Mermaid Effect

Rand slipped through the gap.

The room that used to be the control room has changed drastically. The walls and floor are covered with a thick crust of mucus. It was corroded by slime into a strangely shaped iron block.

On the floor was a mixture of turbid repair fluid, mucus, blood and water.

It can be clearly seen that there are shattered glass slags reflecting the faint cold light on the surface of the mixed liquid, and randomly piled up next to the glass slags are broken human flesh and bones. All the wreckage that came down is here.

Vincent... In Rand's impression, the always elegant and cold brother curled his tail like a dragon, entrenched above these disgusting corpses.His body grew very large and swollen abnormally. His bare skin glowed with a foul-smelling white light like the belly of a dead fish. The capillaries were cracked, forming a purple-brown color like festering under the skin. huge blood clot.Vincent's face was crooked, and his red pupils almost occupied half of his face, which made him look extraordinarily terrifying—the moment Rand saw him, he almost cried out.

"Oh no - Vincent!"

He staggered and took two steps in the direction of Wen Sen in the muddy slime.

But his voice tingled Vincent very clearly in a way.It squirmed its huge, sickly body, curled up like a baby, and buried its face in its abdomen.

"Rand...don't look at me...don't look at me..."

He kept repeating it like a broken machine... or something more pathetic.

"Vincent..."

Just seeing Vincent like this, Rand felt the pain in his heart as if being torn apart by something.

Vincent... dead body... stumps...

Rand's lips trembled, and the wound on his calf began to hurt like never before.

Although his mind was still clear, Rand felt as if he had fallen into a nightmare, unable to understand why everything had become like this.

"Vincent, don't do this, I'm here to help you..."

He said, with a hint of wet crying in his voice.

He took a step forward with difficulty, but this move deeply stimulated Wen Sen, who was already panicked to the extreme.

At that moment, it popped up, its mouthparts shot out of its mouth, and its teeth gleamed at the tips.

"hiss--"

After thinking about the sound of the flesh being torn apart, Rand was knocked to the ground by an impact.

And Munster just passed in front of him, his tail flapping crazily on the ground.

All its long hair stood on end, which made it look as if it had grown many times in size.

"Rand...you...you are not Rand..."

Vincent covered his face with his hands, crying and wailing.

"My brother...my brother is still very young...how could you be Rand..."

His empty gaze passed through Munster, and also through Rand, and went to a very distant place.

Vincent's memory was confused, and he didn't want to face Rand too much, so he simply denied the existence of Rand at the conscious level.

In the depths of his heart, the younger brother he has always longed for...is that naive, cute child Rand who has never experienced kidnapping.

Instead of the black-haired man who stared at it stubbornly, his pupils reflecting its sad and terrifying appearance.

In the face of Munster's increasingly tense demonstrations, Vincent's madness in thinking and the unique ferocity of a beast are intertwined, making it look so sad...and so dangerous.

Munster was very nervous, and it was in an attacking state.

"Rand! It's too dangerous!"

It hissed, reminded.

Rand swallowed a mouthful of saliva filled with a sweet smell, and shook his head weakly at Munster.His expression changed, and it seemed that if even a feather fell on him, his whole body would be broken into pieces like broken porcelain.

The great sorrow that permeated him made Munster feel heartbroken.

"I know……"

Rand murmured.

"—Rand? Rand Sievers! Can you hear me?"

At this moment, a vague voice suddenly appeared in the communicator with the whirring sound of the wind blowing through the microphone.

……

Top of SIREN floating island.

The sky was iron gray, and the wind and snow mixed together to form a white whip, whipping everyone exposed to the air.Survivors—that's what Simon called the people in the base who still had human sanity, clustered together like a flock of frozen penguins.

They could actually hide inside the base. The corridor leading from the inside to the outside is still open, but no one wants to go in.

