Suddenly, Xavier grabbed Lin Xi and nimbly stepped on the wall. His fingertips, which looked like those of an ordinary human, were like knives piercing butter, easily embedding themselves in the wall of the rest area.
Using the formidable abilities hidden beneath his human body, Xavier gracefully draped himself over the ceiling of the lounge, carrying Lin Xi.
The next second, the metal door of the lounge crashed down.
Lin Xi pressed herself tightly against Xavier's chest, gazing down at her.
He paused for a few seconds, then softly said "thank you."
Lin Xi's thanks were more sincere than ever before.
Because the moment the door collapsed, the white nematodes that had been gathering outside for so long surged into the resting space like an out-of-control flood through the narrow doorway.
Most of them still maintain their seemingly ordinary nematode body shape, but some have already mimicked other species—such as those worms with human faces. In addition to the worms, there are other creatures mixed in with the half-insect, half-mechanical mechanical warriors and nematode swarms. Some look like a combination of a mantis and a spider, while others look more like leeches. These unfortunate creatures were probably some original inhabitants who lived inside the Providence rift before, but have now been directly devoured and transformed by these white nematodes.
Whether it was the nematodes or the mimicry creatures, they were still as chaotic, greedy, and fanatical as when they first met.
If Xavier hadn't brought Lin Xi up to the ceiling in time, Lin Xi would probably be standing in the damp and sticky sea of insects right now.
That was a real nightmare.
And now, those "nightmares" are churning beneath Lin Xi.
Some white nematodes stretched their bodies as straight as possible, like garden eels, and poked their heads out of the moist, foul-smelling slime, trying to reach Lin Xi on the ceiling.
Lin Xi instinctively snuggled closer to Xavier.
Should we leave here first?
Sensing Lin Xi's disgust, Xavier immediately began looking around, intending to find a more convenient angle to slip out of the rest area.
But soon it heard Lin Xi's voice of refusal.
"No... wait a little longer..."
Lin Xi stared wide-eyed at the nematodes.
"I want to observe further."
He said.
The thought that these things were the culprits that polluted Noah made Lin Xi even more eager to understand these strange and twisted creatures than before.
Even he himself was unaware that, subconsciously, he was searching for a way to save Noah.
Xavier was somewhat resistant to Lin Xi's decision, but it still obediently followed Lin Xi's instructions.
It hugged Lin Xi tightly and slowly crawled towards the center of the room—the resting space was spherical, and in the center of the room, the ceiling was the furthest from the ground.
As if sensing Lin Xi's departure, the nematodes' bodies began to intertwine, and then... the intertwining formed a brand new aggregate.
Even though Lin Xi is no longer human, witnessing the scene before him still gave him the creeps.
In a matter of seconds, the white nematodes had coalesced into a white spire taller than a person, and this "spiel" was still growing at a visible rate...
"Get out of here—"
Xavier let out a long, sharp snort of expulsion.
But these incredibly simple nematodes, so simple that they were driven by instinct, became even more active after hearing Xavier's voice.
They began to stretch their bodies as far as they could, trying to get closer to Lin Xi, until a scarlet light swept past the white nematodes—
The nematode colony simply disintegrated.
That scarlet light was Noah.
What happened next made Lin Xi's eyes widen in shock.
Noah, who appeared so weak, helpless, and pitiful in front of Xavier, showed a completely different side when facing the white nematode...
That's the ferocity and brutality only top predators possess.
Noah spreads out its slime-like body and pounces on the white nematodes. Then it uses its soft flesh to tightly wrap the wriggling, intertwined nematodes inside itself.
Through the translucent skin, Lin Xi could even see the process of the white nematodes being dissolved by the digestive fluid secreted from beneath Noah's skin.
"Ugh, that's disgusting..."
Just as Lin Xi was dumbfounded and at a loss for what to do in the face of such a scene, he clearly heard Xavier let out a somewhat affected exclamation in his ear.
"This guy even eats insects."
Meeting Lin Xi's gaze, Xavier spoke in a very subtle tone.
"...It's very good at dealing with these things."
Lin Xi responded slowly after a while.
He observed Noah entangled with and devouring the white nematodes.
Noah had absolutely no need to worry about these white nematodes parasitizing or mimicking him. This was because the nematode simply didn't have a body to parasitize, nor a normal form to mimic.
This may be because Noah himself possessed the same characteristics as these nematodes.
It is a natural weapon against these nematodes.
Through continuous consumption, Noah, who had been extremely weakened by Xavier's attack not long ago, quickly recovered. All the white nematodes that had been devoured and digested became its nourishment…
Those white nematodes are helping Noah become another powerful and chaotic creature...
However, the more Lin Xi looked, the paler her face became.
He suddenly turned his head and looked at the electronic screen in the rest area.
