Mermaid Effect

On the tragic day of the National Express building explosion, the Santa Maria Thanksgiving Hospital was overwhelmed with grief and death.

In the intensive care unit near the inpatient department of the West Wing, several patients claimed that they saw the messenger of death outside the window—it was a huge, extremely ugly, terrifying creature covered with scales.

A 78-year-old man with severe diabetes fell out of his hospital bed as a result, he broke his urinary catheter, made a mess of the entire ward, and saddest of all, because of this little accident he hid in the mattress The underlying shards of Godiva's dark chocolate were discovered by his attending doctor.

The sympathetic doctor therefore dismissed the old man's terrified incoherent description as a lie concocted to stash sweets.

"But, but I really, really saw it. It was lying outside the window with red eyes and it was looking at me... God, am I going to die? I don't want to die."

The old man said to the doctor tremblingly.

"Okay, you won't die, if you stop sneaking chocolates under the bed, even if you're okay and just lick them."

The doctor showed a nonchalant smile and said.

In the window behind him, a tail covered with fine scales flicked and disappeared quickly.

And on the parking lot of the hospital, a few bored teenagers who were waiting for their parents were stuffed into the family station wagon, lying loosely on the seats and playing with their mobile phones.

Someone suddenly smiled into the phone.

"what happened?"

"Someone's gone crazy," the young man shrugged and then showed another friend's Facebook on his phone to his companions to browse, "Tim said that today he saw a living lizard man on the exterior wall of Nineteenth Street .”

"puff--"

The jeers of the teenagers suddenly sounded in the station wagon.

"God, he's really crazy, you really shouldn't let him read that blue blood book, he doesn't really believe it, right? The lizardman of Draco..."

"Oh, he also took pictures?"

The young man clicked on the photo released by the "Tim".

The pixel of the photo is very poor, it can be seen that it was taken from a long distance, and the subject of the photo is only the exterior wall of the back side of the building that can be seen everywhere. The fire escape and rusted pipes make the building in the photo look dilapidated , has no merit.

And if there's anything wrong with this photo, it's probably just a strange shadow at the edge of the image.

It was white and looked as if someone had cut the image out of a photograph, with a long tail and a human shape vaguely discernible in its blurred outline.Assuming that there is really something at Shiro Shadow's position, it is probably a creature with a human upper body and a slender fish tail, sticking straight to the outer wall perpendicular to the ground.

Of course, in the eyes of this group of teenagers, this photo, including the shadow above, is just a silly joke made by the teenager named Tim.

"Maybe it's some reflective material hanging from the pipes," someone said, casting a casual glance at the photo. "My God, where the hell did he get such a boring photo?"

……

But the strange thing is that he didn't get a response from his companion for a long time.

"Hey, what are you in a daze for?"

He shook his hand in front of his companion in puzzlement, and at this moment, his companion was looking out of the car window in shock, his expression looked as if he had hit a ghost.

"You, did you see that thing?" The mobile phone in the companion's hand fell to the ground unknowingly, but he didn't notice it at all, but poked his fingers vigorously at the glass window. "Just now, something full of scales crawled over the outer wall of the hospital..."

The jeers in the family station wagon grew louder.

Of course, no one believed that unlucky boy, and naturally no one believed that that scale-covered monster would really appear in their world.

……

Except Rand Sievers.

He was exhausted from being interviewed by the FBI.Considering that this is a threat to Rand Sievers' life, the FBI has proposed protective measures for him-starting today, two vehicles disguised as cleaning vehicles will guard under his apartment, and his neighbors will also There will be plainclothes check-ins.

This gave Rand a stomach ache.

He was restricted from moving. Out of public safety considerations, he may not be able to go to Washington before the criminals are caught. In addition, there are even bigger problems waiting for him.

Those surveillances, exactly, those "protections"...

Rand simply didn't know how to hide the existence of Munster under the surveillance of these people. Judging from the current situation, this seemed like a fantasy.

Oh, yes, on Rand's first day at work, his workplace, including colleagues he didn't know yet, was smashed to pieces by a bomb.

And the bomb was coming for him.

This kind of plot that can only happen in crime TV dramas, combined with the dizziness caused by the concussion, made Rand feel a strong sense of unreality.

For a brief moment he couldn't help but ask himself if he really still existed in reality instead of some strange, realistic nightmare.

At this moment, Rand found that he began to miss Vincent, but soon Caroline's words with clear hatred played back in his mind, and the feeling was like a knife carved on Vincent. Into his nerves, brought a burst of unbearable stinging pain.

It was only a short day, but Rand felt as if he had suddenly encountered a "crash" in his life.

Everything looks bad, Rand thought.

He was slowly pacing the noisy corridors of the hospital, and someone gave him worried and sympathetic looks, obviously thinking that he was a victim of the bombing, or the family members of the victims.The overhead light cast a bright light above his head, but Rand felt that his vision was dim, and the invisible pressure covered his body heavily, making it difficult for him to even breathe.

At this moment, a patient jumped out of the ward screaming and waving his hands.

"Monsters, there are monsters!"

The patient's mind was a little erratic. His arm was covered with injection tape, but at this time the needle had fallen off, and a stream of blood flowed down his waving arm to his elbow.

After Rand's eyes touched the bright red, a strong nausea hit his stomach like a fist.

"vomit--"

Rand suddenly covered his mouth, and he passed the patient nurses who were trying to subdue the excited patient, and quickly walked towards the bathroom.

