Lin Xi frowned deeply.
A warning signal emanating from deep within his body made him tremble involuntarily.
"Something... hiss..."
Xavier, who was beside him, spoke in a low voice, the indistinct human voice eventually transforming into pure insect language.
The young and robust Queen Insect now has its spines standing upright and its eyes bloodshot, clearly indicating that it has entered a state of high alert.
Lin Xi turned her head and quickly glanced at Xavier.
The other person's demeanor made him feel a tightness in his chest, and his heart began to beat faster involuntarily.
After all, he knew very well what could have caused Xavier to be in such a high state of alert...
"..."
Lin Xi walked silently, step by step, to the other side of the control room. Then he stopped in front of the glass window facing the cold storage warehouse.
The scene that greeted Lin Xi's eyes was so evil, bizarre, and disgusting that even he, who was no longer human, couldn't help but shudder.
Just minutes before, Lin Xi thought she had witnessed the saddest scene in the world.
Before this day, Lin Xi had never imagined that she would witness so many frozen coffins and the death that these "coffins" represented.
He truly felt that all of this was terrible enough, dark enough.
But now he has to change his mind...
"Sizzle... sizzle..."
Even through the thick glass barrier, the wet, rubbing sounds of those things were still clearly audible.
There are many things constantly wriggling inside the cold storage warehouse.
Smooth, pale, soft, and nauseating.
The things that suddenly flooded into the outside cryogenic chamber had a familiar appearance, but varied in size.
The largest one was nearly two meters long, while the smallest looked about the size of a small dog.
Just like the things Lin Xi had seen before, these "things" had smooth surfaces and looked similar to slugs, while the lifelike human faces on their bodies were the most prominent identifying feature.
Before this moment, Lin Xi did not think that these soft and pathetic creatures would cause him any harm.
But he never imagined that one day he would be facing so many human-faced worms in such a brief moment.
Are there dozens? Or hundreds?
The overlapping, wriggling creatures made it difficult for Lin Xi to determine their true number.
The only thing Lin Xi was certain of was that the number of these human-faced worms was constantly increasing.
From the moment Lin Xi sensed something was wrong to the moment he stood still in front of the glass window, only a few dozen seconds had passed. But the once deathly silent cold storage warehouse was now unusually crowded.
"Sizzle..."
The wet sound seemed to become exceptionally loud in an instant.
Those soft-bodied worms with human faces scurried out from all sorts of bizarre corners and crevices. Then, they bypassed the cold, frozen chambers that held countless mummified corpses and wriggled toward Lin Xi's location as if by unspoken agreement.
"..."
Lin Xi suddenly unleashed his spiritual power.
If nothing unexpected happened, he would have been able to drive away this almost mindless monster directly, but after he released his mental energy, Lin Xi realized that things had changed.
The thoughts of these worms were so murky, so viscous... as if they could completely shred his soul.
Lin Xi suddenly opened his eyes wide and quickly withdrew his strength.
"Close the door!"
Then, Lin Xi's eyelashes fluttered slightly as she spoke to Xavier.
Xavier leaped up, swooped down towards the seemingly sturdy door to the control room, and slammed it shut.
"Click".
Something unseen that had been hovering around them seemed to be hinting at something to Lin Xi and Xavier. The instant Xavier closed the door, something that had seemed to be malfunctioning next to the door lit up, the red word "Locked" flashing in the unstable current, like some ominous living thing.
The door closed and locked very promptly.
"Bang--"
Because just as the door was closing, a heavy thud came from behind it.
Hiss—
For a fleeting moment, a sharp, cold red light flashed in Xavier's eyes.
Its mandibles sprang out instinctively, and it let out an exceptionally fierce warning sound at the creature behind the door.
The brief sounds of impact and shoving subsided for a short while.
Neither Lin Xi nor Xavier showed any signs of relaxation.
“Xavier…”
Lin Xi stared at the closed office door and then whispered something.
"I know."
Xavier shook his tentacles and answered.
Seemingly wanting to interject in Lin Xi and Xavier's extremely brief conversation, some slimy substance with a faint fishy smell seeped in from under the crack in the door.
Xavier's wings visibly transformed into striking black and yellow, and he lowered his head, staring intently at the grayish-white slime.
Then, it suddenly opened its mouth and sprayed a large amount of highly corrosive acid into the gap below the door.
"Sizzle—"
With a sharp screech, the slimy-looking substance quickly retracted in an instant.
