MTL - Mermaid Feeding Rules-Chapter 2

On the second day Boyce entered the negative fifth floor, Oriel, the deputy director of the research institute, asked Boyce to find him.

"I heard Chris say about you. He said you were a very talented researcher." Olier sat in the chair and looked at the young man standing in front of him.

"So I believe you can complete this task, right?" Olier narrowed his eyes, although he asked in a questioning tone, he didn't give Boyce a chance to refuse.

"You know, there are a lot of people who want to stand here, and they'll be happy to accept this task."

"I see, sir," Boyce replied. "I'll do my best to see the merman."

"very good."

Oriel showed a satisfied smile: "There are still some observation records in the archives, they will help you."

He looked at Boyce's back: "Since we want to observe, how can it be enough through the glass?"

"Are you right, Boyce?"

Boyce paused: "You're right."

—

"Mermaid observation data?!" Juliana exclaimed in a low voice in the archives room, "You mean that Oriel asked you to continue the work of mermaid observation?"

Juliana has a good relationship with Boyce's teacher, Professor Chris, and has always disliked Oril. Looking at Boyce and thinking of the child she hadn't seen in a long time, her eyes were full of unbearable.

"S-37 is the most ferocious one in the laboratory." Juliana gave Boyce a worried look, "It will attack everyone who comes close to it."

"Wounds don't kill," she added. "What kills is the toxins in the merman." So keeping the S-37 is a job almost no one in the lab wants to take over.

What's more, Zoe drowned in the fish tank of S-37, which was originally believed to only hurt people a few days ago.

"I'll contact Professor Chris." Juliana sighed lightly.

Juliana took out a communicator. In order to keep the institute secret, the research institute will block the signal. Only through a special communicator can you communicate with the outside world. There is another communication channel on the negative fifth floor.

Archivist Juliana has a communicator that can reach Chris.

"du-du-"

"I didn't pick up..." Juliana was a little disappointed, "I can't contact him for the time being."

Chris often loses contact, and Juliana is not very surprised, but Juliana is still a little frustrated when she can't contact him at a critical time.

Juliana felt a little guilty: "Oril is the deputy director, I'm sorry..."

"It's okay, at least he gave me a chance to touch it."

Juliana took out all the data from these years: "The institute's research on mermaids can be traced back to nearly a hundred years ago. Eureka Morrison discovered a mermaid skeleton and established the Eureka Institute of Oceanography. Now."

She coded a thick pile of information on the table: "These are too many - you can take a look at it later when you have free time."

"Let me find... a review of research on merman behavior... the black cover... Zoe Fleiss..." Juliana found a black notebook and handed it to Boyce, "This notebook may be useful to you, but— "

Juliana stroked the broken hair in front of her forehead: "Zoe's attitude towards mermaids is very dangerous. Don't pay attention to his idea of ​​peaceful coexistence with mermaids."

Boyce flipped through his notes and saw several words similar to "emotion" and "intelligence".

"Do you think mermaids have human-like intelligence?"

"Maybe? But what's the use of that?" Juliana didn't care. "If it has the intelligence and emotion of humans, it will only hate humans even more."

"makes sense."

A male voice suddenly interjected, and Ivey added: "If I were kept in captivity as an experiment, I would do the same."

"Not to mention that humans are already on its recipe."

"Why are you here?" Juliana asked Ivey.

Juliana and Ivey are very familiar, and they are both on Chris's side.

"There was a riot in s-33, and the laboratory is still spraying high concentrations of anesthetics." Ivey complained, "That group of trash... reminded them to pay attention to the resistance of the experimental anesthetics, and they used the V-77 to move the knife. The experiment woke up."

"how is the situation?"

"Fortunately, they are still alive." However, one unlucky ghost was scratched on his arm. When he escaped from the laboratory, the vigorous exercise accelerated the blood circulation. I don't know where the toxins in the s-33 nails are.

"It's probably hopeless." Ivey whispered.

After complaining, Ivey turned his attention to Boyce: "Orielle asked you to observe the merman?"

"I should have known he wouldn't give up!" Ivey was a little annoyed.

Now that Chris is away, Oriel has the most power, and they can't resist his decision.

"He just found a suitable reason to kill you to block Professor Chris."

Boyce naturally knew this.

"Anyway, good luck..." Ivey sighed.

—

Ivey had previously given Boyce's s-37 a feeding schedule three times a day, at 8am, 2pm and 8pm.

But Oriel asked Boyce to observe the merman, asking him to observe the merman for no less than two hours after each feeding.

Like Ivey said, Oriel just wanted it to kill him.

