Mermaid Effect

"Oh, thank you..." Rand said in shock, "This is really... amazing."

It took him a moment to settle on that last word.

Munster's face seemed to be lit up, and he rubbed against Rand proudly and happily. This behavior, which was as pure as a small animal, undoubtedly made Rand feel a little relieved.

Just for a short while when the two of them were sticky and sticky, the sky, which was still blue-gray just now, had turned into some bright gray-blue, and on the distant horizon, the sun showed a golden edge.

Rand stood up from the pile of foam, and stretched a long waist. He heard all the bones in his body cracking softly.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling a little bit envious of Munster, this big monster seemed to be always full of energy and energy.

However, after facing Munster's face, Rand's vision suddenly froze.

"you……"

he murmured, then held out his hand.

Munster's body stiffened suddenly, and he stared blankly at Rand.

"Your face..." Rand frowned slightly, his tone filled with confusion, "It looks a little different."

He said.

In fact, at first he thought it was an illusion.

It was just one night, and Munster's face seemed to be more beautiful than before (the word "beautiful" is not wrong).

And that wasn't actually Rand's illusion.

If he had the conditions to use an instrument to measure Munster's facial features and record the data of yesterday and today, he would easily find that Munster fine-tuned his face again after taking sufficient nutritional supplements.

Its eyes and facial contours showed an absolute mutual symmetry, and the positions of the facial features were also precisely in line with the golden rule. At the same time, the jaw began to widen, physiologically showing the strong and abundant male hormones in its body, and the pupils. The color deepens, the whiteness of the skin and the shine of the hair also increase, and it becomes more gorgeous and beautiful than before, just like a bird in the courtship period always makes itself look conspicuous.

"How am I different?"

Munster's eyelashes trembled slightly because of tension, and his eyes looking at Rand were as clear as spring water.

Rand almost fell into a trance again because of its indescribable beauty, but fortunately he quickly returned to normal.

"It's nothing."

His face flushed slightly, and as an excuse, he retrieved the wheelchair from the outside and motioned for Munster to sit on it again.

"It's getting late, we have to get out of here as soon as there is no one on the street."

Munster obediently obeyed his request.

They left the empty house.

At the moment when he gradually moved away from it in the morning light, Munster glanced back at the silent building intentionally or unintentionally.

The untrimmed bushes trembled slightly in the breeze.

A week later, the new real estate agent will find that the bush is inexplicably dead. They have replanted the plants there. When digging, they found some old leather shoe fragments, but no one paid attention to them.The newly transplanted plants died soon after, and people tried several times and found that for some unknown reason, the plants planted there never survived.Eventually someone converted that little lot into a parking space, and the house was sold shortly thereafter.

And "Bull" never saw the pair of bastard scavengers who stole his goods until he was executed ten years later...Of course, at that time, he had long forgotten their existence...

Let's turn the clock back to this botanical-scented morning.

Rand found a bus stop on the edge of the neighborhood. He and Munster took the bus and got off after ten stops.

Then he found a car rental agency and paid cash for a dark green Ford.

When handing over the money, he gave an extra two hundred dollars, and pretended not to notice it, and the young staff member with pimples on his face didn't mention it at all in his obvious nervousness. thing.

Rand didn't say much...

After all, when he rented the car, he never thought about changing it back.The extra two hundred dollars was just a small apology.

"Feel sorry."

When driving the car into the traffic flow, Rand said softly in his heart.

The condition of this car is not very good, and there are always slight bumps when driving, but with a car, Rand is still relieved.

He drove out of the city, turned a corner, and once again drove onto a secondary highway in the northeast, but this time his destination was very clear-the Missouri River in the northeast of Kansas.

Rand couldn't help but look at Munster again.

Perhaps, it can enter the water there, and then follow the river all the way to the sea... which is much less risky than driving on land with many checkpoints.It’s just that it would be a difficult problem to persuade Munster to separate from him there, and it was always crying and a little weak, and Rand was not very relieved that it would go on this lonely and long journey alone...

The engine rumbled loudly in the front of the car, and Rand felt as if he had been injected with hot butter, as one idea after another scrambled in his head.

Just thinking that he might be separated from Munster soon made Rand feel extremely uncomfortable.

