"I know."
Lin Xi responded.
He found the man's suicide note in the drawer below him.
The suicide note was tucked inside a photo album.
When Lin Xi opened the photo album, the first thing she saw was a photo of a man and a little girl.
When Lin Xi discovered that the little girl in the photo had the exact same tail resemblance to the monster they had caught, she pursed her lips.
The girl's name was Alice...
The man was her father.
Like most of the crew on the Providence, this man was filled with longing and yearning for the new world when he boarded the ship.
However, after a difficult and long voyage, and finally landing, things started to get very strange.
People started to get sick and die, one by one...
This was already an extremely alarming situation.
But soon, people discovered that death might not be the worst thing on this planet.
The worst part is... once you get sick, you'll be transformed into another, terrifying creature.
Subsequently, in order to control the epidemic on the ship, the central computer issued an extremely harsh order to all members—anyone found to be infected with a foreign species would be forced into cryogenic chambers and, after entering a deep sleep, would be subjected to humanitarian euthanasia.
After repeatedly following instructions from the central computer and killing hundreds or thousands of people, the man finally suffered a complete mental breakdown.
I'm so sorry, Alice, I brought you into this hell on earth, but I can't face it all.
I can't even give you a dignified death, because I can't...
I cannot bring myself to put my beloved daughter in a cryogenic chamber and then kill her with my own hands.
I can only let you hide in my office, day by day, little by little, transform into that terrible monster.
You are still alive, but I know that in a way, you are already dead.
My indecisiveness ultimately led to the desecration of your pure life.
...I don't know if God will forgive my actions.
Lin Xi calmly looked at the suicide note the man had written many years ago.
The man confessed to what he had done and mentioned his daughter again and again... However, in the latter half of the suicide note, Lin Xi saw a name that surprised him.
Scripps—
Yes, if possible, I would like to go to hell.
I will curse you from hell, I will curse this world, I will curse those who put us on this ship, I will curse this steel coffin, and most importantly, I will curse that man—Captain Scripps—whom I once idolized so much.
But it was he who did such a heinous thing.
He is a complete and utter pervert.
His union with the machine was completely contrary to God's will. He was an utterly impure person.
Perhaps it is because of his twisted existence that God has bestowed such filthy evil upon each of us…
Lin Xi couldn't help but look at the most important sentence over and over again.
Scripps's integration with machines?
What exactly is going on? Almost the instant Lin Xi saw the word "machine," Hal's rotting and twisted face appeared in her mind.
He couldn't help but shiver.
The feeling of nausea became increasingly intense.
Scripps is not a hero of humanity, but a complete enemy of humanity. He is a demon, he is Satan. He allows evil souls to control this spaceship, ultimately plunging us all into danger.
I curse him, I curse him to eternal damnation...
Lin Xi carelessly tossed the paper covered in obscene words aside. After standing there for a moment, Lin Xi's eyes suddenly darkened. He squatted down and began to carefully search around the office.
Not long after, Lin Xi found the communicator that the man had used on the overturned shelf in the office.
This thing had been tucked away in a corner of the shelf, which shows that after the anomaly, people had long since stopped caring about wearing communicators.
The communicator's exterior appeared to be in excellent condition, except for some dust on its surface.
Lin Xi tentatively turned on the communicator, but just as he expected, after so many years, the communicator was long past its prime and could no longer be used...
Just as Lin Xi was thinking this, a light suddenly flashed in the previously pitch-black control room.
"Buzzing..."
This was followed by an unusually abnormal electrical noise.
Lin Xi looked up in surprise at the ceiling.
The lighting fixtures, which should have been completely abandoned, suddenly lit up without any warning.
Although the light was extremely dim and flickering, it was still enough for Lin Xi to see everything around him clearly.
Immediately afterwards, the communicator in Lin Xi's hand also lit up. After flashing a red light several times, indicating a malfunction, the communicator suddenly turned on.
All passwords and security measures had been completely destroyed. Lin Xi had only just touched the communicator when it revealed the man's conversations with others 300 years ago, his handling of work matters, and everything else.
Subsequently, several conversations between the man and his colleagues were specially selected and displayed on the screen without Lin Xi's consent.
It's obvious someone is trying to make Lin Xi see something...
Lin Xi raised an eyebrow, looked around, and then looked up at the ceiling.
"It's you, isn't it?"
He asked.
"Lin Xi?"
Seeing Lin Xi talking to the lighting fixtures with her head raised, Xavier flapped her wings nervously...
But in the next second, something happened that surprised Xavier greatly.
The dim light on the lighting fixtures began to flicker.
Lin Xi didn't say anything more. After receiving a positive reply, he immediately lowered his head and looked carefully at the communicator in his hand.
[...I really can't believe they actually did that. Are those guys crazy? They actually kept it from us until now?!]
This is a message from a male colleague.
Perhaps because the communicator itself was about to completely fail, all the messages were filled with a large number of unidentified characters.
Lin Xi had to be extra careful to extract the key information from those complex characters.
[Perhaps it's just a rumor. Captain Scripps has already completed countless legendary missions before. How could he possibly be a cybernetic being? Don't believe rumors.]
This is the man's reply to his companion.
Then there was a long line of text, all of which was the man expressing his admiration for Captain Scripps to his companions. The information Lin Xi had come across on Earth was not wrong...
At least at that time, Scripps was indeed an idol for all men.
However, a few months later, in the messages the man sent to others, his attitude towards Captain Scripps had completely changed.
[I really want to kill those people. How could they make such a decision? Even small commercial spaceships wouldn't consider having a cybernetic captain. These people, whose bodies aren't even fully developed, should just stay in wheelchairs and collect government welfare for the disabled… Scripps, that bastard, he's completely deceiving the world. If I had known the Providence was captained by a cybernetic, I would never have been here!]
Lin Xi had just finished reading this message when another message popped up.
Yes, that's right. I barged into that bastards' committee meeting today. I laid my hands on them right in front of them. Don't worry too much about me; I can still text you to let you know things aren't so bad.
Oh yes, they gave me some initial answers. Actually, I shouldn't be telling you what they told me, but this matter concerns the safety of all of us… Good heavens, you won't believe what I heard. Those Cyberians have been trying to invade human society for a long time. They even told me that many people live among us incognito. It's disgusting; I really don't know what they're thinking.
Please, are those Cyber people even human?
They are nothing more than deformed individuals who cannot even perform basic self-care.
If it weren't for the high-tech integration of that trash with mindless machines, they wouldn't even survive. Guess what they told me? They said that because cyborgs are so perfectly integrated with machines, they can handle complex tasks better than ordinary humans and are unaffected by human emotions…
I really felt like throwing up. They also told me that Scripps was a cybernetic specially bred by the government for this project.
Yes, they told me that Scripps are different—they are not those born with disabilities, but a special species that is selected and cultivated from embryonic time for mating with machines.
You noticed my choice of words, didn't you? "Special species"—that's what they called the man. Actually, these people know that guy isn't human at all; he'll kill us all.
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