U.S.
Washington
Deep White Biotechnology Headquarters
Twenty minutes ago—
"tick... tick..."
Dark red liquid dripped from the tips of a woman's blond hair onto the cold metal ground.
Her body is slender, her skin is a copper color that has been carefully tanned, and under her blood-stained white robe is new fashion—if she was still alive, she would definitely be a stunner to attract men's attention, but at this moment she is like Like the meat products in the slaughterhouse, it was hung high in the air, and a few wires flashing blue arcs were messily passing through her armpits and between her legs.
Her head is held together by a thin layer of skin, flipped back on her own back, and due to gravity she looks like she is yawning with her mouth open, her swollen tongue hanging down from her mouth side. The internal organs, mixed with red and yellow-green liquids, fell like garbage from the interior of her violently torn abdominal cavity, and the air was filled with a stench mixed with the smell of blood.
…
"what happened?"
Caroline looked away from the transparent observation window above the protective door, and she asked in a hoarse voice.
Her location is on the outside of a living creature incubation chamber.
The isolation door has been put down, and a simple console is placed outside the door.
Surrounding Caroline are the research team summoned by the emergency and a team of "Poseidon".
"The experimental animal fell into a commotion for no reason fifteen minutes ago. She was taking the experimental record at the time, and an A-class subject broke the petri dish and attacked her..."
"That's not what I want to hear, Simon, I'm not interested in how she died, what I want to know is why?"
Caroline interrupted the young genius beside her, her attitude was a little rude, Simon put his arms around his chest and gave her a blank eye.
Of course, Caroline was restless in a sense for a reason, it was late at night, and she looked like she hadn't slept in days, her hair was like moldy straw Just as dull and scattered, with mottled liner imprints under the eyes. Looking at her like this, Simon couldn't even imagine that not long ago, the Caroline he knew was a well-dressed and delicately made-up executive.
"Caroline, I remember saying, 'Unexplained,' and no one knows why."
Simon rubbed his hair with his hands. The trauma he suffered before made him still very weak, and he couldn't even raise his spirits to quarrel with the woman in front of him who had completely lost his senses.
Furthermore, although it was not obvious, he was indeed mourning for the woman inside the laboratory who had lost her life.
It was his assistant, a nice woman, and yet the subject easily crushed her precious life under those sharp fingernails. Even if the emergency mechanism pulled down the isolation door and released the laser weapon to cut it into several pieces of meat with a burnt smell, it would never be able to save a woman's life.
And in theory, none of this should happen.
Simon frowned and turned on the scene recorded on the monitor.
Not long ago, the entire laboratory was normal, and the liquid in the petri dish was rich in powerful calming ingredients, which could make the subjects quiet like a zombie. But just a few seconds later, everything changed. Those experimental subjects still woke up for no reason. They slammed into the hard inner wall of the petri dish frantically until the blood was broken, and the light blue culture solution was like a fountain. They spewed out of the cracks they slammed into, and the cracks soon began to widen, and the slimy bluish-white flesh came out and crawled toward the screaming woman.
But this wasn't the most terrifying moment, and it was actually from this moment that the really uncomfortable things started. After capturing the woman, the experimenters performed another disgusting act on her until her internal organs were completely poked out of her body, and after her death, several subjects among the individuals Also began this mutual aggression that cannot be explained by any theory...
"It can't be explained."
Simon rubbed his forehead in confusion.
"Those experimental subjects are not complete at all, they don't even have gonads in their bodies, they can't have such urges..."
But just after his voice fell, the isolation door opened with a humming sound.
Several people in heavy protective suits rushed out staggeringly, and although the voice of one of them was muffled and dull under the effect of the filter, no one would ignore it—
"Dr. Simon, you won't believe this, those experimental subjects have..." He handed Simon a pink piece of meat in a glass dish, "...grown gonads! Oh my god, they're bigger than theoretically. Dozens of times bigger... Looks like some kind of lesion..."
Simon stared at the disgusting blob in his hand, his lips quivering but no sound came out.
No single theory can explain the current state of affairs.
Simon could feel the twilight of the others around him, who were looking at him eagerly hoping he could give an answer, however - "It's not possible"
…
The only thought in his mind was like a frightened bird fluttering wildly, and his proud and intelligent brain was now blank.
He couldn't give any answers.
Fortunately, after a few seconds, a piercing siren pulled everyone's attention away from him.
On the computer screen in Simon's hands, the previously playing laboratory monitoring records were switched to the floor plan of the building's interior.
Above that, all the rooms marked with the biological laboratory were now marked with bright red "emergency" signs.
