Mermaid Lord

My scalp went numb, and I asked stiffly, "Do those syllables have other meanings?"

Ben's smile grew bigger and bigger: "Your complexion doesn't look very good, do you need to take a break?"

"No need." I refused him awkwardly, "tell me."

"In the mermaid race, the mother is as sacred as the sea god, so the word 'Shi' used in the name has the meaning of god. Unfortunately, 'Kash' is a fixed phrase, except for 'mother, There is no other meaning besides 'mama', nor does 'Iwaka'."

Well, although the result is not very satisfactory, at least it can ease my embarrassment of calling a mermaid "Mom"... After all, it is much better to call Shi "God" than "Mom".

"However, what makes me wonder is, why does your mermaid regard you as a mother because of biting the ear fin? Is it because he is an orphan?"

Ben looked at me curiously. I didn't want to continue this strange topic, so I changed my subject and said, "You just said... oh, the mermaid next to me is only four months old? But he looks like a ten-year-old human child .”

Ben smiled and said: "The growth rate of mermaids is quite fast. It only took five months for the mermaid in the portrait to grow from an embryonic state to this form. Of course, the catalyst also played a big role, but the ordinary mermaid's form is at most ten years old. Only a few months are the same as our adults. Mermaids have a very long lifespan, and different species have different lifespans. Some can reach hundreds of years, and some can reach thousands of years. Unfortunately, we don’t have the data of Cang Mo Mermaid,” said Ben Sighing regretfully, "Even your mother doesn't know how long they can live, but according to your mother's fact that the blue demon mermaid only lays one egg at a time, their lifespan may be very long."

I'm not interested in the Cang Mo Mermaid, I only thought of Shi: "Where's the Deep Sea Mermaid?"

"Deep-sea mermaids are the merman species with the shortest lifespan, only a hundred years old at most. But Ai God gave them this disadvantage, but also gave them the advantages of rapid reproduction and high number of eggs."

Is it only a hundred years old... For us humans, this lifespan is long enough.

Ben returned to the topic: "Unfortunately, although the blue demon mermaids are powerful, they are very rare in number. In addition, they are good at disguising and mixing with other species. In human history, almost no one has discovered their existence. This mermaid and his The dead mother was the only blue demon mermaid we saw. In order to cultivate him into the top weapon, we specially built this laboratory with the most advanced equipment at that time, and raised him in this tank with the most Feed him good food, give him anything he wanted, but sadly, he died when he was still an unfinished product. After that, we tried many times, but we couldn't breed such a perfect breed , this laboratory has also been abandoned.”

I looked at Ben in surprise: "It seems that you are not omnipotent, you actually let the experimental subject die."

"It was an accident." Ben lit a cigarette, his soul seemed to drift away, and his eyes were fixed on the portrait of the mermaid. I don't know if it was my illusion. I seemed to see his eyes full of darkness. Fear, "18 years ago... 18 years ago on New Year's Day, we were still immersed in the New Year's atmosphere, but this mermaid escaped from the tank covered with a powerful electric grid - no one knew how he did it, Afterwards, we suspected that his body might have developed antibodies because he had been stimulated by high-intensity electric currents more times. In short, his escape brought us a huge disaster, 300 people..." Ben's fingertips trembled, and the soot Shaking and falling onto his leather shoes, but he did not respond, "Three hundred staff members of the institute, including unarmed researchers, explosion-proof personnel and mobile troops with high-tech weapons, all died in this accident, only 50 The man survived, but Mr. Chelson's father, Mr. Leyson, who was the commander-in-chief at the time, was torn out of his heart by the mermaid and his body was torn in half... It was a nightmare, even after 18 years, the survivor A nightmare that drives the reader crazy at the mere mention of it."

Ben was shaking even more, and soot had stained the surface of his shiny leather shoes: "Fortunately, Chelson and I took a mobile unit out to sea for experiments, and when we came back, we only saw corpses all over the ground, blood The floor was stained red, human organs were thrown on the ground like garbage, and the gunman had his liver dug out without even firing a single bullet..." Ben seemed to see a demon, his eyes widened in horror, and his voice It sounded a little trembling, "It was a crushing massacre. According to the survivors, the mermaid only paid the price of having its tail cut off. His body is as indestructible as steel. Ordinary The guns and ammunition used can't hurt him at all, only the quantum cutting machine can hurt him."

