The lower city of c42 is a very delicate location, it is a gray area between the civilian area and the wealthy area.
Walking in the lower city of c42, a random passer-by may be an ordinary poor person in a slum area, or a high-ranking official in a rich area, or even a wanted suspect in the Survivor Alliance.
There are mixed fish and dragons here, and everything is there.
Wen Yu came to the place designated by Dr. Mu Ran—
A love hotel.
The love hotel is very small, and it has been sealed up by Dr. Mu Ran. Standing outside, Wen Yu glanced at this unremarkable small hotel in a remote corner of the street, and frowned.
Even before entering, the pink light from the hotel and the ambiguous fragrance inside already made Wen Yu feel uncomfortable.
Going around the soldiers outside, Wen Yu walked in. Following the soldiers' guidance along the way, Wen Yu finally found Dr. Mu Ran.
To be precise, he found Dr. Muran in a small interesting room.
The interior decoration of this small room is very reminiscent. There is a heart-shaped bed in the middle, and red roses are neatly placed on the bed.
There is also a small stage not far away, and a steel pipe is erected on the stage.
Walking in from the door, you will see scattered clothes along the way, and these clothes continue into the room. You can tell that the two people who came here can't wait.
Wen Yu lowered his eyes to look at the various clothes scattered on the floor, and followed them into the bathroom at the back of the room.
The scene in the bathroom is not so good—
The walls and floor of the entire bathroom were covered with spattered red blood, and a severed arm was floating up and down in the bathtub.
The forensic doctor not far away is working inside, trying to find a little bit of human flesh tissue and hair from the corners.
But the upper right corner of the ceiling is the most attractive, because there is a giant flesh-colored cocoon.
There was a black hole near the ceiling at the upper end of the cocoon. The edge of the hole was in a state of corrosion. It was obvious that the creature came out of the cocoon after halfway through building the nest, and finally slipped away from above the ceiling.
The whole bathroom was filled with pungent fishy and rotten smells, but Wen Yu walked in without changing his expression. The only trouble was that he stepped on these dirty things on the soles of his shoes.
"Wen Yu?"
Dr. Mu Ran was also standing in the bathroom. He was wearing protective clothing. Before Wen Yu came, he had been observing the giant cocoon. After Wen Yu came, he put down his work and hurried to Wen Yu's side. Wen Yu sighed,
"I thought you wouldn't come."
Such yin and yang remarks made Wen Yu couldn't help but look at Dr. Muran a few more times, and he asked, his tone still calm:
"What's wrong?"
To Wen Yu, the purgatory-like scene in front of him seemed like an ordinary scene, not worth mentioning.
"Tsk tsk, how indifferent."
Dr. Muran complained again behind the protective suit, "Don't you have a sense of smell? You can't smell such a disgusting smell?"
Wen Yu looked at Dr. Mu Ran expressionlessly, and at the same time walked out directly, and obviously said that if Dr. Mu Ran still talked so much nonsense, he would go back directly.
"Okay, okay, let me tell you."
Dr. Muran sighed.
In fact, what Dr. Mu Ran said in the text message before, the cause of this case was a fake mermaid who escaped from the laboratory.
For so many years, the doomsday laboratory has been committed to finding a solution to the doomsday, and up to now, the scientists in the doomsday laboratory are divided into two factions—
One is the conservatives, who advocate abandoning the earth, choosing some human beings as fire, and flying to a "second earth" more than ten light-years away with the latest spacecraft.
But the cost of the entire flight may be painful, let alone how to screen people who can board the spacecraft, and secondly, whether the "second planet" can really make people live is still a question mark.
The other faction is the radical faction headed by Dr. Muran. They advocate reconquering the earth. They have carried out many biological experiments under this name, trying to change the human body and create new humans that can adapt to the doomsday environment.
Due to the huge cost of the conservative spaceship project in the early stage, the alliance has mixed opinions on their plan. Therefore, in the doomsday laboratory, the radical faction headed by Dr. Muran has more right to speak.
This also caused Dr. Muran's experiments to become more and more outrageous.
The origin of this incident, if traced to the root, is related to the "Poseidon Project" that Dr. Muran has not given up so far.
