Mermaid Effect

"I screwed everything up, didn't I?"

When Bennett was about to leave the over-decorated office, he heard a faint voice from Rand.

He turned his head back, just to see the pale face of the dark-haired man. He sat on an ergonomic chair that was built according to his physical characteristics at every angle. In front of it was a stack of thick materials. A copy of the past samples and drafts prepared for Rand's "familiarity with style", of course, Bennett knows that there is actually no use of the gadgets, and the real work is with him. He has a very good salary, in order to let Rand Severus comfortably stay in the office, do not have to think about anything, do not worry about anything. But it is clear that Rand himself is not the kind of person who will enjoy this.

Bennett hesitated for a while.

In theory, he can easily shrug at this time, and then tell Rand no problem in a cordial manner (he believes he will persuade Rand, he is always good at persuading others). However, I don't know why, at this moment, he didn't want to be the same as before, and he used Rand in such a way.

"Oh, in fact... it's a bit bad."

Before Bennet realized it, he heard that he had said this directly to Rand. Rand's face became more pale than before, and he now looks like a real white marble stone statue.

Bennett walked involuntarily toward Rand, leaning against his desk and staring at him.

"But everything will be fine. Everyone's ‘first time’ is bad.”

He comforted, because his slightly vulgar jokes were not good in his heart.

He should leave a better impression on Rand Sifus, he thought.

But Rand didn't seem to notice the ones. He looked down and seemed to be thinking about something. After a moment he suddenly raised his head and looked straight at Bennett.

"This is my first day of work, very bad," he said, then stood up and grabbed the bag. "But I think I will probably make it even worse... sorry, Bennett, I have some things to do today, I need to take time off."

After that, he pushed the door of the office in front of the stunned Bennett and ran away from the outside in shocked eyes.

"Mr. Rand Sifus, you -"

He vaguely heard someone shouting at him behind him, but he was unaware.

In the elevator he pulled the tie around his neck to make his breathing more enjoyable, then he took out his cell phone and called Caroline several times.

Today, after Vinson’s phone was hanged, he tried to contact Caroline, but he found that he couldn’t contact her either. This made Rand so restless that it ruined that it was already at home. A long-awaited inauguration day. Rand should have felt frustrated, but this time he found himself not paying much attention to all of this. His whole mind seemed to fly to distant Washington and flew to Vinson.

Oh, this is a bit ironic.

Even Rand himself was a little shocked. He always felt that he had some kind of Vincent... How to describe it? Some kind of unnatural resistance. He is so difficult to accept Vincent's desire to control, and even more confused about what he is thinking in his head, as long as he is in contact with Vincent, Rand will feel a sense of pressure that seems to be suffocating.

But when Vinson really has something wrong...

Rand suddenly realized that he cares more about that person than he thinks.

Even without any memory, that person is always his brother - he is the only relative in the world.

"Drip - drip - drip -"

The busy tone from the mic side made Rand feel an unspeakable anxieties.

"Damn, Caroline... answer the phone..."

He didn't even bother with the strange eyes of the people around him, and whispered anxiously on the phone.

Well, if there really isn't anyone who cares about him, he will buy the ticket directly and fly to Washington. Rand made the decision in this anxiety that seems to make people feel convulsions.

The elevator door opened in front of him.

At the same time, there was finally a woman's hoarse voice on the phone that seemed to be unreachable.

"Hey, Rand."

Carolyn’s “happy” greeting came over.

"Carolyn!"

Rand took a long sigh of relief, and he walked in the same group of urban white-collar workers in the same suit and walked toward the exit of the building.

He was completely immersed in the dialogue, and naturally he did not notice a courier who passed him. He almost hit the man, but in the end he didn't even have time to say "sorry" and he left in anxious.

The person he bumped into was silent. It was a man with his head down wrapped in blue and orange overalls. He held a huge cardboard box in his hands. He looked ordinary, but the horns under the hat were It was completely wet because of sweat.

His gaze was stuck in the cardboard box in his hand, and he didn't even look up at the rand that hit his shoulder.

His breathing was faster than anyone, and only he knew that his palms were full of cold sweat.

The recipient of this goods delivery is written at the top of the carton.

Rand Severus

There is a bunch of scribbled handwriting below the printed word - please be sure to sign it in person.

The courier who walked toward the elevator and the hand hurriedly rushed to the outside of the building. On this busy working day, there was a moment of staggering and then quickly rushed in two very different directions. go with.

......

Ok, let's refocus our attention on Rand Sifus.

He has always been a good-tempered middle-aged man, but at this moment he faced Caroline, who had a good relationship with him. He was anxious and... so rude.

He even stood directly on the steps of the road and argued loudly with the people on the phone.

"...I am worried, Carolyn, Vinson never called me at that time and then hangs up. After that, his phone didn't even turn on. What happened?"

"Calm a little, Rand, I told you countless times. You want me to say how you can understand. We just quarreled, and he made the wrong call in anger... Now his physical condition is not very good. Optimistic - just like before. I can't let him talk to you because he is still in the intensive care unit..."