Of course, Boyce is not without the choice of quitting the institute. He believes that he can leave here safely, but he may not be able to enter here again after leaving.

That's a mermaid.

A love of merman research led Boyce to stay.

Moreover, in a sense, this is also an opportunity.

Eight in the morning.

It hasn't appeared yet.

Boyce threw the fish into the fish tank, and the blood flowed into the depths along the flow of the water. Boyce closed the feeding gap and got down from the lifting platform and sat beside the table that had just been moved. As soon as I got there, I first opened the "Review of Mermaid Behavior Research".

The history of the Institute is briefly mentioned earlier in this book.

It's no different from what Juliana said, Eureka was originally set up for merman research.

Mermaid has many names, such as mermaid, merman, siren, and siren, all of which are the same creature, and the institute is more used to calling them mermaid.

Since the establishment of the institute, dozens of merman and several skeletons have been obtained through fishing and other methods.

There are five merman still alive in the research institute, s-37 is the most ferocious one, the only one that will attack everyone, but also the only one that will not kill other experimenters directly.

"I was amazed by its human-like appearance - the most similar creatures to humans before it appeared were apes, but they were far from the similarity between mermaids and humans."

"I compared them with human skeletons. Except for their fish tails, the upper body skeletons are very similar. After comparing the skulls, I found that their brain capacity may exceed that of humans..."

"Tuk-tuk-"

Something is banging on the glass...

Boyce was startled, raised his head from the notebook, and opened his eyes wide as he followed the sound.

It's a mermaid.

When he saw it, Boyce could finally understand the admiration of "miracle" and "God's perfect creation" in Zoe's notes.

It truly deserves the compliment.

It was a blue mermaid.

Its hair is blue as sea water, about shoulder length, swaying slightly with the sea water in the fish tank, with fine scales attached to its surface, and its ears are pointed, very similar to the ears of the mermaid in the movie, although its skin It is a light blue and almost pale color, its face still looks like a handsome human man, the eyes are very beautiful and transparent gold, the sharp canine teeth can be seen in the open mouth, and behind the ears, it is also used for swimming in water. Breathing gills.

They have two respiratory systems in their bodies and can survive in the sea and on land.

The blue scales start to cover its abdomen, no more than the size of a finger at the waist and abdomen, and grow as it goes down, and begin to become smaller at the tail.

Most of the scales on its tail are a metallic blue, but there is a white belly on the belly, like the white belly of some fish that is softer than others.

The fish tail was more than two meters long, and it was standing on the other side of the fish tank at this time, with dark blue nails with toxins hanging on the glass of the fish tank, staring at Boyce, who was looking at the notes with a pair of golden eyes.

The fish that Boyce threw away has been eaten clean, and only a few strands of red blood remain in the fish tank.

It looked at Boyce, still tapping on the glass wall with both hands.

"Tuk-tuk-"

Boyce saw that its lips kept opening and closing, as if calling for something.

"Sofia—"

Boyce subconsciously followed his mouth: "s—"

Boyce was startled after spitting out a syllable, and woke up from the state he had just been bewildered by, his clothes soaked in cold sweat from his back.

"In order to prevent you from having unnecessary emotions—" Ivey said that at the time, he handed him the video clips of the researcher's death in the merman, "You can take a good look at these videos."

The voice of the mermaid is a powerful weapon for them. In the video, many people are confused by the voice of the mermaid, dragged into the water and drowned, or their throats are bitten by them.

Boyce had thought his first emotion at seeing it would be surprise.

In fact, the surprise of seeing the mermaid only existed in his mind for a moment, and the rest was the fear of facing the natural enemy. Boyce subconsciously wanted to retreat, but was pinned to the spot by those golden pupils.

It is the top predator in the ocean.

Boyce realized this with great clarity at this moment.

Even though he knew that there was still bulletproof glass between him and it, he still couldn't control the trembling in his heart, which stemmed from an instinctive fear of the other party.

Its sound can confuse humans, its canine teeth can bite through the windpipe, its claws can tear apart its own body, and it has special toxins on its nails.

Under its gaze, Boyce couldn't even move.

It didn't make any aggressive movements, and pressed its face against the cold glass, trying to close the distance with Boyce.

The fins on the elbows unfold naturally in the water, like tulle, showing a psychedelic brilliance under the light.

The back dorsal fin is attached to the spine, and the whole mermaid is deliberately disguised as harmless.

If he hadn't seen the video, Boyce would almost have believed that he had been successfully trained.

It's still looking at itself.

Boyce had an urge, and there seemed to be a voice in his heart urging him: the past... approach it...