Mermaid Effect

Munster's action was like a silent switch that started the next attack.A few siren test subjects rushed towards it screaming and flicking their saliva, their tongues flicking in the air like a whip.After turning around, Munster swept them out with his tail, and at the same time, gunshots rang out.

Sharp screams pierced the darkness, and the group of experimental subjects became more excited under the stimulation of blood and wounds... Of course, they were originally created for this occasion.More and more experimental subjects crowded towards Rand and Munster, and they were also quite smart to realize that as a human being, Rand was a weak point in the first place.It was precisely because of this that even with the presence of Munster, more and more experimental subjects attacked Rand. The bullets pierced their sticky cold bodies and left sparks on the metal walls.

They were squeaking and screaming, but in the confusion, Rand couldn't tell whether they were making sounds from the pain of injury or from extreme excitement.Those human bones, the tooth marks on those bones echoed in Rand's mind like a slideshow as he shot.

Munster was already mad at this situation, it showed its teeth, its mouthparts were completely ejected, and its tentacles and tail waved into a fan-shaped phantom.Blood sprayed in the air, and Rand heard the screams from Munster and the subjects—perhaps some kind of sonic attack—and he felt nausea and a headache a few seconds later.Those siren test subjects didn't look any better than him. Rand saw some test subjects' hair puffed up, and a cold light like will-o'-the-wisp flashed in their eyes.

"boom--"

Rand kept pulling the trigger, but suddenly, his gun lightened suddenly.

The magazine is empty.

In the short moment when the gunshots stopped, a huge wet shadow suddenly fell over Rand's head.

"Boom—"

The moment it fell, its eight articulated feet were deeply embedded in the floor.

It was a weird amalgamation of a spider and a jellyfish, and Rand was pinned down beneath its hairy, barbed belly.From his perspective, the bristles on the monster's mouthparts were shining brightly in the fluorescent light.

"Rand!"

Munster swept away two strong ones, trying to prevent his experimental body from jumping towards Rand, but at this moment, the monster had already bounced its slender head, which was completely different from its huge body, towards Rand.

Tattered, fangs, like the tombstones of a long-untended grave, were embedded in its muddy black gums.

Rand saw a flexible compound eye between its teeth.

time is slowing down...

Everything is like a tape playing slowly, frame by frame.

Munster was lunging at him.

The monster's head lowered.

The compound eyes were turning, but for a long time they did not focus on Rand.

The cusp of a tooth sliced ​​across Rand's eyelid like a dagger.

……

Bright red blood gushed out.

Glides over Rand's eyeballs, eye sockets, and down his cheeks.

In the thick and gelatinous watery smell, the unique sweet rusty taste of human blood is so vivid that it looks like some kind of imprint——

The monster's movements stopped abruptly.

After a long time of hard work, the compound eyes finally focused on Rand's pale face without any blood.

At the same time, in the deepest part of the floating island base.

In the pure white room that was scorched by the artificial light and became hot, Vincent suddenly woke up.

Before this, its mind has been bound in a huge, chaotic net, all it can feel is twisted and crazy pain and appetite, like a war that will never wake up, with a heavy fishy smell nightmare.

As a not-so-successful, or even said to be a siren experimental subject that was treated as biological waste before, Vincent's mental power is not enough to completely control all other experimental subjects. His spirit has been eroded to pieces, and even Lost the ability to think.

He dreamed of butterflies.

A slender butterfly with a green base and black veins.

He has been chasing that butterfly, and that butterfly reminded him of something nostalgic and warm.Vincent longed for it like he longed for blood and flesh.But there was something irritating about that butterfly.With sharp teeth and claws, it makes all Vincent's efforts futile, which makes Vincent feel annoyed and angry, and it manipulates a spider to slide down from the ceiling - it wants the "butterfly" !

However, after all, Vincent felt powerless to manipulate a large number of siren subjects from such a long distance. After the spider fell, it accidentally hurt the "butterfly".

Red blood gushed out from the opponent's small wound.

The unusually bright color crashed into Vincent's mind along the mental link through the compound eyes——

It trembled for a moment, then suddenly woke up.

Its head bent and bounced out of the viscous repair fluid, and its eyes trembled, aiming in a certain direction.

