Rand slipped through the gap.
The room that used to be the control room has been transformed, with a thick crust of slime on the walls and floor, the air stinks, and appliances such as test benches that were previously bolted to the walls and floor are gone. Corroded by slime into oddly shaped iron blocks.
On the floor was a mixture of cloudy repair fluid, mucus, and blood.
It can be clearly seen that there are broken glass slag on the surface of the mixed liquid reflecting the faint cold light, and the pieces of human flesh and bones that are randomly piled next to the glass slag are all human beings who have worked here can stay. The wreckage that came down is here.
Vincent... Rand's always graceful and gloomy brother in Rand's impression is like a dragon with his tail crossed, entrenched above these disgusting corpses. His body grew very large and swelled abnormally. His bare skin was like the belly of a dead fish, glowing with a foul white light. The capillaries were cracked, forming a festering purple-brown under the skin. of huge blood clots. Vincent's face was slanted, and his red pupils almost occupied half of his face, which made him look particularly terrifying - Rand almost cried out when he saw him.
"Oh no - Vincent!"
He staggered two steps in the direction of Vincent in the muddy slime.
But his voice, in a sense, made Vincent feel a tingle very clearly. It wriggled its massive, sick body, curled up like a baby, and buried its face in its belly.
"Rand... don't look at me... don't look at me... "
He kept repeating it, like a broken machine...or something more pathetic.
"Vincent..."
Just seeing Vincent like this, Rand's heart felt the pain as if it was torn apart by something.
Vincent... corpse... stump...
Rand's lips trembled, and the wound on his calf was in unprecedented pain.
Although his mind was still clear, Rand felt as if he had fallen into a nightmare, unable to understand why everything turned out like this.
"Vincent, don't do this, I'm here to help you..."
He said, with a wet cry in his voice.
He took a step forward with difficulty, but this move deeply stimulated Vincent, who was already flustered to the extreme.
In that instant, it bounced, mouthparts shot out of its mouth, teeth gleaming at the tips.
"hiss-"
After thinking about the sound of his flesh being torn apart, Rand was knocked to the ground by an impact.
And Munster was just ahead of him just now, his tail flapping wildly on the ground.
All of its long hair stood up, which made it look as if its volume had expanded many times over.
"Rand... you... you're not Rand..."
Vincent covered his face with his hands, crying and wailing.
"My brother... my brother is still young... how could you be Rand..."
He stared vacantly across Munster, and across Rand, very far away.
Vincent's memory was chaotic, and he was too unwilling to face Rand, so he simply denied Rand's existence at the conscious level.
In the depths of his heart, the younger brother he has always longed for... is the innocent and ignorant Rand who has never experienced kidnapping.
Instead of the current black-haired man who looked at it stubbornly, with its sad and terrifying appearance reflected in his pupils.
In the face of the increasingly tense demonstrations in Munster, Vincent's mental madness and the unique ferocity of being a beast are intertwined, making it seem so sad... and so dangerous.
Munster was so nervous that it put on an attacking state.
"Rand! It's too dangerous!"
It hissed, reminding.
Rand swallowed a mouthful of sweet saliva and shook his head weakly at Munster. His expression changed, and it seemed that if a feather fell on him, his whole body would be broken into pieces like broken porcelain.
The great sadness that permeated him made Munster's heart aches.
"I know… "
Rand muttered.
"—Rand? Rand Sievers! Can you hear me?"
At this moment, a vague voice with the whirring sound of the wind blowing through the microphone suddenly appeared in the communicator.
…
The top of the SIREN floating island.
The sky was iron-grey, and the wind and blizzard formed white whips that whipped everyone exposed to the air. Survivor - Simon called the base there were people of human sanity, crowded together like a frozen colony of penguins.
They can actually hide inside the base, the corridor from the inside to the outside is still open, but no one wants to go in.
Not long ago, after the Siren infected bodies escaped, the mechanical guards also fell into trouble as if they were disturbed by something. Following a rare opportunity, Simon led the people who were conducting the experiment at the time, as well as the soldiers to escape the base and came to the deck much earlier than the scheduled time.
At this time, Simon was wrapped in a cold suit. He hid in a corner of the deck and looked back with a calm look.
Dr. Sean and the uninfected soldiers were gathered there, someone formed a windbreak, and another soldier was fiddling with a wireless receiver—Simon had no idea where they dug up that damn old thing.
But its presence seemed to add an even more pessimistic twist to their shaky plans.
Remnants of the base are trying to get in touch with U.S. Arctic military bases.
