The arrangement actually took place within the dark stone walls, just before Arthur dejectedly left his new nest on the cliff.
Lin Xi has completely transformed into a completely new kind of creature.
It can be said that the last trace of humanity remaining within Lin Xi's body has been completely and utterly erased by that insect marriage...
At this moment, what filled Lin Xi's body was an incomparably ancient and chaotic power.
For billions of years, this power has manifested as the Mother of Aliens and her retinue through a dark and chaotic will... But this time, Lin Xi, with his human soul, has firmly grasped this will.
It could feel that incredibly powerful and vast force surging within the depths of its soul.
The most obvious manifestation of this power is that it enters this dimension and this world through Lin Xi's body.
Lin Xi gasped for breath, pressing her hands against his flat stomach.
What Lin Xi's palm touched was almost an ordinary human body. It could feel the warmth of a human, the smooth and soft skin, and it still possessed a human form, but all of this was just an illusion.
Lin Xi knew better than anyone that tens of thousands of lives were emerging, gestating, and taking shape inside its belly... and if it wanted, it could easily produce even more lives.
And all life born from its body will be its people, and its kin will be its descendants...
It has completely transformed into the Mother of Alien Species.
When Lin Xi realized this, she showed no fear or hesitation.
It is even rejoicing because of the life within its body.
Everything was so crazy, but just as much, everything was so beautiful.
Lin Xi felt an unparalleled baptism of power and an indescribable ecstasy. The immense stimulation was so great that it could completely shatter an ordinary person's body from the inside out.
But now Lin Xi can wholeheartedly possess and enjoy this happiness.
There was no coercion or deception between them, only love for each other. Perhaps it is precisely because of this that their insect marriage is probably the closest and smoothest in history.
only……
After Lin Xi and Xavier completed their insect marriage, just as Xavier was still not satisfied and was trying to get more pleasure from Lin Xi,
Lin Xi's body suddenly stiffened and turned cold.
The pain Arthur inflicted was vividly displayed in Lin Xi's mind... Since transforming into the Mother of the Alien, Lin Xi's perception of her own kin had become much clearer. This was originally a good thing, but under these circumstances, this perception became a heavy burden.
It was this pain that instantly jolted Lin Xi awake from the warm, sticky substance and the wings that enveloped her.
It struggled to break free and then left.
It must be said that at this moment, Lin Xi was still somewhat dazed.
The first few insect eggs that hatched during the insect marriage rolled out of Lin Xi's body and landed at her feet. Lin Xi casually placed the warm eggs on the wall of the nursery. The eggs' originally soft, sticky shells immediately adhered to the stone wall upon contact. Unlike the special alien species within the first egg case, these eggs quickly swelled and hardened after the surface liquid evaporated. Before long, those dark and thriving lives would emerge from within the clusters of eggs and grow…
They are generally not as strong or intelligent as the mutants born in fleshy sacs, but their high level of organization and discipline, as well as their absolute obedience to their parents, allows them to easily transform into a terrifying army of mutants. And if Lin Xi were to fully unleash his "true nature," he and his kin could even conquer the entire universe.
Of course, that's a long time from now. At least for Lin Xi right now, she's concerned about other things...
"Arthur is in trouble."
Lin Xi closed her eyes, feeling the pain belonging to Arthur within their mental connection.
Now that the insect marriage was already complete, Lin Xi certainly couldn't just abandon Arthur like that.
It rushed towards the cave entrance almost impatiently.
"Lin Xi..."
Xavier, standing behind it, let out a disgruntled cry.
Its body had grown significantly larger, and the thorns on its body had become thicker and sharper.
However, at this moment, it was unable to easily detach itself from the ecstasy of the insect marriage like Lin Xi could.
It still seemed a little dizzy. When it realized that Lin Xi was about to leave, it immediately stretched out its fleshy whiskers and wings, trying to pull Lin Xi back to its side.
Let's skip over what happened next. In short, it took Lin Xi quite a while to get Xavier back to his usual state.
final……
It staggered out of the insect marriage chamber. With Savile's help, Linxi cleaned herself up, and then found a spacesuit among the rubble it scavenged from the ruins of the Sun God and put it on.
At this moment, Xavier had already pushed open the tightly closed entrance to the nest, and the bright sunlight fell into the dark and damp cave.
Lin Xi was stunned for a moment before realizing that this insect marriage had lasted much longer than it had thought.
