Mermaid Feeding Rules

"Cultivate the cells of No. 1 experimental product in a petri dish for three hours, add the x-type reagent, and accelerate the division after one hour..." The young man with short flaxen hair held the experiment record booklet, followed the cell records on the computer screen, and whispered to himself In other words, "abnormal division, abnormal cells appear, try adding some w[-] stabilizer..."

A red-haired researcher pushed open the door, stood there and knocked: "Boyce, come out!"

Boyce handed the booklet to the assistant assigned to him by the laboratory: "Hansen, you come to carry out the next experiment."

"What's the matter, Ivy?"

"Some work matters." Ivy said, "I won't be able to explain it for a while. We can go to the restaurant to talk slowly."

Ivey is the assistant of Boyce's mentor, Chris, and works on the fifth floor of the institute. Boyce has some guesses about his intentions.

Before coming to the institute, Chris, Beyce’s mentor and director of the institute, once said: “Beyce, Eureka will surprise you…”

Boyce didn't think the creatures on the lab's first nineteen floors could be called a surprise by his fastidious mentor.

This year, Beuys has been there from the [-]th floor above ground to the [-]th basement, but he has not set foot in the [-]th floor.

Sure enough, his first sentence was: "You should have heard of the negative fifth floor of the research institute?"

Boyce couldn't help being curious: "What exactly is the fifth layer studying?"

"I can't tell you here, but I will take you to see it in the afternoon." Ai Wei pointed out, "Also, to remind you, there is a 'whale' closed on the fifth floor underground."

whale?Is it a pronoun?

Boyce frowned and was about to speak when Ivy made a "silence" motion.

He blinked: "You will know."

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Ivy led Boyce into the elevator, stuck the employee in the elevator, swiped and pressed the minus five floor.

Soon the descent of the elevator stopped, and the elevator door opened, revealing a long metal corridor.

There is also a glass door before entering the corridor.

Ivy pressed the switch, and there was a cold mechanical sound.

"Please show your ID card."

"Ding—identity card verification successful."

"Please perform pupil verification."

"Ding—the pupil verification was successful."

"Please show today's password."

"Siren."

"The password is correct."

"Welcome researcher s117."

The glass door slowly slid open to both sides, and Ivy said, "Boyce follows me."

Ivey first took Boyce to sign the non-disclosure agreement and apply for the identity certificate on the fifth floor, and then took him here to familiarize himself with the route.

"There is a special ID card on the fifth floor, remember to keep it safe. The password will be changed every day, and someone will notify you of the new password, so don't remember it wrong. Before, find someone to take over the job on the third floor. I remember that your assistant is also very good... ..."

"As for your job, it's a breeder for the time being."

Ivy said: "Before starting the experiment, you must first understand our experimental subjects."

"I will take you to feed on the first day of today, and you are the only one behind." Ivy swiped his card and pushed open a door.

It is full of all kinds of fish, the smallest one is as big as a palm, and the big fish is cut into pieces, each of which is about tens of catties.

The two put a bucket of meat on the cart, and Ivy pointed to a white line inside the iron bucket: "Remember this line, you can't feed more than here three times a day, you must keep it in a state of hunger and fatigue , and if it’s too filling maybe it will make you a midnight snack by the way.”

Ivy looked serious and reminded again: "Don't think I'm joking."

Ivy looked at Boyce: "You have to remember, even if they are locked in a fish tank, they are creatures that can easily kill you."

Boyce remembered today's password, and had a guess about the creature on the fifth floor: "Is it a siren?"

"Yes." Ivy glanced at him, "You can call it a mermaid, a merman, a siren, whatever you like, in short - it's a monster with a human upper body and a fish tail .”

"Remember not to listen to it, if you can, it's best not to have any communication with it-you have to remember, it's not your cat or dog."

Having said that, Ivy sneered: "Do you know how your predecessor died?"

"He fell in love with that mermaid." Seeing Boyce looking over, Ivy "tsk", "He actually thinks that mermaids also have emotions and intelligence."

Ivey paraphrased what he had heard him say before: "He also told other people that 'he is no different from us humans except appearance'."

"he?"

"Yes, 'he'."

Zoe has always referred to the experimental subject as "he".

"How did he die?" Boyce asked subconsciously.

"Going to the breeding room in the middle of the night, we found his body the next day."

