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Chapter 30
For a long time, there was only silence in the medical room.
Alyssa’s pale face was worried and shocked. Several times, her lips trembled slightly, but in the end she said nothing.
Bryce guessed that she probably hadn’t found the right words to break the silence at this moment.
The atmosphere was a bit stiff, and Bryce knew this, but he couldn’t speak to save the situation — he still needed some time to calm down.
Although he has told Alyssa most of the past truthfully, Bryce is very clear that he still has a lot of things that he hasn’t said, such as: the little sister who died in the science exhibition hall; the family on the verge of collapse while searching for Lin Xi; how in that month… and the next few months, how the young Bryce faced his inner horror and self-blame.
Oh, by the way, there were also the days where after Lin Xi returned home, he screamed in bed every night and had nightmares that caused him to lose his voice.
He didn’t want to hide anything, he just didn’t know how to speak. The trauma of that extremely dark past was eternal for Bryce and the entire family, and the fear and pain were so deep that they couldn’t be summed up in words.
The only thing Bryce could do was to bury it completely under his memory, pretending that he didn’t remember anything anymore.
However, even after Lin Xi received hypnosis and gradually dragged his life back on track, even after so many years have passed…
Bryce would still be involuntarily disturbed by that kind of unwarranted uneasiness.
When they were camping, Bryce would force himself to believe that Lin Xi had never been bitten by any mosquitoes just because of his physique.
When Lin Xi smiled and said that the plants he raised had never had any pests and diseases, Bryce would tell himself that some people are better at fiddling with flowers and plants than ordinary people.
When Bryce discovered that there were so many insects near the house where they lived that they attracted the attention of experts, he would convince himself that this was just an ecological problem caused by environmental changes…
Bryce tried his best to put the nightmare of his childhood behind him.
Lin Xi is an ordinary person.
Bryce kept repeating this sentence to himself until he believed it himself.
‘At the beginning, the top scientists on earth studied Lin Xi for several months, but they didn’t get anything. This is enough to prove that Lin Xi is just an ordinary person,’ he said to Alyssa.
(But during the month he stayed in the chrysalis, something must have changed.)
‘For so many years, Lin Xi has never shown anything strange. He didn’t spray spider silk from his wrist and jump around among high-rise buildings. He didn’t grow wings. He didn’t become a superhero or a villain with a dark past…’
(But his relationship with insects has always been unusual)
‘Sorian and John, they thought they had discovered some little secrets hidden by others. They just saw the tragedy Lin Xi suffered at the beginning, but now… they are trying to make Lin Xi a sacrifice to the Helios. Yes, we all know that there is a problem here, but some people are willing to face it all, and some people, their fragile spirit can’t bear this kind of pressure, they don’t want to accept the reality that we unlucky ghosts may be left here forever — so they must find a culprit, so that all their fears and hatred can be vented out and vented on Lin Xi! They feel that as long as they resolve him, everything will be safe and sound, we will not die, and we will find the coordinates to go home —’
Bryce couldn’t help but speak faster and faster, until Alyssa had to raise her voice to interrupt him.
‘Bryce, it won’t!’
Alyssa looked at Bryce, she bit her lip, and then softly comforted, ‘I won’t let that happen. We are now on the Helios. This is a spaceship — not an antique sailboat made of wood and metal in ancient times. We will always find a way to get through all this.’
‘…’
Bryce raised his head and stared blankly at Alyssa’s pale face. After a few seconds, he lowered his shoulders decadently, and then he covered his face.
‘Sorry, Alyssa,’ he said, ‘I… have really been under a lot of pressure recently. And, you know, I’m really worried about what those people will do to Lin Xi, I’m afraid they will hurt him…’
‘We will protect him, my dear, I believe we can do it.’ She walked over and gave Bryce a hug again.
Although in the bottom of her heart, her intuition — or rather, her premonition of the future — was screaming in her mind.
Doom is coming soon.
Doom… is already on this ship.
A few days later——
The Greenhouse
‘Boom —’
Something hit the glass.
