Chapter 1060: Chapter 1059: Collection and Creation
"Beep... beep... beep...!"
An urgent alarm blared. Hearing it, the pink-haired girl sitting on the bed, hugging Harlow, curiously stood up and looked toward the door.
What happened?
The pink-haired girl—Lux Klein—listened to the piercing alarm and felt uneasy. As the daughter of the PLANT Chairman, she found herself on this enemy faction Archangel Ship by a series of coincidences. However, Lux had never worried about her safety, but now... it seemed the situation had changed.
"Whoa! Don’t come here, don’t, you creature, damn monster... ah!"
"Help, help!"
Outside, faint screams, gunfire, and cries could be heard, which made Lux very worried. However, as a "captive," she was currently under house arrest in this cabin, with no way to leave or know what was really happening outside.
"Beep—!"
Just when Lux was feeling anxious and uneasy, suddenly, the tightly closed door silently opened, and a bespectacled boy walked in.
"Hello, can you tell me what’s going on outside?"
Seeing this boy, Lux quickly stood up and asked. She remembered this boy seemed to be a classmate of the one named Kira Yamato. Although Lux wasn’t very familiar, she knew they were originally just ordinary civilians. But from the boy’s current expression, it seemed the situation outside was not that simple.
"Quick, let’s get out of here!"
However, the boy did not answer but instead grabbed Lux’s hand and led her out of the room, then rushed deeper into the corridor without looking back.
"What on earth is—"
"We’ve been attacked by alien creatures!"
"Al... alien creatures?"
Hearing the boy’s answer, Lux couldn’t quite wrap her head around it. What are alien creatures?
"They are a bunch of terrifying creatures. We got tossed into this damn place due to time-space distortion, and then the captain activated a distress signal. As a result, a gigantic battleship we’ve never seen appeared, and it somehow crippled our warship and even deployed creatures to invade!"
The bespectacled boy shivered involuntarily as he recalled what he had seen earlier.
"They’re not human, they’re creatures, the kind in movies, damn it, how did we encounter such things! Quick, we need to get to the storeroom, if the map I saw was correct, there should be an escape pod there..."
Honestly, even the bespectacled boy didn’t know what to do. Even getting on an escape pod, without supplies or rescue, might lead them to a dead end. But even so, it’s better than dying at the hands of these creatures. He had personally seen those pilots—they who once piloted Mechas to defeat countless enemies in space—get eliminated by these creatures with just one claw!
Without Mechas, humans are ultimately fragile beings.
"Here it is... damn it, password, password... I remember the password is..."
Finally, the two passed through the corridor and reached the storeroom at the end, but unfortunately, a password was needed to enter. As a bespectacled student not long ago an ordinary civilian, he was obviously unfamiliar with this place.
"Damn it... what’s the password, I remember it was..."
While quickly inputting the password on the panel, the boy grumbled. He tried three or four times, all failing. Meanwhile, the once relatively quiet corridor gradually became noisy, filled with beast-like roars, gunfire, and screams, causing Lux to lean uneasily against the wall, clutching Harlow tightly and glancing around.
"Beep...!"
Perhaps it’s a stroke of luck or a flash of wit, finally, after pressing the password on the panel again, the tightly closed door swung open with a "swoosh." Seeing this, the bespectacled boy finally showed a relieved smile.
"Great, we can finally... ahhh!!"
However, before the boy could finish his sentence, sharp claws suddenly extended from the door, grabbing the boy’s head, and with a fierce pain coursing through his body, the boy screamed. But he hadn’t screamed much before the claws flung him away, sending him crashing into the wall and then slowly slumping to the ground.
Judging by the twisted angle of his neck, it was clear he wouldn’t survive.
And at this moment, Lux finally also saw the true form of those "creatures."
They were not human.
Although Lux had also seen many people regard NT as "creatures" in the past, it was merely a disparaging term. In fact, at least in appearance, NTs and humans had no differences. But the creature before her now was entirely different from humans.
