Mermaid Effect

Rand put down Munster, and he quickly opened the balcony door.

A black-feathered bird fluttered at his feet for a moment. It left some sticky blood on the floor. Rand noticed that there was also blood on his glass door. It was obviously the unlucky bird. of the birds left behind.After a while, the bird stopped all movement.Rand bent down to pick it up, and found that it had a very serious wound on its head.

The little hapless bastard hit the glass door and gave himself an early meeting with God.

Rand shrugged his shoulders, feeling that his heartbeat, which was a little too fast before, slowed down a lot at this moment.However, just when he breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that it was just an ordinary accident, another black shadow brushed his cheek, and once again hit the wall directly behind him.

The muffled sound when animal flesh collided with hard inorganic objects made people feel a little extra disgusting.A few feathers flew into the air on impact, and slowly spun and fell in Rand's peripheral vision.

"What the hell is this?"

Rand was in bewilderment as he watched yet another bird die on the balcony after crashing into a wall.

Immediately afterwards, the noisy voice gradually became more apparent like an approaching monster.Rand walked to the railing of the balcony, and was shocked to see large flocks of starlings scurrying around in the air like headless flies. The supposedly orderly flocks of birds collided with each other, and the immobile birds fell like hailstones. On the concrete, on the grass, on the cars parked on the side of the road - those cars honking harshly.An out-of-control bird slammed into a moving car, and Rand watched in horror as the steel cage rolled sideways amid screeching brakes.

In certain rooms of the apartment, pet dogs howled wildly, some sounding like Coyote.

Amidst all these mixed noises, the world under Rand's apartment seemed to have fallen into the set of a horror movie.The whole neighborhood is in chaos.

Rand wanted to rush back to the room and pick up his mobile phone to call 911, but just as he turned around, there was a loud noise from a farther place.

"boom--"

Rand felt the floor of the balcony vibrate, he fell, and at the same time his ears were left with a long-lasting white noise from the impact of the loud noise, which made him feel sick.When he stood up in a daze and turned around, he saw thick black smoke rising from somewhere two or three kilometers away from him on the other side of the bush...

It almost looks like a small mushroom cloud.

"God, what the hell is going on here?"

Rand's mind went blank. He looked at the place and murmured amidst the fading siren of the fire truck.

At the same time, in another place, someone asked the same question.

"Who will tell me what's going on with Vincent now?!"

Caroline stood out of the observation window with a pale face and looked at Vincent Sievers on the hospital bed.

The man was tied to a semi-concave metal platform by countless soft materials. His heavy breathing and frantic struggle almost broke the heart of the woman standing outside the window.

Several researchers shuttled to the other side of the icy observation window. They desperately tried to make it continue to operate as if they were dealing with a machine that was about to be overloaded. All the monitoring instruments were emitting sharp sirens.

"Detected the fourth spiritual resonance..."

"There is no rewet phenomenon."

"Warning, the body temperature of the subject of the experiment has risen again... Heartbeat 167... 173... 185... Dr. Simon, we need to inject him with the stock solution, Mr. Sievers is about to be unable to hold on..."

A researcher looked at the heart rate monitor connected to Vinson with a bloodless face and said that his head was covered with cold sweat.

Simon lowered his head, he didn't even glance in that person's direction.

His finger landed on the long form in his hand - a strange metal mesh was covering Vincent's skull, and at the other end, a slender pointer scratched on the rolling paper , leaving a ripple pattern that normal people can't understand at all, those rough lines are shaking above and below a horizontal line in the center of the paper, and the amplitude is getting bigger and bigger.

"Hold on for another 30 seconds..."

"No, Dr. Simon, stop the observation! You are murdering Mr. Sievers!"

Several researchers wearing double-tailed double-sided mermaid badges rushed over and tried to break the link between the metal mesh and Vincent, but they were kicked in the abdomen by Simon.

"Resonance of this intensity will definitely cause re-infiltration! Watch your eyes, we must take advantage of this opportunity to catch that thing, this is our last chance - wait until the 'open pupil' is over and it will fully mature At that time, what awaits human beings will be a massacre! Don't forget the purpose for which they were bred!"

