Location: Shenbai Biotechnology Headquarters
Time: 03:12 AM
Twenty-eight minutes before Dr. Clive Sandford and his Spanish lover nurse pushed a medical cart in the corridors of the 144th floor, in the huge building of Deep White Biotechnology At the other end of the , there are also two people walking in secret.
This is the seventh underground floor, the fourth-level biological protection laboratory.
Like most underground labs, this lab is only accessible to researchers of a certain level.
Simon is certainly on the list, however, on this evening, there is another person by his side, a person who, in theory, should never be there.
Lane.
Of course, the recovering CIA undercover investigator is now Isolde Paris—a senior assistant pharmacist who has been with Deep White for over eight years.
"So, is there really such a person? Isolde?"
Ryan followed behind Simon, and his movements were relatively slow. A thick medical bandage was wrapped around his abdomen, but the cloth that was still dry before departure had become wet by this time, and the viscous liquid squeezed out of his wound with his movements, accompanied by severe pain.
In order to maintain his sobriety, he has always been reticent and had to start diverting his attention by talking to Simon.
"Well, yes, but he's been working in a regular lab...he looks a bit like yours so I edited his picture and moved him to a secondary lab under my watch. Our actions Better hurry up, I don't want this action to have any bad consequences for that unfortunate guy. In fact, getting the 'fountain of youth' out for you has already made the superiors pay attention to me, if it wasn't for the Siren incident they lost So many researchers who have been exposed to 'it' on the front line, I think I should have been secretly killed by now..."
Simon turned his head to Ryan.
Their eyes met briefly at that moment... and if anyone could see them at this moment, he would be surprised by the similarity between the two of them.
The same haggard, the same thinness, the same paleness, and of course, most importantly, their eyes.
Two people who were completely different not long ago, but have such similar expressions at this moment.
"Then why did you save me?"
Ryan averted his gaze somewhat subtly after that momentary gaze, and they walked slowly down the long, icy corridor.
"Actually," Simon looked straight ahead, then opened the last protective door, "I'm not saving you, I just think something is wrong."
He said, and entered the interior of the laboratory with Ryan.
This is a large laboratory - the indoor area is close to that of a regular gymnasium in a regular university.
However, it is such a large space that it seems a little crowded at this time.
Numerous glass sinks with a diameter of more than four meters and from the ground to the ceiling stand in the laboratory, and the green indicator light representing "normal operation" dyes the inside of the sinks a faint fluorescent green.
Simon and Ryan stood at the door, as if breaking into a crystal forest in a fairy tale.
Sensing the presence of humans, the ceiling of the laboratory gradually lit up with soft lights, and Ryan saw that each sink was inlaid with a clear metal nameplate, and on the base under the sink, there were marks of different colors.
"Come."
Simon said to Ryan, leading him step by step into the center of the sink.
The laboratory was terribly quiet, except for the slow bubbling sound from the water tank and the running sound of the water circulation system.
Most of the sinks are empty, however, some have occupants in them.
Lane saw that the bottom of a tank on his right was dotted with fine white sandstones and lush aquatic plants, as well as some corals, and groups of silver sea fish swirled and swam in the artificial seawater - it looked like an aquarium. A display case in the museum, not a petri dish in a secret laboratory.
Ryan moved closer involuntarily... He could see his elongated reflection on the smooth surface of the petri dish.
"bump-"
With a loud muffled sound, a distorted face suddenly appeared in Ryan's sight.
"Damn—"
Ryan jumped back, and his right hand habitually touched his waist, but he only touched the empty pharmacist's robe. At the same time, the severe pain transmitted to the nerve reminded him of the current situation.
"Hey, calm down."
Simon came over, he lifted Ryan's shirt as if no one, checked his bad bandage, and twitched the corners of his mouth.
"This is a simple tertiary variant, in short, a failure."
he said to Ryan.
That monster has a slender tail, but if you look closely, you can see two bones close together looming in the slender tail, they seem to have been deliberately elongated, and then artificially added broken joints human leg bone.