Not long ago, after the Siren infected bodies escaped, the mechanical guard also fell into a malfunction as if it was disturbed by something.Following a rare opportunity, Simon led the people who were conducting experiments at that time, as well as the soldiers, to escape from the base and arrived on the deck much earlier than the scheduled time.

At this time, Simon was wrapped in a cold-proof suit. He hid in a corner of the deck and looked back calmly.

Dr. Sean and the soldiers who hadn't been infected gathered there, some formed a windbreak, and another soldier was fiddling with the wireless information receiver—Simon didn't know where they dug up that damn old antique.

But its appearance seems to add more unoptimistic variables to their shaky plans.

The remaining personnel inside the base are trying to get in touch with the US Arctic military base.

"...Once the military takes over here, the previous experimental results and experimental animals are likely to be recovered, and this damn siren project will continue somewhere." Simon turned blue to the communicator Rand on the other end said, his body was shaking, but it was probably not from the cold, "Sorry, Rand, I have to detonate the lab early-before the military arrives! I will be there in 10 minutes." Then start counting down... Rand, escape, escape quickly..."

He rubbed his mobile phone with his fingers in his pocket, and on it, a line of warnings in black and yellow was beating.

【warn!Are you sure to enable the self-destruct mode! 】

【warn!Are you sure to enable the self-destruct mode! 】

……

Ten minutes later, with the increasingly bitter cold wind, someone cheered——

They've got a response from the Arctic military base!

"Simon!"

Dr. Sean limped forward and hugged his shoulder.

"We made it! We can be saved!"

Simon opened his eyes suddenly, and it took him a long time to make a weak sound.From Dr. Xiao En's point of view, through the goggles, this too-young genius had a sadness that didn't match the situation.

"...that would be great!"

Simon's lips moved, and at the same time, he moved his fingers slightly inside the pocket and pressed the [Confirm] button.

"Attention everyone - attention everyone - the base is now in a level VI out of control situation - self-clearing mode is now on, repeat, self-clearing mode is now on. 15 minutes until the first explosion , all surviving personnel are requested to abandon the ship..."

A cold, emotionless mechatronic female voice suddenly echoed over the entire base.

"How is this going?!"

Sean's face changed drastically, and he jumped up in horror.

And before he had time to react, Simon had grabbed him and dragged him into the commotion.

"...Maybe it's a malfunction of the main brain! Now everyone is on the plane! Get out of here quickly! Hurry up!"

In Dr. Sean's ears, Simon's voice sounded a little strange.

It's just that in this extremely tense situation, it is impossible for him to have any unnecessary doubts about the situation...

"...The self-explosion process has been activated, and the countdown begins... 900—899—898..."

The same electronic sound echoed not only in the ears of Sean and Simon, but also in the ears of Rand and Munster.

Rand raised his head and glanced at the ceiling—at the moment the voice sounded, the light dimmed and turned a frightening blood red.

Under such light, the rancid rust smell on Vincent's body poured into Rand's body like a real liquid.

He was on the verge of falling, and he could only rely on Munster to stabilize his body——

Vincent's blood-red eyes stared straight at him, his vision blurred like a blind man's.They faced each other amidst mechanical countdowns, viscous stench, and each other's increasingly heavy breathing.

"Rand..."

Vincent's mouth askew.

It rushed towards him.

Munster's tail slapped heavily on the ground, and it rushed towards Vincent from the side, but in front of Vincent's unnaturally swollen figure, it seemed a bit small - it failed to deal with itself like it used to The enemy knocked it away like that.There was a dull ripping sound from Vincent's body, and Munster's body fell back to the wet ground with a large piece of flesh in his mouth.

Black and red blood and pus gushed out from the gap, and Rand was crushed under Vincent's body.

"Vincent—"

Rand yelled, but Vincent, who was already completely confused, didn't even pause because of the pain. He opened his mouth wide and bit down on Rand.

Rand put his hands in front of his face, and then he let out a short scream of pain.

