Mermaid Effect

Location: Shenbai Biotechnology Headquarters

Time: 03:12AM

140 minutes before Dr. Clive Sandford and his Spanish lover nurse pushed the medical cart along the corridor on the fourth floor of 28, at the other end of the huge building of Shenbai Biotechnology, there was also The two are walking secretly.

This is the seventh floor underground, a level four biological protection laboratory.

Like most secret laboratories located underground, this laboratory is only accessible to researchers of a certain level.

Simon was of course on this list, however, on this night, there was another person beside him, a person who should never appear theoretically.

Lane.

Of course, this undercover CIA investigator, recovering from a serious illness, is now Isolde Paris, a senior assistant pharmacist who has worked in Deep White for more than eight years.

"So, is there really such a person? Isolde?"

Ryan followed behind Simon, and his movements were relatively slow.His abdomen was wrapped with a thick medical bandage, but the cloth, which was still dry before the departure, had become wet at this time, and viscous liquid was squeezed out from his wound with his movements, accompanied by severe pain.

In order to keep himself sober, he has always been taciturn and had to start talking to Simon to divert his attention.

"Well, yes, but he's been working in a regular lab... he looks a bit like yours so I altered his photo and transferred him to a secondary lab under me. Our It's best to act quickly. I don't want this action to bring any bad consequences to that unlucky guy. In fact, getting the 'Fountain of Youth' out to you has already made the higher-ups pay attention to me. If it wasn't for the SIREN incident, they Having lost too many front-line researchers who have been exposed to 'it', I think I should have been secretly killed by now..."

Simon turned his head to Ryan.

Their eyes met briefly at that moment... and if anyone could see them at this moment, he would be surprised at how similar they are.

The same haggard, the same thin, the same pale, of course, the most important thing is their eyes.

The two people who were completely different not long ago had such similar expressions at this moment.

"Then why did you save me?"

Ryan subtly avoided his gaze after that moment of staring, and they walked slowly in the long and cold corridor.

"Actually," Simon stared straight ahead, and then opened the last protective door, "I'm not saving you, I just feel that something is wrong."

He said, entering the interior of the laboratory with Ryan.

It's a big lab—the indoor area is about the size of a typical gymnasium in a proper university.

However, it is such a large space that it seems a bit crowded at this time.

Numerous glass water tanks with a diameter of more than four meters and from the ground to the ceiling stand in the laboratory, and the green indicator light representing "normal operation" dyes the interior of those tanks into a faint fluorescent green.

Simon and Ryan stood at the door, as if they had broken into a crystal forest in a fairy tale.

Sensing the presence of humans, the ceiling of the laboratory gradually lit up with soft lights. Ryan saw that each sink was inlaid with a clear metal nameplate, and on the base under the sink, there were marks of different colors.

"Come."

Simon said to Lane, leading him step by step into the center of the sink.

The laboratory was terribly quiet, and one could hear the slow bubbling sound from the sink and the running sound of the water circulation system.

Most of the sinks are empty, however, some have occupants.

Ryan saw that the bottom of a tank on his right was dotted with fine white sand and lush aquatic plants, as well as some corals, and groups of silver sea fish swirled and swam in the artificial seawater—it looked like A display case in an aquarium, not a petri dish in a secret lab.

Ryan involuntarily moved closer...he could see his elongated reflection on the smooth surface of the petri dish.

"bump--"

With a loud muffled sound, a distorted face suddenly appeared in Ryan's sight.

"Damn-"

Ryan jumped back, his right hand habitually touched his waist, but only touched the empty pharmacist's robe.At the same time, the severe pain transmitted to the nerve reminded him of the current situation.

"Hey, calm down."

Simon came over, he lifted Ryan's shirt as if no one was there, checked his bad bandage, and twitched the corners of his mouth.

"This is just a simple third-level mutant. Simply put, it's a failure."

He said to Ryan.

That monster has a slender tail, but if you look carefully, you will find two bones that are close together in the slender tail. They seem to be deliberately elongated, and then artificially added broken joints human leg bones.

