Mermaid Effect

Munster looked back at those red lights.

It rushed towards Rand with lightning speed, and bounced to the ceiling like a spring.In just a short moment, the sound of gunshots and the bright light of the bullets, as well as the firelight they bounced off the wall, tore apart the dense darkness in the corridor.

"Hold me tight!"

While Munster yelled in Rand's ear, he crawled towards the other side at an alarming speed. Behind its tail, a series of flames splashed out in arcs, and the bullet casings fell like raindrops.

The laser net composed of hair-thin red lasers quickly filled the space of the aisle, and moved forward with the sound of "creaking" mechanical movement.

Rand hooked on Munster's body firmly, and in the light brought by the warning robots that suddenly attacked, he glanced quickly towards the aisle.

The pathetic scene before his eyes took his breath away.

The ground is full of building debris, robots that have been blasted into black iron, and corpses lying on their backs or lying on their stomachs—the reason why they don't smell the stench is because their bodies have been eaten by something Exhausted, only pale bones remained, and the shiny bullet casings were like ice crystals on the grass in early winter, scattered among the ruins made of corpses and inorganic substances.

Rand didn't even dare to think carefully about who those corpses were, and what happened to them during their lifetime.

The only thing to be thankful for is that the g32 droids attacking them don't do very well on the ground full of obstacles, especially compared to the unobstructed Munsters who can get between the ceiling and the wall, they look awkward too much.

After being chased by the bullet rain for a short distance, Munster led Rand into the vent suddenly, and escaped from the pursuit of the security robot in time.

……

At the same time, above them, Simon suddenly turned his head thoughtfully, listening carefully to the movement that had just flashed past his ear just now.

Where they are now is the base dining room.

The location was a bit odd, because theoretically, they were supposed to meet at the chapel.However, according to the commander who came to meet them, the original disinfection room and changing room could no longer be used due to leaking water pipes...

So, was the sound he heard just now the sound of water flowing in a pipe?

Simon was a little unsure if he really heard the faint... gunshots, or if he was just nervous.

In general, the moment Simon stepped into the base, he knew that everything was going wrong.

The first is the equipment that shields electronic waves. In Simon's understanding, the base does not completely prohibit the normal sending and receiving of electronic signals. After all, the soldiers at the base are also ordinary humans, and they need a communication channel in the Arctic Ocean, which is isolated from the human world.However, this time when he went to the floating island base, Simon discovered that the shielding range of electronic waves was expanding surprisingly.

At least……

He stretched out his hand, pretending to tickle, and quietly turned on the switch of the communicator in a concealed state.

Just like before, the communicator was just an unusually monotonous white noise.

He couldn't get in touch with Rand and Munster... damn it.

Simon changed positions anxiously, tapping his fingers nervously on his knees.

Under normal circumstances, such uneasy and restless researchers would immediately attract the attention of the natives of the base—the soldiers on duty at the base, and lead to interrogation.But at this time, Simon was not conspicuous among his colleagues.

Because everyone is the same anxious and restless.

Christmas songs that were completely incompatible with the entire base were played in the cafeteria... The piercing childish voice seemed to be hitting this group of high-intelligence, fragile high-intellectuals with a small hammer.The soldiers who were scheduled to undergo the experiment were separated from the researchers by the sound of the broadcast before. They passed through a silver-white corridor in silence, and then disappeared behind a metal door.

Simon began to feel that something was very wrong because of this.

He felt that his colleagues should also be aware of this.

The first is the almost deserted security system in the base. There are no people on duty, only some regular security robots.Then came the broadcast, the ubiquitous broadcast guided the actions of Simon and others, and the mechanical voice told them where they should go: who was assigned to the fan-shaped living area, who gathered in the cafeteria, and who disappeared along the white corridor Behind a metal door... To be honest, everything that happened after entering this base made Simon feel in a trance that he had come to a Jewish concentration camp during the Nazi era. The only difference is that it was not human beings who drove them but Various machinery.

Oh, and occasionally, there are still humans.

"Okay, dear colleagues, welcome to the Siren... cluck... Next we will spend a busy time here, about 300 human soldiers will be tested for new biological weapons, hehe, I think We're going to have hundreds of 'Captain America' soon... Due to the urgency of time, I will divide you into three shifts during the next period, and you will be with the original outstanding team here. Together with the scientific researchers, the experiment is carried out 24 hours a day... Yes, I know you will not be happy..."

Simon knew the man who spoke, Dr. Sean, and they had discussed it before at Stanford's annual meeting.He is an outstanding biologist, over forty years old, and he presides over several top laboratories in the world. He has a good appearance and a very good mind. In short, he is a typical human being cared by God.The only shortcoming is probably his stubborn cleanliness. Simon still remembers that when he talked to him, the man took out hand sanitizer countless times and rubbed his palms.

Sean, who appeared in front of Simon now, could be described as disheveled. His hair was greasy and dirty on his scalp, and it looked like there were old stains left by ketchup on the cuffs of his casually put on robe.

Simon swears that the Shawn he knew would go crazy in the face of this situation - or that he has gone crazy now.When he was speaking to the new researchers who had just arrived, his body trembled abnormally, and the sentences that popped out of his mouth didn't match up, showing that his thinking was very messy.

He looked almost as if he had been injected with some kind of drug, or had been greatly stimulated.

However, the moment Simon thought this way, he and Sean's eyes met for a moment - in that very short time, he saw the extremely sober expression bursting out of Sean's eyes.

He blinked quickly at Simon, and then his eyes returned to chaos, showing the same confusion as before.

