The terror from the nightmare still lingered in Lin Xi's abdomen.
A strong sense of foreignness... a mutilated yet still alive creature stitched together with his body, constantly pulsating.
That terrifying feeling, even through a dream, still makes one feel nauseous, as if a snake is climbing up the spine.
Especially when he regained consciousness, the first thing he saw was "Number One" in front of him—the monster with Saville's face and that bizarre body.
Lin Xi almost thought she had fallen into another nightmare.
For a fleeting moment, he felt as if he had returned to the past, to the time when Savile was still alive.
At that time, Savile was already suffering from severe mental problems, and Lin Xi was still very naive. He always tried to stay by Savile's side as much as possible, but he didn't know that this only made Savile's mental pressure heavier and heavier. He himself was also constantly having nightmares under the heavy psychological burden. When he struggled to wake up from those nightmares, he was often faced with the man sitting by his bed, staring straight at him.
"...How about we die together?"
Savile would look at him with that desperate look in his eyes, and then whisper to himself over and over.
"Lin Xi?"
Especially at this moment, "Number One's" face began to overlap with that of the former Savile.
Lin Xi's heart suddenly tightened.
Fortunately, the next second, Lin Xi saw an expression on the other person's face that was definitely not Savile's.
Feeling wronged, confused, and helpless.
Moreover, a bright red scratch was slowly appearing on "Number One's" face.
There were several thin, long scratches. Perhaps because "Number One's" face was a kind of mimicry, those tiny, bright red blood droplets had only just begun to slowly seep out from the thin, smooth wounds.
Lin Xi subconsciously looked at his hands—those pitch-black, needle-like, exceptionally sharp claws had retracted beneath his human fingernails.
Okay, another new discovery.
It seemed that every time he woke up from a deep sleep, he could find more inhuman aspects of himself.
A faint, metallic scent emanated from the traces of blood remaining under the fingernails; the smell was surprisingly sweet.
Lin Xi shuddered, once again feeling fear because of her current physical condition.
Right next to him, "Number One" stared blankly at him with his blue eyes, and a feeling of longing slowly drifted through the subtle connection between them.
Those tiny scratches were far too minor compared to the damage Lin Xi had inflicted on it before, so much so that Number One didn't even notice the new marks on its face.
Lin Xi couldn't help but sigh.
He reached out and gently wiped away the bloodstains.
"Don't you feel any pain?"
He couldn't help but whisper.
Without hesitation, "Number One" rubbed his entire face against Lin Xi's palm.
"It won't... hurt..."
"Number One" said in a sticky, gooey voice.
However, just as it said, before the blood seeping from the wounds had even dried, the wounds on "Number One" had already begun to heal.
After the bloodstains were wiped away, the scratches turned into white marks at a visible speed.
Lin Xi stared at the wounds, momentarily stunned. "Number One's" overly powerful self-healing ability not only clearly demonstrated its monster nature, but also involuntarily brought back certain fragments of his nightmare.
Such a bloody and filthy horrific remains, a tenacious individual that could still survive even with only its reproductive glands remaining.
If the same thing happened to "Number One"—
Lin Xi abruptly pulled his hand back, quickly interrupting his terrifying thoughts. His tendency to have nightmares, which he had back on Earth, seemed to have become even more severe now. Lin Xi tried to calm himself down.
"Lin...Lin Xi...?"
Of course, "Number One" could not understand Lin Xi's thoughts at that moment (although its wing roots were feeling slightly cold for some reason).
It just stood there, stunned, with its head tilted to the side, not knowing what it had done wrong.
This almost pure appearance was so incongruous with the face of the dead and the body of the monster.
Lin Xi felt inexplicably awkward facing such a "number one".
"Don't always stay by my side."
Lin Xi said to "Number One" with a headache.
"I might hurt you..."
After all, no one knows whether the person who wakes up from their sleep is him or "He" who is a monster.
Perhaps as his body gradually changes, the animalistic part of him will become more and more obvious.
"Won't."
Number One stubbornly shook its head.
"I know...it's you..."
The young king insect stammered.
The aura of "He" was completely different from that of "Lin Xi". "Number One" could not express it in words, but its body could naturally perceive the difference between the two - even though in essence, both "He" and "Lin Xi" were the same person.
Strictly speaking, Number One also had a deep affection and attachment to Him. This physical love existed long before Number One was born into this world, so even though Number One was almost devoured by Him, Number One did not feel any resentment at all.
Whether one successfully forms an insect marriage with Him and proliferates into an endless divine kingdom, or is replaced, killed, or devoured by one's own kind before anything even begins, it is all normal. After all, it is destiny and reincarnation that began millions of years ago.