Lin Xi’s hand shook slightly, and a few drops of the solution spilled out. The originally clear and transparent light blue in the test tube instantly turned a turbid yellow-brown hue. Before the reaction had completed, the instrument in his hand immediately started its alarm, the atomized nutrient solution used for air cultivation immediately displaying a red light, indicating that the ratio had failed.
‘…’
Lin Xi stared at the failed work at hand and took a deep breath. He turned off the instrument that rang as though calling the police and turned his head back with a sneer.
No.1 was lying on the glass wall of the incubator. It shook its wings at Lin Xi. Its red spots showed its anger, and the small stone it had smashed into the glass before fell under its body.
It must have heard the alarm sound of the instrument. When Lin Xi turned his head, it trembled slightly, but soon it looked as if nothing had happened.
Lin Xi dropped what he was doing and stepped heavily to the front of the glass tank. He looked at No.1 and said sternly with a frown, ‘Don’t do this again. I’m warning you one last time, it’s not funny at all.’
It was a somewhat ferocious face — well, even the heads of harmless Earthen insects, when enlarged to this extent, would look particularly ferocious.
And the Star Butterfly itself wasn’t that kind of cute bug.
‘I already discussed this issue with you yesterday — it’s not good for you to disturb my work!’ Lin Xi yelled at No.1.
During this time, No.1 had grown up at an alarming rate.
Its body length was now close to one metre, and the surface of its body was covered with a layer of silvery-white, dreamy and confusing iridescence like a pearl’s. Its tentacles had begun to become more curly, the thin tentacles growing at the top, and its pair of bean-like eyes already had traces of compound eye development.
Even the bone plates on his body have fallen off once due to its rapid growth. The debris that fell off was carefully collected by Lin Xi and stored in a special box — the Star Butterfly was a creature too rare; everything that fell off it would be precious research materials.
However, after Lin Xi experienced a painful actual experience, he discovered one thing: no matter what he tried to do with the things that fell off No.1, he had to be careful. At least, he must not collect those shedding things in front of that little bug.
Otherwise, when he walked into the large insect culture tank the next day, he would be hit on the head by the pieces of insect moult that had fallen off. That thing was so heavy it exceeded common sense; Lin Xi doubted that the only reason he hadn’t been hit so hard until his head was covered with blood was due to exhausting the last bit of God’s love for him.
Oh, by the way, he had to thank No.1 next, otherwise it will start to routinely make trouble.
Lin Xi swore that before he set foot on the Helios, even in his most absurd imaginations, he had never expected that he would quarrel with a giant insect every two days, reconcile, and then quarrel again.
It was impossible for humans to figure out what this alien insect was thinking in its mind; at this time, Lin Xi could only try to comfort himself in the bottom of his heart.
In addition to growing in stature, the elastic and ever-changing wings of No.1 are already wide enough to wrap an adult man — Lin Xi knows this, naturally because No.1 had already tried to on him.
This earned the little bug a hard slap and a stern scolding.
No.1 seemed quite angry about this, but its little temper was nothing compared to its biggest contradiction with Lin Xi.
‘Zizzi… Zi…’
No.1 raised its head, its mouthparts trembled, and then made a long series of vague murmurs.
‘No, no way.’
Although he didn’t understand what No.1 was talking about, Lin Xi could keenly guess what No.1 meant — it wasn’t difficult to do. After all, No.1’s emotions were actually rather obvious, and its wings gave away all its careful thoughts at a glance.
Facing the complaints of this alien insect, Lin Xi raised his eyebrows and flatly refused.
Lin Xi frowned and said to No.1, ‘You are no longer the little bug you were. Look at your current size; there’s no way to accommodate you in my living cabin.’
Of course, what he didn’t say was that even if No.1 was still at its original size, he wouldn’t allow such a bug to continue to stay in his living cabin.
After all, there are already enough rumours about him and insects on the Helios.
‘Zi zi…’
After giving the exact same answer for the umpteenth time, No.1 began to flap his wings in annoyance.
Seeing its appearance, Lin Xi began to sigh uncontrollably as though he were a single father looking at his crying child.
Yes, this is the fundamental conflict between him and No.1 in the past few days.