All right……
Having witnessed all of this, Lin Xi now knows how those numerous human-faced worms squeezed out from the various narrow gaps.
What exactly is going on with these things?
Lin Xi was panting, staring straight out through the glass.
At that very moment, the once smooth and shiny metal floor was covered with the wet bodies of countless worms.
They quickly climbed onto the glass in front of Lin Xi, their simulated human faces staring blankly in his direction—for a moment, Lin Xi even had a strange illusion, as if these worms, these low-level creatures that had long since lost all their intelligence, were staring straight at him through the glass window.
"Lin Xi—"
Xavier quickly noticed Lin Xi's intense discomfort.
It suddenly appeared in front of Lin Xi, then spread its wings, blocking the "sight" of the worms.
Are you alright?
"I can't believe it," Xavier asked worriedly.
Lin Xi shivered and it wasn't until this moment that she came to her senses.
"I'm fine, I just have a little..."
It's a bit disgusting.
Lin Xi's previous attempt to pierce these creatures with his mental power was undoubtedly a mistake—even now, Lin Xi still feels as if his mind is tainted with something sticky and filthy.
That's what's attached to the chaotic souls of these worms.
Xavier's tentacles twitched uneasily above his head.
“I can kill them all—don’t be afraid.”
It said dryly.
“I’m not scared, I’m just…”
Lin Xi said, but before he could finish speaking, some mechanical, monotonous whispers interrupted his reply.
"Help...help..."
"Help me..."
"I don't want to die, please, save me..."
Lin Xi pressed her temples, forcing herself to ignore the cries for help emanating from the soft, wet, slug-like worms mimicking human heads on their bodies.
Lin Xi hoped he could calm down; the worms blocking the command room made him feel very uneasy.
Of course, besides those worms, what made him feel very uncomfortable was... the things inside his stomach.
Lin Xi involuntarily reached out again and pressed his hand against his abdomen—the worm eggs that were breeding inside him were wriggling restlessly, bringing a stinging pain that was completely indescribable.
The intense commotion caused a thin layer of cold sweat to break out on Lin Xi's forehead...
He knew that it was his own negative emotions that had upset these tiny lives.
The life growing inside him was eager to be born.
They were designed from ancient times to be tiny creatures that would hatch when the mother was threatened, becoming the most loyal soldiers to defend the mother's life.
However, Lin Xi strongly resisted such a thing—these insect eggs, which were born purely to resist external threats, were failed expendable products.
Lin Xi reached out and slowly pressed Xavier's wings down.
He scanned the worms that had gradually covered the entire observation window: they had no consciousness, no intelligence, only the most basic and lowest-level instincts.
"No……"
Lin Xi whispered.
He absolutely did not want his people to end up in that miserable state.
However, just as he was trying to suppress the surging turmoil in his abdomen, a strong premonition that almost made him collapse came over him.
He almost collapsed to the ground.
"Lin Xi?"
Xavier hugged Lin Xi tightly, but its movements suddenly froze for a moment.
Lin Xi followed Xavier's gaze to his abdomen—which was noticeably swollen.
"No, something's not right..."
Lin Xi hooked one arm tightly around Xavier's neck, and whispered breathlessly into Xavier's ear.
Those crowded, expressionless faces still covered the observation window, their gray eyes intently staring at Lin Xi and Xavier inside.
Lin Xi glanced at the observation window once before looking away.
Both the worm eggs and he himself reacted too strongly to these worms, which was very strange—the worms were indeed quite disgusting, but Lin Xi, who had dealt with them before, knew very well that these things were not a great threat.
At least, in Xavier's eyes, they were nothing more than a bunch of soft flesh that could be clearly cut into pieces.
So why...why did he react so strongly?
Just then, Lin Xi keenly sensed that something was watching him.
He suddenly turned around and looked at the corner of the wall.
Sure enough, he saw a surveillance camera there.
Lin Xi's expression changed, and Xavier immediately sensed his thoughts.
The enormous, ferocious queen beetle took flight gracefully—and then easily destroyed the surveillance camera.
However, the electrical noise emitted when the machine malfunctioned did not bring Lin Xi any relief. On the contrary, he felt something inside his body becoming heavier and heavier, so heavy that he could hardly breathe.
"Hmm..."
He groaned softly.
The next second, Lin Xi's face suddenly turned extremely pale.
He felt...something...was writhing violently inside his abdomen.
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