Rand threw up almost on his knees on the floor next to the toilet, though he couldn't actually throw up anything.

His body was heavy, and his thinking was extremely slow. In the end, he could only stare at the water splash inside the flushed toilet in a daze.People outside come in and go out, people cry, and people whisper to each other about what to do with someone's cats when he dies...

Standing in the small cubicle, Rand felt that the world of those people outside was extremely far away from him.

He felt that he could even just stay here like this until the end of the world...

Then he felt a strange touch on the back of his neck.

The wet, slimy, cold thing licked the skin on the back of his neck, and he smelled the familiar smell of water.

"Oh no, don't tell me it's true..."

In that instant, the whole world returned to Rand's side.Rand stared straight at the nondescript cream-coloured cubicle door in the toilet, not even wanting to look up to confirm his thoughts.

The invisible film that isolated the outside world disappeared in an instant, replaced by a living shock that made the heart beat faster.

"Rand!"

However, in the end Munster's joyful voice came from above his head.

Rand looked up, just in time to see the monster lying on the ceiling, slowly wagging its tail towards him.

Its body hung down from the ceiling, and its face turned towards Rand, showing a strange smile at an angle.

In this state, the fine teeth and those four blood-red eyes became more terrifying than before.

Rand felt that his heartbeat seemed to stop for a moment at that moment-he thought of the previous patient who rushed to the corridor and was frightened mad, and the "monster" that the patient yelled.

It never occurred to him that it was the "monster" (Munster) he knew.

"Damn it! Munster?"

Rand looked at Munster with a distorted face.

Just a moment ago he thought everything sucked, but now he realized that his life could be even worse.

He almost exclaimed, and it was at this moment that he clearly heard the "creak" sound when the sliding door of the toilet outside the cubicle was pulled open.

Someone came in.

Before he had time to think about it, Rand hugged Munster's body and tore him alive from the ceiling.

Munster landed nimbly in Rand's arms, its long and icy hands wrapped around Rand's waist, and its tail wrapped around his shoulders.Its heavy weight made Rand grunt involuntarily. His body was too weak and he swayed and hit the toilet cubicle.

Finally, he stumbled, holding Munster's body in his arms, and sat on the toilet.

Munster quickly changed into a comfortable position, being careful not to let his tail stick to the ground, and then sniffed his nose.

It immediately noticed the wound on Rand's forehead, and its body instantly showed a bright blue color because of the fury. It hummed softly, and then pressed its face to Rand.

"orchid……"

It grinned and was about to call out Rand's name, but Rand covered his mouth before he could finish speaking.

While stroking Munster's tentacles and back, he felt every nerve in him tense up.He lowered his voice to a minimum, and then spoke softly in Munster's ear.

"Shh... I'm fine." Rand said in a breathy voice, soothing Munster.

The warm airflow when the human exhaled made Munster's ear spines tremble, and the film between the spines was instantly stained with some purple peacock blue.

Rand didn't notice Munster's physical changes, he was listening intently to the movement outside the compartment.

It is worth thanking God that Rand's disposal of Munster was timely. The ordinary human who broke into the wrong toilet at the wrong time did not see Munster's appearance.

Unlike most of the gloomy people in the whole hospital, he even sounded in a good mood, humming an out-of-tune tune from his mouth.

However, something that made Rand feel cold sweat happened soon, because the man went straight into the cubicle next to Rand.

Rand could even hear him unzip the zipper clearly.

And Munster was quite anxious about the existence of another man, especially when the faint smell of urine wafted from the compartment, Rand immediately noticed that under his palm, Munster's scales It began to open piece by piece...

[Calm down, Munster, calm down]

For Rand, the urine smell of this passerby with cystitis (he didn't know it, of course) just made him feel a little uncomfortable, but for Munster, human urine The rich pheromone contained in it almost makes it reach the limit of anxiety with a keen sense of smell.

Especially in the presence of Rand, the opponent's behavior is like some kind of Chi Luoluo's provocation to it.

According to its nature, it should rush over at this time and tear the low-level and fragile human male to pieces, but Rand held it firmly.The only thing Munster could do was to flap his tail, and its slimy tail fin slapped Rand's body wetly... and then made a slightly strange sound.

"Damn-"

Rand cursed under his breath almost uncontrollably.

The other party's ditty stopped the moment the voice sounded.

"Rand?"

Munster murmured vaguely under Rand's palm.

Rand could only desperately make quiet gestures to it.

Munster's four eyeballs blinked quickly above Munster's palm, and it stared curiously at Rand's nervous appearance.

Then it suddenly stretched out its blue tongue, squirmed the sunflower-shaped tentacles at the top, and wetly licked Rand's palm and fingers.

Although he didn't know why, Munster found that when he saw Rand's cheeks blushing due to nervousness and the tip of his nose dripping with sweat, he felt a light and numb feeling swelling in his heart.

"Munster!"

Gritting his teeth, Rand lowered his voice and approached Munster.

The latter's tail was wrapped around his waist.

Munster's tail slid around his waist as he pulled his fingers away from the tip of Munster's tongue.Caught off guard, Rand couldn't help but groaned.

The man in the cubicle zipped up, he flushed and walked out.

But when he passed the compartment where Rand and Munster were, he knocked hard on the compartment door.

"Hey man, I hate to say this, but I gotta say, it's a public place, so no matter how enthusiastic you are, go back to your house! Can't you be more public?! I I can't pee anymore because of you!" He protested angrily.