Since No.1 found out that he had to stay alone in the large insect culture tank in the greenhouse, it began to lose its temper and wanted to return to Lin Xi’s original living cabin. Lin Xi was suspicious that, probably due No.1’s birth there, it seemed to regard that place as similar to a lair. Otherwise, it was really difficult to explain No.1’s attachment to that small and cramped space. As one would know, the notes left by Professor Ando clearly recorded the preferred living environment of Star Butterflies — wide, cool, dry, quiet, and full of jewellery or gold coins.
From this last point of view, the Star Butterfly really did share some similarities with Earth’s western dragons.
Lin Xi’s living cabin was exactly the opposite of all the conditions recorded.
So now, Lin Xi only left the egg sheath that hadn’t yet fully hatched in his cabin, and hoped to give No.1 a better living environment.
‘Hey, listen, I know you will probably feel uneasy because you have suddenly been transferred to a new environment, but… but this is impossible. Once we return to Earth, I think you’ll have a perfect living environment, it may make you feel a little more relaxed…’
Lin Xi originally just wanted to convince No.1 to calm down, but as he talked, his voice became smaller and smaller, and finally he simply stared at the glass trough in front of him and fell silent.
Return to earth.
He repeated this sentence in his mind, his heart gradually becoming cold.
At the beginning, the people on board had great hope of returning to Earth. This was natural — the failure of the jump was a serious accident, but since their spacecraft did not explode and there were no serious casualties, this accident was not fatal.
What’s more, although the Helios was old, it was secretly performing government missions, and its supplies were far more generous than what private spacecrafts held. As long as they could recalculate the coordinates and find the jump gate, they could still be saved after all.
At the beginning, everyone had thought so, and the officers on the spaceship had been guiding the crew to think so.
But now, even the most stupid would have noticed that something was wrong — the surveyors were comparing star maps day and night, flying space probes, and checking the data transmitted back from space… Yet they never found the coordinates of the planet they landed on, let alone finding the jump gate back.
The premonition of death hung heavily on everyone’s minds, and the atmosphere on the ship became worse and worse.
Lin Xi had been trying to control his emotions, but sometimes, panic and despair weren’t controlled by human reason. What’s more, because of Bryce and Alyssa, Lin Xi already knew more than ordinary crew members.…
Mutations.
Insects.
The bizarre deaths that had gradually begun.
Sometimes, Lin Xi wants to learn from the increasingly outrageous exploration team and unscrupulously consume alcohol and drugs, because only after completely paralysing his thoughts could he put those suffocating things behind him…
‘Zi zi… Zi?’
A faint low sound came from the other end of the glass tank. Lin Xi suddenly came back to his senses, only to find that No.1, pasted on the other side of the curtain-like wall, had changed its previous appearance of aggression and had instead become docile. Its wings had become the kind of colour Lin Xi liked again: gorgeous, colourful and beautiful. The red compound eyes inlaid on the insect’s ferocious face had been staring at him, and one could even see an emotion similar to ‘worry’ on his face.
‘Da —’
No.1 raised his forelimbs and tapped lightly on the other side of the glass.
Its red eyes flickered slowly.
Lin Xi couldn’t help being startled.
No.1 knocked on the glass again.
Its appearance now looked so terrifying, but its movements were full of humanity; there is even a little inexplicable familiarity.
It took Lin Xi a long time to realise that No.1 was imitating his previous behaviour.
When No.1 hadn’t yet become so huge, Lin Xi occasionally stretched out his hand and gently stroked its head and back, because he found that his behaviour could soothe the little bug’s emotions well.
And now, No.1 intended to comfort him with the same behaviour, but through the thick glass curtain wall, the only thing No.1 could do was gently tap the glass with the tip of its forelimb, covered with fine thorns.
Lin Xi knew that No.1 was aware of his low mood, so he suddenly changed his attitude.
This made Lin Xi’s originally unusually heavy mood a little easier.
‘Thank you. It’s okay, don’t worry.’ He stroked the head of No.1 gently through the glass curtain wall, ‘…Of course, if you could be more obedient, I would be happier.’ He said.
Lin Xi didn’t know if No.1 understood his words, but in any case, for a long time to come, his little bug did behave much quieter than before.