It had a geometrical head, a body like an insect, and two long foreclaws spread out like spears. And now, this creature was staring intently at Lux.
"What... what is this...?"
Being stared at by the creature, Lux was so frightened that she dared not move. She had never seen such a creature before, nor did she know how to deal with it—after all, she was just an idol singer!
Before Lux could do anything else, the creature suddenly reached out and grabbed her. The next moment, the girl only felt a whirl before losing consciousness, falling into darkness.
.........
She did not know how much time had passed before Lux finally woke up slowly.
"Ugh... what happened...?"
Opening her eyes, Lux looked around, and then she was surprised to discover... she couldn’t move?
What is going on?
Lux turned her head to look beside her, only to find her hands and feet tightly restrained. She herself was placed in something pod-shaped, resembling an escape pod, but it was clearly not an escape pod. Moreover, what lay before Lux was not the warship she was familiar with.
Where on earth is this place...
Looking at the vast space outside and the densely arranged numerous "escape pods," Lux only felt a chill run down her spine. She wasn’t stupid; she could imagine that in those "escape pods" were surely people like her, captured by those alien creatures.
Why did they capture her? What exactly did they intend to do?!
"———!"
However, just as Lux was feeling frightened and uneasy, she suddenly heard a faint metallic turning sound, and the next moment, intense pain suddenly erupted from her limbs.
"Aaaaahhh!!"
As the only daughter of PLANT’s chairman, Lux had never suffered such abuse before and couldn’t help but scream. However, her voice hadn’t even finished when a long metal tentacle suddenly descended from the ceiling, plunged into Lux’s mouth, and her screams turned into muffled whimpers.
"Mmm... mmm...!!"
Lux shook her head desperately, trying to struggle, but it was useless. The alien creatures had fixed her body, leaving her no way to evade anything. And soon, Lux was horrified to see two small tendrils extending from the ends of the metal tentacle, slowly and steadily approaching her, extending to her ears, and then slowly burrowing in.
"—————!!"
The next moment, intense stimulation suddenly erupted from Lux’s body.
It was stimulation mixed with pain, pleasure, and madness, almost indescribable in words. Lux widened her eyes, her slender body twisting and trembling back and forth, tears streaming from her eyes, and her mouth emitting seductive gasps of "mmm mmm." What made it unbearable for Lux was that this stimulation was not fluctuating like a roller coaster. Instead, it consistently pushed Lux to peak after peak.
"Mmm—!!"
Finally, with a burst of rapid spasms, the girl’s body suddenly went still. Then, a stench mixed with yellow liquid dripped down along the girl’s thighs. And at this moment, Lux was left with only gasping breaths of "huff huff."
But before she could recover from the stimulation, whether painful or joyful, the strikes on her brain came again.
"Mmm—mmm———!!"
The intense stimulation completely shattered Lux’s sanity. Tears continuously flowed down her cheeks, even her nose and saliva were overflowing everywhere. At this moment, the girl had completely lost her previous elegant beauty, looking rather like a beast entirely controlled by its instincts.
The scorching, intense stimulation was like a fierce fire burning the girl’s body and soul, leaving her unable to think about anything else. Lux’s sanity had reached its limit; she could no longer endure this horrific ordeal.
"I’m going to break... I’m going to... can’t go on... please, let me go, I can’t, I’m going to melt, I’m going to melt ahhh...!!"
Finally, at the last moment, Lux’s eyes suddenly widened, the whites of her eyes showing. Simultaneously, a kaleidoscope of colors burst from Lux’s eyes. The next moment, her fair skin rapidly began to be eroded, turning into a black and red hue. Soon, she completely melted like a candle into a dark yellow liquid.
And with a sucking sound, the next moment these liquids were entirely sucked away through the pipes, their whereabouts unknown.
In just a matter of moments, the girl known as Lux Klein had vanished from the world completely.