Mermaid Effect

Rand held out his hand to the monster.

He touched the other's hard, prickly hair.

The monster roared loudly as if stimulated by the touch, and its tail fin became a strange yellow and black stripe.

Then it raised its fist high... The conditioned reflex of the orangutan when it got angry still remained in its mind.

"boom--"

a bit.

"boom--"

Twice.

……

The orangutan was hammering the ground with its fist frantically, even though there was a sponge pad on the ground that could absorb energy, Rand could still feel the power of its fist.The ground was shaking slightly.

Its eyes were redder than before, and the stinky saliva sprayed Rand's face and head as it wailed.The gaping mouth looked like it could swallow Rand in one gulp.

A few seconds later, the white light above Rand's head was turned into a flashing red, and the piercing siren sounded.

This scene looked like something out of some third-rate sci-fi horror movie, but Rand didn't pay attention to the surrounding things at all.

His hands were on the monster's head from beginning to end.

Then stroke gently.

"Calm down, hey, calm down my buddy..."

He whispered into the furious orangutan face.

A large number of fragments and emotions are still being projected from it to Rand's mind.

He seems to have seen some fragments: brilliant lights, expecting audience, applause everywhere, ribbons floating down from the sky...

He could feel the pain of the other party, its body has become a completely strange thing, the applause that made it happy never appeared again, there was no reward after the performance, and there was no communication with the companions.

When everyone saw it, nothing but indifference and fear.

It's so lonely.

So lonely.

Alone to despair.

The physical transformation caused it great pain, it longed to eat what it wanted to eat but its stomach could only absorb meat...

Rand unknowingly shed tears.

"Everything will be fine, child...everything..." He murmured to comfort the other party.

It is obviously a terrifying monster, but in the eyes of Rand now, it is just a docile, good partner who hopes to bring happiness to people.

"...Mary...Mary dear...you are such a lovely girl...be good..."

Unknowingly, Rand called out its real name, just like the breeder who single-handedly raised it, he kept repeating that sentence—for a long time in the past, That's what Mary likes to hear best of all.

While he was speaking, several "Poseidons" had already prepared anesthesia guns and aimed at Experimental Subject 261—they could easily bring down the opponent with just one command.

The alarm was still flashing, and the eyes of those people were as cold as machines.

And just as they were about to press the trigger, a researcher yelled to stop them.

"No, don't shoot! Stop! I said damn stop!"

The researcher was almost glued to the viewing film, watching feverishly what was going on in the chamber...

Under Rand's palm, the experimental subject 261, who had been in a berserk state after undergoing the experiment, suddenly became quiet.

The researchers even had to raise the microphone to pick up the sound coming from the room...

"*&%￥#..."

A series of ambiguous voices came out of Subject 261's mouth, but compared to before, its voice became much more gentle and peaceful, as if it was communicating with Rand.

And a little while later, something shocking happened.

The mermaid turned over once on the ground, and then another.

Of course, the way it rolled was so weird and awkward because of the deformation—that it took the researcher a while to realize that was the kind of somersaults that orangutans love to do.

You always see monkeys and orangutans doing it in one of those country circuses.

After trying a few somersaults, Experiment 261 immediately realized that his current body could no longer complete the once extremely easy movements, and his emotions became a little agitated, but before it got angry, Rand ran over, and he hugged Touch it and talk to it affectionately.

"Amazing! Mary! You're amazing!"

He clapped his hands behind it.

Subject 261... Or, Mary became happy again.

Next, it gave Rand a few tricks in the circus, of course, the effect was not very good, but Rand didn't hold back his praise at all, which made Mary's mental state reach the best ever To such an extent, even the researchers were amazed.

And of course they don't know that, in fact, an invisible but strong spiritual connection is being built between Rand and Mary.

Rand could convey the tenderness and love in his heart to Mary without even using any movements, and at the same time, he unknowingly filtered out the turbulent pain in Mary's mind.

Of course, this made him feel uncomfortable, but every few minutes, the strong negative emotions would be cleaned up, which made the entire spiritual connection run very smoothly and smoothly.This caused Rand to sometimes even feel that he ran into Mary's body when he looked at Mary, looking at him with Mary's eyes...

It wasn't until an hour later that someone rushed in and took Mary away, that strange feeling disappeared from Rand's mind.

He was in pain for a while because of Mary's frantic struggle as she was leaving, and of course, after a while, he forgot.

... Only, when he fell asleep that day, he had a dream.

He dreamed of countless huge cylindrical petri dishes inserted directly into the ceiling.

In the light blue artificial seawater, only the faint light of the instrument is flickering when it is working, and "he" is floating in the seawater.

There are fine, upward-flying foam in the sea water.

Rand could feel an unpleasant emotion, "he" could breathe in water but hated water so much... "he" began to slap the inner wall of the petri dish.

The sound it caused caused several other creatures in the petri dish to struggle as well.

From Rand's perspective, he saw many strange creatures... birds, mice, cats, dogs, orangutans... and... people...

They all looked pale and distorted, as if a demon had randomly squeezed two unrelated things together and thrown them into the world.

And between several petri dishes, there is a cold metal grid road - it leads to the deepest part of the room.

It was too dark, and Rand couldn't see what was there. At most, he could only see a yellow and black "danger" sign.

But Rand had an unusual interest in that part of the black race, and he had a very, very strong feeling that something was there drawing him, calling him.

At the same time, another emotion that does not belong to him is spreading, which is an absolute longing and surrender...

Rand felt that "he" was struggling hard, and the petri dish was shaking under the blow of his fist (Rand thus saw "his" hand, which was also black and hairy) "he" then attracted a burst of punishing Electric shock, "he" curled up in pain, and at this time, "it" inadvertently raised his head and looked above the water.

Then, Rand saw a shaking and contorted face of an orangutan.

Mary.

The name suddenly came alive in Rand's mind.

……

"Damn-"

Outside Rand's observation membrane, a dozing night researcher was suddenly awakened by Rand's long gasp from the receiver.

He jumped up from the chair in a panic, turned on the monitor and the film transparency, thinking that something had happened - what he saw was Rand sitting up from the blanket after a nightmare appearance.

The black-haired young man hugged his knees in his arms, his fluffy hair was a little messy, his eyes looked blank, and his eyes didn't have any focus...

Like an idiot, the night staff member muttered to himself, with a trace of unconscious irritability after being woken up.

It was precisely because of this that he didn't notice at all that after Rand woke up this time, he didn't appear sluggish and his brain was blank like before.Instead, he looked almost as if he was too terrified to move.And if the researcher could take a closer look at Rand's real-time brain perspective, he would be amazed to find that Rand's damaged temporal lobe was slowly recovering, and at the same time, Rand's brain appeared Some special changes...

Of course, he didn't have time to observe Rand so carefully.

As he was trying to get back to his seat for a nap, he heard sirens in the building—well, he'd been numb to the sirens for a while, but that didn't stop him I went to the door to watch the excitement, and tried to pick up a little gossip from my colleagues.

The news he got this time is——

Something happened to the legendary experimental subject 7371, which was brought back by them and almost died.

It's going crazy.