"Land—de—"

It opened its lips full of fangs, which could easily scrape human flesh off the bones. The barbed tongue moved awkwardly in its mouth at this moment, shouting out a deformed and vague word .

"Whoa-"

The once extremely hard glass observation window suddenly shattered, and when the repair fluid gushed out, Vincent straightened his body staggeringly.

"No...no...Rand..."

It stood up blankly, looking down at its deformed, translucent hands.

Every inch of skin on my body hurts.

Cloudy tears welled up from its deformed eye sockets...

Rand is here!

Rand is in this steel hell!

This cognition hit Vincent's chaotic thinking. On the one hand, it couldn't help but tremble with joy, and on the other hand, it felt extremely desperate...

It has no way to meet Rand.

Oh, yes, it can't see Rand either—how can it expose its body to Rand when it has not yet returned to its human form, but is just a very sad monster?

"Leave... leave... leave... Rand..."

In the dark corridor, Rand was shocked to hear the horrible "spider" slurring his vagina indistinctly.The compound eyes were turning, and a spiky forelimb covered with poisonous glands was lifted up and stretched towards Rand's face, shining faint blue light.It looked as if it wanted to touch Rand's face... only in an instant, the spiked forelimbs were connected to half of its chest cavity, and it was ripped apart alive.

The fluorescence in front of Rand's eyes became stronger.

"It's..."

Munster suddenly appeared beside the monster.It grabbed one leg of the spider-like monster forcefully, and just like that, it completely dismembered it into fine pieces of meat.Some splattered blood sprayed Rand's body.The monster screamed in pain.It shook wildly and bounced off Rand's body.And Munster also rushed towards it at the same time. After a wet crushing sound accompanied by the scream of the monster, everything was quiet.

All the siren subjects took a step back, and the madness and chaos they had before suddenly disappeared like the receding sea——Rand turned his head and looked at them with a frown go.

A kind of shock and grief that he couldn't understand appeared on the distorted faces of the siren subjects.

A sane, complex emotion governs them in unison.Let them step back after touching Rand's line of sight, hiding their bodies in the darkness.

Munster hissed and tried to attack them again, but Rand grabbed him.

"Wait, Munster, wait a minute..."

He wiped the blood off his face, panting and looking at them.

"Rand?"

"They... they don't look like they want to attack us now, do they?"

Rand swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and the current appearance of the group of monsters overlapped with the previous monster in spider form.

And the fragmented sound before it...

Rand couldn't bring himself to ignore it.

Suddenly, the familiar scene in front of him made him realize something——

"Wen... Vincent?"

Rand's lips quivered as a weak word slipped from the tip of his tongue.

If he was able to produce the special ability to control and invade the siren test subject in the situation of sirenization, then as his brother, can Vincent also do the same?

And then, the reaction of the monsters after hearing that word invisibly confirmed Rand's thoughts.

They shook their heads in confusion, and squeezed out a hoarse denial from the deformed mouth at the same time.

"No...no—Rand...oh, Rand..."

The monsters were sobbing at the same time, they covered their faces with their claws, their bodies squirmed and began to flee towards the depths of the darkness.

"Vincent—Vincent!"

Rand couldn't help but rushed forward two steps, trying to stop them.

But after a short moment, the monsters that surrounded him like a nightmare before had all disappeared.

"Rand, wait a minute..."

"Come on! Vincent, I know it's you—"

Rand's foot accidentally tripped over a bump on the ground, and he almost fell directly on the ground. Fortunately, Munster hugged him directly in the end.

"Rand, they have already fled! Calm down!"

Munster squeezed Rand's shoulder hard, and said eagerly.Rand blinked in a daze, looking at Munster who seemed a little panicked under the fluorescent hair... He gasped heavily for a long time.

Reason slowly returned to his body, and he realized that his right eye was completely covered with blood, and there was pain and burning above the eyelid.

His body trembled unconsciously.

As he spoke, he heard his voice sharpen.

"It's Vincent! God! Those monsters... those monsters have Vincent in their minds!"

Rand leaned against Munster's arms loosely.

He knew what it was like to invade and control the Siren experiment, and his intuition also told him that this base would become like this, and it definitely had a great relationship with Vincent...

