Mermaid Effect

"Come on, you're just wasting all of our time..."

There was a murmur of dissatisfaction among the crowd.

"We have spent a lot of time here. If there is really any suspicious person here, he should have appeared long ago."

said the man.

The facial muscles of "Stinging Seahorse" twisted slightly, and he looked straight at his chief: "It's a monster. If we play it perfunctory here and let it continue to flee on this land, who knows what will happen?" How many victims will there be?"

There was an almost morbid obsession in his voice.

His officer stared at the face of "Stinging Seahorse", and he suddenly remembered that he actually had a sister... called "Box Jellyfish" or something else, and his sister was much better than him, she Then followed the "cod" dry.

"Stab the Seahorse" has said countless times in the lounge that when he gets used to it and improves his training performance, he will have to stay in the same place as his sister.

"My mom told me I had to keep an eye on her."

he said.

However, the current "Stinging Seahorse" no longer needs to look at his sister.

That young woman had already lost her life in the previous operation... So, for "Stinging the Seahorse", this task was actually far from an ordinary task.

The officer met the blood-red eyes of "Stinging Seahorse" that contained the light of revenge, and he felt something called compassion beating slightly in his chest.

"I see."

He said.

Then he turned to the other team members and said, "Send two people up to have a look."

……

"Gollum..."

Inside the dark and cold water tank, after Rand heard the faint conversation outside, a string of blisters bubbled up around his mouth and nose.

He dived down to the depths of the dark water on hands and feet.

His new gills in the water allow him to breathe underwater for a long time, but that doesn't mean he can stay underwater happily.

This brothel in the outskirts of Kansas did not have the opportunity to connect to the expensive piped water in the city. Groundwater, the water is pumped into the water tank on the roof of the building, and the bottom of the water tank is simple filtering equipment, which can filter the water, and the water supply for the entire building comes from here... The temperature of the groundwater, in general It's not that easy to get used to.The temperature of the water made Rand's face turn blue for a while, his fingers and toes tingled slightly as if being bitten by something, but he lost his intuition not long after, and his limbs became more and more clumsy — in stark contrast to Munster's dexterity in the water.

Rand's beloved little monster can only be described as "like a duck to water" here.Of course, its long and powerful fish tail and its long experience of living in water also objectively make it more adaptable to the environment in the tank than Rand.

Rand's vision has been greatly improved after the body mutated, but now the inside of the water tank is completely dark, without even a ray of light.Under such circumstances, Rand found that he seemed to have lost his eyesight suddenly, and he couldn't see anything.The weightlessness of the cold water also easily confused his sense of space. After trying to dive for a while, Rand was already dizzy.

He felt the water everywhere, the cold and heavy water pressing against him, making him sick and sick to his stomach.

At the same time, a ghost-like intense fear suddenly fermented in his heart. He turned around in the water, only to find that he was lost.

Is he really just in a tiny tank?

still is……

At that moment, Rand actually had a strange fantasy of being sucked into a black hole.

In fact, this is the first time that Rand has really stayed underwater for a long time and breathed with gills-his not fully modified body has not fully adapted to getting oxygen from the gills.Unprepared, he dived from the hot roof into the icy interior of the tank, and the intense temperature difference also took a severe toll on his body.Not to mention that Rand actually faced all this in an extremely tense situation... All kinds of reasons were superimposed, and he had a diving panic in the dark water tank that should have appeared in deep sea diving.

He unconsciously began to dance with that terrible fear that almost took away all his sanity, and the violent foam from his mouth and nose began to rise in a series...

Until a pair of arms stretched out from the darkness, firmly stuck to his body.

【help me--】

Rand let out a silent cry for help in the dark.

He struggled vigorously with those hands, which unconsciously scratched across the man's face...

He felt as if he had torn something off its face, and then he was slightly taken aback unconsciously.

During this short pause, Rand felt something more silky and soft slipping in from the bottom of his water-soaked clothes, wrapping around his body.