"...Once the military takes over here, the previous test results and experimental animals will likely be recovered, and this damn siren project will continue somewhere." Simon's face turned blue at the communicator. Head Rand said, his body trembling, but probably not from the cold, "Sorry, Rand, I have to detonate the lab ahead of time—before the military arrives! I'll start in ten minutes. Countdown... Rand, get out, get out quick..."
His fingers rubbed his mobile phone in his pocket, and on it, a line of warnings in black on a yellow background was beating.
[warn! Are you sure to turn on the self-destruct mode!]
[warn! Are you sure to turn on the self-destruct mode!]
…
Ten minutes later, along with the increasingly cold wind, someone cheered—
They've got a response from the Arctic military base!
"Simon!"
Dr. Sean limped over and hugged his shoulders.
"We succeeded! We can be saved!"
Simon opened his eyes suddenly, and it took a long time for him to make a weak voice. From the point of view of Dr. Sean, through the goggles, the too young genius's face flashed the sadness that was not in line with the situation.
"...that's great!"
Simon's lips twitched, and at the same time, he moved his fingers slightly inside the pocket and pressed the [Confirm] button.
"Attention everyone - attention everyone - base is now out of control at level VI - self-clearing mode is now on, repeat, self-clearing mode is now on. Fifteen minutes before the first explosion, please All survivors abandon ship…”
A cold, emotionless mechanical and electronic female voice suddenly echoed over the entire base.
"How is this going?!"
Sean's face changed greatly, and he jumped up in horror.
Before he could react, Simon grabbed him and dragged him to the commotion.
"…Maybe it's a mastermind malfunction! Now everyone is on the plane! Get out of here! Come on!"
In Dr. Sean's ear, Simon's voice sounded a little strange.
It's just that in this extremely tense situation, it is impossible for him to make any unnecessary doubts about the situation...
“… The self-destruction program has been started, the countdown begins… 900—899—898...”
The same electronic sound reverberated not only in the ears of Sean and Simon, but also in the ears of Rand and Munster.
Rand raised his head and glanced at the ceiling—at the moment the voice sounded, the light dimmed and turned a frightening blood-red color.
Under such a light, the rancid rust smell of Vincent's body poured into Rand's body like a real liquid.
He was teetering, only relying on Munster to stabilize his body—
Vincent's blood-red eyes stared straight at him, his vision chaotic like a blind man. They confronted each other in the mechanical countdown, the sticky stench and each other's heavier and heavier breaths.
"Rand..."
Vincent's mouth crooked.
It lunged towards him.
Munster's tail slapped heavily on the ground, and it flew towards Vincent from the side, but in front of Vincent's unnaturally inflated body, it seemed a little small - it failed to deal with itself like it used to. The enemy knocked it away like that. There was a dull tearing sound from Vincent's body, and Munster's body fell back to the wet ground with a large piece of flesh in his mouth.
Black and red blood and pus spewed out of the gap, and Rand was pressed under Vincent's body.
"Vincent-"
Rand shouted, but Vincent, who had been completely confused, didn't even pause because of the pain. It opened its mouth and bit Rand.
Rand put his hands in front of his face, and he let out a short shriek in excruciating pain.
Vincent's teeth sank deep into Rand's arm, and fresh, human blood flowed to the tip of his tongue.
Vincent felt that someone was burning a bonfire inside his brain, and the intense pain and heat stirred his brain.
It can't judge what's going on around it, there's no pain.
If there is still a shred of sanity left in it,
That is…
[To... get normal... to go back to... Rand...] "... I want to... hiss... protect... Rand..."
Vincent bit Rand's arm and said vaguely.
Its eye sockets were bleeding.
Because Munster is frantically biting its body. Rand felt some heavy chunks of meat fall out of the bag-like skin and land on him. Vincent suddenly flicked his tail, it didn't feel pain, so when facing the small Munster, it could be said to have almost all the advantages.
Munster was struck out, then bounced back.
It tried to retake Rand from Vincent's mouth, but at this time, Vincent would look furious. It started screaming, wrapping Munster with its tail, pounding and swishing violently on the ground.
Munster fixed his body to Vincent's tail with his mouth and claws, tearing and chewing frantically on and inside the whitish, dead skin. It tried its best to carve a long incision in Vincent's abdominal cavity - but in the unique life of a siren, Vincent still maintained a life like a dying struggle even in the face of this terrible injury.
"Do not-"
Rand roared heartily.
Blood spurted on his face and body, and his arms were so sore they seemed to be on fire.
He then fired at Vincent - at the same time Munster bit Vincent's spine.
The strange thing is, from start to finish... This terrifying, arguably the world's most powerful siren experiment (even if it fails), didn't really hurt Rand.
