I brought bad luck after awakening as a koi

"Can you get in touch with the outside world?"

"Can't get in touch, the radio has no signal, and even if we can get in touch, there's no way. There's heavy rain and landslides outside. It's good for the people below to protect themselves." Kong Xiangming sighed, "We can only save ourselves now, hold on and wait." The rainstorm has passed and the mudslides have stabilized before going down the mountain."

Shen Li sighed, "Is this rain really going to stop so easily?"

"There is nothing we can do if we can't stop. We have nowhere to go now." Kong Xiangming opened his bag while talking. Shen Li lost his backpack in the chaos just now, and his backpack was still on his back. After checking the time, he took out another pack of compressed biscuits and gave Shen Li a piece.

"Eat something?" Kong Xiangming said: "I don't think you have eaten anything since you set off, and you only drank a few sips of water. If you continue like this, your body will not be able to hold on."

Shen Li took the biscuit he handed over, "Thank you."

Watching Shen Li take the biscuit and begin to bite, Kong Xiangming nodded. He took out the flashlight from his backpack, and then found out the gun to be assembled. In this kind of exploration mission, they rarely use guns, because even if they carry The voice is not low. Shooting in an unfamiliar area is equivalent to killing one and provoking ten, which is very uneconomical.

But most of the plants in this botanical garden are harmless, only the unknown aquatic plants at the bottom of the pool are eating people, and the genetic mutant murloc, if it is only to deal with them, firearms must be used.

Because they were worried about disturbing the murlocs, they didn't turn on the flashlights, which made the surroundings very dark. Every time Shen Li bit a biscuit, he was worried that he would poke the biscuit on his cheek. Fortunately, the human body is a rather miraculous thing. Self-adjusting, the human eye will adapt to the darkness after a while.

What's more, Shen Li has the fluorescent grass gene on his body, so it's no problem to emit a little light.

With a click, Kong Xiangming assembled the firearm. He tried the feel, and then put the gun on his waist. Shen Li just finished eating the compressed biscuits.

At this moment, Shen Li looked forward and pulled Kong Xiangming's sleeve, "Hey, Kong Xiangming."

"Ok?"

"Is there something glowing up ahead?"

"Glow?" Kong Xiangming was a little puzzled. He looked at it for a while and didn't see anything that would glow, but when he and Shen Li looked at each other, he was startled. Gold, his eyes seemed to glow in the dark now.

Kong Xiangming scratched his hair, and finally chose to trust Shen Li, "Where is the light?"

"Here." Shen Li stood up, and Kong Xiangming followed him. The two of them groped forward. Finally, Shen Li put his hand somewhere, and his fingers radiated a faint light. After a while, a dilapidated sign was revealed. Kong Xiangming opened his mouth in surprise.

"It turned out to be an emergency sensor light?!"

Solar energy can be converted into electricity, and the power of water flow can also be converted into electricity. This botanical garden was built here because there is a pool here. The pool is a living water with fluidity. It is likely that the director of the garden chose this site for this. , can carry out temporary power conversion maintenance, this is the reason why they can persist in a botanical garden until now.

Sufficient buildings, basic electricity, and not enough food.

These lights have not been on because the place has been deserted for more than two years, and no one has turned on the switching power equipment and it will not be active. Shen Li's operation just now briefly charged the emergency sensor light with a little energy, so it turned on a little.

"That is to say: if we find the power supply room, can we temporarily illuminate it all here?" Kong Xiangming observed the induction lights, "Although it sounds a bit unreliable, and I don't know how many of these emergency lights are still alive, but there is always light." It’s better than total darkness, Shen Li, let’s find the power supply room.”

Shen Li nodded, "Okay."

It’s not that the plants here are safe. They can turn on the lights at will. After all, they have never turned on too bright lights before. They will go to the power supply room because electricity is beneficial to them now. They have insulating gloves for the time being. Has excellent conductive properties.

Whether it's the people-eating aquatic plants or the murlocs that catch food for the aquatic plants, they are all in the water.

Once the water is electrified, even by paralyzing the murlocs and plants for a while, they can save several people.

Kong Xiangming turned on the flashlight, and walked forward along the emergency lights that hadn't moved for a long time. The light from the flashlight reflected a bit on the pale walls of the botanical garden. Shen Li followed behind Kong Xiangming. Every time he passed by, the emergency lights behind him would flash twice. and then turn off again.

