under hope

"Doctor, please describe it in more detail."

In the small room, four android guards surrounded him, and their captain was sitting in front of him.

"What's wrong? Doctor, you were just in a daze."

The guard captain asked with a caring tone, expressionless.

"No, nothing. The doctor shook his head and murmured:

"I don't know what happened to them."

But the androids are very keen on capturing sounds, and they immediately answered the doctor:

"The mermaids will be inspected and returned to the institute after confirming that there are no abnormalities. After all, Doctor, you like them."

The guard captain's words did not make the doctor feel at ease, especially the last sentence, which proved that Hongchang already knew his feelings for those individuals.

"Doctor, we'd like you to describe in more detail, the sound waves the guy released damaged all surveillance."

As he said that, the guard captain waved to the team members on the side and thoughtfully provided the doctor with a photo taken by the surveillance camera before it was damaged.

It was a profile picture, but the creature's head was staring closely at the camera. It knew that the surveillance camera The use of.

Although the doctor had a relatively harmonious close encounter with this creature, its appearance is indeed far worse than that of a mermaid.

——It has a snake-like long tail and a human-like upper body. There are fins at the end of the tail, but the fins are retracted when moving on the ground. The body is covered with scales, the armpits have gills, and the eyes have no eyelids.

Mermaids like Xiaolan don't have very long tails, and their fins don't retract. Although they can be amphibious, their focus is on water.

The monster in the photo has a form that is completely adapted to the ground. Its snake-like long tail can move faster than Xiaolan and the others.

Before becoming like this, she was Orange, a poor mermaid with orange scales.

After trying hard to adjust his mentality, the doctor recalled the sad experience.

——

Xiaolan leaned on the doctor's shoulder and sobbed for a while before she gradually came back to her senses. At this time, she no longer cared about the image.

"Sorry doctor, I..."

Xiaolan rubbed her red and swollen eyes and voluntarily left the doctor's arms.

"It's okay, you've done enough"

"Please tell me the general direction."

The doctor touched Xiaolan's head kindly and said in a soft tone.

"She should still be near the communication room. We took advantage of her going crazy and escaped close to the door, but she didn't chase her."

Xiao Lan, who had regained her composure, boldly recalled what happened, and at the same time cast a reluctant look at the doctor.

"Doctor, are you trying to……"

The doctor's firm eyes failed to let Xiao Lan finish her words. The doctor asked Xiao Green and Xiao Huang to follow Xiao Lan, and then told Xiao Lan:

"You go to the lounge, lock the doors and windows, and don't open the door to anyone but me."

Xiaolan didn't know what to say. After getting along with each other in the past few days, she also understood the doctor's expression to some extent.

In this extremely determined situation, she couldn't move the doctor.

"Got it, be careful, doctor"

"Doctor, it's safe, come back."

"She's pathetic, but please don't take it too seriously."

Xiaolan and the others said goodbye to the doctor one after another, and then walked to the rest room on the other side.

The doctor also carefully set foot on the road to the communication room.

The research institute is not particularly big, and even if the doctor takes a step to look at it, he will In less than three minutes, I saw the door of the communication room

"Woo...woo...let me go...let me go……"

The fast-speaking pleading reached the doctor's ears, and the orange-scaled mermaid knelt in front of the communication room and kept kowtowing.

"Is that Xiao Cheng?"

The doctor remembered the name Xiaolan gave her.

As the communication room was getting closer, Xiaocheng also heard the footsteps alertly, and quickly turned back to check who was coming.

"I'm coming! Help me!"

Xiao Cheng's face was very haggard, her eyes were extremely red and swollen from crying continuously, and the blue blood vessels were horribly highlighted on her tender skin.

"Little...orange?"

The doctor tried to call her name

"No! Don’t mention that name, He will know it too, He will know it too!"

The haggard Xiao Cheng suddenly hugged his head in pain and chanted a prayer in a hoarse and trembling voice:

"The great…god of the sea! I will...believe in...you, please let me go..."

Looking at the crazy mermaid in front of him, the doctor was heartbroken. It was obviously not like this yesterday. God of the sea...is this the so-called dialogue with God?

"Xiaocheng, come here."

The doctor stretched out his hand towards the mermaid in front of him, trying his best to suppress the emotion in his heart that wanted to scold Lin Hongchang.

Xiaocheng slowly raised her head tremblingly, looking at the doctor's eyes full of pity, she cried and stepped back.