A cool wind blew into the cave, carrying away the thick, pungent air from within.
A gentle breeze, carrying the strong scent of the Mother of All Races, swept across the land.
Almost all the small animals on planet AS192 cowered and lay prone.
These lower animals do not have the concept of a king in their minds, but their instincts have already made the choice for them.
Following closely behind Lin Xi was Xavier, whose mood seemed rather bad compared to Lin Xi's, and whose agitation and dissatisfaction were more obvious.
Although a contract had been signed, it and Lin Xi could have had more time to do something unspeakable.
Now……
"Is it dead?"
Finding Lin Xi staring blankly in a certain direction, Xavier shuffled closer to her and asked eagerly.
Lin Xi shook her head with a sullen face.
"No...it's still alive. But it's still in pain."
Lin Xi said.
"I hate Arthur."
Xavier followed up with that.
But the next second, it naturally spread its wings.
Then, it stretched out its arms toward Lin Xi.
Lin Xi immediately jumped into Xavier's arms.
"call……"
Xavier lowered his head and sniffed Lin Xi's hair with satisfaction.
The next second, it carried Lin Xi and leaped off the cliff—
The enormous black shadow swept across the sky.
Following Arthur's scent (which wasn't difficult for Xavier, though he still insisted that Arthur's scent was really unpleasant), they arrived at the side of the ruins of the Sun God.
"……here?"
Seeing the familiar scenery, Xavier folded his wings and landed on the ground.
Lin Xi landed lightly on the ground.
It quickly discovered traces of a fight between the mechanical warrior and Arthur... After all, the smell of Arthur's blood was still very strong.
Lin Xi squatted down and placed her hands on the ground.
It could smell a strong, unforgettable smell of engine oil and decaying metal.
"Mechanical Warrior".
Lin Xi said coldly.
Then it raised its head and immediately saw something else not far away...
A translucent wing drooped on the sand.
It looks like a dragonfly wing magnified countless times, except that this wing is now hidden in the sand.
The smell of blood was coming from the wings.
Upon seeing this scene, even Xavier, who had always shown a strong dislike for Arthur, involuntarily raised his tentacles. He picked up the wing... revealing more of Arthur's parts.
Xavier turned his head to look at Lin Xi, whose face had become exceptionally gloomy.
Those mechanical warriors... cut off Arthur's wings and insect limbs.
Lin Xi had no idea how terrifying it looked at that moment.
It stepped forward and took Arthur's forelimbs and wings from Xavier's hands, cutting scorched marks that stung Lin Xi's eyes like awls.
Then, Lin Xi looked in a certain direction.
The mechanical warriors who took Arthur away made no attempt to conceal their presence...
This was only natural; Lin Xi even strongly suspected that they had deliberately left behind Arthur's remains so that the enraged creature would chase after him.
Even knowing that this was a trap set by the other party...
Lin Xi had no intention of letting the other party go, nor did it intend to give up on Ya.
It turned and glanced at Xavier. At this point, there was almost no need for further verbal communication between them.
Just like before, Xavier raised his arms and hugged Lin Xi tightly, then spread his wings once again.
Together they flew over a vast, magnificent hilly area, heading in a certain direction...
...
Inside the Providence.
Hal walked down the bridge step by step.
It hasn't left that place for a long time since Scripps' health deteriorated drastically for some reason.
It went directly to a laboratory located inside the spaceship—
This place was once a top-secret facility inside the spaceship, where countless astonishing and cruel experiments were conducted.
However, at this moment, it looks particularly old and dark.
The cold laboratory was surrounded by scientific instruments and specially designed confinement devices for studying this special species.
Of course, the most eye-catching thing is the few robotic warriors standing in the laboratory.
In fact, the robots that took Arthur away earlier were not traditional ghost-type mechanical warriors; they had a more terrifying name—Godslayers.
This was a special model produced on the spaceship after it landed on an alien planet in order to control the anomalies on the Providence.
Both the attack methods and the outer shell have been specifically optimized to counter attacks from alien species.
However, even the Providence only had a small portion of its mineral resources available for producing Godslayer mechanical warriors.
Oh, how long ago was that? Hal stared at the mechanical warrior in front of him, slightly dazed, but quickly came to his senses and felt a slight surprise.
It shouldn't be able to be absent-minded like that...
