On an icy night in mid-December, the destroyer where Munster and Rand were sheltering finally approached the Arctic Circle. Because of the ice on the water, it stopped and waited for an icebreaker sent from the base to lead the way.
The northern sea was unusually cold and quiet at night. Munster and Rand stayed on the deck for a while for the first time, because Rand planned to let Munster see the legendary aurora... However, they were not lucky. , That night, there was nothing else in the sky except the finely falling snowflakes.
The extremely low temperature of minus 34 degrees Celsius made those snow sons rough as gravel, and rustled Rand's frozen face. Even blinking can feel the tingling, and breathing becomes difficult in such temperatures.
Rand cast his gaze into the distance. Large chunks of glaciers floated in the dark, icy water. The snow above the ice layer reflected a faint light, outlining the gray-blue snow folds.
The whole world was so quiet, it was as if they had entered the graveyard of the gods by mistake.
"Look, Snowflake!"
Munster generally placed a grain of snow in front of Munster.
"It's just different from the shape in the book."
It murmured in disappointment, watching the grainy snow melt gradually.
"Well, there are many shapes of snow, and you will see many beautiful snowflakes in the future."
Rand gave it a small smile.
"Ah, on your lashes..."
Munster suddenly touched Rand's head with his front paws, and its face was very close to Rand, as if to see clearly the silver crystals condensed on his eyelashes.
Rand subconsciously raised his head slightly.
Then he felt a gentle touch on his eyelids by Munster, and the monster's tongue gently licked the cold snowflakes in the direction of the eyelashes, and sipped the melted water droplets into his mouth.
…
After a while, the overlapping figures slowly separated.
Munster tilted his head slightly and gave Rand a satisfied smile.
"so beautiful… "
it says.
"... Time to leave, Simon is still waiting for us."
Rand let out a silent sigh, then turned around first.
Simon was fiddling with a vial in his hand when they arrived in the room.
Seeing Rand and Munster gently sneaking into the room, he did not lift his head, pointed to the narrow bedside and motioned Rand to sit down.
Without further ado, Simon went straight to the subject.
"That base was converted from a -2 floating island, and it couldn't accommodate ships of such a large tonnage as a destroyer, so the destroyer would only stay on its periphery, and then after arriving at a fixed position, except for the necessary crew to drive the ship , the other members of this ship will enter the floating island base in a small boat. What you need to do is to follow the back of the boat and dive into that ghost place-"
He waved the injection in his hand, and then continued: "I'll inject you with Type I afp, which is antifreeze glycoprotein... Let's talk about it first, this is simply isolated from the plasma of your little pet. I can't vouch for its effectiveness, it could theoretically save you from freezing to death in arctic waters, but I wouldn't recommend staying in the water for long periods of time."
"I know."
Rand said in a low voice.
In fact, he knew Simon's concerns. In the whole plan, he was probably the weakest link. Munster could easily sneak into the secret base to rescue Vincent, and Simon could enter there as an official and carry out follow-up plans. If it weren't for the concern that Vincent was unconscious and only Rand could communicate with him, Rand felt that Simon would even advise himself not to participate in the operation.
"I will protect Rand."
Munster reached out and took Rand's cold fingertips.
Simon shrugged, then grabbed the plan of the secret floating island from the drawer and spread it out on the bed.
"Okay, let me briefly repeat the plan of action this time."
…
Simon's plan can only be described as simple and crude. Like all Hollywood movies, he plans to blow up the so-called enemy's evil lair directly.
As the only surviving Deep White former researcher, the Pentagon consulted with him for a lot of key information and advice as it transformed the -2 Floating Island Laboratory into a new secret Siren research base.
Considering the danger of the Siren experimental body, Simon very "sincerely" provided them with a worst-case emergency measure.
- In the event that the Siren test body completely destroys the confinement room and escapes, and the weapon system fails, the master controller of the base can give a "self-destruction order".
In order to prevent the experimental subjects from escaping into the Arctic Ocean and causing future troubles, the entire floating island laboratory will completely seal its own structure at the moment when the above three conditions are met, and self-explode to eliminate the possible traces of this large-scale illegal biological weapon test.
"The mission of you and Munster is to sneak into the floating island base and destroy the prison cell where Vincent is imprisoned... I need the special code that destroys the prison cell, and then I will overwrite this code in all other Siren experimental body cells. In the electronic system, let the electronic master mistakenly judge that all the imprisoned chambers were destroyed, and the Siren experiment body fled."
