"Okay...okay...Xavier, let me go..."
After a brief moment of intimacy, Lin Xi struggled to break free from Xavier's embrace—their current position was far too intimate. Having undergone the previous assimilation, Lin Xi's bodily instincts had become even stronger and more difficult to control than before.
There's nothing wrong with following your instincts, but...
Lin Xi turned around and looked at Noah, and the surge of heat in her body instantly subsided.
Even if it's about procreation, this isn't the time.
Lin Xi sighed, ignoring Xavier's burning gaze, and silently distanced herself from him.
To calm herself down, Lin Xi turned around and checked on Arthur's condition.
"I...I'm fine..."
After being kidnapped, studied, and dismembered to create new biological weapons, Arthur seemed to be mostly unharmed, even though... the previous "resonance" had healed it.
"fortunately……"
Lin Xi reached out and patted Arthur's head.
But just as he finished speaking, a dull thud came from behind Arthur as something collapsed to the ground.
Lin Xi turned her gaze in surprise, only to find that the replicas, who had previously seemed frantic and focused, and completely synchronized with Arthur, were now collapsing to the ground one after another like toys that had been powered off.
Subsequently, those deformed monsters copied from Arthur... crumbled and rotted at a visible speed.
Lin Xi frowned. He didn't have much affection for these biological weapons, but the fact that the replica of Arthur suddenly began to collapse made his heart clench.
What's going on?
He muttered to himself, then quickly ran to the side of the first body that had fallen.
The corpse was covered in large and small ulcers, and Lin Xi didn't spend much time digging out a small electronic chip from the most severely ulcerated area.
"..."
Looking at the familiar electronic chip, Lin Xi's brows furrowed almost into a knot.
The chip had very obvious short circuit marks. Even though Lin Xi knew nothing about the entire manufacturing process of biological weapons, he could easily tell one thing based on his past experience: all biological weapons would have a fixed chip after they were created so that internal control functions could be implanted into them.
But just now, his connection with these members directly violated the instructions of the control module.
Under resistance, the strong bio-current even caused the chip to short-circuit.
If the implanted chip were in an ordinary human or an ordinary alien species, this short circuit would probably only cause a minor headache. But for underdeveloped biological weapons, it would be a catastrophe.
After losing the chip, the life-sustaining functions it previously provided immediately ceased, and these already abnormal...fragile...monsters began to die in an instant.
"How pitiful..."
A gentle and compassionate look flashed in Lin Xi's eyes.
He knew very well that this was unavoidable, since humans had specifically created chips for control when they manufactured biological weapons.
He should even feel fortunate, because apart from that, Arthur himself did not suffer any fatal injuries.
Lin Xi breathed a sigh of relief, but on the other hand, she couldn't help but feel a little sad.
"...We have to get out of here."
Lin Xi said, then glanced around at himself, seemingly casually.
This biological experimental field looks like a super-large biological laboratory, with most of the facilities appearing to be automated, and nearly 90% of the petri dishes had been destroyed long before Lingxi entered...
but……
Lin Xi's gaze lingered on what appeared to be a metal box in the corner of the biological experiment field.
That was a freezer used in the laboratory, and it was still running. Lin Xi could sense that the freezer contained a large number of artificially cultivated embryos.
Well, this place is practically a fully automated biological weapons manufacturing plant. And Lin Xi is currently in the finished product display area... while the other areas are... wait, the other areas don't seem so simple.
Lin Xi unconsciously narrowed his eyes, his gaze becoming somewhat frightening.
He quickly stepped forward and opened the freezer door, then glanced absentmindedly at the undeveloped clone embryos.
Lin Xi closed the freezer door again.
"How strange..." he couldn't help but mutter.
"That's strange... what's strange about it?"
Xavier couldn't help but ask from the side.
Lin Xi shook her head: "I feel like I've missed something..."
"Can……"
"Wait, shh—"
Lin Xi paused for a moment and made a shushing gesture.
The entire biological experimental field fell into complete silence in an instant...
Against the backdrop of this fund, the sounds of certain machines operating become clearer.
"Here."
After a brief pause, Lin Xi suddenly stood up straight.
Then he quickly walked towards one side of the biological testing ground.
Several experimental devices of unknown purpose stood quietly in the corner.