Most of them still respond to sunlight.

Ten years have passed, and the interior of the botanical garden has been damaged to varying degrees. They can only search this strange place a little bit. They walked against the direction signs and saw a half-open door on the door. There is a decaying sign that reads: Director's Office.

"The director's office, I hope there will be a floor map of the botanical garden inside." Kong Xiangming pushed open the door, and walked in with a flashlight and Shen Li.

As soon as he walked in, he waved his hands to disperse the dust. There was so much dust that he couldn't help coughing. The table was also covered with a layer of soil. There was a potted plant that had withered for an unknown amount of time. Behind the desk was a bookshelf. There are many books, all related to botany.

They didn't say any polite words, and started looking for the floor plan from left to right. Shen Li opened the drawer of the office, and the next moment he saw a photo frame turned upside down in the drawer.

Shen Li took out the photo frame, shone the flashlight on the transparent glass, and saw the photo.

The familiar man was holding a little girl who looked only a few years old in his arms. The gentle woman was very close to him. No matter how you looked at it, they looked like a happy family.

It's a photo of the principal's family.

In the lower right corner of the photo, there is a woman's beautiful handwriting: For my dear little glutinous rice.

Putting the flashlight on the table, Shen Li disassembled the photo frame, and the photo fell out of the frame. Finally, Shen Li found a piece of paper under the photo frame. This paper is the plan of the botanical garden, but the plan is not just a simple route. , and traces drawn by hand.

"Shen Li?" Kong Xiangming also found that Shen Li had stayed here for too long, "Did you find it?"

"It should be." Shen Li replied, he turned the paper over and saw a message from a father to his wife and children before he died.

[To: Beloved wife and my little glutinous rice.

I don't know why I always have a bad premonition, maybe I won't be able to come back if I leave this time, if this happens, you must leave here, this place will not always be our shelter, just like human beings It will not always be possible to cooperate.

Going up, there is a small air-raid shelter on the top roof, which is the emergency escape point I asked to leave when it was built.

The pool is through, it leads all the way to the outside world, but I don't think I can escape from the pool.

If I do have an accident, I must not stay. 】

Before he left, he carefully drew up the road map, hoping to keep his wife and daughter alive, but he never thought that his sacrifice was so sudden. After his death, his daughter suffered from a genetic disease, which made his wife unable to take care of the child with peace of mind. Leave and end up being forced into that situation.

"The pool can penetrate to the outside? So that murloc can actually go to all the places we live through the underground waterway?" Kong Xiangming realized the problem.

"But it won't leave. Even animals have the concept of a nest. In its thinking concept, this is its nest." Shen Li said: "In short, let's look at the map first. This botanical garden is not small. I don't know if everyone is here. Where."

Kong Xiangming nodded, "OK."

But I don’t know if I don’t see it. I was shocked when I saw it. This botanical garden has three floors. The second and third floors are all kinds of cultivated plants. The first floor has a large area and many pools. The location of each pool is marked on the map. But even this made their heads ache.

"I asked why the murloc came over so quickly. It turned out that there were other pools not far from us, but we didn't find them when we entered through the main entrance." Kong Xiangming complained: "This also explains why the people who went to the toilet obviously went Other places are being fished out of that pool over there."

When leaving this office, Shen Li stared at the photos on the table that he took apart, and finally he stuffed the photos into his wet pocket. Their goal this time was not the director's escape route, after all, it was too dangerous outside. Going out is also death.

Finding the power room is the first priority.

After walking along the route for a while, Kong Xiangming stopped after a while, and they managed to see the second pool.

This pool is not as clear as the water in the hall. It looks ordinary and even has no fluctuations. The pool seems to have dried up. They didn't have the courage to look over it, so they could only stay away from the pool and continue walking. After they turned and left , a woman's head slowly emerged.

Her red eyes stared at the direction Shen Li left, and her sharp nails scratched the edge of the pool. In her hand was a phone that was soaked in water, and the screen was not turned on.

In fact, this phone is already very powerful for being able to last in the water for so long.