Simon's eyes were abnormally gray, and he was desperately waiting for the expected record, with a ferocious and evil expression on his face, as if possessed by a demon.

Beside him, Vincent's body was trembling sickly like an electrified corpse, his cheeks were as rough as sandpaper, if you look carefully, you will find that under the skin without any melanin, some The fine scaly cuticles are growing, and the skin behind his ears opened three parallel slits as if cut by a dagger. With every breath of Vincent, those slits began to open regularly, Closed, opened, closed... His eyelids were completely rotted away, the surface of the two eyeballs was covered with light gray nictitating membrane, and there were strange red spots on his temples, and something was turning under there.

No matter which direction you look at it, Vincent Sievers looks very different from normal human beings now.

"You have no right to-"

"Dr. Simon!"

"Give me the index!"

"Countdown 15—14—13—"

The Shenbai staff, who were stunned by the sudden violence before, rushed towards Vincent again, trying to terminate the data capture experiment that threatened Vincent's life, and Simon and his assistants had to act like street corners. Start wrestling with those people like your little punks.At the same time, the observers who are still sticking to their posts can only raise the decibel while wiping their cold sweat to determine the progress of the capture.

To be honest, the scene here is not any more orderly than the scene in front of the apartment on Pine Street in Kansas...

"boom--"

Until a gunshot terminated the entire chaotic scene.

Caroline tremblingly threw the gun in her hand to the ground, kicked open the blocked door of the observation room (the electronic lock system was emitting green smoke by the door), staggered towards Vincent, and yanked the metal net off .

"No, you can't do that—"

"3——2——1—Successful capture! The ripples of spiritual reinfiltration are clear!"

Fortunately for Simon, at the same time, the shouts of observers rang out.

On the other side, Caroline slammed a tube of golden liquid into Vincent's chest, and she roared at Simon like a lioness who had lost her cub with tears streaming down her face.

"I'll make you pay! How can you treat him like this!"

After Simon confirmed that the final data had been successfully captured, the sick fanaticism finally faded from his body.He leaned against the wall limply, then stared indifferently at Caroline's distorted face.

He gave her a sneer.

"If you hadn't used mermaid liquid in large doses for a long time, Vincent Sievers would not have become what he is now." He said, and then he was satisfied to see Caroline exposed as if she had been inserted into her heart by a red-hot wire An expression of extreme pain.

Earlier than anyone imagined——Vincent Sievers, the controller of the deep white biotechnology who is a bit too young for others, has actually suffered from internal organ failure.However, in order to suppress the board of directors, Caroline and Vincent had to use a new drug extracted from siren as a raw material to relieve their illness.

Of course, no one thought that this drug, which is simply called mermaid stock solution, would bring such a big side effect.

The extremely vigorous cells of the "Siren" proliferated in Vincent's body like cancer cells and devoured normal human cells. They built a new siren part in this warm and nutritious human body—— Just like in the past, the fragments cut from a red scale will grow into a complete blue scale, but no one would have thought that the stock solution that has been highly purified with only gene fragments can start to grow again using the human body as a nest.

If no measures are taken, Vincent Sievers will soon be completely reduced to a culture medium before the growth of a low-level blue scale...

After gathering enough strength for his weak body, Simon finally stood up, and he walked towards Caroline step by step with a blank expression.

Theoretically speaking, Caroline, who was much higher than him, flinched in front of this skeleton-like researcher, but Simon completely ignored Caroline's inadvertent show of weakness.

He grabbed Caroline and forced Caroline to look at the abnormality on Vincent's face.

"Dear Miss Caroline, haven't you realized the seriousness of the matter?" He said, "The assimilation phenomenon in Mr. Sievers' body was still under control as of this morning, but in the past 10 minutes just now Here, he has been assimilated by 30.00% - being able to cause such a strong resonance can only show one thing, the escaped experimental subject 7371 has definitely transformed into a red scale, whether you want to admit it or not, it has now become this plug The leader of the Ren clan, and Vincent Sievers is just its vassal... Look at those red spots on his face, Miss Caroline, look at them, this is the clan resonance that has further aroused in Mr. Sievers Assimilation, do you know what this means? This means that the red scale, subject 7371, is undergoing the second stage of evolution, and its second pair of eyes will begin to demembrane, which means that its gonads will also begin to mature. In a natural environment, a red scale is ready to reproduce at this stage. Due to the scarcity of siren individuals, it will have to search for another red scale around the world with terrifying energy. .If you still can't understand why everyone is facing such an enemy, then let me tell you that in order to support the most primitive reproductive instinct of all creatures, its aggressiveness and mental power will be in an extremely dangerous state. Riot state."