Sunlight fell into the compartment from the car window, and Munster leaned his head against the glass window, his silver hair shining with a metallic luster.Even when Rand was driving, its red eyes like a bunny still stared intently at Rand.

As long as Rand tilted his head slightly, he would meet its dependent, sticky, honey-like eyes.

...The pain, like a heart attack, deepened again.

"...No matter how far apart, I will always love you..."

Adele's voice came over the radio.

She repeated it over and over.

"...No matter what I say, I will always love you..."

No, Munster would understand eventually.

Rand said desperately to himself.

It's for its safety...and its future.

But at this moment, he heard another voice softly echoing in the carriage.

"……I will love you forever."

It was Munster's voice.

Very rarely, it hummed softly to a human song.

The sensitivity to Rand's gaze made it notice Rand's gaze for the first time.Its cheeks were as pink as the petals of a newly bloomed rose.

"I, I like the lyrics," it said, looking deeply at Rand.

"Oh……"

Rand's lips parted slightly.

He thought maybe he should say something, but strangely, his mind was blank.

He focused on the front of the car a little absent-mindedly, and—

"squeak--"

There was a screeching sound of brakes.

The tires of the dark green old Ford left long black offset marks on the concrete floor, and a smell of rubber filled the air.

It is probably less than ten centimeters away from the car in front.

An old woman with a fleshy face popped out from the driver's seat of the car in front, and frowned at Rand.

A Shar Pei poked its head out from the passenger seat in the same gesture, and it stuck out its tongue and wheezed.

……

Munster felt a little funny and sneered.

The dog let out a wail from its throat and jerked its head back into the car.

... Rand did not notice these details.

His face was very ugly, but it wasn't just because of the mistake just now—because of his distraction, he almost ran after him.

This secondary road was completely blocked.

Rand and Munster have experienced a lot of similar traffic jams these days, but he never thought that Shenbai's search for them would be so overwhelming.

They even set up card checks inside the city, even though the whole city was completely blocked.

It's incredible!

Rand glanced ahead, and something that made the hair stand on end jumped into his eyes.

Perhaps because the traffic jam was too serious, the inspectors had to take new measures. They took pictures of the police officers and hounds, and conducted the initial inspection one by one. There were less than ten cars left, and the policeman could do it. See Land in the Ford.

All of Rand's fake documents belonged to Rogers, and in this bright daylight, anyone could clearly notice the difference between the photos and Rand.

Rand's blood turned cold for an instant.

He decisively asked Munster to pick up the wheelchair from the rear compartment and leave the compartment.

He then slipped through the passenger's door while the officer was still checking the driver's left window.

"We have to go."

He said.

Then he bowed slightly, pushed Munster across the road, and sprinted along the path beside the road.

If the officers notice an empty car, it may not be long before they realize something is wrong.

Rand felt so nervous that he was almost about to collapse.

Both he and Munster are too conspicuous as suspicious characters, and the time left for him to escape is also very tight, should he...

It was also at this time that he suddenly heard the church bell.

He suddenly looked towards the side of the road, and found that a wedding was being held there, and people were getting out of their cars one after another and walking into the church.

Before he had time to think about it, Rand pushed Munster into the crowd, and then "calmly" walked into the church.

A well-meaning person saw Munster and gave Rand a seat on the side but spacious enough.

"So, you guys are friends with Essie?"

After everyone sat down, the man sitting next to Rand approached and asked softly.

"what?"

Rand made a smart move, still in shock, he didn't even figure out what the other party was talking about.

Fortunately, he didn't seem to notice Rand's absence.

"...I'm Nafel's friend, you can call me Corey." He smiled at Rand and explained.

"Oh hello, nice to meet you. What a beautiful day isn't it?"

After returning to his senses, Rand forced a smile and shook hands with him.

"Yes, that's right, it was not easy for them, but fortunately, they still got the happiness they deserved in the end."

Corey said with a sigh of relief that his attitude towards Rand and Munster was unbelievably kind-until he saw the little rainbow flag badge on Corey's collar.

Rand couldn't help turning his head to look at Munster.

It also had the badge of the rainbow flag pinned to its collar—for it, this was the first gift Rand gave it, and it was very precious.

As for Rand, he finally realized what was wrong with the wedding.

There are too many men in pairs here...