[I'm here, Rand, I'm here. 】

He thought he heard a voice, but strangely, it seemed that the voice sounded directly in his head.

A hazy and faint blue fluorescent light flickered in the dark water bottom.

Rand took a deep breath. He could feel the weird feeling of water gushing out from behind his ears, and his distracted vision finally came into focus.

Munster's long hair lit up.

This is the predation method used by wild sirens in the deep sea. Their hair-like tentacles are filled with cavities, and the luminescent bacteria will emit bright light under the control of hormones to attract phototaxis creatures... However, Rand ultimately failed because The light from this primitive means of predation calmed down.

His vision changed from blurred to clear bit by bit, and then he saw what Munster looked like now.

Its glowing hair looks like a fairy under the moon, and under those swaying hair...

[Munster? ! 】

Rand almost yelled, but of course some blisters came out of his mouth in the end.

Munster's tentacles bound him firmly to it.

The reason why Rand was so surprised was because he saw a completely unfamiliar face.

His skin is pale, because of the fluorescent color, it is slightly blue, reminiscent of the first snow under the moonlight, with a kind of inorganic coldness and purity, eyelashes and eyebrows are as crystal clear as the icicles of snowflakes, As if carved by the most skilled craftsman in crystal, with a straight nose, full and graceful lips, his face has a very Greek profile, with a kind of classical beauty. Of course, if only these, the picture is almost sticker The face that appeared at the tip of Rand's nose could only be described as "beautiful"—but, he still had those eyes.

Like Opal placed in fire and blood, his pupils were sunken in those perfect eye sockets.Staring at Rand affectionately, his pupils shone with the luster of roses, sunlight and jewels at the same time.

These eyes gave him an aura unlike any other human being.

He looks so exquisite, so beautiful, so perfect that he looks like Narcissus who accidentally fell into the world, even if you just look at him, you can feel the tremor in your soul...

Gradually, Rand's body began to lose control.

He was a little confused, thinking that what he saw was his own hallucination.

"Crack..."

At this moment, the sound of someone flipping the lid of the water tank was heard from above the two of them.

That "Nacissus" looked up and glanced up.

The glimmer of light emanating from its hair dimmed instantly.

He pressed Rand's whole body into his arms, swung his tail in the water with unusual dexterity, and dived towards the bottom of the water tank just like that.

At the same time, its hair began to flutter and grow behind it...

If you see this scene under the light, you will think that at the bottom of the clear water, someone mischievously knocked over a can of silver ink, and the ink stains are spreading, spreading... until the bottom of the entire water tank is full of traces.

In fact, those "ink stains" are all hair-like tentacles on Munster's body.They stuck to the wall of the water tank, densely tangled and intertwined, until they completely covered it and Rand's figure.

Finally, those transparent strands are starting to change color...

"opened!"

A bright ray of sunlight suddenly shot into the interior from the top of the tank.

Then, two figures appeared there.

"searchlight--"

The soft-hearted officer poked his head to look at the dark interior of the water tank due to lack of light, reached out and picked up a special searchlight from the team member's hand, and shone it inside.

However, apart from the slightly rippling ripples, the only thing he could see was water...

Very ordinary, clear water.

Because of the depth, the bottom filter is only a blurred shadow.

But it was enough for him to judge the situation.

There is no one here.

"Boss, there are none here!"

At this time, other people's reports came from the shelf of another tank.

"..."

The officer nodded silently to them, and handed the searchlight to the "Stinging Seahorse" beside him.

Reluctantly, the latter used searchlights to shoot several times inside the water tank, and finally his face turned pale and he lowered his hands.

"I'm sorry, sir."

He spoke dryly to the officer.

"I don't want you to be clouded by your emotions - this is the last time."

The officer reached out and patted "Stinging Seahorse" on the shoulder.

Then he turned his head and yelled at the others on the rooftop.

"Close the team!"

……

Behind him, two team members pushed back the water tank cover with harsh friction.

"boom--"

Amidst the loud noise, the dark interior of the water tank faintly glowed with blue fluorescence.