The Fallen Merman Chapter 14

Published at 5th of August 2022 01:30:03 PM

The crow omega stared at Rimbaud for a while, then moved his gaze down, and traced Rimbaud’s fish tail—the translucent fish tail smoothly connected to the waist was extremely long, and the shimmering long fins resembled a falling ice-blue silk satin. There was no tail fin at the end, and it was similar to the end of a snake tail.

“You’re Lu Yan?” Du Mo narrowed his eyes and scrutinized Rimbaud, “It appeared many times in the broadcast.”

Rimbaud locked eyes with him, but his eyes weren’t friendly. He sat on the windowsill contemptuously and warily looking down at him.

After Lu Yan collected the heads, the broadcast in the air immediately announced the kill. Du Mo realized that he had thought wrong in some places, but there wasn’t enough to explain anything.

The door of the laboratory was pushed open, Lu Yan and Bi Lanxing took the lead and walked in, Bai Chunian turned around and asked Du Mo, “Come on, together.”

Du Mo glanced at the wary-eyed Rimbaud on the windowsill, “Make sure he’s tied tightly.”

“Okay.” Bai Chunian stretched out his hand towards Rimbaud, who immediately turned down his power and left the windowsill, went along the iron fence to Bai Chunian’s side, and entered the laboratory with him.

In addition to some commonly used laboratory equipment in hospitals, the eastern wall of the laboratory had a tic-tac-toe-shaped[1] bookcase with glass doors. The middle compartment and the right compartment each had a laboratory test report in a transparent ziplock bag. Bai Chunian casually took the test report in the middle and opened the ziplock bag. The cover of the test report stated “Special Operations Weapon 1513 Snake Girl”.

Turning the cover, the first page of the report had a few lines of scribbled handwriting, which seemed to be the conclusion of the test report on the Special Operations Weapon number 1513 named Snake Girl.

“Special Operations Weapon 1513 is still in the cultivation period and has been treated and cured of stiffness and violent disease due to forced mating.”

“Note: The appearance of the experimental subject during the cultivation period is normal, but the expression and understanding ability isn’t fully grown. The first signs of destructive power are starting to take shape: strong desire to attack and strong desire to devour to replenish glandular energy. This state will terminate itself when the experimental subject enters the mature stage.”

Bai Chunian quickly scanned the test report, and immediately took the one to his right and opened it. The cover of the second test report stated “Special Operations Weapon 324 Invisible Stalker”.

This report was a bit thicker than the one just now because it contained a CT image of the experimental subject clipped inside.

The picture showed the full-body skeleton of a human omega, but his eye sockets were twice as large in diameter as ordinary people. The tail vertebrae were very long and slightly curled at the end. It was difficult to imagine the real appearance of this omega—a bit like a lizard—but the content of the report wasn’t much different from the last one.

Bai Chunian put the test report in order and stretched his hand towards Du Mo, “Hand it over.”

The corner of Du Mo’s mouth twitched, “What?”

“We’re all here for the exam. Since we’re teamed up, it’s important to share information.”

“What do you want me to hand over? Someone must’ve been here. Looking at the dust marks, it’s obvious that there’s a report in each compartment of the bookshelf, the remaining copies must’ve already been taken away.” Du Mo crossed his arms and leaned against the side of the bookshelf, his face looked as usual.

Bai Chunian turned over the last test report, “One CT image is missing.”

“The CT image you took should be a picture of a skeleton of a human body with a snake tail, and it looks a lot like Rimbaud, doesn’t it?”

“And your associated ability should be detecting vital signs within a certain range, not Persistent Eye.” Bai Chunian patted the ziplock bag in his hand, “Persistent Eye is probably the ability of this experimental subject, you deliberately mentioned this ability to see our reaction, just to figure out if this Special Operations Weapon 1513 is Rimbaud. Good idea, but he’s not.”

Du Mo faintly breathed a sigh of relief, pulled open the zipper of his team uniform, and gave the CT image hidden in his arms to Bai Chunian.

The CT image was just as Bai Chunian said, the experimental subject had a human upper body with a snake tail attached from the waist down, similar to Medusa, a female demon with a human head and a snake body in Greek mythology.

Bai Chunian was slightly puzzled. He deliberately controlled Lu Yan’s number of kills.Their performances weren’t particularly outstanding in this exam with so many excellent experts here, they shouldn’t be too conspicuous. Rimbaud’s appearance was indeed somewhat eye-catching, but there were many strange-looking humans in this world, and a merman wasn’t the most special.

He suddenly recalled that when they ambushed the No Survivors team in the library, they picked off 12 anti-detonators from the team’s dead bodies. No Survivors took a total of twelve heads, they killed the Explosive Head team and Good For One Time team. Counting the time it took to fall off automatically, there should only be eight intact anti-detonators. At that time they hadn’t had time to take the supplies in the fixed ammunition box, so the extra four anti-detonators should belong to a team who took advantage of the chaos and ran away.

“You guys have been to the library?” Bai Chunian asked.

Du Mo was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, he still nodded, “How do you know?”

The rules of the exam were broadcast clearly—fixed ammunition boxes would contain anti-detonators, but there were none in the ammunition boxes in the library. Since the crow had the ability of detecting vital signs within a certain range, it was likely that they took the anti-detonators in the ammunition boxes before several teams. They didn’t have time to take other supplies because No Survivors and the other two teams came too fast.

“Why go to a big supply point like the library? You have no combatants in your team, yet you still went to a big supply point to grab others’ things, because there’s a mission there, right?” Bai Chunian snapped his fingers, “The files in the D section on the third floor of the library?”

“Yeah.” Du Mo raised his beautiful eyebrows, “Our first mission was in the library. We were required to disrupt all the files in the archives in Area D on the third floor. Taking mission points is the most important thing for us, so we had no time to search for the ammunition box. In the end, there wasn’t enough time so we only took the anti-detonator and left.”

Bai Chunian said thoughtfully, “So file C is about the monster with a human body and snake tail?”

“Yes, I thought the information was about him.” Du Mo looked at Rimbaud, and gradually understood the source of this misunderstanding. When they entered the archive room and started messing around, a few sheets of information with pictures fell on the floor, which looked particularly striking in the entire archive room that was covered with white A4 paper. Du Mo stopped for a while and glanced.

File C:

Special Operations Weapon Number 1513

Snake Girl

Status: Cultivation period alpha

Appearance: Human body with a snake tail, can walk upright on land by relying on wriggling the scales.

Differentiation ability: “Persistent Eye”, the two eyes can be removed from the eye sockets and left in an unnoticeable location. Those who accidentally look at the two eyeballs would experience a gradual freezing phenomenon after 30 seconds—limb petrification. The closer the distance, the longer the stare, the higher the degree of petrification will be. At the same time, petrification stimulates painful nerves, so that the petrified person will not faint, but scream in pain and the body temperature will rise accordingly. That way, the Snake Girl can determine the location of the prey.

The study found that: the Snake Girl does not have a sense of smell. After removing the two eyeballs, the body lost its vision, and it only depends on hearing and heat sense to determine the location.

Last observation location: 109 Research Institute.

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