But this time is different.
Even before it had a physical form, when it was just a chaotic mass of energy in the void, it sensed Lin Xi's presence.
When Lin Xi touched the fossil statue of the Sunu people without knowing anything, he could clearly feel that even the void itself was jubilant and trembling because of the man's presence.
That was "him".
It's Lin Xi.
It's... the person it likes...
"I recognize you, it's you."
"It's what I like... Lin Xi... it's... hiss..."
"Number One" looked straight at Lin Xi and said with great urgency.
In the end, clumsy and empty human language was completely unable to express its meaning, and it couldn't help but start to chirp sweetly at Lin Xi.
And its wings began to flutter in a strange way without it even realizing it.
The magnificent and brilliant colors changed constantly on its wrinkled, light and soft wings, like smoke and clouds.
At this moment, Lin Xi realized more clearly than ever before that in the world of monsters, there is no need for any language at all. Even just the chirping of insects and the color of wings are enough to express a love as vast as the sea to another person.
Lin Xi felt completely frozen; he had no idea how to deal with the situation.
That familiar, primal instinct was surging deep within him; he realized "Number One" was courting him even before his brain could process it. And if not for the accident, he and it should have truly been a pair of partners.
"Oh my God—"
Lin Xi let out a soft murmur.
The problem may lie here: the fact that his consciousness still exists is itself an accident.
Perhaps in terms of physical mutation, he and "Number One" are of the same kind, but this being named "Lin Xi" can never truly accept the fact that he has become a monster.
It's even less likely that he would...
It's impossible to do that kind of thing with an insect.
"Lin Xi... Lin Xi..."
"Number One" was so focused on Lin Xi that it naturally noticed the stiffness in Lin Xi's body.
The long, melodious cries vanished instantly, and its wings slowly descended to cover its back.
Then it mumbled Lin Xi's name repeatedly, its eyes filled with love and longing.
But Lin Xi only wanted to escape.
Not only because he didn't know how to deal with an insect's advances, but also because the other person had a Savile's face.
Don't look at me like that!
Lin Xi couldn't help but shout.
Startled, Number One's mimicry eyes vanished instantly, replaced by a pair of scarlet compound eyes.
Lin Xi: "..."
Just as Lin Xi and "Number One" were staring at each other in a stiff silence, some faint sounds suddenly came from not far away from them.
Lin Xi felt as if an invisible hand had gently tugged at her nerves.
thump thump—
His heart suddenly raced, and at the same time, the fleshy sacs that had been hanging in mid-air began to tremble violently, the rhythm of which gradually overlapped with Lin Xi's heartbeat.
"whisper……"
It was a wet, sticky sound.
A slender, sharp insect limb suddenly pierced the surface of the soft sac, and a transparent, gelatinous substance poured out from the opening. Then, the tear began to widen.
The other insect limbs deftly pried open the sac, and then a pale-colored alien creature, half-curled up, fell to the ground along with the gelatinous substance.
"call……"
Lin Xi gasped.
Goosebumps rose on his skin, and his body was twitching irregularly inside.
A strong, unfamiliar emotion enveloped him and attempted to establish a close connection with him.
Without any words or anyone's notification, he knew of the little white thing's existence almost the instant it appeared before his eyes.
Those were His people...one of His closest relatives...
"Sizzle..."
A long string of clear chirps emerged from the throat of the newborn alien.
It struggled to lift its head and stared straight at Lin Xi.
The newborn mutant is small, at least compared to its brother.
Moreover, perhaps because during the gestation process, Lin Xi was transforming from a human into the special monster known as the Mother of Aliens, the newborn alien's appearance was far more beautiful than "Number One".
Its body is white, with a slightly warm feel similar to human skin. Its torso is almost indistinguishable from that of a young human child, except that from the elbows down, it still retains the barbed tibiae and tarsi of carnivorous insects. Its feathery antennae droop backward like those of a moth, looking almost like silver hair.
And its face...
Lin Xi couldn't help but stare at the face of the alien creature.
That was Savile's face when he was young. The difference was that the newborn alien hadn't had time to add eyebrows and eyelashes to this innocent face, and his entire eye socket was pitch black, showing a coldness and inorganicness unique to insects.
“m……m……”
Gradually, the chirping of the newborn alien species began to change; its voice became softer, and the chirping of insects transformed into the sound of a human child.
It mumbled indistinctly, then moved its limbs, bound by the slime, and crawled towards Lin Xi—
However, before it could even get close to Lin Xi, an angry shadow swept past Lin Xi and charged directly at it.
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