Hal re-examined his database and, unsurprisingly, found that the number of bugs accumulating in it had increased to the point of nearing an unbearable level.
If things continue as they are, it may become a pile of scrap metal in a few hundred years due to a programming error.
These errors are slowly taking its life away... Although, for artificial intelligence, the word "life" is somewhat ironic when applied to it.
However, it was precisely these programming errors that allowed it to escape the cold, chaotic world of robots and experience special emotions that only humans can feel.
Hal sighed, then lowered his eyes to look at the white creature in front of him, which was firmly pierced by the mechanical warrior's metal tentacles.
This perfectly developed alien species had its wings and limbs cruelly cut off, making it look particularly comical.
It is said that human children on Earth occasionally do the same thing, but those low-level insectoids on Earth probably don't feel distinct pain or develop their own will like this alien species in front of them.
Perhaps due to the severity of its injuries, the white alien's head drooped, its eyes were closed, and even its tentacles drooped completely.
A thin layer of gray covered the white body, making it look almost as if it were dead.
Hal stared at the white alien for a long time. It moved its fingers, and under its control, several mechanical warrior tentacles slowly detached from its body.
Some gray, viscous-like blood slowly seeped from the teacup-sized wound on the alien's body and fell onto the cabin floor. The liquid made a distinct sizzling sound the moment it came into contact with the metal, and it began to corrode the hull.
Piercing a live metal tentacle through an insect's body is undoubtedly extremely painful, and similarly, pulling the tentacle out of their body would certainly bring astonishing pain.
Even so, the white alien remained motionless on the ground, seemingly having completely lost consciousness.
However, upon seeing this scene, Hal let out a contemptuous laugh.
"Do you know? The same scenario has happened many times before, when those humans were experimenting on your kind here. Many innocent researchers have died because of this. Sometimes you seem completely dead, but that's just a strategy. As a mutant species, you possess unimaginable vitality and astonishing intelligence. You'll feign death, then suddenly leap up and end their lives when the researchers aren't looking. Your blood can corrode metal, your insect-like limbs can cut through the restraints binding you, and sometimes you'll rush outside to prey on humans…"
But no matter what, a monster is still a monster. In fact, once your behavior patterns are recorded, you creatures are like low-level animals, very easy to capture.
As he spoke, Hal slowly turned his head and looked at the wall of the laboratory. A metal wall suddenly pushed open to both sides, revealing test tubes hidden inside. Inside hundreds of test tubes were countless strange and grotesque alien corpses. The remains of each alien were cut and classified according to the parts, and then soaked in a semi-transparent preservative liquid.
Three hundred years have passed, and they still look incredibly lifelike; even on their broken bodies, there are still traces of pain.
Lying on the ground, Arthur, who had been completely still, suddenly opened his eyes.
Just as Hal saw through its plan, it suddenly leaped up using the muscles in its abdomen. Its long mandibles shot out from deep within its throat and pierced Hal's head like a sharp sword.
Hal let out a cold snort, and as if he had expected it, he raised his hand. Several Godslayer mechanical warriors standing next to Arthur quickly raised their tentacles, and with lightning speed, they pierced Arthur's back and shoulder.
Arthur threw his head back and let out a piercing scream. With his last bit of strength, he spat out a mouthful of highly corrosive blood at Hal.
Hal turned his head slightly, allowing a few drops of blood to still splash onto his face.
Large clumps of charred foam immediately appeared on Hal's simulated skin, revealing his titanium-gold metal skeleton.
"...Just like I said, your behavior patterns are very easy to predict."
Hal reached out and wiped the blood from his face. He stared intently at Arthur and then let out a regretful whisper.
Hal then bent down and brought his face close to Arthur's.
"You are already a sub-adult, which means that you were born long before the Sun God was completely reduced to ruins. But I have never seen you with Lin Xi. Let me guess, you were abandoned? But... Dr. Lin Xi's survival must be closely related to you. You saved him, right? I saw you with it at Biological Experiment Site No. 23."
As soon as the robot discovered Arthur, through recording Arthur's individual information and integrating a series of previous data, Hal realized, without much effort, that he had made a rather serious mistake.
"If I had known this would happen, I should have stayed there."
Hal said regretfully.
"..."
"Why has it suddenly become so quiet? That's strange. Why are you the only one beside the ruins of the Sun God? Where is Lin Xi? It's already transforming into the Mother of Aliens, isn't it? So you've been abandoned..."