Broken fish tail, indestructible body.

A terrible and vague dream suddenly appeared in my mind. The once blurred mermaid image gradually overlapped with the mermaid in the portrait, and became clear and three-dimensional...

Ben didn't stop his memories, now his face was full of fear, and even his body began to tremble: "We immediately sent mobile troops to search for the whereabouts of the mermaid. Escape from Liver Island - oh, that's the name of the island. He hid in a tree hole of a century-old tree. I don't know how this tree hole was formed. Maybe he dug it artificially, maybe it was formed naturally , In short, this tree hole is miraculously still exists today after 18 years. Oh, far away, we found the mermaid, he is very powerful, just like what I described before, even the laser can't cause substantial damage to him He brutally killed the mobile unit that attacked him, fortunately... fortunately, Chelson arrived in time and killed him with a small pulse cannon..."

No... My head suddenly felt like being hit by something heavy, and I felt severe pain. The mermaid death scene I experienced in my dream emerged clearly again—bloody, killing, and death, these three kinds of extreme darkness The memory fragments hit my nerves and made my head hurt even more.

Ben didn't seem to notice my abnormality. He seemed to be struggling out of a nightmare. He took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes: "The tragic accident ended with the death of the mermaid. Complete the cleaning and rebuilding of the Institute, and apply for follow-up funding from the angry government, and recruit enough staff, but the accident was too terrible, and the living people will never forget it. When you came in here, you smelled a stench The smell, right? Yes, that smell was the smell of blood here at that time. After so many years, no matter what methods we use, we can’t get rid of this smell. This smell is like a lingering demon, always reminding 18 years ago, what a horrible accident happened here - a cruel and inhuman massacre by a demon mermaid for freedom."

No, it's not like this... I feel like I can't breathe due to the headache, and at the same time, I suddenly sense a strange emotion in my mind.

[Mother won't let me kill, I can't kill, can't kill...]

I opened my eyes wide in astonishment, and stared at the portrait of the mermaid. There seemed to be a rotating black vortex in the center of the portrait, sucking in the surrounding pictures. The world seemed to be pressed backwards, fragmented Put it upside down.

The heart that was pulled out returned to the body, the bullet that flew out and exploded was retracted into the gun, the staff coming and going walked backwards, the portrait just hung returned to the staff's hands... Then "my" body was framed and was thrown roughly into a huge sink.

"puff!"

A large amount of clear water rushed to both sides of "me", and the large number of air bubbles generated by the oxygen pump made "me" unable to see the situation outside clearly.

"I" slapped the fish's tail in dissatisfaction, and rushed to the top of the tank. Suddenly, a feeling of electric shock hit my body. My heart hit the wall of the tank, but I was hit by a stronger electric current, and "I" couldn't help but let out a painful scream: "Sha!"

"No, child, stop, stop!" The beautiful woman threw off the staff's restraints, threw herself on the outer wall of the sink, and looked at "me" with a painful expression, "Son, don't move around, okay?" ? That will only hurt you."

"Ka Shi, Ka Shi!" "I" bared my teeth angrily, flicked the tail of the fish frantically, and pressed the webbed claws against the wall of the tank, touching the woman's hand through the wall of the tank.

The woman's beautiful voice came through the microphone, and she actually cried, her voice full of sobs: "My child, I am here, promise me, don't do things that hurt yourself, okay?"

"Instructor Renata Eddie, please go back, we need to conduct the next experiment on the subject." A short, one-eyed man came over and roughly pulled the woman away.

It's that annoying ugly man again! "I" rather hate him.

"No, McGinn, please don't hurt him, he's just a child! You can't turn him into a murder weapon, it will destroy him!" The woman screamed hysterically, but her struggle was useless, her face was full of tears Looking back at "me" with tears, she silently talked to "me" with her lips: "If you bear with me, my child, everything will be fine. One day we will leave this ghost place, and I will take you to see my child, My husband, from now on our family lives together..."

The woman was taken away, "I" looked at her back in a daze, tears blurred "my" eyes: "Kashk, Kashi..."

To leave here and live together as a family... This is her and "me" wish...

One day, "I" will take her out of this hell, out of here, and live with our family, together!

