As the mechanical arm of the strong interaction material slowly retracted, the starship's conference table erupted in cheers, as it meant that the month-long mining of the old gods biological tissue was successfully completed.

The Rare are excitedly preparing for their return journey, most of them are dormant, a few are awake to keep the starship running, and each of them is secretly glad that this nightmare is finally coming to an end.

During the mining period of more than a month, they successively took tissue samples ranging from tens of cubic kilometers to hundreds of cubic kilometers on many pieces of meat of the old gods suspended in different positions, and it can be said that they collected as much data as possible on all parts of the body of the old gods, which can be regarded as a great harvest.

However, the initial excitement and excitement of the Rare people have long since disappeared, and now all of them want to complete the mining work as soon as possible and leave this extremely strange star field. Even the somewhat pessimistic Riel has privately complained with fear that this is a living universe that is about to devour all living things here.

It was only when it was all over and they could get out of here that the Rares, who had been gloomy for days, cheered.

It all started on the day the first sample was collected -

As Xiao Yao followed the members of the scientific research group to discuss the biological characteristics of the old gods with great interest, and made his way towards the prepared laboratory, a mentally uncontrollable Rare swooped down from the hallway.

It was one of the Riel who had been in charge of the spacewalk but had to recover it early due to a nervous breakdown. At this moment, he didn't know why, and escaped from the medical room.

He lay on the ground in embarrassment, dragging the researchers' legs, repeating the messy words almost frantically, Xiao Yao could only vaguely understand a few words from them-

"Don't ...... No...... Don't go over...... Don't go over ......"

"That's the devil...... It's a demon...... It is the sin of the Creator...... is a curse that should not exist in the world......"

"No...... Absolutely not...... You can't bring that monster back to Kolo anyway...... It must not be ...... Absolutely not...... Otherwise everything will end...... All...... All things perish......"

While the Ray researchers tried to soothe his emotions

Suddenly, the Riel stood up in a very stiff position, his joints not bending, and he couldn't even observe the contraction of his muscles...... It's like a mythical zombie.

He looked at the researchers in front of him with sad eyes, and his eyes were darkened with a deep blackness...... It's like a prophet who understands everything, tied to the stake and lamenting the ignorance of the mortal in front of him.

Then, an invisible force dragged his body, and in an instant, it threw him out violently, slamming it against the wall behind him, and the whole of Rare was spread out like a thin cake, and blood splattered.

At that moment, Xiao Yao swore that he had captured the existence of a faint distorted organization in space...... Like a black tentacle.

On the blood-stained wall in front of him, the flesh and blood spread out like an octopus with its body stretched.

Xiao Yao couldn't help but shudder, at this moment, the originally silent universe suddenly gave him a kind of wordless pressure, and he was in it, like an ant being watched by countless giants.

Witnessing such a horrific scene, the researchers lost their mood in an instant, and today's research was not happy. It's just that Xiao Yao deliberately collected some of the flesh and blood tissues of the tragically dead Arle, and as he expected, through Ariel's high-precision microscope observation, he really observed something strange in it.

It was a black thread of blood vessels and nerve fibers that were entwined around everything, spreading like a parasite through the body's tissues.

But something even more terrifying is yet to come-

Xiao Yao used Ariel's technique to analyze the cellular composition of those black silk threads, and he came to a terrible conclusion - the DNA of those black silk threads was exactly the same as in this Riel's body!

In other words, these black silk threads are not alien parasites, but simply monsters mutated from his own cellular curse!

"It's terrifying...... Xiao Yao muttered to himself, "A monster that directly transforms a part of its body into a different species, once it senses the threat, it can directly drag the host to death...... Such a strange effect is only the corpse of the Nameless Mist, the gods of the old days...... It's terrifying. ”

But that's just the beginning of everything, and that night, the mentally broken Riel who was still in the medical department escaped en masse

, when the Rare followed the sirens to find them...... They were standing in the glassware containing the corpses of the old gods, clutching the scattered pieces of meat and nibbling on them.

When stimulated by the light, there was no reason in their eyes, they just wanted to protect the meat under their bodies like a beast, and while speeding up their gnawing, they desperately lowered their voices and threatened others who tried to approach.

At that time, Riel spit out directly, and in the face of such a terrifying and beyond the scope of cognition, everyone felt a kind of wordless sadness and fear.

The mad Rare was quickly executed, and the horrified people couldn't even explain the mutation in their corpse samples. The Rare civilization has grown by leaps and bounds for so many centuries, and with the rapid development of technology, there is almost nothing called "unknown" in all the corners they come into contact with, and they have forgotten that the greatest fear is always the fear of the unknown.

Of course, this is just the beginning.

As the mining activities continued, the starship flew back and forth between the corpses of different old gods, collecting samples from different locations, and the warehouse on the bottom of the ship was gradually filled with glassware filled with xenomorph corpse parts, and the strange atmosphere that filled the air intensified, even if it was not explicitly said by Riel, everyone knew in their hearts that something terrible must be happening.

When that strange and terrifying atmosphere was squeezed to the top, everything collapsed like a riverbank on the verge of shattering, and all distortions and chaos erupted at the same time.

There were more than 300 riels on this starship, responsible for all aspects of this mining activity, but on this day, nearly fifty riels were out of control at the same time.

For everyone in the room, it was an indescribable shock.

The out-of-control Riel knelt in front of the glassware, his body throwing to the ground, his eyeballs, his teeth, his hair...... They fell, rotting like pieces of rotten flesh, and their vocal cords seemed to rot, repeating hoarse, obscure words—some kind of lost text.

Only Xiao Yao understood the meaning of those words, they were calling, singing, praying, towards the same "great existence" - the nameless mist.