It stuck tightly to the glass wall of the petri dish, and the transparent tentacles popped out of its mouth waved on the smooth glass surface like an octopus roasted by fire.

It wanted to eat the two humans with their indifferent eyes - there was no doubt about that.

When Simon opened the console under the sink and released a burst of electric current, it jumped up to the top of the sink in surprise, and the tentacles in its mouth opened suddenly, like an open umbrella. Swallowed all the fish in one gulp.

"Their IQs are very low." Simon looked at Ryan, and then said, "But the appetite is very strong, very strong, and the siren is a very powerful creature, which can be called a monster, but at the same time it also needs a lot of food. maintain the metabolism of the body."

As he explained, he took Ryan to the deepest part of the laboratory.

Here is an even larger tank, twice the diameter of the others.

And all the callouts under it are red.

"That's what I wanted to show you."

Simon said to Ryan.

In this tank, there is a thing like an embryo.

It was horribly small compared to the sink, and Ryan didn't see it until Simon pulled the electronic viewer closer.

Something like a curly intestine, or a flesh-colored tadpole.

This was the first reaction in Ryan's mind when he saw it.

However, when Simon released a piece of white unknown substance in the sink, the flesh-colored tadpole changed instantly.

It writhed and rolled in the water, expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye. The curly tail was elongated and covered with scales. At the same time, its front half began to resemble a normal fish, except for the dazzling red spots behind the eyes. .

However, the changes were far more than that. Its shape continued to elongate very quickly. The slender tail took up two-thirds of its body, and the upper part, the pectoral fins, turned into slender limbs. Its skin became slender. It was smooth, and a flesh-colored human head appeared where the fish head was originally.

Simon glanced at Ryan from the corner of his eye, and once again released some white unknown things in the sink-this time Ryan saw clearly what they were, and they were pieces of meat that had been soaked with all the blood.

The "tadpole" rushed towards the meat at an astonishing speed, and it began to swallow the meat with big mouthfuls.Ryan didn't know how much Simon put in, ten kilograms?Twenty kilograms?

When the pieces of meat were nearly ten times the size of the "tadpole" itself, the monster had been devouring them with a strong appetite... until finally its terrible metabolism made its body appear obviously aging, it His body (now over a meter long) became wrinkled and floated motionless in the water.

And a small embryonic thing slowly bit open its body skin, and crawled out.

It was floating there, just as Ryan had first seen it, like a harmless piece of small intestine.

Not knowing what was going on, Ryan stared at the thing and suddenly felt sick.

"what is that?"

"It is a certain specimen that was deliberately cultivated for physiological observation - its body mechanism is almost exactly the same as that of a normal siren, but we think it has adjusted its metabolism to make it a one-time consumable... or Long-term consumption items. I don’t know if you noticed, but in a sense, sirens are immortal.”

Simon looked at the newborn embryo and said.

Just as he said, the siren is almost immortal. Of course, this does not mean that it will not age and will not die because of this, but that when it ushers in the inevitable aging physiologically , it will directly cultivate a new embryo in its body, a clone that is exactly the same as itself, and then start to regenerate.

"so……"

Ryan looked at Simon puzzled, he didn't understand that taking such a big risk to bring him into the laboratory, Simon just wanted to tell him this.

"So now there is a problem. What I put in the tank just now was human flesh."

"what?"

Ryan couldn't help repeating, but Simon nodded coldly.

"Human flesh, don't ask me where I got these, but they are human flesh, skin, fat, muscle, connective tissue stripped from real human bodies... The Siren project was originally carried out as a weapon project Yes, so we have optimized all the sirens in the lab, their genes are encoded, they will instinctively hunt humans as food to supplement the lack of PCDHA3 protein in their bodies... This is their instinct, irresistible , can't be changed, they are destined to be biological weapons for killing people. And Deep White now has two modified experimental sirens fleeing outside. I know that all reports from Deep White to the Pentagon will be perfect, showing that they are serious about these two escaped The subjects have control—in fact, they don't. These two sirens, Subject 7371, and 'Prince', will bring a massacre to the entire United States..."