The power supply room is not difficult to find, but the machine has been in disrepair for a long time, and it seems that it is not easy to start. Kong Xiangming is worthy of being a member of the Information Department. He began to fiddle with things here. Shen Li did not study this major, and he could not understand his operation. All I could do was watch him tidy up for a while and then give Shen Li an OK sign.

"I'm going to turn on the electricity." Kong Xiangming counted down, "One, two..."

When it was three, Kong Xiangming pulled down the switch with all his strength. In the next moment, starting from the power supply room, there were faint lights lit up bit by bit, and the sound of water flow became louder. There was a dead silence outside. Shen Li and Kong Xiangming Look at each other.

"What should we do now?"

"Try to find someone to join us. Now that the lights are on, it's good for us."

Kong Xiangming pulled out his gun and opened the door. When he walked out, the scene in front of him surprised both of them.

The originally dead pool was active, with fountains gushing out, and automatic spraying equipment was watering the surroundings. Even though there were no plants around to grow, under the soft light, the murloc was lying on the pool and watching them, her expression was very calm. , and didn't open her mouth, the water droplets fell on her body, making her look extra soft.

A mermaid resting in a pool under the sun.

Shen Li and Kong Xiangming immediately took two steps back and hid behind the wall to observe secretly, only to find that the murlocs ignored them and just lay on the spot and looked around.

"What's the principle?" Kong Xiangming asked Shen Li.

"It can only mean that this environment makes her feel comfortable, and she is very used to living in this kind of facility." Shen Li looked at it for a while, "She is indeed a special case now, she is obviously a genetic mutation, but she retains some human characteristics, and she can I'm a little accustomed to my previous life."

"Then is she human?"

"No."

"Then it's over." Kong Xiangming sighed, "There is no way to communicate, and those who follow the laws of nature are not human beings. The difference between human beings and animals is here. Conscience, conduct, language, ethics, and rule-making. Things that belong to human beings alone, without these, no matter how human they are, they are not human.”

But as a biologist who studies living things, Shen Li is really curious about it.

Xiao Nuomi is obviously not what she used to be now. She is led by biological nature to live in water and be with aquatic plants, but she still retains part of the human way of thinking. She responds to her father's photos and will protect this place because of her obsession. The botanic gardens, too, have an affinity for the place, something that is hard to spot from other animals.

Animals have territorial awareness, but Xiao Nuomi shows far more than just territorial awareness.

Why is the little glutinous rice so special?

"...Murloc, mermaid?" Shen Li murmured, "If it's not a murloc, it's a mermaid."

"What are you talking about?" Kong Xiangming heard him muttering in a low voice, but he didn't understand after listening for a while, "Shen Li?"

Shen Li turned to look at Kong Xiangming, "Kong Xiangming, after the heavy fog, new genes appeared in human bodies. This gene comes from other creatures, including newborn creatures and extinct creatures, right?"

Kong Xiangming nodded, "That's right, isn't this a topic that your biological research area and gene area are working on together?"

"I'm thinking: what exactly does this extinct creature include? Do you think it is possible that including that worm mother, they are all creatures that once existed in this world." Shen Li fancied, "Or: in fact, this There were mermaids on the planet, so the legend of mermaids appeared, but the mermaids became extinct in the end."

"Huh? Isn't this a fairy tale?"

"No, the legend of the mermaid is much earlier than the fairy tale. The more recognized version is that the technology was not enough at that time. I saw the manatee resting in the fog and mistakenly thought it was a mermaid. If the mermaid is real and has the same similarities as the legend Human feelings, does that mean that Xiao Nuomi is a species similar to human beings, so it retains its humanity?"

Kong Xiangming mouthed exaggeratedly, and said, "Shen Li, your conjecture challenges the myth system, the theory of evolution, and various scientific conclusions."

Shen Li looked at him suspiciously, before speaking after a while, "Do you think the fog is very scientific?"

Kong Xiangming had nothing to say.

The fog is indeed too unscientific.

But they are not in the mood to conduct scientific observations now, they try to avoid the pool and walk from the other side, at this moment, only heard a bang, not only Shen Li and the others, even the mermaid stood up instantly, she opened her mouth , became wild in an instant.

With a plop, she got into the pool, and she threw the phone, which could no longer be turned on, by the pool.