"Don't do this, don't do this, He will curse you."

But as if the so-called sea god was deliberately playing with her, Xiao Cheng's body suddenly became uncontrollable.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way!"

Xiao Cheng shouted loudly, but the doctor stood there, letting the uncontrollable Xiao Cheng throw him to the ground.

"Get Him out of your head!"

The doctor took advantage of the situation and hugged Xiao Cheng, who was shaking all over, and spoke sonorous and powerful words into her ears.

"Eh?"

Xiao Cheng was stunned. Although she was still shaking uncontrollably, her tone seemed to have returned to normal.

"You must be the doctor Xiaolan said, no one can be as gentle as you."

Xiao Cheng couldn't control her limbs and could only leave warm breath in the doctor's ear.

She seemed to be resisting the control of the gods and was punished for it - her ears were constantly leaking blood.

"Get out of here, I won't be who I am anymore. The god selects his followers through ravage and torture."

Every time Xiao Cheng said a word, the punishment deepened. Now the blood vessels hidden in her skin have burst.

"I can hear the sound of the surging waves, and I can also hear His whispering."

From the moment she threw the doctor down, Xiao Cheng has been covering the doctor's mouth with her hand. That hand is also resisting the invasion of the gods.

"He is listening to your voice, I...uh...well..."

Blood oozed from Xiaocheng's eyes, and the invisible god was torturing her wantonly.

"I'm not me anymore. Kill me, Doctor."

Xiao Cheng used her last strength to break away from the doctor's arms and ran into the communication room like crazy.

The doctor still wanted to chase after him, but the door was locked by Xiao Cheng from the inside. Through the glass on the door, the doctor saw The coded lock on the door turned on the emergency blockade light.

——That's a feature that only activates when damaged.

Xiaocheng's body is undergoing changes

——Her gorgeous orange scales faded into gray-blue, and soft gray scales grew on the originally scale-less front. Her petite body was rapidly expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

It was a sight that the doctor had never seen before. The originally childish and cute face turned into an ugly appearance similar to a deep-sea fish.

It has huge artificial eyes and terrifying outer jaws, thicker arms and a longer tail, and two rows of spines similar to fish fins on its back.

If it weren't for the few orange scales still remaining on its tail, he wouldn't have believed that the monster in front of him was Xiao Cheng.

"Orange!"

The doctor slapped the door. He thought this was just a disease and could be cured.

Yes, this was just some kind of...skin disease. She must still be Xiaocheng. The gods were just nonsense. She was just sick.

The doctor had never deceived himself like this. The monster in front of me slammed against the door desperately, and its sharp claws left scratches on the glass as it continued to scratch.

When did I give up hope?

When those few wisps of bright colors that were not very conspicuous, in the passage of time, It was replaced by gray and sharp scales as it passed...

Maybe that was that time.

He dialed Lin Hongchang's phone and desperately informed him that Individual No. 4 had turned into a monster.

After that, the android guards rushed in with guns. They originally wanted to capture the monster alive, but because the monster was too aggressive, they finally killed it. The remaining mermaids were forcibly taken away for inspection, and he was brought here

"Doctor, how is it? Do you remember it?"

The guard captain tapped the table with his index finger.

"Um."

The doctor came back from his thoughts, nodded slightly, and told the captain everything he saw, but deliberately concealed the fact that he named the fisherman.

"OK, thank you for your cooperation, you can leave."

The captain turned off the recording button on his arm, and then gestured towards the door.

The team member standing at the door opened the heavy iron door with a"crash".

The doctor said nothing more, silently stood up and left

"Lao Zheng, I heard something happened at the research institute?"

As soon as I walked out of the guard room, the senior sister who was already waiting at the door anxiously stepped forward to ask.

"It's okay, just a little unexpected."

The doctor did not choose to stop, but quickly explained the situation to the senior sister, and then rushed to the research institute without looking back.

"I don’t know what Hongchang will do. If Xiaocheng looks like that, he is the queen of communicating with God.…"

He was muttering in his heart, and couldn't help but become curious about the sea god who"selected his followers by ravage and torture" in Xiao Cheng's words

"What kind of god is that? Maybe I should go to the library and take a look. Paper materials are much older than electronic ones."

When he was about to arrive at the secret elevator, the doctor turned a corner and walked straight to the Garden of Knowledge where many books were collected.