"Is it made by the experimental subject?" Boyce asked.

"Who else is there besides it?" Zoe turned to look at Boyce, "Could it be someone else in the lab?"

"Advice from seniors, remember to stay away from it for your own sake, and don't listen to its voice."

Ivy led Boyce to a stop in front of a door.

Ivy took a deep breath and straightened his collar: "Be quiet now."

The ten-centimeter-thick steel door was opened, revealing the original appearance of the feeding room.

The feeding room is very empty. After the door is opened, there is a lifting platform, about two or three meters above the ground, followed by a thick piece of glass, which extends from the ground to the ceiling. The water surface is about the same level as the door.

The glass is actually a part of the fish tank embedded in the bottom of the laboratory. The depth of the fish tank reaches 20 meters and the area is very wide. The fish tank connects several laboratories.

Boyce didn't see the siren, and he could only see the calm sea water through the glass. It was dark in the depths, and he was a little disappointed. However, Ivy, who was traveling with him, was relieved. The absence of the experimental subject meant that the current safer.

Pressing the switch of the lifting platform in front of the fish tank, Ivy and Boyce were lifted up to a position more than one meter above the water surface, and the glass that was originally attached together slowly rose and sank into the ceiling, leaving a space more than one meter high. void.

Ivy whispered to remind Boyce to move quickly. After throwing the fish in the bucket into the water, he couldn't wait to press the switch to lower the elevator and glass.

It wasn't until I left the door of the breeding room that Ivy's body that had been collapsing relaxed, looked at the blood on his hands in disgust, took off the rubber gloves and smelled his hands, and there was a fishy smell: "It's really bad .”

Boyce glanced back. There was a metal sign hanging on the door.

"Breeding room: S-37."

"In charge: Zoe Fries."

Ai Wei and Boyce sent the cart and barrel back to the warehouse with a fishy smell all over his body. On the way, he ran into several researchers who were in charge of other mermaids.

They were a little curious about the new faces: "The newcomers Chris mentioned?"

"I heard Alan say the day before yesterday that Zoe is not enough without people, and someone will come to replace his work."

"I heard that he is Chris' proud disciple? He is willing to let someone be a breeder."

Naturally, they also saw the empty drum, and someone asked Boyce, "Did you see it?"

"No? That's pretty lucky. Fay, who went to feed it yesterday, broke his arm..."

A brown-haired researcher tapped Boyce on the shoulder: "Good luck."

Once at the warehouse, Ivy tossed the rubber gloves into the washing machine.

"Letting you come to the fifth floor is indeed what Professor Chris meant."

Generally speaking, newcomers will work in the feeding room for a few days when they join the fifth floor, but Boyce is different from others. His mentor Chris is the head of the research institute.

Ivy explained: "Chris originally wanted to wait for him to come back and let you directly join the experiment, but he hasn't come back yet. A few days ago Zoe died, and Deputy Director Olier said that there was a shortage of people and let you take the lead first. He and Professor Chris’s relationship is not very good, but don’t worry, you can change jobs when Professor Chris comes back.”

But there is a premise that Boyce can wait until Chris returns alive.It was the idea of ​​Olier to kill Boyce before Chris came back.

Ivy stretched out his hand and waved in front of Beyce's distracted eyes: "Did you hear what I said?"

Boyce nodded.

"Why are you distracted?"

"I'm just a little surprised."

Ivy didn't ask him what he was surprised about, and reminded the breeder's work points again, and after confirming that Boyce had memorized the route, Ivy went back to his room to take a shower.

"This fishy smell..." Ivy said disgustedly, "It's like rolling in a pile of dead fish."

After Ivey left, Boyce also returned to his room on the fifth floor.

The room was not too small, with a desk and a chair, a single bed against the wall, a built-in wardrobe, and a few white coats of researchers in it, and a shower in the room.

Boyce unscrewed the shower head, washed off the fishy smell from his body with warm water, pulled a bath towel to wipe off the water on his body, and then remembered the bright blue color he saw when he turned around in the breeding room.

It looks like the tail of a fish or a snake. The beautiful tail flickers in the water, reflecting colorful light under the cold white light in the breeding room.

Is it a siren?

Although he heard about its danger, Boyce was still a little regretful that he couldn't see its whole body, only its tail.