"She is very sensitive to gunshots?" Shen Li frowned slightly, "What happened before? Before she completely transformed into a mermaid."

"It wasn't mentioned in that diary?"

"Because I was suddenly attacked and left where I haven't finished." Shen Li said: "In short, she seems to be full of hostility to the gunshots. You'd better not shoot casually. Let's go and see what happened first."

The two ran towards the gunshots, but they didn't expect the gunshots to be more intense, mixed with the man's screams, as if the man was shooting because he was afraid of something.

"Ah!" The mermaid shouted angrily, and soon the gunshots stopped, and the man's screams also disappeared. Only the mermaid's weird voice continued, with a strong sense of grief, even if Shen Lilai was not needed. Kong Xiangming could tell that something was wrong with the mermaid.

Her whole body was filled with sharp hostility.

The light was flickering, and Shen Li and Kong Xiangming could see the black reflection under the light. The mermaid bit the throat of the corpse, and the blood splashed out instantly, no different from the wild animals eating.

Kong Xiangming quickly put away the gun, and understood that he must never shoot.

The two stayed away from the pool, and finally came to an empty room. This room was a herbarium, and there were all kinds of strange leaves everywhere. Kong Xiangming locked the door. At this moment, he heard a sound, and his eyes lit up immediately. He took out the wireless communicator from his pocket, and it was indeed flashing on the wireless communicator.

Unexpectedly, the radio was restored at this time.

"Call everyone, this is the team leader. If you are still alive, tell me that you are safe." The team leader's voice was a little panting. He seemed to be injured, so he was a little weak.

"Team leader!" Kong Xiangming said hastily: "This is Kong Xiangming, with Shen Li."

"I'm still here, I'm Wang Yuan."

At the end of the report, only 7 people were successfully contacted. During the contact, Shen Li knew that the doctor had also been dragged away, and now his life and death were uncertain.

"Why are you so embarrassed every time I meet you?" Suddenly, a strange voice sounded, with a little teasing in his tone, but it wasn't any of them who came out this time, "Xiao Li."

"Cao Yutian?" Shen Li said immediately, "Why are you here?"

"Because I picked it up on the side of the road." Cao Yutian replied inconspicuously as always, "Wow, the loss is heavy. I remember that your exploration team has dozens of people at a time, and these few people are left? But this kind of exploration team The news of total destruction is not uncommon."

Kong Xiangming's eyes were subtle, he and Shen Li looked at each other, they heard the sound of water flowing through the radio, and the person on the opposite side seemed to be dripping water.

"Why are you here?"

"It's a little unlucky to be washed down by the flood, and I was washed here accidentally." Cao Yutian said: "You don't know it yet, right? There is already a huge flood outside, and the sea level is also rising. If the rain doesn't stop, you The Ocean Bureau is going to be flooded."

Shen Li sighed, "Do you think I will believe you?"

"Okay, okay, I'm here to find something." Cao Yutian smiled, "Actually, I don't know much, I only know that there is a mermaid here, and she is left by nature in natural disasters just like the fluorescent grass A ray of life."

"With a fish?"

"Should be relying on the mermaid gene to acquire the ability to live in water. Speaking of which, Xiao Li, aren't you also a fish? Can you swim?"

"will not."

"What a pity." Cao Yutian clicked his tongue twice, "I wish you good health."

After finishing speaking, there was a click, and the radio was cut off. Shen Li let out a long breath, "...this guy."

"Are you really right?" Kong Xiangming thought about Cao Yutian's words, "A mermaid, not a murloc... Speaking of which, we have seen a murloc mutation during the drought before. His head is a fish, and his body is a murloc. The face of a person will also swell, which is completely out of the scope of a person, but the one in the pool has the upper body of a human and the lower body of a fish."

"She's more like a mermaid than a murloc."

"Things that Cao Yutian can focus on must have some value." Shen Li said: "This guy is too lazy, and he will definitely not come out for nothing. Xiao Nuomi may be more important than imagined."

"But no matter how you look at her, she is a variant of a genetic disease and cannot communicate."

Shen Li took out the previous photo from his pocket and showed it to Kong Xiangming, "Try this."

Although I don't know what Cao Yutian means, and I don't know if the big flood outside is real, but there is nothing I can do now, I can only try.