Mermaid Effect 《人鱼效应》 Chinese BL Translation by: 黑猫白袜子

Chapter 13

   The atmosphere is vile. Ryan gave a quick look at Simon and ignored him. Instead, he took a step forward and showed his work credentials to the people in white robes who stood to the side.

    "CIA Special Case Investigator Ryan Harrison, I need to go directly to the number 2987 accident scene."

    "The Central Intelligence Agency? Why are you guys at the Arctic Pole Military Command Center..."

    As soon as this sentence fell out, everyone's faces on the scene except for Simon's became exceptionally unsightly in a flash.

    In theory, "SIREN-II" is under the jurisdiction of the Air Force. They had even already made thorough preparations, but they never thought that the person who really showed up was actually a CIA agent.

   In the face of the dumbstruck researchers, Ryan's expression in his eyes became even more ice-cold, and Simon followed him and strode over with a cat-like gait and cheerfully came in front of him, saying to him full of smiles: "I told you that you'd need me."

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    For many people, the sheer volume of "SIREN-II" is dreadful, but what many people don't know is that the special laboratory beneath the surface of the sea is the real behemoth compared to the part that is exposed above the sea surface. The entire research department is divided into 12 areas, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people at the same time to carry out high-level experiment duties. However, when Simon and Ryan changed into protective clothing to enter the testing area, an intense odor made the hairs on the two men's backs stand up.

    The threats completely unconnected to reality are simply from humanity's instinctual feeling fear and a sense of crisis.

    Accident No. 2987 is just a strung together code name in the files and stacks of A4 papers that attempt to explain the incident, but when you really walk in here, the scent of first-rate predators in the food chain seems to still be able to transcend time and assault you.

    The Experimental Body No. 7371 escaped from the Test Area #3, which is the closest to the drainage hole, however, at the same time, it was also the most closely guarded area. It easily harvested the lives of two hundred and forty people throughout the entirety of the escape... In fact, only one of the staff present at the time did not die.

    He was the full-time breeder for the 7371 experiment. He hid in the freezer where the experimental preparations were stored. By the time people finally found him, all of the skin on his back was frozen to the back wall of the freezer.

    He ultimately lost his legs and his left hand since they were already necrotic because of freezing— but he was still lucky enough compared to those colleagues who were met with violent deaths in the testing area.

   When all was said and done in the end, every person responsible for cleaning up the scene... Almost everyone had to receive psychotherapy at the end of it— the whole scene has been so wretched that there were no words to describe it. (According to the follow-up investigation after the event, in the end, there were more than three people who chose to commit suicide after this cleanup)

    There were some comments that were censored and deleted in the incident report afterward, but Simon felt that they may have been the truth: Experimental Body No.7371 intentionally chose to escape from the testing area with the greatest amount of people so that it could slaughter as much as possible.

    "...the data shows that it did not reach that level of thinking ability."

    The lift slowly descended on Area #3, and Ryan finally spoke to him after listening to Simon's commentary.