Mermaid Effect

美国

Washington

Shenbai Biotechnology Headquarters

10 [-] minutes ago -

"Tick...tick..."

Dark red liquid dripped from a woman's golden hair onto the cold metal floor.

Her body is slender, her skin is a copper color that has been carefully tanned, and the white robe that has been stained with blood is a new fashion—if she is still alive, she is definitely a stunner that attracts men's attention, but at this moment she is It was hung high in the air like meat products in a slaughterhouse, and several wires with blue arcs passed through her armpits and between her legs in a mess.

Her head, held by a thin layer of skin, hangs backwards on her back, and due to gravity she appears to be yawning with her mouth open, her swollen tongue hanging down her mouth side.The viscera mixed with red and yellow-green liquid fell out of her violently torn abdominal cavity like garbage, and the air was filled with the stench mixed with the smell of blood.

……

"what happened?"

Caroline moved her gaze away from the transparent observation window above the protective door, and she asked in a hoarse voice.

She is located outside a living organism breeding room.

The isolation door has been put down, and a simple console is placed outside the door.

Surrounding Caroline was a research team summoned by the emergency and a team from "Poseidon".

"The experimental animals fell into a commotion for no reason 15 minutes ago. She was making experimental records at the time, and an A-level experimental subject broke the petri dish and attacked her..."

"That's not what I want to hear, Simon. I'm not interested in how she died. What I want to know is why?"

Caroline interrupted the young genius next to her. Her attitude was a bit rude. Simon crossed his arms and gave her a blank look.

Of course, there was a reason for Caroline's agitation in a sense, it was late at night and she looked like she hadn't slept in days, her hair was like moldy straw Also dull and disheveled, with the remains of mottled eyeliner under the eyes.Looking at her like this, Simon couldn't even imagine that not long ago, the Caroline he knew was a well-dressed and well-made high-level executive.

"Caroline, I remember saying, 'unexplained,' no one knows why."

Simon rubbed his hair with his hands. The previous trauma to his body made him still very weak until now. He couldn't even raise his energy to argue with the woman in front of him who had completely lost her mind.

Also, although it wasn't obvious, he was mourning the woman inside the lab who had lost her life.

That was his assistant, a nice woman, but that experimental subject easily crushed her precious life under the sharp nails.Even if the emergency mechanism pulled down the isolation door and released the laser weapon to cut it into several pieces of meat that exuded a burnt smell, it could no longer restore the loss of a woman's life.

And all this should not have happened in theory.

Simon frowned and turned on the scene recorded by the monitor.

Not long ago, the entire laboratory was normal, and the liquid in the petri dish was rich in powerful calming ingredients, which could make those experimental subjects quiet like zombies.But just a few seconds later, everything changed, and those experimental subjects woke up for no reason. They crazily hit the hard inner wall of the petri dish until their heads were bleeding. Erupting from the gap they had been knocked in, the crack soon began to grow, and the slimy bluish-white flesh burrowed out, crawling towards the screaming woman.

But this is not the scariest moment, it is from this moment that the really uncomfortable thing actually starts.After the experimenters captured the woman, they performed another disgusting behavior on her. They didn't stop until her internal organs were completely poked out of the body. It also started this kind of mutual violation that cannot be explained by any theory...

"It cannot be explained."

Simon rubbed his forehead and spoke in confusion.

"Those experimental subjects are not complete at all. They don't even have gonads in their bodies. It is impossible for them to have such an impulse..."

But just after his words fell, the isolation door opened amidst a buzzing sound.

Several people wearing heavy protective clothing rushed out staggeringly, and although the voice of one of them seemed vague and dull under the effect of the filter, no one would ignore it——

"Dr. Simon, you won't believe this. In those experimental subjects..." He handed Simon a piece of pink meat in a glass dish, "...grow gonads! God, they are bigger than the theory The one on it is dozens of times larger...it looks like some kind of lesion..."

Simon stared at the disgusting thing in his hand, his lips quivered but no sound came out.

No single theory can explain the current situation.

Simon could feel the twilight of the others around him, they were looking at him eagerly hoping he could give an answer, however - "It can't be"

……

The only thought in his head was fluttering wildly like a frightened bird, and his proudly intelligent brain was now blank.

He couldn't give any answers.

Fortunately, a shrill siren a few seconds later pulled everyone's attention away from him.

On the computer screen in Simon's hand, the previously playing laboratory monitoring record was switched to the interior floor plan of the building.

On it, all the rooms labeled Biology Lab were now marked with bright red "Emergency" signs.