At least, in the bite force that can easily bite the steel plate, Rand's arm was bloody, but it was not directly bitten.
Or, in the depths of its quagmire heart, there is still a little... a little calm.
Rand felt Vincent's last struggle, writhing violently, his jaw slowly slackening.
Finally, Rand pulled one of his hands out of Vincent's mouth.
Vincent's head "bang" and fell to the ground.
Its eyes are still looking at Rand... The cornea is wet.
The wildness and tyranny of the beast still remained in its eyes, but gradually, that expression disappeared... It was replaced by a kind of sobriety.
Like someone who woke up from a nightmare, Vincent gave Rand a deep look.
His lips pursed, shouting syllables in low volume.
"It's you... Rand... God... it's you... I'm sorry, Rand, I'm sorry..."
Tears welled up in Rand's eyes.
He leaned down and hugged Vincent.
"…I screwed everything up, Rand."
He heard Vincent's voice.
"Vincent, no-Vincent!"
What is to come, no longer needs to be described in words.
Rand knew what was coming, but he swore… he would never accept it.
He casually touched Vincent's face with his hands, forcing Vincent to look at him.
"Look—Vincent, I don't need to be sorry... do you think I'll let you die like this? Impossible! I won't let you do this!"
"That's what you're supposed to do, Rand... I've become a... monster... kill me, Rand, kill—"
Rand turned his head and could see Munster gradually approaching him.
The little monster was seriously injured, but not life-threatening. Its tail fin is missing a very large piece, and it can be expected that it will be sad for a long, long time in the future.
It can be seen that it hates Vincent very much, but after seeing Rand's current condition, it still rushes over and wraps its tail around Rand in front of Vincent.
Vincent's eyes changed from lax to sharp after seeing it.
"No... Rand... it's a monster..."
Randra ran through Munster's hair and planted a kiss on the gasping monster's mouth.
"Vincent, if you die, I'll live with it, I'll marry it, have sex, and have a dozen puppies—I don't care if it's a monster! Just like I don't care if you're a monster Same!"
Then-
Rand tucked Vincent's head... and a portion of his stump... under his arm, and stood up.
He left his other shoulder to Munster, and supported the little monster to quickly walk towards the door.
The mechanical female voice is still counting down.
"298... 298... 297... "
In less than five minutes, if it was before this incident, Rand might have been terrified and panicked.
But at this moment, his heart was very calm.
It would have been better if Vinson under his arm would have been less chatty asking Rand to send him in.
"You're going to die... Rand!"
Rand didn't know why he almost laughed - he just suddenly thought it was a little funny to have Vincent in this way...
If Vincent returns to normal (he can't control himself not to think so), thinking back to today's scene, he may feel very humiliated... No, he will definitely feel very humiliated.
Rand knows that his current state is very abnormal. The sharp blade of death has been aimed at the top of his head. He can almost smell the cold and dark breath of the god of death, but after feeling the breath of Vincent and Munster. , Rand is smiling.
"I am with you when I die."
Rand lowered his head and said to Vincent, whose face was gradually turning gray.
"I will always be with you."
He grumbled, dragging the two he loved and running hard down the hallway.
His chances of being rescued were slim, and Rand knew that.
In fact, at the bottom of his mind, there is someone who is still saying to him: Give it up, Rand! You can't do it!
This is the ghost of Rand Sievers from long ago.
All along, he has always lived his life passively... He closed himself in the face of Rogers' killing, fell into madness in the face of the fact that he turned into a monster... After seeing the deep white infected body, destroy them …because it is impossible to believe that they can control their desires and overcome the pain inside their bodies…
In fact, he never mustered up the courage to face any problems.
He never believed in himself.
In the face of fate, he always obeyed and never struggled.
…
Only this time, God, only this time, Rand decided to make a different decision.
He prayed for luck, salvation, and miracles.
The world is always running coldly, killing and doom are staged in sequence according to the script, but occasionally, there is a slight possibility that God will be willing to put a blessing bag on the road full of thorns.
It will make the world a little more lovely.
That lovely world propped Rand through the long corridor, and by the time he reached the abandoned elevator shaft, the mechanical girl had already counted to double digits.
They had less than two minutes to reach the platform. The elevator shaft was the only hope, and in an emergency, the elevator would take them to the top platform in twenty seconds. Rand pressed his badge hard on the elevator's electronic sensor, but there was no response there.
"No... God... don't do this to me..."
Rand's body was completely out of strength, and he slammed to the ground.
Already, is it too late
…
"Den-"
At this moment, a sound of metal cables rubbing rang from behind the elevator door.