"The few in the lab are so ugly, I really can't call them 'mermaids'."
Dr. Muran recalled the several specimens in the laboratory water tank, and couldn't help showing a disgusted expression.
Fifty years ago, the Poseidon project was proved to be a failure, so it was shelved by the laboratory, but Dr. Muran was convinced that the project had been successful, so he tried to mix sea monster cells with human genes in the laboratory.
In the end, Mu Ran got ten strange monsters.
They did not maintain the facial features that humans should have, let alone the beauty of the legendary mermaids, but they had human upper limbs and chests, and a tail that looked like a snake or a fish.
Therefore, Dr. Muran called them "false mermaids".
Usually, the researchers directly call them "murlocs" in private.
After raising these experimental subjects for several years, only four of the ten experimental subjects were still alive, but Dr. Mu Ran was not interested in them, so he locked the remaining living experimental subjects in the bottom of the doomsday laboratory. Inside the tank.
"But what I didn't expect was that the four murlocs ran away while one of the murlocs was building a nest."
Dr. Muran sighed.
Perhaps it was the growth period, and the four strange-looking murlocs began to build a nest.
One day, the researcher reported that a giant cocoon suddenly appeared at the bottom of the tank, and the water level dropped abnormally.
At that time, Dr. Muran didn't take it seriously, he directly dispatched a team of soldiers to clean it up, but unexpectedly, the person who was sent to clean it up came back and told him that the four murlocs were gone.
After investigation, they found that the four murlocs secretly melted a hole in the inner wall of the water tank with acid through the huge nest where one of them was building a nest, and then ran away through the hole.
"The one that built the nest was eaten."
Dr. Muran sighed, "They are really smart."
However, other researchers have suggested that it is also possible that the four mermaids fought because of territorial issues.
Later, the doomsday laboratory thoroughly checked the entire base, and found the remains of the murlocs in a certain sewer. The one that was eaten.
As for the reason for eating, it may be due to territorial seizures, or it may be because they have no choice but to eat their own kind when there is no food source.
But no matter what, all of this shows one thing, there are now two murloc test subjects wandering outside.
"We checked the nearby surveillance cameras. It was a beautiful woman and a man who entered the room."
Dr. Muran pointed to the blood on the ceiling in the bathroom and said,
"The man is here now, but the woman is gone."
He paused, then added:
"Maybe it's not a woman."
According to the evidence along the way, the two escaped murlocs seemed to have undergone a mutation.
In order to build a nest, their genes automatically adjust their body to the state most suitable for nesting—
out of shape.
Among the two murlocs, at least one can change the ugly face into a face that fits human aesthetics, and then use this beauty to lure those who plot against it to eat it in a secluded place.
"There have actually been several cases of missing men like this before."
Dr. Muran sighed,
"It was at that time that no one reported it. They thought it was just an ordinary disappearance case, so they ignored it."
Just this time, for some reason, the murlocs chose to follow their prey to the hotel this time, and made a mess of the place during the eating process, which shocked the cleaners who came in. Only then did they know that the fish traces of people.
"Why did you say it followed that man in?"
Dr. Mu Ran raised this question, "Just like before, wouldn't it be good to just find a secluded place and eat people?"
Wen Yu didn't speak, he just looked at Dr. Muran quietly.
"Oh, by the way, is it possible that the murloc wanted to learn from humans? But it was disappointed to find that the male human in front of it just wanted to mess with it, so it directly attributed this man to food, eating Lost."
Dr. Mu Ran was in high spirits right now, he didn't even wait for Wen Yu to ask, he thought of an explanation himself,
"And then, when it gets angry, it makes a mess of it."
Wen Yu was a little impatient:
"I don't care why it eats people, what do you want me to do?"
Seeing that Wen Yu wasn't curious at all, Dr. Mu Ran sighed, feeling a little bored. He tilted his head and asked another question:
"You bought a mermaid at the auction house, right?"
Hearing this, Wen Yu turned around and left.
"Okay, okay, I won't talk about it."
Seeing that Wen Yu didn't cooperate at all, Dr. Mu Ran had no choice but to give up the temptation, and said bluntly,
"I asked you to come because if you encounter this murloc, ordinary soldiers will definitely not be able to handle it. Only you can handle it."
