Mermaid Effect

88° north latitude, 156° west longitude

Arctic Ocean

A long and narrow floating island with an area of ​​7.2×3.2 kilometers floats above the tectonic junction between the Lomonosov Ridge and the Makarov Sea Basin. The Americans once found an Iceland that is very suitable for floating ice stations, but unfortunately It was the island that eventually floated south, forcing them to abandon this coveted area.And 70 years later, a floating island reappeared here, as if to fill the regrets of those geophysicists—but it was not a product of natural formation, but a fortress built by technology.

This huge floating island is composed of metal, plastic and polymer materials, and has certain navigation capabilities. There is a striking red mark on the silver-white surface: the logo of "SIREN-II".

On other countries' identification maps, "SIREN-II" is just an ordinary solid geophysical and meteorological observation station.But on the US internal military strategic deployment map, its logo is dyed red by a special color number representing a five-level top-secret military facility.

Just half a month ago, an announcement was made here that most of the facilities on the floating island had equipment failures due to the low temperature, and 90.00% of the seven staff members were evacuated urgently.And just fifteen days later, a scientific research ship sailed into this quiet observation station like a huge grave at an unusual speed.

Other than being too quiet, it doesn't appear to have any on-device issues.

The iron gate of the sea mouth fell down with a click, and the scientific research ship stopped firmly at the inner docking point of the floating island.

With his hands in his trouser pockets, Simon Moy jumped from the boat to the shore as lightly as a forest cat.He raised his head and looked at the cold metal structure on the ceiling, it was just an internal pier, the ceiling here was ninety feet high, the steel bars and walls without any decorations, and the exposed but neat power distribution facilities had a strong The smell of military installations.

In such an environment, he seemed a bit out of place.He is frivolous and undisciplined, under the white robe is a brightly colored embroidered jacket and orange Martin boots, and it seems that there are always headphones in his ears, as if they are growing on his cartilage.

This is nothing for a 19-year-old boy, but unfortunately he has another identity.

Several people in white robes came up to meet them. They were obviously taken aback when they saw Simon, but soon a smile appeared on their faces.

The leading one stretched out his hand towards Simon: "Dr. Simon, we are looking forward to your arrival."

Simon raised his eyebrows, whistled in his mouth, and glanced past him.

He turned his head to look at the man quietly following behind him. The man was silent, quiet, and had a very faint sense of presence (unusual considering his six-foot height). black suit, expressionless.

"So, dear..." Simon frowned slightly, then took out a notepad from his pocket and looked at it for a second before continuing, "...Mr. Ryan Harrison, you want to take a rest first , chat with a bunch of followers, accept flattery, or do you want to go to the scene first?"

……

There was an eerie silence.

As the "follower" in Simon's mouth, someone's face became very sinister, but before the man opened his mouth to curse, his companion pulled his sleeve vigorously.In the end, all the "followers" were silent, only their eyes on Simon were still so sharp.

The atmosphere is bad.Ryan glanced at Simon, ignored him, but stepped forward to show his work ID to the white robes standing aside.

"CIA Special Incident Investigator Ryan Harrison, I need direct access to Incident Site #2987."

"CIA? Why you, Arctic Command..."

As soon as this sentence fell, the expressions of everyone present except Simon became extremely ugly in an instant.

Theoretically speaking, "SIREN-II" is under the jurisdiction of the Air Force, and they have even made complete preparations, but they never thought that the person who was actually present was the CIA.

Facing the stunned researchers, the expression in Ryan's eyes became even colder, while Simon came to him happily on a catwalk and smiled at him: "I told you, you will need me."

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For many people, the size of "SIREN-II" is terrifyingly large, but what many people don't know is that compared to the part exposed above the sea surface, the special research room located below the sea surface is the real giant.The entire research department is divided into twelve areas, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people to carry out high-level experimental tasks here at the same time.However, when Simon and Ryan put on protective clothing and entered the test area, a strong breath made the hairs on their backs stand up.

Threats that have nothing to do with reality are just out of human instincts of fear and crisis.

Incident No. 2987 is just a series of codes and a stack of A4 papers trying to explain the incident on paper, but when you really walk in here, the aura of the top predator in the biological chain seems to be able to transcend time. Assault on you.

The experimental subject numbered 7371 escaped from the No. 3 test area, which is the closest to the drain, but it is also the most heavily guarded area.It easily reaped the lives of 240 people during the entire escape... In fact, only one person who was present at the time did not die.

He is the full-time breeder of the No. 7371 experimental body. He hid in the freezer where the experimental preparations were stored. When people finally found him, the skin on his entire back was frozen on the back wall of the freezer.

