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

Chapter 23

"Bang—"

The deafening sound bore through Ryan's bloody eardrums, practically echoing within his skull. The bullet rushed out of the gun barrel and then struck the mermaid's shoulder— its movements were so agile, knowing that Ryan initially took aim at the space between its eyebrows.

The bullet caused a stream of blue blood to gush out, but it did not cause any real damage... it was, however, clearly infuriated.

It suddenly raised his head and drew back the corners of its mouth and faced Ryan. Its original perfect face like a Greek statue was broken apart by its lips, split open from the top and bottom. It nearly drew back the corners of its lips to underneath its earlobes. Row by row of fine sharp teeth flashed in a cold light.

Ryan was overthrown by an intangible and violently strong force.

His line of sight was shrouded in a burst white light, the pain in his ears and eyes made him feel as if they had been burned by a fire. His body seemed to fall to the ground, but his jumbled consciousness was incapable of properly determining this bit at all. A stream of warm liquid suddenly sprayed out of his throat.

It was an infrasonic wave attack.

Simon looked on helplessly as Ryan fell down like a ragdoll, shaking on the ground like he had epilepsy. After an extremely short period of time, he also fell down, but his tolerance was a bit better than Ryan's. At least he could maintain his consciousness and keep himself from fainting. Of course, this probably also has something to do with the pain of all of his organs being pulped.

The "Siren" appeared weaker after launching the attack. The blue blood never ceased flowing out. The wound on the shoulder obviously caused many troubles for it to crawl out of its cocoon shell. Now it can only use one paw anchor itself up and crawl out.

The cocoon formed in the aquarium does not conform to the laws of nature. It is a bit too small, and Sirens...

Simon strained to open his blurred eyes and did all he could endure the severe pain of thinking it over in his mind. This mermaid's body size should actually exceed three meters— practically a giant beast, and at this time most of its tail is stuck in the cocoon shell, scales that have failed to come into contact with the air cannot harden as they do normally, and at the same time, it is also unable to move freely about as a result.

It can only launch infrasonic attacks, but it can be seen that it cannot do consecutive attacks.

As a mermaid that is breaking out from the cocoon, this short period of time is the only time it's ever weakened, although its "fragility" is still terrible to the extreme for two ordinary human beings.

Simon harshly bit down on his lips and he felt his ears were oozing out blood just then... Of course, it was also possible for it to be brain matter or some other substance, in short, he currently feels that he was about to split apart directly from the center.

In such a state, he slowly crawled towards the sidewall, where all organism quarantine units have in standard configuration, an automatic locking weapon system for emergency situations.

In fact, in the initial plan, Ryan would pin down the mermaid and Simon would switch on the weapon system. The two would act in concert with each other to blast the damn thing to bits, but the cocooning testing subject has indeed surpassed everyone's expectations.

So long as it can be allowed to crawl out, it can easily kill everyone, including Simon and Ryan.

That strong sense of despair permeated Simon's heart once again, but he didn't stop moving, even though he wasn't getting up much faster than a snail.