The world suddenly seems to have been pressed the fast-forward button, and the scene flies by...

The portrait of "I" was hung on the wall by a one-eyed short man, cheers rang out in the laboratory, and the beautiful woman reluctantly said goodbye to me. Finally, the fast forward stopped, and a dry voice sounded in the dark night.

"Do you want to get out of here and be with your family?" There was a face that made "me" very unhappy, that one-eyed short man McGinn.

Although his appearance made me very unhappy, "I" hated him very much, but... "I" thought, "I" wanted to leave here very much, and if he could let "me" leave, "I" would be very grateful to him.

"I" flicked the tail of the fish carefully, and told him in a way he could understand that "I" wanted to leave with my mother.

"Good boy, I was moved by your true feelings, then I will let you out, you promise me that you will escape secretly without being discovered by anyone, you know? If anyone finds out, your mother will be in danger."

"I" nodded in surprise, I know, "I" know.

"Then remember, don't leave Liver Island after escaping, go under a very huge tree, hide in the tree hole, wait for your mother to arrive, and then you will leave together."

"I" promised him.

"Good boy, remember, don't be discovered by anyone." McGinn walked to the sink and pressed his finger towards the button to turn off the automatic electric shock system...

"Mr. Eddie, Mr. Eddie..."

The familiar voice suddenly cut in, those pictures disappeared suddenly, and my body was suddenly thrust, which woke me up.

The rancid smell suddenly penetrated into my nose. I held my forehead and looked around dully. The cold and outdated machine, the sink without clean water...a kind of messy emotion came alive in my head.

Grief, anger, longing, and the excitement of leaving...

【Kashi... take her away...】

【I can leave this damn place and go see Kashi's husband and children, so happy. 】

"Mr. Eddie!"

My body trembled, and the scene in front of me came alive again.Oh, here's the lab, abandoned 18 years ago.But the soot on the leather shoes has been cleaned up, and there is no smoke in my hand.

I held my forehead and frowned.Here we go again, that feeling—experiencing someone else's memories from a first-person perspective.Now, I can say with certainty that the mermaid I dreamed about in the tree hole before is the blue demon mermaid in front of me.I just didn't expect that under such circumstances, I saw the scene 18 years ago, and felt the strong emotion of this blue demon mermaid again.

I clearly felt that he wanted to leave the laboratory, not for freedom, but for that beautiful woman——Renata Eddie, my mother.But instead of running away, he was set free by the one-eyed short man McKim.

"The 300 people in the institute were not killed by him."

I don’t know why, but I’m so sure—even though I personally experienced the massacre he carried out in the tree hole after struggling painfully—his emotions are quite pure and firm, and the only thing he thinks of all the time is me Mother, when he was treated inhumanly, he still had no desire to kill. Even if he had the idea of ​​killing, he would try to restrain himself because of his mother's instructions.Besides, McGinn once told him to leave secretly for the sake of his mother's safety, so he had no reason to kill his mother regardless of his mother.

If it wasn't for accidentally reading the mermaid's memory, I would have believed Ben's words, but in fact, there are too many doubts about this matter.In fact, before this, I didn't really want to care about this mermaid, but seeing my mother always defending him and treating him as a family member, I couldn't be indifferent.

"Why are you so sure he didn't kill the person?" Ben's expression didn't look like any surprise.

"Feeling." I didn't want to give Ben too much information.

Ben pushed the glasses that fell off, and told me word by word: "But in fact, surveillance has recorded the whole process of his murder."

"Where is the surveillance video?" I was a little surprised, but I never believed that he would be the butcher who slaughtered 300 people.

"The surveillance video is blocked. Unfortunately, the person in charge of the surveillance video password," Ben looked at me with a strange light in his eyes, "accidentally died a few days ago while escorting the sacrificial offering."

I was stunned, escorting the sacrificial offering a few days ago, wasn't it when I was fighting against the Nords on the transport ship?Judging by Ben's expression, could it be that the person he said died at my hands?

I didn't speak, I really don't know what to say at this time.

Ben didn't seem to want to continue this topic either, so he changed the subject and said, "I don't know why you are so sure about drawing conclusions, but I guess, you must have seen something, right? For example... the memory of this blue demon mermaid."