"I see… "
"But your mission is very serious. After I rescue Vincent, I still need you to enter the control room. You will need to hold the person in charge of this base hostage, because if I guess correctly, press the "self-destruct command" button. The biological code of the person in charge will definitely be needed. This will not be an easy task, because once the electronic master decides that a siren subject has escaped, all the researchers will be evacuated at the first time, and you have to evacuate before the person in charge. Find him... In short, no matter what, find a way to get him to press that button! Next, I will remotely use a special worm program to cut off the electronic circuit between the main control room and the weapon system, and make the entire weapon system fail. In this way, three All conditions are met, and the damned base will itself shatter into pieces. As for you, I'm opening a backdoor in the self-destruct procedure..."
Simon tapped a drain on the drawing and said.
"After the base is completely closed, only this place will be open. You and Munster and Vincent have sixty seconds to escape from here. Let me emphasize that you must swim as fast as possible! Ryan and I will be waiting for you in the dinghy nearby. I have contacted my friends in Switzerland...they can offer us political asylum..."
The young genius put a watch with navigation on Rand's wrist and injected the Type I AFP into Rand's blood vessels.
The atmosphere in the room became unusually dull and stagnant in Simon's low and calm voice.
Like the air before a storm, this little air is filled with a tension that cannot be described in words.
However, this may be inevitable.
Because whether it is Rand or Simon, they all know what they are about to do, which is an unprecedented massacre.
But, this massacre is necessary.
The tragic creatures that were created privately by human beings to satisfy their own slaughter desires without the hand of God were not supposed to, nor could they continue to exist in this world. A deep sadness rose from Rand's heart. Munster stared at his face from the side, and suddenly leaned in and kissed him on the cheek.
"Don't worry, Rand, I swim fast..."
It said softly, comforting Rand in its own way.
Simon quickly looked away, feeling that he would never be able to get used to a human being with a siren in such an intimate way. He imagined for a moment that Ryan had grown a fish tail, and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up in an instant.
Rand is a human, and Munster is a monster named Siren. Even though Munster has grown an unparalleled human male face, its body structure is a stark display of the essential difference between the two.
However, there is something overwhelmingly strong between the human Rand and the siren Munster that binds the two together.
Love, responsibility, and so many other complexities all mingled together to keep these two creatures apart. Simon could vaguely sense some of the emotions between the two of them, and after a brief period of discomfort, he finally decided to respect their choice.
In order to lighten the atmosphere a little, he smiled at Rand, then said, "... Next we might be a thorn in the side of the U.S. government, and I think we might end up in exile in Russia, God, you know in I never thought before this that one day I would get the same treatment as my idol."
"Idol?" Rand Qiang asked with energy.
"Well, my idol is Snowden."
Simon smiled and waved the phone in his hand at Rand - there was the worm program they would use today.
"Rand, take it easy... At least we have uncovered the government's dark conspiracy, ha, ha ha..."
His voice got lower and lower, ending with a dry laugh or two.
The room fell silent again.
Rand's expression was a little dazed, and his eyes crossed Simon, as if through the cramped and narrow cabin to a far, far place.
"I just don't understand." After a while, he said in a low voice, "What?"
"I don't understand why they do this... On this ship alone, there are more than 90 normal humans who have to undergo the so-called 'evolutionary infection', how many people will be on other ships? I am in deep white. I have seen so many Siren experimental subjects in the past, they are so painful - because human beings have tortured them both physically and mentally in order to control them. Obviously, anyone who has been in contact with this experiment should know that sirens A creature completely beyond human control... I thought a deep white explosion would stop everything, but in the end, I found out that humans were going to create more siren subjects. I don't understand, why they do this... Why Wen At the very beginning, Sen had to lead such a terrifying experiment, and he had already created so many tragedies..."
"Who knows?"
Simon looked at Rand, whose face was pale, and there was a deeply hidden vulnerability and despair in his expression.
"What I knew when I first got involved with this program was that Project Siren was an environmentally friendly weapons modification program to make clean, pollution-free bioweapons — low cost, perfectly degradable, no radiation , don't worry about the disgusting international combat readiness competition caused by the reserves... It sounds like a product of paradise. This is the purpose of the Siren project in the first place." He said in a steady tone without a trace of waves.
"… "
Rand opened his mouth slightly. He looked like he wanted to say something, but in the end, nothing was said.
At this time, there was a clear and loud sound of the ice breaking apart from a distance.
The icebreaker has arrived.