This almost made Lin Xi feel unaccustomed. Several times, he would involuntarily turn his head at work and look at No.1, who had been quietly perched on the branch, staring at Lin Xi motionlessly.
That kind of gaze occasionally even makes Lin Xi feel deep, and it is also full of inquiry. If it weren’t for No.1 behaving like an unreasonable child most of the time and Dr. Ando’s note, which had also made clear that, although the Star Butterfly was extremely intelligent with its cleverness and high IQ, it still had a limit after all. Even the smartest of Star Butterflies only had the IQ of human children (after all, judging from the overly powerful body of Star Butterflies, nature didn’t need them to consume too much energy in IQ) — yet Lin Xi always, nearly felt, that there was an unusually mature and intelligent soul living in No.1’s body.
‘BEEP — BEEP — BEEP — BEEP —’
The instrument wailed like a police siren again.
Lin Xi shuddered and came to his senses. He looked at the reagent in front of him in frustration and cursed.
He didn’t know what was going on today that made him so restless. He had failed many times in the preparation of reagents, a waste of raw materials that were already in short supply.
Lin Xi rubbed his nose decadently and muttered to himself in a low voice, ‘Forget it!’
Immediately afterwards, he began to pack up his things, intending to give up today’s work task and go back to his room to take a good rest.
Just when he was about to leave the greenhouse, Lin Xi stopped involuntarily.
Lin Xi turned his head and looked at the insect glass tank behind him and said, ‘Then… see you tomorrow.’
No.1 waved his wings at him, and then quietly flew from the glass to the Sunu branches used for the tank’s enrichment, and it began to silently continue weaving its own pale golden nest. Since its size began to get bigger, it’s hard-woven nest had always been unable to keep up with its size.
Even Lin Xi couldn’t adapt to such a No.1 anymore. One should know, before today, every time he left the greenhouse, it was a war. At this moment, he also tightened his nerves very tightly — according to previous experience, every time he left the greenhouse, he would usher in the No.1 scene.
In the end, until Lin Xi left, No.1 was consistently well-behaved and didn’t do anything headache-inducing.
…Thus, on the contrary, Lin Xi himself felt uneasy, and his heart apprehensive and uncertain.
No.1 might’ve just matured, Lin Xi said to himself. That’s why it’s become so well-behaved and obedient.
However, the more Lin Xi comforted himself like this, the more uneasy he became in his heart — he thought for a long time and did not find the source of his anxiety.
It was precisely because Lin Xi had been immersed in his own thoughts that he did not notice at all that behind him — he didn’t know since when — he had been followed by a few tall young men.
Several men wore orange-red exploration uniforms, proving their identity. They were basically exploration team members, and there were also one or two mercenaries.
They are all very thin, their skin is pale, and their blood vessels are extremely obvious under the light cyan skin. There is a circle of allergy-like erythema around their eyes — the ones related to an excessive intake of alcohol and food bags containing unknown ingredients.
Unlike the members who’d scared Lin Xi and his party in the restaurant before — individuals who had already begun to mutate — the eyes of these men were not vacant, but rather like wild animals’, flashing with a strange brilliance.
And when they were walking around, the fabric of their clothes was hung straight down, the sounds of metals colliding came out of their pockets — it was the weapons they carried on their bodies.
There was a morbid excitement in their expressions, and their gazes towards Lin Xi full of malice.
If Mark or Sorian were here, they would’ve easily recognized that these men behind Lin Xi were those the closest people to John Bronson at the beginning.
After all, after encountering a major accident of the level of failed migration, there are always a few people who would panic and take the lies sworn into their hearts —
Just like Bryce and Alyssa said, they tried to attribute this sense of powerlessness and panic to another ‘guilty person’.
And now, the terrifying and unexplained death of John Bronson has completely triggered the darkness in the hearts of these people.
Lin Xi quickly realised the presence of those people behind him — probably because it was difficult for those men to hide their footsteps in their current mental state.
With his back to those people, Lin Xi carefully discerned the movements behind him, his face turning solemn.
He had the urge to run away, but after looking at the people behind him from the corner of his eye, Lin Xi quickly dispelled that thought.
