The corpse lying in front of Lin Xi had become extremely soft, its flesh-colored skin turning an unsightly bluish-green, and within a very short time, the entire body began to emit a putrid stench…
Even so, Lin Xi could still clearly find Arthur's aura on this corpse.
Of course, this monster is not Arthur himself—
It is merely a copy and derivative of Arthur: a primitive organism rapidly synthesized in a laboratory by extracting Arthur's cells and genes, a very simple biological weapon.
These pathetic creatures usually possess only the most primal instincts and have rather short lifespans.
Using the offspring of a different species as raw materials to create this damned thing is an outright desecration and provocation—
"How dare they... how dare they do this..."
Lin Xi sensed that the cold, bestial nature within her, the mother of the alien species, was reviving.
He tried to control these dark emotions, but... it wasn't particularly effective.
Lin Xi trembled as she covered the flesh-colored lizard's already cloudy eyes with her hand.
"I will...make them pay the price..."
Even Lin Xi himself didn't notice that he was muttering to himself quietly.
At first, his voice was a normal human whisper, but soon the sound emanating from his throat transformed into high-frequency sound waves that only aliens could hear.
"Hiss... hiss..."
The sound waves were unusually peculiar and extremely penetrating—the repeated calls contained remarkably clear commands.
That roar could only be uttered by the Mother of the Alien.
The chirping sound traveled along the narrow corridor, through the complex equipment floors, through the elevator shafts, through the protective layers, through the metal partitions… all the way, all the way into the distance…
Then, the neighing arrived at a heavily guarded laboratory.
This laboratory is very quiet.
The area markings on the wall had become blurred due to the corrosion of monster blood from many years ago, and only words like "testing ground" could be vaguely seen.
The place is littered with traces of destruction left by some kind of monster. There are no humans, but there are a large number of functional robots.
They moved back and forth in the vast testing ground, responsible for guarding and adjusting the spherical transparent devices that were fixed to the testing ground surface.
A special hemispherical experimental device is the most unique and largest of all the petri dishes. Centered on it, countless flexible tubes connect the petri dishes on the left and right sides like a spider web.
And now, inside this special device, something suddenly jerked... and then jerked again...
His scarlet eyes opened in the cold sedative solution, shooting out an incredibly sinister and terrifyingly savage gaze.
A series of bubbles emerged from the white monster's mouth.
Through the thick, transparent walls of the petri dish, the alarms that gradually sounded from the outside world sounded so faint and ethereal, almost like whispers.
But the screech from Lin Xi was so clear it seemed to be right next to its ear.
"Forest……"
The white monster let out a muffled call.
Yes, it was Lin Xi's target for this trip who was suddenly awakened from his slumber—Arthur.
This period of confinement put its body in a semi-dormant state.
After waking up, it felt terrible... but that didn't stop it from struggling.
It shifted its body slightly, sensing something amiss.
"call……"
It then spread out its insect limbs and reached directly behind it...
Several flexible tubes were embedded deep inside its body like parasites.
Arthur ripped the hoses off himself, and the coolant used to calm him instantly turned blood red...
The intense stinging pain brought Arthur even more awake.
In his struggle, Arthur could clearly see that the place he was in now was not quite the same as before. Countless petri dishes surrounded Arthur, making him instinctively uncomfortable.
Some blurry images flashed through Arthur's mind; they were vague impressions from when it was dormant...
"Waaah..."
It let out a muffled whimper.
Arthur looked around, then began to breathe even more heavily.
In each petri dish floated a white body... They looked bizarre and terrifying; some resembled a combination of reptiles and insects from Earth, while others were simply large clumps of fleshy contents constantly floating around...
Arthur observed the bodies uncontrollably, and then his struggles suddenly became extremely frantic.
It wasn't stupid; its alien nature allowed it to quickly recognize the true nature of those monsters—it was itself.
That was a monster that had been copied and then had its essential characteristics altered during the breeding period.
Because of this artificial alteration, all the clones look so pathetic. Some of them were directly embedded into mechanical bodies before they were even formed, which makes them look even uglier and weirder.
