Lin Xi abruptly shut down the unknown man's communicator.
He stood blankly beside the desk, his mind completely blank for a moment.
—Perhaps this was a prank someone came up with before they died.
Even though he knew it was absurd to think that way, Lin Xi still subconsciously tried to rationalize the information he saw from the communicator...
He licked his lips, feeling his throat dry and his heart racing.
This was the first time Lin Xi had experienced such a huge emotional fluctuation since she had transformed into a mutant.
After all, every Earthling born after the Great Age of Exploration learned about the past of cybernetic beings in their boring history classes at school.
However, those cybernetic beings have long since vanished with them, disappearing into the dust of history.
But now Lin Xi has learned that Captain Scripps, the most core member of the Providence, is a cybernetic being?
Moreover, if these clues are revealed, it is easy to guess something even more terrifying—Scripps are “cyber beings” specially produced by humans for the Providence Project.
Of course, if we set aside all personal emotions, this matter seems to make perfect sense. After all, when the Providence was proposed, the cultivation and assembly of cybernetic beings had already been listed as a serious crime by the Earth Alliance—natural and legal cybernetic beings no longer existed, unless someone deliberately cultivated such a… “thing”.
Reason should be reason, and emotion should be emotion.
At least at this moment, Lin Xi simply couldn't accept it.
Before becoming captain of the Providence, Scripps was already a legendary space captain. It's no exaggeration to say that he was the dream of every man at the time and the object of worship for countless people. Even now, he remains a legendary figure admired by many.
He is so out of place with the word "cyber".
Most importantly, Scripps' true identity as a Cyberman completely shattered Lin Xi's previous important assumptions about him.
While Lin Xi was in a daze...
Seemingly sensing Lin Xi's emotional fluctuations, Xavier turned his head, his red eyes fixed on Lin Xi, a wave of worry slowly and cautiously washing over him.
He sensed Savile's concern. Lin Xi raised his eyes and met the gaze of his Queen Insect.
Xavier waved his tentacles at him.
"Lin Xi... what did you discover?"
"Xavier asked."
“I… I don’t know how to say it,” Lin Xi said in a slightly hoarse voice, “… I thought I had found the answers to many things, but now it seems that those answers are completely invalid…”
The mysteries that had once troubled Lin Xi were now entangled with him once again.
This time, Lin Xi had absolutely no idea where to start looking for the answer.
"Is it related to your dreams?"
Xavier was keenly aware of this.
Then, it approached Lin Xi, and then it warily looked at the man's corpse on the ground, which was no longer human.
He felt somewhat regretful, as if it was his carelessness in accidentally breaking the man's body that had caused Lin Xi to suddenly fall into such a low mood.
"No, it has nothing to do with you."
Lin Xi immediately noticed Xavier's subtle thoughts.
He shook his head at Xavier and then said.
His gaze then fell upon the communicator he had tossed aside.
His eyes became deep and dark.
"...Someone wants me to know this information."
Lin Xi murmured.
"I think even if I hadn't picked up this communicator, someone would have found a way to make me discover this..."
Lin Xi paused for a moment, then repeated in disbelief, "A cybernetic? Scripps is actually a cybernetic..."
"Cyber...human..."
Xavier keenly caught the word, and with some curiosity, he shook his tentacles before responding to Lin Xi with some hesitation.
"I...I know them. They were mentioned in the story; they're all villains, but they're not handsome."
Xavier said.
Then it tried hard to recall the plots it had seen before.
However, in the television shows and movies that it is so obsessed with, cybernetic beings are usually just a faint shadow.
Now, the only thing Xavier could recall was that cybernetic beings were usually very ugly and ferocious, their bodies combined with machines, which made them completely become half-human, half-machine monsters.
Most importantly, precisely because they are thoroughly man-made monsters that are half-human and half-machine, they are inherently mentally deficient and outcasts.
Moreover, generally speaking, despite possessing abilities far exceeding those of ordinary humans, they remain inherently cruel...
...
Okay, most importantly, all of them, without exception, are extremely ugly...