Those people were like wild dogs who’d caught sight of a rabbit. Once he started to run, showing his weakness, it would only cause the madness of these men to completely burn.
So Lin Xi just kept his original pace, pretending to be unaware and walked in the direction of Bryce’s medical room.
It’s just that he didn’t manage to get to the medical room as wished. He was instead forced by those people into a sparsely populated dead end. Not far behind him was the airlock room, which was very noisy.
‘Hey, Dr. Lin Xi, please wait a minute…’
He heard a sharp voice.
A drop of cold sweat slipped down Lin Xi’s neck. He walked to the corner of an L-shaped corridor, and intentionally or unintentionally, turned around slowly. At the same time, he also blocked the back of his neck and back with the walls on both sides of the corridor. .
He raised his head and looked at the people before him as though nothing had happened, ‘Hello, can I help you?’
Those people surrounded him in a fanning shape.
‘We need you to explain something for us.’
The person standing in the front and talking is not an exploration team member but a mercenary.
His head had almost reached the top of the corridor. The muscles on his arms bulged, his fingers full of gun calluses.
It was a man who was far from the word ‘handsome’. When he spoke, his facial muscles twitched slightly as if he had a nervous disorder.
‘Explain what?’ Lin Xi asked coldly.
‘Explain old John’s death.’
The mercenary stared straight at Lin Xi and said, ‘You killed him with bugs, right?’
Beside him, another man shouted noisily, stirring up the others.
Lin Xi said, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about… Isn’t the cause of John Bronson’s death yet to be found?’
His heartbeat was a little fast, and his palms were slightly damp.
Of course he was afraid. He couldn’t sense any rationality from the people before him — thus proving he couldn’t communicate with them logically — and what was worse was the violent air surrounding their emotions.
They were just looking for an excuse carry out violence and blood — something Lin Xi discovered as soon as he saw them.
The other said to Lin Xi bitterly, ‘The examiner is your dear brother… the ship’s tyrant is your brother’s girlfriend…’
Another echoed incoherently, ‘It must be you. Old John said before that if he knew your true identity, you wouldn’t let him go…’
Lin Xi said coldly, ‘Then what exactly do you want me to say? Since you’ve already decided myself guilty in your hearts.’
While pretending to be calm, entangled with these men, his hand gently touched his wrist, pressing the communicator’s buttons in several spots.
But before he could contact Bryce, the mercenary forcefully grabbed his wrist.
The mercenary’s voice rose, ‘Don’t even think about playing tricks, you demon —’
At that moment, Lin Xi knew that he had made a mistake. The situation suddenly became worse.
Several people shouted in agitation and fear, ‘— Don’t let him resist, maybe he’ll kill us, just like he killed Old John!’
In their hearts, Lin Xi was indeed like the old man said prior: he was no longer a human being, but rather the demon who’d brought misfortune to the Helios.
Old John had proved it with his death.
Lin Xi struggled, ‘Let go!’
He tried his best to pry off the mercenary who’d first caught him, and rushed out to an optimistic gap. Despite his efforts, there were too many people surrounding him, all with an uncanny strength.
Lin Xi could only rush out a few metres before he was forcefully pulled back by those men.
‘No —’ Lin Xi shouted, but someone directly smothered his mouth.
The strong reek of wine and the strange smell of food bags instantly filled Lin Xi’s entire nasal cavity. He almost couldn’t breathe.
He heard someone say beside him agitatedly to his companions, ‘We have to kill him.’
‘Old John said that only by killing him can we survive —’
‘Where should we start? I reckon we’ll have to move fast, or he might find a way to draw over those bugs and kill us like he did John before. I saw him put those bugs into those two poor souls with my own eyes…’
Lin Xi turned his head to the side in disbelief, almost hurting his neck because of it.
He glared at them: he was certain that those men were certainly not in the medical room when the insects attacked the ship.
These people are completely mad, Lin Xi thought.
Those food bags might not have only changed their bodies; they might have also lowered their IQ.
These idiots might actually kill him because of the rumours John Bronson had put out.
‘Mmmhff… mmmpfff…’
Lin Xi panicked.