Vincent's teeth dug deep into Rand's arm, and fresh, human blood flowed into its tongue.

Vincent felt that someone was burning a bonfire inside its brain, and the severe pain and heat stirred its brain.

It cannot judge its surroundings, and there is no pain.

If there is any wit left in it,

That is……

[To...become normal...to return to...Rand...] "...I want...hiss...to protect...Rand..."

Vincent bit Rand's arm tightly and said vaguely.

Its eye sockets were bleeding.

Because Munster is crazily biting its body.Rand felt some heavy chunks of flesh fall out of the bag-like skin and land on him.Vincent flicked his tail suddenly. He didn't feel pain, so he had almost all the advantages when facing the small Munster.

Munster was knocked out and bounced back.

It tried to take Rand back from Vincent's mouth, but every time this happened, Vincent would appear furious.It started screaming, wrapped its tail around Munster, and violently knocked and swung on the ground.

Munster fixed his body to Vincent's tail with his mouth and claws, and it frantically tore and chewed on the surface and inside of those whitish, dead skins.It tried its best to cut a long gash in Vincent's abdomen—but the Siren's unique life allowed Vincent to still maintain a dying life even in the face of such a terrible injury.

"Do not--"

Rand howled heart-piercingly.

Blood spurted across his face and body, and his arms ached like they were on fire.

He then shot Vinson - and at the same time, Munster bit off Vinson's spine.

The strange thing is that from the beginning to the end... this terrifying, arguably the most powerful siren experiment in the world (even if it failed), did not really hurt Rand.

At least, in the bite force that could easily bite off the steel plate, Rand's arm was bloody and bloody, but it was not directly bitten off.

Or, in the depths of its heart that has turned into a quagmire, there is still a little bit... a little bit of calmness.

Rand felt Vincent's last struggle, it writhed violently, and its jaw slowly relaxed.

Finally, Rand withdrew his hand from Vincent's mouth.

Vincent's head hit the ground with a "bang".

Its eyes were still looking at Rand...the corneas were moist.

It still had that beast-like madness and tyranny in its eyes, but gradually, that look disappeared... replaced by a kind of sobriety.

Like someone waking up from a nightmare, Vincent took a deep look at Rand.

His lips murmured, calling out low-volume syllables.

"It's you...Rand...God...it's you...I'm sorry, Rand, I'm sorry..."

Tears welled up in Rand's eyes.

He bent down and hugged Vincent.

"...I screwed everything up, Rand."

He heard Vincent's voice.

"Vincent, no—Vincent!"

What is coming, no longer needs words to describe.

Rand knew what was coming, but he swore... he would never accept it.

He carelessly touched Vincent's face with his hands, forcing Vincent to look at him.

"Listen—Vincent, I don't need to be sorry... Do you think I'll let you die like this? No way! I won't let you do that!"

"This is what you should do, Rand...I've become a...monster...Kill me, Rand, kill—"

When Rand turned his head, he could see Munster approaching him gradually.

The little monster was seriously injured, but not life-threatening.Its tail fin is missing a big piece, and it can be predicted that it will be sad for a long time.

It can be seen that it hates Vincent very much, but after seeing Rand's current situation, it still cheered up and rushed over, and wrapped its tail around Rand in front of Vinson.

After seeing it, Vincent's eyes changed from lax to sharp.

"No... Rand... this is a monster..."

Randall ran through Munster's hair and pressed a kiss to the mouth of the panting monster.

"Vincent, if you die, I'll live with it, I'll marry it, make love to it, have a dozen cubs—I don't care if it's a monster! Just like I don't care if you're Like a monster!"

Then--

Rand held Vincent's head... and some of the stump... under his arm, and stood up.

He left his other shoulder to Munster, supported the little monster and walked quickly towards the door.

The mechanical female voice is still counting down.

"298...298...297..."

It was less than 5 minutes. If it had been before this incident, Rand might still feel fear and panic because of it.

