There is a floor-to-ceiling window in Vincent's office that occupies the entire wall. When Rand entered the room, he could just see the dark sky outside the window, and the stream of light coming slowly from the ground like a luminous snake in the distance. The convoy of the National Guard came galloping after receiving the alarm... Of course, this special scenery did not leave much time for Rand to appreciate. From the floor and outside of the building, there was a "quack" sound when the sliding shaft was running. , like the curtain call of the show, black shadows fall from the window from top to bottom. It didn't take Rand long to remember that this was one of Deep White's emergency measures. After an internal attack, a steel curtain would fall on its outer walls, sealing the entire building completely to prevent the test objects from escaping.
And as the black iron curtain fell, the office that once belonged to Vincent fell into darkness again.
After Rand's body temperature, the two people in the office, Anderson and Caroline, didn't speak. They stood there like puppets, only their breathing became heavy in the darkness. .
Rand stared blankly at their positions - Caroline was sitting in a wheelchair with her neck cocked, and Anderson was curled up in the corner with her hands raised - holding an M1911 in Caroline's hand, the muzzle of which was straight. Aiming straight at Anderson, Caroline's muzzle didn't move in the slightest even after seeing Rand appear.
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The air was suffocating.
Rand sighed silently, he walked slowly to an inconspicuous corner of the wall, and Mount Shit stood beside him like a knight, the scales rubbing against the carpet making a rustling sound.
Rand touched a small mermaid sculpture on the bookshelf by the wall, and he quickly felt the bump on the merman's tail and pressed it.
"Crack-"
The spotlight on the ceiling made a light sound, and then the cool light enveloped the whole room again—the independent power supply system at the bottom of Vincent's office restarted the power supply, but it was clear that the power outage did not take long, and the three people present felt that it was a sudden occurrence. Some of the lights are even too bright.
Caroline squinted her eyes reflexively under the stimulation of the light, and Anderson, who had been staring at her, suddenly found an opportunity at this time. He jumped up, and his huge and fat body almost knocked over the desk...
"help me-"
He screamed at Rand, but didn't finish.
Caroline pulled the trigger directly, and after a deafening gunshot, Anderson slammed onto the other side of the desk.
He was shot in the leg, but it didn't hurt the vital point. He hid his body behind the desk with a dexterity that was completely inconsistent with his fat appearance. Caroline was fired.
"You son of a bitch—damn bitch—"
He snarled as he clutched his legs, his face gleaming greasy in the light with cold sweat and painful tears.
At the moment of the gunshot, Rand's pupils rapidly dilated into a perfectly round state (his eyes are now a pure red like a pigeon's blood gem, and the pupils are spun cone-shaped like those of felines, and can be change shape with light and mood).
Munster almost attacked Caroline directly because of the gunshot. Of course, at the last minute, Rand grabbed the tentacles that were waving randomly on it and pulled it back.
"It's all right, Munster."
He says.
Of course, Munster was still quite vigilant. It forcibly blocked Rand in front of him, revealing his open caudal fin toward Caroline—the color of the caudal fin turned scarlet and had a black ring. Eye-shaped markings.
Those tentacles were aimed at her, and with a small movement, they would not hesitate to spray corrosive liquid towards Caroline, then grab her neck and connect her head to her spine. Pulled out of the body.
And Caroline didn't seem to care about everything in front of her. She was not moved by Munster's warning or Anderson's abuse.
After making sure she couldn't hit Anderson again at this angle, she turned her wheelchair slowly around and met Rand.
"Sorry," she said hoarsely, "I thought we could talk without interruption."
"Caroline you-"
Anderson growled, and Caroline shot another casually in the direction of the desk.
She raised her eyes to meet Rand's gaze, opened the corners of her mouth, and revealed a smile that looked like a horror movie to outsiders.
"I know the situation at hand is a little complicated...but I want to talk to you anyway, Rand."
After a moment of silence, Rand shook his head unexpectedly from Caroline.
"I don't want to talk, Caroline... I don't care about that, I just want to know, what happened to Vincent?"
After the voice fell, a roar suddenly came from their ears, and the floor trembled. Judging from the fluctuation, it was the shock wave generated by the explosion.
Maybe the National Guard is attacking the test subjects inside the building, or maybe it's the fire in the observation room - Rand didn't deliberately slow down the fire there, and the fire always spreads easily if the fire suppression system fails. .
Caroline glanced at the ceiling, the previously steady light began to flicker after the impact.
This made her disfigured face even more terrifying and hideous, and after hearing Vincent's name, tears welled up in her eyes.
"He was eroded by siren cells and turned into a monster, you know the kind, monster. Vincent was going through so much pain and despair while you were enjoying your life in Kansas, I I'm also enduring that kind of pain and despair... I've tried many ways, many ways, trying to save him, trying to find a way to treat him..."