Caroline’s voice was very hoarse, and she didn’t know why, her voice was very weak, and Rand sometimes couldn’t even hear what she was saying.

"Intensive care unit? Caroline, in the last sentence you said that you have quarreled with Vinson, so he has no strength to talk to me now? This is confusing!"

Rand no longer cares about the other, he raised his voice and said to Caroline.

He was afraid of Carolyn's preface to the explanation of the words. A strong sense of uneasiness was like burning something on his hair, forcing him to be anxious and confused.

He began to worry about what Caroline was hiding... For example, Vinson had something quite bad, and in order to keep him from worrying, he asked Caroline to block the news.

This thought is indeed ridiculous, but Rand is completely unable to control himself not to think about it. After all, there is something really wrong.

"..."

Sure enough, after Rand pointed out the contradiction in her discourse, Caroline suddenly silenced.

"I, I will buy the nearest flight to Washington. I think I need to see Vinson. If he is all right, I will come back..."

Rand said to the phone, he raised his hand and waited for a taxi and then got in.

However, it was at this time that Caroline suddenly spoke to Rand in an unusually strange tone.

"But, how can you use it when you come? As a waste that can't be anything, a trouble that Vinson will always help you wipe your butt, even if Vinson really has any trouble, what can you give him?" What?"

......

At the beginning, Rand didn't even react.

God, what is Caroline saying... Every word she said was understood by Rand but he found that he could not understand the meaning of her words.

waste?

trouble?

Will such words really come out of Caroline’s mouth?

Rand even thought it was a kind of unfriendly joke or something else. The person talking on the phone was so different from the familiar Caroline.

Her voice was indifferent and her voice was full of some kind of resentment. The strong negative emotions could be turned into poison gas from the microphone through a distant distance and conveyed to Rand's ear.

This is not Caroline... although it has the sound of Caroline.

"Hold, sorry, Caroline, I don't understand -"

"Enough, Rand, I am tired." Caroline sent a weird laugh. "I really can't take it anymore. I can't stand it all. If you want to come, of course, Rand Severus." Anyway, even if you come here, it is just a trouble for Vincent. You can't help him. Why don't you want to admit it?"

"Carolyn? You-"

"Drip...drop...drop..."

Rand had not had time to talk, and there was only a monotonous sound of electronic busy tone on the phone.

Caroline hangs up directly.

This feeling is like a sudden splash of cold water on your body.

Rand thought.

He was holding his cell phone and sitting in the carriage, he couldn't digest everything that happened before. Carolyn's transformation was so sudden that he really didn't know how to understand what she had just said.

"Oh, I said, man, what are you going to do here? Where are you going?"

The driver of the taxi disgustedly glared at the pale-faced Rand. He reached out and hit a finger and twitched his fat lips and said to him.

His voice made Rand suddenly wake up from a nightmare, and he looked up a little, staring at the driver's dark face.

"I, I am going..."

Where should he go?

Rand found that his brain was suddenly blank. His original plan was to go directly to the airport, but -

"Rand Sifus, anyway, even if you come here, it is just a trouble for Vincent."

Caroline’s words are like ghosts that continue to echo in his mind and echo.

He slammed his temples hard and then slammed his face to strength.

"I'm going to the airport--"

......

......

"Booming -"

A huge roar directly annihilated his words.

The light that pierces the poles, the heat comes along, and the debris that slams on the roof like a hail makes the whole world tremble.

Rand's head slammed into the front seat, as if he had been punched in his head and instantly became chaotic. Time seems to have passed a second... It’s like the past ten years, the huge sound in his ear left a humming echo, accompanied by some people who seem to scream from very distant places. Cry. When Rand finally struggled to do his head, a lot of blood flowed from his head.

The glass on his right side was smashed by something, and the cracks in the spider web turned the original clear glass into white. Rand pushed the door hard and then stood up.

He saw many people.

There are so many people who are covered with dust and blood on their heads and arms. It is made of splashed sand, broken glass or other building debris. They supported each other and looked at them with horror behind them.

Rand also turned his head back, and his eyes widened.

The first floor of the iconic royal blue-glass-covered building was now covered by the sea of ​​fire, and that layer was the place where Rand spent a morning before and had a nightmare entry.

That is the floor where his office is.

In the small apartment belonging to Rand in Pine Street.

A monster holding his knee in the bathtub and staring at the video with anger, suddenly twitched the tentacles on his head.

"Oh--"

Accompanied by the loud sound of the water, it suddenly smashed out of the bathtub, and then smashed the glass door of the balcony.

"唧-唧-"

Its claws rested on the railing and extended its head in a certain direction.

"Lan, Rand."

It shouted.

And in the direction in which its line of sight is gazing, an unknown black plume is rising toward the sky.

Munster's nose swayed gently, and although it had been diluted to a very meager level by air and wind, it still smelled the bad smell.

The smell of the burning things.

"Rand..."

Its throat suddenly rolled out of an anxious sound.

After a very short hesitation (Rand had severely banned it from appearing on the balcony during the day, after all, he did not want it to be exposed to the crowd), Munster was attached to the outside of the apartment wall with an unimaginable agility. Sliding out to the outside. 2k novel reading network