But at this moment, his heart was extremely peaceful.

It would be better if Vincent under his arm stopped nagging Rand to send him.

"You're going to die...Rand!"

Rand didn't know why he almost laughed - he just suddenly felt that it was a little ridiculous to sandwich Vincent like this...

If Vincent returned to normal (he couldn't help himself not to think so), recalling today's scene, he might feel very ashamed... No, he would definitely feel very ashamed.

Rand knew that his current state was very abnormal. The sharp blade of death had been aimed at the top of his head. He could almost smell the cold, dark breath of death, but after feeling the breath of Vincent and Munster, , but Rand was smiling.

"When I die, I am with you."

Rand lowered his head and said to Vincent whose face was gradually turning gray.

"I'll always be with you."

He muttered, dragging the two he loved, and ran towards the corridor.

His chances of being rescued were slim, and Rand knew it well.

In fact, at the bottom of his heart, there is a person who is still telling him: Give up, Rand!You can't do it!

This is the ghost of that Rand Sievers from long ago.

For a long time, he has been living his life passively... He closed himself in the face of Rogers' killing, and fell into madness in the face of the fact that he transformed into a monster... After seeing the dark white infected body, Destroy them... because it is impossible to believe that they can restrain their desires and overcome the pain inside their bodies...

In fact, he never mustered up the courage to face any problems.

He never believed in himself.

In the face of fate he is always obedient and never struggles.

……

Only this time, God, only this time, Rand decided to make a different decision.

He prayed for luck, deliverance, and miracles.

This world is always running ruthlessly, killing and doom are staged in sequence according to the script, only occasionally, occasionally there is such a slight possibility that God will be willing to place a blessing bag on the road full of thorns.

It would make the world a little cuter.

That cuter world made Rand support himself through the long corridor. When he came to the abandoned elevator shaft, the mechanical female voice had already counted to double digits.

They have less than 2 minutes to reach the platform.The elevator shaft is the only hope, and in an emergency, the elevator will take them to the top platform in 20 seconds.Rand pressed his badge hard against the electronic sensor of the elevator, but there was no response.

"No...God...don't do this to me..."

Rand's body was completely out of strength, and he suddenly knelt on the ground.

Already, too late?

……

"Den-"

At this moment, the sound of metal cables rubbing against each other sounded from behind the elevator door.

Rand looked up suddenly, just in time to see an ax squeezed out of the door——

"Hey, Rand!"

Simon used an ax to pry open a thin gap a person's width between the metal doors. His face was covered with sweat from the strenuous exercise, and his panting made him look almost unable to speak smoothly.

"There's not much time left, come in!"

He yelled at Rand, dragging him into the elevator with Munster.

Of course, after seeing the wreck of Vincent that Rand was holding tightly, he seemed to want to pass out even more.

"Get ready...the damn elevator is not good..."

Simon only had time to say this to Rand, and then he pulled out the ax stuck in the doorway, and slammed down the emergency brake button on the side of the elevator.Inside the dark elevator shaft, a cable suddenly snapped——

The inside of the metal elevator car shook violently.

It rushed up suddenly in the imbalance, only relying on the physical anti-fall device inside the elevator shaft to buffer, the strong sense of gravity almost crushed everyone in the elevator into cakes on the floor.

In the last ten seconds, the elevator car hit the first layer of metal grids—this was originally a maintenance ladder used for mechanics to check the elevator shaft and electrical circuits, but under Simon's settings, they stopped at a 180-degree level against common sense. Inside the elevator shaft, humans began to slow down the runaway elevator.

Second floor--

the third floor--

"boom--"

With a loud noise, Rand was thrown into the air.

Munster's long hair suddenly opened, wrapping him tightly...

Time seemed to slow down suddenly at this moment, and Rand could see Munster's eyes, which were focused and unreservedly attached to pour into his heart like a tide at this moment.

