As Lin Xi and her group traveled towards Arthur's location, they encountered several strange-looking monsters with a strong sense of distortion from time to time.
Lin Xizhen didn't want to call those guys "mutants," but judging from their appearance and peculiar habits, these pathetic creatures were indeed mutants (or rather, their "raw materials" were mutants).
This realization weighed heavily on Lin Xi's mind.
He became increasingly silent, but his pace quickened.
The extremely complex internal structure of the Providence made the journey seem exceptionally complicated and long. The pitch-black environment, along with the omnipresent, almost spying feeling, caused Lin Xi to involuntarily fall into a state of anxiety.
Lin Xi felt very uncomfortable...
The feeling was like... like an ordinary person leaving home one morning and feeling vaguely uneasy. It's like forgetting something, or unconsciously making a mistake, but when they try to recall, their mind goes blank. It's not until that evening, when they return home and realize they didn't have their keys, and that they forgot to turn off the stove while cooking that morning...
"...They're all extremely weak little things, you don't need to be too nervous...Lin Xi, are you listening?"
Xavier suddenly pulled Lin Xi hard, then asked in a puzzled tone.
Lin Xi trembled slightly, then suddenly looked up at the King Insect beside her. In the darkness, a faint worry appeared on the young man's extremely handsome face.
"You're very nervous."
Xavier asked Lin Xi, puzzled.
"I...I was just a little distracted."
Lin Xi responded, and then he tried to figure out where this restlessness came from.
But he soon realized that this unease had actually started not long ago—he had been feeling uneasy ever since he killed the strange-looking laboratory artifact in the tunnel.
When examining the monster, did I really miss something? Lin Xi thought back carefully.
But before he could discuss anything further with Xavier, the enemy's wet voice came again from the end of the dark corridor.
"How annoying..."
Xavier muttered his discontent in human language.
Since they entered this corridor, there have been an unusually large number of these strangely shaped, fast-moving, half-biological, half-mechanical laboratory products, which have appeared in front of Lin Xi from time to time, causing him some minor trouble.
...
Just as Lin Xi was thinking this, the strange voice approached, and the "little troublemaker" revealed its true form.
Soon, Lin Xi discovered that this newly appeared monster could not be described as a "small" trouble.
This is a huge problem.
"What exactly did those mad scientists create in their labs...?"
Lin Xi stared at the thing in front of her and couldn't help but mutter to herself.
Since landing on this planet, Lin Xi has seen too many crazy things, from damned mechanical killing machines to the dark monsters he created himself... He originally thought he would never make such a remark about anything else again.
Lin Xi couldn't even find the words to describe it. It looked like an enormous lizard, but its body had no hard scales, no hair, no spines... only soft, slimy, pink skin. Tire-sized eyes were embedded in the monster's massive body, and its protruding jaws were full of sharp spikes. The lizard's tongue dangled directly from its mouth, a large cluster of anemone-like soft-bodied creatures. Though called the lizard's tongue, the "anemone" seemed to possess its own consciousness; every time the lizard took a step forward, it would spontaneously wriggle, each tentacle stretching forward as far as it could, sensing its surroundings.
Of course, Lin Xi had no doubt that these tentacles also possessed some degree of capture capability...
The unease it brought to Lin Xi was unlike anything any other monster had ever done.
Lin Xi froze, and then it was Xavier.
The only exception was Noah—because of the nematode contamination, Noah's perception and intuition were so weak that they were almost non-existent.
That's why, the moment Noah saw that thing, he immediately pounced on it as instructed.
But this time, unsurprisingly, it ran into a brick wall.
Neither Noah's soft body, nor the nematodes inside it that aided digestion, nor the acid it secreted... had any effect on the flesh-colored lizard.
In contrast, the lizard's limbs were so strong and powerful that it could even pierce Noah's body with its claws and slowly separate him completely.
The lizard's exceptionally thick layer of mucus completely prevented Noah from attacking it.
Even the instant Noah touched its body, those anemone-like tongues turned around as nimbly as an elephant's trunk, and then tightly gripped a part of Noah's body.