Wen Yu turned around and asked coldly:
"anything else?"
"Gone."
Dr. Mu Ran shrugged, trying to impress Wen Yu with his sincerity.
"Ah."
Wen Yu sneered, "You want me to be the bait."
Even if Dr. Muran didn't say it, he can guess that according to what Dr. Muran said about the murloc's territoriality, his current body has sea monster genes, which will be the biggest competition for murlocs. By.
In other words, Wen Yu here is a target to tempt the murlocs to come and attack.
It was guessed that Dr. Muran just smiled, and no one could see the meaning of Dr. Muran's smile through a layer of protective clothing.
"I will help you."
Wen Yu said as he walked out, and finally his voice was light and ethereal,
"Just one thing, you guessed wrong, that murloc's target is not just me."
Building a nest consumes a lot of nutrients, so it must complete its nutritional reserves before building a nest. This is like the fact that a brown bear hoards fat crazily before hibernating.
Therefore, whether murlocs eat their own kind or humans, they are all to stockpile nutrients to cope with the massive consumption that will follow.
Perhaps the murlocs would kill each other for the domain, but this is definitely not the main reason.
But now, in order to store nutrients more efficiently, the murloc had to select its prey.
The body fat rate of ordinary humans is too low for murlocs, so they must be picky. For murlocs, the best prey should be creatures with sea monster genes like Wen Yu .
And such people, apart from Wen Yu, are actually everywhere in the living quarters, especially those who survived the disease that once infected the world—
Wen Yu preferred to call these people "injectors".
…
Downtown area.
Earl Weir was standing on the second floor of his casino at this moment. He looked down at the various gamblers on the green table below, and sighed involuntarily:
"If there is a hell, I'm afraid it will be on the innermost level."
Behind Earl Weir, the strong old Tang silently rolled his eyes.
Ever since the white mermaid was forcibly bought by the people in the doomsday laboratory at the last auction, the boss of his family has been sighing like this, saying something he couldn't understand at all.
"Um?"
Earl Weier suddenly shook his cane, and his blue eyes looked at the entrance of the casino.
There stood a woman.
She has a slender figure, wearing only a thin white skirt, her wet long black hair hangs down her back, breathing quietly, standing at the entrance of the noisy casino, she is out of place and looks so fragile.
But this kind of fragility makes this woman have a beauty that is beyond the mundane and clear.
"Where did this come from?"
Old Tang also noticed this woman, and he saw at a glance that this woman was not suitable to appear in the casino at all, so he wanted to ask the security guard next to her to drive her out.
"Wait a moment."
Earl Weier interrupted Old Tang. He stared at the figure of the woman in the white dress. He never thought that this woman appeared so abruptly, because she didn't look like a banshee, but more like a pure angel who strayed into the mortal world.
And the woman's white dress reminded Count Vile of the white mermaid that had been in his hands before.
The white mermaid is completely different from this woman. If I have to say something in common, it may be that the white mermaid and this woman are not like creatures that exist in this doomsday.
More like elves that only appear in legends or fairy tales.
It was raining lightly outside.
Earl Vier stared at the slender woman in a white dress. Her wet hair rested on her fair skin, causing the already pale blue skin to emit a hazy mist.
Such a woman, dressed so revealingly, and she is so fragile, like a delicate white flower, is destined to live in the slums for a short time.
As if sensing that someone was watching her, the woman in the white dress suddenly raised her head and looked straight in the direction of Earl Vere, revealing a pair of light gray eyes, the water was hazy, as if she was crying.
"Let her in and have a cup of coffee."
Earl Vere's heartstrings were inexplicably twitched by her eyes. In a trance, Earl Vere felt that the woman in the white dress was somewhat familiar. Perhaps it was because of the deep sadness in her eyes, as if she was feeling lonely and powerless for herself. fate sighs.
His hands and feet began to ache.
Old Tang was stunned: "Are you showing kindness?"
The Earl Weil he knew would not be so soft-hearted. If it was a normal situation, the Earl Weir in front of him should have started fooling the woman in front of him long ago, and then tricked her into signing a contract of sale.
Earl Weir withdrew his gaze and smiled at Old Tang:
"My pleasure."