Rand looked up suddenly, just in time to see an axe squeezed out of the door—
"Hey, Rand!"
Simon used an axe to pry open a man-wide slit between the metal doors, his face was covered in sweat from the strenuous exercise, and the gasping sound made him look like he was almost unable to speak.
"Not much time, come in!"
He shouted at Rand, pulling him and Munster into the elevator.
Of course, after seeing the remains of Vincent that Rand was holding tightly, he seemed to want to faint even more.
"Get ready... this damn elevator sucks..."
Simon only had time to say this to Rand, and then he pulled out the axe stuck in the door and slammed the emergency brake button on the side of the elevator. Inside the dark elevator shaft, a cable suddenly snapped—
The inside of the metal elevator car shook violently.
It suddenly rushes up in the unbalance, only relying on the physical anti-falling device inside the elevator shaft for buffering, the strong sense of gravity almost presses everyone in the elevator into a cake shape on the floor.
In the last ten seconds, the elevator car hit the metal grid on the first floor - this was originally a maintenance ladder for the mechanic to check the elevator shaft and electric circuit, and under Simon's setting, they were counterintuitively 180 degrees flat. The ground was blocked inside the elevator shaft, and people began to slow down for the runaway elevator.
Second floor-
the third floor-
"boom-"
With a loud bang, Rand was thrown into the air.
Munster's long hair suddenly opened, wrapping him tightly...
Time seemed to suddenly slow down at this moment, and Rand could see Munster's eyes, its focused, unreserved attachment pouring into his mind at this moment.
In that brief moment, Rand felt the scythe dropped by the god of death.
"Boom—"
The upper part of the elevator car is deformed.
Rand hit it hard on that, but he wasn't seriously injured under Munster's package.
Simon touched the blood on his face (his face was scratched with a long cut by the raised metal) and pulled Rand up.
"Do you still have the strength?"
he said hoarsely.
"Kick it away—"
He was referring to a deformed part inside the elevator—it looked like it used to be the elevator door.
Rand nodded with a smile.
He raised his leg, and Munster had swept his tail there before that.
The shattered and deformed metal plates slid long distances on the frozen platform, and finally crashed along the edge of the platform into the pitch-black water.
The icy wind and snowflakes suddenly rushed towards Rand, who was out of his reach. He opened his eyes slightly and looked at the platform outside the base that appeared in front of him, almost feeling unreal.
In the other direction of the platform, a helicopter was hovering low.
"Walk!"
Without any instructions, Rand and Simon were already running towards the helicopter together.
"20... 19... 18... "
The main brain of the base is still in the cold countdown.
Time passed by second by second.
Rand heard the violent roar of the plane's engines and felt the gust of wind from the plane's blades.
The moment he jumped onto the oil-stained deck, Rand nearly slipped out of the sloping airfield with a weak leg.
A hand gripped him firmly.
Rand looked up and saw Munster's blood-stained face.
"do not leave Me… "
it whispered.
The plane was already in the air, and Rand was pulled into the cabin by Munster and Simon.
He was gasping for breath, feeling the dull pain caused by the frantic beating of his heart against his chest.
In his arms, Vincent's eyelashes fluttered slightly for a moment.
"3"
Inside the dark interior of the Siren Floating Island Base, the Siren subjects continued to dangle in a daze.
"2"
Inside the research area, some materials fell into the stagnant water, and the paper was soaked.
"1"
"Boom—"
A violent explosion sounded behind the plane, and the plane was hit by the blast of the blast, causing a turbulence.
"Lane?!"
Simon covered his face with gauze and shouted in panic.
"Don't worry, it's just some airflow."
A certain CIA... No, it should be said, the former CIA secret agent turned his face and pointed his finger at Simon.
Just as he said, the plane soon stabilized and flew silently over the rough and icy sea.
On the other side of the sea, the crunching sound of the dismembered floating islands can still be heard faintly, and it won't be long... they will sleep deep beneath the surface of the sea with those mournful beings.
Rand let out a deep breath and stared blankly around him.
Munster held him in his arms with his tail crossed, Vincent closed his eyes tightly - the skin was still soft and warm, Simon was dealing with his wounds, Ryan was concentrating on flying the plane - for a while, no one spoke.
Rand felt his body begin to soften like a melting candle.
Because he was so happy that everything was so unreal, he couldn't help pinching Munster's fingers, and found that the webs between his fingers had disappeared at some point, and his hand looked like a normal one. A man's hand with thick knuckles and slender fingers.
Immediately aware of Rand's small movements, Munster firmly held Rand's hand back.
"It's over. Rand, we survived."