Despite his severe injuries, Arthur became unusually spirited. After hearing Hal's whisper, he suddenly raised his head and spoke with great pride to the android in front of him.
"Lin Xi will never abandon me, Lin Xi will come to save me..."
Halfway through his sentence, Arthur suddenly bit his tongue, swallowing all his words.
Its eyes flickered, and its tentacles twitched rapidly behind its head.
Although he couldn't understand the whole story, in that instant, Arthur's intuition told him that he had made a mistake and shouldn't have said those words to Hal in front of him.
Sure enough, after hearing what it said before, Hal clearly showed a pleasant mood.
The God Eater-type mechanical warriors grabbed Arthur and then, in an exceptionally rough manner, shoved him into the spherical confinement device.
"Bad guy...bad guy!"
Arthur shouted menacingly at Hal.
Hal shook his head gently at it.
The sound of the fasteners closing rang out above Arthur's head.
Some translucent liquid flowed out from the injection port of the restraint device.
Arthur could clearly feel that the places on his body that came into contact with the liquid quickly became incredibly painful.
Arthur coughed several times, struggling to roll over and try to avoid the liquid.
But its efforts quickly failed. Before long, its entire body was completely submerged in the liquid, and Arthur's vision gradually became blurred.
"Bad guy..."
It was furious, and soaked in the liquid, it shouted in a hoarse voice.
Hal simply stared calmly at the white alien creature inside the confinement device in front of him.
Arthur finally calmed down. This time, Arthur had truly lost consciousness, and his grayish-white body was covered with a layer of brown in a very short time.
This slightly corrosive liquid can continuously damage the wounds on the alien species' bodies, preventing them from repairing the wounds and growing new limbs...
Some of the weaker mutants didn't even survive a few days, but that was enough.
Hal was certain that Lin Xi would arrive here soon after noticing that his kin were injured.
After all, that's Lin Xi...
Before this, the form of HAL radio waves lingered in the bodies of the crew members of the Sun God, and it had seen Lin Xi's appearance with its own eyes.
It must be said that at certain moments, Lin Xi's appearance reminds it of Scripps before he mutated.
They shared a similar quality that defies description, which may explain why... they ultimately ended up on the same path of fate.
"Today, a strange creature came at me and said I was a bad person."
Back on the dark, damp bridge, filled with the stench of decay, Hal slowly sat down next to Captain Scripps' life support system, then whispered to the pitiful body entangled in layers of heavy tubing.
As always, Scripps lay there with his eyes closed, like a corpse, the only response from Hal being the noise coming from inside the life support machine.
"...That mutant was different from any of the individuals we had seen before. It seemed to possess its own will and thoughts. If the monsters that mutated on the spaceship had been like this mutant, perhaps you wouldn't have had to face such a painful choice or make such a cruel decision."
Despite no one paying attention to him, Hal continued talking to himself.
"...It actually said I was a bad person, my God, it seems to think I am a real person. That's almost a compliment to me...after all, those humans didn't even consider you a real person back then."
Hal vaguely sensed that Scripps's fingers seemed to twitch slightly.
It jumped up and approached Scripps, but after repeatedly checking the records of the life support equipment and its own video footage, Hal had to admit that it was just a natural tremor caused by the nutrient injection.
It lay down next to Scripps for a moment before slowly sitting back down in its original spot.
"Bad guy."
It stared at the rotting insect eggs clinging to the wall, repeating the word softly.
What did those who died under its program call it? They just kept insulting and cursing it, not knowing that those curses were just meaningless noise to an entity like it.
The one who took Hal's place and endured that pain was Scripps...
This man was so beautiful, noble, and pure, more human than any real human being. He willingly took on such a painful and tragic fate for those ignorant humans.
This is something Hal will never be able to accept: its captain, its Scripps, has died just like that...
"I will save you."
Hal muttered to himself.
“This time there won’t be any more problems. I will solve all the troubles and completely annihilate that newborn individual. As long as the other queens are killed, you will definitely survive…you definitely will…”
It was as if the gods of this world had truly heard Howl's soliloquy...
Soon, in Hal's perception system, the red cursors marked as important targets began to flash.
A faint smile appeared on Hal's lips.
It closed its eyes, while at the same time, tens of thousands of mechanical warriors inside the Providence shook their ugly bodies, their masks flashing red light.
Then, they rushed quickly towards the direction of the cursors.
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