Mermaid Feeding Rules

The monitoring of s-37 appearing in the pool of s-24 was noticed by other people in the research institute.

Fortunately, only the movements of the two mermaids were recorded in the surveillance, and no sound was recorded.

The two mermaids separated, and after S-37 returned to its pool, Boyce, who was present, was called in for questioning.

"I don't know why s-37 appeared."

Under their gaze, Boyce's eyelashes trembled slightly, and he continued to speak: "While I was feeding s-24, it suddenly appeared."

"I think……"

He paused, and analyzed: "It may be because of the existence of the passage connecting the two pools before, so I felt another merman's s-37 actively appearing, trying to drive s-24 out."

"You seem nervous?"

"Yes... After all, any mermaid can easily kill me..."

Boyce raised his eyes, looked at the person who asked the question, and calmed down a bit.

"You should also know that mermaids are creatures that are used to living alone, and they will expel all of their kind in the same area."

In the experimental records of the research institute, there was a record of putting two mermaids in the same pool, but without exception, the two mermaids always ended up fighting to divide their respective territories.

As for why it happened just when Boyce was feeding the s-24.

"Maybe it's a coincidence?"

"As you know, we don't know enough about the behavior of merfolk."

"Do you have any other questions?"

Seeing the person on the other side quiet down, Boyce asked.

"No more." The pen sliding on the paper stopped, and the questioner recorded Boyce's reply, "You can go back."

The moment he returned to his room, Boyce relaxed his back, and felt a clamminess on his back soaked in cold sweat.

From the moment he saw the two mermaids fighting in the pool of s-24, Boyce began to subconsciously find a reason for s-37 to appear there.

A researcher at an institute shouldn't be the reason it's there.

Most of the people in the research institute are trying to thoroughly study the mermaid race and extract every drop of value from it.

Boyce wasn't sure what the institute would do with it with that.

Boyce wondered if he would one day be like that.

But at least for now, the s-37 is different.

it didn't hurt you...

Never acted harmless in front of you...

It even defended you in front of its own race, for some reason that you can't guess...

and so……

Boyce closed his eyes, as far as I can, I hope it will be better...

-

At dinner, Boyce received quite a few curious looks.

"I heard that s-24 and s-37 fought in front of you?"

"is that true?"

Someone asked curiously.

"I didn't even know there was a channel between the pools of s-24 and s-37..."

After Boyce replied one by one, those who satisfied their curiosity at the party dispersed.

"By the way, I heard that the above said that the abandoned passage should be completely blocked?"

"We can't let the two mermaids fight again..."

When Boyce left the restaurant, he heard that they had changed the topic.

"I saw Beard's things left unpacked today?"

"Speaking of which, he is also unlucky. S-19 would rather not escape and come back and bring him to die together..."

-

During the day, s-24 noticed that Boyce was contaminated with the breath of s-37, but the two mermaids fought together very quickly, so it didn't have time to think about it.

At night, when the merman was alone in the pool, he remembered this detail again.

The merman next door and the human keeper during the day?

A flash of shock flashed in s-24's eyes, and subconsciously dived into the bottom of the water, trying to find out what it was thinking through the passage between the two pools.

However, after s-24 dived into the water, it was discovered that the passage had been completely sealed off by personnel sent by the research institute.

Meanwhile, S-37 was waiting in the pool for Boyce to appear.

It hadn't induced Boyce to come over since the last time, but, for some reason that he couldn't explain, it felt that its Sofia would be here this night.

So it floated to the surface, fingers pressed against the glass, looking at the closed door.

Boyce turned off the surveillance in the s-37 breeding room.

He went to the breeding room of s-37 many times in the middle of the night, and stopped at the door familiarly.

Boyce opened the door, just in time to meet the golden pupils who stopped in front of the glass and watched from afar.

Boyce paused in his footsteps, creating an illusion, as if this mermaid used to lie on the glass and look at the door every late night, waiting for someone to push the door open.

-

During the day, the two mermaids fought fiercely, and the marks on s-37 were more serious than after the last fight with s-24.

Boyce glanced at the mermaid, and the wounds on it have begun to heal. Thanks to the mermaid's strong self-healing ability, the wound left last time has completely healed without leaving any scars...

Boyce's eyes froze and fell on the back of the mermaid's neck.

S-37 stretched out its neck before Boyce could speak. Boyce stretched out a hand and lifted the hair on the back of the mermaid's neck, completely exposing the neck.

At the same time, a light-colored scar was exposed.

The scar was not very deep, but it seemed to have existed for a long time. For some reason, it remained on the mermaid's neck.

"This is"

"The wound from before." The mermaid looked at Boyce and said another sentence, but Boyce didn't quite understand it.

"But that's all right," said the mermaid, "I've found you now."

"Sofia..." The mermaid looked towards Boyce with some hesitation. It felt that it probably still couldn't understand the question Boyce asked last time, so it tried to get some hints from Boyce.

"Why are you angry?"

Boyce looked at the mermaid in front of him.

It is an emotional and thinking object that can be talked to on an equal footing.

He's tried to communicate with it in the past, in a human way of thinking.

But it's not human.

The way of thinking and the code of conduct it has learned from its peers are different from those of humans.

Boyce sat down on the lifting platform, looked down at the mermaid who was getting closer to him.

"Do you want to know why?"

The mermaid nodded.

"You've been trying to get close to me since the day I showed up here."

"So you induced my emotions, let me come to the breeding room at night, and interacted with you beyond the breeder and the experimental product."

What Beuys really resisted was: "The feelings that are deliberately induced are real, but they are not necessarily my original intention."

"If you are a human being and you want to get a feeling from a person, you should first exchange it with the same sincere emotion."

Mermaids have a natural advantage in this regard, and their ability to manipulate the emotions of others makes it easy for them to achieve this goal.

But the feelings thus created are false from the very beginning.

The mermaid looked at Boyce with a flash of understanding in his eyes.

Boyce suddenly put a cold paw on his wrist, and he turned his head to look at the mermaid beside him.

The mermaid who was in the pool nimbly jumped onto the lifting platform, sat down beside Boyce, and said, "The mermaid never breaks promises."

"Huh?" Boyce looked at it suspiciously.

"I promise not to lie to you again."

"So, is there anything you want to ask me?"

The mermaid looked at Boyce, a little nervous.

What will he ask?

The mermaid thought, why did I appear?How to induce human emotions?still……

A human voice interrupted its thoughts: "I want to know your name."

It's not the cold number given by the research institute, but the name that really belongs to this mermaid...

"May I know your name?" he asked again.