In the end, he lost his leg and left hand, which had been necrotic due to freezing-but he was lucky enough compared with those colleagues who died tragically in the test area.

After all, everyone who was responsible for cleaning up the scene...almost everyone had to go to psychological treatment in the end-the whole scene was too miserable to describe in words. (According to the follow-up investigation after the event, in the end there were still three people who chose to commit suicide after this clean-up)

In the accident report afterwards, there were some remarks that were deleted after review, but Simon felt that maybe that was the truth: the 7371 experiment deliberately chose the test area with the most people to escape, so that it could kill as much as possible.

"...The information shows that it has not reached that level of thinking ability."

The elevator slowly landed towards Area 3, and Ryan finally spoke to Simon after hearing Simon's comments.

"Hehe," Simon licked his lips and let out a contemptuous laugh, "They are far smarter than you think, Mr. CIA, human arrogance is often accompanied by stupidity, and stupidity leads to death."

As he spoke, he carefully operated the lifting platform so that it stayed just above the water.

The entire No. 3 area has been submerged by icy sea water, and the water is as high as half a meter.

The sharp claws of the experimental subject tore the water exchange system in Area 13 into pieces as easily as tearing a cardboard box, and the staff couldn't repair them in the end, so the seawater stayed here.

The surface of the water is an uncomfortable caramel color, which is the blood left by human beings here after the accident.At first it was bright red (it was a scene only seen in hell), and people added some medicine to the water to prevent the residual venom of the test subjects from reacting with the blood, and then they could fish out the corpses, or the fragments of the corpses Come.

There was a sickening smell in the air, chemicals and a slight putrid smell, and Simon made an exaggerated act of vomiting, but didn't get a sideways glance from Lane, who quickly looked past the broken and tilted utensils , fell on the central cylindrical sink.

The top of the sink is connected to the ceiling, with a diameter of about six meters, and a huge hole is under its side.

"That's where the experiment question 7371 stayed in the test area?"

Ryan pressed the recording pen in his left pocket, and then asked.

"Yeah," Simon nodded, "When the 'Siren' is transported here, we will put it here and fill it with inhibitors. In theory, it will faint under the influence of the inhibitors." Sleep, but what we didn't expect is that it has already adapted to the anesthesia effect of the inhibitor, and all the reactions it made afterwards were just deception."

Simon sat on the railing of the lift in a precarious manner while explaining to Ryan.

Lane quickly noticed his special word.

"Siren? Is that what you usually call experimental subjects?"

"Oh, come on, you don't call them that too."

Simon shrugged indifferently... After a few seconds, he suddenly stopped and turned his head to look carefully at Ryan's face.

After a while, a subtle smile appeared on his face: "Oh, no, this is kind of funny, you haven't seen it, have you?"

He said.

Ryan looked back at Simon calmly: "You should answer my question, Dr. Simon."

Simon's smile was widening: "You know, when that old lady Caroline assured me that the people you sent this time would not cause any trouble, I didn't believe her at all, but I really didn't expect her to really Did it, you really don't know anything, a layman?"

"I've taken on a lot of investigations and it doesn't make sense to pursue my credentials."

"No, no, you don't understand..." Simon looked at Ryan, as if looking at a kitten that fell into the water, his eyes were full of pity, "'Siren' is different, different from what you used to Any kind of thing, bin Laden? Anthrax? No, different. If anything, it's some kind of creation that represents terrorism on Earth...”

"..."

Ryan looked at Simon silently.

"Well, I know you don't understand, oh god, layman..." Simon muttered and took out the handheld computer from his pocket, "I mean, it's something beyond human beings, it It's like, like a weapon created by the Earth itself to wipe out humanity."

He clicked on a surveillance record and showed it to Ryan.

The time shows a year ago, and the location is in another huge tank.

There, a humanoid creature was swimming. It was about three meters long. Its upper body was in the form of a human, with long hair and fan-shaped ear fins around its ears. The lower body was a long and graceful fish body covered in light blue The scales of the fish are huge and the color is gorgeous. To be honest, its fish body is closer to the eel family because of its length.When it turned around, the abnormally developed muscle bulges under those scales could be clearly seen.

Elegant, beautiful and powerful.

This is the first impression of "Siren" on Ryan.

"This is a modified species, a blue scale, which is the same type as Experiment 7371." Simon explained aside, and after a few seconds, he looked at Ryan who hadn't answered and sighed.

Apparently Lane didn't even know what the terms actually meant.