerful, and evil...
That wasn't a change, but rather...
Instead, it is awakening.
Lin Xi felt herself waking up.
...
Surrounded by the three clones, Lin Xi swayed heavily before slowly standing up.
He opened his eyes and coldly looked at the three clones in front of him.
Those clones didn't even have the ability to think, but at this moment, they unexpectedly showed an emotion similar to fear.
"hiss……"
They arched their bodies, emitting weak whimpers, and tightly retracted their limbs and the repulsive columnar structures on their bodies.
They then continued in this position, retreating further into the warehouse.
Even the clones that hadn't yet climbed out of the cryogenic chambers exhibited the same state of fear at the same time.
However, their submission to "Lin Xi" at this moment was meaningless.
Lin Xi stood silently in place, his gaze passing through the void and landing on the clones.
The next second, all the clones began to struggle frantically... They opened their mouths uncontrollably, revealing sharp fangs, and began to gnaw at their own bodies. The highly corrosive acid gushed out from their bodies like small fountains, and the acid began to corrode themselves.
In just a short while, those King Worm clones that had once brought Lin Xi and Xavier immense fear turned into clumps of viscous, lifeless flesh.
Three hundred years ago, the Ohmu clone, which caused great distress to scientists in the laboratory due to its powerful vitality and indestructibility, died easily.
While these clones were dying in extreme agony, in the dark and cold cryogenic warehouse, all of Captain Scripps' clones continued to chant a long and eerie incantation...
Drawn by the chanting, Lin Xi walked forward step by step.
Before he knew it, he had arrived beside Xavier, who was extremely weak. But something strange happened: Xavier remained conscious.
It lay there motionless on the ground, feeling its blood and life force flowing out of its body. It stared blankly at Lin Xi, who had suddenly become completely unfamiliar, and for some reason, a deep pain welled up in its heart.
It felt as if it had lost Lin Xi once again...
Just as Lin Xi was about to step past Xavier into the dark cold storage warehouse, she seemed to have sensed Xavier's gaze.
Lin Xi suddenly hesitated and stopped in her tracks.
He stared blankly ahead, a subtle, struggling expression appearing on his face.
He then slowly lowered his head and met Xavier's gaze.
His eyes were empty and ancient, like something that had lived too long and completely lost its mind.
That was definitely not the look Lin Xi should have in her eyes.
"Lin Xi..."
Xavier let out a mumble that was so unclear that only he could understand it.
But it was precisely this incredibly vague and faint call that made "Lin Xi" tremble.
The pain and struggle on his face became even more pronounced.
The next second, Lin Xi's eyes suddenly went blank, his body went limp, and he collapsed next to Xavier.
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