It whispered in Rand's ear.
Rand repeated blankly.
"Yeah, survived..."
Rand has never felt so happy and at peace.
"Surviving doesn't mean it's over," Simon raised his eyes and glanced at the unsightly couple, wondering if they noticed Vincent's frowning, "We still have a hard journey, God, for you... now we're all fugitives."
He groaned while holding his forehead.
Rand couldn't help but smile.
"Oh, as a fugitive, I'm quite experienced..."
…
A white polar bear looked up at the edge of a rubble and icy ice sheet, and saw a small dark shadow in the sky swept across the sea.
And in front of them, there are aurora radiating bright light.
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#laterevent# The box of teeth in Munster was confiscated by the government after the Deep White Incident (including all the furniture in Rand's apartment was shipped to the secret base for analysis and sampling), but three years later by Munster and Rand Deco stole it, and then the box of teeth was polished into decorations and put into a picture frame and hung on the wall. Two days later, Vincent pretended to be nonchalant and took it off and stuffed it under the sofa. The original place where the paintings were hung was the artworks collected by Vincent.
#laterevent# Vincent Sivers still maintains a considerable share of property, and as someone dealing with the government he has many backers (though Caroline's betrayal left him with no time to use them), and he later gave himself and Rand has obtained secure fake IDs, Munster's new identity is "mentally handicapped youth adopted in Ukraine for humanitarian aid", its guardian is Rand, and his name has been updated to Munster West. Firth.
#laterevent# Considering that Munster is both in terms of mental age and physical age... Underage, Rand has had doubts and guilt about the relationship between the two for a long time, he Psychological counseling was conducted for this purpose. But when Vincent proposed to let the two break up, he still followed his inner thoughts and refused. He and Munster made a pact to have sex until the latter "came of age"...but it didn't work out.
#laterevent# Vincent and Rand and Munster lived on the boat for a period of time. Every night Vinson listens carefully to what's going on next door to avoid "overintimacy" between Munster and Rand... What he doesn't know is that sometimes Rand and Munster dive into the sea to play and kiss after he enters the cabin .
#laterevent# Munster once seriously worried about Rand's pregnancy... After learning that Rand was absolutely impossible to get pregnant, there was a long period of low ebb. Vincent showed a rare cheerfulness during that time.
#laterevent# Vincent seems to be the most stern and paranoid person, but only he knows that deep down in his heart he is always the one who "stays where he is" - for example, after the kidnapping incident, his mother ended with killing Pain, and Rand has forgotten everything, and only Vincent has been staying in the memory of the past trying to reproduce the once family warmth.
#laterevent# Does Vincent have feelings for Rand beyond brotherhood? The answer is yes, but I'm afraid he doesn't even realize it. If Rand is married to an ordinary woman, he will accept everything (although he will be desperately critical of Rand's lover), and if Rand will take the initiative to ask Vincent for love, Vincent will not have any resistance or hesitation to Rand Pour everything, including emotions, including life. He hated Munster very much.
#laterevent# Vincent was the one who lived the longest among all of them... Until the end, he firmly expressed his disgust for Munster. But he knew in his own heart that he had regarded Munster as part of the family. The special family composed of Munster, Rand and Vincent rescued many sirens in the later years, and there were also young members who joined them, but the people who could be included in Vincent's "family" were always only Rand and Vincent. Munster#later thing# Rand once sought the help of emotional counseling because of the unusually tense relationship between Vincent and Munster... But it didn't work much, and finally he decided to let nature take its course and learn without a teacher He has learned to fool around between the two... He once drank a night on the island of Hawaii with a crew member who was troubled by the relationship between his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and both felt that they could understand each other's pain very well.
#laterevent# Because of the ease of life, both Rand and Munster grew belly after getting old... This caused some disturbance to their swimming speed later. Vincent was in great shape from start to finish.
#laterevent#Simon and Ryan later got married... They artificially inseminated a boy and a girl. One of them, Laisha, had a deep bond with a rescued wild siren when she was a guest at Rand's house. emotion. Laisha and the siren later became the first legally recognized interspecies couple on Earth. Although it took them nearly fifty years to fight for their legal rights.
#laterevent# Until a long time later, when Rand said "I love you" to Munster, both of them still couldn't help blushing, and then couldn't help staring at each other and smiling.
#laterevent# In general, Munster Sivers never had too many hardships and sorrows in his life. After experiencing the floating island incident, his life has been smooth, stable and happy, and he deeply loved him until the last moment of his life. With Rand, and also loved by Rand. Its last words before its death were "Will I become a bubble?" and Rand said "No. You will live in my heart until I am reunited with you."