Mermaid Effect

In 1959, U.S. nuclear submarines were already frequently operating under the ice of the Arctic—here they could better confront the giant Soviet Union at the time.

However, no one thought at the time that nuclear submarines, in addition to the deterrence of war, could bring humans to areas that they had never been able to explore before.Under the ice shell of the North Pole for hundreds of millions of years, a predator at the top of the biological chain in ancient times is sleeping.

At the beginning, people were just surprised that there were a lot of nuclear submarine accidents during this period - the Americans thought it was the Soviets, but after a while, the information collected from the Soviet Union surprised the US military - the Soviets It is also believed that those accidents were done by Americans.

However, there was a distance of nearly [-] kilometers between the coordinates of the two submarines at that time.

Finally the Americans finally discovered it - a creature of extreme beauty and terror.

It looks like a huge fish, of course it only looks from a distance...the tail has five tooth bone ribs, the head has two to four pairs of eyes, and powerful tentacles can be ejected from the mouth, which can easily drive the submarine The propeller was smashed and deformed.

It has a special separated action system, and its special muscle structure makes it impossible for them to feel exhausted. In addition, the fin spines of the hollow structure cooperate with those muscles, giving them unimaginable flexibility.The outer skin is composed of multi-layered chitin and limestone, which is far stronger than any material that humans could make at that time.The mucus secreted by the epidermis was initially judged to be highly toxic by humans. It was not until years of research that people realized that it was not venom, but a very high concentration of virus aggregates, and even the slightest scratch would Let its prey be infected, and the physiological tissue is dissolved under the infection of the strong virus-for the mucus of this creature, their viral polymers react so strongly that most normal people cannot determine its true composition.In the dark seabed, their blue-green fluorescence is like Christmas lights hung up by the Grim Reaper for celebration.

Well, up to here, it looks like just an ordinary sea creature... But soon everyone noticed its strangeness.

It looks like some kind of bony fish, but it has the regenerative properties of cnidarians. It takes less than 24 hours to blast it in half, and two brand new fish will appear in front of humans again... …At the same time, because of the heat weapons they once received, they will evolve a harder outer shell with a thicker buffer layer inside.

A creature that regenerates and evolves in a very short time.

"...We call this thing 'native species'." Simon said to Ryan, "In 1972, the Soviets encountered a small settlement of 'Siren'. According to the original data at that time, there were about three or so, and it was Three of these things easily smashed the K-19 nuclear submarine into pieces. The funny thing is that the Soviets still think it was done by the American submarine-since then, the government began to want to cultivate them as Biological weapons. After all, they are far more useful than a monkey carrying an anthrax vial."

Having said that, Simon showed a malicious smile.

"They...are not the same as the previous one."

Ryan carefully looked at the information Simon provided him, and the muscles at the corners of his mouth tensed.

Simon's gaze slid across the other's cheek unconsciously.

"Of course. Too many people died trying to capture the original species, and some of the losses even affected the military deployment of the Navy in the Pacific Ocean. For a possible biological weapon, this kind of sacrifice is a bit too huge. However, to avoid wasting the materials that have been put in, the government proposed a compromise method-after the order was delivered, the submarines responsible for fishing at that time found that they no longer needed to use all their strength to capture living materials, and the corpses did not matter. In this case Now, we finally let go of our hands and feet and used weapons of mass destruction. It can be imagined that it was a very terrible blow, and a whole fleet was attacking. In this extreme situation, an interesting thing happened- ——The 'native species' that was almost killed by the torpedo completely turned into another kind of creature under the attack, which is what you saw just now, the body of a human, the tail of a fish. This is a special kind of them Extreme state - the regenerative ability of low-level creatures disappears, while the destructive power and attack power increase geometrically, just like the berserk of the boss..."

Ryan once again showed an imperceptible daze when he heard "Rage", thank God Simon didn't notice it.

"And the most important thing is that in this situation, their form is more similar to the biological types we recognize, I mean, they will become more intelligent... So finally, our lovely scientists began to open the brain After experimenting, they were fixed in this state by various possible means. Thank God, it was finally successful... The successful individuals are called "reformed species" by us - and this whole experiment is the "Siren Project". "

"The Siren Project is still going on..."

"That's right, of course it must be carried out. Stabilizing the 'original species' into a 'reformed species' was only the initial goal, and then we discovered something else..."

Simon showed another picture in front of Ryan.

"Did you notice the difference?"

he asks.

It was a picture of a mermaid, but...

"The color of the scales... What is the special meaning of red?"

Lane gets to the point quickly.

"Yes, this is a 'Red Scale'. As I said before, the original species can split into different individuals...Our research later showed that in fact, every so-called 'Siren' settlement was only There is a main body, which is developed from an embryo and is stronger than a split individual. The way to distinguish it is the color of the scales. The color of the split body is a darker blue-green color, which we call 'blue scales'. "

Simon put the photos of "Blue Scale" and "Red Scale" in side-by-side mode.This way makes the difference between the two more obvious.

The mermaid with red scales is actually much smaller, but its human features are more obvious. Even through the photos, Ryan seems to be able to see the rich expressions and emotional features on its face, against a dark background Next, its golden-red tail is very eye-catching.

"'Blue Scale' is completely subordinate to its 'Red Scale', the latter is like the Queen in the hive, of course, the difference is that the 'Worker Bee' here is split from the 'Queen' herself. Mermaids have no gender characteristics, but what is certain is that only 'Red Scale' has the ability to reproduce, and 'Red Scale' and 'Red Scale' will briefly differentiate into sexes for mating when there is sufficient food, and then give birth to new ' Redscale'."

During Simon's explanation, Ryan kept his head down and digested the information belonging to the Sirens on the computer at an alarming speed, and soon he discovered that things were abnormal.

"The main body of the data here is almost all the 'blue scales' you mentioned, why?"

Simon let out a long whistle.

"You have discovered your blind spot, my dear Watson."

He couldn't help laughing again when he finished, and Ryan glared at him.

Simon could almost see the subtitles rolling across Lane's face—"What the hell are you laughing at?"

"That's why I hate old people," he murmured. "Unfortunately or fortunately, 'Red Scale' directly presses to mate...is a very rare condition. I don't think even the earth would like to see it." This kind of creature has multiplied in large numbers. And, don't get the illusion, the individuals of the 'Siren' are actually extremely rare. Up to now, we have only captured seven of the original species, and only one of them is red scales, and it It was only transformed into a modified species 16 years ago...and died of complications two days later. From then until now, we have not even seen the original species of blue scales. The Americans were too lucky, they just got rid of it The only and largest group of 'Sirens' in the Arctic Ocean. At present, all of our experimental individuals can only be cultivated by themselves. We have used a large amount of data to make measurements, and we have concluded that creatures like 'Sirens' are widespread all over the world The number of independent individuals in the range will not exceed three digits, and the number of 'red scales' individuals should be between ten and twenty - think about it, in the entire ocean of the earth, there are only a few 'red scales', their It is not easy to meet, and it is even more unlikely to conceive offspring."

The author has something to say: time to reveal the secret! ! !

Mermaids are divided into two types: original species and modified species.

The native species looks like a fish, but it can turn into a mermaid in a crisis.

The modified species is to artificially fix this mermaid state.

Mermaids have red scales and blue scales.

The red scales are conceived by embryos, which can split themselves, and the split mermaids are blue scales.

Blue scales follow the lead of their own red scales.