The bottom of the electronic screen was filthy from the slime of white nematodes, but the synthetic woman in red on the screen still wore a mechanical smile, quietly watching everything that was happening in the rest space.
Lin Xi stared at the woman's face, vaguely feeling that he saw Scripps hidden in the darkness.
"Did you already know all along...?"
Lin Xi suddenly asked.
That's why Scripps was so eager to urge Lin Xi to give birth to Noah.
The excessive kindness the former captain displayed at that moment now seems so incongruous in retrospect.
Faced with Lin Xi's questioning, the woman did not react at all, and the originally warm and luxurious resting space remained unchanged.
Scripps ignored Lin Xi; that guy had probably already disconnected.
Even so, Lin Xi already had a vague answer in her heart.
These white nematodes came from eggs that Scripps had never nurtured. Perhaps this is why the former Mother of the Alien had already foreseen the characteristics of the nematodes and Noah.
However, he never reminded Lin Xi of this from beginning to end.
He simply urged Lin Xi to give birth to Noah, and then... turned Noah into a weapon against these nematodes.
Thinking about this, Lin Xi felt as if her blood was about to burn.
He was so enraged that he even had a tendency to go insane.
A violent and bloodthirsty desire rampaged through his soul like an out-of-control beast, leaving his mind blank.
Lin Xi stared at the insects below him, devouring and transforming each other. Deep disgust and resentment finally shattered the last shred of his rationality.
These tainted descendants.
These are distorted members of the ethnic group.
These failed attempts... In that instant, Lin Xi wished that all the ghostly things he saw in front of him would disappear.
"Lin Xi?"
Lin Xi's emotions undoubtedly affected Xavier.
The Ohmu, who had finally acquired a human body, underwent a transformation into human form.
His once handsome face gradually transformed into a half-insect, half-human appearance.
Seeing the faint metallic chitin emerging from his bare arms, Xavier couldn't help but ask a question.
At that very moment, from the far corner of the room, a slender, centipede-like creature was stealthily wriggling towards Lin Xi. This was also one of the nematode's spoils—a parasitized alien monster.
Its greatest skill is approaching its prey silently, just like now. Its color is pure white, perfectly matching the environment of the lounge.
Three meters... two meters... one...
As the monster, which was as long as a forearm, approached Lin Xi, it slowly opened its mouth. The tube tongue, which was originally used to lick small insects, was filled with a large number of curled white nematode larvae.
The next second, the larvae of these white nematodes will land on Lin Xi through its spray.
Its movements were so stealthy that even Noah and Xavier were unaware of its arrival.
But at the very last moment, Lin Xi suddenly turned her head, her cold, scarlet gaze fixed precisely on the monster…
Lin Xi's eyes turned completely red.
There was no sound, no movement, just a gaze.
The white monster, which had been quite successful in its actions, froze for a moment, then silently fell off the wall and crashed into the battlefield below.
The mimicry body turned into fragments in an instant, and the larvae beneath it, which were not yet fully developed, became Noah's food in a very short moment.
Noah had grown many times larger than before; it had eaten its fill during the battle and become incredibly strong.
Seeing that the white nematodes in the room had been devoured down to only a small portion, Noah slowly raised his head from the ground.
The indistinct flesh and blood came together, barely forming a human-like shape.
Then it grinned at Lin Xi, as if trying to please her. Of course, that's assuming you actually think it was a mouth...
"Hiss... Noah... hiss..."
The strange and evil cry sent a shiver down Lin Xi's spine.
He thus came to his senses from his previous state of rage.
But the next second he was slightly taken aback by what he saw.
Looking at Noah's current appearance, Lin Xi was really not sure if this guy still retained his basic sanity...
That kind of excessive, fervent, and unadulterated affection and love is so similar to those white nematodes.
Noah's previously clear emotions had become muddled at this moment—clearly, while greedily devouring the white nematodes, the white nematodes were also changing Noah's body.
If we consider only the biological weapons aspect, these white nematodes are probably the most powerful and troublesome biological weapons that humans have developed. They are not strong, but they are indeed very troublesome.
Any creature that devours and destroys them, in the end... may be transformed into the nematode itself.
Lin Xi looked past the ugly Noah and out into the rest area. It was empty; it seemed that all the nematodes had gathered in the rest area.
However, thanks to the superhuman perception of the Mother of the Alien Species, Lin Xi was certain that the white nematodes that were constantly hatching in various spaces on this level were rapidly heading in this direction.
And Noah...
Lin Xi lowered her head and looked once again at her child, who no longer even had a basic physical form.
Noah was still facing a tough battle.
Lin Xi was well aware of this. However… what made him uncertain was whether Noah would truly still be Noah after consuming even more white nematodes.
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