Everyone's faces turned pale in an instant, and the "Poseidon" members who were guarding around them almost immediately surrounded the researchers to form a vigilance. The lights went out, replaced by the ominous bright red light of a flashing red warning light.
The floor of their room trembled slightly.
"It's an emergency isolation door..."
Simon murmured.
In order to prevent the aggressive experimental subjects in the Siren plan from escaping the laboratory, they prepared several defense devices in all the rooms where the living experimental subjects were stored at the beginning of the design: anesthesia gun, laser, heavy fire attack device, primary Isolation Doors, Secondary Isolation Doors and Emergency Isolation Doors…
Only when the experimental subject escapes and all other devices fail, the emergency isolation door, which is the last line to isolate the experimental subject and the researchers, will be lowered, and the building will enter a state of emergency, because this means that the experimental subject has already out of control.
Chaotic thoughts swept through Simon's mind, as if to confirm his thoughts, a cold and unwavering mechanical female voice came from inside the wall.
"Warning, warning, laboratory 1862 to 2182, secondary protection room I, secondary protection room X, dangerous experiment in vivo incubation room V, dangerous experiment in vivo incubation room III... There is a dangerous situation, code 2732, start the destruction procedure, repeat Once again, start the destruction procedure, and ask the staff to evacuate in time—the countdown starts 100-99-98…”
Simon suddenly heard a scream from his side: "Destroy the program? No... no... stop! Never! Stop!"
He turned his head in astonishment, but just saw a woman running crookedly towards the outside.
That's Caroline.
It took him another short while to realize why she had reacted so violently: Vincent Sivers, the man who had been reduced to a monster, was staying in the living room where the destruction process was about to start...
"damn it."
He cursed and ran after Caroline.
Above his head, that goddamn artificial intelligence voice was slowly counting down.
And when Simon came to the corridor connecting the various laboratories, he understood why the defense mechanism had to start the destruction program.
Almost all the doors of the laboratory are covered by protective doors painted in yellow and black. These doors are a meter thick and can withstand close-range blows from rocket launchers. They are theoretically indestructible, however. At this moment, each of them trembled.
There was a sour muffled sound from behind the door. It was the group of damn experimental subjects that were banging frantically. Simon noticed that several of the protective doors had been deformed...
"45-44-43..."
Project Siren is cultivating biological weapons for the country.
Simon realizes this more than ever.
Once you let these things really escape...
Simon could hardly imagine the consequences.
However, when he saw Caroline running wild in front of him, a strong foreboding hit him like a storm. He knew how obsessed Caroline was with Vincent, and if she interrupted the destruction procedure for Vincent, he would have no doubts.
However, if the destruction process is really interrupted, it is probably the greatest disaster that mankind is about to face.
"15-14-14-"
No, you can't do that.
Simon moved his pace frantically, his body was in severe pain from this kind of violent movement that shouldn't be, but he didn't dare to slow down at all.
Ahead of him, Caroline reached the very end of the hallway, where there was an artificial intelligence control port.
"4—"
She ripped off her work card from her chest and inserted it, apparently trying to use her high-level authority to stop the destruction process.
"3—"
"Caroline! You can't do that!"
"2-"
Simon, who couldn't make it in time, leaned against the wall and let out a shrill scream.
However, Caroline quickly entered a series of numbers on the pop-up interface without changing her expression.
…
"…Advanced Privilege XXX - Program terminated."
With the sound of the artificial intelligence tablet, Simon could no longer control himself and fell to the ground.
His heart was beating as if it was about to pop out of his chest, and the intense anger forced him to roar at the ethereal woman not far away regardless of the broken voice.
"Damn - Caroline, you're going to kill us all, those quarantine doors won't last long..."
"Shhh, shut up." Unexpectedly, before Simon's accusation, Caroline's face turned out a strange sweet smile, she turned her head to look at Simon blankly, stretched out a finger, "It's Vincent ."
she says.
"Vincent will take care of this."
Simon just thought she had gone completely crazy at first, but he soon noticed that the deafening crashing sound when the destruction program was activated suddenly disappeared at this moment.
And at the end of the corridor...
Wait... The reason why there is a connection terminal at the end of the corridor is because there is a living room with the highest security level there.
Because it houses the most aggressive and dangerous living experimental subjects, its door is directly connected to the building's intelligence center - unfortunately, that's where Vincent Sivers stayed.
…
The empty corridor suddenly became quiet.
The air seemed to condense.
The pale artificial light glared coldly on Simon's body.
He found that his breathing was getting faster and faster, faster and faster...
"Squeak-"
Amidst the piercing sound of metal deforming, a pale palm slowly stretched out from the gap in the deformed isolation door behind Caroline.