As alien species, they are so filthy that they are even unbearable to look at.
Before Arthur regained consciousness, all the monsters were quietly floating in their incubation pods.
But Arthur's awakening was like a catalyst. Just as he was furiously pounding on the walls of the petri dish, the monsters that had been keeping their eyes closed also opened them one by one.
An unprecedented sound kept echoing in their ears...
That came from Lin Xi… no, it came from the summons and commands of the Mother of the Alien Species…
More and more scarlet eyes lit up.
An exceptionally piercing alarm sounded in the biological experimental field, but no one paid any attention to it at the moment.
A creature resembling a sea urchin unfurled its spines and was the first to smash through the petri dish that imprisoned it.
With the sound of the outer wall cracking, more monsters completely ignored the external restraints and broke straight through the culture dish...
In a very short time, the entire test site was completely out of control.
Each of the freed monsters was covered in blood and wounds. They staggered to their feet as if they felt no pain, and then slowly approached the very center of the testing ground, the petri dish where Arthur was.
Their empty eyes held no light, no consciousness, yet their movements were unprecedentedly synchronized.
They wantonly destroyed everything in the entire biological experimental field.
This also includes Arthur's restraint device.
Enveloped in fragments and slime, Arthur slipped out of the broken petri dish and fell to the ground.
It felt incredibly weak, its body felt very unwell, and it couldn't even maintain its balance.
Arthur glanced indifferently at his side, only then realizing that a part of his body had been cut off...
Then it nurtured these things around it.
Its inferior replicas, those oddly shaped individuals, stood silently in place, bathed in Arthur's gaze.
After Arthur was freed, all their movements stopped, their pale, empty faces all turned toward a certain direction, their scarlet eyes fixed on the wall in that spot.
"Lin Xi..."
Arthur followed their gaze and stared quietly in that direction, then slowly murmured.
As if in response to its call, the seemingly unbreakable metal wall of the biological experimental field suddenly shattered the moment Arthur finished speaking.
Lin Xi led Xavier and another unidentified creature step by step into the biological experimental chamber.
...
"Lin Xi..."
Arthur suddenly sat up straight.
And those unfinished biological weapons that shouldn't have reacted at all also did the same thing as him.
At this moment, they seemed to have become a completely unified whole.
All the creatures tensed their strange-looking bodies and then uttered a call indistinguishable from Arthur's.
"Lin Xi..."
...
"This is a malfunction..."
At the same moment, Hal, who had been observing the situation inside the biological testing ground, let out a whisper of disbelief.
If it were a human, it would probably have jumped up in surprise by now.
Numerous error reports were constantly scrolling through Hal's database, almost causing Hal to experience operational difficulties.
Neither Arthur nor Lin Xi knew that the biological weapons cultivated based on Arthur had control systems implanted inside their bodies the moment they were born.
Although Arthur himself is a descendant of Lin Xi, under the influence of this system, all clones... all biological weapons should just be "weapons".
They should have launched a fierce attack like mechanical warriors the moment they saw Lin Xi.
Those weapons didn't even have brains...
They were just strange, life-forced chunks of flesh, controlled by the system to exterminate the alien species.
But what has happened now?
These things actually started moving on their own?
They rescued the alien individual named Arthur on their own, and then began calling for Lin Xi...
Hal had never encountered anything like this before, and its database never contained any similar scenario simulations.
It could be said that before this moment, Hal had been in complete control when facing Lin Xi, because it had countless backup plans.
The reason why Lin Xi was allowed to wander around inside the Providence for so long was purely because Hal wanted to capture the electronic consciousness belonging to Scripps.
But now, even HAL, as an electromechanical being, can feel emotions similar to those of a human.
In human terms, he sensed something ominous.
Things are gradually getting out of control...
Hal instantly abandoned his mechanical body and returned to the entire spaceship's control system.
It used every means at its disposal to try to control the controllers of those biological weapons.
As the only and highest-authority control system on the entire ship, this should have been an easy task, but now those complex control terminals are completely offline.
Hal could no longer control those terminals.
In other words, it lost its ultimate authority…
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