Alien Executioner

The monster retreated quickly in fear and disappeared in an instant.

Chapter 147: Strange Friends (Part )

"Boring."

She said softly, dissatisfied with the giant octopus's cowardice.

There is a giant octopus hidden in the underground laboratory. I think it has its own value, otherwise the people behind the scenes would not have built such a large water tank.

Are the experiments here just to breed freaks?

An Ran is not very clear. The truth of the laboratory will involve many things. She has to dig it out step by step. Although the Alphabet Organization plays an important role in it, it is very likely not the "answer" behind the mystery, but only a key to solving the mystery.

He took a deep look through the glass.

She turned around and walked to the console. The computer port had been destroyed and the data stored in it had long been transferred and destroyed. All that was on the screen was a flashing letter V. It was a large letter that almost took up the entire screen, reminding people of the man wearing pink cat ears.

The letters on the screen mean that the man is still alive?

An Ran tried to understand the deeper meaning of these letters, but obviously failed. She was not an elite in the computer field and did not know what professional term the letter V stood for.

So she searched for something valuable, such as some paper documents, but she only found some clean A4 paper, two printers and a fax machine. Everything else had been emptied out, and the place had long been abandoned, but nothing valuable had been left behind.

It took her less than five minutes to search through the compartments of the console and find a clean white coat and a box of lenses, which were obviously left behind by someone before evacuation.

An Ran suddenly felt annoyed by the bright V on the screen, thinking it was a mockery, so she smashed it with her tentacles. After doing all this, she felt a little regretful. What if there was still data left in the computer? Wouldn't she have destroyed any possible clues by doing this?

The tentacle slid like a snake into the gap under the console.

"There won't be anything there," she said unhappily.

The tentacles still drilled into the console. There was indeed a narrow space inside, but this space was for wiring. There were a large number of dense wire harnesses inside, and nothing else.

But there are always unexpected things.

The tentacle bit a notebook, which surprised An Ran.

An Ran took the notebook from the tentacle's mouth, flipped through it and read a few pages.

This is a brown diary with a big-eyed female anime character on the cover.

It was an accident...

Or did someone hide inside on purpose?

She thought of several guesses, but each one was incomprehensible. The tentacles swept the debris off the console, and An Ran sat on it to read her diary.

【2.6. There is no difference in the data.】

【2.7. There are no discrepancies in the data and no errors were found in the blood sample collection and verification.】

【2.8. The data has a slight deviation and has been corrected.】

[2.9. Subject No. 11's blood is unstable and has been recovered...]

【2.21. The results of the Phase III clinical trial were inconsistent, and the Phase II trial was restarted. All data has been retransmitted to V’s log.】

[2.22. There is a slight deviation in the data, and the No. 4 experimental subject has been re-implanted with a new Devouring Sorrow.]

……

【3.21. The serum has reached the final experimental stage and is undergoing clinical trials at this stage. The experimental subjects are in stable condition.】

[Subject No. 5 is transferred to the first laboratory.]

[All test subjects except test subject No. 4 are brain dead and are being recycled. ]

[The serum has completed the final stage, which can relieve the hunger of the alien species and engulf them for a short period of time, with a chance of producing irreversible side effects...]

【3.24. The serum was administered to the animal hospital and achieved breakthrough success.】

……

[4.30. Experimental subject No. 0 has not yet been found, and the Fallen Angel experiment in the First Laboratory has been stopped.]

——2046 log.

An Ran took a deep breath. The content ended here. It looked like a diary, but in fact it was an experimental log. It recorded what happened in the experiment in a simple summary sentence, and that was not all.

The diary is brand new, and it starts from February 2th of last year, which means there was another completed diary before that.

The person who keeps the diary seems to be very careful, summarizing what happened every day in brief words without any personal emotions.

Any work diary that records the author's emotions can reveal a lot of information.

She quickly read through it and made her own judgment. For An Ran, she was used to thinking in this way. It was not a bad thing to like making judgments and guesses. No matter whether it was right or wrong, she had to give it a try.)

She believes that this is the origin of serum No. 4. The log clearly states that only subject No. 4 survived and the experiment was successful, but it does not describe in detail what kind of experiment it was. Is it really just about developing serum? What is the breakthrough progress behind it?

These were not what An Ran wanted to know. After reading the entire log, she was more concerned about the escaped Experimental Subject No. 0. Apart from that, she was not moved at all.

Serum No. 4 is an auxiliary agent developed for the xenomorphs. According to FACA's current understanding of serums, it is believed that the serum can improve the physical fitness of xenomorphs, allowing them to enjoy the power brought by phagocytosis for a short period of time without losing their minds, but the side effects are certain and irreversible.

She threw the diary aside.

An Ran heard a faint sound, someone clapping in the corner, but she looked over and saw no one there, and the white light in the incubator suddenly flickered.

Her eyes moved back and forth among the incubators, feeling a little confused. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of a familiar pink figure squatting on top of the incubator.

"You are not dead."

An Ran looked up at him coldly. The man was still wearing a mask and had no heartbeat. He was a ghost who had died again and again, squatting like a yellow dog at the village entrance.

He was silent for a while, then said in a hoarse voice:

"I have already died, in your hands."

"I can not understand what you say."

"You want to know what kind of experiment this is, right?" Mr. Cat Ears looked like he had no intention of fighting at all.

"Interested, it satisfies my curiosity."

An Ran told him calmly:

"Then let the Countermeasures Bureau handle it. If the Countermeasures Bureau can't handle it cleanly, I'll come out and continue to handle it."