Everyone's face instantly turned pale, and the members of the "Poseidon" guarding them surrounded the researchers almost immediately, forming a vigilance.The lights went out, replaced by the ominous bright red glow of a flashing red warning light.

The floor of the room they were in trembled slightly.

"It's the emergency isolation door..."

Simon murmured.

In order to prevent the aggressive experimental subjects in the Siren project from escaping from the laboratory, they prepared several defensive devices in all the rooms where the living experimental subjects were stored at the early stage of design: anesthesia guns, lasers, heavy fire attack devices, primary Isolation doors, secondary isolation doors and emergency isolation doors...

Only when the experimental subject escapes and all other devices fail, the emergency isolation door, which is the last to isolate the experimental subject and the researchers, will be lowered, and the building will completely enter a state of emergency, because this means that the experimental subject is already dead at this time. out of control.

Chaotic thoughts flashed through Simon's mind, as if to confirm his thoughts, a cold mechanical female voice without any ups and downs came from inside the wall.

"Warning, warning, laboratory 1862 to 2182, second-level protection room I, second-level protection room X, dangerous test living body cultivation room V, dangerous test living body cultivation room III... There is a dangerous situation, code 2732, start the destruction process, Repeat, start the destruction process, please evacuate the staff in time - the countdown starts 100-99-98..."

Simon suddenly heard a scream from beside him: "Destroy the program? No... no... stop! Absolutely not! Stop!"

He turned his head in surprise, but just in time to see a woman running crookedly towards the outside.

That's Caroline.

It took him another short while to realize why her reaction was so violent: the place where the man who had been reduced to a monster, Vincent Sievers, was staying was the live incubator that was about to start the destruction process...

"damn it."

He cursed, and ran after Caroline.

Above his head, that damn AI voice was counting down slowly.

And when Simon came to the corridor connecting the various laboratories, he understood why the defense mechanism had to start the destruction process.

Almost all the entrances of the laboratories are covered by protective doors painted in yellow and black paint. These doors are one meter thick and can withstand close-range hits from rocket launchers. In theory, they can be said to be indestructible, but At this moment, each of them is trembling.

There was a tooth-piercing muffled sound from behind the door. It was the group of damned experimental subjects crashing crazily. Simon noticed that several protective doors had been deformed...

"45—44—43..."

The Siren Project is to cultivate biological weapons for the country.

Simon is more aware of this than ever.

Once these things really escape...

Simon could hardly imagine the consequences.

However, when he saw Caroline running wildly in front of him, a strong sense of foreboding hit him like a storm.He knew how obsessed Caroline was with Vincent, and if she interrupted the destruction process for Vincent, he had no doubts.

However, if the destruction program is really interrupted, it may be the biggest disaster that mankind is about to face.

"15—14—14—"

No, you can't do that.

Simon moved his steps frantically, his body was in severe pain from this unsustainable violent movement, but he didn't dare to slow down at all.

Ahead of him, Caroline reached the end of the corridor, where there was an artificial intelligence control port.

"4--"

She tore off her work permit from her chest and inserted it in. It was obvious that she was trying to stop the destruction process with her high-level authority.

"3--"

"Caroline! You can't do this!"

"2--"

Simon, who couldn't make it in time, leaned on the wall and let out a shrill scream.

However, Caroline quickly entered a series of numbers on the pop-up interface without changing her expression.

……

"...Advanced Privilege XXX - Program terminated."

With the sound of the artificial intelligence tablet, Simon could no longer control himself and fell to the ground.

His heart was beating as if it was about to pop out of his chest, and the strong anger forced him to roar at the ethereal-looking woman not far away, regardless of the broken voice.

"Damn—Caroline, you're going to kill us all, those isolation doors won't last long..."

"Shh, shut up." Unexpectedly, before Simon's accusation, Caroline had a weird sweet smile on her face. She turned her head and looked at Simon blankly, and stretched out a finger, "It's Vincent .”

she says.

"Vincent will take care of this."

At first, Simon just thought she was completely crazy, but he soon noticed that the deafening crash when the destruction program started before suddenly disappeared at this time.

And at the end of the corridor...

Wait... The reason why there is a connection terminal at the end of the corridor is because there is a live body cultivation room with the highest security level.

Because it contained the most powerful and dangerous living experimental subjects, its gate was directly connected to the intelligence center of the building—unfortunately, this was where Vincent Sievers stayed.

……

The empty corridor suddenly became quiet.

The air seemed to condense.

The pale artificial light shone coldly on Simon's body.

He found that his breathing became more and more rapid, more and more rapid...

"Squeak-"

Amidst the piercing sound of metal deformation, a pale palm slowly protruded from the gap in the deformed isolation door behind Caroline.