Mermaid Lord

"I'm curious about a question." I stopped and looked at Ben who led me to the experimental department.

"It's rare for you to ask questions," Ben turned his head and smiled, "What do you want to ask?"

"What do you want breeders to do?" I sneered, "Don't tell me, just raise mermaids."

Ben turned his face slightly, and this angle made his lenses reflect a strange light: "Do you know the imprint in animal behavior? Animals will regard the first living thing as their mother, as long as they use This point, let the newly born mermaid recognize the trainer as the mother, coupled with acquired training, training, and the neural sensor chip implanted in the mermaid, we can make the mermaid experiment subject obey our command. Although the use of technology can Let mermaids obey, but this is too cruel, and it is easy to breed rebellious psychology of mermaids."

"You guys think it's cruel? This is the funniest joke I've ever heard," I said with a sneer. "Your research project seems to have been going on for many years, but the mermaid race is still standing on top of you."

Ben pushed his glasses: "The experiment has encountered many obstacles. First of all, we must find mermaid embryos to proceed with the next experiment. However, it is quite difficult to take out mermaid embryos from pregnant female mermaids. You must know that pregnant female mermaids have a very temper. Irritability, their attack power will increase by 200% at this stage, and there are male partners around them, which brings us a lot of trouble. Secondly, there is a shortage of qualified trainers. We must find patient and well-understood mermaids. People are not a simple matter. In the end, it is a question of funding. The government has limited funding, and we need to find ways to raise funds, which cannot be done in a short period of time.”

When Ben finished speaking, we happened to walk into the Experimental Department of Area C.Sophisticated instruments are presented in front of my eyes. On the left is a row of egg-shaped white cabins. The electronic floating screen suspended in front of the cabins shows the status of the cabins. The reclining chairs, on one of the electronic reclining chairs, lay a red-scaled mermaid.His hands and fish tail were bound, and he wore a helmet-shaped electronic instrument on his forehead. As the values ​​on the electronic instrument display jumped, his body trembled or twisted.

I cast a puzzled look at Ben, what is this going to do?

"As I said just now, mermaid embryos are too rare to come by, so we changed the experimental target to formed mermaids. Since formed mermaids have independent thinking and thinking ability, to make them obey, we must pass this sensory connection experiment, Let the trainer and the mermaid exchange and integrate memory and ideas. When the fit between the two reaches a certain level, under our artificial operation, the mermaid will have the illusion that the trainer is his relative, and obey the trainer. Although this sounds a bit unbelievable, it turns out that we have achieved a major success in this area, all right," Ben walked to the white cabin closest to him, checked around the cabin, motioned for the staff to open the cabin, and pointed Looking at the seat in the center of the cabin, he said, "It's your turn, Mr. Eddie, please sit down."

The internal structure of the cabin is very simple. There is only one electronic seat, without console and electronic screen. The only red button that looks like a switch is set on the cylindrical platform directly in front of the electronic seat. I don’t know what it is for. .

Without hesitation, I sat on the chair and asked, "I don't know what I'm going to do yet."

Ben put the white helmet hanging from the back of the seat on my head: "When you get connected, you will know, what you need now is to take a deep breath. If you have any emergency during the test, please press this Press the red button, and the staff will take you out as soon as possible. But under normal circumstances, only when we think the test should end, will we cut off the connection and let you out. Remember, during the test, you don’t force to cut off the connection State, this will lead to dire consequences."

"What are the consequences?" I turned my head and asked, but unfortunately the helmet blocked all my vision, and I only saw a piece of blackness.

"I'll tell you after the experiment is over. The time is up, Mr. Eddie, please get ready."

After the cabin made a jet-like closing sound, I seemed to have entered a wonderful world.

The darkness in front of my eyes began to become more colorful. It was like traveling through a time tunnel, shuttling through various distorted and reversed color images. At the last moment, the picture stopped.

water.

A large amount of clear water flows around me, I was surprised to move my limbs, but found that I couldn't move at all, no, more precisely, I couldn't control my limbs, they seemed to be independent of my body, no As controlled by me.

Obviously I saw that I have hands... Oh no, those are not hands, but a pair of webbed claws.

I saw the pair of webbed claws that should belong to my body move beyond my consciousness, and the red fish tail on my lower body kept flicking, swimming towards the surface of the water.

This is really a wonderful experience, I found that I became a red scale mermaid, but I am not this red scale mermaid.To put it simply, I am like a soul possessed by this mermaid, with self-awareness and thinking, and I can see the outside world with the eyes of this body, but I have no dominion and dominance over the body—as it is now , "I" is in the sea, but I can't smell the fishy smell of sea water, nor can I feel the flow of sea water.

I think I know what's going on with the so-called connection test, that is, I browsed the memory of the mermaid test subject from the first perspective.