Simon's body froze for a moment, and a few seconds later, he suddenly and intuitively turned his gaze to the position to the left of the doctor—there was a spherical shape that would be mistaken for the second generation of the sweeping robot at first." Spider" Mechanical Guard.Under their round shells are soft metal tubes reminiscent of vacuum cleaners, and on the lower right, the red indicator light indicating that the video networking system is working is blinking regularly.

This can only show that this robot is monitoring Dr. Sean's behavior.So, the question arises - who exactly is spying on them at the connected terminal?

How many people are still alive in this secret military base?

……

A strong fear suddenly surged in Simon's heart. The meager self-confidence and plans accumulated before entering the base collapsed like an avalanche in front of reality.He suddenly remembered the question Rand had on the destroyer——

Why did the base suddenly request to speed up the progress of the experiment and conduct experiments on normal human soldiers?

In such a strict experimental environment at the Shenbai headquarters, they have always been extremely wary of the siren experimental subjects. Each experimental subject must be strictly monitored and controlled, but it is the entire headquarters that greets Shenbai in the end. Totally ruined.If it weren't for Rand's existence at that time, Simon would be sure that a large number of siren test subjects would have escaped into Washington, DC... And in -2, a laboratory transformed from an abandoned test floating island platform, the test host The investigators would actually request to transform nearly a hundred individuals into sirens at the same time. Under such crude circumstances, is it really possible for them to control the siren experimental subjects that are biological weapons?

Or, they don't need to control them at all...

Cold sweat broke out uncontrollably on the back of Simon's neck.During the period of his deep thinking, the researchers were asked to line up and collect the necessities they needed to live in the base one by one from the table behind Dr. Xiao En.

When it was Simon's turn, Dr. Xiao En suddenly staggered beside him.

"Be careful--"

Simon supported the man's body, and Dr. Xiao En's body was terribly thin under his palm.

"help me!"

Sean's dry and cracked lips trembled slightly, and he whispered quickly in Simon's ear.

Then Simon felt something seemed to be stuffed into his palm.

For the others present, this scene was just a small episode. What they could see was that Simon helped Sean a little, then turned around blankly, picked up the sealed bag from the table, Finally, they formed a line like elementary school students behind the others, and headed to their lounge under the guidance of the broadcast.

At sixteen hours, he will replace his colleagues into the laboratory and work until all the young male humans brought by the arriving ships have been transformed into siren test subjects-if everything is normal, things will develop like this .

In the narrow lounge, Simon used the light of his watch to take out the things hidden between his fingers.

It was a thin piece of paper stuffed into a gastric medicine capsule.

Simon slowly unfolded the piece of paper with his fingers, and found that it was written in scribbled words—[sos siren test subject has lost control] Simon's breathing was stagnant, he turned the piece of paper over, and there was a row of unknown meanings Number.

"This is……"

Simon frowned slightly and whispered in confusion.

While he was trying to figure out what the string of numbers meant, there was a spacious and quiet area tens of meters below the lounge.

There are tennis courts, a billiards room, a bowling alley and a small movie theater. It was originally a place for base staff to rest and relax.Now, this place has completely changed.

A brutal massacre once took place here.

The ground is covered with the same gnawed human bones as in the corridor before, tables and chairs are thrown messily on the ground, and dim light tubes buzz on the deformed ceiling, flickering and flickering.

Those lights jumped on the disgusting creatures that moved slowly like zombies in the center of the room and made wet noises.

Munster and Rand were sticking themselves tightly to the inside of the deformed lockers. This row of lockers was welded against the wall, so the degree of damage was not too high.

A few minutes ago, Rand and Munster broke into this place by mistake after finally getting rid of the pursuit of the mechanical guards, and then they encountered that extremely unpleasant creature...

From the appearance alone, it barely maintains the appearance of a human being. This is a tall soldier. A black special forces uniform hangs on his body like a rag. He is like a chimpanzee, with his body bent forward. As he watched, the eyeballs swelled out of the eye sockets, and turned quickly on the left and right sides of the face, observing.

On the surface of his skin, scales with irregular shapes emerged, and from the part below the crotch, the legs degenerated into two long fish tail-like things.

This is a very failed siren infected body, and Rand recognized it at a glance. If it was in Deep White, an individual like it would not hesitate to be identified as biological waste, and then directly destroyed.

But in the base, it walks through the abandoned military personnel living area like a wild dog in the dark night of the city. It seems that it has lost its mind, but in action, it shows a loose direction.

At least now Rand can be sure that it appeared here to find him and Munster, two unplanned alien intruders.

However, the siren-only aura emanating from Munster confuses the failed infected body. It has been slowly turning back and forth here many times.Munster seemed a little excited. The scales on its body turned bright blue, and it could be seen that it wanted to rush out very much, and then tear that disgusting thing into pieces. Of course, it did.

But Rand stopped it.

He pressed his hand on the shoulder of the little monster, and his body fell down. Through the gap above the storage box door, he has been calmly observing the situation outside.

He felt that the situation of the siren infected body was somewhat familiar.

When he invaded low-level siren infected bodies in Deep White and patrolled the environment through them, those siren infected bodies would also show this clumsy, slow, but purposeful action characteristic.

That's because he needs to control enough infected bodies in a short enough time so that he can understand the surrounding environment to the greatest extent.But controlling too many infected individuals at the same time will cause him to control a single low-level siren infected body with insufficient precision-this is why they will behave dull and clumsy.

Rand had a vague feeling that behind this group of sad siren test subjects, someone was secretly manipulating and watching them...

Who is that person...