Ironically, it was behind these experimental devices that Lin Xi found a very hidden access control device...
"What's this?"
Xavier curiously approached, and upon discovering it was a access control system, it immediately looked at Lin Xi with a hint of reverence.
The next second, its voice suddenly lowered, and then it whispered excitedly in Lin Xi's ear, "Wait, this is... the secret entrance, right?"
Upon hearing Xavier's voice, Lin Xi knew that this guy was probably referring to the TV shows and movies she had seen before.
This made his tightly clenched lips relax a little.
"Maybe... Of course, it's more likely that some people don't want us to find this entrance."
After saying that, Lin Xi reached out and forcefully gripped the electronic panel of the access control device.
Similar things had been done many times before, so the process of breaking the access control and opening the metal door was very quick and skillful.
As the entire module was destroyed, the lights in the biological experimental field flickered a few times, but then the metal door in front of them began to move slowly, emitting a screeching sound.
The doors slid open, revealing a dark, narrow passage to Lin Xi and Xavier. A foul, indescribable stench of decay wafted out with the sound of the doors opening.
"Well, this really looks like it hasn't been opened in a long time..."
Lin Xi muttered something, then quickly walked inside.
Lin Xi and her group soon arrived at another space.
With the arrival of humans, the lights, which seemed to have remained untouched for perhaps 300 years, slowly came on. The light was dim, perhaps due to the aging of the luminescent material. The space hidden deep within the biological experimental field thus slowly unfolded before Lin Xi.
……only,
However, Lin Xi did not expect that this seemingly strange and special entrance would lead to such a place.
This area should have been vast, cold, and desolate, just like the Providence wreckage that Lin Xi saw from the outside world.
But the space that now appeared before Lin Xi looked extremely dilapidated: the metal walls were pitted and uneven, and many hidden facilities had been dug out. A tangled mess of electrical wires had been deliberately pulled out from the original conduits and then haphazardly connected and intertwined.
Piles of garbage were stacked up like a mountain in a corner of the wall, and still emit a faint stench.
Some living facilities, haphazardly piled up from space equipment, almost filled the entire space.
If Lin Xi hadn't been absolutely certain that he was inside the Providence, he might have thought he had inadvertently traveled through time and arrived at a refugee camp on some space station.
The only difference is that at least there were still living people in the refugee camp, while Lin Xi only found dozens of mummified human corpses here.
The corpses were scattered throughout the space. Some of them were arranged in a very regular way, like human pyramids, piled far away from the living area. It was clear that they were probably among the first to die, so their kind would help dispose of the bodies. The remaining corpses were not so lucky. They were scattered in various corners, and it was obvious that no one had the strength to collect them anymore.
Some of the bodies were lying in the sleep pods, some were lying face down in front of the experimental table, and some were simply curled up in the garbage heap.
Even though only their bodies remained, Lin Xi could tell that they must have had a very difficult life before they died.
The most obvious sign was that they didn't even have a single intact spacesuit on them; instead, they wore ordinary clothes that were tattered and worn out, looking like rags.
Lin Xi squatted down next to one of the corpses.
This is the best-preserved corpse that Lin Xi observed.
A few strands of hair still remained on the corpse's head, though they were sparse and gray, and the corpse's dried skin looked wrinkled, like dehydrated raisins. Lin Xi reached out and gently touched the corpse; the dried skin was as fragile as the bones.
“Severe malnutrition…old age…this is a very old human being,” even if the owner of this corpse had not died, he probably wouldn’t be the kind of fresh, robust human that Xavier would include in his diet.
Xavier stood close to Lin Xi, and as Lin Xi examined the corpse, Xavier couldn't help but mutter to himself.
Compared to Lin Xi, Xavier's judgment of the condition of the corpse was closer to his instincts.
Xavier couldn't understand why Lin Xi was staring so intently at the corpse.
It wasn't until Lin Xi reached out and tore a work ID card from the corpse's chest that things changed.
"Level A Bioengineer... Supervisor of Special Experimentation Site..."
Lin Xi quietly read out the corpse's privileges before his death, as well as his name...
Then he raised his head again, looking once more at the appalling living conditions around him, his eyes growing increasingly strange.
"These people have lived here for a long time..."
Lin Xi murmured.
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