"Zzzz—"

In the corridor where Rand and Munster were located, the sound of electric current suddenly came.

After a trembling, the emergency lights on both sides of the wall slowly came on.

Rand and Munster suddenly entered a state of alert, but after a long time, the entire corridor was still silent.

It's just that under the illumination of the emergency lights, the situation in the aisle became clear... At least, Rand would no longer trip over the debris on the ground.

"Munster...don't worry, I think...it's Vincent's fault."

Rand had relaxed without realizing it.

He intuitively felt that they might not be attacked by any siren subjects for a long time to come.And this light is more likely to be pure, to illuminate them.

Rand turned his head suddenly, and he looked straight at a flashing red dot in a corner - there, a monitor was working silently.If everything is as Rand thinks, then Vincent may have become the controller of the base by now.

Just like what he did in Shenbai back then, when he thought of this, strange emotions emerged in Rand's heart... Should we say that the two of them are indeed brothers?

So much so that what they end up doing is so similar.

It's just that Vincent's emotions reflected on this group of experimental subjects were much more chaotic and painful than Rand's before, and Rand fell into deep anxiety.Rand knew exactly what those damned experiments were, and how they could destroy a person, because he had been there.

"Vincent..."

Rand looked up at the monitor and murmured.

"Look, Vincent, I don't care what kind of shit you've become now - but you can't do this to me, you can't just run away like this, and I won't let you run away, listen, I will Find yours! I will!"

……

A moment later, the same sound of emergency lights being activated was heard from a further part of the aisle.

If you look at it from the perspective of God at this time, you will find that a section of the corridor is lighting up outside the laboratory room of the floating island, which is as lifeless as a tomb—all obstacles are cleared, the screen door is opened, and the screen door is automatically opened. The cleaning robot received a special instruction and started to run busy, sweeping the "clutter" on the ground... Even if it would consume the remaining power reserve of the floating island base, it didn't care.

Rand walked a short distance down the aisle.

He could feel that the ventilation system was working, the air became warmer, and the surroundings were peaceful. Although there were still brown blood stains on the ground, large pieces of debris had been pushed down to both sides of the aisle.Compared with the ones they had experienced before, this aisle was as comfortable as the shopping aisle in a large shopping mall.

But even so, Rand, who was walking on it, felt more anxious than before...

If it was said that he had a little luck in dealing with the possible situation before, now he has fully realized the grim reality.The emotions in his chest were swelling, squeezing the heart in his chest, and even his breathing and heartbeat became heavy.

He didn't know what Vincent had become now, but he could predict that it would not be good—after realizing Rand's existence, Vincent's first reaction was to run away in such a panic.

"God, I don't know what happened to him, Munster, we have to find him, we have to save him..."

Rand repeated to Munster in a low voice like an anxiety patient.Munster nodded gently, but what appeared in the bright red pupils was the uneasiness that Rand hadn't noticed.

He had to, because otherwise he felt he would be overwhelmed by the intense anxiety.

Where exactly is Vincent?Are these lights he turned on to guide himself to find him...

Unlike Rand, who was immersed in worries about his brother, Munster, who was also a siren, could detect more ominous... disturbing aura from the previous monsters.

However, after seeing Rand's appearance, Munster finally just lowered his eyes and silently expressed that he would support all of Rand's actions.

"Hiss..."

Suddenly, Rand felt that he seemed to hear the out-of-toned hiss unique to the siren test subject.

Before the brain had time to react, Rand's body had moved on its own.

He ran wildly in that direction and came to a crossroads.

Of course, the siren experiment he heard had already sneaked away again.Its wet slime still clung to the walls.

But Rand didn't chase after him.

What he saw was a pile of supplies piled up not far in front of him.Obviously, the reason why the siren experiment appeared here was to carry these things——

Food, winter clothing, and a map showing the location of the survival warehouse on the outermost side of the laboratory, where there are small boats in reserve for use in polynyas.On the top of the map, there is a key with brown blood.

If the guess is correct, it is the key to the boat.

In front of the pile of matter, under Vincent's control, the siren test subject drew a deep crooked handwriting on the ground with its claws.

【Get out of here, it's dangerous】