Simon lowered his eyes, eyes that were many times deeper than his actual age stared straight at Caroline, who was like a doll, who was dazed.

Until this time, she still only had Vincent Sievers, who was about to become a thing of the past, in her heart, and she didn't realize how terrifying and destructive a humanoid biological weapon in the courtship period would be.

thought Simon.

What makes people feel even more desperate is that compared to the real native race, the escaped experimental subject 7371 is an artificial creature.

It is a biological weapon that has been deliberately cultivated and is full of desire to kill humans.

And when this bloodthirsty desire is mixed with the most primitive hormonal impulse of biology-Simon simply doesn't want to imagine that scene.

Therefore, knowing that the data hunt is likely to cause further deterioration of Vincent Sievers' body today, he still perseveres - he must get that damn thing back before it causes great harm. where it should stay.

"Dr. Simon...I think you should read this."

The observer's confused voice interrupts the standoff between Simon and Caroline.

"what?"

Simon came to his side, he looked at the screen and immediately understood why the observer made such a sound.

"Are you sure the last data capture was correct?!"

He stared fixedly at the screen, where two radiating circles of Ripple Feedback were glowing—one in New York and the other in... Kansas.

"This is impossible...there is only one red scale, it is impossible to have two places...Give me the data, I will do the calculation again!"

Simon rudely pushed the observer aside.

Through the mental reinfiltration phenomenon carried out from Vincent, they managed to trace back to the feedback point of Ripple-but the map displayed now was slapped on his face like a slap in the face.

"Kansas is an inland city. In the early stages of red scale growth, they can't leave the water environment for a long time. I think we can rule it out."

The observer said weakly on the side.

At this moment, another observer hurriedly walked to Simon's side.

"We contacted NASA and Earthquake Observatory, there was a geomagnetic storm in the northern hemisphere a few minutes ago, there was a problem with the power grid in Kansas, and there was a momentary overload on a high-voltage power grid and then a chain explosion-I think we followed through to Kansas backtracking I'm afraid it's just an electromagnetic pulse that erupts when the power grid is overloaded..."

U.S--

Kansas

Pine Street

"...the chaos in the Pine Tree neighborhood has continued, and the power department said they were unable to determine how long residents in the area would be left in the dark..."

"Experts say that geomagnetic storms will affect some animals..."

……

Rand turned off the radio and went to the window.

It was already very late, but in the urban area where the lights should be on normally, it was dark.

In the afternoon, the explosion caused a power outage in the entire area. Without the interference of artificial light, the moon hanging low in the night sky appeared extra bright and huge.Rand couldn't find an emergency light in the room, and he replaced it with his own cell phone, which soon died.It seemed that all he could do now was lie in his comfortable bed and fall asleep...but Rand couldn't do that.

Because something happened to Munster again.

When Rand, who had witnessed the chaos this afternoon, returned to the room, he found that Munster was not where it should be.The wet marks on the carpet allowed Rand to find it under his bed, but he found that he couldn't get Munster out of the bed as easily as before.Of course, he did get down on the ground and reached out to try to reach Munster, but instead he found something else.

Some sticky jelly.

Rand didn't know what it was. All in all, it didn't look like mucus or vomit. They exuded that Munster-specific smell, milky white, and turned into some slightly viscous shortly after they came into contact with the air. hard lumps.If I had to describe it, it would be like chewing gum completely dried out.

It took Rand a long time to wash the unknown substances from his hands, and when he returned to the room again and put his head into the gap between the bottom of the bed and the floor, he was surprised to find A corner that he absolutely couldn't reach, where Munster had already surrounded a "wall" with that strange substance.

Or rather, it built a nest there.