As it is now-

"I" penetrated the water surface, and saw the pitch-black sky like a huge black curtain, pressing heavily towards the water surface, and the purple electric lights gathered in the depths of the dark clouds, and spread out like spider webs, tearing the sky apart.

"Sha!" "I" uttered a high-pitched cry, and when the sound fell, several human heads appeared one after another on the water surface. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that they were members of "my" clan.

More and more tribesmen appeared, as if discussing what to do, we raised our heads and honked in unison, and swam to the islands on the sea level.

At this time, a terrifying roar sounded like an eruption, the sound was immeasurably loud, and even overwhelmed our chorus. "I" turned around and saw an extremely huge mermaid swimming towards us.

Mermaid Lord.

This is the first time I have looked at the mermaid lord up close. His huge body is like a statue that goes straight to the clouds, majestic and inviolable. Under the electric light, his face is shrouded in a terrible light and shadow.

I don't know why, but this face gave me an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

At this time, the mermaid lord raised his head and roared, and the waves suddenly rushed towards the island like a giant dragon out of control.And we, led by the mermaid lord, frantically attacked the power grid set up around the island.

It seems that this memory is not long ago when the Mermaid Lord led the group of red-scaled mermaids and tried to break into Life Island.

I thought I didn't have any sense of this body, but something incredible happened. A few minutes later, "I" touched the power grid, and the powerful electric current flashed golden light and penetrated into "my" body. At that moment, I myself I felt a numb feeling of being electrocuted, and then, the pain came from the lower body, "I" was suddenly dragged into the sea, before I had time to react, I saw two humans in waterproof suits appearing in sight, facing "I" I" threw the electronic rope...

pain!

A white light flashed suddenly, as if the monitor was turned off, and the picture in front of him disappeared.

The darkness gradually engulfed my vision, and I vaguely heard the sound of human voices, the voice was dull and unclear...

“42.9％！本先生，23号培育员与156号实验体的联结率，在最后1分钟达到了42.9％。”

"What about before?"

"It's been floating around between 15% and 30%."

"Good job, cut off the power first, and get here first today."

It was Ben's voice.

There was a faint light in front of my eyelids, and then my head was loosened, and my helmet was taken off.

"Welcome back, Mr. Eddie. As I expected, you adapted quickly. Today's test was very successful, and there was no rejection."

Ben's bright smile made my eyes hurt, I squinted for a while, and then I adapted to accept the water he handed me, and took a few sips: "What rejection?"

"This is not a question worth discussing." Ben led me out of the connection cabin and pushed his glasses. "You just need to remember the feeling of success and work hard to increase the connection rate."

I looked at Ben puzzled.

"It seems that you still understand, okay, please allow me to waste your time to explain. Simply put, the value of the connection rate is a standard to reflect the degree of memory exchange and fusion. When the connection rate is low, the trainer can only use The memory of the test subject can be seen from the first perspective, and as the connection rate increases, the trainer will gradually experience the five senses, physiological reactions, and even the psychological state of the test subject. When the connection rate reaches more than 90%, from a certain point of view , the trainer and the test subject become one. Well, that’s the end of the explanation,” Ben paused, and continued, “In order to ensure the smoothness of the experiment, I will let the test subject continue to experiment with you in the next few days. Until your running-in period is over and the connection rate is stable."

"What if there's a glitch in the linking process that breaks the link?" I pressed.

"The system will automatically activate emergency measures to ensure the safety of both parties, but," Ben smiled strangely, "As I said just now, if one of you actively cuts off the connection, it will lead to dire consequences."

I frowned: "What are the consequences?"

"There has not been such an accident so far, but according to our inference, it is likely to cause the consciousness of the cut-off person to enter a different dimension, that is to say," Ben said slowly, looking directly into my eyes, "if the cut-off person cannot Come back, he's going to be a vegetable in a sense."

I was breathing hard, and my heart seemed to beat a beat more.Although this result is terrible, it is just their guess and does not mean that it will definitely happen.This is an opportunity to take advantage of and I can give it a go.

I made a request: "I want to see the mermaid test subject I'm working with."

"I'm afraid it won't work, Mr. Eddy, you are not allowed to meet with the test subject before you have determined the target for cultivation," Ben patted me on the shoulder and whispered in my ear, "If you don't want to kill an innocent If you are alive, I advise you to stop this terrible idea."

I clenched my fist violently. I have seen their cruelty, so of course I know what this sentence means—once the test subject meets the trainer, the test subject will be wiped out.

I was really tired of talking to these brutes, and when I got back, I immediately had a mindshare with the tiny flamingos that were parked outside the cell, and then flew off to find Ben to see what he was doing.

Fortunately, Ben didn't leave the Experimental Department of Area C. He was having a seemingly unfriendly conversation with Chelson.