Mermaid Effect

Rand let out a long, hoarse gasp.

He could hardly stand still, his body hunched over and retching.

On his fingers there was still the feel of the skin on Caroline's neck, shriveled, thinly greased, rough as pine bark.Rand felt a strong nausea, but he couldn't tell whether it was because of Caroline's horrible touch on the skin, or--the fact that he almost killed someone.

Yes, just a little bit, Rand could completely take Caroline's dirty life.

Only at the last moment, Rand let her go uncontrollably.

Rand thought he could do it, and what Caroline did to Vincent made him feel extremely angry and unacceptable.

His hatred for Caroline even surpassed Anderson... Anderson couldn't make him feel the feeling of being betrayed and deceived.

Caroline's body shuddered on the floor, her face was bruised and bruised from the previous impact, and blood gushed from the gaps in her scars, making her face look contorted and horrific.

Rand stared at her blankly... It's hard to imagine that even not long ago, Caroline was the only person who brought him some joy. Reconcile the relationship between him and Vincent.

Even the apartment that brought Rand so many memories belonged to her in the past.

That's right, after Vincent fell ill, Rand had already noticed Caroline's rejection and hostility towards him, but he didn't care about that.

He thought Caroline was at least Evinson's.

Munster observed Rand, and after discovering that Caroline was still alive, it rushed over immediately, ready to bite her spine.

"No—Munster—no!"

cried Rand.

Caroline seemed to have finally recovered her breath at this time. She maintained a posture lying on the ground (perhaps because her fracture had made her unable to move at all), and let out a long, crying cry laughter.

"I thought... you wanted me dead? You hate me right?"

Rand's lips moved slightly, he wanted to say something, but whenever he thought of what Caroline had done, his throat and stomach seemed to be stuffed with straw, making him want to retch.

His vision was a bit dark, and the world was snowy like a poorly accepted old-fashioned TV.

But in the end, he responded to Caroline.

"I hate you, yes, and I want to kill you, yes—but I won't kill you."

While speaking, Rand gradually regained consciousness.

"Vincent won't want to see me become a murderer for someone like you... Besides, I will rescue him, I will make him come back to his senses, and then, I will let him see you like you are now..."

Rand's tone became colder than ever, his face was expressionless, and his pale skin made him look like a marble statue now.

However, after promising not to kill Caroline, this passage stabbed Caroline heavily like an invisible dagger.

She became panicked.

"No...no...you can't do it, you can't...you can't do it, you should kill me! You should do it!"

She lay on the ground, screaming, her voice gradually becoming shrill.

Although insisting on Rand could not bring Vincent back to his senses, it could be seen that she had actually believed it, and she was completely crushed by what Rand said.

Rand paid no further attention to her.

He went straight to the large, inorganic-textured desk in Vincent's office, and stretched out his hand to grab the fat man hiding in the ground—the moment he saw Caroline being knocked into the air, Anderson crawled in panic. here we go.

He was full of fear for Rand and despaired of everything in front of him.

That monster was gonna kill him, oh man, he was gonna kill him, Caroline told him everything, damn it...

Anderson held his head in his hands. He has worked in Shenbai for many, many years. During these years, he tried his best to climb up. It was easy to get a little reward, but the golden dreamy future that was within reach turned to ashes in an instant.

Tears welled up in the corners of his eyes.

When Rand pulled him out of the fragile safety zone, he screamed like a pig, desperately trying to distance himself from the Vincent incident...

Then, a sharp pain came from his finger.

Rand broke off his right thumb, and then Anderson heard Rand's gloomy question.

"If you continue to scream, I will make you feel more pain... Or, you can calm down and answer my questions obediently."

Anderson stopped screaming immediately, he was shaking with pain, and his crotch was wet.

"Where is Vincent's current location?"

Anderson shook his head subconsciously, "I don't know!", he said.

"Snapped--"

A small, bone breaking sound came from his index finger.

Before Anderson was about to scream, Rand spoke before him.

"You'd better think again, you know I'm Rand Sievers, right..." Rand lowered his eyes, his red pupils reflected faint light like a demon under the increasingly unstable light, The pupils were olive, and at the same time, when he spoke, Anderson saw his canine teeth protruding from the gums, sharp and curved like the fangs of a cobra, "I once lived with 'Lilith' for a long time. For a long time, really, as long as you can imagine. During that time I saw firsthand how she tortured her prey, she is very good at it, oh, I think you know..."

Of course Anderson knew.

When Rand Sievers was kidnapped, he was already a middle-level leader of the company. In order to be able to open up their social circle with the grief of the Sievers and his wife, Anderson spent a lot of experience following up Rand's case.

He knows what that horrible woman did to the victim...very horrific...

Of course, in the end, Anderson's keen attention to the case did not bring him the desired result, and what remained in the end was only the terrible memory of those bloody events.

Anderson would never admit that after secretly obtaining the case investigation report, he had several nightmares because of the photos in it.When Rand mentioned "Lilith" in front of him, Anderson felt at a loss, but at the same time recalled those nightmares very vividly...

"...Recently, I've been reminded of a lot of things, including those little tricks of 'Lilith'—believe it, I can actually repeat it to you, when she spent a lot of effort teaching me...she always I can get what she wants, I don't know if I can take her shortcut..."

Rand said slowly and calmly, looking into Anderson's eyes.

After Anderson met his gaze, his spirit finally collapsed... He was sure that Rand would do it... He is no longer a human being, he has completely become a terrifying creature from body to mind "monster"!

"Probably somewhere in the Arctic, the US military has a secret base there..."

"coordinate?"

"Uh, I, I don't know... I really don't know, God..."

Anderson looked like he was on the verge of crying, sweat and tears streaming down his cheeks.

But under the great pressure, he seemed to have some inspiration again.

"Yes, yes, I have heard them seem to mention some town... Bar... Barrow Town! Yes, they mentioned this place!"

Anderson yelled.

After making sure that he couldn't dig out any more useful information from Anderson's mind, Rand stood up and walked straight to the door to leave.

Rand felt his ankle being grabbed as he passed Caroline.

It's Caroline.

She vomited blood one mouthful at a time, very obvious internal bleeding, if not treated in time, maybe she would die in a short time.

but……

Rand heard footsteps from the outer wall and the interior of the floor, and a mocking smile appeared on his face.With the National Guard and Special Forces in place, Caroline may still have to live in this body.

"Rand, are you going to save Vincent? Are you going?"

Caroline suddenly asked a strange question.

Rand looked down at her.

His default is obviously the answer.

"Following your monster? You're already together, aren't you? God... oh, God... my Rand... my poor Rand...you can't do this...you're a human! "

Caroline looked a little delirious.

Rand simply didn't know what she was anxious to express.

"You can't leave...I know what you want to do, you will take your siren army-yes, I know you can control them, you will take them out of here..."

"..."

"No no no... Rand, listen to me, you can't do this... you can't be with those monsters... you have no idea what horrible creatures they are..."

Her incoherent speech finally made Rand completely lose the last bit of patience.

He didn't know why he stopped wasting time.

However, at the last moment when he raised his foot to leave, he heard Caroline's last words.

"...you were raped by it! You didn't know it! You were going to be raped by it!!! You forgot about that but I know what it did to you!"