When Caroline said "treatment", the eyes that fell on Rand became more and more scorching and crazy, and she continued to say, "... But, when I am about to succeed, guess what? Look, what did that pig sitting behind the desk do? He betrayed your brother, my Vincent, to the government! He gave Vincent to them with his own hands, as if Vincent was a living creature, a piece of Same thing!"
She sniffed, then turned her head and looked in Anderson's direction, her voice hoarse as a crow due to choking: "You said, should I give him another shot—"
"You lying bitch!" Anderson roared hideously behind the desk, and when he saw Rand and Munster behind him, the sweat on his face became more and more, because of the panic and Tension, his muscles twitched involuntarily, and the hatred for Caroline filled him with anger at the same time.
He was sorting through the important papers he had left in the office when this predictable destruction of the entire Deep White Palace happened - messing up the biochemical tests and the Department of Defense list, and Anderson didn't think he might get out of the storm afterwards. . In just a short period of time as CEO, he knew how bold Shen Bai was before. Some of them had been approved by the state to conduct those biochemical experiments behind the government's back, but more of them could be described as anti-human. At the same time, there are a large number of accidents and experimental loopholes, plus illegal armed...
Anderson has few other options. He can only try to escape from the United States first and spend some time in places like Uruguay or Mauritius. Fortunately, he has accumulated some money in Shenbai, and some important documents can also become his bargaining chips. However, Anderson's plan ultimately failed to materialize, because the moment he opened the office door, Caroline appeared.
Oh yes, Caroline hates him. Anderson knew this. He had promised to give Caroline all of Vincent's options before, but in order to protect himself, he had completely passed her and directly let the military take over the terrifying monster that was useless.
Caroline appeared calm at the time, but Anderson didn't know that her hatred and resentment had been buried deep in her heart, just waiting for an opportunity to explode - obviously, this riot was an opportunity.
It was only a matter of time before Anderson was about to die under Caroline's gun, but after the crucial moment, Rand appeared.
Anderson knew better than anyone that in this office, Rand was the only one who could save him from that madman Caroline.
"...You have no idea what this stinky bitch in front of you did to your brother! Vincent still had a little bit of self-awareness at that time, and he could still recognize your voice, the voice you left in the phone mailbox... If Lorraine can bring you to the company and cooperate with some treatment, Vincent might be sober, but she completely rejected the experimenter's proposal! You know? She shocked your brother and tortured it like a dog. Your brother, mistreating him just because he remembers you..."
"Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Anderson! You don't know anything! You don't know anything! I do that because I love him! I love Vincent! I'm protecting him from this bitch..." Caroline pointed at Rand, "This bastard hurts! His existence will only hurt Vincent!"
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"So, you... do you treat Vincent like that?"
Rand lowered his head, his body trembling slightly.
If you pay attention, you will see that his hair is gradually growing.
Under the fury, the scales covering his body began to turn red. His mouth was full of the taste of blood, his sharp teeth pierced his gums, and the blood that flowed out from red at first... gradually turned into a dark purple with a blue tinge.
While Caroline was still chattering, Rand grabbed her by the neck.
Painful tears flowed from his eyes, and he looked at Caroline tremblingly.
"How could you treat Vincent like this? Electric shock? Torture? My brother... Vincent..."
Under extreme anger, Rand's voice gradually began to sharpen.
"I... love... I love him... I just want... to prove... I love him more... than you..."
Caroline's feet kicked weakly on the carpet, her voice barely coming out of her squeezed vocal cords.
Rand never, never imagined that one day, like he is now, he would grab Caroline by the neck and want to kill her.
Yes, he wanted to kill her.
He wanted to kill her more than anyone, any time.
In the mutual attack between Anderson and Caolin, what happened to Vinson during his absence was revealed bit by bit in Rand's eyes. And just thinking about that made Rand feel as if countless red-hot irons were stabbing his heart.
The malice towards Caroline was overflowing to a level that he couldn't control, and Rand watched indifferently as his fingernails stabbed into Caroline's throat bit by bit.
The rust-smelling blood gushed out from the wound... Caroline finally couldn't hold back her desire to survive. She began to roll her eyes, gasping for a quick guttural sound in her throat, and covered her neck helplessly with her hands. Rand's fingers tried to grab a little air.
However, in the face of this tragic scene, Rand found that his only thought was...
This woman's blood was actually red and warm.
Rand was only puzzled... Only a woman with rotten, dark, pitch-like venom flowing in her veins could treat Vincent like that, right
In extreme anger, Rand's fingers were tightening unconsciously.
tighten.
Tighten again.
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Then he suddenly threw Caroline's body into the corner.
The woman's body slammed into the wall, and after a muffled sound, the garbage bag fell to the ground.