Xavier couldn't help but flap his wings in disgust at the thought of the disgusting appearance of the cybernetic beings on television.
Unbeknownst to it, it was its slightly childish answer that eased Lin Xi's tense mood.
"...Actually, not all cybernetic beings are villains and bad guys. Their appearance and existence...at the time, were actually a complex issue..."
Lin Xi said slowly.
Xavier approached Lin Xi somewhat uneasily, then nuzzled against Lin Xi's shoulder, sensing that Lin Xi's emotions were quite complicated.
Yes, for a long time, cybernetic beings were a taboo topic for Earthlings.
After all, their existence was so tragic, and their eventual disappearance from history was an even greater tragedy.
The "raw materials" for cybernetic beings are usually some deformed children—before the Great Age of Exploration, with the help of the Anya people, human technology developed at an unimaginable pace.
However, at that time, humanity on Earth was not adequately prepared to face the profound social changes brought about by technological advancements.
For example, under normal circumstances, babies with birth defects like this are usually miscarried in early pregnancy due to genetic screening.
However, at the same time, quite strict and conservative religious doctrines were still preserved in society at that time.
These religions force parents to give birth to children with defects...
The worst thing was that it was in the very early days of space exploration.
Large numbers of people have entered distant space to work and study without proper protective measures.
This directly led to mutations in their offspring.
These children usually suffer from very serious radiation sickness, and the deformities caused by radiation sickness are far beyond what earthlings can imagine.
Countless deformed children were born among the descendants of the pioneering explorers of that era.
They are usually incomplete, some even lacking facial features and limbs, consisting only of round lumps of flesh.
Surprisingly, perhaps due to the special space radiation (or more likely, the Anya people's technology caused the radiation mutation), some of these "flesh clumps" actually possess extremely developed brains and abnormal nerves.
It is precisely this characteristic that allows them to live in this world in ways that normal humans have never imagined.
...It was originally used only for medical purposes.
Scientists have fitted them with mechanical devices to replace their missing limbs.
Soon, people discovered that these deformed children could be perfectly integrated with machinery.
They possess human brains and completely mechanical bodies, perfectly integrated and seamlessly unified.
Some people, just for fun, have given these new lives a name... Cybermen.
These cybernetic beings are a complete fusion of humans and machines. Moreover, with the advancement of technology, cybernetic beings can perform complex tasks and high-intensity work that are completely impossible for ordinary humans.
That's why, for a period of time, cybernetic beings took on many extremely important responsibilities in society.
Everything seemed to be going in a good direction, but soon things began to take a turn in a direction no one wanted to see.
People have discovered that while cybernetic beings have become exceptionally powerful, they still retain many of the inherent flaws of humanity.
After all, they were originally human...
Their overly powerful mechanical bodies sometimes amplify the harm caused by this flaw.
Gradually... gradually...
After a series of tragedies and disasters, people began to view cybernetic beings as outcasts.
This frenzy eventually swept through the entirety of human civilization.
Finally, all the cybernetic beings were destroyed in a long and brutal war.
Cyber beings are considered an abnormal entity, and their existence has been declared illegal.
Any act of "producing" cybernetic beings is considered a heinous crime.
Finally... decades later, the cybernetic beings disappeared from human sight.
What Lin Xi found completely incomprehensible was...
Three hundred years ago, when the Providence took off, Cybermen had long been considered an illegal creation. Under such circumstances, Scripps' true identity was truly incomprehensible.
What puzzled Lin Xi even more was that he had previously thought Scripps was the previous generation's mother of the alien species.
But now...
This idea was completely overturned.
If Streep is a Cybertronian, then she could never be the Mother of the Xenomorphs.
Just as Lin Xi was still reeling from Scripps's identity, a thought suddenly struck him.
Something triggered his intuition, instantly putting him on alert.
Meanwhile, on the other side, Xavier suddenly tensed every thorn on his body.
They all walked towards the glass window of the control room without prior arrangement.
Then, they all murmured in unison.
"What's going on..."
"Hiss..."
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