"I can't understand it. You're not a human being, you're obviously a monster, so why do you do something righteous for humans? You've done a lot of bad things, too. What is this, chaotic evil? Or hypocrisy?"

"Whatever you think." An Ran's tone turned cold.

"Do you know?" Mr. Cat Ears' voice was very soft and his breath was barely moving.

He stood up and took off his mask, revealing a torn face, as if it had been burned and then cut by a blade.

“We’re very similar in that respect.”

The man smiled despite his painful expression and bowed politely.

"Let's both take a step back and leave this lab alone."

After waiting for a few seconds, An Ran was puzzled.

"What about your step back?"

“I’ve already retired.”

Mr. Cat Ears pointed to his face. He felt that he had made himself clear enough.

"Mr. V never takes off his mask unless he dies. So you've made a small profit, because I've died once, right?"

Chapter 148: A Strange Friend (Part )

An Ran looked at him for a long time, then slowly uttered a word:

"roll."

"Why bother? To tell you the truth, this laboratory was actually abandoned a month ago, so I said you are late."

Mr. Cat Ears sighed and put the mask back on his face. There was mystery everywhere about this man, and he looked like someone who had returned from hell.

An Ran felt that this was not a lie, because there was absolutely no need for him to lie, but the lie had loopholes.

The number of freaks left behind here is staggering.

She stared at Mr. Cat Ears, wondering if she had seen him before. She glanced at the incubator next to her and saw that the sleeping freak showed signs of waking up.

"I didn't lie." Mao Er shrugged first, "What I said before was also false, but the cooperation is real, and I need your help."

"Cooperation means borrowing the power of others. Why do you think I need to borrow your power?"

"If I don't tell you, how can you know whether it is necessary or not? This is a win-win situation, which is beneficial to both of us, and the fruits of our labor will surely be very sweet."

"So how should the sweet fruit be divided?"

An Ran smiled sweetly, trying to give people the illusion that she was harmless. She tried hard to maintain a faint smile, but she looked as terrifying as a twisted devil.

It's really scary... No matter how this girl smiles, she can never hide the coldness and madness in her blood-red eyes. She is between sanity and chaos, like a half-human, half-monster.

Mr. Cat Ears felt a little palpitated.

"Who else but you deserves this fruit called benefit? The fruit is most pleasing to the eye only when it is in its fullest state."

He tried to please the girl with sweet words, such as the court musicians playing one intoxicating dream story after another for the princess.

An Ran raised her eyebrows slightly, finding this interesting.

She didn't believe that Mr. Cat Ears wanted nothing. The basis of cooperation was win-win, and he only wanted to gain his own share of benefits. Otherwise, no matter how great the trust was, it would not lead to cooperation.

A person without desires will give people an inexplicable sense of danger. Even An Ran has desires, which is a gradually growing desire to eat, but he has always suppressed it himself.

An Ran was constantly aware of the heartbeats around her. The freaks had not woken up, and the man was not stalling for time, so what was his purpose?

That nasty feeling of the unknown comes back again.

This is the disadvantage of changing back to one's true form, becoming less good at thinking.

When she is in the role of an executive, she will think all the time to maintain her rationality in order to suppress the screams of the phagocytes, but if she is in her real body, she will feel relieved and become heartless, thinking that what happens in this world has little to do with her.

An Ran walked to the front of the culture chamber, gently stroked the five-centimeter-thick glass, and observed the monster taking shape in the liquid.

"If you think I can be used, you are very wrong." She spoke softly, and her tentacles slid along her arms to the incubator.

"I dare not take advantage of you."

Mr. Cat Ears is the V of the alphabet organization, but he always puts An Ran above him when he speaks.

"You can tear me to pieces if you want, but the fact that you haven't done so means that I am valuable to you and you need me to know something."

"You don't have a heart, and there is no Devouring Sorrow in your body. I'm not sure if you are the incarnation of a certain Sorrow. I'm actually a very cautious person."

An Ran turned his back to the man and stared at the monster in the incubator, not worrying at all that he would launch a sneak attack on him. This was not in line with what he said about being cautious.

Under her gaze, the monster in the incubator gradually changed, and its red body was gradually infected by dead ash.

An Ran tried to control the monsters in front of him. This ability was once used accidentally by Tieta. All the monsters were forced to submit to him, and he saved Sister Tang by the way.

Mr. Cat Ears couldn't see this scene from his angle, but he said without thinking:

"These little guys haven't been injected with Serum No. 4 yet. They will never wake up. If you control them and force them to wake up, they will die soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, the monster in the incubator slowly opened its eyes, but it was blown apart in less than two seconds. The liquid was filled with blood and flesh fragments and was turbid.

An Ran was startled. Eight tentacles had already rushed towards the man, piercing through his limbs and abdomen, and biting him fiercely.

She turned around and asked:

"How much more do you know?"

"You lost the battle with Shang." The man felt no pain.

"Are you the twelfth person on that ship?" An Ran was surprised.

"Yes, but that was just a coincidence. My mission at the time was just to monitor member 'E', the old man you saw. He is actually also a member of the organization, but he has a tendency to defect. We have long been aware of this and have been looking for an opportunity to deal with him."

The man paused.

"I was there on the tower at the time, but I didn't know you were An Ran. 'C' told me your identity, and he only told me."

"Daqiang is in the Abyss Prison, and he shouldn't know my identity." An Ran pointed out the loophole in the man's words.

Mr. Cat Ears shook his head. He was held by the tentacles and unable to move. Only his neck could move.

"Not that idiot, the other one."

"Another one? What does that mean?"

"The members of the Alphabet Organization correspond to 26 letters, but not 26 people. Each letter code actually has two people, but you have never known it."