In that short moment, Rand felt the scythe of death falling.

"Boom—"

The upper part of the elevator car was deformed.

Land hit hard on it, but he was not seriously injured while Munster was wrapped.

Simon touched the blood on his face (his face had been scratched by a long gash from the upturned piece of metal) and pulled Rand to his feet.

"Do you still have the strength?"

he said hoarsely.

"Kick it away—"

He was referring to a distorted part inside the elevator—it looked like it had been the elevator door before.

Rand nodded with a smile.

He raised his leg, and Munster had swept his tail there before that.

The broken and deformed metal plate slid on the icy platform for a long distance, and finally crashed along the edge of the platform and fell into the pitch-black seawater.

The icy wind and snowflakes suddenly pounced on the unguarded Rand. He opened his eyes slightly, looking at the outer platform of the base that appeared in front of him, almost feeling unreal.

On the other side of the platform, a helicopter was hovering low.

"go!"

Without any instructions, Rand and Simon had already sprinted towards the helicopter together.

"20...19...18..."

The mastermind of the base is still counting down coldly.

Time passed by second by second.

Rand heard the violent roar of the plane's engines and felt the gust of wind from the plane's blades.

The moment he jumped onto the oil-stained deck, Rand almost slipped out of the sloping airport with a weak leg.

A hand gripped him firmly.

Rand looked up and saw Munster's bloody face.

"do not leave Me……"

it whispered.

The plane had taken off, and Rand was pulled into the cabin by Munster and Simon.

He gasped for breath, feeling the dull pain caused by his heart beating wildly against his chest.

In his arms, Vincent's eyelashes trembled slightly for a moment.

"3"

In the dark interior of the SIREN floating island base, the siren subjects continued to wander in a daze.

"2"

Inside the research area, some materials fell into the stagnant water, and the paper was soaked.

"1"

"Boom—"

A violent explosion sounded behind the plane, and the plane was hit by the airflow lifted by the explosion, causing a burst of turbulence.

"Lane?!"

Simon covered his face with gauze and yelled in panic.

"Don't worry, it's just some drafts."

A certain CIA... No, it should be said that the former CIA secret agent turned his face and pointed at Simon.

Just as he said, the plane soon stabilized and flew quietly above the rough and icy sea.

On the other side of the sea level, the clicking sound of the dismemberment of the floating island can still be heard faintly, and it won't be long...they will sleep deep under the sea surface together with those sad lives.

Rand let out a deep breath, and he stared blankly at his surroundings.

Munster held him in his arms with his tail crossed, Vincent closed his eyes tightly - the skin was still soft and warm, Simon was treating his wound, Ryan was concentrating on flying the plane - for a while, no one spoke.

Rand felt his body begin to soften like a melting candle.

Because he was so happy and everything was so unreal, he couldn't help pinching Munster's fingers, and found that the webs between his fingers had disappeared at some point, and his hand looked like a normal one, A man's hand with thick knuckles and slender fingers.

Soon aware of Rand's small movements, Munster firmly held Rand's hand back.

"It's over. Rand, we survived."

It whispered in Rand's ear.

Rand repeated in a daze.

"Yeah, I survived..."

Rand had never felt so happy and at peace.

"Surviving doesn't mean everything is over," Simon raised his eyes and glanced at the obtrusive couple, wondering if they had noticed that Vincent's brows were tightening, "We still have a hard journey, God, for you... we're all fugitives now."

He rubbed his forehead and groaned.

Rand couldn't help smiling.

"Oh, I'm very experienced as a fugitive..."

……

A white polar bear looked up from the edge of an ice sheet covered in rubble and solid ice, and saw a small black shadow in the sky speeding across the sea.

And in front of them, there is an aurora emitting bright light.