It clings to the glass wall of the petri dish, its transparent tentacles popping out of its mouth waving on the smooth glass surface like a fire-roasted octopus.
It wants to eat these two humans with indifferent eyes - there is no doubt about that.
When Simon opened the console under the sink and released a burst of electricity, it jumped to the top of the sink in fright, and the tentacles in its mouth suddenly opened, like an open umbrella, in the process of upstream Swallow all the fish in one bite.
"They have a very low IQ." Simon looked at Ryan and said, "but the appetite is very strong, very strong, the siren is a very powerful creature, it is a monster, but at the same time it also needs a lot of food to maintain the body's metabolism."
As he explained, he took Ryan to the deepest part of the laboratory.
Here is a much larger sink, twice the diameter of the other sinks.
And all the labels under it are red.
"That's what I want to show you."
Simon said to Ryan.
In this tank, there is an embryo-like thing.
It was terribly tiny compared to the sink, and Lane didn't see it until Simon pulled the electronic viewer closer.
Something like a curled small intestine, or a flesh-colored tadpole.
This was Ryan's first reaction when he saw it.
However, when Simon released a piece of white unknown substance in the sink, the flesh-colored tadpole changed instantly.
It twisted and tumbled in the water, expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye, its curled tail was elongated and covered with scales, and its first half began to resemble an ordinary fish, except for the dazzling red spots behind its eyes. .
However, the changes are far more than that. Its shape soon continued to elongate. The slender tail took up two-thirds of the body, while the upper part, the pectoral fins turned into slender limbs, and its skin changed. It was smooth, and a flesh-colored human head appeared on the part that was originally a fish head.
Simon glanced at Ryan from the corner of his eye, and once again released some unknown white objects in the sink - this time Ryan saw clearly what they were, which were pieces of meat that had been soaked in all blood.
The "tadpole" lunged towards the pieces of meat at an astonishing speed, and it began to swallow the pieces of meat with great gulps. Ryan didn't know how much Simon put in, ten kilograms? Twenty kilos
When the pieces of meat were almost ten times larger than the "tadpoles" themselves, the monster was always devouring them with an exuberant appetite... Until finally, its terrible metabolism caused obvious aging on its body. The body (now over a meter long) became wrinkled and floated motionless in the water.
And a tiny embryo-like thing slowly bit its body epidermis and crawled out.
It was floating there, like a harmless piece of small intestine, just as Ryan first saw it.
Not knowing what was going on, Ryan stared at the thing and suddenly felt sick.
"what is that?"
"It's some kind of specimen that's been deliberately cultivated for physiological observation - its body mechanism is almost exactly the same as that of a normal siren, but we think its metabolism has been adjusted to make it a one-time consumption ... or long-term consumption. Items. I wonder if you noticed, sirens are immortal in a sense."
Simon looked at the newborn embryo and said.
Just like he said, the siren is almost immortal, of course, this does not mean that it will not age, and will not die because of it, but when it is physiologically inevitable after aging , it will grow a new embryo directly in the body, an exact clone of itself, and start a new life.
"so… "
Ryan looked at Simon puzzled, he didn't understand that taking such a big risk to bring him into the lab, Simon just wanted to tell him this.
"So now there is a problem. What I put in the sink just now is human flesh."
"what?"
Ryan couldn't help but repeat, but Simon nodded coldly.
"Human flesh, don't ask me where I got these, but they are human flesh, skin, fat, muscle, connective tissue stripped from a real human body... The Siren Project started out as a weapons program , so we've optimized all the sirens in the lab, they're genetically coded to instinctively hunt humans for food to supplement the PCDHA3 protein that they lack in their bodies... it's their instinct, they can't resist, they can't Change, they are destined to kill biological weapons. And deep white now has two modified experimental sirens fleeing, I know that all reports from deep white to the Pentagon will be flawless, showing that they are not interested in these two escaped experimental products Have control - and in fact, they don't at all. These two sirens, Subject 7371, and the 'Prince', will bring a massacre across America..."