His body was pressed to the ground by several people, his mouth and nose were firmly covered, and the violent struggle made his body a little hypoxic.
In a trance, the scene in front of him seemed to repeat with some of the deepest pictures in his memory.
Lin Xi’s consciousness suddenly became blurred.
And after the mercenary found that Lin Xi’s struggle suddenly weakened, he immediately sat on Lin Xi’s body. One of his hands was stuck on Lin Xi’s neck, and the other hand was raised high, holding a dagger in his hand. .
Lin Xi gasped violently, the cold sweat and physiological tears penetrating into his eyes, rendering him completely unable to see the face of the man in front of him.
He waited for the incoming severe pain.
But several seconds have passed, but the dagger in the mercenary’s hand has never fallen.
‘This is… what’s that smell…?’
The mercenary smelled a scent.
He had never smelt such a wonderful fragrance in his life.
The aroma that seemed to melt even his brain came from the ‘demon’ under his body.
Oh, Old John was indeed right.
The mercenary stared at Lin Xi’s face and thought, This scent is by no means human, he —
The man’s thinking suddenly began to collapse at this moment.
A thought became clear with the aroma poured into his nasal cavity.
[This belongs to me.]
In the rapid flash of human thoughts, everything around the mercenary seemed to have become slow, and distorted.
He could hear his own violent heartbeat and the shouts of his companions.
He could see the hands that suppressed ‘Them’{*}.
{*Again, that funny genderless divine pronoun}
He could smell the scent of human sweat, the slight scent of blood, and the scent of that special ‘substance’.
All that subtle information around him was gathered into his mind at the same time.
And those sounds, those smells… all make the mercenary want to go mad.
[This belongs to me.]
That thought began to jump in his mind again.
It was a clear and clear instruction, and the mercenary had no way to resist.
[This belongs to me, this belongs to me, this belongs to me —]
And soon, there was nothing else left in his mind.
‘Sam, what are you hesitating about? Kill this demon! Then we can all go back!’
‘If you are afraid, I can come…’
‘Sam, do it!’
After the others saw the brief pause of the mercenary named Sam, the others immediately became restless.
Some of the ingredients in the food bag did make them as wild as rabid dogs.
But in the same way, their declining IQ also makes it difficult for them to react keenly to what Sam had done.
‘Boom —’
It was the dull sound made when the fist hit the body.
‘AAAAAAAHH —’
Then it was the beast-like voice that squeezed out of the mercenary’s throat.
He jumped up from Lin Xi’s body and grabbed the hair of the person closest to him with his hands. He dragged the person’s head and slammed it into the wall, a bloody stain suddenly appearing on the metal wall.
The man Sam caught fainted without saying a word.
Before the body of the first victim had time to touch the ground, Sam had easily grabbed his second victim.
He slammed the hapless man’s temple with his fist vigorously, and didn’t let go until the opponent’s body was, too, limp from a coma.
Dark red blood slowly flowed down the nostrils and corners of the mouth of the prospector in his hand.
The exploration team members who had been crowding around Lin Xi didn’t realise something was wrong until this moment. They looked at Sam with expressions as though they were dreaming.
‘What are you doing… Sam… what did you do…’ Someone shouted.
The mercenary murmured and repeated that sentence, ‘It’s mine…’
He walked towards those people.
It didn’t take much time for almost everyone to fall down — most of them had passed out. Although a small number of them maintained their consciousness, they were violently beaten, and beaten severely. They completely lost their mobility and could only lie curled up on the floor, whimpering quietly.
‘Hah… hah, hah… good… good boy… listen… to words…’
After all this was done, Sam muttered vaguely, and slowly turned to look at Lin Xi.
Lin Xi had already struggled to get up from the ground as early as the beginning of the incident. At this time, he was leaning tightly against the metal wall in the corner, looking at everything in front of him with a pale face.
Sam walked towards him.
His lips closed and he said to Lin Xi inarticulately:
‘I’m… good…’
He stretched out his hand and slowly stroked Lin Xi’s cheek.
Then he slowly leaned over towards Lin Xi, his nose twitching, and he took a deep breath.