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#laterthings# Munster’s box of teeth was confiscated by the government after the Deep White incident (including all the furniture in Rand’s apartment was transported to a secret base for analysis and sampling), but three years later it was taken away by Munster and Rand Deco stole it out, and then the box of teeth was polished into an ornament, put into a picture frame and hung on the wall—two days later, Vincent took it off as if nothing had happened and stuffed it under the sofa.The place where the original painting was hung was placed on the artwork collected by Vincent.

#laterthings# Vincent Sievers still retains a considerable share of the property, and as someone who deals with the government he has many backup hands (though Caroline's betrayal made him no time to use them), and then he gave himself and Rand got a secure fake ID. Munster's new identity is "a mentally handicapped youth adopted for humanitarian relief in Ukraine." His guardian is Rand, and his name has been updated to Munster West. Firth.

#后的事情# Considering that Munster is... a minor in terms of psychological age and physical age, Rand has doubts and guilt about the relationship between the two for a long time, He has had psychological counseling for this.But when Vincent proposed to let the two break up, he still followed his inner thoughts and refused.He made a pact with Munster not to have sex until Munster "comes of age"...but it didn't work out.

#Later Things# Vincent and Rand and Munster lived on a ship for a period of time.Every night Vincent listens carefully to the movement next door to avoid the "overly intimate" between Munster and Rand... What he doesn't know is that sometimes Rand and Munster will dive into the sea to play and have sex after he enters the cabin. kiss.

#后的事情# Munster once seriously worried about Rand's pregnancy problem... There was a long period of low tide after learning that Rand was absolutely impossible to get pregnant.Vincent showed a rare cheerfulness during that time.

#后的事情# Vincent seems to be the most severe and paranoid person, but only he knows that deep down in his heart he is always the one who “stays in place”—for example, after the kidnapping incident, his mother used killing End the pain, and Rand has forgotten everything, but only Vincent has been stuck in the memory of the past, trying to regain the warmth of the family.

#后的事情# Does Vincent have feelings for Rand that go beyond brotherhood?The answer is yes, but I'm afraid even he himself didn't realize it.If Rand is married to an ordinary woman, he will accept everything (although he will try his best to find out Rand's lover), and if Rand will take the initiative to ask for love from Vincent, Vincent will treat Rand without any resistance or hesitation. Pour everything, including emotions, including life.He hates Munster very much.

#后的事情# Vincent is the one who lived the longest among all of them... until the end, he firmly expressed his disgust towards Munster.But he knew in his heart that he already regarded Munster as a member of the family.The special family formed by Munster, Rand and Vinson rescued many sirens in the following years, and some young members joined them, but the only people who could be included in the "family" in Vincent's heart were always Rand and Munster #laterthings# Rand once sought the help of emotional counseling because of the unusually tense relationship between Vincent and Munster... But it didn't work much, and finally he decided to let nature take its course without a teacher He has learned to juggle between the two... He once had a night of drinking with a sailor who was troubled by the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law on the island of Hawaii, and they both felt that they could understand each other's pain.

#后的事儿# Because of the ease of life, Rand and Munster both grew belly after old age... which interfered with their swimming speed later.Vincent was in great shape from beginning to end.

#laterthings#Simon and Ryan later got married...they had artificial insemination and had a boy and a girl. Among them, a girl named Laisha had a deep bond with a rescued wild siren when she went to Rand's house as a guest. Feelings.Raisha and the siren later became the first legally recognized interspecies couple on Earth.Although it took them nearly 50 years to fight for their legal rights.

#后的事儿# Until a long time later, when Rand said "I love you" to Munster, both of them could not help but blush, and then they could not help but stare at each other and smile.

#后的事情# Generally speaking, Munster Sievers has never experienced too much hardship and sadness in his life. After experiencing the floating island incident, his life has been smooth, stable and happy. He loved deeply until the last moment of his life. Loved by Rand, and loved by Rand.Its last words before it died were "Will I become a bubble?", and Rand said "No. You will always live in my heart until I reunite with you."