Mermaid Feeding Rules

On the second day after Boyce entered the negative fifth floor, Olier, the deputy director of the institute, sent someone to find Boyce.

"I heard Chris talk about you. He said you are a very talented researcher." Olier sat on 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 it was a questioning tone, but he didn't give Boyce a chance to refuse.

"You have to know that there are many people who want to stand here, and they will happily accept this task."

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

"very good."

Olier showed a satisfied smile: "There are still some observation records in the archives, and they will be helpful to you."

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

"Are you right, Boyce?"

Boyce paused: "You're right."

-

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

Julianna has a good relationship with Boyce's teacher, Professor Chris, and has always disliked Olier. Looking at Boyce, she remembered the child she hadn't seen for a long time, and she couldn't bear it.

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

"The wound won't kill you." She added, "It's the toxin on the mermaid that's deadly." So being an S-37 breeder is a job that almost no one in the lab wants to take over.

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

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

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

Archivist Juliana has a communicator that can reach Chris.

"Beep-beep-"

"No answer..." Juliana was a little disappointed, "I can't contact him for the time being."

Chris often loses contact, Juliana is not very surprised, but Juliana is still a little frustrated that he cannot be contacted at critical times.

Juliana felt a little guilty: "Olier 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 materials of these years: "The institute's research on mermaids can be traced back 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 materials on the desktop: "There are too many of these - you can take a look at it later when you have free time."

"Let me look for...a review of research on mermaid behavior...the black cover...Zoe Fries..." Juliana found a black notebook and handed it to Boyce, "this notebook may be useful to you Useful, but—"

Juliana stroked the broken hair on her forehead: "Zoe's attitude towards the mermaid is very dangerous, so don't pay attention to his idea of ​​peaceful coexistence with the mermaid."

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

"Do you think mermaids have intelligence similar to that of humans?"

"Maybe? But what's the use of that?" Juliana didn't care. "If it has intelligence and emotions no less than humans, it will only hate humans more."

"makes sense."

Suddenly a male voice was inserted, and Ivy added: "If I was raised in captivity as an experimental product, I would do the same."

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

"Why are you here?" Juliana asked Ivy.

Juliana and Ivy are quite familiar, and they are both on the side of Chris.

"There was a riot in s-33, and high-concentration anesthetics are still being sprayed in the laboratory." Ivey complained, "The group of waste... reminded them to pay attention to the resistance of the experimental anesthetics, and they used V-77 to activate The test subject woke up when the knife hit."

"how is the situation?"

"Fortunately, they are still alive." However, one unlucky ghost was scratched on his arm. When he escaped from the laboratory, he exercised vigorously to speed up his blood circulation. It is unknown where the toxin in the nails of s-33 went.

"It's probably hopeless." Ivy whispered.

After Ivy complained, he turned his attention to Boyce: "Olier asked you to observe the mermaid?"

"I should have known that he would not let it go!" Ivy was a little annoyed.

Now that Chris is not here, Olier has the greatest power, and they cannot resist his decision.

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

Boyce knew this, of course.

"Anyway, good luck to you..." Ivy sighed.

-

Ivey had previously given Boyce s-37 a feeding schedule, three times a day, once at [-]:[-] am, [-]:[-] pm and [-]:[-] pm.

But Olier asked Boyce to observe the mermaid, requiring him to observe the mermaid for no less than two hours after each feeding.

Like Ivy said, Olier just wanted it to kill him.

Of course, Boyce did not have the option of quitting the institute. He believed that he could leave here safely, but he might not be able to enter here again after leaving.

That's a mermaid.

The love of mermaid research made Boyce choose to stay.

What's more, in a sense, this is also an opportunity.

Eight in the morning.

It hasn't appeared yet.

Boyce threw the fish meat into the fish tank, and the blood flowed into the depths along the water flow. After closing the feeding gap, Boyce got down from the lifting platform and sat on the newly moved table. After waiting for a while, it still didn’t appear. He opened the "Review of Research on Mermaid Behavior" first.

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

It is no different from what Juliana said, Eureka was originally set up for mermaid research.

There are many names for mermaids. For example, mermaid, mermaid, sea monster, and siren are all the same creature, and the research institute is more used to calling them mermaids.

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

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

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

"I compared them with the bones of the human body. Except for their fish tails, the upper body bone arrangement is very similar. After comparing the skulls, I found that their brain volume may exceed that of humans..."

"Tuk-tuk-"

something is beating on the glass...

Startled, Boyce raised his head from his notebook, and opened his eyes wide as he followed the voice.

It's a mermaid.

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

It certainly deserves the praise.

It was a blue mermaid.

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

There are two respiratory systems in their bodies, which 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, increase as it extends downwards, and begin to become smaller at the tail.

Most of the scales of its tail are a metallic blue color, but there is a piece of white on the abdomen, just like the white belly of some fishes that is softer than other parts.

The tail of the fish was more than two meters long. It was standing on the other side of the fish tank. Its dark blue poisonous nails were on the glass of the fish tank. It stared at Boyce, who was reading notes, with a pair of golden eyes.

The fish that Boyce threw down had been eaten by it, leaving only a few streaks of red blood in the fish tank.

It looked at Boyce, and its hands were still knocking on the glass wall without haste.

"Tuk-tuk-"

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

"Sofia—"

Boyce subconsciously followed its mouth shape: "s——"

After uttering a syllable, Boyce was startled, and woke up from the state of being confused just now, his clothes were soaked in cold sweat on his back.

"In order to prevent you from having unnecessary emotions—" Ivy said at the time, he handed him the video of the researcher's death from the mermaid cut from the surveillance, "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 off by them.

Boyce thought he would be surprised when he saw it for the first time.

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 in place by those golden pupils.

It is the top predator in the ocean.

Boyce realized this all too clearly at the 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 was due to his instinctive fear of the other party.

Its voice can confuse humans, its canines can bite off the trachea, its sharp claws can tear its own body apart, and its nails have special toxins.

Under its gaze, Boyce couldn't even move.

It didn't make any aggressive moves, and stuck its face to the cold glass, trying to close the distance between Boyce and him.

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

The dorsal fin on the back is attached to the spine, and the whole mermaid deliberately pretends to be harmless.

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

It's still looking at itself.

Boyce had an impulse, and there seemed to be a voice in his heart urging himself: the past...close to it...