The body, wrapped in the tongue, visibly withered and became brittle, eventually turning into a large clump of viscous gel that was completely absorbed by the anemone's tongue.
From the moment Noah launched his attack to the moment the lizard devoured him, only a few seconds passed—Noah let out a piercing scream, and with lightning speed, he tore himself into several pieces, discarding some of them to the lizard. Then, he escaped back with his brain and major organs.
It seemed somewhat shaken, and in the instant it darted back, it quickly hid behind Lin Xi and Xavier—and then Xavier was pushed out.
"waste……"
Xavier muttered.
It glared sternly at Noah, then took a step forward with some irritation, about to charge at the monster.
The monster seemed to sense Xavier's ill intentions, and it began to rapidly flick its tongue, emitting a series of hoarse hisses.
The strong sense of threat was truly chilling.
"Xavier, be careful..."
Just as Xavier was about to make his move, Lin Xi couldn't help but speak up.
He didn't know what had possessed him, but the moment he saw the monster, Lin Xi felt his chest tremble violently.
The unease that had been bothering him before swelled up to the point where it felt like it was about to explode in his chest.
But the next second, something unexpected happened: the instant Lin Xi spoke to remind Xavier, the monster seemed to have also sensed Lin Xi's presence through sound. Its red eyes widened instantly, its threatening roar quickly turned into a whimper, and then, the monster's body began to tremble...
It was as if it were caught in some kind of huge and painful struggle.
Then, the flesh-colored lizard suddenly knelt down on the ground. It struggled to move its body, exposing its abdomen.
This is a very obvious gesture of begging for mercy.
Meanwhile, Xavier, who was already itching to slaughter the monster, thought: "..."
Without a word, Xavier, sensing something was wrong, slowly stopped what he was doing. He tilted his head, scrutinizing the monster that had suddenly begun to beg for mercy.
"Wait, this monster..."
Lin Xi couldn't help but speak up as well.
He rubbed his temples, his heart pounding uncontrollably. Was it just his imagination? Why did he feel that this monster...?
There was a strangely familiar aura about this monster.
Just as Lin Xi, Xavier, and the flesh-colored lizard were locked in a strange stalemate, Noah, who had been particularly uneasy about his injury, widened his eyes, seized the opportunity, and suddenly rushed out.
This time, it landed precisely on the flesh-colored lizard's belly, which it had deliberately shown to Lin Xi, leaving him completely unprepared.
Countless nematodes gushed out from the wound of Noah's wound, and then suddenly pierced into the thin skin of the fleshy monster's abdomen.
The lizard screamed in agony, struggling frantically to throw Noah off. But at that moment, it was powerless to resist.
Noah swelled his body several times its normal size.
At that moment, his body became almost completely transparent, like a thin layer of wrapping paper, and he suddenly wrapped the flesh-colored lizard in it.
The flesh-colored lizard didn't even have time to struggle before it was completely subdued from the inside out by the nematodes and Noah... and then killed.
Noah!
All of this happened so fast that Lin Xi didn't even have time to roar until now.
"stop!"
Noah was completely absorbed in the killing and didn't come to his senses until Xavier rushed over and almost tore it, along with its entrails, off the fleshy lizard.
Noah quickly pulled himself back, but it was too late.
The flesh-colored lizard's carcass, covered in slime, fell to the ground with a thud.
Lin Xi, who witnessed everything, turned ashen-faced.
"Noah..."
After Noah returned to normal, his size immediately became smaller than before.
It opened its eyes wide, looked at Lin Xi pitifully with tears in its eyes, and then begged for mercy in a low voice.
Lin Xi took several deep breaths to calm himself down. He couldn't care less about Noah, or even about Xavier, who seemed to be gloating. Lin Xi quickly walked over to the flesh-colored lizard and began examining its body.
This flesh-colored lizard is clearly a product of a laboratory.
But that wasn't the only thing that concerned Lin Xi...
What bothered him was that sense of familiarity he had just sensed from the monster…
Lin Xi reached out and began to rummage through the lizard's head and tail.
His heart clenched when his hand touched the monster's warm and soft skin, which was as soft as a human's.
“Arthur…”
Lin Xi whispered hoarsely.
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