Almost, he was even about to meet Lin Xi — and judging from his current state, it was by no means a pleasant experience for Lin Xi.
Lin Xi took a deep breath.
Then he pulled out his hand from behind.
An out-of-cabin multifunctional hammer for maintenance was tightly held in his hand by him, and then slammed hard on the back of the man’s neck.
The hammer didn’t even make a sound when it fell on that person.
Sam’s body shook for a while, and the man who had been violent to others like a beast a few minutes ago did not resist at all, and immediately fell to the ground.
Lin Xi was sluggish in place for a long time before he resisted the panic and kicked Sam with his toes.
The man’s body did not respond — he had indeed lost consciousness.
It was not until this time that Lin Xi held the hammer tightly and staggered back.He leaned against the cold wall, his body slowly sliding uncontrollably.
The hammer was hurriedly taken out of the opponent’s tool bag by Lin Xi after the first victim fell.
And now, only it can calm Lin Xi down.
Perhaps it was because of the sequelae caused by being pinched on the neck and unable to breathe before, Lin Xi only felt that his neck was hot and painful, and his throat seemed to have swelled, which made it extremely difficult for him to breathe, and he trembled like a patient with Parkinson’s. He took a deep breath.
It seemed a century had passed when Lin Xi pressed the communicator with difficulty, his fingers shaking.
‘Hey, Bryce —’ He opened his eyes wide and looked at his brother, his vision a little blurred, ‘There’s good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear?’
‘Lin Xi?’
The Bryce in the communication projection jumped up instantly after seeing Lin Xi’s current appearance.
‘What happened?’
Lin Xi forced himself to squeeze out a smile, although he knew it himself that it was probably extremely ugly.
‘The bad news is that some people tried to attack me just now.’ Lin Xi went on in a daze, his gaze always staying on the unconscious mercenary, ‘The good news is that these people are now unconscious, and I am still alive.’
‘What —’
Really bad, Lin Xi thought to himself.
He had tried his best, but Bryce still looked like he was about to be frightened into madness.
And…
‘Sorry, Bryce… I…’
I might faint.
Lin Xi held the hammer, and before he could finish saying these words, he closed his eyes and fainted.
The author has something to say:
Hahaha, many people are complaining that they’re lonely if they can’t see the comments.……
It’s a pity because everyone’s comments are actually super interesting.
The following is a selection of today’s comments — {*}
{*Bold = Netizen info; italics = netizens’ quote; regular is Author’s reply… I think…}
Putt Putt Comments:
I’m as worried as an old mother that No.1 has been found to have killed someone. No.1! Steady! Be a perverted worm that is different from the surface!
No.1: No problem. ok.jpg.
Liangshenghua Comments:
No.1: It’s too miserable. I was forced to sleep in a separate room with my wife. My wife didn’t even let me hug him. It must be that I didn’t grow up big enough.……
On behalf of a Mr. Lin, reply: No, it’s big enough!! Enough!! (Wait, why is this reply a bit dirty?)
Taro Comments:
When can I get 100,000 words a day? Hehehe
People will die…
26605962 Comments:
Butterflies are acceptable, but BY ALL MEANS DO NOT HAVE COCKROACHES APPEAR!
OK
Lonely Hanamaki Comments:
Every time I think of the Gong’s ugly face, I take a deep breath to comfort myself: The author is a face-con and a real mother, just like mángsītè, yes, that’s right. {*}
{*Yeah, I have no idea. 芒斯特}
Author: Uh…
The Ultimate Attempt Comments:
Is the brother going to die too? Can he and his girlfriend successfully return to earth?
What should I say? The sister-in-law will definitely survive. There is no bento{*} for her in the outline. As for the brother, by the end of the writing, it might be possible, perhaps I won’t have the heart to vomit the bento?
{*To collect a bento; to die. To get a bento -> no more scenes for an actor to film (of a movie) -> character death -> slang for one’s death}
ray Comments:
Did you hear that? No matter how big you are, your IQ is only the level of a human child!
Gong: I don’t care if I’m six years old, I’m very obedient, touch my limbs and hold my face
Heh… (sneer)
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